Hello again. Well thanks for the reviews guys, and now here's the 4th chapter of this story!

K'sN&S-Hello there

Naruto-Hey, what's up?

K'sN&S-So, how is Sakura doing?

Naruto-(whispers) Well, just considering that she's shaking and she's clutching me really tight…

K'sN&S-Yes and…

Naruto-NOT GOOD!

K'sN&S-Okay dude, calm down, jeez

Naruto-Also considering that I'm walking in the middle of the fucking forest at night when there are damn ghosts around her.

K'sN&S-Calm down sonny we don't need that kinda talkin' round these here parts. (says country style)

Naruto-Why are you talking like that?

K'sN&S-Forget it, anyways you might want to get moving right now, never know what's out here, and poor Sakura just witnessed it, horribly.

Naruto-(looks at Sakura) Yeah, that ghost, which I named "The gurgling headless" scared the shit out of her, poor girl.

K'sN&S-So do you feel sympathy for her now?

Naruto-Well, yeah. I guess since she almost got killed by a deranged ghost, then yes, this time I do, and I will protect her.

K'sN&S-You have a good heart, she's lucky you were there for her. Maybe…you might still have feelings for her, considering what I predict you'll do in the story.

Naruto-What will I do, hmm?

K'sN&S-Do you know what you're going to do?

Naruto-Duh, of course

K'sN&S-then I know what you're going to do

Naruto-You're confusing

K'sN&S-Well anyway, lets get to the story

Naruto-okay

Disclaimer-I do not own Naruto, only Kishimaru(since I made him up, duh)

As Naruto was walking, he kept feeling the violent shaking from Sakura. She gripped tighter on his body, and he just supported her and rubbed her back as he walked along back to the site. He began to think, why would the ghost come to the site, right after it went after Sakura? Maybe it thought, that since Sakura had fear, and spite, then where she came from, it must have known where the site was, hoping to feed off of more fear and anger. One thing Naruto knew, like he knew other things, very well was that a ghost could sense and track down where fear and spite are most present, and that's how it found the site. It found the site from Naruto's spite of Sakura, and was hoping to feed on more. Naruto sighed and hugged Sakura more as he traveled through the dense fog, and mist in the forest. The moon was full, and Naruto was in one of the worst places he could ever be in. Somewhere cold, dark, eerie, and confusing. Another ghost could easily find him, but as long as he didn't show spite and fear, he would be fine. But Sakura was fearing another attack, and he knew that she had been hit hard.

"Sakura, it's okay. We're almost there, just sit tight and hold on." Naruto comforted. Sakura just nodded and hugged even tighter. He was really worried about her, more worried than what he had ever been in his entire life. After about 30 minutes of traveling through the dense forest he found the site and saw the fire, dimly shining in the distance, not to far from his location. He smiled and looked at Sakura and kept moving. He came through the bushes and, it was his sight. He saw Kishimaru, Big-Z, Konohoa and baby Tyke.

"Big brother!" Kishimaru shouted. He noticed Sakura and gasped and rose from his seat on the roll and ran over to Naruto. "What happened to her?!" Kishimaru shouted. Naruto sighed and looked at his baby brother, who was clearly worried.

"You know that ghost that we came across about an hour ago?" He asked. Kishimaru nodded and Naruto rubbed Sakura's back. "Well…it was that same ghost that attacked Sakura, it tried to strangle her." Naruto finished. Kishimaru looked at her and then at Naruto, who was looking at her shivering frame.

"So, what are you going to do with her big brother?" Kishimaru asked. Naruto sighed and cleared his throat.

"Well…seeing as though she's like this, and she's probably to scared to even sleep by herself for a while…" Naruto said. Kishimaru nodded and Naruto took a deep breath and let it out. "I'm going to have to sleep with her until she's better." Naruto finished. Kishimaru looked at him and Naruto had a face full or worry, seriousness, and deep concern. The small boy nodded and Naruto gave a small smile.

"Okay big brother, I understand." Kishimaru said smiling. Naruto grinned back at him and looked at Sakura, and his grin faded quickly.

"Sakura," Naruto said. Sakura looked up at him and he saw total fear in her eyes, and the green lust of them was faded a bit. He stared into her dark, lonely, pale emeralds. "Don't worry, nothing, and I mean nothing…is going to hurt you, okay?" Naruto explained. Sakura nodded and Naruto set her down to her feet, but she didn't let go. Naruto stroked her hair and looked around. There was nothing her could sense anywhere nearby, and sighed in relief. "Okay everybody, lets hit the sack." Naruto said. Kishimaru nodded and Big-Z snuggled next to his mate and baby. Naruto looked at Sakura and she was looking up at him. "C'mon Sakura, lets go to bed." Naruto said smiling. Sakura looked down and Naruto got confused.

"T-That's okay Naruto, I can sleep by m-m-myself tonight." Sakura said and walked over on the other-side of the fire. Naruto stared at her in awe as she sat down near the flames and lied on the ground, using her hands and clamping them together for use as her pillow. Naruto sighed and sat down on his roll and watched her as she shivered. She wasn't shivering in coldness, she was shivering in fear that something might come and get her. That, Naruto knew, was what a ghost wanted. It would scare the living shit out of you, and as you feared it, the thing came right back and will keep feeding off of you until it's full, and then it decides to kill you. Or another way would be that it was sealed by a person who had possession of the Rokugan.

"Okay, Sakura, good-night." Naruto said and laid his head down on the pillow and pulled the covers over him. Sakura just closed her eyes and soon, fell asleep, still shivering from the after affects. Naruto, though was still awake and sat up and looked at her. She was still suffering, and probably was going into a nightmare. Naruto wouldn't let her sleep by herself in this state, and slowly got up without making a noise, and crept over to her shivering frame. He bent down and picked her up bridal style and walked back over to his roll. He then laid her body down and got in with her and pulled the covers over them both. He never had slept with a girl before, and he felt like it was nice. He lifted his arm up and then wrapped it around her and pulled her close to him. She stopped shivering and gave a small sigh as she fell asleep peacefully. Naruto started to stroke her hair and she snuggled into his chest, feeling the warmth that engulfed his body. He smiled at her and then close his eyes and then fell asleep.

Hours later

Naruto woke up to some struggling and opened his eyes. It was still dark out and the fire had been extinguished. He looked at what was struggling and saw her. Sakura twisted and turned in her sleep as she fell through her nightmare.

"Sakura, wake up!" Naruto shouted, but not loud enough to wake Kishimaru. Sakura kept twisting and turning, as memories of her encounter with "The gurgling headless" flooded back into her mind like fresh water.

Sakura's Dream

Sakura was running through the eerie woods as she was being chased by a deranged ghost that had no head, and two broken legs that just screamed "uncomfortable" she could hear the gurgling as the ghost floated after her. The gurgling got louder as she ran faster, panting like a dog out of water, sweating in the baking sun. She ran around a corner and it had been where she had originally saw the ghost. She recognized the battered trees that she had…She couldn't finish her thoughts as she felt something cold and clammy against her body. She flinched and stood in fear as she turned her head slowly. When she turned her head she saw the horror. The ghost was right behind her and she backed away from it, but the freak-in-a-sheet floated right towards her and she fell on the ground. She tried to back up more but she had been stopped as a fallen tree was obscuring her path to safety.

"N-No! Stay back!" Sakura shouted. The ghost didn't listen and only made gurgling sounds as it got closer to Sakura. "I said STAY BACK!" She shouted loudly. The ghost did nothing and spread out its palms in a strangling fashion. Sakura's heart as beating, and her face pale as the moon with fear. The ghost lunged toward her and she let out a piercing scream as the ghost wrapped its hands around her neck, strangling her. "NARUTO! NARUTO HELP ME! NARUTOOOOOO!" she shouted at the top of her lungs. The ghost just gurgled more as it squeezed tighter around her neck. The ghost then stopped and turned around and went back the other way, towards the site where Naruto and Kishimaru were. Sakura lay on the ground, petrified with fear as the ghost just floated away. She didn't lose sight of the gray apparition as it floated towards the safety of the site. "Naruto." She whispered, and just laid there.

Dream ends

Naruto shook Sakura violently and she opened her eyes and sat up and gave a piercing scream. Naruto looked at Kishimaru, and saw that the scream just didn't seem to bother him. For all Naruto knew, the kid was a log. Naruto looked at Sakura as she stood up, panting like no tomorrow. She looked at Naruto with a pale face, and distilled eyes.

"Sakura, it okay I'm here for you." Naruto said. Sakura just hugged him tightly as she shook. Naruto wrapped his own arms around her, and knew that the memory of the attack, always, has its aftermath.

"N-Naruto, I'm scared." She squeaked and stuttered. Naruto just rubbed her back and sighed.

"It's okay Sakura, nothing's going to hurt you, I'll make sure." Naruto explained. Sakura's eyes widened and looked at him. He looked at her, worry filled his eyes to the brim of leaking.

"N-N-Naruto, I-I-I thought you hated me." Sakura shook. Naruto gave a small gasp and remembered what he had said. "Why are you doing this?" Sakura asked as she looked at him. Naruto gulped and looked at her.

"Because…I'm wo…because I'm wo..wo…worried about you." Naruto stuttered. Sakura just looked at him and he gave a small grin, as he tried to maintain it. Sakura just looked at him and latched onto him. "S-Sakura! What are you doing!" Naruto shouted. But looked back, and Kishimaru still wasn't awake. "Damn that kid can sleep." Naruto whispered. He then looked at Sakura, who was wrapping him in a hug. "Sakura?" Naruto whispered.

"Naruto, I'm…I'm..I'm" Sakura stuttered. Naruto looked at her and she let all of herself out to him. "Naruto I'm sorry! I'm so sorry Naruto for being a ragged bitch to you! I'm so, so, so sorry! Please forgive me Naruto, please!" Sakura pleaded for him. Naruto just looked at her as she cried into his shirt. "Naruto (sob), I'm so sorry (gasp) I'm so sorry for doing all those things to you (gasp) please! Please forgive me Naruto (sob) I'm so sorry!" Sakura repeated. Naruto just sat there, frozen solid as his eyes looked into oblivion. She had said she was sorry, sorry for all those times she was a bitch to him, sorry for all those times she was mean, and sorry for all those times she had hit him purposely. Naruto just looked at her as she wept tears into his school shirt. He snapped out of his daze and looked at her as she cried. Naruto sighed and looked at her. He had never been so cared by her before, only when they were 15 she had felt this way. Naruto thought deeply and closed his eyes. Sakura looked up at him and saw him with his eyes closed. "Naruto?" Sakura asked. He opened his eyes and gave her a sweet smile, and he got confused.

"So, you say you're sorry, do ya?" Naruto asked. Sakura gripped his shirt tightly and nodded.

"Yes, please this is all I want from you!" Sakura shouted. Naruto just stood there, smiling at her.

"Well…I don't know." He teased. But the look on Sakura's face made him stop teasing her, and just look at her. "Do you promise not to hit me, pick on me, or do anything to me and squirt?" Naruto asked. Sakura nodded slowly and Naruto looked at her with one eyes open and eyed her. "You promise?" Naruto asked. Sakura nodded. "Really?" Naruto asked again.

"Really." Sakura answered back.

"Really, really?" Naruto asked again.

"Really, really." Sakura answered.

"Really, really, really, really?" Naruto asked.

"Yes, I do just please tell me!" Sakura pleaded. Naruto smiled and bent down to her. She just looked at him, and he gave a sweet smile.

"Well, I'll think about it…if, you do me one thing." Naruto said. Sakura's eyes widened and she got up nose-to-nose with him.

"I'll do anything!" Sakura yelled, gripping his white shirt.

"Anything, eh?" Naruto asked. Sakura nodded and Naruto smiled. "Anything "I" want to do?" Naruto asked. Sakura only nodded more and Naruto chuckled and grinned.

"Yes, anything." Sakura answered back. Naruto thought.

"Hmm, well I was thinking…" Naruto skipped.

"Yes!" Sakura exclaimed.

"That maybe we…" Naruto skipped again.

"Yes!" Sakura shouted again.

"Could be…"Naruto skipped again.

"Naruto please tell me!" Sakura pleaded. Naruto grinned.

"I was thinking that we could be…" Naruto stopped. Sakura was silent. "I was thinking we could be boyfriend and girlfriend!" Naruto shouted happily. Sakura froze and Naruto gave her a huge grin.

"N-N-Naruto," Sakura said with awe. Naruto just had a happy grin on his face. "Naruto, you know I'm in love with Sasuke, I can't do that." Sakura answered. Naruto's eyes shot open and he gritted his teeth.

"It's always about Sasuke, isn't it?" Naruto asked. Sakura looked at him as he gritted his teeth even more. "It's always about Sasuke isn't it!" Naruto shouted. Sakura gasped and Naruto exploded! "Why can't I ever be loved! Why can't I ever have a friend who doesn't hate me secretly! Why can't I ever have a girlfriend! WHY!" Naruto shouted. Sakura looked at him and he looked at her as small tears rolled down his eyes. He covered his face with his right palm. She didn't have an answer to his questions. She was about to talk when Naruto interrupted her. "It always has to be about Sasuke, the knight in shining armor. Come to slay the damned demon and rescue his beloved princess from death. All the demon wanted…was to be loved, and wanted by somebody, but she hated him, and only wanted her prince." Naruto said. Sakura looked at him. "After the prince arrived at the castle, the demon confronted him and they both fought to the death, only to have the demon slain, and the princess rescued, by the one she truly loved. They both then came back to the village with the demons head, stacked on a pole." Naruto finished. Sakura's heart felt pangs as Naruto finished his story.

"Naruto…I never thought of it that way before." Sakura said. Naruto just looked at her, with spite.

"Never, thought about it…that way?" Naruto asked, a little pissed. Sakura gulped as she heard Naruto sudden change of tone.

"Naruto I-" Sakura couldn't finish because Naruto's voice thundered over hers.

"Never thought about it that way!?" Naruto thundered. Sakura flinched as Naruto gritted his teeth and looked at her with anger. He then looked back behind him, and saw Kishimaru sleeping. The boy could sleep through an attack on the village. "Sakura! This is how I've been living my whole fucking life! And all you can say is that you've never thought about it that way!" Naruto roared. Sakura looked at him in terror. Naruto had never yelled like this before in his entire life, not at her before anyway.

"Naruto, I'm…sor-" Sakura was cut off.

"Sorry doesn't count this time!" Naruto shouted. Sakura looked at him and saw the hurt in his eyes from saying all those things to her, and about himself. Sakura's empathy could see it, she saw him, his emotions, his view on the village, she saw everything he had. "Sakura!" Naruto's voice quivered and cracked. Sakura looked at him as tears were tossed from his eyes. "If only you knew, how I felt about you…from the beginning!" Naruto cracked. She knew she had done it this time. She had, once again, cracked the outer shell that was rejuvenating from her last verbal lashing, and bruising.

"Naruto," Sakura squeaked.

"Sakura! Don't you get it! I..LOVED YOU! I LOVED YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE WHOLE…FUCKING WORLD! I LOVED YOU!" Naruto thundered. Sakura's eyes widened like dinner plates. She knew Naruto had a crush on her in the beginning when they first met, but LOVED her. That, was something new that Naruto had introduced her to, something shocking that her heart felt weighed.

"Naruto, I never knew you loved me." Sakura answered back in her small, innocent voice. Naruto looked at her and gave her a scowl.

"Well then, I'm pretty sure that whatever part of you that was left in my heart," Naruto started. Sakura looked at him. "Is long gone now! I feel nothing for you! Nothing for you like never before in my whole, life!" Naruto yelled. Sakura felt tears welling in her eyes. "You can forget about your damn forgiveness! Because it's gone!" Naruto shouted and waved his hand horizontally in front of him.

"B-But-" Sakura was cut off.

"B-But." Naruto said in her voice as best as her could while folding his hands together and putting them near his face. Sakura felt like garbage now. She felt like the lowest of the low right now at the moment. Their friendship, or any other thing Naruto had with her, was dead over. "Please, just save your breath and got to bed. You're fine now." Naruto said. Sakura looked down and nodded and got out of the roll. She felt Naruto's warmth leaving her as she walked over to the other side of the fire, and laid on the ground. "Good-night, Sakura." Naruto hissed and put his head, forcefully, down on the pillow.

"Naru-" Sakura couldn't finish.

"I said good-night!" Naruto barked. Sakura just sniffed and put her head down on the hard ground and closed her eyes. She shivered a bit and curled into a ball to warm herself. Naruto just laid there, small tears free-falling from his eyes. He couldn't believe what he had just said, but she deserved it, for being so unforgiving, and selfish. They both fell asleep, but little did they know, that someone had heard them. Kishimaru lie there with small tears coming from his eyes. He woke up the first thing when Sakura was going into her nightmare. But now, he couldn't believe how mean his older brother was to the one he, originally, loved. Kishimaru knew that his brother could never forgive Sakura now, and now Kishimaru knew that something, was to be done about it. He would have to help Sakura get Naruto to forgive her, and quick. They were approaching the border line of the fire country, even on their second day. It wouldn't take a week, it would take only two more days. Kishimaru then fell asleep, now knowing that he would give a stern talking to Sakura in the morning about her mistakes, and about why Naruto loved her.

Hours later

Kishimaru awoke to the sun, beating down on his face. The warmth felt good and he sat up and rubbed his eyes. He looked around and saw Naruto, cooking ramen for them both. Naruto looked over and saw his baby brother awake.

"Hey, good-morning squirt, are ya hungry?!" Naruto said smiling. Kishimaru knew it was a fake smile. His brother was trying to deceive him by throwing him a fake smile, and trying to forget what happened last night.

"Good-morning big brother, and sure. I could go for something to eat." Kishimaru answered. Naruto smiled and nodded and went back to cooking their favorite meal. Kishimaru then looked over at Sakura, who was no-where to be found. "Hey big brother?" Kishimaru asked. Naruto looked at him.

"What's up?" Naruto asked, grinning.

"Where did Sakura go?" Kishimaru asked. Naruto flinched at the mention of Sakura's name and just scoffed.

"I don't know, and I don't care either." Naruto hissed. Kishimaru groaned and was then handed a bowl of chicken ramen. They both ate and Kishimaru got up.

"I'll go wash these, okay?" Kishimaru said. Naruto was about to protest, but Kishimaru had already gone. Naruto just shrugged and looked at Konohoa and Big-Z, who were walking around, sniffing the ground and looking for something.

"Hey you two, what'cha lookin for?" Naruto asked as he got up. Konohoa whimpered and Big-Z looked at the bed. Naruto looked and gasped. Tyke was gone from his bedding.

I'll stop there because it seems like the best place to stop. Well you all know the drill. R&R! HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!