Lying on her back, Sakura kept her eyes on the stars, she was sure it was the last time she'd see them. She'd join Kakashi soon; she could tell him how helpful his Sharingan had been in the time since he'd died protecting her. Her sharingan was his legacy to her, for all the years he'd over looked her, it was his way of making up for the past, but in the end, not even it had been able to save her. The rain was falling heavily, but she couldn't bring herself to care, it felt good on her burning skin.

"Sakura-Chan, you're going to be alright, I know it, please don't give up Sakura-Chan." She heard Naruto say from behind her. Her head was resting on his lap; his injuries were already healing because of the kyuubi. Naruto just couldn't forgive himself for having let Sakura save him. He should have taken the hit from the windmill shuriken; it should have been him lying on the ground. Worse yet, it was all Ino's fault that they were in this little predicament and now, Sakura was going to die. No matter how hard he thought of things that he could do there was nothing. The fact that the kyuubi was healing his minor injuries while he could only watch Sakura bleed was like some form of Chinese water torture.

"How sad Naruto," Said a quiet voice that shouldn't have been around. "You couldn't do anything for her, I thought you loved her." Sasuke said, his cold voice making the mocking words echo across the clearing. "I'm afraid you'll just have to die with her now. A pity really, I never planed on killing her, after all, who'd wish to kill someone so weak?"

"Naruto," Sakura's weak voice said from where she laid on his lap, "Please run don't fall into his trap, you must live." Naruto just looked down at her and shook his head.

"Go ahead Sasuke I'll kill you, it won't mean anything for me though. You're taking Sakura away from me, and once she's gone I will have nothing left." He said running at Sasuke as he formed a rasengan in his palm. Sasuke followed his example, the air filled with the chirping of birds as he formed the Chidori. They met with a sound like a thunder clap, Sasuke's hand went through Naruto's stomach, and Naruto's hand went through Sasuke's shoulder.

The only thing Sakura could do was stare up at them as the life slowly drained from Naruto's eyes. Turning his head he looked at her, and smiled before mouthing the words: "Take care of my present for you." With that red chakra flowed from his body and into Sakura's. As it slowly wrapped itself around her body Sakura couldn't help but scream, it felt as though the chakra was burning her up. She wasn't sure she'd be able to take it, but suddenly a new voice inside her head began to calm her down, promising her that when the pain was done, she could avenge Naruto. Thinking of Naruto made her open her eyes and attempt to stand.

SASUKE POV

Sasuke watched from the sidelines as the young girl who had once chased after him stood up, a killing intent rising off of her to match only that of his own for his brother. She shouldn't have been standing, she should have been dead. There was absolutely no way that he could believe what was happening in front of him. Pushing his arm out roughly to the right, he flung Naruto's now lifeless body away from him. Sakura was standing up with her eye's closed, tears streamed down her face. When she opened her eyes, they scared Sasuke, he'd admit it, in that single moment, Sakura had scared him more than anyone in the world ever had before. The emotion he saw there was hate, pure unadulterated hate. He knew it, he was one dead puppy.

END SASUKE POV

Sakura lifted her hand up and pushed her hair out of her face to reveal her sharingen eye, she knew that Sasuke didn't know about it, so it would be an advantage in her fight with him. That and the fact that she could smell his fear. The fear stench coming off of him was so strong, that she could smell it across the clearing; it made her want to kill him. She guessed this was the kyuubi taking affect of her mind. After what he did to Naruto though, she figured he deserved every single injury she planned on inflicting. Yes, by now you've probably figured out that Sakura was over Sasuke. She'd been dating Naruto for almost 3 years now, they were engaged, and now Sasuke had ruined it, and he would pay for taking away her loved one.

"You killed my fiancée Sasuke, that just wasn't the smart thing to do; now I can't forgive you. Its to bad, Naruto really wanted his best friend to be best man, and Kakashi, before he died really wanted to adopt you, but you ruined everything. How could a genius be so stupid?" Sakura questioned cynically.

Sasuke couldn't believe what he was hearing, Sakura and Naruto, engaged? It was crazy preposterous, just not possible, but there she stood admitting it and staring down at the ring on her hand. Sure enough when he glanced over at Naruto, he saw a necklace with a ring on it hanging around his neck.

"Go ahead and look at it; it will be one of the last things you'll ever see." Sakura said.

"I'm sure it won't, but I'll look anyway." Sasuke said as he walked over to Naruto's cold body. Reaching down he roughly yanked the chain off of Naruto's neck and stared down at the ring. Running his finger along the inside of the band he felt engravings, the letters spelled out the words: "For my only Naruto, Love for ever, believe it. Sakura" He tossed the ring to Sakura and watched her wince as he kicked his ex best friend's body.

"I hope you burn in hell Sasuke you rotten little sot." Sakura said as she caught the ring and filled the air with Kunai, and Shuriken. She was careful to pay attention to only Sasuke's feet as she fought him, she knew from training with Lee, that if she were to watch his eye's she could be sucked inside his Tsukiyomi, and that would be bad. She'd kill Sasuke for what he'd done to Naruto, and she'd feel no remorse for it, because the Sasuke she'd known was already dead, he'd never existed to begin with. Grabbing a wire from inside her bag she quickly formed the hand seals for her new "Anything is a whip" Jutsu, has Naruto had named it. The whip that formed in her hand was made of fifteen feet of leather with wire curled in it, if it hit him, then he would feel it for a very long time. She smiled at the thought, if she couldn't beat him; he at least wouldn't be as pretty when she was done with him. Jumping up in the air Sakura lashed the whip down and across Sasuke's unsuspecting cheek; the whip left behind a bloody trail, and stirred Sasuke into motion. Reaching his hand behind his back he pulled out a kunai and formed the hand signs for his Katon fireball jutsu. Sakura however was prepared for this, and following in the wake of her previous mentor, she was already copying his move. Sakura managed to block the fireballs coming for her, but she knew that Sasuke wouldn't be that lucky, he didn't think highly enough of her, so naturally he would expect her to be incapable of such a feet.

"That was beautiful kit" said a voice inside Sakura's head; she immediately recognized it as the kyuubi.

"Thank you. I have many things to thank you for it seems." She said to the fox. Before returning her attention to the fight in front of her.