Someone Worth Fighting For
By: Ernilriel
Discliamers: I do not, repeat DO NOT own Naruto
'Kyuubi' 'thoughts' "speach"
Sakura looked up in horror to see Naruto fighting tooth and nail against a large group of sound ninjas. Tears started to well up in her eyes as she saw Naruto take another deadly blow from one of the ninja. Sakura couldn't fight because she couldn't feel from her chest down.
Just then there was a burst of chakra coming from Naruto sending all the ninja back by 20 feet. The ninjas knew there mission was complete, so they disappeared. Naruto took a few deep breaths. He wore the classic shinobi style; the black shirt and pants with the vest that has the pockets on the front. Naruto limped over next to Sakura and laid down next to her, he coughed and tasted blood. Naruto took a medicine from one of the pockets on his vest and handed it to Sakura.
"Here," Naruto grunted in pain.
"No, you need it more than me," Sakura said refusing the medicine.
"Listen, it's more important if you survive than me," Naruto said and coughed again.
"Alright, how about I take half, and you take half," Sakura said trying to sit up but she couldn't.
Naruto took a deep breath and agreed. He took half of the medicine, and Sakura took the other half. Naruto felt less pain, and Sakura started to regain felling in her toes. Naruto stood up, and picked up Sakura.
"What are you doing?" Sakura asked.
"We have to keep moving, those sound ninja might come back," Naruto grunted as he limped south. After about 15 minutes of walking the two came to a cave.
"We'll rest here for the night," Naruto said and started for the cave.
Naruto gently placed Sakura down and started to lay out the sleeping bags from their pack. Then he moved Sakura onto her sleeping bag.
"I'm going to look for fire wood, so just sit tight," Naruto said and limped out in search of fire wood.
-Flashback-
"This will be part of the Jonin selection exams, each person will work on their own, your mission is to protect the person that is assigned to you, and if that person is injured then we will deduct points. You will go through a selected course and bring the person you are protecting here," explained the exam overseer.
"Kiba, you are paired with Hinata," announced one of the assistants.
"Naruto, you are placed with Sakura," announced the assistant.
"Shikamaru, you are placed with Ino," said the assistant.
"The whole teams score is decided by how well the one person does, get with your partners and go!" were the last word of the exam overseer.
-End Flashback-
It started to rain and Naruto came back soaked to the bone, shivering with no fire wood.
"S-sorry I-I d-didn't g-get the f-fire wood," Naruto stuttered, shivering from head to toe.
"Come here," Sakura said urgently and with a few zipper pulls combined the two sleeping bags into one, Naruto limped over.
"What a-are you doing?" asked Naruto confused and he kneeled next to Sakura.
"You need to get out of those clothes, you'll freeze to death," Sakura said taking off Naruto's vest.
"Whoa, Sakura hold on a minute!" Naruto said surprised by Sakura actions.
"Listen, I know it's weird, and maybe a little awkward, but you need to trust me," Sakura said taking off his shirt.
"Alright, only because you said so," Naruto said as he stripped off the rest of his soaked clothes.
The two of them got into the sleeping bag together and Sakura stripped off her clothes too.
"Why did you do that?" Naruto asked shivering as Sakura wrapped her arms around Naruto; her warm skin came like a blessing to his clod damp flesh.
"Because I don't want you to die," she answered as she rubbed her hand up and down Naruto's spine.
"I thought you hated me," Naruto said shivering.
"At first I did, but things change over time," Sakura said pressing her cheek against Naruto's chest, "In fact, if not now's the time to say it then I don't know when is. Naruto, I love you."
Naruto was silent, he felt tears well up in his eyes, he couldn't hold it in much longer, he cried.
"What's wrong?" Sakura asked wondering if she said the wrong thing.
"That is the first time; any one has ever told me anything like that in my entire life," Naruto said tears rolling down his cheek; he wrapped his arms around Sakura, "I love you too."
Then she did something Sakura would only do in his wildest dreams, she kissed him. Sakura felt an emotion coming from Naruto that she could only hope to get from Sasuke, and she wanted it more than anything; it was love.
Naruto opened his eyes and was relived that what he had just experienced was not a dream. He saw Sakura in his arms, there ware small beads of sweat dotting her face, chest and shoulders. The two of them were breathing heavy, Sakura had drifted to sleep.
'I love you so much, I'm glad I was assigned to protect you,' Naruto thought and he kissed the sleeping girl's forehead.
'Kit, I need to talk to you,' came Kyuubi's voice inside Naruto's head.
'Not now, I don't want to talk to you,' Naruto answered the demon.
'Listen it concerns the female,' Kyuubi said in his demonic tone.
'Her name is Sakura, and what is it?' Naruto asked irritated.
'She is perfect to carry on your bloodline, I want her to carry on your bloodline,' Kyuubi answered.
'Bloodline? I don't have a bloodline,' Naruto thought.
'That's were you're wrong kit, I am your bloodline, if you have children, then my children live on inside of them, like I live in you,' Kyuubi explained, 'And I want her to bear your children, because I want her to bear my children, get it?'
'No, I won't do that to Sakura,' Naruto thought defiantly.
'You're wearing my patients' kit!' Kyuubi said menacingly, 'I'll give you a chance to think about it.'
With that being said Kyuubi's voice disappeared.Naruto laid his head near Sakura's and took a deep breath taking in her scent. The two of them were still for a long time. Sakura woke up but didn't make it obvious to Naruto, so he didn't know she was awake. She felt so safe in his arms; she wanted to stay like this for ever. Naruto turned his head and saw that it had snowed in the night. Naruto got up and got some fresh clothes from his pack.
"What are you doing?" Sakura asked softly.
"Oh, you're awake; I was just about to wake you up. We need to get going," Naruto answered gently handing Sakura the pack. The two of them got dressed and packed up the sleeping bag.
"Oh man, I'm so tired," Sakura yawned.
"Maybe we should have gotten more sleep instead of-," Naruto paused, and blushed, "You know."
"But if we hadn't, you might have frozen to death," Sakura said wrapping her arms around Naruto and kissed him on the cheek, "Amazing how much sex can keep you warm."
Naruto laughed nervously and turned even redder.
"Let's get going," Naruto said trying to hide his face, Sakura giggled.
The two walked side by side, going south, not a whole lot happened. Naruto had to constantly remind himself to stay on guard. Their feet crunched on the newly fallen snow.
"Hey! Is that what I think it is?" asked Naruto looking ahead and seeing a post in the ground, "Yes, it is! Konoha is only about four more hours away!"
"We did it!" Sakura exclaimed excitedly, and the two hugged each other, "Let's go!"
The two walked the marked path for about three hours, only one more hour.
"Yes, only a little farther and we're home!" Naruto said with a grin on his face.
"You don't think you'll get off that easy, don't you?" said a sly voice behind them, Naruto and Sakura whipped around and saw the same group of 12 sound ninja that attacked them the day before.
The ninjas attacked, it was too much for Naruto. He could take care of 11, it was just one too many. The sound ninja used every weapon at their disposal to slow down Naruto, and it was working. The one lose ninja just waited along the outside of the fight. That lone ninja then slowly pulled out a katana.
"Hold the girl!" commanded the ninja, and two ninjas exited the fray and restrained Sakura.
"NO!" Naruto yelled. He tried to stop them, but four ninjas got him in a body restrain. The katana wielding ninja made a slash across Sakura's stomach, and the blade shone with blood.
"NOO!" Naruto yelled, and tears started to well up in his eyes.
'Kyuubi, help me out here!' Naruto pleaded with the demon. There was no answer, 'Please!'
'What's in it for me?' the demon asked slyly.
'What do you want?!' Naruto asked urgently.
'I want the female you call Sakura,' Kyuubi answered.
'I can't promise that, but if you don't help me then she'll die then nobody could have her!' Naruto said.
'Well, you know, you made me very angry earlier, so this is your punishment: you lose the one you love!' Kyuubi said and left.
'KYUUBI!' Naruto yelled in his head but no answer.
Naruto struggled against the ninja but they were too strong, they probably had years of experience, Naruto was only 16. Then Naruto found strength deep inside himself, and he threw the ninjas off him. This strength wasn't Kyuubi's but something much more powerful. The katana wielding ninja advanced towards Naruto and they locked themselves in mortal combat. Finally the ninja was defeated but at the cost of some heavy wounds on Naruto. The other ninja seeing their leader killed retreated.
"Sakura," Naruto muttered and knelt beside Sakura. She was having a difficult time breathing. Naruto got some bandages and wrapped them over the wound on her stomach. Naruto gently pick her up, Sakura grunted in pain.
"I-I'm sorry," Sakura whispered a trickle of blood ran down her lip.
"Don't be, I'm the who failed," Naruto said a tear rolling down his cheek.
Naruto carried the wounded Sakura back to Konoha. He started to limp towards the end of their journey. They were greeted at the main gates by medical-nin, which helped the two injured ninja after Naruto stumbled dropping Sakura, and she remembered no more.
Sakura awoke in a hospital bed and found Kakashi, Lee, team 10, team 8 and Sasuke in the room with her, Naruto was nowhere in sight.
"Where's Naruto?" Sakura said trying to sit up but Kakashi put his hand on and gently pushed her so she'd lie down, she felt sick.
"Naruto's in the other room, they're still trying to stabilize him," Kakashi answered, "here," Kakashi also handed her an empty bowl.
Just then Sakura felt her stomach lurch and she vomited into the bowl Kakashi handed her.
"You need to get some more rest, so we'll leave you alone, C'mon every one," Kakashi said beckoning every one out of the room, "That means you too Lee."
Sakura thought she would never go back to sleep, but she was wrong, she fell asleep almost the instant the door was shut.
The doctors released Sakura the next day, she wanted to see Naruto but they wouldn't let her in. She took a stroll around the park and found Sasuke with Ino, Shikamaru and Choji.
"Sakura," Ino said worried, "I'm so sorry!"
"About what?" Sakura asked confused.
"I should have kept my mouth shut!" Ino said turning away.
"What is it Ino?" Sakura asked irritated.
"It's Naruto," Ino said cautiously, "he's… dead."
"What!" Sakura said her eyes began to fill with tears; she didn't want to believe what she was hearing.
"I knew that idiot would get himself killed," Sasuke muttered.
Something in Sakura snapped; she slapped Sasuke as hard as she could across the face, and it was pretty hard considering how loud the slap was. Sakura went to slap him a second time, but Sasuke had grabbed her wrist.
"What has gotten into you?" Ino asked seeing how they always competed for Sasuke.
"You BASTARD! You don't even know what happened so you have no right to criticize," Sakura yelled tears pouring from her eyes.
"Oh yeah, tell me, what happened?" Sasuke said in a cold tone.
"There were only supposed to be leaf ninja challenging us right? We were never attacked by leaf ninja; we were attacked by sound ninja! And not just one or two, but twelve!" Sakura yelled her face was stained with tears.
"Sakura you should calm down, you just got out of the hospital," Shikamaru said quietly. Sakura didn't answer she just ran, she wanted to be away from people.
Meanwhile in the garden room of the Konoha hospital a body marked as Uzumaki Naruto started breathing.
Author's notes: I just wanted to do a romance one shot, but if I get enough reviews I might continue it. I don't know! If there's any thing you don't like, or do like please tell me I'd like to know!