Bwahaha, hi! ;w; This chapter goes out to Nuria Sato for the crazy good advice. thankyou! /heartheart

Sakura sat down on the bed, phone in hand. She flipped it over and over again; she'd illuminate the screen, then dim it again, hesitating. Who would she call, anyway? Her parents, her friends back home? They'd all say the same thing: you swore you wouldn't go there again.

The last hour and half was still burning in her mind; Sasuke had certainly made sure to leave an impression on her. His lips were soft and familiar, she thought, far too familiar. Perhaps if he didn't remind her so much of what used to be, she'd be more inclined to let him into her arms, and into her heart.

The past should have been staying where it is: in the past. But somehow, memories of the last two years kept resurfacing in Sakura's mind. The pain and suffering she'd been through, the confusion…they shouldn't have remained with her. She'd left them behind. She'd sworn she had.

She pushed lingering memoires to the back of her mind, and averted her thoughts to the future. What if she did accept Sasuke? He'd promised he wasn't all her premonitions had told her he was, but Sakura couldn't be sure. After what had happened before, Sakura was wary and distrusting, and just seeing her ex in every part of Sasuke hurt badly enough.

She buried her face in her pillow, and tried to ignore the world.

Sai lowered himself from the bus, offering a slight nod to the driver in thanks. Adjusting his bag on his back, he got his bearings; he'd not visited the campus since graduation, but the place had hardly changed a bit, so it didn't take him long to place himself. The Springtime sun bore down on him, muggy and uncomfortable. As he stripped off his sweater, a handful of girls stopped and stared, and commented on how alike he was to a man they called "the Campus Prince".

He tapped a boy on his shoulder, and he turned. Sai greeted the boy with a pleasant, forced smile, and the boy narrowed his eyes in reply. "Can I help you?"

"I'm looking for a Miss Haruno Sakura. Second year."

"Uhh…isn't that the chick with pink hair? Swears it's natural, but refuses to say if the curtains match the drapes?"

Sai cleared his throat. "Yes."

"Yeah, I know her. She's in block 4, dunno which room though. You're probably better off looking in the library for her first, she's always there, man, it's weird how one person can read so many books with so few pictures –"

"Thanks," Sai cut the boy off, dodging around him and heading straight for the library. It didn't surprise him that she hadn't wavered from her book-wormish persona. Once a nerd, always a nerd, he supposed.

He let himself into the grand room, and looked around. He briefly caught the librarian's gaze, but looked away hurriedly; he didn't want her to recognise him and strike up conversation. After another sweep of the room, something caught his eye; not the pink hair he was looking for, but a crowd of girls, circling a young man.

The man looked incredibly similar to Sai; dark hair, dark eyes, pale skin, same disinterested expression. He didn't look all that agitated, for someone trying to study while swamped with girls, but then, if this was a regular occurrence he'd be used to it. Perhaps this was the Campus Prince the other girls had compared Sai to?

As if on cue, the boy looked up and caught Sai's eyes. Sai didn't look away, and nor did the boy. Instead, the boy gathered up his books, and elbowed his way through the crowd, murmuring a quick "Move" that scattered the girls like bowling pins. As the girls twigged who he was moving for, the chatter increased; "Are they brothers? They could be, they look so similar…oh, I don't know who's the more handsome of them!"

Sai, once again, tried a smile. "Hello there."

"Are you looking for Sakura?"

"…how did you know?" Sai looked amused. "Has she been talking about me so much that you can recognise me by a mere description?"

The boy shoved past. The moment he was past the door, he broke into a sprint, leaving an amused-looking Sai standing alone.

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