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Naruto knows he is lucky to have Sakura-chan.
He knows that with her he can be himself.
Naruto also knows that Sasuke is lucky to have Sakura-chan.
(but he also knows that Sasuke knows he is lucky because he has seen those less-tense looks when the boy glances at her and how his mouth loses that killing edge when she speaks)
But this is also why he's nervous about the graduation ceremony today.
He's made it, but of course, Sakura-chan doesn't know that because she thinks he's failed.
(he remembered her tears and how Sasuke's hands twitched at her distraught face)
He's nervous because what if, even after they've both made it, even with the bastard, they don't end up in the same team.
Naruto worries himself late into the night, biting his fingernails and hoping, praying, begging that he will be with Sakura-chan in the same team.
(He wants to be the one to see her smiles every day, he is the one who needs her—along with the bastard but Naruto wasn't going to think about that.)
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