Keep Running, a naruto fanfic

Keep running could mean literally keep running, but sometimes it means keep running to your dream.

Stop running could mean literally stop running, but sometimes it means stop running because you're where you want to be.

Right then, I felt like something was holding me up. Some hope. Hope held me up when I was going to fall.

Because in my hand, there was one little note, and that was all I needed to get through.

I did as the note said. I knew who's handwriting it was, so I ran. I ignored the pain in my chest, my dry mouth, the sweat on my neck and forehead. And I just ran.

What was written kept repeating in my head, in that voice, the voice of the person who wrote this note:

Keep running.

I fell flat on my face that night, planning on sleeping under the stars. While I was laying down, I saw a piece of white paper.

I crawled over to it, and grabbed it. I was exhausted from running so far, so fast, so long. I opened it, and my eyes scanned the paper quickly.

Sleep, eat, then go.

So I did just that. I ate, then I slept, then ate again, and then I left. Just like that.

I ran for miles. I ran and ran. I was getting too tired, though, sore from last night. So I slowed to a walk, breathing deeply. After five minutes, I tripped over a wire I wouldn't have if I was running, and a note fell like a snowflake, and landed in front of me, next to my knee, as I was sitting there.

Keep running.

Thinking everything at once, I did as I had read. I kept running, and ignored the sore, the thirst, the hunger.

You might think running all day was horrible. But it wasn't. Not when there's something valuable after all that running.

I had run for about four hours since the last note, but I kept running. Until I noticed a little white square sheet of paper, no bigger than my palm, on a tree. I slowed, and took the note. It instructed:

Take a rest. Eat. Get hydrated. Then run. You're not far.

So I sat by that tree, and took a canteen, and drank some water. I rested for thirty minutes at least, and then started running again. I had ran at least ten miles in the last two days.

The note said I wasn't far. This was a lie. I was far. Far, far, far. There was no way in Hell I could keep going. So I stopped. I stopped, two hours after I got the last note, and just sat. In the middle of the forest. Just sat. I didn't think of anything. I just thought about that value at the end of this. How I wouldn't get it.

Something fell on my face. Another note. This time, it was regular sized paper. It had a short letter, or a long note, on it, not the regular one-to-three worded sentences.

I know you want to get here. I'm not moving, trust me. You have to go to the opening, five miles ahead. It's not far at all. I know you can make it. Another 35.75 minutes to go. I swear, I will be there. Nothing could make me move. So don't give up on me.

Keep running.

Five miles. 35.75 minutes. That's only about half an hour, and I can wait that long…

Can't I?

Yes. I could.

So I ran, again, thing of the treasure that will soon be in my possession.

35.75

…

And I was there. I stared at the beauty in front of me. The sun shone behind him, so it bounced off his black locks. His onyx eyes were shining with a happiness I haven't seen on anyone's face before, except maybe my own when I found out he wasn't dead, that Haku had spared him.

"Sakura."

The way he said that made me fall to my knees. Was this actually happening? I didn't want it to be a dream.

He walked over to me, and gently picked me up bridal style. I just stared at his perfect face as he led me away, until I fell asleep so slowly. My last thought:

Stop running.

Hope you liked this one-shot! Haven't written SasuSaku in a while, so I thought I'd write this. This had been in my mind for a while, but not as a one-shot. :p But oh well, I couldn't think of a way to extend it. So, yep, this is what happened! I think it's kind of cute

~For those of you who like my work, and love SasuSaku, I'm typing the first chapter to a new story '24 Hours'~