Chapter 8: The final farewell

Attention Fan fiction readers I must inform you that this is the very last chapter of the story. It'll be the first fan fiction I ever finished. I hope you enjoy the dramatic and shocking twist of the last chapter: The final farewell. Also another note: This chapter is extremely short so don't expect to be reading a lot.

Two weeks had come and gone, two humiliating and sorrowful weeks for Neji. He looked miserably up at the sky as the rest of the team gathered around the village's exit. He didn't care what Sakura said he was going on the mission injuries or not. He didn't even want to see her anymore. He just wanted to die.

"Hopefully I'll be killed on the mission" he grumbled to himself. He looked around as Lee, Shikamaru, and Naruto were all giving there goodbyes to the ones they loved. He wanted Sakura to be there so he could give his final farewell but that was only a pipe dream in his head.

Naruto and Hinata walked over to Neji. Hinata stood on her tip toes and gave Neji a small kiss on the cheek.

"Be careful" she said as she held her hand lightly in the place where she had kissed him. He closed his eyes to hold back tears. They weren't tears for Sakura they were tears because he had finally realized how much Naruto and Hinata had been there to help him.

"Can you two pleas try to come back alive?" she asked as she giggled to herself.

Naruto nodded and hugged her tightly. "I'm gonna miss you Hinata" he said as he let her go.

"I'm gonna miss you too Naruto" she said as she blushed as he flashed her the same seductive smile he had given her at Sakura's house.

Hinata turned to hug Neji. He held her arms around her tight.

"Thanks for all of your help Hinata" he whispered in her ear."

Hinata smiled it made Neji's whole body warm. "I feel so bad most of what me and Naruto tried to do didn't work" she said quietly so Naruto wouldn't hear and burst in with one of his stupid comments.

"It's okay" he said as he released Hinata so he could get a good look at her. "I'm okay now." Hinata smiled at Neji she was proud that he wasn't moping over Sakura anymore besides Sakura didn't deserve Neji's heart after all she put him through but Hinata only wished that Neji saw that because she knew that if Sakura was to come charging down the road into his arms he would blindly forget about all of the painful things she's done to him and kindly accept her love without a care in the world.

"Hey Neji, Naruto" Shikamaru said as he approached them with Ino in his arms. "We're getting ready to head out in about an hour so make sure we've got everything we need and I guess you can head over to the Ramen shop for some quick grub before we leave, but make sure you're back here on time." He stated in firm voice. "Or we leave with out you."

Neji had high hopes to see Sakura at the Ramen shop drowning out her sorrows in a bowl of noodles but his luck wasn't that great. It was kind of funny to Neji that in the beginning of all of this he didn't have a care in the world for Sakura but now he was all depressed and moping over her. So as Neji sat at the long bar like table poking at his pork Ramen he thought about how much he dreaded the New Years shrine and how he was never going to go back.

"I feel sorry for him" Hinata whispered to Naruto. "He looks so sad."

"It's not his fault Sakura's a cold hearted bitch" Naruto said almost too loudly. Neji glanced over at them.

"I don't think she's a cold hearted bitch." He said quietly. Naruto looked at him with his mouth open.

"Dude she dumped you flat. She likes you but she still doesn't want to be with you what kind of twisted mind does she have?" he said as he tried to crack the lobster claw that was in his ramen.

"She's just a little confused." Hinata said as she nudged Naruto to let him know that he was being rude.

"Confused is right" Naruto said as he picked his bowl up and gulped down the rest of his food. "In fact she's so confused she doesn't even know how confused she is." (How corny was that?)

Neji sighed. "Dude are you gonna eat that?" Naruto said as he peered at the Ramen that was still sitting in front of Neji. He shook his head and rested it on the table.

The bell rang on the door signaling that someone had come in. Naruto and Hinata looked towards the door and gasped but the mystery person put their finger over it's lips and signaled them to be quiet. Neji, who still had his head down wasn't aware of what was going on until he felt two hands fall lightly on his shoulders. He felt someone's head rest against his back.

"You look so sad" the mystery persons voice rang through Neji's ears and caused his whole body to turn warm and gushy. He slowly sat up and turned his head so he could see who had confronted him.

"W-what are you doing here?" he asked her.

"I wanted to apologize, Neji I'm so sorry I acted like that towards you" Sakura said as her hands squeezed his shoulders lightly. "I wasn't sure that it was going to work out between us…"

Neji had turned his whole body to face her. Her face was warm and seemed to be giving off its own light. "Will you forgive me?" he smiled it was probably the first time he actually felt happy in a long time.

"I'm sorry too Sakura" he said softly. "For acting so nasty to you on our first date and spying on you." For a while both of them looked at each other in silence. Then before Neji could say anything Sakura leapt into his arms. Neji was taken by surprise and for a while he sat there with his hands on his lap but then he finally found courage to put his arms around her hug her tight.

He felt that she was crying on his shoulder a little. He felt her whole body shaking in his arms. "Neji I-" she started to say but Neji had let her go.

"You know" he said after he had made sure that she had stopped crying. "You really left me in a deep depression."

"Real deep" Naruto said. Hinata nudged him.

"Well what about you" Sakura said "You left me in a deep depression too. You acted so nasty to me when we went out on our first date all I wanted was a nice date with you and you ruined it."

"Hey" Hinata said. "I though all was forgiven here." She glanced at the both of them.

Neji glanced at Sakura whos eyes gleamed with hope. He wanted to let her through to him he really did. He had to this was what he was waiting for. In fact if he was a little older he would have asked her to marry him. He grabbed her hand and pulled her in close to him. "Should I trust you with my heart?" he asked her. "Because the feelings I have for you are real and before I make the next move I need to know if you…"

"I love you Neji" she said almost too quickly and before she knew it he had pulled her in and planted a kiss on her soft lips. The room fell silent.

"Well it's about time" Naruto said as he rolled his eyes. "Hinata it looks like our work paied off."

"A job well done" she said as she crossed her arms in satisfaction. "Oh I just love happy endings. Don't you Naruto?"

Naruto looked over at Hinata and smiled.

Neji and Sakura pulled apart after a long moment of sincere kissing. For a while both of them looked at each other and said nothing then Neji leaned over and whispered in her ear.

"Finally"

And this my faithful readers was just his luck.

Well my faithful readers I hate to inturupt but this is the end of the story I hope you all enjoyed it and look forward to my sequal "The Naruto and Hinata story" I would tell you what it's about but it's really, really, really, really juicy information and you're going to have to find out what it's about when I post the first chapter which should be in about two weeks or less. So I hope you enjoyed "To win my heart" It's the first fan fiction I ever finished. Yea Me!

Oh yea anyway to end the story properly:

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