Monologue

He saw, she saw

Sasuke paused briefly on the steep hill and looked at his village for the last time. He saw the dark deep park were he'd spent so long as a child leaning against a cracked wall trying to resist the huge temptation to slide hurriedly down the cool hard shiny slide or climb as high as he could on the tall climbing frame, but he managed to cope with it and maintain his composure. He saw the very academy where his marks were only rivalled by one Haruno, Sakura. He saw the pallid skyand remembered the time he had hid under the kitchen table with his mum cuddling into her…he saw…Sakura.

"Sasuke…"

It irked him that she had missed the suffix off his name, though at the time he failed to realised that he never used one for hers.

"Please don't leave…I…I need you!"

He remained silent so she carried on

"I...I…I love you…"

"hn…you're annoying"

Sasuke would never know how much those three little words had hurt her she desperately reached out on her last whim

"Please don't leave…I'll help you with your revenge …just please"

She gasped as he disappeared and then

"Thank you, Sakura"

She felt her conscienceless slipping away from her.

She saw…nothing