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A/N: hi there, hope you like this one.

I've loved and I've lost. I've been there before. He was charming, mysterious and handsome. I fell at first sight and hated by first words. He was ignorant and cocky. But we enjoyed each others company. He was different from all the other hot headed boys, even if he frustrated me.

It was the beginning of summer he moved in across the street from me. I wasn't looking forward to it at that time because my close friends were away on vacation. It was the first time we were split like this too, I was supposed to go on a cruise with my aunts and cousin. But mother refuses since her crystal ball teller told her to keep me close. Like she'd believe anything the phony woman told her.

On seeing that boy I knew he was going to be my summer project.

"Hi there, I'm Sakura, Haruno Sakura. What's your name?" I was being polite, mother said ladies are to always be polite. Especially to swoon a handsome man, or boy, even when they were rude. I offered a small smile.

He scrunch his nose up at me as if I smelt bad, which I know I didn't because I showered with scented soaps and shampoos. "It's none of your business." He turned his nose up in a snobbish manner and went inside leaving me standing there alone, ears red and all from embarrassment.

There were still worker's carrying boxes into the houses. I huffed in annoyance and stomp way.

It wasn't long until we were forced to spend time together. After mother said hello to his mother. They became best friends instantly. Our fathers were like us, always bickering and trying to outdo the other.

Summer flew by quickly and though admittedly Sasuke and I still didn't like each other we were still somehow always together. We shared friends and our families together. So it was only natural that we were friends too. Or more like 'friendemy'. I was getting used to having him around. Maybe even liking him a bit too.

But our fathers, their silly bickering got serious. I can't remember what it was but it was at one of our backyard BBQ'S. Sasuke and I were on the swings trying to see who could go higher when we heard them yelling. Before you know it father was dragging mother and I away. And for once I didn't want to leave.

We were forbidden to speak to each other. Except now we wanted to. So we sneaked around meeting at libraries and river banks to compete with each other. Until that one day on my fifteenth birthday, Sasuke asked to meet him, at the back of a mini mart our friend Naruto worked at. We met there often, using Naruto as an excuse, he didn't mind it either. That day I had my first kiss and was the last time I had seen Sasuke. His father had caught us and took him away. Sent him to boarding school, for a year, then they moved away. Just like that. He was gone.

I hadn't seen him again and it broke my heart because I had fallen in love. I cried for days to my girlfriends, so they tried to distract me. Event's, road trips, blind dates, you name it we were there. It did distract me, sometimes. But when Ino held Sai hands, or Hinata got kisses on the cheeks from Naruto it reminded me what I was missing.

"Daddy?"

"Yes darling?" He was still looking at his newspapers, not glancing at me. I didn't know if I wanted him to. With what I was about to ask.

"Why…did you and Uchiha fight?" I gulp as he lowers the papers onto the table to look at me hard. I lowered my eyes to my pancake and poked at it. I wish mother was around now, she was out back attending to the gardens. My palm's became a bit sweaty now causing me to wipe them on my school uniform.

"We don't speak that name here." He kept looking at me, I could feel it but I dare not look up. "Understood?" He continues to stare.

"Yes daddy." I stood dumping my food into the sink, I grabbed my bag and headed to out the dining area. It was our last semester at Leaf high. I shouldn't be late. I also didn't want to be near fathers at the moment. The fear and anger in me would have grown until I broke. Which wouldn't end well. So it was better to leave.

…

College was a relief. It wasn't easy but worth it as Ino said. We were away from our controlling parents for once. Free to do what we wanted to. Make our own life decisions, I was going to make the most of it.

"Sakura! Sakura! Omg Sakura!" Karin and Matsuri came running towards me. Two new friends to add to my group. "Girl come with! Hurry!" They grabbed my arms pulling me up from the space under a shady tree I was under. Studying of course, the library was full and my first semester here was coming to an end. I had to study somehow.

"What is it!?" I huffed but let them pull me along. "Ino is calling." Matsuri grin and Karin and I both rolled our eyes. What was Ino? Queen?

"Just trust us babe." Karin smiled at me which made my frown deeper. I could see the originals sitting together by a table. It was always five of us, Ino, Hinata, Tenten, Temari and I. When we started collage we met Matsuri and Karin who completed out group. We became close to them quickly.

I Was becoming annoyed siting there with all their eyes one me, Ino was silently looking at me with a shit eating grin. "Well!" I asked frowning, what did they know that I didn't? I leave them for a few hours and they are up to something. I couldn't study around them, they were louder than a super market. Ino sighed and dramatically grabbed my hands to hold into hers. My mind raced in wonder.

"Saku, he's here." She said softly, almost a whisper. I was frozen, already understanding what she meant. I didn't know how to react.

"FYI the pictures you have on your laptop looks good and all but damn girl he's hot." Karin jabbed my sides to break me out of the trans I was in.

It only worked long enough for me to let out a questioned sound and I was gone again. Hinata rubbed my shoulder as Tenten pat my knee. I could see how genuinely happy and excited they were for me. I still wasn't sure if it was real or had I fallen asleep under the tree I was under.

…..

Five years, it had been five years since I last saw him. What was I going to say? Did he remember me? Would he remember anything? Did he think of me like I thought of him? Did he miss me? Questions was choking me up as I tried to pay attention in class. It had been two hours since I found out he was close by.

I hadn't seen him yet, Ino said he aged well, he was with Naruto at that moment she and Hinata saw him. If he met them, that meant he knew I was here and he didn't look for me either. Was he nervous too?

I decided to meet him tonight at Kibas party, I could collect my thoughts by then, hopefully. I wondered up the stairs to my shared apartment with the girls lost in thought I didn't see the figure standing there. Near the door, leaning on it, hands stuff into their pockets. It was him, looking at me with amusement written all over his face as my jaws went a little lose and my eyes wide. He was still handsome. But his face, his body, was more mature, like a young man.

"Sakura hm, it's been a while huh." He stated more than ask, I didn't expect this at all and my body moved on it's own. I jogged over to him and hugged him as I cried. "Sasuke!"

….

The winter holidays of campus was spent together, in his hotel room. They caught up on what had happened, they had continued where they had left of. From a kiss.

Sakura was saddened to hear that both his parents were no longer with them. Someone had followed them to their private holiday spot and murdered them in their sleep. It was later found that his uncle had set up the whole thing for money. So Sasuke and his older brother had to grow up quickly to take over the business. She didn't get to say goodbye, she wish she could have seen them again. She was sad for Sasuke and what he had gone through. And she wasn't there for him.

She hadn't met his brother before, he was away when the Uchiha had moved in next door to her years ago. He never really spoke of him either, she wouldn't have known if his mother hadn't talked to her mother about him.

But it wasn't long until she met the man. More charming and gentle than Sasuke ever was. Someone she liked and trusted, someone who took care of Sasuke. Which she was grateful for. To keep him on the right track after his parents pasting.

Her father had regretted it for sure, when she told them. Her mother was devastated. When she took Sasuke home, her dad felt guilty, she could see it. But she never asked again, about the fight and he never spoke of it. Wanting to forget and move on.

Not even after she got married, not even after she had Sarada, her daughter. It didn't matter anymore. The two families were together again. In a way that was permanent.

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