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The sky had but a grim expression of black death written across it's many clouds and stars of wishes and dreams. It's very feel and stench could make one fall to the ground and scream in an agony unlike any other, for this ight would not only spell out the end for many lives, but the beginning of a deeper, darker destruction upon the souls of all who would walk the earth in the state of Konoha. A war had raged in it's realms for at least two years now of the alliance of nations and the terrorist threat of Akatsuki and the devil like creature Orochimaru.

Today would be called a win for the many ninja countries, but would suffer a loss on the heart of many. The forces of Konoha had prevailed and pushed the enemy forces back to retreat, and slowly began the genocide of all that which would go against the name of peace in the land. Kakashi, Naruto, and Sakura were given the task of defeating Orochimaru and the rather most complicating opponent for them to face, Sasuke. Tsunade had ordered that the ghastly Orochimaru was to be slain and Sasuke was to be brought back dead or alive.

The team had fought Orochimaru first, Sasuke not being at the scene and they prevailed with the work of the famous teamwork they would put together. Though, as Orochimaru fell to his last breath, his last gasp of air, he would say to Naruto with a smirk of malice and un matched hatred, "Sasuke will kill you.. He will take that accursed heart of yours and ingest it entirely..." With that, his daunting eyes fell shut and his body would remain perfectly still as if a statue to represent the fall of evil on this day.

Naruto turned away rather slowly as his eyes of burning red shut rather tightly, "I still believe in him.. I still believe.. Sasuke.. SASUKE!!" Naruto shouted aloud, his very being in a massive tremble and heart just the same. Inside this boy was a rumbling passion like no other to find his other part of him.. That part that left him incomplete and forever would ache at him like a virus that simply refused to let go of his heart, his mind, and his very soul.

For years this would turn him inside out, for years the loss of the silent, yet all the while a love that Naruto held in his heart changed him. Naruto could no longer smile, he could no longer go on in life saying, "I will be the next Hokage!" for his future would appear as a future of still darkness. Thier was no more hope, no more dreams... Sasuke was the boy that kep't Naruto alive, he was the part of him that could make him smile. Today, today would prove to either grant him every wish and dream he could ever have, or.. finally kill this poor tortured soul.

Kakashi came over to Naruto and rested his hand gently with a somewhat merciful grip. ".. Naruto-kun... Sasuke isn't the same.. Orochimaru has-"

"DON'T SAY THAT TO ME!" Having given life by a new kind of hatred, Naruto grasped Kakashi by his rather fishnet top and brought him face to face with him. The trembling had became shakes and the saddness had become more than hatred now. It had become a vendetta against all that Orochimaru had done, all the doubt in the world that Sasuke would never return to what Naruto had came to cherish. This was a war Naruto would create inside himself. "I'll change him back to what he was.. I WILL.." As he broke away, he fell to his knees and shed tears as the headband's straps blew in the wind ever so strongly, a new kind of chill in the air.

It was snowing.

Sakura stood rather, her body shivering from the air and rather she stood in a slump. Her body was covered in bruises and cuts from the fight, her entire body like an empty shell of desperation to simply move a few steps. She then placed her hand on Naruto's trembling back. She spoke gently but with a lack of energy to really project, "You're.. not alone." Sakura, was as well a victim of Sasuke's absence. Everyday, the pitiful girl would sit ontop of her house's rooftop and look out into the deep horizon for Sasuke's return. She'd wait for him, and in that wait she'd suffer for him.

Love, being something to suffer for, it was worth it to her. This was a war on it's own for her as well. She had many people who would confess their love for her and at each one she could only lower her head and shake it slowly, simply stating, "Sasuke will return.." What would come of her suffering would soon be realized for the world would look at Sasuke for a first time in years, but it would be the last.

Kakashi himself, stood sternly and clinched his fists in a rather dense tone of anger. "We must all stand together.. We must all fight together.. Then, and only then will we have our young companion return to us.." It rather hard for him to say, it was all he could do. Truly it was hard to be a leader of a broken team and with the loss of his favirote pupil, he too would be empty inside. Though, this could not stop him from being a shinobi. Peril, would be simply an addition to the job.

Naruto stood, wipeing his eyes rather vastly and turned to the elder sensei. "Team Seven... Will be together again."

Sakura nodded as tears began to fall from her eyes with hope.

Then suddenly, a sound could be heard from the hill above them. A sword was drawn from it's sheathe rather vastly and the earth began to shake as waves of lightening rained down from the sky, the snow storm rather growing into a blizzard of sorts. It had seemed if a very sound of war playing as if beats of a drum that contained violence, hatred, and utter destruction. Walking down the hill was a black figure clad in a black long sleeve shirt with fishnets coming around to connect around it's thumbs. It wore rather snug black pants that came down around black sandals with black socks keeping it's feet comfortable. Then as it grew closer the black shade of hair and eyes spelled out who the man would be. It was Sasuke.

The curtain was pulled rather vastly as he wore but a simple look of emotionaless grimace. A heart now tainted by a darkness like no other and very soul removed from the years of being and understudy to a devil of sorts. "Team Seven, at it's final moments.. Blood, shall paint it's name in a dashing red."