Last time on Perfect Enemy…

"You're alive. I'm so happy" Ino cried out. Akamaru had run up to Sakura and licked her hand.

"Hey Akamaru…" Sakura said as she scratched behind his ears. Everyone had moved to see Sakura. Lani, Yumi, and Kumiko had come up to see what happened.

"She did it…" Kumiko said to herself with a smile.

"Saki!" Deidara said as he went to hug her. No one really cared that they were all enemies at the moment, all that mattered was Sakura being alive. Everything that had happened seemed to be a miracle.

Far away from the others, Kiyoshi, Takehiko, and Kokoro stood and watched the scene. Sakura seemed to be the only one to notice them. Kiyoshi nodded her head as Sakura just smiled. Kiyoshi soon took Takehiko's and Kokoro's hand and began to walk away until they had disappeared.

Sakura had looked up. Everything seemed to have gotten back to normal.

'Thank you for everything…'

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It was a nice quiet afternoon, a few days after the whole incident. Orochimaru and Sound had been destroyed. Akatsuki's leader had been killed, and Sakura Haruno had found herself called into Tsunade-sama's office. She expected it was to see what to do about her traitorous actions. Surprisingly the villagers weren't calling her a traitor. I mean, she had abandoned her village for Akatsuki and Orochimaru; she had killed many people and her friends, and other stuff, and yet they still accepted her back.

Sakura had finally reached the door as her hands shook nervously while she tried to turn the door knob.

"You can do it Sakura-chan" Naruto said. He and the gang were all huddled up in the hall. Sakura nodded as she entered the room, closing the door behind her.

"T-Tsunade-sama?" Sakura called out as she looked around the room. All the window curtains were pulled down as the room was darker than it should be in the afternoon. Behind the desk, was a blue chair, with its back facing Sakura.

"Sakura…" Sakura gulped as she watched the chair turn.

"You have done many traitorous actions during the past few years, and for that, you must be punished." Tsunade growled. Tsunade had quickly got up from her seat as she made her way to 

Sakura. "You are to have a trial as everyone in Konoha watches you get the death penalty! I will be the one to drop the floor as you get hanged!" Sakura felt her blood turn cold as she heard the people from outside the room gasp.

"No Tsunade-baachan!" Naruto had barged into the room with Sasuke. "That is going overboard"

"Silence! This is my decision!" Tsunade yelled. "But then again…" Soon the curtains had gone up as sunlight filled up the room. "I could never do that to my Sakura!" Tsunade said with a smile.

"Huh?" Everyone said. You could hear some people let go of the breath they had been holding.

"I'd never let Sakura go through that process of punishment. But you will still be punished." Tsunade had taken out a scroll and hit Sakura in the head lightly with it. Sakura grabbed it and read what it said allowed.

"For your traitorous actions, you should have had the death penalty, but the Hokage was kind enough to stop it and prohibited you from being a ninja for 5 months as you will be serving community service hours. You will also have someone supervising you at all times…NANI!!" Sakura screamed.

"Sorry dear, rules are rules…" Tsunade said. "Anyways, I need you to escort a couple people out of the village. Kakashi will accompany you."

"Why me?"

"You're the one they wanted to see before they left." Tsunade said with a smile. Sakura stared at her before nodding.

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"Pinky!" Kisame said as he noticed Sakura coming up to the gate.

"Kisame…" Sakura looked to see the whole Akatsuki group with their bags. "You guys are leaving?"

"Yeah, we are still Akatsuki" Sasori said.

"Besides, we're still enemies of your village and we overstayed our welcome, yeah?" Deidara looked to see Sakura had a sad look. "It's hard on me too Saki. But maybe somehow, we can visit you or the other way around a-"Deidara soon felt himself pulled into a tight hug. By the way Sakura's shoulders shivered, she was crying.

"Don't cry Sakura-sempai!" Tobi said as he carried her into his arms and tried to rock her to sleep like you would do to a baby when they cried. Tobi soon put her down.

"It makes you look ugly" Itachi simply said as Sakura glared at him.

"I will not miss you…" Sakura said as she turned around. The others just sweat dropped. Soon Sakura's eyes widened as she felt herself being lifted up into the air. She could tell that Itachi didn't know she was joking. Itachi watched as a smile formed on Sakura's lips. "Of course I'll miss you Itachi"

"Hn…" Itachi said as he put her down. Kakashi watched the whole thing. He was amazed that Sakura could talk to them this open and friendly.

"Take care of my little brother" Itachi said. Sakura nodded.

"I will put all you guys have to promise me something" Sakura said as she stuck her two pinkies out.

"A pinky promise?" Sasori said. Sakura stared at him as he put his pinky around her. Soon the others followed.

"Repeat after me, I promise…" Sakura said.

"I promise…" They said.

"That I will not…"

"That I will not…"

"Go after..."

"Go after…"

"Naruto as long as I want Sakura Haruno to be happy"

"Naruto as long as I want Sakura Haruno to be happy…….." Sakura just smiled as the others took the moment to realize what they had just promised.

Sakura quickly pulled her pinky away. "A promise is a promise. Now you guys can never break it"

Everyone looked at each other before looking at Kisame and Itachi. It was their duty to catch the Kyuubi.

"A promise is a promise…" Itachi said. "Let's go" With that Akatsuki had walked out of the village as the gates closed.

"Goodbye…" Sakura whispered as she wiped her tears away.

"You okay Sakura?" Kakashi asked as he put a hand on her shoulder.

"Yes, everything is fine" Sakura said with a smile.

"It's good to have you back. Everyone missed you so much" Kakashi told her as the two began to walk around. He had told her everything that happened while she was gone.

"I missed so much. I'm so sorry" Sakura said as she looked up. They were at her apartment. Sakura opened the door.

"We're the ones to be sorry. We took you for granted. We didn't know what we had until it was gone." Kakashi said. "If I could have gone back in time, I would have been there more for you. I would have been a better teacher to you. You had sought for someone else to teach you. So to apologize…" Kakashi had turned on the lights as Sakura saw the surprise in store for her.

In her living room were all her friends in Konoha and Suna as there was a large banner that said 'we love you'.

"W-What is this?"

"I told you, to apologize we had a party just for your return" Kakashi said.

"Welcome back Sakura!" Everyone cheered. Sakura put a hand to her mouth as tears of joy came.

"T-Thank you everyone!" Sakura cried as Naruto and Ino came up to her and hugged her.

"Anything for you, Sakura-chan!" Naruto said. "Anything for you"

Sasuke had slowly come up to her as he pulled her away from the party and outside.

"What's wrong Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked. It was still amazing that they had died and had come back to life.

"I was scared…" He whispered. "When I had waked up and saw your body next to me, I was scared. I felt you hand was cold as ice. I had told you I loved you, but I thought I would have never gotten a chance to prove it to you."

"S-Sasuke-kun…" Sakura whispered as she felt something hit her head. It was beginning to snow.

"I love you Sakura" Sakura began to cry as she hugged Sasuke. The snow slowly fell on them as everyone inside watched the scene.

Everything had turned out perfect in the end.

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Taa-daa! It is over! I want to thank everyone for reading my story and reviewing. It means a lot to me. I'm so proud! I finished another story. Now I just need to work on my other story, Before it's too late. Thank you again for reading this story. Please continue to read my work.

Love Kumiko