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In the divorce, Sakura managed to get 60% of Sasuke's assets after she proved his infidelity with other prostitutes, that she managed to bring to the tribunal as witnesses. Of course, Sarada didn't get to know how Sakura "won" the process, only that she used an "unusual tactic".

Also, the divorce brought to light Sasuke was gaining a lot more money than he was telling Sakura about, probably because he was spending that extra money with whores.

When Sasuke announced he was going to the frontier, Sakura felt nothing. She felt good for that: that wasn't the first time Sasuke wronged her, and her feelings remained after these wrongdoings in the past. In that moment, she thought she got over him.

When Ino disappeared, Sakura was planning the surgery and extracting a liver tumor from a patient with a very fragile health, and only when Sakura's friends gave her congratulations for the successful operation was when she realized Ino didn't go to her house to give her even a flower.

Sai and Inojin were in missions outside the village, so obviously they didn't know where she was, and Naruto revealed he didn't gave her any mission for at least one week before the event.

When she asked Choji and Ino's mother where they saw her for the last time, they said the last time they saw her was in the same day Sasuke leaved the village, but Sakura quickly dismissed the possibility, and Ino's disappearance was registered as that, a disappearance.

After all, she only had a crush on him, right? And she married and had one kid, right? Everything was over, right? That was what Sakura thought, at least.

When Sasuke didn't appear for his mission on the frontier and was declared missing, Sakura didn't feel anything.

She only began to think that Ino had gone with Sasuke.

She didn't tell that to Sai though.

She didn't need to.

When Sai and Inojin came back, twelve days later, Sakura prepared the dinner while they went through the shock that Ino was gone. Without warning, without letters, without anything. After Inojin was sleeping, and after Sakura asked Sai if their relationship was unstable, he confessed he always suspected he was a second option to Sasuke, and that he was like a tool on Ino's hands, but she was already pregnant when he realized this. He said this with a cold expression on his face, completely devoid of emotion, much like Sasuke.

And then, two months later, Hinata disappeared, and a fear began to grow inside Sakura.

The fear she would be still be compelled to go back to Sasuke, despite the betrayal, the divorce, despite she thought she was over for him.

But, she wasn't already thinking about him already? It wasn't the very fact she considered the possibility, the proof it could be real?

If Hinata only had an one night stand, and Ino only a crush, what prevented Sakura of going in the same path. She, that had sexual relations with him for months?

Hell, Sakura chained herself to him even after years of absence. Enough to make her daughter doubt if she was his wife.

Why?Why she did do that?

And did she really divorce him of her own will? It wasn't because everyone pressured her, it wasn't because Naruto ended up involved in that mess?

Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, she began to think more and more about Sasuke, and look, more and more, to beyond the walls of the village.

But she tried to ward off the temptation, thinking in how Sarada would be mentally hurt by both of her parents running away from her.

Was in one of these moments of weakness, sitting in a park bench, looking to the sky in a sunny day, that Naruto meet her in the middle of her thoughts.

"Yo Sakura. What's up?" said him, happily.

"Naruto. You here? In the open?" said her, turning to him, with an empty expression in her face.

"Hey, I can't work twenty-four hours, seven days a week, can I? So...Why you are looking so weird?" said Naruto, crossing his arms and smiling.

"Ah, just thinking..." she said, turning her eyes to the ground.

Seeing Sakura acting so sad for no observable reason made Naruto curious.

"Ok, about what?" said Naruto, sitting on the bench.

She looked to Naruto, sitting on her side.

"Naruto, can I rest on your lap?"

"Ahn, ok". said him, scratching his head in confusion.

Sakura put her head on his lap, and closed her eyes, as if she was sleeping.

Naruto didn't know if he should touch her head or not, and kept his hand on the back of his head.

"Sakura, are you ok?"

"Naruto, can you believe...that I still have feelings for Sasuke?"

Naruto remained silent.

"Naruto, I don't know how to say this, but I think there's two parts of me. Only that loves my child and don't want to abandon her, and other that wants to go back to him."

The tears began to roll from her eyes, almost unconsciously.

"Sakura..." said Naruto.

Naruto began to stroke her hair and comfort her with her words.

"Sakura, look, you should stay here. Here are the people love you, Sakura. Me, Sarada, Shikamaru, everyone..."

"I know, but the impulse is too strong..." said her, opening her eyes.

"I can't do anything?" said Naruto.

"Can you...never let me go?"

Naruto smiled.

"Of course Sakura! It's a promise of a lifetime!"