Note: Changed some things in the story, but it's still in the category of Naruto. So… um, don't freight if you see something weird, I just want to change it so that it flows with my storyline, oh… and I do this a lot anyway so yeah.

Prologue

He was swift enough to make me puff for air, he was always stronger. I trailed after him. I chased him on the rooftops and finally to the Gate. Everything was going to fast, I couldn't handle it so I just did what my heart desired. This made me panic because we were out of the village now, running through the trees, jumping branch to branch.

I couldn't take it anymore, this was going way to fast, I couldn't ever catch up to him and I knew that he wouldn't wait for me… not at a time like this. It was too important to him. "Wait!" Surprisingly enough he halted. But why, for me or my words? "You can't leave…"

He didn't answer but dropped his head. The rain poured gently.

"You can't do this just for revenge. Do you think that it will make anyone happy? This isn't the right way to handle things, Sasuke-kun. I can't just let you go like that…." Every moment, I was forcing these words out of me. They didn't come out just that easily but with pressure and fear. It was obvious already that he wouldn't stay, just for this girl that was foolish.

He seemed to be waiting.

This, this was the time for me to say what I had always wanted to say. But I couldn't, it was too hard although… I shook my head and told myself to not let out the tears. "Revenge isn't the way. I can help you if you need the help, anything - just something that-"

"Masaka!" came his sharp reply. "No, I can't stay here. I am an avenger, I have to do this." There wasn't anything that I could think of saying at the moment I put my hands to my chest in loose fists and listened for what he had to say next. His hand turned into a fist. "I have to kill him… I have to kill Itachi!"

I shook my head. "How is that going to help? When he dies what will you do then? Was your whole goal in life was to go towards this goal? There are other things to think of, too."

"…." I only heard his hard breathing through the soft splattering of the rain.

"The whole thought of this is foolish, can't you see that!" I screamed. "Jodan nai yo! Don't be like this… I thought I knew you, but how can you? You devoted your life for revenge… life isn't like that."

"My life isn't supposed to be like this!" he muttered. "Aitsume! It was all his fault, I was to weak then, I need to avenge my family, we could have live, all of us together." All of this, he was going through all this pain but still there wasn't a time that he didn't cry except when he had seen his parents. People break down when they have a lot in themselves, not telling anyone for comfort. But he… he was different, he was someone who could keep all this pain to himself. I wanted to free him from pain, I wanted him to live for a more reasonable thing.

"Suki desu," I called out sadly. It was foolish. It was stupid. It was something that he would see right through and notice that it was just nothing. But his words came.

"….Arigato," he whispered.

Right then, I felt him walk up to me, behind my back, I cried and it couldn't be helped. Through all these years I knew that he would just ignore me whatever I did, to help him, to catch him when he fell, to comment on him and now… he just replied to me in an actual decent way. I shivered in the rain and cried hard hiccups giving difficulty for me to breath. My soul wanted his tending, his arms around me shielding me from the cold. He was always a hard one to crack, a cold hard rock but apparently I saw - through all the years that we've known each other - he opened up little by little. And now this, why did this have to come!

"Sakura, gomen nasai," a deep, handsome, baritone voice rang in my ears.

"Huh?" Before I could even turn and ask why he had said that I blacked out after feeling a suddend impact at the base of my neck.

Sakura would just get in the way once again if she were to cry and beg me to stay. I had no time for this, this was my chance to get more power, to defeat Itachi. But on the other hand, Sakura was the one who had always looked after me even if I showed to her that I didn't need any tending or wouldn't reply. She was someone who was actually seeing through my appearance and was looking pass through that…. Masaka! She didn't matter to me, she was just one of those fan girls tha- I stared down at her still body lying on the damp ground.

My hands seemed to have a mind of their own, I bent down and scooped her up, then placing her on a nearby bench. I forced myself to smile then left in a split second.

Maybe Sakura was meant more than nothing….

Translations

These are for some of the Japanese words I used from what I know in this part of the sory.

Masaka: "Ridiculous!"

Aitsume: To damn a person. It can be either male or female. (Damn him/her!)

Jodan nai yo: "Don't be ridiculous!" Since there is the -nai sufix, it looks towards a more negative direction.

Suki desu: Usually when this word is translated in English people tend to translate this to, "I like you," but it actually exspresses more than that - more than like. So in real, this is more like "I love you".

Arigato: I bet you guys know this one! It's thank you. There's also "Domo arigato" or "Domo arigato gaizamasu" but I chose to stick with this one.

Gomen nasai: This means "I'm really sorry". You can also gomen that's also fine but I get used to gomen nasai more.

Keireki to Itami: This is the title of my fic. I'm sure that I didn't use the words right but um... I did any way! (I'm a loser) Anyways, "keireki" means the past of one's being, a person's past. "To", prounouced as "toe" is something like "and". Itami, is like pain, or the pain between hatred and love. So in this case the title is "One's Past and the Pain Between Love and Hatred". Kinda long, eh?

A/n: Well, well, I know that I haven't finished my other fanfics from other categories (drops head in shame) but, I promise that I will finish them as I will work for this one. Please, read and review, I'm trying to get better at this so I need to know what I have to fix (I find out that people hardly never read my fics cries and so I want to change that. The storyline might be looking very lame at the moment, but I got some tricks up my sleeve, so I please you can you guys just give it a try? Thanks!