Arranged
Chapter 15: Goodbye, My Friend
It was raining that day. An unexpected climate change in Sunagakure, but befitting none the less. Everyone's head hung low. Tears mixed with falling droplets from the sky. The one's who knew him best were almost positive that the rain was Kami-sama crying.
"Come in now, Sakura." Gaara said behind the cracked iron door, invisible in the shadows.
Against all the signals her body gave her, she advanced, pushing open the heavy entrance.
None felt so numb at this point as she and he.
He was awake and the screams coming out of his mouth were more than she could bare, but...
"Sakura" the Kazekage said "It has to be done now."
She nodded and watched as the ragging beast was held down by manipulated sand.
They were the ones who accepted condolences by his body.
"N-Naruto..." She was horrified as the Kyuubi broke the hold of the sand on one of his wrists and pulled Sakura's chin forward.
"Sakura-chan...it's been you! It's always been you. I love you. And if you love me...you'll set me free!"
Whether it had been in the heat of the moment or an epiphany brought on by dreadful circumstances, Sakura crashed her hot lips on to Naruto's.
And in the midst of their tongues battling for supremicy, she did it.
The seal over his heart had been completed and her fist was still buried deep in the spot where his heart used to be.
She never once glanced at her fiance, afraid to see if the scenario before had hurt him.
She pulled away with tears streaming down her cheeks. And although his heart had been mashed he died with a smile, looking straight at her, saying his last words.
"Ar...i...ga...to...m...my...Sakura."
She held her head and shook fiercly trying to contain it, that pounding pain coursing through every part of her being.
"Naruto..."
The black coffin was closed.
"N-Naruto!"
He was dead.
"NAAAAAAARUTOOOOOO!!!"