"Time, has no begging and it has no end. It's the pauses in time, that's were everything falls apart. So tell me, what were you doing

when the world fell apart?"

~Naruto

Recollections

Chapter 6: Games

by: RoseWaters

Naruto POV

9:33 a.m

It's so hot, like the room is on fire. I could feel her nails against my bare shoulders, like ice down my body.

Your sick, kid

I could feel my self pulling her closer. Our bodies collided against the corner of the wall. Her smooth bare legs wrapping around my waist, I let my tongue glide across her neck, feeling her chest press against me as her back arched.

Playing games with yourself

I needed her closer to me. I wanted every inch of her touching me. I needed every curve of her body. I could feel her breath against my ear as she began to kiss me, her fingers tangled in my hair pulling it tightly. I pinned her hands against the wall hearing her gasp as her back hit the wall with excess force.

You really get off, hurting her

I could hear our shallow breaths as my hands lost themselves somewhere in the process of removing her clothing. Everything was so fast, yet seemingly slow.

"If it's you"

Masochist

I wanted everything.

"It's ok"

Real original kid

My eyes finally meet the flash of green.

Sakura?

I could hear the bastard laughing in ever corner of my mind. Like he was everywhere, Laughing, laughing, laughing.

"Shut the fuck up fox!"

That's one hell of an imagination!

The images flashed across my mind again and I got even more pissed as another round of laughter erupted and seemed to fill the whole room. I let my fingers tighten around the window frame.

Civilians had already begun to be evacuated into the safety tunnels and only a few stragglers were rushing through the streets. By sun rise the entire village would be underground.

Trying to forget your little delusions?

"Go fuck yourself"

Did you really think a woman like her would ever shout out your name?

I clenched my teeth. "Shut up."

I bet as we speak she's shouting 'Sasuke'.

I shut my eyes in frustration as another round of his mocking laughter began to ring through me. What the fuck was so special about Sasuke?

He's strong, stronger then you'll ever be.

Fuck him. He didn't deserve her.

I bet he got what he wanted and tossed her aside.

A bastard like him would do something like that.

I wonder if he broke her? I bet she's damaged goods.

"Shut the fuck up!"

You threw her out, why care now? Let her go, or do you like hurting her?

I hate that bastard, he has everything I want. Everything I can't have. I can't hurt her again.

He'll destroy her, and he won't even care……

I could feel the strain on my body as he stood across from me. His features shouting his superiority.

"You'll always be second. Even with Sakura, she won't love you if you bring me back."

I could feel the sting in my heart, the way the words cut too deep. How true they really were. Is that the only reason I wanted him back?

"She told me she loved me."

I could feel my eyes snap up to meet his.

"Liar!"

His eyes slipped into red and I could see her. Her small 12 year old frame. The way her arms wrapped around herself as if to carry her weight.

'I love you with all my heart!'

What a cruel genjutus.

My mind reeled as the room began to spin. My heart stinging, as the memory brought on a wave of nausea; my head throbbing with more pain than I thought imaginable.

See, she's nothing to him; he'll break her in half, if it serves a purpose.

"He won't."

"What's going to stop him?"

"I'll stop him.

You stop him?

"I will…even If I have to kill him."

Hmm…Is that so?

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Neji POV

10:34 a.m

It was a selfish moment on my part. I always took, rather than gave. Even as I lay with my head resting on her lap I wasn't thinking of her.

Even as her fingers slid through each strand of my hair I couldn't pull my thoughts away.

That girl was a fool. That whole team was nothing but masochistic idiots.

"Neji?"

My eyes shot up to meet hers. That chocolate brown hair in beautiful waves stopping at her collar bone. She was so beautiful, and still I was selfish and ignored her.

"Hmm."

I watched her smile her fingers continuing to run through my hair in such a gentle manner. It was the flash of light reflecting off her finger that forced the small smile on my lips. I reached my hand up to hers interlacing my fingers with hers.

I felt a wave of guilt hit me as I realized how cold she was.

"You seem worried."

I took a swift breath in as I sat up, pulling her in front of me, wrapping my arms around her shoulders. It took a second before she rested her head against my chest.

"Are you going to tell me the reason Neji?"

It wasn't really a question, and I found myself playing with the ring on her finger, turning it around and around.

"It's those damn fools."

I felt her shoulders slump against my chest.

"Why do you care?"

I grinned against my better judgment, why did I care.

"What did you do that you feel so responsible for?"

I let my forehead rest against the back of her head. Smelling her lilac shampoo, after tomorrow would this ever be possible again?

"Tell me Neji, I've thought about it. There is no way it's just because she saved your life."

What could I tell her? What could I say to make her understand?

"You would do anything to make me happy?"

I could see the smile on her face.

"Without hesitation."

It was her tone that caught him off guard.

"Why do you always think about her?"

I wrapped my arms around her tighter. It was a question I really didn't know how to answer.

"Why do you dislike Sakura, so much?"

She shifter her body her deep brown eyes staring into mine. Did she ever notice how beautiful she was?

"Why do you think I hate her?"

Her tone held more guilty then I wanted to hear.

"You have never once called her by her name."

She shifted her body back her head resting against my chest, her cheek pressed against my shoulder. I allowed my chin to rest on the curve of her slender neck and shoulder. Her tone was soft almost saddened. I felt her finger twist around the hair that had slid over her chest.

"I can't stand women like her."

I had assumed it was simple jealously but her reaction said it was more, and the conversation was dropped. The last thing a sensible man will do is ask about another woman to his fiancée.

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Ino's POV

10:34 a.m

I suppose I should ask what the problem was. Even as my eyes ran over his bear chest, as he sat slumped against my head board. His long legs crossed on my bed, the dark fabric of his pants clashing with my lavender sheets.

I couldn't find the words. I would never consider myself to be a shy person. I was intelligent enough to know my self. Which meant I was wise enough to know that I wasn't smart enough to tip toe into a question.

He would find me out, he always did, and I would feel foolish.

I wasn't like Sakura, Neji, or Sasuke. I wasn't much of a manipulator, outside of seduction. It just wasn't a skill that I possessed. This knowledge made me trip over my words.

I caught my reflection in the mirror as I sat at the vanity. I let my eyes linger on him as I brushed through my hair.

Sometimes I wonder what he's thinking about. What goes on in his head? I knew from how his eye brows were knitted that the outcome of his thoughts were negative.

I was lost in thought and it took me a few moments to notice that his eyes had been watching my reflection in the mirror. I could feel my face flush with embarrassment.

Sometimes I wonder if he notices that I don't feel like I deserve him. He was in ANBU, in the code breakers, and personal strategist to the hokage. He was attractive to; I knew women found him desirable. I also knew that beside my looks I really wasn't up to his level.

I had barely made Jounnin. I sometimes wondered if that was on his recommendation. I was well aware of the fact that I would make a horrible wife. I wasn't a comforting figure like Tenten. I didn't have the accomplishments and position that Sakura had. I surly wasn't of noble decent like Hinata. I was the only one of them who could not cook or clean worth a damn.

There was another of my problems I swore like a sailor; damn I could drink a sailor under the fucking table.

So what was it that I had?

It was his laughter that caught me off guard; I whirled around and faced him.

"What the hell are you laughing at?"

I watched as a half grin spread across his face.

"If you could only see the faces you make sometimes Ino."

I could feel myself getting flustered.

"Tch, shut the hell up! Do you know how many men would die to be in your position watching my face?"

It was the way he looked down his eyes suddenly dark.

"Sometimes I wonder, just how the hell was I that lucky? Do you have any idea how many men hate me because your with me. I even think to myself, why in hell would she pick such an average guy like me."

I couldn't help the small smile that spread across my face. I got out of my chair and walk over to my bed, and crawled on top of it. I allowed my legs to startled his waist, and shivered as his hands grabbed my hips. I watched as his hands lingered while he brushed away my hair.

"You should be so lucky."

It was the way that he grabbed the back of my neck forcing us into a kiss. He was never the type of man that minded my dominating personality. He always let me have my way, but when we were like this, he always took control, and I love it.

I can't ask him what worrying him, so instead I'll make him forget.

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Jiraiya POV

10:34

She was hung over again, her blond pig tails in disarray across the desk. Shit, she could have at least invited me to drink along with her.

"Selfish bitch, I would have enjoyed some sake too."

Her eyes looked up at me in a haze. I watched as her finger tips began to message her head. The rotation of her finger tips becoming more rapid as charka began to form.

"Your such a fatass, you would have drank it all."

The grin on her face began to form as her fingers left her forehead, the hangover most likely taken care of with some healing method. My eyes scanned the room; this woman was going to drawn that girl in her own grief.

"I never should have married for position."

I knew she would catch the sarcasm in my tone.

"I never should have married for looks."

Even in this room she still had her humour. I always did admire her perseverance. Her eyes locked with mine, and I felt a jolt. I wish we would have married younger. I think children would have made her a better woman. Or perhaps more likely a larger alcoholic.

"What did you learn?"

I didn't want to answer; I never really wanted to do this again.

"It's going to happen sooner."

The words barely left her lips.

"How much sooner?"

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Sasuke POV

10:34a.m

It was eerie, how desolate every street had become. There was no one in sight. The busy market was left with nothing but wooden carts. Most of the ninja of the village were out of the city, patrolling the forests around the gates. Waiting to give the word of attack.

The amount of people left in the village couldn't be more then the 20 or thirty that where to be left to protect the center. I would have advised against such a stupid placement of forces.

What if a village decided to break the rules of war and attack before the date given on the official decrees? We are ninja's not samurai.

I could feel my nerves acting up and I allowed my eyes to scan the view of the market again. I didn't have a reason to be on edge.

I also didn't have a specific destination in mind. I just found myself idly walking through the streets. I knew she lived somewhere in the vicinity. I really had no idea which building she lived in.

I had never been to her home. I was never extended an invitation.

I knew where the dope lived. I knew where Kakashi lived, hell I even knew where that shitty replacement lived. Could I tell you where Sakura lived? No, I only knew this was the general vicinity because after missions she would walk this far with me and disappear down a street.

I didn't have a destination because I don't know where it was at.

I paused in the street, my irritation getting the better of me. Go figure, the one time in my life I search her out.

"A sign would be nice."

10:35 a.m

I felt it suddenly that rapid influx of charka to my right. The deafening crash of glass, as everything began to crumble. I wonder when my mind caught up with my body and realized that it was in the middle of an explosion.

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Tenten POV

10:35a.m

It felt like an earthquake, with a firecracker announcing it's presence. I watched as Neji eyes stared off into the distance his face suddenly twisting in anger.

I turned to look in the direction and the only thing I could see above the building tops was a plum of smoke and fire.

I felt frustration and panic hit me.

"What's going on Neji?!"

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Shikamaru POV

10:35 a.m

I could feel her hands slipping from my chest to intertwine in my hair. Her bare legs brushing against my ribs.

It was sudden the way she jerked away from me. Her blue eyes frantic, as she looked out the window. How she managed to pull my body off the bed and onto the ground I didn't know. Before any words could leave my lips, a deafening boom ripped through the apartment. I watched as shattered glass rained through the air. My arms pressing her face against my chest. As I shielded her from the fragments of glass.

"What the fuck?!"

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Tsunade POV

10:35 a.m

The words barely left my lips, as the sound of an explosion shock the entire frame of the hospital.

I watched as both our heads turned towards the window. It had clearly happened towards the center of the town.

The name shakily escaped my lips as my eyes searched for a building I knew was no longer in existence.

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Naruto's POV

10:32 a.m

I might live in the shittiest part of town, on the top floor of the most dilapidated building, but you know, I have to say if you want the best view of the entire city, you only have to look out my kitchen window.

I can't really blame the bastards for leaving me here. It was on the outskirts of town. There logic was flawless.

"Put the monster away from the most populated part of the town, just in case he loses his mind and decides to attack everyone."

Like a dog on the outside always looking in.

"Impressive logic."

I felt a chill go through my spine as I slowly turned to look behind me.

He was just sitting crossed legged at my table. In the exact position where she once sat, his finger running along the rim of her bowl as his other hand held his head. He looked so bored.

It didn't make sense, I didn't hear him. I didn't sense him. Hell, if this man hadn't just spoken I would have still been looking out my window.

Fucker

I paused for a moment trying to decipher if that was the demons thoughts or my own. I could feel the confusion on my face but I couldn't gather my thoughts together.

There were a million questions. Who the fuck are you? How the hell did you get in? What the fuck do you want?

"So Sakura-chan had dinner with you?"

Everything seemed to come to a screeching halt.

His tone was so casual, just like his position at the table. His finger still running along the rim of her bowl.

I couldn't read his expression, considering the orange mask that covered his face. The damn thing was practically hypnotic, the way it swirled into the black eye hole.

I was so pissed, he asked that question like he knew her intimately, the way his finger kept lining her bowl like her was tracing her lips. That mother fucker.

"I see. You don't remember me?"

Remember him? Did I know him? Did she know him? He wasn't a friend or could he be a friend?

His head turned towards the ground, and I managed to catch the time on the clock.

10:34 a.m

"You damn meddlesome fox, you better not have fucked up my fun."

Still a carefree tone.

I was waiting for the bastard to come alive, with his condescending tone, come out with some retaliation. It scared me at that point because I could feel him. He was terrified. I could feel my eyes widen as I keep them on him. Just who the hell was he that he could make that damn fox cower in a corner with its tails between its legs.

"Ahh Naruto-kun, you should look out your window. It's about to start."

His tone was dripping in joy. His face watching mine as I slowly backed into the wall. I hadn't intended to move. It was as if my body was begging my mind to run away. Like I had been in a similar situation.

"You do know what's in the center of this village right?"

I knew he was smiling even if I couldn't see his face. I watched as he picked up the bowl. Turning it around in his had, as he examined it.

"Porcelain is extremely fragile."

If it was something I had remembered or if it was something I had been told I wasn't sure. It all clicked. I turned to the window as fast as I could my eyes catching the digital clock as it shifted.

10:35 a.m

My eyes shifted from left to right across the window. Nothing moved, nothing changed, and I could feel myself slowly regaining control over my panic. Relief spreading across me in waves.

My eyes shifted away from the window, my head turning back in his direction.

The hand that was propping up his head slowly came down. I heard it then, like thunder crashing down from above.

I watched as his finger extended out pointing back to the window. My head slowly turned back.

I could feel my heart sink as I watched the tops of the buildings in the market district crumble and sink behind the roof tops of other buildings. The large blanket of dust fan out through the village knocking down surrounding buildings with its force. Like a rock falling into a pond, and its ripple effect.

I couldn't hear anything, as my hands grabbed the window frame; I felt the wave of nausea hit me.

It all happened suddenly. The shaking of my window, as if the glass would shatter

It took me a second to realize it wasn't the window shaking.

I turned away my back against the wall of my kitchen. My head tilted towards the ceiling. I didn't want to see it, because then I could deny it all ever happened. I could pretend that the Konoha market place just didn't vanish from existence.

I could feel the way my heart was racing. Any faster and it would completely shatter. I could feel the sweat run down from my forehead all the way to my chin. Everything was spinning.

"Oops." That damn carefree tone.

My eyes caught his and we watched as the bowl hit the ground, her bowls porcelain pieces mixing with the already shattered pieces of my bowl on the ground.

"Oh well, after all, I don't think she'll miss it."

Everything broke at that minute, because I already knew what was in the center of the village. I had recognized the building as it crumbled to the ground. I couldn't hear the words that left my lips. I wonder if they even came out at all.

"Sakura-chan."

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"At what point in your life is it ok to just

put everything down and walk away. Because right now, I want you to walk away from me?"

~Naruto

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