There was a part of all of us that left when he died. I screamed out my sadness into my best friend and tried not to blame myself for his death. I desperately wanted an escape, I wanted everything to be okay again. It was so simple when we had started. Those bells. Those damn bells. Then we did it again. Now, here's the dysfunctional second family being torn apart again. 'I could've saved him...' I thought to myself. No, this was all a sick joke he was playing. Or maybe he had to flee and faked his death. Yes, somewhere out there in the world he was alive. I refused to believe otherwise. Any person that told me otherwise from the funeral on I would simply ignore. He's not gone, he never left us. Still here, standing with my best friend surrounding me in his arms. That's how I choose to stay for now. I don't really even care that he has someone blindly in love with him and he is starting to acknowledge her. He is mine now, until I get over this "fake death". I can't take this anymore I think I'm breaking apart all over again. I didn't need this and neither did anyone else. No one even expected it which didn't make it better. I carefully tried to "fake mourn" our "loss". After awhile, people would start to think I'm crazy I supposed. After all I'm the only one who figured out he faked his death. It's all a dirty trick by some evil forcing him to leave. As long as he's alive, I can be happy. I paced my mind throughly thinking of explanations. I found none...so I guess even my mind refuses my crazy idea he's not dead. No, his face is too calm it's not him. I can't take it I'm going crazy. We need him back. The team needs to be reunited. Everyone, all together for once. I think I finally accepted it. One day when all of us die, there will be a nice reunion. In heaven, where everyone is together. It's just painful to accept he left us too early.

I walked away from Naruto, silently praying he wouldn't follow. I wanted to admit to my problems by myself to myself. I walked past my own house, going to a place I had never been. The Uchiha grounds were tattered and broken but I could still see the glimmer of the past in some of the shops and houses that were strangely well preserved. I didn't know where Sasuke had lived in his time here, but I figured it would be quiet and no one would think I had come here. I walked into the biggest house I could find and saw pictures of his family. Of course, this was his old house; the biggest house possibly in Kohona. I stared in awe at the vast spaces. I saw a ripped door still standing but barely. I carefully walked through and stood still when I saw what was there. Blood marks, on the ground in the shape of two bodies lying on top of eachother. It almost reminded me of the recent death. I broke down and fell to the ground sobbing uncontrollably knowing Sasuke had witnessed this as a young child with actual bodies of his parents there and his brother standing over them like a madman, betraying everything Sasuke had looked up to in his young years. I stopped crying and sat there against the wall, having nothing left to say to myself. What had happened here, was ridiculously tragic. I couldn't bring myself to stand up and lay there for the rest of the night, with tears still flowing down my face. I woke up with a strange feeling. I didn't know where I was, or why I was there until I looked over and saw the marks on the ground. I scared myself and ran up and out the door. I walked through the ghostly kitchen and saw a back door leading to a waterfront. I walked out and sat on the vast dock watching the water ripple when I hit it with my hand. I made bigger and bigger waves, until I ended up making a huge tidal wave with my chakra. I walked on to the water, gracefully almost flying over the water to the edges as though I was ice skating. It was warm outside, and I decided to test out some simple elemental jutsus Naruto, Tsunade and some teammates had taught me throughout the years. All of them were weak, though I was pretty good at the wind and water justus. I sat on the water and looked out at the wind gathering up speed blowing leaves around. Finally, I decided to get up and walk back to Kohona and go back to my house to clean myself up. Iran atop the trees and roofs to my house trying to avoid everyone. I felt someone was following me and picked up some speed getting to my house. I climbed through my window and shut it fast. I guessed it wasn't fast enough because as soon as I sat down on my bed sighing relief, I heard a deep voice say "Hello Sakura". I think that's when I fainted...