Chapter 16: Conclusion

Sakura's jaded eyes and body were in shock. She never thought that Kiara and Ryu were in love with each other. Her eyes averted towards Ryu calmly eating rice then back towards Kiara. She was speechless and Kiara half expected that reaction. What she hadn't expected was Sakura's arms around her shoulders pulling her into a hug.

"I am so sorry Kiara on what happened to you." She said sadly. Kiara then smiled at Sakura's actions and returned the hug. They both knew now that they were friends, not enemies.

"I should be the one telling you sorry Sakura. I treated you horribly, and continued to harass you. I knew the way you looked at Naruto that you were still in love with him, but I just denied it," Kiara said as she detached the hug. Sakura smiled at her and forgave her right away. It was something she had learned how to do when gave birth to her twins. They always made mistakes, but she forgave them before they would even say sorry. In fact it was one of their first words since they continued to make mistakes for these past two years. Sakura now felt like she wasn't alone. Kiara knew exactly how she felt. There were some questions that were floating around her head that she wanted to ask. The way Kiara was looking at her, she knew that she was able to ask anything and she would respond to her completely honest.

"So you and Naruto are going to get married? There isn't any way to call it off?" She asked the blue hair demon, hoping that they wouldn't have to get married. She now wanted her and Ryu to be together. She could tell the way Kiara was telling her story that she was still in pain from it, still madly in love with a forbidden love. Besides Sakura also did not want to know that Naruto was now taken forever, even if he did hate her right now. Kiara nodded at Sakura and answered, "Yes the only way we can call off the wedding is if Naruto falls in love with someone else." Sakura's heart sank; he was in love with Kiara. Then she looked at Kiara and thought, How can he not fall in love with her? The smell of the miso shrimp ramen crawled up Sakura's nose and she got the soup. After all those lunches with Naruto it got her to be addicted to ramen almost as much as the blonde shinobi is. She dug into her soup happily and enjoyed every bit of it.

She was one of the rare girls that if they felt depressed that they wouldn't eat anything. She didn't eat dinner yesterday or even breakfast this morning. That was the reason why she and Ryu were late. Ryu and Ino continued to insist her to eat something, but she continued to refuse. Now that she knew that there was other people supporting her all of a sudden her hunger came back tenfold. Kiara just enjoyed the way Sakura was eating her food like she hadn't eaten in days. There were noodles hanging on her face and the tips of her pastel pink hair were in the soup. That's when Kiara thought it would be a good idea to head to the hot springs. That way the two girls could relax and maybe Sakura would tell her what really happened. Once Sakura had finished the soup they walked back into the restaurant where Ryu was waiting patiently for them to finish speaking. A proud smile came across his face towards Kiara when the two girls were coming in together.

"So I see you guys are friends now," he stated as the girls sat down in the booth that he was in. Kiara then giggled and replied, "Yes, Ryu, Sakura and I are friends now. The only reason why we came here was to tell you to go and find Naruto, while we head to the hot springs and relax." Ryu looked at Kiara then Sakura to see if they weren't going to do anything stupid, but then he noticed how Sakura looked. She needed to relax, maybe that way the trip to the village of demons won't be so awkward. Ryu then nodded and the girls smiled at the demon then skipped away towards the hot springs. Both girls sighed in relaxation as they slowly entered the sizzling waters. Neither girl actually wanted to speak for a while it was that relaxing, but then something flashed into Sakura's mind that caused her to look at Kiara.

"Your father wrote the book, everyone is a demon?" Kiara then opened her right eye at her and nodded sinking further into the water. "So the quiz is accurate huh?" Sakura pressed on as she swam closer to Kiara. Kiara now knew that there was something bothering her about the book so she then sat up and replied, "Yes it is one hundred percent accurate. The pages of the quiz are chakra sensors. The reason for the questions is only so the paper can have time to read the chakra in your finger tips." Sakura's eyes were now looking at the water like she was in deep thought. "Why?" Sakura eyes then shot up at Kiara with a "huh?" Kiara then repeated her question "Why were you asking?"

"I took the quiz and it said that my demon was an unknown."

"Oh" The girls were silent for a bit until Sakura then relaxed once again and said, "So you want me to tell you what really happened between Naruto and I?" It was now Kiara's eyes turn to completely focus on the rosette. Kiara nodded vigorously and Sakura laughed at the scene she was creating and said, "Ok I will tell you what really happened between me and Naruto-Kun." This was the first time Kiara had hear her call him Naruto-Kun. She really was in love with him, just completely hiding the fact. She was hiding it from Naruto, so she can't hear any more harsh words from him. She didn't want Naruto to yell at her saying "I hate people who lie to themselves," yet again. It still stung her when she even thinks of the terrible night. Sakura then shook her head and pushed all of those moments away, he needed to vent ad Kiara was now all ears. She wanted to hear her side of the story, with one smile Sakura began to tell her story.