Okay ya'll, I know that I haven't been updating my Naruto stuff like I should and I am sorry about that. It isn't that I haven't been trying. I have a bunch of barely chapters written that I just can't seem to get to work.

Anyways, I wanted to give a little explanation about something in this story so no one can say that they weren't warned.

First off- Naru in this story will be considered a legal adult by the village despite her young age. And the one she is paired with will only be 3 yrs older than her. So there shouldn't be a huge age gap.

Second off- there will be no rape. Anything that happens between her and a guy is purely consensual and the reason behind it happening will be explained.

Three- this will be a bit dark-ish and sad and angsty, but it will have a happy ending. I refuse to let our favorite blond be miserable forever.

Four there will be death.

And the Sex-Ed classes/ the village elders that hate Naru all suck.

Enjoy.

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It had been a mistake.

He knew this now. But at the time the incident had happened, he had had so much to do, so much to stress over and think on that he still didn't know just how things had escalated to what they were now. It wasn't as if he had asked for this, well, not totally anyways.

But at the same time, he hadn't been able to turn down her request. Not after she had explained to him in depth about the reasoning behind her request.

If anything this had been those damned village elder's fault.

After all if she had never overheard their plans for her once she graduated the academy, she wouldn't have felt so backed into a corner that she had decided to act on a reckless course of action. Of course he also blamed those less than informative Sex Ed classes at the academy too.

If those fucking teachers had done their job instead of implying that sex should be approached as a sort of training- his young wife wouldn't be standing under that damned Wisteria tree in the middle of the training ground that no one used anymore, protecting what was left of a dead dream.

Sighing, he shifted his weight slightly on the tree branch in which he was seated and looked over his shoulder at the sun to gauge the time. Noting that it was almost sundown, which meant that he would have a better chance of managing to get her to come home with him and eat something and rest for once.

Granted he understood that this was a difficult time for her.

It was for him too.

After all, what parent wanted to bury their child?

He waited a few more minutes for the sun to start setting before gracefully slipping from his perch and deftly landing on the ground below and then after rolling his shoulders a little bit, began to slowly make his way over to Naru.

The second he reached her side, she turned her head to look at him. Her violet eyes, red rimmed and bloodshot from crying and underneath them dark circles stood out in stark contrast against her almost chalk white skin from lack of proper rest.

She was dressed as she had been for the past three months. In a lavender purple kimono with pretty white flowers and petals, her almost waist length strawberry blond hair hung loosely down her back.

She was one of the most beautiful girls that he had ever seen before, even now, lost in her grief.

Reaching out, he lightly cupped her soft cheek in his palm and leaned down to kiss her as she started to tremble slightly. His lips brushed her pale skin as she whimpered his name in a pained tone that made him feel as if a hand were wrapped around his heart, squeezing it.

As if it weren't crushed enough already as is.

Naru's hands came up to grip his shoulders, her fingernails digging into his skin painfully through his shirt as he wrapped his arms around her and just held her for a moment, hoping that his presence would calm her to some degree.

He wasn't sure how long they stayed like that, but he was relieved when she finally seemed to calm enough to loosen her grip on him a little bit. At least to the point where he wasn't trying to keep from winching while holding her, but jeez she still had one hell of a grip.

Loosening his grip on her a little bit, he looked down at her and gave her a gentle smile.

"I missed you today." He said in greeting. It was something that he had picked up from her after they had married. She had said it every time he come home from a mission or something. Now he would give anything to erase the past few months for them and have her return to normal so that he could finally say, I'm happy that I don't have to miss you today.

Naru didn't speak. Really she didn't have to.

He could read her quite easily just by looking in her eyes.

It was one of the perks of being bonded to her in ways that no one else would ever be. Gently slipping his arms from around her, he managed to take her hand and kiss her knuckles before letting both of their arms drop to their sides and softly saying, "Come. It's time that we went home for the night."

Naru turned her head to look at the small area where they had buried their child and then looked back at him as if to say, "But what about the baby?" Causing him to give a tired sigh before he said,

"The baby will still be here when you return tomorrow."

She was reluctant to leave, he could see that but when he began walking, she walked with him though he half expected her to fight him as he begun to lead her the half mile trek back to their home.