Okay lets take care of some business I do not own Naruto

Now that that is taken care of I present to you the final chapter of this trilogy. Please Read, Enjoy, and Review Thank you

Revelation Through Pain

Naruto stares down at the counter trying to make sense of anything that had happened over the last week. This was especially hard for him since he couldn't remember anything after his fight with Sasuke.

Who brought me to the hospital? I know I was fighting Sasuke and then... I woke up in the hospital. I obviously lost… again but who brought me back. Why was Sakura thanking me? Well at least she doesn't know about the request that she be forced to stay here. If she knew about that she certainly wouldn't be thanking me, more like beating me. I guess I could ask her why she was thanking me, but she might think that I was rude. Where's my food? It's hard to think on an empty stomach.

As if somebody was reading his mind his food came a minute later. "Here's your order Naruto." The old man smiles as he places Naruto's bowl in front of him.

Naruto smiles, "Thank you Icharaku." Naruto finishes his bowl and orders two more bowls. These come faster than the first one did and he quickly eats them and pays the old ramen stand owner. Ok so where to now? I doubt that granny will give me a mission after I've just been released from the hospital. Sakura's probably still training with her right now. Kakashi's on a mission and Ero-Sennnin is probably doing 'research'. I guess I'll head to the training grounds. He walks to the training grounds and sees Lee running laps around the village. He waves and thinks about talking to him. He decides against it, however, and continues on to the training grounds.

He arrives at the training grounds and sees Sakura at the training grounds throwing punches at a wooden dummy. "Hey Sakura-Chan," He screams out in joy. He hasn't seen her since he was released from the hospital. His smile quickly fades, however, as he realizes that she didn't respond to him. She didn't even look at him. "Sakura-Chan… what's wrong?" Sakura starts to grit her teeth and punches harder and harder. A thought strikes Naruto and a light goes off in his head. "Sakura-Chan we need to talk," Sakura punches the dummy (the training dummy not Naruto) and the base cracks. "Sakura let me explain." Naruto pleads. She lets out a furious roar as she rears back and deals one final blow to the training dummy shattering its torso and ripping it apart from the base. She storms out without so much as a glance back at Naruto. He starts to follow her but as he looks over at the stump where the dummy once stood, he decides that she needs some time alone.

Another week passes and the routine went about the same every day. He would find Sakura and she would ignore him. My going off alone couldn't have hurt her this much. Could it? He thought as he walked home. He passes Kakashi and decides to ask him for advice. "Hey Kakashi-Sensei."

Kakashi looks up form his book. "Naruto, I was just looking for you." Naruto walks with his teacher. "Sakura has been pretty upset…"

Naruto doesn't let him finish, "I know she won't even talk to me. I mean I know I shouldn't have left without her but I was just trying to protect her."

"Naruto do you know who found you and brought you back to the village?" Naruto gets a confused look on his face. "She did. She would have left immediately if she could have but the Hokage wouldn't let anyone go until you had been missing for a week." Naruto stares at his teacher blankly, "She was really something. You could've and probably would've died had it not been for her." Another light goes off in Naruto's head.

"I've gotta go. Thanks for the talk." And with that, Naruto was off to find Sakura. He decided to wait by her house.

Finally he sees Sakura come up the walkway and calls out to her, "Sakura-Chan please talk to me." She sees him stops and thinks about turning around but realizes that she doesn't have anywhere else to be. "Sakura I'm sorry." He says walking towards her.

She glares at him and he stops in his tracks. "How dare you." She says with her eyes locked onto his. This time there is no enthralled feeling, just anger and pain at what he did to her. "You had no right to go off by yourself! You had no right to tell her that I shouldn't come." Her eyes began to fill up with tears. "You had no right to lie to me in the hallway." She breaks down and starts to fall to the ground. Naruto rushes to catch her fall.

"Sakura-Chan I…" Naruto doesn't get to finish his sentence

"SHUT UP!!!" Sakura punches him in the face and he flies back towards her house. "Whatever you are about to say, I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT!!!" Naruto stands up and wipes his mouth and spits out the blood. Sakura falls to her knees again. "What would I have done if I was too late? Who would have been there for me if you left me too? I know you want Sasuke back but at what cost? I know you're just trying to make me happy but how happy do you think I would be if you were dead?" Naruto's eyes widen in shock. "The worst part is that you left just like he did. I had to go through that whole process all over again." Sakura can't find anymore to say she just cries into her hands. Naruto's heart breaks after realizing the pain he had caused his beloved Sakura

Naruto walks back over to her and places his arms around her disregarding the fact that another hit was probably coming. "Sakura-Chan I am sorry. I just wanted to make sure that you wouldn't get hurt. Although, it seems that I failed at that." Naruto fights back his own tears. "I never lied to you. I meant every word I said to you in the hallway. You were the reason I kept going and you were the reason that strive to get better. You are my motivation." He thinks back to his conversation with Kakashi, "You are the reason I keep on living. I wouldn't be here today if you hadn't shown up."

Sakura's tears decrease and she looks at Naruto and she catches his eyes and that feeling rushes back just like in the hallway on the last day of school. Time feels as if it has stopped again just for her.

She realized that her feelings had changed when she found out what Sasuke had done to Naruto. No, even before that. She remembered how she had turned around hoping that he would be there. She remembered how she wish Naruto was there if only just to cheer her on during her training with Tsunade. She remembered how hurt she was when she felt that Naruto didn't want her to go on missions with him anymore. She remembered how she felt when Sasuke left. She remembered feeling that she had to get stronger. She remembered how she felt when Naruto hadn't come back after a week. She remembered feeling like she couldn't do anything until she knew he was alright. She remembered feeling like Naruto had something to say on that day in the hallway.

She buries her head into his chest. "I love you Naruto."

Well there you have it my first story is finally finished and i hope you enjoyed it.

I didn't have Naruto say anything because we know how he feels and this chapter was about how Sakura feels so that's what i decided to focus on. my next story will focus on Naruto's feelings a little more than this one did. If anyone is disappointed with the ending I humbly apologize and if you let me know I can do an alternate ending or just adjust this one.

At any rate I would like to thank all of you who favorited this story and added it to your alerts. While it may not have been many, it was enough encouragement to get me through my first story. I thank you all.