Yes yes yes yes yes yes YES! I'm done. Can't you tell I'm happy about this? Well It's cause this is the first fic I have finished that isn't a one shot. I knew it wasn't impossible! Well I'm sorry for this being later than I planned it to be, my computer wouldn't let me upload it for some crappy reason when I tried to on Saterday. (kicks computer) Stupid thing, no ice cream for you... So I published the first chapter of Left in Bleeding Broken Shards the fic that comes after this one and my other two with Gaara and Sakura as kids.

Anyway I want to thank all my readers for your reviews, your faves, and your alerts, It really made me want to keep going. Ice cream for you all! As always, I...do...not...own...Naruto... Okay? Please read enjoy and review. Flames welcome, don't worry I won't hunt you down and kill you.

Chapter Three

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The Wind is freezing all around

Dirty snow keeps falling down

I'm still here and you are gone

The city is cold and winter has come

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The tears were still running down her cheeks and as fresh as ever as the sad little girl with silky short hair the color of cherry blossoms made her way hastily around the many snow covered trees that lay ahead of her. Her breath was heavy and uneven as she pushed onward.

She yelped a bit falling down to her knees after tripping over a lifted tree root. Sakura whimpered in pain and pulled her leg out leaving a small handful of snow stained scarlet with her freshly shed blood. She bit down hard on her bottom lip, turning her head away from the crimson stain and setting it firmly on the un marked trail in front of her. Breathing hard, she picked herself up and limped on.

"I have to…see Haku kun. I have to at least see him one last time and tell him goodbye." She whimpered as a new wave of glimmering sapphire tears filled her bright jade colored orbs.

Her leg hurt and her head was throbbing from the large bump she could feel already forming as well as the many bruises that would soon covered her milky white skin. Her father was not too pleased when she returned home three days ago to say the least. The memory still fresh in her mind.

Her body sailed across the room landing with a sharp crack on the opposite wall, blood jumping from her dry cracked lips. She whimpered as her body slid down onto a broken huddle on the floor. Blood surrounded her in abundance, and not just any blood, her blood.

"Daddy," she choked out lifting her shaking head to stare into his burning saffron yellow eyes that stared down at her in hate. Pure…raw…hate. How she feared that look in his eyes.

"You…," He hissed, his voice rising and falling with his heavy breaths. "You…"

He leaned forward stretching his arm out and clamping down real hard on her face. Jerking back he pulled her virtually weightless body off the floor and slammed the back of her head into the wall. Sakura screamed at the pain, by was silenced as she was sent flying to the ground once more.

"Daddy, stop it you're hurting me," she whimpered trying to crawl away from the raging madman standing before her. "Stop it daddy!"

"Shut up, you little tramp. It's because of you that I must live with this. You deserve no such life and here I am feeding and sheltering you every day without so much as a thank you! It's because of you I'm cause so much pain, this is the price for you sins!" He screamed throwing her limp body across the room once more.

She heard a very unpleased crack as she landed on her leg in the wrong way. Looking down she saw a large piece of glass from an empty sake bottle buried deep in her pale flesh.

"This is for my sins, this is for my sins, this is for my sins," She repeated over and over in her head as she was beaten and hit over and over again by her cruel unloving father. "This… is the prince for my sins."

Shaking slightly Sakura fell against a tree's trunk for support. Her wounds were not all healed yet and many were nowhere near that stage of blissful numbness. Regardless Sakura bit down hard on her lower lip and pushed herself off the tree's side and stumbled through the pure white snow that lay over the ground in it's majestic blanket.

A small smile graced her bleeding lips when her vision revealed the outline of her well known friend off in the distance.

"Haku kun." She called stumbling over a fallen log with a bit of difficulty.

Haku turned around and smiled at the shivering pink haired girl that was coming his way. "Sakura chan!" He shouted happily skipping over to the said girl.

"Konnichiwa Haku kun, I'm sorry I did not come to see you sooner."

"Sakura chan I was so worried about you. You didn't come over yesterday or the day before that or the day before that. I thought something bad must have happened." Haku replied in a worried tone.

Sakura looked away with sad eyes and Haku instantly went into over protective brother mode. "Sakura chan, did those mean boys at the village make fun of you and call you names again?"

"Oh no Haku kun it's just…it's just…" Sakura turned her head downward once more before speaking again. "It's just that me and my father are…moving again."

"What? You can't be moving, you just got here!" Haku exclaimed.

Sakura looked up at him and smiled slightly. "I know Haku kun, I know…I don't want to go either but I have no choice in the matter. If my daddy is leaving I have to go with him."

"But Sakura chan…I…I don't want you to leave. It seems like you just got here." Haku sniffed as a few stray tears clustered at the corners of his dark chocolate brown eyes.

Seeing him start to loose it Sakura couldn't take it anymore. Letting her tears fall with a wail she flung her small shivering body against his own. "I don't want to go Haku kun! I don't want to be alone again!" She wailed as tears cascaded down her tightly shut eyes. "I don't want to go back to being all alone again! I want to stay here with you!"

Haku bit back his own sob and hugged her tightly. As hard as his was for him it must have been ten times more painful for her. At least he had his family. All Sakura had was her dad and from what he cold tell he was rarely there for the said girl.

"I don't want you to go either Sakura chan." Haku whimpered burying his head in her hair.

"I want to stay, I don't want to move again. I hate moving."

Haku looked down and smiled weakly. "You…you could come and stay with me and my family. I know they won't mind and maybe your dad will forget about you."

Sakura shook her head and sniffed back a few of her tears. "No, my daddy would notice right away that I wasn't with him. And besides I don't want to be a burden to you and your family."'

"You wouldn't be a burden! You would be a joy! Please Sakura chan, maybe you can stay. You are like a little sister to me and I just can't bare the idea of you leaving me."

"I know how you feel Haku kun. You are like a big brother to me as well. You are a precious person to me."

Haku looked away as a few of his tears finally escaped his tightly shut eyes, streaming down his cheeks. The cold winter air nipped at the two as a moment of silence hugged them both.

"Where are you going?" Haku finally asked.

"My daddy is taking us to Suna I think. That's way over in the desert where it's always hot."

"…Sakura chan, if you really are leaving I want you to promise me two things." Sakura shook her head urging him to go on. "First I don't want you to ever forget me. 'Cause if you do that's just unforgivable since I'll remember you for ever and ever. The second promise is that I don't want you to be alone. This world is full of lonely people some even more lonely than you or I. Promise me that you will help the lonely people so that you won't me lonely yourself."

"But what if the people I try to help don't like me and want to hurt me?"

"If they are truly lonely they won't. But if they do you have to punch 'em really hard and then run away and scream pervert or something like that. Adults usually come running when the hear that word even though I don't know what it means."

Sakura nodded her head taking in all the information with extreme seriousness. This was something she did not want to forget. "I'll remember this Haku and If I fond someone as lonely as I once was I promise I will not let him or her stay in it. Loneliness is the worst pain that can ever be felt and I wish this upon no one. I will save as many from this pain as I can."

Haku smiled and nodded. "I know you will Sakura chan. You are the brightest, friendliest, cutest, nicest person I ever met."

Sakura smiled at him complement before tuning her head around quickly. "Uh I have to go now, I don't think I can stay any longer." She said with a bit of panic in her voice.

Haku nodded but let his tears fall silently. Sakura saw this and stopped in mid step and hugged him tightly smiling at the feeling of his own arms embracing her small shivering body. "I'll never forget you Haku kun." She whispered into his chest so softly that even he could barely hear. "Never, ever."

Drawing back Sakura stood on her tippy toes and pressed her lips against his cold exposed cheek, kissing him softly.

"Good buy Haku kun, I'll miss you." She called running off.

"Good buy Sakura chan, I'll miss you too. Don't forget me!" Haku called waving as the small pink haired girl's figure raced off in the opposite direction.

Feeing a wetness on his chest the saddened snow loving boy looked down and slightly gasped, his large chocolate brown eyes growing huge. His pure white yuka was stained a light scarlet with blood where Sakura had hugged him earlier. Hesitantly he reached down and let his hands fall upon the still wet liquid that stained his clothing.

Blood…

Her blood…

Her blood was on his clothing.

"Sakura chan…" He whimpered to himself lifting his eyes up in the direction of the running five year old girl. His overprotective-ness kicking in only to bring more tears to his eyes since he could no longer do anything for her.

"Sakura chan stay safe, please." He begged. "I love you."

'Sakura chan... I love you, and right now that love is only brotherly but I can't promise you that it will stay that way for all eternity. Sakura chan I love you with all my heart and wish only for your well being and happiness. Please take care of yourself since I'm not there to do it for you.'

The clouds of dark gray rolled in, blocking out the sum and it's warm ray with their menacing forms. Slowly, almost as if to answer to call of the young boy's sorrow, their treasures were released upon the earth covering it with a pure white blanket of snow once again.

A single snowflake fell upon Haku's cheek as the beautiful water crystals continued their decent upon the earth. He tenderly reached up and touched it, remembering the warm kiss she bless him with a moment ago.

"Sakura chan…"

THE END

I'm sorry if this was a sad ending for you but this is what I wrote. I really like the Haku Sakura pairing and was planning on making it look like a sibling love but I couldn't help myself and I just had to add that little part at the end where Haku thinks in his mind about how his love for Sakura might grow over time. So you can look at it either way but I just couldn't help myself with that last part.XD

Please, please, please review and tell me if you like it! Flames are welcome.