Paths

Prologue

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Everything had started so good. No. Everything had started so, so wonderful. At first we were in our down side but as we started to get to know each other it turn into a happy childhood memory... for me that is. I never knew what was going on with my other team mates. I always thought that they were happy because they would always show up with the usual goofy grin and the same old "Hn's", but once I started moving forward I could see that things weren't what it seemed. Everything was the opposite.

At the chuunin exams, was were I had decided to grow up and become a better kunoichi than what I thought I was. The horrifying scene of seeing Sasuke gripping the side of his neck with one hand and screaming in pain while having the same words of Orochimaru in my mind replayed and replayed:

"Sasuke-kun will come to me searching for power."

Will come to me searching for power...

At first I thought that after the chuunin exams Sasuke wouldn't go or even have the thought of going to Orochimaru but after the fight on the roof of the hospital something told me that he was changing and I feared the worst even after being told that everything would go back to normal by Kakashi-sensei.

He was leaving the Hidden Leave Village.

"Why? Why won't you tell me anything? Why do you always stay silent? Why won't you say anything to me-"

"Why do I have to tell you anything?" his voice was rough."It's none of your business. Stop concerning yourself about what I do."

It had hurt deep in my heart when those words came out his mouth his back facing me making his clan symbol a reminder why he was leaving. Why was I concerning myself with something that wasn't my business? Even then I knew the answer.

"I know about your clan but revenge," I trailed off thinking of the right words. "That won't make anyone happy." The moon slowly got covered by a dark cloud blocking the moon's light and shadowing my face as fresh tears stayed in my eye wanting to fall down my cheeks. "No one. Neither you, Sasuke. Nor I." Silence came once more as up above the cloud discovered the moon bit by bit.

"Just as I thought."

I was surprised when he responded. What had he known? Were we really that different from him? I had asked myself those questions so much until, finally, I learned to accept what he said. We were different, so much different. Naruto never knew what it felt to have parents or siblings or anyone that shared his blood. Sasuke... Sasuke knew what it felt to have parents, a brother, an aunt, an uncle, a grandpa, and grandma, cousins, but he knew well what it felt loose the people he loved by none other than the person he looked up to, lived, loved. His brother. And me. I still know what it is to have a mother and father. To still have something that so many children in the world envy. Those children like Sasuke and Naruto. Never knowing who their parents were, having them killed in a robbery, or in an assault, or being abandoned by them.

"...But my heart decided on revenge in the end. That's my purpose in life."

That's my purpose in life he had said with so much confidence dripping out his voice and from every word that came out his mouth. He wanted revenge so bad but he was also choosing to be alone again if he took that path.

"I have friends and a family but if you're gone...to me... it'll be the same as being alone!" More tears streamed down face as my heart started aching in pain.

"From here on...a new path will open for all of us."

"I! I love you so much!"

I thought that if I told him how I felt, what my true feeling were for him, he would stay. I told him that if he stayed with me he wouldn't regret it. That everyday would fun. That we would defiantly be happy.

"I'll do anything for you! So..." don't leave. "Please stay here! With me..."

I begged him.

"I help you with your revenge!...If you can't stay here," the moons light was know fully visible as it covered my tear struck face."Than take me with you!"

I even implored him to take me with him.

"You really are annoying."

I even threaded to scream if he left when I saw him walking away when he finished talking but...

"Sakura...", he whispered as he appeared behind me.

It wasn't enough.

"Thank you," and with that everything turned into complete darkness.

"It's time." A hood covered figure came from the shadows as it kneeled on one knee and bowed its head to the person in front of it. "My lady is there anything else you need?"

The face of the woman became visible as she tilted her face toward the moon's light. "No," she responded as half lidded bright green eyes slowly closed and opened bit by bit to reveal glowing electric blue eyes.

"Let's begin."

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