Death was desperate for someone to take over. He'd been reaping souls of millions of years, and was growing tired and weary of it. After searching for many centuries, he finally finds a perky blonde by the name of Naruto, who'd been depressed and wallowing in self pity over the death of Jiraiya.
Naruto, wondering if he'd ever be whole again, is visited by a cruelly beautiful man with sleek black wings, who says that he can let him talk with Jiraiya once more, but at the cost of losing his humanity, and a chance at a normal life. Looking at where he was at that moment, Naruto's only thought,
was that it was an offer he couldn't refuse.
"You really haven't changed. You're still annoying." He only stayed because the voice of his dead brother told him so. But somewhere down the road, amidst the laughter and the tears, she helped him understand why Itachi would sacrifice his life for Konoha. It was because of her that Sasuke realized what it meant to find a place he could call home. And she was it. SasuSaku. completed