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Inner Sakura

The 3 teens reappeared in a flash of white light; the remains of the building was a good sign that they were home. "Naruto... are you okay?"

The blond was laying on his back in the dirt, "I hate time travel! Agh... I think I'm going to be sick."

"If you're going to be sick, then go be sick over there!" Sakura motioned to the trees while moving away from him.

"Sakura-chan... can't you do something about it? Don't you have anything I could take?"

"Not with me Naruto, I'm sorry. When we get back to the village, I'll get you something."

'The village... it's been a week, Kiba should be back by now,' Sasuke glared at the thought. He stuffed his hands in his pockets and, ignoring the other two bickering teens behind him, he headed to the village.

"Yeah! We're home! Ichiraku's here I come!" Naruto screamed jumping up and down once they entered the gates.

"Well... so much for him being sick, looks like he's back to normal," Sakura sighed in frustration at her teammate's idiotic behavior.

"Saku-chan!"

'Oh boy!' The girl looked down the street to see the boy and his dog running towards them. "Hehe... hey Kiba... how are you?" Sakura tensed up, feeling Sasuke's chakra spike behind her.

"I'm good just got back from the mission a few hours ago. Where are the kids?"

"Um... they went home, we just finished a mission ourselves actually," her smile was a little strained, feeling uncomfortable in between the two men. She felt so bad, she two great guys that wanted her. She had been with Kiba for a little over a year and he was there for the two years after Nartuo and Sasuke left; but... she didn't love him like he deserved. 'Ino was right, I was settling for what I could have . I don't want little Kiba running around... at least not from me.'

And then there was Sasuke, everything was taken from him at such a young age, and ever since she was little all she wanted to do was give him all she could. She may have disliked him for a short time, but she would always love him; she smiled suddenly thinking about their future children that they just left an hour or so ago.

"So, do you want to go to lunch... unless you've eaten already?"

Kiba's question pulled her from her trip to memory lane, "No... we haven't, though I think Naruto will be heading to Ichiraku's for his usual bowl of ramen," Sakura looked to the blond trying to get him to help with the situation, but he was clueless.

"Well... would you like to?" the boy could sense something was bothering the girl, she seemed withdrawn; something happened in the week that he was gone. "Sakura... is something wrong?"

"What? No... it's nothing," she felt Sasuke's chakra again, 'I'm not going to just hurt him in front of the others just to please Sasuke's rage... he'll have to get over it. I"m handling this my way.' With her mind made up, Sakura put a smile on her face and gently took the dog trainer's hand, "I would love to go to lunch Kiba."

As she walked away she could feel Sasuke's raging chakra dim to that of shock and she could barely sense a small amount of betrayal in it too. She felt bad about hurting him, but pushed it aside and continued on, she had to take care of Kiba before she could comfort him.

"Hey don't worry Teme, she's not going to stay with him... she can't, right?" Naruto tried to console his best friend, but with Sasuke's face a blank slate, he wasn't sure if it was helping. "Come on, let's go get some ramen!"

"Hn."

'Oh great, we step into the village for 5 minutes and he's already pissed off... just what I need to deal with.'

"Sakura-chan... is everything okay? You seem a little distracted, did something go wrong on the mission?"

"No, no it's not that... it's just... never mind."

"No Sakura you can tell me, really it's okay," Kiba waited patiently for her to speak, he slid his hand under hers' and ran his thumb over her knuckles, trying to calm her down.

'How am I suppose to break up with him without hurting him?' she sighed in frustration knowing there was no easy way too, but knew it was inevitable. "Kiba we need to talk," she pulled her hand away, wrapping it around her middle, for moral support for what she was about to do.

"Oh boy, this doesn't sound good," he tried to make a joke out of the situation, but Sakura wasn't laughing.

"You're a great friend, and a loyal shinobi and teammate, but..."

"It's the Uchiha isn't it?" She was shocked by his blunt statement, which confirmed what he thought. "I see the way you look at him, and ever since he returned he's looked at you the same way... all I want is for you to be happy," he gave her a gently smile, easing her fears.

'He's such a sweet guy, I'm such a jerk.' 'You're only doing both yourselves a favor, and remember... he's happy, he has a wife and daughter in the near future, he'll be fine,' inner Sakura coached.

"Just remember Sakura, if he hurts you again... I'll kill him."

"You'll have to wait behind Naruto."

They both stood and left the small stand. Outside on the street Sakura hugged then kissed him on the cheek, "Thank you Kiba. And don't worry, everything will be okay." The boy nodded, giving her one last hug, then he turned down the street; heading home.

'Well girl, you're officially single yet again. Now... go get your man!' inner Sakura began doing a happy little dance in her head, Sakura rolled her eyes and headed for the ramen stand; knowing the guys would be there.

Naruto had dragged the Uchiha to eat, still trying to get his mind off their female teammate. "Come on Teme, you know Sakura-chan, you guys have been working you problems out... it's only up hill from here!" Naruto's encouragement wasn't helping the demons in the black haired boy's head.

He pushed his ramen away in disgust and stood from his stool, "She's made her decision Dobe."

"Ah come on Sasuke, you don't know that, girls have crazy minds!" But the other boy had already left, 'Ah, he' s being stubborn again; I'm not even bothering because there is no way to reason with him,' Naruto rolled his eyes and continued slurping down his ramen.

A few minutes later Sakura burst through the curtains, (You know the short little curtains outside the stand, I don't know what they are called, but go with me here.) "Um... hi Naruto," she bit her lip, looking around the small stand.

"Hey Sakura-chan... what you looking for?"

"Didn't Sasuke come with you?"

"Yeah, but he left... he's being moody. You want some ramen?"

"Um, no thanks. Can you do me a favor?"

"Yeah sure... what?"

She handed him a scroll, "This is our report from the mission, can you give it to Lady Tsunade after you're finished? I need to go find Sasuke."

"Yeah sure, don't worry about it Sakura-chan," Naruto gave her a thumbs up.

"Yeah, just don't get ramen on it okay?" she smiled, then left in search of her other teammate. 'the only problem is... where could he be?'

'Well... you could try um I don't know, his house!'

Sakura glared, not liking her inner self's sarcasm, 'First off, he lives in an apartment, and when he sulks he doesn't lock himself up and do it... he tires himself out with training; I should go to the training grounds.'

'That's a smart plan, you go girl!'

Sakura search high and low on every training ground in the village and yet she still couldn't find him. She was about to give up on the search when the sun started to set, 'Maybe he went to a bar?'

'Sasuke's not old enough to drink!'

'Doesn't mean he never has though... probably did a lot of things while he was away from the village.'

'Come now, don't think like that.'

'It's a little hard not to...' Her aimless wanderings brought her to the bridge team 7 used to meet at before missions, and the man she had been searching for. "Sasuke!"

The sheer volume and excitement in her voice was enough to draw his attention away from Konoha's beautiful skyline at dusk... to her, not standing a mere 5 feet from him. "Sakura?" he pushed away from the rail, standing at his full height easily towering over her smaller frame, the normal blank stare on his face.

'Great, now what do I say?'

'You were suppose to think of that before you found him!'

Luckily Sasuke broke the tense silence, "What are you doing here?"

"What kind of question is that!? I have just as much right to be here as you!"

'Don't get angry! Control your temper, you're suppose to start your lives together not fight with him!'

Sakura took a few deep breaths and tried to turn the conversation around to the topic that she wished to discuss... them; but his interrupted her again. "Shouldn't you be with... your boyfriend?"

'Oh Sasuke...' she nearly cried hearing the sadness in his voice, she never realized how much her earlier actions hurt him. She ignored his question and moved forward, embracing him, silencing any other questions he had on that topic.

"S-Sakura... what are you doing?"

"I broke up with Kiba."

He was surprised she was so open about it in such a short period of time, he chose his words very carefully, "Why are you telling me this?" He winced hearing the harshness in his tone, he hadn't met to sound uncaring about it.

When she began to pull away his arms immediately encircled her waist, preventing her from fully leaving his side. "I thought you had a right to know, but I should have remembered... you don't care about what anyone does," she tried to push him away again, but again he stopped her.

He became angry at her accusations,"You're right, I don't care about what Inuzuka does. I don't care about what Dobe, Kakashi, or evey the damn Hokage does!" he began to get louder the longer he talked, "The only people I care about are Orochimaru and Kabuto and where they are so I can stop them!"

He pulled her as close as physically possible (with clothes on) and moved one of his hands off her waist to the back of her neck, tilting her head up so she was looking straight into his onyx eyes. She could feel her heart beating in her ears, it was so loud she was surprised he didn't hear it. 'Is he going to kiss me?' But another thought crossed her mind at his previous statement, "Are you going to leave again? You know Lady Tsunade will not allow it... unless you become a rouge again," tears began running down her cheeks at the thought.

"I don't care what happens to me... but I won't let him take you."

"Sasuke-kun?"

He cut her off when he crushed his lips to hers in a passionately breath taking kiss. She welcomed his advances with open arms, seeing as how she didn't have to worry about a boyfriend finding out; so she relaxed in his arms. When the need for air became to much they pulled apart, but they didn't separtate.

"Have you thought about our talk last night?" he smirked, kissing her forehead.

"It wasn't really a discussion remember, it was a demand," she gave him a half hearted glare, burying her face into his chest, trying to hide her smile. "And I told you... my mother will never allow it. And my father will kill you."

"Well, we'll just have to change their minds then won't we?"

She lightly smacked his shoulder, "Sasuke... you have a lot of kissing up to do. And I think we should take it slow, people will talk if they see us together a day after I broke up with Kiba."

"Sakura... people are going to talk with just you being with me; can you handle that?"

She thought about it for a few minutes, then nodded her head like a bobble head doll with a smile, "I love you Sasuke-kun."

"I love you too...Sakura-chan."

Note: Okay that's it! It's finished! I'm so glad I got it done before I start skool in two weeks. So how was it? This was my logest story yet! And I'm just letting you know I will be doing a sequel... sort of, it won't be like this long though. It will be a bunch of short stories about Sasuke and Sakura getting married and having the kids and a few other things. A bunch of little stories in one big one, hope that's not confusing. And I'd like to make another announcement! I will be making a few short stories that will be squels to 'Teenagers are DEFINATELY worse than toddlers' Shiori and Setsumi will be going through the rest of their teenage years and adulthood. So I hope every one will be happy. I'll try to work on both topics and get chapters out soon! Thank you for staying with me for all this time and I hope you continue your support.

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