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The pink kunoichi had finally woken up the gruesome night she'd had the day before. She was in no rush because she knew there was no missions, or any errands to run that day.

She was getting into her daily routine when the thought finally entered her mind "ohmygod where is he?!"

At this point the cherry blossom haired girl hurried up and left her house.

On the other hand, their blonde teammate had still been asleep. He was always sleeping in, mission or not, it's how he had been since even before he was just a mere academy student.

He was having an awesome dream about pranking Kakashi into somehow getting his mask off. JUST when Naruto was about to get it to happen, the poor idiot suddenly had woken up due to banging?

The cerulean orbed boy fell off his bed. Looks like he'll just have to find out next time...if there is a next time. Turns out someone was just loudly knocking on his door...really loudly.

"Naruto?"

"One second"

The half-asleep ninja nearly tripped while running to the door. He then opened the door only to see Sakura, she never shows up in the morning like this.

"Naruto come with me, we're going to check up on Sasuke."

"Didn't you go after him yesterday, why are we going now''

"I did catch up with him, he was pretty bummed out Naruto. I think he needs us now more than ever. He's been through so much these couple days." She intentionally left out that he attempted suicide so Naruto wouldn't overreact. Plus, if Naruto found out too soon it would probably cause problems later on knowing that he won't just let that rest. It just wasn't the right time.

"Sure, maybe we can all get some breakfast, like old times." He cheerfully said as he was almost drooling.

By the time they got to his house, Sakura was a bit on edge. She knew what she had seen last night. She didn't want to witness it all end, right when he finally came back, after all those years they've spent trying to get their comrade back. If she seen him dead, she wouldn't know what to do. She quickly knocked on his door, with some snacks she had packed for the three of them.

Sasuke had awakened from his long slumber, he had a nasty headache. He should've expected to be hungover after drinking so much sake. He then put the bottle under his bed and quickly answered the door despite being hungover.

He had looked like a mess. His hair was shockingly messy, he looked a bit pale, and had a bit of rum near his eyes.

"Sasuke you look awful, are you feeling well?" Naruto blurted, in a concerning tone.

Big mistake, Sakura then socked him in the head with even more chakra than last time. Jokes on him, now he was the one with the bad headache

"HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT ABOUT SASUKE, YOU PIG!" Shouted Sakura. "CHA" Her inner self yelled in her head. No matter how much older they got, Sakura would always blindly defend Sasuke if someone were to through an insult, even if it wasn't intentional.

"Can you shut up, I have a headache" irritated the obsidian eyed boy said.

"Sorry" She replied.

Looks like the perfect excuse has risen out of nowhere.

"Hmph, I do have a cold. What do you guys want?'

"Since we have nothing important to do today, I thought we could all spend a bit of the day together" Shyly asked the Hokage's apprentice.

"Hn" The Uchiha coldly glared.

"Come on Sasuke, why do you always push us away, what have we ever done to you" Naruto added on.

"Ugh, fine. Annoy me once and I'm kicking you guys out." Sasuke said while opening his door, hinting for them to come in right about then.

Many hours had passed since the prodigy had let his two teammates in. As much as he tried to be near them, there was tension between him and Sakura, from when he attempted to take his own life away. As much as Sakura had gotten over it, Sasuke had not. He felt a weird feeling, was it embarrassment? Was he cringing at it? Was he sad that she witnessed that? He couldn't specify it.

The time passed by quickly, they talked, ate snacks, caught up to date with Sasuke and Naruto even Sakura teased him a bit. As much as he knew they remembered him saying they'd kick him out if they bothered him, he acted as if he had forgotten it, but he didn't. Was he starting to be able to tolerate their company? And was the tension with Sakura slowly starting to fade away?

Near that moment, Sasuke's headache had fully resided, and his smooth, pale skin had returned to its original shade.

After a while, Sakura's stomach growled, so viciously as if it were roaring.

"We can go to Ichiraku's!" Enthusiastically projected Naruto, almost like he was shouting

"W-what do you think Sasuke" cautiously the candy-pink haired girl asked.

"Hn"

They knew he implied yes. They had then left to go eat as friends, something that hasn't happened in seven years.

It was a beautiful night that filled the streets of Konoha that day. The glistening sunset and divine moonlight fused creating pink, orange and sort of blue and purple clouds. Such a night rarely came to be, and it was such a coincidence too. The meaning, the colours, everything about the night. Everything felt so special, like everything was finally starting to go back to normal, like they could finally settle down after living so hectically for so many years.

After arriving at Ichiraku's, they all took a seat and began to ordered to their liking.

They talked, but for the most part they listened to one of Naruto's mindboggling stories about the atrocious stuff that's happened to him on some of his missions he had been on when Sakura wasn't on his assigned team. The majority of it was actually intriguing, and that was shocking because Naruto had never told Sakura any of these before.

Sakura enjoyed it, even Sasuke found it pretty damn interesting too. Was it because he wasn't enslaved anymore? Was it because he wasn't out in the wilderness in dangerous circumstances with S rank threats lurking around? Was he actually enjoying it? It was all but a mystery. Even if it was a mystery, Sasuke hadn't been face to face with these warm, happy emotions in a very long time. He was starting to realize those "happy" moments like getting new powers, or conquering whoever stood in his way with murderous intents wasn't actually what made him happy. Being out of such cold, heartless scenarios was making him realize he wasn't fully filled with hate, that he was actually capable of enjoying being with people that cared about him. This was new to him, this was something he hadn't experienced in 13 years, back when his family was around.

All those days shunning away the people trying to be there with him, could it be that those were the people who were actually what he could consider to be family, could these be the people that could actually bring him true happiness?

After finishing eating, when his two teammates weren't paying attention, the prodigy wielding the visual prowess quickly payed the bill. He muttered something to Teuchi, the owner of the shop.

"I'll pick up the bill, it was my idea to come here after all." Happily, said Naruto, who could barely even move after eating so much ramen.

"No, I'll pay the bill, you paid last time" the medic of the team remarked

"Some guy who just walked in paid the bill, don't worry about it" Teuchi claimed.

"Was it you Sasuke" Sakura curiously questioned Sasuke.

"I didn't pay the bill moron" The raven-haired boy said while blankly looking at her.

"It's oka-" The poor girl couldn't even finish her sentence.

"Hn?"

"If it wasn't him or Naruto, who could've it been?" She quietly thought to herself.

"I say it doesn't matter, let's just go home. It was probably Kakashi-sensei or somethin'" Naruto Butted in.

"You're right, let's go Naruto, you too Sasuke"

After a final walk outside, they final got to Sasuke's house.

"I guess this is it, just like old times huh? I miss these days. I'll see you guys soon, Tsunade isn't assigning me any missions tomorrow." Naruto noted before leaving.

After a pause, Sasuke actually said goodbye back, he had never done that before, weird.

Now it was just him and Sakura.

"About yesterday, please don't ever try that again. We all care about you, why the hell do you think we tried so hard to bring you back. Anyway, today was awesome, I don't have any missions so maybe I'll drop by tomorrow." Sakura firmly said.

"Sounds good, bye Sakura."

Sasuke then entered his house and prepared to go to bed. It was shocking, he had never shown any genuine liking to his team, but out of the blue it just happened.

All the questions popping in his head throughout the day, he had finally come to an answer. It wasn't because he was out of the Akatsuki's tight shackles, it was because he thought he had finally found the people he had been looking for all along. He knew he had just found his family.

He finally felt at home.