Keira's POV

Naruto is learning now. He will probably know what he is now. I can hear him practicing in the opening far away from me.

I activated my Genjustu. It allowed me to be invisible. Well, not really invisible, more like their subconscious passes me over and even if I was standing right in front of them, their eyes would just slide over me like I wasn't there.

It was one of the jutsus I had learned. I had a large amount of knowledge gathered now and knew many more than the average shinobi's amount of doable jutsus. I would say I feel proud.

But I don't.

After these things I don't really feel.

My life dashes by like a movie.

Naruto hears of his Power.

I listen.

Iruka gets stabbed sometime in the battle to protect Naruto.

I stand up.

Naruto runs.

I walk towards home.

Naruto makes his clones and ends the battle.

I make it to the apartment and make Nazu's favorite ramen. His heartbreak is beyond anything a 13 year old should have to endure. Then again, aren't I the same? All this loss, neglect, pain. Emptiness.

Me. My pain, my loss, my suffering. Just as bad as his but I had family. Rin, Miss Sarah. I had people

Realization hits me like a brick wall.

I am it. I am all Nazu has.

The door creaked open slowly. Feet are drug slowly to the kitchen while I wait. Metal clings on the counter as Naruto undoes his head band.

I pace three steps to him and he looks up. Tears spring to his blood shot eyes am I wrap my arms calmly around him.

No words are shared as he falls to his knees, pulling me down with him. Soft cries slip out, soon leading to heart wrenching sobs.

I pulled him to me and pat his back comfortingly, murmuring condolences into his ear slowly.

He throws his arms around my waist and holds onto me, his sobs shaking us both. I let one tear fall. Only one.

I promise to myself that from here on out, I will do everything in my power to use my past pain to heal Naruto's tormented past. I will be his family, his shoulder to lean on until the day he no longer needs me.

He grasps my slender waist like a lifeline, a rope to pull him through the raging tsunami of his emotions. He lays his head under my chin and weeps.

When Rin would cry, it was the same. Rin would come and grab my waist with his small arms not reaching all the way around, and would cry into my shirt while I held his limp form. He suffered much abandonment from his dad so he would understand I think.

After a while, Naruto's sobs transition to adorable light snores, although his hold on me didn't loosen. I gently try to pry myself fruitlessly from his death hold only to sigh internally.

I slowly pull us to the couch and remove his arms. His face contorted to extreme distress so I laid his head in my lap and he soothed instantly. I petted his unruly blond hair, so soft.

I leaned down and whispered in his ear "I promise, I will never leave you". He snuggled against me in his sleep. He looked so young, so vulnerable and lonely in his sleep. I would fix that, with my say he won't ever be alone anymore.

I am here now

Sleep soundly

Because I will hold you close

Lovely

As the night sky

I won't let you go

Goodnight my precious savior.

I sang softly like my mother, my hands slowly going through his hair and wiping his wet cheeks.

Nightmares would wrack his body and he would scream and cry but I kept singing that same verse and calmed him down, sleep was unattainable for me. I had to be there in the beginning of his soon to be sorrowed times.

I smiled. What a peaceful sight. The night terrors stopped and he fell into a deep comatose- esq sleep.

I looked to the night sky. Huh, no stars out. Gruesome nightly images flashed through my head but I forced them deep into the crevice of my mind, to be awakened in the raindrops.

My eyelids sagged and I felt myself drifting off.

Must stay awake

So sleepy

Goodnight and goodbye Rin. I will see you when it rains. I won't see you else though, just faded memories.

Noche sin esterallas, Rin.