Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of his friends (or else Naruto would have kicked Sasuke's ass all the way back to Konoha during the fight of The Valley of The End) ON WITH HOPEFULLY SECOND TO LAST CHAPTER (though I highly doubt it)
The party was finally dying down, there were, by now, several people who had disappeared most of them being the random civilians that Sakura had er… bribed into coming along with a few of the Konoha twelve such as Kiba (completely hammered), who had been dragged away by a slightly more than pissed Ino (luckily anything that was relatively pointy had been taken away and hidden in a safe place after the cake had been eaten). Surprisingly there were still quite a few civilians in the now less crowded apartment, each of whom was now slowly making their way over to where Naruto sat with Hinata on his lap with Sasuke and Sakura on either side of him. Once a small group had gathered the one closest to Naruto tapped him on the shoulder and said "Naruto, um… Mr. Uzumaki…" it was at this point that Naruto turned around, he had never had anyone call him 'Mr. Uzumaki' before, "all of us that are assembled here at this moment would like to say that we all feel extremely bad about what we have done in the past and that we know that there is no way we could ever make it up to you for the amount of pain, both mentally and physically, that we have caused you, but it would mean the world to all of us if you were to accept this apology." When the man had finished his speech, one by one, the civilians bowed in respect to Naruto. Naruto smiled, and said "Stand up straight guys, I've already forgiven you, I mean seriously what kind of person would I be if I held grudges for something that happened in the past, I am who I am because of you guys, I mean sure yeah you guys made my life hell when I was little but look what I have now because of it, a new girlfriend that I would never have even dreamed of, an entire battalion of people that care about me and vice-versa, hell pretty soon I'm even going to have my own house." Everyone in the room realized what had just happened and everyone in the room was floored, Naruto was thanking the people that had made his life a living hell (then gone back to watching a movie). A few hours later everyone minus team seven and Hinata had left, Naruto and Kakashi were talking back on the things that had happened when Naruto first joined the ninja ranks, anything from the utter defeat of Mizuki to the complete and total annihilation of the bastard Orochimaru (yes ladies and gentlemen it is bound to happen someday) to the time that Kakashi had gotten Naruto with the thousand years of pain during their first training session, these memories were some of the more hilarious (if painful) or disturbing memories that either one could think of. Hinata was in the kitchen talking to Sakura and was currently trying not to fall on the floor laughing when Sakura told her about the time that Naruto had started crying when they were leaving wave country; it was funny because he had at the time been trying to act all tough. Sasuke was, not surprisingly, nowhere to be found, that is until he yelled out "Hey everyone can you guys come to the living-room for a minute, there's something that I need to say." Once everyone had gathered Sasuke said "Look I know that what I am about to say may not be expected coming from me but Sakura could you come here for a moment please?" Sakura stood and walked over to Sasuke with a confused look on her face and Hinata looked at Naruto, just as clueless, Naruto just smirked and told Hinata to see for herself what was about to happen. Sakura stood in front of Sasuke for a bit and looked at him, Sasuke said "Sakura-chan…" (this is the first implication ladies and gentlemen) "I have known you for a long time and all this time I have been hiding myself from you, I have never let someone, especially you, see the real me, that was because of the fact that if you were to be seen a something precious to me, you might become a bargaining chip, a weapon to be used against me…" A look of understanding began to dawn on the faces of every single person in that room (minus Sasuke and Naruto who was in on the whole thing) "Sakura Haruno, I love you." There was a complete silence for a few moments and then Sakura started crying and threw her arms around Sasuke, who held her tightly while Hinata hugged Naruto, who of course whispered to her, "He has been planning that everyday for two months, he has had me help him practice it, sometimes it got so annoying that I had to use a clone to get away." Kakashi just stood behind the couch, he was happy for his students; they had each found love today now the only one left was him, he stood up to leave when both Sasuke and Naruto, who had know that he would do this said in perfect unison "And just where do you think you are going huh?" Kakashi deadpanned and pointed towards the door when Sasuke said in a cool tone of voice, "I don't think so." Naruto whistled and said "It's time for you to come out!" everyone turned to face the stairs and Kakashi received quite a shock because standing before them was, Anko. Anko walked up to Kakashi and without saying a word, pulled his mask down and kissed him full on the lips. Stunned was the minimal word to use in order to describe how Kakashi felt at that moment, Naruto and Sasuke had set this up for him? How had they known? However they knew he wasn't going to ask them right now, he grabbed Anko and shusshined out of the apartment (nobody heard from them for a few days). Sasuke laughed and grabbed Sakura, attempting to drag her out of the apartment, when she resisted he leaned down, whispered in her ear, then picked her up bridal style and ran after telling Naruto "See ya later dobe." Now only Naruto and Hinata were left, all alone in Naruto's apartment, on the night of his eighteenth birthday.
Jimbaliya: I am debating whether or not to put an epilogue on this thing after the next chapter.
Sakura: (in a singsong voice) Sasuke loves me, Sasuke loves me
Sasuke: hm looks like I might have made her lose it.
Jimbaliya: Well then give her the lemony goodness
Sasuke: (blanches) I'm not ready for that just yet, I mean seriously, I don't think that we need (looks over at Sakura) *whispering* little Sakuras running around just yet
Jimbaliya: Bwahahahaha (note to self, if epilogue, add many little Sakuras)
Naruto: I'm kinda nervous about the next chapter.
Hinata: Why?
Naruto: It's not rated M for language
Hinata: (faints)
Harruuoth: FILLED BUCKET JUTSU!
Hinata: (shaking the water out of her face) thanks, but next time please don't use so much water.
Harruuoth: Sorry, I don't control the amount just the bucket.
Jimbaliya: (facepalms)
Entire Cast (minus the villagers, Kakashi, and Anko): NO FLAMES
Jimbaliya and Harruuoth: CHOW!
Jimbaliya: NAKAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!