Alrighty last chapter and ending to this story! Enjoy!

The Assignment

Naruto's eyes began to squint at the light hitting his face coming from the slit in the drapes where the morning sun was peeking in, he looked down at the warm naked body resting upon his chest and smiled at the sight. Hinata was soundly sleeping and Naruto felt as though he could stare at her forever, he almost felt guilty waking her up but Kakashi had the team assigned to assemble early that day as he checked the time on his phone and sure enough it was about to be 7:30 AM.

He lightly brushed away a strand of hair that was resting against her cheek as the feeling of his hand stirred Hinata making her smile in her sleep, Naruto smirked at her reaction as he continued to rouse her by tapping the tip of her nose in a playful way making her squint in delight and causing her to finally start stretching awake. Hinata's eyes slowly began to open and smiled when she looked up to see blue eyes staring at her.

"Morning" Naruto said as he pulled her against him making her lightly giggle

"Good morning" Hinata chimed as she rubbed her eyes, "what time is it?" she asked

"About 7:30 in the morning" Naruto answered in a melancholy tone, but was taken aback when Hinata suddenly gasped and stiffened in his embrace

"What is it?" he asked appalled at her reaction

"Nothing, it's just, I remembered we have to assemble today at 8 with Kurenai Sensei" Hinata said in a sad tone as Naruto sighed and just pulled her tighter against him.

"You too huh" he asked

"Hm?"

"We also have to assemble today with Kakashi Sensei to report on our assignment" Naruto chuckled trying to lighten the mood but to no avail as both he and Hinata didn't feel like separating from each other's company, they were just too comfortable and happy in the moment.

Hinata looked up at him to see a distraught look on his face and placed a hand against his cheek causing him to open his eyes and look down at her smiling face

"Duty calls Naruto-kun, but we can always see each other again after our missions" she said with a warm smile encouraging him to smile back at her as he chuckled and held her close

"You're right, you know you can always count on that" Naruto said bending down to kiss her lips as the two embraced each other after separating and stayed like that for a while.

"I wonder what happened with Sasuke and Sakura?" Hinata then asked wonderingly, Naruto reacted to her question by laughing

"They're not sleeping in separate rooms, that's for sure" he said teasingly as Hinata laughed at his comment

"Do you think so?" she asked,

"I know so. Sasuke has a really hard time showing his feelings but I know he has a soft side for Sakura"

"I'd say it was about time, I knew Sakura had strong for feelings for him for the longest time now"

"I could've told you that. It's that teme that I have a hard time getting to admit it" Naruto said chuckling

"And you couldn't be more obvious about it Naruto, always teasing him" Hinata laughed

"It's my job as his best friend"

The two laughed as they gradually began to stir and get up to get ready to go to their seperate missions.

Sakura stirred in a pair of arms surrounding her naked body as the events from the night before slowly began to flood into her memory and caused her to smile in her stupor. She felt the arms around her tighten as she turned her head to see sleepy black eyes staring down at her.

"Sleep well?" Sasuke asked with a smirk across his face, making Sakura giggle

"More than well if you ask me" she said smirking back at him as she began to stretch

"Hn, good" he said as he stretched as well in his awakening

"I hope we didn't cause too much ruckus last night" Sakura stated giggling,

"Highly doubt it. Thank god for this mansion's walls and doors that are sound proof, otherwise I wouldn't hear the end of it about how that idiot Naruto heard last night" Sasuke said clutching her closer to him with a mischievous smile on his face as Sakura nervously chuckled at his comment

"I know, it's a good thing we both get that privacy"

"Wait a second, how is it that you know?" Sasuke asked as Sakura's eyes then widened in shock and realized what she had said. She could practically feel the redness on her cheeks flushing then and buried her face into her pillow

"Umm, well.." she stammered as she could sense Sasuke smirking at her while she clutched her pillow and realized she had no other way around it

"Well.. Hinata sort of told me about the walls and how it worked so well since I didn't hear anything the other night that they were here" she said nervously

"Baka.." Sasuke sighed under his breath as he rolled his eyes in regards to his loud mouthed best friend but then looked down to see a reddened Sakura and smirked

"So.. you talked about privacy did you? No wonder you didn't hold back last night" he said teasingly as Sakura lightly laughed

"Hey, it's none of your concern, that's girl talk…"

"Hn, it is now."

"Hm? What do you mean?" Sakura was taken aback by his statement as she could see a gentle smile forming on Sasuke's face. His answer was so vague, she could think up a million things as to what he meant.

"I'll tell you next time" he responded as he cupped her face in his hands and looked deep into her eyes before he brought his lips to hers and kissed her. After separating from the kiss he held her gaze with his own while still holding her face with his hands,

"Just know that I meant what I said last night, Sakura" he stated as he poked her forehead before rising up out of bed and getting ready for the day while Sakura was left appalled with a loving smile on her face as she felt her forehead with her fingers. The feeling felt very familiar as she remembered the day Sasuke had last poked her in the similar way before he left for his journey after the third ninja war and began to wonder after hearing his last words, "last night he said he loved me. Is this… is this his way of showing his affection?" she smiled wide as she slowly began getting out of bed feeling as a new woman now not only for the way she was feeling but for the relief and happiness she felt that Sasuke had returned her feelings. She knew him all too well, and he didn't need to say much to show her what he was feeling, she just simply knew.

After getting dressed and ready to meet up with Kakashi, Sakura and Sasuke left her bedroom with a sort of glow to them, Sakura's smile couldn't be more obvious as she started to descend downstairs with Sasuke following behind. He noticed how Naruto's door was still closed as he passed by it and stopped in his tracks, he figured he must of still been asleep with Hinata in his bed,

"Hey, usurantonkachi! Wake up, we've got to go." he called out towards the door as Sakura turned back questionably and stared in the direction where Sasuke stared, a smirk suddenly appeared on her face then as she lightly giggled. To Sasuke's surprise, a tall blonde dressed and ready to go opened the door with his Hyuuga girlfriend closely behind him

"Well good morning to you too, teme" Naruto smirked at Sasuke who just rolled his eyes at him, "or should I say good fucking morning to both of you?" he stated looking towards Sakura now as he laughed out loud making Hinata bring her palm up to her face with an embarrassed smile. Sasuke's eyes closed in frustration but decided he was too much in a good mood to get annoyed so early in the morning so he brushed off Naruto's comment and started to walk towards Sakura's direction near the staircase when suddenly he stopped and realized he couldn't find his phone in his pocket when he patted it down.

"What's wrong?" Sakura questioned him as he sighed and began walking back towards Sakura's room, "phone." he stated while continuing on his way. Sakura turned to see Naruto staring after Sasuke with a happily shocked look on his face as he realized he was going into Sakura's room and then turned his gaze towards Sakura who became flushed almost immediately.

"I knew it!" he yelled out pointing at Sakura. She didn't even try to hide it any longer since it seemed pretty obvious if not certain by now and just smirked back at her teasing friend.

"What's it to you Naruto?" she said rolling her eyes at him as he laughed even harder than before. Although it sounded like a teasing laughter, Sakura and Hinata knew he was laughing in happiness as they exchanged understanding looks and Hinata shrugged with a smile on her face and then winked at her making Sakura giggle

"Naruto, I swear to god, if you don't shut up I'll come over there and shut you up myself!" Sasuke called out from the room making Sakura laugh at his comment as he came out of the room while putting his phone away in his back pocket strapped to his waist.

"Alright, alright, but can I just say one thing?" Naruto said while progressively stopping his laughter. Sasuke closed his eyes yet again in frustration with a huff waiting for him to say another dumb remark as Naruto took his reaction as permission and looked towards his best friend with a genuine smile

"I'm happy for you two" he said winking at him as he grabbed Hinata's hand and began walking towards downstairs. Sasuke turned to Sakura who was chuckling and cocked her head to the side signaling for them to go

"Hn" he slightly smirked and began walking towards Sakura who was waiting for him. When he reached her she gave him a smile and began to turn to start walking down the stairs when suddenly he grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards him into a quick kiss and smiled back at her after he let go and brushed past her descending towards the bottom of the mansion.

"Sakura, come on! We're waiting on you!" Naruto yelled out from downstairs, "I'm coming, I'm coming!" she called out as she happily ran down the stairs.

"Soo, I see the three of you have certainly improved since I last left you with this assignment. I take it it went well?" Kakashi stated as he stood before team seven at the training grounds, noticing how they were interacting with each other more and not arguing as much.

"Assignment completed Kakashi Sensei!" Naruto yelled out with a wide grin on his face and a thumbs up

"Good. So you bonded then"

"Oh we bonded alright, eh Sasuke, Sakura?" Naruto said in a teasing tone as he turned to his two friends who suddenly had glaring looks at him after he made his statement, "oh shit" he thought inwardly as he knew he was going to get the worst from them. As he expected, both Sasuke and Sakura punched the top of his head bringing him down to the floor as Kakashi sighed at the sight before him,

"Guess the bonding is over now.."

"OWW! Seriously you guys?!" Naruto yelled out while holding onto the sore bump on his head

"If you didn't say stuff like that during training maybe you wouldn't get such a beating you idiot!" Sakura scolded him as Sasuke smirked with a "hn"

"Did you guys learn anything about improving your team work during these past three days?" Kakashi questioned the three who then turned towards him

"O-of course we did Kakashi Sensei, Naruto just needs a little sense knocked into him every once in a while" Sakura answered back with a nervous smile

"Hey!" Naruto yelled in annoyance

"It shouldn't be such a surprise to you, loser. You can easily be beaten anytime" Sasuke stated with a teasing smile

"We'll see about that!" Naruto yelled back as he got up with a returning confident smile

"Alright. Then how about you show me what you've got, as a team. Starting with these" Kakashi interrupted them as he took out a noisy item from his pocket that the three ninja suddenly turned to, knowing the familiar sound all too well.

"Hm, so that's why you gave us this assignment. You wanted our teamwork at its finest for when we'd get to beat you once and for all, as a complete team" Sakura said with confidence as she began taking out her gloves

"The three of us against you? Ha! We'll get those in less than 5 minutes, too easy!" Naruto yelled out in an excited tone taking out two kunai from his pocket

"Hn, I'd say less than 3." Sasuke then said preparing his rinnegan and sharingan

"I didn't finish. You have to get one of these from each of us" Kakashi said as Kurenai and Yamato came into view walking into the training fields with Teams 8 and 10 following behind them.

"Eh?!" Naruto yelled out in confusion but then got confident when he caught sight of Hinata

"That's right, we will test out your abilities as a team collaboration with this exercise. Only this time, you will be fighting to obtain three. All members of a team must have one. It doesn't matter how or who you get them from, just as long as you work to get one for each in the end" Yamato stated taking out a pair of the same item as Kakashi's

"Wait a second, there's three team leaders with a pair, which makes it six in total. Wouldn't that mean that there would be one team short of them?" Shikamaru questioned

"Yes, that is correct. That's why it's a little trickier this time. It is a team exercise, you need to work hard to get each of your team members one of these" Yamato explained

"Oh great. Now that Hinata's here, it's going to be harder to get our teamwork focus with Naruto distracted" Sakura said turning to Sasuke

"I think that was the point when the jonin decided this" Sasuke replied jokingly

"Hey! We're at training, it's different here. Besides, same goes for you two" Naruto said to his two teammates who glared back at him although Sakura couldn't help but give Sasuke a blushing glance.

"Teams ready?" Kurenai announced

"Hm!" Teams 7, 8, and 10 nodded all together and prepared in a fighting stance

"Remember-"

"If we're not prepared to kill you," Naruto interrupted Kakashi with a smile

"We won't get the bells." Sasuke finished

"We. Know." Sakura stated, as Team 7 prepared to lunge at their Sensei.

END.

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