Okay this is the last chapter until I put Sakura in college and I've noticed that some of you including my friends have been wanting me to like have Naruto or Sakura or even both just totally beat down on Sakura's dad regardless of either verbal or physical assault and I'll just say straight up, your wish is granted via physical assault by our favorite blond haired badass from this story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

After the incident in the fast food parking lot Sakura had stayed quiet but whenever Naruto asked her something or gently look at her she would either answer or smile back at him. She tried to stay cheery on the outside but was really just tearing herself down on the inside. She was leaning against the passenger side window and was fiddling with the waistband of her pants.

'What was I thinking?' She thought. 'Why would Naruto want me?'

She bit her lip and squeezed her eyes shut then started work on herself again.

'I mean hell! I have pink hair! Who the hell has pink hair? Who wants someone with pink hair?' She thought. 'I'm so pale, my forehead is huge! The only cool thing about me is my eyes!'

She stopped when she felt a warm hand on her thigh. Looking up at Naruto she saw that he had a sad look on his face.

"Tell me, what's wrong Sakura?" He asked.

She couldn't stop herself as she unbuckled her seatbelt and flung herself at Naruto. She wrapped her arms around his neck while she cried into his shoulder.

"Naruto!" She cried. "Please be honest with me... *sniff* Am I, do you think... Am I ugly? Do you think I'm ugly?"

"What? Of course not!" He replied.

'You're the second most beautiful person I've ever met.' He thought.

"Then why? Why can't we be together huh?" She cried again.

He wrapped his arms around her and pulled her in closer.

"I'm sorry Sakura, you remind me too much of the first girl I ever truly loved." He explained.

"W-What?" She sniffled and looked up at him.

"Yeah, you look a lot like a late love of mine... and it's just too hard Sakura." He said.

Granted it wasn't a total lie, Sakura did look like Amaya to a degree that was almost scary. The true reasons were that it was unprofessional for them to get invovled with eachother and of course if they did get with eachother and things ended badly for them it would be awkward to be around eachother so much.

"And... And that's the only reason Naruto?" She asked him.

"Yes." He lied.

"Do you think that maybe... in time we could-

"No... well maybe, I don't know Sakura can we just drop this whole thing please?" Naruto said.

"Sure." She sniffled.

Making sure Sakura was buckled back in he continued his drive towards her house. Pulling into the drive way Naruto looked at the clock on his phone, 2:30 AM. Good thing she had the day off tomorrow or today if you looked at it that way. He got out of the car then helped Sakura out too. She leaned against him as he led her towards the front door. When they got inside they found Sakura's father sitting at the table with a mug of tea in front of him.

"Sakura, go up to your room please." Naruto said. "I just have to talk to your dad real fast then I'll be up okay?"

"Kay'." She said.

She started up the stairs and once Naruto heard her door click closed he sat down in the opposite chair of Ichizo. Naruto took a deep breath then looked Ichizo dead in the eyes.

"Please, explain to me as to why Orochimaru went to so much trouble to keep your daughter in his possession. And before you start I know for a fact that Orochimaru is not in the race for the Hyuuga's company he's not in the same area of buisness." Naruto said.

"Well I'm not su-

Naruto leaped across the table and back handed Ichizo. Ichizo hit the wall and had Naruto's foot planted in his chest.

"Don't fuck with me!" Naruto growled.

He picked Ichizo up by his collar and pressed him against the wall hard. Naruto got in real close before starting again.

"Now, one more time. Why is Orochimaru so hell bent on keeping Sakura away from you?"

"I told you I don't kno-Argh!"

Ichizo was stopped as Naruto kneed him in the gut. Pulling his fist back Naruto socked Ichizo on the cheek. While one hand held Icihzo up Naruto's other hand grabbed Ichizo's wrist.

"You better come clean or else you can look forward to wearing a cast for the next eight weeks." Naruto growled and tightened his grip on Ichizo's wrist.

"...Okay okay!" Ichizo almost cried. "A few years back before my company was the huge success it is today I was broke barely getting by and I had to borrow some money from Orochimaru!"

"And you didn't pay him back did you?" Naruto growled.

Ichizo shook his head and Naruto dropped him on the ground.

"You moron." Naruto said. "You better get the money for Orochimaru or else he'll never stop."

"You... You're fi-

"Fired? I'm fired? Is that you were going to say?" Naruto mocked him. "That's fine but so far I've single handedly rescued your daughter from various thugs and think about it Ichizo. If I'm the best the Konoha Police Department had to offer who are you going to get next? Because I'm pretty sure that other bodyguards who may work for you won't be too keen about having to worry about Orochimaru all the time."

Ichizo glared at him but understood anyway. He stood up and went up to his room leaving Naruto down on the second floor. Taking a calming breath Naruto started up the stairs towards Sakura's room.

"Hey, you decent in there?" Naruto asked as he knocked.

"Yeah." Was his reply.

Naruto opened the door to find Sakura wearing a t-shirt that went down to her knees and sitting on her bed.

"Hey wait a minute isn't that my shirt?" He asked.

Sakura had a small blush on her face as she nodded. With a slight chuckle Naruto walked over to her and sat down on the other side of her on her bed. Sakura instantly leaned against his shoulder. Naruto put his arm around her shoulder and brought her closer.

"Are you alright Sakura? They didn't do anything to you did they?" He asked.

"No." She replied.

Naruto rubbed her shoulder and tried to get up but Sakura held onto his hand.

"Naruto... Come to bed with me." She said.

"What?" He asked.

"Sleep with me... Please?" She asked.

Naruto looked her in the eyes and could see the emotion in them, so with a small smile he crawled into her bed. She faced him and made his arm go around her.

"Goodnight Sakura." He said.

"Goodnight Naruto." She said.

College will start next chapter and like I said it should last about 8 to 10 chapters

-Raidori