Disclaimer: I OWN NARUTO! ...In an AU universe eheheh.

A/N: One year and two days since this was last updated. Ahh, to those who are still here, LONG TIME NO SEE! And I'm super duper uber fantastically soorry! But here's your last chapter. Hope it meets your expectations! (Although there's not as much humor as I would've liked ) & Chapters 4 and 5 have been revised if you want to check it out :D

"Mama! Mama, where are you?" A little girl with short, choppy, black hair wandered throughout a crowd, dressed in her best pink kimono as she looked for her mother. "Mama! Where are you..." She looked around wildly, only to see the legs of older adults clamboring about.

"Faye! Faye, come here!"

Faye spun around, trying to locate the voice that was calling out to her, before spotting a bright bubblegum pink and rushed towards it quickly.

"There you are! We've been worried sick about you, you little brat."

"Hey!" Faye called out. "I'm only three minutes younger than you!"

"That's still three whole minutes though! Come on, mom and dad are over there."

Faye grabbed onto her 'older' brother's hand as he led her towards the raised stage, where all the important people were sitting.

"Mommy! Daddy!" Faye screeched, running into the open arms of her mother, who scooped her up quickly.

"Don't go off like that anymore," Sakura said, as she held her daughter. "Especially not when there's so many people here! Who knows what could've happened?"

"I know mama, I won't anymore!"

As mother and daughter continued to bond, one Uchiha Sasuke approached his son and ruffled his hair. "Good job, Fayth. I swear you're like a bloodhound."

"Hey! Don't mess up the hair," Fayth growled, smoothing his pink locks back into place.

Sasuke ignored the young boy and continued on, "You know, you're like a male version of your mother and your sister's a female version of me. Mostly just the looks though," he added thoughtfully.

"Yeah yeah," Fayth grumbled, knowing it was an indirect jibe at his pink hair. Was it his fault the genetics had somehow been messed up and he was the one blessed with pink hair from his mother!?

"Fayth, let's go," Faye said, having got out of Sakura's grip, sliding her hand into his and dragging him away. "Arashi and the others are waiting for us!"

"Just don't get us lost!"

"I won't, I promise!"

Sakura smiled as the two ran off to find their other friends. "Faye's always promising things. Sasuke, what did you tell her?"

"Who, me? Nothing!"

"You sure about that? Cause - "

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto grinned as he ran towards the Uchihas. "This is actually quite fun! If only I didn't have to sit up here though. It's so embarrasing!"

"But you are the reason everyone came out Naruto," Sakura reminded him. "After all, it's not everday you've been a successful Hokage for three straight years in a row."

"That's true," Naruto said thoughtfully. "Well, let's go party! Come on!" He dragged Sakura and Sasuke (unwillingly, or so they said) towards the table on the platform, where all important guests and other people were. All the Kages were there, for one (except for a certain Kazekage though, he was off somewhere being mobbed by rabid fangirls), the Rookie 11 of Konoha, their senseis, and of course, Jiraiya and Tsunade. It wasn't just a celebration for Naruto being a sucessful Hokage (although, it was for Naruto), it was for the peace treaty that had all of the Shinobi nations alligned with each other for the past three years.

"Neji, you don't look like you're having fun at all!" Naruto cried out, and indeed, the Hyuuga looked like he would rather be out on a top secret S-class ANBU mission at the moment.

"I'm kind of... preoccupied, as you can see," he said. And yes, they could see. In his arms was the newest additon to the Hyuuga family, ten month old Hizashi. Next to them sat the cranky and very pregnat Tenten, so one could say he wasn't having much fun at all.

"So cranky nowadays," Naruto whispered. "I had to put him on maternity leave too! If I didn't know better, I would think Neji was the one pregnat!" One dirty diaper flying at him told them all that Neji had heard that. "Anyway, looks like everyone's pretty happy."

"Yeah, they do, don't they?"

Kakashi, Asuma, Kurenai, and Gai were on one far end of the table, chattering amonst themselves, getting interuppted now and then by Asuma and Kurenai's seven year old son, Haruto. Shikamaru sat in between Ino and Temari, both of who were keen on trying to keep him to themselves. ("I swear he should choose before they're all old and wrinkly," Naruto commetted distastefully.) Chouji and Lee were having a heated discussion... about something or other. The two had formed a unique friendship over the years. Kiba was getting Akamaru to bug Shino, as Shino decided to show the two the meaning of being bugged. And then there was Tsunade and Jiraiya, both drunk on sake already and laughing about old times.

"Wait, where'd Hinata go?" Sakura asked, not spotting her anywhere.

"Oh, she's with the kids, keeping an eye on them all."

"Shouldn't you go with her?"

"But no one wants to let the Hokage go now, do they?"

"Unfortunately, no," Naruto sighed.

"Well actually, Hokage-sama," Sakura began, "I think you should get seated right now." Hinata and the rest of the children had returned, and Sakura and everyone else all exchanged a glance.

Naruto, of course, noticed nothing and sat down obediently as he spotted some ramen waiting for him, barely noticing everyone (except for the other Kages) getting up from their seat to the front of the platform.

"Ladies and gentlemen!" Tsunade called out, and everyone hushed up at once, for the former Godaime still called for respect. "Thank you. We would like to say something now."

"As you all know, it's been three years since the peace treaty has been signed and now the Hidden Villages are like we've never been before! And who else do we have to thank, than the current Hokage of Konoha, our Rokudaime, Uzumaki Naruto!"

Looking up from his bowl of ramen, Naruto finally noticed what was going on and proceeded to grin widely, to laughter and applause from the audience.

"That day, the very first thing he did when he got appointed the position of Hokage was to try and get this peace treaty to go through, and he didn't stop until it was done. He worked for days upon days, traveling to the different villages to get this whole thing sorted through, and he did it!"

"Thanks to this one man, we all have allies now and live as peacefully as we can without the worries that of wondering, 'Is Kumogakure going to invade us today?' Or 'Is Konohagakure planning something fishy?' We are all united as ninja and will oppose any intruders in our way of life, like in the past."

"Peace isn't an easy thing to accomplish, but I do believe we have come close," Naruto finished off, now at the front of the platform as well, grinning like never before. Everyone started to applaud loudly, some whistling and others going, 'Long live the Hokage!'

"LET'S PARTY, PEOPLE!" Naruto screamed loudly, before jumping down into the crowd. Everyone followed his lead (except for Tenten, she was kind of very pregnat and Neji just left Hizashi with someone it seemed), happily just laughing in the crowd. It got even better when someone had gotten hold of a microphone and started to sing, and everyone started to dance. It lasted well into the night, but everyone continued to enjoy themselves, while the Konoha 11 went to a quieter place to reminicse, the Academy.

"It's been a long ten years," Sakura sighed.

"And you've all grown up so much since then." Kakashi, Asuma, Kurenai, and Gai had followed them, smiling at all of their once-upon-a-time-students.

"Thanks to you guys," Ino smiled.

"Yeah, if it weren't for you, Kaka-sensei, I don't think we would've been so, us!"

It suddenly became eerily silent, as everyone started to think, 'back in the day.'

"Remember when Naruto gave that big ol' speech during the Chuunin Exam?" Kiba said suddenly, laughing and breaking the silence.

"Hey! If it wasn't for me, none of you guys would've gone on either!"

"Sure, Naruto."

"What about that time when Shino got poisined so he couldn't stop laughing?"

"You weren't even there!"

"Ah, but I heard about it."

And so it went, their big group chatted amongst themselves about more innocent and simpler times, when trying not to blush around Naruto-kun was the only thing one focused on, or when the only missions avaliable to them were all D-rank ones. It was, however, getting dark and most everyone had children to attend to, so they bid their goodbyes and headed home.

Sasuke, however, found himself dragging Sakura to the entrance of Konoha for some reason, to the bench he had left her so many years ago. (They didn't need to worry about Fayth and Faye as both had begged to sleep over with Arashi at the Uzumaki's.)

"How long ago was this?"

"Ten years," Sasuke said softly. "You know, that night I made a promise."

"What kind of promise?"

"That I would come back." Sakura stayed silent. "But when I did, and there was Kyoshio, I felt like maybe promises aren't worth being kept."

"And now?"

"I won't break a promise even if, say, Ino offered to strip dance for me."

"Sasuke!" Sakura growled, raising her fists slowly.

"Just kidding!" Sasuke planted a quick peck on her lips before saying, "Let's go home! The kids are over at Naruto's and we have the whole house to ourselves..."

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&Owari