Naruto's Pov

The wind was blowing as if it had a mind of its own, and it was angry. The sun was bright that day in the Konoha, but it wasn't a happy day. Two shinobi were standing in the forest on the outskirts of the Hidden Leaf Village and were standing a few feet apart facing each other.

He was a mix of emotions standing in front of his brother, his eternal rival. Sasuke.

Naruto reached up and scratched the back of his head and laughed, "I think this is the first time you're leaving and im not trying to stop you."

Sasukes face showed the faintest trace of a smirk and looked up to the sky, closed his eyes and actually smiled, "I wish Itachi could see me now, leaving the hidden leaf to protect it. Just like him. "

He looked back down at Naruto and said, "You know I have to leave. I'm the only one that has this eye. Im the only that can see the traces and potential movements of this enemy." He faltered as he looked like he wanted to say more. He looked away.

Naruto knew now that to get things out of Sasuke you had to stay quiet and let him advance the conversation. When the war was done he came back to the village. After helping win the war and save the world he was pardoned for his crimes. It had been months since they had been back and Sasuke just didn't feel right living here, not that soon, not after everything that happened and the knowledge that he knew. He felt like he needed to do this, to repint for the sins and all the damage he caused.

He will get through this, I know it. He thought. He truly believed that his friend would beat his demons one day, and Naruto knew this journey was a big part of him finding himself again.

He had confessed all of this to Naruto a few weeks ago. The first step of his plan to undo his wrongs was not getting his arm back. Along with the First Hokages cells Tsunade and Sakura had created a prosthetic arm for Naruto, and Sasuke had declined. Nobody could convince him otherwise. It was something he thought he had to do.

Narutos ponderings were halted by Sasuke holding out his one arm to shake his hand.

"This is goodbye. Thank you, for everything. I would have never seen the light without you intervening when you did."

Naruto just smiled. Nothing needed to be said, and shook his hand, grabbed something from behind and placed it in Sasuke's hand. He looked stunned. In his hand was the hiate with the hidden leaf that was scratched out. His old headband. He stared at it for a good while and then slid it in his pack.

He turned to leave and halted, he looked back over his shoulder to look at Naruto.

"Tell her I'm sorry, it was never meant to be." He whispered, then leaped off into the trees and was gone.

Naruto was left standing there. Staring into space where his friend had left, his black cloak with red flames billowing in the wind.

He sighed and turned to head home. Even from as far away as he was he could feel the two chakra signatures from the other members of team seven close to the gate.

Sakura's Pov

Fall had always been her favorite season, the leaves falling from the trees and the chilly air. The cold had nothing to do with why she had her arms wrapped tightly around her waist, or the tears slipping from her eyes, no. Today Sasuke was leaving. The person that she had loved or thought she loved since a girl, was leaving. The problem was that for so long she had this image of what her future would hold, and he was always in it. In her dreams of what could be, they would have their own family and her life would be happy.

Those dreams were swiped away by Sasuke himself months ago when he had tried to kill her under the bridge after slaying Danzo. She could still remember his eyes. There was madness in them that day, but she forged ahead and thought that she could fix him no matter how far he had fallen.

She came to a horrible realization. Her eyes wide, she buried her face in her arms and started to sob.

He would have actually killed me there if Naruto hadn't saved me. I wouldn't be here crying over him. My life would have been over right there, no future, no ki.. she couldn't finish the thought. Sasuke was gonna stab her in the back, she couldn't react fast enough and all she remembered was that she somehow ended up in Naruto's arm. Her life would be over. Shortly after that had been when she realized she wasn't in love with him anymore and the war was starting so she had to place her feelings aside. Since the war had been over for months now and everything was getting back to normal, she had time to actually evaluate her feelings. She still loved him, as a brother, as a teammate and as a friend but there was just nothing left in that way. Not after everything he did to her.

A squirrel leaping on the bench she was on broke her from her thoughts. Her hands came up and used her coat to wipe away her tears. She looked up at the sky and realized that she had been sitting there for over an hour. She was supposed to meet Kakashi at the gates with Naruto to see Sasuke off soon. As much as she didn't want to do this she had to.

She had gotten out of work early and decided to take a walk in the park that was nearby the hospital. That's how she had ended up sitting with her thoughts for so long. As she was walking her mind went to the village and how everything was good except for her current situation. Her days were busy now as the head medic of Konoha. Tsunade was still the Hokage, but everyone knew she was just bidding her time until Naruto was ready. Naruto. She caught herself thinking of him a lot recently. He had changed so much from that loud mouth kid that wouldn't shutup about becoming Hokage, he had proved everybody wrong. He was so close to his dream. The dream everyone always laughed at him for. Naruto the class clown had become the most powerful shinobi in the world.

Naruto's hordes of girls chasing him were proof that he hadn't only changed inwardly. The man was a spitting image of his father, with his long, unruly blonde hair and crystal blue eyes. The distinguishing feature between them was naruto's whiskers, in that, he was alone.

The gate was just up ahead and Sakura didn't see anybody. She walked up and only saw the two guards that were on duty.

"Sakura." Kakashi said casually as he was sitting on a limb of a tree just outside the gate with his book open in his hand. He dropped down gracefully, as only a ninja could. A lethal one at that.

She couldn't read his eye's. It was still weird to her looking at him with one eye not uncovered.

Sakura put her hands on her hips, "Where are those two boneheads?" she said loudly.

Kakashi looked away and sighed. As soon as she was about to ask whats wrong she felt Naruto's chakra past the gate coming towards them. It was impossible not to feel his when he wasn't hiding it, his was like a raging inferno, nobody else's compared.

They both looked up and watched as Naruto flew out of the tree line and landed a few feet away. She hadn't seen him in a few weeks. He had just got back from a mission when Sasuke had told them he was leaving.

He walked straight up to her. Blue met green. He is nervous about something she thought. He was being hesitant about something.

"Naruto, are you gonna tell me what you have to say or am I gonna have to beat it out of you." As her fists tightened at her sides. She was not in the mood to have her emotions played with.

"I'm so sorry Sakura. He's gone."