A/N: Sorry for the wait, guys! I've been really busy! Anyway, thank you so much for your reviews - you guys are amazing, and I'm so happy that so many of you enjoyed my fanfiction! This chapter is a lot shorter than usual, but I feel like I've pretty much wrapped things up and I don't want to keep prolonging it. :P

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"Sakura, Ino's here!" Mom called from downstairs. I was up in my room, nervously adjusting the new clothes I was wearing. They weren't anything special, not really, but when I was anxious I fidgeted a lot. It was the first day of my senior year in high school.

To tell the truth, I was a little sad that summer was over. It had been a good one, with everyone happy (especially me) that I was back. Okay, so I spent a lot of time making up work in summer school, but when I wasn't studiously trying to learn everything I had missed (it wasn't that hard, really, since I had made an effort to learn some things from Sasuke's classes) I was spending time with Ino, Shikamaru, and Sasuke.

Adjusting to everything had been harder than I thought. It wasn't until about late June when I finally felt fully healed.

"How are you feeling?" Sasuke had asked me. He always asks that whenever we see each other - it's sort of endearing and annoying at the same time. Mostly endearing.

"Really great, actually." I replied, "I think everything's in full working order now." Referring to my body.

We were walking around my neighborhood, just talking. It was something we did often when we didn't want to go into town. Suddenly, I thought of something.

"Sasuke," I said, "have you seen any spirits lately?"

He thought about it, "One," he finally said, "but they were just passing by. I don't see them when I'm around you, though. And we're together a lot."

I nodded, thinking. To my surprise, I hadn't seen any of them after I got out of my coma. I had assumed that it was a combination of my mother's closeness and exhaustion that was causing this, but even after I started getting out more and going to summer school, I still saw nothing.

In all honesty, I was both disappointed and relieved.

"I don't know what's happening," Sasuke admitted after I told him about it, "maybe you can't see them anymore. You spent a long time in that world... maybe when you came back you lost your ability to See."

I had thought of that, but had mostly been denying it, "It was a cool gift," I said without thinking, "now I'm not special anymore."

"You keep people like me from seeing them." Sasuke said quietly, "That's pretty special."

I shook my head, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that. It's just... I feel like something's been missing, like I forgot how to breath or something and never re-learned how."

"That doesn't make any sense," Sasuke smiled, teasing me, "but I understand."

I stopped abruptly, and Sasuke knocked into me a little, "What are you doing?" he asked.

Something had been nagging at me for a few weeks, something that Karin said, "Why does he even like her, anyway?" I had overheard her hissing to Ami, "It's not like they've really spent any time together, or he even sees her that much for that matter!"

I saw him everyday, I wanted to snap back, but instead I just walked away quietly. We had been at a party (someone's birthday that I can barely remember, Ino made me go), and it had been one of the only times I had seen Sasuke in the past few weeks (us walking was the other one). He had been visiting his parents in Connecticut for a few weeks while I was in summer school. For some reason, I had been anxious for him to return. What if he was seeing things again? What if he realized he loved Rin?

Of course, I banished those thoughts from my mind. Sasuke called often enough, when he wasn't out doing something with his parents or old friends, and everything seemed to be going okay.

But I digress, Karin's comment at the party had made me wonder if Sasuke still felt the same way about me. It was painful to think about, but I wouldn't blame him if he realized that he didn't love me. We had a connection, it was broken, and I would always be thankful to him. But that didn't fix the pain in my chest that I felt thinking about what I would say to him.

"What is it, Sakura?" Sasuke said, a little impatiently.

I explained to him everything I had been thinking about for the past few weeks, "I get it if you don't feel the same way," I said in a small voice, "you don't have to feel obligated to stay with me, now that we've been through so much."

Sasuke looked shocked for a few seconds, and then regained his composure, "Sakura, what are you talking about?" he said, "Of course I don't- how could you even think that?"

I shrugged, feeling stupid now, "I guess I'm just feeling insecure," I smiled wryly, "You're just so... perfect."

"You're sounding like those girls that follow me around." Sasuke smiled.

"Oh man," I said, "that's not good."

I couldn't say anything else then, because he kissed me. It was a kiss so reminiscent of the one in the hospital, that I knew I was being foolish in thinking that he didn't love me anymore. He wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me closer, deepening the kiss. We stayed like that for awhile, until it really was getting dark, and I had to get back to my house.

I spent the remaining time I had during the summer with Sasuke and my friends. In fact, everything was going so well that I shouldn't have been nervous about my first day of high school.

"Hey," Ino grinned as I climbed into her car - that hadn't changed, with all the hospital bills we had, I wouldn't be getting a car anytime soon, "you look cute."

"You got me this outfit." I reminded her. The day before Ino had shown up at my house with an armful of clothes which she immediately attacked me with. Despite my pleas, my mom and aunt (who was heading home today, too) just laughed at me. I had never been one to pay attention to clothes...

"Exactly." Ino winked, and I rolled my eyes.

Thankfully, I had friends in all of my classes. It was a bit odd, really, to be back to school with everyone else. I got a few strange looks in the hallway - I was now the girl that had just gotten out of a coma; something I wasn't sure I liked very much, but it was better than being invisible. I was also the girl who was inexplicably going out with Sasuke Uchiha too, but I didn't mind that as much.

"Hey," Sasuke smiled at me when I sat down next to him at lunch - how I've wanted to do for so long, "how are you?"

I grinned back at him, "Excellent."

Even though we were still in high school, Sasuke and I had decided that we were together for the long run (to many girls' dismay, I might add). My Sight never came back to me; Sasuke had this theory that it was because I had already "died" once, and lost my connection to that world. I still had the ability to keep Sasuke from seeing them when I was around (something that came in handy when we went to visit his parents in Connecticut, or in big cities).

It was with my help that Sasuke learned to control his power, making it so that he would only see spirits when he wanted to.

"You know," I joked to him once, "you could totally become a medium like that lady we went to."

Sasuke only looked at me like I was crazy.

I don't want to be cliche and say we lived happily ever after, but it was pretty close.