🍃The end of one thing, the beginning of another.🍃

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Hope you enjoy the first chapter...

The sound of two people panting rapidly echoed off the cliffs of The Valley Of The End. "Why... why do you go so far for me!" Sasuke asked coughing.

"Because I'm your friend! That's wh..why." Naruko stated softly before breaking out into a coughing fit, everything hurt it was hard to breath. But Naruko expected this- both she and Sasuke had been beating the crap out of each other not five minuets ago. That seemed to be all they do these days. Naruko chuckled softly to herself, the air got caught in her sore throat and she coughed again, spitting the blood out of her mouth she heard sasuke who was to her right clench his teeth.

"Tell me the truth." He growled a desperate edge to his voice.

Naruto contemplated silently for a moment. " It hurts..."

"What hurts?" Sasuke asked was she taking what he asked seriously at all.

"I don't know... it's just the thought that you not being here. With me, makes my chest feel like it's being ripped apart from the inside out..."

Sasuke's stared up at the sky. "Why?" He mumbled it so quietly that Naruko almost didn't hear what he said.

She was quiet for another moment, slowly and with great difficulty Naruko turned her head to face Sasuke. She took a moment to calm her erratic and heavy breathing. "That's a question I repeatedly asked myself all the time you were with Orochimaru. Why did I care so much for you when you did nothing but cause me pain..." She said softly. Sasuke didn't turn his head to look at Naruko but he glanced down at her out of the corner of his eyes.

"I might end up causing you more pain-" Sasuke started to say but Naruko continued cutting him off, acting as if she'd never heard him.

"... And then like a light bulb had gone off the reason came to me..."

"And what was the reason?" Sasuke asked evenly, he didn't know why she was drawing it out but it was putting him on edge- not that he let her see he was on edge.

Naruko gave him her signature eyes closed 100 kilo watt smile."The reason I never gave up on you, is because I love you Sasuke, belive it!"

Sasuke's eyes went impossibly wide at Naruko's declaration and he continued to stare unable to formulate any words to reply. People had confessed that they were in love with him ever since he was a child but never before had a confession effected his as the few words the idiot beside him had, his heart was hammering in his chest and he wasn't sure that it was because of exhaustion.

"I.. I don't... hate you either." Was the best reply he could come up with his face heated up and his pale white skin turned beet red, hesitantly he shot a bashful look towards Naruko to see her reaction to his words, he expected to see an equally beet red face only not on pale skin but lightly tanned skin instead. Naruko wasn't red but she had her eyes closed Sasuke thought she was going to give him that smile again.

'Snore~💤'

'💢' The vain in Sasuke's forehead bulged, that idiot had some nerve falling unconscious and making him say all those embarrassing things and not even be consious to hear them-well it was only five words, six if you counted in the bit where he stuttered. Sasuke sighed in defeat. Naruko always did have a habit of ruining the moment, sasuke felt foolish for forgetting that key part of the blond personality, his sigh then morphed into a smile, he was glad to see that she hadn't changed much from when they were kids.

He stayed just watching the clouds and listening to the soothing sounds Naruko was making as she breathed in and out softly, as he continued to listen to Naruko's breathing. Sasuke wondered how long it would take the rest of them to arrive they must have realised by now that after releasing everyone from the infinite Tsukuyomi. The two of them had slipped away to have their fight, leaving behind shadow clones of themselves. Shadow clones that had probably been dispelled already when the both depleated their Chakra by the end of their battle. Yes it defiently wouldn't be long before the Calverley arrived

Sasuke's eyes shot towards the waterfall when he sensed a huge spike in Chakra, he watched with his sharingan activated as before them appeared a black swirling void made up entirely of Chakra. He didn't know how that was possible there was nothing there just a minuet ago and he didn't feel any hostility being sent their way so what caused it?

Sasuke watched with bated breath as the it's appearance and shape evolved into something that looked similar to Kakashi and the deceased Obito's Sharingan ability that enabled them to suck objects and people into a separate space. And just like that power, the void built up momentum and power, it started to pull the surrounding water and the debris that was caused by their fight earlier towards its center.

Using what Chakra he had left, Sasuke anchored himself to the ground he couldn't move so all he could do was endure the voids pull long enough for it to hopefully fizzle out of existence once the Chakra that that fueling it ran out.

The pull suddenly became even stronger, it kicked up fierce winds that whipped Sasuke's hair into his face. Yellow and orange flashed in Sasuke's side vision right before Naruko flew over him in that instant the Sasuke's world froze as he watched as the unconscious limp body glided over him. And for one Tenth of a second Sasuke entertained the thought of not grabbing the unconscious blond and just sitting by and watching as the only obstacle that stood in his way of he becoming Hokage the idiot that constantly at his heels no matter how strong he got was taken care of by a well timed phenomenon. But then three words echoed in his head.

'I love you'

'I love you'

'I love you' that smile of hers. That 100 kilo watt smile gripped his mind and wouldn't let go. He looked at the peaceful expression of the oblivious blond, she looked so serene... Sasuke's arm snapped out, with speed and strength he didn't think he could muster he grabbed Naruko's hand and held on with a bruising grip. He wasn't going to let her go he needed her just as much as she needed him, if it was her destiny to die it will be by his hand and no one else's just as his life is hers to end and no one else's.

"Naruko! Wake up!" Sasuke shouted, she didn't even stir Sasuke grit his teeth and tried to endure the strain of keeping them both anchored. But it was no use and Sasuke's spent Chakra drained into nothing.

"No!" Sasuke shouted as his body failed him and he was lifted off the ground by the wind and they both went hurtling towards the void. Sasuke pulled Naruko into the safety of his chest and wrapped his arms around her a hand reaching up protectivly to cover her head.

When they broke the threshold of the void Sasuke was greeted by a black empty space it seemed to go on forever, he couldn't tell which way was up and which way was down. Lights of all different colours flashed all around them fluckerig then disappearing only for another coloured light to take its place, even with the Rinnegan and Sharingan he could make out what this empty dimension was. Suddenly Sasuke's entire body jolted and a blinding pain shot through Sasuke's whole body, it was a pain like he'd never felt before it was like his entire body was being compressed and torn apart at the same time.

Even the unconscious Naruko trashed and buckled in Sasuke's arms, her mouth open in a scream that never met his ears. The pain became too much and Sasuke blacked out for a moment when he crawled his way back to consciousness Naruko was no longer in his arms but floating next to him, he'd let go of her when he passed out.

Sasuke reached for her, his limbs felt like they were submerged in lead, his fingers brushed the sleve of her black turtle neck jacket but before he could grab Naruko. Sasuke's vision wavered again the last thing he saw as he drifted in to darkness was Naruko getting smaller and smaller as if she was drifting further and further away into a white blinding light. With himself following right behind her.

Sasuke's body went limp, his eyes closed and he slipped into unconsciousness...

And that's the end of chapter 1

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Next chapter: Chapter 2- Waking up and shocking discoveries.

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