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Naruto stared at Sakura as she cried her heart out at the news he had brought home. She dropped to her knees and screamed in pure agony, and she didn't want to believe it. Naruto knelt down to her, and held her closely, while she leaned into him, for support as she cried into his tattered orange and black sweater. His eyes held pain…and guilt.

Sasuke Uchiha was gone.

Naruto wasn't sure how he was going to tell Sakura at first, and it was hard slowly starting to bring it up. When he finally came out with it, her eyes went wide in pain and shock, and her tears formed. After shaking her head, denying he had passed on, she started to cry, and went to the point she was at now. On the floor, clutching onto her best friend, screaming as her heart ripped to shreds. Naruto held her letting his own tear fall. But it was not as it seemed. The tear was not of pain from losing a friend.

The tear was of guilt seeing what he himself had put the one he loved through.

She cried herself to sleep in his arms, and as Naruto carried her up the stairs of her home, he felt a cold presence around him. His breath grew cold and he felt…fear. After placing Sakura down on her bed, and watching as even in sleep the streams ran down her face, he sighed, only to be able to see the fog of his breath in front of him. His eyebrows furrowed in alarm. He looked around the room, and there was nothing. He slowly walked over to the bathroom and splashed warm water on his face, watching as the water ran down, and into the drain. He turned off the water, grabbing the sides of the sink, and sighed.

He looked into the mirror and opened it, taking out a pill for the pain he was feeling in his shoulder, from their…fight.

He put on the cap after swallowing two of them, and placed it back in the cabinet, before closing the mirror only to be met instantly with the reflection of none other…

…than Sasuke himself.

Naruto stumbled back, staring straight into the red eyes of the Uchiha who glared at him. His sky blue eyes widened, and they held many emotions; fear, anger, pain, and most of all…guilt. Guilt was the largest emotion he felt.

The Uchiha's eyebrows knitted together, and his eyes glared harder. His sharigan activated eyes, showed anger, betrayal, and hatred; all towards Naruto.

"S-Sasuke…" He murmured out. Naruto walked up to it standing in front of the sink into the Uchiha's eyes. The Uchiha suddenly began to speak, his voice clear, and angered.

"You lied to her." He growled. Naruto swallowed hard and shook his head putting a hand up to part of his face. Naruto felt that he was just becoming delusional. It was just him thinking about Sasuke too much. That's all. If he blinked his eyes three times, the dead Uchiha would be gone, just as he was from the world.

But that was not the case.

"I was coming back to her just like I had promised her. You knew that." The Uchiha spoke again. Naruto looked up seeing him still there. Naruto's hair on the back of his neck, stood up, just like the rest of it.

"Why not tell her the truth Naruto? What you wanted was her to be yours rather than mine, like she would be, like she was, like she is." Naruto put his hands to his ears trying not to listen. The last Uchiha…the last dead Uchiha, took no liking to this, and his eyes intensified.

"What's wrong Naruto? Can't admit to what you have done?" Sasuke continued to push Naruto until finally, Naruto yelled.

"No!" He screamed and punched the mirror, making the glass pieces of his best friend fall either to the sink, or on the ground. Naruto panted his eyes filled with tears and he looked down at his hands. He moved back against a wall and slid down and sat on the floor beginning to cry. It was eating him alive. The guilt and the pain; it was too much. Naruto shook his head. So…So long as he had Sakura, he would be fine. He looked to a large glass shard on the floor and picked it up slowly. He looked into the reflective glass only to see his own sky blue eyes, and one of the two whiskers on his face. He sighed and took out a broom, sweeping up the mess.

He would have to fix that for Sakura tomorrow.


That night, at Sakura's house where he now stayed, he was not allowed to sleep. That day was the haunt of his dreams. Naruto tossed, and turned, and sweated beads off his body, so much it damped the sheets beneath him.

There he stood, looking at Sasuke Uchiha as he walked through the forest. Naruto stared at him furrowing his eyebrows. Sasuke stared back at him, and suddenly the bright sunny morning turned into a dark stormy one. Lightning flashed lighting up Naruto's vision from the darkness, and suddenly Sasuke went from his healthy condition, to bruised, bleeding, cut, and stabbed.

"Look at what you did to me." Were Sasuke's words, before Naruto snapped open his eyes.

Naruto sat up fast, his eyes widen, and panting. He held back his scream in fear that Sakura would awaken.

Unfortunately he didn't need to scream for her to awaken. Next thing he knew, she herself was screaming in the next room. Naruto immediately gulped and went to Sakura's room. There Sakura was, screaming in her bed, crying out of her loss. Naruto walked over sitting on her bed, holding her as she cried into his chest. Naruto bit his bottom lip.

"Shh…it's okay Sakura-Chan. It's okay." Naruto whispered to her, giving her soothing caresses. Sakura looked down, her eyes drowned in nothing but pain.

"Naruto…It's like I've lost a part of me…" She whispered out. Naruto's heart panged against his chest, and guilt racked throughout his body. Sakura cried more her shoulders shaking. He combed his hands through her hair, and suddenly he felt a menacing feeling in the room. The rain outside, beat against the world, and the window, and lightning flashed, lighting up the room occasionally. The next lighting flashed, and Naruto saw him. He stood in the corner, glaring at him, for holding her. Those red eyes stared and bore into Naruto, in now complete hatred.

Naruto remembered the final words he had uttered.

"You will never have my forgiveness."


Naruto stared at Sakura from the entrance of the living room. She sat in a chair that faced the window, staring outside with her now dead emotionless green eyes. The green eyes that used to be so lively, had lost their vibrant color, and held nothing, after two months of hearing of her lover's death. Naruto stared on remembering what Sasuke had told him.

"I'm going back to her. We've been together for some time now, and now that Itachi is dead and she can be safe, I can finally claim her, not secretly anymore. I can announce it to the whole world, and no one could do anything about it. We're going to have a family together Naruto. I'm not trying to destroy the village I want to raise my children with Sakura in." His voice rang in Naruto's ears like they had that day. The tone of it was actually a bit friendly, and sentimental, along with a bit sarcastic, and jokingly. Naruto clenched his hands into fist, and his teeth gritted his teeth.

Naruto's story, for the event, was that he was coming home from a mission, and he ran Sasuke. Running into him, Naruto demanded Sasuke tell him what his plans were, in which the Uchiha responded with the destruction of Konoha. Naruto, being the good ninja and future Hokage of his village, would not allow this, and he and the Uchiha fought to the death, where on lucky blow with a kunai, stabbed Sasuke in the chest, and he slowly died.

That's when Naruto carried him back to the village, as if he had completed his mission to Sakura, to bring him back. They had gone to the funeral about a month ago. Not many people went. Of course…who would go to the funeral of a traitor, and the conspirator of Konoha's demise? Sakura stood there, being the last to leave. Naruto watched as she kissed his dead cold lips one last time in his open casket, before standing back. The casket was then closed, to seal him away forever, and Naruto, Neji, Shikamaru, and Kiba picked up the casket, carrying it to the burial site which was on his family's plot.

That's where he was lowered into the earth.

That was the truth…or so Naruto constantly told himself.

He was faced with a problem though. Sakura wouldn't eat. She wouldn't speak. She wouldn't drink. She would only sit in her chair, staring outside, from dawn to the early evening, and then she would cry in the shower for an hour or two, only to lie in her bed, beneath her blanket, staring either to the ceiling, or the wall. She was slowly starting to get thin. It was scaring Naruto. She was dead inside…it would only be a matter of time before she would be dead physically. Naruto walked over, and knelt down in front of her chair.

"Sakura-Chan…you should eat. Here ya go, just a little bite of some toast at least. Please." Naruto tried. Sakura continued staring out the window, and that's where he saw the streams slowly roam down her face, to replace the dried ones. Naruto grabbed a piece of the bread, and held it gently up to Sakura's lips.

"Here Sakura-Chan…" He said. She looked over slowly, and her hand reached up to grab the bread, almost as if she was cautious, and hesitant. She grabbed it, and ate it. She then turned and went back to looking out the window. Naruto stared smiling gently, standing fully, and throwing out the rest. He knew she wasn't going to eat anymore.

Naruto sighed and watched Sakura. That cold feeling then fell over him again. He tensed up. He was starting to get used to this. The cold feeling would mean Sasuke was here. He was coming.

Then there he was, right behind Naruto. Naruto felt the eyes glaring hurting daggers at him. He wanted to run away. But he had to stay for Sakura. Footsteps, he believed were only heard by him, walked from behind him, towards Sakura. Naruto glared, but stopped in his tracks. Sakura's head was turning slowly as Sasuke knelt down in front of her chair, just as he did. More tears fell, and Sasuke slowly glided his hand over hers. And for the first time in the last two months, Naruto saw a sparkle in Sakura's eyes. A gleaming sense, of a little bit of life returned to her eyes.

Sasuke stood fully leaning into her ear.

"I'm still with you…" He whispered. Naruto gritted his teeth.

Even in death, Sasuke still had her heart.


The clear skies in Konoha made it seem like everything was okay. They made it seem like he hadn't done anything wrong. It was like that morning three months ago didn't matter…it never happened. And that made Naruto's eyes fill with tears. He walked up to Sakura's house, opening the door silently and closing it just the same way.

"I thought you…were coming back to me…" He suddenly heard. Naruto peaked into the living room, and saw Sakura alone, looking up at…nothing. She had a single tear falling down her face, and sat in her chair by the window. Naruto furrowed his eyebrows.

"Please…don't leave me again. I love you." She cried out her hand slowly raising from the arm of the chair, and trying to touch something. Something that wasn't there…or…just wasn't visible to his eyes. Naruto glared. Could it be Sasuke? She did love him…and that made Naruto's blood boil. Naruto walked in seeing Sakura begin to cry harder. She started to scream again.

"No! Don't Go! Please! Don't Go!" She screamed getting up from her chair and falling onto her knees on the floor, begging. Naruto ran to Sakura holding her.

"Sakura-Chan it's okay. There's no one here." Naruto soothed her. That cold feeling that wasn't in the room before he walked in surfaced, and he looked towards the entrance. And there he was. His eyes went from cold onyx, to that of a red hot, furious sharigan. Naruto glared back.

'Why can't you just going away…your dead!' Naruto thought. Sasuke suddenly smirked while Naruto's eyes widened.

'I'm far from dead.' Was the telepathic reply that had come from the dead man.


Six months since the incident. She sat in the chair, her arms lying in the arms of her rocking chair, rocking slowly. She had her head craned back, staring outside at the rain as it fell against the window, and against the earth. Naruto often heard her talking to herself. She would say so much.

"I've missed you…" She whispered.

"I'd give anything to be with you. Please don't be angry with me…I swear, I haven't been with anyone else…" She choked out, tears falling, like skydivers jumping from planes. Naruto kneeled beside her. He couldn't take it anymore. She deserved to know. All this time, he had convinced…or tried to convince her…that Sasuke was only coming back to the village to destroy it, that his goal was to kill everyone in it, and watch it all burn to the ground. But she had her doubts. Hearing this, made her shake her head.

"N-No…he…he said he was coming back to me…it couldn't have been…" She cried out that day he had said it. But nonetheless, after he told her what he had told her, she simply cried. Remembering her lover was dead, never to come back…for any reason.

"Sakura-Chan…" He called. There was no response as her slow tears fell silently. Naruto was slightly surprised there were any tears left. She cried so much, you'd think she couldn't cry anymore. Hell, she probably could fill a swimming pool, or cried a full river. He grabbed her hand gently causing Sakura to slowly look over to him. Naruto stared into Sakura's dead eyes. It was now or never. He had lost everything. He lost a best friend, and he had lost the woman he loved. He had ruined her life, and all in jealousy, and rage. And now that Naruto looked back at it, he found it complete, stupidity.

It was all for nothing.

"There's something you should know…about Sasuke…" Her eyes turned more attentive but held no emotion. She let a tear fall again. In Naruto's eyes it was like watching a fallen angel, cry because she had just been stripped of her wings. Despite crying every day and night, sometimes every hour on the hour, she still held the beauty that challenged everyone and everything. Every mythical being was nothing compared to her. Her hair fell slightly in front of her face, some going past her shoulders. Today, she wore a white dress. One she said Sasuke loved on her. She said he would often dance with her under the moon light in the forest when she wore it.

It was a beautiful dress, and Naruto could see why any man, not just Sasuke, would like it on her. It suited her. The plain, flowing dress that reached just above her knees, hugged her perfect curves gracefully, and flowed down normally. But the dress, despite its simplicity, it held an angelic or goddess like essence when she wore it. And although her eyes were no longer living, anyone could agree to mistake her for something other than human.

Naruto sighed. It was now or never.

"Sakura-Chan…Sasuke…wasn't coming to Konoha to attack it." He said. Her eyes slightly widened, and then held question, and confusion. Naruto bit his bottom lip.

"This is what happened…" Naruto whispered holding Sakura's hand.

Naruto was on his way back from a mission, and as he ran through the forest, he felt a familiar chakra. His eyes widened and he stopped right behind him. He stopped as well. Sasuke Uchiha…stood there in the flesh. He turned with a smirk on his face, and his onyx eyes showing slight merriment…as if he was happy to see him.

"Dobe…I wasn't necessarily expecting to see you on my way home." Sasuke said. Naruto noticed the difference in his voice from those few years ago. Because Itachi was alive he would almost always make sure his voice was stoic and emotionless. But now, it was a bit happier, and…almost friendly. It gave Naruto a start.

"…on your way home? For what?" Naruto questioned. Sasuke smirked and nodded. Naruto glared. He wasn't trustworthy of his best friend/rival yet. Sometimes, it was like he had no idea what in the world Sasuke was thinking and other times they clicked, almost as if in sync with each other. Though, those synchronizations were usually when thinking about Sakura, the love of both their lives.

Everything else…they were completely different, but somehow, that made them friends.

"What else would I go back to Konoha for…well more like who else." Sasuke said turning fully and crossing his arms. Naruto's eyes widened, and he smirked.

"There's no way you're going to get Sakura-Chan." Naruto said glaring and smirking. Their rivalry still continued to this day…all the way from the academy when first seeing the pink haired beauty themselves. Sasuke's smirk widened.

"Idiot. I already got her." He claimed. Naruto's eyes widened in shock.

"What?" He yelled out in shock and anger. Sasuke this time gave a genuine smile.

"Yeah, we've been secretly together, for her safety, for about two years." Sasuke informed. Naruto furrowed his eyebrows together, and his eyes glaring at Sasuke. But Sasuke took it to be a glare of mistrust. Not one of rage, jealousy, or even hatred.

"I thought you were going to destroy Konoha." Naruto said. Sasuke's eyes widened slightly before he closed them and scoffed. He put his hands in his pockets, and spit on the floor. Naruto was slightly glad Sasuke still had his cocky attitude. It gave him…a reason, besides him having Sakura, to hate Sasuke.

"Who said that? I'm going back to her. We've been together for some time now, and now that Itachi is dead and she can be safe, I can finally claim her, not secretly anymore. I can announce it to the whole world, and no one could do anything about it. We're going to have a family together Naruto. I'm not trying to destroy the village I want to raise my children with Sakura in." Sasuke said opening his eyes smiling at Naruto. Naruto nodded and looked to the ground, his eyes turning sad but "happy".

"Well, So long as she's happy…I'm happy." Naruto said. Those words were lies. Sasuke smiled.

"Come on. You're heading home too right or on your way to a mission?" Naruto crossed his arms at Sasuke's question and gave a forced grin, though it looked real.

"I'm on my way home." He said cheerfully, as if he was the same old Naruto. Sasuke smiled. That made Naruto's heart beat hard against his chest. Sasuke never would've guessed what was to happen next, nor would he thought Naruto be the one who would do it. Sasuke turned around keeping his back to Naruto.

"Well come on then. I promised Sakura I'd be there by noon, and you're wasting my time. It's ten already." Sasuke growled. Naruto glared as Sasuke walked away. He looked over and saw maybe a ten pound rock…maybe even fifteen pounds, and picked it up walking up to Sasuke behind him, and swung the rock hard against his head, make Sasuke fall to the floor, dazed, confused, and almost unconscious. But if it wasn't for him being one of the strongest of men, and Naruto could feel it, Sasuke would've died. But he didn't.

Sasuke grabbed his head rolling onto his side, growling in pain. He opened one eye and gritted his teeth despite the pain. He looked up at Naruto, who he was literally seeing two of, and glared.

"N-Na…ruto…?" He choked out. Naruto glared and in a fit of rage, kicked the Uchiha making him roll onto his back, blood coming from his head.

"I won't let you have her." Naruto growled out, watching as Sasuke rolled over to his stomach, and onto his forearms fighting off the blackness trying to overcome him. Sasuke slowly tried to stand but the wound from the rock was both painful, and overwhelming. Naruto glared. He grabbed the Uchiha pulling him up, and punched him in the gut, kneeing him in the face, and throwing him against a tree.

If it wasn't for the sneak attack, Naruto knew doing this would be much more difficult. The worst part was Naruto knew Sasuke could've caught his hand before it swung the rock at him if he were someone else. Sasuke left his guard down…because he trusted him. And that hurt Naruto as he continued to beat at Sasuke. With the head wound, Sasuke was unable to fight back, no matter how hard he tried. He could gather all the power in the world, it wouldn't help him. He could hardly stand.

Naruto grabbed Sasuke's collar lifting him slightly from the floor. They ended up beneath a cherry blossom tree, the namesake of their hearts. The reason Sasuke was at this point right now. Sasuke was cut, and bruised, and battered.

A cut ran alongside his eyebrow, having blood flow from it and down the side of his face, and blood trailing from the corner of his lips. He had broken bones, and could barely fight back with the head wound he was still fighting against. His onyx eyes looked up to see the cherry blossom flower, dancing it the wind as it blew. It reminded him of his own cherry blossom, dancing for him underneath the moon in the forest as she had countless of times. She basked in the moon light, and smiled at him; a smile that was only for him. Her beautiful green eyes, sparkling with love for him. He could just see her now.

He could see her smiling at him. The playfulness in her eyes that came from her childish personality, but also there was the loving and caring look she had in there, from the more mature side in her personality. He let out a raspy, ragged, quivered, breath.

"S-a…k…ura…" He choked out. Hearing this made Naruto infuriated and he glared gripping the fabric tighter lifting him and slamming him against the cherry blossom tree. Sasuke glared into his eyes.

"Why…..Na…" He couldn't even continue. Naruto glared.

He didn't have a reason except that he wanted Sakura.

"I…won't let you have her." Naruto growled. Sasuke glared back. A burst of energy in him, but it could be only used for him to get out his few remaining sentences.

"She…loves me. Not you. I love her. She has…and…always…always will be mine." He growled out.

"I trusted you Naruto…" Sasuke choked out. Naruto glared but kept his guilt inside.

"You…will never have…my forgiveness." Sasuke murmured out, his eyes glaring and half lidded. Naruto couldn't take it anymore. He took out a kunai…

And soon it was pierced into the chest of the Uchiha leaving it there and letting him go. Sasuke coughed up blood and Naruto walked to a nearby tree, watching the Uchiha while leaning against it. Sasuke slowly stood but fell forward, not able to keep himself up, and caught himself on his hands and knees. It was the fall of an Uchiha…and in Naruto's eyes it was saddening. A being of large power, beaten was saddening. He started crawling towards the direction Konoha was in. He was determined to get to her…but there was just no way. He fell to his side grabbing a lone cherry blossom petal, staring at it, and clutching the lone petal in his hand tightly. He stared at his fist, holding the petal, and his eyes fluttered…before he finally closed his eyes…not knowing he was actually surrounded by hundreds of cherry blossom petals some of them, stained with his blood.

Naruto stared, swallowing hard, staring at the large symbolism of Sasuke's position. It was like Fate herself, was taunting him.

'Look at what you've done. This will not only kill him…it will also kill Sakura.' Fate had said. Naruto ignored it. He didn't try to save him…

With that, Naruto then proceeded to mangle himself. He threw himself against trees, and bruised himself. And with Sasuke's dead hand, he used Sasuke's katana to strike him in the shoulder, and give a few cuts around his body and tattered his own clothing. Naruto looked at the hand that held the cherry blossom petal. It was clenched tightly, even in death he would not let go of her. Naruto opened it, even if it was hard to do so. It was like Sasuke wouldn't let go, but eventually Naruto was able to pry his hand open, and take out the cherry blossom petal.

He then picked him up on his back, and carried his dead body back to Konoha…not out of respect…but more of as a trophy.

"And that's what happened Sakura-Chan…" Naruto whispered, with tears running down his face. Sakura's eyes were wide at the story. She slowly stood and began to walk out but stopped and turned around.

"You know…I knew he was angry with you. I just didn't know why…he wouldn't tell me…" Sakura whispered out, her voice low, and strained. Her tears began to fall, and they ran faster, as she placed a hand over her mouth in shock and disbelief. Naruto stood.

"Sakura-Chan, please forgive me. I was stupid." Naruto cried out his own tears running. He grabbed Sakura's hand.

"I miss him too Sakura-Chan. If I could, I'd change it all. I would Sakura-Chan I wou—" Naruto was cut out when Sakura spun throwing his hand off her. Her eyes…full of anger and it made Naruto's heart.

"How could you?" She screamed at him. Her tears running down in waterfalls. She sobbed hard and dropped to her knees hugging herself crying. Naruto kneeled down by her.

"Sakura-Chan, I'm so sorry…I know nothing I can do can ever make up for it. I know." Sakura glared at him. Naruto knew this would happen. But Sakura deserved to know. He couldn't let her go on thinking that Sasuke didn't love her at all, and that all he wanted was the destruction of Konoha. He also believed Sasuke deserved that justice. Sakura looked into Naruto's eyes, her mouth open in and bottom lip quivering. Her face showed, anger, pain…and some disgust. She trusted him too.

He had severed their bond with his selfish decision to kill the one she had loved.

She shook her head and looked around. Anywhere other than him.

"Leave…." She whispered. Naruto stared down at her.

"Sakura-Chan…" He whispered.

"Leave!" She screamed. Naruto looked down slowly walking to the door.

"Please…Sakura-Chan…find it in your heart to forgive me…" Naruto whispered. "I…love you." He said a bit louder. Sakura stood crying, sobbing.

"Just go…" She whispered. Naruto did as she wished.

He went after a few days to see how Sakura was. He slowly walked inside the house, and upstairs, to see her laying down on her bed, facing the wall, her back towards the door. Naruto stared.

"Who's there…" her depressed voice murmured out. Naruto wondered if he really had the nerve to say it was him. He had no idea how he even had the nerve to even set foot fifteen feet away from her house. Naruto looked down. In the end he didn't have the courage and he walked quietly out into the bathroom. He splashed water on his face and took the pills for pain again. He looked down putting the pills back into the cabinet, and closing the fixed mirror, where he saw Sasuke. Naruto wasn't so startled. He was actually expecting to see him. Naruto looked at Sasuke.

He had his onyx eyes looking at him, and they held mostly disappointment.

"You disappoint me Naruto." Sasuke said. Naruto let out a tear. The Uchiha, long, long gone from the world, continued to stare, his eyes unblinking.

"I never, ever, would've thought for a second you could kill anyone…for the reason you did, to protect her yes. I know you've done that before. And truly, I thank you for that." Sasuke continued.

"But killing someone…she loved, for loving her…for your own gain, I would expect anyone else to do. Not you." Sasuke ended. Naruto looked down crying and sobbing his heart out.

"I'm so sorry…Sasuke…I'm so sorry…" Naruto cried out. Sasuke stared at Naruto as he broke down. Naruto looked up, and instead of seeing his best friend, he only saw himself. He only saw his bloodshot eyes, from the tears, and his broken self.

Naruto stared at her body in the bed. It was everything it shouldn't have been; motionless…lifeless…things that just never pertained to Sakura herself. She laid on her bead, wearing that white dress Sasuke…and Naruto himself loved on her. She lied on her back with her head facing the door, a hand draped over her stomach. Her other hand laid by her head, and her legs pointed the opposite direction from the direction of her head. It was…a beautiful sight. An amazing angel it was…sleeping, not to awaken until called upon. Naruto let a stray tear fall down his face. What struck him was her face.

After seven long months…she had a beautiful smile on her face. She must've seen him the moment before she joined him…

…and that broke Naruto's heart.

The funeral…was different. They had Sakura buried in a new plot, by a cherry blossom tree, her namesake. But there was a twist. With the request of Naruto, they dug up Sasuke's casket. Naruto believed they deserved to be together…like they were in life. They put a spot right beside Sakura's grave, and they two were buried next to each other. There was not a day where he didn't visit them. He constantly begged for forgiveness. Naruto isolated himself from everyone, and he only ever spent his time at the cemetery where his only family laid for eternity.

Naruto lasted only three years, before giving in.

Naruto didn't know where he was after that. He was in a garden of some sort, with a few cherry blossom trees. It was a lovely place and everything was so…bright. Was it heaven? If so Naruto shook his head, knowing he didn't deserve to be here. He had killed his best friend three years ago, and lied to the love of his life about it, leaving her to grieve for seven months ruining her life. He looked around and looked up a hill suddenly catching onyx eyes of none other than Sasuke making his eyes widen. Sasuke leaned against a tree staring down at him…and after a few moments a smile appeared. He nodded towards somewhere silently signaling Naruto to follow him. Naruto let a tear fall and he did so. After climbing the slightly steep hill his eyes set their sights on the beautiful angel in her simple white dress smiling down at a two year old child with black hair and green eyes.

Sakura looked over, and rather than holding anger in her eyes like she had last had, she smiled the friendly loving smile she always gave to him. And Naruto then understood. They had somehow, forgiven him. He shook his head.

"Why…" He whispered, his voice echoed through the space. Sakura stood holding up the young child. They all stood in a triangular circle, just like they used to. Wind blew, blowing Sakura's hair in the wind.

"It took me a while Naruto, and believe me, I hated you. But two years in, we could tell you were sorry. And everyone makes mistakes. Even if that mistake is murder." Sasuke said. Sakura smiled.

"Naruto…there's no reason in grudging against something for eternity." Her voice too like Sasuke's, and his own was echoed though she spoke softly. Naruto slowly cried, and dropped to his knees.

"Please don't tell me you guys are joking and then all of a sudden send me to hell." Naruto cried out. Sasuke shook his head.

"Dobe. I'm tired of being angry anyway. I've been angry all my life." Sasuke stopped and grabbed Sakura's waist pulling her and the child into his gently. He stared into her jade green eyes. Naruto slowly stood crying.

"I just want to be happy." Sasuke started, and looked to Naruto.

"And I am. But…it's just not complete with my best friend and rival." Sasuke ended. Naruto let a grin climb onto his face and more tears fell down his face. Naruto knew he didn't deserve their forgiveness, and he was sure they didn't forgive him fully. He knew that. There's no way anyone could forgive murder…or betrayal. It was like Sasuke's last words. He would never have his forgiveness. But bonds could never be broken when as strong as theirs.

And Naruto understood...it would take time.


Gah. I'm so sorry everyone for this one. I really wasn't sure how to end this one. I was sure I wanted Naruto to die, but I didn't want him to rot in hell or anything like that. =( oh well. Thanks for reading everybody! See you in the next one!