Reviewers;

ArkAngel1179: Not sure about that, but I will explain what they had been doing.

Nico2889: Yes...yes they will be further on in their lives.

Wondering Knight: Maybe i should just keep adding a time skip every few chapters? That'd be a unique plot line. But no, I'll have a good ending for you.

Tony Blu: TONY! Glad you're here, and happy you saw the goodbye/see you soon scenario. So many people today say see you soon as a good bye type thing, but it's actual connotation is to get back together SOON! As soon as possible. So, yeah. Write to you soon!

Czar Ryno: Well, I'm sure we can imagine twenty one year old Ino and Sakura...Bombshell beauties! Think of their curves as more defined and perfect and there you go!

Czar Joseph: You and me both. ;)

7th Demon of Razgriz: Thank you Demon. Glad to know I'm keeping up with my standard.

NerdSoxx: Hey! I cried too, and i'm the writer, hence I cried every time I reread it. That's how I knew people would cry, and they should! it's NaruSaku!

JayK24: I am glad that many people can find their own experiences in this story. the goodbye is just like any I have encountered, whether relatives, girlfriend, or other. There's always waterworks.

Lestibur: Nice poem/song.

DiizGirlJess: You can So Shed tears for my last chapter. I mean, Jess, I don't usually cry, I'm an optimist, but writing it had me forcing myself to not have Sakura turn around and crash into Naruto's car, and hold onto him for dear life. I figured you'd squeal, it make you You, Jess. notsure about the others, but as the only Known girl of my reviewers, you hold the female majority for telling me what your side thinks of my stories, so I hold you in high regard. As For Naruto, yes...we both know ;)

Mundanebeast: Come on! trifecta?! I would have placed a foreshadowing in there...like Sakura rubbing her stomach.

Duh Bomb: An O-Kay rhyme, did not seem as good as the others, but for like a haiku. And Octopops is waiting for you in the hidden cloud for your study session with him.

NaruSaku4everLive: I have to wait at least a little bit, people have to have time to mourn the separation.

Logan Locke: My goal of that chapter was to make kids cry, and adults, and basically my reviewers. Sakura's high came down to earth, but her memories with Naruto are just meant to last forever. Part of being in a relationship is not standing in the other's way of achieving their dreams. If Naruto went with Sakura, never art major, if Sakura went with Naruto, not an actress.

Sakura was always detail oriented to me, asking all the questions, and such that as she is leaving, her mind pulls back to seeing everything they've done. Such short time and yet, it's right here for them. Actually, i almost named this story The Goddess and the Painter, but figured it was implied throughout, just as Tone and Stroke strives to show the tone of people's thoughts and actions, which make the other have strokes of the feeling of such actions. They love each other, even if they have never said it to the other. They haven't by the way. Since they knew this would happen. implied, but both dare not step and hold the other down.

AN: Alright. So, I felt a few days were needed to grieve over the break up for my characters, so... a few days? Whatever, just read and love my chapter please! Such a nice chapter for you today.

Tone and Stroke

Chapter 13: Shinobi Wars

The Earth stormed with fire and brimstone, and whole buildings were destroyed in seconds as massive jutsus flew overhead. Lightning surged through the streets and struck at three shinobi who were just landing on the ground from the rooftops above.

The three shinobi parted and jumped over the jutsu that would have surged through and fried their neural pathways. They parted to reveal hundreds of enemy ninja, many of their symbols showing the symbols of numerous separate villages. The various symbols flashed through each other of the scene flipping between them and the scene switched to that of the two main characters with the leaf symbol etched on headbands that were wrapped around their foreheads.

The male character had blond hair as bright as the sun and wore a stupid orange jumpsuit with red lining the edges. In his hand was a long sword of metallic making and he held an honest smile on his face.

"You ready to face this, Saku?" The boy asked the girl next to him before suddenly the enemy appeared around them and the boy stayed calm as suddenly the girl beside him punched the ground and all around them, the earth jumped twenty feet high, sending the entire battalion of enemy shinobi flying everywhere.

The girl stretched her arms and smiled lovingly at her partner. Her battle uniform was form fitting, pressing her red mess shirt against her generous bust size while her skirt flipped in the heavily tornado speeding winds. The girl's pink hair swished in the falling water and wind and played against her hair that stuck to the side of her cheek. Along the girl's opposing arm was a profound bloody cut and a deep gash was along her right leg, but still, the girl smiled.

"I would face the world as long as I am by your side…Nami."

The scene ended as two explosive kunai raced across the scene and exploded in front of the couple and an explosion raced across the screen and as the fires died down, words formed on the huge cinematic screen that was high above a red carpet of plush proportions.

SHINOBI WARS

Down on the edges of the red carpet, people clapped and whistled loudly as two girls hugged each other and laughed loudly as they faced their audience from the other side of the red carpet. Their dresses were highly revealing as the blonde's chest protruded through her fabric and her leg was out of the dress whose slit in the side went all the way up to her hip revealing purple shorts that matched the girl's violet shaded dress perfectly.

The girl hugging this girl was in a more conservative dress, the slit in the side only going up to her lower thigh, and though her own chest protruded from a crimson red dress as well, a mesh shirt covered her revealing skin extremely well. The blonde had on silver gloves that went up to the center of her arms while the pink haired girl wore pure white that went only to her wrist, showing her feminine toned muscles from working out for her specialized part in Shinobi Wars.

Ino and Sakura smiled as they soaked in the heavy attention they were receiving from the various photographers and their adoring fans. Their barely covered breasts pressed together as the girls smiled for the camera and they knew that countless men would be using these pictures of get off at their smiling faces.

These past four years had been one heck of a ride for the two twenty two year old women and they were living it up like princesses of Konoha Lights. Ino had for the last four years been on the cover of twenty three different magazines, most of them swimsuit editions and outdoor adventures. Ino had been used as the head of various environmental companies as well as safe gun laws. The latest cover had Ino looking up at the camera wearing a hunter's vest holding a rifle between her melon like breasts…and nothing else to hide her modesty.

She was the top model ever since she came into the limelight and she was living the life as she pulled in hot and steamy guys into Sakura's and her shared loft countless times and when they left, Sakura would see Ino limping out of her room with crazed sex hair the next day. She always found the horse sized men and little else. Sakura worried at times that that was what drew Ino towards Naruto, but that couldn't be the case, right?

As for Sakura, she had continued to be the sponsor for various companies as she did various commercials in her career on the sides to enhance her reputation, but now, she got to choose which to accept or reject for herself and she was seen choosing more favorable companies such as the orphanages and homeless shelters where she herself volunteered on her days off the television set.

Besides that, Sakura played a huge role that had been expanded from an HBO style channel to engulf five different channels from the mainstream side of television. It had gone from a good medium production and hopeful first season to expand to a multinational company series, and Sakura was one of the ten stars on the show, though many thought that she was the only star, to which she would laugh out loud and play it off as those that said that were only staring below her face.

"Haruno-San, Yamanaka-San. We must get you two inside now." Their shared agent and lawyer, Neji Hyuuga called out to them and the girls slipped on their high heels once more and waved goodbye to their roaring fans and made their way inside the stadium sized academy hall. Tonight was the night of the Citizens' Choice Awards, the CCA, but first, Sakura had an interview right there on stage to discuss Shinobi Wars and explain that XOF, KW,CBA, SBC, and CBN, would be featuring the latest season.

Ino and Sakura sat down in their seats and listened to the first few awards. Ino stood up and accepted her top modelling award for the fourth year in a row and thanked her mother and father for helping her for the entirety of her short life. Then, Sakura made her way to the stage, and as she walked up the staircase, applause erupted from the audience, making Sakura smile and blush madly as she looked so shy and conservative, compared to what she portrayed in the series.

"And now ladies and gentlemen, here is Sakura Haruno, from the latest sensation, Shinobi Wars!" The announcer for the night, Kakashi Hatake, one of the best known action fighters of all time, equal to fame as Chuck Norris and the mysteries of his mysterious eye and the numerous theories behind his mask. "Come here, our blushing and shy Sakura!"

Sakura grew shyer and played it up by thinking about it before walking forward and sat down next to the infamous Copy Cat who, as Sakura sat down and crossed her legs, Kakashi did the same. Sakura smiled coyly before she stuck her tongue out and licked the tip of her nose. Kakashi sighed as he couldn't do that, and the audience laughed at his expense.

"So Sakura, would you first tell us and remind us all of what Shinobi Wars is all about."

"Well Kakashi, Shinobi Wars begins with many nations, mainly the five greatest nations, fighting and striving to various things in the world. They each differ in what they want from money, economy, power, revenge and last of all, peace."

"A very good explanation Sakura, but now, we need to be reminded of your character's personal bio."

"Well, my bio isn't that special, surely."

A chorus of yes's were shouted from the audience and Kakashi shook his head. "The audience does not agree with you, it seems. You are a major player in the series, are you not?"

"Well, I play a young woman who, growing up in the poor and desperate village of the leaves was beat up and starving on a daily basis. I had to fight with the dogs to get a single morsel of food. The leaf village had not been doing well in the decades long war, and just wanted peace.

"One day, when my sixteen year old self was practicing to join the ninja core, I chased a white fox, a rare and usually a sign of a good omen to pass, and ran into enemy ninja. They beat me up and left me for dead after having almost defiled me and simply stabbed me in my pelvis to ensure that I could never have children if I lived.

"Then, they returned because they had decided to rape me, my character I mean, and as they broke me…" Sakura suddenly paused and teared up, and hid her face for a few seconds to hold in her tears. "Sorry, I really take my character's background to heart, but as they broke my hymen, a young teen my age, killed the distracted ninja and covered my nude body up with his jacket and began to take me in his arms. I still remember having the makeup on me to look younger than I was and it still makes me blush at almost being seen nude on national television.

"But I asked him his name and he told me that he was Nami Kaze, and he was going to change the world, one damsel at a time. At that moment, my character developed a crush on Nami, and that was how my character began her purpose of striving to protect Nami from everything and in the latest season, from himself as he felt that his love for Saku was not enough."

"Now, tell us all Sakura. This question was reiterated by ten thousand fans. How is it to practice and perform in that battle dress?"

"It's so embarrassing, Sakura replied shyly, earning laughter from the auditorium filled audience. "The battle dress is easy to move around in, but every time I move, I feel like I'm flashing everyone my extremely revealing underwear for the series."

"And yet you are known by local and international magazines as being extremely shy and sexually dressed in conservative outfits?"

"What can I say, Hatake? Off the set, I feel exposed. Plus, I already have my pink hair to stand out; do I really need more people looking at me?"

"And with that, we will thank you Sakura Haruno for being here tonight." Kakashi spoke for the cameras and Sakura politely nodded and even curtsied in her more revealing attire for the night and went back to her seat for the night.

An hour later, the lights everyone prepared for the final award, the biggest of the night, and Sakura hugged Ino as the suspense was killing her. Kakashi took to the stage and waived an envelope in his hand.

"Here, I have the name of the top actress of the year! Now is the time to open it! And So, without further ado. The winner-Sakura Haruno in Shinobi Wars!"

The crowd erupted in applause as Ino was suffocated with a smile on her face as Sakura squeezed the life out of her. Sakura ran up to the stage and accepted the trophy from Kakashi's hands, her dress shimmering like fire as in the premier's preview scenes and the audience sighed happily. Kakashi directed her happy and giddy self to the podium where Sakura placed her trophy and tried to stay still and calm down, but even the most unfocused person could see the huge gushing smile that adorned her face.

"Hello everyone!" Sakura began to speak rapidly, too excited to calm down. "I know this is supposed to be where I say that I love everyone everywhere who supported me, and I do! But this is something that I've wanted all my life, and there is only one person in my life that has ever truly appreciated me before I even became a star. I'd just like to look at the cameras and if you are watching, you know who you are, and I just want to give my ultimate thanks to you. One guy taught me that I am special no matter what happens to me or the way I look, and that I can do anything I set my mind to...Thank you."

Sakura trudged into her house at three in the morning, after heading out with Ino after the ceremony to party at a local nightclub. She was so tired and her eyes were already closing when she stepped out of the limo that she usually took to fancy premieres and such. Already over the airwaves, the magazines and news stations were talking about Sakura's live confession and were asking who this mystery man was that had made Sakura into the actress she was today. Sakura sighed as she walked up the stairs to her loft. Why couldn't she forget Naruto whenever she was living her life? These past four years had been filled with his memory and nothing else.

As Sakura moved to unlock her door, she took notice that her mail had come in and grabbed it before walking inside. Sakura sighed at most of the stalker letters from all around the world, but as she got to the end, she smiled her special smile for her special someone. Naruto had written her another letter!

Sakura dropped the other letters in the stalker basket and moved to sit down on her couch as she ripped open the envelope and unfolded the letter as pictures spilled into her hands.

Dear Sakura-Chan,

I know that I shouldn't still call you that, but with our past, who wouldn't? As you know, I'm now a year graduated from Kyuubii and I wanted you to be the first one to get the news, not that many will get it, but anyways, I'm rambling, in a letter. Geez, how I wish I could see you again. You know my idea for starting an art gallery? Well, I did it! It opens in three weeks, and well maybe you could stop by? Or maybe a simple phone call? I'm sorry; you probably think I'm a stalker already, but I really want to just hear your voice, and we could just talk about anything and nothing, like we used to all those, was it only four, years ago. Anyways, I am planning to watch the citizen's choice awards since you told me that you were nominated. I hope you win.

With Love,

Naruto

Sakura let happy tears fall down her face and curled up in a ball in pure happiness. She really should give Naruto a call, and meet up with him. But when she thought about it, she had her time booked for the next month. Sakura sighed; she hadn't seen Naruto in four years and yet she still kept herself only for him…and her own fingers and sexual devices. Maybe after the season finale for the show premiered, then she could see him after so long a time.

Sakura let the letter drop to the coffee table and looked at the photos. Sakura gasped as she traced a photo of Naruto standing in front of the gallery. She had a current photo to…look at as she…did stuff. Well, he sure looked handsome after college and everything. He was taller, but Sakura had grown too, but he was a man and she his woman, well not really, but still her body longed for him as she had guessed it would after all these years.

Sakura turned to the other photo and sighed happily. Naruto had painted yet another painting that resembled her life. It was part of his series, Of A Goddess, and it showed Sakura in a Greek toga walking far into the land on a beach that resembled life. Her footprints still in the sand even after the waves had passed over them in the surf. And in the sky above her were doorways opening up to Olympus. Sakura smiled, Trail To The Doorway was the title. Sakura smiled as she fell asleep, maybe Naruto was hinting at something with this picture, maybe she needed to retrace her life and take Naruto back, but right now, she would sleep, and let life show her the way.

If you can tell me what new stations I was talking about, you will get a virtual word guided brownie from me in the next review. Go ahead and Guess!