Author's Note: I really appreciate all the follows and reviews you guys give me. It really helps me gain confidence in my writing. Anyway thank you so much you guys! Here's chapter three!

Sakura sat up in bed and looked at the clock. 6:00 a.m. She was still extremely tired. "Maybe I should just go back to sleep. It's my off day anyway," she thought. Her head had almost touched the pillow again when suddenly, there was a noise coming from the kitchen. Then she remembered what had happened the previous night. She was no longer tired and quickly got up to see what the Uchiha was doing. She found him eating two tomatoes at the table.

"Morning," Sakura said as Sasuke turned his attention to her.

"Hn," the Uchiha replied in between bites. "Sleep well?" He casually asked.

"Ya, what about you?" She replied.

He didn't answer. He was looking at the floor and seemed to have a sad expression on his face which Sakura noticed almost immediately.

"Are you all right?" she asked with a concerned look.

Sasuke looked back up at her with an annoyed expression. "Don't worry about it," he replied harshly. The next instant though, he apologized. "Sorry, I'm just stressed that's all."

Sakura didn't bother to ask him why, knowing it would only make him even more annoyed. Instead, she changed the topic to something that would lighten the mood. "Thanks for eating all my tomatoes, pig."

"Hn," he smirked,"You said help yourself. I made you breakfast, too." He pointed over toward the other end of the table. Sure enough there was freshly cooked food and a drink sitting there. She had been shocked by the Uchiha's actions but she ate it anyway. Sasuke Uchiha had never really done anything nice for anyone, so he wasn't surprised by the look on her face.

"You know sometimes I can show human emotions," he said, still smirking.

"That's not what I'm really surprised about," she replied. After Sasuke had raised an eyebrow, she started to smile at the floor. "What I'm really shocked about is that you know how to cook."

Sasuke crossed his arms and rolled his eyes. When he saw her smile at him though, he could not help himself. He gave her a small but quick smile back. As small and quick as it was, she had still noticed it which made Sasuke immediately regret his actions.

"Pinch me I'm dreaming," she said, barely loud enough for him to hear. She made sure he had heard the next part though. "You, Sasuke Uchiha, just smiled?!"

"Hmph," he pouted, turning his head to hide the furious red that had appeared on his face.

When they both looked back at each other, their eyes met and neither one of them bothered to look away. They both seemed to be in some sort of trance by the other's appearance. They were then interrupted by a loud knock on the door.

Sakura walked over to the door and gave Sasuke an annoyed glance when she figured out he had locked it. He stood up from the table as she was about to open it. Before she could fully open the door, the person who had knocked flew past her, heading towards Sasuke.

"SASUKE!" Naruto Uzumaki shouted as he jumped on the Uchiha's back, putting a choke hold on him. Sasuke, trying to regain his balance, stumbled all over the room weaving in between furniture.

"GET OFF ME NARUTO, YOU STUPID IDIOT!" Sasuke shouted back as he was trying to get out of the choke hold Naruto had him in.

"NARUTO, I WILL SEND YOU TO THE SAND VILLAGE IF YOU BREAK ANYTHING!" Sakura screamed as she slammed the door shut.

Naruto had immediately let go of Sasuke and quickly apologized. "Hey I was just messing around Sakura! Please don't hit me!"

Sasuke, who had angrily been rubbing his neck, grabbed the Uzumaki's collar and spat back,"She's not the one you need to worry about!"

"Ya, this is just like old times," Sakura thought to herself. "I'll put both of you in the hospital if you don't stop right now!" she said aloud.

Sasuke then reluctantly let go of Naruto's collar and pushed him back a few feet. Naruto did not seem to care though, as he had a gigantic smile on his face.

The Uchiha then began to see what had changed about his best friend's appearance. Naruto had gotten taller and wore a long sleeve black shirt with orange pants going down to his sandals. The spiky yellow hair he always had was noticeably a lot shorter than it used to be.

"How ya been Sasuke?" the energetic Uzumaki asked, putting his arms behind his head.

"Hn, I was fine until you got here," the Uchiha replied with a stoic expression present on his face.

"Kakashi sensei told me you were here a few minutes ago and I came right over. How long have you been here anyway?" Naruto asked, sitting down at the table.

"Since last night. Why do you need to know?" He replied as both him and Sakura sat down at the table, too.

"So I can kick your butt for not being at my wedding!"

"Oh ya. Sakura told me me you married Hinata. The next time you see her tell her I'm sorry she married a horrible excuse for a shinobi."

"Shut up you son of a-." Before Naruto could finish, Sakura had reached over and slapped him saying,"You wanna finish that sentence Uzumaki?!"

The scene in front of Sasuke greatly amused him. He had missed arguing with his friends and seeing them argue with each other so much. No matter how much they all argued or fought with each other, they were still good friends and family. His family. They had become the only family that Sasuke had left. Even if he had never really shown it, he loved them like a family. Kakashi had been a father figure to him, Naruto was like a brother, and Sakura... What was Sakura to him? A sister? No. He still hadn't figured that out yet. He pushed the thought to the back of his mind as Naruto had recovered from the slap.

"Geez Sakura, did you have to hit me that hard?" Naruto squeaked.

"Maybe I wouldn't have hit you at all if you quit yelling," she spat back.

"Now that you're both here I have to ask, what's happened in the village in the past three years?" Sasuke said. He had asked the same exact question three years ago when he was in the hospital. They had told him their stories of what happened after he had left the first time. He had been interested to here about Naruto and Sakura's reunion after Naruto had left for training. It started there and went from the first Akatsuki attack on Gaara, to Sakura's fight with Sasori (which Sasuke paid extra attention to), and all the way to when Sasuke had arrived in the war. The most interesting thing to him however, had been Pain's attack on the village which leveled everything. It had hit him hard when he learned why the old Uchiha district had been torn to the ground. It was what he wondered about since he had come with Orochimaru and Team Taka and saw the remains.

"Well nothing really interesting has happened since you last left. Just that me and Hinata are married!" Naruto finished with a huge smile.

"I'm pretty sure our missions capturing that stupid cat are more interesting than hearing that the poor Hyuga girl was forced to marry you," Sasuke replied.

"I'll have you know that Hinata's loved me since we were genin!" Naruto said desperately. "And at least I can get a girlfriend. Heck, at least I got married."

"You know Sasuke, you still have quite a few fangirls around here," Sakura said without looking at him.

"What's up with that anyway? I mean he's ugly as heck, he hasn't really been here much in the last six years, and he's such a big fat jerk," Naruto added.

"Can you just answer my question?" Sasuke said, clearly annoyed.

"Well, Naruto's right. There hasn't been many interesting things going on lately. Kakashi sensei became Hokage, I'm a jounin and second in command at the hospital behind Lady Tsunade, and I guess Naruto is next in line to be Hokage." She then gave a smile to Naruto which he quickly returned. Sasuke just rolled his eyes and frowned, not knowing why he did.

"Anything else?" He asked, wanting her to turn her attention back to him.

"Well, you already know that Naruto and Hinata are married. Sai and Ino are going out."

"You mean the Ino Yamanaka who used to have a huge crush on me? She's going out with that jerk?" Sasuke asked. He had only talked to Sai a couple of times and just from their short conversations, he could tell that Sai could be a bigger jerk than himself sometimes.

"What are you so surprised about? If she liked one jerk she can like another," Naruto said, laughing.

Sasuke could tell that Naruto was just trying to annoy him now. It was working, but he wasn't going to show it. Instead, he looked back at Sakura as she continued.

"Shikamaru and Temari are dating, so are Choji and Karui from the cloud village. Honestly, that's about it."

Sasuke was surprised to hear about who all the couples were, but another thought came to him. There was something that was bothering him now. Something else he just had to ask. He looked back at Sakura, and tried to say his next question as casually as possible.

"What about you?" He asked her while turning his gaze to the floor. He had made sure that he said it with little to no concern in his voice.

Naruto and Sakura were both shocked by the question. Sakura had blushed a little and Naruto stared at Sasuke with his eyes slightly widened.

"Uh... Well no," she said and Sasuke had felt a small rush of relief surge through him.

Naruto had started to grin and added more to her statement. "Sakura has all the guys in the village after her though. You should see how many love letters she has from the war alone."

Sasuke looked up and narrowed his eyes at his best friend. The Uzumaki took this as a confirmation that his suspicions were true. He decided to "interrogate" them now.

"So, did you two do anything, interesting, in here last night?" Naruto asked, amused.

"What?!" Sasuke yelled, clearly shocked by the question. Sakura had begun to blush madly and tried to hide it by looking at he floor.

"I heard you got back at around midnight and stayed here. That's plenty of time for you two to get reacquainted with each other," Naruto said, knowing he was really pushing it now.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Sasuke angrily asked as he himself had begun to turn red.

"Oh, nothing. When I was outside the door a while ago it was awfully quiet in here. You sure you two weren't close?" Naruto said. He had nearly reached the limit.

Sasuke stood up and slammed his hands down on the table. "What are you trying to say?!" he angrily shouted, teeth gritted. Sakura had started to sink down in her chair.

Naruto had been laughing wildly and calmed himself down long enough to push it even further. "Did you want to be alone with Sakura in her apartment last night?"

The next instant, Naruto was lying barely conscious and bleeding on the floor beside the table. Sasuke was about to go for another punch when Sakura grabbed his arm.

"Please don't. Just because he's married doesn't mean he's matured any," she said, still holding his arm.

"Fine," he said. He was still seething with anger when she finally let go of his arm. She went over to Naruto and helped him to a sitting position.

"Are you alright?"

"Is it normal to smell colors?" He responded, his eyes rolling around in their sockets.

She gave a huge sigh and started to heal the spot on his head that was busted open. Sasuke looked away. He was extremely irritated at the thought of her touching other men, even if it was just Naruto. When she was done she gave him an angry look.

"Did you have to hit him that hard?"

Sasuke was about to respond when Naruto spoke up. "Don't worry about it guys! It was my fault anyway!"

"Since when the heck do you take responsibility?" Sasuke asked.

Naruto just laughed. "What do you guys say about eating at Ichiraku's for breakfast?"

"We just ate," the Uchiha replied coldly.

"Oh come on! Don't be such a loser!" Naruto exclaimed.

He was about to decline again when Sakura spoke up. "Sure, I'll go Naruto. Arguing with you two idiots has made me hungry again."

"I guess I'll go then," Sasuke said.

Naruto grinned happily at this. "Finally. The original Team 7 is truly back!" He thought to himself.

On the way to Ichiraku's, the people that were out looked at Sasuke as if he murdered someone on the spot. Luckily, it was still pretty early so there weren't too many people. It didn't bother him much anyway. He didn't personally know any of them.

Naruto and Sakura had noticed the looks their friend got and tried to lighten the mood.

"Hinata, Shino, and Kiba set out on a mission about an hour ago," Naruto stated.

"Do you know when they'll be back?" Sakura asked.

"Hinata said probably by tonight," he replied.

Ichiraku's had come into sight and the Uzumaki sped in front of them, reaching the counter in seconds. After the dust cloud had settled down, the other two continued walking casually towards their friend.

"I'll pay for yours," Sasuke said suddenly, breaking the silence.

"Sasuke, you don't have to," Sakura replied, clearly surprised.

"Hn. I want to. It's the least I can do."

They reached the counter and discovered that Naruto had ordered five bowls of ramen and had already eaten one of them. The man at the counter quickly gasped at the sight of the Uchiha.

"Sasuke Uchiha! How have you been? Haven't seen you in a long time!" Surprisingly, he did not look like he wanted to kill Sasuke.

Naruto spoke for him and Sasuke was grateful. "This jerk just came back last night! It was about time too!"

"Well in that case, all three of your meals are free!"

"ALRIGHT!" Naruto shouted as he ordered five more bowls.

Sasuke had been a little upset about the free meals. He had wanted to show Sakura that he had changed. He quickly cursed himself for being upset though. "Why the heck am I upset about a free meal?" He looked over at his best friend and wished he hadn't. "It's probably just because I'll hardly be able to eat one bowl after seeing him eat like that..." Sasuke had convinced himself that that was the real reason.

They all started to eat. Sasuke was keeping his eyes away from Naruto because if he looked at him again he'd probably vomit on the spot. Shortly afterwards, the Uzumaki finally finished his tenth bowl. After a long and disgusting belch, he started another conversation.

"I can't wait for the festival in a couple of weeks! I'm gonna challenge Gaara to another fight when he gets here!"

"Oh my gosh! I completely forgot about that! And remember what happened the last time you challenged him?" She finished, smirking.

"Hey! He should have waited until I was done, uh..."

"Naruto,"she started,"Kankuro and Temari had already said start. You shouldn't have been gloating and you should've paid attention."

He gave a small laugh. "It was more like taunting really. And was it really fair to have BOTH of his siblings calling it? Last year's festival was in his village, too, so I don't think it was all that fair if you ask me!"

"Whatever you say..." She answered back.

Sasuke had been listening to the conversation and finally asked the question that was on his mind. "What festival?"

Naruto and Sakura turned to their puzzled friend. Naruto spoke first. "Oh, that's right. You left right before the first festival!"

Sasuke waited for him to continue but his friend said nothing else. "That doesn't answer my question."

This time it was Sakura who spoke up. "The festival is where all the nations come together to celebrate the end of the last war and the peace between the majority of the nations. You left a month before the first one."

He was about to speak again but stopped himself when she continued. "We rotate which village holds the festival each year. This year it's being held right here in Konoha. The other nations will get here a week before the day of the festival to help set up or catch up with friends from other villages. Also, a lot of couples have made it a tradition to kiss when the fireworks start at midnight."

"Me and Hinata are gonna do that this year. I've also heard Sai and Ino will, too. I don't know about Choji and Karui. We're all still working to get Shikamaru and Temari to do it. Hey Sakura, you should accept one of the guys this year! They are ALWAYS talking about you around the village."

Sasuke still hadn't turned his head, but he was looking at his friends from the corner of his eye now.

"I'm not really interested in any of them. One guy tried to kiss me as soon as he asked me."

Sasuke fully turned his head to face the wall on his side, away from his teammates. His right hand had clenched into a tight fist after hearing this.

"He ended up in the hospital for a week though," she said as Naruto chuckled.

The Uchiha unclenched his fist and smirked. "Serves him right," he thought to himself.

"So your not gonna ask anyone then?" Naruto asked. Sasuke had started to frown as he waited for her answer.

"No, I guess not." She answered casually. Sasuke breathed a small sigh of relief and started to finish his food again.

"Oh come on! You should ask Gaara or Lee! Lee would accept in a heartbeat. I bet Gaara would accept if you asked him," Naruto said.

Sasuke had choked on his food the moment his friend had finished. He stopped as soon as possible though, as he eagerly awaited her answer.

"I told you Naruto, I'm fine by myself. And if I WAS going to ask someone, I wouldn't ask either of them. Lee is nice and all but I don't think of him as anything more than a friend. Gaara is nice, too, and honestly pretty good looking, but the same goes for him. He's just a friend."

Sasuke felt a huge rush of relief, which he was quick to criticize himself for. "Why do I care if she asks someone or not?! It's her choice, not mine!"

Then, the other two had stopped talking as someone walked up to them. Kakashi Hatake, their former sensei, and now the Hokage welcomed his old team with a smile only seen by looking at his eyes.

"How's it going guys?" He turned to Sasuke. "I see you've already gotten reacquainted with each other then."

Recalling his best friend's words from earlier, he glared at Naruto and then at the Hokage. "Is this some sort of dumb joke?"

Kakashi widened his eyes in surprise. He was about to respond when Sakura gave him a warning look. Kakashi glanced over at a suspiciously grinning Naruto and wondered to himself,"What could he have possibly done in the short time Sasuke has been back..."

"I don't know what your talking about, but I was trying to say that you've talked with the other original team members, too," the Hokage said, choosing his words carefully.

"Hn," was all Sasuke said back.

"How have you two been?" The Hatake asked Sakura and Naruto.

"I'm good," said Sakura.

"Me too," Naruto said. "We just finished eating a free breakfast. You should have come a few minutes earlier Kakashi sensei."

The masked Hokage chuckled. "I don't want to interrupt you guys catching up with each other. With an old man like me around, it would just be awkward."

Naruto chuckled," Oh come on, you're only like what, thirty three or four."

Kakashi stopped laughing and looked nervously at Naruto. "How did you know that?!"

It was Naruto's turn to look nervous. "Uh..."

While The two men argued, Sasuke had gotten up and walked over to a nearby building. He leaned against it and closed his eyes. He had learned about so many changes to the village in just the last twelve or so hours. The most intriguing had been the festival. He would probably just stay at the apartment while it was going on though, that is until someone made him get up and go. Then a new thought came to him. The only reason he would willingly go. "No, I shouldn't. I don't deserve the right to ask..."

Sakura had noticed that Sasuke had left and went over to see if he was okay.

"Sasuke, are you okay?" She asked.

"Hn," he opened his eyes,"I'm fine. Don't worry about me."

"Oh, okay. Naruto, Kakashi sensei, and I were going to go to the training field today and I was wondering if you'd want to come with me and wait for them?" She looked back at the two men. "It could be a while if Kakashi sensei is mad..."

"Hn. Sure," he smirked,"I've been waiting a long time to kick that dobe's butt again."

Naruto had just finished his explanation of how he found out the Hokage's age and had noticed his friends' absences.

"They're probably already headed to the training field. I can't wait to show Sasuke who the real loser is again!" Naruto started to run to the field when Kakashi put a hand on his shoulder.

Kakashi had just remembered the earlier events that took place when he first greeted them. "No, Naruto we need to talk."

"Look if your still mad-"

Kakashi had a serious look in his eyes now. "It's not about that. I think you know what I'm talking about."

Sasuke and Sakura had been walking in silence toward the training field. It was beginning to feel awkward.

Sakura was looking straight ahead, wondering what he had been through on his journey. "He's changed quite a bit, not just his looks." She took a quick glance at him and turned back to look at the road.

Sasuke had been inwardly arguing with himself on whether he should ask. "You don't have any right to ask her for anything! How am I supposed to forgive myself if I can't talk to her?! You don't deserve her or any of your other friends at all! I know that I can never truly make up for all that I've done, but they've forgiven me. You don't deserve their forgiveness, especially hers! I know that I don't deserve it, but now it's time I try to feel like I've earned it..."

"Sakura?"

"Hm?" she asked, turning her head toward him.

"About the festival..."

"Ya?"

"You don't deserve it! Just ask her now!" Sasuke's inner thoughts were still screaming at him. "Would you like to..."

"Ask already you idiot! Don't do it!" He didn't say anything.

One of his thoughts had taken over now, so he decided to listen to it. "JUST ASK!"

"Would you like to go with me to the festival? You know, as, friends." He quickly added the last part so it wouldn't sound like was asking her on a date.

"Uh... sure! As friends..." There was a small hint of disappointment in her voice as she answered.

Sasuke had noticed it and frowned. Somewhere inside of him though, there was a slight spark of happiness because of it.

"Does that mean she still feels the same way?"

A strong feeling of regret hit him. It didn't matter how she felt about him now. He only thought of her as a close friend. Or, was he just fooling himself with that thought?

"I shouldn't even be thinking like this. I only asked so I'd get a chance to talk to someone. That's all. I haven't really had anyone to talk to in three years."

He looked over at her and saw the sad expression on her face. Even though he said she was his friend, and only his friend, he felt the need to embrace her in a hug.

"What's wrong with me? I need to control myself. Well... isn't that what friends do? They hug? What am I thinking?! It's always her... It's always her that makes me feel like this. I can't think straight when I'm around her. Why? Why do I always feel the need to impress her or act cool around her? When she's not around I always think about her, too. GET YOUR HEAD TOGETHER! YOUR AN UCHIHA FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! My thoughts are always this crazy when I'm around her, too..."

They walked the rest of the way to the training grounds in silence.

Author's Note: Sorry for the abrupt ending. I didn't know exactly where to go from there. Sasuke is so clueless... I will eventually fix that though! I don't know if there was any festival or mention of one in The Last so just know that I made it up. There will be a growing evil soon and it will have a great deal to do with Sasuke. Without spoiling much, I'm just gonna say that things will be pretty peaceful for the next few chapters. I'm using that space for introducing our favorite characters! Thanks for reading! Please review! Thanks for the follows!