Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto...

Photograph

I hated taking pictures. They just weren't my thing. I always seemed to find something wrong with how I looked so I vowed to never take another. After all, pictures weren't all that important, right?

Then I found myself being forced to take a dreadful picture. It was to be a picture of my team, which was number 7 at the time. My sensei pleaded until it drove me crazy and I gave in.

The day we were going to take the picture, I wanted everything to be perfect. I wanted this picture to be the one where I actually looked nice; one where my forehead didn't stand out too much.

I straightened my hair and applied some make up, just to impress them, the boys on my team. I met them at the assigned meeting place and we took the picture. I still remember the compliments.

"You look beautiful, Sakura-chan!"

"Very nice, Sakura."

"Hmm, you look different…"

I felt so happy that day since even he had noticed.

Sensei gave us a copy and told us to keep it somewhere where we would find it again. So, one day, in the future, we would look at it and remember.

"For memories," He said with that twinkle in his only visible eye.

I didn't really listen to him at that time.

Two months later, my team was in disarray. Team 7 would never be complete again.

He had left, become a missing nin, leaving me with nothing but a word of thanks.

Selfishly, I made Naruto promise to bring him back. He promised with his life. I cried more those days than I cried my whole life.

Now, I always take pictures and keep them. They are my life line when my loved ones leave on dangerous missions. They will always be there, so I never forget those that pass away.

I still have my team picture. I found it a while ago during one of my sobbing fits. It's worn and fading at the edges. I now look at it everyday and do what Kakashi-sensei said we would: remember. I gaze at his face and pray that he's still alive.

I guard that picture with my life. After all, it's one of my only memories of him.

Of Uchiha Sasuke.