Kill Itachi for Me

Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi stood around the monument for fallen Leaf shinobis. All remembered the last moments of Uchiha Sasuke's life after their confrontation with his brother, Itachi.

-Start Flashback-

Blood had pooled around Sasuke's head and blood dripped from his dying lips as he told Naruto his last wishes. Sasuke could barely talk as he called out Naruto's name,

"Naruto."

"Sasuke! What do you need?"

"Naruto, swear to me, t-that you will do a-as I say."

"I swear. What do you need me to do?"

"Kill Itachi for me."

His eyes clouded over as the avenger's life disappeared. Naruto and Sakura were sobbing as their teammate passed away.

Then Kakashi stumbled into the clearing scratching his silver hair saying, "Sorry I'm la- oh."

He sees Sasuke's unmoving body as he says to go back Konoha and leave the mission incomplete so that they could bring Sasuke's body back. He seemed unnaturally calm during the whole time.

Naruto yells at Kakashi, "What's wrong with you! Don't you feel sad that one of the people you probably cared about is dead!"

Kakashi replies, "Everyone I ever cared about is already dead."

T he rest of the journey went in silence all the way back to Konoha. The funeral was the biggest turnout ever in the history of Konohagakure with the exceptions of the hokages. The people were mumbling, "I guess there's gonna be no more Uchihas now…"

Soon the 3rd hokage spoke, "Before us lies a hero of our village, Uchiha Sasuke, the last survivor of his clan and he died trying to get revenge. He had great turmoil in his heart and somehow tried to shun himself so as to get no close friends. Those friends would have tried to keep him from his chosen path. Luckily, his friends were ones that would not lead him astray from his destiny but kept him company and made his last days happy. These are true friends. In the end, with his dying breath he asked a request of our own Uzumaki Naruto-"

People murmured disagreement about this decision by Sasuke. 'Why leave it to the demon?' They asked themselves.

-he asked that Naruto could avenge his dead family by killing the last remaining Uchiha, Uchiha Itachi. I would ask that you help him on his quest given to him by our dead avenger."

-End Flashback-

Sakura started sobbing into Naruto's chest who didn't know how to respond to such emotions. He awkwardly patted her back and mumbled, "Uh… It's gonna be alright…"

She sobbed, "He's not coming back Naruto… He's not coming back… Don't leave… please don't leave me…"

Naruto asked, "What do you mean? About leaving?"

But there was no response; Sakura had fainted in his arms. He didn't know where Sakura lived so he brought her to his house and set her on his bed.

'I guess I'm going to sleep on the couch tonight.'

The next morning Sakura woke up and asked, "Where am I? This isn't my bed."

So Naruto comes into the room and says, "You're at my house because you fainted in my arms at the funeral."

"Really! How come you didn't bring me home?"

"I didn't know where you lived…"

"Oh… sorry."

That day Sakura asked about what Naruto ate and so he said ramen, ramen and more ramen. So she went out and got some groceries and cooked breakfast for the both of them.

"Ewwwwww… what is this?" asked Naruto as he poked at the offending food.

"It's called an egg."

"What's an egg? I want ramen." Naruto pouted.

"Ramen day and night isn't healthy for you." Sakura stated.

"I don't care."

After that Sakura threatened Naruto with a picture she had found in his kitchen of him in a bunny suit. So then Naruto consented and ate his eggs. The two of them went to training and suddenly felt really sad for the bridge gave them memories of their deceased teammate, Sasuke. Naruto voiced his thoughts out loud, "Who's going to be our new teammate?"

Then Kakashi poofed right in front of them and said…

To be continued…