Time heals everything.
Uzumaki Naruto, Jounin of Konahakugure, adopted brother of the Godaime Hokage, apprentice to one of the Three Legendary Sannin, a prison holding the mythical Kyuubi from unleashing herself on the face of the earth, also the only member of Team Seven still remaining.
Naruto loves watching the raindrops fall, they bring back memories, hurtful and wonderful both. He now knows what Sasuke had meant when he said that his dreams lay in the past. He often wonders of what could have been, but that has not stopped him from moving forward; yet…
"Just one more step, eh" he wonders, his dream of becoming Hokage is probably just around the corner. There is no way he would leave this childhood dream, and his final promise to his dying brother, unfulfilled. It has been over a year, but the scars wounds are still raw. He recollects his promise to his brother, the one he found again and lost almost immediately. Words whispered into his ear by a voice so low he might have imagined them, "Become Hokage …and don't die, ba-ka", he nods blankly as he feels the hand gripping his arm loosen up and fall away, and those red eyes fade away into those familiar deep black pools that had enchanted Sakura even when they were so far away from each other.
His closest friend, Sakura, of the cherry blossoms, with that amazing zest for life, who was always there for him, through good and bad. His little crush on her had long since transmuted itself into something worth its weight in all things priceless. She had always worn her heart on her sleeve, and had lived the best she could, except when it came to that stupid idiot who hadn't realized what he meant to her, or she to him, until that fateful day had come. Her last words to him before they had left for that ill fated meeting had been so bright and hopeful, "Naruto, lets all of us, Sasuke-kun, you and me begin afresh today…"
Too bad that things had turned out the way they had, but at least she had given her life for her love, even if she had left him behind, alone, the smile on her face as she passed onto her next life was something he would never forget, it held so many feelings, but the love for those she held precious, for those she would protect no matter what, shone through all others.
"Kakashi-sensei, I wonder what is next, on this mysterious road of life, which had always kept you from reaching us on time, except at the time when it mattered most, and you took the weight of the world on your shoulders to save me, to save your comrades and risking the mission to do it. I hope you are at peace, reading those perverted novels wherever you are, because you have laid Obito-san's ghost to rest."
He looks out of the window. The rain has stopped falling, the sky looks clean, the world has been washed and now put out to dry, and it is finally time for him to go and see the Hokage and do whatever it was that she would want him to.