Look At Us Now
By ValkyrieWarrior
Disclaimer: Nope.
Thanks to templar132, who has done such a great job in beta reading this and helping me out. He is the greatest ever. Thank you.
As always, I want to thank those who have reviewd.
Summary: Got to make a move to a town that's right for me...tee tee ta tee taa taa tee tee ta tee...town to keep me moving keep me grooving with the energy...tee tee ta tee taa ta tee tee ta tee...well talk about, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it...won't you take me to, funky town, won't you take me to, funky town.
Just to remind you guys of something. Remember in chapter 4, Kabuto hands Sasuke a vial. This very same vial was used by Sasuke during his interrogation with Ibiki, so that Ibiki will forget the purpose of him questions. Then, later on another chapter, Kabuto comes back with yet another vial, only this one was made by Kabuto. It is also the vial that contained the poison. Just wanted to remind you guys that, okay.
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Previously
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She made a turn around a corner and walked into a room. It was a shortcut to Tsunade's office because no one was allowed in there so it would save her time trying to go through everyone in the halls. On her way in, she ran into somebody, and ended up falling over.
"I'm sorry, I wasn't looking," Sakura shook her head as she stood up, "I didn't mean to-"
She became quiet, her heart skipped a beat and she became dizzy.
"Naruto?"
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Chapter 9/10: Novem
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The room was deadly silent.,
Neither one could utter a word because they were too lost in their thoughts and the moment.
Sakura was looking at Naruto.
Naruto was looking at Sakura.
They studied each other and took in what they hadn't seen in so long.
'He's changed since...' She thought. He seemed to have gotten taller since the last time she was this close to him almost three months ago.
Seeing him here now was the last thing she would have thought could happen. It didn't feel real, she thought maybe she was dreaming. However now she didn't really care to distinguish between the two. Whether it was a dream or not, she didn't care, all she knew was that he was here with her now and she wasn't going to lose a chance to talk to him.
She opened her mouth to speak, but no words came out. Her mouth became dry all of a sudden and she couldn't get the words out. She didn't expect that it would be this hard to talk to him. She shouldn't be choking because she's said a million words to him before, but there was awkwardness between them that she just wasn't over yet.
She tried saying it again.
"How are you?" She said faintly, still in shock.
"Okay." He said it so quietly it was barely audible. He too was in shock and therefore choked on his reply. It was like a lump, suddenly built up on his throat and he was unable to say anything to her. He takes a long breath of air. "Okay." He said it louder this time.
Naruto took another breath of air, releasing with it all his nervousness.
He wasn't ready for this moment just yet, but he was already in it so he couldn't leave now. He had dreamt about this very moment for months, everyday since their break-up to be more accurate, and now that it was here, he couldn't even say more than one word to her.
She too was just as dumbfounded. Here he was standing right in front of her, awaiting her words, but she couldn't say them. She'd gone over her head about a million times how this would happen. She would say hello to him and he would say hello back, then she would say all the things she longed to tell him that she never did before.
They just stood there without saying anything to each other. She felt like he was getting too uncomfortable and just wanted to get out of there, but she didn't want that, she had to do something to make him stay longer, just a little bit longer so she could talk to him. Then she noticed the bandage around his waist.
"What happened?" She asked him, trying not to sound too concerned because she might scare him away, but enough to let him know she's worried.
Naruto looks at his wound.
"Oh this?" He didn't know how to explain it without saying anything he might regret. He couldn't say, 'yeah, I got this because I took your necklace and never gave it back to you and when I was fighting Sasuke, it fell and I just had to save it, you know?'
"I made a careless mistake while I was out training with Sasuke." That was all he said to her.
Sakura wanted to reprimand him for his carelessness, but then she remembered she no longer had that right.
"You look nice." He finally said after looking at her for what seemed like an eternity.
Her heart beat started to slow down to normal again. They were getting use to each other's company.
She smiles.
And just like that they were the same again. There was no longer that thorny, uneasy feeling that they were just experiencing and suddenly, they no longer felt ill at ease. He complimented her and she happily accepted it without all the weirdness that would usually accompany it.
"Thanks, but I'm not so sure I look presentable in these clothes." Sakura said jokingly as she smiled.
"You don't look that bad." Naruto said just as amusingly with one side of his smile curved just a little bit higher, making him look like a child.
"That bad? Oh okay."
"No, no, no." Naruto tried saving himself from what he just said to her. "I mean you look really nice."
She took his compliment, smiling shyly as she did so.
It was nice for them, to just be there and talking again. They longed for it, dreamt about it, and more than anything, they needed it. They needed it for their own sanity and mental health, actually.
It was sweet for them to be able to talk to each other again like they used to, with nothing hanging over their heads. Just for a brief moment, they could forget about everything else and be with each other, that's all they wanted.
Then Sakura took a chance, saying something that they were better off not knowing.
"I miss you."
The atmosphere in the room changed from familiar ease to a feeling of regret for the two.
She needed to say that to him and he needed to hear that from her.
"I-"
"I'm not asking much from you, Naruto, but just hear me out." She cut him off before he could say anything else.
He was actually glad she did, because he didn't know how to reply to her last statement.
"I don't know...I don't...know" she started to feel a little dizzy and her weight became almost unbearable, "why things happen like they do sometimes," she was shaking her head, trying to stay awake," but they happen for a," she was starting to get a headache and her heart was beating faster and faster, "a...a reason," she was breathing heavily and she was starting to sweat, " reason..."
"Sakura-chan?" Naruto took a step forward, figuring out that something was happening to her.
"I'm fine, just a little tired I guess." Sakura tried reassuring him, well more like herself really.
Naruto knew though, he understood exactly why she started feeling that way. He had to get out of there before it got worse.
"Look, I better leave. I have to do something." Naruto started to back away to the door.
Sakura tried stopping him, but she was too tired to and also because she knew she couldn't stop him.
He took one last look at her and soon he was gone.
Sakura stayed in there for just a minute longer. When she was done looking at nothing, she too left the room.
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Inside a dark, underground room, a man was walking back and forth. He seemed to be debating on something as he walked around, his feet splashing the water drops on the cold ground.
"That useless boy, he has failed again!" He thought out loud. His walking became harsher, becoming more like stomps than anything else. "Doesn't he know I'm almost out of time!" He yelled out loud.
Orochimaru paced back and forth.
"Stupid idiot can't even do one thing right in his life." He vented out all his anger in the empty room.
"GAHHH!!!" He picked up a chair that was sitting beside him and threw it at the wall. The poor wooden object shattered into many pieces.
He continued his pace.
"To think, after all I have done for him, he thanks me this way." Orochimaru couldn't take the thought of ungrateful people, it made him mad to the bone, irking him so much that the only way he could calm down was by killing someone.
"No worries." He assured himself. He looked around for anything to sit on considering he had just demolished the one chair in the room. He finally settled on the table.
"I will figure out a way, somehow."
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The birds were chirping on another sunny, bright morning in Konoha. The sun rose as usual bringing with it its warming rays and blinding light.
The rooster released his morning call and soon, the village was up and about.
In a corner section of the village, in an apartment on the second floor, what sounded like a wailing pig, in a certain pinked haired girl's ear, could be heard.
It was too early in the morning to be listening to these kinds of sounds, especially for a certain Haruno Sakura.
"I mean, seriously, you does that?" Ino continued her inexorable words.
Sakura tried drowning her out, but knew that never really works out too well in these situations.
"I try to help him and he's like, 'I don't need help,' you know?" Ino didn't seem to notice that she might as well be talking to herself because Sakura wasn't listening.
The pinked haired girl was trying her best to pour coffee in her mug. She was careful to tune out Ino, particularly when she starts screaming in that high pitch voice of her sometimes, so that she doesn't spill the hot liquid on her delicate skin.
"Sakura, are you listening?" Ino inquired from her friend.
"Uh-huh."
Ino didn't sense the lie in her voice, so she kept on ranting.
"Okay, so I told him, 'Shikamaru, I've had it with you, if you want to grow up and talk to me, then I'll be waiting, until then, just forget I ever knew you,' and I stormed out." Ino recalled that little event last night with him. Supposedly, they had been in an argument and Ino had had it with him and told him off. "Although, we were in the middle of the road, so I couldn't have 'stormed out', so I guess I just angrily walked away."
Sakura had finally gotten her morning beverage and settled down on a comfy sofa.
"So, let me get this straight," Sakura took a quick sip of the deliciously soothing coffee, "you tried talking to him, again, two days ago, and he was a little drunk."
Ino nodded her head.
"You told him that he shouldn't do those things and he got mad, and then you got mad? Am I'm getting this?" Sakura asked.
Ino nodded again.
"And now you told him never to speak to you again until he grows up?"
"Yeah, basically."
Sakura took another sip of her coffee. "And now you're regretting saying it because you think he might not and you guys will never talk again."
Ino nodded in reply. "What do I do? I can't take it back because then he wins, but I don't want it to last because I would I miss talking to him."
Sakura took a moment to think about her next reply. "Well, I think the best way to fix this..."
Ino listened closely.
"is by telling him the truth already." Sakura said at last.
"What?" Ino didn't understand exactly what she meant.
"Come on Ino, you know what I'm talking about." Sakura tried to remind her. "It was the reason why you broke up with Sai in the first place."
Ino opened her mouth to speak.
"And don't even try telling me it was because he wasn't ready for a commitment because I will kick you out." Sakura said to her.
Ino gave up, Sakura knew her too well for her to try and deny it.
"Fine, you win. I guess." Ino wasn't ready to accept it just yet, but the feeling was getting stronger and stronger. She didn't like thinking about it right now, so she started a new conversation. "So, what did you do yesterday?"
Sakura suddenly became nervous. She took a deep breath before speaking.
"Well, I went to work, ate food, and talked to Naruto." She tried saying the last part as fast as possible so that Ino couldn't hear it.
"What. Oh my God, what happened?" but Ino heard her.
"Nothing much really," Ino gave her a look basically saying 'I don't believe you.'
"I ran into him trying to take a shortcut and we talked."
"What did you talk about? Come on there has to be more than that." Ino wasn't satisfied with her answer.
Sakura recalled their conversation. "Well, it was awkward at first, we haven't been that close for so long." Sakura started smiling, "and then, he talked too. It felt like old times and it was nice."
"But he left shortly afterwards." Sakura said in a way that gave Ino the hint that that conversation was over.
Sakura didn't want to talk about it anymore. She was afraid that the more she said it, the more it became just another simple memory to her.
The two girls sat there in her living room, not saying anymore.
"Oh crap, I promised Tsunade that I would be in the hospital today." Sakura scrambled to get up and get her things. "Turn the lights off for me when you leave, Ino. Bye."
Sakura ran out of the room, leaving Ino behind.
"Fine, just leave me here. All alone."
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"Goddamnit!" Naruto exclaimed out loud. He was trying to change into his clothes, but the wound on his side was still hurting too much for him to do so.
Naruto examined his side.
'Hey fox, couldn't you just heal this already?'
"I did, it's just that the wound is so deep that I can't heal it all, or ease the pain." The Kyuubi replied to him.
Naruto gave up.
He walked over to his room to rest some more.
'I miss you.'
How those three little words made him so happy. He wasn't expecting to see her there. Well, it was the, as in the only one, hospital of Konoha, so he should have anticipated the moment, but...he didn't. So when she unexpectedly ran into him, he didn't know what to do.
The moment he saw her, he froze on the spot.
He couldn't believe what he said to her. He feared he was too bold, but then she seemed to not mind. When she smiled, it was the greatest feeling he ever felt in so long. He was so happy hearing her gentle laugh again.
He missed that.
Just being able to be with her and making her laugh and escape the world.
It was his duty and his alone. It was his given job to make her smile and laugh.
Although he had failed a number of times.
"Sakura-chan."
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It was only around four o'clock, but the sky was starting to get dark.
The clouds were quickly turning into a darker, purple color as it moves along, complaining loudly as it does so. Never had Konoha seen the sky so angry, so omnipotent to everything else. It was disgruntled, grumbling and moaning its cry upon the village.
Disheveled by the mighty purple veil of the sky, the villagers were scurrying every way, tumbling and falling over each other.
"Hurry home!" Was their battle cry. Each and every person took their stance; some helped the fallen and others helped the hastened. The rest went to their sanctuaries, ready to wait it out.
The sky groaned and growled, roaring and bellowing its cries.
Soon vicious bullets fell from the sky, descending to the earth. They were relentless, violently hammering the earth and its inhabitants with ferocious speed.
They were thick, full, and ardent in what they did.
The attacks dragged along. Spreading its destruction everywhere.
No one was safe, no could escape it.
Never had Konoha seen such magnificent power.
"This storm is going to ruin my clothes!" An old man with striking white hair exclaimed.
"Since when did you care?" An old woman with modest blonde hair howled back.
Jiraiya looked at her with displeased eyes, but he abated his anger by remembering who she was. "Anyway, why did you call me here again?"
Tsunade took some time to answer him back.
"Remember when you came to me with news about four months ago?"
The sannin retreated to his memory, trying to recall the labeled time. "Ah of course. Four months ago...yes I remember."
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Four months ago...
"So, how did it go?"
"It wasn't bad, he cooperated most of the time."
"Did you learn anything?"
"Nothing of much importance." Ibiki simply said. Tsunade thought for a moment.
"Good, good." Tsunade stood up and walked over to the window. "Tell me, though,"
Ibiki turned his head so that he was facing her.
"You didn't have any intentions of hurting him right?"
"Of course not!" Ibiki was surprised that Tsunade would even think such a thing.
"Alright. That is all. You did your job well." Ibiki stood up and bowed his head in respect before he left the room.
Tsunade was left in the room, she was thinking about something that seemed important.
"So, how did it go?" A man's voice said from out of nowhere.
'I'm going to need more sake.' Tsunade turned around to see Jiraiya. "Well, it is not enough for anything, but he took the bait."
"I knew it." Jiraiya walked over to a nearby chair to sit down. Tsunade followed his lead and sat down as well.
"Ibiki, before the interrogation, was notified clearly and with great care to get everything he could about Sasuke. He was told to use brute force if necessary..."
Tsunade stopped to see if Jiraiya was still listening.
"Go on." He motioned to her with his head.
"As part of a test that we conducted, and on the advice of the elders, we placed in the room a glass cup."
"And I presume this is where you try to get him." He cut in, already seeing where this was going.
"Correct. It worked like a charm." Tsunade said, not particularly fond that it did. "See, before it all, Ibiki was given strict orders to report back to me a reply to a certain question."
"When I asked him what he learned, he was supposed to say nothing, but instead he did." Tsunade went on. "And when I asked him about using violence and he replied no was-"
"Just a bonus." Jiraiya finished her sentence. He understood now what had happened. "But you still don't have enough on him?"
"We have proof that Uchiha Sasuke used some sort of drug that skews one's memories, but it's not substantial enough." Tsunade didn't need to answer that. "Did you learn anything?"
"Yes, actually." Jiraiya had been ordered to look for information regarding the Uchiha and anyone he came in contact with. He gained a little knowledge that may be important. "Yes, Itachi is dead. No, Orochimaru is still alive somewhere. And as far as I could get, no one knows what the Uchiha wants."
"I see." Tsunade couldn't understand his motive. Why was he here now after all he had been through and why did Orochimaru vanish all of a sudden soon after Sasuke came back?
"Tsunade," Jiraiya snapped her back to the real world, "you should keep an eye on him."
"Agreed."
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"So, what about it?" He asked.
Tsunade sweat dropped.
'Could he be that dense sometimes?'
"What do you think!" She yelled.
"I-I..don't think?"
She gave up, sometimes it was just impossible talking to him. "We've got something."
Jiraiya stopped his goofing around to hone in on the situation.
"We've been watching him for sometime, but not until recently did we actually get him."
"What happened?"
Tsunade didn't know how to explain it. She had authorized for ANBU to check-up on Sasuke every now and then, they got a few things before, but not until recently did they really get him.
"We've been watching him for sometime now," she began from the beginning since she couldn't think of another way of telling him, "at first, he didn't do anything suspicious, but we caught him one night lurking around Naruto's apartment building. And later that very same night, one ANBU caught him spying on a room in the building. We guessed it was Naruto's, but he didn't do anything."
Jiraiya didn't say a word but instead let Tsunade continue with her story.
"After that, we didn't see much of him. It was not until a couple of days ago that he slipped,"
Jiraiya was attentively listening. "He came home one day and," Tsunade took a pause, "ANBU reported sightings of another man in his room, silver haired, wearing glasses..."
"Kabuto!" Jiraiya figured it out, although he was sure why Kabuto would be at Sasuke's house of all places, he had a clue, but he sure wished he was wrong. "Tsunade, do you realize that,"
"I know." Tsunade interrupted him. "We know nothing much, but I fear they want Naruto."
Tsunade took sometime just sitting there, contemplating on what to do. She had given orders to take in the Uchiha for further investigations, but if they were wrong about him… she just couldn't think straight right now.
Tsunade moved her head to look up, when she suddenly felt someone's chakra spike it. It wasn't hers, nor Jiriaya's because she would have felt it a long time ago. It was a familiar chakra, that she knew well.
"Sakura?" Tsunade asked whoever was standing behind the door. Just when she said that, Sakura walked in the room with her expression lost and confused.
"What?" her voice sounded confused.
Tsunade stood up, fearing that Sakura may have heard something she was better off not knowing. "How long have you been standing there?" She demanded, her voice was commanding, trying to scare her away from that place.
"I heard everything." Sakura had been walking to her office when she heard them talking, she was about to walk away, but then she heard Naruto's name, and so she stayed. She lowered her chakra level so no one could sense her, the Hokage herself taught her that, as she listened. The more she heard about it, the more she couldn't believe it. She thought of many things, but most importantly, she just wanted to go to Naruto to sort this out. "Why were you talking about Naruto?"
Tsunade thought about just dismissing her and telling her to forget about what she heard, but she knew Sakura and she wouldn't stop until she got want she wanted. So she told her, not adding details that she didn't need to know, unless she asked specifically for it. She told her about the ANBU missions to spy on Sasuke, how they learned that there was more to him than what he says, and the idea that they, whoever they are, are planning something that involves Naruto.
"Naruto?" She couldn't handle all the information that she just heard, but she asked for it so she had to. She couldn't believe Sasuke would do such a thing, after all that they have been through. Why would he want to help out Kabuto and why Naruto? Naruto!
'I have to go to him!' She thought. Maybe there's something more that they don't know that he does. Sakura ran out of the room and to his house.
"Sakura!" Tsunade tried to call her back.
"Let it go, Tsunade. She probably just needs time to sort things out for herself." Jiraiya tried to offer her.
Tsunade was tempted to run after her, but she knew Jiraiya was right and she couldn't do anything more.
'Sakura.'
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'This rain sure is vicious.' Naruto thought as he looked outside his window. He couldn't sleep so he just gave up, deciding that he would just stay up and wait the night out.
He yawned as he stood up to walk to his kitchen to make himself some nice, hot cocoa.
On his way, he heard someone knocking at his door. He glanced at his clock to see that it was almost eleven.
'I wonder who it is.' Naruto walked to his door and opened it. Usually no one ever visits him, especially around his time of day and in this weather no less.
"Hey, it's kind of- Sakura?" There in front of him, was a soaking wet Sakura. "What are you doing, you can catch a cold!"
"I have to talk to you, may I come in?" Sakura asked him urgently.
"Sure, come in." Naruto moved aside so that she could come in. She was dripping some water on the floor because she was so wet. He noticed that she was shaking, which must have been from the rain and the cold.
"You can sit anywhere you want," he told her, "and wait here, I'll get you some towels to dry yourself with."
Sakura wanted to sit down, but she also didn't want to get any of his stuff wet, so she just stood there waiting for him. She was freezing in her clothes, but she couldn't take them off in here.
"Here." She turned around to see him. He gave her a towel to dry her body with and another to use as a blanket. After some time of drying herself, she became comfortable and sat down.
Naruto waited for her to talk since he didn't know what to do.
"Is there something you're not telling me?" She jumped right to the point. She was tired of waiting and pointless small talk that never really helped anyway. She wanted to get to the point right there. "And save me the small talk, Naruto."
Naruto didn't know how to answer her. "I don't know what you mean."
Sakura was becoming impatient, so she decided to help with his memory. "Sasuke, Kabuto, ring any bells?"
Kabuto. He hated hearing that name. He despised the man and wanted nothing more than a chance to kill him himself. He was confused as to why she was talking about Sasuke, though.
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"God damn it!" Sakura couldn't hold it anymore. She knew that he knew something, there was this feeling deep within her saying so, and her gut instincts had never failed her yet.
"Sakura-chan, I really-"
"Stop it!" Sakura stood up, "Stop playing dumb. We both know you know something. So just tell, because I won't leave until I know it." Sakura was looking him in the eyes, adamant on getting whatever it is she wanted.
He knew what she meant, but he didn't know if he should tell her. Should he tell her? She already knew that something was up and so this couldn't really harm her.
"About three months ago," he began, "when I got home, I found someone in my house."
Sakura listened to his story. He told her about his encounter with Kabuto, about a deal he was forced to make, and all that. Naruto was vague with details, leaving out vital information here and there. But Sakura wasn't stupid. Being the most intelligent ninja in her class, she was smart enough to put the pieces together. He said very little for her to know much, but she put parts by parts and she ended up with something.
"This deal you made, what was it?"
Naruto didn't know how to answer that without telling her everything.
And so he said nothing, but instead he lifted his head and faced her.
He looked at her. Eye to eye, they connected. He was telling her what he was too weak to say in words. With his look, he told her everything she ever needed to know. It was the only way he could do so, he was too afraid to say it out loud because of an unknown fear in him. So he directed all his feelings to that one look, which said so many things to her.
You. For you. Only you.
I did it because I wanted to help you.
I did even when it tore me apart. Even if I had to break your heart.
It has always been you.
She heard it all. Everything he said. All his reasons why.
His eyes told her everything.
"Why?" She was crying now. "Why did you do that?"
She couldn't understand why Naruto has to save everyone all the time, even if it caused him pain too. She couldn't understand why people would put themselves' through pain.
"Sakura-chan." That's all he said.
"Naruto why? I never asked for you to protect me!" She felt something on her chest trying to break out. She knows he only did it for her, but she couldn't control the feeling of anger and frustration that is building up in her right now.
"It is not for you to decide." He said simply, not at all affected by her words.
Sakura was irked by his words. "I have a choice. I should be able to decide for my own."
"Sometimes, there are choices you just can't make yourself."
Sakura couldn't say anything. He was right, it wasn't hers. She knew he only did what he thought was best, but it stilled angered her.
"Why didn't you just-"
"Sakura-chan,-" he interrupted her. "Do you realize how hard it was for me to do that?"
Sakura listened to him.
"Having no choice! To have had you at last, only to let you go." Naruto looked her in the eyes. He wanted her to hear him say these words to her. This indescribable feeling on his chest was tearing him and he just had to let it out. It was crawling on, choking and suffocating him.
"When you love someone,"
Sakura was in the same pain. She was finally understanding him. All those years she thought she knew him is now just a mere memory as she is finally seeing the real him. The Naruto that everyone accepted and appreciated. She finally understood why.
"You do everything you can to make that person happy, whether they agree or not." The feeling in his chest became unbearable, and then Naruto felt warm tears slipping down his face. All his loneliness, his isolation, and his guilt poured down with it. It was amazing to him how quickly he came to tears. He didn't even tried to fight it off, he accepted it, embraced it with much sincerity. "And then their happiness becomes yours."
"Sakura,"
Sakura listened to him cry out, calling to her. She felt his pain, the burden he lived with.
"I only did it because I love you."
She couldn't believe what she just learned. It saddened her, pained her, and made her happy.
All this time she had never felt his words more genuine, more tangible than now.
She couldn't say anything else after that. There was nothing else to say. So she let her body take control, allowing herself to get lost in the moment and finally taking what she wanted for so long.
She walked to him.
Naruto stiffened a little. The sight of Sakura approaching made him nervous, and the fact that her eyes were read from tears and her face so tired from crying only added to the effect.
He didn't stop her, but only stood there.
"Naruto…" she said in a low, husky voice because her throat had been dried.
They were inches from each other, their heartbeats were racing, and the temperature in the room rocketed up. She reached out to him, first rubbing his arms up and down and then moving in closer. He stood still, unable to make a move. She looks him and their eyes lock.
"I'm sorry." her eyes were full of guilt as she looked him in the eyes.
He said to her that he would not stop her and only let her lead him.
She told him that she wasn't going to stop now.
"Sakura-chan…" He said quietly as her lips softy grazed his.
She stands on her toes to reach his height and without warning, she kisses him.
Everything turned black and they fell into a blissful world. She had forgotten everything that happened between them and only focused on what she was doing now.
He let slip of his memory and only knows her.
All those months of waiting, after all those anguish, they finally succumbed to their dreams. They no longer fought it, but rather welcomed it with much joy.
Time stood still for a brief second just for them, for this moment in their lives.
Sakura kisses him forcefully, bruising him as she did so. She wraps her hands around him, holding on tight because she might let him go.
He gave in to her, gave up everything that he could be risking just to be with her now.
Her hands were snaking through his hair, over his arms, and his body. She wanted to feel him again and he wanted the same. He held her tight around his waist, securing her in place so she doesn't leave.
She moved her hands under his shirt then pulled it back up.
They parted for a quick second so he could take it off. Once it was off, he immediately picked her up.
She wraps her legs around his waist for support as he carried her into his room.
Outside, the sky thundered and poured atop the village.
Soon it was going to be morning and the world would move on.
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End of Chapter 9/10 part one.
Look for once no cliffy.
Umm, okay so that's it.
Please review before you leave, thankyou.
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