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Love him too by kacau

Surprisingly enough, he would always say he loved her.

It was actually the first thing he told her when they finally met again, circunstances different from what they'd hoped but much better than expected.

Sasuke had just killed Danzo, the man's dead body at his feet, when she entered.

Sakura's orders had been to take the root leader to interrogatory. In the craziness of Madara's attack, one of the elders, desperate and in tears, had ran into Tsunade's office in order to tell her the truth about the Uchiha massacre. The Hokage was both disgusted and relieved and her first atitude was to fill her aprentice in so the pinkette could take the right measurements as the blonde delt with the upcoming war.

"It's okay, Sasuke." Sakura had said, her heart skipping a beat as his name escaped her lips. Slowly, she neared the man, carefully not to step on the corpse. The medic took his hands, projecting waves of her chakra onto him as if for confort.

"I know." She paused, the knot in her throat groing tighter. "And I'm so, so sorry."

Their eyes met and she could tell he knew what she was talking about.

With a deep sight, he embraced her, his arms locking her against his body as Sasuke breathed her in over and over again.

"I love you."

Even in the middle of all they were gonna go through so he could belong to the village again, she couldn't help but to feel completely happy for the first time since he'd left.

He would always say he loved her, it was true. Because he'd lived so many years without being able to, because he had gone through hell and back and he deserved it. He would say he loved her because he did.

And even if he was emotionally retarted most of the times, even if he still would get into stupid arguments with Naruto, even if he could make the most romantic things seem casual, she would always love him too.

Short but sweet, I hope. Looking for a beta.