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The graveyard was a nice place. It was in the middle of nature, surrounded by trees and flowers.

On one of those trees, a beautiful young woman with green eyes and pink hair was sitting in the lap of a handsome man, who had black hair and black eyes.

The man was tenderly stroking her long hair, a small smile on his face. The woman was leaning against him, perfectly contented.

He murmured in her ear, "I never thought we would be so lucky."

The woman smiled. "Me neither… but I guess we deserved some happiness, right?"

The man put a hand around her waist. "It's a strange form of happiness, though. We are, after all, dead."

She laughed, and her voice never failed to enchant him. "But we are together."

His hold on her tightened. "That's true."

They stayed like that for a long while. The temperature was quickly changing, twilight was approaching, but neither seemed fazed.

Then the woman spoke again. "Maybe I understand what you mean. We are dead. No one knows about us. We can't live among people, we can't have our lives back. We can't have children," and her gaze suddenly dropped, "we can't have the normal joys of life."

The man pulled her closer to him. "Even if we can't live our lives together like we wish we could," he said, very seriously, making her look up at him, "we have life. There is no war anymore. What we gave our lives for was worth it. And, my dearest wife, we have the chance to see how the world has become thanks to our sacrifice. In our time," and he pulled her even closer than before, "we had no opportunity of being together. It was too dangerous. Every second we could die. There was no way we could have been together as a family, or even think of starting one together. So, yes, we had no opportunity of having our own family. But we did have something. We had each other. We got married," he kissed her left hand lovingly, where a simple golden band adorned her ring finger, "and we shaped a future where other people could have what we did not."

The woman smiled at him. "We sure did a lot, didn't we?"

He chuckled at her choice of words.

The woman sighed, and then smiled again. "You're right. We sacrificed a lot during our life. We also had a lot. In the end, we sacrificed our own lives to make things right. But everything was worth it, don't you agree?"

The man nodded, and then asked, "How long do you think we can stay in this world?"

The woman thought. "Well, we found out that we can be in the company of the living only for a short time. However, they only see us when they need us… so I believe we will be here for a very long time. As long as we're together," and she grabbed his hand, "I don't mind staying here for all eternity."

He smiled. He felt exactly the same way.

And he didn't need to tell her. She knew.

So Itachi and Sakura stayed in each other's arms, perfectly happy, watching the sun disappear behind the old Hokage mountain.

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A/N: I thought something else was needed for this story, so here's a short ItaSaku scene.

Thank you so much for reading.

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