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Author's Notes: This is one of those fics that I just dug out of my computer, edited it, and bingo! It's here for you to read! Please enjoy! Any comments or criticism are welcomed!


Broke My Promise

A Naruto fan-fiction

In your life, there are just too many instances when situations which you hoped to avoid came around. There are too many instances when you feel despair and disappointment, not just with someone else but also with yourself.

There are times when you just simply want to turn back, to ignore, to forget, to leave alone. You want to run away, because the situation is just too painful for you to bear. You feel burdened down, whether by guilt, by sorrow, by disappointment, or just by despair.

This is one of those times. You see her eyes, her beautiful emerald green eyes, once filled with so much of the sparkle of life, of happiness, dimmed and dampened by sorrow and disappointment as she stares into yours. Your heart wrenches as you berate yourself for all that has passed.

Yes, it was your fault. The hopes of the girl you loved are crushed because you failed. You failed to bring back the man she loves so much, the man who left her for his own desires, his own dreams, the man who never valued her as much as his own desires.

Under the blanket, your fist clenches, unseen by anyone. Your mind still refuses to acknowledge the reality of the situation. You try to run away, try to run away from the knowledge that your friend tried to kill you, and that you nearly died because of him. You don't want to accept the fact, because you just refuse to let Fate be.

You just can't find it in your heart to accept that truth, because he felt like what a brother should be, a brother whom you never had, and will never ever had. You remember all the times that you spent together, and your heart squeezes tightly.

Why did all these happen? You ask yourself, once, twice, but you can't find an answer. There are two sides to a coin, and there will always be. You want to blame someone, anyone, but you just cannot. Thus, you only have yourself to blame.

However, no matter how much you want to blame yourself, accuse yourself, you just can't, because you are afraid to face the fact that you actually failed. You are disappointed with yourself. You made that promise, that promise of a lifetime, and you broke it. You feel so guilty, so guilty that you feel you are going to crack, to collapse, under the terrible weight that is guilt.

Even after she assures you that she doesn't blame you in the slightest, you are still guilty. Guilty because you never ever fulfilled the promise you had set out to do. You despair, because you want to take her tears away, but you cannot. The only person who can take her tears away is him, and he is gone.

When she leaves the room, an overwhelming sense of sorrow befalls you. Things can never be the same again. Never will she smile as happily, as energetically as she used to. Neither will you. The shadow of sorrow and pain hangs over you your head.

But because of this, you come out stronger and more determined than ever. You will not fail her. No matter how many times you do not succeed, you will always get up on your feet to try again, to attempt it once more.

It was, after all, a promise of a lifetime.

To bring him back.