Okay, this is one of the last chapters. The song is If Only Tears Could Bring You Back by Midnight Sons (from the first Pokemon movie). I hope you like it.

If Only Tears Could Bring You Back:

Everyone gathered outside the barrier, bloodied and scathed.

How will I start
Tomorrow without you here
Who's heart will guide me
When all the answers disappear

Orochimaru was inside, dead. But Leiko was tied to a tree by her wrists, and she couldn't hold herself up to breath properly. Her raspy breaths could be heard from outside of the barrier.


Is it too late
Are you too far gone to stay
This one's forever
Should never have to go away

Naruto, Kiba, and Neji pounded at the barrier, but Nyoko stopped them, saying, "Her barrier will not break until she dies. This is the way it was meant to be."


What will I do
You know I'm only half without you
How will I make it through

Naruto looked at her, with tears shining in his eyes. Hinata gathered up her courage, and went to Naruto. She put an arm around him and led him off.


If only tears could bring you back to me
If only love could find a way
What I would do, what I would give
If you returned to me someday
Somehow, someway
If my tears could bring you back to me

Neji drug himself away from the barrier, head hanging low. Only Kiba stood at the barrier, and tears ran down his face.


I'd cry you an ocean
If you'd sail on home again
Wings of emotion
Will carry you, I know they can

"H-Hey, Kiba…" Leiko rasped.

Kiba looked up in surprise.

Leiko turned her head toward her sisters. "Kiba, these are your sisters. Machika, Nyoko, this is your brother," she said, indicating Kiba.


Just light will guide you
And your heart will chart the course
Soon you'll be drifting
Into the arms of your true north

Leiko looked into Kiba's eyes, and smiled.

'This can't be happening…' thought Kiba.


Look in my eyes
And you will see a million tears have gone by
And still they're not dry

"NO! Let me through, dammit!" Kiba screamed kicking the barrier and throwing himself against it.


If only tears could bring you back to me
If only love could find a way
What I would do, what I would give
If you returned to me someday
Somehow, someway
If my tears could bring you back to me

The tears ran freely down Leiko's face, as he breathing worsened, and then stopped. The barrier dissipated.

With his last breath, Orochimaru's tongue struck Leiko's right lung. Blood and water flowed freely from the wound.


I hold you close
And shout the words I only whispered before
For one more chance, for one last dance
There's nothing that I would not give and more

Everyone gathered around Leiko, and Neji and Tsunade carefully took down Leiko's body. Everyone was crying, but no one as hard as Kiba, as he remembered four years ago, when he had met a little girl in the forest.

If only tears could bring you back to me
If only love could find a way
What I would do, what I would give
If you returned to me someday
Somehow, someway
If my tears could bring you back to me

That girl had been Leiko, and they had fallen in love. He had promised her his heart, because she had already given him hers. When they had parted, no tears had been shed.

But now he wished that he could tell her that he remembered…that he still loved her.