A/N: My inspiration always comes from random quotes I think about when I feel like tuning out my teachers, lol. I was all thinking of a NejiSaku idea, but then I thought of someone telling Sasuke that Sakura was now with Neji for a triangle. So ding! Here we are! Get-Backer Uchiha, lol. I hope you enjoy the fic! Please review!

Warning(s): Maybe some OOCness…Oh yeah, they’re all going to be a bit older in here. This takes place after Sakura’s 18th birthday, so Neji is still 18 and Sasuke is still 17 cuz both of their birthdays are in July. This first chapter probably won’t be that funny since I’m introducing the situation.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Masashi Kishimoto does. But I DO own the plot. Anyone caught plagiarizing will suffer from my hippo launcher! I own the hippo launcher, too X3

Key:
blah blah blah – thoughts
“blah blah blah” – inner self talking
‘blah blah blah’ – responding to inner self

Chapter 1: Welcome Back, Traitor

Today was honestly the worst day of Uchiha Sasuke’s miserable life. He was finally back in his home village—the one that he had betrayed. But it wasn’t because he had been captured and brought back for judgment that he was smothered in utter misery at the moment.

He shot a death-glare at all of his matured fangirls from all those years ago.

And as he expected, half of them swooned at the fact that he had just sent a look their way and the other half shuddered in terror at his daunting expression.

He hated fangirls. The only thing he had liked about staying with Orochimaru for five and a half years was that he had absolutely no rabid fangirls in the least. All the women in Sound were old and ugly, anyway.

But when the Konoha ANBU squad had finally captured him and escorted him back to its home village and his, he knew what was coming.

Fangirls dropped one by one like flies when he passed by them.

Pathetic, he inwardly scoffed.

And now he was currently being led to the Godaime’s office for judgment and punishment. He knew there would be consequences when he first left Konohagakure. If he would be brought back, he would most likely be executed. And that was why he had tried with all his power to stay in Otogakure.

Obviously that hadn’t worked out as he now walked Konoha grounds once again, surrounded by ANBU.

Sasuke inwardly cursed Orochimaru for having “taking it easy” when ANBU had invaded Otogakure. The damn shinobi had decided to take a much-needed break to work on plans for his goal of immortality. Freakin’ psycho ninja. And so Sasuke was easily whisked away by the team of ninja that had come to bring him home.

And home was where his friends and “family” were—friends like all the Rookie Nine and Team Gai, and family like his team—Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, and Hatake Kakashi.

How much had they changed over the course of five and a half years?

He was sure that Naruto was amongst the ANBU squad that had captured him. After all, he had fought Naruto before he had left, and the boy had become strong and was his equal. He had to have been at least at his own level of strength.

Then there was Sakura. How had she fared after he left her, knocking her out the night of his departure? Had she cried over him all this time? Or did she become much stronger too? Did she scorn him because he had knocked her out?

That question was shoved to the back of his mind.

The ebony-haired Uchiha was sure she made at least a few changes over the period of time. She was perhaps stronger, but nowhere near as brutal as himself and Naruto. She was still the delicate flower of their squad, after all.

But first…

He flicked off another fangirl who had given him bedroom eyes.

Instead of backing off, the fangirl mouthed, “When and where?”

Bitch, he thought before simply ignoring her, knowing that ANBU would somehow “protect” him.

And when he was about to enter Tsunade-sama’s office, a pair of arms trapped him in a headlock.

“Hey, Sasuke-bastard!” greeted a familiar obnoxious voice.

Sasuke lithely slipped out of the headlock before his attacker could give him a noogie. Facing his assailant, the familiar Uchiha smirk graced his lips. “Naruto.”

The blonde grinned at him. “Long time no see! When Tsunade first assigned the mission, I thought she wouldn’t let me go! But now you’re here standing in front of me…”

“Hn.”

“That’s all ya gotta say? C’mon, I know you got some sweet stories to tell since you’ve been with a pedophile for five and a half years!”

Pedophile didn’t even begin to describe Orochimaru.

Sasuke shuddered at the thought of the snake-like shinobi constantly petting him. He had tried to block the memory out of his mind once returning to Konohagakure, but alas it was to no avail for the mental image of Orochimaru drooling over him half-naked burned his eyes.

“I’d rather not talk about it,” he replied flatly.

“Ya shouldn’t have left in the first place, moron!” Naruto shook his head. “You should have thought of the trauma you would go through if you run off with crazy child molesters for five and a half years!”

“Shut up, dobe.”

“Ahh, touchy as ever, I see,” the blonde grinned his foxy grin. And foxy as in how a real fox looks, not hot, because Sasuke is not gay, which means that he is 100 percent hetero.

“Time can’t change personality,” Sasuke said as he began to enter the Godaime’s office. “I’m sure Tsunade’s kept her temper.”

“Yup! She’ll probably be as pissed as hell to see your face again,” Naruto laughed, poking Sasuke’s cheek, at which the Uchiha was tempted to bite his finger. But that would have looked gay, and again, Uchiha Sasuke was not gay.

Sasuke decided not to respond, for responding would lead to a never-ending conversation, and he still had to endure a trial from Tsunade. He inwardly sighed at his rotten luck—karma for betraying his village, perhaps?

Begrudgingly he entered Tsunade’s domain.

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“OMIGOD! SASUKE’S BACK!” a feminine voice exclaimed as the owner of it barged into the Konoha hospital.

Haruno Sakura looked up from her desk to see her best friend standing across from her. Her eyes widened as the realization dawned on her. “Sasuke…is back?”

“Yes!” Ino said, slamming her hands on the desk. “Shikamaru just told me that Sasuke’s receiving punishment from Tsunade-sama as we speak!”

The pink-haired medic-nin stayed quiet as her blonde friend continued ranting on about what had happened since news of Sasuke’s arrival. Her former teammate was finally back, she realized. Now she wondered how much he had changed.

“Have you seen him at all yet?” Sakura asked.

“Yeah, I caught a glance of him when the ANBU was escorting him to Tsunade-sama’s office, and I must say, he’s become REALLY HOT!”

Sakura laughed. “Don’t say anything like that around Shikamaru.”

“I won’t, I won’t,” Ino said, waving her hand casually. “Sasuke’s always been hot—he was born with Uchiha hotness!”

“Haha, we make him sound like some god,” Sakura said. Another thought crossed her mind. “Oh, that means Naruto and Neji-kun are back now.”

Ino grinned. “You and Neji-san got it going on now, eh?”

The blush-haired kunoichi’s cheeks flushed the same color as her hair. “Well, we’ve been going out for a year and a half now. We just started growing closer as we began getting assigned missions together.”

“I was worried that you would never get over Sasuke. You were STILL pining for him by the time I started going out with Shikamaru three years ago!” Ino snickered. “But then I heard you and Hyuuga started getting it on…”

Sakura held a fist up playfully. “Hey, don’t even go there. Anyway, I’m getting off shift soon, so I can probably spend some time with Neji-kun and speak with Naruto and Sasuke.”

“Well then, let’s go. Shikamaru’s waiting for me outside. All the ANBU members left the meeting except for Naruto.”

“I see…” Sakura tucked a pink lock behind her ear as she shuffled her papers before arranging them in their proper places. Standing up and smoothing her white nurse outfit, she smiled and said, “Well, let’s go.”

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“Restriction for a year?” Naruto sputtered. “That’s, like, WAY too light for punishment!”

A paper ball was promptly thrown at his head.

“Shut up, you!” Tsunade snapped irritably.

Sasuke glared at Naruto. “You’re supposed to be on my side.”

Naruto grinned sheepishly as he scratched his cheek. “Oh yeah…”

“Ahem,” the Godaime cleared her throat to catch the two shinobis’ attention. She plopped back into her seat as she directed her hazel gaze at Sasuke. “Continuing on, Sasuke, you will not be allowed off Konoha grounds during that given time. Additionally, you will also be restricted from participating in any ninjutsu promotion exams as well as any missions period.”

Okay, stepping no foot out of Konoha boundary Sasuke could handle, but absolutely NO missions for an entire year? What did she expect him to do, just sit at home twiddling his thumbs for 365 days straight? Uh, he didn’t think so.

And when he opened his mouth to protest, a paper ball was shoved into the open jaws.

“Shut up and let me finish. You must also swear to relinquish your pursuit of killing your brother.”

Oh yes, today was most definitely the most miserable day of Uchiha Sasuke’s life. First, he had to put up with stupid fangirls who had NOT gotten over him, even after his betrayal. Not only that, but now he had been forced to sit around doing squat for a year. And now following unfair restrictions was the stripping of his life-long goal—the goal that had forced him to leave Konoha in the first place.

“You can either agree or get ready to have your head chopped off, Sasuke,” Tsunade stated solemnly, staring him directly in the eye. “I really should just have you executed for what you’ve done, but…”

Sasuke desperately wanted to wake up from the horrible nightmare he was experiencing. He wanted to wake up in his stone bedchamber in Otogakure again and train with Orochimaru, even though the man was a total psycho, because training with Orochimaru meant stepping forward in his life-long goal. And he wanted to wake up in a place where he wasn’t bound by any restrictions whatsoever so that he could take another step in reaching his goal. But alas…

At the moment he wanted to drop down on his knees and beg the Godaime to let him keep his only goal in life—well, besides restoring his clan. But anyway, being restricted from just about everything for a year was nothing compared to being restricted from achieving his goal for life.

But since he was a dignified, non-pansy ass, he held his head high and just continued staring at Tsunade directly. However, the idea to spit the paper ball in his mouth back at the Godaime was most appealing at that moment.

Pulling the wad of paper from his mouth, he replied a rather disgruntled, “Fine.”

“Make it official, Uchiha.”

Damn hag. “I swear to give up any pursuit of killing my brother, happy?”

Tsunade smiled. “Not quite the way I wanted it, but it’ll suffice. So you can get your ass out of here now.”

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Sakura had been passing by the Hokages’ office with Ino to meet up with Neji, but a certain friend of hers had decided to hug her from behind. “Ack!” she squeaked as she buckled forward.

“Hehe, hey, Sakura-chan!” Naruto laughed as he picked her up a bit.

“Ah, put me down, put me down!” she giggled in his arms. As he placed her down gently she turned around and grinned. “So where is he?”

Naruto moved to the side a bit to reveal the dark-haired shinobi standing behind him.

Sakura’s eyes widened at the sight of said shinobi. “Sasuke…”

He indeed looked different. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think he was Itachi right on the spot. Of course, he didn’t have those crazy lines in his face. But yeah, if you didn’t know that one little detail that set the two apart, Tsunade most likely would have had him instantly killed by the ANBU squad and then sent said squad to search for him, but the funny thing was, they had already killed him.

Hahaha, wouldn’t that be funny?

Hell naw.

But anyway, what Ino had said was true. Sasuke was really hot!

“You…look different…” was all she could muster.

“…so do you…” Sasuke replied lamely in an equally small voice. He mentally smacked himself at the lame response he had given.

But it was true; Sakura did look different. She had grown her pink spikes back out to the top of her shoulder blades. She had trimmed her bangs but kept part of them longer, streaming down the sides of her face past her chin. Her face had matured into that of a young woman’s, and she had grown taller and more womanly—curves and all. She was quite short compared to the other kunoichi of the village; she was petite to the point that she didn’t look like a kunoichi at all.

Her growth and development was summed up as her growing up to be one hot chick.

Ino rolled her azure eyes. “If you guys are finished with your sappy, hoochie-koochie, lovey-dovey scene, Neji would like to meet up with you soon, Sakura.”

Sakura tore her eyes away from her former love interest. “Oh, you’re right, Ino-chan.” She bowed to Sasuke, something she had never done five and a half years ago. “I’m sorry to cut our meeting so short, Sasuke, but I have to meet with Neji-kun.” She straightened up and smiled at Naruto. “See you later, too, Naruto.”

“Bye, Sakura-chan!” Naruto waved as she and Ino began to depart.

Sasuke, however, couldn’t keep a certain phrase from repeating in his mind as he watched the pretty young woman’s retreating back.

“I have to meet with Neji-kun.”

Did that mean…?

Naruto grinned at the sight of the shock that began to register on Sasuke’s face. “Feast your eyes on what you’ve been missing out on, Uchiha. She’s Hyuuga’s now.”

Oh yes, today was officially the most miserable day of Uchiha Sasuke’s life. To add to his misery, he just HAD to discover that the only girl he actually had some interest in had totally tossed him off to the roadside for the other genius.

Hyuuga Neji.

But then another realization dawned on Sasuke: Sakura no longer added an affectionate “-kun” to his name.

Instead she added the suffix to Neji’s.

Sasuke’s unknown inner self finally decided to make himself known at that moment.

“Damn girl don’t even like you anymore. She dumped you for Hyuuga, dude.”

‘Shut up,’ Sasuke replied angrily.

“Ah, well, ya know, you WERE a pretty big ass to her back in da day. It ain’t surprising that she’d get on with her life and find a decent dude.”

Dude, did Inner Sasuke REALLY use slang talk?

Sasuke had held onto Sakura’s proclamation of love for him five and a half years ago. But it didn’t matter anymore now.

“Dude, you know it still matters. Who else is gonna help you reproduce Uchiha spawns?”

‘SHUT UP! Who are you anyway?’

“I’m YOU, stupid. It’s been a while since I’ve been able to talk, but I’m back to tell you that you better get that Sakura chick back. Dude, be honest with yourself. Do you REALLY want Hyuuga getting little Sakura alone in his room so that they can–?”

‘GAH! Shut up!’ Sasuke mentally covered his ears.

Now Sasuke knew what he would preoccupy himself with for 365 days.

He would win Sakura back, no matter what!

Next time in “Get-Backer Uchiha”: Stalker Uchiha!

Now that Sasuke knows what he’ll do during his restriction, he’s determined to get Sakura back from Hyuuga Neji! She was the only girl who could ever be compatible with him, yet that opportunity was thrown out the window once she moved on to leave her adolescent love for Sasuke behind. Now Sasuke will do anything to win Sakura back…even if it means stalking her 24/7!

A/N: How was that? I think I could have done way better, but I’ve been wanting to get this idea out of my head for a while. Neji hasn’t made an appearance yet, but he will next chapter! Sasuke was way OOC, but I decided to mess with him a bit, haha. So was the chapter good? So-so? Sucky? Sasuke has an inner self? Lol. But since I just wanted to introduce the plot, it wasn’t too funny at all. The pairing will probably end up SasuSaku, but the NejiSaku makes it more interesting :3 Please review!