Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. Nor do I own the lyrics of 'Since U've Been Gone'.

"Thank you…"

I stared out of the window, watching the storm outside. Streaks of lightning flared in the iron sky. I focused on a rain drop that slid down the window pane. Somehow, my thoughts turned to him as it always did for these four years.

Here's the thing, we started out friends
It was cool, but it was all pretend
Yeah yeah, since you been gone

My fists clenched. I hated the way I clung to him throughout the day, I hated the way I'd always follow him, even though his decisions are wrong. I hated myself.

Dedicated, you took the time
Wasn't long till I called you mine
Yeah yeah, since you been gone

Of course, he ALWAYS responded to my care. He ALWAYS let me waste his time. At that time, I thought he understood. I thought he secretly yearned for me.

I thought I had changed him from a human iceberg to something resembling a human being.

I thought wrong.

And all you'd ever hear me say
Is how I picture me with you
That's all you'd ever hear me say

I remember every single time I'd try to coax him to talk, try to make him fit in with our little group. And I remember every rejection that came, every wall that he built, just to…what? Become some bloody human iceberg who avenges?

I don't think he ever saw that every 'annoying' thing I do, it was only because I wanted to care for him the way no one else ever had. I tried so hard.

But since you been gone
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so moving on
Yeah yeah
Thanks to you, now I get what I want
Since you been gone

But now…after four years, I know better. Yeah, I pined and whined and bloody cried for the first few months after he went away, hoping the supposed bond between us would tell him to come back.

What I fool I had been at that time.

How can I put it, you put me on
I even fell for that stupid love song
Yeah yeah, since you been gone

And there came the day when I finally grew up from a love-sick girl to a more mature teenager. I just woke up from bed, my eyes all red from crying in the middle of the night, and decided that he didn't have any feelings for me. I suppose I got over him, little by little, with every laugh and smile I had with his absence, something I always thought was impossible.

How come I'd never hear you say
I just wanna be with be with you
Guess you never felt that way

I don't even talk of him now. The subject had become a sort of…taboo for me. For all of us. Even though I try hard not to think about him so much, I still do on occasions when I let my mind drift. I think I still care about him.

But I'm going to move on. Why should I stay loyal to a person who doesn't even know I'm alive?

You had your chance, you blew it
Out of sight, out of mind
Shut your mouth I just can't take it
Again, and again, and again, and AGAIN!

Every rejection takes toll on me. All I've got to say is…

Goodbye, Sasuke…goodbye for ever.