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Lavender Ribbon

"YEAH! I can see the gates!!!" Our favorite blond headed knucklehead exclaimed as he returned home for his three year, training trip with Jiraiya. Naruto had been running since the forest stared to get familiar and was about to slow down when he saw the tops of the gates through the trees, at which he started to run faster.

"NARUTO WAIT!!" Jiraiya screamed with authority, making Naruto stop in a giant cloud of dust.

Naruto spun around and glared at his master. "Why!?"

"Because," Jiraiya started ", we're going to pull a prank." At saying this Naruto was instantly interested and said "What type of prank…?"

(ten minutes later)

Naruto was outside of the village again getting ready for the prank to kidnap one of naruto's old friends and hendge him to look like them and see what they really thought of him. Jiraiya promised him that he would be surprised.

All of a sudden three sound ninja attacked out of the trees…

(Tsunade's office)

Tsunade was sitting behind her desk pinching the bridge of her nose as to hold back a migraine because today was the day that nearly every team assigned to a mission came home to report their successes or failures.

All of a sudden an ANBU with a dog mask jumped in through the window.

"Lady Tsunade-sama! Lady Tsunade-sama!"

"Yes?" Tsunade questioned already annoyed.

"Three Elite sound ninja have been spotted outside the village as has…" The ANBU paused.

"As has?"

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tsunade look out of her window to see a huge explosion outside of the village near the west gate.

"Naruto and Jiraiya, mam." The ANBU said before he vanished in a swirl of smoke.

Tsunade perked up at him mentioning Naruto then looked back at the smoke and put two and two together.

Tsunade was about to run as fast as she could to the explosion when she saw Jiraiya running through the streets…Towards the hospital…with Naruto on his back.

At seeing this Tsunade jumped from the tower and landed in front of Jiraiya within a second she grabbed Naruto and put him on the ground and started removing Kunai from his chest and head.

To make matters worse Hinata had been running to the explosion to see what was up when she saw Tsunade and Jiraiya in the road over someone. She ran over to investigate and her worst nightmare came true….

"Na-naruto-kun?" Hinata said from behind Tsunade as her eyes started to well up with tears.

Jiraiya looked up knowing how she felt for Naruto. 'This could probably be the worst person in the village that could come NOW' Jiraiya thought to himself.

Tsunade couldn't think her 'little brother' was dying in front her just like her real brother and her husband had.

Hinata jumped and through herself over him and begged him not to die.

"Hi…Hinata…Hinata-chan." Naruto said weakly. She looked up at to stare into his bloodshot eyes that seemed to be filling up with blood until you couldn't see anything but red in his eyes and blood was streaming from his face.

He reached up and whispered something in her ear that made her start balling and she yelled "I LOVE YOU, NRAUTO!! I ALWAYS HAVE!!" he smirked

"Lav…en…der…ribbon" Naruto whispered in her ear making her stare at him in confusion. He only nodded then closed his eyes…and died.

Hinata Broke down and cried into his chest and repeated "No. .Can'."

By now more people had come to investigate. Nearly all of Naruto's old friends had come and seen and were now crying.

(One week later)

Hinata was thinking over what happened just earlier this week, her one and only true love had died in her arms.

He had already had his funeral and only a few people had attended but Tsunade made sure he had a monument so he was remembered. Everyone had brought white or black flowers but Hinata brought an orange rose.

She was rethinking all that had happened the day he died when she remembered what Naruto had told her…Lavender ribbon.