AN : So first of all, I'm really sorry about the first story that has stopped updating. Because frankly, I was really busy and with that busyness, I couldn't really think of the plot very well. Second of all, this is an alternate story which Sasuke had died on the final battle with Naruto. I was always excited to imagine what would happen if Naruto did date Sakura. But I felt really bad about Hinata. I do felt that the chemistry that Sakura has with Naruto could be called more than just a friendship. I felt that this Story needs some advice from other readers for the plot so I could imagine it further.

Disclaimer : I do not own Naruto.

PS : please don't judge me to harsh:( , in other words, please enjoy:)

A heartache.

I feel it. It hurts me

Why did I own this heartache?

Did I deserve it? Or not?

I can't tell…

I opened my eyes. All blue. It felt so bright, so lively with all the wind blew on my body.

I feel it. I feel the sensation, I feel the pain.

Suddenly, I knew. I knew why this feeling does exist. It's because of him. He made this. He just created the most painful feeling of my life. Yet, I can't blame him for this. He just listed himself as one of the greatest shinobi, NO.. THE GREATEST Shinobi ever exist on this world. Yet, I can't seem to forgive him for doing that reason.

Everybody looked up to him, as he was some sort of a hero. Someone who's duty was to serve a greater purpose to the world. Yet, he was seventeen. I get it that he was after all, the greatest of us all. But he was also seventeen. Too young to bear those pain alone. Too young to know the meaning of death. He always spoke things about death when he confronted our used-to-be teammate. The one I used to had a crush on but faded due to what he did to him. He always said that when they both fought, they both would die. What about me? Is he so selfish that he didn't even understand my existence!

He worked so hard to fulfill my promise, that he never turn back to see that those promise was meant from me to us. Not from me, to him. It was supposed to be us. US… He and Me! He did all these stuff that worried me so much, I had to see him for every single minute just in case he didn't do anything more dangerous. Because, for every single stupid and dangerous stunt he made, I was the one healing him just to made him alive and well. I was the one who always look for him even at the most unimportant moment.

That morning. The war has ended. But the avenger has another thing planned on his mind as he used his Rinnegan to put me unconscious. I woke up, with my Sensei's face in front me, indicating that he couldn't do anything to stop him from going the same path again. But I saw no one else. I realized that the one that I needed to see, wasn't here. 'Naruto!' I thought. There's only one explanation as to where he was and what he was doing at this moment.

'He tried to fight Sasuke!'

'Naruto.. you.., you'd never let me do this together, wouldn't you.. shanaroyo' She thought as she cried harshfully.

As she wiped her tears away, she made her way with Kakashi towards the place he knew exactly where they would fight. The valley of Death.

They finally got there, seeing the mass destruction of the whole valley, the wreckage of the Shodai Hokage and Madara's statue, rock was shattered all over the ground. She scanned her surroundings to find the source of this wreckage, 'Naruto, Sasuke' their name rang on their head over and over until she found two bodies lying down on the ground with a cut-off hand by each of them. 'No!'

It seems that she couldn't care less about what happened to Kakashi because the pain that they had was way more, no, too severe to be healed. So she flew down to the bottom of the valley to rescued them. No matter what it cost.

She made it there, saw that Sasuke was unconscious. But not with Naruto. "Naruto!" She cried. The feelings that erupted on her was too much to bear. Knowing that two of the best friend she had, clashing and killing each other. They finally did it.

"Sakura-chan, I'm… I'm…" Naruto was about to spoke when she cut him off, "silence, I need to heal you right away!" Sakura ordered. Just when she was about to put her hand on the bleeding and decapitated hand, he said, "Sasuke is.. Dead, I'm.. sorry." The tears on his eyes streaming down his cheek and finally, onto her hand. He was expecting furious Sakura, angry Sakura, Sakura who would burst him with harsh words. But she was just silent, it's like she's not paying any attention to what he said.

"There's nothing you could do about it." Sakura finally answered. He hadn't expected this answer at all. How could she being ignorant on her teammate's best friend? Her.. Lover?

"I know what you've thinking. But right now, saving you is the only thing I care now." She said.

She didn't know. She apparently didn't know at all. The Kyuubi, no, his pal Kurama inside him was dying. So he would also be dying as well. Kurama's chakra was torn up due to fighting Kaguya and Sasuke at the alphabetical order. He needed to save the whole world using Sasuke's Rinne-Sharingan. But he knew that he needed someone to willingly earn that god-like eye to restore the world. "I'm okay now, Sakura."

Sakura finished her healing and she hugged him, furiously. She hugged him like there was nothing that could let them go. 'I hoped that she will be happy on the future' Naruto thought.

Soon, Kakashi began to made his way down the valley, rendezvous with two of his student, and one which was deceased.

'Naruto didn't look anywhere near happy, but he didn't look anywhere near okay as well, he looks, dying.' Kakashi thought as he kneeled.

"Kakashi.." Naruto spoke.

"Yo…" his anxious greeting was interrupted as he began to spoke, "I need you to perform the jutsu to release the Infinite Tsukoyomi, you will use Sasuke's Rinne-Sharingan eye to be yours and you will combine your chakra to mine in order to perform that jutsu." He finished explaining, with a bloody cough after the explanation. "Naruto! Daijōbudesuka?" Sakura asked. Naruto nodded his head, signaling that it was okay, although he knew well he wasn't. 'Sasuke, looks like we're gonna have another rematch.'

With Sakura helping the eye transplant procedure, Naruto gathered all of his remaining chakra to finished what Madara has started. He knew well, that Kakashi would run out of Chakra, suppose he used this jutsu, and Sakura run out of chakra due to the eye transplant procedure. With that in mind, Naruto knew that once he had done this jutsu, he will meet Sasuke again. 'Hopefully Sakura wasn't being too angry about this.'

The procedure has been completed, revealing Sasuke's left eye on Kakashi. "Ready?" Naruto asked, "yossh.."answered Kakashi.

They finally used all of their remaining chakra to use the release jutsu on the Infinite Tsukoyomi, using the Tiger hand sign to released all the people in the world from the genjutsu they had been living in. "KAI!" Naruto and Kakashi shouted. They three could felt the genjutsu started to vanished, the tree that binds all people had withered and all people turn back to their consciousness. All, but one.

As the jutsu was finished, so was Naruto. He simply didn't have any more life energy to continue. As he finally put his eyes closed and his body into a unconscious state. 'I'll see you someday, Sakura… Chikushō.. I guess she would never knew that I truly did love her. I wish she knew that too. Ero-Sennin, Tou-san. Kaa-san, Sasuke, I'm back.'

A heartache.

I feel it. It hurts me

Why did I own this heartache?

Did I deserve it? Or not?

I can't tell…

I opened my eyes. All blue. It felt so bright, so lively with all the wind blew on my body.

I feel it. I feel the sensation, I feel the pain.

Suddenly, I knew. I knew why this feeling does exist. It's because of him. He made this. He just created the most painful feeling of my life. Yet, I can't blame him for this. He just listed himself as one of the greatest shinobi, NO.. THE GREATEST Shinobi ever exist on this world. Yet, I can't seem to forgive him for doing that reason.

Everybody looked up to him, as he was some sort of a hero. Someone who's duty was to serve a greater purpose to the world. Yet, he was seventeen. I get it that he was after all, the greatest of us all. But he was also seventeen. Too young to bear those pain alone. Too young to know the meaning of death. He always spoke things about death when he confronted our used-to-be teammate. The one I used to had a crush on but faded due to what he did to him. He always said that when they both fought, they both would die. What about me? Is he so selfish that he didn't even understand my existence!

He worked so hard to fulfill my promise, that he never turn back to see that those promise was meant from me to us. Not from me, to him. It was supposed to be us. US… He and Me! He did all these stuff that worried me so much, I had to see him for every single minute just in case he didn't do anything more dangerous. Because, for every single stupid and dangerous stunt he made, I was the one healing him just to made him alive and well. I was the one who always look for him even at the most unimportant moment.

There he was, lying unconscious. I cursed him so much for lying to me, telling that everything was fine. 'What are you thinking! BAKA!' She cried on her thought and literally. There it was, Haruno Sakura, the most powerful woman Shinobi in the whole world, seeing the two of his best friend died. One tried to protect the world, while the other one destroys it. She cursed herself for taking an affection to someone who tried to destroyed it, while the one who tried to protect it worked so hard for her and she didn't have a chance to turn the favor. 'BAKA.. BAKA.. Naruto you.. Shanaroyo!" She cried.

Kakashi knew well that she was in so much hurt, that no one in this world could ever comforted her the way these two had. He cursed himself for not being the good teacher like the other team does. Sure, the team saved the world. But what then? If the world is saved by sacrificing two of his best students, he would rather be dead or be hit by the Infinite Tsukoyomi. He had lost his father, his best friends, his sensei, and he failed his trust to keep his son save. 'Minato sensei, I have failed you… I don't deserve to be called a Ninja anymore.' He cursed himself as tears running down his mask.

The tree that strapped all the people has withered, and so the people regain their consciousness back. Everyone was happy, elated. They knew that they had won the battle, because their enemy was lying dead with a big hole on his heart. Not long after, a sound of help was heard several distance away.

Tsunade, noticing exactly who the owner of the sound was, immediately boost her way to the source of the sound. Hoping for no more fight after what had been a long and tired war. 'Sakura' her thought.

Soon, the rest of the Alliance had followed Godaime Hokage, hoping the exact same thing that she had.

The alliance finally made it to the source, noticing a young pink-hair girl with torn shirts, a grey-hair ninja that seems battered, a young Uchiha, and a certain blonde hair boy in particular, had caught Tsunade's attention, "Naruto!" She immediately flew down and headed to the boy.

"How is he?" Asked Tsunade.

"Her heart has stopped beating and I ran out of chakra. And so did Kakashi." Sakura explained her Shisou.

'Naruto, you brat. You promised me you wouldn't die before you become a hokage. I won't let you die!' She screamed in her thought as she began her medical ninjutsu on him.

Unfortunately, after several hours of devastating waiting for the alliance, and several hours of the treatment by Tsunade, he didn't show any sign of heart beat.

"I guess I have no choice then."Sigh. She spoke again, "Sakura, I'm gonna perform a forbidden jutsu that requires massive amount of chakra. Since he was and still a Kyuubi Jinchuuriki, the Kyuubi has also required this chakra in order to work. So we need all the help we can get."

"But, the jutsu that Sasuke used. The pile of boulder above us confined Kyuubi too. What if we undo the jutsu and let the other Kyuubi heal him?" Asked Sakura rather desperately.

Kakashi began to interrupted, "I'm sorry, Sakura. But the only way to undo the jutsu that Sasuke created was to combined his chakra with Naruto's. Right now, I had Sasuke Rinne-Sharingan. However, I also need Naruto's chakra to undo it."

Her sensei's explanation was enough to made her angry. But right now, she had only one thing to do. And that is Reviving Naruto. With no second thought, she asked all the Shinobi to perform a hand-chain and connected each other's chakra to her's, while Sakura connected her chakra to Tsunade. Creating an infinite amount of chakra for tsunade to perform a master-class healing jutsu.

"Yosh, here it goes!" With no time to waste, he began to heal Naruto. The huge green chakra erupted from her hand as she possibly could endangered her life by doing this forbidden jutsu.

"Shisou, you said that this jutsu is forbidden. Why is it?"

Sigh. "I know that you're gonna ask me this Sakura. This jutsu is forbidden, because it will put the one who used this jutsu into death while the victim was alive."

"No Way! SHISOU! YOU HAVE TO STOP!" She suddenly released her hand that was placed on her back.

A furious, yet, tearful expression of Tsunade emerged, "You Idiot! Why would you released it? He needs to be alive!" She screamed to her.

"I don't want to choose whether my Shisou or my friend has to die." Sakura said, tears swelling on her face.

"That's why I need everybody's help. If this jutsu was to perform alone, than the chances of the jutsu user to die is 100%. Demo, if this jutsu was helped by other people, the percentage of death will decreased. But it will not guarantee that I can't die."

"but… but.." She was about to speak something when Tsunade replied, "Sakura.." She began, "this kid, he's my everything now. In this life, he was just like my younger brother and my boyfriend, once. Now, I looked at him and I saw that he was just like someone that I truly loved. If I die saving this boy, I would like you to promise one thing."

"Anything, Tsunade-sama." She exclaimed.

"Don't make the same mistake that I did with the person I truly loved. He died by never knowing that I ever loved him." She whispered in her ears.

"I will.. I.. wi-…ll.." Sakura's cry were now even harder than her words.

It has been three months since Tsunade's death. She was now known as the 'angel of Hokage' for her heroic efforts to save Naruto by using her own life energy with the help of everybody's chakra.

Unfortunately, Naruto wasn't able to awake from the jutsu. He was diagnosed comma and no one knew exactly how long he would experienced this comma.

Sakura, who was now the successor of Tsunade's medical ninjutsu skills, decided that there is only one purpose on her life till her death. That is to love Naruto, no matter how he was.

After the war, Kakashi was elected as the Rokudaime Hokage. His era as the Hokage had been used to optimized the village's growth in economy, food stock, building development, and the modernization of the whole Alliance.

He was also the one who stand up to Sasuke. He argued that Sasuke has been one of fundamental reason why the war has ended. The world may not believe if Sasuke had done just that. But the alliance do believe in Kakashi. As he was one of the only four person to witnessed the true strength of the Mother of Chakra, Kaguya Otsutsuki.

With that, people started to build an Uchiha monument. A monument as a symbol that an Uchiha kid, born with hatred and vengeance could also saved the whole world. Alongside Naruto. What Kakashi didn't tell to the world was what he did after they have beaten Kaguya. He knew that, no matter how lost Sasuke is, Naruto would still had faith in him. And Kakashi trusted Naruto with his life, for he had save his.

It has been 3 years and the whole world seemed to change. First of all, people started to own cell phones. A very handful device that was used to talk to someone on a far distance. Now, instead of using a bird to deliver a message, people tend to use a cell phones for its efficiency. Secondly, Shinobi was using a ninja device to complete a certain mission if they couldn't do it with their own. However, this machine was still forbidden on the exam as Kakashi explained that it was cheating. The third, the Alliance had been united on even a more stronger bond. And many more.

Sakura sighed as she drank the hot coffee before she began to work as the senior instructor of the Konoha Hospital. She knew that this job was the best job for her. The huge amount of cash, the respect from the fellow junior, and the honor to save more life, is been a huge motivation for her. But, while the others were moving on with their life, she was not.

The past three years, she had heard so many news. Many of them, including marriage. Shikamaru and Temari was the first couple to actually married. Their marriage was rather simple and not involving to many people for as he would say 'troublesome' to handle. Temari on the other hand, was not really mind with his thought. Eventually, they would only invited Shikamaru's close relatives and Temari's.

there's also this occasion, where the bride, in this case Temari, would threw the bouquet of flowers with her body facing behind the audience and the audience, more to the ladies to be exact, tried to catch it. And then, it revealed that Ino was the one who earned it.

Not long after their marriage, Sai and Ino announced their marriage. It was a fancy and elegant marriage with everyone Ino knew to be invited. Since the only true friends Sai had was team Yamato and the rookie nine(minus Neji), Sai only invited them as he knew it would be great.

The same bouquet ritual was thrown by Ino and the one who earned it was Hinata. She was so excited to earn the bouquet as she was fainted instantly. In this moment, Sakura was quite jealous. This ritual always brought good luck to whoever earned the bouquet and now, Hinata was the one who earned it. Meaning that he would marry.. 'Naruto!' She thought. She couldn't even imagine her Naruto was taken away.

Sakura knew that Hinata was the one who had saved Naruto from the Pain attack, but she also knew that Hinata failed. And almost made Naruto released the Kyuubi from inside of him.

That thought was faded away when Hinata explained to Sakura that he would marry Kiba, instead of always been Naruto fan-girl for almost forever. She explained to Sakura that the reason behind their marriage was because Kiba had been there for her all the time. One day, Kiba would snapped because Hinata always tell stories about Naruto and Naruto. Naruto this, Naruto that. And he had confessed his love instantly when he was still in anger mode, resulting to his super duper deep blush and shy. Kiba explained to her how he would always supported her when she asked him an advice about her love-life for Naruto, which seemed to be a one-way love. Sakura knew that deep down in Hinata's heart, she would still had this feeling for Naruto and would do anything to save him as much as Sakura does. But she also loved Kiba, for his affection and his patience for dealing to someone like Hinata. At first, her father would've been disagree with her decision, but after took a considerate talk, they finally reached an agreement.

Their marriage was held on their training ground and the reception was held on Hyuuga's compound. Since it was Hiashi's request to look after her first daughter before she left the compound and stayed at Kiba's house.

For every occasion, Sakura always asked Konohamaru to put a video on every great occasion that had happened. When he asked him what for, she only answered, "Someone wants to see it." And Konohamaru immediately knew who that someone was.

The bouquet ritual on Kiba's and Hinata's marriage was been held. As Hinata threw the bouquets to the rest of the ladies. Guess who earned the honor of the bouquet?

"SAKURAA! YOU GO GIRL!" Ino screamed to her. Yes, it was Sakura who earned the bouquet of flowers. She was shocked, several seconds ago, she was just watching Kiba and Hinata kissed and hugged. And now, without even a slight of effort, she had earned the bouquet of flowers while the other who would battle to earned it, did not.

On her mind, she wondered what this would meant, 'would Naruto be awoken and married me?' She was excited with her thought, but also sad when she thought another one, 'but, what if another man will marry me and Naruto would leave with another woman?' She shooked her head and she only focused on only one thing to remember, 'I would marry Naruto.'

AN : Okay, so I came up with this idea when I was watching Naruto Shippuden eps 477-478. I do not intend to make this story a long one but I do hope people would like it. I would try to make another update as soon as possible. But I can't guarantee it since college is gonna be time-wasting for me. For whoever ship NaruHina or SasuSaku, I understand your frustration. I would probably create Sasuke's fanfiction on another time. But on the meantime, my concentration is only on NaruSaku moment. A little advice, you should watch the Naruto Shippuden OVA, UT. Where Naruto was lying on the ground, presumably was dead and Sakura cried for him. After several minutes of heart touching songs and thrilling animation on the songs, it was revealed that Naruto was actually still alive, and Sakura was crying like he was her every thing. Those kinds of relationships touched me deeply on my heart. And after watching that scene, I was super excited to imagine if Naruto and Sakura really were together.

AN : and sorry if I had wrong spellings and stuff, I'm looking for some Beta readers, PM me if you want to.