Hajimemashite and Konnichiwa, dearest reader-san! Apple Fairy here! . Thank you for al the reviews! They make me sing that goes a little like this...
SASUKE LOVES SAKURA! BUT HE WON'T ADMIT IT! CAUSE HE'S OBLIVIOUS! XD
Crimson Blossom-Thank you for the constuctive critiscm, hun! I took your advice and changed them up a bit. Gosh, I made such mistakes on my first chapters. -.-;
Glad you liked the story. : )
bad cookie- Thank you for the compliments.
Yay! I am totally awesome! xD
Cunning Angel-I made you have mood swings with just one chapter! Hooray: D
I sent you a PM on the rumors you heard. I hope that helped.
Ah...thankies for the compliments! And, lookie! This would be an update: 3
Ur2tRoUbLeSoMe90-Link is one hot heroic burrito if I do have to say so myself. xD
Yay! I'm glad someone commented on the nickname he gave her. I was afraid that was a tad bit too silly...O.O;;;
And to her he was Chicken head. Everything works out! xD
xweaponsxmistressx--hands you tissues- x3
Silly goose! Who else would it have been? Ino? xD
W00T! Chibi luff! x3
-holds up chainsaw- Yay! Sasuke mauling! xD
Ah well...just think of it as they love you too much, is all. Let's just hope you two won't be all Romeo and Juliet. :o
Does Sean hate him cause he is a love slave of you? O.O;
Cause that'd be hilarious! xD Like some sort of freaked-up love triangle...O.o;;
Aw...first kissy...or maybe Sasuke has a really crappy memory? Nah, I'll just go with the Itachi thing so I can pistol-whip him. xD
-hits Itachi upside the head- I can pwn j00 now! xD
Itachi: You people suck...TwT
Apple: Darn skippy. xD
And your boyfriend reads my fanfics with you? O.o;;;
How sweet! That's so nice of him reading romance fics with his girlfriend...x3
Or maybe I'm just being a romantic again. I need a life...DX
And tell Sean thank you for calling me koolio! He officially roxors now. 8D
...and so does weapon-chan...-shifts eyes and smiles evilly-
-goes all teary-eyed- R-Really? Y-You mean it...? I can be flowergirl?
Oh joyous day! I'm a flowergirl with a shotgun! My prayers have been answered: D
Aw...oh well. Compy it'll have to be. Doesn't matter, I love it too much myself. xD
-faints happily from the extreme compliment of 'beautifullest'- . Thank you...
And thanks for the compliment of lovely! I love all compliments relating to beauty and delicateness and I'm seriously such a fletchin' narcissist...xD
-helps kick Itachi- Yay! Bishi abuse! xD
-eats apple cheerfully- Oh...how I adore and love apples. x3 Thank you! TwT
Aya Marie-chan- Thankies for the compliments! And let's hope that is true...cause I've already made it happen fan-wise. x3
Hm...I need to listen to that song. Thanks for the reccomendation: )
Aw...hun, just watch some corny fairy-tale movies! That's what made me into the fluff-writer I am today and they still do. xD
Lioness of the Fire- Yay! The cuteness and fluff is brought back! x3 -hugs Saku-chan- Poor hun...T.T
BewareMySpork-
-gets brain-eatin by Uchiha zombie- X.x;;;
W00t! Let's go be filthy whores together! xD
O.x;;;-hands you a dollar- xD
True ironicness considering this is a SasuSaku not a Naruanyone.xD
Ah! Well, you see if we give Kakashi a nickname it would be Kaka and caca in Spanish means poop. So he is Spanish Poop! xD
No, he is Sassy. And Sassy loves Saku-chan forever and always even if he denies it. x3
Sasuke: I want a new name dammit! x0
Apple: Su-Su? OO
Sasuke:-glares-
Otay. These will go on for awhile then. :3
But don't forget to review the actual chappy okay? oo;;
baby's breathe- Gah! I can never get that word right! Dx
Thanks for pointing that out. :3
Mhmm...he was so sweet when I watched the anime I just had to write him like that. x3
I kept on squeeing when I wrote their smooch. Ah...young love, it's cute and hectic, no?
Yeah, let's keep our finger's cross so I can write that: D
And my sister says your welcome:3
daydreamer22057-I can't help but squee when I think of that image...
-hugs chibi Sasuke- J00 are shooo keyoot! x3
Little Sasuke: Oo;;;
Apple: Don't grow up to be yourself, otay?
Little Sasuke: You scare me...
Thankies for teh compliment: D
Blue Bubble-chan- Thankies for teh compliments! W00t! Tow muffins! x3 Aw...teh Chibi luff! How cute, no?
My sister says thank you! And...Itachi petted Sakura, not Sasuke, silly goose. oo;;;
Mymphadorena-Yay! Fluff in the middle of all the angst! Yay! xD
Thankies for teh compliments! Now stop waiting eagerly! The next chapter tis here:D
Pale Moonlit Nightsky-Sorry I made your face hurt! I should put up a warning label saying: WARNING! THE FLUFFINESS OF THIS CHAPTER MIGHT CAUSE OVER GIDDINESS AND SQUEEING! xD
Yah, I thought my readers deserved some fluff in all the angst, so I wrote that chapter. People seemed to like it, so I guess it worked. : )
And...thank you very much for your compliment. Apart of your life? Wow...I didn't think my fanfics would be so...impacting.
It makes me very happy to hear that. Thank you. I will forever write my fanfics...
...until I grow up and get a job and be all 'Grr to the world' and stuff. xD
I'm only a freshmen in high school, so don't worry! Not happening in a while till I graduate college. :3
Thank you, Moonlit-chan. Your support and love are always in my heart. :3
cats-with-guns 0.o- I like your new name, sweetie! It's so darn random and hilarious! xD
Yah, we can only hope Kishimoto-sensei will write that...sigh...
And Naruto tis a silly fool. It will take him a while cause he has pretty blue eyes! (Don't ask what his eyes have to do with anything...O.O)
Your review is so weird. I like it! xD
-is happy it's on your favorites- x3
konohaangel--hands you tissues- Sorry you cried. Glad I made you happy:D
Well...I am writing SasuSaku during time-skip so you'll have to wait and see, hun! ;D
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Memories
Story by Apple Fairy
You are my friend...
You are my family...
You, I always will and shall, care for.
Forever and Always.
It was obvious from the first day.
We were rivals and friends...
We would always fight.
And we forever will.
He hung his silver-head low.
What was Tsunade thinking? Sending of a Chunnin and a pack of Gennin for a rescue mission...
Would they really be able to save him? He doubted it.
Yet, he had no choice, but to accept it.
Kakashi would help them though.
He began to walk out of her office.
"Hey, hey. Your mission has already been selected." She protested and held up a piece of paper saying 'S-rank' along with some information.
"I'll finish my business and come back right away. Don't worry." The jounnin reassured and closed the door behind him.
"Sheesh." Tsunade complained and sighed.
"Kakashi-sensei!" A gentle voice called. Kakashi lifted his head to the caller.
It was his female student, Sakura.
Sakura, having recovered a bit from her broken heart, appeared better then what she was a day earlier. She had regained her color and her eyes weren't as red and wet as they used to be.
She still didn't smile though.
"Kakashi-sensei, it's already been two days since...Sasuke left the village." She informed him. It hurt to say his name and she couldn't bring herself to say that '-kun' suffix again, as she had done before so lovingly.
She just couldn't.
"But Naruto and the rest who are pursuing him haven't come back...and Lee-san too!" She continued. Kakashi unflinched to her sadened words.
"Yeah, I know roughly what's going on." He assured her and began to walk again.
"I...trust Naruto. I trust him, but if anything were to happen between those two..." She fretted. Kakashi stopped her and placed a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to him confused. He had a cheerful look on his face and a happy tone in his voice.
"Sakura, don't worry about it. Leave the rest to me."
Kakashi began to walk off and Sakura only stared at his back.
What did he mean? Was Kakashi-sensei planning something?
She ran after him.
Kakashi arrived at the Village gates, summoned his dogs, and told them all to look for Sasuke and Naruto's scents. He dismissed them all as they went to do as their master had said. Kakashi sensed another person's prescence and knew who it was before he even glanced to them.
Sakura stood there with a sad and forlorn look on her face. Kakashi's heart panged.
Well, after those two fought each other before her own eyes, I guess it's useless to tell her to not worry...Kakashi reasoned.
Kakashi recalled back to how he had to stop Naruto and Sasuke's rasengan and chidori so Sakura would not be killed...How he lectured Sasuke and told him how he was lonely then, but had friends now...Like how he was.
What was Sasuke to Kakashi? A student? Yes. A comrade? Of course.
A person who he had seen the person he once was in?
Undeniable.
He saw that arrogant and lonely boy in Sasuke. The one who failed to save a friend's life...or to love a Father properly...
The one who was a genius, but a most lonely genius.
He didn't want Sasuke to be him. To be a lost soul who let a loved one be killed.
He wouldn't want history to repeat itself.
So he tried to let him realize what he had before he would give it away.
Had he succeeded?
No, in fact he failed.
Kakashi felt the guilt wash over him.
Sasuke was gone as well as the team friendship they had.
It all fell apart and he only stood by and saw it happen.
Maybe...if he could've tried harder...
No.
That was then, this was now.
He would do what he could now.
He heared a dog howl and jumped off.
Sakura ran out to where Kakashi had once stood. Would everything be alright?
Apart of her said Naruto would come back with Sasuke. Maybe Sasuke would feel guilty and look away as he had always done to her when he was sorry.
Maybe he would be stubborn and have that irritated gleam in his eye she had learned to recognize.
Or maybe, he wouldn't come back at all.
"Kakashi-sensei..." She whispered.
Please be alright. Please be safe. Please help them if you can.
Please bring him back. It hurts so much without him... She prayed in her mind.
She could only wish, as the others went unto the fray.
The rivals ran up the gigantic statue's edge with their arms adjusted for a punch to the other.
A resounding boom was heard.
They had caught each other's fists in a deadlock.
"I said it earlier..." Sasuke began to say. "...You were waiting for this moment, weren't you? Now, there's no Kakashi or Sakura. There's nobody to stop us like last time." He continued in a mad tone.
He was convinced now.
Why should he care for them?
He would have his power. He would have his strength so as to kill Itachi. The only obstacles...
...that naive teacher...that idiotic 'friend'...that...
...foolish girl...
...Were out of his way now.
All there was to do, was to defeat him. The one who seemed to have gotten stronger.
He ignored the locket he still wore.
"You-!" Naruto yelled. Sasuke ignored this, reached behind him, and took out a kunai from his pack.
"This time..." Sasuke began and fell back "...it'll be the true conclusion of our fight! I will defeat you!" He yelled and threw the kunai at Naruto.
Naruto, although, reacted just in time and threw a shuriken at the oncoming kunai. The shuriken and kunai hitted each other and bounced off with a clang.
But the weapon was but a decoy, as Sasuke ran back up and kicked Naruto upwards. Sasuke somer-saulted onto a cliff, kept himself there with chakra and charged the Lightning Blade.
Naruto fell back onto the river, held himself on it's surface with chakra and scowled at Sasuke.
You damn moron! He cussed in his mind.
"And I...I'm going to beat you senseless and take you back with me even if I have to drag you!" Naruto swore and summoned a shadow clone.
Sasuke free-fell into the river's waters and Naruto began to form a Rasengan with the help of his shadow clone.
Rasengan formed.
Sasuke charged with Chidori as well did Naruto.
Time seemed to slow as the two charged to each other ruthelessly.
Comrades.
Teammates.
Rivals.
Friends.
Rasengan and Chidori collided.
Naruto thought back to his beloved team.
How the hell did it all end up like this?
Hey, Sasuke? Did I ever tell you?
I mean, when I was a kid...I was always alone. 'Cause I was the 'Boy who held the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox'.
No one loved me. No one cared for me. I never knew why...
...but I do now. It was because they were afraid.
I was the container. I did no wrong. Yet they all still held grudges against Kyuubi and had no one else to blame.
So, who else, but for the person who held the demon in himself?
It hurt. Badly, y'know?
Being alone...I grew to hate the villagers sometimes. All I wanted was their attention, luckily their love, too. Yet, they only laughed and sneered at me.
If I didn't have Iruka-sensei, I might've become alone and twisted like Gaara.
I'm grateful I didn't.
Anyway, I guess I sorta had friends. Me and Kiba and Shikamaru and Chouji...we were all 'partners in crime', I guess.
I was so happy when I played with them...skipped class and goofed off.
But when the day had ended, they all left for home with their parents.
That's when reality set in. I was really alone.
Alone.
I would walk home in soltitude and wonder...'Am I the only one?'
Then I'd see you, sitting alone looking out onto that same lake.
I'd feel so happy.
'I'm not alone. He's just like me.' That's what I'd think.
But, we were too different to be friends.
You were always so strong...So admired...
While I was the feared and hated loser.
I was just so jealous...
You had become my self-proclaimed rival. I would beat you one day.
...Yet, I was always and forever a loser to the world. Even when we became Team 7, we were still too different in strength.
I really admire you.
Your strong and brave...I wish I was like that.
You really don't see what you have, Sasuke.
You've finally acknowledged me. You want to fight me...
...but you want to kill me as well.
Even if neither of us admit it, we're...friends, right?
We're comrades and teammates...Rivals...and...
...even friends.
So, even if my blood's spilling into the river from the Chidori you hit me with...
...and even if I feel like kyuubi's chakra is taking over...
...You're still my friend.
Forever and always.
Clumsy idiot.
You've always been stupid, haven't you?
I still don't get it. Why are you still trying to save me?
I have to do this. He killed my whole family, Naruto. How can I not go this far for strength?
He took them away...my stubborn father...my caring mother...
They're all gone. Forever.
How can I not go this far...after all that...
I can never get over it. These ghosts still haunt me. They'll never silence till he's defeated.
Sure, maybe a sane person wouldn't go this far...but...
I saw my family die before my own eyes at the age of six. I'm not even fully sane anymore.
You don't know the deeper feeling of loneliness.
When the people you love are gone and you are lonely then...it hurts more because you miss them.
I miss them, sometimes. That, I'm not afraid to admit.
That's why I have to go this far.
Why don't you understand?
Clumsy idiot.
Fine. You leave me no choice.
I'll break our bonds.
I'll forget you. You shall too.
Maybe, just maybe, then I won't be so guilty.
I'll break our ties.
You just watch.
We have always been in one long battle haven't we?
From when I was a kid, I made you my rival...
Since our team first began, I always scoffed at you...
Our first dangerous mission, you called me a 'Scaredy Cat'...
On the first time I was actually scared and helpless, you called me a 'Scaredy Cat' as well...
For the Chunnin Preliminaries, you told me you wanted to fight me...
During the Chunnin matches, you admitted you wanted to fight me too...
When we all fought Gaara, you said you wanted to never see any of your friends die...
When you summoned the Boss Toad, you showed me your true strength saying you wanted to protect Sakura...
On the hospital roof we fought.
Now we fight again, right Sasuke?
Yeah, I've gone full-strength having used the Curse Seal...
I've gotten strong, too with Kyuubi's help...
Chidori.
Rasengan.
We'll end this.
We'll have been comrades...
We'll be old teammates...
We are rivals now...
We'll forever be friends...
Now, we fight as kindered spirits.
Sasuke walked in silence as the rain poured relentlessly.
He thought back to his stubborn father...
His sweet mother...
Itachi...
He took it all. He had told him, he too, could get the Mangenkyou Sharingan like him.
Under one condition though.
He had to kill his closest friend.
Sasuke wouldn't do it.
He wouldn't be Itachi's puppet.
Sure, he had won the match with Naruto, leaving the blue-eyed boy unconciouss...
...but he surely wouldn't kill him.
Sasuke continued to walk.
He was leaving them, once and for all.
Naruto...a dear friend...
Kakashi...a wonderful teacher...
Sakura...
...the girl he would remember forever. The girl who he would miss dearly...
The girl he loved, forever and always.
Sasuke disappeared into the trees.
Gone. Gone forever.
Naruto has failed, but has realized the friendship he holds with Sasuke.
Yet...the aftermath will come. How will the young girl react, knowing that he is gone...
...Forever?
Sadly, the minutes and seconds have died. When they come back, you will know the answer.
That's the end of chapter 16! I hope you enjoyed it:3
Yes, I realize it's short, but I really wanted to make the aftermath thing a seperate chapter. So I made the fight seperate:D
Mostly a Sasuke and Naruto friendship one...I'm sorry for that too...-.-;
Well, anyway, thanks for reading! I hope you have a most wonderful day! Ciao!
-Apple Fairy