So people... this is it. The last chapter. I'm positive that there will be a epiloque though! So don't be sad!

I hope you will enjoy this last chapter!

Disclaimer: after all this time... it's still not mine.

Dedication: this dediction goes to: oxsasusaku4evaxo, thanks for the enthusiastic review! And for being such a devoted reader!

Recap:

Stage 3: make Sakura clear that she can live with him.

Chapter 14: When Sasuke gets Sakura

"Uchiha, you're here for a reason, as you might have thought already," Tsunade started. The boy glared at her, obvious irritated. What she said could also mean that there was a small change he hadn't. He was not stupid.

In irritation, he nodded and made a gesture to make the Hokage clear that she could continue.

The blonde woman coughed, and moved on. "Shizune reported to me that the mission was a success. That leaves us only one thing. Namely, your proposal to Sakura." She waited a second to let the words sink in. As he slowly nodded again, she continued. "The time is right now Sasuke. You know what to do."

The Uchiha looked at her, quite surprised that the time was right. He had lived towards it, but it was so… sudden. Was he afraid? No, of course not. He was ready to commit himself.

"You're dismissed."

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Sasuke wandered around Konoha, looking for the right place to propose to Sakura. She was a special girl and after all they had been going through, she deserved a great proposal. He wasn't really a guy for romance, unlike Lee. Maybe he could talk to him?

No! Was his immediately formed answer. Never ever will I talk to that guy about Sakura. He could scrap Naruto as well. He didn't have much choice, he had to do this himself. Only he could accomplish this extremely hard mission. He would just consider it a S-rank mission. Yes, that was exactly what he was going to do. No problem at all, right?

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Meanwhile, Sakura was thinking about the past strange days. Strange was a little bit of an understatement. It was weird. It looked like everything was centered around Sasuke and herself. Like they wanted to pair them up. Not just for they're own sake's, but it seemed like the whole village of Konoha was interested in their fresh relationship. She just couldn't figure out what was going on.

As she was walking through the streets of Konoha, she saw a lot of people looking at her, smiling and waving at her. Of course, she was a very good nurse and she had saved many lives. People were grateful to have her as the head nurse. It was nothing new that they greeted her, but now they were extremely friendly. It was almost suspicious. She didn't know how to react.

It was not like she could ask anyone about it. They were all in it. She even thought of Sasuke as a suspect. He was acting very un-Sasuke-ish. He was happier than ever, which was pretty strange already, and he didn't seem to mind that she was going out with on of her friends almost everyday. It was almost like he was encouraging it. He never encouraged anything. Perhaps back when she was still a fangirl. The only thing that he had encouraged back then, was that she and all the other fangirls would give up on him. Not that it had worked or whatsoever, though.

She was dying to know what was happening. I mean, how can something so big, that everyone is involved, pass me without me noticing it? Sasuke-kun is definitely in this too. I will ask him to tell me about it. No, even better, I will demand him. Like he would listen to me if I asked something of him.

Sakura groaned out loud. This was so damn frustrating. She wanted to know what was going on. And suddenly it stoke her: I will ask Naruto. She thought with a devilish smile. He was always so easy to intimidate.

Thus, she made her way to Naruto's favorite restaurant. Ichiraku Ramen, here she comes!

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Naruto saw Sakura approaching. He also saw that she had some sort of evil grin on her face, so it couldn't mean that this was going to be a fun encounter. He silently gulped and thought about what she was up to.

"Naruto!" Sakura exclaimed happily as she saw one of her best friends sitting at the bar. Bingo, she thought.

"Sa-Sakura-chan!" Naruto replied, quite nervous. He really didn't like that expression on her face.

"So, have you been up to something lately?" she asked, while her eyes were dangerously sparkling.

Naruto gulped again. So that is what it is all about. I can't tell her anything or Sasuke-teme will kill me, rip me apart and fry every single piece. He didn't know what he found more frightening: the look on Sakura's face, or Sasuke's punishment.

"Not really," he replied carefully.

"Not really, or not at all?" she asked in a sweet tone.

"Not at all," he answered, trying to sound confident, which failed miserably. Dammit, he cursed.

"Spill it, Naruto," she said, suddenly not so friendly anymore. Her sweet voice was gone and she sounded more dangerously as ever.

"Listen Sakura-chan. There is nothing you should worry about. Nothing is happening." He had decided that a pissed Sasuke was more frightening.

"I know something is happening! Spill it already!"

But luckily for Naruto, Hinata decided to show up on that very moment.

"Naruto-kun, are you ready to go out and celebrate our anniversary?" she smiled sweetly, without any stuttering.

They both looked stunned at her. "You didn't stutter at all, Hinata!" Sakura said proudly.

Hinata happily nodded. "I'm working on i-it," she smiled.

Sakura glared at Naruto. "You're lucky this time. I don't want to disturb your anniversary."

As she stood up and turned around to leave, Naruto almost fell down his chair in relief. "That was so close. Thanks Hinata-chan!"

Hinata frowned, something very unlike her. "But Naruto, did you forgot?"

"Forget what?" The blonde, dense ninja asked, scratching the back of his head.

"It is our anniversary," Hinata answered slowly.

Suddenly, Naruto had the urge to run after Sakura and tell her everything, willing to accept both the punishments of Sasuke and Sakura. This was not a very good situation to get stuck in…

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Sakura felt more frustrated than ever. She had been so close to the answer and still hadn't one. She couldn't think of any more options and that made her pissed.

Why did everyone have to behave so strange?

She even couldn't ask Ino. Her best friend was probably occupied with the planning of her wedding. That meant that Shikamaru was also not available for talking. Hinata was spending her time with Naruto. How about Tenten and Neji? No they were probably on another mission. They had made it a competition to accomplish as many A-ranked missions as possible. They were more alike their sensei than they would ever notice.

She really felt the urge to scream by now.

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Sasuke was following Sakura and had noticed that she had talked to Naruto. He had looked quite upset, so Sasuke knew what was going on. He had to make up his mind quickly. Yet, he really couldn't think of an appropriate place to ask her to be his wife.

How would've dad asked mum to marry him? And especially where? He wondered. Than it stroke him. After all, there was only one place that would live up to her expectations. He didn't know why he hadn't thought about it before.

He jumped from roof to roof to prepare everything. Not that it was a hard thing to do. He had to make everything ready and than prevent Sakura from going home before the night fell.

He quickly made his way to his home and made sure that Sakura wasn't going the same way. He had to ask someone to occupy her for a while.

Ino and the lazy ass are probably too busy. Naruto and Hinata had problems themselves, he thought while he grinned as he remembered the dobe's face. I have to ask Tsunade. After all, she wants to see Sakura and me married. Yes, it has to be her. It's not like she would be busy anyway. Only using her hand, to drink the stupid sake.

He speeded up to reach his destination earlier. The earlier, the better.

Once arrived, he knocked on the office door. "Come in," a female voice called out.

"Ah, it's you again, Uchiha," the Hokage smartly remarked. She was slightly surprised to see him in front of his desk again.

"I need your help," Sasuke simply said.

Shizune looked a little shocked. "That is not how you talk to Tsunade-sama!" she said, but Tsunade waved it all away.

"Where's the fire?" she asked.

Sasuke started to explain his plan of proposing to Sakura at a very particular place. The Hokage happily nodded, approving of his idea.

"So, basically I need you to keep Sakura busy," he said bluntly.

Tsunade smiled inwardly. Sakura surely has some good influence on him. He's becoming a much nicer person.

"Sure, it will be taken care of. Shizune, make sure that someone orders Sakura to come here immediately. Tell her it's about the last stage of the rebirth jutsu."

"Hai, Tsunade-sama!" Shizune replied, she walked off with Tonton in her hands.

"So, that's some nice idea you have there, Uchiha," the blonde woman said contently. "Go take care of your preparations."

"Hn," he replied. He quickly made his way out of the tower and jump on the nearest roof. He rushed back home and made sure to prepare everything.

In Sasuke's backyard, there was a very pretty Sakura tree planted. It was there since he could remember. The blossoms were spread around the tree for they had already fallen down. Sasuke's plan, was to propose to Sakura, under that tree, surrounded by their blossoms. They would fit perfectly with Sakura's hair and she would even look more stunning. He was planning on putting tealights all around the place, making sure their surroundings would have a nice glow. He would take her to the place when the twilight would turn into the night. It had to be perfect. He never thought he actually could be romantic. He was proud of himself.

He suddenly stopped on a roof close to the supermarket, remembering that he didn't have that many tealights. He jumped down and entered the supermarket.

Now, where do they keep those fricking lights? They have to be somewhere, he thought, walking around the store. They had many kinds of candles, but he couldn't find any tealights. Damn, I have to ask someone where they are. I don't like needing the help of anyone. He was really annoyed.

"Hey you. Show me where the tealights are," he ordered a girl that obviously worked here. She looked at him in curiosity. She must be wondering about why the Uchiha Sasuke wanted tealights.

"Right here," she showed him. A lot of tealights were wrapped in a plastic bag.

"Hn," he replied, not bothering to thank her.

He bought some bags of the annoying lights and made his way home.

Once arrived, he pulled the bags open, spread the lights on the floor and started to bring them in the right position.

Suddenly he thought of something very important. Something he had forgotten. Oh damn… a ring!

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Sakura was happy. Well, that is an understatement. She was dancing around, screaming: "I did it! I did it!"

Tsunade smiled at her apprentice. She was very proud of Sakura. She had managed to achieve everything that she had taught her. Actually, there was nothing more that she could teach her.

Sakura was now looking in the mirror at the new formed blue spot on her head. It had the same form as Tsunade's. She was so excited.

Tsunade looked out of her window and saw that it was almost night now. It was starting to get dark outside.

"Sakura, I think you can go home now," she smiled. This was going to be a very nice day. At least Sakura wasn't thinking about the 'conspiracy' anymore. She had tried to get the information out of Tsunade, which hadn't worked of course. After all, she was the Hokage.

"Sasuke-kun will be so proud!" she happily exclaimed. "Bye, Tsunade-shishou!"

"Bye, Sakura."

I hope they will be happy, she thought before she reached out for the bottle of sake. She couldn't call it a night yet. There was way too muchwork that had to be done.

Sakura jumped outside in her happiness. She wanted to tell everybody about this. But first Sasuke.

I hope Sasuke-kun will be proud of me! I really want to make him proud. She thought.

She slowly walked her way home, thinking of what she would tell him. It had been a long process. She was a little exhausted, because of all the chakra she had to use.

As she arrived at Sasuke's mansion, she looked around and saw that it was dark inside.

Isn't he home yet? She thought curiously.

She entered the home. It was pitch black inside the house. She tried to turn on the light switch, but it somehow didn't work.

Suddenly she saw light coming from the backyard. It was faint, but it was definitely there. She prepared herself to fight. Slowly she walked towards the door that lead to the backyard. It wasn't completely closed. She pulled the door open and entered the backyard.

The light was stronger here and now she could see that it were tealights. Pink tealights were laying on the ground. Someone had lit them. She followed them curiously. They lead her around the house and then she saw the most wonderful thing she had ever seen.

The Sakura tree was standing in the middle of a heart. The heart was formed by many tealights and she could smell the nice aroma that was coming from them. The fallen Sakurablossoms were laying on the ground, spread across the heart. Leaning against the tree, to complete the perfect view, was the love of her life.

Sasuke was actually standing there in the middle of the heart.

Did he prepared this? Why did he do this? Sakura thought confused.

She slowly walked towards him and waited for what was coming. He didn't speak.

"Sasuke-kun, what is this all about?" she asked confused.

Sasuke just smirked and did something she wouldn't have thought he would ever do in his entire life. He kneeled before her. Uchiha Sasuke was kneeling before her. Sakura flushed.

"Sakura," he mumbled quietly. "I love you so… much. Please marry me."

Sakura was shocked. First the lights, then Sasuke waiting for her, kneeling in front of her and he told her he loved her! And then he actually asked her to marry him. He never asks anything.

"Sa-Sasuke-kun," Sakura muttered, slightly shocked.

"Please Sakura, I love you so much," he asked her again. He was gazing at her and waiting for her answer. He was praying that she would say yes. He, Uchiha Sasuke, was frightened. What if she would turn him down?

"Yes… Yes!" Sakura exclaimed a little breathless. "I love you so much Sasuke-kun!" she added.

He rose to his feet and pulled a small box out of his pocket. He opened it and it showed a fabulous and shining ring. He pulled it out and shove it on to her finger. "Here," he muttered shyly.

Sakura looked at him, her eyes filled with love for him. Sasuke lowered his head and captured her lips in a kiss.

"I love you, Sakura. Soon you will be my Uchiha Sakura," he told her.

"I love you too, Sasuke-kun," she simply answered before she kissed him again.

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The next day they were standing in the Hokage's office. Sakura and Sasuke had talked with her about the preparations of the wedding and Tsunade, happy as a mother, had offered to call everyone to make sure they would be in the office too.

All the former rookie nine, their sensei's, Gai's team, Sakura's parents, other important people and even their friends from Suna were there.

Sakura and Sasuke were standing in front of them, holding hands. They waited until everyone had calmed down. Than Sakura announced: "Sasuke and I are getting married." They had already decided that Sakura would bring the news, since Sasuke wasn't much of a talker.

Everyone started to talk again and everyone wanted to be the first to congratulate the engaged couple. Everybody was so happy for them. They were finally together.

Ino came to speak to Sakura: "Oh Sakura! I knew you would someday marry Sasuke!" She happily shouted. "I told you there would be another wedding!" She hugged her best friend and they led out some tears. Shikamaru was standing behind them and muttering: "Troublesome." Yet, he had a smile on his face.

Naruto came over to see Sasuke and hugged him into a big bear hug, which made Sasuke feel a little uncomfortable. "You did it, teme! You finally popped the question!" he shouted.

"Hn," replied Sasuke, a little embarrassed by Naruto's affection.

Hinata was standing behind her Naruto and smiled at his never ending enthusiasm.

"Time for reproduction, Sasuke, isn't it?" their former, yet still perverted sensei smiled.

"Shut up," Sasuke replied.

"A little more respect for your former sensei," Kakashi joked. "Besides, if I hadn't been there to guide you, you wouldn't be standing here now, making this announcement." He was very happy again. A very almighty person had given him his book back.

"I didn't do the announcement, remember?" Sasuke said annoyed. How I hate formal things, he sighed. He glanced at Sakura, who was sparkling of happiness. But I'm glad she is happy. He thought.

Lee was quiet during the whole time. As Gai tried to cheer him up with his usual springtime of youth talk, he just said: "Yeah yeah, whatever."

He really wasn't happy that his innocent flower of youth was taken by the stupid Uchiha of depression. He vowed to himself that he would find a new flower of youth within a week, otherwise he would run three thousand laps around Konoha and he really didn't felt like doing such hard work at this moment of his depression.

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As everybody had finally left, and they had said goodbye to Tsunade and Shizune, they went home together. They went to bed together and Sakura said: "I love you Sasuke-kun. I always will."

"I know. I love you too. I'm sure I will always love you. I will kill anyone who'll ever touch you."

Sakura smiled at her soon-to-be-husband. "Thank you Sasuke-kun."

"We will have many children," Sasuke smirked and Sakura giggled.

Sasuke rolled himself on top of her. "Why not start now?" he whispered seductively.

"Sasuke-kun," Sakura gasped as he pulled her clothes of. He just smirked and whispered: "I love you Sakura."

SOOO... what did you think?! Was it good? Let me know! Review please!

Kakashi: Aaah! Thanks for giving me my book back.

Me: Sure, nobody wants to see a weak Kakashi, slowly dying on the inside because of his book.

Kakshi: You were really mean...

Me: Yeah, but it was fun. Don't whine. You have your book back and you're almost offically dismissed from this story.

Kakashi: Almost? But the story is over?

Me: You will appear at Ino's wedding.

Kakashi: But no more torturing, right?

Me: I will think about it...

Kakashi: Noes!