The soft waves caressed my skin, lapping and moving across my body as I dove in and out of the lucid waves.

Down, clear crystal perfection, dark stunning blues and bright azure. Up, take a breath and forward, down again into the soft liquid. Twisting and turning, eyes glancing at the pallid bubbles as they lifted up to the surface of the water that was an undulating mirror of brightness, the sun shining through.

Burst through the mirror and into the cold harsh winds, a breath, and down again, soft warm water dulling the harsh sting of the winds. I closed my eyes lost in this underwater heaven. The air betrayed me and pulled me up to the surface once again. My eyes creaked open, my vision blurred, the bright droplets upon my eyes.

Another breath and I let myself sink. Once again, down in the depths glancing around at the shades of blue, the dark black of the rocks, and the shining brightness of up above. My feet kicked, sending me forward, I turned around so that my front faced the mirror. I whipped my head back, and saw the dark in another perspective, the white and the dark switched places, the white below and the dark above.

Once again, the air betrayed me and my head floated delicately above the water. Lungs automatically gulping hungrily at the air, long fast breathes, sucking in as much of the harsh air as possible. The cold air intruding upon my soft lungs, cold from the inside, eyes slit open and stared at the too bright sky.

"Oi! What the hell are you doing teme?" a voice I knew too well called out loudly on the far side of the rocky pool I had been swimming in.

My head tilted over to where the voice shouted, the water droplets in my eyes blurring my vision once again. I could only see a blotch of orange and yellow against pallid greens and browns.

Immediately recognizing it, the words formed slowly in my mouth and I whispered out "Tch, dobe." I turned my head back towards the sky and closed my eyes, the red of my veins causing my vision to turn red behind my eyelids.

"OI DON'T IGNORE ME!" the voice screeched.

"Like I could." I mumbled again, happy the dobe couldn't hear me.

If he heard me talking this much he might get scared. My eyes shot open as I heard the dobe splashing across the water towards me, my dark midnight eyes squinted as the sun's powerful rays suddenly gave me a shot of pain.

I glared over at the dobe as he walked across the water over to me. He squatted down near my head and poked me.

"Oi, teme, you still alive or what?" he asked, and then poked me again.

"If I was dead, I wouldn't be glaring at you would I dobe?" I asked, still glaring. He grinned and stood up abruptly

"Well that's good. Cause now I can do this without feeling bad!" and at that he lifted his foot up and brought it straight down on my stomach. Or so he tried. I swiftly grabbed his foot; though the pressure of it was enough to submerge my head under the water again.

Because my mouth was still open I got a lungful of water, I struggled upward letting go of the dobe's foot. Immediately I gathered chakra into my hands. I felt the cool sensation of the energy flowing through me, rushing towards my hands.

I placed my hands on the water and pushed myself up, almost as if the water was as solid as ground, because to my chakra added hands it was. I leaned over coughing and sputtering the water out of my lungs. I growled glaring at the short blonde, the droplets were gone, my vision perfect once again.

His messy blonde spikes that seemed to defy gravity, the sunlight bouncing off them softening the tuffs of hair. The bright outfit, the bright hair, and last the bright eyes. Sparkling, just like the water in this rocky prison. I swiftly moved the chakra into my feet and stood upon the water, rising above the dobe by a few inches.

"How did you …find me here dobe?" I asked slowly, confused but not showing it or letting it taint my voice.

This rocky cave was mine, only mine. It was hidden, a good ten miles away from civilization, the opening was crowded with vines and several large trees stood in front of it. The only other hole out of this cave was above, a large hole that let the sunshine through, brightening the water on which I now stood, changing the water from a murky black to a riveting battle of blues.

"Don't call me dobe duckbutt head! The name's Naruto! Get it right!" he shouted, his head flew up, eyes closing, his arms crossed and lips in a full on pout.

"Why are you here, dobe." I spoke icily, knowing it would catch his attention and make him stop acting like a fucking idiot.

At that Naruto's eyes opened, his arms dropped to his sides, and his pout gone. "I was going to my training grounds and I heard splashing, I came in here and saw you floating there. How the hell was I supposed to know if you were dead or not?"

My eyebrow rose ever so slightly. Training grounds? Ten miles away from any human contact?

I regarded him, thinking it over; he twitched under the gaze but stared back all the same.

How could he possibly find this place? Ten miles is a long way away for anyone to go anywhere, well, except for me. Whenever the dobe trains it's always in our usual training grounds. When does he ever come out here? And I highly doubt that my splashing would carry out of the cave and to the blonde's ears. Even if it did, Naruto could not possible find the entrance. It was hard for even me to find! There was something…strange about this.

"There is no possible way you could have found this place on your own. The opening is nearly impossible to find and it is about ten miles away from people….dobe…why were you following me?" I asked looking calculatingly at the blonde, as if staring at him would reveal all the answers

Naruto looked at him, his gaze softening, looking at me sadly, a small smile on his face. "I always come here, after all its where…it's where I have my last memory of you."

My eyes widened then narrowed, what the hell was Naruto talking about? But as if ignoring my confused gaze Naruto continued on.

"Ya know, sometimes, when I come here I see you. Like now. But…it's never for real. Even when I push you under the water….its like I can almost feel you."

Wha-what was he talking about?! I'm right here!

I grabbed his arm and growled "What are you talking about Uzumaki, I'm right here."

His eyes went huge, showing disbelief and horror.

"N-no, that can't be right. Y-you can't touch me Sasuke. You… your just a hallucination right? Right?" Naruto stuttered staring at me eyes still wide.

"What are you talking about dobe, make sense."

Then, a swift wind burst into the cave, swirling around my hairs and Naruto's. The wind chilled me to the bone, the answer chilling me more. His sentence was just a breath in the wind, a small whisper among a large torrent. A cloud covered the top entrance covering us in darkness as my midnight pooled eyes widened. His answer...a small voice in the wind...a small voice that could do so much as to push my world into that of darkness and confusion...

"S-Sasuke…your…

...your dead."

OK first chapter! How was it? Randomly came to me as I was swimming then the end came as I was sitting in bed….er now…at 2:47AM…yep I'm crazy…anyway review and get cookies! And help pay for my medicine…with reviews!!!

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