Chapter 1:

The Proposal

"Is there any news on Sasuke-kun's whereabouts Hokage-sama?" Asked a pink haired ninja to her teacher "Still nothing Sakura. Orochimaru has evaded all are best tracker ninjas. But like I told you before you'll be the first to hear when we get any more Intel." The blond said behind a pile of paperwork. "OK, thank you anyway." Answered the cherry blossom sadly, and as she was turning to leave "Sakura wait! Look I know you don't want to here this but it's been two months and we are no closer to getting him back than we where then and may never be able to get him." Sakura clenched her fist but her teacher continued "You must also realize that if we do find him and get him back there is a gook chance that he will be to far gone or wor... "SHUT UP" Sakura yelled "Just shut up. You don't know Sasuke-kun like I do. I know he will come back to me I just know it." (SLAM) she then ran as fast as she could out of the Hokages office her eyes quickly becoming drenched in tears. "Someone get me a drink" Tsunade called as she leaned back in her chair rubbing her eyes.

When she had regained control, and cleaned up her eye makeup, she realized what she had done. 'What the hell was I thinking?'. Inner Sakura cried, 'She is going to kill me during the next training session.' Out loud she said "maybe I should go and apologies" before she could finish her statement her stomach let out a loud roar. "Maybe after I get some food, I didn't eat any breakfast" (this thanks to another one of her diets) she quickly checked her pockets for cash only to realize she had none. 'Crap I must have left my money at Hokage-sama's office' she started to turn back when she felt a paper deep in her left pocket. She took it out to see a coupon with large red letters that said one free bowl of ramen. "Thank you Naruto" she said out loud. Although she was not as big a fan as her blond friend she would eat almost anything at the time as long as her diet permitted it. She then ran off full speed towards the ramen stand.

"Well hello there Sakura, what will you be having." The shop owner said with a smile. "I'll have the low-carb special, Will this cover it." she said as she handed him the coupon. "No problem it will be right up." With that he went to work on the cherry blossom's food and within minutes she was looking at a steamy bowl of ramen.

When she was half-way through she started to reflect on her earlier outburst. 'What came over me, I know she was only trying to help.' But the answer was simple, although it was a truth that Sakura did not want to admit. She was having doubts, doubts about finding Sasuke, doubts about her abilities, doubts about his feelings for her and worse of all, doubts about her feeling for him. These feeling have been plaguing her mind and had caused her to lash out at others (more than usual that is) "Here, have one on the house" the shop keeper said placing a second bowl in front of Sakura "What's this for" She asked and he replied "I know that look, It's the look of someone who has lost something precious to them. I know from experience how hard it is. The best thing to do is to try to keep your mind off it. And when you can't to that, just focus on all the good times with that person." With that he smiles and looked at his daughter who was cleaning in the back and became lost in his memories of times long since past. "Thanks it really means a lot to me." And with that she quickly tore into the second bowl.

When she was done she thanked the owner who stated "No problem, ow and by the way have you seen Naruto I haven't seen him in the longest time?" this surprised her, Naruto not going to the ramen stand! Something was defiantly wrong with that. But her answer soon came charging by as the most hyper-active ninja in the whole village sat down next to her "One large bowl of beef ramen, please!" Naruto yelled out. "There you are Naruto, we where just talking about you." "We?" Naruto asked then turned to see Sakura looking at him, with a very annoyed look on her face. "Ow, Hi Sakura-chan haven't seen you in a while. How is training with Oba-can" Naruto said with his famous grin. "F-F-fine" she stammered. "Is everything OK Sakura-chan." The blond asked with much care in his voice. "Its just that since Sasuke left I've been really upset and I kind of yelled at Hokage-sama." She said while Naruto stared intently at her. Then started reaching in his pockets "So that's what happened Oba-chan seemed more annoyed than usual. Well here Sakura-chan you left this in her office." He then handed her a pink wallet with a white flower design. "Thank you Naruto I thought I lost this." She quickly placed it in her pocket. With a sigh of relief. "So Sasuke-teme has got you upset again." Sakura nodded "I know what will cheer you up. How about we go out tonight." he noticed to shock on her face and quickly added "but only as friends" he then put on his biggest grin and rubbed the back of his head waiting for her answer.

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Here it is the first chapter of my first fanfic. it is a narusaku and a naruhina. How? Simple there will be two endings one for each pair. so if you don't like that than don't read. those who do read it please give me some feedback.

the next chapter will have her answer and there will be much angst in later chapters. plus it will be longer.

I'm sure its obvious but I don't own any of the Naruto characters. If I did Sasuke wouldn't be such a emo, and Naruto would have wopped his ass already