A/N: Damn, I so fast in updating. I even impressed myself for typing almost day and night. But there's a reason why I update so fast. Right now my school is on athletic month. so that means our usual hours in school is halved the entire month of July. So I need to finish this fic up until the end of his month because next month, our class hour will be back to normal again. That means my schedule will be hectic again and I will have no time updating this fic anymore sob I also have crappy club activities at weekends so updating on Saturdays and Sundays is impossible. So wish me luck that I can finish this story up until the end of this month. Anyway, on with the story.

Chapter 19:

— The rain of absolute Loneliness —

Sasuke kneel down on the cliff where naruto had fallen. He was so shocked that he even didn't move for a long time. He even didn't blink for a second, he just kneel on the ground looking at the bottomless cliff.

Then the sky started to naturally darken. I seems like the nature also was agonizing on the death of naruto. Cold winds suddenly blow thru the whole place and thunder echoed the entire skies.

--------At the hokage's office---------------

Tsunade was drinking a cup of tea. She looked at the window from her office.

"It seems that there will be a huge storm coming…" Tsunade whispered to herself.

Then when the placed the cup on the table, a crack suddenly appears on the cup that she was using.

"huh, i really didn't believe in these kind of nonsense. But i feel really strange today, as if something important to me will suddenly disappear. What is this I'm feeling right now?" Tsunade asked herself as she looked at the broken cup of tea.

Then an image of naruto suddenly appeared in the mind of tsunade. Her heart started to pound really fast and cold shivers run to her spine.

"T—this feeling, I have felt it before" she whispered to herself.

Then a past memory of tsunade strike her minds like a thunderbolt. Cold sweat emerged to her neck. she felt this kind of feeling too when nawaki and dan had been killed.

The sudden revelation make tsunade really agitated. She then remembered the image of naruto in her mind. Her heart became restless as if it was going to explode. She felt a sudden loneliness in her body as tsunade stand up from the hokage's table.

She rashly walk towards the door, Shizune along with ton ton noticed tsunade as it walk outside her office.

"Tsunade-sama, where are you going?"

Tsunade replied while she continues to walk. "I'm going to the place where naruto-kun was doing his mission"

"Isn't that reckless, leaving konoha without even telling anyone?"

Tsunade seriously looked at shizune. "I have a really bad feeling that something terrible had happened"

"How can you tell? No one reported that something had happened to them"

Tsunade respond silently "…call it a women's intuition"

Back at the valley of lost souls, Rain started to fall from the sky. A dripped of rain plunge down at sakura's face causing her to slowly wake up.

"huh, what happened" sakura rubbed her eyes to wake herself.

"rain?" She glanced up at the sky then looking back at the landscape in front of her.

The memories of the fight with sasuke was brought back to sakura's mind.

"Naruto-kun?" She looked around, but naruto wasn't in sight. Sakura started to stand to find naruto.

"Naruto?" She continued to yelled his name as she glimpse upon the devastation of the fight between naruto and sasuke.

" I guess I've fallen asleep for a long time.."

"DID NARUTO LEAVE ME BEHIND?"

the inner sakura answered her question.

of course not! Naruto-kun will never do that

"Yeah, you're right…"

Then she noticed sasuke from a distance, kneeling on an edge of a cliff. Sakura slowly walked beside sasuke.

"Where's naruto?" Sakura demanded

The voice of sakura, snapped sasuke back into reality. His eyes finally moved, he slowly looked at the soaking wet sakura.

He didn't know how to tell sakura that naruto was dead. he just griefly looked at sakura's face slowly.

"What did you do to naruto?" Sakura demanded again. she began to feel worried and anxious.

"N—na" sasuke stopped he could not complete the phrase that he was going to say.

"What happened to naruto?" The eyes of sakura suddenly became damp. She grabbed the collar of sasuke and shakes it continuously.

"Where's naruto sasuke tell me"

Sasuke looked at the opposite direction he was on the verge of crying, he bit his lips to prevent himself to sob.

"Please sasuke tell me where's naruto" now sakura's voice is desperate, she was also on the verge of crying as well.

a sever phrase came out of sasuke's mouth.

"Na—"

"naruto's dead…" sasuke sadly said.

Sakura was shaken, she could not think straight because her mind suddenly rejected the information that sasuke said to her.

"You're joking right?"

Sasuke didn't respond.

"N—no, you're lying! Naruto's isn't dead, I know he isn't. NOW TELL ME. WHERE'S NARUTO!" sakura shouted, out of frustration.

"I said he's dead. he fall from this cliff!" sasuke shouted, he lean his head with his fist into the ground and starts to sob.

"he sacrifice his life to save me…"

sob..

The tears dripped down her cheeks.

Sob…

"I couldn't do anything to save him, I just watched him die! What kind of a friend am i?"

Sob…

"I let my best friend die in front of me!"

He howls loudly as he smacked the ground.

"No! I won't believe it!" sakura demanded still stubborn to believe sasuke.

Sakura rushes into sasuke, pulling sasuke's shoulders causing him to lye on the ground.

She lowered her body and weakly hit sasuke's chest again and again while repeatedly saying "he's not dead"

Even if the rain is pouring, you can easily see tears leak's out of sakura's eyes like a river.

"Bring back my naruto! Bring him back, he promised me…" sakura feel as if the world had turned into black and white. Everything was just so dull.

Sakura whispered in a beaten voice. Finally admitting the death of naruto. "My life isn't the same without him on my side"

Then she burst into tears, leaning her head on the chest of sasuke.

Sasuke spend several long moments trying to figure out what to do or say at this point. He didn't know what to do because he had no experience comforting a person. He just looked at the sorrowful face of sakura. He finally decides to try and comfort sakura by embracing her, a friendly embrace to be exact. She initially pushes him away, sasuke tries to hold her again more tighter than the first one.

"Cry as long as you want…" he encouraging whispered.

Sakura buries her head in Sasuke's chest and continues to sob.

To be continued….