Note: So I going to finish this story today and I'm so happy and yet sad at the same time. I expect some serious reviews so that I can get to a 100! Anyways so yeah, here we go!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or the Naruto storyline.


Chapter Twenty-Eight:

Everything That We Had Made

I ran as fast as my legs could carry me, ignoring the protests of the new arrivals until I began to see the damage that their battle had inflicted on the forest around them. The trees were scarred from their weapons and some had even been all the way sliced through.

There were bloodstains everywhere and I felt my body began to tremble, not with exhaustion but with fear. I knew that the chances of neither allowing the other to live were very slim. I couldn't help but think that I was losing everything and everyone that was dearest to me in a single hour.

I had no idea how much I had been right.

I heard someone groan, and turned around to see my friend, the very friend who had stood by me the entire time of Sasuke's betrayal. He had blood smeared in his hair and his face and arms were sliced and bleeding. I ran over to him, knowing very well that the chance of his survival was so minute I nearly wept right there.

I kneeled down beside him and took his hand in my own, not wanting him to be alone at such a time and said in what I knew to be in a strained voice, "Hey."

He turned his head; closing his eyes from the pain he felt coursing through his body and replied, "I'm s-s-sorry."

I felt my heart crack, "For what?"

"For not k-keeping my promise," he stammered on.

"Don't worry about it!" I tried to laugh but only tears could seem to escape down my face and land on his washing the blood down with them.

He looked up at me with a smile, a smile that I'll never allow myself to forget. It was a smile that only could be remembered through the heart and not through the mind, "How come you never did go on a date with me?"

I felt myself laugh at that, "Why are you thinking about a stupid thing like that at a time like this you idiot? Besides what about Hinata and the baby?"

He rested his head in the crook of my elbow, his amber hairs tickling my skin as he spoke, "That's true, but it would have been nice…"

He trailed off so I asked, "It would have been nice what?"

Jerking his eyes open, and I couldn't help but notice at how dim they were becoming from their usually brilliant blue, "It would have been nice to see if we'd had turned out, ya know?"

I was exhausted by then, I pulled him into a tight hug and said gently, "You wouldn't have wanted me."

"That's not true, I've always wanted you, even when we were children."

"Naruto," I whimpered the tears nearly choking me, "I was never worth it."

"Yes you were," he insisted, "But you wanted Sasuke so I decide that…"

Again he trailed off and again I was forced to ask, "That?"

"If he made you happy then I would bring him to you, but then you fell in love with Gaara."

I closed my eyes as I listened to his confession.

"I wanted you to be happy and I knew that you'd ever be happy with someone like me."

"Someone like you?" every second that passed made my heart break even more than it had ever had before.

"Someone not worthy of your love."

"That's not true, don't say things like that!" I hugged him tighter.

"I'm glad though," I could feel his heart beat slowing down by now, "I really do love her, its just that I wander."

"Naruto," I was crying so hard now that my vision had blurred from the tears that stained my clothes, "I do love you-"

I felt his heart give out before I could finish my sentence, and his body grow limp in my arms. I buried my head into his chest and cried harder than I had ever done before. From a few yards away I heard someone chuckle and I released him and stood up. My anger pulsed through my body as blood pulsed through my vines. Walking over to the one who was laughing I snarled at him while grabbing the front of his shirt and holding my fist up, "What the hell do you think you're laughing at?"

"The two of you are pathetic," Sasuke answered, his own blood smeared into his face, hair, and clothes.

"You're the one who's pathetic," I released him as I remembered that I had left Gaara alone.

Just as I turned around I heard him say, "You never had it in you to kill."

At my feet laid the very sword he had used so often against us, I picked it up and turned around, "Never had it in me huh?"

His eyes grew wide as I plunged the very weapon he had used to create so much chaos in his heart. I heard his blood gargle in his throat before he finally lay limp, and lifeless pinned to the tree he had been against.

I headed back to where I left Gaara to find Lady Tsunade just gaining her footing from where she had been kneeling on the ground. They jounin looked at me, their eyes filled with sorrow, sorrow I knew that could only mean one thing. Kakashi walked toward me, his eyes taking notice of the blood stains on my clothes, and he started, "Sakura I-"

I made to push past him only for him to grab me and I yelled at him, "Let me go damn it!"

"Sakura," he tried to embrace me, but I didn't want to be hugged.

"No!" I could hear myself screaming, screaming for them to stop lying, screaming for him to let me go, and them screaming for Gaara to come back, and my last scream was for Naruto to come back.

At that point they hadn't known that he had gone on, and Kakashi asked me, "Naruto's?"

I could look at him, and I managed to wiggle my way out of his arms and before I knew what I had done, I threw myself over Gaara's lifeless body.

"Its not fair," I wailed, "They're all gone! I'm the only one left and I don't want to be!"

I buried my head on Gaara's neck, which was still warm, and cried even harder than I had just moments before. Then I glanced at the cliff that was only a few yards away, thoughts of suicide swirling in my head. I ran toward it, in visioning myself falling into the depts. Tsunade caught me just in time and wrapped her arms around my body to stop me from moving; I collapse into her as she caressed my hair.

Kakashi vanished and when he returned I was still crying in her arms. I heard him tell one of the jounin that Naruto and Sasuke were dead and that someone had finish Sasuke with his own sword. I knew that their eyes were on me I could feel it.