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Chap 7 A new Gift

"I love you Naruto-Kun. Remember that."

Sakura's eyes closed after that. Naruto sat there, his eyes glazed over and watched as medical ninja appeared and took Sakura from Naruto's gripping hands and started treating her as they lifted her up and proceeded to take her towards the hospital.

Naruto sat like that, his eyes and mind fixated on the last words of his secret girlfriend until an Anbu appeared before him.

"Come on, Naruto. Let's go wait in the lobby for Sakura."

"Alright, Deer…Shikamaru, I can't move my feet." Naruto admitted after a minute of inaction

"(Sigh)…troublesome. Give me your hand."

As Shikamaru grabbed Naruto's hand and picked him up, Naruto had one thought in mind. I never got to tell her.

Shikamaru sat next to his friend and comrade in arms Naruto. He could see that Naruto was ready to throw up and pass out at any moment. But above all else, Shikamaru could see the worry and concern that was embedded down within Naruto's eyes. He'd seen it many times among the married couples of Konoha and that meant one thing. Naruto and Sakura were going out and it was a deep relationship.

Now it shouldn't really be a shock to anyone of the village. Naruto had wanted Sakura for as long as anyone could remember, but for him to keep quiet when it had happened? That was unexpected. Then again, anything concerning Naruto was unpredictable. So why hide the fact?

After a second or two, Shikamaru concluded that it must be Uchiha Sasuke's followers. He, being in Anbu now, knew of Sasuke's apparent death and that most villagers held Sakura as his precious lover in waiting. They hated Naruto for the beast inside him. Therefore, it could be surmised that they'd hate Naruto further if they knew.

Shikamaru threw his hand around Naruto's shoulder and sighed deeply.

"Naruto, man…Sakura will be fine…she has you to live for…she'll come out of it alright."

"Y-Yeah…probably." Naruto murmured as he shook lightly to Shikamaru's touch.

"Naruto?"

Naruto looked up to see Tsunade walking up to him with Ino trailing her with a chart.

"Follow me. I'll get you in to see Sakura."

Naruto bowed low. "Thank you Hokage-Sama."

Tsunade backed up for a second. He never called her that. He was worried alright. Always was when he was polite like this. Tsunade led the three through the doors and up to the third floor and down a couple turns and past more doors before turning and walking into room 365 where Sakura laid before them with a respirator over her mouth with her eyes closed and a machine beeping out her heart rate from the tubes trailing from her arm.

Besides the machine, Sakura looked to be okay, but then again that was only on the outside. Naruto walked forward before slumping into the chair next to the bed and gingerly grabbing Sakura's hand and slowly stroking it, but Sakura didn't awaken from her slumber.

"She won't wake, Naruto." Ino stated as she started to read the information on the clipboard that she'd been holding.

"Sakura's in a coma. We took out all of the spikes but the damage was done. Her stomach was punctured and her legs' nerves were severed. We repaired those first and she seems to have the mobility in them. The spikes in her hands, however are still keeping her from regulating chakra there at the moment and her right arm is unknown at this point. Finally, a large part of the spike brush against her skull and caused this coma."

"What I would ask is how she dodged them at all," Shikamaru stated, she was limber, yes, but the places that were hit weren't life-threatening.

"Well, Shikam-" Ino stopped herself before looking to Tsunade for confirmation. At the nod she continued. "Well, she has Sasuke's fully developed Sharingan in her left eye, Shikamaru."

Shikamaru opened his eyes further until he sighed audibly with a shake of his head. Troublesome. So…I guess Naruto got the right?

"Y-Yeah…I did, but how did you…"

"I read the report on your mission…Sasuke wouldn't give to one and not the other…he was better than that."

Naruto looked back to Tsunade.

"Who did this?"

"We caught one of the Rock ninja fleeing the scene, but he's not talking."

"I'll kill them." Naruto stated in a fiercer tone than those in the room thought possible.

"He failed in his mission. And besides, we can't have another war. But I am sending you, Kakashi and Shikamaru to raid them and convince them to back off Sakura and her mother."

"No they'll pay for hurting my Sakura-Chan, They'll-"

Naruto suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Shikamaru next to him shaking his head slowly.

'Naruto, calm down. Sakura wouldn't want that and you know her best."

Naruto breathed deeply. You're right, Shikamaru, sorry. But let's get moving."

Shikamaru smiled. "Lets."

The trio of Konoha ninja sped through the gates of Konoha and straight to the east where the village of Rock was located. Over the next few hours, they passed many miles in silence until they arrived at the border into the land of earth.

As they sat around the campfire waiting for night to fall, Shikamaru spoke up.

"So…Naruto, you and Sakura…"

"W-What do you mean? He knows?"

"You both have Sasuke's eyes."

"Oh. Whew. Yeah, what about it?"

"It's just interesting is all."

"What do you mean, Nara-San?" Kakashi implied.

"Well, Hatake-Sensei, most doujutsu are passed along to males only; usually due both to the lack of female ninja and because women are less powerful in a general sense. Most inheritors have to cut their own eyes out and because of that only have time for one transplant per victims with the doujutsu on them.

From what I can surmise, Sakura has the best control with her chakra in all of the known world of ninja and Sasuke had died shortly beforehand rendering the transplant a quick and easy fix. As far as I can tell, the Sharingan can still be passed on."

"W-What? You mean the Uchiha can live on? How?" Naruto asked.

"By you and Sakura having children." Shikamaru deadpanned after a short silence.

Naruto paused trying to think of how to handle this situation. Shikamaru was the smartest ninja in Konoha and could see through most if not all fake and hidden things. What was to say that he didn't already know? After all, they hadn't been careful as of late; what with his passion and her wild side, they were bound to get caught.

"M-Me and Sakura-Chan."

"Think about it, Naruto. You have loved Sakura for as long as I can remember, and I believe that Sakura is getting rather close to you nowadays. All that has to happen is getting Sakura in bed with you."

"Shikamaru, I don't-"

"I know it's a long shot, but we need to take into account that the villagers praised the Uchiha and would hate you even more finding out that you have his eye. But, if it lives on…"

"He has a point Naruto." Kakashi insisted.

"Me and Sakura…wow, would they have red eyes though?"

"Too hard to tell, Sasuke's were black after all, but you have red, and Sakura now has green eyes."

"Wow, a baby Sakura…I never thought of that…"

"Really? I thought you guys had done it already since you looked to be doing it on the way to the tower yesterday."

"What?! You Saw Us?! You Knew?"

"Of course I knew. I'm not a genius for nothing. I'll take first watch."

As Shikamaru stood up and brushed his pants he said one last thing before heading off.

"By the way, I'm glad that you achieved your first dream."

They waited for the new moon to cross the sky before slipping past the border patrols roaming around and seeped deeper into the enemy's territory. As they arrived twenty miles from the hidden rock village, they set their packs down and got ready to sleep in shifts. No sooner though had they dropped the packs however when a squad of ten or so ninja appeared from all around them.

"Damn, they must have a sensory type in their group."

"You Konoha scum will pay with your lives for crossing into our territory."

"You almost killed Sakura-Chan!" Naruto yelled at the commander as red chakra spilled out of his body.

"Pff…I don't know what you're talking about. Attack."

"Naruto, lift it."

"Roger, Kakashi-sensei."

Naruto lifted his headband and showed his devil red Sharingan before flashing towards the enemy with a kunai in each of his hands. Kakashi lifted his headband as well, but stayed back with Shikamaru as support for Naruto and his soon clone army.

Naruto didn't fail as ten clones appeared around him without hand signs and charged forward towards the enemy. The Rock ninja closest to the original fell to the ground after a slash to their guts by Naruto's kunai. Suddenly, the commander appeared before Naruto with a Katana heading towards his face.

Naruto threw his kunai towards the commander, stopping him for a moment which led to Naruto pulling a Black Katana with Fire markings on the sides and charging towards the commander. As they connected blows, the commander taunted the boy.

"So, Sakura-Chan must be your girlfriend…maybe I'll have my way with her after I'm done with you…I can hear her screaming out my name right now."

Naruto finally lost it and sent a death glare at the commander. The ninja near their commander smiled as the insult before their commander suddenly screamed as a fire as black as night covered him entirely. They used their water jutsus but the fire continued to burn long after the body was burn to a crisp.

As Kakashi sent his hounds to kill off the rest of the attacking force, he and Shikamaru walked over to Naruto, amazed at his action just now. Kakashi moved to touch him when Shikamaru stopped him before speaking to Naruto.

"Naruto, cover your eye."

Naruto nodded and as he covered it with his headband, the black fire disappeared.

"Naruto, how did you put the fire out?" Shikamaru asked shocked. "The legendary Amaterasu was supposed to burn forever. Never to die out."

"Isn't that what you wanted? I placed chakra in my eyes to end the technique of course."

"Interesting…Naruto try to do it now."

Shikamaru and Kakashi watched as the black fire instantly appeared in Naruto's outstretched hand, but this time, it looked peaceful. The fire did not burn Naruto's hand at all. Kakashi smirked before reaching out to place his gloved hand through the fire. He smiled as the fire did not burn him and only heat up his hand. Kakashi pulled out his hand before Naruto cancelled the technique and the fire disappeared.

"Naruto, that's amazing. You can choose to cover someone or something in that fire and choose not to hurt them. I doubt that Itachi or even Sasuke could have done that."

"Shikamaru's right. And with your eye covered, other ninja will believe it to be a false Amaterasu until it's too late."

"I got a plan. A plan to keep Sakura safe, avenge her injuries, and keep us out of harm's way."

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