Hey all, Slyvia here!
Vacation was awesome, and now here is the NEJI SAKURA story i have been promising forever ago!
Read and Enjoy, tell me if i should continue, if not, well i will be updating "Everyone deserves a second chance," and "When you're gone," this week.
Here ya go!
"Why can't you stay?" Sakura asked watching Sasuke's back tense.
"He's still out there," he mumbled not turning around to face her, "we've been through this before Sakura."
"You've been with us for three years, why now?" Sakura asked, tears swelling in her eyes.
Sasuke closed his eyes, remembering the time he came back. He'd left when they were thirteen, only to return at eighteen. Still without achieving his goal. Still without killing his brother.
"Why'd you come back Sasuke?" Naruto asked as Sasuke stood in front of Tsunade, "You didn't kill him."
"Hn," Sasuke frowned looking over his teamates.
Everyone changed.
'Well, that's no surprise,' Sasuke thought bitter sweetly, 'I was gone for five years.'
"Are you going to answer me?!" Naruto yelled stepping towards Sasuke.
"….it's none of your business," Sasuke grumbled, looking past Naruto to the newest member of team 7, Sai.
Everything changed.
"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled as Kakashi placed a hand on his shoulder.
Sasuke watched as the ever emotionless Sai stared at him. He could tell by the artist's eyes, that he didn't trust him and neither did Yamato, standing to the left.
Turning towards the door, Sasuke watched. He was waiting. He was waiting for someone. Someone with pink hair and cool jade eyes.
He never admitted it but, he missed her. She was the reason he came back. Love. He came back for love, her love.
'Where is she? Everyone's here except her,' Sasuke thought blandly.
As if hearing his question, Sai spoke up, "She's not here."
"…." Sasuke only looked at the artist's expression, a small frown crossing his brow.
"You're not going to hurt her again," Sai continued.
'Who is this guy? Who the hell does he think he is?' Sasuke wondered, sensing Sai's slight possessive attitude towards his former teamate.
"What are you her guardian?" Sasuke asked slightly amused by the death glare on Yamato's face.
"You weren't here to see her…" Sai trailed.
"See what?" Sasuke asked as Sai's gaze dropped.
"Things have been difficult for her, Sasuke," Yamato spoke up, "But all the same, you will not see her."
Sasuke glared at the jonin in front of him. No one seemed to stand up for him. In fact, no one seemed to even care.
Not too long ago, Sasuke remembered, everyone would have been happy to see him come back. Naruto would've been jumping for joy and taking him for ramen. Kakashi would still be reading his perverted books but, would've given him at least a smile. And Sakura, she would cry and hug him. She would love him.
'I guess that's never going to happen,' Sasuke sighed.
Naruto wasn't beaming about his return, he was trying to kill him. Kakashi didn't smile and didn't have his book in sight, he was glowering at his former student. Sai and Yamato were standing side by side, glaring at him in warning.
Sasuke realized they all were giving him that same warning: Touch or hurt Sakura, and we'll kill you.
"What makes you think I'd hurt her again?"
"You've always done so before," Sai said matter of factly.
"Hn…" Sasuke glared back at the artist nin.
"Sasuke," Kakashi drawled, "I don't-"
"You're not getting anywhere near her, you bastard!" Naruto screeched, stepping in front of him.
Naruto's face puffed red as Kakashi struggled to regain his hold over the blond ninja, "She's finally getting her life straightened out; she doesn't need you to mess things up again!" Naruto continued to yell.
"Why don't you let her decide that, idiot," Sasuke muttered turning around to face Tsunade.
"I agree with them. I won't let you tear everything down again," Tsunade thundered.
"I'm not planning to do that," Sasuke whispered, angered that everyone was against him from the start, "Why can't you see? Why can't you understand, I'm not going to hurt her again." Sasuke argued.
Taboo. Taboo words. Sasuke, in the back of his mind knew he would hurt her again, it was only a matter of time. Secretly he wished Naruto or Sai told him she was dating or married to someone but, he knew she wouldn't be. He wanted to be with her, to feel her love again but, he knew it wouldn't last.
Forever meant nothing to him. He couldn't keep her happy and he would leave her, which was the only thing he really knew.
'I'll try, I will make her happy, I won't hurt her again,' Sasuke repeated in his head, trying to quell the fear inside his heart and mind.
"Sasuke-" Tsunade started when her office door swung open.
Instinctively, Sai and Yamato dropped their glares and stepped in front of Sakura's view, blocking her from seeing Sasuke. Kakashi's vice grip on Naruto dropped as he pulled out his perverted book, not wanting to startle her.
"Tsunade sama!" A small voice called, "Neji and I are…back…" Sakura trailed as she looked at her teamates standing in the hokage's office, "What's going on?"
"Sakura…" Yamato trailed as Naruto stepped in front of Sasuke, further hiding him from her view.
Tsunade sighed as Sakura looked around at her sensei's and teamates faces, "What's going on?" she asked again, stepping further into the room.
Sai looked down at the floor as she pushed past him lightly to see Naruto. All of her teamates looked down at the ground, avoiding her gaze. Even Kakashi, Sakura saw, wasn't really reading his book but only making it look that way.
"Sakura? What's-" Neji walked up behind Sakura only to see why his partner was blocking the doorway, "What's everyone doing here?" he asked as he caught a glimpse of dark raven hair behind Naruto.
'Oh no,' Neji glared as Sai looked back over Naruto's shoulder, answering Neji's panic.
Slightly nudging Naruto to the side Sakura whispered, "Naruto, what's-"she stopped mid sentence as she stared into two coal black eyes.
"What's he doing here?" Neji whispered to Sai.
"Good for nothing came back," Sai answered back bitterly.
'Sasuke,' Sakura thought as Naruto, Sai, and Neji growled behind her.
"Sakura," Sasuke said, never taking his eyes off of her.
Stare. All she did was stare. No hug, no tears, just simple staring. As if he wasn't real, well, in Sakura's mind, he couldn't be real. He never would come back, that 's what she trained herself to believe, never getting her hopes up, never getting hurt again.
'She's changed, I would've thought she'd be at least, a little happy to see me,' Sasuke thought as Sakura sighed.
Instead of jumping into Sasuke's arms or crying she walked past him. Pulling a small scroll out of her back pouch and placing it on Tsunade's desk.
"Here's the mission report," she whispered.
Naruto stood shocked as Sakura brushed past Sasuke as if he never was there and walked back over to where Neji was standing. Awestruck, Neji watched as Sasuke's eyes flashed in disappointment and sadness, followed by rage and anger.
Neji inwardly smirked as did the rest of team 7.
"Sakura, wait!" Sasuke called, trying to get her to turn around.
She only continued to walk.
'Why won't she talk to me? Why won't she say anything?' Sasuke wondered as he called to her again, without a reply.
"Sakura! Wait!" He lunged toward her, "Just wait," he exclaimed as he grabbed her arm and whirled her around.
As he grabbed her arm, Naruto's eyes flashed as did Neji's. Sai reached absent mindedly to his pack, waiting to take out a kunai.
But none of the shinobi had to worry.
Anger flared in her emerald eyes as she glared at Sasuke. Tears gathered in the corners as she looked deep into his eyes.
"Sakura."
That was the only thing Sasuke managed to say as he went flying backwards into the wall. One chakra filled punch sent him into the Hokage's wall as every ninja in the room watched in awe.
Naruto and Neji smirked as Sai suppressed a laugh watching Sasuke fall from his indent in Tsunade's wall, gushing blood from his nose and mouth.
Sasuke almost gave a small smile at the thought. That had been the worst day of his life, especially since neither Sakura nor any of the other medical shinobi healed him after. Seemed as though no one wanted to go against Sakura, she was precious to everyone and he was just the traitor who she pitied.
In reality, nothing changed. She still loved him. He loved her. And he was forever bound to destroy her life.
'That was the beginning of it all,' Sasuke looked down at the ground, remembering how that was when he knew he loved her.
"Why can't you stay?" Sakura called out behind him.
"…."
"We could help you. You don't have to do this alone Sasuke," she whispered.
She should've been talking to the wall; she already knew what he wasn't going to listen to her. He never did.
Little by little her heart sank in her chest. Already he had broken it when he left the first time to go to Orochimaru.
'Three years we mended my heart and now this?' Sakura thought bitterly.
Her mind drifted to the warm nights she spent wrapped in his arms, a small smile on his face. A dream state, she always thought whenever he held her after they made love.
It was just a dream. She always knew, somewhere in the back of her mind, he would leave her. She hated him for not listening to her, but, then again, she didn't listen to her teamates.
Naruto begged that she didn't go out with Sasuke, he pleaded that she move on. Get someone better, someone who will always love and protect you, he would say.
She smiled sadly, realizing he was right.
Sai warned her about Sasuke. As little time as he knew the Uchiha, he already had pinned him as a cold heartless bastard that would never care about her. Sasuke, he said, didn't know how to love; he was just filling a void.
Again, he was right too.
Even the cool and aloof Neji took a possessive nature when it came to her and the Uchiha. She had become close with the rookie nine and Gai's team, especially her ANBU squad captain Neji.
As the years went on before Sasuke came back, everyone took bets on how long it would take for the two to admit they had feelings for each other. TenTen tried to push Neji to Sakura as Naruto and Sai practically threw her into his arms, but nothing worked.
Neji tried to stop Sakura. The byakugan sees all, Neji saw into her future and saw pain. He'll leave you again, please, don't walk down this path Sakura, don't, Neji declared.
She still remembered the hope in his eyes. The hope was still there everyday she saw him, for a split second, before Sasuke would put his arm around her waist and kissed her cheek.
His hope never died.
'The byakugan can see all,' Sakura reminded herself, 'Why didn't I listen to any of them.'
"You said you loved me," Sakura cried, "that was lie."
"No it wasn't," Sasuke replied with his back still facing her.
"If you loved me, you'd stay," she countered.
"I don't want you to get hurt," Sasuke whispered, hearing her sandals inch closer behind him.
"Liar. I should've listened to them," Sakura spat, "they were right about you, I should've listened," she cried to herself.
"I'm sorry Sakura, I'm sorry," Sasuke whispered as he appeared behind her.
'Just like when we were genin,' Sakura thought as she felt Sasuke's breath on her neck.
"Stay with me, I love you," Sakura pleaded.
"I can't," Sasuke replied as he hit her in the back of the neck.
Without another word, Sakura fell into darkness.
'Just like back then,' she cried as she slumped to the ground.
"I do love you Sakura," Sasuke smiled as he picked her up and placed her on a bench, "I'm sorry."
His feathery fingers wiped away her tears as the moonlight shone down on her bright hair. He smiled sadly as a finger trailed across her cheek down to her lips.
"Sakura…" he whispered as he leaned down and gave her a soft kiss, "I love you."
Sasuke's shadow gleamed in the moonlight as his footsteps faded into the night.
Sasuke's a jerk, i think, at least in this fic!
LOL, Sakura should've listened to poor Neji and Naruto and Sai, they all love her so much!
Oh well, Not a lot of Neji saku, only a bit but next chapter there will be more! Oh lot's more!
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Hee hee just kidding
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