Chapter 11: Paper House
Naruto was at his new house lying on his huge comfortable bed, trying to ignore Kiara's bitter words. Ryu was also there sitting down on a chair trying to ignore her, but Kiara was just too loud.
"Why the hell are you going to be with her again Naruto?" she yelled at him while stomping around the room throwing her arms in the air dramatically. Naruto sighed as he sat up and simply replied to her, "Because I haven't been with Sakura-Chan for two and a half years and I think I should try to win those two years back." Both the eyes of Kiara and Ryu widen from astonishment, did they hear him right? Kiara stomped right in front of him and placed both of her sun kissed hands on his shoulders and questioned him harshly, "Did you just say Sakura-Chan?" Naruto's azure eyes narrowed at her question and got her hands off of his shoulders. He then began to walk out of the room calmly, but once he reached towards the door way he turned around and responded, "She will always be Sakura-Chan to me." Before he could leave and get ready for his pink haired friend Kiara placed her hand on his shoulder, but softly this time like she was in pain with this.
"Naruto, you can't fall for her again. I don't think I can't stand seeing you hurt again. Just promise me you won't fall in love with her again," she begged as her velvet voice was weary and shaky in pain. He turned his head towards her and just smiled at her.
"I don't love her Kiara don't worry, I know how to have a wall between us now, but that still doesn't mean we can't be best friends right?" with that statement he left the room to take a shower and wait for his friend to come and pick him up. The entire time he waited for Sakura to knock on his door, he tried and tried so hard to get Kiara's words out of his head. He knew that it would be completely stupid of him to open up to her again, but those green eyes just makes him. Her laugh just makes him want to make her laugh again and just let her inside again. He shook his head at the thought and muttered to himself, no. Soon the door began to knock and Naruto rushed to the door. Before he reached the door knob a door from the other side of the house was slammed shut with great force. He sighed at the fact that he knew it was Kiara with great frustration and disappointment. The door knocked once again and Naruto immediately opened the door this time.
"Good-evening Sakura-Chan," he calmly said with a slight smirk on his face. Sakura was wearing a baggy pair of light blue sweatpants and an over sized black sweater with the words Fighter written across her chest. In her hand were two plastic bags, one bag for him, the other for herself. When they were talking about their little date last night Naruto said it would be better if she would change at his house that way her clothes wouldn't get dirty and Sakura couldn't refuse to that. He opened the door for her widely and she smiled then pasted him by. She handed him the plastic bag and walked into the bathroom so she could change as well. He walked into his room and found Ryu just sitting on his bed reading the book: Everyone is a demon. It was a book that Kiara recommended them to read. Ryu decided why not, while Naruto was like I hate books. Then after his little comment he got punch on his shoulder by Kiara, though it was no killing attempt like Sakura. Naruto just ignored him and began to change. When he looked at the clothes that Sakura had chosen for him he just had to chuckle at it. With a brilliant smile on his face he looked himself in the mirror and liked Sakura's selection.
Naruto was wearing a pair of black coal jeans with a navy blue polo and it had the word freedom was written in orange on his right sleeve. With a wink to himself he left the room and waiting for the medical ninja to finish. A few minutes later he heard the door close from the bathroom and there was the most beautiful woman in the world. Sakura was wearing white leather skirt with some white stilettos and a light blue crop top. She then had make up on, something Naruto had never seen Sakura with. It was truly simple her makeup, but it made her glow in radiance. Her sea foam green eyes popped and glimmered as her lips were shinier and plumper. He then noticed that her hair was longer than the last time he had seen her. Her pink hair was on top of her breasts and it was wavy as well. His knees soon became weak at the sight of her, she was perfect. She smiled at him and asked, "So should we get going?" Naruto just nodded and opened the door for her. Naruto did not know where Sakura was taking him, but all he knew was that he was going to have a nice time with her. The two ninjas made it to this huge building called the Paper house.
As they entered Naruto let out a hushed wow at the sight of the restaurant. It was completely elegant. He then began to worry if it was going to cost a lot of money. He then saw Sakura continuing to walk and question marks were floating around his head in confusion. He caught up to her and asked, "Where are we going?" Sakura just smiled and continued to walk. When they got in front of this huge security guard all Sakura did was say, "Sakura Haruno and Naruto Uzumaki." The guard looked at his notebook and nodded then opened the door for them. The two teen walked down some stairs and before they reached their destination Sakura covered Naruto's eyes with her warm soft delicate hands. Naruto stiffen by her actions and questioned, "Sakura-Chan what are you doing?" Sakura just giggle and once she did he calmed down. Her laugh had always calmed him down. It brought him to peace because it was so angelic. Sakura then tipped toed towards him so she was able to whisper in his ear, "Just keep your eyes closed."
"But why?" he pondered, but still kept his eyes closed as she took her hand off of his eyes. She giggled once again softly in his ear and in a hush tone she replied into his ear, "It's a surprise." As those words were spoken in his ears it sent shivers down Naruto's spine. He could feel her cool breath on his neck and he began to lean closer to her so he could feel her more, but he sensed that her presence was gone. He kept his eyes closed and didn't move until Sakura gave him any direction. Before he knew it he felt Sakura's warm hand into his and her angelic voice reappeared once more saying, "Come on let's go." She then tugged him forward and all he could do was just follow and keep eyes azure eyes closed. They continued to walk down the stairs carefully and after a couple of steps more Sakura stopped at her tracks and ordered him to open his eyes. Right when he opened his sapphire eyes he was speechless. All of his friends were there looking pretty formal themselves smiling dearly to their favorite hyper active ninja.
"Sakura-Chan did you did this for me?" he asked in pure amazement and all she could do was giggle her light giggle and respond, "Well of course. You were with me for a good amount of time I thought it would be better if you got to be with the rest of your friends." Naruto just stared into her jade eyes and whispered to her, "Thank you." With that he dashed towards his friends as Sakura just stood there breathless. She then shook her head and went towards her friends. There they were all the girls on one side as the guys were on the other. TenTen looked amazing; her lush rich brown hair was down on her shoulders with a braid on her side bangs. She wore this thin black dress that hugged her curves perfectly. It was amazing with her shinny sliver high heels. Ino nudged Sakura's ribs gently and whispered, "I think TenTen is trying to get a child out of her husband." It was loud enough for our group to hear and we all began to laugh while TenTen didn't approve of the joke.
"Oh Hun, you know that I was joking." Ino replied to her as she gave her a hug from behind. TenTen then smiled softly at her and began to laugh as well. As the girls were chatting away with their girl talk, Naruto was ready to talk to a certain someone, who he just dropped him off at the Kohona hospital. It was going to be hard for Naruto to talk to him, but he knew that he had to. Soon Naruto was right behind the Uchiha survivor and Sasuke could feel his presence near him. He turned around and coal black eyes met with the sea blue eyes. This was how it was for a few minutes none of them spoke to each other all they did was staring. All of a sudden Sasuke then smirked at the blonde shinobi and held out his hand. Naruto grinned widely and put his hand on to Sasuke's. Then they pulled each other into a hug and with that Sasuke just happily spoke, "Glad you're back dobe." Naruto laughed and replied, "Glad to be back Teme." Once they detached the hug Naruto placed his hand on Sasuke's shoulder and said, "I am sorry for what had happen at the training grounds."
Sasuke then shook his head and replied, "You shouldn't say sorry to me you should say sorry to Sakura-Chan." Naruto's heart collapsed at Sasuke's last words. Sakura-Chan? He knew that he told them to love each other with all their heart, but still in those past two years Naruto just prayed and hoped that they wouldn't. It was just so surprising to hear Sasuke calling her Sakura-Chan that was his thing. She was his Sakura-Chan first! Soon flashes of the past ran through his mind, but Sasuke had her heart first. He knew he did the right thing to leave her with him. They loved each other and he knew that her love for him would of never last. He nodded at his rival and responded, "I already did, when she was in the hospital." Sasuke then nodded and left. There he was with his old friends just staring at the magnificent woman a few feet away from him. There she was with her cherry hair bouncing to the music, while she danced with her friends to the music of the DJ. Soon Kiba leaned close to him and whispered, "Yo, bro you should ask to dance with her." Naruto looked at him like he was insane, but then Kiba insisted and pushed him all the way to the dance floor. With that one push Naruto nearly fell on Sakura, but luckily he was able to get his balance right before he toppled over her.
"Hey Naruto, I didn't expect you to be on the dance floor," stated Sakura with her radiant smile which caused him to become speechless. The speakers then began to play "DJ got us falling in love" and the girl then screamed and grabbed a guy to dance with. Sakura then stared into Naruto's eyes and bit her lip trying to gain the courage to ask him to dance with her. Naruto was also facing the same problem, but he didn't want to chicken out, so all he did instead was dance. He began to dance around her and with that she giggled that giddy laugh and danced as well. There they were dancing to a song that they never realized how much the lyrics fitted them. All they did was focused on their partner, falling more and more in love with each other. By the last second of the song they ended with Sakura in Naruto's arms protectively. Their faces were inches away from each other, all they could hear were their hearts beating rapidly. With that, they realize that they were in love with each other. There was no other way that they could fall out of this love.
Except for one thing and one thing only… reality, something fell out of Naruto's pocket. They both looked down at what had fallen out of his pocket and saw the picture of him with Ryu and Kiara. That's when Sakura was taken back to reality; he was engaged with the most perfect woman in the world. With that thought she got out of his arms and picked the picture up and handed to him. She smiled and whispered, "Thank you for the dance," then walked away from him. Naruto didn't bother to stop her; he needed to think about what just happened. The party was over after that, Naruto then saw Sakura walking towards her house. He then ran to her side, so he could tell her good-bye.
"Sakura-Chan, I just wanted to say good-night," he said as he finally caught up with her. Her head spun towards him and smiled with her mouth closed, like she was trying not to look sad. Before she knew it Naruto pulled her into a hug and whispered, "Thank you for everything, especially for being my best friend." He detached the hug to see her face and was satisfied. Her face was pink, because he got her flustered. She looked at him and smiled widely, she then did something on expected. She got on her tippy- toes and kissed him on the cheek and replied, "You too. See you later." She then sprinted towards her house, never turning back to see his face. She slightly regretted her action because he was engaged, but then again she was bursting with happiness. What she didn't know was that she left Naruto feeling the same way wanting to get her back and do the same action.