Laura: "Oh my god... This is it! This is the ending of my very first fan fiction ever! I have very mixed feelings about this...

Naruto: "Lets save all the mushy stuff till the end okay?"

Laura: "Good idea. I hope you all enjoy the last chapter of "A Blast From The Past"

DISCLAIMER: If I owned Naruto, Naruto and Sasuke would be a couple. May as well cover the basics for the last "If I owned Naruto" right? :}


Sakura, in a moment of pure depression, had locked herself inside her teammates apartment. She had spent no more than 15 minutes talking to lady Tsunade about her missing teammates, the Hokage had been absolutely calm about the entire situation. She made it very clear that she didn't have time to worry about those two idiots and their problems, after Sakura had nearly had a panic attack from her lack of interest, Tsunade promised her that if the boys hadn't showed up by the end of the night she would look into their situation. It wasn't much but Sakura wasn't in the mood to argue with a pissed off and sleep deprived Tsunade. (She had actually stayed up all night doing paperwork... Shocking right?)

Kakashi tried to reassure her that everything would be all right but Sakura didn't even listen to him, she just nodded her head subconsciously then walked to the boys apartment and curled up into a corner of the living room. She figured by now her friends were searching for her which left her with a small amount of time to be alone, she was sure this would be the first place they would look. The pinkette buried her face in her knee's and sighed heavily, she couldn't remember a time she had been this tired and drained of energy, she wondered if she should just sleep till this evening then go see Tsunade again but she still felt to anxious to sleep.

She let out a quiet sob as a single tear rolled down her cheek and into her lap, she couldn't help it all she wanted to do was cry. Everything was so messed up and just wrong, why did this have to happen to them? What did they do to deserve this? She considered for a minute that perhaps wherever the boys were they were having a good time seeing all their happy memories, but then she remembered that they could also be seeing the bad memories. There was such an ungodly amount of them that Sakura couldn't even stomach the idea of them having to watch it over again, if they did ever get back... when they got back there was no doubt in Sakura's mind that their mental state wouldn't be the same as it was before.

Something would be wrong, she just hoped it wasn't anything to serious... Sakura let her eye's close as she curled up even tighter into her ball, maybe she should shut her eyes... just for a minute then she'll go find her friends and tell them what's going on. The quiet ticking noise of the clock coming from the kitchen began to lull her to sleep, she felt her whole body begin to shut down and with a sigh she gave into her body's demand for sleep. Just as she was about to slip into a state of unconsciousness however a loud thump from outside the apartment's front door made her jump, she listened for a moment and heard muffled voices coming from the other side of the door. 'So they finally found me huh?' She thought tiredly as she un curled herself and climbed to her feet.

The louder the voices became the more confused Sakura became, that wasn't the voices of Ino, or Shikamaru, or Lee or any of them! Sakura's heart skipped a beat as the front door flew open reveling... "Naruto... Sasuke..." She whispered so quietly she didn't even know if she had said anything. After closing the door behind him Naruto turned and jumped a little when he saw Sakura standing in their hallway, his shocked expression quickly turned into a full blown grin. "Sakura!" Sakura didn't even hesitate as she bolted forward and launched into her teammates arms, wrapping her own arms around their necks tightly. "Your back!" She shouted as happy tears leaked out of her eyes. "Oh Your back! I missed you so much!" Naruto chuckled as he wrapped his arm around the girls back. "I missed you to Sakura."

Sasuke sighed as he put his own arm around her, a small smile on his face. "I never thought I'd say this but... I missed you too." Sakura quickly pulled back and gave them both a kiss on the cheek, then she took a step back and whipped away her tears before speaking. "Are you ok!? Are you hurt!? What happened?! Do you feel unstable at all?!" Naruto raised his hand up in defence as she bombarded them with questions. "Woah woah slow down girl! Were fine I swear." "As for what happened..." Sasuke muttered as he cut in. "Its kind of a long story..." Sakura frowned as she crossed her arms. "Well actually I already sorta know what happened..." Both men stared at her with shocked expressions. "What I really meant was where did you go? What did you see?" "How do you know what happened?"

Sasuke asked as he took step towards her curiously. "Well." Sakura sighed as she tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. "After I realized you two were missing I questioned Kakashi about it because he was acting strange. He told me that a scroll was taken from his secret stash then he explained what the jutsu does." The men nodded. "That reminds me.." Sakura turned towards the blonde and hit his shoulder with as much force as she could muster at the moment. "Ow! What was that for?!" Naruto whimpered as he rubbed at his sore shoulder. Sakura glared at him. "That's for stealing a jutsu you know nothing about and then activating it! Do you have any idea how worried I've been?! I did everything I could think of to help bring you two back but nothing would work!"

Naruto and Sasuke frowned as Sakura's voice cracked and frustrated tears came out of her eyes, Naruto felt extremely guilty for putting his friend through that and even Sasuke felt bad for causing such a panic. "I'm sorry Sakura..." Naruto whispered guiltily as he stared at his feet. Sakura took a few deep breaths to calm herself then managed to smile a little. "It doesn't even matter anymore. Your home. That's all that matters." The three Ninja's smiled at one another content with the situation. Suddenly a loud banging radiated from the door behind them. All of team 7 jumped as they looked towards the source of the banging. "YO! SAKURA OPEN THE DOOR! ITS US!" Sakura rolled her eyes. A wide grin made its way onto Naruto's face as Kiba continued to shout through the crack in the door, feeling almost giddy Naruto rushed over and opened the door.

The first thing he saw of course was Kiba standing there with a stunned expression. "Its you!" Kiba shouted as Naruto pulled him in for a man hug. "Good to see you too buddy." Naruto chuckled as he patted his friend on the back. Finally done processing that his friend was back Kiba pushed the blonde away from him then bonked him on the head. "Ow! Why is everyone hitting me?!" "That's for not taking me with you dick!" Sasuke took his time as he walked out the door and stood in between the two fuming men. "You wouldn't have wanted to go. Trust me." Kiba paused for a moment as he looked over the Uchiha. "Ah so your back to huh?" "What a shame huh?" Sasuke smirked as Kiba rolled his eyes. "Where is everyone?" Sakura asked as she joined everyone outside. "They're comin."

As soon as the words left Kiba's mouth a herd of people came running up the stairs, all of them halted when they saw Naruto and Sasuke standing there looking shocked. "YOUR BACK!" They all shouted in unison. The next few minutes were filled with hugs, rejected hugs, tears, and more hits to poor Naruto's body. As things finally started to calm down Kakashi appeared out of the crowd. "Kakashi!" Naruto shouted as he ran over and gave the man a hug. Kakashi grunted as Naruto squeezed him a little to hard, when the blonde pulled back he received one final blow to the head. He didn't even bother complaining about this one. He knew he deserved it. "Oi, if you don't stop hitting him on the head your going to give him brain damage." Sasuke announced as he moved to his boyfriends side.

Kakashi smirked at the glare he received from his student. "Well get on with it." Naruto sighed loudly. "Huh?" "The lecture? You may as well get it all out now." Kakashi stared at his students for a moment before shaking his head. "Nah, I don't have a speech for you. Just stay out of my house alright?" Naruto snorted but nodded his head. "What I'm really curious about" Kakashi said as he crossed his arms. "Is what exactly happened to you. This jutsu wasn't made for two people so I'm rather intruiged by it all." Naruto and Sauske shared a quick glance of uncertainty. "We saw the past..." Naruto muttered as he recalled their strange experience. "It was only ever the two of us though.. Nobody else." Kakashi nodded his head encouraging him to continue. "It went all the way back to the first time we met, then all the way to the 4th great ninja war."

Sasuke cut in. At this point everyone around them was listening very closely to their conversation. "What exactly was the jutsu made for sensei?" Naruto asked slowly. Kakashi leaned up against a near by railing before speaking. "People who are dying. In their final moments its used to show a person their life, all their good memories and occasionally their bad." "But we only saw good and bad memories involving the two of us." Sasuke pointed out. "As I said before this jutsu isn't meant for two people." There was a pause before Naruto once again spoke up. "So.. What happened?" Kakashi still didn't know exactly what had happened but he had a theory and he figured the boys would except it even if it was later proved to be incorrect.

"Because you activated it together I believe the jutsu wanted to show you your history together. It showed you how your two lives have been connected in good and in bad ways. That sound about right?" Naruto and Sasuke were silent as they considered the possibility. It was as good as answer as any they supposed and at the moment they really didn't feel like trying to come up with another. "That's so romantic.." Ino sighed dreamily with her hands clasped over her chest. Naruto smirked. "Yeah not really." "Did you see some bad things?..." Sakura asked as she hesitantly stepped forward. Naruto refused to answer causing Sasuke to nod his head once in conformation. Sakura frowned. "I knew it. I feel horrible... I can only imagine what you had to see and it all had to happen on your anniversary..."

Sasuke's and Naruto's eyes widened in shock. "That's today?" Sasuke asked quietly. "Yeah.. I'm just glad you guys are home. Now you can spend the rest of your day celebrating with all of us!" Everyone in the group smiled at them as they processed what Sakura had said. "Celebrate?" Naruto asked. "With all of you..?" Sasuke grumbled. Kiba barked out a laugh as he patted Sasuke roughly on the bad. "Oh lighten up Uchiha! This is a cause for celebration! It's not every day that we get to celebrate light and dark being in love!" Sasuke glared at Kiba causing the brunette to back away slowly, Naruto cleared his throat awkwardly. "I'm assuming there's a party?" "Uh huh! It was going to be a surprize but it doesn't matter. We'll give you guys an hour to get ready then meet us at my place. It'll be great I promise!"

Naruto nodded his head and began to head back into the apartment but he stopped when he noticed Sasuke was just standing there glaring at the ground. "Come on king of darkness." Naruto smirked as he grabbed the Uchiha's arm and pulled him inside. Naruto quickly locked the door behind him before letting out a big sigh. "Quiet the welcome huh?" Sasuke just shook his head before stomping into the living room, Naruto was right behind him. "What would possibly make them think that after everything we've been through that we would want to have a party?" Naruto shrugged his shoulders as Sasuke sat down on their couch. "A party is the last thing on my mind right now.." Naruto let out a quiet sigh before moving over to Sasuke and kneeling down in front of him.

He waited until the Uchiha looked at him. "It'll be alright." Naruto said softly. Sasuke frowned. "How do you know that?" "Because its you and I." Sasuke rolled his eyes but otherwise kept his mouth shut. "Look Sasuke. You and I have clearly still got a lot of issues we need to work out. I know you think you're a horrible person but you're not." The look Sasuke gave him made Naruto smirk. "I know that probably sounds weird after everything I've been saying to you lately but... I was just upset.. I didn't mean it." Sasuke squeezed his hands together tightly on his lap as Naruto waited for him to speak. "I've done so many horrible things.. I've hurt you so many times..." He whispered so quietly that Naruto had to move slightly closer to his face. "Hey I'm not perfect Sasuke. Don't you dare for even a second think that I'm perfect. I've made lots of mistakes too. But the only way for us to move on and let go of those mistakes is to talk about them."

Sasuke refused to meet Naruto's eyes. He knew the blonde was right but he was scared. He was scared that if they talked it through that Naruto would just get mad again and leave him. It absolutely terrified him. Seeing Sasuke's distress, Naruto put his hand's on the others cheeks and slowly made it so he was looking him straight in the eye. "I'm not going to lie to you Sasuke. We've got a long road ahead of us. There's going to be a lot of ups and downs in our relationship. But I love you with all my heart, and as long as we hold onto that.. I know we'll be just fine." Unshed tears stung at Sasuke's eyes and he stared into the face of his lover. He knew that he would never love anyone as much as he loved this man in front of him. Sasuke never gave much thought to the words soul mate but in that moment it was the only thing his mind could come up with.

Sasuke's lip quivered slightly as he opened his mouth. "I.. I love you too.." He managed to whisper without his voice cracking. Naruto smiled before leaning in and kissing him. Maybe things would never be perfect between them, after all they were complete opposites. They saw things in completely different ways and thought in different ways as well. They argued about everything and insulted each other on a regular basis. But none of that mattered because there was one thing that they could both agree on. No matter what hardships they would face, no matter how bad things would get for them. As long as they were together they would survive. And that meant more to them then any silly little fight.


An hour later everyone was patiently waiting at Sakura's house for the guest of honor to arrive. Kakashi had offered to go to the Hokage's office and tell Lady Tsunade that the boys had returned but Sakura knew it was only because he wanted nothing to do with this party. 10 minutes passed and Sakura started getting anxious. 15 minutes later had Sakura pacing the floor. "Where are they?" She mumbled to anyone who happened to be listening. "They should be here by now." "Maybe they decided to ditch us." Shikamaru suggested. "I wouldn't put Sasuke above using sex to manipulate Naruto into not coming." Kiba threw in with a mouth full of chips.

Sakura waited another 10 minutes before grabbing a hand full of "Happy Anniversary" balloons and as many bags of chips as she could. "What are you doing?" Ino asked curiously. Sakura huffed as she marched over to the front door. "Everybody grab what you can. If they're not coming to the party then we'll just have to bring the party to them. Once Sakura convinced everyone that Sauske wouldn't kill them for the home invasion she slipped the key into the lock and pushed open the door. "SURPRIZE!" Everyone shouted enthusiastically. After a moment of looking around Sakura and the gang realized that the boys weren't in the living or in the kitchen. Deciding that they must be hiding in their bedroom, everyone quietly sneaked over to the bedroom door and paused. Sakura counted in a hushed tone. "1...2...3!" "SURPRI-" They stopped short seeing the sight in front of them.

Naruto was laying in bed flat on his back wish Sasuke curled up into his side. Naruto's left arm was resting comfortably behind his head while the other arm was wrapped tightly around Sasuke's back. Sasuke's head was laying on the blondes chest while his arms were wrapped around Naruto's waist. Soft snoring sounds coming from the pair showed that they were in a deep sleep. Sakura took one look at her teammates then turned around and started shooing people out of the doorway. There was a few complaints but finally everyone was out of the way of the door. The pinkette began closing the door but paused when there was only a little crack left. She smiled. "Happy Anniversary guys..."


Naruto: "Wow... So that's it huh... Well I guess all good things must come to an end huh? We'll see ya around everyone!"

Sasuke: "This is harder then I thought it would be... Umm thank you for reading! and uh ya we'll see you around!"

Laura: "Alas it is sad... But its also a good thing! Now that I've completed this one it means I can focus on all my other stories. To be honest I've got about 4 others in the making right now so I'm excited to really get started on all of those. I just wanted you all to know that it means the world to me that you have stuck around this long. I honestly can't thank you guys enough. Also I wanted to thank you all for a putting up with my craziness in the intro's and outro's haha XD If I made even one of you laugh then it deffinately wasn't for nothing. So thank you again and I hope you'll check out my up coming stories! Luv you all! Chow!