Hehe. Hi. Umm… So here's chapter 3? :) I added a little more to the last chapter for people who have already read it and were waiting for the update… If you're reading this for the first time, then you didn't miss out on a thing.

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As soon as Naruto was out of sight, Sakura turned to Sasuke. "Can I go home now?" she asked.

"Hn. He'll be back soon enough. So I wouldn't if I were you, that is, unless you want to get dragged back here," Sasuke shrugged and started to walk someplace.

"Right," she mumbled to herself and followed Sasuke.

Sasuke and Sakura had been wandering aimlessly, for almost twenty minutes, in silence. It wasn't an awkward silence, but it was starting to bug them.

"So, what's all changed while I was… Away?" Sakura asked trying to break the silence.

Sasuke looked at her with a blank expression that turned questionable.

"What? I was gone for like, ever, so I wanna know what's changed!"

"Hn. If you really want to know all that's changed, you'd better talk to someone like Ino," he said with no explanation.

"Why?" Sakura wanted her explanation.

"Because."

"Why?"

"Because."

"Why?"

"Will you shut up?"

"Not until you tell me why."

Sasuke sighed in defeat of the kunoichi.

"Yay! I just won!" Sakura started to dance a strange jig-like dance that wasn't bad at all, but wasn't the best. This caught some people's attention, and although Sakura didn't really care, Sasuke did.

"Hn."

Sakura glared at him and stopped dead in her tracks.

Sasuke noticed she stopped and stopped himself, as he eyed her carefully.

"What?" he asked.

"You know what. Don't play stupid with me," she growled at him.

"Oh. I'm sorry," Sasuke spoke sarcastically. "I can't really tell you anything cause I wasn't here myself, stupid."

Sakura glared at him hearing his sarcasm, but as his words finally registered through her brain, her expression changed.

"Really now?" she smirked. "How come? When'd you leave? When'd you come back?"

Sasuke sighed. This is exactly why he didn't want to tell her. Questions. He liked to ask them, but it was a pain in the butt to answer them.

"Come on," he motioned, starting to walk once again. "I'm not going to say a word until we're away from people."

Sakura smiled to herself and followed Sasuke.

"Hey, Hinata?" Naruto began to bug his girlfriend.

"Yes Naruto-kun?"

"Have you seen Sasuke and Sakura? I think I lost them." Naruto was becoming a bit frantic as he looked all around him for his teammates.

"No, I haven't. But don't worry, they're still here. I can feel it. Can't you, Naruto-kun?" she answered with a smile.

Naruto looked down at Hinata with a smile on his face, and bent down so that he was eye level with her.

"Right," he said, giving her a kiss that could have lasted forever.

Sakura had followed Sasuke away from people. By away from people, I mean all the way to the back garden of the Uchiha mansion. It wasn't all that far away from the festival, so if they needed to they could be there in about a minute.

Sakura was looking around her at all the amazing things in the garden. Too bad majority of all the plants were dead. Ino would throw a fit if she saw all of the dead flowers and bushes, being that she was the daughter of flower shop owners.

Sasuke stopped walking and just stood with his back to Sakura, who was still looking around, not too far from Sasuke, and tripped over some sort of plant, taking Sasuke down with her when she fell.

"Oops. Hehe, sorry," Sakura sweatdropped. She was too lazy to get up so she just rolled over a little and laid on her back, staring at the stars in the sky.

Sasuke just sighed, and stared at the sky as well.

Sakura turned her head to look at the boy next to her. "So why'd you leave?"

He looked at her from the corner of his eye before turning his head to look at her.

"It was maybe five or six months after you'd disappeared, during the second part of the chunin exams, when he showed up. He offered me power. Enough power to defete my brother –which I eventually did. Around two months later, he sent sound ninja to bring me back to him. But I came willingly," he started to explain.

"Who's he?" she asked him.

Sasuke looked back up to the stars before he began to speak again.

"Orochimaru. He trained me for three years. Naruto spent so much time to try to find me and bring me back to Konoha, but continued to fail. He eventually gave up. And as he's told me, he left the village with Jiraya to train. He didn't come back for two-and-a-half years."

Sakura had turned her head to look at the stars again as Sasuke spoke, but looked back at Sasuke when he'd stopped talking. He was looking at her as well.

"He hadn't given up had he?" she asked him.

"Hn. He was told that Orochimaru's lair was found, and immediately assigned himself to the mission to bring me back," he explained. Once he was done, he looked back to the sky.

"You weren't there were you?" Sakura asked, seeing that Sasuke's expression changed as he turned his head.

He grunted. "No, I wasn't."

Sakura opened her mouth to ask where he was, but he began to speak again.

"I had already killed Orochimaru. I knew from the start that he was planning to use my body once I was strong enough, so I killed him before he was able too. Kabuto along with him." He sighed. "I was looking for my brother, so that I could kill him, and avenge my family.

"After I killed Itachi, I ran into Naruto on my way to Konoha. He instantly started to scream at me to return to Konoha, but I just wacked him over the head and told him that I was already on my way there." He laughed. "You should hear how Naruto puts it."

"That off?"

"Yep."

They looked at each other and laughed.

Well, sorry it's so late! And sorry it might seem kinda short. I wanted to put something up cause it's been about a month since I've updated. I'll do my best to get chapter 4 up in the next week or so, nkay?

Please review! I'll accept flames cause I need some criticism here! I wanna know how I'm doing here!!