REVIEW BOTH CHAPTERS 21+22 PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

Once again, this is like a filler, but i think it's a pretty good filler.

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Naruto saw Temari's burnt orange Lamborghini and knew instantly it was Gaara who was driving it.

Neji was in the passenger seat, obviously in pain and trying to hide it with his oh-so-readable eyes.

"..Neji..." Naruto said, catching the Hyuuga who Gaara didn't as he stumbled out of the leather-clad seat, clutching his side. The red haird-boy glared and made a angered growl and stepped closer to Naruto, who looked offended, but only slightly as he backed away from the Hyuuga

"Where did exactly you see him? Because..." Gaara whispered, huddled in his jaket. "I'm cold..." Neji felt himself being pulled into a protective grasp, and crossed his arms.

"I don't know why we're ever...here..." Naruto shivered. "...I mean..Sasuke is gone, but maby he's at the store or somthing..."
Neji glared. "Just trust me..."

Sasuke didn't know what to say or for that matter do when he saw Itachi for the first time in three very long, recouperation years after he had been sure he had murdered said sibling.

He was sure of it now; he had been guessing for sometime, but now he was sure.

He was in hell.

That was the only explination that he could possibley think of.

He had known it would happen all his life. He just had no idea when. But it might as well be now...right?

He didn't know weather Itachi had seen him or not and he even considered running, but then he remembered that...Only cowards run.

He was an Uchiha, and he wasn't going to live the rest of his life in fear. That would have been the greatest thing he would have received from Naruto.

"Itachi!"

Naruto heard Sasuke's voice but he didn't know how to take it.

He was afraid at first, sure, for Sasuke. Why would he be calling his brother's name? Neji was right?
Apparently Uzimaki was the only boy to here the voice; Neji and Gaara were..busy... sitting on the park bench

and obviously needed their hearing checked...or had the slightest concern who was watching.

He rolled his eyes and stepped away from them, trying to ignor the bitting breeze.

Sasuke!

There was the Uchiha, he noticed as he pressed his back against the stone wall. And that must be his brother.

Those were the most frightning eyes he had ever seen. He felt bad for Sasuke and suddenly was overwhelmed

with the greatfulness that he didn't have a sibling.

Itachi Uchiha whirled around to see somone, but it wasn't who he expected.

He was sure it was his brother; the only other people who knew his name were dead, but his brother didn't look like that. His brother didn't look like that at all...

He's so...

Before they died his brother was kind

He was smart.

He was cleaver.

He was so...innocent..and Itachi had robbed him of that innocence.

Then he became afraid.

Lonley.

Impressionable.

Scared.

...alone...

But that wasn't the almost mature boy who stood feet infront of him.

He was stronger; by the looks of it times and times over less scrawney and better fed than he had been. He looked slightly taller and his hair was inches longer, so long he could pull it back in a pony-tail. But that would make him look just like Itachi.

He's so...

But it was his eyes that really frightened him.

They were unlike anything he had seen before. He felt a cold sweat breaking across his pale expression.

He's so...

Itachi couldn't place the change in his younger sibling. He just didn't know what to say. He didn't know what the emotion that was rising in his chest was, but it was annoying, nagging at his heart and his mind.

His eyes were fiery. His voice was stern. His stand was grounded.

Itachi knew that he himself had and would never look like that.

He wondered suddenly why.

Why couldn't be that him who's totally fearless and that confident? What made Sasuke like that?

"I can tell your wondering why I'm not like you, brother."

Itachi didn't respond.

"It's because I have someone I want to protect."

Itachi stood still.

"I have someone who meens the world to me.

Itachi held his breath.

"I'm in love."

Naruto heard what Sasuke said, his heart stopping. Sasuke loved him.

He was suprised, then, because he didn't believe it before. But now he did. He felt kind of ashamed. But then,

finally, after loving others his whole life, he felt liked. He felt loved.

Somthing told him he will always be loved.

He smiled to himself.

Sakura sighed. 23 is old...isn't it. She stared at Lee from across the table, her eyes full of confusion

and slight anger. She was turning 23 tomorrow, and it was strange. She would have to get a higher paying job, and the fact that she had just moved in with Lee was strange. She wasn't a kid anymore.

She couldn't run around in all these insane adventures.

She had a life.

She sighed as she thought of how fussy her mother would get when she found out she didn't have a career.

Photaughraphy just wouldn't support the couple. Her parents would sigh in their usually dissapointed tone and

hate the fact that she still, though decreasing by the moment, loved the infamous Uchiha. They didn't perticuarly like Lee either, but that was to be expected. Her mother almost fainted when she saw those eyebrows.

She sighed as she unpacked yet another box and took out a glass framed picture with a dusty, crincled photo

underneath.

She blew off the dust and saw her as a child; so care free, so kind.

Then she remembered what she had done to Naruto and Sasuke...and she wondered what had changed.

Why did it have to change...brother? Why?

I never wanted to hurt you I never did why dont you understand why do you hate me

I used to love you so much but you never loved me back

I did I loved you so much your right why did it change im so confused and now

You were never mean, you weren't really all that nice, you were just you and I loved you

I think I'm scared i ignored it but now I think you'll hate me please don't hate me please dont

I never though you'd hurt me...I'd never thought you cared enough,

...Cry...please you make me want to

I wish I was right like him..I wish you loved me like we love eachother...I wish...I wish...I wish..I wish..I wish..

...Cry...please I don't want to cry I want to be happy and laugh I really want to but it's so

mom used to tell me if I wish on a star...

Hard to face it somtimes I'll never be happy will I please just don't cry I hate it when you

Aren't you a star, Aniki? Like one of those little flickering stars far, far, away?

cry i know it makes you sad and I hate it i hate it I hate it now i hate everything happy?

You're not shinning very bright, you know. But maby if I wish you will? Aniki?

Happy that im all alone and all afraid why cant i get help i need it i hate to admitt it but i need it!

I wish you'll be ok and that none of that ever happened. Nobody died. We were all happy.

I'm sorry i cant understand wishes they don't come true they dont they died nothing will change your so foolish you just dont understand because the blood has been spilt its all over my hands its the same..

it will always be the same wishing wont change that they died and you will die...I will die

Maby, just maby nothing did change. You give me a hug and tell me you love me and we will be ok.

Its not ok little brother I may want to love i may want to wrap my arms around you but i wont i wont its to dangerous im scared its reality live with the truth that it has changed it has all change but ill stop it brother ill stop it for you Ill end our miserable lives.

Because I Love you.

Naruto thought Sasuke was a totally fucking asshole. But he was the bravest-goddamn bastard he could ever hope to know.

Sakura was hating the fact that she was always ended up caught in these kind of situations.

There they were, Sasuke and a man he was sure was a relitive, standing right before her, Naruto behind Sasuke's antagonizer and Sakura behind Sasuke. Sasuke couldn't see Naruto, she knew, and that man in the black coat couldn't see her, she knew, but she could see Naruto guesturing for her to run.

Sakura had learned many things that winter since Sasuke had come back.

Naruto taught her that love was the most important thing of all. That's why she stayed with Lee.

She knows that, from the Uchiha, that never to give up hope and that someone always loves you.

She knew that.

She had become braver.

Stronger.

She's not the little girl who fought over a crush with Ino.

She's not the little girl who took pictures of Sasuke with her first camera.

She's not the same person who would stay up late at night dreaming of Sasuke.

She's not the bitch who broke up a couple in love.

No. She's not.

She's Sakura Haruno.

And she's not afraid anymore.

Sakura learned that she's not many things that winter. But she's alot too.

She's a profession photographer ready to start her carrier.

She's a friend.

She's a girlfriend.

She's Sakura Haruno.

And little did she know, she was about to save Naruto and Sasuke's lives.

Gaara had finally persuaded Neji, who he was afriad would start to bleed again for he was already coughing and stumbling, to go back to the car, but that only bought him fifteen minutes until that annoying Hyuuga came back. He sighed, looking back once to Neji sitting in the car, scowl sprawled across his palid face.

Gaara's entire head, save his eyes, forehead, and slightly spikey red hair, was masked by the high coller of his jaket. He shivered, but, knowing he wouldn't have to worry for Neji was in a heated 200,000$ car, he let his shoulders relax before he wondered where the hell Naruto disapeared to.

He walked briskly for about a block and a half. No wonder the whole neighborhood was indoors. It was starting to snow again. Great. Now he felt stupid ontop of this.

He rolled his eyes and wondered if it might just be better to fallow the stotic Hyuuga to the car. The raccoon-eye-shadow that lined his eyes was starting to smudge. Damn it.

Just then, as if a relief from his bordom, but terror at the same time, he froze.

Was that Sasuke?
Had the drugged up Hyuuga been right?

Gaara, now sure of this more than anything in his life, decided he really did prefer sand over snow.

Itachi Uchiha knew he would die tonight. As pulled out his gun, he vaugly wondered why.

Not that, though, it mattered.

I know, I'm just dragging it out loooonger and looonger...but don't worry, theres more chappies and-gasp- a sequel on the way.

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(Do I even have to ask to have you guys reveiw?)

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