Author's Name: soma Chan
Title: And like that I stayed
Main Character: Naruto/ Sakura/ and of course Sasuke.(who else would I write about hehehe) Genre: angst/ romance
Rating: PG

I don't own Naruto or any other characters or whatever I'm supposed to say so I don't get sued or whatever.

But then maybe I'm just a sheep coz everyone else did it so I don't wanna be left out.

Lol

Anyway getting back to what I'm supposed to be doing.

"Promise me you'll come back………. Promise me" said Sakura almost in tears.

"I'll be back, it a routine mission." I reassured her "Otherwise Hokage Sama would have sent a jounin or someone. Don't worry nothing is gonna happen" I placed my hand on her cheek for one brief moment and with that I left.

I walked to the end of the road and out of Konoha, why did the air feel so heavy today. It's just a routine mission. I told myself, but yet I still did not feel at ease. I met up with Sasuke and we set off.

As we jumped from tree to tree we said little stealth was needed for this mission. We had received a D mission it was simple all we had to do was escort someone to the sand village. It's not like he was in danger he was just a big wuss.

We entered the clearing where we were supposed to meet. I looked around while Sasuke just lent against a tree.

"HEY WHERE IS HE?" I shouted. Times likes this really tested my patience.

"He'll be here"

"You better not have set me up, sakura and I were gonna go out the restaurant." I shouted "………..and before you ask. YEAH! It's the one you can cook food right there in the middle. YEAH WHILE YOU EAT!" (Lol. had to get it in.)

Sasuke looked at me sideways, that look that said I'm better than you.

I hate that look. Doesn't matter I got what I wanted. I smiled thinking about sakura and the day we met. Might as well could be here for some time.

I'm good at waiting. Kakashi sensei was constantly late.

"Hey sakura" I said as I walked up to her slowly "I know that I'm not as cool as Sasuke and that you'll always love him, but I don't mind"

She looked at me in disbelief. God she was beautiful.

"Naruto I can't make any promises……… I love Sasuke and I always have done……. I know deep in my heart that we were ment to be"

"I can be second best…..just give me a chance"

My thought was broken of by a sharp pain in my neck as I felt something hit. I fell to the ground as I was hit in the back.

I looked up to see Sasuke smirking and his fist close up on me. It was all blue.

It took me a while to work out…what had happened. It was chidori.

There was no was to avoid it

"ARGHHHHHHHHHH" I screamed as his hand made contact.

I coughed a little blood and my eyes began to close.

I was so tired ……..at last I can sleep………..

"Naruto!…………. Hey what are you doing baka?" she smiled with the sun being reflected off her hair.

We had gone to the outskirts of the village to be alone. She was on the hills collecting flowers, she would put them in her vase that was on the dinner table.

I smiled at her and she looked at me from under her eye lashes. I was glad to have had her love.

We would always come here to be alone from the world…... Just the 2 of us….. It was so perfect.

I gave a sigh knowing that this day would have to come to an end

Just a little longer I would say…..just a little longer.

"Hey sakura come over here"

"What is it?" she asked as she came over and sat beside me under the shade of the tree.

"Nothing I just wanted to see the sun go down with you" I told her as I put my arm around her. And like a couple who knows every whim about the other I sat in silence taking in everything around me. She looked so beautiful.

"It's beautiful" she whispered as she rested her head on my shoulder, and like that we stayed.

I can go from this world in peace holding that thought close to me.

Then I felt a pain in my chest. My eyes opened as I gasped in pain, to find sasuke's foot on my chest.

"Hey who said you could go to sleep baka mono"

"Promise me you'll come back…………promise me".

"Sasuke……….tell sakura I'm sorry" I wheezed "I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise to her"

"Hey why don't you tell her yourself" he said. I must have heard him wrong sakura was safe in the village.

He turned his head and called "hey sakura get over here, this yaro says he got summa to tell you"

I turned my head and I saw the pink vibrant hair that I had always been a constant reminder of better times walking over.

Time stood still

I must have been seeing things

I closed my eyes. ………..It couldn't be true.

It just couldn't be

I could feel that it was starting to rain as I felt my face was wet

"Hey Naruto" I heard that smug voice that had always said I'm better than you "we were on a mission, it was just a little different than you expected" I heard a chuckle.

"Naruto!………" she smiled..

"Did you really thing that the kyubi which destroyed our village would be allowed to live?"

Did you really believe that you were someone!" I heard the voice spit out, the same voice that had always sounded so softly in my ears.

"……… I love Sasuke and I always have done……. I know deep in my heart that we were ment to be"

Each word hurt much worse than the punches I had received in my recent battle

"no-one wanted you alive" Sasuke spat out "we needed you to save the village from gaara and the sand shinobi, but now they are on our side there is no need for you anymore"

Now my face was covered in water and I couldn't move to dry myself.

It was hard to believe………all my ties friends……..all wanted me dead……….even iruka who I had always believed……….my own team mates were sent to finish the job……….

"It's beautiful" she whispered as she rested her head on my shoulder, and like that we stayed.

"Hey Naruto don't feel bad……..there's only one thing worse than death."

I opened my eyes to see him put his arm around sakura and her giggle and smile right back at him.

"And that's to be forgotten" he said as he walked off with sakura right beside him.

I could hear them talking but my vision was blurred.

I couldn't hear the rain so maybe I had already taken one step into leaving this world behind.

I looked up at the sky to see the same sun shining down that had shone on those days we spent together………..the same sun we watched set so many times……………the same sun that shielded us and held us in its warmth………………the same sun that deserted me today.

I had no reason to stay. I thought as I lay there in the grass. With the wind blowing my hair onto my face.

And like that I stayed.