Hello people! It's here, the epilogue of the story! It's pretty short compared to the other chapters but it's just for the purpose that you guys have a general idea of what happened in the years later after chapter twenty three. So I hope you all like how things ended up. Also, this is just a POSSIBILITY but I am planning on writing another fic that will be about what happened in the years that appear on the epilogue in a way more specific way. Because, as you'll all see, the epilogue is more like pieces of the future so IF I get inspired enough to write a fully detailed version of the epilogue, it will be in some time from now because I want to concentrate on an AU universe I'm writing. This AU will have the pairing of Itachi and another OC and it will be short, like eight chapters. But then it will have a sequel which will be longer. Check my Profile for a full summary.

Anyway, here it is, the epilogue of Distance! Enjoy!

Epilogue: As Years Pass

"I'll be there watching from way up high.

The shadow you can't see when the sun's in the sky.

Wondering eyes have no disguise.

It's obvious that this love never dies."

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Two Years Later

It was pretty much a celebration. Jack and Natas had now become full fledged shinobi and all of his friends were now at the bar known as 'Shushuya' where they also served full meals but the friends were on the bar area, drinking Sake.

"I can't believe you actually became a shinobi, Jack!" A certain brunette with purple eyes touched the brown eyed Jack on the shoulder as she talked to him. The man just shrugged at her comment.

"I really didn't thought I had it in me but I had a really big motivation." After he said that, they both looked to the direction where a certain Hyuga heiress was sitting talking to Sakura. Ari smiled and looked back at him saying,

"Yeah, I know how that feels."

Next to them, Natas was sitting talking to his now official girlfriend Ino and his friend Dart. The green eyed young man had decided that he didn't wanted to be a shinobi, that he just rather preferred to be the good of Shikamaru that he now was, rather than be fighting other people. It was all 'such a drag'. Jack and Natas both had a very similar reason of why they wanted to become shinobis: Love. Both brothers had fallen in love and with kunoichis and so they wanted to be somehow more worth of those powerful women and that somehow was by becoming shinobis themselves. Natas and Ino didn't had much problems but Jack and Hinata did because of her clan. Since she was the heir, her father wouldn't allow her to marry anyone that wasn't worthy and for him worthy is someone who can offer him a decent fight and be a respectful ninja. And so, he trained hard to become one just for her.

Naruto and Sakura were drinking and soon they were dancing and laughing out loud, their arms locked around each other's while Kakashi just watched with a raised eyebrow. He was wondering when the hell those two would just admit their love and get it over with. Beside him was Neo sitting drinking calmly his own Sake and next to him, was the famous Uchiha heir, Itachi, just smirking at everything he saw, though his smirk widened when a certain brunette smiled at his way from where she was talking to her friends.

"Hey there, Kakashi-kun." A brown haired and honey eyed young woman stood beside the silver haired jounin who looked up at her and smiled, his sole eye wrinkling as he did so and stood up. Kakashi was a more taller than her because the top of her head reached his nose so that's why he did what he always did; kissed the top of her head and then tilt her head up lovingly to lower his own and kiss her lips in a very tender way. The woman smiled brightly at him before he spoke.

"Hello, Kaori. How was your mission?" He asked her and she grinned.

"Those genins are so amusing but they did a pretty good job on painting the fences, catching the cat and cutting out the grass. But I'm just glad it's all finally over so I can be here with you." She pressed herself against his chest and he surrounded her with his arms and kissed her head once again.

"I'm glad you are as well, I missed you." He said.

"I missed you too."

"Oi, Kakashi-sensei! Get yourself a room already! All that kissing and loving is burning my eyes!" The yellow knuckle head ninja whined at his ex-sensei who shrugged his shoulders.

"If you would just get yourself a girlfriend already, a certain girlfriend, you'd know what you're missing. Right, Sakura-chan?" Kakashi winked at his cherry blossom ex-student and she blushed, catching the hidden meaning in his words.

Four Years Later

"Congratulations, you guys! It was about time!" Ino grinned at her pink haired best friend who was standing beside her newlywed husband, Naruto.

"Oh, I know but well, that's how we are!" Sakura smiled brightly and tugged on the arm of her blonde spouse.

"Yeah, I had already told Sakura-chan that I loved her but she was still too shy to admit her undying love for me." He grinned with a mischievous glint in his eye to which Sakura pouted and poked him hard on his arm.

"Hey, what was that for, Sakura-chan?" He whined and the cherry blossom just smirked.

Hinata and Jack, who had just married a month before, smiled at the newlywed couple from where they were standing , knowing the happiness they must be feeling because they had felt it a month ago though of course, they still felt the same way. Kakashi and his also one year wife, Kaori, were smiling and the jounin was silently wishing his two students good luck on the life of a married couple. Neo smirked and looked to his side at his girlfriend, Kimiko, who was giggling lightly at everything that was going on. Ari looked up to the eyes of the man she had her arm tangled with and smiled.

"You think we'll be like that?" She asked him and Itachi smiled back at her.

"Maybe even more."

Hundreds of miles away, another couple had just united themselves in matrimony as well but the woman had already a month of pregnancy by her now husband. They were pretty excited for the new baby that was on its way and they were happy with each other and in love. Their life wasn't easy because they were rogues and still didn't had a stable place to live but now that a child was on its way, they needed to find one as soon as possible.

"I think it would be best to find a house near Konoha." Ike said to his blue haired wife.

"I believe so too, in case anything happens, we know they will help somehow." She smiled at him and he nodded, both to be parents caressing the growing womb of Konan.

Six Years Later

"I don't feel so good…" Ari said through her wolf mask and stopped sprinting through the trees; everyone else stopped as well, going to her side along with their Captain who was wearing his hawk mask. Just as he was going to touch her back and ask what was wrong, the brunette turned around, took off her mask hastily and threw up next the tree she was leaning against. Her team mates looked from her to their captain, who had a very worried expression on as he took off his own mask to crouch down next to her and rub her back as she emptied her stomach.

"Ari, what's wrong?" He asked with concern in his voice and she shook her head, cleaning her mouth with a cloth she had in her pack.

"I don't know… I've been feeling a little nauseous for a few days and now I threw up all of a sudden…" She whispered and Itachi frowned.

"Why didn't you told me before?" He asked her and she looked down at the floor.

"Because we had this mission and you needed me, I didn't wanted to cause any problems but now I'm just being a burden…" She stood up slowly and the Uchiha grabbed her chin lightly and turned her head to look at him.

"You are never a burden to me and we could've just asked for another medic if you were not feeling well. Do you want me to see what's wrong?" He asked and his hand started to glow a faint green so she nodded. Bringing down his hand to her stomach, he let his chakra flow into her as he analyzed if there was something out of the ordinary in her digestive system. Several seconds later, the Uchiha's eyes widened and then narrowed as he concentrated more to see if what he had just discovered was true. Ari watched how his eyes narrowed and worried a little and even more when he stopped using his green healing chakra to analyze her and now activated his Sharingan and stared intently at her stomach.

"I-Itachi, what's wrong?" She asked finally and his crimson eyes widened once again in pure disbelief. Their team mates looked at each other, lost at what was going on.

"Ari…" He looked up at his wife, his eyes now turning to their original onyx as he just grabbed the purple eyed woman and brought her to his chest in a pretty tight embrace. Now everyone was officially lost at what was going on. When he finished with his excited hug, he held her face in his hands and smiled tenderly.

"You haven't noticed already?" He asked and she tilted her head and raised an eyebrow at him.

"Realized what?" She asked back and he took her hand with his, directing it to her stomach. At first, she thought he was loosing it but then she froze as the meaning of what he was trying to imply got to her.

"Oh God…" She gasped and he just nodded and smiled at her, confirming her thoughts.

"Yes, Ari. We're going to be parents."

Eight Years Later

"Push, Sakura, come on!" Tsunade shouted at her apprentice as she held on to the head of the child that was just about to be born. The pink haired who had her strands of long hair wet with sweat, took in a deep breath and pushed as strong as she could, resisting the torturing pain as the rest of her child's body emerged from her womb to the outside world. Soon, the cry of a baby was heard through the whole room and Naruto, holding on to his wife's hand, let go of the breath he was holding in.

"It's a healthy baby girl." Tsunade said as she held on to the crying infant in her arms. She motioned for Naruto to come and cut the umbilical cordon which he did with shaking hands and then she gave the baby to her father, who hesitated a little at seeing how fragile she was but none the less, took his newborn daughter in his arms. The tears started to flow down at the sight of the small red haired baby girl in his arms. He walked closer to his wife to show her the human being they had created and Sakura's emerald eyes shed tears of joy at the miracle that had grown up in her womb and was now here in her arms.

"You name her, Naruto. I think you would know of a fitting name." She smiled up at him and he grinned.

"Of course, I have the perfect one!" They both looked down at the girl that kept on crying loudly, her little face round like a tomato and with a red blush on her tiny cheeks that matched her hair.

"Kushina Uzumaki!"

"Hey, everyone! It's a girl!" Naruto busted out of the room and shouted to the whole hospital that his child was a girl. All of his friends were there sitting for the news and they all stood up and laughed, happy for their knuckle headed friend and new Hokage. Ino was the one to run up to him and hug him, small tears of joy going down her blue eyes and then everyone else came and congratulated the new father.

Ten Years Later

It was the graduation day of the Ninja Academy students at the Village Hidden in the Leaves. Their parents watched proudly as they all got their respective headbands that symbolized they had successfully passed their studies.

"Sa-ke!" A chiming voice of a little baby girl called out through the crowd of parents and family members when she spotted the one her little onyx eyes were searching for. She looked up to her mother when she heard her giggle.

"Yes, sweetie, that's Sasuke-chan." Her mother, Ari, said at her dark haired and onyx eyed daughter who had just turned one year old the week before.

"And who is Sasuke, Hikari-chan?" The girl's father, Itachi, poked his daughter's nose lightly as he asked her, the baby girl laughing back at him.

"Nii-san!" Her little baby voice said excitedly and both parents looked at each other and smiled and then turned to look back at the graduation ceremony that was being held.

"Welcome shinobis, kunoichis, fathers, mothers and other family members to the Konoha Ninja Academy Graduation." The Hokage, Naruto Uzumaki, welcomed everyone to the ceremony.

"Today we are here to celebrate a very special occasion: the graduation of a whole new generation of ninjas. A new generation that will grow up to protect and serve the Village Hidden in the Leaves, our home." The speech went on and everyone was there watching and listening proudly to the words their Hokage said.

Kakashi with his wife, Kaori, were there for their son, Kenji Hatake who graduated today at the age of seven. Sakura was there as the wife of the Hokage along with their red headed two year old daughter Kushina. Ino and Natas smiled, the blonde kunoichi rubbing her grown stomach and imagining the moment when their own child graduated from the academy. Jack held on to his months old daughter, Hinari, who was giggling up at him while his other arm was placed on the small of his wife's back, who looked down at their daughter and back up at him with a loving smile and happiness in her pearl like eyes. Neo and his now wife Kimiko also watched the graduation though they weren't planning on having any kids anytime soon, but they were there just to watch the two children that graduated today: Sasuke and Kenji.

"And now, we shall proceed to calling out the names of the children that will today turn into genin." Some time later, Naruto called forward Kenji Hatake and the two proud parents stood up and clapped their hands at him followed by the rest of the crowd. The seven year old smirked back at everyone and waved his father's famous "Yo" as he stood up to receive his headband. The now genin had his father's silver hair and his mother's honey eyes but took more over his father in his handsome looks.

"Next, Sasuke Uchiha!" Naruto called and the five year old Uchiha with purple eyes and ebony black hair smirked the same way his father does and walked forward to receive his headband. His little sister, Hikari Uchiha, clapped as loud as she could along with his very proud parents. He smiled up to them and said a small "Thank You" to his parents in a way of being grateful for everything they've done for him. Ari and Itachi were able to read his lips and the Uchiha clan leader placed his arm around his wife's waist and pulled her closer to him as they looked at each other and smiled; the purple eyed leaned in and placed her head on his shoulder as Itachi kissed his daughter's forehead.

Ten years ago, he would've never thought that his life could turn into something that didn't even came close to this. Not even in his dreams had he seen this coming, not even if twenty years ago when he was thirteen, if he somehow had a normal life in his home, he knew that it would've never come out like this. Here he was, with his own family, his own friends and his own life. If everything had went according to the plan he had, he would've been dead. Nothing of this would've existed, not even his son or his daughter would've been alive right now.

But now, after all that has happened, after all the twists his life had taken, he had finally learned his lesson: Never take anything for granted. You can make plans, you can prepare yourself for something but if life has other plans for you, if destiny decides that things will be different for the better or worse, there is nothing you can do but go on with what you have and make the best out of it.

And there is nothing better than looking back at your life and having no regrets.

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I'll be your guardian angel, your sweet company.

No matter where I go, I'll make sure you're all I see.

Our love never dies, this love never dies.

So, it's done! Distance is officially complete! Man, how glad I am :D I would like to thank all those who reviewed the story all the way, specially Shifuni! Thank you so much for all your reviews and to just read and review, Tha NarutoFreak and The_Namelessdude and everyone else that I can't remember right now :P Thank you to all those people that favorited the story and added them to their alerts list! And I'd like to say the messege I want to transmit in this story if the last sentence of the story above isn't clear enough:

In this story I want to express how life it self can be. How fast things can change for the good or worse and how things are never granted. You never know what will happen, NEVER. One can only suppose or expect things but it's never for sure that those things will happen. We do all we can for them to become true but one must always be prepared if it fails and if it does fail, just face it. Don't live looking back and thinking of what could've been because it's all IN THE PAST, live your present so that way you can try your best to shape your future. But always LIVE IN YOUR PRESENT, in the today because the future is tomorrow and tomorrow still hasn't arrived. How can you live in something that isn't even here? Wait for things to come to you. I know there are things that are hard to do or hard to understand, but in the end if you are patient, everything will be how it is supposed to be.

Life hurts, love hurts but there is nothing more beautiful than those two things. So don't ever let go of them and remember to always be yourself. We've all had horrible moments when we think the world is going to end and that nothing else matters, that no one understands you, no one knows what you are feeling and it hurts so very much, but don't let go of yourself and keep on walking through life because soon, everything will go away and everything will be alright once again. There is nothing that matters most than being alive and living that life you have for yourself.

So yeah, that's pretty much it. I have to confess that I wouldn't be able to write this romantic/drama stories if it weren't for the love I feel for my boyfriend. It's really inspired me so much in the fanfic that it amazes me O.o We've had out horrible moments me and him but they pass and we've been able to handle those problems and go on, because the love we have for each other is more than any of those problems just like life is more than any other problems.

And now, this is officially the end of this story and I hope you all enjoy the next ones I plan on writing :P Just keep a close eye on my profile and I will be updating drawings and news if I'm going to publish any other new fanfic soon :P So, one more review for this epilogue so you can say what you thing of the story in general, would be awesome! See ya!