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Chapter 20:

— The only thing that has been left behind —

The rain continued to pour stronger than ever.

Tsunade finally arrived at the place where sasuke and naruto fight. She was confounded by the devastation in the landscape; it made her feel more anxious to find naruto.

She ordered the two anbu's to locate the boy and at the same time, she walk around calling the name of naruto relentlessly. Suddenly, her eyes were locked on to a two person standing on a cliff in a distance. Tsunade impatiently sprint towards the two persons.

"Sakura, and…." Tsunade stopped she didn't recognize the guy that was standing right next to sakura. She looked closer in the soaked face of the guy.

Tsunade's eyes expand. "Uchiha S—Sasuke?"

He gradually glimpsed at tsunade then brought his look back on the cliff.

"What happened here, Where's naruto?" She demanded.

Sakura was still shocked at the moment that she didn't even budge a bit. She even didn't seem to notice that tsunade finally arrived.

Sasuke sadly replied. "Naruto is…..dead."

Tsunade's eyes widened as she stepped back because of what she have heard. Tsunade quickly looked at sakura's despondent face and realize that it was true.

Then her mind suddenly blackens. Memories of naruto suddenly flashed back into her mind like a constant flow of river. The way he called her baa-chan, the time when naruto won the Bet that he will complete the rasengan.

"He was the one that lighten up my life again…"

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"He was the one that teaches me how to overcome you own fear…"

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"He is the reason why I take up the job of being the hokage…"

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"He is the only person that taught me to believe in your dreams even if it's very hard to accomplish…"

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"And now—"

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"N—NO, there's no way that kid would die!" Tsunade shouted to herself.

She asked again with a shaken tone of voice. "H—How…"

Sasuke silently replied. "he sacrifice himself in order to save me from Kabuto, then he fall into this cliff…"

Instantly, Tsunade rapidly kneel into the ground. Tears gushed her eyes like a flowing river instantaneously.

"YOU CAN'T DIE! YOU PROMISED THAT YOU'LL BECOME A HOKAGE!"

Tsunade cry out, punching the ground beneath her.

After feeling a huge impact, the two anbu's rushed into tsunade.

"Tsunade-sama…" one of the anbu's whispered.

Tsunade ordered with a shaken voice. "Order a search party to look for the…remains of naruto"

"Right away tsunade-sama…"

The two anbu's called back into Konoha by the use of their wireless communicator. They asked four other anbu's to come help them on the search for the remains of naruto.

The two anbu's head down to the cliff. They tied a rope in order to go down.

After awhile they finally reached the base of the cliff. A long river that connects to river country can be found under the cliff.

Anbu 1: "Found anything?"

Anbu 2: "W—wait, Look!" he pointed on a rock formation. The torn off jacket of naruto was drifted into the rock. It was covered with blood stained all over.

The second anbu noticed the forehead protector of naruto at the bottom of the river. He quickly picked it up.

They hastily go up to show what they have found to tsunade. It took them four hours to go up the cliff.

Tsunade quickly asked if they have found naruto.

Anbu 1: "T—this is the only thing that we found at the bottom, it seems that the body of naruto was drifted along the current of the river."

The second anbu added "Judging by the elapsed time, I would guess that his body is now along the rivers of Wind country of the River Country."

"is that so…" tsunade sadly respond. "Let's go back, Shikamaru and the others head back into konoha earlier"

When they are about to leave, She walk towards sakura to give the forehead protector of naruto.

"…You should keep it" putting the forehead protector to the hands of sakura.

A sudden burst of emotion surged into the whole face of sakura. She embraced the protector into her chest tightly.

Tsunade comforted her by embracing sakura into her arms calmly.

"Sakura, what do you think naruto will feel if he sees you like this?" Tsunade asked, stroking sakura's back hair.

"Stop crying…naruto will be sad if he sees you like this"

Sakura replied with an emotional tone of voice. 'B—but, I cannot see him anymore…I cannot see his energetic smile again…I cannot say how much I love him anymore"

Sakura burst into tears right into her chest. Tsunade can't help but to cry as well.

"Comeon sakura, let's go back…" Tsunade asked with a silent tone of voice.

Sakura slowly nodded in response.

After awhile, they finally back at the gates of Konoha. Shikamaru, Shizune and the others are waiting for the arrival of them. They all go back with a gloomy expression engraved to their faces.

Shizune quickly run towards tsunade. "Tsunade-sama what took you so lon—"

She then noticed that every one of them was looking down at the ground. She felt something weird had happened by the way they looked.

"W—what's wrong?"

Tsunade forlornly respond. "Naruto is….dead"

Shikamaru, Choji, Kiba, neji along with Ino, Rock lee, Shino, tenten and hinata was shocked that naruto was dead.

"I can't believe Naruto-kun is—" Hinata burst into tears at the chest of kiba.

Then all of a sudden, Hinata fainted in an instance.

"Hinata!" Kiba quickly check upon the girl. They all looked at the unconscious girl.

"I'm sorry tsunade-sama but I'll have to bring hinata to the hospital right now"

Kiba explained.

"Okay…" Tsunade replied. Kiba lifted hinata and quickly brought her to the hospital.

After the commotion, they all remained silent at the moments the rain continues to pour.

"Naruto, you were the one who told me that any person can change his own destiny. I just know that your still…alive somewhere" Neji thinks to himself while leaning on the wall beside him. He lightly punched the wall alongside him.

"damn" Neji mumbled.

"Neji…" tenten whispered.

Rock lee breaks the tension in the place when asking "umm… tsunade-sama, have you found the body of naruto-kun?"

Tsunade bit her lip. "Not yet. It seems like his body drifted along the current of the river."

Shino barge in the conversation of rock lee and tsunade.

"So that means there's still a possibility that naruto is still alive…"

Tsunade lowered her head. "Not likely. From what I've heard his body suffered a huge damage with his fight with sasuke, so the odds that naruto survive that fall is a million to one"

They all began to sob again, seeing that there's no chance that naruto survive that fall.

Shikamaru finally snapped. Out of frustration, he jumped into conclusion that sasuke was the one who killed naruto. He quickly run towards him and grabbed his collar.

"YOU IDIOT! HOW CAN YOU DO THAT TO NARUTO!" Shikamaru yelled out. He was so pissed off that he might just kill sasuke on the spot.

"AFTER ALL THAT NARUTO DID TO SAVE YOU? THIS IS WHAT HE"LL GET?"

"This is the first time that I see Shikamaru this angry. He never showed his true feeling to others" Ino thought to herself.

"Shikamaru…" She silently whispered.

Tsunade interrupted. "Stop it Shikamaru" she said with a low tone of voice.

"AND WHY? THIS IS THE PERSON WHO KILLED MY FRIEND! YOU EXPECT ME TO JUST LET HIM GET AWAY LIKE THAT?"

"Stop" tsunade respond with a higher tone of voice.

"YOU!" Shikamaru is on the verge of punching sasuke in the face. he tighten his fist, he was about to give off a punch on sasuke when suddenly…

Tsunade was about to shout when suddenly a voice from her back echoed the whole place. "STOP IT!" sakura yelled. Shikamaru was taken back because of the voice of sakura.

"Sasuke isn't the one who killed naruto-kun" sakura agonizingly explained.

"sakura…" Shikamaru loosened his grip of sasuke.

Sakura lowers her head. Then makes a really fake smile upon her face. She walk straight to them with her bangs covering her two eyes only revealing her face smile.

She tries to lighten her voice as well.

"Guys, we better go back at out houses already, look it's raining really hard today! Were gonna catch some cold if we don't shelter right?"

All of them looked at sakura with a sad expression of their faces.

"She's the one that feels really hurt on the death of naruto…" Tsunade whispered silently.

"She was the most affected person on the death of naruto, I wonder how will she accept it…" Shizune added.

"Sakura…" Ino whispered

To be continued….

A/N: The grieving and sadness still hasn't end here, stay tuned for chapter 21 it's called 'A fathers love'

what will be the reaction of jiraiya if he found out that his favorite student died.