A/N: Yosh! Part 2 is here! Yep, yep! Believe in it! Uh, sorry for delay. There is a reason though! I joined a new sport and got sick. Then when I was about to put Never Alone up I realized that I hadn't saved it and half of my entire chapter was gone. I was too distressed for a while to start it again. Chapter 11 of Never Alone is out and Chapter 3 of My Best Friend's Imouto will be out in the next few days.

Also….i have to say….Sasuke is ruining all my stories. The bastard just like seriously destroyed the plotline for half my stories! Of course I will still do them, but it's the fact that he messed them up that pisses me off! The stupid prick! God, I hate him so much! Plus he basically took out the major jealously factor in all SasuSaku stories….damn him…

I have a poll up so please if you would vote in it. From now on here is the update order for my stories.

(1). My Best Friend's Imouto

(2). My True Love's Kiss (after MBFI is completed)

(3). Never Alone

(4). Always Alone

(5). The Only

(6). Awake

(7). New Story (Undecided)

My Best Friend's Imouto only has one more update after chapter 3, Awake is a one-shot, and The Only is 3 chapters long. So basically after those I only have three stories to focus on plus the one that I will start and can be chosen in my poll.

Warning: Violence, gore, Character Death. There is no lemon, but I guess there is slight suggestive stuff…just a little bit.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

I was aware that Naruto had followed me from the Hokage Mansion almost immediately. That didn't bring any concern to me though. Not at the moment. Nothing else mattered, but my destination and the person at it.

I traveled quickly without thinking as I passed by the village people. Some of them with enough specialty could see me flash pass them in great speed. Their heads turned to watch me pass, their mouths agape. They probably were wondering what in the world could cause Uchiha Sasuke to sprint in mass disarray.

Only Sakura could make me.

I clasped my hands together and started to form a correspondence of hand signals.

In the same second I appeared in the hospital lobby in a whirlwind of leaves. My Sharigan eyes started to take in all the chakra signatures that were present in the hospital.

The woman at the front desk head snapped up. Her eyes widened in surprise at my presence and her mouth dropped to an 'O' in shock.

"U-Uchih-a S-sama" she stuttered out.

I didn't pay attention to her. I didn't need such a weak and pointless girl to help me in anyway. I could feel, see, sense Sakura's chakra from anywhere. I could notice it without hesitation from a thousand different Chakra signatures. Something about it was so much more special than all the others.

Or maybe it was just because Sakura was so incredibly special to me.

But whatever the case was the minute I tried to locate her Chakra pattern I found it.

And there was barley anything left of it.

Before the girl could stutter out anything further or perhaps try to keep me from finding my wife, I was already out of the room, running to the area of which I could barley even detect my wife's chakra.

I knew the hospital layout well, so it was no problem for me to maneuver through all the hallways. It may have been a small part of how often I ended up in the hospital with injuries; some from missions and the others from the frequent brawls between me and Naruto before the dobe became Hokage and 'professional.'

But the truth was that I knew the hospital like the back of my thumb, because Sakura was always there. I spent all my free time since the day we began courting where she was. And that was always the hospital, always where she worked.

It was impossible to forget the way she would always smile at me while I trailed behind her as she made her rounds. The way she would laugh at me when I stood over shoulder like a hawk if a certain patient wasn't keeping his eyes to himself. That way the man knew for certain that she belonged to me and no one else. I couldn't forget the way she would gently touch my hand as if to comfort me of my own aggressiveness when a patient would flirt with her when I was right there.

The way she would kiss me on the cheek once we left the room and make a comment that I reminded her of a love sick puppy or some other degrading animal. It had angered me at first, but soon I didn't take as much notice to it. I began to spend so much time there with her, that I basically let myself into the building without a second thought. I started to know her schedule like the back of my hand and with that knowledge I could find her without using any ninja ability whatsoever.

I even had asked her to marry me in her office.

Romantic maybe not, but Sakura always understood that I wasn't the one who would make a huge deal out of something and publically embarrass myself. She accepted that part of me wholeheartedly. She had accepted my proposal without a second thought.

It was a moment I would never forget.

Never.

The ways the ring slipped over her left hand so easily. For her, always and only for her.

Just then I reached the door to Emergency War Three, where Sakura's almost non-existent chakra signature was emitting the faintest of glows. The red light was blaring above the doorway, signifying that no one should enter. I slammed the doors open with force, my Sharigan still activated as I took the sight that was in front of me.

Sakura's body that was ripped apart laying limp on the table.

The blood that was forming a puddle both on the white table and on the floor that surrounded the area.

The way that two hands were placed over her heart.

Then I heard the noise.

A steady, never fading beep.

I lifted my head with almost, exaggerated slowness toward the object that was creating the noise.

A heart monitor that's little devices were attached somewhere on Sakura's broken body. The way it wouldn't stop making that single unwavering noise. The line that signified that her heart wasn't beating. The line that meant that she was dead.

"NOOOOOOOOO!"

The gates to my home where just a few hundred feet in front of me.

The gates that had been repaired when Sasuke had returned to the village. They had the Uchiha Clan symbol painted with fresh colors that allowed it a new sense of life. That made it appear almost as if the Uchiha Massacre had never occurred. All traces of that horrible occurrence had been erased.

For Sasuke.

For Me.

For Us.

For the new life that we had decided to live together. The entire Uchiha Clan housing village had been refurnished just for us and though I thought it was a little extreme for two souls, I knew that deep down Sasuke saw it as a new chance all together. To forget the trouble and the past he needed to move on pass. It was a new beginning altogether for him.

I didn't hesitate in my sprint toward the life I had created with Sasuke.

I raced toward the gates with such speed that my pink hair blew in disarray around my face. I didn't move my hand to try and move it away, the only thing that mattered at the time was arriving home, a place with familiarity.

I slowed only when I stood inches away from the mini-village.

It was dead silent, but that was nothing unusual since only two persons lived in the place. I walked into the Clan's village with the slightest hesitation as a small wind ruffled my hair from behind me. I glanced behind my back toward where I came from and saw nothing but a dim lit light that was weak compared to the brightness that was illuminated from the Uchiha Clan's housing.

I walked forward slowly glancing around at the empty buildings that each had the symbol representing the fan on a flag. I started walking toward the main house near the center of the village. The place that Sasuke and I had made into our home.

I let out a silent sigh, which was interrupted when out of the corner of my eye I noticed something moving alongside me. I let out a gasp and froze immediately not expecting at all that there would be someone walking beside me this whole time.

A small child stood beside me, his head was filled with little tuffs of black hair. He didn't look up at me and instead stilled beside me just as I stopped walking.

"Ah, um…hey you're not supposed to be here." I quietly stated.

Sasuke was never keen on visitors and even Naruto had to sneak in at times, only to be kicked out if Sasuke deemed it an inappropriate time for interruption. In other words, when Sasuke and I were otherwise occupied in the bedroom.

At the sound of my voice the small child lifted their head to look up at me.

I gasped again.

The small boy's face was so accustomed to what I could tell were features that could be nothing but Uchiha. He had those same onyx eyes that I had become accustomed to waking beside every morning. The same facial structures that I had noticed through some rare pictures most Uchiha's had possessed.

This child was obviously an Uchiha.

He smiled briefly at me and then ran forward onto the streets that were now busy with multiple persons. My eyes widened as I saw more people in the deserted village then I even had seen in my entire life.

Most of them all held the same general appearance. Raven hair and onyx eyes.

My eyes snapped back and forth wondering if I had fallen asleep and was dreaming of a time that I had long since forgotten. A time before the killing of all the people that resided here. I turned around in a circle trying to comprehend what was happening at that exact moment.

I froze when I came face to face with a boy that appeared to be around 13 years of age. He smiled the minute my wide green eyes met with his red and black one. I gasped slightly when I recognized his appearance from a photograph I had stumbled upon at the Hokage Mansion. Among the registration papers of all past and present Shinobi.

I remember that the boy in his genin picture had been standing next to a girl and a boy. A boy who after a moment I had realized was none other than my sensei. Kakashi-sensei.

My nose wrinkled up in confusion as I stared down at the boy. I tried going through my mind for a name, but I came up with nothing.

"Obito." I looked down with even more puzzlement as the boy spoke.

"Uchiha Obito." He said again, a grin that reminded me so much of Naruto.

"My name. Looked like you were trying to remember it." And with those final words he turned around and started to walk away, disappearing into a crowd.

I was left with my mouth agape, trying to even remotely comprehend what was going on at the moment.

"Ah, ah…nani?"

"The main house." I turned around and caught sight of a man walking in the opposite direction. A man that from the back looked so similar that I couldn't help, but call out.

"Sasuke!" When he didn't turn around I dashed after him, completely disregarding the fact I was headed in the opposite direction of where the main house was located. I was closing in on him fast despite having to maneuver around the people that were walking up and down the streets.

"Sasuke!" I called toward him again.

"Sas—"

"Izuna!" I froze when a teenage girl appeared next to the man and grabbed his arm. She giggled slightly and then laughed when the man looked down at her.

"Izuna guess what?" They continued walking as I was left alone, standing in the middle of the street, staring at the back of someone who looked so much like Sasuke that I had actually chased after them. The thing was though I hadn't seen this person in my entire life, nor in a picture. I couldn't have just made them up, could I?

I turned around and glanced once more at the back of the two people walking away before I sprinted toward the Main House desperate for something familiar. Because Sasuke would be at our home, right? I ran faster, pushing my limits a ninja and then in a matter of seconds I was there.

I ran up the steps to the mansion and through open the doors. I noticed the figure standing just inside the house right away. I panted heavily and watched as the figure moved ever so slightly.

My mouth dropped open when they stepped out of the shadows.

"Hello gimai (sister-in-law)."

Standing just a few feet in front of me, was a man that I had only met once in my entire life. Yet, he was the center of everything that had ever occurred in my life. Since my life was Sasuke and everything that ever happened with him was revolved around this one man.

"I-Itachi."

Before I could even move from my spot at the doorway, the person who I realized was Tsunade slammed her hands back on the chest of my wife. I could see with my Sharigan that an electric current was being forced into her body through her heart. The monitor reacted for a small moment and then returned to the original line.

I started to walk toward Sakura's body, but I suddenly felt the chakra of Naruto behind me.

With the most instantaneous movement I had his body slammed against the wall of the room. I was about to smash his head through the wall with every intent to kill when a 'poof' sound commenced. My hand was surrounding nothing but air.

I turned around and saw that Naruto was standing at the entryway looking at Sakura with a horrified expression. His mouth twitched slightly and he turned to look at me.

"Sasuke…come on you won't…can't help here, let's wait outsid—"

I didn't let him finish talking as I drew out my katana and charged at him. I heard a scream from somewhere in the room, but it didn't matter to me at all. Naruto blocked the attack with a kunai knife. I noticed as I got up extremely close that there were unshed tears in his eyes.

Did it matter?

He had sent my wife on a mission. A mission that had left her in this condition. I was going to bloody blow his head off for—

Beeeeeeeeeep…Beep…Beep. Beep. Beep.

I froze and turned toward the center of the room.

The monitor had started up with a normal heartbeat again.

"Yes! Ino begin healing the lower abdomen wound! I'm healing the sword wound. You two don't be completely useless and heal her shoulder."

My eyes soften for the briefest of moments as this new sense of relief washed over me.

She's alive.

He didn't respond to me calling his name, instead he just stared blankly at me.

"Wha…Nani?"

He glanced up at me and while I was completely and utterly confused he seemed perfectly calm. I became increasingly nervous as I stood at the doorway looking in at the Uchiha. I knew full well the truth behind him now, after all I was married to Sasuke, but having him stand in front of me, I couldn't help but feel inadequate and intimidated.

I understood that he loved his brother, that he loved Konoha, but it didn't change the fact that he killed off his entire family. Slaughtered them. Sasuke still had nightmares occasionally about the event even though he had forgiven his brother long ago.

When he pulled me to his chest, shaking over the past memories I couldn't help but feel anger toward Itachi for his past crimes. Sasuke would whimper sometimes and the only thing I was ever able to do was let him hold me. I was Sasuke's lifeline. His connection to this world. Why did that make me feel so guilty being in this dream?

I never confided in Sasuke over any of these feelings because despite the nightmares he had, he loved his brother very much. He even created a tombstone and placed it in the Uchiha Cemetery with the rest of his family.

It didn't change the past though. I knew that Itachi had wished his brother would return to Konoha after completing his goal, but instead it had the opposite effect. I remember the day that Sasuke came to destroy what was left of the rebuilding city. Naruto had gone and fought him, leaving me alone. I was terrified. Because Naruto still believed at that time and I feared it would lead to his death.

Believed that Sasuke could be returned to Konoha. That he would cherish his friends and be able to be human.

I had given up. If Naruto had at that time…I would be missing a husband.

I never before told Sasuke this, I think he knew though. That I had given up on the boy I had once loved. At one point I had tried to kill Sasuke myself, but Kakashi-sensei had intercepted my team before anything could be done. Naruto knew about it though and so did a few other people.

I swore to myself the day I realized that maybe a future with Sasuke was possible that I would take that knowledge with me to the grave.

Death.

"What….What are you doing here?" I asked in hesitation. Some memory was trying to break free, but I couldn't reach past it. It was locked behind solid gates while I search hopelessly for a key to get inside. Impossible, but I try anyway.

"Dream?" The word slipped past my tongue without my consent. I was trying to understand the surroundings. I had to be dreaming, that was the only way to describe this madness. Yet, it felt so real here. No not real…but complete.

It was so much different than being awake or asleep. This place…this place made me feel whole.

It was good.

Warm, comforting, and peaceful were the words that described this place.

I noticed that Itachi stepped forward a tiny bit. I reacted with a step backwards. I was fearful of him. I hated to be that way, but I couldn't help but be intimidated by the man standing in front of me.

He stilled when he saw me avoid his advance.

"It's okay Sakura."

I flinched at his voice. Not because I was still fearful of him, but because the moment he spoke the words an overwhelming feeling washed over me. Filled my soul to the brim. I was at peace and I knew that he or anyone else in this world would not hurt me.

This world…

This wasn't the same world I had spent years of my life living. It was different in so many ways and I knew that I had never stepped foot in this place before.

"W-Where am I?"

Itachi continued to watch me, his red eyes spinning at a slow pace. I couldn't read any emotion off his face which wasn't surprising since after all he was a Uchiha and they were well known for not demonstrating their true emotions to the public. I still struggled to get Sasuke to show the love he felt for me. His eyes started to fade back to a still black and I was momentarily shocked by how much those eyes reminded me of Sasuke.

"Where is Sasuke?" I questioned.

This time Itachi approached me once again and he gently laid his arm to rest on my shoulder. I felt more of that calm feeling pass threw me, but it couldn't quench the need for my husband.

"Where is he?"

This time I saw an emotion flicker across my brother-in-law's face. It was such an instantaneous movement, lasted for the shortest second before his face once again returned to the cold emotionless façade that had become such a natural feeling for me.

So natural that I had become able to read such a short relapse. After all I mostly was able to interpret Sasuke's emotions when he let them slip by him just for a moment. The only other person who was able to read Sasuke was Naruto. Everyone else would never see the brief amount of emotion on his face. I could though. That's why I was able to see past Itachi's blank expression.

Pity.

"W-wha—"

"You and Sasuke no longer belong to the same world."

I curled up into his body heat enjoying the sensation that it gave to me. That it gave to my heart. His eyes were closed and his breath was even and calm. I would have assumed that he was asleep except that his arms came to wrap around my naked waist and tug me closer to him.

The muscles in his arm flexed slightly as he pulled me right against his chest. My breasts were pushed up against his muscular chest and my face was buried in his neck. He placed his head atop my pink hair, his soft breath never ceasing as I snuggled into his possessive hold. I let out a giggle and the air from my breath brushed against his collar bone. He flinched ever so slightly and realizing that I had found a ticklish spot on the ice-god, I couldn't help but purposely blow some air from my breath toward the newly discovered spot.

"Stop that." His voice was slightly groggy with tiredness and guilt spread threw me once I realized just how exhausted he was with all the new things going on lately.

"Sorry." I titled my head to the side as I spoke the words as to make sure I didn't breathe against the spot once again.

"Hn."

I shut my eyes quietly knowing that he wanted to sleep. Then I noticed that with the position in which my head was placed I could hear his heart beat. I listened to the strong beat that was steady and paced. The medic in me knew that his heart was almost in perfect condition. I couldn't help but unleash a smile knowing that for the hundredth time that this was really happening and that Sasuke was really right beside me.

That the jewelry on my right ring finger really did exist and that I really was engaged to be married to Sasuke Uchiha. If not for the fact that I was lying against him right now with his arms wrapped around my body I would have thought I was delusional.

"Why are you smiling?"

I froze and lifted my head to look at the gorgeous face of my fiancé, expecting to see the onyx colored eyes that I had fallen in love with as a child. I was surprised to see that his eyes were still closed. I shifted my weight onto my elbows making sure that I was not putting all weight on him. Not that he would mind, I weighed probably half as much as he did. I barley had grown an inch since the time I was sixteen. Him and Naruto were giants in my viewpoint, but then again everyone was a giant when they stood next to me. Only Hinata was shorter than my 5'4" and only by half an inch.

"How do you know that I am?" My smile widened when I watched the pair of beautiful black eyes flicker open and look back at me.

"It's you Sakura." I pouted. I wasn't that predictable was I?

"Plus, I felt your mouth twitch against my chest." My pout vanished as I let out a short laugh. If anyone were to notice the slightest change, it would have to be Sasuke.

"Why were you?" His eyes were still filled with sleep, but I knew him well enough to figure he would want the answer before he went back to sleep. He would also know that if I was lying so I was going to have to tell him nothing, but the truth.

"I still can't believe it." He opened his mouth to say something, but I continued. "I guess even when I was a child…I never figured that I would really be able to win you. Be able to be the one that spent the rest of their life with you. So that the fact that right now I really am in your arms is something that I would never expect in a million years. Especially after…" Sasuke's arms tightened around me, "..well anyway I just still can't believe that you would pick me. It still doesn't feel like reality. I wonder almost every day if it was all just a dream or that maybe I died and went to heav—"

I had meant the last part as a friendly joke, but when I suddenly was no longer held against Sasuke's chest and instead in some instantaneous movement that even I as one of the best Kunoichi of the village was unable to comprehend, now had my back against the cushions of the bed.

My eyes widen when I realized the change in action that I hadn't been able to detect. My hands were held above my head with a single large hand the pressure was strong to the point that it even bothered me slightly. Sasuke loomed over me and it didn't take me long to notice the red eyes that were glowering down at me in the dark. Three tomes' spun wildly around the center dot of the shairgan. I knew the eyes well enough to know that Sasuke was mad—no furious.

I flinched as he thrust his face towards mine so that there was barley an inch between us. I felt his breath against my lips and they trembled slightly in the realization that I had done something to make him this angry.

"Don't ever say that. Do you understand?" He growled out the words from behind his teeth and I could detect not a single bit of sleepiness from his gruff voice at all.

"S-Say what?" My voice was confused and it only spread when Sasuke slammed my restrained hands deeper into the bed, actually causing pain from what a tight grip that was being given.

"…Sasuke…hurts." I gasped out and relief spread through me when the hand on my wrists released them and instead pulled my hand forward to look at it. His eyes stopped spinning so wild, but they still held the quick pace that showed his anger.

He brought his lips to touch my wrist gently before he looked back down at me.

"Don't ever talk about….dying ever again. Never. I can't hear you talk about something like that Sakura…" His sharigan started to spin faster again. "I can't lose you. You can't leave me. Not for another man. Not for anything." His voice was taking on a growling tone again and I started to shrink back in the tiniest bit of fear.

"I-I can't live without you. If I lost another important person…Just never talk about things like that ever again."

He stared down at me and I knew he was waiting for an answer.

I raised the free hand that he was not currently holding in his palm slowly towards his face. Of course the action did not go unnoticed by the red eyes and they followed the movement they had seen. When I reached his check and gently stroked it with my thumb he did nothing to protest. In fact he actually leaned his head toward the touch and released my other hand so that he could grasp onto the fingers caressing his face. His eyes closed for a moment and when they reopened I was happy to see instead of the eyes that despite me finding beautiful and enticing was still fearful of, the onyx color which I had grown up loving.

I must have actually smiled because he brought his other hand to touch my lips for a brief moment before he returned it next to my head.

"Sasuke…" His eyes met mine as I spoke with a gentle purr, a noise that I always used when I wanted him to know that everything was fine.

"I won't ever leave you. I won't die, I promise. After all I have you to come home to and I love you too much." I smiled up at him and if I was in my right mind I could have sworn I saw a tint of pink on his cheeks.

"Hn." His lips smashed against mine in the same second and I let out a small moan from between my mouth. He kissed me harder in response and I couldn't help, but giggle at his always possessive and aggressive attitude.

When he finally broke away from me, a smirk was plastered across his face and it made a shiver run down my spine. I noticed that any sign of the past sleepiness he once had was still completely gone from his face.

"You know Sakura…" I let out a gasp when he stroked my thigh with his hand. "I think I can stay awake for a few more hours…"

"Hours?" I gasped out.

Another smirk appeared that sent my heart racing. He pushed me down on the bed, but this time in a gentle, playful way.

"Yes…hours."

"Do you see the condition that she is in?" He growled out me. He pointed a finger in the direction of his broken wife as emphasis even though I could clearly see without his help what the mission that I had assigned Sakura had done to her.

I didn't follow the line of vision that his finger was directed at. I figured that if I saw Sakura one more time in the state she was in I would have a break down. After all this was the girl I had spent so many years of my life in love with. This was my best friend's wife. This was the girl who was most important to me besides Hinata. And every time I looked at her I was hit again and again with the reminder that I had assigned her to the mission that had resulted in her condition.

Tsunade-baba, Ino and the two nurses were taking care all they could of the her, but I could tell even from here that it was possible that she might not make it. Tsunade's face had it written all over it. I knew for a fact that she hated to even seem a little bit weak, but just watching as she wiped a bit of sweat of her forehead, I could tell that fear was in her.

"Naruto, God damn it—"

"She knew." My voice came out quiet as a whisper.

"Knew what?"

"When I-I gave her the mission. She saw that her chances of coming….she knew that she could end up like this."

When I felt his fist grip the front of my shirt, I didn't try and get rid of them or fight. I deserved every ounce of his hate that was directed at me. After all I might as well have been the one to have given her every injury.

"If she knew—" His hand threw me against the wall of the emergency room. "Then you fucking as hell knew! You sent her on a mission that you knew she would end up like this!" My head snapped against the wall of the room with a thundering crack. I almost figured that the sheer force would split my head open.

I didn't say anything back to him, since everything he was saying to me was nothing but truth. When he was shouting words at me back in my office I couldn't even look at him in the eyes. I felt like I had betrayed my own brother, taken away everything from him. Since after all Sakura was his everything. He had nothing else left and I had sent her away on a mission that I knew she wouldn't come back from.

He was shouting things at me, but my head was dizzy and I felt sick. I didn't want to hear more words coming from him. Words that were probably all true.

In the back of my mind I only dimly wondered if Sasuke would be able to kill me. I was his second most important person…but Sasuke was known for hating those closest to him. Especially when they were responsible for killing the people around him.

I felt like Itachi Uchiha.

I had killed everything that was important for Sasuke. I had done it for the good of the village. For the village that I loved with everything I had. I had even killed someone that was close to me too. I was just like him…

I felt so guilty…

These were my two best friends.

I had sent one to her death.

And if that one died, it would kill my other friend.

My head turned slightly to look at Sakura's bloody body. The fact that she had made it to the hospital room itself was a miracle…

How many miracles could one person have?

BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP

…Not enough…

"W-Wha do you m-mean?"

He didn't say anything to me, just kept watching me with those tantalizing red eyes. I knew that he wanted me to find my own answer.

My voice caught in my throat and I suddenly felt like I was suffocating. Nothing could be comprehended in my head. The words that he had just spoken could not be digested and instead just floated around in space, taunting me with their meaning.

You and Sasuke no longer belong in the same world.

No longer belong

You and Sasuke

Don't belong

My eyes started to fill with tears. The words that were spinning around my head, causing some locked memory to surface from within me. I wanted to shove the thoughts back down into a bottomless pit of darkness, because I knew these memories…they were going to hurt me. Create a wound that I wouldn't recover from.

And then I knew.

Some things are never meant to last.

The feeling of pain flashed through my body. It felt like there were multiple wounds flashing through me. A sword piercing my chest. Through my heart.

The tears spilled past the rim of my eyes, slipping gently down my face as the memory of today came rushing past my mind.

The mission (to kill a man threatening the village)

The pain (that consumed every fiber of my body)

The fear (of what was going to become of me)

The knowledge (that I was going to die)

I lifted my hands up to hold my head, my fingers tightening in my pink hair in such a hard grip that it should have cause me pain and ripped my hair out of my scalp. But it didn't. I could feel the touch of my fingers on my skull, but other than that there was nothing. No pain at all.

Nothing.

A sob ripped through my body.

"I'm dead." And those words were the final nail on my coffin.

Because everything can be taken away from you in a matter of seconds.

Everything.

It was that sound that caused me to release my hold on Naruto. I turned to look back at the body on the table. Tsunade was screaming orders again toward the other nurses and the three all jumped away from the limp body as her fists made contact with Sakura's chest. A violent spasm occurred as Sakura's body lurched in the air, before returning to the limp form on the table like before.

"AGAIN!" The sound was in the background to me as the steady noise continued like before, but with a simple pause until it returned to the straight dead line.

Everything occurred like that for the next six minutes. It was at one particularly large intrusion of electric current into Sakura's body that her hand slipped from her side and fell till it hanged off the edge of the table. Her fingers didn't move or twitch, the hand just dangled limply. Despite the hand being crusted over with dried blood, Sasuke could see the two rings on her finger.

The steady beep continued and all movement in the room ceased.

Naruto had never left the room after I released him from my hold and he stood looking at the body with tears running down his face.

And that was all that was left.

A body.

No longer the girl I had somehow managed to fall in love with. With a girl that never let her own love fade. It was just a hallow body. An empty, lifeless body.

I lifted my head when I heard a sob coming from the blonde haired woman, holding her hands over Sakura's heart. She whispered frantically an apology over and over for her apprentice.

When she removed her hands from Sakura it was then I knew that she was dead.

"T-Time of d-death, ei—"

I moved with such speed that not either of the top ninja in the room could see me. That was sure by the shocked faces, which I could see out of the corner of my eyes. I stood over my wife's body as I growled out the words from behind my clenched teeth.

"You promised."

Nothing could change the grief that filled my chest at the reoccurring knowledge of my own death. It didn't matter that this world was so much more peaceful than being alive. It didn't matter that it gave the strangest sense of comfort that I had experienced in my entire life. Nothing mattered except the fact that by being in this world…it meant that my Husband and I would be separated for life.

I stood in front of the door with the tears running down my face. I was paralyzed with knowledge and it was killing me inside.

Well that was impossible since after all I was already dead.

"Sakura." A sweet voice spoke and despite my sobs it could be heard clearly in my ears.

My eyes widened in shock at the voice that called my name. It sounded so much like Sasuke that I was possessed to think that he was actually there right next to me. But when I lifted my head up, I was just once again met with Itachi's platonic expression.

Sasuke and Itachi…they looked so much alike, sounded so much alike; Kami they even called my name the same. It was unbelievable the qualities that the two shared. They were truly brothers.

"Uchiha Sakura."

When he spoke the second time, Itachi's voice had taken on a more professional tone, like somebody that was about to give an important speech. And when I met his crimson eyes, I realized that he was. I quickly wiped the tears away from my eyes and quieted my loud sobs so they turned into sniffles. If I wasn't so devastated by the occurrence of events, I probably would have been blushing at having broken down into tears in front of this Uchiha or anyone for that matter. Yet I knew that my face was a more ghostly pale and probably lacked any of the normal pink that always seemed to adore my cheeks.

I met Itachi's eyes once again.

"Haruno Sakura, you are a member of the Uchiha Clan. With your marriage to my brother, Uchiha Sasuke, you have become Uchiha Sakura and are entitled as being a true Uchiha. That being said when you passed on into death, you are also entitled to spend the afterlife in the Uchiha Death Gate. Uchiha Sakura, this place is your home now."

And it sounded so wrong to me, because a home without Sasuke being their everyday…was not a home at all.

"You promised."

My eyes widened and despite having been looking straight at Itachi his mouth had not moved at all. Yet I could have sworn I had heard someone speak.

"D-Did you hear that?"

The expression on Itachi's face actually changed to one of confusion. If talking more than was needed to was not one of the Uchiha's traits I could have sworn that he would have asked what I was talking about or if I was crazy.

I turned my head around to look out the still open door, but nobody was on the street, let alone the porch.

"Damn it Sakura! You fucking promised me!"

My eyes widened for the possible tenth time since I had arrived at this place, but this by far was more shocking the anything else.

Sasuke…

That was Sasuke speaking…

I whipped my head around again, desperately trying to locate where the voice was coming from. It seemed like Sasuke was right in front of me from the direction his voice was heard. Itachi was still looking at me with a confused face. I realized that I was the only one who could hear him.

Did that mean I was crazy?

"SAKURA!"

My body froze when I heard the scream. It was so anguished and in pain that I was almost unable to believe that it was Sasuke who was had just screamed my name. My palm started to shake and fear spread into me.

If there was one thing I hated the most in the world, it was when Sasuke was in pain. It was worse than anything I had ever experienced in my entire life. I would take the experience of dying a million times over again, rather than hear Sasuke call my name in such a broken voice.

When I felt a wet substance drop onto my cheek, my hand instinctively went up to touch it. My fingers touched nothing, but my smooth skin. When another fell onto my noise and then another hit my cheek again, I was unable to process anything that was going on.

"YOU PROMISED YOU WOULD LIVE!"

Her eyes weren't open and dazzling me with those green orbs. Her chest wasn't moving up and down with her steady heartbeat. Her mouth wasn't curved into that beautiful smile that she only showed for me. Her face didn't have that pink on her cheeks that would turn a bright tomato red when I was in her presence; it was a pale color marred with blotches of blood.

My lips quivered as I looked down at the broken body of the only woman I would be able to love.

Tsunade had stopped saying the time of death and instead was looking at me with eyes filled with tears. I heard the sobbing coming from Ino as she held her heads in her palm as she mourned the death of her best friend. Naruto was completely silent behind me.

Nobody would ever understand what it was like to lose her.

To lose Sakura.

Anger pulsed through my veins at I looked down at her. Because she had left me. Because she had taken away the only thing that mattered in the world.

"Damn it Sakura! You fucking promised me!"

My red eyes with the three tomes flickered to the six pointed star of the Mangekyō Sharingan. Because I was faced with an enemy, and the threat was so powerful that I needed my ultimate weapon to use it. The same weapon that had caused me to go into a state of almost total blindness and had it not been for a pink haired minx, I would have never seen the light again.

And as I stared with my powerful eyes down at the threat, I realized how completely useless it truly was. Because not even the most powerful Dōjutsu Kekkei Genkai could destroy death.

The machine connected to Sakura's heart had still not been turned off and in respect the same noise that had haunted me for the last eight minutes was still on. I hated it.

I hated everything.

"SAKURA!"

My hand reached out to the machine beside me and destroyed it with all my fury. The noise suddenly cut off and then there was silence. Despite my actions though my voice was broken. In pain. It felt as though my chest was being crushed by an unforeseen weight. I hadn't felt such pain since the time I found out that everything I thought I knew about my brother was a lie. This was worse though, so much worse.

It was only when I saw the droplet of blood fall down and land on Sakura's cheek did I realize that I was crying. Because the sharigan was activated they were tears of blood, but all the same they spilled over the rim of my eyes and landed on her cold face.

And I didn't care.

I didn't care that there were people in the room watching me.

It didn't matter that Uchiha and respectable ninja weren't supposed to show emotion.

The only thing that mattered was Sakura and that she was dead.

"YOU PROMISED YOU WOULD LIVE!"

I lifted my head up to Itachi when I saw him reach out his hand toward me. His fingers stretched toward me in a sign to take his hand, to welcome me.

Sasuke's voice was still ringing in my head.

My eyes focused on his hand in shock. But I didn't move. Because I knew that Sasuke was in pain because of me. Because I died.

It was too much for me to handle. Too much for me to think of.

And now Itachi was reaching his hand toward me so that I could spend the rest of my life in death.

My hand seemed drawn to it and my fingers twitched slightly. There was some kind of need to take his hand and be away from pain forever. To be in a world that would give me peace, where I would never be afraid again.

And I couldn't do it.

Even if this place was better than the other world. Even if there was no pain. It didn't matter. I didn't want it. Not without Sasuke here.

"No." I said with an air of firmness surrounding me.

I watched him look into my eyes for a moment, before a smirk spread to his face. He lowered his hand down back to his side.

"Then don't." His smirk spread as he said this and I realized that he had heard Sasuke's voice, that he knew what was going on. That he knew I couldn't stay here. He probably had known the entire time.

"You better hurry, you don't want the gates to close on you forever now do you?"

I stayed quiet for a moment before I turned in a flash prepared to run and leave this world behind. I stopped though when Itachi spoke one last time.

"Tell my Orokanaru otouto yo (foolish little brother), that he finally did the right thing…I'm proud of him."

I stared back into the warm gaze of Itachi and any leftover resent toward him vanished. I couldn't help but let the brightest smile grace my lips, one that I normally reserved only for the people I cared most about.

"Arigato Aniki (thank you, older brother)." And with those words I turned and ran past the streets. They were still crowed with people, but for a reason unknown or perhaps just for me, they parted like the Red Sea as I passed them sprinting for the gates to leave this place.

And then I saw them.

They were almost closed off, but it was more than easy to slip past them and run toward the darkness. Toward an unknown world. But not completely because I knew that Sasuke was on the other side. And that was all I needed.

When I heard the clang on the gates completely closed in the faint distance I could have sworn I heard the Uchiha members whispering something to me.

"Sayonara shimai (goodbye sister)."

When I felt the hands grab me and pull me away as I started screaming and thrashing, I felt like the world had crashed around me.

People were shouting things at each other and I could tell that it was the Anbu that were trying to take me out of the room, but I refused to leave. I couldn't leave her.

Naruto was saying things to me, as he tried to push me back from the room. He was still crying and yet I knew he thought it was best to take me away from her. And I hated him for it.

I pulled away from the Anbu's grasp and prepared to attack them if it meant not having to leave the room. I couldn't leave it and if those fucking bastards didn't realize it soon, I would slaughter them all. Every single one of them.

"Get the hell away from me!"

The room was filled with ciaos. So much noise, so many people. The Anbu were taking out their weapons while Naruto commanded them to back off. And my eyes were taken off Sakura. So I didn't notice how her ring finger twitched from its position of hanging off the table.

And it was a miracle that the tiny voice that croaked out a name could be heard through the thundering clatter and screaming people. But it did and then everyone froze. It was such stillness that it felt like nobody was breathing. And maybe they weren't.

"Sa-suke…kun."

It seemed like the world was in slow motion as I turned my body so that I once again faced the bed in the center of the room. And I saw those wonderful, beautiful, emerald eyes looking back at me.

"I promised…you, right?"

"Aishiteru yo, Sasuke-kun."

"Watashi wa anata wo nani yori mo aishite iru…"

A/N: And its finished! (and it took me forever…forever…*sobs* God it was so fucking long!) I will hurry up and finish the chapter of My Best Friend's Imouto. I loved writing the flashback…it was my favorite part. Even though Sasuke was sooooo OOC in it, but really it still was cute.

The two lines at the end are spoken first by Sakura and then by Sasuke.

"I love you, Sasuke-kun."

"I love you more than anything…"

KAWAII!

~Halfkyuubikat~