Chapter 10

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"What where's Sakura Chan!!" Naruto shouted his eyes lazing with anger. Tsunade sighed "I told you I don't know" she told him quietly the sadness of her only student being kidnapped was too much for her. She sighed and got up from the chair she walked to the window behind her. Konoha hadn't changed even when her student was now a missing ninja. "Shikamaru found nothing left of her just the faint smell of…."

Tsunade gulped it took her a long time to actually believe what he had told her and now she had to proclaim it to Naruto and soon the village. "WHAT!!" Naruto screamed standing in front of Tsunade face now looking at her in a slight rage. "Blood" she muttered lowering her head to look at the floor.

Naruto sighed 'she might be dead' He thought holding his breath slightly at the very possibility that his sakura Chan was gone. Naruto thought deep a skill he learnt on his last mission with jiraya. How to control the situation rationally, Jiraya told him it would help him out a lot in his life and it seemed to be working quite well at this moment in time. He took a deep breath and looked at Tsunade her face seemed sad and her eyes where empty. It was as if she didn't have anyone anymore.

"Where is Shikamaru?" Naruto asked slightly sympathetically for it wasn't the time for him to scream orders at her. 'She was grieving, over the loss of her one and only student,' He thought. Naruto turned and took tsunades shoulder in her grip he pulled her to face him. he smiled at her as her sad eyes looked up at him. (A/n: Naruto had actually grown taller than the hokage so think about 5 6 foot tall something like that.)

"I'll talk with Shikamaru." The Fifth Hokage nodded putting her gaze back to the view of Konoha. "Do you want me to do the ceremony?" Naruto asked as her looking over Konoha at the same time. "No," she paused "I think I need to do it for Sakura's sake but I need you to be there with me" she turned to him and smiled. He looked down at her and smiled once more. "The sixth Hokage needs to know how to do the ceremonies." He nodded and placed a hand on her shoulderonce more. "You sure you're going to be ok?" he asked again.

Tsunade nodded her head and smiled a small but a little happy smile. He retuned it with his own before walking out of the room leaving Tsunade to gaze out over the village of Konoha.

Naruto was nearing the exit of the building nearing the counter. Konohamaru smiled at his former 'boss' and ran up to him. Naruto smiled a small smile out of the side of his mouth. "Hey Konohamaru" he tried to sound enthusiastic but it just wasn't working. Konohamaru just smiled at him not even noticing how unhappy Naruto was after the Hokage's news. "Hey Konohamaru?" he asked Konohamaru looked over at him inquisitively. "Yes boss?" he answered. "Do you know where Shikamaru went?" he asked a hint of anger in his voice. He had to hear it from Shikamaru mouth. "He's gone back to Ino's I think that what he said" Naruto smiled before leaving Konohamaru in the office of the Hokage's tower.

Naruto was nearing the yamanka flower shop. He straightened himself out slight he wasn't going to look at state in front of the yamankas. They're well known for the high standard of appearance. He was going to look strong and try and act strong if only it was just for a little while. He opened the Door and greeted the women at the counter asking if he could see Ino.

He followed the women t a small room at the back of the flower shop "Ino" he called. She was sat on a small chair her head lowered her long blonde hair covering her face. He walked an inch or so closer and put his hand on her shoulder. Her head rose showing her eyes red and bloodshot and her face pale her hair sticking sticking to her skin. She knew Naruto was staring at her. No one apart from Shikamaru had seen her this bad in her whole life.

"It's ok Ino let it out" he told her a soft smile on his face. She pulled him into a hug. "Why wasn't I there to help her?" she shouted but she still kept a firm hold on Naruto. "That stupid forehead girl why did she have to go and herself killed?" she became quieter now just sobbing on Naruto's back. he had to refrain himself from crying it was true why wasn't he there to protect her she'd always been there to protect him and sasuke .When she needed protection they both weren't there. This was it he felt a small tear trickled down his face. He hugged Ino back but tighter. He felt weak now more than ever. Ino pulled back slightly "thank you" she told him looking at him with shire comfort in her face.

He nodded wiping his eyes and stood up to leave; he got to the door and smiled slightly. "Think what sakura would say." He sighed before continuing. "She wouldn't want all of us to be so unhappy over her. She'd want us to celebrate her life for her." Ino nodded before picking up a tissue and wiping her eye's "I'll make her a special flower display" Naruto smiled "i'm cure she'd like that" he nodded once more before turning to leave the yamanka flower shop.

"It's good to get ino's mind off her." He sighed stepping out onto the Konoha high street. Where would Shikamaru Be?

He thought people passed him and just started he was standing in the middle of the high street. He caught a glimpse of a someone running from the direction of the Hokage's tower. It was Hinata. Her dark hair trailing behind her while tears flowed from her face. She was moving faster down the road.

Naruto put out his hand and caught the crying Hinata bring her in closer to his chest. She whimpered in his grip but just cried in front of him freely. She looked up and caught sight of a Naruto looking down on her with a soft smile. She looked into his blue eyes they where sparking ling. She knows he thought.

She moved closer into his chest but still carried on to cry. They just stood there in the middle of the high street hugging each other. They had been there for nearly an hour and the skies where turning gray. "The sky is crying too" he whispered into Hinata's ear. She didn't move she didn't make a sound. Naruto looked at her she had stopped crying. Her eyes where closed and she was just standing there. He smiled and lifted Hinata into his grip. He walked from the high street and back to his small apartment on the far side of town.


Ok I Know this chapter is slightly Naruto X Ino but that's just the way I wrote it. I'm sorry this chapter took so long I was originally going to go straight to where Sakura was but then I thought it might be a good idea to chow how Sasuke was and then it was suggested that I did what was happening back in Konoha. I know this is slightly sad and I quite sorry but we all know Sakura's ok or is she?

Dun Dunn!!

The next chapter is one i've already typed up so its probably going to be up quite soon and plus I have a week of school so ill probably be writing up other chapters so there will be lots top read !

Oh yeah I haven't already told you I found the original story that I thought I lost so that's quite good oh and for further reference i'm no where near the end of writing this story yet so this might be a pretty long story with lots of chapters !

Anyway that's for reading!

The next chapter is about Sakura by the way

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