Warning containes spoilers from the manga!

Some lines used in this came from the book I am writing (the "if you get hurt through the then I will die" part)

Thankyou for reading


Naruto stood in his room packing when he felt the familiar return of his shadow clone along with the rush of information that came with him. 'So she did fallow me, this'll be harder then I thought. Now I have to deal with Sakura-chan, and she wont just let me go' Naruto thought. ' Maybe I could use kage bushin again, nah she'll probably see right through it. Oh well I'll think of something' With this Naruto deemed his backing done and left his apartment for what may be the last time.

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Naruto met little resistance as he started his way towered the village gates. He looked left and right at the destruction the late Pain had left behind. 'So much pain so much suffering just because of me. My dream, the Hokage should protect the village not the protect them; how can I live up to my dream when in the end people just die for me.' Naruto couldn't help these thoughts, they kept coming filling his head. The closer he got to the gates of Konaha the more the thoughts came, as if to assure him he was doing the right thing.

And there he was at the gate. Naruto saw another figure too, thought dwarfed by the gates he knew it was Sakura waiting for him. As he drew closer Naruto could see Sakuras eyes glistening with unshed tears. Naruto tried to walk by her, and at first succeeded but the second before his leave would be final she stopped him.

"Naruto you can't go! Not you too! What if you get hurt?" She cried out looking at the back of Narutos head.

"Then I'll bleed" He replied bluntly.

"What if its fatal?"

He turned to face Sakura and said "Then I'll die, but I will make sure Sasuke comes back before I take my last breath; Sakura I will keep my promise." She stumbled into Narutos chest sobbing into it while he held her.

'Has his chest always been so strong?' Sakura thought. 'Yes it has, he was always there supporting me I was just to blind sighted to see it and now its to late.'

"Naruto what about your dream, your life long goal. Naruto your gonna be Hokage someday! We all know it, the best!" She chocked out desperate for her friend to stay.

"How-How can I be Hokage when I've hurt so may people, when I've failed to protect the people who mean the most and when, so far, I've failed to keep my promise? Sakura I'm sor-"

"No don't say 'your sorry'" She pounded his chest, "That's what he said that's all I'll hear if you leave! Naruto you can't go!" Naruto held the weeping Sakura by the shoulders, tilting his head downward slightly to look into her eyes.

"Sakura my decision is final"

"Then take me with you!" She yelled.

"I can't you have to much potential" Sakura collapsed into his arms again. Naruto let her cry clinging to him for a few moments. Then he lifted her chin and pecked her on the lips.

"I really am sorry." Then he let go an left.

Naruto had taken only a few steps out of the village gates when a large company of Anbu black opps, lead by the Hokage appeared. "Uzimake Naruto you have cleared the village boundaries and are now a missing ninja who we will not let roam free." Tsunade declared.

Naruto chuckled "My, my so many Anbu and even the Hokage herself for a mere Genin?"

"You know very well that your skill exceeds that of even the Anbu" 'and even myself' she added silently. It hurt her to see the boy she considered her little brother doing this, 'no' she corrected herself 'he is no longer a boy, but a man.'

Naruto had no wish to fight the village he still considered home. A second he stood in front of the ninja one minute, then with his great speed he was gone leaving a weeping Sakura behind.