The Sun and the Moon Chapter 1
The three of them were pinned to the ground with kunai that had pierced through their skin. Akumu, the man who had trapped them, laughed at their weakness. They couldn't have hoped to defeat this nightmare. Not with the strength of Sakura Haruno, the speed of Sasuke Uchiha; not even the agility and precision of the renowned Kakashi could bring him down. Akumu stepped towards them.
"Your reputation precedes you, Kakashi Hatake." Akumu prepared to plunge the great sword into the jounin's heart, when from nowhere he was flung backwards after receiving an uppercut to the chin. The two students and their sensei stared at the figure of their saviour.
He had hair like the sun and bright blue, piercing eyes, as well as a familiar smirk on his face.
"Naruto!" Sakura yelled in relief of seeing their teammate.
"Sorry I'm late, but the hero usually does arrive at the last minute." He said. He had stormed off after Sasuke had undermined him with his cruel words just before the beginning of the mission. They had followed and Naruto and discovered this man, Akumu, on their way.
Akumu was slowly regaining balance.
"Dobe, behind you!" Sasuke warned, still struggling against the kunai pinning him to the floor.
But Naruto was ready; he turned and ran at the villain with a chakra induced rasengan in his hand, ready to strike. Akumu turned with his sword ready, in defence, and they collided with massive force.
After a moments silence, Akumu, dead, fell backwards and spiralled off the cliff face behind him, into the valley below, never to be seen again.
"Yes, Naruto you did it!" Sakura screamed happily. Naruto turned slowly towards them, and it was then they realised the jagged sword sticking out through his chest.
Naruto's blue eyes, usually full of life, were blank and hopeless. With a cough and a splutter, Naruto began to fall.
Sasuke freed himself first and ran towards his friend, swearing under his breath.
He reached out and felt his hands clasp something; Naruto's shirt? Yes, I caught him Sasuke thought to himself, but the blonde kept falling.
He disappeared over the cliff edge, into the valley filled with poisonous gas below, following suit of his assailant.
His team mates appeared beside him, and It was only when Sakura started screaming incredulously with desperation in her voice, and Kakashi fell to his knees despite his training to never show emotion and whispered to himself; Na… Naruto… that Sasuke realised the truth of the situation.
Naruto Uzumaki was dead.
Sasuke was in disbelief. Rooted to the spot, unable to move with the shock of what had just happened. Shaking, he opened his hand, recalling that he was sure he had grabbed something. He stared at the necklace he had jerked from Naruto's neck before he fell, an aqua stone hanging from its black thread.
Naruto… is… gone?
The young Uchiha fell to the ground beside his friends, but it didn't feel the same without the presence of the blonde laughing cheerfully beside him.
It was raining when they arrived back in Konoha.
They entered the office of their Hokage, Sakura barely containing her tears.
"Report." The Lady Tsunade said, without looking up at the unfinished team. It seemed only Kakashi had the strength to speak.
"L… Lady Hokage… the mission was a success, but with one casualty…" He said with despair in his voice.
It was then that the Hokage looked up and scanned the fragments of the team. She saw a distraught Sakura on the verge of tears, unable to look her in the eyes. The dark-haired form of Sasuke, not speaking or making any movement whatsoever. And the utter hurt that filled the eye of the only one visible on the copy-ninja's face.
But no bright, cheerful, bragging young ninja by the name of Naruto Uzumaki.
Tsunade gasped, and her eyes widened in disbelief. Not Naruto… it was then that the Uchiha walked silently forward and placed something on her desk. The Hokage's eyes wandered towards the object. It was a necklace. Her necklace.
Inside, her stomach became tight, as did her lips. She scrunched her palms into fists and shook with anger at the memory of her brother… her lover… and now…
"Get… Out." Tsunade said quietly with force.
The three ninjas left the office in grief.
A funeral was held. They gave Naruto a memorial stone, since his body was never found. Some stood in silent sorrow. Others cried.
No one had ever really thought the blonde would die. It had never occurred to them what the village would be like without him. It was a death fit for a shinobi, they said. Many others had died before him, but for some reason, without his presence, things started to fall apart.
When Iruka, the father who had adopted Naruto, found out about his son's death, cried out in anger at Kakashi for letting something like this happen, and when Kakashi didn't reply, Iruka attacked the silent jounin. A fight broke out between chunin and the jounin ninjas as they tried to hold each contestant back, which left the two ranks of ninja divided.
Hinata couldn't look at Neji without being reminded of Naruto's face, so the two Hyuga's stopped training together, and the families drifted further apart.
Asuma and Kurenai broke up over a quarrel on the subject of "an honourable death" after discussing Naruto.
Sakura trained so often and hard as to stop thinking about Naruto that she was admitted to hospital constantly due to extreme exhaustion.
Sasuke became more distant than ever, if that was possible.
But, over time, after enough tears had been spilled to fill an ocean, the memory of Naruto became less painful. Eventually, when they thought of him, instead of crying, they could laugh.
Every year the old friends of Naruto would gather on the anniversary of his death, in remembrance of the boy they had once loved. They could smile once more, despite the knowledge that they would never see him again.
Until one fateful day, when the blonde returned.
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