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The raven haired boy took a step back in order to give a moment to himself to admire his creation. He wasn't a good cook, he knew that – Who is a good cook at seventeen anyway? - but at least he knew how to make good sandwiches.

Sasuke smirked and started wrapping the sandwich with aluminum foil. He sighed. I have no idea what I'm doing.., he thought and ran his hand through his hair.

I took a decision. It would be awkward if he just went to Sakura like that, the situation would get damn annoying. Explaining that he went there just to give her a sandwich because she might have been hungry was much less awkward. Sasuke sighed and tried to fight the urge to hit his head on the counter.

"Making a sandwich?" he heard a voice behind him and turned around only to see his older brother, Itachi sitting at the kitchen table. The last person I wanted to face right now, Sasuke thought.

Sasuke nodded finishing the aluminum foil wrapping. It wasn't that he disliked Itachi, of course not. He loved his big brother, but the fact that Itachi was the kind of mind reader – even worse than Naruto – irritated Sasuke.

"Mind making me one too?" Itachi asked him. Sasuke's fist clenched and turned around trying to look as emotionless as possible.

"Hn. I got to go" he said and started walking out of the kitchen. Itachi stood up and crossed his arms on his chest.

"Going out?"

"Aa"

"Then why making a sandwich?"

Sasuke stopped about a meter away from the door. Tch. Why was Itachi always analyzing things? He took a breath and his mind raced trying to find the perfect answer. If Itachi learned about me meeting Sakura again, he would think about it in a totally wrong way and possibly start making crazy scenarios, he thought and swallowed.

"I don't want to spend money today" the younger boy lied hoping you would get rid of this annoying situation. He could sense his brother raising his eyebrow behind him. His hand reached for the doorknob.

"Your wallet is in your pocket"

Shit. Sasuke's hand froze on the doorknob. "Tch…"

"So, who is it for?" Sasuke turned around narrowing his eyes. His eyes pierced on his brother's same black ones.

Enough with this nonsense. "For no one, Itachi. I'm going." He opened the door and made a step out.

"Sasuke" he heard his brother calling him and he turned around with an annoyed expression on his face.

"What?"

Itachi smiled. "Deidara told me that he saw you today running behind a pink haired girl, asking her where she would go." Sasuke turned around, shocked, his cheeks slightly blushing.

Fuck! His eyes widened a bit and his fists clenched. "There's nothing going on between Sakura and me" he blurted out and closed the door behind him before his brother anything else. His steps went faster as he started walking out of the garden of his house.

He checked the time on his phone and groaned. Tch, he thought, I'm late again. Still having no car made him ask Naruto for a ride. Their houses were only two blocks away from each other, so Sasuke's footsteps went wider on the pavement.

His eyes trailed on the night sky, they spotted at a small star that had succeeded shining over the city's lights. For some reason it reminded him of Sakura. She was a girl that lived in the streets, but she still attracted his interest to the fullest. He shook his head. I'm gonna see her tonight anyway.

Sasuke stopped walking and replayed his latest thought in his mind. I'm gonna see her tonight. He closed his eyes, trying to make the strange feeling in his stomach go away. Was that anxiety? Nervousness? But what kind of nervousness was it? Sasuke couldn't put his finger on it, even if he tried too hard. It was a mix of I'm-going-to-the-dentist nervousness and I'm-going-to-the-movies-in-two-hours nervousness. It was like a mixture of anxiety and excitement.

Sasuke started walking again with fast footsteps, pushing his hands in his black jeans' pockets. His expression was grumpy and his eyebrows were creating a frown, when he reached Naruto's place. The blond was waiting with his back against his red car.

"Hey, teme!" the blonde greeted with a smile but when he saw Sasuke's expression he frowned in confusion. "What's wrong again?"

"Nothing, let's go" he stated and got into the passenger's seat of Naruto's car. Naruto followed suit and got into the car too.

Sasuke rested his chin on the palm of his hand and looked out of the window. He really wasn't in the mood of going out that night. But what he feared the most was the hidden part of him that was actually looking forward, not for hanging out with the others, but for meeting the pink haired girl again.

"Tch"

"What? Did you say something?" Naruto asked and looked at his best friend while driving. Sasuke remained silent.

"Come on say something! It's like I'm talking to the wall!" Naruto whined and Sasuke shot a murderous look at his friend.

"I'm not in the mood"

Naruto rolled his eyes. "You have never been a talkative person, but now you have reached the limit, seriously."

"Shut up idiot" Sasuke snapped back tapping his fingers now on the car door. Naruto's goofy smile appeared again.

"Maybe thinking about that girl again?" Naruto teased him and chuckled. But the thing that irked Sasuke the most was that his friend was right. He narrowed his eyes and looked away.

Naruto sighed. "Just tell me sometime."

Sasuke rolled his eyes and unseated his belt. "We are here" he said.

"You are not supposed to unseat your belt til I park, teme" the blond told him while parking his car.

"Whatever" Sasuke murmured and got out of the car as soon as it stopped moving. The night breeze blew into his face helping him clear his mind a bit. He had to act normal, at least until he left the place where they would gather, Ichiraku's. Unless he wanted anyone start asking questions again, like Naruto and Itachi did.

And Sasuke didn't need any more questions for the day.

Sakura looked around her nervously and stretched her legs on the bench she was sitting at. She loved the metro station at that hour; it was the hour after when the most people had taken the metro to go home, so there was almost no one there, everyone was at home.

Home. Sakura's eyes darkened. A long time had passed since the last time she had said "I'm going home". Her throat went dry and her fists clenched. No, she thought , Home…home is a shelter, a place where you go and you find people who love you and vice versa. Home is a place where you feel safe…

She closed her eyes and took a breath. No. Even when she thought she was home…she never was. She had never felt the feeling of being home. Sakura opened her eyes again, only to realize they were blurry. Anger raised inside her towards herself, as she violently swept the tears that were ready to ran on her cheeks from her eyes.

Remember, she told herself as she took a big breath. You are alone in this world. You can't rely on Temari, Kankuro and Gaara, because they have their own problems. Just…go on alone. Repeating this in her mind for almost 5 years now had made her rely on her own powers. This was the reason why she wasn't staying with Temari, Kankuro and Gaara; she just cared a lot about them, they were the only ones she would call family, and that's why she didn't want to be a burden.

Sakura looked at her dirty clothes. She had left the ones Sasuke had given her at the three siblings' house; she wanted to keep them clean and wear them only when she had no other choice. A sad feeling started growing inside her. She wanted to have at least one thing to remember from her encounter with Sasuke if she didn't come to see him again.

Her big apple eyes trailed on the metro that had stopped in front of her. Sasuke…why did she think that he would come at the metro station that day? Just because he had asked her where she would go didn't mean anything. Her cheeks flashed and she hid her face in her hands. Then why do I still wait for him to appear from somewhere with that hot face of his?

The pink haired girl looked around only to see there was only one other person around that was playing with his phone. She slowly lifted her feet from the floor and lied on the bench she was sitting on. She rested her head on her palms and closed her eyes softly. The thought of Sasuke coming from somewhere made a small smile appear on her face. I guess this happens when someone acts nice to you, she thought.

It wasn't long until she fell asleep.

Sasuke looked at the bowl of ramen in front of him without interest. An hour had passed they arrived at Ichiraku's, but the raven haired boy didn't seem to have fun at all. He kept picking and unpicking the ramen in his bowl with his chopsticks, while his mind was travelling somewhere else. Damn.

"-And then I saw Teme coming to the car with an expression like-hahahahahha- that grumpy guy in front of our-pbbbbt-school-HAHHAHAHAHHA" Sasuke's eye twitched and turned around only to see Naruto slapping the counter in front of him while he was laughing his heart out, like the rest of the others next to him. The only one who seemed to be controlling her laughter was Hinata Hyuga, Naruto's girlfriend, a quiet and shy girl that was somehow creeping Sasuke out when they were young.

But the worst thing about the situation he was in, was that they seemed to be laughing about something related to him. Tch. Annoying. He lifted his hand andslapped Naruto's back who tried to stop laughing and rubbed his back. "Come on, Sasuke, I'm just joking ya know!"

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Whatever" he stood up from his chair "I'm going."

"What?" Naruto asked him raising his eyebrows "Why?"

He took out some money from his wallet and placed them on the counter. "I told you I'm not in the mood."

Naruto raised an eyebrow and a grin was spread on his face. He leaned closer to Sasuke's place. "Is the girl you are thinking of still bothering you?" No, Naruto wasn't loud when he said those words; in fact he had tried to only be heard by Sasuke. But neither Sasuke nor Naruto had realized that the others had now stopped laughing and they were looking at them.

And Naruto had been loud enough for them to hear.

Jaws fell, ramen was spitted out in the air, and coughs were heard. Sasuke froze and mentally made a note to rip Naruto's head off. Fuck, fuck, fuck! The raven haired boy cursed his luck and started walking to the exit ignoring the "WHAT?" (from Shikamaru and Kiba), the "OMG YOU MUST BE KIDDING!" (from Ino), and two looks from Sai and Hinata. Thank god the rest of the others are not with us today…he thought and started running in the street, fully irritated and annoyed. In just a few seconds , he had killed Naruto in his mind 10 times in 10 different ways. God, he could even kill somebody that moment.

Sasuke stopped and looked at the moon. Then he stared at his left hand where he was holding the wrapped sandwich. A sudden feeling started growing in his stomach and he swallowed trying to clear all the thoughts from his mind, but one.

The time to meet Sakura again had come.

The rain was falling heavily on the river, causing a loud sound like soldiers running down a road. The little girl's cheeks were wet but not due to the heavy rain; the little girl was sobbing under the river's bridge, so that the rain wouldn't affect her. There was a rock on the one side of the bridge were she was sitting. Her big green eyes were red and her throat had gone dry.

What had she done? Why was this happening to her? She had always been a good girl, then why? She felt so empty and alone…it was the first time she was feeling so lonely. It was like she had decided to live anymore. The tears on her cheeks felt like burning.

She stared at her bare left foot; she had lost her shoe on the way. She had been running like crazy after all. The thoughts of that day brought more tears in her eyes. She softly moved her face from her arms and looked at the dark night sky.

Why is this happening to me?

Her body was hurting, especially at the places she was bruised. She started sobbing again. Harder and harder. Louder and louder.

"You" she heard a voice and she slowly lifted her face only to see the frame of someone standing under the rain. "Are you okay?"

She narrowed her eyes so she could see who the person was. It was a boy around her age, his wet hair were red like blood and he was holding something like...a shoe?

The boy looked at his hand and then at the girl. "Is this yours?" he asked her lifting the shoe so she could see it. The girl slowly nodded and the boy came closer to her. She moved closer to the wall. Her hand shyly took her shoe.

"Thank you…" she whispered. The boy looked at her. "Why are you crying?"

The girl looked at the rain with a sad expression. "Nobody cares about me."

The boy rubbed the back of his head. "I have two people who care about me."

Her green eyes stared at the boy's face. "You are really lucky."

He looked at her. "I'm Gaara."

"I'm Sakura."

"Nice name"

Her eyes shot at him at the sudden compliment. He looked kind of weird, now that Sakura could see him from closer. He had dark circles around his turquoise eyes – From exhaustion? - and he was wearing a dirty white shirt even if it was November. Isn't he cold?, Sakura thought and swept the tears away from her eyes. Surprisingly she had stopped crying.

"Thanks" she whispered and tried to give him a small smile.

Suddenly her vision started going blur. "Wh-what?" she asked and tried to look better but everything seemed to be fading away.

A persistent poke on her shoulder made Sakura's eyelids move. She moved her eyelids and blinked trying to understand what was going on. "S-Sasuke?" she whispered without thinking. She blinked and finally her vision was cleared.

"I thought you were dead" No, it was not Sasuke – Why did I even think it was Sasuke?- it was a strange unknown man. She sat up and looked around her. She was still at the station but who was the weirdo in front of her? Sakura looked at him and her eyes narrowed. He had long hair and snake-like eyes, and something on him was screaming "creepy weirdo".

Sakura had a bad feeling about this.

"Who the fuck are you?" she asked him and crossed her arms. The man grinned and took out a small brown wallet.

"How much do you get paid?" Sakura's eyebrows rose and her eyes widened.

"Excuse me?"

The creepy guy touched her chin with his disgusting finger and Sakura flinched and moved away from his touch. "I asked you how much you get for a night with you, sweetie."

Her mouth gaped. What did that guy think she was? A prostitute? Did anything on her scream "I'm a slut"?

She took a breath. "You have five seconds to get away from me" she told him looking right into his eyes. The guy chuckled darkly and leaned closer to her. He smelled like alcohol, cheap cologne and sweat, making Sakura wanting to throw up. "Or else?"

"Or else I'll make you pay" a male voice was heard and both the creep and Sakura turned around. The pink haired girl felt her cheeks getting red.

He is really here.

The creep moved away from Sakura and his eyes trailed on Sasuke. "And who are you?"

If looks could kill, the creep would be dead by now. "My name is Uchiha Sasuke."

AAAAA plz don't kill me I know I'm late again T_T I had no internet the past few days so I'm kind of excused right? Right? :D Sasuke yeah acts like an emotionless bastard again but he likes Sakura and he doesn't want to ._. . Poor Sasuke. You need to know that you have to be more gentle with her, you baka.

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