A/N: Well I decided to finish this story with this last chapter. It was time that this story came to an end. Its probably not one of my best chapters or endings but it somehow came to together in the end.
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) Chapter 8 (
Sasuke inched back against the wall, "No." He covered his face with his hands, "Its just not possible."
Naruto stood standing in the doorway with Rose next to him. Someone walked in pushing Rose to the side, it was Machi, "What's going on?"
Her long black hair was pinned up and she wore a black dress with long sleeves. She looked from her son who looked extremely pale to Naruto's calm but worried face. "What's going on here?"
No one said a word and she grew frustrated, "So no one's going to tell me." Then she did a double take to Naruto, "Naruto…who are you holding?"
Naruto looked towards Machi and turned his body completely to face her. The color drained from Machi's face and before anyone could do anything she fell to the floor.
Rose crossed her arms, "Great now what?" As if things could not get any worse.
That voice chimed from down the hall, "Sasuke!" Naruto rolled his eyes he set Sakura down in the chair next to him. Bent down and picked Machi up from the floor. Then he headed out pulling Rose along and shut the door behind them.
Sasuke stared at the closed door for what seemed like an eternity. Then it dawned on him that Sakura was in the chair just a few feet from him.
Something kept him rooted to the spot. Sakura laid in the chair her face soft and calm.
Somewhere inside Sakura's mind something began to turn. Slowly the dark curtain that had fallen over her began to lift and then disappeared.
Her eyes no longer felt glued shut and she carefully tried opening them.
She blinked her eyes opened only to find Sasuke shocked standing not too far from her.
There was a dead silence, Sakura wanted to say something but nothing came to her mind to say. She slowly stood up from the chair.
Sasuke pressed the palm of his hand to his forehead, "I still don't think this is possible."
Sakura bit her lip. After a few moments she began, "I-I still don't believe it either."
Sasuke suddenly grew angry, "What! Are you kidding me!!!"
His sudden outburst caught Sakura off guard for a moment and soon he was standing in front of her, "Are you kidding me!!! Was this your plan all along! To leave without telling me anything. Then fake your death!!! Then waltz back here like nothing ever happened!!! Are you fucking kidding me!"
Sakura snapped, "ME!!!" she stood up from the chair, "ME!!! So this is my fault!!!"
Sasuke crossed his arms, "Yes that's exactly what I'm saying."
Sakura's hand balled up into fists, "Listen you!!!" Sakura did the best she could to stand taller and she glared at him, "The person who you should be blaming is that bitch Mokoto!!! Its all her fault!!!"
"Their you go Sakura blaming everyone else. And leave her out of this!"
Sakura rose her eyebrow, "I don't give a fuck!!! Its all her fault!"
Sasuke stood back, "Well what if you never left."
His statement caught her off guard, "It doesn't matter. She's the one that killed me. The reason that I'm dead."
"Did you ever think that maybe if you never left you wouldn't be blaming her."
She continued to glare at him, "Why does it always go back to that for you!"
"That's because I want to know why you left me like you did!!"
Pointing to herself, "It doesn't matter why!!!! I did and that's it!!! I'm dead because of her!!!"
"God damit Sakura!!! Why did you fucken leave!!!"
She felt her arms begin to shake, "I-I-left because I had to for my people!"
"So does that mean that you HAD to leave without saying good bye!" The expression in his eyes showed his pain.
Sakura bit her lip before she burst, "Yes!!! I had to damit!!! If I didn't I wouldn't have been able to leave!!! Just leaving without saying anything was horrible! I knew that if I heard you I wouldn't have been able to leave!!!"
Sasuke stepped forward closing the gap between them. And pressed his lips to hers. Sakura's eyes widened and she tried to push him away. He only wrapped his arms closer around her making the small gap between them no longer existent. Before she could think about it again she was kissing him back. Her arms crawled up and around his neck.
His lips left hers to trace a line down her jaw to the base of her neck.
He stopped, 'Something isn't right… She has no heartbeat.'
Sasuke pulled away and looked at her face, "Sakura."
The look on her face showed anger her hands balled up into tight fists to the point her knuckles turned white. "What the fuck!!!! Why did you do that?"
Sasuke held her face in his hands, "Sakura…You have no heartbeat."
She slapped his hands away, "You thought I was joking when I said I'm dead!!! I'm dead Sasuke!!!"
He shook his head, "You cant be serious."
Sakura rolled her eyes, "I'm serious!"
Sasuke paused and really looked at Sakura. Her face was shades lighter almost white. The cream silk impression was gone. A shadow of dark circles had formed under her eyes, which were still Emerald green but some of it had been replaced by dark black lines. Just as he was going to mutter something else the doors burst open.
The two of them look towards the open doors. Sunshine entered through the doorway hitting Sakura's bare skin. Sakura yelled turning away, searching for darkness. But the whole room had been illuminated by the sunlight. She could feel her back rip open as her skin began to burn away.
Sasuke quickly turned from the door looking towards Sakura. He headed towards her until someone restrained him. "Let me go!" He fought against his holders. She had fallen to her knees, her back still towards the sunlight. It was now burning through her flesh that for a split second it looked as if her back bone was soon visible.
A face he dreaded every single day showed up in front of him. He hissed under his breath, "You!"
Mokoto smiled, "Sasuke dear why cant you see that she's a lost cause."
"You're the one who killed her!" Sasuke yelled.
"Not entirely but I will." A deadly gaze looked at him.
Sakura's screams pierced Sasuke's ears and he yelled, "How dare you!"
Mokoto's eyes suddenly widened as his holders were soon gone and flung into the wall. His hand was soon around her throat and had her pinned against the wall, "You will pay."
A smirk played on Mokoto's lips, "You may have gotten to me but, it seems your to late to save her."
Sasuke turned to where Sakura now laid. The sunlight had done its job in burning her alive.
A stampede of people suddenly rushed into the room and the sunlight soon disappeared with the slamming of the doors.
"Teme!" Sasuke caught sight of Naruto standing next to him. "Teme!"
"What?"
"The guards will take Mokoto away." Sasuke glared one last time before handing her off to the guards. Then it hit him, "Sakura."
He pushed Naruto and every person standing in his way. Tsunade knelt on the floor next to Sakura. "She'll recover but it will take some time." She turned to her left, "Shizune get the treatment room ready."
Shizune bowed and darted out of the room. Tsunade slowly slid her arms under Sakura and lifted her up. She gave one look to the angered Uchiha next to her, "Finish dealing with Mokoto and leave Sakura to me."
A few weeks later Sakura slowly walked through the halls of the castle. The moonlight left a cooling sensation on her skin. Sakura walked out through a pair of French doors onto a balcony. Sakura slid the cloak off her shoulders letting it fall to the floor she felt her skin almost sing from the moonlight.
She closed her eyes and began to remember everything that had happened these past weeks. Mokoto was banished to her home kingdom where she was publicly shunned for what she did. Just thinking about Mokoto living the life of a servant girl made her smile. Then she remembered herself…Tsunade had managed to heal Sakura but there were some things out of her control. The sun had penetrated so deep that it permanently damaged part of her back, the fact that Sakura was able to walk now was somewhat of a miracle.
A voice began behind her, "Sakura."
She turned to see Sasuke standing in the doorway a smile rose up on her face. "Hi Sasuke."
He walked forward brushing the back of his hand on her cheek. "How you feeling today?"
Sakura shrugged, "Same. Nothing feels bad." She looked down at her left hand, permanently scarred from the suns rays. Sasuke noticed this resting his forehead against hers he held her hand. "Sakura, your still beautiful."
Sakura sighed, "I don't think I am."
He chuckled under his breath, "Sakura, what matters most to me is that your alive. I couldn't ask for anything more. Except maybe if you still want to marry me."
She looked up to meet his eyes and smiled, "Of course I still do. I love you Sasuke."
He inched his lips closer to hers, "I love you Sakura."
There was now nothing in way of keeping them apart any longer. Sakura was able to keep her promise in coming back even if it did take awhile but she kept that promise to him.
A/N: Well there's the last chapter for this story. I want to thank everyone that stuck to this story even when I went off topic in the very beginning. I'm glad to finally finish this story it was hanging over my head for the past couple months since my last update on this story.