I Do Not Own Naruto

Curious

Sasuke watched the pinkette frown at him as he remained perched on her windowsill. She looked depressed as her emerald eyes looked at him. Why was she so sad? He didn't think he could've done anything to have brought that look to her eyes. She was looking at him with such wide sad green eyes he had to fight back the desire to step into her apartment because it was clear she did not want anyone in her apartment. He had just witnessed her barricading her door so it was safe to assume trespassers would be meeting Sakura's fist.

"What do you want Sasuke?" she repeated her question. He tilted his head a bit, did he really need something to come see her after she had ran away from him? Apparently he did, he'd make up an excuse, something believable so she would come with him.

"The dobe invited me to lunch with him, Hinata and Kakashi, he asked if I would ask you to join." It wasn't a complete lie, he was going to lunch with his friend and his wife and Kakashi had decided to join so why not bring Sakura along? The dobe had been pestering him since he had arrived to see how she was, but he wasn't going to go sticking his nose into Sakura's life. Especially when he was only here to figure out what was wrong with her before he left again.

"Oh, give me a second and I'll be right out," she perked up a bit at what he said. Internally he was relieved, exteriorly he was indifferent to her little joy. Sakura stood then and smiled evilly as she came up to him.

"But firstly, Uchiha…GET OUT OF MY ROOM!" she roared as she shoved him from the windowsill and slammed her window shut before dragging her curtains over the window. He landed on his feet and frowned at her window and at her new attitude. Walking to the front of her building he waited for her, she came out, blinked at the sight of him then frowned. He frowned back. Just what was wrong with Sakura? He was trying to be nice! And it was killing him internally as they walked in silence to the ramen shop Naruto loved.

Neither he nor Sakura spoke as they walked, normally she'd be talking up a storm by now and he wondered why she was so silent at this moment. Perhaps she just had a lot on her mind. He could believe that because of how important Sakura was to the village. He didn't think she would purposely ignore anyone, not even him when it was clear she was less than thrilled to be around him.

Still he couldn't help but wonder what had happened to her to make her so…standoffish. It was like she was watching everyone and everything around her as a threat. Aside from the war, which had been years ago, she didn't have any reason to be like this. At least in his mind she didn't have any reason to be like this. Then again he could be wrong, and where Sakura was concerned he usually was wrong. He had almost always been wrong where she was concerned; even when they had been children.

He looked down at his companion and wonder what had changed in her.

Sakura didn't want to be with him, it was killing her on the inside being so close to him and not being able to touch him or talk to him or love him. But his letters, the letters which had never changed in length, revealed to her that she meant nothing to him. Yep, nothing. Years of hopelessly loving him had led her to this pain and this loneliness and this exhaustion. She felt so utterly alone even as her heart skipped beats in her chest, her stomach had butterflies, and her head was screaming at her for her stupidity again because her body was reminding her just how much she loved him. It wasn't fair, how come she had love someone who didn't even love her.

And Sakura knew, beyond a sliver of a reasonable doubt, that Sasuke Uchiha did not love her, hell she had a feeling he didn't even like her. And at one point, not too long ago, he had hated her with a fiery passion and tried to kill her. Still, she was hopelessly in love with him and it didn't help her knowing this. For once, in her life, she wanted love not to hurt. Just once she wanted to be able to smile at the love of her life and hug him and hold him close to her and for him to love her in return. But as Sakura walked with Sasuke she realized that that was nothing more than a pipe dream.

The Uchiha, despite all the drastic changes in him, was still the same at the core. And he did not love her, at all. Sakura peeked up at her dark companion and closed her eyes a bit as she walked. Love fucking sucked! And she was going to have a talk with Ino or Tenten or Temari about them setting her up on another blind date or something. She needed to see someone else who was not Sasuke.

Perhaps with time she could learn to care about; and maybe even love; a different man. But she needed a distraction from Sasuke, he was breaking her heart again and the worse part was he didn't even know he was breaking her. Then again Sakura had never really been the breakable type.

She had loved Sasuke since she was a child, she had loved him when he was lost in his hatred, she had loved him when he had been a dangerous missing-nin, she had loved him when he had tried to kill her, she had loved him when he had been on trial, she had loved him when he had left the village in search of redemption, and she had loved him even when he didn't love her. Sakura hated love, and she hated that her love was exclusive for him when he didn't need it nor did he want it. That much was clear to her. The Uchiha did not need her.

But that didn't stop her from loving him.

Hey, long day, sorry for not updating this more frequently but I shall try to continue updating this story.

That's all for now folks!

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