Naruko ran threw the streets of konoha running as fast as she could to try to avoid any more interactions. When naruko got to her apartment she went inside and slammed the door behind her.
She went into her bedroom, laid down on her bed, and started crying into her pillow. She stayed that way for a couple of minutes until a picture frame that was laying on the floor caught her attention.
She stood up, walked over to it, picked it up, and sat back down on her bed. She looked at the picture in the frame. It was a picture of her and Akito when they were eight years old. In the picture naruko was holding on to Akito's arm with her head on his shoulder blushing and she had a big smile on her face while Akito was blushing and smiling at her.
Naruko tightened her grip on the picture frame. 'Akito why? You promised that you'd never leave me. You'd said that you would stay by my side no matter what' naruko thought.
In a fit of blind rage naruko threw the picture frame towards her closet. As the picture frame hit the floor the closet door opened and a backpack fell out. Realizing what she had done naruko stood up and ran over to where the picture frame was.
Picking up the picture frame she saw that the glass was cracked. She then went over and put the picture frame with the picture of team seven and the picture of her, Ribe, Kagome, Ikki, and Jinora while Niles was ripped out of the picture. 'I didn't mean to do that. I know he sacrificed himself to save me but it still hurts' naruko thought looking down.
Naruko then went over to her closet to put away the backpack but as she bent down to pick it up something fell out of the backpack. She put the backpack back into the closet and closed the door.
She then pick up the thing that fell out of the backpack. Looking closely at what it was she noticed that it was a voice recorder with her name and the date of Akito's death written on the back of it. "Huh? How did this get in there? I never owned a voice recorder" naruko said confused.
Naruko pressed a button on the side of it. A voice started playing. "Kitty." 'Akito!' Naruko thought. "Kitty there's something I want you to know and I don't have a lot of time so I'll try to tell you everything I want you to know. I know that you're the nine-tails jinchuriki. Everyone knew me, my parents, your parents, siblings, friends, basically everyone knew and we didn't care because we all knew that you're not that monster. Frankly almost everyone in this village knew what it's like to be treated like a monster all because of the hitokon. That's why we accepted you and why this village was built in the first place so people like us can have a place to stay where no one can hurt us and I quickly want to say that I'm sorry that you have to live with this burden but no matter what you are there is one thing that I really want you to know… I love you. I've loved you ever since we were kids. You're everything I wanted in a girl and more. Beautiful, cute, funny, strong, fast, honest, independent, open minded, hell I couldn't even go one day without thinking of you. You brought a lot of joy into my life even if you don't have the same feelings that I have for you and only see me as a friend. I just want you to know how I felt about you. I can't possibly thank you enough for being in my life. You're the best thing that ever happened to me just know that you're the light of my life and I'm your goofball. I'll always be your goofball no matter where you run off to. I just hope that where ever you are I hope that you're happy and making new friends so please don't let my death get you down or stop you from moving forward with your life. I get that it's hard but please try your best. I know I could have just written this down on a piece of paper but I wanted you to hear my voice. I want you to know that I'm here for you the way you are for me… I love you naruko with all my heart, your goofball Akito Agatsuma… ps I hope that you like the gift I gave you before you left."
Once the voice recorder stopped naruko fell onto her knees in disbelief as to what she just heard. Tears were poring from her eyes. After about forty-five minutes someone knocked to her door and said "hey dobe can I come in?"
Naruko recognized who's voice that was. 'Why is sasuke here?' Naruko thought. Naruko really didn't want to see anyone right now especially sasuke. "Go away teme!" Naruko shouted.
Sasuke got concerned so he opened the door and went inside. Sasuke saw that naruko was sitting on her bed with her hand over her eyes and crying. He went over to naruko and said "dobe, what's wrong?" "Nothing is wrong just leave" naruko said. "Dobe I know that something is wrong and until you tell me what's wrong I'm not going anywhere" sasuke said.
Naruko kept trying to get sasuke to leave but he wouldn't budge so she told him about Akito. She told him that he was her very first friend and she told him that today was his birthday. She didn't tell him anything about the hitokon, the village of light, or her crush on him.
Sasuke was in complete shock and a bit jealous at the fact she was talking about Akito like he was the most amazing person on the entire planet or like he was some sort of god that she worshiped. If sasuke didn't know any better he would've assumed that she had a crush on this guy.
Sasuke decided to put his feelings aside for now to try and cheer naruko up because naruko is usually so lively, talkative, and happy go lucky so seeing her without a smile and so upset just didn't feel right. Even though sasuke doesn't know what it's like to lose a first friend he does know what it's like to lose someone you love.
"Look dobe I don't know what it's like to lose a friend but I do know what it's like to lose someone important to you. You can't change the past and crying over him isn't gonna bring him back. All you can do now is accept that he's gone and move on" sasuke said.
Naruko was mad at sasuke that she grabbed his shirt pulled him closer to her and shouted "Akito was the very first friend I've ever made. He sacrificed his life to save me and you're telling me to forget about him!"
"You idiot. I'm not telling you to forget about him. I said to accept that he's gone and move on. Look I'm sure that he's glad that you survived but if you're just stay at home and waste your life crying over him then his death would have been in vain. Do you think he'd want you to waste your life crying over him? No, he wouldn't. I'm sure that he'd want to see you doing what makes you happy" sasuke said.
Naruko let go of sasuke's shirt, looked away from him, and didn't say anything. "Ok with that out of the way the real reason why I'm here is that everyone decided to go to a restaurant and hang out. They wanted me to come over and ask if you'd wanna join us?" Sasuke said breaking the silence.
Naruko looked at sasuke shocked and said "I'm surprised that you agreed to go." "I didn't" sasuke said. "Really? Then why are you going?" Naruko asked. "Sakura is forcing me to go with them" sasuke said annoyed. Naruko giggled and said "so how is sakura forcing you to go?" "Quit wasting my time. Are you coming or not?" Sasuke said. Naruko laughed and said "sure." Both her and sasuke then left her apartment to meet up with everyone else.
