All characters are owned by Masashi Kishimoto but the story is mine.

All right guys I'm making this chapter a little longer assuming the first one was kind of short.

Chapter 2: The perfect gift

"Huff Huff Huff" Sakura panted.

Man this is probably the toughest training yet. But I must become stronger, in order to keep up with those two. And who knows maybe sasuke might finally love me because of it. CHA! Doesn't look that way. Oh shut up. You can really be annoying sometimes. Say what time is it. The sun is coming down, I should get ready. Don't want to be late for my own party.

Sakura started to dash towards her house until she saw a familiar face. He was quite handsome now. He's tall now, with blonde hair drifting to the side by the wind. Ocean blue eye's that just takes you away. Muscle's can be seen through his sleeveless tight black shirt. And orange pants that- wait. Orange pants? That can only mean?! Yup, you just checked Naruto out, though he's not half bad. Number one hyper active knuckle head to this stud. Well just cause he looks better doesn't really change the way I feel about Sasuke-kun. Well doesn't look like you're crazy for him since you checked out Naruto. Well I might as well drop down and say Hi, I haven't seen him in two month's since he left the village for a mission.

Sakura dropped down in front of Naruto surprising him.

"Oh it's just you Sakura-chan, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you get ready for your party?"

"Well I was heading back home from training and I haven't soon you in a while so I thought-huh?" Sakura realized Naruto had a bruise on the left side of his cheek and his shirt had a darkish-reddish line across his chest. "Um, what's that?" She questioned as she pointed at the wounds.

"Oh these? There nothing I just got back from a mission yesterday. But it seems the wound from my chest opened." Naruto smiled towards Sakura.

Amazing how his eye's can change. Sadness to cheerfulness. Color of the ocean to color of the sky. What was Naruto thinking about earlier?

"*sigh* Baka come with me" Grabbing one of Naruto's arm and leading him to his place. "Might as well go to your place since its closer, by the way what's that box you have?"

Naruto looked at the box he was holding on to.

"This? Just something that belonged to my parents, but why are we heading to my place?"

"Too fix you up BAKA!" Sakura shouted resisting the urge of hitting him.

"Well okay"

"Alright now that were here, where's the key?"

Naruto reached down his pocket to get the key. Oh man please tell me I cleaned this place up before I left to my mission.

"Sakura-chan please excuse the mess heh heh" Naruto smiled nervously as he opened the door.

"What mess silly?" Has he lost it?

What do you know I guess my place is clean after all. Naruto put the box on the table while Sakura dragged him on the couch.

"Take off your shirt"

"Oh ok" Naruto blushed as he started to take off his shirt. He looked down as he took it off embarrassed.

"Naruto what the hell, your whole body is fucked up"

"Well I didn't know the kyuubi would take its time healing it" Naruto started playing with his thumbs trying to come up with more excuses.

Sakura sat besides him and cupped her hand to his bruised cheek then started to heal it. Naruto blushing at the process.

"You know you should probably try not to blush Naruto, you make it obvious." Sakura giggled.

Naruto's face was red right now.

"But its ok" Sakura said as she looked down. Cha he's hot, look at those abs. Eight pack, those are hard to come across you know. Hey I'm not staring at his abs! You're right, his chest is also pretty ripped. Yea it kind of- NO SHUT UP.

"I put cream on the cut but I guess that didn't work" Naruto said as he broke the silence. "You're an idiot for not coming to me, I would've healed you"

Sakura then moved her arms down to his chest healing his wound. She could've gone with him. If she did he probably wouldn't have gotten hurt, knowing how reckless he is.

"Nar-Naruto, I'm sorry. I could've gone with you on that mission. If I did you wouldn't have gotten hurt" Her eyes were teary at the though.

Naruto noticed her eye's watery. He reached her chin and pulled it up to meet his eyes. Color's of the forest meeting colors of the ocean. Naruto looked at her watery emerald eyes, as she stared at his deep sapphire eyes.

"Sakura-chan, quit feeling sorry for yourself just because you weren't with me. We're shinobi, shinobi that pull through anything. The only way we can live is to keep moving forward. Besides I kinda like getting hurt. We spend more time together that way." Naruto grinned at her.

Sakura smiled "Thank you Naruto."

Were you always this good with words? Seems my eyes were too focused on Sasuke, and I never noticed the light that you shine.

"Well I'm going to head to the shower and get ready for your party."

"Yea I guess I should head out." Sakura stood up to leave the door but stopped. Hmm I wonder what's in this box. Well Naruto did say it was his parents… Let's get a peek! No I'm not going to do that. Wait do you hear those foot steps?

As she turned around she saw Naruto completely naked. Sakura looked down and saw his manhood. Sakura blushed furiously red and got a nose bleed. Well that's something nice you don't see every day.

Naruto turned to see a blushing Sakura by the door.

"AHH SAKURA-CHAN, I went to get extra clothes thinking you left!" Naruto screamed as he covered himself running back to the bathroom.

Well you missed your chance. What the hell is wrong with you, I told you I don't like him. Suit yourself. Oh shut up, I should get ready as well. Don't want to be late for my own party.

Sakura dashed out towards her hone to get ready for the special night.

Is Sakura-chan gone? Man that was embarrassing. It's probably going to be awkward at the party but- oh shit! I got to run off to get her a gift!

As Naruto ran off he stopped and noticed the box of his parent's memorials. Naruto opened the box and was shocked to see.

"The fourth's cloak huh, as much as I'd like to put this on I don't want to mess with dad's cloak." It is pretty cool though; let's see what else is here.

While pulling things out he noticed a shining beautiful necklace. It was silver with a circular shape pink gemstone in the center. Staring at it with a blank face. This would be a great present for Sakura-chan, it means so much to me since it's my mother's but I've known Sakura-chan since we were young. She means so much to me, I think mom wouldn't mind. Well I might as well buy Sakura-chan some flowers to go along with the necklace.

With the necklace in a small container, Naruto locked the door and headed to the flower shop.

"Well well well, I didn't know the hyper uzumaki had a thing for flowers." Ino said as she saw Naruto walk in the store.

"I don't actually but I'm going to buy flowers for Sakura-chan."

"Are you guys going on a date or something?"

"Naw just for her party, how come you're not heading out now? You aren't going? It's going to start soon" Naruto yelled as he was in a corner searching for flowers.

"My parents were sent off in a mission so I'm stuck here running the shop'

"Well that sucks, how much for these roses?" Hmm I think I got enough money for these flowers.

"Ehh take them for free, not to many people buy roses unless its valentines"

"Thanks Ino, wish I can pay you back some how" Naruto made a grin.

"Well you know…" Ino got on and sat on the counter facing Naruto. Reaching out her hand and grabbing his sweater pulling him in. Couple of inches separating their faces. "Why don't you spend some time here with me? I know a lot of stuff that we can do together"

Oh shit! What do I do! Oh no, what's gone wrong with Ino? "Well you see uh, I'm kinda busy at the moment" Naruto tried moving back with his face all red from being nervous.

"Oh come here don't be shy" Ever since this guy saved the village he's been getting much more attractive Ino thought.

"Yo loser, if you have time to fool around that means you're not going to the party right?" Sasuke shouted as he came out of nowhere.

"Sasuke!" Naruto said relieved, yes a way out. Bastard came in the knick of time. "Hey Ino why don't we resume this another time, see ya!" Naruto grabbed the flowers and ran with Sasuke out of the flower shop.

Ino smiled as she sees's Naruto dash off in the distance with Sasuke. Oh well, there foes my entertainment.

As Naruto and Sasuke walked to the party, Sasuke started to get curious about Naruto. Sasuke wasn't giving a cold stare but one that made Naruto question him.

"What?"

"What the hell was that back there?" Sasuke said while pointing behind him. It's true, he hasn't stayed in the village long to find out that people treated Naruto differently.

"Well Ino has been acting differently since I beat pain, everybody has."

"Really? Well if you got her attention why don't you give it a shot with Sakura?"

"What are you insane, I don't even like her!" Naruto said as he hoped Sasuke fell for the bluff.

Sasuke stopped walking and gave the most serious look to Naruto. Naruto on the other had been nervously staring at Sasuke trying to hide the lie he just said.

"Are you a fucking idiot or are you calling me one? You make it so obvious that it's not even funny, as a matter of fact it's embarrassing"

"Are you serious? You know?" Naruto started staggering in his own words while looking at the roses.

"Yeah, it's obvious. So when you are going to ask her out? She's a nuisance following me around ad stuff, at least she's not how she use to be three years ago." Sasuke crossed his arms in annoyance thinking about how she was three years ago.

"Well I guess I can, I mean after all I did return you to the village, fulfilling my promise. I'm just afraid of rejection, what happens if things get awkward and our friendship doesn't go how it used to be." Or maybe she'd punch the shit out of me. Naruto shook himself from that thought.

"Well Naruto, it looks like there's some stuff that even you can't do, by the way are you prepared for the anbu exams? Cause we got to be ready for that."

"Wait aren't you not suppose to be allowed to do anything for the year or something?"

"Well like you said an hour ago, I was cut some slack. So seems well be at the anbu exams. Looks like where here now." Sasuke walked in as Naruto opened the door to a fancy building.

"Hey guys! Thanks for coming to my party." Sakura yelled in excitement as she hugged both het team members.

"Happy birthday" both boys said at the same time only Naruto was saying it with his famous foxy smile while Sasuke said it looking away.

"Here I brought you some roses" Naruto handed the roses to Sakura. Sakura smelled them and placed them in a vase to keep them fresh.

"Thanks Naruto, Ill have to remember to take those with me home."

"So now you're twenty-one, adulthood" Sasuke blew the awkward silence.

"You know what that means right Sakura? Sake he he.' Naruto seemed like he was about to laugh while saying that.

"Just don't turn into that drunken hokage, does she ever even stop drinking?" Sasuke implied.

"Sasuke you shouldn't talk bad about our hokage, which is one of the legendary SANIN BY THE WAY!" Sakura yelled at Sasuke.

"Eh a sanin doesn't mean anything to me; a name is just a name." Sasuke said as he was uncovering his ear's from her yells.

Naruto was excited to give Sakura her gift, but because it was important he wanted to give it to her in a special way. Naruto enjoyed himself at the party, but staring at Sakura until she's free and he can proceed with the gift.

A/N: Alright I hope that was long enough for you guys xD. The next chapter will be very interesting :D Leave a review saying if you like it so far or what could be improved. I'll try my best to fix it. Later