What's Your Name by Jesse McCartney

A/N: Let it be known now, I have read all of a couple pages in the manga, and I haven't watched the like last eight episodes of Naruto. Sorry if this goes completely against the cannon plot. I'm basically going off the stuff I learned from Wikipedia and fan-fiction.

Suigetsu leapt through the trees, branch after branch, with each step causing a pant to escape from his mouth. How he wanted to drink some water! But could he? Of course not, because Sasuke had gone and caused some huge explosion that had done who knows what to the guy. Shaking his head, Suigetsu made the next step, and then the next.

When a blurry pink thing passed out of the corner of his eye, Suigetsu paused. His feet tripped over each other and he went sprawling to the fifty-feet below ground. Did it hurt? Of course not, this was water-boy. Did it sting? Yes, his pride felt a little hurt.

When he got up again, the pink thing was nowhere in sight. There were a couple strands of hair hanging from a tree branch, however. Carefully, Suigetsu picked them up and examined them. It was definitely human hair, but pink?

Cursing, Suigetsu quickly withdrew a scroll from his belt. He had let himself get distracted, bag Suigetsu, very bad. He drew the symbols on the scroll and tossed it before him. It was just some stupid scroll that Sasuke had given him 'in case of emergencies', and this could qualify as one. A puff of smoke, a moment later it was replaced with a very large and giant snake. Had he mentioned it was purple?

The snake groaned quite a bit, hissing in protest. The being was quite badly burned; its entire body showed the pain it was in. Slowly, it opened its mouth and Sasuke stepped out. He was also battle scared; a small strand of hair was even singed. Had somebody told Suigetsu that he would be seeing Sasuke like this, he would have scoffed and ran the man through with his sword for being a liar and bad joker. Now, he still would have run the man through, but this time for no other reason than to kill the man.

The snake started hissing at Sasuke, apparently it was talking since Sasuke was talking to it. A small argument later, and the snake breathed its last breath. "You really ought to take better care of animals, Sasuke." Suigetsu muttered.

What do you do when you see a person with bright pink hair walk by you as you exit an inn? Well, if the pink shade matches the shade of the braid currently tucked behind his ear, then absolutely nothing. He only caught a glimpse, he was too busy looking at the piece of paper he had in his hands. It was the small spot of pink out of the corner of his eye that made him look up. And he could only watch as the owner of the pink hair rounded a corner and was lost to him. Suigetsu wasted no time trying to follow the person, but when he reached the corner, the owner of the hair had disappeared.

You would think a pink-haired person would be easy to spot in a crowd.

Frowning, Suigetsu's hand reached up to finger the braid. He had kept the strands of hair he had found near a month ago. After Karin had oh so preciously announced that Sasuke would be okay, Suigetsu had retired to his room to examine the hair. A pink-haired person sounded just as freaky as he, the white-haired person. He had braided the soft strands and had started wearing it behind his ear. When asked about it, Suigetsu would ignore however had spoken.

Suigetsu sighed and walked back the other way. Sasuke was waiting for his intelligence report on the Eighth Tale.

Tired and exhausted, Suigetsu stumbled into a bar. He didn't care that he was vulnerable near the back, where there weren't any windows, and took a seat in the loneliest corner he could find. When a waitress came up, he ordered water and demanded to be left alone. How could they not have captured the stupid tailed beast? That fight had sure seemed like that of a tailed, he himself had even risked his life to make sure Sasuke got out. But no, it was some stupid failure and now they had to start all the freaking over again!

Frustrated beyond frustration, Suigetsu knocked over his water glass and watched the water run. His usual 'water-is-precious' attitude was forgotten in his sulking. Sasuke had been particularly hard on him, since he had been the one to get all the intelligence. Karin had gotten off easy for some reason, even though she had helped him on certain occasions, what with her being female and all.

Suigetsu looked up and focused his eyes on the door. Somebody would be looking for him, now that he was out of the rain. It wouldn't take them long to find him here. Where else would he go, anyway? The only good alcohol in Ame could be found here, and that's it.

The next person to come through the door wasn't the one Suigetsu was expecting. This person was female with a huge dull tan cloak wrapped around her shoulders. But that wasn't what interested him. His hand instinctively reached up to cradle the precious braid at his ear; the two things shared the same color, soft cherry-blossom pink.

Suigetsu hadn't been expecting a female to be the owner of the hair, even if that was the logical presumption. Nor had he been expecting a girl as petite as she. How had this girl possibly passed him that day, way back when? Surely her legs couldn't run like that!

The girl took a seat near the door and ordered a Saki. What a girl would need with a bottle of that stuff, he didn't know. Suigetsu's eyes were glued to her as she drank cup after cup of the bottle. She herself was glancing around the room, studying every person there. She hadn't seen him, however, probably too busy with the fat guy two tables in front of him.

She drained the entire bottle and glared at it curiously. The expression was a mixture of "How dare you run out on me?!" and "Is it gone already?!" She frowned as she left a bit of money on the table. The way she sat indicated she wasn't about to move.

Suigetsu was about to make his move when she stood up abruptly, giving no sign that she had even planned on moving. With one last glance around, she left. He had completely missed her. How could he have missed her? How could he have not asked the question that was starting to bubble at his throat, screaming for a way out.

"What's your name?" he said under his breath.

The next fateful meeting wasn't to be for months after. Suigetsu was in the Water Country examining the place where he had found Zabuza's sword. Team Taka/Hebi had officially split up. Karin and he had traveled together for a little while; it hadn't been a fun journey, before she took off to attempt to re-dominate one of Orochimaru's bases. He had come here for no reason at all.

Soon, soon he would beat Kisame. And after that, after that, he would find the owner of his braid.

He walked away, leaving a trail of light footsteps behind him. In town, he started toward the inn that had individual bath-houses, his thoughts drifting back to the braid. The thoughts were rudely interrupted by the pink-haired girl herself.

Suigetsu recognized her as the same person. While she had given up the over-large cloak for more traditional ninja-clothes in the red color, the shade of sparkling emerald green eyes was the same. This time, she wasn't frowning as she studied and took mental notes on her surroundings; this time, she was smiling and laughing. He quickly found the source of her laughter, a tall blonde boy next to her.

Suigetsu wasted no time in following them. The same question had been bothering him day and night, in his dreams and in his thoughts. Didn't she know she had him tripping? But he couldn't get to know her if she didn't know he was alive!

There was something he had to find out, if he'd ever get the chance, only three words he had to ask; what's your name?

He had her in his sight, she had even split apart from the blonde, he was about to walk up to her, about to ask those three words, when she was joined by a gray-haired man, or was it silver? And he knew this ninja, Hitake Kakashi.

Suigetsu would have to back off, but he would find the girl again.

He was pulling his hair out in frustration! This girl was extremely hard to find, but whenever he did spot her, every chance that he could have gotten to ask those three simple words was thwarted. This girl was never alone, always with her blonde-partner or the Hitake Kakashi.

"What's your name, what's your name?" Suigetsu muttered to himself, still yanking at his hair. She was just below him; her hair giving off the strangest glow from the lantern positioned two feet to the left of her as it hung from the ceiling. He really wanted to know her name! She had him going crazy so he wanted her more and more! There could be something behind all this, something real, but the sight was turned toward never finding out.

If only she could see, he wanted to get to know her, and her to know him.

Exactly sixteen days later, he encountered her again. He was swimming in a lake when she came up to it. Wearily, she dunked a cloth into the water and scrubbed at her face. Five minutes later, she was dozing against a rock. She must have been truly exhausted if she hadn't even sensed Suigetsu's chakra.

Perhaps this was his chance. Quietly, he swam over to where she had fallen asleep and crawled out of the water. "What's your name?" he whispered cautiously, going even closer.

Her eyes blinked open and landed on him, only feet away. Faster than he could keep up, she was flying on faster feet than he would ever give her credit for. "Wait! Don't go!"

Too late, he missed the name. Could she not go? Please? He was the one she needed! He had to tell her how bad he wanted her, all he needed was the chance, but he never got the opportunity to ask.

He sat down on the rock where she had fallen asleep, contemplating. Thirty times he had seen her in passing, thirty times he had wanted to just walk up and ask the stupid girl her name. Thirty times he had seen her; twenty-nine times she hadn't seen him. Why could he ask her, why could he ask her for her name?

Hours later, Suigetsu ignored the steps approaching him. He hadn't left the rock; it was actually quite comfortable for a water-being like him. He didn't look up, didn't even acknowledge the new presence. When it stood still, most likely watching him, he spoke.

"I'm not going to move." Suigetsu told the person, "You can even come over and try to kill me."

"Why would a shinobi say something like that?"

Suigetsu's body froze. He had heard that same voice exactly thirteen times, he had heard that voice laugh exactly seven, he knew that voice. Carefully, his head rose to meet with emerald eyes. Pink-hair.

"What's your name?" he blurted out before he could stop himself. Suigetsu didn't care if he sounded like a fool, didn't even care if she was so startled she ran again. He had asked the question, and maybe, just maybe, he would get an answer.

"Sakura, Haruno Sakura."

A/N: Wow, this is a LONG ONE! Must have something to do with not having written any fan-fiction in over a month. I have tons of these going through my head, so hopefully I'll be able to start writing them. And then I'm going to go rewrite my NaruSaku, because it needs to be redone. Next will maybe be a NejiSaku.

Have any requests? I'd be happy to attempt them, especially if it's to celebrate a special occasion or a birthday.