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Happy Ending

Chapter 5

"You wanted to see me?"

"You have been around Kakashi too much."

Naruto chuckled at that and jumped off the windowsill. Tsunade smiled, but her eyes never left the scroll she was reading, or, was pretending to be reading.

"How was the movie?" Tsunade said, still not looking up from the scroll.

"Oh… About that, I forgot to report about it…" Naruto looked away, staring at the wall as if it had become very interesting.

Tsunade sighed and finally looked up from the scroll. If Naruto had looked at her, he would have seen that she was tired and that she was slightly curious.

"I will let it slip this time because we don't have time to argue about stuff like this." Tsunade raised herself from the chair and stared down at the scroll on the desk. "I need you to take care of Sakura's mission for today."

Naruto turned to stared at Tsunade, raising a brow.

Tsunade looked up at him and Naruto could see her eyes; she really was tired.

"You look tired." He said and moved forward to stand directly in front of Tsunade.

"Actually I am, but right now you need to focus on the mission." Tsunade straightened and looked him fully in the eyes. Naruto stared blankly back, he could see that she was concerned, but about what? About Sakura? Had something happened to Sakura!

"Is Sakura-Chan alright? Has something happened to her?" Naruto put both of his hands on the desk and bent forward so that his nose was inches from Tsunade's.

"Nothing has happened to her, kid." Tsunade snapped. Naruto's eyes softened with relief. "But," Tsunade continued. "Her mother, Mrs. Haruno is at the hospital right now. She went in this morning and Sakura really wanted to stay with her and now I'm ordering you to take her mission. I want no complaints and I think I will enjoy this as much as you will." Tsunade smiled, an evil smile.


"Naruo-Nii-chan!"

"Naruto-Chan!"

"Play with us!"

"Naruto-Nii-chan, come over here!"

Okay, this is just a bad dream and I will wake up really soon and then I will laugh about this.

"Naruto-Chan! The boys are mean! They are splashing water at us!" A little girl ran towards Naruto. Naruto sighed at that but gave the little girl a huge grin.

"Then lets do a counter attack! If you two girls come from behind then…"

He ended up taking care of ten kids.

When Tsunade informed him about the kids he wanted nothing more than just run away, saying that he had promised to meet Iruka. But he couldn't, Sakura was his friend after all and if he didn't take this mission, she would have to leave her mother at the hospital and Sakura wouldn't speak to him for a couple of weeks.

But now that he was here he couldn't say that it was that bad. They were all outside and playing by a river and the weather was truly wonderful.

"Okay girls! Let's show the boys what we are made of!"

The girls screamed with joy and started to run in the direction of the boys. Naruto looked at the girls' running backs and chuckled a little before he started to run, too.

The air was filled with laughter after a while, and both boys and girls were drenched with water. The blonde ninja, who could run on the water, was the only one who was dry.

"Naruto-Chan! That's cheating!" The kids started to scream and throw water at Naruto. Naruto dodged the water and stuck out his tongue.

"I'm a ninja, so this isn't cheating!" Naruto laughed.

The kids were just too cute; they jumped after Naruto, trying their best to catch up to him but Naruto had the upper hand. He kicked a little water at the children from time to time and smiled. He was like a child playing with his friends.

But the fun ended when Naruto felt something hard hit him in the head, making him lose his balance. He fell into the cold water on his backside.

"I'm sorry, the apple slipped out of my hand."

Naruto turned the direction the voice came from and frowned when he saw whom it was.

"Next time I will be more careful so it doesn't slip like that ever again." Sasuke gave Naruto a cocky grin.

He sure pops up when you least expect it… Naruto raised himself up from the water and turned so that he was facing the Uchiha boy.

"Oh don't worry about it, I'm sure a boy, such as you, slips all the time and makes mistakes quite often." Naruto said sarcasticly.

"I'm sorry, did you say something? I can't hear you."

"Then I will make you hear me, princess." Naruto walked toward Sasuke, stopping when he was just a few steps from the other boy. "I said that you look girly with that basket." Naruto pointed at the basket Sasuke was holding. Sasuke just looked down at it and then back at Naruto.

"Don't you like apples?" Sasuke asked.

"Not when I'm getting hit by them!" Naruto snapped. He looked at Sasuke and showed him that he was really angry, and why shouldn't he be? His head hurt like hell.

Naruto turned away and looked at the kids. The blond could see that they were confused.

"Okay kids up from the water, I don't want you guys to catch a cold."

The kids did what Naruto had told them to do and walked out of the water without any complaints.

Naruto turned to Sasuke once again.

"Why are you here anyway?"

"Sakura asked me a couple of days ago if I could bring some apples to the children, she takes care of these guys quite often." Sasuke started to walk and Naruto did the same.

"As you can see she isn't here, but I think the kids would like the apples anyway." Naruto said. They both stopped and looked at the playing children in front of them.

"Where is she?" Sasuke asked.

"Her mother is at the hospital and Sakura-Chan wanted to be with her." He replied.

"And you are here because of that?"

"Yeah, if I hadn't taken this mission she would have had to leave the hospital, and I really think she wants to be with her mother…" Naruto said the last words a little lower. He really didn't want to say something that would make Sasuke remember his parents, or the painful memory of Itachi killing all of the people Sasuke loved.

"I understand." Sasuke walked forward towards the kids and raised the basket filled with apples in the air. "Do you kids want some apples?"


"You sure are really friendly today Sasuke, what crawled up your ass while I wasn't looking?"

The raven-haired boy sighed and looked over at the blond boy.

Sasuke had been kind enough to stay with Naruto and the kids. The kids really liked Sasuke, even though all he did was to stare at the kids and simply doing nothing and some of the kids even copied his 'moves'.

Even after the mission was over, he had continued to be nice and treated Naruto to dinner.

"What do you mean by that?" The taller boy asked. "You begged me help you with the kids, and then you forgot your money at home,--which I still don't know how you could--and then you wanted me to join you on your nightshift."

Naruto smiled and looked up at the stars. "First, I wasn't begging, I asked. Second, I said I would pay you back and third-" Naruto turned his face towards Sasuke, still with the smile on his face. "I asked if you wanted to keep me company."

Sasuke couldn't stop looking into Naruto's eyes, or even hide his surprised look on his face.

Sasuke had never expected that. He had expected him to say at least 'bastard' but he didn't, he just smiled and looked like he was having no worries. Sasuke just let it slip this time and looked forward instead of looking into the other boy's eyes.

"Whatever." He said. "Isn't this shift over soon? We have scouted around for hours." Sasuke stopped and turned around and saw that the other boy had stopped. "Why did you stop?" he asked.

"Because this is where I meet Tenten. We are a little early so she will come soon enough." Naruto sat himself down at the ground.

Sasuke looked around a little and saw the flower shop that Ino's parents owned. He moved towards Naruto and sat himself beside the boy, not to close.

They both sat silently for a moment and enjoyed the night; it was about ten minutes before Sasuke spoke up.

"She's late, isn't she?" He asked. Naruto noticed the annoyance in his voice but didn't comment or even answer his question. He just sat there and pretended he didn't hear the question.

Sasuke noticed that the blonde didn't answer, but he didn't ask why, he just looked at his friend and wondered what was on the younger boy's mind.

"Do you think she is okay?" Naruto asked quietly.

Sasuke just stared at him questioningly, but he didn't show it.

"You mean Mrs. Haruno? Sakura's mother?" He saw how Naruto shifted a little.

"I just hope she is all right… For Sakura-Chan's sake." Naruto wrapped his arms around his legs and lay his head on his knees, looking at Sasuke. "I don't think she could handle it all too well if something happened to her mother."

Sasuke didn't need an explanation of what about the other boy meant. He knew Naruto meant the accident that had happened to Mr. Haruno. Sakura's father. He had a heart attack in the middle of the street and died. It really shocked both Sakura and her mother. Her mother was especially shocked, but he didn't really know why and neither did Sakura.

"She will be fine." Sasuke said and gave Naruto a tiny smile. "She is strong isn't she? Both Sakura and her mother are."

Naruto didn't say anything and didn't meet Sasuke's eyes either.

"Is something else bothering you dobe?" Sasuke asked seriously.

Naruto looked Sasuke in the eyes again and nodded. Sasuke frowned.

"What?" He asked, irritated. "Tell me."

"I was just thinking about something… That I really have given a second thought before." Naruto avoided Sasuke's eyes again. He didn't want to look into the other boy's black eyes.

"You can't stop talking now when you have already begun."

Naruto didn't want to continue. Right now he was thinking about that night when he watched that movie with Sasuke. He hadn't lied to him when he said he hadn't thought about it, but now, all of the sudden, the memories flashed in his mind, even the 'accidental' kiss that happened at the party with Neji.

"Well… I-" Naruto didn't know what to say. He didn't really want to talk about it.

"Tell me." Sasuke said with a low voice and moved closer to Naruto, so that they were almost touching. Naruto looked up at Sasuke and stared him in the eyes again.

"Naruto!" A voice called out, and Naruto stood up immediately. Naruto waved at the person that was running toward him and Sasuke.

"Hey, Tenten. Late as always, I see." Naruto grinned at her and she moved in for a stop just a few meters before him. She smiled weakly at him while panting before looking over at Sasuke, lifting her hand at him in greeting. Sasuke just nodded in return and stood up behind Naruto.

"I hope you didn't wait long." She said and bowed to the two of them.

"It's okay. Sasuke here kept me company, so it really didn't matter this time but you should stop this new habit of yours." Naruto poked Tenten at the side and she smiled friendly at him in return.

"I will try. It's just that I have to take care of my little brother until one of my parents comes home."

"Oh." Naruto didn't know what to say and felt stupid about that he didn't knew that Tenten had a younger brother to take care of while her parents were out. "If that's the case it doesn't matter if you come late, and you should have told me earlier about this."

"I'm sorry Naruto." Tenten bowed again and smiled at him and Sasuke. "Got to get moving, see you two later." She turned around and started to walk away from the both boys.

Naruto and Sasuke nodded good-bye and watched her leave them.

They didn't say anything to each other until the girl was out of sight.

"Sweet dreams bastard." Naruto said and started to walk away.

"Wait, Blondie." Naruto stopped and looked at Sasuke.

"What?" The blond said in a tired voice. "I'm sleepy and want to go home, make it quick."

"You never said what you were thinking about, and I want to know." Sasuke sounded serious. Maybe he thought that the blonde didn't feel well, or that maybe he had gotten himself into trouble. Sometimes he is like a mother, concerned and weird. Naruto thought and started to walk away from Sasuke again.

The raven-haired boy watched his retreating back and was about to leave when he heard Naruto voice.

"You."

Sasuke didn't know if he had heard right. So he just stood there and looked at Naruto's back again, only to see that the younger boy had stopped and turned around. Naruto grinned at him and pointed at him like he used to do when he was younger.

"I was just thinking about you."


To be continued

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