Yes all I apologise for the wait cough/hack/Myrna/cough but I tried quite hard on this and wanted to get it right. I made it a long one shot because I hate it when people leave me hanging with chapter after chapter every week and the wait annoys me. Plus knowing me… it would take me a while to finish it. So here we are with a very long ONE shot and I hope you all like.

Read & Review please it would be greatly appreciated.

Me: Sasuke please stop glaring at me and tell them!

Sasuke: that all depends on the outcome of the story…

Me: (sighs) now you know I cant tell you that or it will ruin it, so I will have to take drastic measures if you wont tell them… (Sasuke shrugs and looks away) FINE!... cough/cough Gaara if you please…

Gaara: she (I cough loudly to get his attention) sorry I mean Rhianne here doesn’t own Naruto so just read and review and tell her if you like it or not. Or else she’s going to keep us locked up in these little cages-

Me: OKAY! SO READ… shut up Gaara or ill dip you in water again… you know what the sand is like wet don’t you? (He nods) you know I love you really you just need controlling

Oh before I forget in thisstory ‘bold’ inner voices!

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Come back for you as promised

It had been a year. A whole year since I left again. I tried, I mean I really tried to glare and bare them both together as I lived in that village again. But I couldn’t, it just hurt, it hurt to watch as I lost the only person that I…

Shut up you stupid Uchiha! Damn it! Stop being all soft and complaining about it, and get a damn plan to get her back! DO something about it. She is yours ne? Then get off your mopey ass! And do something about it!

…and what hurt the most was that she willingly went to him… was I wrong or didn’t she say she loved me?! I mean I wasn’t gone that long? Nine years to get stronger was that long considering… was it?

Oh for kami sake! You don’t listen to me do you!?

Not particularly, no… you’re an ass hole…

What!!

An ASS hole! I mean get out of my head already you annoy me to hell and back! Now shut up!

I was ONLY trying to help you go back and get her!

Hn…

Oh dear god!

I sat in my little hut style home that I built about half a year ago on the outskirts of the village, looking down at my hands that held a small picture that usually adorned my bed side table. It was of team seven… the first picture we took together. And only one sight caught my eyes. A certain cherry blossom but she had changed a lot since this picture. In this picture she was only twelve, short and pretty. Now she was twenty three years old, still a little short but tall enough to make her look like the little adorable blossom she was. Her body had filled out and now she had curves that made her look beautiful, her hair was still short but now she was more likely to wear it at a loose pony tale at the nape of her neck and her eyes… well her eyes where… perfect.

Shame you can’t say any of that to her right?

I said SHUT UP!

But it was right, I couldn’t. When I was around her I’d freeze up and glare as I usually did, we’d end up in an argument and she’d storm off leaving me there with nothing but regrets. It was true I left the actual village but I couldn’t bring myself leave completely. The though of not seeing her again was too much so I only left the village walls. No one knew where I lived now of course and I only re entered the village for food and training. Tsunade had let me return to the village but on a condition. She regularly updates my curse seal and I have to be put under watch. I agreed and I also got the feeling that she knew why I wanted to come back. But I didn’t care. She knew and I had nothing to hide.

Naruto had forgiven me after about a week that dobe. And by now I was fitting into the village again, with - dare I say it - fan girls and what not. But now Sakura have a few fan boys herself. Which infuriated me! She was MINE! Only mine to look at damn it! The only person that hated me was Kiba.

I placed the picture back onto my bed side table and walked into my little living room and kitchen. I grabbed my wallet and walked out of my door. Time for my weekly shopping trip. Joy… -please note the sarcasm-

I walked through the forest for about five minutes before I saw the gates. Deep down I believe I was excited, damn mission kept me away from her for almost two months. It almost killed me to be away for that long. But it couldn’t be helped he was a ninja after all. But I secretly hoped that he’s see he, maybe only a glimpse but to see her none the less.

Walking thought the village and into the store, I didn’t see her. On the way out I didn’t see her. But I did see something else that made my blood boil with anger. Kiba eating ramen with Hinata. Now I knew they where friends but the thing that made me so angry was that his hand was on hers, rubbing circles with his thumb. As the smiled and laughed together. Was he? No he wouldn’t… would he? Would he cheat on SAKURA!? I began to shake with fury when I realised something. Sakura must know! She was smart and they where doing that in public! In front of everyone! She must be hurt and sad and I couldn’t have that!

But being the bigger person here I didn’t charge over and beat that dog to a bloody pulp oh and believe me it was tempting. But I went to find Sakura instead. I ran through the village and found her about ten minutes later sat on the bridge where we used to meat for training as team 7. She just sat there her hair blowing in the wind and there was no emotion on her face. None at all! Was she okay? Would she want to talk to me? I walked over anyway, approaching slowly.

“Sakura?” I reached out my hand and tired to touch her shoulder but her hand instantly flashed out and slapped mine away. I stood in shock when she shook her hair as if getting water out of her ears and looked at me shocked.

“Gomenasai Sasuke-kun! I guess being a konoichi has put me on edge.” She laughed nervously and got down from her sitting position on the red railing.

“Um Sakura? Are you okay?” I asked nervously trying to touch her again but she turned away and looked down to the river below. I watched her again. Was it me or is she not letting me touch her? Or was it just me noticing things that aren’t really there?

“Ye I’m fine.” She smiled that smile that always makes my chest clinch tighter. Did she not know? Should I tell her? She deserved to know didn’t she? But if I told her she’d think I was trying to break the relationship up again, like last time. I needed someone to tell her that she trusted… someone close… Naruto!

“Anyway Sasuke I’ll see you around okay? I have to go to the hospital for m shift.” She smiled again and I resisted the urge to clasp my hand over my heart to stop it from jumping at her.

“Hn.” I nodded and she took off. Now was my chance… I had to talk to Naruto. What was going on?

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I walked through Konoha in search of her again. I couldn’t believe what I had just been told… I didn’t do all that did I? I mean I knew it was my fault but I never meant to do that!

Flashback!

I rushed to my house and shoved the shopping away not wasting a moment and ran full speed over to Naruto’s apartment. I knocked on the door but nothing happened, so I knocked again and again until finally Naruto came to the door rubbing his eyes and mumbling to himself. He’d been asleep! It was gone noon! His hair was pointing in all the wrong directions and he had on a pair of jogging bottoms… he looked like he’d been for a jog in his sleep… dobe.

“Teme what are you doing here?”

I need a word dobe now!” I walked passed him into his apartment and turned to look at him once inside. His apartment was simple, a kitchen and living room in one like mine with two doors that where on the right hand wall. One lead to his bedroom and the other to his bathroom no doubt. His house was simple like any shinobi really. We where on missions all air go no need for fancy houses. He sluggishly closed the door and turned to me.

“Huh? What’s going on the teme?” he sat on his couch.

“I think I saw something today… something that I needed to talk to you about.” He nodded as a sign for me to go on as I sat next to him on the couch. “Has anything happened with Sakura and Kiba that I don’t know about since being on my mission?” I looked at him and his face which seemed to be concentrating pretty hard, his index finger was placed on his chin and his forehead was all wrinkled.

“Nope, nothing unusual. Why did you see them fight? Because I said it was going to be difficult on them both now after all that stuff, but they said they would still be as it was before. Why do you ask?”

“Hang on now Naruto. What are you going on about?” okay you don’t see a confused Uchiha often… but this was one very confused Uchiha.

“You okay teme? You seem… confused.”

“Just tell me what has been going on since I left two month ago dobe…” I said loosing my patients. “Because I just saw Kiba flirting with Hinata, please explain to me now!” any angrier and my sharingan would no doubt activate.

“Shit! Two months! Then you haven’t heard! Oh for kami’s sake Sasuke! Your behind! You have missed a lot!” by now he was stood in front of me, waving hi arms around and yelling… good only Naruto…

“Well tell me then Dobe!”

“Kiba and Sakura… broke up almost a month and a half ago.”

And by just hearing that sentence… everything seemed to flow away… Kiba and Sakura… broke up… as in not together… as in he isn’t going to touch her again, kiss those lips that are mine only! Grab her hand? Sleep in the same bed cuddled up together every night? My insides where having a party, jumping, laughing screaming to the heavens YES FINALLY THAT BASTARD IS GONE! But one thought spoiled it all… why?

“Naruto why did they break up?” I was just staring at my feet by now… why? Did I do something again? Is that why she wouldn’t let me touch her earlier? Because she hates me for splitting them up? She can’t hate me! She can’t! if she hates me… I don’t know what I’d do… then Naruto’s answer split me in half.

“Because of you. They broke up because of you.” His voice seemed sad somehow. Like he was blaming me?

“What? Why? What did I so now?” I looked up at him in shock as I saw his face my heart sank more… if possible. His eyes held nothing but… sympathy?

“Kiba had… doubts.” He looked like he was looking for the right words.

“What do you mean Naruto?”

“He and Sakura kept having these rows… about you. It’s been going on a while. But eventually Kiba couldn’t take it anymore. He didn’t believe her when she said she couldn’t go back to you.” I was about to say something but he held his hand up to silence me and continued. “He knew that her feelings for you hadn’t gone away. Not fully anyway. He said there was always a certain look in her face whenever she saw you, a look that he never got. When he asked her about it the last time she admitted that she hadn’t got over you completely but that nothing would ever happen between you because she… I’m sorry Sasuke… she said she could never trust you.” That struck… hard!

“What? Why!?”

“Sasuke listen to me! You didn’t see her! After you left, before we came to get you, you didn’t see how much pain she was in. Kiba saw, Neji saw, Shika saw, Choji saw, Lee saw and I saw how much pain she was in because you had left. She stood at the gate and cried, to me, begging me to bring you back. I promised I would, but couldn’t. I came back and I could tell she was broken… too broken. That’s why the guys are so protective of her, because we watched as he poured her heart out. She tried and tried to get you back but broke more and more with every failed attempt. She’s almost fixed now, because of Kiba. Do you think she wants to break again? Because that is what she thinks will happen to be with you!” I stood there in shock, she thought that?

“I wouldn’t hurt her!”

“But teme you already have. In the end you left her alone and no matter what I tried I couldn’t fix her. You are either going to have to leave her alone or try to fix her. Make her Sakura again. I haven’t seen the real Sakura since we where twelve. Kiba brought it out for a while but she faded like she did before. You have to fix her Sasuke. She needs to trust again, to trust you again” he took a look in Naruto’s eyes and saw that they where pleading. For me to do it and soon. I nodded and left him.

End flashback!

I had to see her! I had to make her see that she could trust me! That I never wanted to hurt her! Not like that anyway. I needed to leave all those years ago! I had to! To avenge my family!

You only had that one goal though Sasuke. You where so stubborn, even though Naruto told many times. The where your new family, there for when you where hurt, lost, alone. But you pushed them away. Why Sasuke?

I had my reasons! I had to do it on my own!

Wasn’t the reason for family is to help each other? Because you know they would have.

Since when have you become to preachy!?

Oh no I’ve always been like this Sasuke but only recently you started to listen.

I ignored the rest and ran some more to find Sakura. Damn she could be hard to find when she wanted to be. Her house! I could always just wait at her house! I ran towards her apartment and through her window… and waited, and waited…

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Damn a long day at the hospital… again. I swear Tsunade takes me for granted making me stay later to do her paperwork. I mean I know I’m her student but that was just plain mean. It was about seven o clock at night I’d been working since before noon. No it may not seem that long for many people that work from six till seven in the market place but when you use a extensive amount on patients and hours of paper work… I was exhausted. All I wanted to do was go home, take a bath and get into bed… granted it will be alone since Kiba and I broke up but I just wanted sleep.

Kiba and I where on good terms. We where friends just like before the whole fiasco happened in the first place. He was as protective as ever like Neji, Choji, Naruto, Shika and Sai. We both agreed that it was time to end it not because we didn’t love each other but because we still had our old feelings for our childhood crushes. Kiba admitted that he still had feelings towards Hinata which I had noticed ever since we where together and I still had those lingering feelings for Sasuke. I tried to get rid of them but they wouldn’t go away, so I dealt with them, simple I didn’t acknowledge they existed around him and I was coping.

I hope Ino doesn’t come around tonight again. Its been her mission every Friday night since Kiba and I split to take me to one of the local bars and get drunk, I don’t know why because I don’t need consoling. It wasn’t a terrible break up, we sat down talked and he left, nice break up really. If she did come round I’ll have to shoo her off. Though I don’t have work tomorrow I still hate the hangover and was not looking forward to having another one.

I opened my front door and walked in closing the door behind me and dumping my keys on a table in my hall. I walked upstairs and changed my clothes, into something more comfortable (shorts and shirt). I walked downstairs and through my living room into my kitchen and grabbed an apple off the counter as I boiled the kettle. I turned to my living room and bit into my apple. But my lips didn’t leave the apple… there on my sofa was a very unexpected person… Uchiha Sasuke.

I paused for a moment but when I realised that we where staring at each other I pulled the apple from my mouth and laughed.

“Uchiha Sasuke on my sofa… now that is not something you see everyday.” I laughed again and went back to my kettle and made some tea. “So Sasuke what makes you break into my house at this hour? Anything important?” Keep the emotions down, keep them down. Don’t let him know, you can’t!

Che! Sakura its hopeless you may as well tell him after all you know you love him and he came back for you didn’t he?

That is not the point… he’d do it again, he’d leave and… I just can’t trust him okay!

“Actually Sakura we need to talk.” Oh dear god what is this tense tone in his voice for?? CRAP!

“And what’s that? What can we possibly have to talk about?”

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People originally this was meant to be a one shot but by popular demand it has now become a short story. It will only be about two or three chapters so please read and review! Again I’m sorry of the shortness but I’ve been teaching my little sister welsh today and was writing this in between. I have written more but its in the prosses of being finished then beta’d k!

Sasuke: you cannot just leave it there!

Me: well I think I just did so deal with it!

Sasuke: fine but by tomorrow there better be more!

Me: there will my child there will…

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