So it's finally there -.-'

Sorry guys I know it was a long time D':

I don't know how I can apologize DD:

Maybe by...MAKING IT THE LONGEST CHAPTER I EVER WROTE?

hehe :D so I don't own ;D Revieeeeews *-*

Blinking Sakura's eyes adjusted to the blinding hospital lights.
She felt the tight bandages covering her body.
Putting her weight on her arms she tried to sit up, but as soon as she shifted in the bed her body began to tremble uncontrollably and she coughed violently.
Excited and slightly worried voices suddenly filled the room and after a few seconds she was surrounded by a crowd of people.

Loud 'How are you's and 'Does anything hurt's made their way to her ear but everything Sakura brought over her lips was a tired smile.

Her throat was sore and dry from not talking for a long time but even though she was tired and everything around was just loud she immediately recognized the two persons entering the room and her small smile widened a bit.
"So, she's really awake? I can see her now? I can talk to her? I ca-"
"Yes, you could Naruto, but what she needs now is rest so will everyone in this room PLEASE GET OUT!"

Sakura heard people gulp and footsteps heading for the door but she was too tired to turn her head.
Cracking her mouth open, she spoke in a raspy voice.
"Naruto. Shishou."

"Geez, always making us worry like this. What do you think you were doing? I don't have anymore sake left because of you!"

Sakura chuckled quietly.
"Gomen…"

"Sakura-chan! I'm so happy you're awake! I thought you were dying", Naruto half-screamed, half-cried.
"I won't die so easily, Naruto, you should know."
Sakura chuckled and a comfortable silence fell over the trio while Tsunade checked her pupil's condition.

Slightly bored the pinkette tried to turn her head a bit but as soon as she bent to her right side she felt a sting in her shoulder.

"Ouch."

"Oh and you shouldn't move until tomorrow."

Tsunade said without looking up from her clipboard.

Sakura groaned. Well wasn't this funny?
She could particular hear Naruto bounce around in her room. Oh how she wanted to stand up and smack him.

But there still was one question burning hot on her tongue and she didn't know if she wanted to even hear the answer.
"Ano…Tsunade-shishou?"
"Hai?"

"…"

Sakura gulped.

"…Where's Sasuke?"
The moment the words left her mouth she regretted asking because a choking silence fell over the room and even Naruto stood still for some time.

"Sakura…"
"Where is he, Shishou?"
Panic made its way in her voice.

"Well…he's-"
Before the Hokage could finish the sentence Naruto cut her off.

"They've put him into prison."

"What?"
Sakura body shot upwards.

Pain went through her and she was forced back into the warm, welcoming hospital sheets but she was terrified never the less.

Why would they put him into prison?

The scroll said-

"It's not like it was my order."

Tsunade threw in sternly.

"This Jii-Jii and his wife ordered it and they've the council as back-up…I couldn't do anything else than making the time he still has as comfortable as possible."

Sakura went rigid.

Lies.

That wasn't possible. No…It couldn't be.
After all she just got him back.
Lies!

"W-what do you mean…'the time he still has'?"
Naruto turned away from her.
He couldn't stand it. He couldn't look into her eyes and see the little hope and light she still held after all this being destroyed.

It wasn't possible.
She didn't deserve this. Nobody did.

Tsunade spoke up.

"Sakura. You must be strong now."

Tsunade watched as Sakura's eyes widened in disbelief.
How she wished she wouldn't have to tell her something that would destroy everything she worked for, aimed for, believed in…lived for.

She didn't want to take the only light in her live away.

But somebody had to.

"Sasuke…will have a trial and he will…most likely be sentenced to death."

(A/N: Haha, I first wanted to end it there. Glad I didn't? Well you'll see :D)
Tsunade sighed sadly as her pupil's form stiffened at her words.
Why did it have to be so hard on her?

Sakura's eyes were hidden behind her bangs but Tsunade could feel the agony radiating off of her.
Finally the pinkette spoke up but what she said wasn't what the Hokage had hoped for.

"Lies. You're all LYING!"

Tears began to run down Sakura's cheek.

All the pain she felt was forgotten and she shook her head violently.

"No, no, no! I won't believe this! Lies! You're ly-"

SLAP!
Sakura's head was snapped to the right by the force of Naruto's hand.

A red handprint was visible on her cheek.

Naurto looked down, fighting back the tears.

"Get a grip, Sakura-chan. You have to be strong now…if not for us…than for Sasuke."

But being the kind-hearted boy he is, Naruto engulfed Sakura in a hug and rubbed soothing circles over her back and the pinkette cried her heart out.

Tsunade tactfully left the room to give the both of them some alone time.

Even after 20 minutes had passed Sakura's grip on Naruto's shirt didn't get less.

But Naruto would never get tired of her. He was always there for Sakura when she needed him.
She had to thank him for it some time.

"N-naruto…", Sakura's raspy voice broke through her sobs.

"What is it, Sakura-chan?"
"I-I want to see him…now…"
"But Baa-chan said th-"
"I know what Tsunade-sama said, baka."

Naruto grinned.

"So you want to sneak out of the hospital! Why didn't you say so in the beginning!"
I tried…idiot…

"Leave it to me, Sakura-chan! I'm the master of escaping from hospitals!"
Well duh…guess why I'm asking you.

After some minutes of carrying, climbing and hurting(on Sakura's behalf) Naruto and Sakura finally got out of the hospital.

Being supported by her crutches the two of them made their way towards Konoha's shinobi prison.

Actually there were two prisons in Konoha.

One for normal civilians overground in the west side of the village with normal cells and one for the shinobi underground in the south side.

There were some normal cells too but mostly it was featured with chakra binding cells and and some cells that were nearly impossible to break out.

Sasuke probably sat in one of those.

Before entering Sakura hurriedly changed into her ANBU attire with a simple jutsu.

Naruto already walked inside of the giant prison.

The first thing you see after entering is a long corridor that gets you underground.

It looked like someone took a spade and just dug into the stone without a specific aim.

At the end there's a big, wooden door. Or better: gate.

Because well…it was huge!

When Sakura entered she could already hear Naruto nagging the secretary. Poor guy.

"I'm sorry, but you can't see him right now, Sir."

"FORBIDDEN MY ASS! I'LL GO IN THERE! IT'S SASUKE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT."

"Like I said. I'm sorry but I'm forbidden to let anyone enter. Hokage's o-"
"Is that so?", Sakura chirped in.

"What If I want to see him?"
"G-golden Phoenix-sama! A-ano…I think that's something different…"

"Oh really now…"

"P-Please enter, Ma'am!"
Sakura rolled her eyes. He's the secretary of a friggin' prison! He shouldn't be such a wimp and piss his pants at every occasion.

Following the man Sakura and Naruto looked around them.

Everywhere were cells.

Some had those classical bars, some others stone walls.

It was agonizing quiet even though there had to be hundreds of hundreds of people in here.

Sakura shivered as she followed a guard down to another section of prisons.

The lower they got the colder the air became and the higher were the prisons guarded.

Finally they stopped going down and instead went into another long stretched corridor.

The air was thick, wet and cold.

There weren't bars anymore but only stone doors.

The guard that changed places with the secretary some time ago stopped before a specific cell.

"Please enter, Golden Phoenix-sama."
He sent Naruto a harsh glare as if to say only Sakura was to enter.

"He's coming with me", Sakura barked.

The guard nodded and opened the door.

After bowing he walked down the corridor.

Naruto and Sakura entered. Of course the knuckle-head went in first.

Sakura followed keeping her gaze fixed on the ground.

She wasn't sure if she was able to look up.

"N-nar-ruto…S-sa-kura…", Sasuke breathed out while shivering.

Shocked Sakura's head shot up. She saw Sasuke on a bench. In a T-shirt without a blanket or something. The poor guy had to freeze to death.

"Dude, you're freezing to death like that!", Naruto stated.

"Th-thanks f-for…n-n-notic-cing, d-dobe."

Naruto hurriedly took off his jacket and offered it to Sasuke who gladly took it.

Sakura started to take hers off as well.

"S-stop, S-s-sakura."

"But, Sasuke-!"
"I-I'm f-f-fine."

"Tch, teme. Well, just came to say hello and bring you Sakura-chan and all.

Gonna get going…Let's go eat ramen later, Sakura-chan!", he screamed, already down half of the corridor.

Sakura carefully made her way over to Sasuke's bench.

She sat down next to him, placing her crutches beneath her.

Sasuke immediately pulled her onto his lap and snuggled his head into her neck.

Saskura's hands shook slightly.

She couldn't look at Sasuke.

The guilt was crushing her.

She took off her ANBU mask.

"G-gomen, Sasuke…I didn't know…they told me-"

"S-shhh. I-It's not y-y-your f-fault."

"It is! It's me who brought you in this situation!"

Sasuke merely smiled at her.

Yes, he smiled.

"I-I don't c-c-are."

"How can you say you don't care! You're in a prison! A frickin cold prison may I add! You're freezing a-and it's dark and you'll probably be sentenced to d-d-d…"

"D-death. I know, S-sakura."
He kissed her lightly on the forehead.

"I k-knew this was going t-t-t-to happen since I heard f-f-from the mis-s-s-sion."

"But they said-"

"Do you r-really believe those old g-g-geezers would just let an S-rank-ked criminal wander around in th-th-their village from one day to another because h-h-he's 'innocent'?"

"…no…"

"S-see."

His thumb gently caressed her cheek.

"But…"
Sasuke's brows furrowed.

"W-what is i-it?"

Sakura looked up to meet his eyes and Sasuke saw the fresh tears beaming in her eyes.

"I don't want you to die, Sasuke!"

She cried out and threw her arms around him, effortlessly tackling him.

"Not after I just got you back! Don't go away again! You can't leave me again! They can't take you away from me!"
Sakura's sobs were muffled by Sasuke's black shirt but he understood her never the less.

He rubbed soothing circles onto her back and even though her sobbing and clinging to him was a bit annoying he still enjoyed the warmth radiating off of her.

He was glad that it was there again, that gleam in her eyes and if him being alive meant that it would stay there, he would do everything possible to stay alive. For her.

It hurt him seeing her cry. He just couldn't stand it. At all.

"Sakura, stop crying. Please."

He gently peeled her off him and watched her trying to blink away the tears.

He put his hands on each side of her head and searched for her eyes.

"You don't need to cry. We're gonna stand through this. I love you, ok?"

Sasuke carefully bent down and softly kissed her on the lips.

Sakura responded immediately by lifting her head up and moving her lips in sync with his.

She pushed her body up trying to get nearer to him as his arms sneaked around her crushed her into his chest.

Feeling Sakura answer his request made Sasuke kiss her more rough.

He pressed her against him even more and bit down on her lip and as Sakura gasped he shoved his tongue into her mouth.

The pinkette immediately tried to tackle his one invading her mouth with her own and a heated battle began.

After just a few seconds the winner was declared and the raven caught Sakura's tongue between his teeth and began licking and sucking at it.

Mean while Sasuke's one hand combed through her pink hair the other one slowly made his way up her thigh.

Sakura moaned into Sasuke's mouth and her face suddenly turned red in embarrassment.

Sasuke smirked against her lips.

His hand wandered from her hair and started unzipping her jacket when-

"Visitor hours are over for you too, Sakura!", Tsunade's harsh voice came from the other side of the stone door as it slowly opened.

Sakura jumped as fast as you possibly could with not healed legs away from Sasuke and tried to comb through her wild hair. Her lips were swollen and bruised from where he bit down.

Her face was still flaming red and Sasuke didn't help by pulling her onto his lap again and putting his arms around her.

Tsunade came in and first looked shocked at her student sitting on the prisoner's lap.

She then took in her appearance.

Unruly hair, a bright red face, half unzipped jacket and swollen lips.

The Hokage sighed.

"Shouldn't you rest in a hospital right now, Sakura?"
Tsunade ignored the heavy glare the Uchiha was sending her and turned to her student who tried to hide her red face behind Sasuke's arms but miserably failed.

"Probably?"
"Probably? I told you not to move until tomorrow."
"Well…I did. And I'm not dead yet."
"Sakura come with me."

The blonde yanked Sakura up and ignored her as she cried out in pain but instead of pulling her along, she felt the pinkette's slim hand gliding out her own and not moving an inch away from where she stood.

Frowning Tsunade turned around and saw Sasuke holding her student in his arms steadying her because apparently she wasn't even healed enough to stand.

"Sasuke, if I were you I would let her go. Or did you forget that I'm the Hokage and was up till now on your side?"

Sasuke growled at her but let go of Sakura after handing her her crutches never the less.

Sakura merely smiled at him as she followed her master out.

"I'll be coming back soon, don't worry, Sasuke."
Before the door could be closed, Sasuke hurriedly kissed her one last time before a heavy guarded prison separated them again.

He could still hear Tsunade barking orders and yelling: "Get the poor boy a blanket, you retards!" and if his ears weren't pulling a trick on him, he could hear Sakura's faint voice too.

"I love you too, Sasuke…"

awee, cheesy romance. well hope you liked it ;D
Sasuke: as if i would ever say bullshit like this.

me: just keep telling yourself that ;D

anyway! review guys :**