CHAPTER CORRECTED THANKS TO BATTLE MAGE ABK

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EdkingV: I hope that this chapter have brought you some drama to enjoy it (just a bit I know, maybe not enough). I hope you will continue to like the story

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Lunesme: Don't worry this story is full of lemon, but I need sometime to have some story in between ;) thank you

PinKrystal: Thank you very much! Narusaku forever! The last movie have broke my heart, mostly the Sakura stupid comment on Naruto's love being for a stupid rivalry with sasuke. grrr! For god sake, the man have sacrificed himself since the beginning. It can't be otherwise than Narusaku to me. they're too perfect for each other. About this story, there will be more lemon coming!

Troa95: wouldn't you be a pervert if you had a man like Naruto under your nose? Blame me, but I am also a perv ;) The shower will come too, at each pleasure its time XD. Thank you so so so much for your support since the beginning and so regularily for all my writing... I continue to work on the third story, I think I will take the second choice ;) the first chapter is on going to be corrected, so I will publish it soon.

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guest: I agree that Sakura is violent and punch naruto everytime he does something stupid. In fact throught the serie from what I have observed, their is three main reason for her to punch him. At the beginning, she punched him because she found him annoying or his was doing something stupid. After she stop finding him annoying and punched him because he was doing stupid, perverted or put himself in danger. And It show at some moment and more and more at the end, she punched him in response to an emotional reaction (everytime she's troubled by him) exemple when she wake up in his arms and he somehow look handsome, when he tell his father that she's his girlfriend (she didn't deny it... I always found this fact funny)... So in my story, Sakura punch Naruto not really out of nowhere but mostly out of an emotional reaction. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me, I hope, I explained my logic correctly. I hope you will continu to like my work. Don't hesitate to give your opinion, it's really important to me. Thank you!

DanteAzel:Thank you! It's funny that you talk about that mix of naruto chakra with Sakura control, I was writing something similar in my next fic.

Tip's:thank you! A typical father reaction to me. My father closed the door in front of my brother-in-law when he came to ask for my sister's hand... I hope you will continue to like the story.

CHAP 26

Sakura sighed for what seemed to be the nth time today looking at her calendar. That was ten days, ten interminable days without Naruto. She scribed some word on her medical report and sighed again. She couldn't stop thinking of him. She missed him so much that it was insane. She had spent her whole life with him as a constant presence through the good and the bad, she had been used to them going on different paths for their training or their missions, but now just ten days seemed like a life-time.

Her eyes read the hour again, 6:20 pm, only five minute had passed since the last time she had checked. Time was being too cruel with her. Sakura banged her head against her desk. She had to get a grip on herself. Work!Work!Work! It was the last fortress to preserve her sanity. She finished her report and closed it, leaving it to the side to drop it later at the Hokage's office. The head medic could have asked an intern to deliver it, but she had made a rule to personally bring it herself since the time Naruto was still just in training to have a glimpse of him. Her assistant came in to give her the listing of surgeries and she scheduled them in order of urgency before returning it to let her make the preparation for it.

Sakura studied a patient case who was having a chronicle disease when she heard a knock on the door. Without lifting her nose from her reading, she invited her assistant to enter and extended her hand to receive the next list of tasks. Sakura heard a very familiar male chuckle and her head snapped up. He was here, a smile on his face, leaning casually on the door-frame.

"I though you would be more happy to see me." the blond man teased her closing the door behind him.

Sakura jumped over her desk and ran to him. Naruto opened wide his arms to welcome her in a tight embrace. She pressed her body against him as to satisfy with every inch of herself that he was indeed here.

"Naruto!" She whispered bursting with joy and squeezed him a little more.

"I missed you!" The blond told her kissing gently her hair.

She released him to have a better look at him. "I though you wouldn't be back for one or two days more."

Naruto chuckled. "I missed you so much that I shortened my stay in the land of rain. I even left the group to come here directly. Shikamaru must be cursing me right now to have left him to deal with the old geezers without me." He caressed her face. "Do you want to have a dinner somewhere? You can choose the place..." He scratched his cheek shyly. "Or would you like to eat at home with me?"

The young Hokage leaned over her temptingly close to her lips and claimed them the next instant. It was heaven! Being together like that... He would have certainly continued further if they didn't get interrupted by a stupid ANBU arriving through the window. Naruto growled angrily and Sakura hid her face behind his shoulder embarrassed.

"If there isn't a war at stake, you can go tell the old geezers to go nag Shikamaru... I am off tonight."

The ANBU bowed respectfully. "Sorry Lord Seventh, Shikamaru-dono sent me here to inform you that you have to come immediately to the Hokage tower. A VIP is waiting for you and refuses to deal with anyone but you personally."

Naruto sighed. Duty! Duty! Duty! Damn job! Why did he ever wish to become Hokage?

"Sorry Sakura-chan, I have to go... do you want to wait for me at home? I will try to wrap that up fast. Promise, 'ttebayo!"

The blond pulled his key out of his pocket to lend them to his fiancée. She shook her head refusing, "I have to bring my medical report at your office... I can maybe wait for you."

The young Hokage smiled glad to not have to get separated from her for a even little while more. Every minute with her was like a precious gift to him. Naruto intertwined his fingers with hers and signaled to the ANBU to leave first.

They walked hand in hand in the Konoha streets, raising on their passage a commotion of gossip. Everyone was interested to witness the new infamous couple, some were crying over the loss of the two much coveted single people of the village, some were overjoyed to finally have an happy ending love story for their heroes. Some old woman was commenting to her friend on how she remembered their Hokage following the Head medic everywhere when those two were kids, the other one adding how she had always been sure that they would end up together, on how there was no other way around, that it was meant to happen. Some were simply incredulous that the most infamous teammates of Konoha turned their eternal friendship bond into something else. However, as the couple passed by, the sight of the handsome man talking, eyes only on the beautiful Head medic, and her giggling at something he said, was screaming the evidence that they were indeed a match made in heaven.

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Naruto released Sakura's hand when he arrived in front of his office. "Please wait for me inside, I'll try to not be long. I'll come back as soon as possible. I suppose the guest is in the meeting room." He opened the door for her to enter and spotted an angry looking priestess and an annoyed Shikamaru.

"Hey Shion! How are you doing? Long time no see!" Naruto warmly greeted her quite oblivious to the tension in the room.

Shion advanced toward him and slapped him with all her strength. The Hokage hardly felt anything close to pain, his face didn't move a bit. But it was still shocking to be slapped like that out of the blue. Sakura didn't like her behavior at all, as evident when her jaw clenched to restrain her mouth to intervene in an international politic affair.

Shion screamed furious. "How dare you? How dare you get engaged?"

Naruto got confused. What about his relationship with Sakura was a problem? "What's wrong with it?" He innocently wondered.

Sakura didn't like at all the turn of events, a bad feeling settling slowly in the back of her mind.

"We had an agreement! Don't you remember your promise?" pointed the blond woman.

Sakura remembered clearly their mission in the land of Demons few years ago and how it ended. The story had been closed and long forgotten after that. This priestess wouldn't dare have come here to ask him to honor 'that promise' when we just got engaged and with his fiancée nearby none the less. She would not...Sakura clenched her fist, anger boiling steadily in her veins.

Naruto stood unmoving in apparent search for an indication of what could have upset the priestess. "What's the problem?" he inquired clueless not finding any flaw.

Shion began to pound on his chest with her small fists, tears rolling down her pale face. "You liar! You broke your promise! Liar! Liar! Liar!"

Naruto took hold of her fists not liking very much being called a 'liar'. He never had broken a promise, it was his Ninja way. "Oi! Wait a minute! What are you talking about? I'm not a liar!"

The Hokage let go of her wrists and the blond woman gazed at him hopeful. "You promise me to help me transmit my power to the next generation."

Naruto looked at her quizzically. Why had she been so furious? There was really no reason to get angry because he got engaged. His love life won't stop him to do his duty or help his friends.

"Yeah, no problem...I will help you..." He said unknowing of the meaning of his words.

Sakura jumped in between them and slapped him powerfully from side to side making his head go from right to left. "Shut up you idiot! Don't you realize what you're saying? Think before talking!" The pinkette yelled at him.

His head was still dizzy from the previous shocks and he was bewildered by Sakura's reaction, not understanding the least bit her anger. "Whoa! Calm down Sakura-chan! What's wrong with helping a friend?"

His fiancée sent him a death glare. "How can you accept to father a child with her?" Sakura spat venomously at him.

Naruto laughed wholeheartedly. "You're ridiculous Sakura-chan! Really? Where did you find such a grotesque idea? She just want me to protect her!"

Sakura jaw dropped to the floor amazed by his level of stupidity. Naruto is the biggest idiot of all time, she noted to herself.

Shion realized at that moment why Naruto never replied to her feelings. He never had understood them in the first place. It was time to make things clear and obvious.

"I want to have my children with you!" The priestess declared matter-of-factly.

Now it was Naruto's turn to have his jaw dropping down. Sakura stood tall in front of him in a protective gesture, glaring dagger at the blond woman. International politics or not, Naruto was hers only and she didn't plan to share him with anyone. Shion glanced towards the pinkette, she vaguely remembered her. The girl was with the ninja team, some kind of medic or something. The priestess didn't like her at all.

"I think it won't be possible," Sakura refused bluntly.

Electricity emerged between the two women, tension growing menacingly around them. "Move away! That has nothing to do with you! It's between Naruto and I," Shion ordered haughtily.

Sakura lift up her hand showing of the ring at her finger. "I think I'm concerned with anything involving Naruto's private life"

The violet eyes passed from the ring to Sakura's face, anger reaching a peak at having in front of her the woman who stole the man she loved. "It doesn't matter! He promised me first!" The priestess proclaimed disdainfully to the pinkette.

Sakura's fists clenched and Naruto snapped out of his stupor with the dangerous body language of his fiancée. Naruto pulled Sakura behind him and tried to solve the situation.

"It's all a big misunderstanding! I thought that you just wanted protection from me."

Sakura grabbed his collar and began to shake him violently. "How can you be that stupid and not understand what she was saying? Idiot!"

Naruto truly looked confused. "How could I have guessed? She had called me an 'Idiot' the whole mission. I just thought that as we came back alive, she was happy with my bodyguard duty..." He justified himself to his fiancée.

Sakura looked dumbfounded at him. She corrected herself mentally: Naruto is the biggest idiot and the most naïve guy in the world.

Shion cut short their private lover-quarrel. "She calls you 'idiot' as well and you got engaged to her... Why not me?" She had been waiting for him all those years thinking that they were too young at that time, waiting for him to come back to her and fulfill his promise. "You promised me to help me pass my power to the next generation." She refused to let him go to anyone else.

Naruto blocked Sakura's path to avoid her to go and strangle the Priestess. He chuckled embarrassed at his mistake. He needed to find a solution and fast. An angry Sakura was a dangerous Sakura.

"Hey! What if I help find a suitable man to father your children?" He offered optimist to have suggested a good idea.

The blond woman put her hand on her hips and declared : "I love you! I want no one else but you!"

As much as being confessed was always flattering, at that precise moment, it turned out to be more of a problem than anything else. The temperature in the room dropped a few degrees more and Naruto wondered inwardly if Sakura didn't learn a new jutsu related to ice.

The situation kept turning more and more of a mess. Naruto looked at his advisor with despair to a non-verbal plea for help. Shikamaru mouthed a silent 'Troublesome women'. It was out of his ability. The strategist could plan the battle strategy of any mission, think hundred times in advance every enemies move. But Women were really the subject he couldn't help his Hokage with.

Naruto winced reading the lips of his friend. He was alone in this mess. His eyes searched all around for an idea: escaping from the window, knocking out Shion to send her back in her country, lying in telling her he was sterile...His eyes landed on the pinkette nearby him. He choose honesty.

"I love Sakura-chan," Naruto simply admitted.

Jade eyes lifted up and met loving cerulean blue ones. Her anger flew away like a scared bird. His gaze turned apologetic as he looked at the priestess. "I am sorry, but I can't return your feelings."

Shion's shoulders trembled and tears escaped in an incessant flow from her eyes. She seemed so small and fragile. Her voice broke as she asked "why not me?"

He had to be honest, it was the least he could do. "I can't really explain it... I loved her since I was a kid. Something happened in my heart at that time when I saw her smile the cutest smile ever." Naruto smiled fondly at the old memory. "She is smart, strong and so much more when I'm just a fool. Sakura-chan has always pushed me forward. She helped me become a better man. I wouldn't be where I am without her. In fact, I wouldn't even be alive...I can't imagine my life with someone else than her." Sakura grabbed the back of his Hokage robe creasing the material between her fingers. "I love her and I always will. I don't know what to say more...I don't have a big explanation of how I feel for her." Naruto rubbed the nape of his neck not sure he had expressed himself correctly.

Shion turned around giving him her back, her hair fell around her face hiding like a curtain the tears she couldn't stop. "I release you from your promise." She mumbled heartbroken.

Silence danced around them cold and brutal. Naruto face morphed in a sad expression to have inflicted pain to someone he considered his friend.

"I wish I could help you somehow... Let me organize a festival for you... I'm sure... I'm sure you will find someone. I know a lot of people from all over the continent, you should have no trouble..." He tentatively proposed. Shion dried her tears with her sleeves.

"It's not that easy to fall in love with someone else..." the priestess cut him out accepting the fatality.

Naruto couldn't argue with her on that subject. No matter how desperate his situation with Sakura had been in the past, he never had been able to stop loving her.

Shion turned around and bowed respectfully. "I will take my leave Lord Seventh and return in my country now."

It hurts the distance she installed between them, but Naruto couldn't complain. It was a just payback for the pain he inflicted to her.

Respectably, Naruto bowed back but insisted for her to accept Konoha's hospitality. The young Hokage reasoned to her that she was his responsibility and he couldn't let her travel at night unguarded. As much as Shion would have loved to foolishly run away as far as possible from him. She couldn't. They were both leaders in their lands and needed to operate inside a strict international code. Naruto asked Shikamaru to organize the priestess stay and appoint a ninja team for her safe return. Shion followed the Advisor outside of the room and Sakura slipped her hand in Naruto's hand. Sakura's head came resting upon his arms, she closed her eyes, a loving smile on her lips. Her fiancé squeezed lightly her hand and kissed her hair.

"It was very nice what you said about me Naruto..." Sakura confessed moving her head to look at him.

The blond man caressed gently her face and smiled timidly chasing away the sadness from his feature. "It's all true..." He reassured her and she came up to kiss chastely his lips.

"You know what... I love you too and I want to spend the rest of my life with you."

A cloud of pink burned his cheeks at her confession and he couldn't stop himself from hugging her. If the place wasn't surrounded by annoying ANBU in charge of his security, he would have done something more than that.

"What do you think if we go back at your place? You must be tired with your trip." Sakura offered and he nodded too happy that she planned to come with him.