Author's Note: Just a short fluffy sweet NaruSaku one-shot. I'd like to thank my friend Milton who edited this one-shot for me today on thanks giving! Thank you for being such an awsome friend :)
Oh! And Happy Thanks Giving to all!
Ps. In the flashback Naruto is 4 and Sakura is 3. And Naruto was at that party because the 3rd Hokage was there (The third Hokage took care of him as a child...at least in this fic he did).
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO. This was made purely for entertainment and I am gaining no monetary profit from it.
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Thanks Giving Special
Thanks Giving.
A holiday in which we give thanks for everything we have. A holiday spent with friends, but more importantly, with family.
Thanks Giving had always been a big event with my family.
To my dad it was all about family and I mean strictly family. We were not allowed to have any gets that weren't family over and we couldn't spend thanks giving with anyone, but family either. The house was always filled with all of our relatives and we all ate and shared jokes and stories and just hang out and it brought us closer together.
To my mother it was all about throwing a huge dinner party and being better than everyone else. Don't get me wrong I love my mom, but sometimes her selfishness and vanity get in the way. She would decorate her entire house and hire people to make a gourmet dinner which she then proceeded to claim she cooked. She would invite anyone and everyone. Her Thanks Giving dinners became so grand with the years that just getting invited would already rise your social status, even the hokage and the feudal lord came!
Sometimes I spend Thanks Giving with my mother and sometimes I spend it with my father. My parents have been divorced since I was three (they got divorced on December 31 so they could start the new year with a new beginning) so I was used to my rutine of switching from parent to parent and compared to Sasuke, Naruto and Kakashi-sensei my life has always been happy and perfect.
It's already been three months since Naruto and I got married and this will be our first thanks giving together as a married couple. And I can't help, but wonder just how Naruto used to spend his thanks givings' as a child. It makes me think about his parents and about everything Naruto and I have been through…
In the past, before Naruto and I were a couple, I brought him a lot of pain, both physical and emotional. Now, like every time I think about the past, I not only wonder what Naruto's life would be like if his parents' had not died, but if his parents would approve of me? Would they have rathered that Naruto married Hinata, who has always shown him kindness, than me who brought him great pain?
In the fourth great ninja war many lives were lost, thankfully it was none of our friends and close ones. To sum it up Madara, Kabuto and Sasuke were all defeted. Naruto had a hand in defeting all three, but the final blow that killed Sasuke was administered by Killer Bee and though Naruto felt great sadness for his friend with time he came to understand that it was necessary because Sasuke was past the point of no return and although he got over his death I doubt that Naruto truly believes that it was too late for Sasuke.
Naruto was loved by the villagers and no longer shun. There was a sense of peace once more, Naruto became an ANBU captain and I became head of the medical branch within ANBU. Naruto had just come back down to Jonin as an Elite jonin and so did I. We are 21.
It was our first thanks giving together as a married couple and we were spending it at home, just the two of us…
I just sat there in silence, poking at my food and moving it around.
Naruto sallowed and put his fork down, "Alright, what's wrong?"
I looked up at him, "Hm? What? Nothing's wrong."
He shook his head, "Sakura-chan I know I can be a bit slow sometimes, but even I can tell something's wrong."
"Um, well…"
"Well?"
I took a deep breath, opened my mouth, but closed it again. I shook my head, "J-just forget it."
"No, c'mon. What's wrong?"
"Do you…? No. Never mind, it's stupid."
"Oh c'mon Sak, just tell me. Is it one of those weird girly questions where you'll get mad at me no matter what I answer? 'Like the do I look fat in this dress?' question."
I chuckled, "No…"
"Then ask me already!"
I sighed, "D-do you…do y-you love m-me?"
Naruto's face was a mix of outrage and shock, "Of course I love you Sakura-chan!"
"But! Why do you love me?"
Now he seemed, no, is extremely confused, "What?"
"I-I mean," I sighed, "You've loved me since before we were friends. Heck, even before we were teammates. You couldn't have felt any diferent about me than how I felt about Sasuke."
"I…I was always mean to you," I met his gaze, "Hinata's always been nice to you. So why me, the one who hurt you, instead of someone like her? What did I ever do to make you love me?"
His eyes softened and became distant, "You know how there are some things you always remember no matter how young you were?"
I nodded.
"It was Thanks Giving Day 17 years ago…"
In the land known as Konohagakure a party of grand proportions was thrown, celebrating Thanks Giving.
The hostess, Yoshe Haruno and as her name suggested she was truly beautiful and lovely. She had long platinum blond hair and the most beautiful green eyes.
At her feet clinging onto her gown as if for dear life was a small little girl with pink hair that barely reached passed her chin, she had green eyes that shone even brighter and more beautiful than her mother's. She wore a large golden bow on her head, white panty hoes, shiny black slippers and a poofy gold dress with red lining that made her look like a miniture princess.
Yoshe bent down until she was eye-level with the toddler, "Sakura dear, mother's quite busy. Go look for other children and play."
She gently pushed the girl toward the thick crowd and turned to chat with some of her more prestigious guests.
The poor little girl was lost, frustrated and scared as she moved through the sea of people who all seemed like giants in her eyes.
Soon enough she stumbled and fell, her eyes tearing up. No tears were able to fall though for a blond hair boy came up to her and helped her up, "Are you ok?"
Sakura wiped her eyes and nodded, "Yes, thank you…"
The other child was about to turn away and leave when the girl reached out to him, "Um, excuse me?"
He turned around, "What?"
"My mother told me to look for other children to play with. You're a child…w-would you play with me?"
The boy smiled, but then as if realizing something frowned and in a sad dejected voice said, "Oh…but you wouldn't want to play with me, I'm a monster."
"A monster?"
"Yeah a monster, the kind nobody likes."
"Well you don't act like a monster, monsters are mean and you're nice. After all you did help me. And," she looked at him up in down, "You don't look like a monster. You have no claws or scary teeth. So that means you're not a monster. "
"But I am too a monster! Everyone says so!"
"Well everyone is wrong! You're not a monster no matter what people say. Now c'mon let's play."
The boy nodded eagerly, "Okay!"
"And from that day forward I knew you would always be special to me."
I smiled as Naruto finished his story, "I can't believe I forgot that…hey now that we're looking back I remember December 24th of that very year. Do you remember my mother's Christmas party?"
He smiled knowingly with a twinkle in his eye, "Hm, I'm not sure…How about we refresh the memory?"
I grinned as I began to tell the story…
Author's Note: Well there you have it! And if you wanna know what happens next (Sakura's story) you'll just have to wait `till December 25th when I upload the Christmas one-shot ;)
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Happy Thanks Giving once more to all and may God continue to bless you all :)