He looked on at the lone headstone before him, staring at it as the sky was filled with grey clouds overhead. He stood there silent like a statue as he looked on at the headstone as it was over a grave. The figure stood there his eyes fixed on it as he stared at the headstone that had a name written over it.

He recalled it, every each and lasting second of the moment that had happened. Too fast for him to react, and was too slow to try and stop it. He saw it happen in his mind rewinding and watching it over and over. An image that would not leave

The Kunai plunging deep into his back, the look of shock on his face as he felt it go past his skin and the poison from the weapon seeping into his vital areas from his lungs to his heart as blood poured out of the wound. How the strength left his body as he feel to the ground and how the life left him.

Sasuke Uchiha was dead, The Uchiha Clan was no more. Beneath the headstone was his body which had been buried by him.

Naruto looked on at the site, standing there immobile as he looked on at it, having stayed there for hours at a time looking on at the gravesite of his teammate. Reliving the final moments of Sasuke's life as he saw him die despite his attempts to keep him alive. He replayed that image in his mind over and over again recalling every last detail at what had transpired that day.

The blonde stood there looking on at the site wondering just how it was that it came to this, that Sasuke was dead and everything he went through had been for nothing. It was no more than a week since that time, when life had left him forever.

Naruto continued to look on at it his eyes locked on, not blinking.

From a distance away, another person stood there watching on at Naruto. The female figure looked on at him, having been watching him for nearly as long as he had been standing there looking at the headstone.

Sakura watched on as she stared ahead as Naruto stood guard over it. Having been there every day for hours at a time. The person who was buried beneath it.

He was dead because of her. She too had the memories and images of what had transpired in The Land of Iron

Sakura had killed Sasuke, she had slain him with a Kunai laced with a special poison. She had delivered the fatal blow to him stabbing him in the back with it just before he could unleash an attack. She had taken it upon herself to end it and seeing no other option had used the dagger to stop him

Sakura brought a hand up and envisioned them still, with Sasuke's blood on them. It seemed as though the Uchiha's blood was remaining on her hands.

"How long are you going to stand there and spy on me Sakura?" Naruto asked speaking outloud breaking her thoughts as he was not looking back at her. Sakura dropped her hand and looked on at him, odds were he knew that she was there this whole time

"Murderer." He said to her in a soft whisper. "You're a murderer." He repeated disdain in his voice as he looked on at Sakura. "I can't believe you, you would stoop to such a level, you killed him." He

"Yes," Sakura admitted to him. "I did kill him." She said as she was the one, she had plunged the poison tainted kunai into Sasuke's back, ending his life. She had took it upon herself to do it

She saw no other option, words would not get through to Sasuke no matter how hard they tried or begged him to stop. He was set on his path that he had chosen to take, and so, to spare anyone, especially Naruto the anguish of the only thing that could be done to stop him, Sakura had killed him.

She saw no other way and remembered the last look in his eyes as he stared at them before he fell into death's embrace.

It took everything to keep Naruto from exploding then and there as he looked on at her.

"You ruined everything Sakura, it's because of you that this happened." He told her his voice low but filled with anger and rage. "I was going to bring him back! I was going to help him and end the pain that he was going through. I could've fixed everything and made it the way life was before." He said his eyes piercing through her. "But you had to ruin everything with what you did. Team 7 is dead because of you Sakura!" Naruto claimed to her. "Why couldn't you have just kept out of what was going on? I was reaching through to him, I was close to getting him to stop! I was proving to him that I could shoulder the burden and pain he felt within him with what he had gone through."

"But you killed him! You killed Sasuke and ruined everything I've worked for, I was going to bring him back and make things right! I promised that I would remember? A promise of a lifetime, that we'd be a team again just like we were and should be instead of what happened."

"Naruto." Sakura said

"Don't speak, you don't have the right to talk!' Naruto interrupted venom in his voice as he looked on at her. "I could've fixed it all, make amends for what had happened between Konoha and his Family, so that what happened would've been forgotten and forgiven and our lives could go back to normal, but thanks to you that can never happen. He and his family is thought of as nothing more than another common criminal because of you."

Sakura looked on at him as his words had cut her deeper than any blade, had battered her body more than any blow. Sakura lowered her head looking down at the ground. Looking on at her, Naruto expected her to cry.

But tears did not come or fall down…

"Naruto," She finally said to him in a solemn voice after several long moments. "You wish to be Hokage don't you?" She asked him and he looked on at her as Sakura's head was still down.

"You know that, you know that I want to be Hokage more than anything." He told her as he scowled at her.

"…Naruto, nobody would ever want you as Hokage." Sakura said and lifted her head to look at him and her eyes were filled with disgust as she looked on at him.

"What'd you say?!" Naruto said in response at her words.

"You would be a terrible Hokage, you'd doom the Leaf and Konoha if you was." She told him and her voice had changed. "You being it would bring nothing but disaster and ruin to everyone around you with how you act." Sakura told him as she glared at him. "Right now, you've proven yourself to be the most unworthy person to be Hokage, Teuchi, who has done nothing but make different types of ramen his entire life would be a better person to be it than you." Sakura said to Naruto. "You say you was close to getting through to Sasuke. The way I saw it, you were just going to stand there with a bullseye on your chest and going to let Sasuke to ram his Chidori through and kill you. Your words weren't having any effect on him and you're a fool to think that he was interested in you barring or sharing his burden, the only thing he was interested in was killing you and everyone else." Sakura said to him

"I know what happened to his clan and what he went through and I'm sorry but that does not give him the right to act the way he did! He proved himself no better with what he was trying to do and you know it! His family was intent on performing a coup which would've left thousands dead, possibly you and me as well during it!"

"Shut up!" Naruto snapped at her. "You don't have any idea what you're talking about!" He accused her

"He was going to kill us Naruto!" She responded back to him raising her voice so that she would not be drowned out, she would be heard and he would listen to her words whether he wanted to or not. "He already murdered and killed others that we saw him do it including a member of his own team. There's a line Naruto!" She exclaimed to him. "A line that you cannot cross and if you do there's no going back and Sasuke stepped over it with no regrets whatsoever! The same line Orochimaru, Sasori, and several others crossed, he crossed it as well! You saw how he acted! You saw him try to murder me! How he would kill you and Kakashi with no hesitation at all! Nothing mattered to him anymore! He said that he would kill every last person in Konoha, down to the last infant because his clan was stopped before they could perform a coup. And yet you still acted as though everything was just fine and we're on E Class Missions and this is all just an argument over a broken shuriken! You blatantly ignored what he was trying to do and the look of madness in his eyes! You acted as though if you ignored the problem it will go away even if its staring you in the face! People were dying and being hurt with what was happening and we all knew what needed to be done and instead you chose to cover your ears and act as though you're not hearing it because it's not what you want to hear! Is that what you planned on doing if you became Hokage? Ignore the problems because you don't want to face reality and see them for what they are? Real Hokage material you've shown yourself to be." She said a sneer of disgust on her face. "You're nothing but talk."

Sakura pointed at his hitai-ate her finger trembling with rage. "You do not deserve that, you do not deserve to wear that! There have been better ninja than you who have worn that and they should wear it instead of you. You're a disgrace to any person in the world who has ever called themselves Shinobi with how you act!" She accused him.

"How you cried and threw a tantrum in front of everyone at the fact that things weren't going your way as we all agreed that Sasuke had to be stopped before it was too late, how you refused to do anything! I took it upon myself to do so because you were more concerned with bawling and crying because your feelings were hurt!"

"You're a hypocrite!" Sakura said as her eyes burned as she looked on accusing him. "You…you who are so quick to demonize and call people monsters for what they've done, but Sasuke somehow gets a pass? No he doesn't Naruto! You don't get a pass in life because you was friends with someone at one time, nor are you forgiven for the deeds you've committed. If that's the case Orochimaru himself should be forgiven if he was our friend as well wouldn't he? Would Kakuzu and Hidan be forgotten about killing Asuma as well? Or Gato huh? Remember him?" She said recalling to him everyone they had ever fought against and faced from when they first started as Ninja to now. "What he did to Wave and brutally killing the man who Inari thought of like a father in front of his own eyes? Would you be willing to forgive and sweep it under the rug as well if they were our 'friends' and half heartedly mumble sorry? Answer Me!" She demanded to know. "Why were you so intent on giving Sasuke a get out of jail free card when he proved himself that he was going to be no better than them? What gives him the right to be forgiven? Because he was our friend? Friendship doesn't mean anything if that person tries to kill and harm innocent people who have done nothing to them." She told him

"So go ahead, sit there in the dirt, pout and whine like a child if it makes you feel better, I don't care." Sakura said to him "I made my choice with what happened that day and if I had the opportunity to relive that moment, I would do it again with no regrets." She told Naruto coldly. "I'm actually glad that I did it, that I killed him instead of watching you freeze and do nothing. Better that I have Sasuke's blood on my hands than for you to not do anything and turn a blind eye to what's happening." She said to him.

"Goodbye Naruto…this maybe the last time we ever talk to one another. Despite how you claim and think I also wanted Team 7 to be together again. I'm sorry…I truly am, that things didn't go the way either of us wanted them to." Sakura said and turning around walked away not once stopping or turning her head or shifting her eyes to look back at him.

Naruto watched her go not moving from the spot as he looked on at Sakura watching her leave