Quick Note: I am so sorry to the 26 "Followers" and "Favoriters" who first found this fic and gave it chance. I am sorry I left you waiting.

! I had to sort through some shit and found that I had written multiple stories that branched from this idea. And so, each chapter after this one will be a new beginning for Sakura and Kurama in a different world.

Disclaimer: Naruto characters belong to Kishmoto

~Still Forms

Their bodies turned cold, their blood staining her hands. Burning her skin. She couldn't save them. No matter how hard she tried she wasn't enough to stop them.

Naruto and Sasuke lay on the floor, arms obliterated.

Lifeless

The divine chakra from Asura and Indra eating away at their human bodies, slowly bit by bit they were fading before her very eyes. Naruto was being steadily being engulfed in gold energy; his feet had already turned into nothing. Sasuke was already at the knees with purple essence eating away at his body.

Naruto would never become Hokage. Sasuke will never return home. There wouldn't even be bodies for them to be given a proper burial.

Sakura felt Kakashi getting near. Sadly, she wondered if the bodies would even be present for their sensei to see. What was she going to say to Kakashi? to Hinata?

She felt tears begin to make their way down her face. Sakura gave a humorless chuckle. It was breathless sound, any voice gone; almost as if it had left her body. She surprised she hadn't already been crying.

It shouldn't have ended like this, it was too unfair for those two have been robbed like this. Naruto and Sasuke deserved a happy life.

~Dead Appearance

Sakura had been kneeling before their bodies for what seemed like ages now, watching as the forms literally vanished into thin air. Kakashi stood upon cliff overseeing the two bodies; the waist up was only thing left visible for him to see. The two still breathing looked dead; their faces frozen, forms still with silent grief wracking their bodies.

Red chakra began to seep out of Naruto's body. She didn't bother to look up. Her eye cast down on the spot where their blood mixed together, she wondered if the ground would be forever stained with their blood.

"Kurama?" The nine tailed fox had come out Naruto's corpse. He merely stared down at his friend. His Comrade.

"You're dying too, huh?" her voice cracked as she spoke. Eyes finally moved away from the ground to look at the beast she had just begun to call her friend.

"This is not... In all my centuries of living I've never thought it'd end like this." The Nine-Tails stared somberly at the two bodies that were steadily dissolving into matter.

Crack!

Kurama turned to look at the pinkette, who had slammed the ground with her fist.

"This is just too cruel! How can they just die!? They're descendants of gods for fuck's sake!" she half screamed, half sobbed. Kurama could only stare. "We won't even have their bodies to bury... they'll just be be empty graves." her voice a somber whisper. "What's gonna happen to

you? Are you going to disappear too?"

"Im not sure... if I die, then the balance will be disrupted. Maybe this world will end... I…." he trailed off.

Sakura closed her eyes and prayed to gods she no longer believed in to do something. Anything.

~Friend

The young woman's eyes dulled. Almost unseeingly, they simply gazed forward, staring at nothing. There was nothing she could do for Naruto and Sasuke. And to add to injury, the world was likely to end.

Her eyes closed, wishing for a god; she couldn't bring herself to believe in anymore, to change this.

All of it.

She didn't care what would happen to her for being this angry at them, her, him, it.

Sasuke and Naruto deserved a happy life, full of the love and joy they were robbed of. If she had to give up her life, so be it, as long as those two got have a good life. She willed everything in her body to make it happen. She felt so tired, but she had no right to feel that way, not when she had done so little. She was so useless, she should have died, not them. With thought in mind as she let her eyes flutter close.

Kurama stared at the girl his friend had cared so much for. She was completely distraught. He didn't have the gall to call her pathetic, not when he wasn't doing any better.

He had finally been seen as something more than a demon, he was willing to die for the sake of his comrade... But to have Naruto die... Just like that...

He hated this world even more so than ever. The brat was a blessed soul and he was taken.

This world truly was unjust.

He could feel his strength leaving him. He could actually feel himself fading. So this is the end. his eyes closing to welcome whatever came, it sure as hell wasn't heaven. And he felt himself disappear.

From his perch Kakashi saw white fire rise from the ground. Something frighteningly powerful was rising from the ground. He could feel the blaring chakra from his position and it appeared that Kurama, or what was left of him, and Sakura were oblivious to it.

The world around him grew quiet and he felt the pulse in his body hum. What the hell was going on? He watch as the flames took the two living souls.

'Is this what the afterlife looks like? It's so plain.' The pink haired woman mused as she gazed at the pristine nothingness of wherever she was. She didn't know if it was up or down, she saw nothing but whiteness. So much that it made her eyes hurt. Sakura took a tentative step forward, careful if she fell down into... something?

"Looks like you and I are here." she whirled around at the sound of the voice. "Kurama?" her voice echoing through the space. There he was, the Nine-Tailed kitsune in the flesh, looking almost bored. "You wouldn't happen to know where we are, would you?" Are we dead? Did i miss the apocalypse?

"No clue. It's sure as hell not heaven. That much I can say."

Sakura sighed, she looked around at the vast nothing plain, this was most definitely not what she had imagined the afterlife to look like. She had imagined more gore and suffering for hell. Bones and screams of disparity would litter the floors with ghouls lurking around every corner thirsty for blood.

She would have probably seen Sasori here if it was.

Heaven would have been beautiful. All things good would be thriving there. The innocent, the beauty preserved; for the eyes of the worthy, the heroes; who earned their place in salvation, would all be present in peace in the afterlife.

If this was heaven, then Naruto and Sasuke would be there. But it wasn't, what she saw was plain and empty.

Perhaps she was in limbo? She had failed and killed, and she was selfish. Perhaps a god heard her and cursed them and decided to put her here?

The woman turned to Kurama. Who didn't appear the least bit bothered or curious as to where they were. When the kitsune notice her staring it merely laid down and said "Might as well get comfortable. We aren't going anywhere for a long time." She stared bewilderedly, he wasn't even going to try breaking out?

With an empty chuckle, reading her thoughts, "No, I'm not going to try and get out of this box. Whatever god-" he mockingly said the word "-chose put us here clearly has no intention of letting us out. You're more then welcome to try, just don't bother me."

She knew this was his coping mechanism, brushing off everything then moping to himself, but he had to have something left to keep fighting. He couldn't just give up like that.

But then again... why should she try if he wasn't going to. Kurama was greater than her in power, if he's giving up then it really was hopeless.

Naruto would have probably been up the walls trying to get out. He would have done everything and anything to break through and get home. He would have fought for his life if he could. But he could not fight on his own behalf.

And she wasn't Naruto. She didn't have a heart full of endless hope and courage. She nearly laughed at herself, she wasn't Naruto, but for his memory she'd be brave.

She took a tentative step forward, weary of the placement of her feet unsure if it was the ground was at the very least solid.

'Well, success' she breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't fall through a hole or anything, she deemed it safe to walk about. She had ventured 20 meters away from Kurama when a golden essence began to pour up from the floor of the room.

For second her eyes hoped to see Naruto, but it wasn't meant to be.

It was different than his golden energy. His was rich with yellow, saturated in color and blaring in glow. He could have been the sun's incarnate.

The atmosphere his gave off was different too. His felt warm and cheerful. Full of life and the feeling of 'welcome'.

This golden energy, that appeared in the nothing, was a pale yellow. Soft and more quiet compared to Naruto's loud and vibrant aura. The energy had formed a sphere and simply glowed. Whatever is was, it didn't seem threatening. It was different from Naruto, but similarly brought a soothing air about. It felt mellow and gave off the vibe of a wistful daydream.

'What is that?' she thought. She watched as the gold essence became bigger and bigger. It gave off a sense of attraction. She felt... Drawn. Enraptured. She couldn't look away. She reached forward to touch only to be pulled back by Kurama. Before she could question, she heard a distinct female voice with a slight devine echo, speak from the orb of light.

"Hello, my name is Madoka. I am a friend"

"You can do that... ? I am so so so grateful-" she was in the process of bowing for the umpteenth time when Kurama grouched in "Yeah we really thankful now let's go!" His tails enthusiastically wagging.

The orb released a soft chuckle, simultaneously releasing a warming breath within the room. The pair was truly amusing. "I was right in choosing the two of you, I can feel your honesty and love for the people you-"

"I wouldn't use love-" Kurama cut in.

"Don't interrupt Kurama! Try to show some respect." Sakura chided.

"Madoka's a cool God. She doesn't care for that formal worshipping crap."

"She's helping us, Kurama don't disrespect her….!"

The god simply watch on as the two bickered. Kurama comically exclaiming that she didn't mind the informality and Sakura continuing to scold the fox.

"Sakura-chan, Kurama-kun there's something the two of you should know first," Madoka announced, she watched as the two straightened at her words.

"I agree with you and I too feel that Uzumaki-kun and Uchiha-kun deserved a better life," she paused "but i can not guarantee you that you will be in your original places-"

"aaand that means what exactly?"

"Kurama!" Sakura exclaimed.

"No, it's fine. Kurama-kun had a right to ask that question. And to answer that query, it means that I can't guarantee that you will be placed in your previous lives. This, has never been done before, and I can not guarantee that you be put into your original places. Nor that Naruto-kun and Sasuke-kun will be the same people. Their hardships made them who they were, with you two choosing to go and change that, it's a possibility that your dear friends won't be your friends or that you will at all be together in the new world."

A heavy silence ensued. And a few moments later the pair gave their agreement to the god. Taking the risk of ending up far from their precious people, and they themselves becoming different people.

"It doesn't matter. Naruto will always be Naruto and Sasuke will always be Sasuke. I will gladly trade my life… and risk my place in lives so that they have a second chance."

Kurama nodded in agreement.

"Alright then. Sakura-chan. Kurama-kun. I wish the both of you the best of luck." and The orb dispersed, flaring out her golden essence.

As she flared out, white flame surrounded them in a cocoon. It wasn't uncomfortable by any means, just as quickly as it had flared up it died down, revealing to them a room that was filled with different orb like particles. All were of different colors; all floating about in a slow almost entrancing way. They all glowed and just floated about in the area. Kurama and Sakura stared at the glowing opportunities. And reached out to grab one. The moment they felt contact, the orb dispersed and its essence engulfed them. Taking them away to a new life.

Thanks for reading -V