She was dreaming. She dreamt about the world outside in the dark night time, sky full of dazzling stars. She laid down on the soft grass and gazed up into the sky and watch the night goddess make stars. She remebered how each gods and goddesses has their own duty to fill and follow. They have their counterparts and equals. She dreamt about how some gods and goddesses have their own love interest while here she is, a fully grown woman, no man courting her but very well protected by her mother. Silent tears fell from her eyes as she slowly wiped them off and laughed to herself how silly what she was thinking. One day, someone will love her. Someday, someone will protect her. Someday, someone will care for her. Just.. someday she thought. She's deathless. She can wait forever. But how long is forever? She cried again.

"This is stupid" she thought out loud.

She laid back down to her side and watched the grass danced while the wind blows while silently crying to herself. Momentarily, she felt an arm wrapped around her and felt a hard chest on her back. She didnt dare looked back nor asked who it was as it was giving her warmth and peace.

"Crying will lead you nowhere." He said.

I know this voice she thought.

Before she could turn her head around, mist was forming around them covering them both from the darkness and the coldness.

"...who... who are you?" She nervously asked.

"Whoever you want me to be."

"My lord husband?" He didnt answer but gave a small laugh. When she turned her head around, there he was, smiling down at her.

"E... e... eldest one? Why are you in my dream?"

"I was summoned here. i guess i was reacting to your desires." he closed his eyes and pulled her closer to him.

"Then i must go." She sat up immediately but two pair of arms pulled her down sofly back to his arms.

"Stay." He said. "Stay with me for a while."

She woke in a sudden abrupt and she was sweating. When she looked around, there was dark mist in her room and disappeared. She probably seeing double vision and disregarded it as she went back to sleep, dreamless.

Morning came, she saw the sun god and the eldest one came as they were talking to her mother about something. But as soon as she saw the sun god say hi to her, she immediately turned around and ran towards the sunflower fields.

"She's shy around new people." Tsunade said.

Sasuke on the other hand trailed off and looked at her. "Something the matter, eldest one?"

"No. Continue on."

Their meeting lasted the whole day. Sakura was done tending the fields as night fell, it feels like deja vu once again from her dream last night but there's no eldest god behind her, with his arms wrapped around her. She sighed and went back home.

"Sakura honey, there's going to be the harvest festival tomorrow night, don't forget. Every single Earth gods and goddesses are going to be there so be presentable." Her mom called out.

She nodded and went straight to the kitchen and ate dinner.

"I can't believe she's not young anymore. Last time I saw her she was a young one." Naruto beamed.

"Yes, time goes by fast. Next thing you know she falls in love and that lucky guy ask her for marriage. Like look at her, she's beautiful, who cannot resists her?" The rain god said.

Tsunade just shook her head and laughed. "I'll be the judge who's worthy for her." She poured more alcoholic drinks to everyone. When Sakura was done eating, she told her mother that she's going by the lake and she'll be back. she wanted to be out of there. she doesn't to hear about any guy just courting her. she just wants someone who can be with her. her dream might be fruitless and misleading, but it was giving her hope.

She realized that she fell asleep outside with her hand by the water. She fell asleep while watching the moon goddess illuminate the area. The twinkling of the stars lulled her to sleep especially the breeze. She closed her eyes again for a few minutes until she felt two pair of arms lifted her up and slowly walking back towards her home. She pretend to be sleeping but she opened her eyes a little bit and saw it was the eldest one.

"Ah, she fell asleep by the lake again didn't she? Her affinity with the lake sure is strong." Her mother said. The eldest one didn't say anything.

"You know, she asked about you. A lot about you recently. She might have taken some liking to you."

"I'm not capable of returning her feelings." With that being said, sakuras heart raced and constricted. her dream might be fake and misleading. just a fragment of her desire. maybe the eldest one just doesn't feel the same about her.

"You used to love someone before."

"She betrayed me hence I killed her."

"You only did the right thing." She could tell that he walked away from her mom and he put her in her bed. He didn't leave immediate, he just stood there looking at her.

"she looks exactly like her..."

"They're different people, eldest one. They're not the same."

"No they're not. But I could feel it. This attraction I have for her... it's like she's pulling me in... like the same attraction i felt when i first met miyuki and I hate it."

"You said you're not capable of loving someone anymore, then why are so fixated on her?" Sasuke didn't say anything.

"The fates are toying with my future again. The love goddess is playing with me also. She probably sent her little fuck to prick me in my heart."

Tsunade gave a little chuckle "come, let us drink your worries away."

In her dream, she didn't see him. It was a very peaceful one. It was a sunny day, her laying with her nymph friends, the sun shining down on her, her mother and shizune are there, but no eldest one. She was awoken by the sound of the glass shattering and a male voice yelling.

"TSUNADE I TOLD YOU ALREADY!"

Sakura sat up from her bed and walked to where the yelling was coming from. When she reached the hallway leading to the kitchen, she could feel the eldest one's aura still there and talking to her mother and shizune.

"Just because she has pink hair, doesn't mean they're the same. Hell, if there's another girl with pink hair, besides my daughter, you'd be overprotective of her too."

"Miyuki and Sakura are the same! Your daughter was in my dreams and I barely fucking dream! She dances, sings, and tells me shit i don't want to hear!" He slammed his hands on the table and everything shook.

"Sakura might be... have a connection with Miyuki. She's been asking a lot about you lately. Sometimes she would remember memories from a distant past that we know that she wasn't there. Hell, she remembered something from the very past when the dragon god gave her a book. Orochimaru detests humans, and the only human he can tolerate was Miyuki. This, he gave a book to her. Sakura basically mentioned the book out of nowhere asking where it is." Shizune said while drinking her alcohol. All eyes were in her and this proved sasuke even more.

"If the fates aren't behind this then the creator is playing with me."

"He's been gone for aeons. You're basically his legacy. You're playing with yourself." Sakura in the other hand was confused from all the stuff she's hearing. she doesn't remember much of what they're talking about. orochimaru? who's that? she thought.

"what if she is miyuki, what are you going to do?"

"i dont want to have the same thing happened again. being betrayed hurts a lot."

with that, she silently walked back to her room. she laid down on her bed and started thinking who this miyuki girl was and how she was connected to her.

When morning came, Sakura has no recollection of what happened last night due to exhaustion and sleepless hours. When she woke up, everyone was doing what they're supposed to, preparing for the festival. Sakura greeted her mother good morning as well as shizune.

"Will the eldest one come later?"

"I don't think so honey. He has things to do. Judging the dead takes a lot of time and effort." To Sakura dismay, she nodded and folder her mom that she understood.

"The festival tonight will be fun don't worry. the Full moon will lit everything."

She was right. The eldest one didn't come. The party was at its highest and he wasn't there. Non of the underworld gods and goddesses were there. She's not going to lie, she was disappointed. Like why would the underworld god come to a harvest festival? It just doesn't make sense. A little while later, there he was in his black clad armours, hair tied up, and his followers behind him. Everyone bowed to the eldest one and he just ignored them. His subjects however interacted with everyone while he talked to the sun god, who's practically his party he threw along with the harvest god. She got excited. He went over to where he was and he just looked at her.

"Eldest one, you came."

"Yes." He curtly said.

"I uh... hi... I mean..." Sakura didn't finished her sentence as she felt and arm around her and found the wolf god was behind her.

"Ah sakura we were looking for you! Everyone is waiting!"

"I.. but..."

"don't worry you'll be fine!"

Sasuke just kept looking at her and it was making her feel really uncomfortable so she excused herself and went where her friends were.

They were laughing and having fun. Joking and teasing with each other. Sakura was having a great time. food was bountiful, and the older gods and goddesses were having fun besides the eldest one.

"Looking at her all the time is not going to give you justice." The sun god said.

"Leave me be." He gruffed.

"youve been staring at her all night. why dont you say something to her? its not like she's miyuki from that campsite after our victory with the sky god's army."

sasuke glared at him indicating him to stop. "just drop it."

"Petty like always?" Everyone turned around and saw the sky god himself made a presence and his new wife, the marriage and love goddess. Everyone bowed to him except the eldest one.

"Surprised you're here celebrating the harvesting festival."

"This is part of my realm."

"Why yes of course it is." Jiraiya joked.

"If you excuse me and my wife, we'll be here socializing." He grinned widely as sasuke narrowed his eyes at him slightly. When the sky god himself was out of the range, he noticed that Sakura wasn't in his range of scope anymore. He looked around and he couldn't see any pink hair girl until he saw her with that wolf god again.

He was getting too cozy and closely. When he put his hands on her hips and pulled her closer, he briskly went to them and pulled them apart with his mist.

"E..e... eldest one! I wasn't doing anything!" Sakura on the other hand was looking down, flustered. When she looked up, tears were on her eyes and that's when he activated his sharingan at the wolf god.

"No, no no eldest one! I couuld explain!" He pulled Sakura closer to him and Sakura blushed.

"No need." Sasuke said.

In fear, the god excused himself and went somewhere else while sasuke still have Sakura in his arms.

"He was telling me a story about you. How you loved this woman named Miyuki a lot." He pulled away from her and let her wipe her own tears. She sat down on the banks of the lake and just threw flowers at it. She didn't say much until sasuke copied what she was doing also.

"Was Miyuki, the human you loved before, is her soul in the underworld? Did you judged her soul? Do you see her all the time? Like her soul? Do you like-"

"you're annoying Sakura." He cut off.

Sakura stopped talking and continued on throwing flowers by the lake.

"No, he didn't judged her soul. He doesn't see her." Sakura looked up and it was the sun god.

"Sun god..." she breathe out.

"It was a story everyone knows. Didn't they say that on your history book? The lord of darkness, ruler of the underworld, fell in love with a mortal woman? What the hell do they teach you these days? You see, sasuke here is notorious for falling for women that are mortals cuz their lives are just fleeting."

Sakura wasn't enjoying the conversation at all. She was looking down on her feet and fiddling with her fingers. She could feel her tears were about to drop but she just held them in. A gentle mist started forming in her feet and wrapping itself around her. It was a warm and gentle feeling. When she looked up at the eldest one, he was looking at her also.

"Leave us, Naruto."

"But... I was telling her more stories about your failed love stories!"

"Leave." The sun god just stared at sasuke as if he grew two heads. He was about to say something but he just left.

"You didn't have to make him leave."

"You were uncomfortable." She didn't say anything. She just listened to the voices around her: people talking, laughing, and yelling.

Milord, the harvesting festival was fun, wasn't it? Shes remembering things.

She's remembering things that weren't hers. She looked up at sasuke and he was now looking at the lake while throwing flowers at it. She closed her eyes briefly and saw that the eldest one had short hair before. When she opened them, she blurted it out.

"Didn't... didn't... you have... didn't you have short hair before?" She closed her eyes and blushed. She doesn't want to see his reaction. But before she could open her eyes, he touched her face and stroking her cheeks.

"Yes. It was. When I was young and reckless."

"You... you also had short hair when you... we're very injured... she cut your hair and you got mad at her because it's a customary for every god to have long hair..." this time Sakura opened her eyes and looked at him. The look on his face was still blank. He didn't show any kind of emotions whatsoever. He just continued stroking her cheeks.

"yes. I did." He let go of his hand on her cheeks when he sensed something was coming his way, he jolted up and stopped an arrow that was coming his way. When he caught the arrow head and grazed his hand, he winced and looked who was the culprit.

When he heard a childish laugh, he looked up and saw the goddess of love's child with the sky god.

"Are you ok?" When he threw the arrow back at the little rascal, he looked at Sakura and that's when he felt it. His heart was beating fast, his eyes dilating. He was sweating. His mouth suddenly felt like a desert: dry. And he can't seem to form his words. When Sakura noticed his hand was bleeding, she reached up to his hand but he took it away.

"I'm fine!" His mist wrapped his hand and the bleeding stopped.

He stormed away from her as her scent is driving him crazy. Citrus and flowers. Morning rain. When the sun god approached him and gave him a drink, he ignored it.

"I'm leaving, suigetsu." He announced.

"What? It's too early! The sun is not even out yet!"

"Hey! I heard sun, and here I am!"

"Ok the party is over, the sun is here." Sasuke rolled his eyes and walked briskly away from the two drunk idots.

"Eldest one wait!" He stopped on his tracks and saw Sakura running towards him.

"Did... did I upset you?" He just glared at her and left.

He fumbled when he reached his adobe. He stumbled everywhere. His heart racing. His mind is full of her. Her laugh, her scent, her voice, and her touch. He took a long cold shower to calm himself but it didn't work. He ordered one of the gods that handle sleep to put him in a heavy sleep.

But when he sleeps, he dreams. When he dreams, it rarely happens. He's the type of guy who sleeps only couple of hours each night. Sometimes never. She dances in his dream, she sings, tell him that she loves him. Something sasuke can't tolerate and capable of returning. He wonder if they have the same dream. In some of his dreams, he craves her. He wants her. But the words would never come.

"Even in my dreams, you're still annoying." He told her. She giggled and put the flower crown in his head.

"If I'm annoying then why am I in your dream? Or better yet... my dream?" He could never find the answers.

There was a loud crash nearby while a lightning followed. Sakura yelped and sasuke pulled her to his chest.

"Eldest one? Do you love me because I used to be your past lover from aeons ago?" Sakura asked him. Sasuke didn't answer her but just continued having her in his arms. He doesn't want to say yes but part of his wants to say no. The thunder was getting more intense. She pushed away from him and ran away. Away as possible from him.

"Sakura!" He yelled out. He followed her towards where the lightning was. When she suddenly stopped running, he pulled her hand and turned her body around. Instead of meeting green eyes, he saw blue eyes instead.

"My love, milord sasuke." She cooed. She put her hands on his face and kissed his lips. He returned the kiss but it all disappeared when lightning hit him just like before during the war when the sky god hit him with his lightning.

he felt the pain pulsating in his body all over again. he can feel his skin burning and falling out. the pain was unbearable until he opened his eyes, he saw a lifeless body in the water and dead bodies around him on the ground. they were all dead. no one was alive. everything was red, even the full moon.

another flash of lightning hit him and he was now floating by the lake sinking further done with the laugh of the sky god resonate inside his head.

when his back touched the bottom of the lake, he woke up sweating and delirious. The sun god himself was next to him and was telling him to wake up. "are you ok? you're thrashing in your sleep."

he just sat up and put his hand on his head. he was drenched. "what is it?"

"the earth goddess is here and requests for your assistance."

"about what?"

"she wants to talk to the underworld goddess."

"anri? anri hasnt spoken to anybody since she sacrificed her body for me... nobody can hear her except for me-"

he realized that tsunade wants to talk to anri through him.

"i think you already realized what she wants. let the woman talk to our sister."

for some reason why does it feels like it was going to be something bad? the worst thing that could happen is that anri doesnt talk at all and just ignore the earth goddess herself.