Sorry I haven't updated in so long but both my Great Grandmother and Grandfather passed away so I was busy with family. This chapter is dedicated to them and their love for eachother. I love you Great Grandpa and Grandma I'll see you guys again so day.

Winter Knight- Thank you once again for reviewing and thanks for pointing out that I need to fix my story so it's less confusing. Please keep reading and enjoy.

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"You may only be someone in the world, but to someone else, you may be the world."
~ Unknown

Ch. 11. All I Need

Friday

"Well everything looks like it's healing nicely and as long as you don't do anything stupid everything should heal perfectly, so I'm willing to let you go home just make sure to come back so we can check on you in about two weeks." the doctor said with a smile as he finished examining me.

"Thanks doc" I said with a grin as he left the room

"Well Baka I guess that means you can finally come home" a voice to my left said

"Only if you promise to be there." I replied to my cherry blossom as she leaned in and gave me a kiss.

"I don't know"

"Please Sakura-chan"

"Alright" she said giggling as I wrapped my arms around her.

"Baka if you keep this up we'll never get out of the hospital and you'll be stuck here another night."

"No anything but that" I said mock crying

"Then get dressed"

I nodded my head in a quick childish motion as I grabbed my crutches and headed to the bathroom to change put pf my hospital gown and into more normal cloths. Once I was done I left the bath and was greeted by Sakura waiting with a wheel chair. "Sakura-Chan I don't want to be in that stupid thing." she merely rolled her eyes and pushed it closer to me. "Fine"

"That's a good little Naruto" she mocked me as I sat down heading outside of the hospital to my truck, and after a few careful movements I was sitting in the passengers seat watching her put on her seat belt and begin to back out. "I love you" I muttered, she stopped what she was doing and looked at me with loving eye. "I love you too." she said smiling and once again began the task of talking us to our apartment.

"Hey Sakura."

"Yeah Naruto"

"I was wondering maybe we invite everyone out to dinner." I asked, as Sakura gave me a quizzical look.

"Well everyone including you have been so down and it's my fault I just want to see everyone happy even if only for a few hours." I said looking down.

"Naruto it's not your fault everyone is sad and now that you explain it I think that would be a great idea." she said allowing a small smile to show as he eyes me lovingly before turning back to the road ahead.

"Contact left, contact left." screamed Sergeant Wisemen bullets kicking dirt up all around the small unit as the fought their way through the streets.

"Man Down" yelled Pfc. Sparks as he watched his best friend Pvt. Hunter collapse in a heap right in front of him. The units only medic went to run into the street to help Hunter but was yanked down by Wisemen. "Doc are you insane" he then looked toward a window that had a machine gun nest in it. The machine gun hand managed to pin down the unit and injure quite a few of them.

"Uchiha knock out that machine gun nest." the young man did as ordered and got into position to snipe the two men in the nest, however he never got the chance as suddenly an explosion forced his body to be thrown into the air.

"Uchiha" came the yell of his best friend Pfc. Gram as he made is way to the wounded Uchiha, knelling down next to the wounded man to help him. "Itachi you're gonna be ok were gonna get you out of here." Gram said as he lifted the wounded Uchiha into a firemen's carry and led him away from the battle to a secure location.

"Itachi stay here and all be right back" Gram said to him with a smile as he ran off to continue fighting.

"Don't leave" I screamed bolting up as the nightmare ended, sweating dripping from my face. "It's all your fault father, their blood was on your hands." I yelled

I sat between Naruto and Sasuke, all our friends gathered around a large table in the back of Choji's favorite barbeque joint happily laughing and joking.

"Sakura what do you think the boys treat us to a trip to the mall for homecoming dresses tomorrow." Ino asked as all the girls looked at me to see what I would say.

"If you ask me that's a great idea" I replied with a wide smile as our boyfriends gulped. "In fact I think the should treat us to lunch tomorrow too." I said lightly pushing my shoulder into Naruto's as he looked at me with pleading eyes knowing that tomorrow would end with no money left in his wallet.

"That sounds like a great idea Sakura" Temari said as Ino, Hinata, and Tenten nodded their heads in agreement.

"Great then it's a date, we meet in the food court tomorrow at say noon." I said and once again the girls all agreed as their boyfriends looked less then pleased and the single boy's laughed at their miss fortune. "You know what on second though I think all the single guys should pay for out lunch I mean they never pay for anything" I said with an evil smile as all the couples were quick to agree and the single boys of our group let out a loud grown. We talk for about another hour until we are split into boys and girls.

"Hey how about all the girls come over to my house so we can have our girl time and the boys can go to Naruto's to have their boy time." Ino suggested everyone agreed but I was a little worried about not being with Naruto his first night back from the hospital.

Ino seemed to catch onto my anxiety, "don't worry forehead he'll be with all the boys they won't let anything happen to him." she said but I wasn't convinced and looked into Naruto's eyes anxiously.

"Ino's right Sakura-chan plus you deserve a girls night. I promise nothing will happen to me and I'm with all the guys everything will be fine go to Ino's with the girls and I'll see you in the morning." he said, then gave me a kiss as reassurance before he stood up on his crutches and followed all the guys to the front of the restaurant to pay and then head over to his apartment.

"See forehead even the dope agrees." Ino said with a knowing smirk

"Watch it little miss piggy or else." I said smiling as we gathered our things and headed to Ino's

"Alright so we rent a limo for the night." said Kiba a large smile covering hi face.

"Yeah we already went over this dog breath." I replied

"Shut up Naruto." he snapped back

"Stop you two are far too troublesome" Shikamaru said both of us looking at him sheepishly.

"Alright. Now that the dope and dog breath are quite we can continue" Sasuke muttered

"I saw we take them to dinner somewhere first and make it seem like we forgot to get the limo and then when we're done with dinner we walk outside and boom here's this beautiful limo." Choji said his face scrunched in deep concentration.

"As troublesome as that plan sounds, it's a great idea Choji."

"Yeah that sounds great Sakura-chan will be so pissed when she thinks we forgot to get a limo and then she'll be so surprised oh it'll be great. Good Job Choji." We were all giving Choji pats on the back for coming up with such a great idea, "Thanks guys" he said a huge happy grin on his face.

"Ok now that we have some of a plan, what are we gonna due about tomorrow." I asked

"Well the girls will want to go to every dress store imaginable so I say we make it easy on ourselves and all get the same tux's." Kiba said

"Seems the lease troublesome way." Shikamaru added

"What about us single guys" Kankuro added

"Well you buy for our meal tomorrow and how hard can it be to find a date for the all mighty Kankuro." I teased him.

"Oh hardy har harr" he replied then looked toward his brother "What's the emotionless Garra gonna due for a date." he asked grapping his elbow into the boys rips.

"Unlike you I actually have a date." he replied emotionlessly

"Garra you have a date" we all replied stunned

"Yes"

"Who"

"You'll find out at the dance" he said

"Alright since this is mostly figured out time to address the other matter how are we going to handle Akatsuki." Shiki said the mood in the room abruptly becoming serious and a deadening silence filling the room.

I shifted my eyes down suddenly unwilling to meet my friends gazes. "They want me dead and for Sasuke to go after them, and until that happens you all know we won't be safe." I paused for a few moments gaining the courage to continue. "I'm the key to Kyuubi, until they have from me what they need they will continue to come after us." I finished glancing up quickly to see their reactions, they all seemed stunned that is excepted for Shikamaru, he had probably known from the beginning.

"I though the Kyuubi was destroyed." Kiba yelled as he was the first to recover.

"No the program can't be destroyed so they made a key for it and I'm the only one who has the key." I said pulling out the necklace my father had told me about.

"How did you find this out." Neji asked

"It's kind of complicated but for a while I was kind of in limbo I guess is what you could call it and I spoke with my father." to my surprise everyone seemed to except this answer.

"Well why don't you destroy the key." Kiba asked

"I think if that was an option my dad would have already done that."

"Right" Kiba said scratching his head sheepishly.

"Alright spill Ino" Temari said smirking evilly.

"Spill what" Ino said fraying innocence

"Oh come on don't play that game with us." Tenten wined

"I really don't know what your talking about" Ino said continuing to fray innocence.

"Oh so that's not you not you and Sasuke sneaking of to the closed student lounge every morning." Sakura inquired a sly grin on her face.

"Shut it forehead" Ino gasped a dark red blush adorning her face.

"Well I think that answers our question" Temari laughed as the other joined in.

"Ok on to more important matters what color dress is everyone going to wear." Asked Tenten, Ino still to embarrassed to speak.

"Well I…I thi..think…I'm goi..going to wear…a….dark lav…lavender dress" Hinata managed to stutter out, all the girls smiling at her and nodding in approval.

"You know I bet a strapless would look great on you, and oh have a long dress with cuts up the sides of your legs, oh I can see it now Kiba will be all over you." In started blabbing finally recovering from her embarrassment.

"Ino's right Hinata that would look great." Tenten added as she imagined the dress, Sakura and Temari soon adding their own thoughts of approval.

"What about you pig, what dress you gonna wear if you can find one that fits" Sakura jeered

"Well forehead I was thinking a midnight blue, strapless of course and defiantly on the shorter end."

"Figures you'd wear something like that for the Teme" Sakura said teasing her best friend

"Well what you gonna wear for fox boy, forehead." Ino shot back

"A strapless red dress I saw a couple of weeks ago at the mall." she said simply not giving much of a description, leaving her friends to wonder how the dress looked.

"Whhh…what…are…you going…to wear…Tenten" Hinata asked

"Well I'm not really sure" she answered honestly "I bet you'd look great in a silver dress" Temari said "Yeah with thin spaghetti straps" Sakura added try to help her friend

"You know what that does sound really nice thanks" Tenten said with a smile and turned to look at Temari. All eyes on her as she hadn't told them what dress she would wear. "I was thinking a black strapless and short. That should get the little boy's attention and not be to 'troublesome' for him." Temari said with a smirk. "Oh you're dirty" Ino cried out as the other girls giggled at Temari's comment

"Alright as fun as this is I don't need any mental pictures of what's going to happen after the dance so can we move on" Sakura stated a small blush crept on her cheeks. "Appears you already have a mental picture of a certain blond in your head." Tenten teased noticing her friends blush. "Gross I do not need that image of Naruto in my head" whined Ino as she threw a pillow at Tenten, who grabbed another and aimed at the blond. "No Tenten don't I just replaced my pillows from the last time you guys slept over" Ino begged. "Fine" Tenten glared slowly butting the pillow down. "Alright now that we've averted that crisis how 'bout we watch a movie" Sakura suggested.

"Oh I know how 'bout The Hangover" Temari said putting it in the blue-ray player

"Yeah" the four others agreed as the all got comfy on the couch and pressed play.

'Hey I own the night and I don't need no help Gotta be the feelin that scarface player Stuntin go wild can't handle this plan Life of the club arrogant like yeah' Ino's phone rang waking the sleeping girls. "Ino if you don't answer that I will kill you" Temari yelled at the blond. "Alright, I got"

"Hello" Ino said sleepily

"Hey Ino put me on speaker" replied Naruto's gruff voice "Ok" said Ino turning her phone to speaker mode without thinking.

"WAKEY WAKEY SLEEPING BEAUTIES." Naruto screamed into the phone causing the sleeping girls to jolt awake. "Naruto I'm going to kill you" Sakura yelled causing the girls to groan and snickering to come from the phone "I love you too Sakura-chan we'll be there to pick you guys up in about twenty minutes." Naruto replied happily before the line went dead.

"Sakura your boyfriend is the loudest most annoying person ever." Temari yelled at the pinklet as the girl giggled, although she was angry at him for waking her she was also loved his antics.

"Um guys we need to get ready." Tenten chimed in noticing they had les than fifteen minutes before the boys would be there to pick them up.

"Shit" Ino yelled as she began to scramble to get ready the rest of the girls following her lead seconds later.

"Hey" Kiba called out as he walked into Ino's apartment followed by the rest of the guys.

"Hey boys" Temari said as she walked toward her boyfriend to give him a kiss. The rest of the guys sat on the couch to wait for the rest of the girls. "Hey Temari where's Sakura, non of these Teme's can wrap bandages for their lives." Naruto asked. "Oh she's in Ino's spare room finishing her hair."

"Thanks Temari" Naruto said as he made is way toward the back of Ino's apartment, knocking on the spare room's door. "Sakura-chan you in there" "Yeah Naruto come in." Naruto carefully pushed the door open and found is way to the bed. "What's wrong Naruto." she asked a trace of worry evident in her voice. "Oh nothing I just need you to rewrap my bandages the guys suck at it." He said with a fox like grin. "Okay. Let me just go get the first aid kit from Ino's bathroom I'll just be a minute." she said quickly exiting the room and entering a few seconds later.

"Alright Baka take of the shirt" Sakura told the blond headed boy. He did so slowly, wincing every now and then until it was finally off. "You were right they do suck" she said looking at the loosely wrapped gauze a small red blotch over the area that was his wound. "Naruto are you sure you're up for this, you're still bleeding" She asked worried about his health. "I'm all good Sakura-chan" he said with a reassuring smile. "Alright" she said as she began carefully unwrapping the dressings, until all that was left were the gauze pads coving the bullet wounds. There was more gauze covering his stitches from his multiple surgeries but the were healing nicely, unlike the bullet holes. She removed the bloodied gauze pads and placed new ones over the wounds. She then began tightly wrapping this chest, cringing every time he winced from the pain.

"There" she said when finally finished carefully helping him out his shirt back on. "Hey everything's ok." Naruto said noticing the sad look on his girlfriends face. "But….but…you" she started to cry. "Hey everything's ok now, I'm gonna be ok and I promised I'd never leave you so don't cry." he said wiping away her tears and kissing her on the forehead, allowing her to rest her head against him until she felt better.

"I love you Naruto." she said after calming down

"I love you too my cherry blossom" he replied kissing her quickly on the lips. "You ready to go."

"Yeah"

"Alright" he said smiling as he pulled himself up with his crutches and followed her out to their friends.

"What took you guys so long" Kiba asked with a smirk

"Nothing dog breath. Now lets go." Naruto replied his foxish grin wide on his face.

"Alright where are you dragging us of to first." Kiba asked the girls.

"Well I was thinking we look for our dresses first, then get lunch and we can get your tuxes last." Ino said as she began walking away followed closely by Temari, Tenten, Hinata, and Sakura. The boys groan and follow the five girls to the first dress store.

"Lets see….found it" Sakura said as she searched through a rack of dresses finally finding the red dress she had seen the week before. "Oh Naruto" she called out. "Yeah Sakura-chan." she asked making his way toward her.

"I'm going to go try this on tell what you think" she said heading to the changing rooms, and coming back a few minutes later. The dress in question held her form perfectly, defining every curve in her body. "Wow" was all Naruto could say as he stared at Sakura. "I take it you like the dress." She asked

"Yessssssssss" he said childishly.

"Well then I guess I'll have to get it" she said with a smirk and heading back to the changing rooms to put her clothes back on and purchase the dress.

"Hey little boy get over here" Temari called out to Shikamaru. "Yeah" he asked as Temari stepped out of the dressing his eyes went wide and he couldn't speak. Temari was wearing a black strapless dress that was so short no father would want to see their daughter wear that dress. "Is this dress to 'troublesome' for you." Temari whispered in Shikamaru's eye smiling at the way he shuttered when she did. "No it perfect" he managed to get out. "Good" Temari said before turning and going back inside the changing room.

"Ino hurry up" Sasuke said from the other side of the changing room door.

"Don't get your panties in a bunch Sasuke I'll be out in a minute." Ino said and thirty seconds later she stepped out wearing a Midnight blue strapless dress that stopped about a hands length from her him. "So do you like." Ino asked

It took Sasuke a second to regain control. "Hn"

"Oh well I guess that means 'No'" Ino said as she turned around with a smirk and began heading back into in the changing room.

"NO" Sasuke yelled "I mean I like it. Get that one."

"Well if that's what you want." Ino smirked

"Wh…what do .yo…you think…kib…Kiba" Hinata asked a sligh blush on her face. "I think you look amazing" Kiba said sweetly pulling her into a hug. "Really" "Yes I think you're the most beautiful person I've ever seen" He said touching their foreheads together. "Thank you" Kiba pulled away blinking at her. "What's wrong Kiba" Hinata asked suddenly worried she'd done something wrong. "You're not stuttering."

"Neji come here" Tenten said as she stepped out of the changing room the silver dress made here already slim figure slimmer. "What do you think" she asked her hair for once out of it's bun and flowing past her shoulders. "Wow Tenten you look beautiful." "Thanks Neji, but does that mean I don't always look beautiful." Tenten asked one of her eyebrows raised in questioning. "No you look beautiful all the time the dress helps other see the beauty I see everyday" Neji said without missing a beat. "I love you Neji" Tenten said adoringly "And I love you Tenten more than you'll ever know."

"So how'd everyone do" Naruto asked as the meet outside the restaurant, the boyfriends carrying their girlfriend's bags, with the exception of Naruto how was having Kankuro carry Sakura's bag.

"Good" was the universal answer.

"Alright after lunch we take the boy's shopping for their tux's" Temari said with a smile. "I don't care I just want to eat" Choji whined as he made a beeline for the restaurants entrance. "Choji relax." Shikamaru called out as the group followed the big hearted and stomached boy.

"Can I help you" The person who seats you asked

"Yeah reservation for Sasuke Uchiha."

"Right this way" the server said as he lead the group to a back room. There they found a large circular table with enough seats for everyone. Meals were ordered and the group spent the next hour or two goofing around and laughing, looking forward to the next couple of weeks.

"I have the perfect idea to destroy Uzumaki"

"Well what is it" Itachi asked a smile forming

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