Author's Note: I originally had this whole chapter condensed into one paragraph, but after looking back at it. I decided to stretch it to a whole chapter.

Chapter 2:

Somber News

Open eyes. Smile on their face. Bodies cut in half. A pool of blood surrounding what's left of Sakura's parents. This is what Naruto witnesses once the sheets were removed. He stood there with a lifeless look on his face. Everybody looks at the reaction on The Sixth Hokage's face. He still continues to stand there.

"Naruto" says a concerned looking Rin.

The blonde jinchuriki looks away from the sight, "How... How am I gonna tell her?"

Rin gives him a hug, "I understand what you must be going through. Especially since we are about to go into war, but that's the case. Naruto it'll be more painful if you tell her later then letting her know right now."

"I..." There was a hesitant tone in his voice, "I can't... she'll..."

Rin interrupts, "Eventually she is gonna have to know, Naruto. So I suggest you tell her right now before things get messy."

"I.. I'll think about it." The Sixth Hokage walks away from the scene.

One of the villagers yells, "Lord Hokage, what should we do with the corpses?"

"Get them prepared for the funeral tonight." says the blonde jinchuriki, "While I tell their daughter about this."

As he walks away, Naruto thinks back to a time when Sakura introduced her parents to him before they became a couple. Kizashi, Sakura's father, enjoyed having him over because Naruto kinda reminded him of himself when he was young. He was glad to get along with Naruto, which kinda embarrassed him because he was now Hokage. Mebuki, Sakura's mother, teased Sakura about stories when she was a baby. Naruto would get a laugh out of that from her because he'd know how to embarrass her when he has to. In a way, they kinda meant like family to him even though being Hokage takes up most of his time nowadays.

Naruto comes to a stop by the tree where he placed Jiraiya's novel to remember him by. This was after he came back to the village from his conversation with Nagato. Tears flow from his eyes because of what he witnessed just a few minutes ago. Nonetheless, he knows that he can't lie to his girlfriend about this. That she needs to know about her parents who are now dead. Most like murdered since their bodies being cut in half.

a voice calls out, "Naruto."

The Sixth Hokage doesn't react, "What is it, Itachi?"

"I have news regarding to what happened to Sakura's parents." The genius Uchiha reveals to the young Uzumaki.

"Is that true? He asks.

"Everything you need to know" Itachi pulls out a scroll from his cloak, "Is in this scroll."

The blonde jinchuriki takes the scroll, opens, and reads it, "Was there anything else?"

"No. That was all my team and I were able to find." says a calm toned Itachi.

Naruto says, "If you're able to pick up anything else, then let me know."

"Of course." says the genius Uchiha.

The blonde jinchuriki walks back to the Hokage Mansion. Opens the door, and sees his girlfriend with cheerful expression.

"Baby you're back." The pink haired kunoichi runs up to Naruto with a kiss. He doesn't embrace the kiss back, leaving her surprised, "Is everything alright, Naruto?"

Naruto gives her a depressing look, "Sakura, you're not gonna like what I'm gonna say but.-"

She interrupts, "It's alright, you can tell me."

"Your parents, they were covered in blood." The Sixth Hokage said.

The cheerful expression on her face changes, "Wha.. What did you say Naruto?"

"If you think I'm lying then use your jutsu, babe." Naruto suggested.

"Okay." Sakura said.

The pink haired kunoichi places the palm of her left hand on Naruto's forehead. At that moment she begins to see the horrific scene of her parents split in two. Their blood surrounding the bodies. Like a waterfall, tears of sadness run down her face. The arguments she had with her parents about being so rebellious. Hearing them tease her about being Naruto's girl. Sakura embraces her boyfriend in a hug as she cries on the shoulder of his hokage jacket.

"Oh Naruto-" she continues to cry, "I... I'm so lost. Why? Why did they have to..."

He wraps his arm around the back of her head, and waist, "Sakura, it's okay I understand your pain. Remember my parents were also murdered too."

"Baby please help me before I do something stupid." the bubblegum haired girlfriend suggests to her blonde boyfriend.

"Don't worry babe, I'm here for you" Naruto said with a smile, "I always am."

The Sixth Hokage takes his girlfriend to Ichiraku Ramen in order to get her mind off of the horrific image she witnessed in Naruto's mind. She slightly eats her ramen with the same devastating look as before. Teuchi and Ayame try to talk with her, but she doesn't respond to either of them.

Teuchi asks, "Is everything okay, Sakura?"

"It's kind of hard to bring up." The Sixth Hokage answers for her.

Ayame looks curious, "Why is that, Naruto?"

"She found out her parents were murdered this morning." Naruto answered.

Both say, "What!"

The blonde says, "Yeah, I don't wanna bring it up otherwise you know."

"It's understandable." Ayame said.

As she finishes her ramen, Sakura stare blankly into the empty bowl. Still trying to make sense to the matter that her parents aren't alive anymore. The waterfall of sorrow run down her cheeks. Naruto comforts his emotional girlfriend.

Out of the blew, A voice says "I figured you'd be here, Lord Hokage."

Naruto turns around to the shinobi that called him out. Shikamaru Nara, he isn't the only one standing in front of the hokage and his girlfriend. Neji Hyuuga. Rock Lee. Tenten. Hinata Hyuuga. Kiba Inuzuka. Shino Aburame. Ino Yamanaka, and Choji Akimichi. They are all standing by the son of Shikaku Nara.

"What do you guys want?" The blonde jinchuriki asked.

Shikamaru explains, "We got the news about the incident, and..."

"We thought about visiting our friend." Ino Yamanaka finishes the sentence.

Hinata says, "Rin gave us the news after you left the scene."

"I don't think she wants anybody here except for me." says a hesitated Naruto.

Kiba puts his hand on The Hokage's shoulder, "Bro, she'll be fine. We'll all be here for her right now."

Neji says, "Exactly, Sakura is our comrade. We'll do what we can to help."

A cheerful Choji says, "Couldn't have said it better myself."

An unsure Shino says, "I will do the same thing."

"With the power of youth, We won't rest until Sakura feels better again." Rock Lee said.

Tenten thinks, "Well my question is, what should we do to help her?"

Despite the conversation between Naruto and his friends, The bubblegum haired kunoichi doesn't respond back, or even listen to them as she is still in depression over the murder of her parents. She continues to stare blankly at the empty bowl.

"What did you say?" a shocked blonde jinchuriki said.

"It's Tobi, a couple of intel sources have spotted him in the vicinity." Shikamaru explains.

A suspicious look appears on his face, "If he is here, then there is no doubt that I'm gonna put an end to him."

A concerned Hinata says, "But what if you don't make it out alive."

The young Uzumaki expresses a dark glare at her, "That doesn't matter. I will make sure I killed him even if it means making..."

Suddenly he receives a massive slap on his left cheek. It's from non other than Sakura Haruno herself. She still looks depressed due to the excessive tears that ran down her cheeks, but also displaying a ticked off look at her boyfriend.

"You idiot." an enraged Sakura said as she punches his shoulder.

"Ow" The blonde jinchuriki said, "Baby, I'm..."

She interrupts, "No I'm not let you do something stupid."

"But I..." Naruto tries to talk.

Sakura interrupts him again, "I already lost my parents, Do you honestly think I'm gonna let something happen to you too."

"Did she just..." Lee can't finish his sentence.

Tenten responds back, "I think she did."

Ino laughs at her reaction, "That was kinda quick."

A chuckle is heard from Shikamaru, "Well knowing how Sakura is around Naruto. It doesn't surprise me that something like this would snap her back to her senses."

"He does have a good point." Shino agrees with him.

Sakura shows more rage towards him, "You set this whole thing up didn't you?"

The blonde Uzumaki says, "Yeah I guess you could..."

"I'm leaving." The pink haired kunoichi walks out of Ichiraku Ramen with a disgusted look towards her boyfriend.

The others look surprised by her reaction, "Well Damn."

"I think you should go apologize to her." The blonde Yamanaka suggested to her friend.

Naruto replies back to her, "You've got a good point."

The Sixth Hokage runs towards his girlfriend who's now close to walking into the Hokage Mansion. She turns the doorknob of Naruto's bedroom door, but turns around to the voice of her boyfriend. Sakura gives him the look.

"I don't wanna hear anything." The irritated pink haired kunoichi said.

A concerned Naruto wonders something, "Wait just let me ask you something?"

Sakura rolls her eyes at him "What might that be?".

"How come out of all that depression, all it took was for me to react to Tobi." A clueless Naruto asks his girlfriend.

"Seriously, you're still the same even if you are my boyfriend." Sakura sighs, "But to answer your question. You should know I don't wanna lose you, especially after what happened today."

Naruto explains, "Baby, you know once this war starts. I'm gonna have to fight Tobi eventually."

"Just shut up, you idiot." says an irritated Sakura as she embraces him with a kiss.

Their lips lock for about three minutes straight before Sakura breaks it off. Only because something comes across her mind.

"What's wrong?" Naruto asks.

The pink haired girlfriend gives him a curious look, "Well do you have an idea on the ninja that did this to my parents, baby?"

"I think, I've got an idea." The Sixth Hokage said.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter, one thing that interested me in writing this chapter was the pain Sakura had to burden with from loosing her parents and reflecting back to how Naruto lost his parents too.