How many months has it been? Four? That is wayyyy too long. I am ashamed. Very ashamed. This will be the last chapter in ATAR. I noticed while I was writing this that... My story is so confusing and doesn't make sense at all with some points. And I've lost the aspect of what I even wanted to do with it. It makes me want to re-write it, but alas! I have way too many ideas for other NaruHina stories. Which will be much better. In all ways.

On another note. You may notice a change in the writing. As in it's better detailed. Because I'm better now. Yay! I haven't decided on a happy or sad ending. I guess you'll have to stay tuned, huh? Oh yeah, I do NOT own Naruto! Obviously.

I was in a field. A large field filled with more flowers than I could ever imagine. There were so many different wild flowers growing with the help of the sunlight and the rain. I often wondered what it would be like to be a flower. Surely they had no troubles. Well, until they froze to death or died of thirst or over-exposure to the sun. I sighed, sitting down amongst the pretty flowers. I hadn't given much thought to how I had gotten to the brilliantly coloured field. The last thing I remembered was... red. Red eyes in particular. I couldn't erase them from my mind. They were permanently etched into my thoughts.

I gently stroked a flower and wind danced around me, playing with my long indigo locks. Laughing, I gathered my hair and tied it in a gentle knot to keep it together. The world was so serene. I didn't want to leave. The wind whispered words into my ear. They were beautiful. Even though I couldn't really understand what the wind was saying, the way it was saying it was so full of love. I closed my lavender eyes, concentrating.

Hinata..

Tightening my eyes, I concentrated harder. Nothing else could be heard. I sighed, feeling defeated. I decided to meditate, feeling it was the only thing I could do at the moment.

He hadn't wanted to agree to it. At all. In fact, under any other circumstances, he would have laughed in the man's face. But this was for her sake. He couldn't risk losing her.

The more he thought about it, the more he was reminded of the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet. It had been almost the same circumstances, right? They had had a very distinct connection, he had fallen deeply for her and she for him, and then the lovely maiden had fallen into a death-like trance. Now all that was left was for Romeo to kill himself and have Juliet wake to discover his death. Then she, too, would take her own life.

Naruto refused to let that happen. This would not be some cliche love story that ended in horrible death due to lack of communication. No. He would have to sacrifice all that he knew, just to save her. It would be worth it, the blonde was very sure of it. He just needed to make sure to make appropriate precautions.

He finished writing and smiled a bit at the finished product. Then his frown returned. He looked at his pink haired friend. She hadn't slept through the night. Neither had he. She nodded, knowing what he was going to say, then sat down in a chair beside the girl who looked as if though she was sleeping. Or dead. He didn't like to think of it that way. He wouldn't think of it that way.

"Hinata.." He whispered. "I'll get you out of this. I promise."

A few minutes later, the boy set out. He knew where he was going, even if he had vowed never to return to that place. It was a different time now. Naruto had his eyes narrowed, whether it was in anger, determination, or both, no one could tell. People on the streets dodged him. It was probably best that they did.

He made it to the large building in no time, knocking on the door loudly. A familiar man with odd blue skin and shark-like teeth opened the door and smiled at him. The blonde growled in response and pushed his way past.

"Let's get this over with." Naruto said when he found Itachi.

"Say the words." The Uchiha demanded.

"I agree to give up my demonic soul... and my memories." Naruto was reluctant to say the last part. He had spent the entire night writing his life down in a journal, just so he wouldn't forget.

"Ah, but I wonder if that is enough." Itachi said, a tone of wonder implying that he really didn't know. He turned to a man that stayed in the shadows. When he turned back, his face showed no emotion. "One more thing."

The blonde narrowed his eyes. "Isn't it enough?"

The man shook his head. "Our leader requests that you also hand over your... heart."

Naruto blinked in a mixture of surprise and confusion. "My... heart? Don't I, you know, need that to keep living?" He crossed his arms over his chest, perhaps subconsciously protecting the organ.

"You idiotic boy. I mean your metaphorical heart. Your emotions."

His faced paled visually. His emotions? But.. What would become of him? A man with no emotion... It was those men that became killers. Who would he be without emotion? Even Gaara had some emotion. It was for Hinata. However, after this, he wouldn't have the ability to love her, would he?

Naruto decided that she was worth anything. "Fine. I agree to giving up my heart, memories and demonic soul."

I looked up to see the bright blue sky darken to a deep grey. Black clouds swirled over head. The flowers and grass were reduced to dust blown away by the wind. The ground became hard cement and I stood, confused. I wore a long white gown that reminded me of a wedding gown, though one that a less wealthy woman would wear.

Soon, my world was grey and lifeless. I felt tears threaten to spill over. This land that had once been beautiful.. Reduced to this in less than a minute. I blinked hard, feeling the flowers' pain. I turned around, seeing only grey stretching as far as I could see.

The soft wind came back, whispering softly in my ear once more. I knew what to listen for now.

She seems to be worse... I don't know what to do.

I frowned. Worse? And who was 'she'? Was the wind talking about me? Or perhaps, the Earth. Mother Nature?

Sighing, I sat on the cold and hard ground. I wanted to go home now.

After hours of torturous, well, torture, Naruto felt... an inch away from death. He only had his heart left to be taken. And he was very confused about this whole thing. He wondered who these people were, and what he had done to deserve this. He felt very empty.

"Okay, Uzumaki. Time to remove your heart." A man with blue skin said.

"That would kill me!" Naruto retorted. His name was Uzumaki? Strange name. Make it was his surname.. That made more sense.

The man, who the blonde now realized had teeth like a shark, rolled his eyes in annoyance. "We're taking your emotions, idiot."

"Oh." Naruto said quietly. He kind of wanted to keep those. Those were important. He shook his head. "No, actually I really want those."

"Too bad, you agreed to this." The man with black hair sighed. He had bags under his eyes, indicating that he didn't sleep. He didn't seem to be enjoying this as much as the shark guy.

Naruto closed his eyes tightly, preparing for terrible pain. It didn't come. "Are you going to do it, or not?" He asked, his voice without emotion. It was then he noticed that he felt nothing. Tired and hungry of course, but he wasn't angry or afraid anymore.

"Can I leave now?" He asked, not really caring.

"Yes. Itachi escort him home." A voice echoed through the room.

I had to say that I was confused when I noticed the small crack in the ground. In fact, I was just confused in general. I had no memory of where I was... or who I was.. All I saw was grey. It was so.. blank. I felt like the love had been stripped from the land.

I only had one thing on my mind, other than confusing. Naruto. I didn't know what it meant. perhaps it was a name? Yes.. A precious person. I hoped that this Naruto was alright. My heart ached with worry for them.

My attention was brought back to the crack. It was bigger now. That concerned me. I peered at it with my lavender eyes and then shook my head. What I doing, staring at a crack in the ground? I was some strange to be so interested. Even though something inside my heart told me that something was wrong and I needed to get out of there.

But where would I even go? Which way was out? I stood slowly, turning around in a circle. All I saw was grey, for miles and miles. I sighed heavily.

The wind came back with unpleasant news.

I think it's a lost cause. She's slipped too far into the coma. She may never wake... Naruto will be devastated.

He didn't go home. He had been brought to a house with "Uzumaki" on the gates, but he didn't stay. He didn't walk through the gates to greet whomever would be waiting for him. He turned and walked away.

Naruto had no idea where he was going, to be honest. He just wanted to go for a walk. While he walked, he passed a café that seemed sort of familiar. Without thinking, he had somehow ended up in the park. He sat on a stone bench and stared up at the night sky. It was clear, with tiny diamonds glittering like they had no other purpose.

"Naruto!"

The blonde looked up and around. There was no one in the park other than himself and the person that had shouted.

"Uzumaki, what are you doing here?" The voice belonged to a dark haired man with equally dark eyes. He looked angry.

"Uh... Looking at the stars? Who are you?" Naruto asked, his voice almost as uncaring as the guy in front of him.

"You're an idiot." The man said, rolling his eyes. He threw a book at the other boy and started running back towards the way had come. "Go home when you're done reading. Make it quick, idiot."

When he was alone once more, the Uzumaki stared down at the book. He opened it, skimming the pages. This was his life? Yes it seemed like it. The last paragraph was more like a message than a story;

After you read this, you must check on Hinata. She was supposed to be cured by Itachi when he dropped you off at home. If she wasn't... Then all you have to do is tell Sasuke where he is and he'll take care of that. Also, don't leave her side. You don't remember her, but you love her, okay? You love her more than anything in the world. If she doesn't live, I swear to God, you better kill yourself for being such an idiot.

He stared blankly at the page and then closed the book. "Love, huh?" He pondered and then started back towards his house. Naruto didn't feel anything remotely like love. Hell, he didn't feel anything. But if he had felt so strongly for this 'Hinata' girl, then he guessed it was the least he could do to just see if she was okay.

When he entered what was supposedly his home, a girl with pink hair ran up to him and hugged him tightly. He wondered if this was Hinata. He stared at her blankly when she let go.

"Sakura, we need you in here!"

"I know," the pinkette replied. "Naruto's home, though!"

"Bring him in here!"

The girl named Sakura dragged him into a room to the left and his eyes automatically went to the girl with dark hair sleeping on the couch. She was... beautiful. Her skin was pale and looked smooth to the touch. She was wearing a long white dress. The blonde's heart warmed a tiny bit at the sight of her. Then he felt confusion. And even more confusion, since he was feeling an emotion. Confused was an emotion, right? Had it been that girl on the couch that brought his heart back?

He walked up to the couch and then dropped down beside it, peering at the girl. "So.. this is Hinata, then?" He asked.

Everyone in the room left out a sigh of mixed frustration and annoyance.

I was so afraid. The crack had gotten bigger. Then it started to spread and when it crossed itself, a bit of the ground would fall away to reveal endless darkness. That had started a while ago, and now I was hopping from patch to patch of ground, trying so desperately to stay away from the darkness. There were not a lot of grey patches left.

Suddenly, the one I was standing on fell. My eyes widened and I covered my eyes as my stomach flipped. The familiar feeling you got when you were falling. I outstretched my hands upwards, as if someone would grab me and save me.

Oh no... Her pulse is slowing!

I saw the grey sky get clouded by black mist as I fell farther.

She's entering the stage where you never wake...

I closed my eyes and the tears that I didn't know were there fell.

What do you mean, never wake?

She'll be gone, Naruto.

I opened my eyes at the mention of Naruto. My precious person. The whispers echoed around the darkness and suddenly, the falling sensation was gone. I was just suspeneded in endless black. To be honest, the grey was looking pretty good right now, compared to black nothingness.

But... But...

It's too late. I tried, Naruto, I did.

I cried. Sobbed hysterically. I couldn't stop. What would become of me now? Was I merely this crazy girl stuck in darkness with voices echoing off of the walls?

But.. I don't understand. She's...

I knew this voice. I knew it like it was my own.

"Naruto..." I whispered. I remembered now. He was my sunshine. My everything. My precious person... I repeated his name louder. Then louder. I kept doing that until I was screaming at the top of my lungs. Maybe someone would hear me.

Itachi felt terrible. The leader wouldn't let him heal the Hyuuga girl. Now Naruto was going to lose someone he cared about more than anyone. He knew how that felt. The man sighed. He was just glad that he had weakened the spell that froze the poor blonde's heart. He hadn't completed it, he had only made it seem like he had. The poor would get his emotions back when he saw that girl. It was the least he could do. Itachi really wasn't the bad guy here. He never had been. He was just a puppet being controlled because he knew that the organization could kill Sasuke within an hour that the order was given. He couldn't let Sasuke die. His only family. It was best that he hated Itachi. It was for the best.

Naruto had sent everyone out. His emotions had returned, and even though his memories were clouded, he new that he loved Hinata more than anything. He was confused as to why his emotions were working once more, but he didn't dare question it.

He stared at the girl. She was like that princess in the fairy tail where she was crused to sleep for a hundred years. Her prince charming had woken her with a kiss, had he not?

The blonde decided that anything was worth a shot. He lifted himself up and hoered over her for a moment, before kissing her cold lips gently.

And... Nothing happened. Naruto sighed. He was defeated. There wasn't anything that he would do, was there? All he could do was stare at her. He was sorry that he had dragged her into his dangerous life. He was sorry that he had ever met her.

"Na...ru...to..."

It was a faint whisper. If the room hadn't been silent, he would have never heard it. He looked at her quickly, only to see that she was exactly the same as before. He had imagined it, huh? The blonde got up and leaned over to kiss her forehead. He needed something to drink.

Just like that, there was a burst of bright, yellow light. I widened my eyes. The light. Like, at the end of the tunnel? I figured that heaven would be better than eternal darkness, so I reached out towards the light, feeling the warmth on my cold skin.

My eyes fluttered open, which I found odd, because I hadn't shut them. I looked around. It was a living room. Strange, I didn't think that heaven would be a house. I had imagined clouds. And little baby angels. And big, pearly gates that shimmered.

I sat up and yawned. I felt tired. So tired that I wanted to lie back down and go to sleep. As I was about to, I heard a loud crash. I looked to the source of the noise, startled. A girl with pink hair had dropped a tray of teacups.

"Sakura! Why'd you drop that tray? Are you okay?" A familiar voice echoed through the house. A man with bright, sunny hair and crystalline blue eyes walked in and he dropped the cup he was holding.

"You two are clumsy, huh?" I asked. I felt like I knew them. I locked eyes with the blonde, and then my memories collided into my mind like a train into a car. I jumped up and ran over to Naruto, hugging him tightly.

His arms almost crushed me, but I didn't care anymore. I just wanted to be as close to him as possible.

"Hinata.. How..?" Sakura asked, her green eyes wide.

Naruto just whispered, "I don't care how.. You're here... That's all I need."

I pulled away slightly to look at him, my lavender meeting his ocean blue. I just stared for a while. I had missed him so much in that grey world. He smiled brightly, and it resembled the light I had seen in the darkness. "Your smile is what saved me." She whispered, though he didn't hear it.

"I love you, Hinata."

"I love you too, Naruto."

Sasuke was filled with rage. Naruto had told him where Itachi was, and he was determined to kill his brother this time. He was going to end it. Take revenge for his family. He ran down the road, rain hitting him. The drops felt like tiny ice shards on his bare face, but he could care less. He wasn't going to stop until he got what he wanted. Itachi's warm blood on his hands. He knew it sounded sick, but he could care less.

As soon as he pounded on the door, it opened. A tall man with blonde hair that looked similar to Ino's smiled at him. Then his world went black.

I know that I said this was the last chapter. And I meant it. This is the last chapter. Of this story. Yep. Sequel time. Even though I'm so busy. Because I love my readers. And I promise that the sequel will make sense and clear some things up. Just review on what you need cleared up, so I can help you understannnddd. XD

Thank you for joining me on this year and a half journey. I apologize for my terrible uploading skills. My memory is actually the worst ever. I love you guys!