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Chapter 3:

Sasuke did eventually have to let go of Sakura, as much to his displeasure.

And when he did, they both got dressed and went on with their daily lives.

"Hey, Sasuke?" Sakura said.

He looked at Sakura from where he was washing the dishes from their lunch. "Yeah?"

Sakura stared at him for a while, not saying anything, but after a while, she put down her cloth that she was cleaning the table with and walked over to him. Hugging him from behind, closing her eyes, she whispered, "Thank you."

Sasuke dried his hands, then put them over Sakura's. "For what?" he asked gently.

He felt Sakura shake her head a bit against his back. "For everything."

Sasuke smirked, turning around. "You say the weirdest things, Sak," he patted her head lovingly.

Sakura stuck out her tongue at him and skipped away, resuming her task of cleaning the dining table.

Sasuke shook his head at her and went back to cleaning the dishes.

"Three weeks," Sakura suddenly stated. They were watching TV in the living room together, her head on Sasuke's lap. The sun was setting, the day was finishing. The back door they had open let in a breeze that was comforting to them both.

Sasuke momentarily stopped playing with her hair and looked down at her. "What?"

She turned her head to look at him. "Three weeks," she repeated. "That's how much time we have until we have to go to college."

"Oh," Sasuke said. "Yeah, that's right," he realized, looking at the ceiling. Three weeks left with you, Sak. That's not nearly enough time. I want this to never end. I want to be with you...forever. And ever. Because I love you. You're everything to me, how can I live so far away from you?

"At least you have Neji to go to college with," Sakura pouted, interrupting Sasuke's thoughts. "I have no one," she said as Sasuke looked back down at her.

Sasuke smirked, ruffling her hair. "You'll make new friends, I'm sure you will."

"Meh," she said childishly, looking at the ceiling now. "You don't know that."

"Yeah," he poked her nose. "No one would want to talk to you with the amount of insanity in here," he tapped her forehead.

Sakura scrunched her nose. "Meanie."

Sasuke smiled, leaning back onto the couch. "I'm sorry that I won't be there to protect you from the fanboys I already know that you're going to have."

She laughed. "You're such a moron," she said, snuggling closer. "I don't need protection from them," she smirked. "More importantly, what about your fangirls?"

"Eh. I'll deal with them."

Sakura smiled. Glancing at the clock, she saw it was almost five in the afternoon. "We should start making dinner, Sasuke."

He looked at the clock, groaning. "I don't wanna get up," he mumbled.

"Come on, you big baby," she sat up, shoving the blanket previously covering her off.

Together, they made dinner, like all the other times they did before. Together, they laughed in the kitchen. Together, they slow-danced to music while the food was cooking. Each time they did something together, they relished it, knowing that it wouldn't happen again for a long time.

"Sak," Sasuke breathed. They were dancing to soft music, leaning against each other's foreheads.

"Yeah?" she muttered back, wrapping her arms around his neck.

He put his arms around her waist. "You're so beautiful," he tightened his grasp on her waist and pulled her closer.

Sakura smiled. "You haven't changed since then, Sasuke," she said, referring back to the 10th grade Christmas Ball when he said the same thing about her.

He shrugged. "What do I do if it's still true?"

Sakura kissed his nose. "Nothing, just keep reminding me." I feel so happy when I'm with him like this. I'm so glad that I can see this side of him that no one else has. That no one else has had the pleasure of seeing, that only I know him like this. I'm so glad that I've had such a great relationship with him. But...it's not going to end here. I know it. Because...

"Okay," he leaned in to close the unneeded gap between their lips.

….we love each other.

The three weeks soon passed by and Sakura regretfully counted the days remaining.

Throughout the three weeks, Sakura, Sasuke and the rest of their "gang" got together many times and had fun, going swimming, shopping, roller skating, everything. It was perfect - at least to them.

The last day before summer ended, Sasuke and Sakura sat on the front porch, Sakura playing with Sasuke's long fingers. Sasuke sat with his arm around her and face turned towards the ever-present sun.

It was coming to noon, but they didn't want to get up. They wanted to stay like that. They wanted time to stand to still while their lives went on. They wanted a forever.

"We should pack," Sasuke said.

Sakura nodded, but then buried her face in his shirt. Sasuke felt her smile against him. "You smell nice."

Sasuke smiled and shook his head. He kissed the top of her head and breathed in her pink locks. "You smell even nicer."

Sakura laughed and lifted her head. "Come on," she stood up and offered a hand to him to which he took, but instead of getting up, he pulled her into his lap.

"I love you, Sak," he whispered against her ear, kissing it.

Sakura blushed. "I-I love you, too," she was nervous for some reason, like they had just started their relationship. She was embarrassed at his actions but at the same time loved him so much for doing them.

"We really should pack, Sasuke," Sakura said after a while.

"Ugh," Sasuke groaned. "Fine." He let Sakura stand up and then followed her inside.

For the next couple of hours, they both packed for college as they had to leave the next day, stopping for a quick lunch break. College didn't actually start until a week after tomorrow, but their schools recommended the students coming in earlier so they could have a better look at the campus.

After they were done, they both called all their friends over for the last time they could for a while.

They all came over as soon as they could and when everyone was there, they all talked, watched movies and stayed up late. Itachi joined them after he came home from work too.

Everyone started to get tired around 1:00 A.M. in the next day, so they just slept over.

Leaving early in the morning - Itachi included, Sasuke and Sakura were left alone.

Sasuke's college was a 2 hour flight from home, but to get to Sakura's college, you had to fly for about 7 hours.

Sasuke decided, since his flight was later in the day, that he would come with Sakura to the airport with her.

They stayed silent the whole way to the airport, but Sakura could feel the tears coming. She didn't want to leave. She didn't want to leave home. She didn't want to leave her friends. She didn't want to leave Sasuke.

When they got there, they wordlessly took all of Sakura's luggage inside and Sasuke helped her check in her bags. She was left with her laptop and small suitcase that she was allowed to take on the plane.

She had about an hour left until her flight left, but she still had to get through security. But...how could she just leave like that?

"Sakura-"

"Sasuke-"

They both spoke at the same time, stopped and laughed.

"You go first," Sakura said.

Sasuke shook his head. "No, you."

"No, you go first," Sakura insisted.

"Fine," Sasuke smirked. "I know there's no point in fighting with you."

"Hehe," she giggled childishly.

Sasuke's expression became serious and he took her hands in his own, looking at her. "Sakura, I-I… I know that these next years will be tough, now that we won't be living with each other or seeing each other as often as we used to. But...I think- No. I know that we can work this out, because that's just how strongly we feel about each other," he blushed. "T-That day, when we...you know… I'm really glad that we did. I-It was both of our first times and I'm really happy that we were able to before college," he shrugged. "It let you know how much I love you."

Sakura blushed, thinking back to what they did.

He kissed her cheek. "I love you, Sak."

Sakura's eyes became teary and a lump formed in her throat. She found it hard to talk. Her voice broke whenever she was about to cry. Would that be the last time she would hear him say her name so perfectly? What if he found someone else, better than her? No. Sasuke wouldn't do that. He loved her and she loved him too. Tears forming in her eyes, she looked up at him and tried as hard as she could to speak. "I-I love you too, Sasuke. I'm really happy that we did too. It meant so much to me. B-But, p-please, don't forget about me-" she stopped speaking when he hugged her against him.

He smirked. "I could never forget about you, Sak. I love you and you don't just forget people you love that easily."

She nodded, closing her eyes and stuffing her face in to his neck. "Thank you," she mumbled against his skin. Then, she lifted her head to look at him. "Promise me no one else will fall in love with you."

He smiled a bit. "How can I control that? I am irresistible, you know," he teased.

Sakura punched his shoulder. "I'm serious!" she whined.

"Okay, okay."

She smiled. "Just be the jerk you were when I first met you. That way no one will ever fall in love with you."

Sasuke laughed a little. "You ended up falling in love with me, didn't you? So I guess that tactic didn't work."

"Yeah," Sakura grinned. "I guess it didn't."

They hugged again and Sakura felt the tears well up in her eyes once more.

When they pulled away, Sasuke kissed her, right in front of everyone in the airport. "I love you," he whispered against her lips.

She smiled, a tear rolling down her cheek. "I love you, too."

"Don't cry, please. I told you...when I see you cry, it breaks me, so don't. Please," he begged.

She licked her suddenly dry lips. "Okay," but tears rolled down her face anyway. "S-Sorry."

Sasuke wiped them away and kissed her on the forehead.

Sakura looked at her watch. "I should...get going. My flight's in half an hour and I have yet to get through security."

Sasuke nodded understandingly. "Okay."

But neither of them moved. In fact, all of a sudden, they moved closer and wrapped their arms around each other, meeting lips with one another.

"I love you," Sakura panted between kisses.

"I love you, too," Sasuke said once they broke apart.

Both blushing, Sakura held his hand for one last time with a forced smile on her face and tears in her eyes. Then, she let go of his warm hand, instantly feeling the coldness and emptiness, and lifted her laptop bag and small suitcase.

Sasuke watched her walk away from him and each step she took seemed to kill him inside.

She can't be actually leaving. It feels like a nightmare. Make it stop. Stop. Sasuke thought.

Then, a voice seemed to say something inside of him. Go get her, Sasuke. Go grab her and pull her back to you. Make it so that she can never escape again and you can be with her until the end. Sasuke thought.

Every inch of Sakura's body was telling her to go back to Sasuke, to kiss him, to hug him, to hold him, but she had to leave. She had to go.

"Sakura!" she heard before she got to the security line.

She froze, Am I hearing things? and turned around.

Either way, she let go of her things and ran back to Sasuke who had indeed called her, it just came out.

She tackled him and held him tight while he held her as close as he could. Don't go, Sasuke thought.

People were staring, but both of them didn't care or notice.

"Y-You better call me or text me or email me every day, you understand, you idiot?!" Sakura said, her voice breaking.

Sasuke nodded, tears in his eyes too. He laughed a bit. "Of course. You too, baka."

They both smiled and gently touched their lips together one last time. It was a sweet, innocent and lovely kiss that they both hoped they would never forget.

When Sakura got through security, after somehow managing to leave Sasuke, she could still see him standing there, through all the machines and people.

Weakly and with a heavy heart, she somehow managed to lift her hand and wave, noticing how heavy her body felt.

Sasuke did the same.

She tried to smile so that Sasuke would remember her like that. And then, for the last time, she turned away from him and walked to her flight gate and she did, both of them felt part of them break down.

Author's Note:

ZOMG! This was so sad. I would never want to do this! MAOU. Okay, please review otherwise I really don't get the determination of updating my stories. So please, one or two reviews can make my day A WHOLE LOT BETTER! SO PLEASE READ & REVIEW! Thanks!

Also, hehe, sorry, but also, for chapter 2, a Guest reviewed this:

This happened to a lot of my friends and people I knew, it takes a lot of dedication and perseverance to make things like this work (if they decide to go to different colleges). I think Sasuke and Sakura could do it, but I think they would miss each other a lot and I imagine Sakura would be really busy, so it would probably be Sasuke visiting her. It could get very tough for them. I think it would be hard for Kiba and Ino, since they are both extroverts and probably want a lot of stimulation from eachother. I think Tenten and Neji could do it, they both seem independent and respectful of each others space, they also seem to have a good understanding.

WHOEVER WROTE THIS, THANK YOU SO MUCH. THIS HELPED IN SO MANY WAYS AND JUST ZOMG, KNOW THAT I LOVE YOU. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. IḾ SO GLAD THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE THIS PERSON WHO ARE REALLY READING MY STORY AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET ACROSS, LIKE THE REAL "DEEP" STUFF OR WHATEVER AND LIKE UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE CHARACTERS ARE REALLY GOING THROUGH. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH!

That's all, hehe. BYE! REVIEW!

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