As I lay beneath the evergreen, staring up at the purpling sky I felt the shadow of death befalling me. The impending threat dulled any pain, fog clouding my blurry vision and mind. I couldn't feel, nor could I hear. The world was silent, if only once in the millennium.
A bird flew over head, or maybe that was just my imagination? It flew so gracefully, curving, dipping, and diving through the sky. Was it returning to a family? Babies? A nest? I closed my eyes for a moment, wishing it was I, in the birds place, who flew so freely to those I loved. But, fate would have it that I would not.
What was to happen to those I loved? Nothing I could change or help, so I put the depressing thought from my head. Now was not a time for selfishness and pity, it was a time to remember and reminisce those beautiful moments that would live on in my place. Yes, I knew it for sure. Today was the predestined date that I would cross from this world to the next.
The thought brought a smile to my face. Today I would finally be free from the invisible chains of life that held me tight with they're constricting ropes of malice and strife. Today I would fly free from the confines of a body, from the hold society has on each and every person. I would be myself forever more, not another could tell me who I was, was wrong. I'd be free from the cowardice of individuality challenges, be free from every possible thing that held me to this Earth. Then I'd float, up and up into the clouds, lightened from the disappearing weight.
I sighed. My time was drawing nearer, I was left to count the seconds before I would be released. The sky was now black. What time was it? No, never mind that. Time would no longer be an object where I was going.
Where was I going? To Heaven? Or to Hell? I had done nothing wrong, but nothing exactly right. I helped others, but nothing extraordinary enough to get me to paradise. Was I doomed to stay in between the two for eternity? Longing for entrance to one or the other?
That was okay though. I was passed caring about meager things. I would go where I'd go, there was nothing else to it.
I found it difficult to open my eyes anymore, but I wasn't surprised. Nothing surprised the emotionless. I was from the foundation, so everything was expected and nothing could sneak up on us. Death is fine with me, as I said before.
"Sai? Sai! Are you alright?" I could heard Naruto and Sakura's voices in the distance. What was that in their voices? Was it what they called concern? Maybe. But about me? Doubt crossed my thoughts.
"Hold on Sai, the medical nin's are on their way!" Yamato's voice rang from the distance. A smile, not a fake one, but a real one appeared on my face.
"Too. . . late. . ." I looked up, seeing his face. I smiled again at my brothers face. My time had come.
"Sai!" Their voices faded from my mind as I finally embraced the one person who kept me sane, the one person who kept me believing I was human.
"Thank you. . . Naruto. . . Sakura. . . Captain Yamato. . . Good bye. . ."
They had found me, but it was too late. I was free as a bird. Finally.