Disclaimer: same as always: don't own so don't sue or else the boogey man will come to visit you
Snow Phoenix-Dragon: This is the final chapter to With This Ring I Thee Engage. Hope you all enjoy and there may be a sequel. Maybe.
~ Summertime ~
It was a beautiful day in June. Little kids were with their siblings or friends hanging out. A group of fifteen to seventeen year olds were at training ground seven chatting and having fun.
Some were couples while others were still single.
The couples were Naruto and Hinata.
Naruto has changed over the years. He still loved eating ramen and the color orange, but he has also grown more mature. Well, as mature as Naruto can get. His attire has changed. He still wore a jump suit, but this time it was ostly black with orange. The red swirl was still embroided onto the back of the jacket he wore and his headband around his forehead.
Hinata seemed to have changed the most. She no longer stuttered, unless needed, and she has proven herself to her family. Her father trains both her and her younger sister Hinabi. Her attire consisted of black capris, a tan tanktop, and her midnight blue hair was waist kength and was kept in a high ponytail. Around her waist was Naruto's arm and she leaned against him laughing and talking with their friends.
Next was Kankuro and Ino.
Kankuro had finally asked Ino out during the second chunin exam which was held when they were fourteen. Kankuro had finally changed out of his black cat like suit and wore black ninja pants and a black button shirt which always had the top three buttons undone. He now carried is puppets in a specially made scroll and the scroll was always kept in his ninja pouch.
Ino had her usual ponytail and bright blue eyes. The only difference was that she changed her look. Instead of her girly girl attire she wore ninja capris and a loose fitting purple shirt. She still worked at her family's flower shop, but most of the time she was visiting Kankuro, on missions, or was helping out at the academy with Hinata.
The next couple was Shikamaru and Temari.
Nothing can be siad except that somethings never change, while others do.
"Shika!" Temari sing songed.
"Troublesome woman." was Shikamaru's response, earning him a hard smack in the shoulder.
Next wasTen Ten and Neji.
Although everyone saw this couple from when they were twelve. Neji finally had set aside his pride for once and asked Ten Ten to be his girlfriend in the most romantic way he could. When Ten Ten told the girls on how the Hyuga asked her they were simply flabbergasted. Who knew he was so sweet and romantic.
Neji's attire changed as well, he wore a more suiting attire. (The one from shippuden). Ten Ten's outfit was now a pair of tan ninja capris with a red chinese styled shirt. Her hair was still in its usual buns, but when they are out at a festival or have nothing to do that day but hang out she would take them out and her brown hair would be in waves down to her butt.
The last couple was Chouji and Sakura.
A few years before Sakura participated in the chosing of Chouji's future wife. She was chosen and she accepted. She and Chouji were dubbed the most adorable couple in Konoha and Suna. But they were also dubbed as the most weirdest matching made.
Chouji wore an outfit similar to his fathers and let his hair grow out. He now had a fan club and was grateful that Sakura was able to keep them at bay. He was happy to here that Sakura had accepted in being his future wife and it warmed his heart.
Sakura wore black ninja shorts and a red tank top. around her neck was a necklace that Chouji had given her for her fifteenth birthday. She was now a jonin and plans on taking a group of genin once she reaches the age of sixteen. Chouji also wishes to do the same.
As the group chatted and laughed away Chouji motioned the guys over to him while the girls went to talk with Sakura.
"Hey Chouji, what's up?" Shikamaru asked.
"How old can you be to get married? Chouji asked.
"Sixteen. Since we're ninjas we have that right, inlike civillians." Neji answered.
~ With The Girls ~
"So has Chouji popped the question yet?" Temari asked.
"Not yet. What about Shikamaru?"
"No, but he is gonna have to do it soon or else I will threaten him beyond repair." the sand kunoichi replied smiling.
"Wow, I still don't know how he can be with you for so long." Ino said.
"Well I for one am feeling sorry for my younger brother." Temari smirked. "He has you as a girlfriend."
"Hey, it was either me or that chic who goes after those with connections." Ino smirked back.
"True."
"So Hinata, has Naruto proposed yet?" Ten Ten asked.
"Hai, he asked me last week when we were having dinner with my family." Hinata smiled.
"Wow, I cna't believe the baka actually did it before the others." Sakura said.
"You're so lucky Hinata!" the girls chimed.
~ With The Boys ~
"So, Shikamaru, have you proposed tp Temari yet?" Naruto asked. This made Kankuro and Gaara look at the shadow user as if daring him to say something that would hurt their sister.
"Not yet. But I better do it soon. I have a feeling she will force it out of me if I don't." was his lazy reply.
"Ah."
"What about you Neji?"
"No. I'm waiting for the right moment."
"Wow, so that means you're gonna ask Ten Ten, nice." Kiba grinned.
"YOSH! How youthful of you Neji!" Lee announced.
"What about you dobe?" Sasuke asked his blonde best friend.
"Don't call me dobe teme."
"Don't call me teme dobe."
"Teme."
"Dobe."
"Teme."
"Dobe."
~ Over to the girls ~
"Uh oh." Sakura and Hinata said.
"What?" Ten Ten asked.
"Our Naruto-being-called-a-dobe-and-Sasuke-being-called-teme-argument senses are tingling." was the two girls reply.
The other three had a confused look.
"It means that my two knuckleheaded team mates are having their Dobe and Teme argument...again." Sakura said.
"Oh."
~ Back to the guys ~
"Teme."
"Dobe."
"Teme!"
"Dobe."
"Shut up!"
The two boys looked over to see Gaara with an annoyed expression.
"You are both a teme and a dobe, now answer the question Naruto." Shikamaru drawled.
"Hmph. Yeah. I proposed to her last week in front of her family at dinner."
"He did. I was surprised that Uncle didn't jump up to strangle him right then and there. And I was hoping he would too." Neji said.
"Hey! That's not nice Neji!" wailed Naruto.
"Life's not nice Naruto." was the Hyuga's 'wise' reply.
The girls walked over to the boys and went to their boyfriends and the group became silent. They listened to the activities of that warm summer day.
"Sakura-chan." Chouji spoke. Everyone including the pinkette turned their attention to him.
"Chouji-kun?"
Chouji got down on one knee. "Will you marry me?" he asked as he pulled out a box with a gorgoeous diamond ring in it.
Sakura stared at Chouji then the ring then settled on looking at Chouji's face.
"Of course." Chouji smiled and put the ring onto Sakura's finger and pulled her into a hug and kissed her.
Surprisingly everyone of their friends that was their, and I mean everyone, awed. Even the 'ice blocks'.
The next day everyone in Konoha, Suna, and the other villages have heard that Tsunade's apprentice, Haruno Sakura, was getting married to the heir of the Akimichi clan, Akimichi Chouji.