Infinitely, Definitely, and Passionately

Sasuke currently found himself tearing through the streets in hot pursuit of a certain pink haired girl and it was all thanks to that obnoxious blond who claimed to be said girl's best friend.

(Flashback)

Ino took a step towards the boy in front of her. Taking a deep breath, she prepared herself to change his mind.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE?"

...Apparently she planned on doing it very loudly.

Sasuke gave no response.

"Do you have any idea what you mean to her? She's practically in LOVE with you and all you do is sit there and watch her leave?!? What is that, twice now? How many chances do you think you are going to get with her. People like Sakura don't just walk into your life on a regular basis! She spend, what, two days with you, made her way into your heart, and then you just let her walk away? Are you some kind of stupid or something?!? Just because she showed up on your doorstep once doesn't mean it will happen again. You can't count on a bizarre, legendary, storm to come in and push you two together. God, it took freaking Mother Nature for you two to find each other! Don't you know you're not supposed to defy Mother Nature?"

Ino was panting heavily now, having not taken a breath since the start of her monologue. Sasuke opened his mouth in the form of giving a reply but Ino cut him off.

"No matter, she's somewhere out there. Thinking about you, and you're an idiot if you're going to let her do it alone. She told me the whole story, Sasuke. Everything. I know that you fell in love with her too. So stop being so childish and go find her."

Sasuke didn't give an answer, verbally, that is. He just picked himself up off the examination table and walked out the door. That was all Ino needed, though. She knew where he was headed, and she knew it involved a certain best friend of hers.

(End Flashback)

So when Sasuke found the person he was searching for, he was ambivalent. She was walking on the opposite side of the road, hands in her pockets and her face turned up towards the sky. When she felt his gaze lingering on her, she ran. It took him a moment to realize she was fleeing before he started moving his own feet after hers. They must have looked crazy in the eyes of anyone else, but he didn't really care. He just had to find her.

Thirty minutes later she was out of breath and had made the wrong move, turning into a dead end alley.

"Shit, shit, shit!"

Frustrated she swung her foot out at the wall in front of her. The solidness of the brick wall and the fragility of her toes through her ballet flats was more than enough to send a wave of pain coursing through her system. Grasping her foot and hoping up and down on one foot she repeated,

"Shit, shit, shit!"

So, of course, when Sasuke found her he couldn't help but smirk. Turning to face the man she unleashed one of her patent, "Say one word and I'll kill you," looks.

No reaction. Nada. Damn, it must be because he has perfected his own death glare. She would know from being on the receiving end of it more than once. He took one step towards her, she took one step away from him. Desperately trying to maintain the homeostasis between the two of them as far as spacing went. When she attempted to move backwards a second time, the wall behind her became a major problem. She mentally cursed herself one more time for the predicament she was in. Sasuke just kept moving towards her, closing the little remaining space between them. She mentally cursed (again) him for his good looks. It would be so much easier to hate this, him, if he was ugly and repulsive. To bad he was the polar opposite of that. Finally, when he was close enough to see every minute detail of her visage, he craned his mouth down to hers. Just hovering above her own lips, the space seeming bigger than it really was. He was teasing her, taunting her. Just when she thought he was going to kiss her, he moved his lips ever so slowly to her ear.

"What's the point of running when I'm faster?"

Sakura tried to come up with a response. She really did, but his proximity was intoxicating. She couldn't think (properly, at least) with him that close to her. It was like all her sense just shut themselves off and started focusing everything on him. He took a step backwards, attempting to get a wider view of the girl. With him just a little farther away she could grace him with an answer.

"Did you ever think I ran because I didn't want you to be near me?"

Sakura was still rooted to the wall, her support. On the other hand Sasuke was pacing back and forth in front of her. Like a lawyer before a jury.

"Ah, but the girl never runs unless she wants the man to follow after."

Sakura, for some reason, felt resentment boil up to her conscious mind.

"Did you ever think you had your chance the first time?"

She spat the words with such venom that he was caught off guard.

"What?"

"I'm saying that I ran away once, Sasuke, and you didn't come after me. This isn't some crazed fan made story about how we fall in love. I was waiting for you that first time. You never came. Then I see you at the hospital where I work to give you a checkup! You didn't show your face for a month, Sasuke. One whole month I waited for you. I'm tired of waiting, Sasuke. When I ran out that door I didn't want you to follow me. Not anymore."

The words cut Sasuke like a knife running down from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet.

"What if I wanted to come after you?"

His answer was not given in a joking tone like the ones before it. He was serious. He was showing a part of him that she wasn't used to, but it didn't mean what she said wasn't true.

"What about me, Sasuke? What if it's what I want? Why did you change your mind about coming after me?"

Sasuke knew it was now or never. Time to jump.

"I never changed my mind, Sakura. I always wanted to come after you. I just wasn't able to do it before."

"What do you mean, 'not able to do it?'"

"I mean I couldn't do it, I needed a push. But I never forgot about you, I've been thinking about you this whole month. Every thought has been possessed by you. Every movement controlled by some lingering thing you said to me. Two freaking days we knew each other. Hell, I see the cashier at the grocery store more than I see you. Two days and I just can't bring myself to forget you, to think about anything else other than you."

Sakura felt paralyzed. She could hardly breathe, let alone move. Before she got her hopes up, she wanted to hear him say it. Hear what she wanted him to say so badly, what was echoing in her own heart as well.

"Sasuke, what do you mean?"

Sasuke spun around on his heel and closed the void between them one more time.

"I'm saying that I'm crazy about you, Sakura Haruno. The girl who laid down on my doorstep and crawled her way into my home, my heart. The girl who forgets things like the emergency kit and is an amazing doctor. I'm saying that I, Sasuke Uchiha, love you, Sakura Haruno. Infinitely, defiantly, and passionately."

The only response she could muster was a dumbfound stare into his pools of obsidian. Proving to her that every word he had just said was true. Sakura raised herself up and met her lips with his. Sasuke wound his arms around her waist, hers crawling up his neck to his hairline. They stayed like that for god knows how long until they broke apart. Sakura moved her lips to his ears and gave him the answer he didn't need to hear.

"I, Sakura Haruno, love you, Sasuke Uchiha, infinitely, defiantly, and passionately."

When Ino saw the two making their way back to the hospital, hand in hand, she just smirked at the two. Their silhouettes contrasting against the setting sun. She couldn't help but think...

What would these two do without me.

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