Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
It's been six months since he came back. With her, no less.
The tears are cascading down my face.
Want to know why?
In another two weeks or so, the Sakura festival Konoha is famous for will be held.
All the kages will come, and the whole of Konoha will be watching.
Watching him propose to her.
I feel like I'm being stabbed repeatedly every time I think of it.
After I cry my heart out, I go out for a walk.
The streets are quiet, and there's nobody around. They're all at that party.
Of course.
Who wouldn't want to go to a party thrown by His Highness Uchiha Sasuke and Her Majesty Karin?
Me.
Especially not if all my backstabbing "friends" were going to be there. Even Tsunade-shishou. Even Kakashi-sensei.
They ALL betrayed me. Even Iruka, Yamato, Anko and Jiraiya, for Kami's sake, whom I didn't even know that well!
Only Suigetsu and Juugo understood.
But they're dead now.
Kisame killed Suigetsu when he was returning from a mission, and when Juugo went into a rampage he had to be killed before he started hurting the villagers.
I still regularly go to visit their graves.
Everyday, in fact.
Sometimes I wonder why I love that bastard.
Aww.
Now I'm using Naruto's nickname for him.
How cute.
NOT.
One minute he's telling me what a bitch Karin is, and the next he's telling me that I'm just jealous, bitter and how I should just let go of the past and get a new man.
Has he ever heard of eternal love? True love?
Obviously not.
Idiot.
GAH! Stop using Naruto and Sasuke's nicknames for each other!
It REALLY makes me wonder what in the world is so special about Karin.
Everyone flocks to her.
Once a new toy comes along, nobody wants the old one anymore.
Sad.
Tsunade took her in as a new apprentice. She's also officially a part of Team 7 now.
Everything's changed.
Even when I became ANBU captain, nothing did.
But ever since she came along, everything's changed.
Naruto doesn't even invite me to go for ramen at Ichiraku's anymore.
God, how I hate them all.
Having come to a conclusion, I get to my feet.
To my irony, I find that the bench I've been sitting on all this while is the very bench Sasuke left me on years ago when he left Konoha in search of "greater power".
Oh, haha.
Walking down the street back to my apartment, I see Sasuke and Karin run out from their own party.
I smile just a little bit at the annoyed expression on Sasuke's face
Next my smile vanishes, because I see Karin tiptoeing to peck Sasuke on the lips.
Sasuke smiles oh-so-lightly, and my smile comes back, although barely just there.
I walk past them, a sad smile upon my lips, and they don't even notice me, like I never existed.
God, how I hate my life.
And that's when I decide, my pink hair flying in the wind, when I see cherry blossom petals dance gracefully in the wind, even if not a single one is in bloom.
I would call my dance the Dance of the Cherry Blossom.
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