-"Naruto-kun!" Sakura exclaimed after turning to see what Sasuke was looking at. Naruto, looking throughly pissed, walked up to Sasuke without even looking at Sakura.
-"You bastard!" Naruto exclaimed with gritted teeth and brought his fist as far back as it would go before swinging forward and punching Sasuke across the face, making him fall over sideways and land on the ground, nose bleeding. Sakura shrieked in surprise and looked down at Sasuke.
Sasuke tried to get up, but didn't quite make it as Naruto roughly kicked him in the stomach, making him bend over in two from the pain. Naruto swiftly brought his fist down onto Sasuke's face once more, breaking his nose, and rendering him unconscious. Sakura was covering her mouth with her hands, trying not to scream out.
She looked up as Naruto turned towards her, noticing the steady stream of tears that was running down her face. 'She must be upset because I punched her beloved Sasuke-kun...' Naruto thought unhappily.
-"Naruto-kun! I can explain-" Sakura started, taking a step towards him, but he put out his hand, stopping her.
-"Spare me Sakura." he said with distaste in his voice, not bothering to add chan to her name. "I thought you different then everybody else...I thought...Oh forget it." Naruto spat out and turned to run but Sakura lunged forward, grabbing hold of his arm.
-"Naruto-kun, please just let me explain...!" she started but Naruto jerked his arm out of her grip and started to run. "Naruto-kun!" Sakura yelled after him but he didn't stop or look back, he just kept running.
More tears streamed out of Sakura's eyes as Naruto ran out of sight. 'I need to go find him and tell him what really happened...' She thought and hastily wiped her eyes, glancing at Sasuke.
He was unconscious and to Sakura's opinion, his nose looked broken. Not that she cared though. Sakura walked over to him and kicked his side, hard.
-"Why did you have to go and do that?" she exclaimed angrily. "That was my first kiss!" Getting no response and feeling no better, Sakura turned and ran in the direction Naruto had gone, hoping to find him before it got too dark to see.
Naruto ran blindly through the village, infuriated by the whole scene he had just witnessed. 'I can't believe it! I just can't believe it! The one person I've ever really opened up to went and betrays me!'
He ran over to the bridge that Team 7 always waited at every morning for their sensei, who was always late, and then they would yell at him for having bad excuses afterwards. Naruto stopped running once he was on the bridge, panting slightly. 'I love her...and I thought, maybe, just this once, she could learn to love me too...'
-"Arg!" Naruto exclaimed and punched the wooden railing at the side of the bridge, earning a pain in his hand and a fairly large hole in the railing.
Grumbling to himself, he leaned his back against the railing and slid down so that he was sitting, knees bent, hand still sore. Naruto felt his anger slowly ebb away, being replaced with unbearable sadness.
Tears formed in his eyes and no matter how much he willed them not to, they still fell, mixing with the rain drops that had just started to fall, as if the sky was crying with him. Thoughts and memories flooded Naruto's mind, ones of all the times he had spent with Sakura for the last few days. All the hugs and concerned remarks that she had given him, did they all mean nothing? Was he just something that was used to make Sasuke jealous?
Naruto eased his head back and stared up at the sky, letting the cold raindrops drizzle down his neck and into his wind breaker.
-"Maybe I should just run away to another village and try to start my life all over again..." he muttered to himself as more camouflaged tears escaped his eyes.
-"That doesn't sound like a very good idea to me..."
Naruto head shot up to see Sakura standing beside him, look very tiered, and very wet. Naruto quickly stood up and ran a hand over his face, trying to dry it off as much as possible so that the water didn't blur his vision.
-"What are you doing here?" he asked, trying to sound angry, but only succeeding in sounding cold and lost.
-"I came looking for you...I never got to tell you what really happened back there." Sakura said and combed a stay piece of hair behind her ear with a few fingers.
-"You don't need to tell me what happened, I was there! I saw you and Sasuke kiss, I'm not stupid Sakura!" Naruto lashed out, spitting out the word 'kiss' as if it was poisonous. Sakura let him last out at her without protest.
-"I didn't want to kiss Sasuke." she said firmly and hugged herself against the cold. (A/N: Never wear a spaghetti strap dress and sandals in the rain late at night. That's a big no-no!) "He-...he forced himself on me after I told him that I didn't want to be with him." she finished.
-"And you honestly want me to believe that?" Naruto said as another tear ran down his face, only this time, Sakura noticed.
-"Yeah, I do. Because it's the truth." she said softly and reached up, wiping his tears away with her thumb. Naruto remained silent, still not convinced. "Sasuke stole my first kiss...and I didn't want that to happen. First kisses are supposed to be special, and something that you'll remember for the rest of your life..." Sakura continued on as she retreated her hand back so it could rub her other arm in an attempt to stay warm. "I wanted to have my first with you...Naruto-kun." she finished and looked up into Naruto's eyes.
Naruto could feel heat start to rise into his face as his heart went into overdrive. 'She wanted to kiss me, not Sasuke?...' "Oh Sakura-chan..." Naruto said softly and drew Sakura's shaking body into a hug. "I'm sorry I didn't believe you. It's just that, almost everybody in the village hated my guts, and it came easily to think that you did too." he said as he hugged her close, trying to transfer some of his body heat to her. Sakura gently pulled away from his embrace and looked in his eyes once more.
-"Naruto-kun, I could never hate you! You're too special a person to me and...I think that I-um...that I love you...Naruto-kun." Sakura said quietly and looked away from him, feeling extremely embarrassed.
It took a few seconds for this confession to sink in.
-"You...y-you love me?" Naruto asked quietly, his eyes on Sakura's red face. She merely shook her head and looked at him, seeing a genuine smile spread across his features. "This is AWESOME!" Naruto cried out and lunged at Sakura, hugging her tightly. "I'm so glad to hear that!"
Sakura melted into his embrace (Melted as in emotionally, she's still freezing her ass off physically.)
-"Sakura-chan, I love you too!" Naruto said happily as he pulled away from the hug, eyes portraying sheer delight. Sakura's eyes went wide.
-"Y-you do!"
-"Yes! I always have!"
Sakura smiled happily. "Thank you Naruto-kun." she said softly and leaned in, planting a kiss on Naruto's lips. Naruto's eyes widened slightly as she slowly wrapped her arms around his neck, strengthening the kiss. He was about to respond to the kiss when Sakura suddenly pulled away. "Sorry." she said breathlessly and quickly unwrapped her arms from his neck, looking down. "It's getting late, I should get home."
Sakura turned to leave when Naruto quickly caught hold of her hand, spinning her around and hastily catching her lips in a passionate kiss. Sakura's eyes widened and her heart thumped in her chest enthusiastically. Closing her eyes, she returned the kiss with passion she never knew she had. Naruto wrapped his arms around her shaking form and deepened the kiss.
They broke apart after a few more seconds and Naruto pulled Sakura into another hug. Sakura leaned into his chest, enjoying his warm touch on her cold skin.
-"So um, Sakura-chan...Does this mean you'll be my girlfriend?" Naruto asked hesitantly in her ear. Sakura chuckled lightly.
-"I don't see why not." she said and Naruto let go of her, looking up at the night sky.
-"Your mom is gonna be pissed at me. It's definitely past 10 pm." he said and sighed.
-"Sorry about my parents, I'm sure they'll learn to like you eventually." Sakura encouraged him and turned to leave.
-"Yeah, I guess..." Naruto muttered and un zipped his wind breaker. He took it off and did a quick walk to catch up with Sakura. Placing the jacket on her shoulders, pe put his arm around her back for warmth. Sakura turned and gave him a smile.
-"Thanks Naruto-kun, for everything." she said and leaned her head on his shoulder.
-"No problem. Anything for you, Sakura-chan." Naruto whispered to her, looking up at the sky, which had just recently stopped crying it's cold rain drops. 'I'm glad everything worked out in the end...' Naruto thought to himself as the couple walked back to Sakura's house, and perhaps certain doom...
HEY! This is in fact the SECOND LAST chapter of Valentine's Day! Is that good? Bad? Don't ask me, all I know it that I'll be posting the next, and last, chapter before the end of September at the latest. I've really enjoyed writing this story and those of you you havn't, might I recommend you check out Love Can Make You Do Crazy Things, my other Naruto/Sakura fanfiction, which is already Complete.
The next chapter is going to be an Epilogue...that's it...HAPPY READING!
Peace out,
MelanieStar