Chapter 7: Epilogue
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Summary: At the ages before five, a young girl learnt the way of her family. After the ages of five, she had no family. Living up to her dead parents' expectations, the young girl must pass many trials before being forgiven by them. Sasusaku.
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'Thoughts'
'Inner selves'
"Talking"
FLASH BACK…
P.O.V
DREAMING SEQUENCE…
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Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does.
At the beginning they were lonely. The only string that tied their beings together was fate, as they all landed themselves into the same team. In the end, Team seven began to drift apart, the crumble of Team seven began the moment Sasuke stepped foot out of the village and became a missing-nin, heading towards the Sound. The day of graduation, was the day that Team was established and formed. After that they shared adventures, missions, and experience with each other; as friends, as team mates as rivals. They learnt and grew, they learnt the value of being a ninja, of being a shinobi, their sensei taught them things that they would have never been taught before, taught them to be a team, to work together. They were strong, everyone could see that in them, people could see them even at early ages, that they resembled the Sannin in one way or another, either by personality, or by ability, some times both; Naruto to Jiraya, Sasuke to Orochimaru and Sakura to Tsunade. They had their weaknesses, they had their strengths but together they grew to the best they could be and were proud to call the others their team mates and friends.
As the sole survivor of the Uchiha massacre, Uchiha Sasuke, left the village Hidden in the leaves, so did some of the Cherry blossom's hope and trust in people. Though she only admitted it to the Uchiha boy, she knew that Sasuke was her closest friend, the closest to her, perhaps because she saw a bit of herself in the boy, she cared for him, he cared for her, both good friends to the other and though it pained the girl to watch her closest friend leave and abandon Konoha for strength and power, she let him leave so he could achieve his ambitions, his dreams, to gain power to defeat his brother, the only other Uchiha alive. She made a promise that she would not interfere with his ambitions at the cost that if he didn't even after five years, she would personally get him and bring him back to the Hidden Leaf. If she had to kill him to bring him back, then so be it, she would kill him.
Nodding in agreement, the boy smiled at the girl one last time, sent her a message of gratitude and knocked her out, leaving the blossom, his closest friend, on the bench near by. By the morning the girl had woken up, she knew he was gone, watching the sunset, the girl smiled in sadness finally understanding what true strength felt like. She knew that, in her mind, true strength was the ability to let go of her friend and allow them to do as they pleased, even if it killed her to the point of the idea suicide, in her lay true strength. The strength of the Cherry Blossom dwelled with in the depths of her mind, body, soul and heart.
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Notes:
-Sorry it was so short, I had hoped it be a little longer at least, but this was all I could think of for an epilogue –sweatdrops, avoids bullets ninja style-
-Sequel: The Heart of the Cherry Blossom