Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters or places in the series. That honor belongs solely to Masashi Kishimoto.
FallA year ago, Uchiha Sasuke left the village hidden in the leaves.
Once a year the leaves fall.
They fall after spring has come and the rain has fed the trees, summer comes. The trees flourish and leaves grow. Everything is fine.
Then comes autumn and the wind blows. Harsh weather is coming and leaves sway under the pressure of the wind. Some leaves change color; no longer are they healthy and green. No more do they stay peacefully in the tree, living and growing with others.
Some leaf change. And once they change, they fall. They fall from the tree and never again will they be with their neighbors, their comrades, their teacher, their friends.
The fallen leaf cannot return.