This is a decision based story! A couple times each chapter there will be a choice one of the characters will have to make and you decide! There will be 5 chapters: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. At the end of each chapter there will be different endings based on your choices.

Backstory: All of my other stories! The gist of it is that Sasuke and Sakura are engaged and living together. Sasuke thinks he got his revenge. Naruto and Hinata were married, but they haven't come back from a mission.

Denial

Act 1

6:35 pm. Hokage Tower.

"What the fuck does that mean?!" Sasuke yelled.

"It doesn't mean they're dead," Tsunade replied.

"So what does it mean!?" Sasuke demanded.

Sakura coaxed, "Sasuke-kun calm down."

"How can you two be calm?" Sasuke rhetorically asked, then pointed at Tsunade, "And how can you call of the search?"

"It's been a month. We can't spare the manpower anymore," Tsunade explained.

"Then I'll go!" Sasuke replied with passion.

"I can't send out my best ANBU captain."

Sasuke fiercely replied, "Then I'll go without your permission!"

"Sasuke-kun," Sakura grabbed her fiancée's hand, "nobody's giving up on Naruto and Hinata."

Sasuke sighed deeply; she was the only person that could calm him down, "Fine, but they're alive. I know they are."

Sasuke stood up and angrily stormed out of the office. He crossed his arms and a couple minutesn later Sakura joined him. She got on her tip-toes and kissed him on the cheek.

"Ready to go home?" he asked coldly.

"Well, there is one more thing," Sakura told him.

"Hn?"

"There's going to be a memorial service for them tomorrow."

Sasuke unfolded his arms, took a step away from her and looked at his fiancée quizzically, "A funeral?"

"No, not a funeral. Just a time for all of their friends to get together and remember them and say nice things and—"

"So a funeral without the bodies! They're not dead."

"Yeah, but it'd mean a lot for us to go. Tsunade said we could have the day off."

"Where is it?"

"The, f-funeral home," Sakura stuttered out in embarrassment.

Sasuke scoffed, "Let's just go home."

7:15 pm. Sasuke and Sakura's apartment.

Sasuke sat at his dining room table with Sakura eating one of her home-cooked meals. The air was heavy with negative emotions. Normally they couldn't eat dinner together on weekdays because they would be busy leading an ANBU squad or trying to become Chief of Medicine. They'd typically be ecstatic at the opportunity to eat together, but they were too deep in thought.

"Hm, wanna watch a movie?" Sakura asked.

"Sakura we have to talk about the obvious first. I don't think Naruto's dead, and, I don't like how everyone else is so sure he is."

"And Hinata?"

"If Naruto's alive she's alive."

"You know I want them back just as much as you," Sakura reminded.

"Hn."

"You were his best man, and he was going to be yours."

"Was? He still will be even if we delay the wedding," he revealed, talking about their future marriage.

There was an awkward pause before Sakura said, "Do you know about the five stages of grief?"

"What?"

"The first step is denial."

"I'm not in denial! I'm just not being an idiot."

Sakura frowned and said, "…I'm gonna go take a shower. Alone."

"Wait, Sakura," Sasuke began, but she got up and walked towards their bedroom, "I didn't mean that."

Sakura disappeared into the bedroom and a minute later he could hear the shower turn on.

8:08 pm.

Sasuke was lying on their bed in his pajamas. Sakura came out of the bathroom in her robe.

"Sakura, what I said, I, wasn't calling you an idiot," Sasuke stammered out. Communicating was never his strong suit.

"I know, Sasuke-kun. It's fine." Sakura got in bed next to Sasuke.

"Still wanna watch a movie?"

Sakura snuggled against Sasuke, "Sure, but, will you go to the memorial?"

"They're not dead."

"Either way, it could be nice. If we go we could see Naruto Jr again."

"Yeah, we are his God parents, but isn't going admitting his parents are gone?"

"Maybe… let's just watch a movie. Go or not go it's fine."

Would going be giving up hope? Would not going be disrespectful?

"Hn. Love you."

"Love you too."

8:39 am.

The couple woke up at what Sasuke would consider late. Sakura sat up, yawned and stretched.

"Awake Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked.

"Hn," Sasuke sat up too.

"Did you…decide whether or not to go?"

Go to memorial- Read "Red"

Don't go to memorial- Read "Green"