Epilogue

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Year 12 – 1/2/17

I had found myself in Kakashi's science room again, sighing, I had a long boring pointless story to tell him about why I hadn't handed in that latest assignment he had asked for two weeks ago.

Well, you see, I had gone around to Sakura & Shika's to have dinner, but then I fell over because it was the first autumn/winter/cold rain and got muddy and then Naruto laughed so I threw mud at him and then by the time we were in we both needed an extra 50minutes for a nice hot shower and then… no, I won't bother writing it all down, like I said, it's long and pointless.

I had found this diary today, buried under the pile of papers in the attic, I had read it the whole way through, and my mind was torn apart all over again. But it was good. It's like a novel, it made me laugh. It was like I was reading about another person, a person I once knew a long, long time ago.

I was so stupid, so blind, all the signs were there and I never noticed any of them. It was as if I couldn't see he loved me. As if I was totally under a spell of 'I finally have a friend'.

It was as if it was all a dream, in a way it was heaven, heaven I had let go, and I beat myself mentally now, how could I lose something that precious? And worse, how could I fail to notice how important it really was? I had complained and thrown tantrums over minor things, and now, now I had lost everything they all seem so small… secrets, they hardly matter anymore, even though that essentially caused every bit of this.

I had spent the last two years in hard study, training, with Naruto, we had to get into that university. And it would take every ounce of our being to achieve a scholarship there.

My HSC results would be coming in soon, but now I just had to deal with an angry science teacher.

I smile sadly as I open the door, thinking of what had led me here, to this place, right now, if I had acted different on that night at the Sand debate, would he had stayed? Would I be at his house now, having dinner with Temari and Kankuro, laughing, and possibly even holding hands under the table?

If I had not said anything to Itachi, would I be going to Sasuke's tomorrow with Naruto to watch movies and eat too much?

If I had ignored Sakura & Shika, would they be buried in separate graves, away from the love they might have found? Would two more lives have been lost?

I sighed, and braced myself for the yelled I would hear, in knew Kakashi-sensei had been pretty fed up with all me excuses, but I had been too busy, too much to think about.

I knock feebly, then open the door and I'm thrown back two years, do you know it was exactly this day that everything started? 1/2/15, two years ago I walked in on Naruto and Sasuke doing something dirty on the peaches.

1/2/17, two years from that fateful day that started it all, I walked in on Kakashi and Iruka doing something nasty on the table-top. My head spun and I ran into the bin, not because of the fact I had caught two of my favourite teachers making out, but mainly because this was too familiar, and I was caught off guard. I just wanted to torture life was throwing at me to end. Then I stopped thinking of it as bad, well, would I be here now if it hadn't happened? I could only wonder at what strange things this would lead too.

But if Kakashi has to come and live at Sora's rehab home for unfortunate children I'll scream, I'm sorry but I don't think Sakura would like him taking up her holiday room.

The crash of me running into the bin made them jump apart and stare at me, I shook myself, banished the mental images and the events that this kind of started two years ago, and smiled casually, I think they found this surprising, but they didn't know how much experience I had in this particular field.

"Um- Sorano! Um…" Iruka coughed, and I saw Naruto in a few years time.

"Sora! Well, I see you have come about that assignment?" Kakashi was blushing. I saw Sasuke when he's older too, and my smile grew.

"How'd you guess?" I grin, I couldn't help wondering, had these two met in high-school? Had they been discovered by a girl a lot like me? Had they trusted her, and led her to do the same as I had? Did one of them make a stupid decision and run off? Did they bring him back successfully? And most importantly, where is that girl today? Is she in a mental asylum, or is she in a warm home with the boy she loved most?

"Well- you don't have it do you?" he asked, trying desperately to stop my maddening grin by reprimanding me- his method didn't work.

I laugh. "Nope."

"Um- well, I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell -" Iruka began I laugh more. Grinning, I wink at them, backing out of the door. "Sora-" he starts again.

He cleared his throat, and Naruto looked at the ground. "What you saw- Um, we'd appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone. Nobody else knows."

I grinned to myself at the familiarity of the situation I was in now, but this time I wouldn't run home and worry for a week or two.

"Don't tell anyone, okay?-" he starts, but I cut him off, the look of amusement still playing across my face, and I grin at my own personal joke as I turn and walk out the door, pausing only to grim wryly and say…

"Don't worry; I think I can keep a secret."

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There it is! ZE END! I really hope you liked it! REALLY, I do. I got a new record of reviews for a chappie last one! 28! (Think ya'll can beat it? hinthint nudgenudge)

I'll miss writing this, I've really become attached to Sora and all of them. It's like suddenly I have nothing to do. In word, this story is 167 pages. You know, when I started out writing this is was supposed to be a 30 page time-consumer. Haha.

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