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The Infamous Bench

"Suki…"

Sakura heard him call her name. :smirk: In a sense she always knew it would be him. This is after all their spot. Sakura slowly lifted her eyes to meet his.

His dark obsidian eyes staring back into her emerald orbs. They were in a sense pleading with her, but if pleading didn't work you could tell he was ready to rumble.

Sakura couldn't stop herself from shooting his own words from that night right back at him.

"It's the middle of the night. What are you hanging around here for?"

"This is the only road out of the village" he said in a calm manner.

"You should go to bed" she said just as casually and walked around him.

"Why Suki?..." Sasuke didn't want to process what was happening. He knew that she was struggling with her power and he knew she thought about her parents every day. She would always have some moments where she would zone out and think about the day they were murdered by that medical ninja. Over the years Sasuke had watched her closely. For a moment he thought she would get over it and live here with them, but deep down he knew that fantasy was shattered when he saw her relapse into the darkness during the chunin preliminary exams. But still…

"Why won't you ever tell me anything? You always keep to yourself. You've never shared a single thing-."

Wow, that was almost the same thing she said to him when he left. Hmm…let's see how long we can keep this up, Sakura thought.

"Why should I have to tell you anything" Sakura said with a cruel tone. "Just keep your nose out of my business. It's none of your concern"

Sasuke slightly flinched. You could tell she was hurting his feelings, but that didn't deter him from trying to convince her to stay here.

"I know you don't like me. Even in the beginning you never wanted to be around me. I would throw you looks to get your attention and you would always avoid my gaze. The second we entered the academy you couldn't wait to get away from me and ran straight for Naruto as if he were your life line."

"I don't remember that" Sakura lied, of course she remembered that. It always has been difficult to be around him.

""Hmph: I'm not surprised." He said, being reminded of how much attention she didn't pay him." Suki I know all about your plans, but seeking revenge for your parents won't bring anyone happiness."

:sigh: Now Sakura was really getting annoyed. She would hate to use his same line, but in this case it was true.

"I'm not the same as you, Sasuke. I'm traveling along a path the rest of you can't follow. I know that the four of us have worked together and for a while I thought I could take that road instead, but in the end I am bound by my goal. That's always been my reason for living." She said dejected by the future that awaited her.

"Don't do this Suki. You don't have to be alone. I have a family and friends, but if you were gone Suki …"

Sakura smiled softly at his sentence, however he couldn't see it because her back was to him.

Sasuke didn't finish his sentence, instead he change his approach and full out threatened her.

"I won't let you leave Suki. If you take two more steps in that direction I will knock you out and drag you back home."

:Sigh: That's as far as their déjà vu moment went. Sakura had enough of this façade. She wasn't going to hide who she was anymore.

She turned around and walked a little bit closer to him.

"That's better" he said "Now finish walking all the way over here and we'll go home."

"It's Sakura" she said revealing her true name to him.

"What?" he said all confused.

"My name is Sakura. Sakura Haruno to be exact." She told him.

"Sakura…Haruno" he whispered to himself trying to remember where he heard that name before. Where did I hear that name before? …Wait in the academy, that student who died. They said she was killed by the medical ninja. Her name was Sakura Haruno, but how?

"Now are you surprised." She said her voice sounding more and more sinister. "You see Sasuke my parents are alive and well in Konoha. I was never attacked by the medical ninja killer, because I am the medical ninja killer."

:gasp: Sasuke's eyes went wide. He was shocked! He couldn't process what she was saying to him. His entire body went numb. He couldn't even feel his cold sweat breaking out on his face. He didn't want to understand. No, no, NO! Not his Suki! His beautiful Suki… Why? WHY? His loving Suki, the medical ninja murderer Sakura Haruno? But how? She was only 6 years-old. It's not possible!

Sasuke stayed quiet, too dazed to reply.

"I won't go into details of my personal history, but rest assured I did kill the elders of Konoha. And now I've been found out. I can't stay here anymore, Sasuke." Her cold voice turning gentle at the end.

Now Sasuke looked up at her, into her green eyes. The emotion he saw there making him take a step back. She couldn't…

"Sasuke I knew it would be you to come here to try to stop me…It seems that no matter what a person does there are some things that can't be changed." She stayed silent for a moment thinking if she should reveal her next secret. Ah might as well.

"I am bound Sasuke. Bound to my dark master always. He is the reason why I killed those certain people…"

Now this caught Sasuke's attention. "Dark master..." he said quietly. So she isn't acting out on her own accord. It sounds like this guy has some kind of hold over her.

"and he is the reason for what I must do next." Forgive me, Sasuke.

Then Sakura rushed behind Sasuke, touched certain pressure points and knocked him out. She didn't have time to say 'thank you'. She knew he would use that small time to fight back. Sakura picked him up and laid him on 'their' bench. This would be the last time she would be able to be around him like this.

Sakura took a second to look down at him. She reminisced over all the happy memories they had made in this dimension. She always wondered what Sasuke would have been like if his family was never murdered, but she never dreamed that she would actually get to experience it firsthand.

Goodbye Sasuke-kun.

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:( Sad moment. Now Sakura is off to where? Sound or the Akatsuki?

What will Sasuke do when he wakes up? Or Itachi when he finds out she's gone?

More importantly what is Sakura up to now?

Let me know what you think and yes, I know it's short. So this means, the next chapter will come soon.

Enjoy!:)

~Claja