We'll be there for you… Chapter 26, a naruto fanfic

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Sorry for the long wait, lots of drama in my life during the last months. Anyway, now everything is behind me and here is my final chapter. I better warn you, it's long, very long. I was debating whether I should split it in two chapters or one, but since I had told you this was the final chapter I decided to give it to you anyway. So I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did writing it.

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Chapter twenty-six – Forever and after

It was dark but not too dark to see. The sun was on the verge of setting and the sky was turning an amazing tinge of red and pink. It was gorgeous, but not enough for her to acknowledge it. She was in deep thoughts and have been like this for the whole week since his declaration and disappearance. Where he was, was a mystery to her. He had vanished, but not out of the village. No one had come to tell her and no high alert had been raise. Yes. He was still here, somewhere, but yet, far away from her. And who could blame him? Sitting on the dock that was overlooking a little small pond near the Uchiha shrine, the morose pink haired girl looks at the deep water with sadness as her legs, submerged in the water, begin to do circles.

'What's wrong with me? All my life, I've been waiting for him to tell me those things. For four years now, I've been looking for his attention, his affection. And now that it finally happens, I run away. What he said was true, he didn't lie to me. I'm sure of that. Why can't I forget the past? No… That's not it. I can't forgive him. That is the problem.' thought depressingly the girl as she moves her feet in the deep water of the pound, 'And why? Why does it block me? Honestly, I know deep down that my heart still beat for him. My entire being is calling for him. But there's this little voice in my head that keeps telling me to run away, to fear him. But… I… Love him… so… much… I love him. I LOVE HIM GOD DAMMIT!'

"Enough is enough. I won't be miserable for the rest of my life." said Sakura as she jumps on her feet and put her high heels sandals back.

Taking a deep breath, the girl ran over the little cliff that was protecting the pond and continues toward the Hokage tower where, not too far away, Naruto and Sasuke had their apartment. As she climb the stairs two steps at the time, the girl stop in front of the dark-haired boy's apartment to regain her breath and knock on the door firmly. After a few seconds of waiting and since she was still receiving no answers, the pink haired girl threw her chakra through the door and scan the apartment for the boy's chakra. There was none.

"He's not there… Damn. Oh! Maybe he went to see Naruto!" said the girl as she turns to her left and ran the few meters that were separating the two apartments.

As she reached the door, Sakura barged on it with force and insistence, but still, the idiot wasn't showing up.

"Naruto? You're there?" asked the girl through the door.

Still receiving no answer, the girl scans his apartment to find his chakra. But he wasn't there.

"Okay let's see. At this hour, the boys won't be doing community services and it would be too late to continue training. That mean they're probably eating." thought aloud the girl when a realisation hit her, "Ichiraku!"

Running again toward the infamous favourite restaurant of the Uzumaki, Sakura burst through the panel and look frantically around as everyone that was inside turn to look at her. Suddenly, on one of the four stools, she spots Naruto sitting with his food halfway toward his mouth looking at her like she had grows six head in the last-minute.

"Naruto." said the girl while releasing the breath she didn't know she was holding.

"Sakura." replied the blond-haired boy on the same tone as he puts back his food in the bowl with his sticks.

"Naruto. Do you know where I could find Sasuke? I haven't saw him all week and when I went to his apartment, no one answered. I thought that maybe you would know…" begin to say the girl as everyone went back to their routine.

"Hummm…" begin nervously the boy as he tried to form a coherent sentence in his head, "Sakura, Sasuke's not there anymore."

"What do you mean?" asked the pink haired girl, not understanding him.

"He…" said Naruto as he stops himself from continuing.

"Naruto?" insisted the girl as she sits next to him, now worried.

"He went back to jail." blurted the blond-haired boy as he turns around to look at the girl.

"What? Why? Did he do something?" asked Sakura now panicking.

"No, he just walk back to jail and didn't get out since then." answered the young Uzumaki as his eyes cast down.

"I don't understand…" replied the medic with confused eyes.

"Me neither and he doesn't want visitors. I can't go talk to him. I wonder what happened for him to act like this. It's so unlike him." explained Naruto as he looks sadly in his bowl of ramen.

"…"

"It may have something to do with me…" confessed Sakura with shame as she turns around and look at Ayame that was mixing soup in front of her.

"What?" asked calmly Naruto.

"I… We had a rough discussion last week, after the party." answered the girl with sadness.

After a long silence, the blond haired boy look at the pink haired girl with understanding eyes as he puts one of his hands on her shoulder.

"I see." said the boy as Sakura turn around and hug him tight.

Surprised, Naruto didn't move at first, but when the tears begin to fall, he engulfs her into a tight embrace. After two or three minutes of comforting her, the boy releases his grasp on her and looks at her with an encouraging smile.

"I'm sure everything will be okay." said Naruto with confidence.

"I-I'll try something and see what I can do about it…" replied Sakura as she tried to recompose herself.

"Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea Sakura. After all, we didn't fight that hard for him for nothing." spoke calmly the boy.

"Yes, I know." said the girl as she dry the remaining tears out of her eyes.

Later

Pushing a stack of papers away, the Gondaime took a deep breath and throw her legs on the table. This war was anything but calm. In addition to the reconstruction of the village and all the diplomatic stuff she had to do for the elders of the village that have been humiliate during the war, Tsunade was submerge with requests of villagers and workers that needed ninja escorts to travel in between the five great nations. After the war, many thieves and bandits had took the weaken security as an opportunity to commit crimes and since then, fear had spread among the villages like wild-fire. And despise all her work and the help of Kakashi to clean the bureaucratic papers and procedure, her desk was still exploding with work to do. Stretching her back and putting back her legs on the floor, the Hokage open her drawer and took a small bottle out of it. Opening it, the woman took a small cup in the same drawer and pours some liquid out of the bottle in her cup.

"Ha… Sake… Nothing's better to help work faster." stated Tsunade as she took a large sip of her cherished liquid.

Suddenly, a knock on the door was heard.

"It's open." spoke louder the woman before putting the cup on the desk.

"Shishou?" asked the pink haired girl as she open the door.

"Ha, Sakura! Come in." greeted the Hokage as she glance at her apprentice.

As her eyes lay on her, Tsunade was stupefied by the look of Sakura. She seems so tired and worried.

"What's troubling you?" asked the blond-haired woman with worry.

"May I get a permission for visiting Sasuke in jail?" immediately replied the girl.

"Huh!"

"…"

"You don't need permission to…" begin Tsunade with a small smile.

"Sasuke refuse to see his visitors." interrupted Sakura with sadness.

"Oh… I see. Hummm… well yes." replied the Gondaime as she write something on a piece of paper, "Here."

"Thank you." thanked the girl as she turns around and walk toward the door.

"But don't stay to long there, it's dangerous for women." advised the blond-haired woman.

"Yes." replied Sakura without turning around before she close the door behind her.

The next morning, at the prison

Walking through the main gate on the bridge surrounded by fire toward the guards, Sakura couldn't help but shiver. Despise the hot atmosphere and her small black shirt with long sleeves, she couldn't help but feel cold. The place was creepy; she couldn't understand why someone as Sasuke would willingly want to return to such a place. As she unconsciously replaces her black dress in nervousness, a voice made her jump in surprise.

"Stop. Who are you and what are your motives?" half yelled a man dressed up in a jonin outfit not too far away from her.

"I… humm… My name is Sakura Haruno and I am here to see the prisoner Sasuke Uchiha." stated Sakura as she reach two guards at the front gate.

"Unfortunately, Miss Haruno, Sasuke Uchiha had refuses his right to visitors." explained the second one as he glances at the beautiful girl.

"I have a special permission of the Hokage." said Sakura as she hand them the sheet.

"Oh! Okay miss you can pass." replied the first guard as he read the note.

"OPEN THE GATE!" yelled the other to another guard settled on the rampart wall.

After a few seconds, the door begins to light before disappearing and leaving another one. Once all the seals on each door had disappeared, the last door opens. A man with brown hair twice as tall as the medic showed up at the door.

"Yes?" asked the man in a deep baritone voice.

"Please escort Miss Haruno to the counting room and then to the cell 4522996." explained the first guard.

"Alright." replied the man before turning around and grabbing the girl's shoulder softly, "Please follow me."

"Y-yes." said Sakura, a bit afraid.

Walking through the open door, the guard and Sakura went to a little room on their right where another guard was sitting at a counter.

"Gor?" asked the tall man to the dark-haired man sitting behind the counter.

"Yes." replied the said man.

"This is…" begin the brown-haired man.

"Sakura Haruno." stated the pink haired girl as both men look at her.

"Yes. Here is a containing. Please fill it with your personal objects that could be considering weapons. Kunai, shuriken, scrolls, medical stuff, etc." explained Gor with a smile.

"Yes." replied Sakura as she took off all her hidden artillery.

Once she had finished, the man named Gor write her name on a tag and place it on the container before putting all her things in a locker.

"Once your visit is over, please come back to see me to get your things back." explained the dark-haired man.

"Of course. Thank you." thanked Sakura before turning back her attention to her first accompanist.

"You're welcome." replied Gor before a man appeared behind him to talk to him.

Following the tall guard through the maze that was the correctional building, Sakura tries not to pay too much attention at the many curious that were looking at her. The place was huge. The center of detention was divide in three floors; the cells were place at each side of the room, leaving the center free. Guards were doing rounds around the balconies.

"Many persons are incarcerate in Konoha." spoke the brown-haired guard, as he walks toward the stairs at the beginning of the room, "They are dispatched according to their accusations. Petty theft are placed on the first floor, the second floor is for the major crimes and the third floor for high rank criminals."

"That's interesting. But why is the middle free of any cells? Wouldn't it be more profitable?" inquired Sakura as they reached the second floor.

"The space is reserve for the intern activities. They're not locked up all day you know." answered the man before climbing the other level of stairs.

"I see." replied the pink haired girl as she followed him.

Once they reach the third floor, the girl could see the difference between the two previous floors. The security was to its greatest. They weren't playing with kids here. Walking in front of her, the tall guard she was following motioned the others that were guarding another door on their right to open it. Once it opened, Sakura and the man walk in and let the guards close and lock the door behind them.

"Follow me." spoke the brown-haired man as he walks toward the eighth cell.

"All right." replied the pink haired girl as she did as told.

Stopping in front of it, the guard took a huge key out of his pocket and unlocks the door. After entering the dark corridor, the man closed the door behind them and walks toward one last door.

"Once I open this door, you are free to visit the prisoner Sasuke Uchiha. If anything goes wrong or if you need help just call me. My name is Murian." explained the tall man

"Alright. Thank you." replied the pink haired girl, a bit nervous.

Taking a deep breath, Sakura watch the guard open the door and then walk inside the dark room. As the door close behind her with great sound, the pink haired girl almost regrets to have come. It was such a stressful moment. Walking toward the source of light that was emanating from a window at the end of a corridor, the medic stops in front of the open room. Sasuke was there sleeping on what looks like a mattress on the floor, his back facing her.

"What do you want?" grunted the boy with an irritated voice.

"Hummm… Talk to you." spoke Sakura with an unsure voice.

Upon hearing her voice, the dark haired boy sat himself on his bed and quickly turned around to look at the girl with calm eyes.

"What are you doing here? I said I didn't want visitors…" stated the Uchiha, surprised by her presence.

"I ask Tsunade to give me a permission." explained the pink haired girl with a small smile.

"Hn." grunted back the boy.

As Sasuke push his legs over the edge of his mattress and sit, Sakura bit her lower lip in apprehension. This meeting wouldn't be easy. He was angry. Despise his calm demeanour; she could sense his dark aura everywhere. He wasn't in the mood to talk. But she had to do something whether he liked it or not.

"Why are you in jail Sasuke?" asked Sakura.

"I'm a traitor to this nation, that's where I belong." answered without flinching the boy.

"You were freed last week under specifics conditions that you were willing to obey unless you wish to send the person who vouch for you in." replied the girl as she tried to reason with him.

"Don't worry; you won't get send in jail. I refuse my rights to get a conditional liberation, I'd rather finish my sentence here." explained the dark-haired boy as he cross his arms over his chest.

"Why are you doing this? After everything we did for you?" asked Sakura, sensing her anger growing.

"I don't have the desire to live anymore." answered Sasuke without any emotion.

"What?" replied in disbelief Sakura as a surprised expression grace her face.

"I'd rather not disturbed anyone with my presence. I'll complete my sentence and quit this village after that." explained a little more the boy as his eyes lay on her.

"…"

"How could you…" stated the girl with a sad tone.

Trying to calm down, the pink haired girl try to remain unaffected by his words and tried to remind herself of the reasons that had brought her here.

"If that have to do with our discussion of the other day…" begin Sakura trying to explain herself.

"If you don't have anything else to say, you can leave." interrupted Sasuke as he stands up and turn around to look through the window.

"You're such a jerk." blurted the pink haired girl as her temper explodes, "It has something to do with that isn't it? Just because I told you I wasn't ready yet you think…"

"I think nothing…" replied Sasuke as he turns back toward her with anger, exposing a flash of his sharingan before the seal conceal it again.

He was testing it. Afraid, Sakura back away a little and look at the boy with disbelief, before he looks elsewhere to calm down. After a moment that seems like an eternity, he sits back on the bed and look at her straight in the eyes.

"I think nothing and you are nothing to me." stated cruelly the boy.

At this, the pink haired girl stops breathing and look at the boy with incredulous eyes. Something was off with him. It wasn't like him to get so hot and cold and to have such a blazing anger. Suddenly, the medic in her took the place, leaving all the emotional part behind.

"How are you feeling Sasuke?" asked the pink haired girl with aggravating eyes.

"What?" replied the Uchiha with annoyance.

"How are you feeling?" insisted the girl.

"It's none of your business." answered the boy stressful as his eyes look elsewhere.

"Answer me." ordered the girl, now suspicious.

"Fine." replied the dark-haired boy not moving.

"Really?" inquired Sakura as she approaches him.

"Stop it with your annoying questions." ordered Sasuke, his angry eyes now on her.

"Why?" continued the young medic, not impressed by his intimidation.

"I thought by now you would get the message." said the boy, a mischievous smile on his face.

"I'm a bad listener." replied the girl, a smirk on her face.

"Tch. Look, I don't have the desire to do anything with you anymore. We don't know each other and we never did. You were right after all. Now just go away and leave me alone…annoying weakling." said the Uchiha with venom.

"I'm not leaving until I get answers." insisted Sakura.

BANG!

For a split second, time had stopped, before the storm erupted. He had been so quick that even Sakura was surprised he could be so fast even chakra sealed. He was two inches away from her, firmly holding her throat with his left hand, but not squeezing, and his right fist was firmly planted in the rock wall on the right side of her face. His fist wasn't chakra enhanced, but all his emotions and might had been in it. Cracks could be seen on the rock and it must have been hurtful, because his hand was bleeding profusely. He must have broken it, that idiot.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE!" yelled Sasuke in pure fury as the blazing sharingan bored hole in her face.

Sakura, was no idiot, he was trying to break the seal with his fluctuation of chakra to attack her fully. It was only a matter of seconds before the black symbols of the seal that were embedding on his temples would disappear and that the demon in him would be free. And she was at his mercy. Suddenly, the door opened, revealing the outrageously tall man staring at the duo with questioning eyes.

"What is going on here?" asked Murian with a dumbfounded look on his face.

"Nothing," answered the dark-haired boy as he pries himself off of the girl and immediately calm down.

"Miss Haruno?" asked again Murian.

"Nothing…" added the girl with a trembling voice as she tried to hide the tears that were threatening to fall down.

"Is your meeting over?" asked again the tall man.

"Yes. I'm coming." replied the girl as she dry her un-fallen tears.

Once the man leave the room, Sakura sighed and turn around to leave, as Sasuke look at her retreating form with anxiety.

"Thank you. I have my answer." whispered the girl before leaving the place with a shaky stance.

By passing the guard, Sakura wait for him to open the second door and to close it before letting go of the breath she was holding.

"Are you alright?" asked Murian with worry.

"Yes. But I have something ask?" replied Sakura as she massaged her swollen throat.

"What is it?" inquired again the man.

"Who's responsible to take care of Sasuke in detention?" asked the girl.

"Me, why?" replied the tall man, not understanding where she was going with this.

"Is he taking his medication correctly?" asked again the girl getting angry.

"What do you mean?" said the man in incomprehension.

"The pills Tsunade has given him after the war. Is he taking them?" spoke Sakura with anger.

"Oh! I can't tell you. Depending of the shift, it's a different person who administrates them. But I could show you his file. I haven't got time to check it out since we brought him back." finally answered the man as he scratches his neck nervously.

"Yes I'd like to see that." said the pink haired girl, calming down.

"Alright follow me." replied Murian as he walks away from her.

As she follows the man down the stairs toward the main office, Murian turn abruptly on his left just as they were reaching the office and open a door. Behind it, there was a stair that leads in the basement. Entering, the stair case, Sakura begins to go downstairs while the man closes the door behind them. By passing, the girl, the man reaches the bottom and turn to his right. There was a long corridor that leads toward the infirmary. As they reach the end of the corridor, both ninja entered the infirmary and greeted the nurse and doctor that were there.

"Ha! Murian! Long time no see, how is it … Oh! But you came with someone and I know this someone. Hello Miss Haruno, how are you?" asked the man as he reaches for her hand.

"Fine Dr. Sung and you?" replied the girl with a smile as she shakes his hand.

"Great! What are you doing here?" inquired again the man.

"I would like to see one of the prisoner's file." answered nervously the pink haired girl.

"Of course, who is it?" spoke the Dr. Sung.

"Sasuke Uchiha." answered Murian in a serious tone.

"Alright. Hold on." replied the man as he throws his right hand in the air.

Taking the cue, the nurse that was working with the doctor ran at the end of the office and enters in a room. Two minutes later, the woman emerged from it with a file in hand and gave it to the doctor.

"Here it is." said the man as he hand it over to the girl.

"Thank you." replied Sakura as she took hold of the precious file.

"Would it be possible for you to accommodate Miss Haruno Dr Sung? I have things to do that need my immediate attention." spoke Murian as he glances at his watch.

"Alright. Miss Haruno, please feel free to use one of our desk." replied the doctor as he point at a series of desks in a room filled with books and scrolls.

"Thank you. And thanks to you too Murian. I'll give you my instructions later." said the pink haired medic with a smile.

"Alright." replied the tall man with small smile.

As the man quit and that both the doctor and the nurse were resuming their normal activities, Sakura walks in the office and took a place at an empty desk in the back. Opening the shinning white file with careful moves, Sakura took a deep breath and begin to read its content. On the first page, Sakura spot the descriptive.

Name: Uchiha Sasuke

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Accusation: Accused of desertion, creation of two criminal organisations, affiliation with Orochimaru and his organisation, affiliation with missing ninja Karin, affiliation with missing ninja Suigetsu, affiliation with missing ninja Juggo, affiliation with a criminal organisation called Hebi, affiliation with a criminal organisation called Haka, affiliation with a criminal organisation called Akatsuki, affiliation with Madara Uchiha, invasion of a neutral country, attempt to kill the Raikage, attempt to kill the Hokage, attempt to kill the Tsuchikage, attempt to kill the Mizukage, attempt to kill the Kazekage, attempt to kill Killerbee, the eight tailed jinchuriki, murdering one of Konoha's elder, attempt of killing Naruto Uzumaki, the nine tailed jinchuriki, attempt to kill Sakura Haruno and conspiracy against Konoha.

Sentence: One year of detention, chakra sealing jutsu and a probation of 3 years. We will divided the probation in three phases and the first one could start before the end of the first year in detention, if the behaviour of the accused is acceptable. The first phase will consist, for the accused, of being forbidden to do any missions for the first year and will include two thousands hours of community services. The second phase, during the second year, will consist of an extra fifth hundred hours of community services, but we will allow C or D rank missions. His chakra will also be reactivated during this period. Finally, during the third year, we will allow the accused to partake into every kind of missions, but under supervision. During those approximate four years, the accused will be monitor by anbus squads and will be under Sakura Haruno's charge. The sentence will be taken in charge by her if the accused refuse to do them. But if she doesn't kill the accused first, we will add an extra three thousands hours of community services to this sentence to repay the fault against Sakura Haruno. We will also seal the sharingan for two years.

Medication: Reference in the annex 432.A

Notes:

May 29th: Subject had been freed from his incarceration on May 29th and delivered to lord Kakashi Hatake by the anbu forces at 6 am to do his hours of community services.

June 18th: Subject had renounced to his conditional liberation and had accepted his re-incarceration again until the end of his sentence.

Intern schedule

June 18th:

Subject take the first dose of medication