Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
---
::Pale as the moon you stand before
You smirk, your only smile, I'll remember for evermore
I reach out to you, but your image is disrupted
Your smirk fades, and you turn away
The moonlight shines through your wounds
Gaping holes in the fabric of our souls
A wolf cries into the darkness
Echoed in the stone cavity of my heart
He turns back and walks to my side
Looking into the dark orbs that no moonlight reflects in
I see tears
Rage wells inside of me
He never cries
He should never cry
Especially not for me
He sees my anger and rubs away the tears with a bloodstainedwrist
Giving a smile that outshines the feeble glow of the moon
He starts to laugh
Not a mocking laugh, as I have heard so oft in nightmares
But not a joyful laugh either
A sad laugh, slow and mournful
He gazes deep into my eyes and I realize
He doesn't mind crying
Crying means he hasn't forgotten
He doesn't want to forget
I ask if he will go visit the others
He shakes his head and replies that he already has
No sound leaves our lips, but we understand
He turns to go but I stop him
Ask if he will come back
He turns to the moon and smiles
Yes
Someday
I'll come back
Wait for me
Under the moon
Every night, when the moon shines
I sit beneath it, basking in its glow
Years go by
Older, much older, I sit in the same place he appeared to me
He returns
I reach out and he grabs my hand, feeling as solid as he felt when I held him at his death, hismany deaths
I feel light
We float into the moon
I say his name
He says mine
And then smirks
All the warning I have
You dunce
Why'd you come out without a sweater?
We laugh
Joyful laughter::
Sakura looked up from her paperwork. Not even old age had stopped her from doing her job as Hokage's assistant. She shook her head wearily. Strange, she thought. I thought I heard laughter. Naruto and Sasuke's laughter.
She gave a snort and stood up, shuffling papers. Stop deluding yourself. Sasuke died a long time ago. He's not coming back.
She heard something behind her. She addressed the intruder without even turning around. "Hello Kakashi. Nice of you to drop by."
"Did you hear it?"
Sakura paused in writing her signature on an important document. "Hear what?" she asked suspiciously.
"Their laughter. Naruto and Sasuke's laughter."
She whirled around, surprised. "You heard it too? I thought I was just dreaming."
"I thought I was too. But since you two heard it as well…" Iruka climbed in through the window.
Sakura looked around. Kakashi, Iruka, and herself. "All the people who knew them well…" Suddenly, she gasped, and her knees gave out. "Naruto. Where's Naruto?!"
Kakashi's single visible eye widened as her caught on to her train of thought. "No, Sakura, he couldn't be. He's down at the lake like usual. Perfectly fine."
She shook her head slowly. "You don't understand. A few weeks after Sasuke's funeral, he came in looking as happy as he did before Sasuke's death. I asked him why he was so cheerful, and he said he had seen Sasuke's ghost, and it had told him to wait for him under the light of the moon. I had written it off as a strange dream, but now…"
They looked at each other and jumped out the window.
-
They dashed toward a lone figure sitting by the water's edge. Iruka reached him first.
"N-naruto? Are you alright?" He received no answer. He reached out to touch his shoulder, and his lifeless body tumbled into his arms. Sakura started to cry, much as she had cried after seeing the missing-nin from Cloud throw weighted kunai straight through Sasuke's body. Kakashi had taken off his head protector and was scrubbing at both eyes with his fists.
::Don't cry::
They looked up in shock. Hovering over the lake, shimmering in the moonlight, were Naruto and Sasuke. Sasuke smirked at their distress and confusion.
::Don't worry, Naruto's fine
We'll come back for you too::
Naruto nodded and smiled.
::Just wait for us under the moon::
Then, they turned and walked into the moonlight, disappearing. All was silent until Kakashi cleared his throat. "Y'know, I think I'll sleep out here tonight. Anyone want to join me?"
Iruka nodded. "Sounds good to me. Sakura?"
She tapped her chin thoughtfully. "Yeah, I'm in. I don't have much paperwork left anyway."
Unseen by the trio, Naruto's body shimmered and disappeared. It was never found again.
the end.
---
Author's Note: This is one of my deeper fanfics. It started off as just some silly little Naruto x Sasuke poem, but it kinda grew into this. I'm very proud of it, and I hope you like it.
Also, its up for you to decide how Sasuke died and what kind of relationship him and Naruto might have had. I was going to write a prequel, but I decided against it.
Read and review, please!