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Thank You

Thank You. Before, those two words were never as loaded as they were before. Before they were said in gratitude for another person. But, what did he mean when he said it?

I twisted a lock of hair with my finger. He's gone, yet I still feel his presence. He called me annoying, I cried like usual. He said "Thank you," and that's all I could remember before waking up. Waking up to find him gone and tears staining my cheeks. My best friend promised me he'd come back with him. But he's in the hospital now, without him. And I know now that it's not his fault that he's still out there, it's mine. So right now as I am prepping myself to go out alone in search of him, I recall the other night.

"Don't go!" I take a step towards him so I can embrace him from behind and drag him back. But in a flash, he's right behind me.

He says my name, and then: "Thank you." I whisper his name, and that is all I can remember before my world went black.

'Thank you for caring? Thank you for helping me all this time? Thank you for being a comrade? Thank you, but I can't be helped?' I considered all of these. But one was probably what he meant:

Thank you, but you're annoying.

Yeah, that one's it. The day I first really talked to him and the last time I did, he said I was annoying. It was even at the same place, the same bench. My idiot friend and I were both thought of as annoying to him. He once told me I was as bad as our friend, who at the time was being followed around by a...Rock? Oh, yes. It was his goggle- wearing 3-man fan group. Boy, were they ever funny. But the one girl wants to be just like me, so I can't complain!

You know what? Maybe I'm not that bad. Maybe he's wrong, and I'm not as annoying as he thinks I am.

I pick up the photograph on my desk. It's of my friend, our close teacher, me, and the one I'm going to find. I intently stare at the normal scowl on his face, as in the photograph he doesn't want to be there.

"I'll find you and bring you back home," I whisper to the boy in the photograph. And today and for the rest of my life, "thank you" will mean nothing else. It will just mean:

Thank you.

Obvious who the characters are, right? For you slow people, it was Sakura talking about Sasuke, with Naruto in there too. Now do you get it? Good.

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