Chapter Six

Sasuke winced out in pain as Karin placed ointment to his wounds.

"Really Sasuke, you are so careless." She lectured him.

"I know but it felt so good, Naruto and Lee have definitely gotten stronger and I need to hurry and catch up to them. I've been cooped up in that hospital for almost year." He sighed. Karin rubbed his head.

"I understand but what good would it do you if you beat yourself back into the hospital again, Sakura gave me a job at the hospital but it doesn't mean I wanna come home and fix you up. You, Lee and Naruto get too wild."

"I'll be more careful for now on, I promise."

"Thank you." She kissed his lips his arm around her waist as their kiss deepened.

"Yo!" They both jumped out their skin before turning towards the window. Naruto waved at them from the window before slipping inside the room.

"What do you mean yo?! How can you sound so casual after acting like a peeping tom?!" Sasuke yelled at him. Naruto chuckled.

"We have a front door Naruto." Karin snapped at him as he nodded. He rubbed the back of his head.

"I didn't know if you guys were here or not because it was quiet and you had the window open so I looked through it to see if you guys were and there you were on the couch." He laughed as Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"What do you want?"

"Kakashi-Sensei wants us to be in his office in three hours."

"Why?" He shrugged.

"I have no idea, well you two continue what you were doing. I have to tell Sakura-Chan now later." He waved and left out the window.

"Use the front door!" Sasuke and Karin yelled at him.

He made his way towards the hospital before stopping short when he saw Hinata purchasing vase.

"Hinata." She turned around before looking down.

"N-Naruto-kun." She tucked her hair behind her ear.

"Can we talk?"

"Sure." They began walking throughout the village. He placed his hands in his pockets as she trailed behind him. She felt really scared, was he going to turn her down or was he going to accept her feelings? Her heart was pounding she wanted to know what he was going to say to her. He stopped walking and looked at her making her look at him. He smiled softly before looking down.

"Hinata…I can't return your feelings, gomen." He bowed his head. She looked down trying to contain her emotions.

"You love Sakura?" He slowly nodded his head.

"I do and I can't let her go, even if she doesn't return my feelings, my nindo way is to never give up. I held my end of the promise now I have to tell her my feelings."

"I understand, I wish you all the luck." She forced a smile on her face.

"Thank you Hinata." He kissed her forehead and taking off. She watched him run off as tears streamed down her face. Life was so unfair.

Sakura nodded her head as she wrote some information about her patients. She sighed deeply. She really hated doing paperwork but it had to get done. She could only imagine how Naruto would do if he became Hokage.

"Sakura-Chan?" Naruto called out to her again She looked at him.

"Huh?"

"Did you hear what I said?"

"Yeah, I always hear what you say." He folded his arms not believing her.

"Ok but did you listen to what I said?" His smile widened when he saw the shock on her face. She looked at him.

"And since when did you learn the difference between hearing and listening?" She hated he was such a smartass. He pressed his back against the chair and smiled.

"I've always knew it, basically I hear everyone when they talk but I listen to you." Her eyes widened.

"Naruto…" she whispered. He stood up and walked over to her. He leaned against the desk and looked down at her. He then walked towards the window feeling nervous.

"But I'm just the number one hyper-active knucklehead aren't I?" He began laughing. Sakura turned her chair around to look at him. "I'm definitely not perfect and I don't know if I would make you happy at all but all I know is I love you and I always will." He sighed deeply getting nervous my palms are sweating, he laughed sheepishly.

"What about Hinata?" He looked at her.

"I must be the world's biggest jerk, I turned her down because in my heart it was either you or nothing." Her eyes widened.

"Naruto…" She felt tears emerge from her eyes. "Don't speak like that, it'll make it hard on me."

"I'm sorry, I just wanted you to know how I felt that's all." He turned to leave only to see Sakura standing before him. She wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed his lips. His eyes widened in shock. He pulled back from the kiss. "You said me talking about my feelings would be hard on you."

"Yes, it would be hard for me to control my own feelings." She closed her eyes tightly. "I knew for a long time I didn't love Sasuke but I tried holding on, I knew what I felt for you back when I told you I loved you and you thought I was lying. Truthfully, I was lying about not caring for Sasuke anymore but you I truly loved you, I truly wanted to protect you and I truly wanted to be yours before I knew it." He looked into her eyes and saw nothing but raw emotions. He held her tightly in his arms and kissed her lips before he knew he pressed her back against the window and his mouth was on her neck. She let out a soft moan, he unbuttoned her white jacket as their bodies pressed against each other. His touches and kisses were driving her were crazy. "Wait Naruto." She pushed away from him.

"Oh sorry, I went too far didn't I?" They both blushed. She then smiled.

"No, lock the door so there are no interruptions." He quickly ran to the door and locked it as she removed her white coat exposing her black fitted dress. They looked into each other's eyes before their lips meeting again.

Kakashi sighed deeply placing his hand against his cheek as his elbow rested on the desk. Sasuke sat on the windowsill with Karin next to him. Shizune sat down, her legs grew tired of standing.

The door slowly opened as Sakura and Naruto walked into the room. Sakura cleared her throat trying to contain her blush as Naruto rubbed the back of his head laughing sheepishly.

"Sorry, we're a little late."

"A little? You two made me look good when it comes to being late. I'm trying to understand why you two were two hours late, what you were doing?"

"W-W-Working." Sakura answered as her cheeks became hotter. Shizune walked over to Sakura and fixed the buttons on her jacket.

"There." Naruto placed his palm to his face as Sakura's face turned crimson.

"You know what whatever I don't want to know anymore." He looked down at the papers on his desk, Karin blushed as Sasuke laughed at them.

"This is big misunderstanding." Naruto tried to reason as Sakura nodded.

"Doesn't matter anymore, you two are here." He cleared his throat. "Naruto fix your vest." Sakura looked away as Naruto fixed his vest and folded his arms. "Alright getting down to business, as of now the power you three possess is outta this world, Sakura being Tsunade-Sama's student, Naruto being Jiraiya-Sama's and Sasuke being Orochimaru's. I am now appointing you three the official new Sannin." He stated and stamped the piece of paper. The three of them stood there with their mouths wide open.

Shizune giggled.

"Don't seem so surprised Tsunade-Sama definitely approved, she was more than happy for you three to take the title."

"The n-n-new Sanin?" Sakura chocked out. "That's a big responsibility." She gasped. Kakashi nodded his head.

"One of that I feel you all can handle." Naruto laughed out jumping up and down.

"ALRIGHT!" He yelled suddenly startling everyone. "I'm one step closer to being Hokage!" He gave Sasuke a high five before they shared a hug, Sakura ran over and hugged him too. Naruto couldn't ask for anything more, he had his best friend and the one person he truly loved by his side. He turned to Sakura and kissed her lips as they hugged each other tightly. He couldn't wait to see what their future held for them.