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This Story Contains: NaruSaku, One-sided NaruHina, One-sided NaruSasu, Lemons, Lime, Angst, Romance, Adventure, Blood, Gore, Naruto-ness, and Sakura-ness.

This Chapter Contains: Also a horribly depicted drama scene with some friendship fluff on the side. With Mpreg... Just kidding. Also Spoilers of Chapter 367.

Rating: M for lemony-ness (Sorry Peeps. No lemons this chapter.)

Disclaimer: I wouldn't be writing this if I owned Naruto would I jackass. Thanks for reminding me that I don't.


Dealing with Death

Sakura groaned. Her feet were killing her. She had just gotten off Shizune's shift at the hospital. It was dark out, but it wasn't too late. She took off her sandals and stepped into her house. She plopped down on the couch unceremoniously. Today Naruto had just been released from the hospital. Instead of Hinata living with Naruto, he would actually go live at the compound due to the amount of free space.

Sakura really wanted to be the one to live with Naruto. Not that she wanted to be with him, but that she had plenty of questions on her mind. For example: Was Naruto awake before the kiss ended? Is Naruto gay? Is Sasuke gay? Not only that, but was Naruto ok? She wasn't worried about his physical state, Tsunade assured her of that, but his mental state. A few days after Naruto had been admitted into the ER a frog arrived with a message. Jiriaya had died, but whatever else was on the message wasn't disclosed to the other ninja.

Tsunade left a note on a nightstand by the bed, when he was sleeping, telling of Jiriaya's death. Sounds of loud cries and thrashing could be heard through the hall ways of the hospital the morning after. Sakura was constantly worried about her teammate, but Tsunade said that he should be left alone for a while.

'Well he's been denied comfort long enough.'

'Cha! Naruto is our friend and he needs support.'

'I wonder if the Hyuga Compound is still open... I really don't feel like getting up.'

'Naruto-kun is in need! Get off your ass now!'

Sakura groaned once again as she forced herself up. She decided to get changed first. She walked up to the second floor of her apartment. She passed by the restroom and stopped in mid-stride.

'I could use a shower...'


Sakura stepped up to the gate of the Hyuga Compound. She marveled at the size of the place, never taking the time to have really noticed. The gates swung back and allowed her entry. She the noticed a silhouette forming from the darkness. As it came closer she realized it was Hinata.

"I take it you're here to see Naruto-kun?" She asked shyly.

"Yes, but how did you know?" Sakura inquired.

"Tsunade-sama told me to be expecting you. I'll show you to his room." They walked for a couple of minutes showing Sakura the true size of the compound. She quickly wondered if the Uchiha compound was any bigger. It most likely was due to the fact that there was a whole district for them. She was brought out of her reverie as they halted in front of a house.

"He's inside and still awake if you wish too speak to him. I tried talking to him earlier but he wouldn't come out. Maybe you can knock some sense into him." She said with a meek smile. "I'm sorry but I must go." With that she scurried off. Sakura reached out for the door and slid it open. When she walked in she noticed it was dimly lit. The room was plain and only had the bare necessities of a ninja life.

"Naruto?" Sakura called out. There was no response, but she knew he was there. She meagerly made way to what she thought was the bedroom. When she entered the room she saw him sitting on his bed looking out the window. He gazed up into the skies that were filled with stars. He paid no heed to her entrance. She sat on the bed next to him and observed his face. His eyes were red. His face was pale. His stature was slouched.

"Naruto are you okay?"

"He... He was my godfather... He gave me my name. Jiriaya gave me the name Naruto. The name was based on one of those smut novels he wrote." He chuckled bitterly at the irony. He truly hated Jiriaya's books yet he was named after one of the main characters. "I just loved the pervert a lot. Now he's dead. That freaking idiot." Naruto's voice became meek and timid as he reached the end of his rant.

"Naruto, Jiriaya-sama died for his country. He died protecting it. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have died if he had the choice. He wouldn't want you crying over his death. I'm sure he doesn't want you to fall into the hands of the Akatsuki. Jiriaya-sama would want you to do something about it. Of course, I'm not saying to go off and train, but don't let his death bring you down."

She felt a little uncomfortable asking this question, but her curiosity got the better of her. "Naruto, did Jiriaya know your father and mother?"

"Yes, he did." Sakura expected Naruto to continue by stating some names, but his eyes looked distant, and filled with sorrow. Sakura wanted to know. She had to know!

"Naruto who were your parents?" Naruto tensed slightly, but Sakura's hand laced with his own and gave him a comforting squeeze.

"I am the son of..." He parted his mouth several times, but he couldn't't find the courage to speak openly of his parents.

"It's ok, tell me when your ready. I have to get back home so I'll see you later ok?" She got up and headed for the door, but was immediately pulled back.

For the first time Sakura saw no mask to cover his emotions. There was no shit eating grin. There was no goofy smile. Only a sad face, and electric blues eyes that were now storming with depression. He mumbled something incoherent, and she asked for him to repeat. "I want you to know, but please don't tell anyone else." She had never seen him so vulnerable.

She merely nodded for him to continue as she sat back down on the bed. "My mother was from the Whirlpool Country. Her name was Uzumaki Kushina. My father was from this village. His name was Minato Namikaze. I took up my mother's last name due to the fact that my father was wanted as a dead man."

Naruto truly hoped that Sakura wouldn't recognize the name. It was common for the name of a hokage not to be known to the younger generations sometimes. Especially former hokages because of the fact that formalities and titles were always used like 'Yondaime' or 'Hokage-sama'. Though it appeared lady luck was not on Naruto's side. "That name sounds familiar. I've heard it somewhere before."

"Well, remember the history classes at the acade..."

"Yondaime" Sakura blurted out as she cut Naruto off. Sakura stared at Naruto with wide eyes for a few minutes. Naruto became uncomfortable as her gaze focused on him. She opened her mouth to speak, but this time he cut her off.

"When I first found out, I couldn't't help but feel a little resentment toward him. Although I understand why he did it. I'm glad no other person had to suffer a fate like mine. I just hate the fact that I never got to meet either of them." By now streaks of tears were cascading down his face.

Sakura crawled on all fours on the bed. She wrapped her arms Naruto and pulled him down into a friendly embrace while laying on the bed. Both slowly drifted to sleep.

'It's too late to go home anyway.'

'Just keep telling yourself that, hon.'

'Shut up.'


Hinata deactivated her Byakugan. She hated herself for spying on them, but she also found a new hate for a certain pink haired banshee. Hinata could not lose! What would Naruto do? He would never give up so neither would she. Sure she was shy, but damn Kami if she were just to lay there and let someone walk over here. She would have to train her her personality and take a stand. Hinata would start making moves on a certain blond-haired hyper active ramen eating son of a hokage. (Meh, it's Naruto if your slow in the brain.)
Suigetsu stared at the guards from behind the metal bars. He turns over to see his other two teammates sleeping. "Well this sucks."


Sasuke found himself taking Naruto's death a bit harder than expected. The thing is, he should of expected it because he killed his one and only love. He would continue to move forward. He needed to rescue Team Hebi before they were executed if that became their sentence. Sasuke found himself not wanting to go back to Konoha though. It would only bring up bad memories. Memories of his former love. Sasuke steeled his resolve and set forth on his journey.


The next day...

"Naruto-kun!" Naruto turned around to see Sakura standing looking at the ground with a flushed face, and a foot twirling on the ground below.

"Hey Sakura-chan. What's up?" Naruto was quite confused by Sakura's current behavior.

"I heard that if this story gets plenty of reviews for this chapter we will be having mindless sex all over the place. So I was wondering if we," Sakura was completely flushed and started to stutter. "could rehearse."

Unfortunately since Sakura was pay more attention to the ground she never noticed that Naruto had passed out from blood loss at the mention of 'mindless sex'.


AN: Lolz. That was fun. I think I scared some of the readers away with the NaruSasu.

Next Chapter: Sasuke's Retrieval of Team Hebi

Review Box

slack-jawed cheese hugger - Meh I don't really do Yaoi, but I trying to explore new boundries here. Hope you enjoyed this chap.

Gnosismaster - Thanks for the encouragement.

Reogen - Well glad you enjoyed. It's weird a lot of people found the NaruSasu funny. Anyways hope you enjoy this chap.

CrystalICE1 - Meh Hinata doesn't have luck. Although she is taking the situation into her own hands.

Terrybogard0 - Yes I realized that in the first chapter there really was no setting. I did rush that chapter and it might seem like that in the whole story, but I'll work on it. ARE YOU A HOMOPHOBE OR WHAT? Uncomfortable around gays? That's mean. Just kidding. I hope you realize that the NaruSasu is going to continue although it will be one sided.

The Rapture - Lulz I like your name. Well I hope my story brought rapture into your life.

Wind797 - Don't worry this is definitely going to be NaruSaku.