THIS IS MY COLUMN!
(Ha! fooled you with the same title)
Weeell, lets us move on to the summary (shall we?)
This chapter: Sakura has become a single mother to Taro, her twelve year old son. Everyone is still hurt by Naruto and when he shows his face around Konoha again, the chase is on! But what will happen when they catch him? (And yes, Asuma's kid will be included in this)
Let us Start anew and Yaddah Yaddah Yaddah
Story START!
"Kaa-san! Look what score I got on my test!" Taro raced into the apartment and nearly knocked Sakura (Who was putting away produce) and made her trip.
Sakura sighed, why was it always the day she had off and tossed the carton of eggs into the air, making them land on the table unharmed.
Taro helped him mom up, "Sorry Kaa-san! but-"
"No buts. What have I told you about going into a ninja's house to quickly. Its-" Sakura started but was finished by a sarcastic Taro.
"Because it dangerous and I might hurt myself, blah blah blah, I know Kaa-san!" Taro pouted and Sakura grinned, she couldn't stay mad at him for long.
Taro had inherited Naruto's blond hair and tanned skin and Sakura's emerald eyes and slender form, the genes dividing themselves equally. Thanks to that though, three whisker like birthmarks lined his left cheek, adding to small tips of light pink in his hair.
Taro grinned back at his mother and peeked around the house, "so, can I help?"
Sakura didn't meet his gaze, it hurt to much, not today.
"Ah, sorry kiddo but I'm sure that Ayame and Jiro passed the test too right?" Sakura said and Taro's face spread into a smile even wider.
"Yeah! I bet now Ino-san will let us play together!" And with that, Taro was off. Ino and Chouji had gotten married a while ago and had twins, naming the girl Ayame and the boy Jiro.
Watching Taro's fading form, Sakura jumped when Sasuke entered the messy kitchen. "Quite a spitting image, Taro is." Sasuke laughed almost bitterly and Sakura poured sake for them both.
"Yeah, it hurts to see that blond hair sometimes. Especially today." Sakura frowned and downed the sake glass.
Sasuke followed her example, "is everyone coming this year?"
"No, Kiba and Chouji are on a mission and Kakashi... We never know. But Shikamaru, Temari, Kankuro and Garra are all coming, we just can't let Garra drink."
The two adults laughed solemnly, "things have really changed in twelve years."
Sakura changed the subject almost too fast, "the genin exams are tomorrow, is Aiko going to be in the test?"
Sasuke smiled in pride of his daughter, "yeah. A year early too." Sakura raised her glass to him and downed the sake again.
"Not too fast, same some for tonight."
"Whatever."
Sakura giggled drunkenly (Sake is very strong) and set the sake on top of the fridge. Sasuke sighed and helped the slightly drunk Sakura put away groceries
"Twelve goddamn years."
Taro raced into the Yamanka flower shop, "Ino-san!"
Ino smiled warmly at him and ushered him upstairs well, more likely Taro ran upstairs by himself, but Ino likes to be the good mom.
She heard Ayame yell and chase Jiro and Taro into the hall, always the loud and destructive one.
Ayame had Chouji's fiery hair and used his cheek markings, but still had Ino's skinny body. Jiro on the other had, was practicality the opposite, having Inos hair and eyes but Choujis big bones. The three together mad a threesome that shook the earth itself.
Ino suddenly felt bad and rubbed her swollen stomach in comfort. She was met with a hard kick, this one was feisty.
"Well, twelve whole years, huh." Tenten walked into the shop, followed by Neji, Lee and their first-born, Yei. The twelve-year-old girl obviously had brown hair, but the byukugan still was present in her eyes, almost looking like a clone of Neji if it weren't for Tenten's attributes to everything else.
"Hello, Ino-san." Yei said calmly and walked upstairs, polite when her parents were around, but you could hear her exited yells from the ground floor. Neji sighed in exasperation and Tenten joined her fellow pregnant woman, "Well, I don't mind the energy."
"So apparently I am hosting the sleep-over house right?"
Hinata walked in happily, her five-year-old Senichi tagging along. "I guess so!" Hinata giggled and Senichi broke away from his mother, "Bye mom!"
"I guess we will just stay here until everyone comes and then take off?" Everyone nodded to this and Hinata felt proud of herself for coming up with that.
"It sure has been a long time." Everyone turned to the voice, "Shikamaru!"
The speaker was followed by Temari and a three-year-old with Shikamaru's black hair, "hi Ino-Chan!"
Umeko race upstairs like the ones before her and Ino sighed, "are you guys sure my roof won't cave in?"
Temari laughed and a large bang followed upstairs.
"Oh, crap." Tenten said and walked up-stairs. "What happened?" Ino asked, worried for her por roof. Neji answered comically, "Yei got into Tenten's weapon supply again."
Another guest got a kick out of this, Kurenai and Asuma's son Yasuno and Aiko, Sasuke's daughter.
"Come on! I want to know what weapon she got!" Aiko's sister-Yuri-pulled her upstairs, the hyperactive girl yelling greeting to all the adults.
Yasuno waved at everyone before racing upstairs to try and control the riot.
Tenten finally came downstairs and the group set off the Sakura's house, Shikamaru and Hinata talking the whole way.
"Damn, I'm surprised that knuckle-head didn't show up for so long."
Sakura woke up happily the next day, glad that Sasuke talked her out of buying a bunch of sake last night.
"Naruto, where are you?" She looked up into the rising sun and suddenly felt guilty inside, like it was her fault that he was gone.
Sakura knew he said he lied to her, he said he never wanted to see her again, but it felt so real.
"I knew it had been real for me..." Sakura said quietly and turned away from the window.
It was one of those days.
You know, those days when you turn around and some random person it standing there.
"Holy crap!" Sakura jumped and Lee sighed grimly at her, "please don't yell Sakura-Chan."
Lee stood up and walked out of the room quickly, "please get dressed Sakura-Chan. It's urgent."
Sakura felt her stomach clench, remembering everything about that day.
Sasuke had come to her house and she had woken up almost just like this, everything was being repeated.
Sakura pulled on a black vest and a brown shirt, hopping into grey pants and walking into the hallway quickly.
Lee was waiting for her impatiently, "please Sakura-Chan, we have to leave. Now."
She was pulled along at almost a wind-blowing rate, Lee had grown to be much faster over the years.
'Naruto, Please not let this be about you." Sakura whispered to unknown ears.
Tusundae was waiting in her office with Hinata, Neji, Shikamaru, Tenten, Garra, Temari, Kakashi and Sasuke. All of them jerked their heads to the door when it opened, exposing Lee and Sakura.
"What happened?" Sakura nearly shouted and joined the rest in the straight line that was formed.
"Naruto has been spotted, he is staying in Konoha right now." Sakura's heart light up at the words.
Naruto, her lover. He came back, to her again.
"He's here?" Sakura said happily, pushing her hand to her chest in excitement,
Tusundae stopped her and looked back to the group.
"I wish I could be as happy as you are right now Sakura. But Naruto doesn't want to be found. Hes grown stronger, faster, smarter and he even has relations to ex-nin now." Garra tensed up and walked stiffly to the front of the line.
"I know what will happen, or if it did happen now. Naruto is going to lose his emotions, one by one. We have to stop him, now!" Garra actually raised his voice at the Hokage and she took a sip of sake and gestured to the sun.
"Bring him back by the time the sun sets."
Everyone nodded and jumped off in different directions.
Temari raced around the rooftops silently, looking for the blond hair.
She never knew she would run into it though.
Although the person had a blue mask covering their face, the hair, eyes and lack-of-headband was enough to convince her.
"Naruto." Temari gaped, amazed that he survived so long, "Naruto!"
Temari tried to hug him, but she was too late and Naruto had already dodged, standing behind her.
"Are you going to fight me?" Naruto asked, menace dripping from his words. Temari grimaced, what changed him over the years? His sparkling blue eyes were deep and frozen and even his emotions changed drastically.
He suddenly shot a kunai at her, testing to see her weak points. Luckily, the female ninja picked up on this and jumped backwards into a bunch on bushes. "Kid sure got cocky." Temari whispered to herself and waited for an attack.
Nothing.
She glanced around frantically, not expecting Naruto to drop down from a branch and nail her in the back of the neck.
Temari fell unconscious and Naruto smiled, "so the hunt begins."
Hinata perched with Neji, both scanning with their blood-line.
BANG!
"Lets go." Hinata nodded and jumped off of the Hokage tower, the sun now near noon.
She free-fell for a split second and then her feet hit tile on a roof, Neji following her.
The two cousins didn't even notice Naruto and Tenten fighting in an alley.
Naruto blocked her last attacks with ease, but felt waaay too uneasy when she still grinned.
"This is a little toy I came up with a few years ago." Tenten smiled wickedly and pulled out something that looked like a hollow stick with a handle.
The handle part was wide and smooth, but it still blended into the stick, which was made of metal.
"This shoots a pointed piece on metal thought a controlled explosion, making everything about this baby deadly." Tenten's grin grew even wider when she loaded and aimed it at the silent Naruto.
"I call it a shotgun."
BANG!
Hinata cursed and backed up her speed, moving inhumanly fast in the other direction, "I can find him! " She thought.
"No, I will find him." Hinata slid down a roof and landed in a dark and smelly alleyway.
Neji stopped next to her, "there is a strong demon chakra source. It has to be him." Hinata nodded, "right"
Again, he scanned the alley way only to find a normal chakra source to her left, hidden behind a few garbage cans.
'Tenten?!" Luckily, the weapons master was only asleep, but her arms were hurt badly.
A moan sounded from behind her and Neji also lay a crumpled heap.
Hinata gulped, she was next.
Naruto jumped behind her but Hinata twitesd around and caught his fist, "too slow."
She spun him into a wall and Naruto countered by bouncing off of it and hitting her with ease.
"Goodnight. Hinata."
Sakura was the last person racing into the woods, everyone had already been taken out to easily.
Temari, Tenten, Hinata and Neji had been found in an alley.
Garra had been found beside the Hokage office.
Even Sasuke and Kakashi had been knocked out, still taking anumber on Naruto though.
"Naruto-Kun." Sakura whispered and a gust of wind blew her onto the forest ground.
Sakura could only jump up and gape at Naruto, "you called?"
Sarcasm hit her like a ton of bricks, more likely telling her to: "Get the fuck away from me."
She shook her head loose of all the painful memories and punched the ground, forcing Naruto to jump into farther away trees.
"Damn." Sakura thought, the sun was close to going into night now.
The memories of Taro filled her eyes and Sakura dodged a punch, countered with a kick and was blown back again.
"Leave me alone" Naruto couldn't finish his threat because Sakurahad already splintered the tree behind him.
It crashed to the ground with an ear-splitting crash and Naruto screamed. He clutched his head and slammed his palm on the ground.
"You don't know what I can do now!" Naruto had begun to shout, the tree incident had ticked him off. Bad.
The wind around her began to grow hotter, sucking away her ability to move quickly. Sakura felt herself grow tired and Naruto smiled, he was winning.
"I left for a reason." Naruto said and pinned Sakura against a tree, waking her up fully.
The air around Naruto was ice cold, like a blizzard and Sakura was shocked awake right before Naruto kissed her.
"I'm sorry." Sakura whispered throughout the kiss and punched Naruto in the gut, causing him to fall over and Sakura to slump against the tree.
"Naruto, what happened to you?" Sakura whispered again and began to drag Naruto back to Tusundae, bruised, beaten and tired.
Naruto shifted on her back and moaned, "Sakura-Chan.."
"I'm so, so sorry."
My first attempt on a battle scene without blood!
Yay!
So not everyone is a hunky-dory and married now, there are a few still dating.
Next chapter:
Naruto wakes up, but doesn't remember anything about anyone. Is he faking it? And why can he only speak to Sakura, the girl he claimed to hate so long ago
Hey don't ask me, I'm just the writer! What can I do?
Oh yeah...
