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The same Disclaimer as all of the other chapters.

Warning: Character Deaths... more than one.

"Itachi." Sakura whispered as she watched the uncounscious figure.

"If you had no feelings toward this man, you could easily kill me. I admit, you are stronger than me. But I know your weaknesses." he said dropping the Uchia to the ground.

Sakura stared emotionlessly as Sasoumi kicked and punched the uncouncious Itachi. She then charged at him when he stopped to take a breath. He pulled out a kunai, but she still came at him. He threw the kunai down at Itachi but Sakura kicked Itachi out of the way. She then pulled her fist to the ground at made the earth crack beneath the two of them. Sakura watched as Sasoumi was engulfed by the raging earth.

"Even if you have killed me, you feel no better than you have before. Live with the fact that it was your fault. You were the reason your family is dead." he said as he was crushed to death.

Those words rang through the silence of the forest. She walked over to Itachi, he was cold. She fought for nothing really. Itachi was dead, he had been dead for a while. She pressed her hands against his chest, trying to start his heart again.

"Itachi." she whispered. "You can't leave me. I need you." she said as tears were pouring down her porcelin skin. "Live." she kept sat as she pushed her hands harder on his chest. "No." she shook her head. "No! NO!" she started to scream over and over.

She heard footsteps coming to where she was. She ignored them and tried to save the dead Itachi.

"Sakura." a voice whispered.

She shook her head.

"Sakura." another voice whispered.

When she shook her head this time, she felt sand wrap around her cold body. She was pulled into the chest of somebody warm. Gaara was soothing her to the best of his abilities. But, it was working. Her tears turned into sobs and her sobs turned into nothing. She lifted her head to see Gaara staring at her.

She turned her head away and saw Naruto, Ino, Neji, Shikamaru, Ten Ten, Hinata, Lee, Choji, Shino, Kiba, Sasuke, and Temari surrounding the two.

"Where is Mietta and the others?" Sakura asked holding on to Gaara like her life depended on it.

"Sakura." Naruto whispered. "After you left Sasoumi and some stray ninja attacked the base."

"No." she whispered. The tears started again. "Where is my brother?!" she yelled.

Gaara brought her closer to his chest as tears poured down her face. He could see Temari, Ino, and Hinata already crying. The guys held their faces down trying not to cry. He himself was fighting back tears that were wanted to fall so bad.

"I'm sorry." she said outloud to no one. "I'm so sorry. I'm sorry." she repeated over and over as rain began to fall down on the group.

Sakura's tears fell as hard as the rain was. Everything bad was happening to her. She had watched her parents die before her very eyes, she had not seen three of her siblings in years, and the only sibling she had left, died because of her.

Sakura's POV

I'm standing her against Gaara whispering and shouting than I'm sorry. Sorry for what though? I don't know. I am that last Haruno left, and I'm powerless. What kind of shinobi am I? Shinobi aren't supposed to show emotion. But what am I doing? The people that around surrounding me are the only people I have left. And I'm not going to let them go, no matter what.

Gaara arms are wrapped around my waist, and my arms are just hanging there. I wrap my numb arms around his waist and I can feel is hold tightening on me. I can feel more arms around me, more warmth. I like this warmth. I open my eyes to see Naruto's blonde hair and Hinata's purpilish-bluish hair.

It's like this one big group hug. Soon everyone is sorrounding Gaara and me. To me this is very awkward since I havn't shown this much emotion to anyone for along time. But it feels like I am back in Konoha. Konoha. That's my home. That's where I belong.

"Can I go home?" I asked.

Regular Point of View
Konoha Hospital

"So the Akatsuki is dead?" Tsunade asked Neji and Shikamaru.

They both nodded their head and left the office. Both of them knew where to go, Sakura's room. It was amazing how one group hug brought Rookie Nine, the Sand Siblings and Team Gai closer together.

Before the two opened the sliding door, they heard voices.

"Why did you join the Akatsuki." asked the voice of Ibiki.

There was no answer from the person being investigated. Through the door you could here Ibiki tapping his foot in impatitene. FAfter minutes of silence, an answer was given.

"Try to understand this, Ibiki." Sakura started. "Being forgotten can take a huge toll on a person. I myself took on that toll. Even as simple as people forgetting your birthday or forgetting to get you a Christmas presant can make a person feel forgotten. That's how I felt. Like I wasn't worth remembering." she finished.

More silence filled the room as for one time in him life, Ibiki Morino was left speachless. Sakura was sitting in a white hospital bed with her eyes closed while Ibiki sat at the foot of the bed interrogating her. Ibiki finally thought of a question to ask.

"Who was Sasoumi?"

Sakura held her breath for a moment and let it out in a long and heavy sigh.

"He was the man who murded the Haruno clan." Sakura simply answered.

By this time Neji and Shikamaru had entered the room and was listening quietly. Hinata, Gaara, and Naruto found the room and all three of them were listening from the open doorway.

"Did you kill him?" Ibiki asked staring at Sakura.

Sakura's thought went back to the fight. He sure didn't put up much of a fight. Emotions were brought up and her last words were strange. "Even if you have killed me, you feel no better than you have before. Live with the fact that it was your fault. You were the reason your family is dead."

But when he fell into the earth, she didn't feel his chakra signal die. It still stayed at the same strength as any other time. Trying to think of other conclusion on to why his chakra signal was still there, she drew a blank. She wanted to believe that that monster was gone from this world forever. But, denying the fact made it worse.

Sasoumi was alive!

"No." Sakura finally answered Ibiki's question.

"What?" Naruto blurted out. "We all saw you kill him!"

Sakura didn't reply to Naruto, figuring that Neji or even Hinata knew what she was thinking. Sounding out Naruto and everything else, Sakura drifted off into a peaceful and dreamless slumber.

Sakura set up her brother's funeral with the approval of Tsunade. Alot of people still remembered the Haruno clan and wanted to pay their respects again. Sakura had to make a speach about Mietta, that was the part she was dreading. She would have to face hundreds of people talking about her eldest brother and let them watch her cry. Staring at her brother's white and black coffin, it was like time stopped.

The last few days while he was alive, she ignored him. She didn't want to get hurt again. Yet staying away ended up in a greater pain. Guilt. Regret. She didn't know what to say about him. She knew what to say, but she just couldn't say it. Saying that he was a good brother was the classic crap everybody said. Time continued and she was ushered beside Mietta's coffin to say her final words.

"Mietta," she started. "was my older brother. He protected me from everything that he could... Of course that's what all siblings do at one point. I even tried to protect him when the older kids were messing around with him. Well, he just ended up saving me. A burden. Was what some people called me."

All eyes were on her. Everyone was taking in the words she was saying. Storms clouds were looming overhead threatening to allow rain to fall at any given moment.

"But they were wrong. Everybody needs help at some point. Everybody needs protection. Love. The feelings of being safe." tears were started to fall down her face. The cloud fuffilled their threats, and rain soaked everything within seconds. "Mietta made that happen for me. When things were bad, he turned them into good. I really don't know what to say about him. Their were many great things about him and what he did for people."

"Saying that he was the a great person, is an understatement. I regret staying away from him the last few days of his life." her eyes wandered the crowd seeing that a lot of people felt sad, she could see it in their eyes. "I thought that... if I stayed away from him... I wouldn't hurt... he wouldn't get hurt... I was wrong. Both of us ended up gettin hurt." she held her eyes closed tightly, trying to stop the waterfall of tears.

Her arms hung limply by her side with her hand clenched into fists. She was mad. Mad at herself for being so stupid. But this was about Mietta, not herself. She wouldn't let her emotions distract herself from her brother. This was his funeral. She had to pay respects. Not sulf in self-pitty.

"He was a great ninja. As were the Akatsuki."

Eyes widened, gasps were heard. Apparently nobody liked the Akatsuki, go figure. Sakura saw Naruto, Gaara, Hinata, Shikamaru, Ino, Temari and the others release any emotions. Even if they were 'prisonsers', they actually made friends with the Akatsuki members.

"I've learned that you shouldn't judge people by what you have heard. You all should learn the same. The Haruno's were once shunned due to the fact that we had a different perspective on the world. Due to the word getting out, rumors were started and the Haruno name was like a curse. Nobody outside the Haruno clan talked with us. But when the third accepted our idead and the word got out, we were like stars. Prejudice. Some of you should remembers walking in the other direction when you spotted a Haruno. Mietta, my brother, went through all of this. I think some people are idiots. A lot of the people I know are idiots. But I love them, as did Mietta. My brother and I believed that there are two types of idiots. One, people who learn to think on what they hear and change their whole lifestyle based on the shit that they hear. Two, people who stay by your side even when they are shunned by it. Those people are your real friends. At the same time, they are idiots. They risk everything for you and make the best out of the worst, and make you laugh about it."

She began to smile remembering about many idiots she knew.

"But, I'm not here to give a life lesson or all that. I'm here to say goodbye to the last person of my family. I loved him and I always will. I feel like he is right here beside me, helping me stand and talk in front of all of you." Sakura finished by putting a boquet of white flowers on his coffin and placing a hand on it.

Others started to pay their respects by placing a simple flower on the coffin. As more and more people came up, she didn't remove her hand from the casket. Her friends came up soon and stayed by her side. Naruto hugged her and she took her hand of the pall to return the friendly gesture.

After the ceremony, Sakura walked around Konoha. On a stone bench, she passed by Sasuke who was staring into space. She felt a little sorry for the seventeen-year-old. His brother that he seeked revenge on, was killed easily by another person. How empty he should feel. He must have noticed her presanse because his eyes met hers. His eyes were giving away that he wanted to cry, but was holding back. He walked up to her and wrapped his muscular arms around her pitete waist. Sakura wrapped her own arms around his waist.

The moment they hugged, they felt each others pain and misery. Sasuke had already forgiven his older brother and wanted to see him again, as his brother, not as an enemy.

"Am I an idiot?" Sasuke asked breaking the silence between the two.

"One of the biggest I know." she said laughing.

The two broke their embrace and walked away in different directions.

Hinata woke up to something tickeling her face. So with a normal reaction, she scrathing her face. It went away for a moment then it started again. Not being a morning person, she swung her arms out randomly and hit something, someone. That someone just happened to be a blonde haired loud mouth.

He was rolling on the floor, his hands covering his face. Hinata looked over the side of her bed and saw the sight. Looking closley you could see some red liquid, blood.

"Are you okay, Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked still a bit tired.

"I think you boke by nose." he said in a weird voice.

Hinata yawned and then spoke. "Go see Saku-chan." she said as her head fell back on her pillow.

"Baka." Sakura muttered as she healed Naruto broken nose.

Naruto started to pout when she called him a baka. Sakura just laughing at her old team mates childish actions. Being in Naruto's apartment made both of them, meaning Sakura, feel dirty. Old ramen cups littered the entire kitchen area floor, dirty and clean clothes mixed together on the floor, tables, the closet and the bathroom, dust covered every surface and mold was in a lot of places.

"Clean your apparentment." Sakura scolded the blonde.

His reply was throwing a nearby shirt into a mold infested hamper. She glared at him for using sarcasm and he cowered in fear of the pink-haired kunoichi. Sakura flicked him on the forehead and Naruto returned the gesture by flicking her forehead.

"So, what did you do to Hinata that made her break your nose?" Sakura asked smacking his hand.

Naruto told her howhe snuck in the Hyuuga residence and found Hinata's room. He finished it up with 'and then she flopped back down on her pillow and left me in pain!'

Sakura couldn't help but smirk at how he put things. They were interrupted by a ANBU.

"Tsunade-sama wishes to see you two." the ANBU spoke leaving as soon as he appeared.

Sakura and Naruto walked to the Hokage tower and stepped in Tsunade's office to see the Hokage writing something on a scroll. She look up and saw the two staring at her.

"Sakura," Tsunade began. "We have Sasoumi."

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