A/N: Holy Bananas!!! I FINALLY got my computer back! For those of you out there that are unaware of what I am speaking of, my computer had a virus. I've been sneaking time on my mom's laptop (meant for her job) just to keep my loyal readers updated on the events involving my computer. It's like 4:21am and I got class in four and a half hours. Then I have a lunch date with my mom. Then I have to go with my mom down to Charter and get us a home phone, cable, and faster internet. My internet connection sucks. 4realz. Slow as hell. And it's wireless. So ya. You can just imagine the frustration of high-speed internet not being high-speed. Anywayz! After the Charter biz, I have about an hour to finally get some sleep. Then at 6pm-9pm I have another class I have to attend. Then I get to come home and check my email and stuff, quickly before going to bed.
My computer had 12 viruses and 37 different website hacker pplz trying to access any and all of my information. Oh, and we can't forget all the cookies it had. Hundreds and hundreds of cookies. And I'm not talking about the kind you eat either. Lolz! So ya. My computer was seriously jacked up. For the last couple months it just sat in my room. Then my mom finally got fed up with me using her laptop all the time and had my computer taken in to get fixed.
Long story short, my computer is up and running again. This finished two-shot is merely my way of asking for forgiveness for my lack of updating. Oh and it's also a brib to forgive me if I don't update soon after this. My life has turned hectic. I'm lucky I'm typing this now. Plz forgive me for past and future behaviour.
Dedication: To all my loyal readers who stuck by my side and waited patiently for me to update. Thank you all. This is for you! My readers who reviewed and favorited! Lolz!
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Warning!!!: Character Death! You have been warned!
My hair has leaves, grass, and debris tangled in it, as it lies scattered around my shoulders. Blood is splattered all over my body. Dirt is caked to my skin.
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Never, in a million years, did I ever think I would be proving my strength like this. I had become the number one ninja in all of Konaha. I had become the captain of the number one ANBU sqaud in all of Konaha. I had even become the head of the hospital in Konaha.
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None of it matters. He doesn't care. He doesn't care if I surpassed a lengendary sanin. I'm still weak in his eyes. Still the no good fan. Who, in his eyes, will be nothing more than that. Weak.
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My left leg and right arm. Those are the limbs I can no longer feel. I still can't see the gates. Trees and shrubs are all that surround me. Inner me died along with the screams of dying people over six hours ago.
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Just a little longer. That's what I keep telling myself, even now, as night begins to fall yet again. I've been trying to get back to Konaha for the past four days. Dragging my numb and injured body along the forest floor. Never giving up.
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It's been twelve days since I started my journey back home. Half my body is numb. My chakra is barely keeping me alive. I refuse to rest. I refuse to stop. I refuse to give up. I can't give up. I won't give up. I've made it this far, without his help. Without anyone's help. I know I look pathetic as I drag my half dead body back to the gates of my home.
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He'll be there. I know he will. He'll be walking by and see me. He'll see me crawling back to Konaha, half alive, half dead. He'll call me weak. He'll roll his eyes. He'll walk away and leave me to die. He's cold and uncaring like that. He always has been. Then again, nobody has ever seen me looking anything like this. I'm never this injured. He knows this, but like I said before, he won't care.
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The gates! I see them! "Everyone. I'm finally home." My voice is nothing more than a hushed, harsh, dry whisper. I don't sound like myself. Seeing the gates, it gave me more hope than I have felt in years. I force my body to move faster and farther. I'm just a few feet away. Just a few feet more and I can finally rest. Just a few feet more and.....
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I was wrong about him being there. He's not at the gates, looking right at me. He isn't staring at me with a shocked gaze. I still refuse to give up. I refuse to recieve help. I refuse to look sad that he's not there.
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I've made it! I'm home! I managed to not only make it through the gates of Konaha, but I was able to drag myself to my house and up to my bedroom. I shut the door quietly behind me. Then I roll myself over onto my back and stare up at my bedroom ceiling. I should be hearing footsteps. Lots of them. I should feel hands grasping onto me. People shouting to me. People trying to heal me. Instead I feel only pain and hear my own silent sobs. My hands reach to the drawer beside me. I pull out my dairy.
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Dear Diary,
This is how I envisioned my death.
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Ino. Shikamaru. Chouji. Naruto. Sasuke. Hinata. Kiba. Shino. Neji. Tenten. Lee. Asuma. Kurenai. Gai. Tsunade. Shizune. Iruka. Yamoto. Heck, even the always late Kakashi. They are all standing around me, trying to get me to respond to something. Trying to make sure, I'll make it through this. I don't see them though. I only pay attention to the clouds above us.
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"Shikamaru. I finally understand." Gasps and relieved voices are heard. "What do you finally understand, you troublesome woman?" I slowly push myself up onto my elbows. Tsunade and Shizune started to panic when I moved. I simply lifted my right hand to silence them. Then I look at Shikamaru and smile one of my rare true smiles. "Why you watch the clouds. It gives a feeling of freedom. You feel like your floating amoung them. All your pain, love, tears, injuries, memories, they're all forgotten. All that matters are the clouds and that freeing feeling you get from watching them." Shikamaru nodded his approval of what I had declared.
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This hurts but I have to get this out. I have to. Most likely Kakashi-sensei, Naruto, Ino, or even my parents will find this dairy and all my others. They need to know what happened and how I wished my last minutes of life could have been spent.
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My smile turns into a frown and I look Tsunade directly in the eyes. She noticed and silenced everyone around us with the raise of her left hand. "Hokage-sama. Mission accomplished." Her shock was evident. Her sharp intake of breath was not unnoticed. She let a single tear fall and a true smile grace her face. Both gestures meant for me. She was shocked. She was happy. But most of all, she was proud. Proud of me.
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He just had to choice that moment to snap out of his shock. "Sakura?" He knelt down beside me and pulled me into a tight embrace. His actions caused me to flinch. He noticed and pulled back, not letting go of me completely. "Are you going to be okay? How did you get injured this badly? Are you in any pain, at all? How long have you been injured for? How long were you crawling like that? What did you mean by mission accomplished? What happened??"
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Everyone gave him a weird, shocked look of sorts. He NEVER talks. He NEVER shows his emotions. And he MOST certainly NEVER touchs anyone. I ignore him. He still doesn't let go. Instead, he pulls me into his chest for another embrace. "Tsunade? These injuries were inflicted upon my person thirteen days ago. I've dragged my numb, unfeeling, half-dead body across the forest floors every day since then. I didn't stop to rest even once. I forced myself to keep going."
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My body shook violently from a sudden burst of coughing. Blood flowed freely out of my mouth once the violent attack ceased. Sasuke looked at me with scared eyes. He was scared for my life. The love in his eyes was evident as well as shock, fear, and worry.
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Blood splatters onto my dairy. It is flowing freely from my mouth like I wrote down. The violent coughing attack only added to my pain.
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"I forced myself to push on. I refused to give up. I refused to die before I made it back home. I'm back now. My entire body is numb. I can't feel anything. I'm dying Tsunade. The thing is, I'm not afraid. I know not a single person in this village is going to miss me. I know they'll never remember me or my teammates that died on this mission. Our last mission in this lifetime. We took out the Akatsuki. Every single one of them. Even Itachi. I'm afraid I accomplished one of Sasuke's life-long goals for him. I made sure Itachi suffered before he died. Sasuke. You can move on and love someone now."
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"With in the next few minutes, I'm going to be dead."
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It's true. Once this entry is done. I'm going to be dead. My bed has never looked more inviting.
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He looked like a puppy that got ran over, just then. I felt another violent wave of pain rack through my body. "Sasuke promise me something. Promise me you won't go trying to seek revenge. I avenged myself, already. Promise you'll be more social, no matter how annoying it may be. Promise you'll stay alive for me. Promise me you'll find another beautiful girl that you will fall in love with and eventually marry. Promise to restore your clan with her, whoever she may be. Most of all, promise me you'll NEVER give up on life, our friends, your future family, and Konaha. Promise me all that, Sasuke. Please..."
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That's it. Once this entry is done, I'm going to use the last of my strength to get on my bed.
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I could feel a single tear roll down my battered cheek as Sasuke looked me in the eyes and promised me everything I wanted him to. After He promised, he pull me in for my first and last kiss. We both closed our eyes and I felt myself fading away. I felt him choke out a sob and I heard everyone around us crying their eyes out as well.
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Naruto was wailing loudly and clinging to Hinata. Sasuke clung to my cold lifeless body and sobbed his heart out. Tenten clung to Neji as they both cried silently. The same was for Ino, Kiba, Shino, and Akamaru. Kakashi held onto a hysterical Shizune. Genma cried silently. Iruka fell to the ground balling.
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Then everything became lost to me. I was in a very dark place. I could see a single water drop fall and hit, what I assumed, was the ground. The impact caused ripples of water to show. I felt myself start to drown in the darkness and I heard myself let out a bone-chilling scream as my life flashed before my eyes and I was hurtled downwards through the pitch black plane. Then I felt nothing. I saw nothing. I was nothing. Death. I realized is just a new begining. Light flooded the plane and I let out a loud cry in shock.
Toazzy-chan: Well? That's the first chappy of this happy two-shot. For those of you who couldn't figure it out, this is all Sakura's POV. Next Chapter will bounce back and forther from Tsunade's POV to Third person. Review please!