"That's disgusting." Sasuke said as he spat out one of Sakura's medicine balls in a dramatic manner. Sakura's brow was furled as she watched Sasuke toss the rest of the ball on the ground and walked on. "What did you make that from, deer piss?"

Sakura just dropped her head, what Sasuke didn't know is that everyone else had never said anything about the taste. That meant that they wanted to protect her feelings. Sai, Naruto. Sakura began to cry lightly, he a hand clamped over her mouth stopping their trek. 'Has she always been this annoying…? Yep, just like I remember. I'm going to have to talk her down.' "Listen, it may taste like shit, but I could taste some of the components Orochimaru used, it works doesn't it?"

She nodded slowly and shoved his hand away. She quickly wiped her eyes of the few tears and stood strong. "Don't pity me Uchiha. I wasn't crying because you told me the truth about my medicine balls! For months now Sai and Naruto… They've been lying to me to keep me happy. I miss them."

"Miss them? Please, you don't know what it's like to miss… I had to go six years without my brother by my side only to find out it was your shitty ass village that ordered him to kill my clan!" Sasuke said grabbing Sakura by the throat and constricting. Sakura gasped for breath and than began whimpering as she clawed at his hand, useless without her chakra. "Aw, fuck it."

Sasuke dropped her and stood over her watching as the girl grabbed her throat nervously, tears still coming down. However she looked up pissed at him. He offered a hand up that she took. "It's highly unlikely I'll be able to survive out here by myself."

"That's… That's a bad way of saying sorry."

"I wasn't saying sorry. I was saying the probability I would survive would decrease greatly if I was by myself. Let's move, the sun's setting soon." Sasuke said letting go of her to keep moving into the sky of purple and pink. He kept walking until there was a clinging noise. Sasuke kicked something metal again and whistled for Sakura to come over. She did obediently and watched as Sasuke uncovered a metal track. "It's not that deeply covered."

"By the winds and the drift of the sands, I'd say it's only been covered for six or seven hours." Sakura said looking at the tracks. She looked down each way and sighed. "What way do you want to head, east or west?"

"I'm partial to west." Sasuke said and began to walk down in the middle of the tracks. Sakura followed behind silently, she didn't have anything to say to Sasuke that he couldn't spin and make an insult. "Once it gets dark, should we make camp or keep going?"

"I don't know are you going to strangle me again?" Sakura snapped at the Uchiha in front of her. Sasuke turned quickly with a flash of rage in his eyes. Sakura grabbed her right glove pulling it tightly.

"No." He whispered deeply. They stood in the stand off until they heard a loud bellow coming from the west. Sasuke turned his sight down the tracks and pulled Sakura off. "Do you have anything to start a fire?"

"Um…" Sakura pulled off her ninja pouch and pulled out two scrolls. Sasuke grabbed them against her protests ripping the paper off. He quickly rubbed them together getting a spark and tossed the paper on. "I need those."

"Right now, I need to be saved." Sasuke pulled out a scroll of his and tossed it on making it bigger. The train came screeching into sight with a large white light and a barely visible silver shell. The horn began blaring very loudly and the brakes howled against the metal wheels. The train stopped just in front of them. "I do good sometimes, I saved us."

"You, you saved you." Sakura growled and walked up to the train as a door opened and a grease-monkey of a woman hopped out of the train. Sakura smiled, "Hi, it seems we are in need of rescue. We just woke up in the desert this morning and have no clue where we are."

"Practically the middle of nowhere. Hop on; I can give you a ride to the east coast. Is he coming, too?" The conductor asked looking over at Sasuke. He kicked a pile of sand onto the fire extinguishing it and walked over. "Come on, kid."

"Thank you for picking us up." Sasuke cooed, he didn't smile at all though. He followed the conductor and Sakura up onto the train and they were shown a living booth that was practically empty.

"Stay in this car, the rest of the cars are for transportation of goods. I can't have you stumbling into a whiskey shipment." The conductor showed them a cabinet full of food as she introduced herself as Peggy. When she finished she told them, they should probably get some rest.

"Thank you," Sakura said as she left. A few seconds afterwards they felt the train pull out. Sakura stood up and grabbed two cans of pop-top ravioli and two forks handing a pair to Sasuke. Sauske looked at her and took the meal slowly.

"Don't get used to us not fighting Sakura. As soon as I find my way, I'm killing you." Sasuke said as if it were nothing. He pulled the top off the can and began to eat slowly.

"I look foreword to the fight." Sakura's words made Sasuke flinch a bit. "And your cool act isn't fooling anyone, I know you're starving too."