Darkness: Narusaku

-- I looked out to the vast darkness that had encased everything. This was the end of the world, and I knew it. I looked around for Naruto's face, I needed something to keep me from breaking down and he was my safe haven. It took me a bit but I found him. He was standing in the mist of the rubble looking up toward the sky as if challenging God to strike him down. All around us was sheer panic. I have never seen anything like it. We were supposed to be ninja protecting everything that was good, not scared children. No more than 5 hours ago everything was perfect. Everything was finally right, I was finally happy. But not anymore. There was no joy, there was no celebration. There was death. Death and sorrow.

--5 hours earlier... --

"Naruto!" I shouted as I saw my best friend, and my secret lover. This was the day I was going to tell him how I felt.

"Sakura-chan! What's up?" He is just so handsome. I literally had to stop myself from jumping on him right then.

"I need to talk to you. Want to get some ramen?" Of course he did! I have never, ever, know Naruto to turn down an offer of ramen. Especially when he didn't have to pay for it.

"Of course! Like I would ever turn down ramen, or the chance to spend time with your Sakura-chan!"

See? What did I tell you? "Let's go!"

--30 min later... --

"ARIGATO!!!" Leave it to Naruto to wake the dead with his screaming. Although that is one of the reasons I love him...

"So Sakura-chan, what did you need to tell me?"

"Well, it's a long story actually..." I didn't even know where to begin. All these years of me denying my feelings because I thought I was in love with Sasuke...what a mistake that was.

"I've got plenty of time." Why did he have to be so damn cute? Isn't it enough that he can see straight to my soul with those deep blue eyes of his? Or that his smile could keep my going for years? Or even that any time he touches me it's like I have lightning running through my veins? I know, I know. I've fallen for him, hard.

I turned and looked into his eyes. God, I could do this the rest of my life. "Naruto, I..."

There was no time, I didn't see it coming nor did I get the sickening feeling that my world was about to be turned upside down.

It all happened so fast I didn't even have time to process what was going on. One moment I was sitting right next to Naruto, knees touching, eyes locked. The next thing I knew I was thrown the opposite direction he was and slammed into the wall, while the whole building collapsed on top of me.

"Oww..Shit. What the hell happened? Wait...where's Naruto?"

I couldn't feel my body. The weight of the building was pressing down on me and I could hardly breathe. I tried to push the wall off my body but it was no use, I was stuck and unless someone came to find me, I was going to die here. That was when I heard Naruto yelling.

"Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan where are you?!"

I tried to yell out but I couldn't get any air into my lungs. They were on fire. I was the 2nd strongest female in the whole village, probably stronger than almost any of the guys and I couldn't even lift this wall off of me. I didn't have much time either. The black was threatening to close in and I knew if I passed out now I was never going to wake up again. That's when I started to feel the rubble move around me. For what seemed like hours, all it did was shift with no relief to my burning lungs. All of a sudden the pressure was removed, and I heard a crash on the other side of the collapsed building.

"SAKURA-CHAN!"

He was safe. That was my first thought. I didn't even care that I could finally breath again. All that mattered to me was his safety, and by the looks of things he didn't look to beaten up either. Just a gash in the side of his head along with minor cuts and bruises on the rest of his body. Me on the other hand, I looked like I had just stepped out of a war zone. I knew I had broken ribs, I could feel them. I had also severely sprained my ankle, almost to the point where it would have been better to have completely broken it. Not to mention that fact that I was bleeding from deep gashes all over my body.

It was after evaluating him and then myself that I looked into his eyes. He was so concerned. There was no other way to describe it. I have seen him look concerned before but this...I have never seen him this upset, ever.

"Sakura..chan..."

He couldn't say anything else. And he didn't need to, I knew he well enough to know what he was thinking.

"Naruto...it's okay. I'm ...fine." It was so hard just to say those few words.

He pulled me up to my feet and wrapped his arm around my waist. Just this touch alone made me knees weak. As we walked out of the rubble to the rest of the village (well he walked, I more or less hobbled while trying my best to stay off my ankle) there was no words that could describe the amount of damage both of us saw. All we could do was look at each other and stare in horror as we saw the crumpled remains of our village.

So...what do you guys think??

I never did finish my first story but i have a really good feeling about this one so hopefully you all enjoy it as much as i do!

Comments are appreciated :)