A/N: Hey! Now, I'm not sure, but I think I might be a LITTLE bit late....not completely sure though -shot-
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Sasuke searched everywhere he could think of for Sakura, tracking her chakra, footprints, anything that would help. But even after half an hour, he came up with nothing. He was strating to panic when he realized that she might have gone back to her dorm to sleep. Sure enough, when he hung outside her window, he found her peacfully asleep. The first thing that came to mind was that she looked like an angel and half of him didn't want to wake her up. But the other half wouldn't be able to rest until he apologized. So he knocked litle on the window,
Ever thing light sleeper, Sakura's eyes opened, on alert for danger, and darted towards the window. She got up and opened it.
"What are you doing?" She whispered harshly.
He stretched out his hand. "Care for a midnight stroll?"
Still half asleep, Sakura grabbed her cloak and took the Uchiha's hand. He carefully helped her out the window and into the freezing cold night air. That sure woke her up. She shivered and wrapped the cloak around her. Sakura looked up at Sasuke and lgared slightly.
"You still haven't answered my question." She and as she watched him close the window behind them.
"Hense the stroll." Sasuke smirked.
Sakura couldn't help but blush. 'Jeez, he's lucky he's good looking or I'd still be asleep.' She thought.
The rosette followed Sasuke down off the tower and into the garden with was illuminated by tiny. floating balls of pure light. He turned to her. "Alright, I'm sorry about what I said earlier. I know you're not weak, I'm just worried about you." He said, looking strait into those gorgous emerald eyes.
Sakura lost her tongue for a momment. "S-Sasuke...No, it's my fault for snapping. I knew what you meant, I just didn't want anyone to think less of me. I'm sorry." She sighed.
"Hey, what's done is done." He said, wrapping his arms around her waist. They stayed like that, completely content, until Sakura wriggled out of his grasp.
"Uh, can we go back inside now? I'm FREEZING." She said with emphasis.
Sasuke laughed lightly and scooped her up, bridal style. "Sure thing."
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"SASUKE-KUN! SASUKE-KUN WAKE UP!!!' Sakura shouted, jumping on his bed.
Sasuke gasped and shot up into a sitting possision, only to find Sakura straddling his waist and shaking his moment of shock from being woken up, he had fallen off the bed, taking the pillows, sheets and his girlfriend down with him. "What?! What's going on?!? Are we under attack?!?!" He asked in a frenzy, breathing hard.
"No silly! It's christmas! Now get up! Get up! Get up!" She sang, pulling him up with her.
Sasuke looked at her as if she was insane. "Jeez woman, you gave me a heart attack. You probably woke up the others too." He said, looking around, only to find that all the Gryffindor boys were sound asleep. Sakura had put up a sound barrier so she wouldn't wake up everyone else. All that just to scare the crap out of him on christmas morning? The Uchiha sweatdropped.
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The Griffindor common room was decorated from head to toe for the holiday season. Garland lined the door ways and windows with red bows and tinsle, all the candles were lit, giving the room a homey feeling, the tables were covered with red, green, silver and gold table cloths, and a large pine tree sat by the fire place, decorated with diferent coloured bulbs, lights and other odda and ends.
By now, all of the Gryffindor students had woken up and either went out to the rest of the castle or stayed in the common room, talking with friends. Our favourite Wizards and shinobi had taken the best spot, right by the fireplace and the tree. Everyone had a smiling air and hot chocolate.
But of course, Sakura was the most excited. "Come on! Let's open our presents, then we can go outside and have a snow ball fight before the ball!" She exclaimed like a child on.. well, christmas morning.
"Alright, alright, settle down Sakura-chan!" Naruto laughed. Sakura simply smiled and shook her head 'no'.
Everyone took turns openeing thier presents. They ranged from Broom care kits to sets of Kunai to T-rated books (a nice change for Kakashi). Sakura was the last to finished opening her gifts. She picked up a tiny red box with a silver bow and a tag that read "To Sakura; Love Sasuke". She took off the lid and gasped. Inside, on a sparkling silver chain was a pink and red jem, molded to look like a cherry blossom. Sasuke put it on for her, and when she turned around she glomped him to the ground.
And of course, what's christmas without a snowball fight? After breakfast they all went outside, and with 12 inches of snow, it wasn't exactly hard to build forts and amo. No magic, no jutsu. It was a fair game, and guess who won in the end? The Wizards. What can I say, they've had more experience with snowball fights.
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Sakura danced and twirled around the girl's dorm in her gown, feeling like she was on cloud nine. It was pinkish/red (of course), floor length and very flowy, strapless, and had a light green ribbon winding from bottom to top. The kunoichi also wore long green gloves, red heels, and the necklace her Sasuke-kun had gotten her. She swayed side to side gracefully, humming to herself. "Sakura! Slow down!" Hermionie laughed from her place of her bed, wearing a golden halter dress.
"Sorry, but I'm just so excited! I love, christmas, I love balls, I love my dress, I love-"
"Sasuke." Hermionie interupted with a cocky smirk.
"Th-that's a BIG thing to say..." Sakura said, stopping her parade to focus her attention on fighting her tomato red blush.
"I don't see what the big deal is. You OBVIOUSLY love each other, and you've been through so much! Why is it so hard to say it?"
"It's not as simple as it sounds. I mean, we've only had our memories back for a while, and so much happened after he left. It's like I'm still not sure if it's real, ypu know? Like I'll wake up any second. Besides, now is not the time. We're on a mission, we have to keep ourselves in check."
"That's no excuse."
"I know." Sakura sighed.
Hermionie stood up and walked over to the lively girl, placing a hand on her shoulder. "Come on, the guys are waitting."
Sakura simply nodded.
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Sasuke paced back and forth at the bottom of the staircase in the grand ballroom, waitting for Sakura to arrive. Hermione and Ginny had come down saying that the three of them were on thier way when Sakura had suddenly stopped, saying there was something important she had to check, and that she'd be there in five minutes. That was an hour ago.
"Damn it, where is she?" He asked, clearly trying to sound irritated while he was worried.
"Relax Teme, she's probably just fixing her hair or something girly like that." Naruto replied from his seat on the stop of the railing.
"No, there's no way she'd take so long...." He stopped and looked out the tall windows on the left side of the room, the very same side which had been destroyed many years ago by a tornado that had scared the young girl half to death. Sasuke clenched his fists. He had hated seeing her so scared. And he had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomache that she was feeling almost the same way now, but she wasn't letting him help. 'Stupid girl, just what is she up to?'
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Sakura waked through the dimly lighted and deserted corridors of Hogwards as if in a daze. She walked at a fair pace, her heels the only sound echoing through the halls. She clenched two peices of paper in her hand.
"Sakura? What are you doing out here? You know, Sasuke's looking for you." A familiar voice reached her ears. Sakura's head shot up just in time to see her sensei drop from the cieling. He landed with very little sound, just as always. He was dressed in a black suit with a white shirt, black and blue stripped tie and a dark blue cloth covering his face. His sharingan eyes was closed of course.
"Oh! Sensei, I thought you were at the ball." Sakura said, trying her best to keep up her poker face.
"I was just doing my rounds before I went. Which brings us back to the question. Why aren't you there?" He asked.
"I was...just on my way, but I decided to check up on a kid in the hospital wing that I had helped out. He's still sick, so I'm going to go check it out." She explained calmly, trying to hide her right, bandaged arm behind her. She reached for it and pull her long green glove higher, trying to hide it.
"Alright." He said, not 100% convinced. Still though, whatever it was he was sure it wasn't his buisness, so he started to walked past the rossette. He was almost completely past her when something grabbed onto his sleeve. He spun around, only to be immediatly hugged by Sakura. It wasn't a hug of lust or anything of the sort. It was the type of hug a little girl might give her father or brother. Once the initial shock past, Kakashi hugged her back. "Sakura, what's gotten into you?" He asked.
Sakura sniffed and pulled back, pushing the papers she had been holding onto his chest. "The white one is for everyone. Give the pink one to Sasuke. Don't open either until the time is right." She said before reaching up to give him a kiss on the cheek. Before he could say anything she turned on a dime and bolted down the halls, disspearing within seconds.
"Sakura..." Kakashi whispered. He didn't know exactly what had just happened, but he knew one thing; She was NOT going to to check on a sick kid.
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The lights of the castle were begining to fade away as she ran further from it- and everything she loved dearly. Sakura pulled the shinobi winter cape tighter around her in an attempt to keep warm in the middle of a christmas snowfall. Though the sterminded look in her eyes masked it well, she was terrified. Terrified of where she was going, terrified on who she would see there, terrified of what she would find, terrified of the feelings she would cause her loved ones to have.
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Sakura leaned back against the cold stone wall, watching from around the corner as Hermione and Ginny entered the ball room. She sighed, then turned around and started running toward the place she was being beckonned. She didn't know what it was that was doing it, but her gut was screaming at her, telling her to go to the nearest window. Sakura skidded to a stop once she found the tall glass window she was being beckonned to. I was that that she realized....how stupid she was being. "What am I doing?! There's noth-" She was interupted suddenly by the sound of something flapping in the wind. The kuniochi examined the window closer and found that a small hole was broken into it, and on the other side of the glass was a piece of paper caught in the cracks of the brick. She carefully squeezed her right arm into the hole, grabbed the paper and slowly brought it back, but not before cutting her arm on the broken glass. She hissed in pain, but ignored it for now. Taking in a deep breathe, Sakura opened the letter.
Dear Sakura-chan,
I say, you certainly have gorwn into a beautiful woman from the last time I saw you. You tried to kill me, remember? Well, that's all behind me now. I want to be friends. And friends play games, I hope you'll play mine. You see darling, I am a powerful man. Powerful enough to track down a poor defensless girl who had seemed to have lost her memory. Poor girl must have fallen on her head. I think you'll like her. She has short auburn hair, deep brown eyes and she looks just like you. Peculiar isn't it? Now, be a good little kunoichi and come and visit her. And maybe while you're here, we can play a little...game.
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Sakura had immediatly known what it meant. 'Hey, I want to kill you, so I found your cousin and I'm going to kill her unless you turn yourself in.'
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