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A/N: I just had inspiration to write and well this is what happened. Hope you like this little one-shot, enjoy.

She was thought to take care of herself, to not allow anyone to take advantage of her no matter how much bigger the person was compare to her. In order to survive this cruel world you had to show that you weren't afraid of anyone or anything. She was also though to think wisely; to not get into too much trouble she couldn't handle and how to get out of a situation she didn't know how to deal with.

All in all she was a very smart five years old and her knowledge kept growing as she followed her parent's wise words. Sometimes she did way more than they hope she would but they knew she was going to be ok, she had never seem to have gotten herself too deep in anything.

It was their words she was following when she slugged him right in the nose, possibly breaking it. Uchiha Sasuke was a bully in some ways and she avoided him and his friends at all cost. But that evening as she got slushy like she usually did with her friend Hinata before the bus came to pick them up she bumped into the bully himself.

He had a slushy as well, but now it was on his shirt and shoes, his friends laughing at him in the background. "Pinky, you have to buy me a new one now before I make you my next target at school." Sakura would have if she had extra money, just to avoid the conflict, it was her fault she had knocked his drink all over him.

"I will tomorrow I don't have money to get you one now and I am Sakura not pinky." She watched as his friends laugh louder and Hinata stepped back slightly behind her feeling uncomfortable. "Oh is that so…how about this one then." He grabbed at her slushy with intension of taking it but he had ended up spilling it all over her on accident. Going with the flow of things Uchiha laughed and folded his arms to show off to his friends as if he had done something so great.

Sakura bended her head and grind her teeth to stop herself from blowing up on him, she was holding back not wanting to make this situation any worse than it already was. To everyone else it looked like she was going to cry, even Hinata thought she was going to. "C-come on S-Sakura…lets g-go." She stuttered it was out of habit when she got nervous her nerves got the bes of her and she couldn't help the way the words came spilling out her lips.

"Wow what a cry baby, cry baby pinky and stutter girl." The boy mocked them both, Sakura gently pushed Hinata's hand of her shoulder and without warning lunched herself at the boy throwing punches at his face. "I am Sakura! Not pinky! She is Hinata! Not stutter girl!" She had managed to land a good few punches at him, mostly his face, before the slushy store owner was out in the parking lot pulling her of and chasing the boys away.

She smirked when she saw blood trickled down the Uchiha's nose and the scared reaction on his friends face. They'll never mess with her again, at least she hoped that'll keep them away.

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The next day Sakura was forced to apologise to the bully with her parent's right behind her. That day changed everything, not only had his older brother commend her on a job well done in putting his brat brother in his place but her parents had hit it off with his psrents. Before she knew it she had they were joining each other for back yard barbeque parties and Sunday picnics at the park down town. Going on outings to the beach or even the movies, her parents even allowed her to sleep over at the Uchiha's after Mikoto begged for it saying she didn't have a daughter.

Then Sasuke stood over when he came to shelter one day after school at their home, the rain never subsided and her mother insisted he stayed.

Sasuke still bullied her but not like before it was more of a teasing way and just like that the two had become close friends. Even closer than she was with Hinata, they were even inseparable at school. They spent vacations with each other, family trips and even Christmas amd New Years the two families had grown a strong bond.

Sakura never knew this would happen just because of the 'slushy incident' as they called it. Now that they were friends she had somewhat gotten Sasuke to stop bulling others. He protected her from other bullies and his friends were now her friends as well. Things had defiantly changed for the best.

They sat next to each other is class, during lunch and even on the bus. She didn't know why but it was fun to hang out with him. They played the rougher games she couldn't play with Hinata and even stayed up late at night to watch horror movies. He shared his video games and when she helped her mom make snacks she shared with him.

If he stayed away from class because he was sick, she spent the evenings with him and weekends helping him with the work he missed since she was very smart. He did the same for her except he'd distract her with movies and video games instead of doing homework.

When they weren't allowed to stay together she misses him and he sneaked out to meet up with her in the Haruno's back yard. They had adventure and share secrets, and both grew together.

They had experience many of their first together, they learned to ride a bike together, drive a car, smoke, drink alcohol, get detention. You name it, they were always together, and they didn't even wait for the family get together anymore to be with each other. It was funny how they had grown on each other.

Embarrassing enough, Sasuke was the first one to even learn when Sakura had gotten her period. It happened at school and she trusted him the most to help her out. He was her shoulder to cry on and she was the person he could rely on.

Little by little the school bully she avoided became her best friend she couldn't do without.

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High School was no different for them except now feelings were involved. Sakura had always liked Sasuke differently than she had liked Itachi. While her love for Itachi was brotherly she found it gross to call Sasuke her brother, as young as she was she knew she liked him like her mother liked her father but those feeling grew with time. It was hard to tell how he felt about her, which is why she never acted on it.

So the first time she found out Sasuke was dating a girl name Karin in their freshmen years she was shattered and decided to try and forget her feeling for him by dating one of his friends Kiba.

At first she just ignored them, but being friends with them was…well it was hard to do since they were always hanging out with her. It was both annoying and heart shattering to see them kiss. She never thought she could hurt the way she did by just seeing them together. When Kiba continually flirted with her she decided to give him a try to try and forget her feelings for Sasuke.

When Sasuke had found out she was dating Kiba he had stop talking to her, she assume because it was his good friends and that was why because he was protective over her. He would also claim to know 'what kind of guy Kiba was' but Kiba was actually a good guy.

Soon after she found out he had dumped Karin saying he had feelings for another girl. She hide this in the back of her head not even wanting to acknowledge it to herself, but she hoped that girl was her. Then suddenly Karin who she use to get along with hated her.

Sakura and Kiba never lasted very long, they broke up when Kiba found out she had feelings for Sasuke. He promised to not tell anyone about her secret, which she was grateful for. Unlike Sasuke and Karin, she and Kiba broke up on good terms and remained friends. Sasuke didn't like this but she didn't care what he thought. She had gotten to the point where she was so angry at him.

Karin had tried to try on numerous occasions tried to sabotage her life and end her friendship with Sasuke, what was left of their friendship. Sakura assumed she was jealous of their closeness, Sasuke ignored her and eventually she gave up and moved on to one of his friends Suigetsu, so she was still around but not as much as before.

It was the beginning of sophomore year they had started falling out more often due to Sasuke being a sassy pants and Sakura being a no shit taker. More people entered their small group of friends and everyone was getting in-between them. Sakura was frustrated with her one sided feelings and Sasuke was becoming more cold to her for no reason.

Now when the Uchiha's visited Sasuke always had football practice of track running that day or night. When the Haruno's visited, Sakura always had some activity to do and couldn't make it. They were avoiding each other at this point even though they shared the same classes and friends they hardly ever talk beside the simple greetings.

This went on straight through sophomore right into junior years, it was that night Sakura had had enough of it and decided to crawl into his bedroom window like she use to.

"Hey, can we stop this and just talk already I missed you and your stupid face." Sasuke was surprise to see her as he stood there in his towel wrapped around his waist and his hair damped from just getting out of the shower.

Sakura face went red as she spun around on her heels and almost jumped out the two story high window. "I'll wait outside." She quickly said as she crawls back out onto the tree and down to the ground shaking the perverted thoughts out of her head. Sasuke couldn't help the chuckle that came out almost bursting into laughter.

Just like that they were friends again, as if nothing had changed between then they spent every moment together. Going on random late night adventures and sneaking out of school to hang at the mall. They got so much closer to each other to the point where everyone though they were dating. When Sasuke didn't denied it she knew, she just knew he felt something for her more than just friends. She wanted to tell him how she felt but she was scared of losing what they had again.

Losing him the first time was hard enough, she was also afraid of getting her heart broken so she decided to wait for him to make a move. She dropped all the small hints as she possibly could to help him confess. But he never did.

…..

It was the middle of senior years when she was beginning to get tired of playing cat and mouse, she knew for sure now he felt something. It was the first time they had kissed at a school Halloween dance, she was a bit tipsy and so was he when it happened. But Sasuke just brushed it off the next day as if nothing happened. She had patience with him and just brushed it off as well.

She ignored Ino her best friend advice about dating Kiba once again to make him jealous, she knew how that would end up. So she did something different, she kissed him first the second time at one of Naruto's party, sober and all. She pulled away and stared him in the eyes awaiting his expression.

When he grabbed her hand and pulled her up the stairs to an empty bedroom and made love to her that night she thought this was progress that they were going to happen. But this only led to something along the lines of friends with benefits. It went on like that for a month. They hooked up at parties, weekends, nights their parents were not around. But he never told her how he felt, never kissed her in public or held her hand. He acted as if they were friends around everyone else.

She began wondering if all she was to him was a fuck buddy, so she stopped showing up when he texted her. She made excuses and decided she needed space to think. He didn't bother her for a week and it hurt, but her mind was made up. They were going to go to college soon.

She was planning on leaving town instead of applying to Konoha University like everyone else was going to do. She didn't tell anyone about this besides Hinata. Ino was her best friend but the girl will tell everyone in order to stop her. Hinata tried to talk her out of it but she had already made her mind up. The other reason for telling Hinata was because she understood and helped.

"Is there no way to make you stay?" She asked one last time as Sakura filled out her application forms.

"Only one person can change my mind. But….he doesn't want it so…I need this." Sakura sighted as she folded the paper in her hands and placed it carefully in an envelope. Hinata watched cautiously as she placed it in between the pages of her chemistry text book and shoved it on her bookshelf. She wasn't mailing it yet, this left some hope in Hinata, she had to make her stay. Her application was to Suna University where their friends the Sabaku siblings lived.

They made friends with the three because their genius friend Shikamaru had met the blonde girl on one of his trips there and started dating her right away.

Sakura was a bit jealous of her friends when they got the one they liked so easily, like Neji and Tenten and even Ino and Sai. Ino was usually the type to get board of a relationship easily and move on but Sai had captured her heart and it had been a year and more since they had started dating.

When Temari came for a visit over summer it was a surprise he was putting so much effort into a long distance relationship. But after meeting Temari it was clear why, she was a lovely person. It was Shikamaru who had mention his girl was applying here in Konoha instead of Suna and Sakura got the idea then.

Suna had a great University, Sand University was just as good as Konoha University was.

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Hinata for once in her life had to betray her friend and tell Sasuke about what she was planning. With no regrets she made her way over to the football field after practice and made her boyfriend Naruto, distracts Sakura while she pulled Sasuke aside and told him everything.

She thought he would stop her right away but he didn't, he walked out with everyone else as if nothing had happen. It frustrated her but she left it in his hands, only he could stop her from leaving.

She was losing fate as days turned to weeks and he never did anything about it. She had decided if Sasuke wouldn't man up and do it she'd have to eventually tell Ino. They needed to show Sakura she didn't have to leave town to forget Sasuke.

…..

Sakura glared at Sasuke when he slammed her against her closet door hands travelling down her stomach into her pants, his lips worked against hers. She yanked his hand away and attempted to slap him across the face but he caught her in mid action. "What do you mean you're going to follow me to Suna! What the fuck do you think this is a game?" She asked loudly, slightly pushing him off of her.

"Hinata told me and if you are still thinking about going I am going as well."She was confuses why couldn't he just say it to her.

"Why?" She asked softly, he didn't answer and latched onto her body once again kissing her neck. She didn't care if he wasn't good with words, she needed to hear him say it. She deserved this much after the hell he had put her through.

"Sasuke, tell me why?" She was startled when he pulled away and stomped away from her, for a second she thought he was going to leave her there. He stood near her bedroom door but his intentions weren't to leave but to hide his face from her wondering eyes.

"Because I fucking love you Sakura, when Hinata told me, I was waiting to hear it from you, we always told each other everything, when you didn't I couldn't take it anymore. For fuck sake I love you and I will go to Suna if I have to…to be with you." Sakura smiled the tears running down her eyes. She went over to her bookshelf pulling the envelope out of her text book which she had to return to the school.

Sasuke was now looking at her, she ripped the envelope in half before ripping it again and again. "It's about time, asshole, I love you to, jerk!"

….

When Sasuke and Sakura walked into the school the next day hand in hand Hinata knew everything was ok. To others it wasn't anything special to see the two holding hands from time to time but it was the way they looked at each other with shy but happy expressions on their faces told that these were more than best friends now.

"About time losers." Ino called out before slugging her arm around Sakura and dragging her away to their other girl friends that were waiting on them.

Hope you liked this little one-shot that came to mind.

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