I Do Not Own Naruto

Truce

Sakura and Sasuke had a silent truce going on between them as they walked towards Suna in silence. He wouldn't bug her by ignoring her and she would not be annoying by talking to him. Yes, this silent truce was for the best if she was to survive another round of heartbreak. Why did love have to hurt so much?

Oh right, she was in love with an Uchiha and none of them seemed to make life simple.

Why couldn't she have just said yes to Lee when she had been little? True he was goofy in appearances, and annoyingly happy, and obsessed with Guy-sensei but he was at least a nice guy. But then the memory of Sasuke waking in the middle of the second examine demanding to know who had beaten her would spring to mind. Also there was that absolute fury in his attack on the Sound-nin. Never in her life had he looked so mad, true he had looked hateful, sad, lonely, furious and indifferent but she had never quiet seen that look in his black eyes before. The look of absolute rage. It was also the only time she was certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that he at least cared about her.

But that had been years ago and never again had she ever seen him care. And now she was traveling with him to Suna, she wanted to go scream and would've if she wasn't determined to remain composed around the Uchiha. How was it he was so irritatingly good at remaining composed while her inner was screaming at her to tell him she loved him, to demand that he tell her if he even cared or hated her so she could move past this hope. How was it something so slight was so vital to her? It wasn't even a large possibility that he liked or even cared about her but it was somehow the only thing in her way. It was the anchor holding her in place and it was so fucking small it was a joke in her mind.

She sighed as she stared at the passing landscape of the desert.

"Are you tired?" she jumped at the sound of his voice then blinked up at his shadowy profile. Why was he asking her that!? "It's the tenth time you sighed in the past hour."

"Are you keeping track!?" she demanded, slightly embarrassed under his gaze, she didn't think she had been sighing that much. She wasn't the whiny genin she had been all those years ago. She was a powerful kunoichi and she was not weak!

"Yes," he said as if this were normal. She just grumbled a bit as she continued onwards towards Suna so she didn't punch the jerk for paying attention to odd things like sighing. He silently walked beside her as they continued onwards. Honestly it was the odd things he seemed to pay attention to which made her fall even more in love with him and it was not helping at this moment.

Sasuke just groaned internally as he walked with her. She seemed…different, but only with him. With everyone else she was the girl he had come to care about and even miss, but with him it was as if he were dealing with another person. A person determined to ignore him. It wasn't something he liked, not at all but at the same time something in him felt that this was the best he deserved from her at the moment until he earned her forgiveness for whatever it had been he'd done to wrong her. But knowing Sakura he was going to have to work for that forgiveness for a change since she was being unusually stubborn.

Then again she had always been stubborn and determined and tougher than she thought. He remembered the chunin exams when she had guarded him and Naruto, she had taken a hell of a beating and even sliced off her own hair to defend them. She could be tougher than nails and more loyal than anyone when she loved someone. And once he had been one of the ones she loved, now…now he wasn't too sure because she usually ignored him or glared at him.

He didn't like that, but he did deserve it. After all he had tried to kill her, several times, in the past. Still looking at her he could see she loved him in a way, and it was also clear to him she was miserable as she walked beside him in silence.

"Sasuke?"

"Hn?" he replied.

"Never mind," she said, he grabbed her then in irritation. She blinked as she looked at her arm where he was holding her, then she looked up at him. He pulled her closer then.

"What?" he verbalized, she just shook her head.

"It's stupid, never mind," she pulled away and he felt like pounding his head against a rock. He was supposed to be the socially difficult one! Not her! Finally he grabbed her again and steeled his resolve to open up to her.

"Nothing you have to ask is stupid Sakura, and stop that!"

"What?"

"That! The ignoring me, I may not talk but I'll listen," he snapped at her then. He hated having to say that but it was true. Talking wasn't something he did, conversations in general…they were terrifying to him. It was another reason he and the dobe were friends, the dobe could talk all day and Sasuke didn't have to talk at all unless to throw insults. Being verbal just wasn't something he did, and he hadn't done, since Itachi had killed his family. Mostly because when he had lost his family there had been no one to talk to and then when he was finally surrounded by people again he just didn't know how to be around people in general. Sakura and Naruto…they saved him in a way because they understood him without his words. And he missed listening to her talk to him.

"Do you mean that?" she asked softly looking at the ground.

"Hn," he nodded his head when she finally looked up at him. She gave him a weak smile and then he was drowning in talking as she told him everything that had been happening while he'd be away. Still he couldn't help but feel she was avoiding what she really wanted to talk about as he listened. Why wouldn't she just talk to him?

Hey! Long time no update sorry about that! I've been busy and lazy, and procrastinating and...I think you get the picture now. Anyways these last few days I've been writing a lot and I remembered I haven't updated this so, Here's the update! =)

That's all for now folks!

Enjoy Only Tears! =)