Star-Chan: Last chapter! Enjoy!

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Chapter 14: Will There Be A Happily Ever After?

Two weeks has passed since they Karin's butt. Now she was avoiding Sasuke and Sakura, and the rest of the gang for her own safety. Karin didn't bother Sasuke anymore. Well, every time she even tried Sakura would glare at her and crack her knuckles and Karin would run away quickly.

Today is Sakura's sweet sixteen and Ino, Tenten and Hinata were at Sakura's house decorating the house, setting up the decorations and finishing the finally touches on there make-up and dresses.

"Ino, I said I didn't want a party, and you went and planned it anyways…" Sakura said stepping out from her room wearing a long strapless ankle length kind of puffy light pink dress with sparkles sparkling everywhere with a pair of strap white heels. Her hair was half tied up in a bun and the rest fell in curls framing her beautiful face. Her eyes were shining from the happy emerald eyes with an addition of glittering eye shadow, and her lips glowing pink, Sakura looked, well like a princesses!

"Well, it's only once a lifetime you turn sixteen Sakura." Ino said fixing her light purple skirt. "Besides it's only a few people, not a whole bunch so chill!"

The door bell rang.

"I'll get it!" Tenten yelled and ran down the stairs and opened the door to see Naruto, Shikamaru and Neji. Naruto of course wore his orange collar shirt, Shikamaru wore his dark green suit-shirt, and for Neji, just a plain casual shirt.

"Hey guys, where's Sasuke?" Tenten said opening the door wider to let the guys in.

"He, he said he's going to be a little late…"Naruto said scratching his head nervously.

"A little late, how about if he misses that special dance that Sakura is suppose to share with her lover! How can he possibly be late!" Tenten yelled at Naruto who covered his ears.

"I don't know, he didn't tell us much, just said to tell Sakura he's going to be a little late." Neji started to say taking Tenten's hand. "Well, they haven't really been going out these couple weeks, they talk but it's not the same I guess."

"They are so troublesome, they clearly still love each other, but neither would admit it." Shikamaru said rolling his eyes.

"I guess so; I'll go get Ino and them upstairs." Tenten said leaving the guys and ran upstairs again.

"Hey, there here, let's go get this party started!" Tenten announced to the bunch of girls upstairs and ran back downstairs followed by Sakura, Ino and Hinata. Ino sat down next to Shikamaru, while Hinata and Tenten sat next to Naruto and Neji. Sakura looked around for a certain raven haired boy, but he was no where to be seen, so she sat down alone. Soon the doorbell rang again. Sakura ran to the door and opened it with high hopes, but her hopes came crashing down when it wasn't who she thought it would be. The doorbell rang throughout the next hour. But none was who Sakura wanted it to be. Sakura was standing by the snack table alone while everyone else was socializing and dancing. She heard the doorbell ring and she averted her eyes to the door. She had high hopes this time; it was going to be him. She had this feeling. She rushed past the crowd to the door and opened it with a wide smile on her face. Her smile half fell when she saw who it was.

"Happy Birthday Sakura," Sai said handing her a neatly wrapped pink present. Sakura opened the door to invite her friend in.

"Hey Sai, thanks for coming." Sakura said forcing the smile to stay on her face. She took her present and put it aside with all the other ones.

"Why the sad face Sakura, something wrong?" Sai asked at the crescent-fallen Sakura.

"No, nothing is wrong; I was just…expecting someone else is all." Sakura tried hard to laugh, but she couldn't. Sai always did know when she was not the happiest she can be.

"Ah, let me take a wild guess and say Sasuke isn't here is he?" Sai said to Sakura who glanced away to the floor then back up to Sai's dark eyes and nodded.

"Don't worry; I'm sure he's just running late." Sai reassured Sakura who smiled to thank him. Sai wondered off to his friends, as Sakura continued to wait for her prince to come.

Another half an hour passed by and still no sign of the boy. She started to get frustrated so she went to Naruto and asked him just where the hell he was.

"Naruto, where is Sasuke." Sakura asked straight out, eyeing the orange wearing boy suspiciously.

"He, uh, is already here?" Naruto said nervously and laughed as he scratched the back of his neck.

"Stop lying to me Naruto, if he was already here I would have seen him a by now. Now where is he!" Sakura said yelling at the poor innocent boy.

"Uh…he's in the bathroom?" Naruto said again laughing nervously at the angry Sakura who glared at Naruto.

"Naruto…don't make me hurt you. Answer me, where is Sasuke." Sakura said restraining herself from hitting Naruto.

"Okay fine," Naruto said throwing his hands up surrendering. "He's late."

"You're telling me he's one and a half hour late?" Sakura said crossing her arms.

"Uh, I don't know why he's late or where he is, he just said he was going to be late." Naruto said to Sakura who let go of her anger.

"I'm sorry I scared you Naruto, but really where is he?" Sakura asked again trying to be more gentle and see if Naruto would tell the truth.

"I just told you, he's late! Weren't you listening!?" Naruto yelled at the pink haired girl who covered her ears.

"Are you sure you're not lying to me?" Sakura asked Naruto who nodded.

"Maybe he decided not to come after all, he was asking me if he should come or not, and he never told me his answer." Naruto shrugged as Sakura started to sob. She turned from Naruto and ran up to her room. She heard Naruto call after her but she just kept going. The last words Naruto said echoed inside her mind. "Maybe he decided not to come"

She put her hands on the railing of her balcony and cried looking up at the orange and red colors in the sky, and watching the sun sink slowly.

"Maybe he decided not to come" Sakura kept thinking. She kept asking her self, why, why didn't he want to come, why would Sasuke, the love of her life not want to come to her sweet sixteen. Sakura thought this was the time she was going to gather enough courage to ask Sasuke if he wants to get back together, since they both still love each other but he ended up not showing up. She cried even harder. This was her sweet sixteen party and she was up in her room, alone and crying.

"Sakura, what's wrong?" Ino said coming up to Sakura's room to see what she was doing. "You're missing your own party." Ino said standing beside Sakura who has now stopped crying. Sakura tried to put a cheerful face, not wanting Ino to worry.

'I, I didn't feel very." Sakura lied she had felt perfectly well before she heard the words that tore her heart apart.

"Are you okay, you need medicine or something?" Ino asked placing a hand on Sakura's forehead to see if she had a fever.

"No Ino, you go have fun, I'm fine." Sakura said looking at Ino and gave her a fake smile; Ino nodded and walked out of the room leaving Sakura alone again. She was staring at the stars in the sky that shine so beautifully. She let the cool night breeze play with her hair, causing the curls to toss and turn losing it's curleyness. Sakura didn't care anymore. It wasn't important anymore. She was thinking of so many things, but most of them were about Sasuke. She sighed and closed her eyes. She was so dazed up that she didn't know someone had come into her room until he called out to her.

"Sakura," She turned around to see no other then the raven haired Uchiha staring at her with those calm midnight colored eyes. she was a little taken back by Sasuke and rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't dreaming, and she wasn't.

"What are you doing here?" was all Sakura could manage to say.

"I was thinking…" Sasuke started to say when Sakura suddenly started to yell at him. Sasuke backed away a little from the yelling Sakura.

"Why didn't you want to come? This is one of my most important nights! And you decided just to ditch me and leave me alone? Well I was going to apologize for everything, and stop the awkwardness between us, but no, you had to NOT come and ruin everything. I thought you were better then that Sasuke, I mean do you know how hurt I was when Naruto said you didn't want to come?!" Sakura spilled it all out, the feelings she had in her heart for so long now. She felt a whole lot better.

"What? I was going to come! I even told Naruto that, I told him to tell you I was going to be late! Not that I didn't want to come, that little dope, can't even listen correctly." Sasuke said defending himself from being accused and trying to hold down the urge to beat Naruto to a bloody pulp.

"Where were you then?"

"You really want to know where I have been these past hours." Sasuke asked Sakura who nodded. He sighed and took a deep breath. "First I went to the jewelry story to get this necklace that I ordered them to make a couple days ago. I got there to find out that they were only half done with it and they said it would take really quick to finish so I waited. One hour passed and they were still not done, so I decided to go look around to see if there was anything else you might like but found nothing as good as the present I was going to give you. So I thought screw it and went back to the jewelry store only to find that they were still not done! I rushed them because I was already late enough and finally they finished. So I rushed over her the fastest I can and find that you were not downstairs so I asked Ino where you were and she told me you were up here all sad from some unknown reason and yeah…that's why I was late." Sasuke said breathing heavily from the fast talking he just did. Sakura looked at him with an I-don't-understand face. Sasuke sighed.

"Longer story short, I was getting you're present."

"So…it's not because…you didn't want to come?" Sakura smiled lightly.

"Why would I not want to come, I wanted to tell you how I really feel about you, that I never said to you in person…" Sasuke stopped.

"So, how do you really feel about me?" Sakura said looking into Sasuke's eyes.

"I…" Sasuke hesitated for a second. "I…love you." Sasuke said looking away and blushed and so did Sakura. But she reached for his face and turned it slowly so she can see Sasuke's eyes. She smiled and kissed him on the lips. He let her as he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer. Sakura ran her hand through Sasuke's hair and wrapped her arms around his neck. They kissed for another few minutes until they had to pull away for air and hugged.

"Sasuke, I love you too." Sakura said.

"Oh, hey I forgot to give you my "the reason I was late" present." Sasuke laughed and pulled away from Sakura to dig in his pocket. He took out a pink heart shaped box tied together with a red ribbon.

"Here open it Sakura." Sasuke said handing it over to Sakura. Sakura undid the ribbon and opened the box, her emerald eyes widened at the sight of the a shiny gold ring. In the center of the ring was an Uchiha symbol surrounded by sparkling diamonds. The ring was attached to a chain, making it a necklace. So this was what Sasuke was talking about, having it specially made.

"Do you like it?" Sasuke said watching Sakura gaze on it with awe.

"No Sasuke, I LOVE it." Sakura said hugging Sasuke tightly.

"Here let me help you put it on." Sasuke said taking the necklace from Sakura and put it around Sakura's neck. After Sasuke finished he wrapped his arms around Sakura's waist and embraced her from behind.

"Sakura, this is my promise ring, I promise I would never do anything to hurt you, and will always be there for you. I would have bought a proposal ring, but I think we have plenty of time for that." Sasuke said to Sakura who blushed at the thought of marrying Sasuke.

"Even without the ring, I know you will keep your promise." Sakura said turning around to see the Uchiha and gave him a loving smile from the heart.

"The stars are so pretty tonight." Sasuke said to Sakura who leaned her body against Sasuke to take in the full embrace.

"Yeah, just like you." Sasuke said resting his head on Sakura's shoulder. Sakura giggled softly as Sasuke's long raven colored bangs tickled her face.

"Sasuke, I love you."

"I will always love you Sakura Haruno no matter how annoying you can be. " Sasuke said kissing Sakura's cheek.

"Hey what are we still doing here?" Sakura said pulling away from Sasuke's embrace and turned around to face him. He was utterly confused at what the cherry blossom was talking about. "I still have to share my special dance with someone you know!"

"You sure that someone is me?" Sasuke said playing around.

"Okay then, if you think you're not special enough then I'll just go find Sai and ask him instead since…" Sakura said smirking as Sasuke girnned and laughed nervously.

"Uh…on second thought let's go." Sasuke said.

"I thought so," Sakura said smiling. She was walking into her room when she felt someone picked her up bridal style. She gazed up at Sasuke.

"Is it okay to carry you like this now?" Sasuke said smirking. [a/n: If you don't understand refer back to Chapter 6

"It's fine with me." Sakura said and wrapped her arms around Sasuke neck.

They both headed downstairs with Sakura safe in Sasuke arms. When they reached the bottom, the spotlight was on them. Everyone stared at the happy couple in admiration. Sasuke let Sakura down.

"Hey, look here comes the princess and his prince!" Tenten called out as the music turned from an upbeat song, to a slow love song. Everyone got into the arms of there love and started dancing away.

"Sakura, may I have this dance?" Sasuke said to Sakura who took his hand.

'There's no one I rather share this special dance with in the world then you, Sasuke Uchiha." Sakura said smiling and put her arms around Sasuke's neck, while Sasuke put his arms around Sakura's body pulling her closer, never letting her go again.

-Fin-

Star-Chan: YAY the story comes to an ending. I had so much fun writing this story! It was my first long story[my others are one-shots and I'm so glad it was such a hit! It's all thanks to you all that kept this story going! Your reviews help me a lot! Okay so I made Sai a good guy in this story, because really I don't hate him that much, I just hate him for replacing Sasuke in the show. Haha sorry if I spoiled that for anyone.

THANK YOU to all the people to read and reviewed for this story! I'm so grateful to you all! You guys supported me through this whole story. I loved getting reviews!

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