This is my first fanfiction that I ever dared to publish here and this is my very first SasuSaku fanfic, ever. I'm not even sure if there's anyone that is going to read this fanfic haha.

You may notice that there's going to be a lot of grammatical and spelling errors as you proceed to the story. English is not my main language and I barely even speak English.

I also apologize if the words are repetitive and just pure basic english.

Sasuke might be OOC in this story as well. I really hope it doesn't thoI never really got attached to SasuSaku before.

I even used to hate SasuSaku and more to NaruSaku. But now? Yeah, things happened ;)

Disclaimer: I don't own naruto.

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There they are.

Sakura could feel their chakra even though it's already weakened.

Are they still fighting? She thought in her head. But she realized that their chakra are not moving anywhere. Are they dead? Or at least one of them? But she definitely can feel their chakra, both of them, so that's obviously not the case. They probably exhaust themselves and just lay down, fighting with words, bickering at each other complaining about who's winning and losing.

Yes, that's probably it.

She arrived along with Kakashi that she carried as they went all the way to the Valley of the End, she saw them, lay down with each of their dominant hand blown off. And they're bleeding, a lot.

The pink haired medic turned her head to Kakashi who turned his head to see her as well, giving her a short nod. She then removed Kakashi's hand from her shoulders and jumped off the cliff, rushed to her teammates. Her hands glows as she reached their amputed hands to stop the bleeding.

Naruto's signature smile beamed and she saw Sakura happily, thanked her. "Thank you, Sakura-chan!"

The other guy, however, looked at her with an obvious hint of sadness in his eyes as he spoke to the medic, "Sakura, never mind me-"

"Don't. I need to concentrate." She said in a serious tone.

She concentrated her chakra to stop the bleeding. It's badly wounded and they lost a lot of blood that it's actually scary to her. If she came much longer, they could probably just die the second she had just arrived. They seemed so helpless that they looked like they're ready to die right now.

Their rivalry is a complete idiocy. They almost killed themselves. Their bodies are full with scratches and bruises. Sasuke puts her on a genjutsu so that she can't interrupt their fighting. Because, what? Just like their fight on the hospital when they were still a genin? Because she can stop them?

It pained her heart to see them like this.

"I'm sorry..." Sasuke suddenly spoke to her.

Sakura tensed a little bit. Those words caught her off guard, but she relaxed again and keep on concentrating. Who would've thought Uchiha Sasuke, the cold, heartless avenger bastard could say sorry?

"Sorry? For what?" She asked.

The raven haired man stares at her with guilt, while the pinkette just kept focusing her eyes at the fatal wound that both of her teammates had. She could feel Sasuke kept staring at her.

And then, the Uchiha opened his mouth.

"For everything up until now."

Damn that Uchiha.

Her body started to tremble. "You should be." She spoke as tears rolls down to her cheek. "Really... You..."

Naruto keep smiling as he saw his beloved pink haired teammate kept crying as a sign of relief, realizing that the love of her life ever since she's still a kid who had been stuck in the darkness, now came back to them.

They keep believing on him, believing that he will come back someday. They keep on trying no matter how many people said that they are crazy because they still want him to be back, knowing at how his condition was at that time. They keep on trying, trying, and trying.

With all of the effort they tried to bring him back to Konoha, he's finally back.

"Shannaro... You idiot..."

From far away Kakashi smiled gently behind his mask.

They're Team 7 again.

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"Ugh, why can't I eat ramen, Sakura-chan? The food here sucks, it tastes bland 'ttebayo. Are they even food at all?" The blond haired ninja whined at Sakura as she tends all of his wounds and changing his bandages.

"You're still sick, that's the final!" She demanded, "besides, ramen is bad for your health!"

"But-"

"Shut up, dobe. You're way too loud."

Naruto glares at Sasuke who keep reading the book that Sakura gave him in case he and Naruto get bored. But in fact, Naruto didn't even touch the book because he plainly doesn't like reading.

"Sasuke, you must agree with me! We need to get out of this hospital right now- Ouch!"

Sakura punched his head.

"Shut up, Naruto!"

"That hurts, Sakura-chan! Don't use your monstrous strength on me!"

"I don't even use them, you idiot! I know how to control my chakra!" She then turns to Sasuke with a slight blush on her cheek, "It's time for you to change your bandage as well. Take off your clothes."

He hesitated for a while, but nods anyway.

"Oh! I see you're hesitating, Sasuke! Did Sakura make you feel-"

Getting angry, Sakura grabs the book that Sasuke held and throws it at Naruto, straight to the head, making him freeze in shock. "Shut up or I'll punch you again and this time, I'll use my monstrous strength!"

Sakura then turns to Sasuke again.

Surprisingly, she also punched Sasuke's head.

"And you, as well." She said, getting angry. "Don't go out just like that! If I didn't see you at the right time, I could probably saw you already laying dead on the hospital garden."

The raven haired boy turned away from her and sighed, "I... just wanted to go out and take some fresh air, Sakura. Besides, I'm a ninja. I can basically take care of myself.

"Yeah, yeah. Whatever you say. Still, standing on the edge of hospital rooftop doesn't count as just taking some fresh air, Sasuke-kun." She said with a worried expression on her face, "I know you don't like hospitals, but please bear it just a while until you fully recover, alright?"

It's been two days after Naruto and Sasuke stayed at the hospital. Sakura became their "personal" medic ever since they came back to Konoha.

Well, not that personal, actually.

She actually had shifts of taking care of the other patients as well. And when she's done or when there's someone that took her role, she would visit them and take care of them. Sakura is the only medic that took care of both of them. It's basically what Naruto asked. He said he doesn't want anyone but Sakura to look after them and Sasuke just said "do whatever you want." Despite her busy schedule, she accepted Naruto's wish anyways.

Naruto also noticed that some medics are actually scared of the Uchiha, still. That's why he asked Sakura to be their "personal" medic.

And then, about an hour ago, Sakura went away from Naruto and Sasuke's room just to check on the other patient for a while. When she came back, Sasuke is not on his bed and Naruto was with Hinata, who came to visit him. Naruto then told her that he's going to take some fresh air outside.

She immediately thought that the Uchiha survivor went to the rooftop because she knew he's not going to go out and walking around at the hospital garden. The rooftop is also the only place that not many people went to, so she went to the rooftop right away.

Thankfully, she's right. But the bad news is, he's standing on the edge of the rooftop. Which basically, standing on the fences of the rooftop.

As soon as she found him there, she screamed at him and ordered him to get off the fence. To her surprise, he actually wore a shocked expression when she caught him. It's like a small five year old boy got caught for stealing candies. He got off from the fence and just stood still as Sakura nags him. They soon got back to the patient room.

"I swear I'll be hiring some ANBU to watch this damn room twenty-four seven if this happens again," Sakura said as she massaged her temple out of frustration.

Sasuke's mismatched eyes looked down, "...I'm sorry."

He apologized? Again? This is the second time he apologized to her, and it just feels... weird. What happened to the old cool and mighty Uchiha Sasuke? The guy who doesn't want his proud got taken down just because of saying sorry?

Sakura shook her head and said, "let's just change your bandages."

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"Hello, boys!" Sakura called to both of her now recovering teammates.

This is the third day. Naruto almost fully recovered soon as he was helped by Kurama. His wounds start to disappear, his chakra recovered very quickly, as expected the Uzumaki clan and a complete jinchuriki. Tomorrow might be his last day at the hospital.

Sasuke, on the other hand, still recovering, slowly. He's not even nearing half recovered from his last battle with Naruto. His wounds are visible, still. Whenever Sakura checks up on him, his chakra sometimes just decreasing, making Sakura worried about him. Just like right now.

"Did you sleep well, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asks him. "Your chakra is not recovering well."

Sasuke just stayed silent and Sakura took that as a no. Sakura sighed, not sure what to do. The best medicine to any kind of diseases is a good sleep, it helps recovery much better than any other treatment.

"Is it because I'm snoring or what?" Naruto asked, starting to worry about Sasuke as well.

"Yes. You snored. So loud that I couldn't even sleep."

Both of them then starts bickering at each other, arguing. One is complaining endlessly and the other one is just simply saying one to three words at a time, meanwhile Sakura was just standing there, still worrying over Sasuke.

What Sasuke said was a lieㅡmore like a half-lie, though. Last night, Sakura went back to their room before she went home because she had forgotten that she left her bag there. Naruto did snore last night, but his snore was not even loud. It was a really soft snore. And it made her wonder, is it because she entered the room, woke him up and he simply can't sleep well right after that?

"Sakura." Her mind snapped to reality as she heard the raven haired man called her. She must've been staring at him. He then said, "I'm fine."

"No, you're not. You must be awaken when I entered the room. I'm sorry, Sasuke-kun."

"That's not it. I just couldn't get any sleep. That's all."

"So you're lying about me snoring aloud?! You bastard!"

Ignoring his fox friend, Sasuke kept staring at Sakura who stares back with a full worried expression on her face. They kept staring at each other's eyes until Sakura finally realized that she had been way too worried. Blushed madly, she looked away from him. Naruto stopped talking as well.

Silence.

"W-well... there's this thing called sleeping pills in case it could help you sleep. You want some?" Sakura offered.

He just silently nods and Sakura went to her bag to find the sleeping pills she mentioned. Once she found the pills, she handed it to him and gave him a glass of water. He took the pills and drank the water that Sakura offered.

"The effect should take over about ten minutes or so." Sakura smiled softly at him, "I'm going to take Naruto off to a walk so you can sleep without anyone bothering you."

"Eh? Me?" Naruto looked at his female teammate questioningly.

Sakura nods. Her soft hand grabbed Naruto's rough, strong left hand. "Let's go. I also wanted to talk some things with you."

"Sakura-chan is asking me for a date, eh? Look, Sasuke! She's not even interested at you anymore, she asked me-"

He didn't finish what he said as he saw Sasuke's mismatched obsidian and purple eyes shot a scary glare at Naruto with an annoyed look showed completely on his face as if saying, "shut your mouth, dumbass."

Sakura nervously laughed as she dragged Naruto towards the door. "See? You're disturbing him now. Let's go, before there's another clash between the two of you. I'm pretty sure you don't want your other hand got blown off again, right?"

"R-right... Sorry." Naruto's hand firmly held on Sakura's hand as he said, "Let's go."

They then walked away, letting Sasuke all alone in the room.

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Both of them sat on a bench together in the hospital garden. It's really refreshing to sit down. Sakura had been a little bit busier with taking care of Naruto, Sasuke, and the other patients after the war is over, she rarely had any time to sit down and just relax herself in a garden like this.

"So... what do you want to talk about?" Naruto started to spoke.

Sakura smiled. "Um... Well, I don't think I had thanked you properly, Naruto."

"Thank me? For what?"

"For protecting me. For finishing the war. For making me believe in Sasuke again. And most importantly," her emerald eyes met Naruto's sapphire eyes, "for taking Sasuke back. You kept your promise."

Naruto rubbed his nose, giving her the signature smile he has. He then tell her what happened right after Sasuke put her on a genjutsu onwards.

"Is he... going to be the same person before he left us?" Sakura looked at Naruto, and Naruto just sighed and scratched his neck, "I'm not sure... But I think, he's going to be different."

"Different?"

"Yes. Different, but better."

Sakura looked down to her feet, "I hope so..."

"Now that he came back to us. Take every single chance you have to be with him, Sakura-chan! Try to be super close to him and confess to him again, I think he's going to accept you now."

The pinkette blushed, "w-what?!"

The blonde stared at her, confused at her reaction. "Why not? You used to fangirl at him like crazy!"

"Well... you know how Sasuke-kun is." She muttered under her breath, "he doesn't like it when anyone is being too close to him. Now that he came back, I want to respect him more so he can feel much better after coming back. And I'm not the same twelve years old annoying Sakura, you know!"

"Uh... yeah. You might be right."

Naruto smiled at her. "Well, no matter what happened, I really wish the both of you for the best! He's like my brother, ya know... even though he's still my rival." He muttered. "But still! He's like a brother to me, and you're like my sister, Sakura-chan. Your happiness and Sasuke's are the most important to me! Kakashi-sensei's and Sai's, too!"

Sakura smiled softly at her teammate.

Sister, huh? She thinks. He never had a real family, but this proved that family is not just bonded by blood. These bonds can be in any shape.

She started to feel her eyes got watery. A single tear left her right eye but she soon brushed it off with her thumb. She then hugged Naruto tightly.

"Thank you, Naruto. I mean it. You're the best brother I've ever had."

Naruto chuckled and hugged her back. They shared a moment. It feels nice, until she felt him twitch uncomfortably and said, "S-Sakura-chan! You're squeezing me!"

"Ah- I'm sorry!"

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Bromance NaruSaku is the best. I love at how both of them understanding each other like that.

Don't ask me why there's not enough SasuSaku moment.

Well this is the first chapter and it's a slow burn. be patient, alright? *winks*