back here with you lovely people once more!! I love da people! Okay, for those that do not know me, my name is Crimson A. Nightshade. My hobbies consist of watching anime, reading manga, drawing, reading, writing (obviously), and checking out hott anime guys ;p okay, I'll calm down. I am between 14 and 18 years of age and I am single call me at this number-- psych! Kidding but I am single though. lolz it's late again people! but I'll just put the time at the bottom this time. Here we are, the next chapter of Titanic -SasuSaku style-

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Titanic

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The Promise

Everything was extremely quiet. People were dying if not dead already from severe hypothermia. Only the sound of scattered moaning was heard. Sasuke was shivering violently. His lips were deep blue and his raven hair was completely iced, but he never let go of Sakura's hand. Sakura was quiet. Her lips a deep blue and her rosette locks were completely iced as well.

"It's getting quiet," Sakura said in a low, quiet, and weak tone of voice.

Sasuke turned to look at her, still shivering. "It's going to take a couple of minutes to get the boasts organized," his voiced cracked occasionally. Sasuke sucked in air, hard, as his lungs filled with ice. The coldness of the water and air around him, made Sasuke weaken fast and lose his strength. Never his will, no, never that. "I don't know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter to the White Star Line about all this," he stuttered. Sasuke laughed without humor. They both hell silent; scattering moaning and pleading in the distance was all they heard, basically.

"I love you, Sasuke," Sakura said in a quiet and weak voice.

Sasuke looked into her lifeless emerald eyes. His onyx eyes were fierce and full of fire to give him the strength for this moment. "Don't you do that," Sasuke said strongly, despite his shivering. "Don't you say your good-byes. Not yet. Do you understand me?"

Sakura shook violently. "I- I'm so cold."

"Listen, Sakura... you're going to get out of here. You're going to go on and you're going to make lots of babies and you're going to watch them grow. You're going to die an old... an old lady warm in her bed. Not here. Not this night. Not like this. D-Do you und-under-unders-stand me-e?"

"I can't feel my body," Sakura said, her voice lifeless.

"Winning that ticket, Sakura, was the best thing that ever happened to me," Sakura looked up at Sasuke. His eyes held hot intensity. "It brought me to you... and I'm thankful for that, Sakura. Thankful." Sakura began to cry upon hearing Sasuke's words. Tears froze on her fair face. "You must-- You must--" Sasuke took both her hands in his. "You must do me this honor-- You must promise me that you'll survive... that you won't give up no matter what happens... no matter how... hopeless. Promise me now, Sakura... and never let go of that promise."

Sakura remained silent for a moment. She gathered all of her strength to say two, very important words to Uchiha Sasuke, "I promise." She shivered harder.

"Never let go."

"... I will never let go, Sasuke." The sound of their own shivers was all they heard, now. "I'll never let go."

Sasuke kissed her hand and still managed to smile that heart-warming smile that Sakura went mad over. They both pulled in closer as their shivering grew in intensity. Mean while, Namikaze Minato would soon be looking for them.

--+--

Namikaze Minato stood up in the little boat, shining a flashlight, looking for survivors of the sinking.

"Do you see any moving?" he asked his crew as they approached the field of corpses.

"No, sir. None moving, sir," replied one of the crewmen.

"Check them," ordered Minato. "Bring that oar up here."

They all looked over the edge. All of the people floating in the water were dead; frozen.

"These are all dead, sir." The man let the frozen woman go.

"Now give way. Ahead easy," said Namikaze. The men moved the bodies so the boat wouldn't hit them.

"Careful with your oars. Don't hit them." The men followed Officer Namikaze's orders. "Is anyone alive out there?" Minato shouted. "Can anyone hear me?" His shouts were faint echoes from the distance. "Is there anyone out there?" Minato's flashlight's light fell upon the French woman with her infant, both frigid dead. Minato swallowed back the sense of breaking down. "We waited too long," his voice a whisper. "Well, keep checking them, keep looking!" he shouted at the men.

"Is there anyone alive out there? Anyone can hear me?" Namikaze Minato kept shouting. Hoping-- praying that some would still be alive.

--+--

Haruno Sakura floated upon the door looking up at the stars. She began to sing softly and haltingly the song Sasuke had once sung to her. "And it's up she goes. Up she goes." She continued to sing until she saw a light hit the side of her face. She turned her head slowly to see who it was.

Namikaze's voice was garbed and slow to Sakura's frigid deafness.

'Oh my God! We're saved!' Inner Sakura trembled.

"Sasuke?" she said his name quietly as she shook his hand. She rolled over so she could see him. "Sasuke." she noticed his eyes were closed. "Sasuke-" still no response- "Sasuke, there's a boat." She shook his arm harder. "Sasuke." Sakura was becoming scared when Sasuke didn't respond a while afterward. "Sasuke? Sasuke. Sasuke!" she shook his arm harder still. "Sasuke. There's a boat, Sasuke." Sakura's voice was faltering with the beginnings of tears.

"Sasuke?" The boat began to slowly pass by them.

Sakura began to cry softly.

Uchiha Sasuke was gone.

She laid her cheek on his hand as she continued to cry.

There's no use now, Sakura thought. Sasuke's dead.

'What about the promise?!' Inner Sakura shouted through her own tears.

The... promise...?

'The fuckin' promise you made to Uchiha Sasuke!'

I can't die... not like this. Sakura opened her eyes. "Come back. Come back," she called quiet and weakly to the men in the boat. "Come back. Come back. Come back-" Her voice grew an inch louder- "Come back, come back."

"Can anyone hear me?" called Minato.

"There's nothing here, sir."

"Come back. Come back." Sakura, with the last bit of strength, pulled Sasuke onto the door as she pushed herself off into the frigid water. Sakura pulled her frozen hand from Sasuke's. "I'll never let go. I promise." She kissed his icy hand with her icy lips and let him floating on the door.

A single heart beat screamed through the night.

She sobbed openly as she swam over to what she needed to get the men's attention. She swam over to the dead officer with the whistle in his mouth, pulled it from his lips, and began to blow on it, faintly at first. But then louder and harder.

Minato whipped around when he heard the faint whistling sound. It became louder in an instant.

"Come about!" he exclaimed.

The light shined on Sakura. She blew the whistle harder and louder and didn't stop till they got there to her.

--+--

I honestly did cry when I wrote this chapter. It's a miracle my tou-san or ka-san didn't come running to my room asking me what's wrong. They have really hightened hearing. It is now 2:48 in the A.M. Late night once more... but I don't really mind

Crimson: -tears trail down her face. they splash on her dark cut off jean shorts. she rubs her tears on her black lacey tank top-

Inner Crimson: -sniff, sniff; tries to wipe the tears away on her black and white striped shirt. she rubs her hands on her charcoal black skirt-

Sakura: -tears splash onto light jeans; she whipes her eyes on her red t-shirt-

Honeymusterd: -wipes her tears with her navy blue t-shirt-

Sakura: that truly w-was some be-beautiful cinematic art, Crimson-chan -hic-

Crimson: arigatou, Sakura-chan

Inner Crimson: i'm trying not to cry but it's hard

Honeymusterd: truly -blows her noes-

Naruto and Sasuke: -walk back into the room from getting nachos and fajita pizza from the kitchen and Sprite, Moutanin Dew and Sierra Mist and find the girls crying-

Naruto: doshde no?

Sakura: -hands Sasuke and Naruto the script-

Naruto: -plops on the couch- heavy stuff -quiet meak voice-

Sasuke: -goes over to comfort his girlfriend- no wonder you girls are crying. Crimson, sweets, I think you over did it.

Crimson: not fault i'm good at it

Sasuke: -into a hug-

Crimson: -snuggles into his shoulder-

Sasuke: better? -Uchiha smirk- (HERE THE FANGIRLS SCREAM!!)

Crimson: almost -crashes her lips onto Sasuke's-

Sasuke: -kisses her back with much enthusiasm-

HM, Saku, Inn Crim: REVIEW!!

Naruto: O.O did not see that coming...!