Chapter eight of last chance
she looked up and knew the sun was taunting her just by being there. She had barely been at the training grounds for an hour and was already covered in dirt and sweat. After wiping her forehead she sat down on a stump to take a drink, she let her eyes wander around her favorite training grounds. Finally resting on a specific spot, the spot that made this ground her favorite.

Flashback
"Naruto man up and ask her out!" Sakura growled in his ear, as they walked past the training ground for the third time in the last hour. Knowing that at least Shikamaru had noticed them since his chakra had spiked.

"What if she says no and stops talking to me I couldn't handle it if that happened" he shot back wringing his hands nervously behind his back. His eyes flashed from her to Sakura and then back to watch her slender figure go through a set of impossible punches, kicks and flips. As she finished up the last backflip she landed directly facing them and called them over. Sakura didn't think it was possible but Naruto got even more nervous as she approached.

"Forehead I haven't seen you in forever" she said pulling Sakura into at bones crackling hug

"Troublesome" Shikamaru muttered as he placed a gentle kiss on Sakura's forehead, making her cheeks flush.

"What are you two doing out here?" Ino asked and before Naruto come up with a lame excuse Sakura quickly said "Naruto has a question for you" giving him a mischievous smile and leaning into Shikamaru's rock hard chest. Ino's curious cerulean eyes settled on Naruto raising a blond eyebrow,

"Well what's your question?"

"Um...well... it's...will you go out with me?" He said as fast as he could suddenly finding his toes very interesting.

"Of course I've been waiting for you to ask me for weeks" she answered with her blindingly white smile.

"Really?" He asked snapping his head up with greater speed than should be possible, his eyes sparkling from excitement.

"Yeah, ever since we plan Sakura's surprise party together I've kept my eyes on you" she blushed.

"Well then how about dinner tonight?" he asked with his cheeks in full flush.

"Great but no ramen pick me up at eight" she winked and jogged back to the training ground leaving him feeling more confident and he had in weeks.
End flashback

He asked her out of the same place she was staring at, after they started dating they were both the happiest she'd seen them since Sasuke had left. It was great everything was almost back to normal she was happy with Shikamaru and Naruto was happy with Ino they both missed Sasuke, but there was less of a hole. They each had people to fill the hole he had left, making him only a bad memory. A memory of wanting. They still missed him and he would always be a part of the team but now they have their own people. These people loved them back and never pushed them away saying that didn't care.

"Earth to Sakura!" Someone said waving their hand in front of her glaze over eyes

"Huh?" she answered looking over to find Shikamaru standing at his shortened full height.

"You okay? I've been standing here for almost two minutes without you noticing" he said brown eyes filled with concern.

"I'm fine just daydreaming." she answered standing up from the stump.

"Don't give me that lie" he said as he crossing his arms looking scarily similar to Iruka. She stifled a giggle having never notice the similarities until then. She now noticed they were scarily alike she started laughing, breaking the tension. Shikamaru cracked a smile it was nice seeing her laughing and smiling again, he hadn't heard her laughter or seen her smile in a long time. After her giggle fit ended he turned serious once more and asked.

"Really what were you thinking about? We're in this together and I want to be able to help you just have to let." he asked her, love shining in his eyes.

"I know, I was just remembering a happy memory, remember when Naruto asked Ino out over there and for a few weeks everything was like normal. Do you think the good things will stay, the little bits of fun that we did have? I don't know if I can do this anymore it's so hard seeing them I and I feel like I'm going to lose them all over again and this time it will be my fault." tears began welling up in her eyes as her delicate hands clutched his shirt. He wrapped his arms around her looking her square in the eye

"I don't know what's going to happen. We have time though, we've time to plan and we have time to figure out how to make things better. We're older this time round and we're stronger; we can do this people are counting on us! Sakura you can't stop trying because it gets too hard! That's not the girl I know, that's not the girl I love, the girl I know pushes and pushes until there isn't anything left to push. I know we can do this we're both strong we have each other's backs don't worry."

He lifted her chin and kissed her with passion. They held and kissed each other for what seemed like hours, but in reality was only a few minutes. They pulled away and knew they would always be there for each other. The Spirit sent them here for a reason they just had to figure it out from there.

"So if you think we're so tough then why don't we have a training match right now?" She said her eyes glowing ready for a fight.

"Troublesome woman I guess." he said with a smirk.

With Kakashi
" What's with the hair Kakashi?" Asuma asked strolling up behind him in the hokage tower beginning to laugh so hard that he choked on his cigarette.

"That little pink haired girl on my team, she did something to it! I've tried everything and I still can't fix it."

"So the legendary copy ninja was tricked by a little girl that isn't even a genin yet, and now he can't fix it? Seems like you like you've lost your touch." Asuma smirked knowing there was a small list of things Kakashi couldn't do as a ninja.

"I don't know what she did I've tried everything!" he said exasperated.

"Well nice to know that one of our top Jonin was tricked by an academy student I'll be sure to let dad know."

"Yeah and I after that I can tell him about your relationship with Kurenai." Kakashi smirked as the cigarette fell out of his mouth.

"What are you talking about?" he snapped in hushed tones cheeks flushed.

"Oh nothing let's just say the walls have ears." Amusement showing in his eye,

"Well you keep your secret and I'll keep mine" he said with a small grin lighting a new cigarette as they headed their separate ways.

A few hours later about 6pm with Shikamaru and Sakura.
Breathing heavy he held up his hand signaling or her to stop. "Babe I'm beat let' head into town for some dinner and then we can finish this tomorrow morning?" Putting his hands over his head breathing hard, he watched as she stopped in front of him breathing hard too.

"Sounds like a plan where should we go?" After thinking for a moment he said,

"How about that ramen stand Naruto loves? You know just for old time sake now that it's not destroyed we can go there and see it would be nice to go see the old man and his daughter. You two were friends weren't you?"

"Yeah we became pretty good friends. My team and I went there so often after missions it just became our spot; like the barbecue place was your teams spot. And after being surrounded by a group of boys it was nice to have another girl was also engaged to Gemna I remember they were supposed to get married after the war but he died a few months before the war ended."

Flashback
"Sakura-chan!" Ayame called out seeing her pink hair bobbing in and out of the crowd. 'Shoot' Sakura thought as she began pushing her way towards Ayame, knowing she would just come grab her if she tried to run off. Not like she could at the moment. When she got to the ramen stand she saw her eyes widen and fill with the pity that she didn't want, turning her eyes away from the horror in Ayame's eyes.

"What happened to you?"

"I was fighting one of the reanimated Akatsuki named Kisame. We sealed him away, but in the process he hit my right arm and my left leg with his one ton chakra sword, shattering the bone. Tsunade couldn't even fix it. I was given a month forced leave." she told her bitterly because, she knew that there were people dying on the battle field that she could save if she was still the head field medic; but if she couldn't protect herself then she could die before getting to help those people. Tsunade forced her to be the head medic at Konoha for her month leave and gave strict orders to the guards and the hospital staff to not let her leave the city or work more than 8 hours in a day until her forced leave was over or her limbs became healed before that.

"Well, I know you don't want to be here but I have good news! Since you are here you can help me pick out my wedding dress!" Ayame said with a bug smile on her face.

"When did he propose you two weren't engaged when I was home 8 months ago when did he do it?"

"3 months ago he was on forced leave because of a leg injury and was here for about a week and we spent the whole time together and by the end of the week he proposed!" she squeaked happily almost jumping up and down she was so happy.

"I would love to go dress shopping if you don't mind me being a little slow these crutches are terrible!"

"No problem I'm so glad we get to do this together!" they went to four different dress stores before finally finding the perfect one. It had a lace long sleeve on one arm, with red roses going down in a line from the shoulder of the sleeve to the base of her hip. It made her beautiful. As they went to check out laughing a newly stated genin ran to them and gave Ayame a yellow envelope bowing before dismissing himself.

Sakura knew what that letter was; they only used yellow for when someone had been KIA. She knew what this meant and mentally braced herself for Ayame's reaction. After Ayame's eyes ran over the card and she sunk to the floor and began to sob uncontrollably, then began hyperventilating. After five minutes of trying to comfort the older woman she touched her glowing fingertips to Ayame's temples making her instantly go unconscious.

Sakura carefully placed her over her shoulder and hobbled back to Ichiraku's. She told Ayame's father what had happened, his eyes softened as he took his baby girl from her, as tears began running down his cheeks he knew exactly what she would go through and would be with her all the way.

He had lost his wife when she was in the third shinobi war, he had tried to sway her away from shinobi; but he couldn't sway her away from her fiancé, they were in love. As Sakura was about to go home, she noticed Ayame's father had left the letter on top if the booth. She looked around and saw no one carefully opened it she saw what squad he was in at his time of death; he would have been in her sector.

She cursed herself wishing she had never looked at the letter. She went home and sobbed knowing it was her fault that her he had died, if there had been a better medic he might be alive. Ayame would never blame her, but she would always would know that it was her she had been quicker or stronger this never would have happened.

End flashback and chapter
so there was supposed to be more plot to this chapter, but I had more imagination in the flashbacks and I got ahead of myself so mostly this is just filler so sorry.
So the chapters I have I'm going to edit and switch up add a little and maybe combining some cause, I've decided to plot is going to switch up a little so I need to change the beginning a little if anyone wants to be my beta send me a pm thanks for reading :)

Anabel