Remember those walls I built
Well, baby, they're tumbling down

She smiled at me. Her radiating green eyes crease pleasantly filling me with a feeling... a familiar sense of warmth and happiness. I felt my lips curl up in return as I saw her making her way towards me through the crowd mumbling apologies and excuses. And now she was standing in front of me. Her lips part in a wide grin, her eyes creased, her arms open and then she pulled me in a warm, welcoming hug.

And they didn't even put up a fight
They didn't even make a sound

A small chuckle shook my body, and my hands reached to wrap around her tiny figure, acting on their own will. And before I knew it, she pulled away from me and cupped my masked face in her hands, pulling me down to her. My eyes grew wide as her soft lips brushed against the rough fabric covering my lips. My eyes drift close as she grabbed the back of my hair. The walls I had built up around myself over all those years of isolation, was crumbling in front of my eyes, and I watched them as they did. On the other side, there was she. Pink hair. A triumphant smirk on her lips and her fist, chakra infused. And before I could stop her or try to hold the wall back, she was in. Grabbing me by the collar of my vest and dragging me out of the box. Through the crumbled debris and rocks of the wall, I built ages ago. I couldn't help but smile.

I found a way to let you win
But I never really had a doubt

Standing in the light of your halo
I got my angel now

It's like I've been awakened

It's not like tried to stop you. The moment you grabbed me by the collar, I had succumbed to it already. I was willing to let you win over me. I was ready to give in to you. And now when I look at the woman in front of me in the beautiful white dress, glowing with happiness a very familiar grin. I feel tears stinging my eyes. I am sure that your merriment is being reflected on my face too. My face is brightened by the light that you brought to my life. We both are now standing here promising to make it shine till our last breath. And when you reached to me and kissed me, I was more than sure that I really had found my angel.

Every rule I had you break it
It's the risk that I'm taking
I ain't never gonna shut you out

I know how you got those judgmental looks from every one of the villages. You were called so many names of disrespect and of mockery. As much as I know you, I know you don't give a 'rats ass' about what people of the village think of you. But I also know how hard it must have been when your own teammates started giving you those judgmental glares. I know Naruto and Sasuke didn't take it well. And neither did your parents. Even my reputation went from the war hero to the perverted Hokage, who was sleeping with an ex-student. There were times that I almost broke. There were times I gave in. Do you know what kept me going? It was your hand that was holding me up all the time. It was how you never gave upon us. It was how you never left my side. So I decided. No matter what the future brings ... sakura... baby... I will be here for us... for you and I will never let go of your soft yet steady hand.

Everywhere I'm looking now
I'm surrounded by your embrace
Baby, I can see your halo
You know you're my saving grace

I was drowning. In my own loneliness and sadness. After the war, our team was disbanded for good. Sasuke left again, and Naruto started his formal Hokage training with Shikamaru and Tsunade. Watching my best friend dying for the second time, scared my mind all over again. I was always busy. I barely had time to spend with Gai and Genma. I was drowning in the paperwork, feeling myself wearing out a bit every day. A bit by bit. Yet I had zero energy to do anything. Until you came that day, grabbed me by the collar of my haori and dragged me out of my office as leaving an unfazed Shizune in the room. That day, you pushed your limits and made destroyed the walls I built. And before I knew it, I stopped surviving was living again. You started cooking my meals. You started taking me out and used the force of your punch when I denied. We started training everyday first thing in the morning, and before I knew it, I was healing... I became more lively. You helped me up sakura. You saved me

You're everything I need and more
It's written all over your face
Baby, I can feel your halo
Pray it won't fade away

And right now, when I sit on this bench with your head on my shoulder, as we watch Sakumo and Misaki running around, throwing fists, laughing and giggling, I am more than happy. More than satisfied with life. And when I kiss the short strands of your pink hair, I am more than sure that this is what I need in my life. You are what I need. My beautiful wife, the loving mother of my children. I thank you sakura. For everything you have given me and taught me about life. And I hope that you stay with me till my last day. I hope this happiness I found with you, never fades away. As a shinobi, the only God I believed was Death. I thought we were always at the mercy of Death. But know when I look at your beautiful face smiling at me, smiling at Sakumo and Misaki I believe that there is a God who is more merciful, who had sent you -his angel- to my life. My life was brightened by the light of your halo sakura. And I pray for the God who sent you, that the brightness you brought never fade away.

I can feel your halo (halo) halo