The park was serene, the grass was green, the sun was shining, something was most definitely wrong, everything was too perfect.

"Hikari."

"Sasuke," I smiled widely, turning around and hugging him tightly. "What's up?"

I suppose, now, looking back on it, I should have seen it coming.

He was cold and distant, but I was too blinded by my love for him to care.

"I- Can we talk?"

"We're talking right now," I chirped, thinking he was just missing me because it had been a while since I had last seen him, but, to my own credit, he had done this before. "Aww, is Sasu-cakes missing me so much he had to come over and see me?" I giggled. "You're adorable."

"No, I mean, talk talk, like, we need to talk, I have to tell you something."

"Oh," I was unfazed, maybe a bit more happy. "Of course."

I remember thinking he was going to ask me to move in with him, we had been staying at each other's apartments for a while and we had been together for years so the only thought that came to mind was that, and from his slight anxiety, it only confirmed my thoughts, my heart was beating a mile a minute and I was so happy I couldn't even think straight.

It was also our sixth year anniversary, so it was the only natural thing to do.

"I've been thinking about us for a long, long time," he began. "And, I've decided that..."

I was on Cloud fucking 9, birds were chirping, the sun was shining down on me, my life was heaven.

"We're not working out."

I blinked repeatedly.

"What?" I asked, there was a bitter taste in my mouth as that word—which would either make me or break me—left my lips.

Sasuke sighed, as if I were stupid, "Hikari, I'm breaking up with you."

I opened my mouth, then paused, closed it, took a deep breath and nodded, smiling, "Okay."

"...Okay?"

"Yeah, okay," I nodded, as if he were the stupid one, I turned my back on him and I went straight to my apartment.

"Ari, I love you."

"You're so adorable, Ari."

"You're so easy to tease."

"You know I'm just joking right? You're never going to get rid of me."

I had come to the ultimate conclusion.

Naruto and Sasuke were pranking me.

So I waited for the phone call.

I waited for, "I lost a bet with that Dobe. God, I'm never going to bet on anything with that idiot again, I can't believe that out of all the things he could've made me do, he made me do that prank and on our anniversary," he'd say, then sigh, look at me, and smile slightly, "happy sixth anniversary, doll."

I waited to tell him that I knew it was a prank.

I waited so I could laugh at him, and his failed attempt to get a reaction out of me.

I waited so I could shove it in Naruto's face that his pranks were getting old and I was starting to pick up on them.

I waited.

And waited.

And waited.

And waited.

And finally, the doorbell rang.

Instantly, a smile made its way onto my face.

I leapt off my bed, bounding down the halls and yanked the door open.

"You're so stupid, you actually thought you could- oh." I took a step back.

Itachi.

And Shisui...with a few tubs of ice cream...and other things.

"Hey, Ari," Itachi smiled, I swear I saw confusion and bewilderment flicker across both his and Shisui's faces.

I opened the door wider for them, "Come on in," I smiled warmly. "What's the occasion?"

Itachi shrugged off his jacket, all the while staring weirdly at me as Shisui disappeared into the kitchen, before returning with one tub of Oreo ice cream, Betty Crocker chocolate frosting, plastic spoons and Hershey's chocolate syrup.

Shisui stared at me, brows raised, "He didn't...break up with...you? Cause I paid like fifty bucks for the emergency ice cream alone, which I could have used for fifty burgers...Ari, I don't get it, what's happening?"

And then, right there, I was hit by a bullet train.

"He-" I stopped. "He wasn't pranking me?"

Itachi shook his head, frowning slightly, "No, Ari, he wasn't."

I took shaky steps towards my sofa, sitting down on it as if it were to break underneath me.

"I see."

Six years- no.

Two thousand, one hundred and ninety days.

Two thousand, one hundred and ninety days of love, fights, tears, making up, laughs, promises of forever, arguments, bickering and then?

And then, ending.

I burst into tears.

Two thousand, one hundred and ninety days of loving him, no, I had loved him long before that, and so had he, it had only been two thousand, one hundred and ninety days since he had asked me out.

My heart ached, my stomach churned, tears rolled down my cheeks, cold.

Hot tears spilled down my cheeks.

They lied.

My tears were cold, as cold as the winter air that pricked my skin, but this winter air, I did not like it.

The sobs that escaped my lips were sad, broken, hurt, damaged beyond repair.

How on Earth was I ever going to get out of that?

Itachi didn't say anything, just hugged me as I cried.

Shisui whispered reassurances that everything would be okay.

I wanted to believe him, God, I wanted to.

But all I heard was Sasuke's voice.

"You're never going to get rid of me, we're going to be together forever, alright? The only way for you to get rid of me would be to break up with me, which will never happen."

Forever was over.

The birds were dead.

The sky was black.

My life was hell.

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A/N: Normally, I'd write the entire story out and then post it but I decided to make this a long multi-chapter which I've never done before, so yeah it might be kind of...messed up and I might not even update for a while because I'm not even halfway through chapter two so yeah it's looking kind of hopeless right now, but maybe this'll be different.