Hi! This is my first fanfic! XD any comments will be highly appreciated. I need all the advice I can get (rubs hands together nervously)

Disclaimer: Not my characters.

Four years.

He'd been gone for four years.

Naruto looked down at the framed photo he held in his hands. Moonlight washed over everything in the shabby apartment. Paint peeled off of the walls, white disappearing to reveal the concrete gray underneath. The wooden floor was faded from many years of wear.

Every night before going to sleep, Naruto sat down on the edge of his bed and held the old picture. Team 7's picture. It had been so long since they had last been together, and the pain of the loss never went away. Sometimes when Naruto was around precious friends, the pain was a dull, throbbing ache. When he was alone, it mutated into an ugly, piercing stab that was centered around his heart.

Team 7 had never gotten over the betrayal of their teammate, Sasuke.