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The crisp winter air makes her no more cold than she already is. She is frozen to the bone- not from the bitter weather, but from the information she had been informed just a week earlier.
Sasuke- the boy whom she had pledged her love for so many times and vowed to bring back, was dead.
A shiver went through her body as she approached the grave. Tsunade had been kind enough to allow him to lie in the cemetery next to his deceased family. The cemetery by now though was overgrown my weeds of all sorts, and Sakura was really the only person who ever visited.
But now- what was she suppose to do? She failed. She had promised to bring him back alive, promised to not let him fall into the dark. And now he was laying in a coffin in the ground as a result of her weakness.
A bitter sob shook her body. Her eyes fell upon his plain and simple gravestone. "Sorry Sasuke-kun... I'm so sorry..." But apologies did her nothing by now, and all that was left for her to do was weep at his grave as she thought of everything she could have done and everything she had done wrong, how it was her fault that he would never get to see the cherry blossoms blooming this year with her.
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