I want to thank six people who have stuck with me through out this story.

xxtokoidokixx

Jenkonoka

Sakura-angel113

Darkangelrakell

heroineofearth

Silent kunoichi aka. Fiona

Thanks alot for your great reviews and sticking with me. I hope you guys really like the ending of this story. I'll most likely do another pairing of these two cause after this one i sortof started to like the pairing more. :p heres the final chapter of The Mistake. Enjoy.

i dont own naruto

The Mistake

Chapter Eight: Never Losing Time Again

Sai...

its me Wake up...

..Please...

His onyx eyes looked around the area he was in. The same starry night, Sakura trees. In his dream again.
"Damn.." Sai said. He was on a mission and last he remember was being hit in the head. Thinking of it he brought his hand up and covers the back of his head before bring it over to his face. Seeing no blood. He rolls eyes.
"Of course..." He didn't get hurt here. It happened before with his arm. Looking around he sees Sakura sitting under a tree, playing with a piece of her hair. Walking over he sits down next to her. They stay quiet enough for him to feel like his at the gravesite again before he was pulled from his thinking when she put her hands on his shoulders and brought his head down to her lap. As she starts playing with his hair, she hums a nameless tune.
"Your going to tell me to wake up again, aren't you?" he asks finally. He loves seeing her but he was on a mission. The last time she came he woke up in a hospital days after he 'fainted' as the doctors told him.
Stopping her humming she says "I would really like if you would wake up but.." her voice broke, like she was holding back sobs. "Even am being to think you won't." He open his eyes and blinks up at her. Whats the point of telling himself in his dream to wake up if he was enjoying this dream? So he didn't say anything to her.
"I really wished you would..."She said letting her tears fall, petting his hair with her hand. "But its time. I tried to hold them off... really I did.."

"Them? What are you talking about?" he said reaching up and wiping some of her tears away.
"I really don't want to say good bye, Sai. So please just wake up!" She yells the end. He flinches with her being so close. He starts feeling himself get pulled but her hands are against her face.

"What the?" Sai starts only to feel more pulling, pushing.
"WAKE UP!!"

Sai blots up in a sitting position.

"EKKKKKKKK!!"

Blinking he looks over to see a woman in a nurses uniform, on her butt holding her hands where her heart was, breathing deeply. He papers and clipboard laying all around her.
"You... you...gods!" She spits out still trying to catch her breath. Sai looks around away from the nurse. He knew he was in a hospital which only made him growl and glare at the walls. He was really getting sick of hospitals and their beds.
Turning back to the nurse he asks. "Which hospital?"

"Huh?" she said turning back to him after she grabs her clipboard.
Growling he asks again a bit different. " Which hospital am I in?"

'Oh!" she blushes before going on. "Your in Iwaga hospital. A group of our shinobi brought you in.." She cut herself off as a man walks into the room, where the ninja clothes of the rocks. Which to Sai looked a lot like the same clothes as the ones who attack him. He narrows his eyes on the man, who put his hand up behind his head.
"Hmm yeah.. That was my group. They were doing a scouting mission when they saw you. Sorry they thought you were a grass-nin. We're been having problems with them using our area for something but we haven't found out what yet. Sooo yeah... My deepest apologizes for their actions." as he finish he put his arms down to his sides and bowed deeply.
Sai sighs. well they could of just ask. he thought. "Well... alls well. Just make sure to tell them to check first than attack." he said laying back down. "Did your leader get the scroll?"

"Oh yes. Lord Yuichi got it. And asked me to give you this." he said walking over and pulling out a scroll before laying it on the table next to the bed. "For your Hokage. I have heard you let a Chunin become the hokage, was that wise?"

Chuckling Sai slips from the bed, standing up looking for his clothes. "I believe Naruto will do a great job protecting his love ones; the whole village. Ah." Finding them he grabs them and throws the curtain forward to change without eyes of a blushing nurse and a shocked ninja, looking on at him.
"Naruto? As in the old team Kakashi's naruto?" he asks.
Sai snorts. Old? We're already being called old? he thought dryly.
"Yea.. The same." he murmurs as he pulls his shirt over his head, wincing for the dull pain in his shoulder and as his hand rubs the back of his head.
"What a lost. I became a medic because of her." The nurse said.
"Yeah I met someone who said he got away from them, I laughed at him."

Sai quicken his pace. He really didn't want to hear about his old team. The only ones who got away from them was Sasuke, Orochimaru, and the Akatsuki. Well some of them at least. The rest was killed by other teams.
"But to make him their Hokage.. Jezz. I met him once. A loud, hyper guy. Always seems to be getting into some sort of trouble. Doubt he'll make it long." Both starts laughing.
"Am surprise he lived so long if hes anything like you said." the nurse says before giggling.

Growling Sai grabs a Kunai and throws it as he opens the curtain, aiming for a place between the two. Making the girl scream again and the ninja jump. Grabbing the scroll, fully dressed in the ANBU uniform with mask in place, he says. "Naruto is Hokage and my friend, he may be hyper and sometimes loud but he is a great Hokage and has surpass many great ninjas. Do wise not to talk about him or that team lightly." He moves for the window as the man asks.
"Whats wrong with you? Its not like you were part of that team."

Putting his hands on the frame of the window he says. "I was." jumping out of the window he made his way to the forest back to Konoha. Quietly crusing himself for the out burst.
Naruto really was starting to rub off on him.

He made his way to naruto's office. He had to give the annoying blonde a piece of his mind. So what if the ninjas who attack him was from the village he was going to nor was it ok that it was just a mistake. It was a mistake that naruto did, he decided. Jumping from roof to roof he made it to the hokage tower faster. He almost runs down the hallways to the office of the Rokudaime.
He was a black-ops! Not some genin he could send to get some stupid scroll! And it was high time he was shown that through some old fashion butt whipping. So yeah he was still a bit unset about the mission but still the point being, Naruto couldn't keep sending him on missions that were genin or chunin level just because he wanted too!
Not even knocking he slams the double doors open, only to have his jaw drop to the floor and his eyes bug out of his head.
There was the hokage with his girlfriend in his lap having a tongue battle.

"What the hell?!" Sai said voicing what he thought.
"Oh!" Ino cries out jumping from her boyfriends lap as Naruto stood really to attack before seeing who it was who caught him.
"Oh jezz Sai. Ever heard of knocking?" Naruto said laughing while rubbing the back of his head while the other hand made its way to pull Ino back before she hid.
"Ever heard of keeping it private?" sai said walking in.
"Well we were behind close doors." Naruto said with a nod, grinning as Ino turns red, trying to hide her face in his jacket. "Ino dear, say hello to Sai."

"Naruto..." Ino said hisses at him. But being with Sakura for so long he wasn't scared of the Blonde in his arms, instead he put his face where her neck and shoulder met and gave a kiss there.
"So mission went well?" Naruto asks leaving her neck as she slaps his arm.
"If you don't count being attack by rock newbies and listening to some guy and nurse talk about you and team kakashi... Went fine." Sai said throwing the scroll at Naruto, who caught it and opens it up and starts reading, keeping one arm around Ino to keep her from bolting.
Naruto starts chuckling. "You got your ass handed to you by newbies, huh?"

"I didn't say that."

"No but the scroll does... basically." Naruto said as he countiued to read the scroll.
"Speaking of which, you need to stop sending me on those type of missions."

"Well as Hokage I can send you on whatever mission I want."

"Than I'll see you after your done here... In the training field."

"Oh I don't think so." Ino piped in, pulling her head from Narutos chest. "Hes coming home tonight even if I have to Shintenshin his ass to do it!" She glares at Sai. "Or maybe I should do it to you..." She lets the threat come up and hang there.
Sai takes a step back. Naruto starts laughing throwing the scroll down on the desk as he wraps his arms around Ino and rests his chin on her shoulder, bending down. He was really tall against her.
"Looks like I'm caught for the night." Naruto says grinning. Sai rolls his eyes.
"But I'll start you on missions of your level. It was selfishly of me to pull you from hard missions..." Naruto stands back up and sighs. "I just don't want to lose another, you know?" He asks Sai as he looks across the room to him.

Sai downcasts his eyes before saying. "Yeah... thanks... I'll see two you tomorrow than?"

"Yeah... we'll be there. Kakashis on mission so he won't."

"Alright. Goodnight Ino, Naruto."

"Goodnight Sai." Ino says putting her hand on Narutos arm as he sat back down at the desk. Sai left the room and headed home.

He sat alone in his apartment, looking over his last paintings. Really they weren't to bad, if you don't mind seeing dark and sorrow things. He must of painted her painful filled eyes a dozen times over the last two months. He always started to paint her during her happy times to try to clear his thought of her sad but it always turns back to when he last saw her, crying, hurt and scared.
He knew this must be for letting her died. Even if Naruto and others told him it wasn't, he still felt he could of done more.. Something, anything.
"Your haunting me to death, you know that?" he whispers to one of the paintings of her standing next to a Sakura tree in the white dress, like the dreams.
"I'm lucky it was the rock ninjas or I could have been dead." He sighs. "Or maybe that isn't a good thing... Your still confusing even if your not here." Standing and walking over to his bed he flops down on it. "Now would be a good time to talk, when I'm not in the middle of fighting for my life." he said before closing his eyes.

...Sai?..

His eyes goes widen. "Alright. that's weird..." looking around he still saw his room. Sitting up he looks around not finding what he thought should be there. "Where are you?"

...Sai...

You better pull through this.


"Pull through what? What are you talking about?" he said standing and walking around the room. He walks through the door of his room and walks back out to the living room, the art room.

We're all here.
Just wake up...

"Sakura? Hag come out." He said getting angry. He had looked in the kitchen and bathroom, still nothing.

Ok? You hear me?

Wake up.. Sai...

Wake up!

Pain rips through him as he fall to the ground from the force. Yelling he felt like the sword had just went through him again. His whole body felt like it was being tore at. His eyes blurs in and out of focus. But he couldn't pass out. His room spins until he felt like he was going to throw up but he still couldn't close his eyes from it. His room starts fading. Slowly everything; pain, spinning, tearing, it all went away. Till nothing was left.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

"No... It can't be.." Whispers the green eyed woman standing next to the bed. She had watched as the doctors pulled 'the plug' from the man in the bed. But she was hoping against odds he would get out of it. She felt the blonde man hands on her shoulders.

"It... Oh Naruto He should of woke up!" She cries turning and falling into his arms. "He should of.."

"Sorry for your lost..." a doctor said moving to leave the room. He really hates doing that part of his job, but its what happens to ninjas sometimes.

Naruto stood still holding the crying pink head, as he to cried. Even if Sai picked on him and bugged him, Sai was his friend. He kept his face in the girls hair, trying to keep clam. He felt the girl beside him starts to rub his and the girl in his arms backs. The girl broke from his arms sitting back down in the chair she had been sitting in all day long and night. Still wanting comfort he turns on the other blonde who he towered over and pulled her into a hug, crying in her hair instead.
Kakashi and Yamato stood off to the side watching gravely. It was a big lost to the team. Yamato and sai had come into the team together and had worked before the team, so he turns to the window to watch the village, trying not to think of what had happen.

The pink head holds the mans hand and starts to whisper again likes shes been doing for the last month. "Sai... Please... please just wake up. Wake up."

Wake up

"Hag... Shu... up..."

Blinking her eyes she saw the Onyx eyes of the man staring at her. She reaches out to his cheek.
"Sai? Your ..." her voice broke. "you woke up?" She was happy until what he said came to her hag. Her eye brow twitches. "After all this time... you call me hag..." she said leaning over him to make sure he got the full blow of her glare.

Without her noticing he reaches up and pulls her the rest of the way down to him and mets her lips he saw Naruto do some many times with Ino. Seeing how she didn't move back he moved his hand to move from the front of her shirt to her hair.

When she finally pulled back for air, he says. " You telling me to wake up is annoying." he looks around to notice he was at the hospital again, but at least his mouth was dry like before. Damn he really hates his dreams, expect the kissing that was a new thing that he didn't want to stop. Sighing he looks back at Sakura who looks so happy as tears came down her cheeks. If only real. He thought.
He moved his right arm again, yeah really was a dream, it didn▓t hurt. Lifting his left he winces in pain.
"Shit.. What the..?" he looks to see his arm across his chest in a sling.

"Oh Sai!" Was the only warning he got before Sakura came down and wraps her arms around him.
"I.. We thought you didn't make it!" She balls next to his head. Blinking he saw Naruto letting go of Ino to look over the pink hair to see him.
"Shit Sai! You scared the shit out of us!" Naruto yells. "Man if you do that again... Man I don't know what I'll do to you!"

"Yeah Sai you had Sakura and Naruto worried to death over you!" Ino says putting her hands on her hips.

Sai's eyes widen and does a double take of the room and the people. Moving his shoulders up and feeling the pain again in his left shoulder not his right, he goes. "But.. This ... isn't this a dream? I mean I got hurt on my right shoulder.."

"What... Dream? No. You've been out since you pushed me out of the way of Sasuke's sword." Sakura said lifting her head up and sitting on the bed next to him, with a smile on her face.
"But... You died.. And you became Hokage and started to date Ino..." Sai said looking around the room at the others in it. "Ino threaten to use her jutsu on me and march me around leaf wearing a dress..." His eyes fall on Kakashi would was leaning against the wall with his foot propped on it and his book over his face. Yamato was standing on the other side of the bed smiling down at him.
"Well I should seeing how you got your teammates worried to death for you!" Ino threaten.
His eyes widen. "NO!"

"Ino leave Sai alone! He just came back to us!" Sakura yells at her friend before looking back down at him with a smile. "I didn't die, Sai. You took the sword through your shoulder just above your heart, while I got it.." She pulls the right side of her shirt down to show him a small scar there. "Got it in my right. Naruto and Kakashi came shortly after and took Sasuke down as I started to heal you." She looks sad. "But you went into a coma and I couldn't pull you out... We tried.. But we had to pulled the plug seeing how its been a month and you wrote in your papers to do so after a month." She brightens up again. " But it doesn't matter now... You're a wake and that's all the matters now." she said touching his cheek.
He leans into it. "Well damn..." He moves his right hand up and pulls her down for another kiss.
"What are you doing?!" Sakura said holding back.
⌠Mmm...? Kissing you if you get down here." Sai said pulling again.
"Why?!"

"I'm not about to lose anymore time with you." was all he said before pulling himself up and catching her lips.
She pulled back with a smile and the pink shades to her cheeks.

"Naruto... Ino... you really should try this.." Sai said looking back at them, smirking. "You two made a cute couple. and Think of it this way. At least his dickless."

After afew days in the hospital from being punched by Ino and Naruto. Sai got Sakura to accept his offer for dating. Not to long afterwards did Ino and Naruto told them that they had started dating awhile back but didn't want to say anything till Sasuke was brought in or killed. Sakura and Sai had a scar where the sword prieced them but no pain seeing how Sakura was the best medic around but they keep thier scars just for a reminder what happens when you chase after something but never grasps it till its to late.

But luck was on thier side for once and let them have a second chance to grasp it. And thier not letting go...

The End.