Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of the associated characters, locations, jutsu, etc. The only thing I own is the plot of the story. If there is any plagiarism of any form it was completely unintentional. Except for one part that I paraphrased from another movie, just in this one episode, I know you guys will find it.

Sakura could hear the soft crackling of fire. Her eyes were too heavy for her to open them but the sound it made is unmistakable. A soft wind was blowing and guessing by the sound of the crickets it was already nighttime. She tried to open her eyes again, but they barely moved, at least until...

"I see that you are awake." No matter how tired she was feeling, her eyes opened wide to see if her ears were not lying.

"S-sasuke?" She turned to look at the man who had spoken.

"It's been some time, Sakura." There he was, speaking to her as if it were nothing. As if what he had once done never happened.

"What the hell are YOU doing here?" Suddenly the events that had taken place before she passed out came rushing to her head. "You BASTARD! Why the hell did you capture us? I swear to god if you have anything to do with the shinobi that are kidnapping others I will personally cut off your pride!" She screamed at him with all the anger that she had welled up inside her, but he only smirked at her.

"Still as annoying as ever." She had had enough. She tried with as much force as she could muster to break the ropes that were binding her hands and feet. But to no avail, they didn't budge.

"Don't bother. These are special ropes that constantly drain chakra from anyone they touch." He stood up and walked over to her. When he was right in front of her he put his hand on the grip of his sword.

"Wait, what are you doing?" She asked nervously. In one swift move he sliced through his intended target, the bindings on her hands.

"Now you may remove the others on your own." She lay there dumbfounded at what she just witnessed. He turned to look that she had yet to move and smirked. "Don't tell me that you can't." This snapped her back into reality. Seeing that she couldn't tear them apart she pulled out a kunai and cut the rope. All of the thoughts she had about killing him suddenly vanished, and in their place stood one question.

"What are you doing here?" He didn't turn to look at her, he just stared up at the nigh sky.

"Relax, I'm not the enemy." She scoffed at him.

"Well you sure have a weird way of showing it." Then something inside her head clicked. "Where is Kakashi?" The answer was given in the form of a loud snore that came out of a sleeping figure. He was lying down next to the fireplace with his visible eye closed shut. She was about to speak up again when Sasuke beat her to it.

"The dose he received was slightly larger than yours."

"Why? You are not so careless as to do that on accident." She chuckled at her joke. Sasuke turned to look at her, but instead of smirking his face was dead serious.

"I need to talk to you." She looked at him, trying to figure out what this was about.

"Couldn't you just wait until our mission was over?" He shook his head.

"If you had followed the bandits, you would have died. And if you had retreated, they would have gotten suspicious, and eventually you would have been killed." Once again, Sakura scoffed.

"Do you seriously think it would be that easy?" She mocked him.

"You have no idea who you're facing."

"They are just a couple of rogue shinobi, nothing serious."

"You don't understand, as usual. This is not a group that just appeared out thin air. They have powerful allies, and they have interfered in more stuff than you think." She looked at him and then back at the sleeping Kakashi.

"Why did you not let him hear this?"

"Because this is about the incident that occurred over 25 years ago. The death of Nohara Rin." Her eyes went blank and she was left speechless.

"B-but, that was no accident. It had been a plot against the leaf. She died to protect her home." Sasuke shook his head.

"No, she died to anger her nation. How else do you think she would have been captured so easily within our borders, if not for cooperation from someone of Konoha."

"What are you saying."

"I'm saying that all that has happened for the last 60 years has been planned. The release of the Sanbi*, the death of Rin, the attack of the Kyuubi*, the death of the Third, the invasion of Orochimaru... Even the death of the fourth." She gasped and looked at him in disbelief.

"No, that's just... Stupid. All that you're saying is just, ridiculous. And... Why am I even listening to you?'

"Because deep down, you know I'm right. Deep down, you too want to believe that Naruto is innocent for his father's death."

"And what would you know? You are not even from our country, for all I know you could be on some spying mission from Kirigakure."

"You want to know why you should believe me?" He said to her in a hushed tone. "Because I was the one who killed the Yondaime." When he said that he ran off into the darkness of the night. Sakura stood without moving for a while. Her brain trying to process what she had just heard.

Should I tell him? She thought. Kakashi had been so focused on how to hunt down Naruto, that he never stopped to think if he should. Everyone had branded him as the murderer, no doubt about that. He had run off the same day that his father was found dead. But now Sasuke comes and says that he was the one to kill him. Maybe she should wait to say something, she would wait to convince others until she believed it herself. Little did she know that Kakashi's uncovered eye, was open agape.

1st* Sanbi= Thre tailed beast

2nd* Kyuubi= Nine tailed beast