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Chapter Twenty four

It took me forever to get out of the building, I felt numb and disoriented. What should I do now? Everything was over and I didn´t know what to do… I knew in the back of my head that I was shocked and having a mental breakdown but there was nothing I could do about it.

So I called Hidan.

"Hello?" His voice was tired; he was apparently sleeping badly if at all. And it was probably my fault, since I had left them without notice to end my nightmare on my own. But at least I had done it.

"Hidan?" I whispered, barely loud enough for him to hear me.

"Sakura? Is that you? Where are you are you okay?"

"They´re dead. Hidan they are both dead and I don´t know what to do!" I started sobbing and he had to call my name several times before I heard him.

"Slow down Sakura. Where are you? Who is dead and are you okay?" He sounded tense but collected and I suspected that he was gathering a team to come and get me as soon as he figured out where I was.

"I´m… I´m at an abandoned fabric in the small town four hours south of you, an old toy factory. Orochimaru and Kimimaro, they´re both dead… I… I don´t know… I´m not feeling anything, I´m numb."

"Stay where you are, we´re coming to get you." He told me before someone took the phone away from him.

"Sakura tell me how you´re feeling." It was Kakuzu who had taken over the phone and I could hear a car engine in the background.

"I don´t know… numb, disoriented, sad…"

"Okay that´s good. Now I want you to look yourself over and tell me if you´re bleeding or have any visual injuries." I put the phone down and did as he had asked me, going over myself twice to be on the safe side.

"I have blood on me but I don´t think it is mine… The only thing I can see is that I might have dislocated my shoulder again." I told him and then sat down on the ground, waiting for them to come and get me.

I had someone on the phone, talking to me the entire time it took for them to get here and by then I had figured out that it was Hidan, Kakuzu, Madara and Sasori who was coming for me.

I was on the brink of falling asleep when I heard voices closing in on me. I wasn´t sure it was Hidan and the others so I hid underneath an old desk and waited for them to show themselves.

"Sakura are you here?" A voice called that I immediately recognized as Sasoris. I exited my hiding place and ran towards them; barely stopping myself from hugging them. I had forgotten that my shoulder was most likely dislocated.

"Hi…" I greeted them in a small voice and then they had surrounded me, Kakuzu kept them from hugging me though, saying that he needed to look over me first.

He did that but didn´t find anything other than bruises and my dislocated shoulder which he swiftly popped back into place. Then I was smothered in hugs as they led me out to the car so that we could go home.

I was going home.

The ride back was quiet and calm, but that might be because I fell asleep after only a few minutes. When I woke up we were pulling up in front of the house and I suddenly felt nervous. How was everyone going to treat me now?

As soon as I entered the house I was dragged away by Konan, she didn´t stop until we were in her bedroom. She hugged me tightly, crying and mumbling things like how everything was going to be alright into my hair.

I felt tears gather in my eyes and pulled away slightly from her before whispering.

"I´m not sure about that, I don´t know how to live a normal life… And what if I destroyed what I had with Hidan when I just walked away like I did?" I was sobbing now and I could see that Konan´s eyes also glistened with tears.

"Hidan loves you Sakura, he won´t change because of this! We all actually understood why you left on your own even if we didn´t approve of it."

"Really?" I asked her, disbelieving. She only nodded and told me.

"Of course Sakura, you´re part of our family now after all."

After that Konan and I cried, laughed and talked and after a while it actually felt like it would be alright again.

Now I only had to talk to Hidan…

I knew that when I left the bedroom belonged to both of us, but as I now stood outside the door, I wasn´t so sure…

So I knocked.

When he opened the door, he looked surprised to see me standing on the other side.

"Why are you knocking?" He asked me as he stepped aside to let me in.

"I wasn´t sure if it was your room or our room…" I told him truthfully and carefully sat down on the bed.

"Of course it is our room, why would you think something else?"

"Because of the way I left… I wasn´t sure if I would be forgiven…" I admitted while looking at my hands. I heard Hidan sigh before his weight settled next to me on the bed.

He was playing with a small box in his hands and told me with a smile.

"Well, I had planned on giving you this as a second birthday gift when we arrived at our hotel weekend but it seems like now is a better time after all."

He gave me the small box and I stared at him for a minute before hesitantly opening the box. Inside was a ring, a beautiful band of white gold with tiny diamonds scattered over its surface.

He gently took the ring and slid it on my finger, it fit perfectly.

"Do you like it? I even got a matching one as you told me." He whispered in my ear and showed me that he wore a ring similar to mine; the only difference was that his didn´t have any diamonds on it.

"I love it…" I told him, watching how the diamonds glittered as I moved my hand. I then looked deep into his amazing purple eyes and said.

"And I love you."

"I love you too, forever." He told me and then proceeded to kiss me; soon making me let out small moan and mews in pleasure.

As we lied close to each other in the afterglow about an hour later, I realized that as long as I had Hidan by my side, I could handle anything life threw my way.

For as long as we were together, we were strong.