The weeks passed quickly and as the weather slowly got warmer Sakura spent less and less time with Sasuke in the coffee shop and more time walking through the town. Although they became more comfortable in each other's company neither brought up the argument they had had and Sakura never asked Sasuke much about his childhood as she didn't really want to intrude on his past. She was happy with him for now and that was all that mattered.

Sakura sighed as they stood outside the tall Uchiha offices, they were silent, as usual, and Sakura had noticed that Sasuke had a tendency to get quieter as they approached his work. Now she knew where he worked she generally walked back with him towards the offices he worked in at what she guessed was the end of his lunch break, although she was unaware that she had made Sasuke's attendance at work improve by doing this.

"Sasuke?" He turned his head towards her slightly to show that he was listening. "Are you going to Neji and Tenten's wedding?" She asked and e nodded.

"I have to, it's a family obligation." He said, Sakura giggled.

"You know you could just go to have fun," She said and Sasuke gave her a sceptical look.

"Not with my family," There was a pause as Sakura's smile faded slightly. "I guess you're going then." It was more of a statement than a question but Sakura answered him all the same.

"Yes, I have to, I'm a bridesmaid," Sasuke raised his eyebrows.

"Oh?"

"Yeah, I get to wear a lovely little bridesmaid's dress that looks good on Ino and Hinata but not me." She noticed that Sasuke was giving her a quizzical look "Pastel pink? With my hair?" She sighed and leant against the metal railing near the road. "And it's not even as if it's the same colour it's a different shade" She glanced at Sasuke's blank expression. "Sorry, I guess you didn't want to hear all that."

"Well, it was certainly interesting." He said carefully and Sakura giggled. They both fell silent and gazed up at the offices again.

"Do you have to go back to work?" Sakura asked suddenly wishing she had more time with him today.

"Probably." She looked thoughtfully at Sasuke.

"I'll see you at the wedding then this weekend." She gave him a broad smile, "And you have to dance with me at least once," Sasuke just stared at her. "Don't look at me like that."

"I'm not dancing." He said shortly.

"You've danced with me before." Sakura pointed out, Sasuke flushed slightly as he recalled that time when they had danced outside the restaurant in the cold.

"That was different there was no one there," He insisted.

"Just ignore everyone," He still looked reluctant. "What are you most worried about?" She asked "whose reaction?" Sasuke looked at his feet.

"Sakura, you've met my brother and-" He cut off, biting his bottom lip slightly, his expression closed, whatever he was going to say was lost and Sakura knew that no matter how much she pressed him he wouldn't say anything else. Sakura smiled at him.

"At least think about it, I still want to dance with you, so," She shrugged. "If you want to that'd be great." Sasuke looked at Sakura's face and she felt herself blushing slightly. "I'll see you at the wedding then." She muttered before turning away from him.

"See you." Sasuke said softly but Sakura still heard him and walked off with a smile.

The rest of the week passed quickly between work, being teased by Temari and Tsunade about Sasuke, and at home she often got hysterical phone calls from Tenten who was panicking about her impending wedding and wasn't satisfied with Neji's opinion or anyone else's that she had called previously or probably the people she would call after Sakura's attempts to sooth her frazzled nerves.

The day of the wedding came and Sakura found herself getting up ridiculously early to get to Ino's place to get ready. She drove half asleep through the deserted roads, arriving in time to see Shikamaru being ushered out of the door, she gave him a slight smile as they passed but Shikamaru looked even sleepier than she felt.

"Ino?" Sakura called pushing open the door.

"I'm upstairs," Sakura dumped her bag and headed up the stairs to see Ino at the mirror in the bed room with her hair wet from the shower already setting out her makeup.

"Jeez, Ino how are you up and ready this early." Sakura asked yawning.

"I've already had five cups of coffee Sakura dear, feel free to help yourself to some in the kitchen but you better come back here soon so I can curl your hair and keep a look out for Hinata." Ino said cheerfully but Sakura just yawned again and shuffled downstairs grabbing a mug and filling it with the steaming liquid. Sakura took a deep breath in inhaling the rich smell of coffee and took a sip savouring the taste. A knock at the door interrupted her reverie and Sakura went to let Hinata in still clutching her coffee.

She was greeted by a tired smile and Hinata stumbled up the stairs to see Ino, Sakura followed. In her room Ino had already curled her hair and smiled at her two friends.

"Morning Hinata, you got your beloved coffee at last Sakura?" Sakura stuck her tongue out at the blonde and Hinata just giggled. "Who wants to be next?" Ino asked brandishing her curling irons.

"I'll go," Sakura volunteered and sat down in front of Ino's mirror. "Although I'm not sure I want you holding hot metal near my head." She muttered as Ino wound a lock of her hair up in the tongs.

"Nonsense," Ino said, "I'll make you look marvellous." Hinata flopped onto bed and watched Ino and Sakura with some amusement. "Is your boy going?" She asked.

"My boy?" Sakura asked, confused.

"You know the coffee guy, Mr. Mysterious" Ino prompted and Sakura rolled her eyes.

"You mean Sasuke."

"Yeah, he knows Neji doesn't he?" Hinata chipped in and Sakura frowned as Ino tugged at a rebellious piece of Sakura's hair.

"He going, but didn't you meet him at your housewarming, he was there," She asked Ino.

"He was?" Ino frowned "I didn't see him, this time I want properly introduced to him." Ino finished curling Sakura's hair and grasped her shoulder forcing her back into the seat when she was about to move. She dumped what felt like an entire can of hairspray around the general area of Sakura's hair before she released Sakura who admired her freshly curled hair, which was probably not going to move one millimetre all night after all that, and moved so Hinata could settle on the seat.

"It's funny Tenten getting married don't you think?" Ino said.

"How do you mean?" Hinata asked.

"Well it doesn't seem that long ago that we all met," Sakura smiled slightly.

"We were ten Ino that was ages ago," She said.

"I can see what she means though, it's gone so quickly," Hinata commented.

"Exactly, I can remember when we promised to keep in touch before going to university, none of us really had a steady boyfriend in school." Sakura and Hinata exchanged looks.

"Excuse me, I stayed with Arashino for a year, it was you who kept going from one guy to the next,"

"Its more surprising that you've settled down than Tenten," Hinata said and Ino blushed.

"That's beside the point," She said airily.

"I meant that I always think love and marriage is a long way off and it's strange that one of us is ready to dedicate herself to someone for the rest of her life."

"I guess so," Sakura said, "They'll be so happy together though."

"Yeah," Hinata said, almost wistfully, "You know that Neji will take care of Tenten." Ino snorted.

"He's still a workaholic" Hinata giggled.

"Neji takes all his duties very seriously," She said as Ino finished Hinata's hair and stood back to admire her work. They all crowded round the mirror laughing, Sakura tugged at one of her curls and watched as it instantly sprang back into place.

"Once we've got the dresses on people won't be able to tell us apart," She said lightly.

"Yeah, it's like the time we all dressed up the same when we went down town," Ino commented and Hinata groaned.

"That was terrible," She muttered.

"We've got to meet Tenten soon" Sakura said, looking at the clock.

"Oops!" Ino muttered "Maybe I took too long on our hair."

"It's still too early though," Sakura muttered pulling a face as she finished off her, now cold, coffee and dashing down stairs to grab her makeup and dress.

They all got ready in a hurry, pulling on their identical dresses and applying makeup and Ino fetched her camera for a picture before they left.

"Are you ready?" She asked and took a picture of Hinata and Sakura.

"That's not fair we need one of you" Sakura protested and grabbed the camera off her, Ino struck a pose as Sakura took the picture. Hinata took the camera off Sakura.

"We need one of all of us," She said and they put their arms round each other as Hinata held the camera at arm's length. "I hope this work," She said.

"Just take it," Ino giggled, and the camera flashed, they looked at the display as the picture came up.

"It's good enough," Sakura said "Tenten's hired a photographer anyway." They dashed out of Ino's house and towards Shikamaru who had come back and was waiting for them in his car.

"How do we look?" Ino asked climbing into the front seat.

"Fine," He replied and Ino scowled at him.

"You're meant to say beautiful or something like that, that I am the light of your life and the time you spent without me had pale in comparison to the time we were dating" She insisted and Shikamaru rolled his eyes.

"No one's that poetic in the morning." Sakura muttered to Hinata.

"Fine. You all look radiant," He said stopping briefly at a red light.

He pulled up at the church and let them out as he found a place to park, it was still early and people were milling around waiting for more people to arrive.

"Where do you think Tenten is?" Ino asked.

"Out the back," Hinata said. "And then the car's going to bring her round the front of the church." They found a few select room at the back of the church an knocked on each door in turn until they got a reply.

"What is it?"

"Tenten, can we come it?"

"Sure," The door opened as Tenten let them in.

"You look amazing" Ino said and the other two agreed with her.

"Neji will be speechless," Sakura said.

"As long as he can agree to marry me," Tenten joked nervously.

"Are you nervous?" Hinata asked and Tenten nodded.

"I keep thinking that I'm going to ruin my vows," She said.

"You'll be fine." Ino said soothingly.

"I hope so," Tenten said. "I can't believe I'm actually getting married in half an hour, despite all the wedding planning I think it's only just hit me now, I'm actually going to have to start signing things Tenten Hyuuga."

"Hyuuga's not that much of a bad surname," Hinata said and Tenten gave her a sheepish smile.

"You know what I mean."

Tenten paced the room for a few moments ignoring all her friends' efforts to calm her nerves and when the time came Sakura, Ino and Hinata slipped outside to get ready to meet Tenten when the car took her to the front of the church.

"Hey, nice dress." A soft voice said behind Sakura and she turned to see Sasuke behind her looking unusually smart in a suit and tie.

"Sasuke," Sakura smiled, "It's good to see you."

"Likewise," He said looking amused at Sakura's attempt of formality. "I just came to say that I think I'll take you up on your offer." Sakura looked blank.

"Offer?" Then the penny dropped, he was agreeing to dance with her, "great, I'll look forward to it."

"I best get back to my family before they wonder where I am." Sasuke said looking around for them.

"Oh, before you go," Sakura said and Sasuke turned to look at her again. "These are my friends Ino, and you've already met Hinata." Sasuke nodded to them both and gave a soft 'hello' before apologising again and heading off into the church.

"And here I thought you'd forgotten about us," Ino said.

"What are you talking about?" Sakura asked.

"You two only had eyes for each other," Ino said with a hint of amusement in her voice.

Everyone had entered the church now and there was a slight rumble as the car pulled up beside them, Tenten stepped out, veiled this time, and took the arm of her old teacher Gai, who had volunteered to take her down the aisle in place of her father. Sakura, Ino and Hinata all gave her reassuring smiles before taking their positions behind her to walk down towards Neji.

Inside the church everyone got to their feet and turned to look at them. All conversation stopped and Sakura felt uneasy even though all their attention was focused on Tenten. She could pick out a few people she could recognise; Kiba was sitting with Shino and looked strange all dressed up, most alarming of all was Lee who seemed to be wearing dark green instead of the usual black. Nearer to the front sat Sasuke with his family and Sakura recognised Itachi sitting by his father and there was a strong resemblance between the two. Sasuke's softer features were more similar to his mothers, who he sat next to with Naruto on his other side.

A quick glance at Hinata told her that she had spotted Naruto as her eyes were straight ahead; a small blush adorned her cheeks. Sakura looked back towards Sasuke and noticed him looking at her and she gave him a brief smile before halting at the altar and then moving to the side with the other bridesmaids. Tenten stepped up to join Neji and they all moved to the side as they started the wedding vows.

"Neji," Tenten started softly, but as she spoke her voice grew in confidence, "as most people know we met in interesting circumstances and I wouldn't recommend to anyone shouting at a man to get their attention but that seemed to work for me." Sakura exchanged smiles with Ino and Hinata. "We've been through a lot together and I know you've made many changes in your life just for me, like, you don't work for twelve hours each day anymore, but even now as I'm probably embarrassing you by telling everyone your flaws I know that you still care for me and although no one's perfect, I know that you're the closest thing to perfect I'll ever know."

Sakura blinked rapidly, it was stupid crying at a wedding she thought, they were supposed to be happy, she took a shaky breathe in to try and stop the tears in her eyes from over flowing and chanced a glance at Ino, who was allowing her tears to fall freely, and Hinata who had hidden her face in a handkerchief.

"Tenten, I knew when I first met you that it was fated that we would meet again," Neji started and Sakura could feel herself tearing up again. "We may have had our arguments and fallen out a few times but you've always been there for me and supported me through everything. You may be stubborn, determined and have a lot of qualities that I didn't expect to fall in love with but despite all our differences all that matters is that I do love you and I will make it my duty to make you happy for the rest of our lives." Sakura smiled, she took Tenten's bouquet off her for the ceremony with the rings and noticed that behind her veil Tenten was red with embarrassment at Neji's speech.

They solemnly made their promises to each other and after pledging their bodies and souls to each other for eternity exchanged their first kiss as a married couple to much cheering. The wedding photographer stepped out for a few photos and Tenten insisted on a photo of all her and Neji's close friends after the usual ones. After much confusion Sakura found herself between Sasuke and Naruto and she gave them a quick smile.

"I saw you crying," Sasuke commented.

"Well it was sweet," Sakura said defensively, "I never knew Neji could be that romantic" They paused and the photographer took the picture.

"Nice to know he completely ignored Naruto's suggestion for his speech," Sasuke said.

"Hey that was good," Naruto protested and Sasuke raised his eyebrows.

"I don't think she would have appreciated being compared to a bowl of noodles," Sasuke commented and Sakura giggled.

"Come on Sakura," Ino said putting her arm through Sakura's, "Shikamaru need to give us all a lift to the meal and party."

"Right, I'm coming." Sakura replied and then turned back to Sasuke. "You owe me a dance remember?"