Disclaimer: For the last time, I don't own Naruto!

This is the last chapter, everyone! *cries* I always hate to see the ending of a good fic!

Everything was still eerily silent as he woke next, his body heavy. As feeling came back to it, a dulled pain came to his chest and arms, along with the sensation of someone holding his hand. His eyes tightened before he forced them open, his vision met with white. The pressure on his hand increased, making him wince, then look over to see Hinata gazing down at him. Her lips moved, but the silence still reigned.

She turned away for a moment, before the former Team Seven came in, Naruto grinning and speaking with no sound, Sakura coming over and checking him over, while Sasuke stayed back, looking a little anxious. Sakura checked his pulse, breathing, eyes and mouth before helping him sit up, unwinding the bandages. She raised her hands before beginning a healing technique, healing the third degree burns on his chest and arms, before removing bandages on his ears, doing the same thing, but no sound came back. She spoke to him, smiling supportively. He raised his free hand to his ear, finding it unblocked by anything, although he thought he had earplugs in.

He snapped his fingers, no sound. His eyes widened, and he tried again, same result. Hinata's grip on his hand grew tighter still, and he turned to her. She looked concerned and probably asked something, but still nothing. He shook his head, unable to answer her in any other way. She turned to Sakura, speaking, and Sakura appeared in his view again, saying something slowly, accentuating the movements of her lips. He stared hard, but couldn't read her lips at all. He shook his head again, before Hinata's eyes filled with tears, covering her mouth with her hands. Sakura nodded, before turning to Naruto and Sasuke, who were standing off to the side, obviously waiting for Sakura to be done. They looked up, eyes growing wide as a moment passed. Naruto ran up to him, shouting at him, but he just blinked, not able to hear him. Sasuke came over, before activating his Sharingan, turning it off, then on again. Satsuki figured he wanted him to activate his Sharingan, so he did, and his brother spoke, but this time the technique picked up the movements of his lips and translated them.

"Satsuki, if you can read my lips, nod your head twice."

The steel-haired teen did as asked, his twin grinning.

"Everyone, I've figured out how to communicate with him for now until we can think of something less taxing on his chakra."

Naruto pushed him out of the way. "Satsuki! I'm so sorry this happened to you because I wasn't here! But at least you took out one of the enemies before they took you down!"

Before he could say anything else, Sakura pulled him out, obviously letting Satsuki's family talk with him, since he still felt rather weak, his chakra wasn't at its highest capacity at the time, so there was less time to talk. Sasuke tapped his shoulder to get his attention.

"I know we should've done this much sooner, I'll do it now." He looked pained, but muttered, "Satsuki, I'm so sorry I tried to rule your life. I wanted to protect you, yet you did more than I did during the Akatsuki's attack, even if you lost your hearing. You got married and moved out, while I wanted to chain you down, clip your wings. Will you ever forgive me?"

Satsuki smiled and nodded, wanting to say something, but couldn't.

Hinata, who now wanted his attention, cradled his cheek. "Satsuki-kun, while Sakura was checking me for wounds, she found that we're going to have a baby. I'm pregnant, my love."

His answering smile was so luminous that he could've been mistaken for the sun. He embraced her, kissing her on the cheek. She blushed, smiling in return at his ecstatic reaction.

Sasuke must've said something, because she nodded. "Yes, you're going to be an uncle, Sasuke-san."

Satsuki was so happy that he was helping his clan to grow again that he passed out, not just from chakra exhaustion.

Life was even better than before, even if he'd lost something valuable to him. Now he could retire and live with his wife and look forward to the birth of their child. Although he would never hear again, he would revel in all his other senses and live life to the fullest.

He was content, and that was all that mattered.

And that's the ending! Sorry that it seemed like it cut off prematurely, but it was the rare time I couldn't think of anything else to add, so I ended it.

So for the last time as well...

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