I'M SO SORRY THAT I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO UPDATE IN A WHILE! Life just caught up with me. Today is my birthday and I wanted to upload something and also because Futurefanfictioner asked me to do so. This chapter is pretty short but it is still something. Hope you guys enjoy it.

Sakura Kiss

"What are you doing here?" I asked Hikaru who was standing in front of me smiling. Naruto was glaring daggers at the red head.

"Is something wrong Naruto?" Hikaru asked innocently.

"THE HELL THERE IS!" Naruto screeched as he got up and pointed at Hikaru. "As if we don't remember what you did to Sakura-chan before you left, you bastard!"

"And what is it that I did to Sakura?" Hikaru smirked. Sighing, I raised my arm to bonk Naruto across the head.

"Don't be so rude!" I scolded him as I rolled my eyes afterwards. Did Hikaru really have to tease my sons so much?

"He didn't do anything." Sai said with confidence. "He just whispered something to her. From our view, it looked like he kissed her."

"Aw, you're no fun Sai-kun!" Hikaru pouted.

"Don't call me that…" Sai said narrowing his eyes at the boy.

"You never answered Sakura-san's question." Shino said as he fixed his glasses. "What are you doing here?"

As I waited for Hikaru to answer, I took a moment to really look at him. It seemed like he grew since the last time we met. His red hair that used to be as short as Kiba's now had reached past his chin. He had his bangs to the right. He seemed to have a random scar on his chest that I could see due to his open shirt. It looked like he got it recently. He had a black necklace that resembled that of a knight piece in a chess game. How odd.

"I decided to move back here. Sound Academy wasn't for me so I joined this program where another student and I can come to this school." Hikaru smiled. "I hope you don't mind me asking if I could stay with you guys again."

"Of course not." I answered in a tone that left for no arguments. "It would be nice to have some help in the house." I continued, playfully glaring at my sons.

"We help you, Sakura-chan!" Naruto said crawling up to me and sounded as he was offended by my comment.

"Oh really?" I raised an eyebrow at him while waiting for him to give me examples. He couldn't. "I thought so."

Everyone laughed as I shook my head. School was about to start in a week. I honestly couldn't wait for the new semester! We would all be graduating soon.

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"We need to make this semester the most memorable one!" Ino said.

Everyone decided to have a night out before school started. We were all hanging out at the Hyuga mansion for dinner. Hikaru was moving his stuff back into the old room. He told me his parents were still staying in their new house.

"How so?" I asked. I could see Neji, Kankuro, Lee, Temari, and Tenten tune us out a bit. They were already in college and didn't need to worry about high school anymore.

"You just want to be part of the student council." Naruto smirked.

Ino blushed for getting caught. "Well, since you guys will be doing basketball this season, you all would probably leave the work to poor forehead here!"

"That is true!" Karin said as she fixed her glasses. "The girls will substitute the guys when they're busy!"

"Oh really?" Suigetsu raised an eyebrow at his girlfriend. "What would you girls do to make the Student Council better?"

"H-Have morning announcements!" Hinata suggested. "Like a talk show or something."

"More festivals and activities!" Karin said.

"Have the Student Council of '10 leave high school with a bang!" Ino grinned. Everyone paused and looked at Ino.

"Now we know you and Deidara really are related!" Tenten laughed.

"Well that's all nice and all…" I spoke up. "…But that all depends on my sons."

"Hn." Sasuke said.

"That means sure!" Naruto smiled.

"May I speak to Sakura for a bit?" A voice said. Everyone looked to see Shizune smiling at everyone as she was standing behind Gaara and Kankuro.

"How does she do that?" Naruto yelled.

I rolled my eyes as I followed Shizune to the backyard. She soon handed a scroll to me.

"What's this?" I questioned her.

"It's your next mother goal!" She smiled.

I unrolled it and read my next goal out loud.

"Involve all the sons in a snowball fight." I raised an eyebrow and stared at Shizune.

"Is something wrong dear?" Shizune tilted her head innocently.

"That's it?" I asked.

"That's it." She smiled.

"There's no hidden agenda?" I narrowed my eyes.

"Why would we do something like that?" Shizune batted her eyes as me. Psh, please! She and Kakashi are the evil duo. "Well I see that Hikaru is back."

I was thrown off by the change of conversation. "Uh, yeah, is that a problem?"

"Nothing at all. I'll leave you now. See you at school." Shizune threw me a small smile before disappearing.

Walking back to my friends, I saw Shino coming outside.

"What are you doing out here?" I asked as I skipped towards him.

"They sent me to see what you and Shizune were talking about." By 'they' I knew he was talking about the boys. "They were wondering if she was talking to you about Minato's inheritance."

"Minato's inheritance…" I repeated before I frowned. Kakashi and Shizune said nothing about inheritance to me before. However Neji and the others first thought that was what I was after. I made a mental note to ask the evil duo the next time I saw them.

"Shall we go back inside now, Sakura-san?" Shino asked. I nodded as he took the lead inside. Bending down, I grabbed a snow and quickly formed it into a ball before aiming. I watched as I hit my target as Shino stopped walking.

He slowly turned around. I couldn't tell if he was glaring at me from behind his shades. That was the scary part. "Did you just hit me with a snowball?"

I quickly pressed my hands together in front of me as I closed my eyes. "I'm sorry Shino. I just couldn't help it. You see it was part of my-EEEEK!" I screamed as I felt something cold hit my face.

Looking up, I could see Shino covering his mouth with his hand. My eyes widened. Was Shino…laughing? Supposedly, I wasn't the only one shocked. Everyone came out to see what was going on only to stop and stare at Shino.

"S-Shino-kun…" Hinata called out worried.

I couldn't help but start to laugh as well as I gave him a look. We nodded as we made some more snowballs and threw it at Naruto and Kiba. Everyone's eyes shined as we all formed into groups. On my team were Sai, Hinata, Naruto, Kiba, Lee, and Tenten. On Shino's team were Shikamaru, Ino, Temari, Kankuro, Karin, and Suigetsu. The only people not playing were Sasuke, Neji, Gaara, and Jugo.

"Come join us Sasuke!" Naruto and I sang as he glared at us.

"I'm not joining this stupid game."

"Ah." Neji nodded.

"Don't be a party pooper, Neji!" Tenten grinned as she threw a snowball at him.

"TENTEN!" He glared only to be met with another snowball.

"Gaara! Come on!" Temari pleaded.

"Yeah Jugo. Play with us!" Suigetsu grinned.

The girls and I decided to throw snowballs at them until they joined. Sasuke and Gaara joined my group and Neji and Jugo joined Shino's. Before we all knew it, we had an all-out snowball fight that didn't end for hours. In the corner of my eyes, I could see a couple of Hinata's and Neji's relatives coming and checking out what the noise was. Hanabi and Hiashi came and sat down with tea as they watched. Hanabi was taking pictures.

I laid back on the snowy ground and smiled. What a good way to start the New Year! With school starting tomorrow, I couldn't help but feel that exciting things were going to happen.

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HOW THE HELL COULD I BE LATE FOR THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL? THOSE JERKS DIDN'T EVEN WAKE ME UP!

Breathe Sakura! It's only 7am. School doesn't start until another thirty minutes. You could always take the bus.

And that's where I found myself, standing at the bus stop waiting. The moment I see one of those sons of mine, they'll be talking to my fists! SHANNARO!

I was the only one for a couple of minutes until a limo came and a girl walked out. She had long grayish purple hair that was lightly curled. She has viridian eyes that went well with her hair. She looked like she came out of a model magazine.

"Madame, are you sure you are going to take the bus? Do you even know how to get there?" The butler asked. The girl just nodded as the butler sighed. "As you wish, Madame. I will however pick you up later."

I watched as the limo drove us leaving just me and the girl. I slowly looked up to see her looking down at me. She was taller than me.

"Sakura." She said.

HUH?

"Excuse me?" I raised an eye brow at her. How did she know my name?

"Your hair is pink…" She smiled. "…and you have green eyes. You look like a flower or a fairy. The name Sakura suits you."

I blushed as I smiled back. "Thanks. That's actually my name." I gave out a nervous laugh.

"How pretty." She smiled. Soon the bus came as we both we aboard. It was pretty crowded so we chose to stand. I noticed that she was looking at my uniform intensely.

"You go to Konoha Academy?" She asked.

"Yeah, I got in because I passed the entrance exam." I said.

"I heard the exams for that are pretty hard. I'm actually going to attend Konoha Academy as well."

"You wouldn't happen to be the other student that's transferring with Hikaru, are you?" I asked.

"Yes. You know Hikaru-kun?"

I nodded. "He lived with me and my sons last semester." I soon paused as I realized how odd that sounded.

"You have sons?" She asked.

"It's complicated. Anyways, I can show you around the campus since I'm part of the Student Council." Right when I said that, she grabbed me by the shoulders.

"You're part of the student council? Are the Namikaze brothers still a part of it?"

"Yeah, they're my sons." I said.

"So you know Sai-kun…" She whispered. It soon got awkward but we finally reached the school and we got off the bus.

"Hey!" I called out as I saw her beginning to walk away. "I never got your name!"

She looked at me for a bit before giving me a smile. "My name is Raiko, Raiko Ishida."

As she walked away, I tried to figure out why her name sounded so familiar.

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And there you have it. I will try to update much quicker now that I won't be as busy as before. I want to thank everyone who has stuck to this story so far. This has been the longest I've written yet and there will be more chapters coming up soon. Please wait for my next update. I love you guys.

Kumiko