The wind was howling outside his house, creating a sound of sorrow. A few raindrops made their way to the ground, Slowly but surely falling on his window. He sat infont of that window, looking at the sky which had the same color as his hair, grey. He was sitting there for the last two hours staring outside that window, daydreaming, thinking of the past. His eyes drifted from the sky to the lonely tree standing out at the other end of the abandoned street.

'That tree… it reminds me of her…'

There was only one flower left on the tree. Its pink color changing into a light-brown shade as fall made its way to the country of Konoha.

'It is the same pink as her hair…no…it WAS the same…'

He remembered the mission. It was supposed to be an easy mission, C-rank, nothing they couldn't handle. But after only five minutes, it changed to an A-ranked one. Shinobi coming from everywhere. They were out of chakra so fast, because of the numbers of shinobi they had to face…

'It was a mistake to leave Naruto and Sai in Konoha, just because I thought it was unnecessary to take them with us…'

… After defeating the last one, they went further, wounded from the fight, not able to pay attention on the trap that was waiting on them. When the cord snapped, she punched him out of the way causing the kunai knifes to hit her. She fell into the mud that was covering the trap before…

' It should have been me…'

He watched as the last flower on the tree outside of his house fell on the ground, into the mud, creating dark-brown spots on the flower.

' No, that color!…'

… When she lay there, he tried to heal her. But without chakra they knew it was a lost cause. He watched her as her breathing stopped. The hand he was holding fell down causing the mud to fly up and land on her hair, leaving the same dark-brown spots on her pink hair…

'It should have been me…'

He let out a sob when a single tear left his grey eye, trailing down his bare cheek.

"Dammit! It should have been me, not her!"

… The funeral went difficult. Naruto was crying and yelling at him that it was his fault, but he already knew that. Sai was just staring at the horizon because he didn't know how to react. Tsunade-sama put her hand on his shoulder while telling him that he could not have done anything for her in the position they where in. And he, he just tried no to fall apart. It would never be the same without her…

"Sakura…"