Chapter Thirty-Four; Brothers Forever

"Sasuke! Sasuke!" Sakura cried while continuing to breathe heavily and frantically as she raced out into the backyard. Sasuke just simply heaved a heavy sigh before slowly turning his head over to look at her.

"Do you mind? We are sort of busy here." He told her.

"I'm sorry Sasuke, but this is really important. In fact, I'm afraid that it's more important right now than playing catch with your son." She said.

"It very well better be." He muttered underneath his breath but grew concerned at the sudden worried look upon his wife's face.

"Sasame was right. All of her dreams and visions were true. Sasuke, she's really a princess to the land of snow and you and I are the king and queen." She told him before she handed the letter over to him. "Here, read it for yourself." She told him before he quickly snatched the letter out of her hand and started reading it silently to himself.

Dear Mr. and Mrs. Uchiha,

Since the passing of our dearly departed Queen Yukie, we're delighted to inform you that before her passing she has named you the new king and queen to the land of snow out of gratitude for what you had done for her back when you were only Genin. Please send us your answer ASAP.

Sincerely, Isamu Fujino

Sasuke slowly glanced back up at his wife. "Why didn't they just email Naruto about this instead?" he questioned her. "After all, he's really the one who helped her out." He said.

"I know, but Yuki probably already knew that he's already the hokage of our village so he couldn't possibly be the rightful heir to the throne." She told him.

"You do realize what this means now don't you? If we both agree to be the king and queen and Sasame agrees to be the princess, our four year old son will be the prince." She said before they both turned their heads and looked down at the little boy who clutched a rather large baseball inside his hand.

"So? Are we going to play or what?" he wondered as Sakura breathed a little sigh of relief since he didn't appear that he had heard any of their conversation. Or if he did, he hadn't been paying attention. Sakura knew that ruling another land would be a huge responsibility on anybody let alone somebody that young.

"Uh Hiro, change of plans. You're going to stay here with Mommy. Daddy's got some work that he has to do." Sasuke told him before Sakura quickly pulled him aside.

"Come on Sasuke, we'll deal with this some other time. You promised him that you would spend some time with him." She whispered.

"I know." Sasuke began. "But right now he's not the one that I'm worried about. I also promised Naruto the year that we came back to the village that we'd never leave him again." He told her.

"Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Poor Naruto, he's going to be crushed when he finds out." She said.

"Don't remind me." Sasuke told her while he gazed at her with a solemn expression on his face. "But I'm going to have to talk to him about it sooner or later so I might as well get it over with." He told her before he planted a soft and tender kiss on her cheek. "I love you and I'll be back as soon as I can." He said.

"Alright." She began with a nod. "I love you too Sasuke, and please do me a favor and break it to him gently alright? He's my brother and one of my best friends and I can't stand to see him upset." She told him while slowly glancing down at the ground.

"I know, me neither. And I will. See you later." He told her before she watched him turn around and walk away.

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Sasuke sped down the street on his motorcycle before he turned the corner and pulled into Naruto's driveway where he was busy playing a solo game of basketball. Sasuke stopped and parked his bike and slowly removed his helmet while Naruto made a slam dunk into the basket. Then he stopped and turned around to face his friend. "Oh hey Sasuke, what's up?" he questioned him with a grin.

"I didn't know that you played basketball. Especially like that." Sasuke told him while grinning back at him.

"Thanks." Naruto replied with a blush before he picked the basketball off the ground and threw it to Sasuke who successfully caught it. "Hey, you're pretty good yourself. Want to play a little one on one?" he asked him but Sasuke just simply heaved a deep and heavy sad sigh and shook his head.

"Not right now. There's something that I have to talk to you about." He said.

"Really? What's that?" Naruto asked before catching a glimpse of the sad sorrowful look upon his friend's face. "Did somebody else die or something?" he wondered.

"Yeah, our friendship." Sasuke thought to himself. For he knew that once Naruto found out the truth that he wouldn't want to even know him anymore let alone be his friend. "No. It's nothing like that. It's just that Sakura and I are going on another little trip." He told him.

"Oh." Naruto responded sadly while hanging his head. "Where are you going?" he asked him.

"Well,.. uh,.. forever. You see Sasame's vision came true. Sakura and I are going to be the new king and queen to the land of snow. We're moving there." He explained.

"What!?" Naruto shrieked before slowly backing away from him. "You're leaving? Even after we just got back and you promised me that you wouldn't ever leave me again!?" he exclaimed as Sasuke breathed another heavy sigh. "I thought I meant something to you! Or did you lie to me about that too!?" he hollered.

"No Naruto, don't ever say that. You mean so much to me." Sasuke told him.

"Then why are you leaving me!? I thought that we were friends,.. brothers even!" he cried.

"We are brothers and we always will be no matter what I promise you that." Sasuke assured him.

"I don't believe you!" Naruto yelled with a quick shake of his head as tears started rolling down his cheek. "If you were really my brother you wouldn't break your promises!" he shouted before he turned around and ran away.

"Naruto please! Wait! Come back!" Sasuke cried as he put his helmet back on, turned on his motorcycle for a second time and sped after him.