All Sakura could see was Naruto pierced by a blade and then falls to the ground. Still, lifeless. First Sasuke leaves her for Orochimaru and now Naruto leaves her, for good.

Sakura sits up abruptly, breathing deeply. It was the same nightmare again, the day Naruto left her. They were returning from a mission they were all generally

tired and Sakura was particularly irritable mood…

Flashback

"Ne ne Sakura-Chan you okay? You don't look so well." he had been asking the same damn question for the past how many minutes? It has been so long she had

stop keeping track. "Ne Sakura-Chan why won't you answer me?" That was the final straw.

"Will you just shut up! Why don't you just go and die or something. You're annoying." with that she jumped on ahead without being her cautious self. Naruto,

on the other hand felt bad about annoying Sakura. He looked up to see if she had calmed down enough for him to apologize without getting a face full of her chakra

fists. It was then he noticed something moving in the trees and a foreign chakra. Everyone else in the group has noticed and tensed ready for an ambush while Sakura

continued to speed ahead. Naruto worried for his friend went after her, against all his instincts. The foreign chakra followed the two. The hidden nin jumped out of their

hiding place and unsheathed their sword, aiming for a shocked Sakura in one skilful movement. Naruto, not wanting to lose another one of his dear friends, jumped in

front of the blade and took the attack head on without any thought of protecting himself all he that he could think was protecting Sakura no matter what.

In a matter of seconds the blades had pierced Naruto through his chest and obscuring Sakura's vision with red.

End of flashback

Sakura shook her head willing herself not to remember anymore of that horrid day. The most regretful day of her life. Tears trails the contours of face making its

way down her face. Falling from her face and landing on her covers with the tiniest of a 'pat' noise. For so long she has longed to find a way to say sorry but she knew

it was useless what difference does it make he's no longer around to apologise to. The thought didn't help, it caused more tears to fight to be freed. Nothing seemed

right anymore. The days of team 7 were only memories now. No more can be created.

Since that fateful day after recovering from the shock, she closed herself up from the world afraid to hurt afraid to be hurt. She lost her natural cheery composure and

because robot-like. Everyone worries over her and tries to snap her out of it but to no avail. In fact things got worse. She subconsciously realised and her smile

became more forced than ever; she didn't care. Eventually Sakura's smile just left her,as if it was lost. She tried to keep strong, tried to remember her duties as a medic

and tried to forget. After the incident she tried to heal the group but she could not use any jutsu. The pink haired kunoichi had lost her will along with her abilities to heal.

Her platoon had suffered immensely for her uselessness. Not only did her best friend died but two other members. She had been suspended from all activities till she can

heal again. She fell into a routine. Get up, attempt to heal, become frustrated and go to the woods to spar.

A week has passed since the death of Naruto. An hour has passed since his funeral. The sky was grey and dark. It had been raining as though the sky was crying

over the death. Many attended, many held in their tears, many couldn't accept the fact that he was gone. Sakura was many. After the funeral she didn't want to go back.

Instead she headed out in the freezing rain to train.