The last dozen of chapters have showed Sakura is planning murdering Sasuke in order to protect Naruto, she had already planned how kililng him, and she was planning doing it alone in order to protect her friends.
Therefore, I think she is trying getting closer to Sasuke, earn his trust so he lower his guard, and then striking him swiftly and suddenly. Since she knows her enemy overpowers her, she is avoiding a direct confrontation and scheming her target's demise through other means, using her skill, cunning and stealth.
In other words, she is behaving like an actual kunoichi.
And her actions echo Tsunade's when she tried killing Orochimaru.
Sasuke knows nothing about the current her. For all he knows, she is still a weak, little girl who is helplessly infatuated with him. Hence, she must think he will be unsuspectful if she does that, and he will never regard her like a threat nonetheless. He can be overconfident, and that excessive confidence can give her one chance.
Of course, my reasoning depends on me being right about her intentions. But truthfully, the last chapters make no sense if she is being serious.
I hope Kishimoto doesn't drags it out, not matter what. But it is possible Naruto interrupts their reunion and she needs deciding if she blows her cover by siding with him or not.
In spite of some fans freaking out and panicking, I think it may pans out real well. My ideal scenario? She IS trying deceiving Sasuke and killing him, gets caught quickly, Sasuke and she fight (and maybe she finds out about what really happened back that day on the bench or about the Uchiha Massacre), she battles bravely but gets wounded, and right then Naruto shows up. Sasuke and Madara retreat momentarily, and Naruto at last admits it is possible he must kill his former friend.
I disagree with the conventional NaruSaku wisdom on what she's doing. I don't think this is a double agent type deal. I wouldn't be surprised if that happened, but I don't believe it's her motivation.
After some thinking, I believe she doing this because she genuinely believes she can save/protect both Sasuke and Naruto. Up until the Rookie Nine's decision to off Sasuke, she had been as dedicated as Naruto to saving and returning their teammate in one piece. The Rookie's decision makes that significantly harder because not only does it mean that she cannot count on their aid anymore (they had been providing token support in Part 2), but that a significant chuck of the relevant ninja's are actively against what she and Naruto want to do. Thus, she's deprived of support and her teammate's safety is jeopardy from her own friends.
So, she comes up with a plan and says all that stuff to Naruto. If it works (which it didn't) Naruto backs off, stays in the village, and doesn't have to duke it out with the Akatsuki version of Sasuke and, is at least phyiscally safe. Meanwhile, she leaves the village and tries to save her wayward teammate either by convincing him of the error of her ways and getting him to come back or, at the very least, stearing him clear of the village and the other rookies who are looking to execute his sorry behind (or a combination of both).
I think her previous statements about wanting to kill Sasuke were lies because if the others knew her true intent they'd try to stop her AND wouldn't help find Sasuke's location.
Now, if I'm right, this plan has already partially failed and would completely fail even without the unknown information (to her) of Sasuke's decent because nobody's going to do what she wants to them to do. Sasuke's change, however, likely guarentee's this plan's going to go down in flames.
Alot of people said she had grown up in previous chapters, but I think she's still as committed as Naruto to saving and protecting her teammate. The only difference I see is that I'm not sure Naruto would be willing to accept a no to reforming AND returning Sasuke, it looks like Sakura may be willing to do so if it means protecting those close to her.
That said, that if she is going to grow up it's going to be during this confrontation because it'll force her to face reality directly. Now what she'll learn from that and decide to do from there...I don't know nor am I sure about pairing implications. This could be very good and very bad for both NaruSaku and SasuSaku, or it could be typical non-committal Kishi and be very murky. The latter especially possible since it looks like Naruto may interrupt the meeting.
But, I think in the end, neither Naruto or Sakura will ever give up on the hope of rescuing Sasuke, even if everyone else does.
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