Back in the village, Naruto took Itami to her father's office and then went to see if she could find something fun to do. She was in luck because Sasuke found her and asked her if she wanted to come to another one of those sparring match games. She nodded enthusiastically and they were off. Naruto sat in the tree alone again and Sasuke stood among the people in the circle. She watched as Neji Hyuuga took down ninja after ninja and wanted to see how he fared against her so she got down in the circle. They fought for ages and no one seemed to be winning but then Neji made an unexpected move, going for one of her chakra points with his Byakugan. She hadn't seen it and only had enough time to move slightly to the side. Neji's hand missed the chakra point and hit her heart. His second hand came down and hit her stomach. Naruto fellonto her knees as she vomited nothing but red, red blood. She held onto her stomach as it throbbed painfully and her heart beat irregularly. She had trouble breathing and hoped someone would do something more than just look at her. She vomited again and then once more. Her hair was stained red and so was her clothes. Then someone with common sense ran up to her and took her special kunai form her pocket and threw it. Minato appeared a second later. When he saw what was happening to his child, he picked her up and used the Hiraishin and teleported her to the hospital where he had someone call for Tsunade. She came as quickly as she could and had Minato place her in the first empty hospital bed they came across. Minato watched as Tsunade pressed green chakra covered hands onto his daughter's stomach and chest. Then he had to hold back tears as his child screamed. He knew how painful it was to have internal organs healed but he knew that in order to live she had to endure it. He just hoped that his baby was ok.

After an hour of watching his blood covered daughter scream with the pain that comes with healing internal organs, he was glad when Tsunade declared that everything was healed. He nodded silently. Tsunade left, feeling like he wanted to be alone. Minato stood for a second after Tsunade left the room. Then he allowed a single tear to roll down his face as he looked into the face of his only child.

Sasuke was still amazed that he had not acted quicker when he had seen Naruto vomiting blood but he had to keep telling himself that at least he did something. Thank goodness he had known about the special kunai that Naruto carried around everywhere or she might have died. Today Sasuke was at the hospital visiting Naruto. When he walked in Naruto was sound asleep so he tip toed over to the bedside table and placed his flowers down. Then he went and sat on a plastic chair that was in the corner of the room and waited for Naruto to wake up.

When Naruto woke up, she was kinda disorientated. She looked around the room and saw that Sasuke was asleep in the chair. She giggled and he stirred. He blinked a few times before fully opening his eyes. When they were open he came and knelt beside Naruto and asked her how she was doing.

"Fine." She answered. They continued on with casual conversation until someone knocked at their door. Naruto called for them to come in. Minato and Kushina stepped inside.

"How are you, honey?" Kushina asked her baby, completely ignoring Sasuke. She knew about his massive crush on Naruto. The whole village did. But Naruto didn't. But that doesn't matter. What matters know is that her baby is safe.

"I'm fine, mum. Seriously, I am." Naruto said. Sasuke watched as Naruto leant forward to hug her mother and he got a nice view of bare back through her hospital gown. He quickly averted his eyes and was glad that no one had seen him staring. Her mum handed her a bag and told her that she was getting released from hospital today but she had to take it easy. Everyone including Sasuke evacuated the room to give the girl her time to get dressed.

Naruto saw what clothes her mum had brought her and sighed. The pants were ok, they were black shorts, Naruto's favourite colour, but they were too short. The shirt was just plan terrible. It was exactly like Ino's but black. She sighed again. It would have to do.

When Naruto put on the clothes, she understood why people wore them. They were so comfortable and so easy to move in, although she was a bit embarrassed to be in them. When she went outside she saw Anko chatting with her mum. She launched herself at the purple haired woman who almost fell over with the force of Naruto's hug. "Did you miss me?" Anko asked.

"Absolutely!" Naruto said, releasing the woman from her death grip of a hug. Anko, Kushina, Minato engaged in conversation after that, making Sasuke and Naruto feel kinda awkward. Sasuke signalled for Naruto to follow him and they snuck off. They went to training ground 9 and just sat in the tree together. Sasuke saw this as his opportunity to ask Naruto out. "Hey, Naruto?" Sasuke asked nervously.

"Hmmm?" Was Naruto's reply.

"Um, are you free tomorrow night?" Sasuke's heart was beating so loud he was sure that Naruto could hear it.

"Yeah, why?"

"Uh, well, I was wondering if you wanted to go out on a date with me?" Sasuke braced himself for a negative answer. Naruto thought about what she had just heard. Did she really just get asked out by Sasuke Uchiha? The boy who is so sought after by the ladies that he has groupies? Wow. She guessed that it wouldn't be too bad if she went.

"Sure." They sorted out the details and then they parted ways. Sasuke couldn't get over his happiness. When he got home he bowled hi brother over in the hallway. "I did it! I asked her! And she said yes!" Sasuke screamed at his brother.

"See, I told you that it would work." Itachi said, pushing his little brother off him. He was truly happy that his brother had asked out the girl of his dreams but what will happen when the Hokage finds out?