Author's Note: Happy Halloween everybody! To celebrate everyone's favorite night of terror I bring you something truly scary, Naruto wanting to break up with Sakura. Enjoy.

Sometime later, five miles east of the Tenchi bridge…

The remnants of Team 7 were sprinting around the mile wide crater created by Orochimaru and Kyuubi Naruto's battle. At least 640 acres of forest were wiped off the map like a giant finger had descended from on high to smudge the spot of land into dirt. To the initiated, such as Kakashi and Yamato, it was just another battle scar upon the land, seen a million times over during the course of the last war. For Naruto, it was a sobering reminder of the terribly awesome power he possessed deep within himself, and that was not a flattering thought. Such destruction happened because he let the seal slip, just a single crack in the barrier was all the Fox needed to erode Naruto's thoughts and send him on a rampage. That wasn't the worst of it though…

Naruto looked to his Sakura-chan who was also looking at the destruction he had caused. Her face held a kind of frightened awe. But even that wasn't what troubled Naruto the most. It was her back, or at least what was on her back before Gohan had given her the senzu bean. The back of Sakura's vest was torn to shreds, even now Naruto could still see the outline of claw marks. Not even Naruto was so dim to not put two and two together.

"Sakura-chan...I think we should stop seeing one another."

"If this is about the 9 tailed fox I already told you its fine."

"No Sakura! It's not fine!" Sakura looked back at her boyfriend. He never called her just Sakura of wasn't being serious. Kakashi and Yamato looked back at the couple, wondering if they should intervene now and delay their talk or waste time now sorting it out and have the whole team be focused.

Sakura decided for them. "Kakashi-sensei, Captain Yamato, could you give us a minute?"

"We'll scout ahead. Wrap this up quick you two." Kakashi warned. He and Yamato poured on the speed, giving the couple some privacy.

Sakura wanted to keep talking while they kept sprinting, but Naruto had different ideas. He leapt down to the ground and waited for Sakura who had to sprint back towards him.

"It's over Sakura…" Naruto looked at his feet.

"No Baka, it isn't." Sakura walked up to her idiot boyfriend to give him a hug but he stepped back.

"Sakura! I can't! I hurt you!" He frantically shouted, on the verge of pulling his hair out.

"You didn't mean to Naruto, it was an accident." She softly said.

"It was a mistake! No, not a mistake, it was bigger than that! I almost got you killed!" He sputtered out.

"Naruto…" Sakura felt tears running down her cheeks.

"I was angry! So angry, at Orochimaru that I wanted to hurt him. And I tapped into the Fox's chakra, and I let him in, and I lost control! And Sakura, I hurt you!"

"Naruto, you didn't-

"The claw marks on your back. Don't you DARE tell me I didn't do that to you!" Naruto's own tears streaked down his face.

"You didn't mean to-

"I'm the Jinchuriki to the Nine Tailed Fox! It's my responsibility to keep the Demon Fox at bay and prevent stuff like this from happening! If you're around me…the Fox might hurt you again…" He choked.

Sakura stepped closer but Naruto grabbed her shoulders and held her at arm's length.

"I couldn't bare it, I couldn't bare it if I ended up hurting you like that again. I can barely bare it now after it's happened. And if next time I ki…I kil…" He couldn't even say it. He was hyperventilating. His knees were weak. Sakura took this opportunity to step closer and wrap her boyfriend in a hug. This time he didn't pull back from her. Naruto felt his cheek pressed close against the back of Sakura's head, a part of him felt bad for getting tears and snot in her hair, but the rest just wanted to relish the feeling of her soft hair pressed against his face and the feeling of her arms draped around him in a gentle-wait now the hug felt tight…TOO TIGHT!

Sakura had brought the blond idiot in as close as possible with her chakra enhanced hug. The two of them could actually here Naruto's spine cracking.

"Sakura-chan, too tight! Too tight! It hurts!" He wheezed out.

"GOOD! It should hurt! You stupid, stupid, lame brained, dimwitted, dumbass, idiot, Baka of a dunce!" She sobbed. Her own tears and dripping down Naruto's backside. All at once her grip loosened to a much gentler hug with just enough iron grip to ensure that the clueless boy wasn't going anywhere.

"You're always pushing yourself too hard, making me worry about you, and then you say you think it would be better if I wasn't around you anymore? How do you think that makes me feel?"

Naruto couldn't respond. Leave it to Sakura to be the brains of the relationship.

"It hurt worse than when I crushed your ribs just now. I said I was going to stand by your side through thick and thin until the end. Did you think I was just saying that? That was my promise of a lifetime to you." Sakura cradled her head in the crook of Naruto's neck.

"Sakura-chan."

"You are not the Demon Fox. You are Naruto Uzumaki. Say it!"

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki."

"Louder!"

"I'M NARUTO UZUMAKI, YA KNOW!"

"Damn right you are, shannaro. And I know for a fact that Naruto Uzumaki would never hurt me. So if I have to wrestle with the Kyuubi every time he gets past your seal in order to be with you, well you tell that damn Fox that I'll take him on anytime, anywhere. Neither of you are getting rid of me that easily."

Naruto was crying even louder now. He couldn't help it, God damn he did not deserve someone so amazing to be so devoted to him.

"You remember when Iruka gave us that speech at the end of the 2nd exam of the chunin exam? He said you needed to improve your heaven or your brains and I needed to improve my earth or body."

Naruto chuckled. "How could I forget? I guess that makes us earth and heaven right?" He smiled for the first time since waking up to see Sakura kneeling over him.

"Yeah, it does. I consider you to be my sunshine, Naruto. And if you're my heaven, then I'll be your earth. I'll be the thing that keeps you grounded and lets you rest your weary body." At this statement Naruto laughed out loud.

"What's so funny?"

"Nothing it's just…you certainly put a lot of thought into this. No wonder you're the brains of this operation, Sakura-chan. It's what I love about you. Well, one of the things anyway."

"Baka, I'm the brains because you are such an idiot."

"Yeah I am, I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry too."

The tenchi lovers just stood there in each other's embrace for a few minutes more. Either of them would give anything to let this moment go on forever. As always, they were needed elsewhere.

"We really need to go save Videl now…" Naruto said.

"Yeah we do…" Sakura replied.

"Even though Gohan has probably got everything all under control?" The blond asked.

"It would be rude if we didn't make the effort to show up…" The pinkette replied.

"Right…are we good?"

"Of course we are…"

"So does that mean you'll heal my broken ribs now?"

"No, my heart still kinda hurts because you suggested that we break up over something so stupid." Sakura teased.

"Sakura…"

"I know, I know…It just seemed stupid to me that you would ever give up on something…"

"Huh…yeah you're right, that doesn't sound like me at all."

"Course I'm right, I'm the brains remember?"

"Which makes me the beauty." He smirked.

"Baka, I'm the beauty."

"No fair, you're already the brains."

"Shut up, you're the muscles and you'll like it."

"Don't hate me because I'm beautiful, Sakura-chan." She slugged him in the gut for that one.

"Idiot, the moment's ruined." Sakura sighed and untangled herself from her idiot boyfriend's embrace. Time to get serious.

"Ok Beauty Queen, we still have a rookie teammate to save. Let's go!" Sakura ordered.

"Yes Ma'am!" The two of them sprinted off into the trees with a renewed vigor, each feeling lighter than ever before.

Author's Note: Doesn't it just chill you to the bone?