Okay, this is going to be a really long chapter since I have neglected this poor thing for so long, and you guys deserve a nice long chapter from me since you all have been so patient. I will tell you know, from here on out this is going to skip around quite a bit, but I will make it understandable for you, no need to worry. And it's kind of sad that this story is less popular than Desert Rose seeing as I like this one the best out of all of my stories because there are many, many twists that await you all and it's very well thought out, but I want to thank all of you wonderful reviewers that have stuck by me and have even read my new story! So I thank you guys so much, I truly and dearly appreciate each kind thing you've all said to me. And I dedicate this chapter to all Deidara fans out there because I think he really bit the dust this time! Come cry with me my other Dei-Kun obsessed friends!!
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Written In The Stars
Chapter Seven- You Still Have All of Me
That was three years ago…
Her eyes were focused on the headstone next to her. Flowers grew over the small mound on top of the body that she once called grandpa. Each flower was prospering more than ever since she had tended to all the graves of her loved ones, including those of the parents of the boy she was still in love with, every morning not once missing a day. She took one of the small buds in between her slender but scared fingers.
Her fingers searched over its soft surface learning each petal. The bud was so small… It was amazing to her how beautiful some of the others were but one… This one flower had yet to show its true beauty and bloom into the blossom that it should have been weeks ago. She wondered if it would ever come to show her how wonderful it would turn out to be or just stay a small solitary bud its whole life.
But even if the small bud didn't bloom this year, there was always next year. The Lily of the Valley was always a hard plant to keep happy. It didn't need direct sunlight, and it probably didn't like Konoha too much since direct sunlight was what the village was known for. She hoped that one day though that the small bud would understand that maybe the sunlight of Konoha wasn't so bad if it just came out to see that people cared for it and wanted to see its beauty and care for it like the other flowers. The bud had only bloomed one year and then every year after that the small bell like flowers would never bloom. But she would wait… She would wait forever just to see its beauty one more time.
She sighed and stood up staring at the grave before her. She smiled kindly and pressed her hands together in prayer quickly then separated them.
She kissed the tips of her fingers and placed them on the headstone, something that had come to be somewhat of a tradition for her over these three years.
"I'll see you tomorrow, grandpa." She whispered and just as she turned around a body slammed into her and knocked her to the ground.
"Oi, Mako-Chan!! Can I help today!? Or are you ready to go and train with Ero-Sennin!?" The bubbly blonde exclaimed as Makoto shoved him off of her and hit him playfully.
This also had become somewhat of a tradition, at least since Naruto had returned from training with Jiraiya for so long.
"I was just on my way Naruto. You didn't have to kill me in the process. And again you're too late to help be tend to the flowers… If you'd get up a little earlier one day you might make it in time. But you were about a minute earlier today if that's any consolation prize." Makoto laughed while she pulled at his cheeks as he whined.
"Maaakkkkoooo-Cccchhhaaannn!"
She stood up and then pulled him up as well, a smile gracing her lips.
"Come on. He hates it when we're late." Makoto chided as she moved her wispy bangs away from her sparkling eyes.
"Hai!" Naruto yelled as they began walking to their normal training area.
"So, I heard Tsunade-Chan talking about the new member of Squad Seven…" Makoto spoke solemnly as Naruto looked down at her and grabbed her shoulders and hugged her.
"They're finally letting you be the new member of our team Mako-Chan!?" Naruto shouted as she smiled sadly and gently pushed him off of her and shook her head negatively.
He looked at her with much concern his face scrunching into confusing.
"But… Mako-Chan? You even went back to the Academy became a Genin and are now even a Chunin and did that all when I was gone! Why won't they let you!? And if it's not you then who is it!?" Naruto shouted angrily as he and Makoto walked on along the busy streets.
"Someone named Sai… Tsunade wanted me to be the other member and I know it! But the damned Council wouldn't let me!... I don't think I can ever prove to them that I deserve more respect from them than they give me! They know why I'm here and they won't even acknowledge the things that I need to accomplish just to keep this damned place safe!" Makoto shouted clenching her fists together so hard that she was sure that her nails were making five incisions in each of her palms.
Suddenly she felt a hand grasp one of hers and she looked up to see Naruto looking down at her with a smile.
"Tsunade-Obaa-Chan knows how badly you want that. She's the Hokage and can still do something about it." Naruto replied with his normal jumpy voice.
"Besides," He continued and put his hands behind his head grinning like the devil himself.
"… I'd prefer having two hot girls as my teammates than another guy any day!" He smiled looking Makoto up and down.
He made that mistake and felt Makoto's fist make contact with his cheek sending him flying into the ground thirty feet away surprising many of the villagers passing by.
"You hentai!! Naruto, I swear I think I liked you better before you met that perverted old man!! I mean it, if you keep this crap up, I'm moving in with Sakura and you can live without my food!" Makoto screamed and left the unconscious Naruto laying in the middle of the street half buried in dirt.
Okay… So, maybe while Jiraiya was gone she went ahead and began training with Tsunade as her second apprentice which gave her more time to spend with Sakura. Granted yes, she did miss Naruto with all of her heart when he was gone and was lonely in his house without him, but all that she cared about was that he came back safely.
She loved him, she loved him so dearly. Both him, Sakura and Tsunade were her family now and even though that was great that meant that she had to give up her Senshi for these three years as well… That was the hardest part of everything.
In order for her to have this life, she had to give up her other friends the friends that were there for her when she was her only friend when she didn't know or remember Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke. She missed her Hime's smiling face that would greet her everyday at school while they stood out in the hallway holding buckets of water due to their tardiness. She missed her friend the fiery Miko, the boy crazy Minako, quiet and caring Ami, protective Haruka, shy and loving Hotaru, sweet Michiru. And of course she missed Setsuna… Setsuna hadn't visited since Naruto had returned which was almost six months ago.
The only way she could talk to them was through the communicator, but that wasn't the same as sitting around the table at Hikawa Shrine while they were supposed to be studying but ended up talking about the hot guy that she and Minako had seen that day.
"You seemed to be in an emotional mood today. First you hit Naruto and now you're falling apart." A deep voice commented as Makoto looked up to see Jiraiya smiling at her. She was at the training grounds and didn't even realize it. She then felt that as the wind was blowing certain areas of her cheeks were colder than other parts. She had been crying and didn't know that as well.
She quickly wiped the cool and partially dried tears from her face and smiled as best she could.
"Just remembering a few people…" She spoke softly and took a seat next to him and sighed.
"Ahhh." He commented and looked up at the sky not really sure how to comfort the daughter of the girl he once had a crush on.
"Jiraiya?" Makoto asked somberly as she rubbed a blade of grass between her fingers.
"Yes?" He asked and looked down at her to see her grave expression.
"Do-… Do you think that I deserve to finally become a part of Naruto and Sakura's team?" Makoto asked as she looked up at the one of her many Sensei's with complete trust in his opinion.
He sighed and looked away.
"No." He replied as she felt like an invisible hand had reached inside of her and was twisting her insides.
"Oh…" She replied and sighed.
"I think you've been ready for too long and deserve to fight along side your friends to get him back." He finished as she smiled looking at the ground.
"I should have guessed you would have replied like that." She laughed sadistically.
"Right, now stop wallowing in your pity and do something productive." Jiraiya spoke as she looked up at him smiling and stood up next to him.
"Hai!" She replied with her new found jubilance.
"Now, show me that you've been practicing." Jiraiya smiled and watched to see her stand in her fighting position.
She smiled and grabbed a kunai out of her holster and spun in around on her fingers waiting for the precise moment to throw it.
"There!" She shouted in her mind and quickly threw the kunai but it missed.
"Well, I guess you haven't be-" In the middle of musing over her bad aim, he remembered something and quickly turned around and kicked the girls legs out from under her and pinned her to the ground.
"You're still not doing it right. But I will say that I'm impressed at how much you've improved with that jutsu, Makoto." He mused as she growled in defeat.
"Well, it was the perfect plan!" She whined and sat up dusting off her clothing.
"Even you weren't expecting it, Jiraiya." Makoto grinned as he scoffed and looked the other way.
"Well, you weren't able to even transport yourself the last time we trained. But, you need to be quieter once you've teleported yourself or I wouldn't have noticed you." He smiled.
He then went over and picked up the Kunai and examined it.
"And you've been practicing the seal… It's perfect… down to the 'T' even." He spoke proudly of his work.
"Yeah, I wasn't going to pull out Hiraishin no Jutsu if I wasn't sure that I couldn't pull it off." Makoto beamed with pride knowing that she surprised and proved herself worthy to him once again.
"The Fouth would be amazed to know that two of my pupils have mastered his jutsu's with such success." Jiraiya added and Makoto looked over just in time to see Naruto throwing a punch in her direction.
She quickly ducked as she heard his fist connect with Jiraiya's face. Normally the white haired man would have noticed the oncoming attack but was too busy getting lost in his memories.
They all three stood like that for a few moments; Jiraiya's eye twitching, Naruto having a shocked and guilty look on his face as Makoto looked up at the two as she feared for her life knowing Jiraiya would soon attack and getting caught in their crossfire would be done without even trying.
Taking advantage of the situation of no one moving yet Makoto slowly moved her way out of their fighting range and quickly over near the tree. Not a second too late too, since as soon she moved out of their way Naruto was being strangled by the perverted Sannin.
"Well it serves him right! He shouldn't have been sneaking up on me like that!" Makoto huffed in her thoughts as she watched Naruto run around in circles while Jiraiya verbally and physically threatened his life.
She giggled at Naruto's insanity. That's why she cared for him so dearly, and that's why she became his friend in the first place, his pure personality.
"Naruto-Kun… You baka." Makoto whispered softly to herself a sweet smile spread across her lips as she watched the two still trying to kill each other.
That's when she felt it. Someone was in the tree above her, and they had been there watching her the whole time! Her spine tingled at the thought of them directly behind her and breathing down her neck.
"S-Stay calm… Don't let them know that you've finally sensed them." Makoto thought to herself and kept her eyes on Jiraiya.
"Why hasn't he sensed them!?" Makoto screamed in her thoughts while not taking her eyes off of her sensei.
"I've got to do it… I've got to try!" Makoto thought to herself already thinking of her plan.
"Alright, now I've got to step in and stop them." She growled letting her watcher think she wasn't up to anything.
She began quickly moving her hands into many hand signals and walking towards the two people.
"Okay you guys! Knock it off! I came here to train remember!?" Makoto shouted and smiled and suddenly she was gone.
She stepped out on to the kunai on the tree thrown there the other day when she and Jiraiya had been training.
She held her breathe. The person was right in front of her and hadn't noticed her yet.
She mentally was doing a victory dance since she had finally gotten the technique that she had been working on for three years right!
She quickly pulled the kunai out of her holster and pressed it to the back of the boys' neck.
She felt him flinch at the now realization that she was behind him all along.
"Who the Hell are you and what do you want with me!? Do you work for the Akatsuki or something!?" Makoto screamed venomously, but the boy didn't move.
"I asked you a question! If yo- argh!" Makoto shouted she was upper cut and sent flying off of the tree and to the ground.
While falling she looked up to see the boy flipping off of the tree and getting ready to smash his leg into her body as soon as she would hit the ground.
She began making a bunch of hand signals and was able to make a clone of herself that jumped up and grabbed her from falling and hitting the ground.
She looked over at the boy her eyes widening and then she snarled at him.
"Oi!! Makoto what ar-" Naruto stopped when he saw Makoto in a fighting position and breathing heavily as she readied herself to attack, but he wasn't able to see who.
Jiraiya saw Naruto's distraction and looked over seeing the same and growled.
"I asked you a question." Makoto spat at the boy as he smiled a wide and convincing smile.
"You seem to be more of a man than your friend over there." He replied and watched as Makoto quivered in wrath.
"What did you say you asshole!?" She screamed and charged at him electricity spiking around different places of her body.
Just as she was about to hit him he disappeared with what looked like ink to be surrounding him.
Makoto stood without moving for a few minutes and then Naruto finally made his way over to her.
"Mako-Chan? What's wrong with you? You look like you're going to kill someone." Naruto asked obviously not seeing the boy who had damaged her ego, but Makoto didn't reply she immediately took off in the direction of the Hokage's Office.
"Mako-Chan! Matte!" Naruto shouted and ran after her leaving Jiraiya to his thoughts on what this character was really up to.
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"Aunt Tsunade!" Makoto shouted as she busted the door open now regretting that she did so forcefully.
The man that the Hokage had been speaking to looked like he shouldn't be up and walking around, but in a hospital on his deathbed!
Bandages were wrapped around his head and half of his face with a scar on the bottom on his chin and no right arm along with a cane in his left hand. He turned to look at Makoto and the look that he gave her struck her.
He was glaring daggers at her; no one had ever looked at her before with such hatred.
"And there's the girl that is going to cause the soon to be downfall on Konoha, now. I will finish speaking to you when I'm not in the presence of a person who we own many of Konoha's deaths to." He spoke and Makoto froze her expression shocked and her body began to shake.
"Wh-What?" She choked out and felt tears come to her eyes as she looked at the man and then to Tsunade, who looked like she was going to be this mans downfall.
He slammed the door shut behind him and Makoto looked at Tsunade tears daring to spill over.
"Tsunade?... What is he talking about?" Makoto choked out and moved closer to the blonde haired woman.
"Don't listen to him Makoto; he knows nothing of what he is talking about. You're here to keep the people of Konoha from reaching their demise, but since you're your mothers' daughter he would hate you." Tsunade replied and Makoto looked at her like she was crazy.
"What does my mother have to do with this?" Makoto asked now becoming angry that she was seeing that the man was truly disrespecting her mother.
Tsunade sighed and then replied,
"Danzo went up against your grandfather to become the Third Hokage but the Council chose your grandfather because of what he believed in and over Danzo. So now Danzo holds a grudge against you, your mother, grandfather and me for being his pupil, for so."
Makoto's face was shocked and then suddenly the door burst open from behind them to reveal a panting Naruto.
"Tsunade-Obaa-Chan!! What's going on!?" Naruto shouted and Makoto looked at Tsunade for an answer as she smiled at the two.
"I was attacked by someone… I know you've got to know something about it." Makoto asked looking at her Godmother.
"I might as well tell you now since you'll be meeting them tomorrow anyway. I finally was able to… persuade the Council to let Makoto become a member since they chose another member to be your other new teammate." Tsunade replied and Makoto turned around to look at Naruto and their expressions mirrored each other.
Makoto turned back around to Tsunade and smiled a bright smile and ran to her and hugged her.
"Aunt Tsunade, I promise you that I will prove to those bastards that I deserve to be on this team! I won't fail you!" She shouted and Tsunade wrapped an arm around her waist and patted her back with a smile.
"I know you won't Mako-Chan. You are your mothers' daughter and Natsuko would be proud to know that you've become half the woman you are." Tsunade spoke and felt Makoto grip her tighter in the hug and she smiled.
"Tsunade-Obaa-Chan? Why aren't you that nice to me?" Naruto asked completely breaking the moment and Tsunade threw an empty Sake bottle at him.
"Because you're a nuisance!!" She shouted as he scratched the back of his head.
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"This is great Mako! Do you understand how long I've been waiting to have another female teammate!?" Sakura shouted to Makoto as they made their way over to Konoha Hospital.
"Hehehe, I know. I'm just glad I've finally got a team to call my own, and team Kakashi at that." Makoto laughed as they walked into the building, the smell of latex and iodine invading their senses as soon as the doors opened.
"I can't wait to see how he takes it having me on his team now." Makoto smiled as the two females walked into elevator.
-:-
"Surprise!!" Makoto shouted as she threw the door open to her now TRUE Sensei's room, a one hundred watt smile on her face.
"Y-Yes, Makoto?" Kakashi asked as he looked up from his perverted book, obviously annoyed with her not so quiet introduction.
"Guess what!" Makoto shouted and plopped on the edge of his bed as he flew in the air somewhat.
"I don't know, you've got me." He replied in an unemotional tone as she pouted.
"You didn't even try. But who cares!? I'm on your team now!" She smiled as he sweat dropped.
"Wh-What?... You don't want me on your team?" She asked in a confused manner.
He looked back down to his book; obviously she wasn't interesting enough to keep him from it for long.
"No, I just already knew a while ago." He replied as her jaw dropped and she shoved the flowers at him that she had brought.
"Gosh! I learn an amazing Jutsu from you, master it and even amaze you at how I had adapted it to my own liking and you still ignore me!... I was your pupil for two years!! You know what!? Fine! If you're going to act like THAT Kaka-Sensei, I guess I WON'T call Suna and tell her that you're hurt and-"
Suddenly Kakashi was gripping her arm tightly the mix of desperation and insanity on his face.
"Don't do that to me, Makoto… Don't hold that above my head. I am prepared to get on my knees if that's what this calls for." He replied as she slithered away next to Sakura.
"Such desperation from my Sensei is saddening…" Sakura murmured as she put her head in her hand.
Makoto smiled as she took out her communicator and suddenly saw Setsuna's face appear on the screen.
"Oh! Makoto! How are you doing, is everything alright?" Setsuna asked a smile gracing her lips as Makoto continued.
"Well, you see I have bad news Setsuna. I was in the hospital today visiting a certain person who really needs some attention and he requested that, since he's close to dieing, that you might see him." Makoto spoke sullenly and looked down to see Setsuna's face was in pure terror and her lips were quivering.
"M-Makoto… You don't mean Hatake, do you?" Setsuna asked as Makoto looked away and nodded her head.
As soon as she did the screen went blank and she shut it smiling and looked over to Kakashi who looked like he was going to cry.
"Yeah, I should be an actress. And that was an added bonus, but poor Diana is going to kill me for making Sets come here and her sit at the Time Gates…" Makoto added and then suddenly she felt the power begin to fill the room.
"OH! Look sad, look sad!!" Makoto shouted as she quickly covered her amused expression and Kakashi began wheezing.
In a flash Setsuna was in the room looking at Makoto, pure concern was on her face.
"Wh-where is he Makoto?" Setsuna asked desperately.
"S-Setsuna?" Kakashi wheezed from behind her and she spun around and gasped at his appearance.
"H-Hatake… What did you do to yourself?" Setsuna asked as she walked over and placed her hand over her mouth in shock.
-:-
"Hehehehe!! My inspiration has come back to me! Thank you Makoto!!" Jiraiya shouted from outside the window and jotted everything down that he would use for his next book.
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"Don't look so sad for me Setsuna, I'll be alright." Kakashi then forced himself into a coughing fit, while behind them Makoto snickered and Sakura sweat dropped.
"Mako, you need to stop hanging around Naruto…" Sakura thought as she shook her head in disappointment.
"Kakashi, don't talk! I don't want you to waste any energy on me!" Setsuna shouted and moved over near him her eyes traveling to his bare chest while blushing.
"Setsuna, stop this!! This poor man is dieing and all you can do is stare in awe at his, well built, strong, ample, succulent… No!" She screamed in her thoughts and blushed like mad.
"Setsuna…" Kakashi beckoned and grabbed her hand as she blushed even more, if that was even possible.
"Y-yes, Kakashi?" She asked quietly.
"This is where we step out…" Makoto whispered and pushed Sakura out the door and left it cracked and as soon as they were out of the room the two plastered their ears to the crack listening intently.
"Setsuna, I'm dieing and… As a last request will you do something for me?" He asked gasping for air dramatically.
"Wh-what would that be Kakashi-San?" She asked timidly and he pulled her down close to his face and grabbed the top of his mask getting ready to kiss her.
"O-Oh dear… This is what I think it is!" Setsuna thought and blushed and then-
"Sakura! Stop stepping on my fingers!"
"Well you're on my hair!!"
"Well I-ah!" Suddenly the two girls fell into the room Makoto and Sakura's bodies sprawled across the floor, both blushing, but not as bad as Setsuna who couldn't move.
They were only a few centimeters apart.
"Oh… What's going on here? Oh, are you Hatake-San's girlfriend?" A nurse asked as she appeared in the room with a tablet in hand as she walked over to them and Setsuna still couldn't move.
"Well, I bet you're here to help comfort him aren't you? Seeing as he's going to be in here for a while, at least until those wounds heal. But don't worry, it won't be much longer and your man will be as healthy as an ox!" The nurse shouted enthusiastically as Mako, Sakura and Kakashi stiffened at the last statement.
"Oh… Um, could you give us a moment alone, please?" Setsuna asked the nurse and she stopped what she was doing and looked at the green haired woman and then to Kakashi who was shaking his head back and forth quickly.
"Oh sure! No need to be so shy Hatake-San! You talk with your girlfriend alone!" The nurse smiled as he sweat dropped and Makoto and Sakura quickly scattered out of the room behind the nurse.
The door shut quietly behind them…
"Ka-Ka-Shi!!!!!!" She screamed furiously.
-:-
"Makoto, I can't believe you forced me to hit a man that was already in the hospital… And you lied to me! Do you know how upset Diana was with making her watch the you-know-what again!?" Setsuna shouted as the two of them walked out of Konoha Hospital.
"Gomen Sets, but I hadn't seen you for almost six months now! And you never came around and not seeing all of you guys is hard enough!" Makoto replied as Setsuna sighed and looked down at the younger Senshi and smiled.
"Well, I suppose it was for a good reason… but telling me the Kakashi was dieing was wrong! So very wrong Mako!" Setsuna shouted and Makoto laughed.
"Yeah… I know." She smiled mischievously as they walked aimlessly through the busy evening streets of Konoha.
"Well, now that I'm finally going to be on Naruto-Kun and Sakura-Chan's team I hope things will smooth out more." Makoto spoke happily as they walked on their way back to Naruto and Makoto's house.
"Yes, let us hope but still… This person that attacked you has me worried. What if he was with Orochimaru or the Akatsuki?" Setsuna asked as Makoto shook her head.
"I don't know, but both of those seem to be too coincidental to happen. I think he was just some stupid bastard that decided to piss me off!" Makoto growled then something hit her.
"Wait. If Kakashi-Sensei is in the hospital, then who is going to be our sensei?" Makoto asked Setsuna bit her bottom lip.
Makoto noticed her apprehension and took advantage of it.
"You know who it is don't you, Sets? You looked in the future again." Makoto smiled as Setsuna looked down at her and put her hands up in defense.
"N-No! I-… I only looked a day ahead… and I wouldn't tell you anyway. You will find out tomorrow like your other teammates."
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"I will be here to see you tomorrow, Makoto." Setsuna spoke in front of the door to her house.
"I promise, Mako-Chan. I'm sure Diana won't mind watching 'Them' for one more time so I can come and visit you." Setsuna smiled as Makoto looked up and reflected her grin.
"Thank you Suna-Chan. This means a lot to me." Makoto then hugged her friend goodbye.
"Please be careful going back." Makoto called as she watched her walk away from inside the house.
"Well, it took you long enough to get back here! I'm starving!" Naruto shouted from behind her and she turned to see him sitting at the table with an empty plate in front of him.
"What am I!? Your maid!? And look at this place! It was spotless when you were off with Jiraiya and now look at it!" Makoto shouted pointing at all of the dirty clothes and messes that Naruto had left around the house.
"Well… Please just feed me Mako-Chan!? Please!?" He shouted grabbing on the bottom of her shorts as she sweat dropped.
"You can help me then!" She growled.
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"That was so good Mako-Chan." Naruto said as he fell on the floor traces of food still on his mouth.
"I missed your cooking." He mumbled as she scoffed.
"I'm glad to know that you missed my food and not me."
"Aw, Mako-Chan! You know I missed my roommate!" He called happily with his trademark smile and she couldn't help but smile back at him.
He was her soft spot.
She walked over and sat down next to him on the floor.
He looked up to see her expression was incredibly tear-jerking with her eyes cast to the floor.
"Makoto…" He called and she looked to him trying to smile as best as she could.
"You're not still thinking about that jerk that attacked you are you?" Naruto asked as Makoto shook her head.
"No, I could care less about that… But… I've been thinking about Gaara." She spoke and felt him stiffen next to her.
Yeah, that was one of his nerves too.
"I just… I feel horrible that I didn't get to go and help you guys. That damned Council! And if I might have been there he may have been safe in the end, and so many lives wouldn't have been lost." Makoto spoke and felt tears come to her eyes.
"Mako-Chan, the Akatsuki is after you and-
"And they're after you too Naruto and you were allowed to go and help your friend! While I had to stay here and hope that my friends would be alright and in the end Gaara even died! Granted he is back, but still… Maybe if I would have been there he wouldn't have died in the first place!" Makoto literally cried and felt arms wrap around her body she closed her eyes and fell into his embrace.
She had been holding this in for too long now, with having Sasuke constantly on her mind as well as the possibility of Orochimaru attacking, and most of all being without of her Senshi she needed to cry and cleanse her soul.
"Wh-Why did he have to leave Naruto-Kun!? W-Why did he have to leave as soon as I got here!!?" She cried her body shaking uncontrollably as he gripped her harder fighting back his own tears.
"Does he hate me that much? Is he mad that I left?... Does he even remember how much I care for him!?" She cried her hands and arms shaking around his body.
"He promised me that he would never leave me… And he would always know when I needed him because; he told me when I cried, it rained… But it was a different type of rain. He said when you walked in it and the drops fell on you, you could feel the pain… My pain." She spoke and cried even harder.
"Mako-Chan…" Naruto whispered and hugged her tighter.
"Sasuke…" He growled bitterly in his thoughts as the sound of rumbling thunder in the distance floated around the room from the open window.
The storm that had been building up was finally coming, and you could smell it in the air.
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"So, is that her Senpai?" A timid voice popped up out of nowhere causing his partner to flinch somewhat out of shock.
The blonde haired male turned to the black haired man and growled.
"Yes, Tobi." He hissed and smacked him over the head.
"Now shut up or we'll be heard, un!" He seethed as Tobi rubbed the top of his head in pain.
"But, Deidara-Senpai, you're the one who's yelling." Tobi spoke and was kicked off the top of the roof.
"Damned baka…" He grumbled and looked at the brunette in interest.
"This is definitely going to be fun… She fascinates me, un…" The blonde Akatsuki member smirked keeping his eyes on her face as she cried in the arms of the Kyuubi container while he felt the rain being to fall on his still body.
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Small droplets of rain began to trickle down onto his face. He cast his crimson eyes towards the sky and slowly placed his sword back in its sheath.
"This rain… I haven't felt this rain since the day I fought Naruto… It's that kind of rain…" He whispered bitterly and turned around to look back at the tunnel like entrance of Orochimaru's castle.
He began walking back to the entrance, but then stopped…
"S-Sasuke-Kun… H-how did you know I was here?" Her voice choked in his mind, he could still see her tears that were mingling with the falling rain.
"I told you, Makoto… The rain." He heard his soft voice reply.
He watched as he sat down next to the crying brunette who was under the Cherry Blossom tree.
"I-I can't stand it without him, Sasuke-Kun! I hate being alone! Why did he leave me too!? Papa promised he wouldn't ever leave me!" She cried and buried her head in her hands only to be embraced by the onyx haired boy next to her.
"I promise you Kino Makoto, that I won't ever leave you." He spoke and heard her cry harder into his chest.
"Sasuke-Kun!" Her voice rang out in his mind as fury ripped through his body.
He closed his eyes and scoffed at the memory.
He quickly took out the sword once again and stabbed it in the nearest tree next to him, sending it quickly crashing to the ground.
"Promises are only made to be broken." He growled and walked back to the entrance, the small girls crying face still plaguing his mind.
-:- The Next day -:-
"So, what do you think this guy's going to look like?" Makoto asked Sakura as she blushed.
"Hopefully, a cutie!" She shouted and she and Makoto began to daydream about all the possibilities that lay ahead.
"What's so bad about just me?" Naruto grumbled and Sakura looked at him like he was crazy.
"Did you even have to ask?" She asked as Makoto sighed.
She had hoped that since they had gotten older that Sakura might have started to finally want to return Naruto's feelings but with the stunts that the blonde had been pulling lately, she couldn't blame her bubblegum haired friend.
"Well…" Sakura started and looked around at the empty area.
"This is where we were supposed to meet them… We aren't that early." She spoke softly as Makoto sighed.
"Figures… Aunt Tsunade said that this guy was a friend or acquaintance of Kaka-Sensei, maybe he rubbed off on him." Makoto shrugged and leaned against one of the pillars as Naruto and Sakura looked at each other and sweat dropped.
"The last thing we need is another Kaka-Sensei." Naruto murmured the two females agreeing silently.
Unknown to any of them, their newest team member was silently waiting for them to notice his presence.
"Makoto-Chan." A soft voice called catching their attention and they turned to see the green haired Senshi of Time.
"Setsuna! You made it!" Makoto shouted happily as she stood up to greet her taller friend.
"I promised you I would say goodbye before you left on your new mission." She smiled at Makoto.
"Setsuna-Chan!" Naruto shouted and Setsuna looked over to see the blonde boy and was shocked.
She had yet to even see him when she visited Mako a little after he had returned.
"N-Naruto?" Setsuna asked moving over towards the boy and shook her head smiling.
"Well, it looks like you turned out alright after all, Naruto-San." She smiled and patted his head.
"But you still have some growing to do." She smiled as he grumbled.
"Well, I can't help it that you're some kind of freaky Amazon lady that's like six feet tall!" He shouted and blushed.
"Oh, Naruto-San, I was only kidding." She smiled and then tensed.
She narrowed her eyes and turned back around facing the way that she had come.
Her eyes quickly darted back and forth searching for the power that she had just felt.
"Suna-Chan?" Makoto asked noticing her pause and stepped towards her.
"It's alright Makoto… I just need to go and check on something… I promise I'll be back by the time you have met your new team." She spoke and quickly began walking in the direction where her instincts were leading her.
"That was… That was weird. Setsuna never acts like that." Makoto spoke and watched her fellow Senshi briskly walking away from them.
"Well, what do you guys want to do while we wait for this idiot?" Naruto asked in a boring tone.
"Well, maybe not calling me an idiot would be a good start." They heard a voice speak from behind them and they all stiffened.
Naruto was in for some pain from their new Sensei…
-:-
"YOU!!!" Both Makoto and Naruto yelled as they came face to face with their newest teammate.
Naruto and Makoto turned to look at each other in shock.
"You know him, too!?"
"Yeah, he's the one that attacked me!!"
Sakura watched the two and sweat dropped.
"Why am I the only one that doesn't know who this guy is?" She thought to herself.
"I have half a mind to beat the shit out of you right now you bastard!!" Makoto screamed as electricity began to surge around her body.
"Sorry about before. I wanted to see the abilities of my new teammates." He spoke as she began to calm down a bit.
"After all, I need to know exactly how much I'll have to help out the little nut-less loser and the male Amazon." He smiled. That was it, he was DEAD!!
"What'd you say!!?" Naruto screamed as Sakura held him back, but she wasn't expecting Makoto to go for the kill either.
"You bitch!" She screamed and kicked her leg at him, but he caught it with one hand.
She snarled and pulled her other leg back but he caught that one too.
She blushed at the position she was in and looked up to see the sickeningly sweet smile was still on his face. That pissed her off more than anything.
She made sure she sent volts of electricity through her body, his body jolted at the electric current that went through her body to his but he was able to let go his body shaking at the overload.
She was lying on the ground smirking up at him.
"Look who's the nut-less loser now." She heard Naruto call from behind her.
She felt to strong hands pick her up off the ground and she looked up to see Yamato.
"Two seconds of me introducing him to you and you're already trying to kill each other." He spoke as she blushed.
"Gomen, Yamato-Sensei." She spoke softly and turned and sneered at Sai, who now looked unfazed by her attack.
"She really is the spitfire of the Third… You can see him in her, that's for sure." He thought as he watched her cross her arms and glare at the black haired boy who was smiling at her.
"This is going to be a fun mission…" He mumbled and looked up at the three teens.
"Listen up, I don't have time to throw you all in a cage and make you get used to each other. So listen, this is your mission." He then went on explaining the mission to find the Akatsuki spy and bring him back here to find out information on Orochimaru as well as Sasuke.
-:-
Her feet pounded against the pavement as she ran, all she could think of was finding Makoto in time.
She knew that power was an enemy and seeing a glimpse of a black and red coat only helped fuel her suspicions.
She couldn't let Makoto go on this mission without her, for all she knew the Akatsuki that Tsunade and Kakashi had told her about could be working along side Orochimaru.
"I can't let them touch her." She whispered as she ran across the streets of Konoha trying to find the brunette before she left.
-:-
She sighed as she placed her hand on the cold stone in front of her.
"Lee-Kun and Konohamaru-Kun promised that they would take good care of you… I know they will I would trust them with my life…" She whispered and smiled down at her parents graves.
"I won't be able to visit you for a while… But, as long as I know you're watching over me, I'll be fine. Please… Please give me the strength to find Sasuke-Kun, I miss him so much and this is my chance to finally do something about him being gone. Maybe if he knows that I'm here now, I can help and bring him back… Please let me stay strong, that's all that I ask." She whispered and brought her fingers to her lips then pressed them on both of the stones.
She smiled and inhaled the scent of the flowers one last time before her long journey.
She closed her eyes and then she turned around to head on her way to the Village Gate.
"Makoto! Move!!" She heard someone shout and looked over to see Setsuna running towards her. She gave a confused look then she saw were Setsuna was looking…
Behind her.
"How touching, too bad that you won't get your chance to bring back this precious Sasuke-Kun that you speak of." She heard someone say who was standing right behind her.
She gasped and tried to jump back away, but she couldn't even do that because suddenly there was a loud explosion and she fell to the ground.
Her head collided with the hard ground but she couldn't move, all she could do was watch as Setsuna's body was thrown through the air by the force and left her unmoving on the ground.
"S-Se-Setsuna?... Setsuna!!" She tried to scream but her eyes wouldn't stay open.
She felt tears gather in her eyes at the thought of her friend dieing right in front of her and she couldn't even get up and walk ten feet to help her.
The last thing she remembered before becoming unconscious was her body being lifted off of the ground.
-:-
She was warm… She was so warm.
"A-Am I dead?..." She thought as she moved closer to the warmth… She liked it here, she felt safe.
She breathed easy and relaxed.
Then, her eyes shot wide open in shock. There were hands on her body!!
She lifted her head up to see someone holding her in their arms.
"Y-YOU BASTARD!!" She screamed at the blonde man who looked down at her to see she was finally awake and smirked.
"You're a bit too noisy, un." He laughed and that's when she began to panic.
"I'll kill you for hurting Setsuna!!" She screamed and tried to wiggle out of his grip and punch him but she then noticed that her arms were bound.
"That's alright." She grinned and closed her eyes and concentrated on the electricity in her body…
Nothing.
"Wh-What's wrong with me!? What did you do!?" She screamed and began to struggle in his grip while he was jumping from tree to tree.
"Stop moving!" He screamed and he moved his hand and as soon as she caught site of it she bit him.
"Damn…" He growled and then she felt something on her cheek and stopped moving.
She felt his chest move and she now knew that he was laughing.
Her mouth quivered his hand still in her mouth.
"So, you've noticed my special 'trait' un." He laughed sadistically and that's when she knew it for sure.
She felt something slick move across her bottom lip.
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" She screamed and kicked her legs around one of them ending up kicking him in the face, which was a bad choice seeing as he dropped her as soon as it made contact with his body.
Her hands were bound, and she was falling thirty feet up in the air to the ground.
She shut her eyes and scrunched her body up; she knew the impact to her death was coming any second.
"You should watch what you're doing Makoto-Chan. Deidara-Senpai will be mad if you keep acting like that." A voice piped up and she realized that she was no longer moving but in the arms of another person, but this person had an orange mask on their face that circled around to one of his eyes.
He set her down on the ground, but she didn't even try to move; everything was happening too fast.
Her body was shaking as she heard someone jump down from the trees.
"Why did you catch her, Tobi? You should have just let her die." The blonde growled and moved to stand next to her sitting body.
"But, Deidara-Senpai, we're not supposed to let her die. She has to be alive." Tobi spoke quietly and was kicked.
"I know you idiot! But falling like that would have only broken something, not kill her and that's not dead, un!" Deidara shouted but was distracted by Makoto speaking.
"What do you want with me and what the Hell did you do so that I can't call my powers?" She growled not even attempting to stand up only knowing that she would be caught.
Deidara looked down at her and sneered.
"Ever since Itachi saw what you possessed, Leader-Sama has been interested in seeing what he can do with you." He smirked seeing her shocked expression.
She then grimaced at the mention of the eldest living Uchiha.
"And as a consolation, you seem to be something special to the Kyuubi container, if he knows we have you then he'll come after you and then we can have him too, un." He added and she looked up at him in a confused way.
"What the Hell are you talking about a 'Kyuubi Container'?" Makoto growled.
"Heh, he's your friend and he didn't even tell you. It just proves how invaluable friendship truly is." Deidara added as he scoffed at her stupidity.
Makoto thought about whom it possibly could have been and then it hit her…
Who was the one person that she knew the Akatsuki wanted and she was friends with?
"He-…Naruto-Kun… Has a demon inside of him?..." Makoto choked out and her eyes began to water thinking back to every memory of her earlier childhood.
"Th-That's why?... They didn't want me near h-him?… and why everyone hated him?... They all. They all knew!" She shouted as tears spilled out of her eyes thinking of all the times that she had seen him alone and by himself, without anyone but her.
She felt her chin lifted up to look him in the eyes.
"There's no need to cry over him anymore, because the next time that you see him, he'll be dead." The blonde smiled as he watched the emotions flood over her face, especially remorse.
Her eyes darted back and forth looking for a way to run, but now it didn't matter. She had to leave! She had to see if Setsuna was alright and warn Naruto!
She pushed herself off of the ground and ran in the opposite direction of the two Akatsuki, and swore that she heard Deidara laugh.
She was already about fifteen feet away and they weren't even moving after her, and that's when it happened.
"Aaahhhhhhhh!!" She screamed and fell to the ground as electricity sparked around her body as she collapsed to the ground.
"What's h-happening!?" She screamed in pain and swiveled around on the ground as the searing pain jolted through her.
And just as suddenly as it came, it stopped.
She laid on the ground, her breath was labored and she dared not move any move than the rise and fall of her chest.
She never knew that her own element was so painful.
"Fortunately Tobi is good for something and has knowledge in medical jutsus. He was able to make a serum that would make you stay within fifteen feet of our bodies for at least forty-eight hours, and if you went out of that diameter, you would be shocked by your own attack. Ingenious is it not, un? It was also able to suppress your powers for that long as well." Deidara asked as he walked closer to her trembling body.
"And when those forty-eight hours are up?" Makoto growled as she was lifted up by Deidara to look him straight in the eyes.
"Your friend will be dead and you will be meeting with Leader-Sama." He smiled down at her as she looked the other way.
"Oh, she really is fascinating…" He thought and grabbed a kunai and sliced the ropes off of her hands.
She soon as they were released she brought them together and began performing hand signs used for the perfect plan.
"Hiraishin no Jutsu!" She shouted and waited to be teleported back to her training grounds in Konoha… But she was still standing in front of the blonde haired man who was smirking down at her amusingly.
"Do you honestly think that I would just simply untie you knowing that you could perform a Jutsu and get away?" He laughed as she lowered her head in defeat.
"Oh, no don't stop now! You were just becoming interesting to me, un." He laughed.
"Another 'serum' I suppose?" She hissed and felt her face heat up from anger.
"What else would it be?" Deidara spoke as he turned and began walking forward, leaving her behind.
"I'm not the one that gets kidnapped and outwitted… I'm the one that saves those people!!"She shouted in her thoughts but they were interrupted by a voice.
"You should start moving Makoto-Chan or you'll be shocked again and Deidara-Senpai won't be happy." She looked up to see Deidara's partner, Tobi she believed his name was, standing next to her.
"H-Hai." She spoke quietly and began walking after the blonde in front of her.
"This had to happen at the worst time didn't it?... Setsuna, please help me." She thought and looked at their surroundings.
She couldn't even use her communicator to call her… She had to wait until they couldn't see her, which was almost impossible at least at this moment.
-:-
They had been walking for hours and no one had said a word she hated it! She hated this damned silence that lingered around everyone!
Suddenly she felt her stomach tighten and gurgle loudly and she blushed deeply and moved her hand over her flat abdomen in hopes of stifling its obnoxious shouting.
"Are you hungry, Makoto-Chan?" She heard Tobi ask from behind her as she looked back and blushed.
"This sucks ass… I'm taken captive and all I can do is embarrass myself!!" She thought angrily and nodded towards the masked man.
"Yeah…" She murmured quietly not really sure how to act towards the kindness that the member of a group that's known for killing was giving her.
"Deidara-Senpai! I think we should stop now! Makoto-Chan is hungry, we should eat dinner!" Tobi shouted to the blonde who turned around and growled.
"Fine, if you want to stop then you go back and check to make sure that no one is following us, go at least an hour's way back!" The blonde screamed and Tobi sweat dropped.
"B-But Deidara-Senpai! No one is following us I-"
"Are you talking back to me Tobi, un!?" Deidara shouted as Tobi sighed and in a flash he was gone, and Makoto gulped.
She didn't want to be here alone with the freaky mouth guy! She could see that by the way he acted this meant more to him than just strictly business with her… And that's the part she didn't like…
Her stomach growled again this time it was more painful; she grimaced and compressed her midsection once again.
"I've got to eat something now!" She murmured and began looking around for anything such as a lake to fish or even berries that she might be able to-
She heard paper and she knew it! She looked over at Deidara to see him sitting on the ground a small wrapping of food laid out on his lap with rice balls mounded on top each other.
Her mouth watered just looking at them and her stomach growled once again, this time even louder.
She knew she saw Deidara smirk and she swallowed her pride. She had to! She was so… So hungry.
She walked over to the blue eyed artist and sat about three feet away from him and he looked up from his food to see her eyeing the small morsels hungrily.
She sighed heavily each time she watched him pop one in his mouth, she knew what he was trying to do he was trying to make her beg for it, plead for it even!
And she was going to do it.
"D-Deidara?" She asked in a timid voice that could match Ami's perfectly.
She watched him look up at her lazily, but said nothing.
"Can I… Can I please have some of that?... Please?" She asked again looking at him with a pleading expression.
"I don't think-"
He was cut off by her hastily grabbing the food out of his hand and popping it into her mouth.
"Thank you!" She called and quickly grabbed three more and swiftly moved about ten feet away as he glared at her.
She would sweet talk him then when his guard was down she would steal his food and then leave, is that it? Well she had another thing coming he would make her pay tonight.
She sighed in relief as she felt the growing hunger was finally suppressed and she leaned against the rock that was behind her.
"Well, at least I took care of that…" She thought and closed her eyes the warmth of the setting sun worked as a nice blanket.
Too bad her blanket was blocked body someone's body.
She sighed and felt him sit down next to her and she moved away about another three feet.
The last thing she wanted to do was be so damn close to the guy… At least she had to be arm length away so he couldn't touch with his demented hands.
She pulled her knees to her chest and rested her chin on them.
She knew that he was looking at her and she knew that he was doing it just to piss her off, but she wouldn't give him the satisfaction that she knew it was bugging her.
Suddenly something came to her mind.
What if because of her, Naruto and Sakura wouldn't get to go on the mission to find Sasuke?... What if they didn't go because of her and missed the one chance they had in bringing him back to Konoha?
She felt her bottom lip tremble as Sasuke's smiling face began to plague her mind.
"I promise you Kino Makoto, that I won't ever leave you." He shouted in her mind as she shook her head feeling the needle like pricks in her eyes.
She felt the sting of the tears and knew that they were coming.
"Ruka, I promise you I'll bring Michiru back!" She heard herself tell the older blonde and knew that holding back her tears wasn't possible.
"You are like a piece of art that is ready to be molded, but the artist doesn't know what to do with you yet… So innocent and untainted." She heard him speak and she looked over tears gathered more by just looking at his face.
She grimaced and felt her tears fall over.
"B-Because of you! Because of that damned Uchiha, you have ruined everything!! Everything that-that I have worked for, lived for, breathed for over these three years! And to bring back my friends, in only one movement you took it all away!! I will kill Itachi if Sasuke hasn't gotten to him yet!" Makoto screamed and dug her nails into the ground, dirt burying itself under them easily.
Tears fell without her even blinking, she couldn't stop. It wasn't possible, how could she? It was like over these years she had been running after Sasuke, watching his back walking away from her and just when she had caught up to him and was reaching for his shoulder, someone ripped her away from any hope of touching him.
"Promises aren't just made to be broken." She whispered though her cries as she buried her face in her hands.
"Sasuke-Kun… Why did you break your promise? And no matter what... You still have all of me..." She whispered through her cries as Deidara watched her smiling.
She made herself even more fascinating when she cried and broke down like she was doing now.
-:-
Five people stood in the Hokage's Office the majority of them concerned for the brunettes safety and minority never caring about anything but the mission to be accomplished.
"I am giving you the choice of going after Kino Makoto… But if you do instead of going on the planned mission you may never get that chance again… You choose your teammate or the mission." The blonde spoke as she tried to stay under control as much as possible in these matters of having her Godchild taken.
"Do you even have to ask!? We don't have time to be sitting around here and talking about going after Mako-Chan! She could be dead by now and-"
"Shut up! Do you think that I don't care that she's gone?! Are you that much of an insolent child!? Make your choice or get out of my office." She growled at the blonde boy who glared at her.
"Mako-Chan." Sakura spoke stating her thoughts and trying to make the two stop.
"Mako-Chan." Naruto stated.
"The mission." Sai spoke and Naruto and Sakura turned at looked at him but he didn't look at either of them.
Naruto grabbed his collar forcefully and pulled him.
"She's your teammate now you bastard!! You would let her die out there and go along like it was nothing!?" He screamed.
"Emotions and attachments only hinder your true objective when on a mission." He spoke unemotionally.
Naruto pulled his fist back to hit him but was distracted.
"Naruto-San! Don't!" Setsuna screamed as she ran through the door of the office.
"I have managed to do this without any of you having to go." She spoke as Naruto released the black haired boy and turned to Setsuna.
"What is it, Setsuna-Chan?" Sakura asked as she walked over to the out of breath woman.
"I have found two perfect people to go and get her back without any problems… And you all will be safe." She smiled as everyone in the room but Sai had a shocked expression on their face.
-:-
In the shadows of the room, his presence was masked by hatred. He never took his eyes off of the mirror in his vile hands, but more importantly he never took his eyes off of the person in the image.
Tears fell from her eyes like rain was beating down on her body and falling into her eyes and spilling out of them. Her body quacked and shook with every breath she took and her vibrant green eyes looked up at the sky with a pleading expression. You could tell by just looking at her that she was desperate for something, and whatever it was, she wanted it so badly that she would give her life for it.
He was in here everyday, just looking into the mirror, he never left it unattended to.
He watched him grimace as the imaged changed to her looking over at a blonde haired man that was dressed in Akatsuki garb.
His coal black eyes narrowed in hatred his brother appearing in his thoughts.
"What is she doing with him… Kabuto, why don't you go and tell Michiru-San that she may finally be meeting her beloved Senshi again, and very soon… It seems that she is in the hands of the Akatsuki… And we can't have that, now can we?" The man asked as he cracked his neck and looked down at the picture.
"Yes, Orochimaru-Sama. She will be happy to know that she will be with her friends again, I'm sure." Kabuto spoke as he walked out the door.
"That can't be her… That's not her, she is dead. I watched her be killed, and there is no way that she could have been brought back. It is just a simple act of coincidence and even if it was her, she means nothing and has no role in anything that I wish to accomplish." He thought bitterly and gave up on seeing what was so special about the 'look-a-like' of his first friend. But no matter he still ended up remembering a memory that he had tried to suppress.
-:- Memory -:-
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" He yelled as fire filed out of his mouth creating a large ball of fire.
"Sasuke-Kun…" He heard her astonished voice from behind him and he turned around on the dock to face her and smiled.
"S-Sasuke-Kun! You did it! You finally did it!!" She shouted and jumped at him with so much force that they fell to the ground as she hugged him.
"You need to tell your father! You must let him know that you've accomplished it!" She smiled against his chest as he looked down at her.
"Have you been here the whole time?" He asked as she let go and looked at him with a blush.
"Uhhh… Yeah… I just wanted to make sure that you would be okay… You know… Since you've been training so much lately, I was afraid that you might hurt yourself if you pushed too hard." She spoke softly and tucked some of her hair behind her ear.
"Oh, well why didn't you tell me you were here?" He asked and she stiffened now blushing an even deeper red.
Was he really so thick!? Honestly! Out of the times he had asked dumb questions about a situation they were in, this one was just pushing it! Would he ever realize that she liked him more than just her best friend?
"Well… I-I didn't want to bug you since you looked so concentrated." She spoke and scratched the back of her head as she lied.
"Oh. Well, what do you say we have a little match since I learned a new jutsu?" He asked knowing that she would never pass up a match.
Her eyes looked at him skeptically.
"What is it?" She asked heatedly waiting to get up and start attacking one another at that very second, but instead she watched him stand up.
"Whoever is the last one back to the house has to say that they're a-" He was cut off by her rushing past him.
"Later, loser!" She called back behind her as she ran to the house smiling at her wit.
He smirked and quickly took off after her.
"I'm gonna win! I'm gonna win! I'm gonna-"
"Wow, you're getting slow Mako-Chan!" She heard him call and felt him pull the back of her collar as she epped as she fell to the ground.
He wasn't getting away that easily. She then grabbed his leg and pulled him down as well and rolled over to pin him down.
"You are such a cheater." She grinned down at him.
But he was able to flip her over, as she underestimated his strength.
"Just as much of one as you are." He laughed she pouted and then tried to flip him back over but she couldn't! He was too strong.
She tried so hard to throw him off of her but couldn't succeed.
"Sasuke! That's not fair!" She cried and kicked her legs still trying to move but he laughed as he watched her struggle.
He looked down at her and smiled. She really was his best friend. She was the one person that he could tell anything to, and she would always listen. She was the one person that he could depend on for anything; she was always there for him and he for her…
He never wanted to lose her; she was what drove him many times. All of her encouraging and she wasn't like the other girls he had met, she actually talked to him because she wanted to be his friend. He cared for her deeply and he promised himself that day that he would never let anything happen to her.
She looked up at him to see him smiling down at her as she blushed. He finally let her up and she sat next to him as he looked up at the stars.
Seeing that he was concentrated on something she looked up as well.
"You know Sasuke… Papa used to tell me that people's destinies were written in the stars before they were born… He said that when you meet someone and your destinies were intertwined you always had a place in your heart for that person and no matter what you would never forget them… Do you think that our destinies are written in the stars as well and are now intertwined?" She asked and looked over at him waiting for his answer.
She then felt warm arms wrap around her body.
"Yeah, at least I hope so…" She heard him whisper and she smiled hugging him back.
"Sasuke, I would trust you with my life… Promise you won't ever forget me?" She asked against his chest.
"How could I?" He asked and she then felt something soft pressed to her cheek.
She didn't even realize what was happening until after it had.
Her heart felt like it was trying to beat itself out of her chest with a sledge hammer! He had to feel it! There's no way he couldn't.
She then hugged him tighter and gently pecked him on the cheek.
"I won't forget you either… No matter what Sasuke-Kun… I care for you too much." She whispered never wanting to let go of him fearing that they wouldn't ever get this moment back… And they never did…
-:-
You can ignore thoughts, but you can't ignore love. Even if he didn't admit it to even his thoughts, he loved her… Or maybe it was just that he loved that memory or the way she had made him feel, but either-or, some part of him still loved her… But he would never admit it whether he knew if she was truly alive or not. Some things you just can't learn to forget or teach yourself to deny…
Both of them were trying to ignore something about the other. One was trying to ignore the fact that she may be alive and seeing that he didn't need her to survive and to kill his sibling, the other trying to ignore the fact that he may have moved on no longer seeing her need of comfort and love that she was always so willing to give him.
But sometimes whether you're ignoring your thoughts because it hurts to remember what you once had or to ignore your thoughts because you see that they hinder and cloud your true objective, you will quickly learn that no matter how hard you force yourself to forget, something will always make you remember. For Sasuke, that was the rain and for Makoto, that was the never-ending pain that was digging a hole of uncertainty in her heart where he rested.
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Wow… Creativity at the beginning of the chapter: about 87 percent… Creativity by the end of the chapter: about negative 187 percent… This took so much out of me, but I still want to write more!! And so the next chapter I have up should be this and after that will be D.S. So what do you guys think? I really hoped you like the very beginning with the comparison of Sasuke with the flower, and I love Lily of The Valley! It's my birthday flower and my second favorite flower! And yes I know that we have yet to know what Tobi's true powers are so I made him have knowledge in medical jutsus and such. Okay, well I'm totally drained so I'm gonna head to bed. By the by, hope you also enjoyed finding out about the 'first kiss' thing.
Love ya loyal readers!
-Katness