The New Yellow Flash

Disclaimer: Naruto is 100 percent not mine….but this story is.

My Heart is Breaking

Chapter 2

The sun had finally disappeared from the horizon leaving a orange tint to the sky until it finally faded like a candle into the night, all was dark in the leaf village most residents were sleeping or inside their houses doing varies things…well all were except a few and one of those was the ninja known as Naruto Uzimaki, the young man was heading to his apartment for the night because tomorrow morning or actually in about four hours he would leave this village to go on a training trip for four whole years with the biggest pervert all the mighty shinobi nations have come to know.

Naruto sighed his mind was thinking so fast considering all the ways he could tell Sakura how he felt without ruining their friendship, it would be…troublesome to say the least, Naruto once again sighed and he slowly sat down next to the lake near the Uchiha compound, the young shinobi had always stopped at the Uchiha compound once a week to remind him of his promise to bring back his betraying friend Sasuke to Sakura and once again his mind returned to the beautiful pink haired girl that stole his heart away from him like it was nothing.

'Dam it Sakura if only I could tell you how I feel' The blond shinobi thought with his eyes closed while he laid on the grass letting the light chilly breeze calm him down from his scarred and confused mood.

"Why is this so hard" he said out loud to no one in particular, he had decided about a few months ago to stop begging Sakura into dates because she seemed to want to hit him if he asked her, she would hit him even harder when he asked multiple times per day and when she hits she hits hard, so Naruto had come to the conclusion to stop asking and give her some room as well as take Tsunade's advice and act more a little more mature, and even though he's no expert on women it seemed to have been working because she would blush and twiddle her thumbs and let out dreamy sighs while looking at him all because he acted more adult like around her by eating with out being sloppy, using manners, not talking with his mouth full and also not yelling and interrupting people but what was bugging him now was the fact that he was leaving and he couldn't ask her for four years that is if she was still single by then.

Just the thought of Sakura being with or married to someone else made Naruto depressed so once again Naruto let the cool chilling breeze calm him down and take him away from his scaredand saddened mood and into a light deep sleep.

She had looked everywhere high and low in all his favorite places she had started with the ramen bar then she went to his apartment then the training grounds and so on and so on but to no avail Naruto just alluded her when she wanted to…no needed to find him the most.

The young pink haired konochi had considered her masters words greatly and began to worry as more time passed because now that she thought about it what if Naruto already had moved on she considered the possibilities first of all Naruto had yet to ask Sakura about going on a date with him in the past few months and she had been considering saying yes if he asked but then again but before she could say that to him Naruto had just stopped asking one day.

'Did he give up on me?' She thought to herself

Sakura sighed ever since he came back a year ago she began to get this fluttery felling in her stomach like she had gotten for Sasuke when she was younger but the feeling she got from Naruto was so much stronger then what she felt towards Sasuke, after awhile she had asked Tsunade why she was feeling this way towards Naruto and after Tsunade's explanation it all made sense and even though she was in denial for the longest time she knew it was true, at first she thought it was just the happiness from him returning after him being gone for two and a half years but it wouldn't go away it only got stronger and recently it was unbearable because Naruto had been acting more mature and suddenly she just wanted to grab the knucklehead and kiss him as hard as she could and when she was done she would tell him how she felt, but when he stopped asking her for dates as well as act less interested she lost all he courage.

Sakura let out another brief sigh as she looked around for about another hour and decided she could meet him in the morning when he left and possible tell him then.

The sun slowly began to rise and light began to cover the shadowy lake and eventually the sun uncovered a young blond shinobi from the depths of the shadows, as the sun beamed on him his eyes began to flutter open, his vision started out blurry but instantly sharpened as his eyes were quickly adjusted thanks to the demon fox inside him.

Naruto slowly rose and grabbed his backpack that was lying next to him.

'Good thing I sent a shadow clone out late last night to pack my things before I fell asleep' he felt quite proud of himself for remembering because now he could take his time getting to the front gate of the village.

He stood up and left the Uchiha compound and as he walked through Konoha he looked around and the businesses began to open the people around him smiled and waved as he walked by, things had been like that since he helped protect half the village from a unexpected sound invasion led by Kabuto a few months back.

Naruto had been thinking so much he didn't realize he was approaching the gate and he picked up the pace to greet those who were waiting to saying goodbye.

Naruto saw just who he expected Tsunade standing next to Shizune at the gate with a smile yet looking very..very mad, Jiriaya beaten covered with bruises on the ground looking like he was going to die from blood loss or droll loss whichever came first, Kakashi stood leaning on the gate reading his Makeout Tactics book and giving off some perverted giggles now and then and last but not least stood Iruka with a smile on his face talking to Shizuna, but when he didn't see Sakura his heart felt like it hit the ground at blazing speeds but he couldn't let that show to his friend the last day he saw them.

Naruto walked forward and was immediately bear hugged by Tsunade and the pain…it was too the extreme he felt like he was being squeezed so hard he might just piss his pants but he just let his eyes water from the extremely...extremely painful hug he was receiving from Tsunade even if the intentions were good hearted.

Sakura was screaming out loud while she was running, she had slept in just a little too long and now was running as fast as she could to see Naruto before he left and confess to him how she felt she had looked at the clock before she left it was "six o two" in the morning and Tsunade said he would most likely leave around "six o five".

"Crap" she said out loud as she ran towards the north gate as fast as she could she had to see Naruto on his last day here no matter what.

Conversations and wishes of good luck continued until Jiriaya spoke up "I hate to do this but it's time to go Naruto"

Naruto nodded and all smiled.

"Good luck Naruto I expect great things from you when you get back" Kakashi said as he put his perverted book away and gave the black and orange dawning shinobi a true smile.

"Thanks and I hope we can have a one on one when I get back" Naruto said still hiding his sadness from earlier even though all around him saw the mask he was hiding under.

As Naruto began to walk by Jiriaya's side and down the road until he heard a female yell his name.

"NARUTO!!" the said boy turned around.

"Yeah?" he said trying to hide his pain even harder.

"You'd better come back strong and take my place as Hokage" Tsunade said happily.

Naruto smiled for real this time and waved as he and the old man continued onward until multiple screams were heard.

"NARUTO!! NARUTO!!"

But it wasn't Tsunade's voice this time it was…

"Sa-kura?" Naruto said with a stutter.

"Naruto" she said calmer this time but she still sounded breath less like she had been running a marathon.

As the perverted sannin Jiriaya saw what was transpiring before him he sighed and his perverted senses kicked in causing two mini Jiriaya's to appear and stand on his shoulders.

'Oh great what do you two want?' thought Jiriaya.

"You know what we want this could be valuable Makeout Encore material you must take notes!" said the little evil and overly perverted Jiriaya with drool coming out of his mouth.

"Don't even consider it you know if you did this Tsunade would beat the living shit out of you!" said the kinder and more composed of the two Jiriaya's.

The real and full sized Jiriaya's face instantly paled from the thought of Tsunade giving him a beating.

"Come on its just a few notes they wouldn't mind" said the origami sized Jiriaya wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.

'Alright let's do this thing!!' thought the full sized pervert as he began preparing to begin his research.

The small composed Jiriaya just sighed and said "And what if Tsunade uses the one thousand years of death technique on you with her chakra at max"

Jiriaya just stopped in his tracks and all life seemed to stop in his tiny head as the image of Tsunade sending chakra enhanced fingers up his...

'HELL NO!!' the old hermit screamed in his mind.

Jiriaya just dismissed the two smaller versions of himself and began walking away.

"Hurry up you two…Naruto I'll be waiting when you're done talking and I'll be up ahead on the road" he said while barely hiding his pained look of the image brought before him 'I'm scared for life' he thought to himself.

Everyone that stood at the gate began enhancing their ears with chakra to listen in on the conversation…well everyone except for Tsunade, as soon as the Hokage noticed this she decided to speak up "Listen up everyone!" she said loudly but not quite yelling, instantly the three ninja standing at the gates turned to face her.

"Alright now that I have your attention you are all allowed to listen to Naruto and Sakura's conversation on one condition" all five eyes remained on her waiting to see what she had to say.

"The condition will apply differently for everyone understood?" she said as an evil smile began to fill her face, and Iruka and Shizune gulped and nodded except for Kakashi that is because nothing could make him miss his students conversation…nothing.

"Ok, Shizuna you will be doing my paper work for a month..."

Shizune just crossed her hands in the shape of an x and said "Hell no I pass!"

"Iruka you will be dropped to first year academy teaching…"

"AHHHH!! NOT THE TODDLERS!!...I'll pass" Iruka said yelling the first part then whispering the last.

"And Kakashi you will be-" Tsunade paused to let out a soft giggle "You will be burning all your Makeout books and forbid to buy anymore…EVER!!"

Kakashi just feel over face first and silently said pass like Iruka and Shizuna.

"THEN BE GONE YOU THREE PERVERTS!!" Tsunade screamed and with that the three ninjas were gone in separate poofs, Tsunade just smiled and said silently to herself before leaving.

"Good luck….Naruto"

The two shinobi stood in the middle of the road staring into each other's eyes, soft blue eyes meet sparkling green eyes.

As the two continued to stare Sakura's thoughts were raging like a hurricane 'ok its simple you can do this Sakura just tell him how you feel….but what if he's moved on already?'

'She's looks so cute….ahhh…must. Think. Straight…ok it's now or never I just got to tell her how I feel….but what it she doesn't feel the same……AHHH!! This is so confusing'

As the two continued two blush and look away they finally their eyes met, as Sakura stared into Naruto's bright blue eyes they seemed so protective and unpredictable as well they also seemed to hide his true pain from the outer world like a mask, and as Naruto looked into Sakura's eyes they were a bright and beautiful emerald they also seemed so confused and yet so determined to prove too others.

The silence continued for what seemed like hours as the two stared into each other's eyes finally deciding to break the calm quiet before them both Naruto and Sakura decided to speak at the same time thus creating a jumble of words and leaving them both utterly confused and loss of any confidence they might have had left.

"Sorry Sakura you go first" Naruto said while scratching the back of his head.

"Ok…. Ummm Naruto…." 'I love you' she thought 'ok just need to say it this time'.

"Naruto I just wanted to tell you that…-" Instantly Naruto's heart began to flutter and he could feel the eagerness swell up inside him "-…it's just that I.I...-" She chickened out "-….I think you're a great friend and make sure you come back safe so we can Save Sasuke-kun together" she said with one of her reassuring smiles 'Why did that slip out I didn't mean to say Sasuke-kun' Naruto eyes widened and realization hit him 'I should have known how could I be so stupid...even after all this time she still and probably always will love Sasuke' with that any hope that Naruto had of saying his confession and of being with Sakura died right there at that moment as his heart felt like it was crushed, stepped on and thrown out.

"I see" was all Naruto said with pain clearly in his eyes until he put on a fake smile "I'll come back safe Sakura and when I do get back-" Naruto was crushed with what he forced himself to say next "-we will bring back Sasuke back together" Sakura also felt bad when he said this because she had told him several times that she had moved on from Sasuke, but she thought for a second 'Wait I said Sasuke-kun and smiled the way that he always believes'

Sakura looked down to the ground for a second 'Oh no what have I done' she thought until she saw Naruto began to turn around she instantly shot up to look at his face and she was about to say something but she stopped only to see something that would shock her now and also for the next four years, sliding down Naruto's left cheek was a single tear coming from his now faded blue eyes.

Before she could say anything he took off with a massive burst of speed, and with that Sakura feel to her knees crying in her hands thinking over and over again 'Why...why didn't I tell him?'

Jiriaya was walking down the road when a young blond shinobi landed next to him "finally I thought you chickened out and went back to your home" he said with a smile that quickly faded when he saw his students face.

"Naruto what's wrong?" Jiriaya said with his voice full of concern.

Naruto didn't answer the question, instead he just said "Sensei do you mind if walk behind a little bit?"

Jiriaya was shocked by Naruto's use of educate even though he had been more mature recently this was unheard of for Naruto to call Sensei and he normally would have argued with him to figure out what was wrong with the boy but decided the boy needed time to think "very well but if you need anything just holler…ok?"

Naruto simply nodded and slowed his pace until he thought it was far enough 'I let this happen to me I gave her my heart…I left myself open…I disserved this pain I'm feeling for getting my hopes up…but I can't endure this kind of pain again…the best way to keep this pain from happening again…is to never give my heart away to anyone ever again'

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For people who think Naruto is going overboard with his down in the dumps mood well most people can feel that way after they just planed on telling someone they are in love with them only to find the other person only sees them as a friend, so that's why he went into super depressed mode.

Did you know when I write these chapters in Microsoft Word they seem so much longer then when they are posted here, anyway that was chapter two of my amazing story and I had over 2900 words horary for me, anyway I'm working on the next chapter as fast as I can so be patient and expect to see it in a few days time, everyone if you have time please review I would really appreciate it.

Reviewer appreciation corner

skytide101 : Thanks for the tip, I looked over my story and found I spelled Tsunade with an (a) instead of an (e).

Cloud Ex-SOLDIER : I meant to flush out Sakura's feelings more but I'm going to explain how she moved on in way more detail in ether chapter 3 or 4.

ref346 : Thanks I'm glad, and that review surprisingly gave me confidence...somehow.

twin083 : for some reason after I saw your review I began working for two hours spell checking and fixing this chapter, so in a way this chapter came out quicker thanks to you.

And thank you everyone else for your reviews I really appreciate it.

Also if you find any misspellings or messed up sentences let me know so I can correct those thanks! .