Chapter 9: A walk to remember

The two teens began to talk about each other's lives without mentioning about their confessions to each other that night 2 years ago. Sakura had promised herself not to tell Naruto about her babies, he just shouldn't know. As for Naruto he made the same promise, but about his marriage arrangements with Kiara. Both of them had their own secrets, but let's face it their friendship will be safer if they just didn't tell each other. Sakura couldn't help, but continue to look into Naruto's cerulean blue eyes. They were not filled with that same passion he had when he was a genin. They were filled with maturity now and a bit of no emotion. He looked older as well, taller, more muscular and definitely manlier. They are both at the age of 19 so of course he looked manlier, but it still shocked her. He wasn't her little follower anymore. He was not the Naruto who loved her company, who would do anything to make her smile. No, now he has found someone else to have the desire with and who could blame him? Sakura couldn't. She agrees with his actions 100%. She does not deserve to be with the greatest strongest man alive. The most perfect girl for him did and she is engaged to him. Kiara was lucky to have Naruto Uzumaki as a fiancé and Sakura just wishes that it could have been her, but she had screwed it up. It wasn't truly fair; he had left her when she told him she loved him. In the end he must have just not wanted to hurt her feelings so he didn't reject her and left.

Days passed by and Naruto stayed by Sakura's side the entire time. Sakura was finally able to be let out of the hospital and so they decided to celebrate with some ramen. There Sakura was in Naruto's new home sitting on one of the most comfortable couches she has ever sat on in her life. She was admiring the entire room. There were beautiful paintings hung on the walls and also her favorite a family portrait of Naruto's family. She saw the year of when it was made and it was made a year before Naruto was born. His parents must have known how Naruto was going to look like as a newborn. Sakura smiled and remembered about her own family. Her father, Ando Haruno was one of the smartest men in this village and also one of the nicest. He was the first person in her family to accept Naruto into the family as her best friend. All he would ever do was asked her, "So how is your true love anyways?" It was before Sakura had ever figured out that she had loved him and all she ever did was deny the true love part but answered his question. As for her mother, Crystal Haruno she was completely and totally in pure hatred with him. She was just like any other villager out there and Sakura hated her mother for that. It was because of her mother Sakura had moved out of the house at age 17.

She still hardly talks to her mother only when she was at her house so she could take care of her grandchildren. Then Sakura thought about her brother it was because of the death of Kentso her mother hated Naruto. It was on that day when the Kyubbi destroyed the village. He had been killed by the Kyubbi. He was barely 9 when he died coming home from a piano lesson with a pile of music sheets in his hands ready for him to play for her. Kentso was an amazing brother to Sakura for those 7 months that she was with him as a baby. She could still remember the picture of them together with his child like face smiling at her whispering to her, "I will be the best brother in the world Sakura, I promise." Every night Sakura would look at the stars and say to herself I love you Kentso thank you for looking after me. Her mother had told her that Kentso was the only one who could make her stop crying. He was the reason why she named her child Kentso, because just like her big brother no matter how sad she was Kentso would always make her smile. Next in Sakura's thoughts was her one year younger sister Mairu. Her and her sister never got along. All they did was fight, because Sakura was a ninja. Mairu thought it was idiotic for a woman to be a ninja as Sakura of course oppose to her statement. Mairu then left the village at age 16 to live her dream of modeling. Sakura never introduced Naruto to Mairu because she was never around to introduce him. Soon the room was filled with the heavy smell of miso pork ramen. Sakura turned towards the smell and saw Naruto pouring the soup in two bowls. Sakura then jumped out of the couch and skipped towards the kitchen table where her best friend was, but before she sat down her heart pumped hard which cause her some pain. Naruto noticed, but decided not to ask anything yet, though he began to worry. He thought that it was because of Kiara and one of her attacks.

He then pushed back the thought and sat down with Sakura and ate the ramen happily. As they finished the ramen Naruto offered Sakura some ice cream at the park and Sakura couldn't refuse. They were strolling down the road in the park eating their ice cream side by side quietly. While they were walking something was haunting Naruto's mind and he was dying to get the answer. He licked his vanilla ice cream cone and looked at the pink haired kounichi and asked, "Sakura-Chan may I ask you something important?" Sakura stopped at her tracks and turned to him and looked at him curiously. She then slightly smiled at him and then turned back around and walked towards a hill. Naruto stood still at his place as she walked away from him, looking at her to see what she was going to do or where she was going. Sakura then sat down and turned her head towards him and patted the grass right next to her noting him to sit down.

Naruto then nodded and ran to her side. He then sat down and as he did Sakura turned her head towards him and asked, "What do you want to ask me?" Naruto's face was flushed in embarrassment, but he needed to know. The curiosity was eating him alive, even if he wasn't going to like the answer, if she was in pain right now caused by Kiara. His eyes averted towards the ground and his grip on the ice cream cone began to tighten. With one gulp he then asked her, "What is wrong? You seem like you're in pain are you sure that you shouldn't be back in the hospital" Sakura's green eyes widen in shock. She never expected that Naruto was going to ask her, but then again it was a bit off that she was looking like she was still in pain. She then smiled slightly and licked her strawberry flavored ice cream.

"Well if you must know my heart is still weak from this surgery I had two years ago" Naruto winced at her statement she had heart surgery and he wasn't there for her. His stomach churned at the horrible image in his head in Sakura in a hospital bed weak and helpless. Tears were also forming in the corner of his eyes, but Sakura never noticed and continued to eat her ice cream. Then Sakura pulled down her zipper of her shirt slightly to show Naruto the scar above her heart. He then subconsciously leaned towards her and placed his hand over the scar. Sakura then tensed up by his action, but didn't push him away. Naruto continued to look at her scar then realized what he was doing. Rapidly, Naruto took his hand away from her chest and stuttered out and apology. Sakura giggled at the sight of the flustered shinobi and zipped her shirt back up.

"It's ok Naruto, you were curious its fine," she calmly said as she continued to eat her ice cream cone.

"Why did you need to get a heart surgery?" Naruto asked as he stared at his cone melting in the sun slowly dripping on his fingers. The scar was now going to haunt him, because it will remind him that he wasn't there to help her.

"I was sick my body just kept on draining every ounce of my blood. My father had to give a lot of his blood with me for quite awhile and it had to be a lot of blood, but it began to hurt him as well. It was like that for 5 months, but after 2 months my father couldn't help anymore so Sasuke decided to help. Even though we weren't the same blood type his blood was perfect because of the sharingan it just copied into my blood. Tsunade then place a pint of his blood straight into my heart and it lasted for 3 more months. I was just glad that it was only for 5 months if it was for the rest of my life, oh boy," Sakura explained Naruto as she also began to stare at his cone.

"Do you know what the cause was?"

"Let's just say genetics" Sakura simply stated as she took his cone. Naruto nodded and then asked, "If I could ask you one more question, what was that jutsu that you used on Kiara to like drain that rasengan?" Sakura smiled and answered, "It is called a Draining jutsu, when you were gone Tsunade-sama showed me this jutsu telling me it is a perfect way to regain chakra back into you. You just make the hand signs and let the opponent's jutsu fall into your hands." As Sakura was done with Naruto's ice cream cone, they both got up from the hill and began to head to their homes.