Sadly I don't own Naruto and anything that has to do with it…

First of all I have to mention, that this is a Naruto-Sakura fanfic. In second place I want you to know, that I am German, so please don't mind of grammar and orthography.

You may ask yourself, why I'm writing in English. I'm doing it so that everybody can enjoy this story.

I also don't want to tell you anything about what's going to happen in this story, because I want you to feel, what the characters feel.

So, sit down, take you some time, relax and read…

The Fight

"Sasuke…" Naruto thought, when he saw him preparing for a strike "He is back." Sasuke hit him at the point where his heart was. It was the last thing he could think. Smoke. The Naruto vanished. Sasuke didn't have to turn his head to know, that this was just a shadow clone.

"Was it really going to happen? Sasuke is coming back home? Why all out of this sudden? Why didn't he tell anybody? And why did he destroy my shadow clone? Is he really returning, willingly to join team number 7? Or is he going to…?" Naruto's thoughts ended at this point, he didn't want to think further. He wanted Sasuke to return, as he promised Sakura.

"He's heading towards the Uchiha hideout." The real Naruto explained to his comrades.

"It's going to happen. Now." Kakashi muttered through his mask "Itachi must be awaiting him." "Hopefully he will come back. Sakura was always looking forward to this, and Naruto too…I don't want them too be turned down on their wishes again" He added in his mind.

"We need to hurry." Kakashi said, jumping off from the old branch, where Naruto, Sakura and Kakashi were taking a short brake to analyze the situation. They have been chasing Sasuke, when they've lost track of him, so Naruto had decided to send out his shadow clones to look after him. With success, obviously.

As soon as they set off, it started to rain heavily. It would be getting even harder to not lose Sasuke's track. But they continued their trace. Besides they knew where they had to go.

"Why did he smash my replication? Does he want to play a trick on us, or is he acting serious?" Naruto asked himself bemused. He neither knew what to believe nor what to do. The only thing he could do now was hope and run.

"Watch out, Naruto!" Sakura screamed.

Out of a sudden there were no more brunches to step on. Naruto barely managed to stop.

"That was close." Naruto murmured to himself while watching down the gulch opening in front of him.

"You have to be more wary. You could have hurt yourself." Sakura stated with both wrath and concern in her voice.

"Why is he always so incautious?" She asked herself.

"Over there" Kakashi said looking over to the two statues of Uchiha Madara and Sarutobi. There were two people facing each other in front of the waterfall.

"This must be Sasuke… But who is the other person?" Naruto asked, turning his head to face Kakashi.

"It's Itachi."

A big fireball burst out of Sasukes mouth. But before it could reach the target, Itachi countered the attack with an even huger fireball, which swallowed the smaller one and turned the waterfall into a big cloud of mist.

"He won't stand it against Itachi. He is even too strong for him:" Naruto thought and frowned, while Sakura was standing next to him, petrified, staring down onto the fighting brothers.

Sasuke flew high curve through the air and hit the ground with his face. A tear scrolled over Sakura's pale cheek, passed the corner of her mouth, rested briefly on her chin and hit the dusty ground.

Naruto remembered the promise he gave Sakura back then. " I have to safe Sasuke no matter what's going to happen. I gave her a promise of lifetime." He thought, while preparing to jump down the gulch.

"Take care of Itachi's eyes, when the get black, grab Sasuke and run." Kakashi muttered to Naruto.

The boy responded with a nod, never taking his eyes off Sasuke, and jumped, with all the force he could afford. The rocky ground, where he had been standing, had crumbled.

"Take care of yourself." Kakashi thought "Sakura couldn't handle with another loss."

Sakura was just standing there, incapable to move. She just could stare to Naruto joining the fight.

Naruto was about fifty metres away from the brothers, when the noticed him. Itachi just took a brief sight of Naruto and turned back to the fight. But Sasuke looked Naruto into his eyes. Out of the blue Sasuke was standing behind him.

"This is something between Itachi and me. Don't dare to interfere or I'm killing you. Now, get out of the way." Sasuke whispered into Naruto's ear.

"I won't. I will stay and help you." Naruto returned calmly.

"It's none of your business!"

"I'll stay and help you." Naruto repeated "I gave Sakura a promise of a lifetime. I pledged her that I would bring you back safely. It's my duty to do this."

"So it's as well your duty to die." Sasuke took a kunai and bounced it vigorously into Naruto's back. Pufff! The Naruto turned into smoke.

"You fell again for it" Naruto whispered with a crestfallen tone in his voice, appearing on his backside applying a kunai at Sasukes throat.

"How could I fall for such a plain trick?" Sasuke asked himself with an astonished look on his face.

Sasuke activated his full-body Chidori and let Naruto fly through the air. "You can't stop it, eh, Naruto. Why don't you go home and let the big boys play?" Sasuke asked sarcastically.

"It's because I can't stand it to see Sakura suffering." Naruto answered, blood floating out of the corners of his mouth.

"So, if Sakura is the issue" Sasuke said with a vicious glare in his eyes "why don't we get rid of her?"

Before Naruto got what Sasuke said under his belt, the black haired boy had already thrown a kunai into Sakura's direction.

Sakura was standing at the edge of the cliff seeing the kunai thrown by Sasuke approaching to her heart.

The time until the weapon impacted in her body seemed her to be thousand seconds. But she couldn't get her body moving. It was just like invisible bonds were impeding her feet to move.

Short before the kunai hit her she just stopped the attempt to dodge the attack. She capitulated.

"So this is what Sasuke really wants" Sakura thought, a split second later the weapon pierced her chest. She could feel the top of the sharp kunai ripping open her skin and hitting her heart. Sakura chuckled.

Kakashi couldn't believe his eyes, when Sakura hit the ground, blood flowing out of her body and colouring her light red garment dark red. He could have stopped the kunai, but he was too astonished about what was happening in front of his eye. With a short step he reached her and bent over her. Sakura had already shut her eyes. He pulled the kunai carefully out of her chest, trying not to cause more damage to her. Kakashi placed his hands on her wound, trying to close it with his chakra, like Tsunade showed it to him.

Although he could stop the bleeding and heal the rip in her heart, she needed professional help. He picked her up and jumped off the ground to head to Konoha, leaving Naruto back with Sasuke and Itachi.

"Naruto will do it right. I'm no more help to him." Sasuke thought with I slight uncertainty.

Sakura moved her right arm, opening her eyes up slightly. With her last force she opened her mouth.

"There is so much I wanted to tell Naruto." It was the last thing she could say, before she closed her eyes.

Naruto barely understood what Sasuke had done. He just stared into space, where Saskura had been standing.

"There is so much I wanted to tell you, Sakura-chan." Naruto whispered, while I single tear floated over his face. In his eyes there was an empty look. This wasn't anymore pain; it was like something in his soul had been disrupted.

"You don't need to hold your promise anymore." Sasuke said viciously.

Naruto turned back to Sasuke, facing him with his Kyuubi-eyes.

"Don't dare to say anything else. What you did to Sakura is unforgivable!" Naruto shouted at Sasuke, while his fingernails and teeth were growing.

"Now it's getting interesting" Sasuke said deridingly.

"I will kill you." Naruto growled back. There were nine tails lashing through the air. Naruto has completely transformed into the Kyuubi. But the fact, that Sasuke had killed Sakura a few minutes ago, gave him the strength to not loose consciousness.

"Try it" Sasuke retorted.

"Watch out, little brother" Itachi thought "Don't underestimate the Kyuubis power. Or you will be death in no second."

Sasuke attacked Naruto with his strongest chidori. Naruto didn't dodge it, he just blow him back with the wind deriving from his air cutting tails. It was like the chidori was just a bubble, which had been burst y a needle. Sasuke was perplexed. He didn't expect Naruto to be that strong. He wouldn't have any chance against him. But now it was too late. Naruto made appear two kage-bunshins. The first made a red chakra ball twist and the second one attended to it with wind manipulation. Sasuke just was staring at the one Rasengan, which even the fourth Hokage wasn't able to create.

Naruto now was running to Sasuke with horrific speed, leaving behind him a cloud of steam from the evaporating river. Sasuke wasn't fast enough to dodge the attack. When Naruto hit him, he didn't feel anything, he just died.

The blast from attack even hit Itachi, who was watching the fight, and took him out.

Naruto turned back into his normal appearance.

"I have to go back to Konoha." Naruto thought "Keep up, Sakura!"

Naruto left the place, where everything began five years ago. What a coincidence that this was also the site, where everything ceased.

So this is my firts chapter from my first story. It's a bit tragical, but don't mind about that. I hope you liked it. At the moment I'm writing the 2nd chapter and I promise you won't regret reading it.

Please review the story! I'm happy about everything, really!!!

It's just a little advice, if you want:you can interpret the story and advert it to the past of Naruto and Sakura and also to Sasuke (a bit) ;)