Title: A love to remember
Chapter 1: One Card Short of a Deck
Fandom: Naruto
Author: Phritzen
Summary: To love and lost, or to never have loved at all?
Extended Summary: When Sasuke left Sakura in the village Konoha to seek revenge on his brother, he left her with a promise to return.
Two years have past, and Sasuke has finally arrived from his task. But what will he do when Sakura have given up her hope and does no longer remember him? When she chose to forget?
Rating: Teen/Mature
Pairing: Sakura/Sasuke
Warnings: Angst! Oh, so much angst! And a little AU
Disclaimer: All characters remain the property of their respective owners. Not me, sob. The idea is from a movie I can no longer remember. But it was good!
A love to remember
Prologue
The moon was pale tonight. The shadows were large and consumed the woods. But right where they were there was illumination. Blue, white light from the white face in a black sky.
It was quiet.
Not even a leaf from the trees moved. Like the world was holding it's breath, the moon staring down at the two young men stood, one fulfilling his destiny.
The other one fulfilling his death.
The older of them, pushed up against a tree, nailed to it by a silver sparkling katana, the pale steel catching the light of the moon and the stars far over their heads.
Triumph.
Sasuke felt his grip harden around the sword. Itachi gasped for air, and some blood flew out of his mouth.
It spotted Sasuke's pale cheek.
He smiled.
This was it.
His mission, his destiny, his dream, his curse.
All of it, it was fulfilled.
He was free.
Sasuke smile grew wider as his fists clenched around the katana, pressed into his brother's throat. More blood poured out of the dying man in front of him. For the first time in years, Itachi's crimson red eyes went onyx black, their natural colour. The eyes, so alike his brother's, searched for his killers and they met.
Sasuke met the strait gaze of the dying man, and memories flashed in front of him. He had lived for this moment. He had sacrificed everything for it. The man who destroyed his life was going to die within seconds. He should be happy.
But Sasuke Uchiha felt no happiness, no salvation. Only the bitter taste of iron in his mouth, not sweet, like before. It was bitter… just bitter.
Itachi smiled, his bloodstained lips drawn to a grin. His pale face became white when all his blood slowly left him and found its way out over Sasuke's cold hands and the silver steel of the Katana.
"You are dying" Sasuke whispered into his face. "You got nothing to smile about"
Itachi's smile grew wider. "Foolish little brother" he said hoarsely, and began coughing, blood flew out of his mouth. "I am dying" he agreed calmly. "But I won"
"No, you didn't" Sasuke hissed beneath his teeth, and drove the sword further into his brothers wrecked body. "I am killing you, you lost"
Itachi laughed once again, more silently this time. "Foolish… as always… don't you know there is more to lose then you life, Sasuke-kun? What is life, when you already lost everything?"
Sasuke felt cold.
"And you gave up it all, for me… for killing me… you became me…" the older man's voice was so weak now that Sasuke barley heard it over the leaves rustle in the soft wind.
Itachi draw one last breath and looked up at his younger brother, the expression of horror made him smile softly one last time.
"You lost, Sasuke, you lost it all"
A/N: Well, did Sasuke lost everything? If you are asking me, I'd say he does. He gave up everything to kill Itachi, but what will happen when he success? His life will be pointless, and empty. It is like Kakashi tells him when he is young.
"Forget about revenge, the fate of those who seeks vengeance is always cruel"
Or something like that.
But to the story, a long-shot. My first actually. I know the prologue doesn't make much sense to the rest of the story, but fear not! I have everything under control.
So itachi tells Sasuke he lost, and Sasuke think he is wrong and returns home to what means most to him, the one thing he didn't let go of. But what will he do when she has forgotten about him?
Next chapter up before well… within a week, at most.
Review, pretty please!
And bwt, this is a little AU. Sasuke left Konoha as kid (like the manga) but then Naruto and Sakura got him back as fifteen or something, everyone believing Sasuke to have killed Itachi. Sasuke and Sakura started a relationship, but Itachi returned and almost destroyed Konoha, and Sasuke was forced to hunt after him till he was truly dead. So he left Sakura and Konoha once again, but promising Sakura to return to her.
