A/N: Hello everyone! Hope y'all enjoyed my story, Now here comes Sakura's POV :) Oh, and to my guest who reviewed: unfortunately, there will be no SasuHina in this story, but I like them as a pairing enough to write a oneshot of their own in the future :) so be looking out for that! Now, without further ado...

"Shit," whispered Sakura. She carefully placed the sake bottle back onto the kotatsu, making sure it was well balanced. "Can't have you spilling all over. I need every last drop I can get tonight." It was about 10:30 pm, and Sakura already had a few bottles spewed around her. She was down to her last one, the one that Ino had gotten her when Sauske had left the village, again.

"Save it for last. When you get to this bottle, call me. You won't want to be alone." That's what Ino had said when she handed it to her. She was right. Sakura seriously needed some company right now. Being alone at the moment was a recipie for self-destruction. Her thoughts were trying to consume her, so her battle strategy was to drown them in alcohol. She sat down, eyed the bottle, and began to slur. "Ino said to call when I got to you. So let me look for my phone. Then we can get to business." Before she rolled over to start her search (she was feeling a little too dizzy to stand up) she winked at the bottle and smirked.

As Sakura flopped around looking for phone, thoughts of Sasuke began to resurface from the sea of alcohol. 'Ah fuck. Not right now.' She lied belly-up, lifted the flaps of the kotatsu and cringed when she didn't see her phone there. She turned her apartment upside down looking for the damn thing, using her feet to pull open any drawers in her home and kicking them until she knocked everything inside of it out, but there was still no sign of it. After fifteen minutes of searching, Sakura decided to give up, belly-up again on her rug. She felt her eyes begin to sting as her vision blurred. 'Sasuke...'

*Start Flashback*

"I can't stay here. I'm trying to adjust here but... I can't stand it." His tone was cold, but his expression gave in to his frustration.

Sakura, on the other hand, was losing composure. Her voice cracking, she managed to utter out the words she'd been trying to form when Sasuke came to say goodbye to her.

"Sasuke, please. Don't do this again. Please. You have your power. You got your revenge. You fucked up, and you got your forgiveness. Everyone worked so hard to bring you back. You helped save this village. Why... After making us go through all of this... Why are you abandoning us again?! Why do you always choose to hurt the ones who give a damn about you?!"

She forced herself to look up at him, eyes brimming with tears but neglecting to let a single one drop. She found that he wasn't looking back, instead focusing on some crack in the sidewalk. He didn't answer.

"Say something, damn it! Don't be a fucking coward, look at me! Look at what you're doing to me!" He still wasn't turning. Until a hard slap across his face granted her full attention. His brow furrowed, and he looked like he was about to say something, but bit his tongue. Sakura wasn't having any of his shit tonight.

"Think of everything we've done for you. Think of everything Naruto and I endured. Those things aren't things you pay back by fucking walking out us - on me! Do you still not get it?! I'm in love with you, asshole! Even when you tried to kill me, I still loved you! I stood by you when came back and everyone in this village saw you as scum! I stood by you when you rebuilt your life here, and I helped changed people's minds about who you were. I was the one who fought to make your life better here! Is that not enough for you?! Am I... Am I not enough for you?!"

Sakura was holding his stare, trying to make him see every last bit of the heart he was shattering. They stood there for some time, neither of them dropping their gaze nor its intensity. Finally, Sasuke closed his eyes and sighed. "You just don't understand, Sakura. I can't come back here and try to make myself normal again. I'm not who I was before and I can never go back to that. No matter how much everyone tries and no matter how much you love me. I'm -"

"Don't apologize. Just go. I don't want to hold on to you anymore. Just go," Sakura whispered. She shut her eyes. Her voice got weaker and weaker. "Just go just go just go just go..."

When she opened her eyes, the man was gone. The tears welling up in her eyes began to dissapear. She didn't cry this time. But she managed to notice some wet spots on the previously dry concrete. He had.

*End Flashback*

'Need more booze,' she thought to herself. She sat up to reach for the final bottle when her forehead knocked into the corner of the kotatsu, knocking her (that's where it was!) phone off of the table and onto her face. 'Thank god! Now I can finish getting shitfaced!' she thought to herself. "I-NO," she pronounced as she typed her name into her contacts. Not noticing she had forgotten the 'I' in 'INO,' she dialed the first number that popped up.

Can you guess who she calls? Of course haha. The final part to this story might take a while to finish, considering it will be the longest. May or may not include a lemon in it, but I will let you know in the author's note before you read in case some of y'all aren't comfortable with that. Also may rewrite the first chapter in this story to include a little dialogue. As always, constructive criticism is welcome! Thank you for reading! :)