Disclaimer: i do not own Naruto or any of its characters, if i did i'd be one happy muthafucka.

Intro: opening

main characters

Naruto & Sakura

we find our friend naruto in his trashed apartment feeling, alone. he's making his favorite food, insta-roman.

as he stirs in the seasoning he looks out the window to see, a thin layer of snow forming on the cold ground.

it was December, and the holidays were coming up soon. with him being a parent-less 16 year old, he'd be spending Christmas alone, again. feeling lonely he turned his attention back to his food. he ate and got ready to tackle his day, he was soon out the door.

he found himself heading to the training grounds, where he'd be meeting kakashi.

"i wonder what he wants?" he asked himself.

now to our rosette, sakura.

she was just exiting her bathroom, ending her shower. she didn't eat because she had bin asked to join her master at a local restaurant. she was soon ready and on her way out the door.

"she always 'calls me' when she wants to scold me" she said.

"she's probably already 'wasted' on sake" she smiled.

she opened the door to the shop, looked around and found tsunade sitting at...the bar of course.

she approached her friend and teacher, and sat down beside her.

"whats going on" sakura asked.

"nothing, i just wanted to spend the morning with my number one student,whats wrong with that?" tsunade asked.

"there isn't anything wrong with that, except you don't do these kinds of things" she answered.

"ok listen, we really do need to talk" tsunade said re-filling her glass with sake.

naruto approached the training grounds, he saw kakashi in the distance he got closer before.

"whats up?" he asked.

"naruto, i brought you here because there's something important i think i should bring to your attention." kakashi stated.

"hm? whats that" he asked.

"sakura" he answered.

naruto stared off "what about her?" he asked.

"when are you going to tell her how you feel?" kakashi asked.

"about what?" sakura said making a confused face.

"naruto" she answered.

"why, what happened?" sakura asked frantically.

"nothing happened, that's not it" tsunade stated.

"what then, what is it" she asked.

"do you love him?" tsunade asked.

"what, no i love sasu-" she stopped herself knowing she didn't love him anymore.

"it's obvious you love him, look at how you reacted thinking he was hurt." she stated.

"he's my friend, thats all" she said standing up and leaving.

''that does't have anything to do with you" naruto stated.

"no, you right but...im here to help you" kakashi informed.

"well, don't" he yelled before storming off.

"why does he think he can just jump in" naruto thought.

naruto went around the corner dragging his feet through now deep snow. he ended up at his old school, at the park where he sat on a swing.

sigh* "what am i gunna do" he started. "about her" he thought.

our other teen was thinking something very similar.

"do i love naruto?" she thought.

she was on her way home. she arrived shortly. she had a letter on her stand. she opened it.

she had a mission today, with team 7, the first full team 7 mission in awhile. this would definitely test her feeling for him.

soon naruto, sakura, and kakashi were in the hokage's office receiving there mission instructions.

"you'r mission, as team 7 is to escort a fellow cloud ninja. you will be meeting him in the land of iron, at the north hideout. then you'll be taking him to the east hideout." tsunade explained.

"why are we escorting him?" sakura asked.

"because the ninja your helping is a target of a few sound ninja, who have bin spotted in the land of iron." she answered.

"ok, lets go" naruto said excitedly.

"were not leaving until tomorrow" kakashi exclaimed.

"why, it'll take at least 2 days to get there" naruto pointed out.

"we know, but we wont be walking...were being summoned." kakashi answered.

"how?" naruto asked.

"you'll see tomorrow for now we need to get a goods night rest, and be ready bright and early." kakashi said.

"ok" naruto answered.

"dismissed" tsunade stated.

they all continued there day and went to bed early, except naruto.

he sat up most of the night thinking about spending the first mission in a long time, with sakura. he daydreamed about this for hours before falling asleep.

END: OPENING.

A/N sorry for the short chapter, it was just the set-up for the story. i update with new chapters every week to two weeks so please keep reading, my next chapter will be out by sat. the 3rd of august. todays the 27,

NOW PLEASE REVIEW, IDC if its tips, thoughts, conclusions, what you think should happen later, it doesnt matter just let me know, thanks.

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