Kinomoto Sakura placed her hands behind her back and smiled at Naruto. In the tranquil night, she looked very gentle.
"Why? It's dangerous to walk at night!"
Seeing Kinomoto Sakura refuse, Naruto hurriedly offered the only reason he could think of to make her stay.
Kinomoto Sakura smiled as she looked around, finally fixing her gaze on the bright full moon. "It's too bright. It'll be fine!"
Suddenly, leaves drifted across the bright full moon in the wind. The wind seemed to possess some kind of magic. Kinomoto Sakura, who had still been smiling, suddenly changed expression, a bad feeling rising in her heart.
"Kinomoto Sakura?"
Naruto noticed that something seemed off with Kinomoto Sakura and could not help calling to her softly. But he was only twelve and did not understand much, so all he could do was call her name.
"Naruto, thank you, but I want to go back alone now."
Kinomoto Sakura was still smiling, but her smile had become somewhat forced.
"Is that so..." Naruto looked at Kinomoto Sakura with disappointment and concern, and a strange feeling suddenly welled up in his heart.
"Don't worry!"
"Yeah!"
The two called out to each other. Both of them smiled, believing those were their best smiles, then waved goodbye to each other...
In the dim room, Sasuke looked at the photograph on the table, wondering what he was thinking.
The people in the photograph were the members of Team 7...
Click.
Sasuke looked at it for a while before suddenly pressing it down.
The moment the photograph was pressed down, Sasuke left the room with his backpack.
From then on, the empty room held nothing but a few household items and the Team 7 photograph beneath them. Like Sasuke's past, that group photo had been abandoned by