And here are at the conclusion of this story. I'm just going to jump right past the disclaimer, and straight to the part where I say,

Please do enjoy, "All We Want For Christmas" - December 25

Naruto's head was pounding as he slowly stirred awake. He wasn't entirely sure how he got home as his eyes landed on his and Sakura's clock, which reported that it was six in the morning. He thought about going back to sleep, but he needed to go to the bathroom.

He got out of bed and quickly ran into their bathroom to relieve himself. Walking out, he noticed some papers lying on the ground near his bed. Naruto picked the papers up and felt his stomach twist into knots when he read them.

"Divorce papers…" Naruto muttered. "Divorce papers…"

Naruto plopped down on his butt in the middle of his floor. He had a hazy memory of having an imaginary Sakura carrying him… And imaginary Sakura seemed to be receptive to him. But this was real life… not his imagination. The real Sakura wanted nothing to do with him.

"This is what she wants…" Naruto mumbled. He grabbed the papers and walked into his living room, where he took a seat at his kitchen table. Naruto didn't want to sign these papers… But he didn't have a choice.

Sakura didn't want to talk to him… There was no way he could work with her to fix their marriage if she didn't want to talk to him. With a sad sigh, Naruto signed his name to the divorce papers.

"I guess this will be Sakura's Christmas gift this year…" Naruto folded the papers up and put them in an envelope which he promptly wrote, "Merry Christmas Sakura" on. Naruto threw on his cloak and exited the apartment.

I should visit Suna… Naruto thought himself as he walked to Sakura's parents' house to officially end his marriage. Gaara has one of my three-pronged kunai's, so I wouldn't need to get any of my ANBU guard… All I would need to do is fill out the necessary paperwork and get Baa-chan to act as hokage in my absence.

Far sooner than he would like, Naruto found himself standing outside of Sakura's parents' house. He knocked on the door, with much less force than the last time he knocked.

The door open and Sakura's father again opened it, and again scowled at him. He and Kaori had been asleep when Sakura got him last night.

"What do you want? It's Christmas, do you really have to ruin my daughter's day today?"

"I've come to give Sakura her Christmas gift." Naruto quietly said as he handed Makato the envelope.

"She doesn't want your gift." Makato growled.

"She wants that one… It's the divorce papers she left with me… I signed them for her."

Makato's eyes widened. "Oh… well… thank you."

"Yep." Naruto mumbled. "One more thing, I'm taking a trip to Suna. The paperwork I fill out technically requires the Hokage's assistant's signature since I'm sorta leaving at the last minute. I'm going to try to leave her out of it, but if someone comes by requesting her signature, would you please ask her to sign it?"

"You're going to Suna?"

"I'm going to visit the Kazekage." Naruto explained.

"I'll pass your message along."

Naruto nodded his thanks and turned around to leave, but his now ex father-in-law's voice stopped him.

"Naruto… I'm sorry things didn't work it. But I'm proud how well you handled this. Even though I'm angry at you for hurting my daughter, I appreciate your maturity."

"Yeah… See ya Haruno-san." Naruto walked off to the Hokage's office. He just had some paperwork to fill out then he could get the hell out his beloved village for Christmas.

Sakura woke up in her old bed in her old room with a giant smile on her face. She rolled over to see her clock that told her it was eight in the morning. With how drunk Naruto got last night, he was going to be asleep for a while.

She got out of bed and bounded down the stairs to tell her parents the good news.

"Mom, Dad! Guess what!" Sakura called excitedly.

"Oh, good morning Sakura. Naruto stopped by this morning with a Christmas gift for you." Her father replied instead of asking 'what' like she had hoped.

"Really? He was already awake?"

"Yep, I think you're going to like this overall." Her dad handed her an envelope that said 'Merry Christmas Sakura' on written on it.

She smiled softly as she opened the envelope, but the smile quickly left her face and was replaced with a look of horror when she realized what was in the envelope.

"How the hell did he get this?" Sakura swore as she pulled the divorce papers she planned on tearing up. She went to tear the papers apart, but froze.

Even if she hadn't intended for Naruto to ever see these… he signed the divorce papers. He was drunk yesterday when he was telling her that he wanted to work on their marriage… What if that was just the alcohol talking?

His signature was clear; it wasn't shaky like it would be if he signed it when he was drunk. That meant that Naruto agreed to divorce her when he was sober… When he was thinking clearly…

"I know this is hard Sakura, but this is for the best." Makato soothed.

Her father's words, as generic as they were, suddenly made everything crystal clear to Sakura.

"No... this isn't for the best. You don't understand what happened." Sakura tore the papers up. Naruto had such an honest look in his eyes yesterday. He probably somehow found the papers this morning and assumed she left them with him to sign.

"What are you doing?" Her father gasped.

"I found out yesterday that my husband wants to work on our marriage." Sakura smiled. "That's all I want for Christmas Dad."

"But… he signed your divorce papers."

"He wasn't supposed to have them in the first place. I don't know how they ended up in his hands, but he must have assumed I purposefully left them with him and signed them."

"Did I just hear that you're going to work everything out with Naruto?" Sakura's mother asked as she entered the living room from the kitchen where she was busy preparing breakfast.

Sakura smiled at her mom. "That's right. You guys can plan on having the Uzumakis over again for Christmas tonight. Now I need to go home so I can clear everything up with my husband."

"You might want to hurry honey." Makato advised. "Naruto told me he's planning on taking a trip to Suna today. If you want to spend your Christmas with him, you need to get to him before he leaves."

"WHAT? Damnit!" Sakura swore. She grabbed a coat and quickly sprinted out of her parents' house and towards the Hokage Tower. Both her and Naruto were finally ready to grow together, she was NOT going to let him get away.

Naruto finished filling out the paperwork he needed to take his trip to Suna. He summoned a toad to take the scroll to Tsunade. As his acting replacement while he was away on his trip, all he needed was Tsunade's approval and he could leave.

He sat back in his office and waited for his toad summon's return. He prayed that Tsunade wouldn't send the paperwork to Sakura to sign. He didn't want to wait any longer in Konoha today. It was just too painful.

But the most important reason for his trip, was that he didn't want to be the hokage when Sakura officially filed the paperwork for their divorce. The hokage had to sign the paperwork to legalize it, and Naruto didn't want to have to make his divorce with the love of his life official.

He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

Please hurry up Baa-chan…

Sakura leaped from rooftop to rooftop at a record pace for her. She knew very well that Gaara had one of Naruto's special kunai. He could get to Suna in a flash, whereas it would take her at least a day to get there if she missed him.

If Sakura didn't make it in time, she wouldn't get to spend her first Christmas as a married woman with her husband. That thought was unacceptable. Sakura pumped more chakra into her legs and sped up. As she approached the Hokage Tower, she didn't even bother walking in the front door. There was no time for that.

Sakura sprinted up the side of the Hokage's Tower and up to the window of Naruto's office. Relief flooded through her when she saw her husband leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed.

With the grace of an elite ninja, Sakura silently opened the office window and crept into their office. She was a little disappointed that Naruto didn't notice her presence, but she guessed he was a little distracted by thinking she wanted to divorce him.

She silently crept up so she was standing right in front of Naruto. Without making a single noise, Sakura leaned down and softly pressed her lips into her husband's. She nearly laughed when Naruto's eyes shot open in surprise.

Naruto went to snap his head back, probably to ask her what the heck Sakura was doing, but Sakura grabbed the back of his head and held it firmly in place so she could continue kissing her husband.

Sakura slipped her tongue into Naruto's mouth and startled to battle Naruto's own tongue with her own as she sat down on his lap and wrapped her legs around him, keeping him securely locked where he was. She was about to start having a little more fun with her husband, but a puff of smoke interrupted them.

"Ummm… here's the forms you wanted boss." A little toad awkwardly mumbled.

Naruto went to open his mouth, but Sakura silenced him by pressing her finger against his lips.

"Thank you, you can destroy those papers though and go home."

"Umm… alright." The toad replied. It disappeared in a puff of smoke.

"Now… where were we?" Sakura asked her captive husband.

"What the hell is going on?" Naruto gasped the second Sakura took her finger off his lips. "I just filled out your divorce papers… And now you're…you just…"

Sakura silenced Naruto by softly kissing him.

"You weren't supposed to see those papers. I found out from your drunk self that you wanted to work on our marriage yesterday… I don't want to divorce you Naruto… I never want to divorce you… I just didn't think I had any other choice. But now that I know you're willing to work with me, I know we can make this work."

"Really?" Naruto asked with a hopeful smile on his face.

"Really. Now take us home. I miss my rings."

Naruto grinned and in a flash, Sakura found herself back in their apartment.

Sakura smiled coyly at Naruto. "Now you lay right there and wait for me to get my rings back on." She quickly put her rings back on and examined her hand. Her hand just looked right with the rings marking her as Naruto's on.

She took off her pants and jacket so she was only wearing her t-shirt and her panties and pounced on her husband.

"Now then Hokage-sama… are you ready to resume where we left off in your office?" Sakura asked with a sexy smile on her beautiful face.

Naruto smiled at his wife as he grabbed his hands and placed them on her ass. She pressed her lips against Naruto's. They could talk about their marriage later… right now both of them wanted to do something they had been too busy constantly arguing to do in months.

An hour later found a thoroughly exhausted Naruto and Sakura happily cuddling each other in bed.

"God I missed that." Naruto grinned.

"Me too… I especially missed your stamina." Sakura agreed.

Naruto examined the beautiful goddess in his arms. She was his again… But he knew this wouldn't last if he didn't take Iruka, Kakashi and Sasuke's advice. He needed to work with Sakura if he wanted their marriage to work. He knew the conversation he was about to start might end with her getting pissed off, but it had to happen.

"Sakura-chan… I hate how insane you are when it comes to cleaning. We don't need everything ordered alphabetically in my opinion, nor does each and every thing need to have a predetermined spot where it has to go. Also, we should be able to wait until we actually need to do chores before doing them." Naruto decided just to dive straight into the conversation. He didn't really see the point of trying to ease into it.

Sakura's initial instinct was anger, but she knew what Naruto was doing. He was trying to work with her.

"And I hate how messy and unorganized you are. And I hate how you make me into the bad guy all the time."

"I make you into the bad guy?"

"I didn't think you realized you were doing it." Sakura smiled as she leaned her head against her lover's chest. "But you do it all the time. For example, just two days ago at the orphanage, you knew that you had an important meeting to go to. Yet when the kids asked you to stay, you looked at me for permission, knowing full well that the answer was going to be no. You forced me into a position where I had to say no and the kids viewed me as the bad guy."

"I'm sorry!" Naruto quickly apologized. "I didn't realize, I…"

"Shhh…" Sakura shushed. "Just be mindful of it, and try to stop doing it. I hate being the bad guy."

"I will!" Naruto promised. He couldn't believe that he had made Sakura the bad guy. She was about as far from a bad guy as anyone could get.

"Your turn. Tell me what you want me to work on."

"I know you like to be organized Sakura, but do we really need to have all of our groceries organized alphabetically? You have to admit that is going overboard."

"Well… maybe it's a little crazy." Sakura admitted with a slight smile. "But it makes things so much easier!"

"It makes everything a much bigger headache." Naruto countered.

"Fine. But all groceries still need to be put away!"

"Deal. Alright… we got that out of the way, now what?"

"Chores?"

"Right now?" Naruto groaned.

"No silly." Sakura giggled. "We've had a lot of fights about that, why don't we decide who does what right now? I'll take care of all the cooking if you take care of the laundry."

"Really? You would cook all of her dinners without any complaints?"

"As long as you make sure my laundry is clean, of course."

"You got yourself a deal Sakura." Naruto grinned. Sakura was a much better cook than he was. That was a great deal in Naruto's opinion.

"But you let me do the laundry when I want to. If I don't think we need to do any, you don't nag me about it."

"Fine." Sakura sighed. "But I retain the right to start nagging if I start to run out of clean clothes."

"Deal." Naruto chuckled.

Naruto and Sakura spent the next hour cuddled together talking through their marriage. They gave each other the opportunity to discuss what exactly they disliked about their marriage, and what they wanted to work on together.

By the end of that hour, their relationship was stronger than it had ever been. Both were positively glowing they were so happy, and the funny thing was that neither of them "won."

Naruto didn't convince Sakura to stop being so obsessed with keeping their apartment spotless, nor did Sakura convince Naruto of the importance of keeping their apartment neat and organized. But as couples do, they compromised.

Sakura agreed to let up a little and be a little more lenient if Naruto agreed to start picking up after himself more.

While neither Sakura nor Naruto "won" their discussion individually, they would both agree that they won as a couple.

"Thank you Naruto for doing this. This was exactly what I wanted for Christmas." Sakura smiled as she kissed her husband's chest.

"Likewise Sakura. But I got you another Christmas gift that I think you're going to like!"

"And I got you a gift I think you're going to like too."

"Well… want to get up then? I need to wrap your present, but then we can exchange them."

"Sure. I need to wrap yours too and I call dibs on the bedroom!"

"You can't call dibs without any sort of warning!" Naruto half-heartedly protested casing Sakura to stick her tongue out at him. Naruto kissed his gorgeous wife and got himself out of bed.

"Close your eyes!" Naruto ordered. He couldn't have Sakura getting an early peek of her gift. Sakura complied and Naruto hastily grabbed the book he had written for her and scampered out of the room.

"Ok, you can open your eyes again Sakura." Naruto called once he was safely in the living room. He quickly wrapped the book in wrapped paper and waited for Sakura. A few minutes later, Sakura came out with a wrapped gift of her own… and to Naruto's delight, she still wasn't wearing pants.

"Open it Sakura-chan!" Naruto said excitedly as he thrust his gift into his wife's hands.

Sakura complied and quickly tore the wrapping paper off. Her eyes lit up as she read the title of the book, and strangely enough, she wore an amused smile on her face.

"Where did you get the idea to do this?" Sakura asked as she flipped through the pages. She chuckled as she read about how Naruto loved it when she kept him grounded and Sai drew a picture of her whapping him upside the head.

"It was all my idea!" Naruto announced with a proud smile.

"Is that so… well that makes more sense now." Sakura snapped the book shut and looked into Naruto's eyes with an excited smile of her own.

"Open your gift!"

Naruto tore open the wrapping paper and was surprised to find a leather-bound book.

"100 Things I Love About My Husband… by Sakura Haruno." Naruto read out loud with a surprised look on his face.

"Sai gave me the idea to do this… I guess after he drew all the drawings in yours he decided it would be a good idea for me to write you this book."

Naruto flipped his book open and started scanning through it.

"You love my obsession with ramen?" Naruto noted as he came across a picture of him happily slurping ramen up with Sakura smiling softly at him.

"It's cute." Sakura admitted. She grabbed Naruto's book from his hand and shifted herself so she could sit directly in his lap.

"Why don't we read our books to each other? You can read mine to me, and I'll read yours to you."

Sakura's butt that was clad only in a pair of tight panties was currently resting comfortably in Naruto's lap, so he was prepared to say yes to practically anything she said… but he particularly liked that idea and wrapped his arms around his wife.

"Wanna do one page at a time? I'll read you a page from yours, then you can read me a page from mind?"

"I can't think of a better way to spend our first Christmas as a married couple." Sakura sighed happily.

She opened her book so Naruto could read it over her shoulder.

"What I love about my wife, #1…" Naruto started reading.

Many many hours later, Sakura and Naruto were nearly finished reading each other their books, but they needed to go to dinner at Sakura's parents' house so they agreed to take a break.

Naruto was sad to see his beautiful wife put on a pair of pants, but he knew it was necessary. He put on a nice outfit of his own, and the two walked arm in arm down the street to Sakura's parents.

Unlike the past few months, the smiles currently plastered on their faces were 100 percent authentic. They weren't forcing themselves to loop their arms together for appearances sake, they just generally wanted to be as close to each other as possible.

"When you thought we were getting divorced, you didn't go and cancel my parents' gifts did you?" Sakura asked as they neared the house. She knew Naruto's answer was going to be no, but she had to double check just to make sure.

"Of course not!"

"Good. They're going to love their cruise."

"I guess. I still don't think it's the best gift. Boats suck."

"Well I'm their daughter and I know better than you." Sakura teased. "And just because you can't handle riding on a sail boat doesn't mean boats suck."

"Tch, says the girl who never had to ride on one. We'll see who's right when your parents get back!"

"Want to make it interesting?" Sakura asked with a mischievous smile on her pretty face.

"What do you have in mind?"

"I will bet you that my parents will absolutely love their cruise. If I win you have to do whatever I say for a full week, if you win, I have to do whatever you say for a full week."

"Anything?" Naruto asked as his mind conjured an image of Sakura wearing sexy lingerie while he casually threw his socks on the floor.

"Anything." Sakura confirmed as her mind conjured an image of Naruto tied up in their bed in their perfectly organized apartment.

"You got yourself a bet Sakura-chan!"

Sakura smirked. She purposefully failed to tell Naruto that her parents went on a cruise for their honeymoon and loved it. She also purposefully failed to tell Naruto that the cruise tickets they bought for her parents were the exact same route of the cruise her parents took on their honeymoon.

They knocked on the door to Sakura's parents' house as they approached, and yet again, Makato Haruno answered the door. He carefully examined his daughter's smiling face and then looked at their intertwined arms.

"Welcome you two, come on in." He greeted with a warm smile. As soon as they walked inside, Makato grabbed Naruto's arm.

"Naruto, I need your help moving some stuff. Follow me."

Naruto gulped nervously as he was led into the other room by the man who had threatened to kick his ass just a day earlier. As soon as they got out of earshot from the living room, Makato finally spoke up.

"I see you worked things out with my baby girl."

"Yeah… we had a long talk today and we got everything on track. Our relationship is honestly stronger than it ever has been."

"Is what happened these past few months ever going to happen again?"

"Of course not!"

"What's going to happen the next time you two have a fight?"

"We'll talk about it"

"You don't always want to talk about it when you have a fight Naruto, and you can't always force yourself to either. So what will you do when that situation arises?"

"I don't know… But whatever problem we have, I will work with my wife to solve it."

Makato grinned. "Good answer. Do you swear you're telling me the truth?"

"Of course I am!"

"Good. Then I'm happy you're back together with my daughter. Although just a word of warning- If you hurt her like that again, I will take you out."

Naruto smiled at his father-in-law. "Don't worry Makato, I don't plan on hurting my wife like that ever again."

"Then Konoha doesn't have to worry about losing it' hokage any time soon!" Makato joked causing both men to start laughing.

"So everything is alright now?" Sakura's mother asked with a hopeful smile on her face.

"Yep!" Sakura beamed happily. "We talked it all out, and we agreed to grow together. I've never been happier, and our relationship is stronger than it's ever been."

"Welcome to marriage Sakura." Kaori smiled. "I'm proud of you two. You finally made it past one of the first big humps. You two still have many challenges ahead of you, but it sounds like you two have a good base to work from. I know you'll be fine."

"Thanks Mom, I agree." Sakura smiled in return. As Naruto and her father re-entered the room, Sakura smiled softly at him.

She knew that as a couple, they both got what they wanted for Christmas. They got their marriage, and they got the security that came with a strong marriage. Looking into each other's eyes, they both just knew that they would be together until the end of time. There was nothing that was going to tear them apart ever again.

Sakura grabbed Naruto's hand and gave it a squeeze. It had been a difficult six months; but they had managed to survive and were stronger for it. Sakura leaned into her husband as her mother started telling her all about the potatoes she made for Christmas dinner.

It turned out, that the Uzumaki's first Christmas was going to be perfect after all.

Fin! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

I hope you enjoyed this story overall. I tried something different in that it wasn't one large fluff fest, and I actually tried to write in real problems for Naruto and Sakura's relationship. It was weird for me, but I enjoyed it and I'm happy with how it turned out. I'm quite curious as to what your thoughts are on this story. Did you like it? Did the problems that Sakura and Naruto face seem believable? Was there making up believable?

Let me know your thoughts via review!

See ya next time!

-NaruDeeds