Author's Note: Hey guys! I'm already updating so soon! Aren't you guys proud? I'm sure you guys are aching to see what happens with Sakura. I've noticed some very strong opinions about her from the last chapter. Well, without further ado, here you guys go:

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Sakura

"Take the rest of the day off Sasuke." I sighed as he dropped me off at my apartment.

"What about the date? Do you not want me to keep an eye on what happens?" I saw from the corner of my eye how he was watching me play with my keys to find the right one. When I did I unlocked the door to room 33D. The room I had been vacating since I left Naruto's. It's our house. We had lived there together. We had loved there together.

"No, there won't be a date to watch out for." I said my final words for the night, and shut the door behind me. I sighed as I looked around. Most everything had been left untouched. No mess, no clutter, no Naruto. I didn't even rent that big of an apartment. There was enough for a kitchen and a living room. With nothing in the living room but a leather couch that had worn away, and was big enough to seat four. In front of the couch there was a small TV that sat on top of a stand that held all of my favorite movies. Then there had been my room which had nothing but a bed and a closet. There was a dresser that sat in the corner, and in the drawers held all the make-up Ino had bothered getting for her. Telling her that she worked too hard, and dark circles were not attractive. But it feels empty.

So empty.

Like all the nights before.

Before Naruto.

"Sakura, are you crying again? That boy never loved you in the first place."

I was curled up in bed for about a month. Crying and crying.

"Get up! Do you think Sasuke's someone who gives a shit about you? He left this village for a reason, and its useless for you and your petty friends for ever thinking they could bring him back!" She looked the same for months now, with her face overpainted with makeup, and too dressed up. This time she had worn a red cocktail dress that wrapped around her figure perfectly.

"I'm gonna be outta town this week. I won't be back til next Wednesday, got that? Why don't you stop sulking for once, you look pathetic. Did you see me sulking when your father died? Can't say I feel sad cause the bastard had it coming!" She slammed the door behind her. But Mom, you were gone last week, and the week before that. Please don't leave me again. I don't think I'll make it. But my unspoken words never reached her. Because it was always so empty, and I was always alone.

My vision was getting clouded. I had retaliated by lifting my hands to find my face was wet from sudden tears streaming down my cheek. Naruto made me forget my loneliness. He made a home for me with him.

Hinata.

I won't let you destroy it.

I quickly threw my bag to the side. Ran into the kitchen, and pulled out a bottle of wine from the counter. I quickly popped the cork out with my bare hands, and chugged straight from the bottle. Think, Sakura, think. You were one of the top in your class! Think! Protect Naruto! I had begun pacing in the living room with the bottle in hand. Taking a sip every so often. My mind was blank of any ideas. I had screamed at the top of my lungs before I even realized it. My arm had acted on its own, and had thrown the wine bottle at the mirror next to the door. Before I even realized what I had done a piece of glass cut my cheek. I looked down on the ground to see all the shattered pieces of the wine bottle on the hardwood floors. The mirror had only been cracked. My hand naturally went up to my cheek, and looked at the blood that had been wiped onto my fingers. My mind felt like it was acting on its own, I had no idea what I was doing. You're doing what you have to do to protect Naruto!

I leaned over, and picked up the largest piece of glass. I held it tight in my hand, enough to draw blood. When I quickly lifted my arm, and ran the sharpest edge across it as fast as I could. I watched as blood had already begun to surface. With that, I quickly slit the piece across myself in various places. Arms, legs, torso. I had begun to rip my clothes, and it would've surprised me that even blood could stain red. Would've. If I hadn't seen it so many times before. I had barely registered the pain.

I looked in the mirror that had been cracked. I could still see myself. My lip was cut, and my hair was messy. I hadn't realized I was crying. I looked at myself over again. I took one last deep breath before ditching my shoes, and running the whole way there.

I don't know why.

But I was crying all the way there.

Was it for show?

I don't know anymore.

"H-help me, N-naruto." Were the first words I say to him. I was standing at his door. Our door. In front of our house. The one where we created a home out of. The one where we were happy. Together.

"Sakura, Oh my God, are you okay? Get in here. What happened?" He threw all these questions at me. Any lingering thought he had of Hinata at the moment was out of the window now.

I don't feel so alone anymore.

He sat me down on his couch, and walked into his room. I heard him open a drawer and closing it. His feet shuffled across the floor, dragging a chair behind him from his room. He sighed as he sat himself in front of me, and he placed the first aid kit in his lap.

"What happened?" His voice softer than before. I watched as he took my arm, and began to clean my wounds. The way I taught him how.

"I-I don't know. It all happened so fast. I just got home, and he was just there. I couldn't defend myself. I didn't know what was happening. I'm sorry. I didn't have anywhere to go."

"Sakura, Sakura. Slow down. I've got time. Just tell me what happened."

"I-I had just gotten home, and he attacked me out of nowhere. I don't know who it was. He just attacked me. Started coming at me with a knife. I had a big operation at the hospital, and I didn't have any chakra. H-he attacked me, but I managed to escape, and I didn't have anywhere else to go. Naruto, I'm so scared." I cried harder as I told him.

"What?! Wasn't Sasuke with you?!"

"He had a date. He didn't walk me home." I made up on the spot.

"That bastard. Sakura, the guy who attacked you, he didn't...violate you..did he?" Naruto's expression hardened.

"No!" I spat out almost a little too fast. Naruto quickly looked up from a wound he was treating on my shoulder.

"Okay, well you can stay here for tonight, and we'll file a report in the morning. Okay?" He focused on the wound again.

"N-No we don't have to do that, Naruto. I think he was just looking for money, but was disappointed that he couldn't find anything. I-I'll be back in the morning." I panicked at the thought of involving the police.

"No."

"W-what?"

"No. You can stay here until you feel safe. Tomorrow, I'll go by your apartment before you go to work. I'll get you some clean clothes, but for tonight you stay here. You can borrow my clothes. Don't go to your place until I tell you its safe okay? Stay here for as long as you like."

As long as I like, he said.

I almost couldn't contain my excitement.

"Thank you, Naruto."

"Anything for you, Sakura."

Hinata

I don't know why I had bothered trying. I had worn my hair down, and even bothered to wear that purple cardigan again. My eyes wandered at the clock on the wall that now read 9:45 PM. I sighed as I stood up before Ayame quickly asked, "I'm sorry, Hinata, were you waiting on someone? It's just you've been here since six, and well you haven't eaten anything yet." I looked at her before answering, "No, I guess I lost my appetite."

"O-Oh well, come back when you do." She smiled at my as I walked out.

At this point, I deemed it pointless to bother. You aren't actually disappointed are you? I pushed the thought away, ashamed of it. I had begun to walk home when five minutes in I stopped in my tracks.

"How long are you gonna stand there, and pretend you're good at playing spy?" I asked out loud, but I didn't bother to turn around.

"Ahh so you noticed me."

Sasuke.

"I'm surprised, you didn't sick on of your lapdogs to spy on me, again. God, they're all a bunch of mouthbreathers." I finally turned around to look at his face. He chuckled, "You noticed them too, huh? Well, sorry about that."

"Yeah, well orders are orders."

"Sorry," He continued, "but I'm not following you because I was ordered. Not this time at least." I raised an eyebrow, and he continued, "I wanted to talk to you."

"Well I don't wanna talk to you." I replied.

"Why not?" I rolled my eyes before explaining. I was hoping that if I told him he would finally leave me alone. I walked closer to him with ever word I said.

"Why don't I wanna talk to you? Well, I'll tell you. You're just a dead man walking. If it weren't for your pathetic comrades, you'd be dead. Taking lives like they aren't worth anything, and then you come home with little-to-no punishment? Not only that, you come home to pine after Sakura. I have news for you: she doesn't love you anymore. You stand by her side, and she will never love you. You throw your life away for some girl who will never return your feelings. You're pathetic, you're weak. You make me sick."

He laughed. The bastard laughed.

"We're more alike than you think."

"What the hell are you talking about? I'm nothing like you." I yelled out to him.

"You'd be a dead man, too. If you weren't taking kill orders from the Hokage. You'd kill without a second thought. You are a woman who loved Naruto. No, loves. You tell yourself you want revenge, but all you want is him. You want to stand by his side, but you know he will never love you back. Because he never has, and yet you are still willing to throw your life away for him. You regard that as weak. You tell yourself that you're weak for ever thinking like that. What if I told that you make me sick? Cause you're a hypocrite, and no better than me."

"Shut up." I clenched my teeth.

"Why? Because I'm right?" I wanted to punch that smug grin off of his face.

"No, cause you reek of bullshit."

"Denial won't get you anywhere. Besides I wanna show you something."

"I'm not going anywhere with you." I spat in his face. He leaned in closer," Oh, but you'll want to see this, I promise. " He whispered in my ear. His eyes quickly shifted into its Sharingan state. Damn him. He had complete control over me when I made the mistake of looking at him. I had no choice, but to follow him.

"Where the hell are we?" I stood in front of a house wedged between two other houses. It was tall enough to have two stories. The house had a weird feeling to it. It was warm, it made you feel at home.

"Where else? We are standing in front of the house of none other than Naruto." My eyes widened when he said so. "Why did you bring me here?"

"I said I had to show you something didn't I? Why do you keep asking?" His face looked annoyed, but he didn't face me. Rather he looked towards the window that could only be looked out of through the second floor. He pointed up there, "Use your Byakugan, tell me what you see."

"Like I would— Byakugan!" I had forgotten I was under his control. I sensed two people. They were close, very close. They were lying in a bed together. These two familiar people, of course, none other than

"Naruto and Sakura." I told him. I felt him release his control on me, and I was free again. I could've ran if I wanted to. But I didn't.

"Yeah. He told her to stay as long as she likes. Because she staged a robbery. Beat herself up. Just any excuse not to get him to run to you."

"Why are you telling me this?" I tried to act like I was annoyed. But my voice cracked because I couldn't.

"Because what I want is similar to what you want." His voice was strained too. Probably hearing them in bed together. I shouldn't care. Why am I still here?

"What?" I found myself asking.

"I don't want Naruto and Sakura to be together. I want her, and you want him. But without working together we'll never get what we want. Forget revenge, just be happy. If you're with him you'll be happy."

"What the hell are you talking about?" I was confused. Want?

"I'm willing to do whatever it takes. As long as you don't hurt Sakura, I won't hurt Naruto." His voice was desperate. He wanted nothing more than Sakura. Just like many other people I knew.

But to this I had to laugh. So I did.

Don't hurt Sakura, and I won't hurt Naruto?

Sasuke's face turned to mine confused. Which only made me laugh harder.

"I don't want him." I said with a smile on my face.

"I don't care where the fuck he is. Together. Apart. I don't care." I laughed a bit after saying so.

"Go ahead. Hurt Naruto. I don't care. Because if you don't I will. And if he's with Sakura? All the better, because I'm coming after that bitch too."

Author's Note: That was intense-ish, right? Guys, should I be putting more fluff into this? Haha, I just feel like I'm lacking, you know? Oh well, I guess I'll try to think of something.

Oh, and about Sakura. This is in some alternate universe where Sakura's dad dies before Sasuke left, and her mom turns into a gold digger. As some, I don't know, coping mechanism? I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little fucked up.

Anyway, did you like it? Hate it? Let me know! And if your confused about anything I would be more than happy to answer!

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