This
is How it Goes...
~~~~~
Sakura knows she's not stunning. She knows she's not really cute, or sexy,
or beautiful. She knows she's too quiet most of the time, and too loud at
others. She knows how she treats Naruto is as cruel as how Sasuke treats her,
if not worse. This is how it goes.
She knows that Sasuke has some secret ambition, soime life he has to destroy.
She knows Naruto has a goal, a village he has to lead. Ino will finally stop
vying for Sasuke, Neji will slowly bleed off his hate, Hinata will start to
speak up. Ino will be a knockout, and Neji will be powerful, and Hinata will
be healing. This is how it goes.
Somehow, though, she has fallen out of the loop. She is gone, she is voted
out, she is the third wheel. She is the other one, the girl in the back of
the class, the useless one over there. Nothing will hppen to press her into
the memories of those who will be here, nothing to think about in the future.
She will just fade away. This is how it goes.
But Sakura is not bitter. She knows she has helped heal Sasuke's hate-filled
heart, ease Naruto's loneliness, make Kakashi proud. She's achieved good marks,
been respectful to her elders, and followed almost every code of ninja conduct
in the book. She's affected the world, pretty much, through her affecting
others. She knows, as she lays here dying, in this god-awful rain with her
clothes soaked with blood, that everythings alright...
Because this is how it goes....
Ende...
-I try to hold on, while you try to let go...-