Living With My Worst Nightmare

by DarkInu418

After getting in a huge fight Ino and Sakura are forced to live together until they get along. Plus they have to be able to play the two star roles in a musical that they didn't even want to be in. Will they kill each or will it lead to something more?

12. Chapter 12: A Hero's Untold Story

(A/N Thanks to everyone for the reviews, it meant a lot to me. All of them were very positive expect for a few on Sakura learning the Rasengan. Appartently everyone hated that so there will be a explaination on how she can use it. Now I realized that this story will be longer than 20 chapters, though I haven't written them all yet. Hell all I have are the main ideas of the chapters. If any of you have read my other stories then you have realized that most of them stop at around chapter 11 so that makes this my longest and most reviewed story. It wouldn't even be this way if it wasn't for all you great fans out there. I LOVE YOU ALL!! Like I promised in the last chapter you will learn something new about Sakura's past, it could be anything, but I will say that it will be sad. So be prepared cause I warned you all. Now on with chapter 12.)

Last Time:

Ren's eyes widened at Sakura's words she turned her head to look at her and was shocked to see her actually crying over her. "Sakura your wrong I'm just a clone and when I die no one will remember me." She said as a few tears fell down her cheeks. She voiced out the one thing that she has alway's feared, to fade away and have no one care.

"Ren your the one who's wrong because your not just a clone, it's like your my twin sister or something." Sakura then grabbed Ren's hand and lifted it up. She used both her hands to cup Ren's before she started talking again. "And when you die I promise that I'll never forget you for as long as I live. You will alway's be Haruno Ren my younger twin sister."

She couldn't believe that the one person that she swore to kill was actually being this compassionate to her. Never in her life would she think that her most precious person would be Haruno Sakura of all people. Ren smiled a true smile at her sister. "The only thing that I regret is not being friends with you sooner. I think that if I did you would have made my life very happy."

With her final words spoken Ren then closed her eyes forever as she took her final breath; though the smile on her face didn't leave when she died. Sakura couldn't stop the flow of tears that came from her eyes. This is the second time that she couldn't save someone precious to her and it really hurt her.

Though Sakura didn't dwell long on her feelings as the pain in her chest plus her exhaustion became too much for her to handle. The last thing that she saw before she blacked out was the serene smile of Ren, her twin sister.

Regular talking and in present

Thoughts, lyrics, and flashbacks

Chapter 12: A Hero's Untold Story

It was a beautiful day in the village of Konoha, as the sun rays lightly glowed in a patients room of the Konoha hospital. A close up on the patient and you would realize that this person looked to be very injured, but slowly recovering.

Bright pink hair was layed out on a pillow framing the girls beautiful face. It would have looked like she was sleeping peacefully if it wasn't for the troubled look on her face.

"DON'T HURT HER!!"

"Hahahaha. Like you can really do anything in your position. Your far to weak to stop me."

"NOOOOOO!!!!"

"Now it's time for you to experience true fear." Then there was a flash of red before it was completely black.

Suddenly the girl shot up in the bed screaming. "STOPPPPP!!!" Her hand was outstreched almost like there was actually someone there that wanted to hurt her. She felt a sharp pain in her stomach, clutching her sides in pain.

The sound of the door being thrown open and someone wrapping their arms around her shoulders was all she remembered before she passed out from the pain.

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"It's been a week and still she hasn't woken up yet." Ino sighed in sadness as she sat in the hospital cafeteria sipping on her coffee. She hasn't been sleeping well ever since Sakura was rushed to the hospital after her fight with Ren.

"Ino don't worry I'm sure Sakura is going to be fine, but I'm more worried about you." said Tenten, who sat across from her.

"Tenten, Sakura's the one who's in critical care right now not me. I'm completely fine." The blonde weakly reassured her friend.

"Sakura was in critical condition, Tsunade said that she was okay and would wake up any day now. You haven't been sleeping at all and you've been skipping meals. Do you think that Sakura would be happy if she saw you like this?" Tenten questioned trying to convince her friend that what she was doing was unhealthy.

Ino stood up from her chair having heard enough of Tenten's speech. "How can I possibly sleep and eat properly when my best friend is in the hospital right now!" Then she turned her back on her, walking back to Sakura's room.

Tenten didn't bother following Ino, so she paid for their drinks and quietly walked out the building to meet her teammates for a mission.

Ino was half way down the hallway thinking about her actions. 'Maybe Tenten's right, I should start sleeping and eating more often. Man it's been a week since Sakura fought her sister or clone or whatever she is to her now. Why can't she wake up?'

She was just outside Sakura's door when she heard a scream pirce through the quiet air. "STOPPPPP!!!" That was Sakura's voice was all that registered in Ino's head as she threw the door open.

Sakura was sitting upright in her bed with her hand outstreched, like she was trying to reach to someone. Her eyes had a scared and faraway look to them.

Almost as if on instinct Ino ran at her friend and wrapped her arms around her body, glad that she was finally awake. She felt her friends body slump against hers which hinted to her that she either fell back asleep or was too tired to pick up her own weight.

Judging by Sakura's even breathing she knew that she fell back asleep. Being very gentle with her injured friend Ino layed her down on the bed once again. She looked at her now peaceful face before placing her hand on Sakura's cheek.

Ino smiled tearfully at her friend as she started talking to herself. "Sakura I really wish that you could tell me what's going on. The only thing that I know for sure is that your pain was caused by that asshole Sasuke."

"Did Naruto tell you that?" questioned a voice from the doorway.

With quick reflexes Ino pulled out a kunai and was about to throw it at the person when she realized it was the fifth Hokage.

Instantly she put away her blade and stood up, apologizing for her actions. Tsunade just put her hand up which told Ino to be silent.

"No harm done. I don't blame you after what happened at rehearsals." Was her only response as she took a seat by her apprentice's prone form.

"Did she wake up at all?" Tsunade asked checking the young girls pulse. She smiled satisfied by the pulse beat.

"Well only for a minute, but she woke up screaming stop. She looked so scared and I'm not sure she was aware of her surroundings." Ino gave her recall over the situation.

Tsunade sighed sadly, leaning back in her chair with a defeated look on her face. "That clone shouldn't have ever showed up. Sakura was slowly starting to recover till she brought back memories that should have never been talked about again."

"Ummm...what do you mean? What exactly happened to Sakura in the first place?" Ino asked wanting to get to the bottom of this.

"Well I would have told you that it was about Sasuke but you already knew that. Anything else is to be kept a secret till Sakura tells you herself." Tsunade replied with a sad smile starting to actually look her age.

Ino threw her hands up in the air in her frustration. "Why doesn't anyone tell me anything! Sakura is my best friend, but yet I'm the one that is still in the dark! She's suffering but still she doesn't tell me anything! I know that we had our differences in the past but you think that she would actually confide in me like when we were younger!" Angry tears started to make there way down her face.

'Why? Why? WHY!!' Were the thoughts that raged in Ino's head as she clutched her right hand in a tight fist.

Tsunade smirked at Ino and decided to look at her young apprentice instead. "Do you want to know the real reason why I made you and Sakura live together?"

Ino wiped her tears and snorted at her. "Of course! To stop me and Sakura's rivalry."

"Baka."

"What did you say!"

"I called you a baka. When you two first started fighting no one really cared; sure they thought it was a pain in the ass, but we could still get over it. Think about it you two have been fighting forever so why did we now decide to take matters into our own hands?"

"Umm...because we destroyed an entire street?" Ino pointed out.

Tsunade sighed as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Okay that's another reason, but the real reason was so that Sakura could emotionally recover."

"What?"

"As you know something bad happened to Sakura 3 months ago; ever since then she's never been the same. She barely talks to anyone, she trains all the time, and at one point in time I think that she lost the ability to truely smile. I was afraid that she would lose herself in her own sorrow." Tsunade explained reaching over to Sakura and gently squeezing her hand.

"So how does all that tie in with me?" Ino asked feeling guilty for not noticing Sakura's strange behavior earlier.

"Like you said earlier your her best friend." At the look that Ino gave her Tsunade decided to further explain. "Ino you've been Sakura's closest friend throughout most of her life. You protected her, nurtured her, and made her into the strong young woman that she is today. You might not think that's true but believe me it is. Sakura always talked about you when her childhood came up and a smile would alway's come on her face no matter what foal mood she was in. So I got the idea that if you two became friends again then Sakura could smile and be happy." She concluded as she turned to look at an embarassed and sellshocked blonde.

'That was the real reason this whole time. I can't believe that she has that much faith in me even when I don't have that much faith in myself. Though, I still need to find out what happened to Sakura to fully understand her situation.' Ino thought over in her head before a grin appeared on her face.

"Well looks like I can't back out now with everyone's faith riding on my shoulders. Guess I have no choice then but to look after Sakura." She replied making Tsunade smile at her.

"That's good to hear, but your going to have to look after Sakura once you get back from work. That's the reason why I came here, your 5 minutes late." Tsunade said as she saw Ino's facial expression drop to one of horror.

"OH CRAP DAD'S GONNA KILL ME!!" Ino shouted giving Sakura a quick kiss on the forehead before she jumped out the window.

Tsunade chuckled at the blonde before she turned to a dark corner in the room. "You can come out now."

The person started to laugh at the woman, walking out of the shadows to reveal that it was none other than Jiriaya. "Good morning Tsunade." He said acting all friendly.

She darkly glared at the man causing his smile to falter. "Don't act like nothing bad has happened or I'll have to show you a swift kick to your precious jewels."

"Come on Tsunade why the deadly threats?" Her old teammate asked stepping a couple of feet away from the woman.

"I should beat you where you stand for teaching Sakura the rasengan."

"Hey I thought she would have given up on it after a while. I never expected her to train for 3 months to master it. Actually I never thought she would master it." Jiraiya sheeplessly explained, scratching his nose to show he was uncomfortable.

Tsunade stood up and was now face to face with Jiraiya. "So you tell me that you put in her head that she could master the move just to save your sorry ass! Sakura doesn't have the chakra makeup to sustain that move for long, but still you taught her! It's one when you push Naruto to the point of death, but you leave Sakura out of this! She doesn't have a demon healing her after every wound that is inflicted on her!"

Jiraiya looked at Tsunade with a guilty expression on his face. "How bad was it?"

"Her hand was severely burned to the point that her chakra coils were badly damaged. She's lucky that I was on the scene because if I wasn't then we would either have her retire as a shinobi or apputate her arm." Tsunade sadly explained turning to her apprentice.

"I didn't know that it could have ended up that badly. Tsunade you know that I would never push someone like that if I knew what could happen." Jiraiya said gently placing his hand on top of the blondes shoulder.

"Next time tell me what your doing with her, I'm her master not you. Besides that girl has seen enough tragedies in her life and if I was to tell her that she had to stop being a shinobi it would break her heart. To her, a life of a shinobi is all she has left." Tsunade told him in a sad tone as a tears fell down her face.

Jiraiya wrapped her in his arms as she cried on his shoulder. He smiled sadly at how close Tsunade and Sakura were; they were truely like mother and daughter. Even though Sakura is suffering from her grief it's also affecting Tsunade's behavior. No longer did the Hokage drink sake as much as she used to and she spent most of her time training Sakura leaving the villages affairs to rest on Shizunes shoulders. Like Sakura Tsunade hides her pain so no one has truely noticed; well except for him but that was only because they have known each other for so long.

"Don't worry this nightmare will all be over once we kill them." Jiraiya whispered in Tsunade's ear wanting to take revenge for the ones that hurt Sakura like this, broke her down so inhumanly.

He couldn't careless if he was acting like an overprotective father because anyone that hurt Sakura and the brat was in for a world of hurt. Let's face it those two kids have grown attached to him.

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"Ino this is the 3rd time this week that you've been late. Please tell me that isn't starting to turn into a habit." Inoichi said placing his arms over his chest.

Ino was bent over trying to catch her breath from running the whole way here. "Sorry Dad I was visiting Sakura in the hospital. Guess I didn't keep track of time." She grinned at her father.

His features softened a little before they became angry again. "It doesn't matter anyway because your suspended from talking to customers for 2 weeks."

Now Ino was the one that was angry. "WHAT!!! Dad thats not fair I wasn't even that late!"

"Your lucky that your my daughter or I would have fired you because what you did would have gotten you fired if you were a normal employee. So instead of helping out in the shop you'll be cleaning the attic for your mother."

"Dad what did I do to deserve this." Ino dramatically exclaimed.

"I got this complaint from a customer saying that you were talking about her daughter in front of her. Normally I would have just ignored her, but she was reallly upset. She said that you were calling her daughter terrible names and that she had a bad mother for raising her that way. Just be happy that this is all I'm doing." Inoichi responded giving Ino a stern look.

"Who was the mother?" Ino questioned her anger on slow boil.

"Does a Mrs. Shin ring a bell."

"Oh yeah that does ring a bell, but that rumor was true. How was I supposed to know that that was her daughter anyway." Ino replied with a smile, shrugging her shoulders.

Inoichi slapped his forehead in exasperation. "You don't even deny it! Ino what am I supposed to do with you?" He asked no one in particular.

Ino huffed in annoyance. "Well it's not my fault that her daughter slept around with 4 other men and got pregnant. Need I mind you that she is only 14, plus she has no idea who the father is."

All Inoichi did was point to the staircase before saying. "Ino I suggest you shut up right now or your in serious trouble young lady."

Ino walked past her father as she muttered under her breath. "Not my fault that she's a whore."

"I HEARD THAT!!"

The sound of Ino running up the stairs in fright caused Inoichi to smile. No matter what she did he could never stay angry with her.

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"Dammit I hate cleaning the attic! When was the last time we cleaned this stupid room anyway!" Ino yelled to herself as some dust blew into her line of vision making her sneeze.

She's been cleaning for the past two hours without one freaking break. She would have come downstairs for some food but right now Ino feared her fathers wrath.

So far she organized the area that was closest to the entry way, which was the more recent items they owned. Now she worked her way to the back of the attic uncovering really old stuff that belonged to her parents before her birth.

"Hmmm...I wonder what's in this box?" Ino asked herself as she found a really worn out box. "Well it say's Inoichi's childhood photos. Now that I think about it I've never actually seen any pictures of Dad when he was younger." A grin started to form on Ino's face as she thought over what she should do. "Well Dad wouldn't be too mad at me if I took a 30 minute break."

Gently she opened the cardboard box up; she didn't want to rip the box and make her Dad anymore pissed at her. Once the box was opened Ino took a look inside. The first thing she saw was a big picture photo framed in a silver case.

Ino gingerly grabbed the picture and lifted it up so that she could see it better. It looked like the picture was taken at a Christmas party many years ago. Instantly she spotted her parents who were arm and arm looking a little tipsy. Her father was dressed in a black suit while her mother was in a little black dress.

'Wow they look so young in this picture. They had to be at least 18 in this picture. People are right I look exactly like my mother when she was younger. Scary.' Ino thought over in her head.

Then she noticed Shikamaru and Chouji's fathers, Shikaku and Chouza. She sweatdropped at Shikaku getting yelled at by Shikamaru's mother for some reason, Ino guessed that he fell asleep or something. Even back then she managed to whip him like a dog. She smiled when she saw Chouza and his would be wife over by the food table; Chouza was eating BBQ while his girlfriend smiled at the camera.

'Wow they haven't changed one bit, well except Shikaku doesn't have a scar on his face yet. Sadly they're bad habits had to be passed down to their sons. It is funny though that Shikamaru managed to get a girlfriend that whips him like a dog just like his father.' Ino chuckled at how the past can repeat itself.

Suddenly that's when she noticed three other couples; the first man had dark brown hair and dark onyx eyes. They reminded Ino of Sasuke's eyes and the scowl on his face really brought back memories of the dark haired Uchiha. Next to him was a very beautiful young women with jet black hair and the same color eyes, but unlike her partner she was smiling warmly.

The next man she recognized immediently as the famous 4th Hokage. He wore his Hokage clothes, grinning warmly at the woman he was holding around the waist. This women was also very pretty, but she looked more of a tomboy than anything. She had long red hair that reached to her lower back and teal eyes. She was taking a sip from her drink as she caressed the 4th's cheek.

The last couple made Ino look at them in confusion. The man had dark red hair that almost looked like blood which brought out his jade colored eyes. He also had a samurai sword strapped to his side as he wore a red trench coat with the Haruno clan symbol engraved on his back. A red ribbon was tied around his rather large forehead, as the ends just hanged on the back of his head. He was smiling shyly at a women with bright blonde hair, it was so light that it looked almost white. Her bright blues eyes glowed in amusement at something that the man said.

Ino couldn't help but stare at that couple; they both reminded her strongly of Sakura. Then she placed the pieces together. "Oh my god that's Sakura's mom; man she's changed a lot over the years. Now I know where Sakura inherited her chest, but that man can't be her father can it?"

Over the years that they have been friends Sakura has barely metioned her father. All she used to tell her was that her Dad wasn't around anymore so she assumed that he left Sakura and her mother. It would explain why there were no pictures of him hanging in Sakura's apartment.

Ino decided to put that picture to the side as she pulled out a photo album that looked a little worn out. She gently ran her hands over the leather bound cover, tracing over her fathers name that was written out in elegant writing.

Opening the book she smiled as she literally saw her father grow up in front of her eyes. She determined that her father was a very cute baby and an adorable toddler. She stopped flipping though pages when she saw the pictures of her Dad's academy days.

She looked at a picture when her father had to be about 12 years old. He was wearing black baggy shorts and had no shirt; showing that even back then her father was pretty muscular. He was holding a kunai in his left hand as he grinned broadly into the camera.

"Well now I know where I got my smile from." Ino said smiling at how childess her Dad looked.

Then she noticed her fathers right arm wrapped around another boy. This boy had to be the same age as her father. He too was wearing no shirt, but had on red baggy shorts with the Haruno clan symbol on the bottom of each pant leg. He had shoulder length red hair and jade eyes; also he was pretty built for a 12 year old. He was holding a small katana in his right hand as his left arm was wrapped around Inoichi's neck. Unlike her Dad this boy was smiling shyly into the camera.

'That's the same guy that was in the other picture. He looks a lot like Sakura, but why is he all buddy buddy with my Dad?' Were the questions that ran through Ino's mind as she looked at more pictures in the album.

Some of the pictures had her Dad and his teammates while others were of him and Ino's mother, but that mysterious red head was in almost everyone. The further she went through the album the more she wanted to find out who this person was.

"Ino I'm sorry about earlier, how about I make up for it by taking you out to eat." Inoichi said as he walked into the room only to stop in his tracks once he saw what his daughter was doing.

"It's okay Dad I understand about your mood, I should know better than to talk like that in front of customers. I'm sorry." Ino replied turning a page in the album too ingrossed in the book to look away.

When her father didn't answer back or make any movements Ino decided to turn her head to look at her father. "Dad what's wrong?" She asked not understanding why he was shaking and his eyes were wide open in fear. It looked like he saw a ghost or something.

"Where did you find that?" Inoichi finally asked sounding like someone just punched him in the stomach.

Ino pointed to the old looking box, confused by her Dad's strange behavior. "Ummm...Dad what's wrong? Your kind of scaring me."

"Who told you that you could look into my things! I told you to clean the attic not snoop into my belongings!" Inoichi yelled at his daughter, frightening the girl even more because never in her life has her father ever raised his voice to her. Sure she got lectures and was grounded, but he never yelled at her like this.

"Dad I'm sorry I didn't mean to look into your stuff if you never wanted me too. I'm really sorry." Ino begged shocked that her Dad was this defensive when it came to his things.

Seeing that his daughter truely meant it Inoichi sighed before taking a seat beside her. Gently he wrapped his left arm over her shoulder all the while looking at the photo that Ino saw earlier with all the couples. "I'm sorry for raising my voice at you. It's just been awhile since I saw those pictures."

Ino was perplexed at her Dads mood, one minute he was happy then he was breathing fire down her throat. "It's okay Dad I was just curious. I've never seen any pictures of you when you were younger and I wanted to see."

Her Dad smiled at her before gently ruffling her hair causing Ino to glare at him. "I should have showed you pictures of me when you were younger, but I knew you would ask me that question. I've been avoiding it for years now, but I guess I can no longer avoid it."

"You mean who this man is." Ino said grabbing the framed picture and pointing to the red haired man.

"Yes that question." Inoichi said sighing heavily.

"Well who is he?"

"That Ino is Haruno Tenshi, the best swordsman that Konoha's ever had and my best friend." Inoichi replied with a sad smile.

"Wait Haruno, then that means that..." Before Ino could finish Inoichi interrupted her.

"He's Sakura's father. She looks a lot like him, she even inherited his eyes. I remember when I was younger that I was so jealous of Tenshi's eye color. I mean so many people have blue eyes, but I have yet to find a person, except for Sakura and Tenshi, that have that same exact color of jade." Inoichi said a faraway look in his eyes.

"If he was your best friend then why didn't I know about him till just now?" Ino asked now very curious.

"Because it was too painful to bring him up."

Ino stood up so suddenly that it through Inoichi off guard. "Is it because that jerk left Sakura and her mother? Is that why you never metioned him before?"

"Where in the hell did you get that idea from? Tenshi loved Sakura and Sora with all his heart, he would give his life for them without a second thought." Inoichi responded pissed that his own daughter insulted his best friend like that.

"I got the idea from Sakura." Ino replied shocked by her fathers tone of voice.

"Ino I highly doubt Sakura would say something like that. In fact I don't think the poor girl barely talks about her father."

"That's why. Everytime we brought up the subject of our Dads she barely talks about her Dad so I just assumed that he left them. Also Sakura has no pictures of him and her together in our apartment."

"That's because there are hardly any pictures of them together."

"And why's that?"

Inoichi looked at Ino straight in the eyes before he answered her question. "Because he died a couple of months after she was born."

"He...died." Ino said in a shocked tone not believing her own ears.

"Why do you think that Sakura has hardly any pictures of them together. Why it was so painful to bring up the subject of her father. The only thing she has left of her father are the memories that her mother told her. It's not fair for Sakura to never know her father or for Tenshi to never raise her." Inoichi ranted his heart breaking as he thought more and more about his friend.

"Dad I'm sorry to have brought that up." Ino replied feeling guilty for dissing Sakura's father like that.

"It's okay honey you didn't know any better. Like I said earlier I should have told you when you were younger. I should have done many other things with my life as well." Inoichi said sadly as his heart tugged painfully.

Ino caught what her father said and looked at him in confusion. "Dad what do you mean by that. Your living a great life and you raised me right."

"Yeah, but who was there to raise Sakura? The poor girl had no father figure in her life and it's my fault." Inoichi replied all the grief that he kept bottled up were starting to come out.

"Dad I don't understand, it's not like you killed Tenshi." Ino tried to calm her father down, not understanding his behavior one bit.

Inoichi turned to face his daughter tears running down his face. "I did kill him and I wasn't there for Sakura like a promised him. What kind of friend am I?"

Now Ino was freaking out, never in her life has she seen her father cry this hard before. "Dad why don't you tell me what happened?"

"Fine, but in order to fully understand what happened you have to hear my story from the very beginning. When Tenshi and I first became friends. I just hope that by the end that you don't think any less of me when you do."

Ino listened intently as her father told her of his past.

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It was a sunny day in Konoha as a young Yamanaka Inoichi wandered through the forest. He got sick of playing ninja with the other boys his age.

"Hmph. Why play ninja when we are actual ninja in training." He said to himself as he realized that he walked into someones training grounds.

Suddenly he heard the sound of someone slicing into a tree. He turned his head to the right and saw a young boy with red hair that looked around his age practicing sword strokes with a katana.

"Now this is what I'm talking about." He said under his breath excited about seeing this kid.

"HEY YOU WITH THE SWORD!!!" Inoichi yelled causing the kid to jump in fright and accidently cut his leg with his sword.

Inoichi's eyes widened in shock as he realized what he just did, quickly he ran over to the kid to see if he was all right. "I'm really sorry about that. I didn't mean to scare you into cutting yourself."

The poor kid was trying to hold back his tears as he slowly nodded in understanding. "It's...o..kay." He managed to get out of his mouth.

"Do you mind if I check your cut for you?" The young blonde asked the red head who just nodded his head.

After looking over the wound he realized that it wasn't too deep and that he could just wrap it up in something, the kid could get it checked out later. He grabbed the sleeve of his t-shirt and ripped the fabric before wrapping it around the his leg.

"There you go all better. I'm Yamanaka Inoichi by the way." Inoichi replied helping the kid stand up while giving off a friendly grin.

"I'm Haruno Tenshi." The red head responded with a weak grin.

"Wait your from the Haruno clan aren't they all like expert swordsmens or something like that?" Inoichi asked cocking his head to the side.

"Actually only my grandfather is a swordsmen everyone else in my clan are in ANBU. My father is actually the commander of all the ANBU squads. He's really good friends with the 3rd Hokage." Tenshi explained looking kind of embarassed.

"So Tenshi why are you here all by yourself training?" Inoichi asked finding it really cool that this kids family is so strong.

"Well I decided that I wanted to follow in my grandfathers footsteps and be a swrodsmen so I've been practicing everyday."

"Bet it gets pretty lonely training here all by yourself?"

Tenshi was kind of thrown off by that question. "Well yeah, but I can handle it; soon I'll be in the ninja academy so I'm fine till then."

Inoichi smiled at Tenshi. "Well I think that idea sucks. You should have at least one friend to hang out with."

"Umm...to be honest I don't really have any friends. I've been too busy training to make any." Tenshi sheepishly replied blushing at his lact of friends.

"Then consider me your best friend then Tenshi." Inoichi said grinning broadly.

Tenshi broke out into a huge grin before saying uncertianly. "You really mean it? Your not going to ditch me when something else comes along?"

"Nope we're going to be best friends forever!" Inoichi exclaimed giving the boy a thumbs up sign.

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"Ever since that day we were inseparateable. We would always wake up early in the morning and train till it was dark. Those were very fun times." Inoichi said with a small smile on his face reliving days long gone.

'Wow they sound just like Sakura and me when we were younger. They even met a lot like us, except I didn't accidently make Sakura hurt herself.' Ino thought in her head giggling a little.

Inoichi went back into story mode. "Well we were accepted into the academy and easily passed."

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"Hey Inoichi todays the day that we get sorted into our genin teams." A 13 year old Tenshi said to his best friend.

"Yeah I know, but why is this teacher taking so long to get here!" Inoichi yelled getting extremely impatient. The whole class has been waiting for their sensei to arrive for a good 20 minutes and everyone was getting restless.

"Shut the hell up Yamanaka!" yelled Uchiha Fugaku who was sitting a couple of seats in front of them.

Inoichi quickly stood up and threw a pencil at the boy causing him to yell in fury. "Take that you pain in the ass!"

Before the two could really start fighting the door opened and everyone sat down quickly hoping that it was the teacher.

"Hey everybody how's it going!" shouted a young girl with red hair and teal eyes.

Everyone in the classroom groaned as one student said. "Awww it's just Kushina no big deal."

"NO BIG DEAL I'LL WIPE THE FLOOR WITH YOU ASSHOLE!!!" Uzumaki Kushina screamed, being held back by a girl with really light blonde hair and blue eyes. "SORA LET ME KILL HIM!!"

Sagara Sora sigh at her best friends antics as she dragged her off to her seat. "Seriously Kushina you need to calm down a little, your supposed to act like a young lady." She tried to tell her friend over and over.

"Ha that's a good one Sora! No way in hell am I changing my ways!" Kushina shouted as Sora dropped the tomboy in her seat then she took a seat next to her.

Tenshi watched as the two girls took seats a couple of rows behind them. Sora seemed to notice his staring and happily waved at him causing the boy to blush and turn around.

"Hey man what's wrong?" Inoichi questioned noticing his friend was all red.

"She waved to me." Was his only response as he leaned back in his chair; a huge grin on his face.

Inoichi sighed already knowing the problem. "Dude your very sad you know that right?"

"I know."

"ARRGGGG!!! Tenshi you have to learn to make a move if you want a girl. Flirt a little, take her out to eat, do something other than stare at her from a far." Inoichi said frustrated with his friend.

The blonde has known for a while now that Tenshi had the hots for Sora. The red head was too shy to make a move of any kind even though you can see that Sora is interested in him as well.

"I'm sorry Inoichi, I'm not good at anything like that. Besides I'm only 13 years old I'm too young to be thinking about dating." Tenshi replied sinking lower in his chair.

"Come on you've liked Sora for a long time now! I think it's about time you make a move or I will for you!" Inoichi threatened in a deadly voice.

"Ummm...can I do it some other time and not in front of everyone I know."

Inoichi slammed his forehead on the desk. "Your hopeless."

"Hey Yamanaka keep it up it's very entertaining." Fugaku dryly remarked the infamous Uchiha smirk on his face.

"THAT'S IT I"M GOING TO KICK YOUR ASS!!!" Inoichi shouted jumping up from his seat getting ready to kill the dark haired boy. Luck for Fugaku the blonde was being held back by an extremely embarassed Tenshi.

"Inoichi please sit down your causing a scene." Tenshi pleaded with his friend.

"NOT TILL I WIPE THAT SMIRK OFF HIS UGLY FACE!!!" Inoichi screamed trying to get out of his friends grip.

Suddenly the classroom door opened revealing their sensei. "Okay class settle down and I can start giving off names to genin teams." Everyone sat in their seats and waited silently to see who got on who's team.

After naming off a couple teams they came to people that they actually knew. "Okay team 6 consists of Uzumaki Kushina, Sagara Sora..."

Before the man could finish Kushina jumped up in the air and gave everyone the peace sign. "Did you hear that Sora we're on the same team! Never underestimate girl power!" Sora blushed as the whole class turned their way.

"And Hyuuga Hizashi." The teacher finished.

"WHAT I GET I STICK IN THE MUD ON MY TEAM!!! THAT CAN'T BE!!!!" Kushina shouted at the top of her lungs.

Hizashi, who was sitting next to his twin brother Hiashi, groaned in sadness. "Great I'm stuck with two girls and one has to be a loud mouth."

"HEY ASSHOLE I HEARD THAT!!!" Kushina screamed at her new teammate, once again being held back by Sora.

The sensei decided to go ahead with the names. "Okay team 7 consists of Haruno Tenshi, Namikaze Minato..."

Tenshi sighed in relief, at least he had one good teammate on his team. He looked to his left and saw that Minato too had a smile on his face, glad that Tenshi was on his team.

"Man I hope we're on the same team." Inoichi replied crossing his fingers.

"And Uchiha Fugaku." The sensei finished.

"Hey Tenshi and Minato don't deserve to have that jackass on their team." Inoichi shouted in a loud voice, several of their friends agreeing with him.

"Great I'm stuck with a blonde dobe and a weak red head." Fugaku remarked pissing off Inoichi and some other people.

"HEY TENSHI ISN'T WEAK YOU ASSHOLE!!" Sora yelled pissed that someone dissed her secret crush.

Tenshi quickly turned around in his seat, shocked that she of all people defended him. Sora blushed when she realized what she said and tried to sink lower in her seat.

The sensei continued to speak after that little outburst. "Team 8 will be Hyuuga Hiashi, Inuzuka Tsume, and Aburame Shibi." The three people sighed in relief glad that they got along with all of their teammates.

The sensei announced team 9, but no one really cared about them. "Okay the last team with be Team 10. Now the members of Team 10 are Yamanaka Inoichi, Nara Shikaku, and Akimichi Chouza."

Inoichi once again slammed his head on the desk. "Great I'm now stuck with a lazy ass and a fat ass."

Tenshi laughed at his friend patting him on the back. "Hey don't be like that at least they're nice and you guys get along. I'm stuck with a pain in the ass."

"I guess your right I could have been stuck with worse." Inoichi muttered now feeling better. "But now we're going to be seperated."

"Hey buddy don't be like that. We might not be on the same team, but your still going to be my best friend forever." Tenshi said with a huge smile on his face.

Now Inoichi was smiling brightly. "Yeah best friends forever."

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'Man I really wished that was how me and Sakura reacted when we were assigned to our genin teams. Too bad we were too busy fighting over Sasuke-bastard.' Ino thought over in her head.

"Wait so who exactly are Fugaku and Minato?" Ino asked not knowing in the slightest who these men were.

Inoichi smiled at Ino. "Well Fugaku is Sasukes father, he was also the head of the Konoha Police and was head of the Uchiha clan. I think that Sasuke inherited Fugaku's cold demenor."

"You think?" Ino looked at her dad like he was stupid. Sasuke was known as the human ice cube back in their genin days.

"Namikaze Minato was later recognized for his awesome fighting skills. I think you might know him as the 4th Hokage, but quite few know that he is Uzumaki Naruto's father." Inoichi explained as Ino's eyes widened in shock.

"No way! That idoit is related to the 4th! Looks like the Hokage thing runs in the family." Ino responded when she realized something. "Wait Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke's fathers used to be one the same team. They were also called Team 7 no less."

"I'm glad you caught that. Yes history has a way of repeating itself in the weirdest ways. Just like how the original Team 7 was known throughout the world as a team that even rivaled the Sannin, their children are following in their footsteps. To make matters funnier they're being trained by the Sannin!"

"You know that is kind of weird. Do anyone else besides you notice?" Ino questioned.

Inoichi waved his hand at his daughter in a pish posh way before talking again. "Of course everyone has noticed the similarities between them. Naruto is a cross between his mother and father, he looks exactly like his father but he has his mothers attitude. I believe like his old man that he will one day achieve the title of Hokage. Sasuke is like his father, sadly ever since the Uchiha massacre he is slowly turning as evil as his brother. As for Sakura she is exactly like her father, she even looks like a girl version of him minus the pink hair and big breasts. I'm sure that she will become as great as her father."

Ino looked at her Dad in awe. "They were really that great!"

"Yup every single one of them, but lets continue with the story. I'm going to skip a couple of years just so that we can get through this in one night."

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The sound of two people running interrupted a 18 year old Inoichi from his training with his team.

"Hey Inoichi who do you think that is?" Shikaku lazily asked undoing his shadow bind jutsu.

"YES!!!!! I DID IT!!! WHOOOOOOO!!!!" A very familar voice shouted coming into the clearing.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I DID IT!!!!" Another voice shouted.

Inoichi smiled knowing full well who that person was. "I think I have an idea to who it was." He said to his teammates as he saw the two figures running up to him.

The figure was none other than a 18 year old Haruno Tenshi and his companion was Namikaze Minato. Tensei wore his ANBU uniform, as he was now the commander of all the ANBU squads like his father. Minato wore the standard Jounin uniform his wild blonde hair spiked in every direction.

"Judging by both of your yelling I take it that they both said yes." Inoichi concluded with a smirk of his face.

Tenshi grinned at his friend while Minato just brought his head back and laughed from the bottom of his heart. "They both said yes. Of course they were shocked but after they got over it they started screaming yes over and over."

Chouza grinned broadly at the two men. "So when's the wedding?"

Both men groaned at the bigger man. "Please don't mention weddings yet it took us forever to propose." Minato replied in a sad tone.

Shikaku smiled in sympathy. "Already planning the wedding then?"

"I don't know how Fugaku did it. You got married at 15 and had a child in the same year." Tenshi said taking about his other teammate. "Hey Inoichi how was your wedding?"

Inoichi smiled at his friend. "Well lets see the wedding day I was a nervous wreck, but the night after I was a animal." He finished his eyebrows going up in a suggestive manner.

"Dammit Yamanaka your such a pervert!" Shikaku yelled at his teammate.

"Come on don't tell me that you two weren't looking forward for your wedding nights as well?" Inoichi questioned his two teammates. All they did was blush and mutter death threats under their breaths.

Inoichi was happy for his two friends, especially Tenshi. Lord knows he's been chasing after Sora forever and it took him till they were both 16 for him to offically ask her out on a date. Since then the pair has been going on strong.

Who would have thought that Minato had the hots for Kushina of all people? Well Inoichi had to admit that she has matured a lot over the years, in manners and in looks. Still he never would have expected that couple.

To make matters funnier was the fact that Fugaku was the one that was married first and now he had to take care of a little toddler. Of course the guys still a stick in the mud, but at least he's gotten better. Maybe it's because of his wife Mikoto or the fact that fatherhood turned him into less of an asshole.

"Come on, foods on Shikaku!" shouted Inoichi making the Nara boy sigh in annoyance. Everyone else laughed at the man as they made their way to the city.

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It was a beautiful March day as Inoichi ran into the hospital as fast his legs could carry him. What greeted him was the faces of all his friends.

He saw his now pregnant wife talking to Mikoto who was now pregnant with her second child. Fugaku was trying to keep a 5 year old Itachi out of trouble and it was starting to become a bother.

Shikaku and Chouza were sitting down next to their wives, who too were pregnant. Chouza's wife was due in two more months much to Chouza's delight. Shikaku's wife just announced she was pregnant a week ago much to Shikaku's dismay, if she was bitchy before she was pregnant then she would be a nightmare.

Then he noticed that Minato was by himself wearing his Hokage robes. He was pacing back and forth in worry. Inoichi quickly walked over to the 4th Hokage and weakly smiled.

"I tried to get here as fast as I could. How is Sora?" Inoichi asked about his best friend's wife that was currently in labor.

Minato smiled at the man. "I have no idea, Kushina went into the labor room with Tenshi over two hours ago. There has been no word of her or the baby's health." At seeing Inoichi's worried expression he quickly tried to reassure him. "But I wouldn't worry though Tsunade is the docter that is delivering the baby. So if anything bad happens she will fix it."

Suddenly a bloodcurtling scream was heard, everyone knew that it came from Sora and they all hoped that she was all right. Then they heard the sound of a baby crying.

Quickly the emergency doors opened to reveal Kushina with a huge grin on her face. Everyone stood up and waited for her to explain what happened.

"Don't worry Sora is doing fine, she's just really tired. It must be hard to be only 19 and give birth to a baby." Kushina said as everyone crowded around her.

"Well how's the baby?" Inoichi asked.

"Is it a boy or a girl?" Minato questioned his wife.

Other questions were shouted out causing Kushina to start smiling at them before motioning to the double doors. "Why don't you ask the proud father yourselves."

The doors were open to reveal Tenshi grinning broadly at something in his arms. It was wrapped in a small pink blanket as Tenshi walked over to his friends.

"The baby is one hundred percent healthy and it's a girl." Tenshi said tears of happiness in his eyes.

The girls shoved the men back so that they can get a good look at the baby. Sentences like, 'Ohhhhh she's so cute' or 'Tenshi she's the most beautiful thing I have ever seen' were spoken as the women fawned over the little new born.

Kushina quickly pushed the women back so that the men have a chance to take a look at her new god child. She knew for a fact that she was going to spoil this girl like no tomorrow. That's what godmothers are for.

Inoichi looked at the little girl in his best friends arms, amazed by how fast time has flown by. It felt like they just became best friends, but here they were 19 and having their own children. It was so surreal.

"Hey do you want to hold her?" Tenshi asked him bringing Inoichi out of his thoughts.

"Ummm...aren't you afraid that I'll drop her?" Inoichi asked in a scared tone.

Tenshi laughed at him causing his daughter to giggle as well. "Don't worry you won't drop her. I trust you completely in fact that's why I want to make you her godfather. That is if you want to be?"

Inoichi looked at his friend in shock, not believing that he trusted him so much. He couldn't form sentences as he slowly nodded his head, accepting the position. Tenshi smiled at his friend before gently placing the little girl in his arms.

Inoichi now had a chance to really look at the newborn in his arms. The women were right she was the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. The baby gently opened her eyes to reveal jade colored eyes; the exact shade as Tenshi's.

"Tenshi look she has your eyes." Inoichi said pointing to the little girl's face.

Tenshi looked over his shoulder and smiled. "Well I guess she does, don't tell Sora but I was hoping that she would."

Then Inoichi noticed that on her hair was something pink, he tried to brush it away but it didn't move. "Umm...Tenshi what do you think about your daughter having pink hair?"

"Well that's a weird question to ask. Why do you say that?"

"Because I think that she has naturally pink hair." Inoichi replied pointing to the girls hair. Most new borns weren't born with hair on their heads but this baby was.

Tenshi gently ran his hand over the baby's head before laughing to himself. "Now she really is like a cherry blossom."

Suddenly it looked like someone smacked him over the head as he took the baby out of Inoichi's arms and held her so that they were face to face. "Hey baby how do you like the name Sakura?" He asked his daughter.

To give her answer the baby clapped her hands and smiled at her father. Tenshi quickly hugged the baby before saying to everyone in the room. "Everyone I would like to officially present you Haruno Sakura my baby girl."

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"So what are you going to name her?" Sora asked Inoichi as the blonde held the little newborn girl in his arms.

Inoichi still couldn't believe that this little girl was his daughter. She was so small and looked so innocent with her sky blue eyes. He knew right then that she was going to be a boy magnet and he wasn't looking forward to that.

"I have no idea. Do you know when Tenshi will show up?" Inoichi asked sad that his best friend missed the birth of his child. All his other friends showed up except for Minato and Kushina, but that was because Kushina had a couple of weeks left before she too gave birth to a child.

Sora sighed knowing that Inoichi was really depressed that Tenshi didn't show up. "He said he was really busy with something, but he would get here any moment now. Don't worry he'll come and see her."

"Yeah your right, I shouldn't be this worried about the kid. He's a grown man now with his own kid." Inoichi told her trying to mask his sadness.

Suddenly the door opened and a huge purple teddy bear came into the room. Sora and Inoichi looked at the thing in shock, it was as tall as them! Luckily Inoichi's wife was sleeping right now or she would have a heart attack.

"What the heck is that thing!" Inoichi shouted causing his daughter to giggle at his behavior. He would have said hell, but he didn't think that his wife would be happy if his daughters first word was hell or asshole.

Then a figure walked around the bear, a giant grin on his face. "Last time I checked it was a huge purple bear." Tensei said as he held a 9 month old Sakura in his right arm. The little girl's hair was longer now, but it still didn't reach past her ears yet. Her jade eyes glowed in happiness as she saw her mother, instantly waving her arms at her.

Sora laughed at her daughter before walking over and picking her up from her husbands arms. Tensei pouted at the little girl. "My own daughter has turned against me. What am I supposed to do now?"

Sora smacked him upside the head causing Sakura to giggle at her fathers pain. "Quit being so dramatic Tenshi." Was her reply.

Tenshi smiled but it quickly faltered once he saw his best friend. "Where the heck were you? I needed you here with me!" Inoichi shouted at him.

"I went across town to get that huge teddy bear for your daughter. Mind you with Sakura it was very hard carrying a bear and her at the same time. You wouldn't believe all the stares I received, you think that a person saw a grown man carrying around a giant purple teddy bear before. Speaking of which Sora I got Sakura the same only it's pink, Fugaku is dropping it off at our house." Tenshi said with a huge smile on his face imagining his stern teammate carrying around a huge stuffed pink teddy bear.

"You walked across town to get my daughter a teddy bear. YOU IDOIT!!" Inoichi yelled startling the red haired samurai. "What if it was a boy! Your efforts would have been in vain!"

"Not really because then I would go back and get a blue teddy bear. Sorry Inoichi I just thought that your kid wanted a present from her cool godfather."

Inoichi was about to yell at him again when his daughter reached her hand out towards the red head. The blonde man sighed before smiling. "Do you want to hold her?"

"Do you even have to ask." Tenshi stated as Inoichi handed his daughter over to him.

"Wow Inoichi she looks exactly like you right down to the eyes. Lets just hope she doesn't gain that temper of yours." Tenshi joked with his best friend as he examined the newborn. "Do you have a name for her yet?"

"No and I can't find one that fits."

"How about Ino?" Tenshi questioned deciding to shorten Inoichi's name to use for the girl.

"But it means pig. I don't want her to hate me if I name her that."

"Oh come on. Why don't we ask her, hey baby do you like the name Ino?" Tenshi asked in a sweet voice. The little girl giggled at the man and exitedly waved her arms . "See she loves it. Wants to be exactly like her old man."

"Reminds me of another little girl that wants to be exactly like her father." Sora stated as she walked over to Tenshi and Inoichi. "Hey why don't we set these little girls on that spare bed and see how they react."

The two men shrugged their shoulders and walked over to the spare bed before setting little Ino and Sakura on the bed. Since Ino was just born she couldn't really move, but that didn't stop Sakura from crawling over to her.

Both girls just stared at each other before Ino did something that none of the adults were expecting. That was using her index finger to poke Sakura in the forehead. The pink haired girl fell back in shock before she started crying.

Sora quickly picked her daughter up as Inoichi and Tenshi thought over what the girls just did. "You know I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship." Inoichi replied with a small smile on his face.

"You know buddy I have to agree with you. Maybe in time they will be as great as friends as we are." Tenshi replied drapping his arm over the blonde's shoulders.

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"So Tenshi was the one that named me and Sakura?" Ino asked her father.

"Pretty much yeah, but you two really decided it." Inoichi said with a smile.

"Let me get this straight then. You were Sakura's godfather and Tenshi was my godfather, so he spoiled me rotten."

"With that mans income he spoiled you and Sakura rotten. He bought you 50 purple stuff animals before we even brought you home. It explained why you were so obsessed with purple once you got older." Inoichi said grinning at his very generous friend. Of course he did the same with Sakura so he shouldn't be talking.

Ino grinned when she remembered when her Dad explained her and Sakura's first encounter. 'Even back then I poked her in her oversized forehead. Though I bet that she was a very cute baby when she was younger. You know I really should look for some baby photos of Sakura and show them to her. She would probably be extremely embarassed. I can't wait she's soooooooo cute when she blushes.'

"So then what happened after that?" Ino questioned.

Inoichi's face turned grief stricken. "Everything fell apart."

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October 10th was the day when Kushina went into labor at ten in the morning, of course Minato was there for her every step of the way.

Now it was 3 in the afternoon; everyone and their children were there waiting for the baby to show up. Tenshi sighed as he lightly poked Sakura's stomach, making the girl giggle at him. He smiled down at her, her smile was so catchy. Who would have thought that fatherhood would be so rewarding?

Inoichi was sitting right next to him, holding Ino in his strong grip. The girl was trying really hard to grab a loose strand of her fathers hair, but to no avail.

Suddenly the doors burst opened and Sora came out of the door. Tenshi knew that something was terribly wrong, so he quickly handed Sakura to Inoichi and ran to his wife. He wrapped her in his arms as she broke down crying.

Now everyone was alerted to what could have possibly happened to Kushina and the baby.

Tenshi whispered soothing words in her right ear before he asked what happened. Sora choaked on her words, still not believing them to be true.

"The baby's alright, but Kushina...Kushina...IS GONE!!!" She cried burying her head deeper into her husbands shoulder. Tenshi just held her because what was he supposed to say? Sora just saw her best friend die before her eyes, no words could help ease away that pain.

"How's Minato doing?" Fugaku asked worried about his teammate. Not many would believe it but the man did have a soft spot for his family and friends.

"He named the baby Uzumaki Naruto and he refuses to leave Kushina's side. He just hugs Naruto close and whispered her name." Sora replied in a sad tone.

The others were just about to go in and comfort their friend when an ANBU messenger showed up. "Where's the 4th Hokage?"

Tenshi decided to take matters into his own hands. "Can't you see this isn't the time for this? Whatever the message is it can wait."

"No it can't this message comes straight from Jiraiya one of the Sannin."

"Then what is the message?"

"That the Nine Tailed Fox Kyuubi is heading this way! The monster plans on destroying the village!" The ANBU shouted causing everyone to freeze in their tracks.

"Okay tell Jiraiya-sensei we'll meet him later." Tenshi concluded in a stern voice his face not showing any of his emotions.

"But Haruno-san."

"Do as your commander tells you! If Jiraiya-sensei has a problem then tell him to come here himself!" Tenshi shouted scaring the ANBU and some of the kids.

Sora looked at her husband in fear. "Honey does this mean the end of the Leaf Village?" She asked in a soft tone.

Tenshi passionately kissed his wife on the lips, then he grabbed Sakura from Inoichi's arms and kissed her forehead. "You two are the two most precious people in my life. Even if the Leaf Village is destroyed I swear on my life and honor as a shinobi that you two will live."

"Tenshi please don't talk like this your scaring me." Sora said looking at her daughter who too sort of understood that something bad was going to happen.

The red head turned his head to Fugaku and nodded his head. The dark haired man nodded back before grabbing his wife and children and disappearing in a puff of smoke.

"Why did he leave like that?" Inoichi asked shocked that the man left so suddenly.

"He's going to warn and perpare the men for the up coming battle." Tenshi responded. "I suggest you guys perpare as well. Spend as much time with your family and report at the gates of Konoha at 7."

Everyone dissappeared except for Tenshi, Sora, Inoichi, and the two little girls. "Inoichi I suggest you spend your time with your family before the fight starts."

"What about you?" Inoichi as he held his little girl.

"I'm going to spend time with my family and Minato." Tenshi replied in a soft tone.

Inoichi quickly handed Ino over to Sora before he walked over to Tenshi and gave the man a hug. "Ummm...Inoichi you've never hugged me before, you alway's said it was weak for a man to hug another man." Tenshi explained completely shocked that he was hugging him.

"Just don't die." Inoichi responded as he pulled away, grabbed Ino and left in a puff of smoke.

Now all that was left was the Haruno family. Tenshi turned to his wife as he told her seriously. "Sora when the fighting starts I want you to take Sakura and seek shelter in the Hokage monuments."

"Wha...what, but I want to fight too." Sora protested not wanting to leave his side.

"There's a huge chance that many shinobi will die in this fight including me. What good will it do if we both died?"

"Who's said anything about dying? Tenshi please don't talk like this."

Tenshi sighed in sadness knowing that his wife really wanted to fight by his side. "Look if you don't stay behind for me then stay behind for Sakura. If I don't make i..."

"Please don't talk like that!" Sora interrupted trying to force her tears not to fall down her face.

"Okay if there is a very small chance that I die I need you to look after Sakura. One of us has to live so that she can be raised properly. So that she learns a parents love." Tenshi said grabbing Sora's hand and gently squeezing it.

"Are you ready to go?" asked a familar voice from the hospital doors. The couple turned to see Minato holding a small boy in his arms. The usual glow that shined in his eyes were gone along with the boyish smile. Tear stains were on his cheeks and his clothes had droplets of blood stained on them. He looked like a broken man.

Sora tightly grabbed her husbands shirt. "Please don't go!" She cried not wanting to lose the love of her life right after she lost her best friend.

Tenshi easily pried her fingers from his shirt. "Remember that I will alway's love you no matter what." Then he kissed her for one last final time on the lips; though neither person knew it was the last kiss that they would share.

Tenshi then pulled his daughter out of his wifes arms gently hugging the girl to his frame. "I hope that one day you will grow up into a fine young lady and live happily with the love of your life. Remember that even if I might not be around, I will alway's watch over you to keep you safe. You'll alway's be Daddy's little girl."

He started tickling the little girl causing her to smile happily at him. Tenshi held back his tears hoping against hope that he will be able to see her beautiful smile again. "Sakura I will alway's love you. My final wish for you is that you will always find a way to smile even in the worst times of your life because you have the most beautiful smile I have ever seen. If I don't make it then your the only one that can make the Haruno Clan what it used to be." He then gently kissed her forehead before placing her back into Sora's arms.

Both men gave their farewells to Sora and Sakura before disappearing in a puff of smoke. Sora cried her heart out as her daughter looked up at her mother in worry.

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Inoichi clutched his kunai in fear as he waited for his unit to go into battle. He already said goodbye to his family over a half hour ago; it was the most heartbreaking thing he's ever done. He hoped against hope that he will make it through this battle.

He turned his head to his two teammates; Shikaku wasn't showing any emotions, while Chouza was shaking in fear. Inoichi couldn't blame him because the screams of dying men and the roars of the fox demon were terrifying.

Suddenly an unknown shinobi that he has never met before screamed at the top of his lungs. "HE'S HERE!!! THE RED SAMURAI OF DEATH IS HERE!!!"

Inoichi quickly turned his head to see a lone man walking towards their group of men. He had two katanas on his person; one on his right side and another on his back. He wore a blood red trench coat with his clans symbol on the back, but it was open so that you can see his tight black muscle t-shirt and black baggy pants. His dark red hair was held back by a red ribbon that was wrapped around his slightly large forehead. When he reached the men Inoichi knew who it was because only one man earned the title of Red Samurai of Death.

"Tenshi do you know what's happening?" Shikaku asked his friend as he reached their group.

The samurai turned towards his friend as he gave a sad smile. "We're going into battle. I will lead you into the fight, we have to hurry before that demon gets any closer to the village."

Everyone looked down to the ground in sadness not believing that they could stand a chance against the demon. Tenshi must have noticed this because he instantly sliced a tree down with his sword, everyone was shocked by the man's speed for it looked like he didn't move at all.

"ARE YOU SHINOBI OF LEAF OR ARE YOU THE RATS THAT LIVE IN THE STREETS!!!" Tenshi shouted at the top of his lungs. "YOU ALL WERE TOLD THAT THIS WAS A LIFE OR DEATH MISSION!! YOU HAD THE CHOICE TO STAY BEHIND WITH YOUR FAMILIES SO DON'T ACT LIKE COWARDS IN FRONT OF ME WHEN THERE ARE MEN AND WOMEN GIVING THEIR LIVES UP RIGHT NOW!!! NOW I WANT TO SEE THE WILL OF FIRE BURN IN YOUR EYES BEFORE WE SET OFF!!! GOT IT!!!"

"HAI!!" Everyone in the group yelled at the top of their lungs, their fighting sprits back.

Tenshi turned his back from his men and lifted one sword up in the air. "THEN LETS SHOW THIS DEMON WHAT REAL SHINOBI OF THE LEAF ARE MADE OF!!!!" He ran towards the fighting his men following right behind him.

Inoichi had to grin at Tenshi's little speech, who would of thought that the shy boy that he met years ago had matured so much! Of course he has changed a lot as well, but you could just see in the way that Tenshi carried himself that he was a totally different person.

When they reached the battle field none were perpared for the horrors that they saw. Dead bodies were everywhere! Some of them were burned beyond recognition, others were stompted on, while others were torn to pieces. Inoichi barely registered a couple of people throwing up in the bushes while others gasped in shock.

A loud thunderous roar could be heard a couple of kilometers away from them. Inoichi looked up towards the noise and froze in fear.

It was the nine tailed fox! In all his life Inoichi never would have thought that he would have laid eyes on him in person. It truely was a gruesome being with it's red fur and massive killing intent. The chakra imitting from the monster was so large that the man found it hard to breathe.

"FIGHT!!!" Tenshi screamed drawing both of his swords. The men that were already fighting the fox turned in his direction as relief crossed their faces. Inoichi noticed that Fugaku was among that group of men, he looked very tired and supported a couple of cuts here and there.

Tenshi was the first to reach the demon. He jumped up into the air and shouted at the top of his lungs. "SECRET HARUNO TECHNIQUE, BLADES OF BLOOD!" Both his swords glowed blood red as he reached the demons face.

"PERPARE TO DIE!!!" Tenshi shouted disappearing into thin air and appearing behind the fox. Time stood still for a minute before the fox roared in pain as his left ear dropped to the ground with a loud crash.

Tenshi landed on the ground and easily avoided the tails that tried to swipe at him. 'Damn I meant to get his left eye not his ear. Well he isn't a tailed beast for nothing.' He thought to himself as he reached his injured teammate.

Fugaku looked at his teammate in awe, but Tenshi just smiled at him. "Why didn't you tell me that you had that type of technique?" Fugaku asked.

"It's a technique that only members from the Haruno Clan can use, just like your sharingan." Tenshi said before he continued on. "Pull your men out."

"Wha...what why? We can still fight!" Fugaku shouted not believing what he heard. They were going to need all the shinobi they had to defeat this demon.

"Your men have been fighting for 30 minutes without a break. You know the plan Fugaku, are job is to stall till Minato is ready. He told me that the jutsu that he is doing is almost complete, we just need to stall for 1 hour. You already used up half of that hour, your mission is done let me take over. Go home to your family and rest." Tenshi told the dark haired man.

For the first time in a long time Fugaku smiled at the young man that he considered an equal, a friend, and a brother. He patted Tenshi on the right shoulder before giving his men the signal that it was time to pull out. Fugaku's team left but he remained to give Tenshi a final word.

"Come back alive. I would hate to see a beautiful little girl grow up without her father." Fugaku said before he turned his back on his close friend.

Tenshi smiled at the man who became like a brother to him along with Minato. "Thanks Fugaku." He whispered to himself knowing that he was too far away for him to hear.

The fighting went on for another 20 minutes with only Tenshi doing damage to the fox demon. More and more of Inoichi's comrades fell before out of an army of 200 only 75 remained.

Shikaku just threw 50 explosive notes at the monster while Chouza used his body growth jutsu to punch the fox in the face. A roar of pain from the fox and a huge puff of smoke made the two shinobi believe that the demon was dead.

"YES!!!! WE DID IT SHIKAKU!!!" Chouza said now in his normal size, he was so happy that he did not see the tail that was coming right at him.

"CHOUZA LOOK OUT!!!" Shikaku yelled as he pushed his best friend out of the way getting hit right in the face by the demon tail. The Nara boy was sent flying into a tree, but luckily right before he hit it Chouza managed to save him by turning into a huge ball.

Inoichi looked at his severely injured friend, then turned to the demon in fury. "YOUR GOING TO PAY FOR THAT!!!!" He screamed at the top of his lungs not realizing that he didn't have any powerful jutsu's to injure the monster. He was so furious that he didn't see the arm that was coming right at him, but once he did he realized that what he did was the stupidest thing that he has ever done because now there was no way that he could block it. So he quickly stopped in his tracks and covered his arms over his face.

When he didn't feel the foxs claws sink into his flesh he slowly removed his arms. His eyes widened in horror as the tears cascaded down his cheeks like a waterfall.

"TENSHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inoichi screamed as he saw that his best friend has managed to block the blow for him, but at a cost.

"Hehehehehe...cough...how are you doing buddy?" Tenshi asked coughing up some blood. He indeed managed to block at least two of the Kyuubi's claws with his katanas, but because he wasn't a giant he got hit as well.

Inoichi looked at the pool of blood that was starting to form around his friends body. It came from the claw that managed to pierce right through his right shoulder then he looked down and saw the claw that sliced into his stomach. He knew that both wounds were fatal and it would take a miracle for him to survive.

The blondes knees gave out from under him as he forced his sobs down. He looked at his friends back and asked. "Why...why did you save me?"

Tenshi turned his head slightly so that he can face his friend, blood leaked out from both corners of his mouth. He stared at Inoichi for a while before he smiled lightly at him causing Inoichi to widen his eyes. "Because we're best friends forever." Was his only response acting like that was the answer to everything.

"But...what about Sora and Sakura! You promised them that you would come back alive!" Inoichi screamed as Tenshi still managed to keep Kyuubi's arm in place.

The smile on his face faltered slightly, his eyes having a faraway look to them. "Sora will in time understand that I did what I had to do to keep her and Sakura safe. Sakura will grow up one day and realize that I gave my life to protect a friend. I hope that she will see me as a hero and not a fool." He looked up into the full moon as a lone tear fell down his cheek. "Also I hope that she will alway's love me as much as I loved her even though I won't be here to see her grow up."

"Please Tenshi don't die I need you here with me! Sora and Sakura need you here!" Inoichi pleaded.

Tenshi looked at his friend seriously knowing that he didn't have much time left. "Inoichi I have two favors to ask of you!"

Inoichi's head perked up at that. "Anything! I would do anything for you!"

"When my body is all fixed up and cleaned please return it and my belongings to Sora. She is the only one that can have me and everything I own. Tell her that my mind, body, and soul will always be hers in life and in death forever."

"Of course I will! Now what's the other favor!" He knew that Tenshi was dying so he might as well hear his final words.

Tenshi smiled at the man that has become his best friend giving him his final favor. "Please look out for Sakura. She needs a father figure in her life and your the only one that I fully trust with her wellbeing."

"I will treat her like my own daughter! Don't worry Sakura will be safe with me!" Inoichi yelled the tears still falling down his face.

Tenshi turned his head away from him and started to concentrate his chakra into his swords. "Good now I can rest in peace." Were his final words as his blades started to fuse together into an even bigger blade. The raw chakra that was emitting from the man even scared the Kyuubi because the demon finally pulled his hand out of Tenshi's body.

Inoichi could barely hear his comrades shouting. "THE FOURTH HOKAGE IS HERE!!! HE'S HERE TO DESTROY THE DEMON!!"

The blonde turned his head and indeed saw Minato on top of his boss summon, face to face with the Kyuubi. The strange thing was that he was holding his son in his arms. There was no emotion showing on his face as he stared down the huge fox. Quickly he started forming hand signs as his chakra level sky rocketed.

The fox took his eyes off of Tenshi and faced Minato. Apparently that pissed Tenshi off for he shouted in fury. "I'M NOT DEAD YET FOX!!! NEVER TAKE YOUR EYES OFF AN OPPONANT EVEN IF THEY'RE HALF DEAD!!! ESPECIALLY WHEN THAT OPPONANT IS A HARUNO!!!!"

With the last of his energy he shot right at the fox, hoping to buy his friend enough time to finish the jutsu. His blade turned black as blue chakra surrounded the samurai. "ULTIMATE HARUNO TECHNIQUE, SLASH OF THE REAPER!!!!"

The only thing that everyone saw was a blur of black as it went right through the Kyuubi's right arm. The demon roared in pain letting his guard down for Minato to attack.

'Tenshi you gave your life up to buy me some time; you truely are one of my greatest friends. I hope that one day we will meet in the afterlife.' Minato thought to himself as he finished his jutsu.

He looked down at his only son, regret clearly showing in his eyes knowing the burden the poor boy will carry. "Naruto I love you will all my heart, I hope you will know that when you get older. As my son I hope that one day you'll grow into a fine shinobi of Konoha, maybe even follow in my footsteps and become Hokage. Yeah that sounds like a good plan." Minato then lightly kissed his sons forehead. "Your mother and I will alway's look after you even when we're gone. Remember that we will alway's love you and respect the choices you make."

A tear fell down his cheek before he quickly wiped it away and started his jutsu. "DEMONIC SOUL SEALING TECHNIQUE!!!" Minato screamed at the top of his lungs as a bright light blinded everyone in the area.

Once the light was gone so was the Kyuubi and the huge summon. All the shinobi crowded around the prone body of their beloved 4th Hokage. Many shouts of grief were heard as men and women weep for the loss of their friends.

Chouza picked up Shikaku, who wasn't in any life threatening danger anymore, but he will alway's have a scar across his face. They sliently made their way to their crying teammate.

"Inoichi we have to find his body. You made a promise to return it to Sora." Chouza sadly stated as his own tears made their way down his face. They all lost three of their closest friends in one night.

Inoichi slowly stood up wiping the tears from his eyes. "Yeah I did make a promise didn't I." He tried to smile but his face muscles weren't working right now.

All three men searched for Tenshi's body, but after 15 minutes of searching they were about to give up. Inoichi sighed in sadness before a stray cherry blossom petal fell on his nose. His eyes widend in shock. 'How can their be Sakura trees blooming in October?" He thought to himself.

Another petal fell on his shoulder before Inoichi turned around, smiling sadly at what he saw. Shikaku and Chouza were almost out of earshot when Inoichi called out to them. "Guys I found him."

Both men turned around as well as they saw their friend walked up to a blooming Sakura tree. The petals lightly fell to the ground as if they were weeping over a great loss. They reached the tree a couple of minutes after Inoichi; they too smiled at what they saw.

Tenshi's body was lying down at the base of the tree, for reasons unknown all his wounds were healed and his clothes were completely clean. His swords were right beside him as the cherry blossom petals fell around his body. A grin was on his face and his eyes were closed, looking like he was dreaming.

Inoichi sat down next to his friends prone body, he looked up at the falling petals and smiled. "What a good way to die; underneath a cherry blossom tree. I bet that he felt right at peace in his final moments. Probably thinking of Sora and Sakura."

Shikaku looked at his friend, knowing that he was trying to hide back his pain. "Yeah what a nice way to die." Chouza nodded his head in agreement as he held his best friend up.

Inoichi looked at his best friend. "Well buddy you fought bravely and now you can rest in peace. I'll make sure that your never forgotten as I watch over your little girl."

He then gave his friend a thumbs up and smiled broadly. "You can count on your best friend!"

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Ino couldn't believe that Sakura's father fought so bravely even giving his own life to protect her Dad, but she did have one question. "So what happened after that?"

Inoichi looked at his lap, wiping the tears from his eyes. "I returned Tenshi's body and belongings to Sora. The poor girl was completely heartbroken. She retired as a kunochi and decided to be a stay at home mom so that she can alway's be there for Sakura."

"What about Naruto?" Ino questioned still shocked that Naruto's father was the 4th Hokage, but the resemble is uncanny.

"Both Sora and Fugaku tried to adopt him, but the council deemed the child dangerous and put him in foster care. They completely went against Minato's final wishes that his son was to be raised as a hero not a monster."

"That's not fair Naruto was just a baby back then he should have been with his parents friends." Ino protested angry that Naruto was denied the chance of having a happy life.

"Do you think that I didn't know that? Both Naruto and Sakura suffered because of that damn fox taking the lives of their fathers. Naruto grew up with no parents and was alone from the start, while Sakura grew up with no father figure." Inoichi responded not realizing his little slip up.

"Wait weren't you supposed to be Sakura's father figure after her Dad died?" Ino asked in confusion.

Inoichi winced at the question. "Well Fugaku was there for Sakura till he was killed by his son." He tried to skip the question, he didn't want his daughter to think less of him.

"I'm not talking about Fugaku Dad, I'm talking about you." Ino said but as soon as the words came out of her mouth the answer hit her. "You were never there for Sakura were you." She stated rather than asked.

It would explain why her and Sakura didn't meet each other till they were little kids or that whenever she talked about Sakura in front of her Dad he would alway's have a guilty expression on his face.

"I wanted to be there for her I just couldn't!" He shouted frantically looking into her eyes.

Never in her life was Ino so furious with her father. "HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO TENSHI! HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR YOURS AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN TAKE CARE OF HIS ONLY DAUGHTER!!!"

"Ino you don't understand. Sakura is exactly like her father and everytime I look at her I see him. I still feel terrible about his death. I know it's my fault that he died, if I wasn't so careless then maybe he would have lived." Inoichi tried to explain to his furious daughter.

"THAT'S STILL NO EXCUSE!! YOU WERE JUST SAYING THAT SAKURA NEEDED A FATHER FIGURE IN HER LIFE AND WHEN TENSHI DIED HE PICKED YOU!! YOU BETRAYED BOTH TENSHI AND SAKURA!!!"

"Ino you don't know how you would react if you were in my situation. Lets say that Sakura died after protecting you and her final wish was for you to take care of her child that looked exactly like her. What would you do?"

"I WOULD TAKE CARE OF THE KID NOT JUST LEAVE IT!! SURE IT WOULD BE EXTREMELY PAINFUL AT TIMES BUT AT LEAST I WOULD BE THERE FOR IT!!! UNLIKE YOU!!!!"

SMACK

Ino looked up in shock at her Dad as she lightly touched her right cheek. She winced slightly at the pain not believing that he hit her, never in her life has he hit her.

Inoichi looked coldly at his daughter making Ino look at him fearfully. "Never again will you insult me like that again. You hear me young lady!"

Tears ran down Ino's cheeks as she ran out the room but not before yelling out. "Yeah I heard you and that's why I'm officially moving out!" All you heard next was the stomping of her feet before the loud slam of the front door.

Inoichi suddenly came back to his senses and looked at his hand in shock. Never before has he felt so disgusted with himself. "What have I done?" He whispered to himself as his knees gave out on him.

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Ino ran all the way back to the hospital not sure of what she will tell Sakura. 'Did I seriously tell my Dad off and announce that I'm moving out? Where am I supposed to go now? The living arrangement with Sakura is only for 2 months. OMG I'm going to be those kids that live in the streets aren't I. I'm going to be begging for bread and water, and be dirty all the time. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!' She thought over in her head, opening the door to Sakura's room.

The sight that greeted her caused all her worries to disappear as a broad smile started to form on her face.

Sakura was sitting up in her bed with a confused look on her face. Tsunade must have left earlier because Sakura was the only one in the room.

"Sakura..." Ino whispered afraid that if she spoke too loudly that she would wake up and find this to be a dream.

At the sound of her name Sakura turned her head in Ino's direction. She cocked her head to the side and pouted. "Ino-chan do you have any idea where I am?" She cutely asked.

Ino couldn't control herself anymore she ran at Sakura and wrapped her arms around her. Sakura looked to be a little startled by her sudden movement because she jumped slightly.

"Ummmmm...Ino I'm kind of having trouble breathing, could you please get off of me?" Sakura asked too weak to pull the girl off of her herself.

She quickly jumped off of her friend blushing a little at her actions. "Sorry about that it's just that you've been asleep for sooooooo long."

"How long have I been out?"

"A week."

"Oh...that long huh. My neck tells me otherwise." Sakura joked trying to get the kinks out of her neck.

They both started laughing and that's when Ino realized something. Sakura never had a father figure in her life growing up, but still she found the courage to smile. She thought back on her converstation with Tsunade earlier. 'I can't be the one that manages to bring a smile to her face. I'm sure that she has smiled plently of times before we met or when we were fighting.'

Looking at the bright smile on her best friends face and the way her eyes glowed in delight made Ino really consider whether it was Sakura making herself smile or her.

(A/N OMG I'm finally done writing this chapter. This took me 4 or 5 days to write once I got over my stupid writers block. I'm soooooo sorry that it took forever for me to update, but I've been busy. I'm not going to show this to my beta reader because I'm trying to get this to you as fast as possible. I did make this chapter extra long for all you readers out there!

I will tell you that I had a lot of fun writing about Inoichi's past. Yes I did change a lot of the things like Minato's teammates. I alway's thought that it would be cool to have Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke's fathers all on the same team. I have to tell you that I absolutely loved Tenshi and I hate that I had to kill him! I almost cried when I had to write his farewells to Sora and Sakura, and then his death. I'm more sad about his death then I am about Ren's. I loved her too!

I really hoped that you all loved this chapter as much as I did. Next chapter will once again be another sad one, but trust me when I say that the ones after that will have a more lighter mood. Oh yeah once I post the next chapter this story is going to be rated M for reasons that you will understand when I post the next chapter.

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