Sasuke was the first to talk, "Itachi, let her go."

Itachi remained silent. His only reply was a grin that slowly formed on his face.

"What are you laughing at!" Sasuke screemed clenching his teeth.

"You'll have to make me, my weak little brother."

"ITACHI!!!!" Sasuke suddenly screamed running towards his brother. A spark of light formed on his right arm and gradually evolved into a Chidori.

Sakura stared with her mouth open. Sasuke's Chidori was about three times bigger than the one she'd seen a year ago. "So this is the power of Orochimaru," she thought. "And I thought I would be able to help him."

Taken by surprise of the giant Chidori, Itachi didn't move. Sasuke came straight toward him and it hit him. Although Sasuke wanted to continue fighting, and kill his brother on the spot, this time he had his consciousness. "I'll get back to you," he mumbled taking Sakura's hand. If they continued fighting in the cave there was a chance something might hit her. He had to get her back to the village. "Sakura come on!" he screamed.

Unsure of what to do, Sakura just ran. She was so shocked by everything that was going on around her that she was unable to speak. Sasuke was in front of her. The hand she was holding was his. After all this waiting, all this training so that she could help him with his revenge, he was here. The two dashed up to a point where the village was visible. "You can go yourself from here," Sasuke exclaimed turning around, not even asking for an explanation of what was happening from Sakura.

Sakura noticed that Sasuke was trying to run back to his brother. She knew if she let him go she would lose ihim again, so she grabbed his arm, "WAIT!"

Sasuke slowly turned around, "Sakura let go of me I don't have time for you."

"I don't want to let you go again, come back Sasuke kun, come back with me!"

"Let go..."

"I've been training, I'm stronger. Sasuke kun this time I'm stronger! I told you I'd make sure I could help you with your revenge, well this time I can!"

"Well, you would help me now if you let go of my arm," he muttered angrily.

Sakura looked down. Once again he was rejecting her. It was the a moment at the benches of the Konoha Village all over again. "I, I know you have to go," she said. Her voice was shaking as she trembled. She still refused to let go of his arm.

"Then let me go."

"Wait, before you do!" She said squeezing the arm of Sasuke as he attempted to dash off again.

"What!?"

"Promise me!"

"Ha?"

"Promise me, that... That I'll be able to see you again. No matter how far away it is, no matter how much you feel you've betrayed me, make sure you'll come back to me. Even for a day, an hour, a moment! Make sure I can see you again..."

"Is that all?"

"Yes... I'll train as hard as I can so that I can help you by then, so please..."

Sasuke looked at the ground. Although Sakura didn't notice it was secretly because he was blushing.

"Alright I promise."

A smile lit up the face of the girl who only showed him a sad face until then. "It's a promise?"

"It's a promise. Now go back to the village!"

"Alright," Sakura slowly turned around towards the village. Sasuke sadly watched her back as she started walking. She was willing to give up her entire life for just another moment with him. Why was she so determined for someone like him. Sakura turned around, as though to wave goodbye to him a final time.

The thing was that Sakura then noticed something that Sasuke didn't. A shadow was silently drifting towards Sasuke, ready to attack.

"SASUKE KUN!"

Sasuke turned around. The shadow was too quick, he knew it would get him. The thing he didn't know though, was that Sakura was a lot faster than she was a year ago. Sasuke expected to suddenly feel a great deal of pain, instead he felt something warm spray on him.

The next moment he was covered in blood, holding an extremely injured Sakura in his arms. "Sakura, Sakura are you alright?"

"Sasuke kun..." Sakura weakly said, her eyes only half open.

Itachi, the shadow, stood over them in disbelief of what he'd just done. Once again the girl had nearly sacrificed her life for him.

"Sakura, you're gonna be ok, I'll get you back to the village."

"Sasuke kun, you promised I'd see you again."

"Yeah I promised."

"Don't forget our promise," she weakly said, and the next moment she was unconscious.

Sasuke glared at Itachi, "I'm getting her to a hospital."

Itachi silently pointed at Kisame, who had appeared behind him without anyone noticing, "he's back, I'll be gone by when you return."

After a short pause, Sasuke replied, "then the next time we meet I'll kill you."

Itachi smiled. In a moment Sasuke transformed into the form of an ambu ninja and was gone. He quickly took Sakura to the Konoha hospital, left her in front of the doctor's office, and ran away again. He knew they would find her, and that she would be ok.

Sakura was in a coma for five days. The funny thing is that when she woke up, she had no knowllege of anything passed the point where Itachi injured her for the first time. However, although she no longer remembered the promise, for some reason she felt even more motivated than before to train hard and become a strong ninja. Tsunade also realized this, and Sakura spent day and night so that one day she would be able to fight next to Sasuke again. She was now a fourteen year old girl, ready to take on anyone for Sasuke.

The End