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Her Quietus
Summary: Sakura died. After the war, Sasuke and the remaining members of Taka continued to wander from country to country. Their team became mercenaries, doing retrieval or even assassination jobs. Karin rejoined them and Taka recruited a new member named Goku, a Casanova missing nin from earth country. After several years, team Taka met an assassin named Kira. The hired killer reminds Sasuke of his dead cherry blossom. SasuSaku.
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'When you are always on my mind and my heart hurts when you are gone what is it that I feel, if it is not love'
-Naomi kay
Prolouge
She'd been dreaming about him every night since he left. And every day, all she wished is for that dream to be reality. But during times like this, the 16 year old Haruno Sakura hoped that those crimson eyes where just part of a terrible nightmare.
The kunoichi focused her chakra on her legs to increase her pace, but the speed that her chakra enhanced legs gave her, had became useless by the unbelievable speed that a certain Uchiha possessed.
The pastel-hair colored kunoichi cursed out loud. She turned right, gracefully leaping from branch to branch. The kunoichi was brought to a halt when she reached the edge of the cliff. She cursed loudly again, pivoting her foot towards the other location, but even before she could jump toward a nearby branch, a dark figure greet her. Wide eyed, she stared at the man standing few feet away from her. His raven hair swayed together with the wind. His eyes, crimson in color, where not the same sharingan she remembered. The rosette concluded that this might be the avenger's mangekyou sharingan. She then instantly averted her gaze elsewhere after remembering that it is not wise to stare directly into sharingan eyes.
"Sakura." his smooth baritone filled the space between them.
Emerald eyes glistened with unshed tears. Hearing her name being uttered by the man she loved ever since she's twelve was painful indeed. When she was younger, she debated with her inner self whether she really is in love with him. But the pain she felt on her chest whenever a memory about him flash on her mind's eye, is a clear indication of the unconditional love she felt for him.
She heard a sudden 'tick' from the unsheathing of the raven-hair's kusanagi. She eyed the weapon closely, as adrenaline rushed within her veins. The ninja inside of her was telling her that this would be her end, since the Uchiha seems to be prepared to end her life. However, the naive girl inside of her hopes that her 'Sasuke-kun' would never lay a finger on her.
Who was she kidding? She chuckled darkly. This boy, no, this man in front of her is a stranger, the shell of the boy she love. This man tried to kill her more than once. The kunoichi doesn't share any bonds with this person. But still, she couldn't stop herself from saying the words she kept hidden in her heart.
"Sasuke-kun, even after everything you've done, I still..." tears began flowing out of her viridian orbs, "I still am in love with you! I love you so much Sasuke-kun..." she stepped a foot forward "Love you too much, that it is preventing me from hating you."
"Hn."
Sakura tilted her head to look at the avenger and regretted doing so afterwards. The sharingan wielder's face was blank, unreadable. He moved his shoulders in disinterest, "I didn't ask you to love me. I never asked for any of this."
"I know... It is just that... I"
"Stop being annoying Sa-ku-ra." Sasuke uttered her name as if she was some plague. Sakura felt the tears on her eyes flow harder. "I'm sor..." but even before she could finish her statement, a stabbing pain on her left lower quadrant prevented her from doing so. Her eyes snapped open to looked directly into the mangekyou sharingan which is only a few inches away from her viridian orbs. Sakura cough and blood flew out of her mouth staining the Uchiha's pale colored cheeks.
"Sasuke-kun... Why?" she questioned weakly, a little shock that her former teammate was able to really attack her like this.
ter this you'll change your mind." he smirked darkly, "Hn, that is if you could survive this one."
Sakura slowly placed her hands over her attacker's cheeks to wipe the blood, her blood, which is staining it. Sasuke pulled the kusanagi from the cherry blossom kunoichi's body causing more blood to gush from the new implicated wound.
"Stop acting that the Sasuke you knew still exist. I am no longer that person."
Sakura smiled and closes her eyes, "I guess you're right." the kunoichi took a step backward which cause her to fell off the cliff.
The gravity pulled her faster than she expected, but all of that doesn't matter now. She's going to die, killed by the only man she could and would ever love. She chuckled darkly, if only she hadn't harbor any feelings for her attacker, maybe she could stand a fair and decent fight. She just hopes that if she even manages to survive she won't see him in the same manner she did for years. If she will be reborn, she hopes to live in the world in which a certain Uchiha doesn't exist. Maybe then, she'll be a better person and maybe she'll grow old enough to watch her grandchildren grow. This was her last thoughts until her mind was completely engulfed by darkness and nothingness.
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