Current chapter order: High Flying, That Day, Mr. Brightside, A Hairy Situation , Even Death Can Have an OTP, I Just Want to Dye, Indecent Proposal.

What this!? An update!? Haven't touched this since before school started, so here you go. IN's update is on the way too, but I'm mostly jumping around with the plot. Hetalia stuff will now be on hold until it's done.

Standard disclaimers apply.


"Marry me."

Sakura's face turned a spectacular shade of red as she did her best not die from the piece of chocolate chip cookie now lodged in her wind pipe.

Kid stood behind her lightly patting her back as she coughed and sputtered.

"W-what," Sakura finally croaked out once she was able to breathe again. "What the hell are you talking about?" She graciously took that glass of water the Shinigami offered to her. Her eyebrows raised up several centimeters as she waited for him to speak again.

"I said, I want you to marry me." Kid said. His hand disappeared into his coat pocket and he pulled out a black box. He opened it with a smooth flick of his wrist.

The diamond ring inside sparkled in the light shining down from the nearby lamp. Sakura let out a gasp at the sight. At the moment she was immensely relieved that they were alone in her apartment. 'Naruto would have an aneurysm and I don't even know what the others would do.' The image of Soul and Black Star cackling like idiots and making inappropriate jokes made her shudder.

"You…can't be serious." Her emerald eyes left the shining (gorgeous, perfect, amazing) piece of jewelry and met the yellow eyes of the boy in front of her. She pushed the plate of half eaten cookies aside and sighed. Propping her head onto her palms and took to deep breath to calm herself in this completely unbelievable situation. 'Is this a normal thing for Americans!?' "We're just kids, I've only been sixteen for like, two months and Naruto and I will be going home in a few weeks."

She watched Kid's eyebrows furrow and his mouth turn downwards into a frown.

"I'm well aware of your departure date, that's why you should hurry up and agree before it comes along."

It was clear that the pinkette didn't quite understand his reasoning. Her head was tilted-asymmetrically- to the side and she was giving Kid an incredulous look.

He sat down on the open chair next to Sakura and gently cupped her face in his hand, partly to straighten her posture but mostly just to enjoy the feel of her smooth skin in his hand.

"You can't leave if you're married to me."

Understanding flashed in Sakura's eyes and her gaze softened immediately.

"Oh, Kid-kun, you know I can't stay." She moved to sit in his lap and laid her chin on top his shoulder. "Konoha is my home; I have to protect it and its people." The faces of her friends and family waiting for her to return flashed through her mind.

"But…" Kid tried to think of a reason for her to not to leave. For her to just stay here in Death City, forever. With him. But his mind came up blank; no matter how badly he wanted her to stay he knew she couldn't. He'd heard her wistful sighs and seen her glancing at calendars more often. She was probably homesick and excited to go back. "When will I see you again?"

"I can't say for sure." Her and Naruto's time here was purely experimental. There was no guarantee that they –or anybody else- would ever been sent here again. "Years maybe."

Kid was silent. It was irrational to be so caught up with a girl had only known for about nine months, but things were different when you found your first love. Who knew what could happen in a couple of years. In that time they both could have already moved on with their lives, too busy to be bothered by something that had happened when they were just teenagers.

"I'll miss you Sakura." He took to stroking her short cotton candy colored locks. She'd gotten it cut rather a few inches above her shoulders after an unfortunate incident involving a blow torch and a wayward witch. She fumed for a week afterwards.

"Me too… and I'll miss all the great people I met here too, even if there are a few I could live without." Her hold around his torso tightened. "This really sucks, ne?"

"That's an understatement." The engagement ring sat on Sakura's dining room table, mocking Kid's failure. He grabbed it and came close to shoving into his back pocket before an idea stuck him. "Sakura, can you give me one of hands?"

"Yeah, sure." She unhooked her left arm from her embrace and held it in front of the boy.

Gingerly he took the ring out of its case and slid it onto her middle finger. If it couldn't be an engagement ring then it could be a promise ring. The diamond skull on the band mirrored the ones on his own rings perfectly. Speaking of rings

"Dammit! Why did I only buy one? Now you're unbalanced because of my careless oversight!"

While Kid had a mini panic attack, Sakura took the time to examine the ornament. It was surprisingly feminine despite the skull, which was carved out of diamond and appeared to have chips of the black version of the stone as the eyes and nose. It looked expensive (that thing was a freaking ice rink on her finger, she'd bet her entire library at home that it was worth more than her house). 'Kami-sama, I knew he was wealthy, but this is ridiculous.' She didn't even want to guess which precious metal the band was made of.

Vaguely, she could still hear Kid ranting about the lack of symmetry. It was cute but starting to get on her nerves, so Sakura did the only thing she could think of the shut him up.

"An idiot not worthy of-" His dramatic speech was interrupted by a kiss.

"It's spectacular, thank you. But if you want, I'll put it on a chain when I get home, so you don't have to worry about throwing me off balance." That should take care of any lingering issues.

"When I you get back I'll buy you another one." He said with conviction. Sakura was about to protest; one was definitely enough, but Kid cut her off. "The next one will be your real engagement ring."

The girl was left speechless for a second before she grinned and nodded.

"OK then." She wiggled her digits, admiring the way light reflected off the stone. "I should probably hide this, too many questions you know? And if Ino ever found that some guy proposed to me and I didn't say yes and lived happily ever after, she'd probably beg Shishou to send me back herself."

"Is that so?" Kid's voice held a contemplative edge.

"I know what you're thinking; assuming that you can even past the guards at the academy, there will be no way in Hell that I introduce you two."

"It was just a thought."


OK, the ending was kind of sucks in my opinion (conclusions are one of my biggest weaknesses), tell me what you guys think.

I'm trying to decide whether or not I should do some chapters when they're older or some AU stuff, but I haven't decided yet. Whatever I choose will have to happen after I get IN updated. Look forward to it!