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A/N: ignore grammar mistakes. Please review.

In this story at present kakashi is 37 and sakura is 24.


Standing there, beside her bed in front of a mirror, she holds a book. A book gifted to her by the man she loved with all her heart. It was his last gift to her. Tracing fingers over what he had written in his shabby, worse than a five year old child's hand writing, 'to the most beautiful woman'. A tear ran through her cheeks & fall on the book. She was too immersed in her thoughts to notice. Did he ever love me? Or was i just a toy to him, with which he played until his heart was content & thrown away like it meant nothing. It was what everyone has told her, tsunade, her friends & other people in the village who claim to know him pretty well, that he could not commit to anyone. He always ran away from one left when things started to get serious. It was her daily routine for last 4 years & 10 days, since the day she known that he left for roaming & collecting information for village in position of Jairaya, to try to hate him, to try to feel nothing about him. But she could not change the fact she loved him back then & still love him with all her heart. But now there is anger, fear, pain with love in her heart. Loads of it. Tsunade tried to make her forget him but she could not. She could not believe what they told about him. But, she also could not change the fact that he never meet or write to her in four years. He never tried to be in contact with her. His letters arrives for hokage having some information in 2-3 months without a single mention of her. He asked about naruto, gai, tsunade but never of her.

A sudden pounding on the gate jolted her out of her thoughts. She quickly shut the book & placed it in its place with other books. She quickly moves to bathroom without answering the gate. After rinsing her face from water, she starts brushing her hair. The thumping sound on gate is getting impatient & louder with passing every moment. She had to go to a festival in konoha with her dearest friend who now happens to be the hokage. Still as loudmouth & impatient as ever but with more tact to talk to people especially important ones. He has done a fine job in keeping the peace in the village & world. She had to speak & stop his pounding against the door as any second from now the door will be uprooted or broken. "I am getting ready, naruto. If my door gets any damage, i will kick you to all the way to suna." Suddenly, the beatings against door stopped. "Relax sakura, i am not going to break it & we are getting late, Hinata & Aki are waiting for us to join." Naruto told her why he is being impatient. His wife & three year old son are waiting for him, to visit the festival. He rarely gets free time to spend with his child & now when have some, he don't want to waste it here in front of a door. But, he cannot leave sakura. She is the one who is suffering most. A strong kunoichi with a kind heart. She would never let kakashi go. She would have just stay inside her whole life if she could. With no desire to talk & meet people she has no social life. She dated only two men for 2-3 days in last four years & that was only because of his & ino's endless persuasion. Whatever they do to tell her that he is not coming back, probably would be with another one now & he never cared for her, she would never listen to them. For her, he is still her knight in shining armour on a white horse. She comes out of her flat, locks the door & turn to her blonde friend "alright, let's go." Naruto watches her from toe to her top & says "you look quite normal today. No foul makeup, no messed hairs, no bathroom slippers, what is the matter sakura?" annoyed by the accusation she tells her old friend "i just wanted to look nice tonight." Naruto is quite relieved by her statement. It is the start, she is finally starting to make. It took her four years to get to normal & people called him a slow one. "That's nice to hear. Now let's get going Hinata & aki are waiting for us to join." Yes, today she is totally ready to forget previous chapter of her life & start a new one.


'It's been four years.' Kakashi whispers to himself as large gates of village come into his view. He hasn't seen anyone in last four years. He can finally meet them, talk to them & know what is going on, in the village. It is true that he do not care much about it as all his contacts mentioned to him in past few months. He cared less with every passing day. When he left the village, It was for the first time in his life, since he was five; he had enough time to think about what he is doing all these years. That he has been used as tool over the years & he had been a good one yet he was thrown away like he was never meant to be there. All he wanted now to report to hokage get done with these shinobi duties & get his money so that he can live his life in peace, away from getting used & hurt. Maybe he should apologise to sakura & give her blessings to stay happy in her rest of the life. As he got near the gate, he could hear the hustle & bustle in village. As he entered the village, he nods to guards on gate duty. Their shocked faces did surprise him as it seemed like they never saw him before. He heard some whisperings of guards on duty like 'is he who i think is?' 'I think so, he is kakashi hatake, and poor girl will suffer again'. Ignoring them kakashi continues on his way to hokage tower to report his arrival. Whole time, he got some surprised, some weird looks from people. Ignoring them, as he has nothing to do with them kakashi moved on towards his destination. He just wants to go, meet tsunade, get his money & get out of here. As he was starting to climb the stairs of hokage tower, he saw a little boy maybe of age 3-4 years jumping around & making noise. He was maybe excited about something. He goes near to the boy & asks him "what is the occasion today?" the three year old watch him, his face & found a mask instead. "Who are you? What are you doing here?" Now i have to give explanation to a toddler. Well done, now things can't get any worse. "I am a leaf shinobi. I am here to met hokage & file my mission report." He displays the leaf hand band to the boy & start moving towards his destination. A voice came from behind "today, there is a festival in village. Hokage is not there. He is gone to pick up my aunt from her apartment so that we can go to festival together. She remains quite all the time, maybe these days could cheer her up." This kid do talk a lot for his age & from his talk it is quite certain that he is the son of hokage. 'I thought after a certain age, giving birth is not possible. Maybe she has developed a new jutsu for that also.' Kakashi thought. But to clear his doubts he asked the boy "hey listen, what is the name of current hokage?" child stopped playing around & become very serious "what kind of shinobi will not know his leader's name." Kakashi thought the same. "Well i was away from village for some time & never received a letter from village to know what is happening here. Is it still tsunade Sama?" he asks again. "No, tsunade baa-chan stepped down two years ago. My father became the next hokage." Now kakashi got curious. Could he be the son of naruto as he was in line to become next after tsunade? "& what is your father's name?" "His name is Uzumaki naruto. You must have known him. He is the hero of village." Kakashi could see proud in the boy's eyes. That is what he could never see for himself, a son of him who is proud of his achievements. "So, he finally became hokage. Good to know that but as far as i remember he do not have any sisters. Who is your aunt?" boy sighs, old man is too curious about village & his family. "No she is not his sister. Aunt Sakura was his teammate for years." Kakashi's heart stopped for a moment. He hasn't heard that name in years. He got curious again. "What is happening in her life? Does she also have children?" kakashi asked as he was certain she would have married by now. So asking for children would be fair. "No, she does not have any. I asked her that i want brother or sister to play with but she also refused like my father." A part of kakashi got little happy. 'But it does not mean that she is single. & it was part of deal to never meet her again, so stay focus. Find naruto, take money & get the hell out of here'. "Where can i find naruto?" he asks the boy. "We will be at festival in half an hour. See you there." Ok now i have half an hour, i can find her & apologise to her.


Sakura was moving through crowd of hundreds of people with the hokage & his family. It was a nice to go out, watch people laughing & having fun. She missed it for what, a man who probably will not come back to her, ever. Who probably never loved her, left her like a used toy? She was moving through the crowd watching a father buying his son an ice-cream, a girl urging her mother to buy her a new dress. Then she looked at her friends, all happy couples. Ino with her new boyfriend, shikamaru with his wife temari & besides her walking naruto, Hinata & aki, a happy family. All she desired in her life but maybe she always choose the wrong men. She will try & make her life better. With this promise, she & her friends entered a shop to eat. After few minutes, everybody in street saw a white haired man coming flying breaking the roof of shop, he looked hurt like he was hit by the famous monstrous punch & hokage following his direction of flight.


Kakashi got to his apartment after meeting naruto's son. He is really talkative like his father, just not as loud as the hokage. Well let's just get ready & meet him to report to him. Just as he enters his apartment, he started sneezing & coughing even after wearing a mask. Four years of dust & dirt, it is going to be a lot of work. Today he really envied wind style users. 'Well let's move to a hotel, it will be better.' He thought & got out of his shabby apartment. Taking a room in a cheap hotel near the market of konoha, kakashi started getting ready thinking about everything that would have changed in all these years. For starters, naruto is a father. He had always thought that it would take naruto & Hinata at least next 20 years to reach at the point of dating. If one would try to take a step further other will definitely become unconscious but here they are living a happy family life whereas he is just at same point as he was about 4 years ago. After getting ready, he was hungry. He will try to meet them later. As he was eating his noodles, a bit a pink flashed in his eyes. Kakashi was stunned with it, he wanted to meet her but it was so sudden, he is not ready. He stood up in front of her, the look on her face was changing every second, from surprise to happy then to anger & it started to grow. Her face became red in colour & death seems certain for kakashi. Crying "welcome home" she moved near him & fist with loads of chakra connected to bottom of his chin & he was flying through the roof. The room was in terror, they never saw sakura this angry. Naruto hastily moved to find his injured sensei.


Kakashi wake up in a hospital bed with his aching jaw. "What are you doing here?" a spiteful naruto asked him. He never heard naruto speaking like that. "Not a warm welcome, i was certain you missed me." kakashi replied with placing a hand on his jaw to provide it support. It seems like konoha now lacks good medics. "You left a pregnant sakura behind to weep for months or rather years. Now, today she finally said she is ready to move on, you magically appear out of nothing. Let her live, kakashi." A pregnant sakura, what is he talking about. "Pregnant? What are you talking about?" a surprised kakashi asked. "It is not your concern anymore. Why did you left, sensei & why are you back now?" a cooled down naruto asks kakashi. "I thought you were hokage, naruto. Start reading mission scrolls. It will increase your knowledge" Kakashi said without giving a straight answer but a clue to find his answer. Naruto nods & leave kakashi to have some much needed rest. Kakashi had his own questions to which he will have to have answers now. He started to think of her & slowly drifted to sleep.

A/N: review please.