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Chapter Title: Still Me

"When can I go home?", Sakura asked in a calm but stern voice. It had been the same question she asked everyday for almost a week and half. Tsunade realized Sakura desire to leave the hospital and reside in her own home; therefore she asked Naruto and Sasuke to meet her in her office to discuss what they would do about Sakura.

To no surprise Tsunade's office was messier than ever, but no one cared to bring it up at the current moment.

"I want each of you to spend time with Sakura individually, take her through the city and remind her of her past life it may help her remember more. There is no way we know until we try", Tsunade stated.

She stood and handed Sasuke a small piece of paper which he took without hesitation, it was a small list of things to do, "Sasuke I would like you to take her around today, get her acquainted with her surroundings."

Sasuke shook his head slightly, but not fully understanding why Tsunade would pick him to take her over Naruto. Naruto was so much better in situations like this. Tsunade turned to face Naruto, "If Sakura feels well after her day with Sasuke I would like for you to take her Naruto."

He shook his head in agreement, Naruto was just glad that Sakura was finally leaving the hospital, he didn't like being there for too long and he could tell either did Sakura.

Spending a whole day with Sakura, that was like a dream come true given the circumstances he wished it was the old Sakura he was used too. He however lost his train of thought when Tsunade opened the door and Sakura walked in dressed in her old outfit.

She looked like an angel, or that is what Naruto thought of her when he saw her. Naruto just looked at her; if she didn't know about her memory loss he swear she would hit him ten feet across the room for thinking how beautiful she looked at that moment.

He shook the thought from his mind as Sakura and Sasuke headed for the door. Naruto would have to wait his turn, just at that moment Sakura turned around and gave Naruto a small smile before heading off, leaving butterflies in his very empty stomach.

He flashed Tsunade a notably smile before disappearing in a flash.

Tsunade simply shook her head, "Just like his father", she let out as she settled into her seat.

The day was finally over for Naruto as he headed home; he had trained all day and could feel the burning ache beneath his skin. Small tears of water could be felt falling from the sky as he reached his door.

Naruto let out a heavy sigh as he placed the towel around his neck, it had been such a long day and taking a hot shower had relaxed his tensemuscles. He headed into his bedroom and crashed onto the bed. Smalldroplets of water that were not wiped away slid down his neck.

His bare back touched the warm comforters that caused a soothing warmth to engulf his body. He tuned everything out and just reflected on the day, the once light droplets were replaced by heavy rain drops that could be heard hitting against the roof of his apartment.

Tomorrow would be his day to take Sakura around and get her used to her familiar surroundings. In all honesty Naruto did not know what he was going to do. He had no clue where he would take her or how he would explain things to her, he wasn't very good at stuff like that.

His eyes were heavy and the thought of sleep came quickly to his mind, he laid in bed still tuning out all the sounds until one little sound pulled him out of his relaxed state.

A heavy knock could be heard at the door. Naruto let out a small groan, as the knocking stopped for a moment. Yet after a moment of silence it could be heard again.

Naruto knew all too well it would be his pervy sage coming over to tryto get Naruto to go spy with him in the hot springs, or help him do "research" for his new book idea. Last time he helped pervy sage, he was sore in bed for a week from all the beat downs he had received.

Again the knocking stopped, this time for longer than a moment. Naruto let a grin find its way to his face, until a slight knock came again. Naruto sighed heavily getting up from his comfy spot and heading toward the door. Before he opened it however he placed the towel over his head covering his face entirely as he swung the door wide open.

"Look pervy sage, I am not going to sneak into the lady's hot spring, I am not going to do your kind of research on women just so I can get beat up, and I most definitely will not read one of your pervy storiesOkay!"

"Na..Naruto?"

Naruto lifted the towel off of his head quickly to meet eyes with a drenched Sakura."

She was soaking wet from head to toe, the ends of her hair had droplets falling from them, and one of her hands was covering her chest and the other one was around her waist. It seemed like she had an invisible shield that wasn't doing much good of keeping her sheltered from the rain.

"Sakura-chan?"

Naruto quickly pulled her inside his apartment and closed the door. In a split second he wrapped his towel around her shoulders to make her stop shivering.

"What are you doing here, are you okay is something wrong?", Naruto asked in a rushed tone. His face became alarmed.

"No…no nothings wrong…its just I don't know…I had more questions and I couldn't sleep…Sasuke showed me your apartment, It is only down the street from mine…I mean of course you know it is down the street from mine you didn't lose your memory I did…", Sakura realized she was babbling.

She paused a moment before she continued, "I thought I just thought… Icould just come here.", she managed to get out.

Naruto placed his hand behind his head and ruffled his hair; he was flattered that Sakura would think to come to him. The old Sakura would have tried to run into Sasuke's arms instead of his.

"I'm sorry for just barging in like this…I was just so….", she began taking the towel off and heading back to the door.

Naruto grabbed her by the wrist and stopped her, "Sakura-chan…it is okay, I am here for you, I don't mind, but what I am concerned about is getting you out of those clothes."

Just after Naruto had said it, it fully crossed his mind that it came out not the way he had intended it too. The two jumped apart quickly each blushing slightly.

"I mean you might want to change into some dry clothes."

"uh..yeah, t-thank you."

Naruto walked into his bedroom and came out with a dress shirt, and some shorts. "This should do," he said handing Sakura the clothes and pointing toward his bedroom. Sakura shook her head and headed in that direction, as Naruto heard the door shut he hurried around his apartment to clean up.

He knew he wasn't as messy as before, but it was not in its best shape right now either. When he heard the door click open, he dropped all the stuff out of his hands onto the floor again. Sakura walked out in his dress shirt, it was a little shorter than her knees, and it almost looked like a loose dress on her.

"Uh…let me make some warm tea", he said hurrying out of the living room. When he came back out she was sitting tensely on the couch. He handed her the tea and turned his back against the wall and leaned back holding his own tea cup in his hands.

Sakura looked at him for a moment; it was now she noticed his bare chest. When she first saw him she didn't know he was this muscular but in the dim light, his muscles glimmered in the light. He had a toned body and his abs curved evenly, his arms were large but not in a bulky way, Sakura figured he was giving her a weird look because she was staring at him so she blushed slightly and looked away.

"Are you warm enough?", he asked before sipping his tea quietly as he looked at her from across the room.

"Hn" she replied looking around the living room at the various pictures.

'Just like how Sasuke answers,' thought Naruto. He never would have dreamed of a day like this, Haruno Sakura, pink haired goddess half clothed in his apartment. The guys would never believe him even if he tired. He shook the thought from his head as he caught Sakura's eyes looking at something other than his.

He knew exactly what she was gawking at and as much as he hoped it washis abs, he knew it was his decorative demon seal.

"Do you remember what it is?" he asked

She looked deep into his ocean blue eyes, trying to retrieve a memory of what theseal might be, but was unsuccessful. Her lack of response gave Naruto a definite answer, but before he opened his mouth to speak again he thought about what he would say. He was once hated, once feared for having this demon inside of him, and now the girl of his dreams and best friend didn't even remember, wasn't that supposed to be a good thing. Wasn't that supposed to make Naruto's chances better for when he told her the truth about how much he loved her.

He thought for a moment or two and looked back at Sakura who had the look of a lost girl in her eyes. She wanted to know the truth, and in Naruto's heart he knew he couldn't keep anything from her. He walked over until he stood above her, until she could see the seal up close.

"It is to hold back the nine-tail demon fox."

Her facial expression remained blank, she didn't understand. Naruto knew he would have to go much deeper than that to get her to understand. "When I was born my father sealed the demon fox inside of me to save the village of Konoha, in doing so it killed him. I was feared and hated for my whole life because of the demon inside of me. It destroyed everything and because it was inside of me, everyone blamed me for its destruction." Naruto kept explaining, but Sakura just started to tune him out as she looked intently at the seal.

It occurred to Naruto, that what he was telling her might scare her, and she would want to leave in fear; it wasn't everyday you hear of a demon being sealed away inside someone's body.

She thought a moment before she asked her next question.

"Was I me…was I mean to you too Naruto?", uncertainty in her voice.

Naruto looked down at her; he remembered all the things she would say to him in the beginning about what he was and how he would never be good enough. He was taken back at what he would say but his lack of words gave Sakura a firm answer.

She stood to her feet, her head only reached up to Naruto's chin. Than she did something neither fully expected. She hugged him. She wrapped her arms around him and hugged him.

"I am sorry Naruto, I don't know if I ever told you that, but even if I get my memory back, I never want the memories of calling you such names because of this demon."

Naruto stood frozen, he wanted to wrap his arms around her and lift her into the air, and tell her with his entire heart that he didn't care what she said to him than, but all that mattered was how much he loved her right this moment.

But he didn't. He couldn't do that to her, knowing in the back of his mind that if she had her memory, she would be with Sasuke right now, that she would want his arms around her and not Naruto's. If Naruto did anything now, he would feel like he was taking advantage of her because of her memory loss. He would never do that, he loved her too much.

After Sakura released him, she brought her hand up to cover a large yawn that escaped from her mouth. Naruto took a few steps back to make sure there was enough distance between them.

"I think you need to get some rest, why don't you sleep in my room…"

Sakura turned her head up in a surprised manner.

"While I sleep on the couch" he finished.

Sakura disagreed, but in the end Naruto made it quite clear he wouldn't let her sleep on the couch.

As she got ready for bed she asked Naruto a question that even took her by surprise.

"Naruto…do you love someone?"

Naruto returned her gaze with his deep blue eyes.

"Curious are we?" he responded

Sakura took it upon herself to understand that maybe she had crossed the line by asking Naruto that kind of question.

"Oh, I'm sorry it is quite rude of me, I just thought maybe I would remember something. I feel like every question answered might take me one step closer to my memory."

She waved her hand in the air carelessly to dismiss the topic and turned her back to Naruto as she headed toward his bedroom.

"Yes…", he answered

She turned around, surprised by his sudden answer.

"Yes, I love someone. She is wonderfully, she is my everything, and when she comes back to me this time, I will never let her go without telling her how much I love her." Sakura nodded her head slowly by his sudden answer, almost in a daze like state by the answer he gave her.

"Do you remember anything…?", he asked quietly

She shook herself out of the trance and shook her head slightly, "No, but thank you and goodnight Naruto", Sakura stated as she closed the door.

"Goodnight Sakura", Naruto whispered as he placed his hand on the door.

"Yeah great Naruto that is gonna work, talking to her behind a closed door sure she will realize how much I...", he commented out loud.

Sakura opened the door, "Did you say something?"

Naruto turned around quickly plastering a wide smile on his face, "No…", he laughed nervously.

Sakura firmly nodded her head and closed the door, as Naruto crash landed on the couch for some much needed sleep.