Note: Well this is Chapter 28, and I may go ahead and finish Glass Roses either today or at least by this Friday. Hence, no up-dates on my other stories until I finish this one. And also it is my goal to get 100 reviews for this, so please review because I only have 79 of the 100 only 21 more to go.

Disclaimer: I don't Naruto or the Naruto storyline.

Chapter Twenty-Seven:

Watching It All Fade

I remember the dream I had as I laid there, my body against his, my soul connected to his own dying one. The dream was a pleasant one, and I would give anything in the world just so that it would come true, anything.

I dreamed that I stood in the middle of a kitchen decorated in white marble with veins of blue coursing through it. On the stove a pot sat boiling over as I through my panic tried my best to stop it from over flowing.

I could hear laughter from me from across the shelf that separated the table in the dining room and the kitchen. I glanced over my shoulder to see Gaara rushing toward me with a smile on his lips. He grabbed a towel off the counter and head for the pot that I tried to subdue through all of my attempts.

Across the floor three small children, a blond little girl with celestial blue eyes, a boy with crimson locks, and another boy with jet black hair and dark eyes, ran behind us in a race to see who could touch the living room couch first.

I yelled over my shoulder for them to stop racing in the house only to hear another voice, a much older voice that I knew to be Naruto's, reply to leave them alone and have a little fun.

I released a growl at him, daring him to question my authority again, instantly shutting him up as he played with the long Hokage robes.

Once Gaara and I had defeated the boiling pot, by turning the stove off, we carried the pot together to the table.

The table was set with the finest porcelain, with gold lining on the edges and scarlet roses painted in the center of grape vines. The glass cups were made of crystal, the white wine glowing from the stream of light that shone ever so brightly through it. Silver forks, knives, and spoons sat elegantly on cream-colored napkins next to the plates.

The centerpiece of the table was a elegant glass rose that was almost three feet high and the very tips of the leaves, thorns, and rose petals had been dipped into gold to match the chinaware that my mother had given to use on our wedding date. Two candles made up the outside of the centerpiece; neither had been lit since out fourth anniversary and was to be lit this day of our fifth.

On the table was a verity of foods from a chicken with golden brown skin to various vegetables of beans, and among others; to the fruits that the gods had once consider to be so sweet that they became dessert instead of a side dish. On the counter, because the table was full of food, sat banana pudding that I had concocted for my guest.

Calling the children to the table, we all sat down to eat together as a family. My two senseis, Kakashi and Lady Tsunade, sat next to each other as the new Hokage and his lady, Naruto and Hinata, sat across from us with daughter next to them. Hinata's belly was swelled with pregnancy as she stared at the food on the table with polite, wanting eyes. Next to them sat the dark haired boy that had been running in the kitchen along with his own father, Sasuke, who seemed to be at his old self. Next to them sat Ino and her family and then the table circled back to Gaara and I and our only son.

The room was filled with laughter and talking of family matters and once it was over Naruto and Hinata took our son to spend the night with them so that Gaara and I could have some time alone.

When we sat together on the living room couch he leaned down to kiss me and when our face was less than an inch apart he vanished.

My eyes, at that point, snapped open to someone shaking my shoulder roughly. The person that came into my vision was Tsunade and Kakashi themselves their eyes filled with an amount of worry that I can't begin to describe to you.

"Sakura," my medic teacher began, "Where's Sasuke and Naruto?"

At that point I jumped to my feet with energy that I didn't know I had, and once I received a nod of approval from the one I had been lying on, I bolt for the woods. There had been no time to explain, an hour was almost up and I needed to see if my attacked had worked or if it had failed.