Naruto has been training, while I worked in the hospital helping patients. It's been kind of quiet lately. Kurenai has been coming in and I have been checking the baby. It's a girl and she decided to name her Mirai. Things just seem so different now since I left Sasuke and his group. I still haven't told anyone what happened between us or the fact that I know who the masked is. I left the hospital for the day and made my way home. I stopped dead in my tracks and looked at the sight before me. Konoha seemed to be under attack.

"Anako!" I looked and saw Sakura running towards me.

"What the hell is going on?"

"It's the Akatsuki. They're here for Naruto." I narrowed my eyes.

"Where is he?"

"I don't know." I started to run towards the Hokage building. "Anako wait! We need you here. You're a medical ninja. People are injured."

"Sakura. I know you can handle this. Please stay here and help these people. I need to find Naruto."

I continued to make my way. I looked around at the chaos before me. The village was a complete mess. I couldn't believe everything was falling apart right before my eyes. I finally got to the Hokage building. Tsunade was on top of it, she finished giving Katsuyu orders to attach herself to every injured villager. I landed next to her.

"Tsunade! What is happening?"

"Pein is here for Naruto." So he is here. Tsunade filled me in about him only a few days ago.

"Where is he?"

"He is at Mount Myōboku. I have sent for him."

"What do you need me to do?"

"Stay with me. I need you to help me heal people."

The ANBU made a seal and we both sat in the middle. I transferred my energy to her and she in turn transferred it to Katsuyu. I closed my eyes and searched around for people. I finally snapped.

"Tsunade, I must go. The village needs me." I said.

"I need you to stay here with me Anako. This will help them."

"Konohamaru." She paused for a moment and then looked at me and said, "Go."

I got up and made my way to where Konohamaru was. I saw him do rasengan and it slammed into one of the Pein's.

"Konohamaru!" I yelled at him and landed next to him.

"Auntie Anako." He cried and he hugged me. "I was so scared auntie. He tried to hurt Master Ebisu, but I saved him just in time. Is it over?"

"I don't know Kona." I said, looking around.

"Princess, are you okay?" Ebisu asked me, coming over to us.

"Yes I am fine. Are either of you hurt? Please let me tend to your injuries."

"Lady Anako, are you three okay?" Katsuyu said, coming towards us.

"Yes, we're okay. What is happening? Is this invasion over?" I asked.

"No Pein is still here. He's talking to Lady Tsunade right now. I can't-" She stopped mid-sentence and looked up. I followed her gaze and saw a blinding light coming from the sky. I pulled Konohamaru to me and Katsuyu wrapped herself around the two of us. We fell to the ground as I heard stuff flying around us. Katsuyu then removed herself from us and I felt a pain on my back. A piece of wood fell on us and I took most of the hit. I pushed it off of us and stood up. I cried out and placed my hand on my back. A big cut lay across the middle.

"Lady Anako, I'm sorry. I tried to protect you two as best as I could."

"It's okay Katsuyu, thank you for covering us."

"Auntie. What has happened?" I looked around in disbelief and felt my eyes start to water. The whole village has been destroyed. "What do we do?"

"I… I don't know. I don't know what to Konohamaru. I don't know what to do." I said, the tears falling down my face. "I'm so lost."

"We need to find the others." Ebisu said. "Anako, we need to get you help."

"Let's go." I said. We looked around for others and found Sakura. We made our way over to her. "Sakura. Is everyone okay?"

"You're back Anako. Let me heal it." She placed her hand on my back and begin to heal it.

"Is Naruto here?" I asked her.

"Yes. He's asked us that no one interfere with his battle."

"What?" I yelled, getting up, and slightly wincing as I did. "No, he can't. I can't let him do that. It's dangerous."

"He doesn't want anyone else to get hurt." Katsuyu said. "One of me is with him."

"So all we do is watch?" I asked, looking around at everyone. They all just looked at me. I saw Tsunade lying next to an ANBU. She was in her old state. She used all of her energy. The whole ground suddenly shook beneath us. I closed my eyes and went to Naruto's mind. He was fighting hard. Suddenly he was captured. Pein started to talk to him about experiencing pain. All Pein wanted was piece. Pein suddenly pulled out a rod and put them so Naruto couldn't move. No this isn't happening.

"Anako no!" Sakura yelled at me as I jumped down and went to Pein. I focused my charka into my fist and punched him as hard as I could. He fly back but only slightly.

"Reinforcements?"

"I will die before you lay another hand on Naruto." I said, glaring at Pein.

"Anako! What are you doing here? Get out of here! I don't want you to get hurt."

"No Naruto. I need to protect you. You've protected me so many times and now it's my turn to protect you. After all, you are my best friend right?" I smirked and looked to Pein.

"Do you really think you can take me on little girl?" Pein said.

"We'll see."

I ran at him and focused more charka to my fists as well as my feet. I threw kicks and punches at him. He dodged each one of them. I felt one of my fists connect and I focused more chakra there and I slammed him. He flew back. I chased after him and made a rasengan and aimed it at him. Suddenly I felt myself being pushed away and then forward again. This is Pein's power. Shit. How am I going to get out of this. This time, I felt myself being thrown up and then slammed into the ground. I coughed up some blood and Pein was in front of me, a rod coming from his arm.

"NO!" Naruto yelled. "Don't lay a hand on her!"

It all seemed to happen slow motion. They say when you die, your life flashes before your eyes. But that didn't happen with me. Naruto flashed through my mind first, his beaming white smile looking at me and yelling my name. The way we always would go to each other for anything, knowing we could always count on each other. Then Sasuke flashed through my mind. The feel of his lips on mine. The feel of his touch on my cheek. The way his smirk always made me smile. I felt the rod going into my chest and I gasped as pain engulfed my entire body. I looked into the sky and it all seemed to be suddenly dark. I closed my eyes and Sasuke was in front of me.

"I love you, Anako." I took on final breath and I knew this was the end.


Omg guys! I updated! It's been like what? 3 years. :/ I know. I know. I suck and I'm a fail.

But here it is. I am so happy to be writing again and I'm hoping (probably not, but possibly) to finish this story by the end of summer. I work a job where I literally do nothing for hours on straight. (I am a security aide for the place where I live and we get a lot of down time.) So, there should be no excuses right? Lol.

Okay. This chapter sucks. I don't even like it that much. It's just kinda blah. I didn't really know what to do with this part. And don't hate me, but I know Hinata was the one who went down and saved him and made him go into his nine tails state, but Anako is Naruto's best friend. Of course she couldn't just stand around and do nothing. So that is why Anako took Hinata's place. Don't worry. Naruto and Hinata will still end up together. I won't do that to them lol.

And you'll have to wait and see what happens to Anako. Because she may or may not be alive anymore.

(Of course she is alive. Just have to be kinda sneaky. :))

I will be back again tomorrow with another chapter! Maybe even two! But for right now, please enjoy and give me nice reviews. (I may cry if they're not nice. :( I'm a baby.)