It was cold, that's all I could think of, the coldness...and the pain. The pain of losing him, of not being able to save him, letting him be killed. I was supposed to protect him, that was my mission and I couldn't even do that. I'm an ANBU, and he was killed by some rouge ninja. Some ANBU I turned out to be. I guess, like always, love got in the way. That's always been one of my biggest weaknesses...love. I-no we just got him back, brought him from the path of destruction. We were going to a healer in Sunagakure, too see if they had the herbal medicines I needed to heal his eyes. We were chatting like we were best friends, but then he just had to say those words.
"I…I think I love you."
I froze, and started laughing.
"Yeah right" I said "Like you could love someone like me!"
"I'm being serious...I think- no, I love you."
The insides of my eyes stung. I knew I was going to cry.
"SAKURA, WATCH OUT!" he cried.
He pushed me out of the way before the kunai could pierce my chest. He fell to the floor, not breathing, his chest hardly moving. I stood there in shock, before finally coming to my senses. Using my brute force, I created a large crater in the ground, killing all my foes. I ran to him, thinking the worst. 'What if I can't save him?' 'What if I can't give him a reply?'
His body was cold, almost like corpse cold, paler then normal, and his normally tamed hair, plastered to his face with his blood.
"S-Sakura…" he breathed.
"Shh don't speak, save your energy." I whispered.
"G-G-Give a-a-answer…"
"Give you an answer…okay," I started to work on heeling him "well, when I first saw you, I thought 'oh, he's pretty cute' but me being me, thought nothing of it. When we started school, I payed hardly any attention to you, well I watched you, but not you…you know? Then everything went downhill, and I started to fall…harder. I didn't realize at the time what was happening, but what you said today, right now…I think-no I know, I know that I love you too. I always have and I always will."
The tears were falling now, onto his dirty face. He may be dirty, but he was still beautiful to me.
"T-T-That's g-great…I love y-you my…"he whispered his last words with an emotion no one thought he had, "my cherry blossom."
His head lolled back, his body limp and frozen in my arms. I've held many dead people in my lifetime, but right now, right this moment, he felt like the first.
"Hey…w-w-wake up…you have to wake up…" I started shaking his shoulders, but he was still limp and lifeless in my hands.
"No, y-y-you can't die..."
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"ITACHI!"
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