I sat on the bench on the path that led out of Konoha and waited for him. It slowly got dark and I started to shiver, but I was sure that he would leave today, so I had sworn to wait here for him.

The sun now disappeared completely behind the trees and stole its last colors from the surroundings, everything turned gray and black.
At that moment he came with a backpack and the cool and uninvolved expression on his face that he always wore like a mask that was firmly attached. But if you looked very closely you saw your hidden feelings, the sadness and loneliness.
I saw her and again I felt this urge to prove to him that he is not alone in the world, that there are people who care about him and like him.

Slowly he came closer, still following the path that would lead him out of Konoha - and away from me.
I kept my head down. I was sure that he had noticed me, but as expected he passed me without even looking at me or even stopping.

"Sasuke," I whispered softly. I knew he could hear me, but he kept walking.
"Please wait!"
He stopped and without turning around he asked: "What do you want?"
"Why are you going?"
"You know that very well, Sakura."
"Is your revenge really so important to you that you want to destroy your life for it?"
"Vengeance cannot destroy my life, vengeance is my life."
He said this sentence so emotionlessly that it ran down my spine. How can anyone say something like that. Just as if his life was worth nothing to him, as if he would throw it away immediately and without thinking if he got his revenge for it.

Well, that's exactly what he was doing. He went to Orochimaru even though he and his henchmen had just killed the Hokage and many ninjas. And that's only because Orochimaru had promised him strength.
He didn't care if he became a nuke-nin.
He didn't care that his friends were forced to extradite him should they ever see him again.He didn't care that he was never allowed to go back to his home village because of that.
He didn't care how much he hurt his friends with it.
He didn't care how much he hurt me with it.

"But why? What does your revenge bring you? As soon as you have completed it you are alone! What do you want to do afterwards? Just come back to Konoha as a Nuke-nin and build a new life for you? That would be impossible and you know it! So what do you want to do after your revenge? "I asked desperately. I noticed how slowly the tears welled up in me, although I had sworn to myself never to cry in front of him, never to be weak again.
"If I don't die in my revenge, it doesn't matter afterwards anyway, as soon as I kill Itachi my life has no meaning anymore," that emotionless voice again, but this time it was his words that hit me. I jumped up and ran to him until I was only three feet behind him.
"You can't mean that!" I almost shouted. "We are not machines that just exist to do a job and, as soon as that is done, are disposed of! We live to live, to be happy, to feel joy, maybe also to be sad sometimes, but but not to complete a single task and then to be useless! Life consists of many small tasks! Many beautiful moments in which one is happy! You cannot devote your whole life to a task that makes you suffer after you you feel useless and which only takes away your lust for life! "Now I couldn't hold back the tears anymore. He couldn't be serious! He couldn't just throw his life away like that!
"That may apply to you, but my lust for life was already taken away when the most important person in my life killed my family." Yes, that was a cruel experience for him, but he had to live his life even more afterwards to destroy?I looked down sadly. But what I saw surprised me. There was a small, round, wet spot in front of him. Just as one as hundreds were before me, caused by my tears. Wasn't he crying? His voice had sounded the same as always! Just as cold and opaque. Besides, a Sasuke Uchiha would never cry in public!

There! A second wet stain appeared on the floor. I walked around him so I could look him in the face. Indeed! His gaze was directed into the distance, his expression had hardly changed, but his eyes glittered wet and radiated so much sadness as I had never seen it in anyone.
A third tear slowly made its way to the ground.

Without realizing it, I put my arms around him. When I realized what I was doing, I prepared myself for the fact that he would push me away and yell at me or just leave. But nothing of the sort happened. Opposite him. Very gently, as if he didn't know exactly what to do, he laid his head on my shoulder.

We stood like that for a while. You could already see the moon in the sky and slowly the stars came to light. After a few minutes or hours - I had no idea any more - I felt his tears grow less, until they finally disappeared completely.

"Do you really want to go?" I asked quietly. "You could stay in Konoha and live a happy life with Naruto and me on the team. If you can't completely forget your revenge, at least wait until there's a new Hokage. He's mostly a good-natured and above all strong ninja, definitely is he ready to train you! So you can stay in Konoha and still get stronger ", and even more quietly I added:" So you can stay with me ... "

Slowly he raised his head and looked at me, this time there was a slight smile on his face as he said:
"I can think about this suggestion.I have nothing against the last one in particular! "

He looked deep into my eyes and when his lips closed mine I knew he would stay in Konoha.


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So that's it, I hope it wasn't too bad and you're still alive. If you've made it this far, please write, please clerk, so that I can improve and maybe torment you less next time. =)
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