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It's snowing.

I'm sure of it now,

my eye's arn't closed anymore

I can feel how cold it is for once.

I can feel my self wanting to be warm

I don't want to be cold anymore

I'm kinda sad about it

I'm kinda scared too

I hope you'll be there on the other side

Ready to guide me when I can't see

I hope you'll catch me when I fall

I wish that you'd wipe away the tears

Will you?
Or is that snow I see really just rain?

Are my eyes still shut?

Is that why it's so dark?

Maby my sight is just blurry

Because I'm crying.

Maby it's not rain.

Maby you are there and it's going to be sunny

It's going to be sunny and warm

because the ice is finally going to melt.

I'm going to tell myself that

Maby it'll happen just like I dream.

But then I remember you're not here

And Dreams don't come true

Three men fell, though none would have died that night.

Neji reloaded his gun, just as a shadowy sillouette appeared in the darkness. His ears were sharpened, his eyes

glowing and his whole body stiffened, tenced. Instinct took over, his mind trapped, ration thrown to the curb.

He could feel Gaara was here, though, and every second now he would wonder why, but more importantly why he ever knew in the first place.

It's love, Were Naruto's words. Was he right? No, love didn't exist, it was a stupid cliche, and if it even did, it cirtianly wasn't magic, at least thats what he told himself all his life.

But in those few seconds, he really beleived Naruto's words.

Neji's eyes windened and he whirled around, hair whipping his face. His own cold, ivory eyes locked with Sasuke's captor. The silver moolight illumiated Neji's whole body.

Anyone could have mistook him for a angel.

"You did somthing I can never forgive.." Neji hissed, his gun clutched in his fingers. He aimed, but the man only only smiled. The grin on his expression seemed to peirce Neji's armour. He was finally scared for the first time in his life.

"I dare you.." Neji wasn't hearing correctly...Was he? His pulse quickened, and he shivered, his knees quivering. "What?" He breathed, his voice becoming small and weak, almost like a tiny kitten. The same way he hated it

"I dare you...to shoot." The other's words reached his mind before he had spoken them for the second time.

Neji's arm was shaking violently as he aimed the gun, pointed at the figure infront of him.

Could he really take a life to save Gaara?

But he knew people needed him, and not just the red-haired boy. It was too dark to tell where the other's were, but there were alot more men with guns and weapons than the four of them that had come in, save Gaara. Even though there were a suprising amout of people on his side, he knew, he because the're went more men shooting at him.

Had people come to help them?
A cold sweat broke across his forehead. I have to do this. For the people I...love.

He closed his eyes and fired, but he could tell he missed. He didn't open his eyes again and shot three more times. A laugh, a evil, vicious laugh poisoned his blood so it froze. His heart was pounding out of his chest.

The people I...Love...

It paralized his whole body as a bone-chilling cry reached his ears. The cry was load and harsh, shrilling. Neji could feel the tingling feeling of blood pouring out of his side, a bullet wound raking across his flesh like demonic claws, infectious the moment it touched.

The peircing cry was growing loader yet.

He was about to call out for it to end, to end that person's agony, but then, as he vision went blurry, he relized with horror that it was his own.

Naruto knew he was on the floor, and that he was bleeding. Sasuke wasn't anyware in sight, and that worried him. His limbs wouldn't move, to scared to move, and his leg gushing fresh, hot blood. He winced, the pain so unimaginable

Will I die here?

The room was crowded, blood was being spilt as he lay there motionless, and they were so obviously out numbered. Sasuke was here, he knew it, even if he didn't know where the hell he was, and he was sure he saw a flash of red that resembled Gaara. Maby it was just his own blood.

Sasuke, His mind raced. I wish I had told you I loved you...before you left...

Somtimes he wished he had never met Sasuke.

Will these sights...be my last?

Then he, nor the raven haired boy, would be dying at this moment.

Kakashi pulled down his mask so it didn't cover his mouth or eyes. He felt like prey in a forest of predators, predators with gleaming fangs ready to rip into his exposed flesh until his life left him.

His pale, lith figure slipped through the corners as every man was distracted with gunshots or blood.

Or maby it was both.

He needed to fight back somhow. Maby Neji could lend him his gun, but he noted with growing terror that nobody would find anybody until this was all over.

It was just too dark, to chaotic, to keep a strait thought.

Kakashi stopped moving, his eyebrows knitted, trying to comprehend the sight before him.

He could see sombody, now, standing benethe the only light sorce, a moon-lit window, sombody unscathed stading in the moonlight.

He looked like an angel, movments slow, eyes glowing. But then, a horrid gunshot rang in his ears and the angel fell to the ground, streaks of blood slashed the cold air.

It couldn't be Neji...that long, pretty hair, that perfect figure, the angelic appearence...

There was another that rushed to the fallen angel's side. Was this Sasuke he saw?

Kakashi would never know for sure because in a moment he was thrown to the ground, a hand muffling his scream.

Sakura rushed into the building first, but then a bullet grazed her cheek. It was too late to run away, because as the others had pushed he ruther inside, another bullet rushing passed her.

"Get out!" She screamed, but the door had shut behind her.

Gaara didn't know what was happening. His eyes seemed usless; weather it was pitch darkness or the intence pain in his arm, he would never know.

He couldn' lose consiousness now, not while Neji needed him.

He just knew that, as hard as he tried, to block out the ear-peircing cries and the blood pounding through his veins, he sunk to the flood, slowly and painfully. The pain was unbearable; fire engulfing his shoulderblade.

Suddenly, as a sixth gunshot rang in his ears, there was a feeling in the pit of his stomach that made him want to throw up.

Another gunshot was fiered, and this time his heart pounded as he thought of Neji. Somhow, he knew, this wasn't just a feeling.

Neji had been shot.

Kakashi's eyes widened with horror as he tried to shake the figure off of him.

"Mfh!"

"Shut up, baka..." He heard Iruka's voice above him and shoved the brunette to the side. They both scrambled over to the cold steel wall and pressed their backs against it.

Kakashi was slightly stunned, that was very uncalled for, but then he saw a gunman in the path where he had been standing moment's before, looking for his target in the dark space.

"Thanks..." Kakashi breathed, pulling his mask over his eye.

Iruka nodded and picked up a gun that skidded over to him on the floor, and handed it to Kakashi, who fumbled with it and then peered at the item slowly.

Iruka pulled another out of his pocket as Kakashi raised and eyebrow.

He saw Iruka stand up and did the same, cocking the gun and then, firing, not missing once.

Naruto felt his wrists being binded, and he struggled, trying his hardest to get away. There was total silence in the room.

Naruto was shoved in an upright posision, and he glared at the man, the one with thick, raven hair stared down at him, his eyes filled with hatred.

"Listen!" The deep, commanding voice echoed off the walls. "One of these two men will die tonight!"
Two men? Naruto looked to his side and saw Sasuke, his eyes brimming with tears.

"Sasuke..." Naruto noted his wrists were tied as well, and by his expression he had been tourtured.

"Naruto..." Naruto leaned his whole body forward, twards the raven-haired boy. "I'm so sorry. It's...all my fault...I don't know what to do!"
Naruto wished, if he had one possible wish at the moment, it would be to grasp Sasuke's hand and told him he loved him.

Tears spilled off his face onto the blood-stained tile.

"Please don't cry..." He kissed Sasuke as lightly as he could, and for the brief time that there lips met, Sasuke never could feel so safe and loved.

"I'm here with you, remember?"

Ino didn't understand what she was seeing. She looked from Shikimaru to the two boys.

He shook his head in disbelief. Lee's mouth was agape. Sakura sighed. It was the saddest kiss she had ever witnessed.

"Sasuke!" The man glared down at him, a feirce grin playing across his fatal expression. "Chose."

Sasuke's blood froze over. He knew what he ment, but he asked again.

"What do you meen?"

Everyone eles in the room seemed to know too, and Sakura found herself crying. It couldn't be happening.

"You took his life..." Naruto's eyes widened. "So chose. Your life or..." He pointed to Naruto. "His."

"What?"
"You heard me." He pressed his refile against Sasuke's temple. Sasuke narrowed his eyes.

""Or I kill you both." His heart pounded out of his chest. "I'm giving you one minute."

"No!" Sakura shouted, but Lee covered her mouth. Kakashi couldn't stand it. He pulled his mask over his face to cover his own tears. Iruka choked.

"This is so horrible.." Ino slid down on the tile and burried her face in Shikimaru's arm. She wished she had just stayed home and watched a movie for Kami's sake.

"Fifty."

Sasuke shook his head, the only movment he could possible come up with. Naruto kissed him deeper and Sasuke still was unresponsive.

Live everymoment to it's fullest.

He conjured the strenth to kiss him back, tears dripping down his reddened cheeks, Naruto tasting the tears. They didn't taste like salt at all. It was the same taste as if he had walked outside and stuck out his tounge. It was rain, but somehow sadder than tears.

"Fourty-Five."

"I wish I had told you more!"
"What do you meen...Sasuke?" Naruto couldn't bear seeing Sasuke cry. He started to cry, and tried to hold it. It took all of the grown boy's strenth, the hardest thign he had ever done in h is whole life.

"Go ahead. Tell him Sasuke. You have fouty seconds." Sasuke glared at the man, but he could barley tell he was there anymore; the tears were blinding. The moonlight shone in his eyes, making it impossible to see the blonde haird boy.

Naruto was trying to hold them back, too, but found not a point in doing so.

Every instinct in Sasuke's frail body told him not too, not to listen to his heart...his stupid, stupid heart...

Fighting his mind, the tears and the ache in his heart that had been there since that day, he noticed it was tiring; he had been doing it all his life.

Why can't I be free from my chains?

Ice. He was always and would be cold.

Why can't I conjure the strenth to do it by myself?

It wasn't anyone's fault but his own.

Why do I need your help to free my heart?

The shackles were heavy and cold against his exposed skin. His breathing increased, his heart beating out of his chest. He couldn't evn see Naruto. He was pretty sure though, even if he wasn't blinded, he couldn't even see himself anymore.

I want to melt the ice that keeps me frozen in this time of hate

He was fighting himself, and he was losing.

How can I know that It won't kill me?

Then, suddenly, his heart felt less heavy. He shook his head and wiped his eyes on his shoulder. It was Naruto, and he was looking at him.

It's okay...because no-one knows.

He looked Naruto in the eyes, and the blonde nodded.

You just have to feel it.

Sasuke, heart racing, cried:

"I killed him! I killed my brother!"

There were gasps from the backround that reached his ears. He knew that they hated him now, but it wasn't as heartwrenching as the relization that Naruto might too. He didn't have the courage to look him in the eyes.
It was a big mistake, this was for sure, but he would have done it again if he had the chance. His chest seemed lighter, less sufocating, but his mind was racing with fear of rejection.

"What?" Naruto whispered softly, not fully understanding the situation. Sasuke glared. "You heard me! I killed my brother when I was.." Sasuke choked. "Sixteen!"

The eyes were frozen on Sasuke and he could feel the heated gazes seering into his flesh. But he didn't care. They were melting the ice. The ice that kept him cold his whole life.

"Why..." Naruto stared at him, but Sasuke could tell the eyes were the same; they didn't pity him and they didn't hate him. They were just Naruto's; nothing had changed.

"He killed my parents!" He sobbed. "Itachi killed my parents and everyone good in my life!"

The man standing infront of the two mouthed the words 'thirty five'.

"It haunts me every day of my fucking life!"

Thirty.

"I wanted to be loved for once for who I was! Not the monster I had become!

Twenty five.

"He tried to kill me so I took a gun and shot him!"

Twenty.

"Hate me now, Naruto? Hate me everyone! I'm going to be all alone again!"

"No, Sasuke, I love you just the same..." Naruto said slowly after a moment's thought. Sasuke didn't understand. He killed him, killed his own brother in cold blood and Naruto loved him still?

"We love you Sasuke!" Sakura shouted, tears falling of her face. Lee nodded with Ino. Shikimaru did after a while.

"We love you!" Ino shouted. "You'll never be alone when you have us!"

Sasuke cried.

He cried harder than he had ever cried in his entire life. He let out all the tears he had ever felt, the tears from killing his brother, his parent's death, he cried for unrequited love and he cried for his and Naruto's love. He choked out the tears for his friends, all of them loving him so much, and he cried for Iruka.

He sobbed for Kakashi and he cried for all the tears he had ever wanted to cry.

He licked the tears off his cheek.

They were salty now.

They were warm. The ice had finally melted.

"Ten seconds!" He shouted. "Nine!"

His voice rang through the building and rocketed off the wall.

You'll never be alone when you have us!

"Eight!"

"Sasuke let me die!" Naruto shouted, his voice load, clear, and filled with sorrow. "You have to live! You can't die because I would hate myself for the rest of my life!"

"No, Naruto! You don't understand! I deserve to die for what I did!"
"No you don't! You have friends and you can love! You can love but I can't love without you! If you're gone I'll have nobody left to love!"

"Naruto..." Sasuke kissed him one last time. Naruto looked at him, his eyes shinning brighter than he had ever seen them.

"Sasuke please just don't cry.."

"Three!"

Neji was only consious to hear the last eight seconds.

He, weakly, with vision shifting, reached out for his gun and fired four more shots. He winced as he felt the blood gushing out of his side where the flesh was torn, the pain throbbing through his body.

Then, feeling as though he couldn't go on any longer, his eyes closed. He didn't open them again.

Sasuke stood up when he saw the man fall, his gun firing four shots up at the warehouse celing, then skidding across the floor. Sakura pushed Lee away and ran over to Sasuke and undid his bindings while shots rang out from every corner of the room.

"You bastards, you shot him!" Yelled the voice of a man who was helping his leader. Choas errupted as shots were fiered and people's terrorized screams filled the space.

Sasuke knew Naruto was fine, he didn't need to know, after all, but focused more on where the shots had come from. His ebony eyes scanned the room until they fell opon saw Neji lying on the ground, not moving, not blinking. Was he even breathing?

Was he even alive?

He had to be...

Sasuke knew it was coming; he knew from the very second he arrived in Konoha, he knew since the day he was born, people who he loved would get hurt because of him. Thats why he had no friends, no family, no love until he came back to Konoha a month ago.

Kami, had it been so little time?

But never knew sombody might die. Never knew a life would be taken because of him.

He fell to the floor and tried his best not to choke as he layed his arms over Neji's thin frame. The relization hit him like a bullet to the head. His movments were uncontrolled by his mind. He moved by his heart.

It was all my fault again, all my fault...nobody will ever love me again.

"Neji!" He cried, his voice rough and horse. "Please answer me!" The tears were coming now, like a river. But Sasuke knew it was really more the rain.

Mother and father...it was raining when you died...wasn't it...?

"Please!" He pulled of the Hyuuga's jaket and wiped the tears off his eyes.

I'm sure, with regret, I had forgotten about you.

"Too many!" He sobbed, half yelling. Silence fell apon the room as the screams of sorrow echoed across the walls.

"Oh, Sasuke...I'm so, so, so sorry." Sakura watched the anguish seep through his body, and it caught her by suprise. She turned to Lee and burried her head in his shoulder.

I hope I'll never forget you now. Never until I die.

"Too many people will miss you!" He was unaware of the bullets that had stopped flying past him, and he uncurled Neji's fingers and took his cold metal rifle.

Was it this that took you're life? A gun?

Or was it...me?

"What If I told you I'll miss you, Neji!" The Hyuuga's brunette hair fell over Sasuke's hands, but he could barley see it through his tears.

"What about Gaara?"

Time stopped around him. Neji. It was his parents that time. His friends. His brother. And now Neji.

"Please...please...wake up!" Sasuke was sobbing too hard and too emotionly to know if his heart had stopped beating.

"What If I told you I loved you?" Sasuke's tear's fell over the motionless body. He thought for a moment, and then

leaned to down to brush his lips against Neji's, but Neji's eyes remained closed.

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