AU - Years after leaving Konoha, Sasuke decides to return to fill an emptiness growing inside him. Much to his surprise, his old friends don't seem to hold a grudge. Instead, they have all have moved on to life without him. Despite returning to familiar surroundings, Sasuke is again the outsider, but he isn't alone. Someone else lingers on the outskirts of the ever-changing village.

You hate Neji... or do you?

"I'm sorry I couldn't be there",sakura was still feeling endlessly sorry due to her not being abel to comfort her best friend last night and hinata knew.

"If I told you that she's dead, what would you do? A clean bullet shot straight through her pretty little head," she stated, her blood red lips parted as she laughed maniacally. The male she spoke to stood stalk still, his face calm even after hearing her cruel words. She knew it was coming, even before he raised the black gun and pressed it against her forehead. A soft metallic click told her all she needed to know. He was going to kill her and she was going to let hi

I promised myself that I wouldn't care anymore, no more tears, no more hurt, no more anger. Yet still, I could feel my eyes burn, my throat clog up and my vision turn blurry as I sat in the kitchen, head in my hands begging for the impossible. Maybe this was all my fault. Maybe I didn't try hard enough to keep him. I shouldn't care, but I still love him too much to let all we worked so hard to reach slip through my closed fingers. But why... Why is it that