A/N: All right all though this is not my first time writing fanfiction, it is new for me to post fanfiction. I would love to know what people have to say about this story but please don't just hate on me.

With that said...I have to say, and it pains me to do so...I do not own the Naruto Universe nor do I own any songs that maybe in here and I sadly never will...but I do however own the creativity it took to write this fanfiction and the oocs in it.

This fanfiction is rated MA or R for any language, violence, or sexual themes/content.

All this being said and done with I hope you enjoy reading Time never heals every wound!

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Chapter 18: Thirteen Years Later

"Mama guess what!?" I turned and watched my daughter Uzra run towards me, her long black hair flowing behind her and her emerald eye a light with excitement.

"What is it darling?" I asked as she came to a stop in front of me. I stood from watering the garden that was in our backyard.

"I passed the exam! And we got our teams today!" I smiled and hugged my daughter. She was thirteen now and looked exactly as I did at her age. Shino constantly was saying that she could be my little sister if not for the color of her eyes.

"Who's team are you on sweetheart?" Uzra pouted then and I knew who she had gotten as one of her teammates.

"Uzumaki Rikka and Harano Kai. I don't see why the Sixth put me on Rikka's team! We hate each other! Everyone knows it to!" I laughed and patted Uzra's head gently. It was true that Naruto and Gaara's child did not get along with my own. I wondered if it ran in the Uzumaki and Uchiha blood to just hate each other at first.

"Who is your Sensei Uzra?" My daughter perked back up.

"It is Kakashi Hatake. Iruka-sensei said that this is his last year as a genin instructor though." I felt sorry for Kakashi. It would probably bring back memories of team seven having the same line up os students. I don't know what Naruto was thinking giving Kakashi this team. Maybe he had asked for it himself though. I would have to ask.

"When are Kyou and Ryou getting back Mama?" I looked back down at my daughter. Both Kyou and Ryou had just turned nineteen last month and were also promoted into the ANBU rankings. They where out on their first mission now.

"I couldn't say Uzra. You could try asking your father though." Uzra nodded before grabbing my hand and leading me back into the house. We both were fixing diner when there was a knock followed by the door opening. I knew who it was immediately.

"Hey Mina whatcha cooking?" I shook my head as Kiba's voice boomed through our house. Hinata appeared in the kitchen a second later trailed by her second daughter, Luna. By time diner was set out my house was filled with all of my friends and family. Shino came home just as dinner was set down.

Us grownups sat at the dinning room table talking and catching up while our kids sat at a smaller table chatting to themselves. At their table sat Uzra of course, but also Lee and Sakura's son Kai, Hinata and Kiba's two kids Haji and Luna, TenTen and Neji's boy Asahi, Choji and Ino's twins Akila and Aileena, Temari and Shikamaru's son Daichi, and finally Naruto and Gaara's daughter Rikka.

"Naruto why did you put Rikka, Uzra and Kai on the same team? Along with Kakashi and their Sensei? That has to bring up hard memories for him you know!" Naruto looked over at me with a knowing look and pain hidden in his cheerful blue eyes. Over the years Naruto had grown quite handsome and looked almost exactly like his father the Fourth Hokage.

"It wasn't me who thought of it really. Kakashi-sensei came to me and asked to be their instructor saying something about not messing up this time around." I nodded and looked down at my food. Sakura was looking down as well. Each of us thought of my twin but would not bring him up in conversation as it caused to many painful memories.

"Rikka you little brat! Give me my headband back!" I sighed as my daughter tore through the house chasing after Rikka. Gaara sighed as well and his sand shot out and wrapped around his daughter. Anyone could tell who Rikka took after the most in terms of looks. She had Gaara's flaming red hair and his pale skin, though she had Naruto's blue eyes. Once you got to know the girl though she was all Naruto's mischief and energy in a small package.

"Give Uzra back what you took. Now Rikka." The red headed girl pouted in her father's sand.

"Not until she gives my headband back first!" I turned and grabbed my daughter's shirt as she tried to inch away. I fixed her with a stern look and she crumbled under it. Uzra held out Rikka's headband and the red head took it with a glare before tossing Uzra's headband back at her. They glared at each other as they were sent to sit back down.

"I swear those to cause more trouble than anyone else I know of besides you Naruto." I sighed as I said that. Naruto merely laughed and agreed with me. We moved on to talk about the other teams that were made today.

"Konohamaru is really excited to be instructing the new Shika-Ino-Cho team." Naruto laughed while recalling his pupil's reaction to the team he had gotten. It was no surprise to anyone here that Akila and Aileena had gotten teamed up with Daichi as the new Shika-Ino-Cho team.

Daichi took after his mother in way of looks, his blonde hair kept like his father's though, but he was Shikamaru's son through and through brain and personality wise. Akila was like her father, shy and kind hearted, but looked like her mother and took to the Yamaka blood line as well. Aileena on the other hand was like her mother, loud and overbearing, but she had her father's reddish brown hair and his cheek markings. She also took the Akimichi blood line but was surprisingly skinny.

"I bet Shikamaru's going to have it tough teaching Haji and Asahi." I laughed along with Kiba at Shikamaru's expense. It was no secret that Haji, who looked like his mother but behaved like his father, did not get along with Asahi, who behaved like Neji did but looked like TenTen.

"I don't know why I signed up for this, it's so troublesome." Shikamaru whined only to have Temari smack him. I looked over our kids sitting at the tables and sighed as Uzra and Rikka were fighting again. Poor Kai, who had Sakura's pink hair along with her eyes, tried to get them to stop but was ignored.

Kai was a weird child at times. Mostly he behaved like his mother did at his age, shy and unsure. Then there were times when he would take after his father and be extremely driven to train. You never knew when he would do it either or why. He just would sometimes take off and run laps around the Village or span with Uzra until they passed out.

Shino got up and grabbed Uzra just as Naruto got Rikka. Both men took them outside but Naruto went out the front while Shino took Uzra out back. Gaara and I both sighed. None of us could think as to why our children hated each other so.

"I just don't get why they act like that…It's like Sasuke and Naruto all over again." Sakura said while sighing. I nodded my head but looked down caught up in memories of my twin. It happened all the time now a days. Uzra may have shared my looks and had Shino's eyes but she took after neither one of us much.

Every day I was reminded of Sasuke by the things she did. Granted Uzra was not brooding like my twin but she acted like Sasuke had before the massacre had happened. She was adventurous and had undying curiosity that got her in trouble. Uzra was also quiet and smart like her Uncle and she was quick to anger like him as well.

"It's like Sasuke himself was reborn into my daughter. I swear she is just like him before he became the way he did." Sakura nodded and there was silence in the room until Naruto came back with Rikka and Shino entered with Uzra. Both girls glared hard at each other before ignoring the other completely.

We all heaved a sigh at their behavior and went back to talking to each other. Soon everyone left and went to their homes for the night. Shino picked up a sleeping Uzra from our couch and followed me upstairs. We tucked her into her bed and left closing the door behind us.

"I think I'm going to go visit him before I go to sleep." I said as I closed the door to Uzra's room. Shino nodded and pulled me into a hug before I went back downstairs and out the door. I walked the darkening streets in silence. My mind lost and my heart heavy with an old pain.

I got to the graveyard and knelt before Sasuke's grave. I ran my hand over the smooth stone of his grave marker. Such a long time had passed by since the day that had started all of our pain. I wondered every day what would have happened if that day had never turned out like it had. Would Sasuke have been like he was when he lost his memory? I sighed and let my hand drop.

(Mina sings Hurt by Christina Aguilera)

I sang my heart out and for once no one was there to listen. Not Shino nor Shibi. Not Itachi nor anyone else. My eyes watered and before I knew it I was crying just like I had so many years ago. The pain I felt over the years was still there in my heart and it was like I was feeling them all over again for the first time.

Once I had calmed down I sat for a long time just staring at Sasuke's grave. I felt pained still but I knew that by the time I woke again tomorrow that I would only feel a dull throb of pain. It had been this way for many years now. I have given up hope that one day I would be free from this grief.

Sometimes you just have to accept and live with the pain life has given you. Sometimes there is nothing to mend closed the wounds to your heart. You have to carry them with you for the rest of your days because time doesn't heal every wound. It never will because some wounds are far too great and far too deep to mend with just the passing of time.