Chapter 7

Slowly Gaara woke from his Coma, his sight still blurry.

"Ow, Ino?" he whimpered.

"Gaara, im here baby, it's me." Ino said with a small smile on her face.

"How long have I been here?" Gaara asked the group with hesitation

"Ah, well, a long time." Ino hesitated to tell him how long.

"What. How long?" Gaara continued to ask the group.

"We…" Ino was interrupted

"A year!" Naruto shouted out from the corner of the room.

The group spun to glare at him.

"What? He wanted to know, there is no poi…" Naruto stopped suddenly when he noticed two fists heading for his face.

Both Sakura and Sasuke threw punches at Naruto who was now whimpering in the corner.

"A year? Wow, that's along time." Gaara was surprised and disappointed

"Really, a year, that's, that's ah, a long time." Gaara continued.

"So what's new?" He asked the ecstatic blonde sitting next to him.

"Well, your 19, and im 19, and pretty much everyone else is 19. Ha ha, and ah, well, Tara, Sakura's mum, she died." Ino began to speak, there was a long silence. All this information seemed to be getting to Gaara, tears started falling from his eyes.

"Uh, um… is th, there anything else that's happened?" Gaara continued, whipping the tears from his eyes.

"Well, the good news is, Hinata and Naruto are getting engaged. Kin and Zaku are having a baby boy. Uh, that's all I can think of right now." She continued in a soft voice, helping Gaara wipe his tears away.

"Wow, that's, great." Gaara said and forced a smile on his face

Later that day Gaara left the hospital and went to Ino's house, it had changed a lot. The lounge room had an extension on it where there was now a dance floor and sound system. The lounge room had also changed, the lounges were now black leather, and the TV had turned from a small 24 inch, to a huge 63 inch plasma with surround sound. The hall way was painted light blue with a slight purple tinge and sparkles, there was a large photo frame that contained the picture that Ino had received for her 18th birthday, there was also a photo frame which Gaara did not recognize. It had a photo saying happy 19th birthday Gaara and Ino, and there was a picture of the group at the hospital in Gaara's room. He smiled slightly then continued to walk through the house, the kitchen now contained stainless steel appliances and strangely, cherry blossom curtains. He ignored this and continued on. Walking up the stairs he noticed all the new ornaments and photos around the house, it had seemed like Sakura had put her own things here. There were a lot of cherry blossom ornaments and pink things, as he entered the top hallway he smelt a strong cherry scent coming from one of the newly renovated rooms.

"*sniff* what's that smell?" Gaara asked, scrunching up his nose.

"Uh, well, Since Sakura's mum died, I let her move in with me, she needed some one to comfort her, and she couldn't stay at the house, it was too hard for her. So she gave the house to her God-mother and sisters. I hope you don't mind." Ino explained with a hopeful look on her face.

"Oh, ok that's nice of you to do that, the house looks great, just one thing." Gaara replied with a smile on his face.

"Yes, what is it?" Ino asked with a relieved look on her face.

"Would you mind if I asked Sakura to conceal that cherry smell to her room? Cuz it's a little strong." Gaara asked the relieved, dumb founded girl standing next to him.

"…HA ha ha ha ha ha ha! Oh yeah, ha ha ha ha ha ha! Your, ha ha *deep breath* ha ha your, nose, its all, ha ha ha, its all wrinkly. Ha ha ha!" Ino tried to speak between her laughing and breathing, but it didn't turn out so well.

"SHUT UP!, ha ha" Gaara shot back, becoming embarrassed.

Suddenly Sakura walked out of the room at the end of the hall, naked.

"Ahhh!" Sakura screamed, and turned fully red.

"Ahhh! OMG! WTF! Sakura? Uh I think I'm needed down stairs." Gaara screamed then ran down stairs.

"OMG that was embarrassing! Ino I didn't know you were home yet, I was going to have a shower, heh heh." Sakura began to explain nervously.

"Heh, it's ok, I think he needed a bit of a wake up call." Ino replied.

FIVE YEARS LATER…(24yrs old )

Gaara recovered completely, he and Ino had a young boy named Thomas, Thomas had bright blue eyes and beautiful ruby red hair. He turned 1 a month after the couple turned 21.

Hinata and Naruto got married and had twin girls, named Samii and Yumi. Samii had blue eyes and blonde hair, Yumi had Black hair and blue eyes, they were a year older than Thomas.

Kin and Zaku, broke up, after Kin found out she was pregnant at the age of 19, when the baby turned 1, Zaku returned and Asked Kin to marry him. They got married and had another child, now their first child, Gabby is 5 and Blake is 4. Both children have black hair and brown eyes.

Ten Ten and Neji, stayed together but never got married, they moved to America and became professional karate instructors at the Karate academy of America.

Chouji left town on a big protector mission, sadly, he never returned.

Dosu stayed with Kakashi and Iruka until he was offered a job in South Australia.

Iruka and Kakashi became good friends and decided to stay living together until one day sadly they were involved in a pile up on the highway to Sydney and didn't survive.

Sakura and Sasuke, moved to Canberra and had two little boys named Cameron and Justin, both boys had pitch black hair and emerald green eyes.

All of the group still stay in touch and exchange stories, hoping that one day their children will do the crazy things they did.