A/N: the previous ch is nine so add lol for real i am
Chapter 10
Candle in the Wind
Elton John
The wind blew softly throughout the trees, and all was silent. Familiar faces exited their homes clothed in black for their fallen comrade and friend. Three men from three completely paths of lives all met in a familiar square in the middle of Konohagure waiting on the child that reminded them so much of their friend, sister, and lover. The child's petal pink hair lay casually on her shoulders, and she clung to her grandmother's hand as they walked slowly towards the funeral with the three men keeping their distance slightly pained by the memory of her mother. They watched in silence and pain as they laid her body on the cold stone, and spoke words of kindness about the women who's smile no one would ever see again. Her voice haunting Sasuke, " Take me with you." He struggled to keep his composure, but he could hear her in his mind, " I love you." He gripped his head trying to silence the voice within his head, and for the first time in years he felt the sting of familiar hot tears fall upon his face. He shouldn't have been so cruel, and he had apologized, but now it was hitting him. Her smile would be their no more, and those brilliant bright emerald eyes would never open again. He felt sick, his head was pounding, and he fell to his knees, then he found himself looking into sky blue eyes, as a hand was offered to him. She reached out for him, in the way that Sakura once had, and he wouldn't make the same mistake twice. He could feel her there, and he held tightly onto her daughter's hand. Once he had wished that she loved him, and he broke when he realized that would never happen. She loved him differently she had once said, she loved him in a special way, he was her heart's brother. He glanced at the little girl holding his and the fifth Hokage's hand, and sighed soflty to himself. He didn't want to be here, and he could tell that neither did she. " Shisui-chan, why don't we leave this sad place, and go somewhere else," he whispered as he knelt in front of the girl. " Where will we go Naruto," she asked reaching for his hand. " How about the river," he asked thinking of how many times he and Sakura had sat there talking about their futures and dreams. " That sounds nice, I want to go to the river," she said tugging on Naruto's much larger hand. Naruto glanced at the elder Uchiha who simple nodded in consent, and continued to stare at the body. Itachi was not suppose to be alive, but Sakura had changed that. She saw through all the lies and forced him to see where he was wrong. She gave him a reason to live the moment he found he loved her, and then again when she gave birth to their daughter. Now he didn't know how to go on living now that she was gone. He stayed after everyone else left, staring at her form. Why did she have to leave them? He wasn't kind like her, and he wasn't sure if he could raise their child alone. He stood their in the rain, eyes unwavering, and he jumped slightly when he felt someone grip his shoulder. " Itachi no matter how long you stand here waiting she isn't going to come back," Tsunade whispered sadness evident in her voice. Ebony eyes turned to look at her, and she saw it, he was lost, broken, and she remembered Sakura warning her that this might happen should something go wrong on her mission. " Uchiha get your act together, Sakura would not approve of you acting like this, you have a daughter who has lost her mother and needs her father," she watched as the pride of the Uchiha clan was brought to his knees clinging to her waist. " It will be okay, you will see," Tsunade said pulling him back to his feet. " No it will never be ok," he said walking away from her body. She was sent in to heal the dying son of a near by damiyo, and when the child passed they had sealed her chakra, and left her defensless, and the executed her in a fit of rage and dispair. When the news reached Konoha that Sakura gone, Itachi lost it completely, and ended the life of everyone who had a hand in it, but he was right there would never be another Sakura. She sighed soflty as they lowered her body into the ground. Time to clean up the mess that she had left behind starting with the Uchiha.