In Konoha's hospital, the sun shined through the windows unto the young blonde boy's face as he began to wake up.
Then he opened his eyes and got up to find himself laying in a hospital bed.
"What am I doing here?" he asked himself. His question was answered with a sharp pain in his chest.
A few flash backs of his last encounter with Sasuke began to fill his mind as he grabbed his shirtless and bandaged chest, hoping for the pain to go away.
"Naruto!" a woman's voice screamed.
Naruto turned his head toward the doorway where he heard the voice come from to see Shizune, who looked concerned.
"What are you doing up!? You're not supposed to be up yet!"
"Shizune, I'm fine." Naruto replied as Tsunade walked into the room "What's going on here?" She asked.
"Lady Tsunade!?" Shizune said in a surprised tone. "Hey Granny Tsunade." Naruto said as he gave small wave in her direction.
"Well, I see you're up early, as usual." Tsunade said with a small smirk.
Then it hit him.
"What happened to Sasuke!?" Naruto asked out loud.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but Sasuke is...dead." Tsunade said as she began to focus her gaze toward the floor.
"Wh...what!?" Naruto said as began to sweat and tighten his grip on the bed bars. "That can't be...I saw him..." He couldn't believe it.
Then Tsunade continued to speak as tears began to form in her eyes "So is Jiraiyra..."
"What!?" Naruto screamed out of shock.
"Naruto,calm down." Tsunade said.
"Calm down,calm down!?How can I calm down when my friends and sensei are dead!?"
"I know how you feel Naruto,but you have to get a hold of yourself." Tsunade said.
"You don't know anything!" Naruto screamed out of anger. Tsunade just looked at him stonily.
Naruto took a deep breath after thinking about what he said.
"I'm sorry, I just can't believe it."
"Anyway, I came to see if you were well enough to go to the burial ceremony-" "I'll crawl if I have to!" Naruto said, rudely interrupting Tsunade.
"You're not well enough to go!" Shizune said. "Just let him go." Tsunade said.
"But-" "Come on, you know he's going to go anyway" Tsunade interrupted.
"I guess you're right." Shizune said, sounding a bit disappointed since she thought he needed more rest.
"Of course I am, now come on and let's go so Naruto can get ready." Tsuande said as began to walk out of the room with Shizune close behind.
A few hours later, Naruto was dressed and ready to go! So he walked out of the hospital and walked alone as he went to the ceremony.
But he was soon joined by Sakura, who was also going there.
"Hi Naruto." Sakura greeted as she began walk beside him.
"Hey Sakura." Naruto said, without even turning his head from the road ahead.
Sakura could tell that Naruto was "out of it" and wasn't himself. She also felt that it was her fault slightly, because she made him keep his promise to find Sasuke
and now that Sasuke's dead after all those years of trying to bring him back... who knows how this will affect him?
"I'm sorry." She said avoiding eye contact with him.
"Huh?What are you talking about?" He asked with an eyebrow raised.
"For making you keep you're promise to bring Sasuke back!" She answered loudly as tears began to pour from her green eyes.
"Sakura," Naruto said softly as turned to embrace her "you didn't make me do it,
I did it because Sasuke was like a brother to me and he made you happy,I just want you to be happy Sakura."
"But why?" She asked.
"Because I care about you."
"Thanks Naruto." She said as she laid her head on his shoulder and hugged him tighter.
"You're welcome." He said as a soft smile graced his face.
Then they let go of each other and began to walk again as he placed his arm around her shoulder.
At the ceremony, People gathered there to pay respect to a legendary Sannin: Jiraiya ,the last Uchiha: Sasuke, and many other ninja who died protecting Konoha.
After the ceremony,Naruto and his friends were standing by Sasuke's burial spot.
Naruto looked at Sasuke's headband that he held and remembered all the good and bad times they shared together.
"I guess this is goodbye then." He said as he crouched down to place the headband on ground near the tablet that read: "Sasuke Uchina: Last of his Clan".
He stood there a moment longer before left to go to the burial spot of his Sensei: Jiraiya. He walked over and there for a moment.
"I knew you were pervy, but I never thought you were a pushover." Naruto said sounding disappointed. Then he left and went to the entrance, and so did most of his friends.
Except for Sakura and Ino. After a few minutes of standing at Sasuke's burial spot, Ino turned her head toward Sakura's direction.
"Hey Sakura." Sakura heard Ino and looked at her. "Yeah Ino?"
I...uh...don't know how to say it but, I'm sorry." Ino said as she began to look at her feet.
"Ino?" She asked.
"I'm sorry for ruining our friendship over some popular guy that we both liked,but it's seems like you really cared about him and bet he cared about you too. So let's end the fighting and get back to the way things used to be.,alright? Ino said as she looked up at Sakura.
"Yeah, I think I would like that." Sakura said as they shook hands and hugged each other.
Naruto, Shikamaru, and Chouji were standing by the entrance gate and saw what happened.
"Well, it looks like Sakura and Ino are friends again." Naruto as a small smile began to form on his face.
"Let's hope it stays that way, otherwise I'll have to deal with Ino going on and on about how she hates Sakura again." Shikamaru said as he rolled his eyes.
Then Ino and Sakura left Sasuke's burial spot and walked to the entrance together. Once they got there, everyone said their good byes and left.
Little did they know they were being watched a mysterious man wearing a purple cloak.
