The End Of The War

The next morning Naruto woke up, and with out waking Sakura, got dressed, and left the tent to start the morning fire. It was around ten when they went to bed and it was now six in the morning. He was the first one up, but Hinata soon followed a few minutes later as the fire was going. Sakura woke up do to the lack of warmth from her new boyfriend. She looked for Naruto but could not find him. she herd a voice and knew who it belonged to, so she got up and crawled to the tent flap unzipped the door and saw Naruto and Hinata talking and she listened to them but kept hidden so they didn't notice her.

"Morning Hinata."

"Morning Naruto. Sleep well?" with a smile, he smiled back.

"Yeah, you?"

"Same."

"Hinata...I want to talk to you about something." he said as they sat on a log next to each other.

"What is it?"

"Well remember when Pain attacked, and you said that you loved me?"

"Yes...why?" she blushed.

"well...I thought that when you saw Sakura kiss me you would storm off, slap me, or at least be mad. But I noticed that you didn't do anything, so I wanted to talk about how you feel about Sakura and me being together. I know that you've had a crush on me as long as I've had a crush on her."

"Back then I did love you. Thats why I told you. My younger self would have given anything to be with you and for you to love me and for my first kiss to be with you. Now I feel different. I think that I grew out of that crush that I now know was never meant to be. Now I love someone else, and I love him."

Naruto looked in to Hinata's eye's, put his hand on her cheek and pulled her in to a kiss. Sakura was tempted to jump up, run to him and punch him for cheating on her with Hinata. But she stopped when they broke apart from their kiss and trusted him. Naruto looked in to her eyes again as if looking for something, and he was. This did not go unnoticed from Sakura.

"Why did you do that Naruto?"

"To see if you still loved me, now that I kissed you. And I can see in your eyes that you have finally moved on from loving me. I'm happy for you and Kiba. He's a good man. Love him with all your hart." He pulled his hand away from her.

"Thank you Naruto, I will." she got up and went to the tent that held the one who was the love of her life now.

"And Hinata, you have my best wishes. And if he hurts you...let me or Sakura know and I'll make him come running back to you with his tail between his legs begging for your forgiveness."

"Thank you Naruto." she giggled as she entered the tent.

"speaking of which." Naruto said as he stood and walked to the side of the fire that his tent was on. He faced the tent standing close to the fire and Sakura thought that he saw her but he didn't. His tails came out from behind him. Sakura thought that his tails were really beautiful. He examined each one. They were wet so to dry them he carefully put them close to the fire and closed his eyes. The heat felt so good in the morning. After a few seconds Sakura saw that the tip of one tail was starting to smoke a little. Naruto's eyes shot open and grabbed said tail and rubbed it.

"Ouch, Ouch!" Sakura couldn't help but laugh at her boyfriend. "You think that's funny huh?" that's when he finally noticed her.

"Sorry, I couldn't help it." she laughed.

he groaned as he walked in the tent."you better get dressed. We have a long way to go today after breakfast."

After breakfast the group made their way back to the allied forces. They covered a lot of ground and got back by noon the next day.

They explained that both Madara and Kabuto were dead but Sasuke escaped. After the next few days the Kages had to decide what to do. They ended the war and every one was to go back to their villages but keep a look out for Sasuke. With that done Tsunade relived the Genin that guarded the Konoha. The village surprised Naruto by giving him a new apartment (since his was destroyed during Pain's attack)while a Uzumaki compound was being built for him. A month after the war was over, the compound was finished, and Naruto moved in with Sakura's help of course.

Over the next few months Naruto and Sakura went on a dates spent a lot of time together, but they still did not have sex much to the dismay of their friends and Ino's prodding. But they did make-out a lot and Sakura noticed that he was becoming more feral when they made-out. Naruto gave Sakura a key to his house. It was a gold and pink stripped key. He explained that he found it on one of his missions and since it was a rare piece of metal and wanted her to have it since he had it made in to a key after he moved in to the compound. Needless to say that she was crying when he gave it to her. Also during this time Naruto informed his friends of his heritage. They asked his if he was going to take his fathers clan as his own. Naruto decided not to, as his mothers clan went smoother with his name, also that the Namikaze clan still existed were as the Uzumaki clan was near extinct since he was the last one of Konoha's greatest clans, and wanted to find a way to being it back. His friends had to admit that he had a valid point.

Sakura decided to pay a Hana. The Inuzuka vet in Kiba's family.

"Oh! hey Sakura! How are you? I haven't seen you since the war."

"fine, keeping busy at the hospital. You?"

"same. By the way I never got to congratulate you on your relationship with that double hero stud of yours Naruto, how are you guys? I haven't seen him ether."

"thanks, wait how did you know about us?"

Sakura thought about it for a moment and straight faced Hana. "Kiba." they said together.

"oh well, I we weren't trying to keep it a secret anyway. Actually Naruto's the reason I'm here. I want to know all I can on foxes."

"ok? Um let me see what I can do. I have a few books on them that cover all the topics. Are you looking for something specific or just every thing in general?"

"everything."

"ok then these ones are what you are going to want then. Here, you can have those, I have more copies that so I can give them out."

"thanks Hana. Say hi to your mom for me." she left and went home to read the books. She felt like she should read them as quickly as possible. She read and reread the books but reread the book on the way foxes mate. She wanted to be ready when the time came for that. Since Sakura knew that a lot of fox characteristics had come to the surface of Naruto's personality, she wanted to be prepared.

Unfortunately for poor Naruto and Sakura, the summer solstice was next week. Far to quickly then he thought.