AN: Well, this is teh first SasuNaru fic I've published. I've a lot of other stories on the computer but it's up for the future to see if I will publish them too.
This story formed in my head yesterday night (27/8 -06 00.30) after I had read a lot of suicidal fics and then I came up with the idea to write this story!

Please read and review.

Warnings: Rated M for suicidal content and content in late chapters that I can't reveal jet.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto the manga or the anime and not any of the characters included, Masashi Kishimoto does. I do only own the plot.

More detailed summary: Naruto has finally had enough of everyithing. He decides to take his own life so he writes a letter and then disappears to who know where? His friends finds his suicide letter which clears much things up for them but they're still shocked. Sasuke runs away to find Naruto, determined to find him before it's to late. WIll Sasuke reach Naruto in time to tell him how he feels or will Naruto die?

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Picking up the pieces - Prologue

Hn, I don't know how to tell all of you everything in this single letter... It's hard and seriously, I'm scared. I'm scared of the future, or more likely, I was scared. Whole my life I've been hated, despised, abused. By practically the whole village population. Both mentally and physically.

But then, I can't blame those who has called me a monster, and I can't blame those who have been throwing rocks and other objects at me to hurt me, cause I know it's true as they say, I'm a monster, a demon who doesn't deserve to exist in such a beautiful and peaceful place like Konoha, a demon is supposed to be locked away from all people and that's why I decided to do this.

Yesterday I dropped my mask, it's shattered and I can't pick up the thousand bits of pieces to patch it up again, there's to many pieces and I'm confused.

It's better of this way, I'm better of, all of you're better of. No one could ever like a demon, you who have been my friends, I really appreciate you, you made me feel a bit more alive, but to tell the truth I'm the Kyuubi no Kitsune, or well... Kyuubi is sealed within my body and therefor I became the one to blame. For everything bad. I became Konoha's official bad guy who everyone enjoyed throwing punches and hateful insults at, thinking at it I've been fed up with hate since the day I was born.

Well, now, when you've read this far I'm probably gone, don't be sad, I wanted to end it. To end my so called life, I've tried several times but the damn Kyuubi heals me, I don't know how many times I've cut my wrists up to see the blood flow and the see how the skin closes up and the only evidence that I cut myself is the dried blood on my arms.

This time, it will be different, I'll make sure that the damn fox can't heal me, I'm going to cause myself so much damage that it will be impossible to heal. I've already planned everything out.

Just forget I ever was there, it's for the best, because you never knew me, I'm not the cheerful, carefree loudmouth you thought you knew, that's my shattered mask. I'm miserable, pathetic and weak. I'm useless, an useless monster as they always said, their words were true...

Sorry, I couldn't keep my promise Tsunade.

Uzumaki Naruto,

and Sasuke... feel free to laugh your ass of, but since this is the last communication we will have I just have to say it... Zutto ai shiteru. Ai shiteru, Sasuke, forever.

Sasuke's hands trembled when he had read the letter through, he had the rest of rookie-nine and Neji's team behind him and all of them had read the letter over his shoulder, they were all frozen in shock, why would Naruto...? He had always been so happy, he had at least seemed so happy... Was all that really fake?

Sasuke let out a choked sob and felt that tears was running down his cheeks, his dobe... No Naruto... Naruto was his... His best friend, no he was more than a friend, he loved Naruto. If he had told him that would Naruto have done this now? Sasuke dropped the letter and slowly turned around, he could only think about one place were Naruto would've chosen to take his life, he turned around so he stood face-to-face to the others, all of them was still in some kind of shock, and to see Sasuke cry and sob wasn't either something normal so that just made everything more unreal...

"It's not to late..." Sasuke whispered and strode through the group of people, "Ai... Ai shiteru... Naruto!" Sasuke yelled Naruto's name before he started to run, run as fast as he could.

"SASUKE-KUN!" Sakura shouted after him, "You don't even know where he is!"

Sasuke didn't listen to her, he knew exactly where Naruto was, The Valley of End. Where they had been fighting, where Sasuke thought he had killed Naruto. Where Sasuke had felt his heart break into thousand pieces but then had gotten help from Naruto to pick the pieces up again... Sasuke still owe Naruto... He would help him pick up the pieces from his shattered life, he wouldn't let Naruto die.

Sakura looked hopelessly at Sasuke's way as he ran out from the village into the rain, to tell the truth Sakura wasn't so upset about Naruto, she was more upset about Sasuke, she wanted him to come back and not go after Naruto.

Then Shikamaru spoke.

"I'm going after him." He said after regaining senses, "We can't just let him die."

The genins behind Shikamaru nodded in agreement. During this last months Naruto had become a valuable friend to all of them, someone they couldn't replace with someone else.

The only one who then didn't sprint away after Sasuke and Naruto was Sakura. She didn't want to believe that Sasuke liked Naruto more than her, and she also didn't want to believe that Naruto loved Sasuke. It was just wrong.

'I... I hope he dies...!' She found her inner self think as she clenched her fists, 'Then Sasuke will come back to me...' Sakura left Naruto's house open up, slowly she walked back to her home, there she would wait for Sasuke to return to her. Then Naruto wouldn't be in the way any longer.

AN: Well, what did you think?
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