When True Love Lies: I Love...

"When True Love Lies" Chapter 1:  I Love...
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"Sakura, Come on! You promised you'd go with me to that new color movie that have in the Theater 'ttebayo!" an annoying sounding  voice shouted to Sakura through her apartment door, and endless banging of the door ensued soon after that. Sakura looked at the door of her apartment rattling. She was just sitting at her table trying to eat some cereal before going to Naruto to see the Color movie that was apparently the first one ever shown to the public via the Theaters.

Sakura leaned over her table, grabbed her hair and pulled it tightly. 'What's wrong with him? Is he THAT excited over some silly movie?' She asked herself as she walked up to the door of her apartment, and shouted over his banging. "Hey, you BAKA! STOP HITING THE DOOR! KNOCK IT ONCE! You're going to wake up the neighbors or start some crazy 'accident'!" The knocking then receeded as soon as it came. Sakura heard Naruto mutter some thing she couldn't make out, and opened the door for him.

"Naruto, Have you already ate? If not, you should.." Sakura told him, walking back over to her cereal bowl and looking at Naruto. Then she realized he was wearing something entirely different from that orange-and-black outfit he had worn for 5 years. He was wearing regular clothes for a change... something that didn't hurt her eyes beyond repair. Blue denim jeans, a white shirt that didnt have the first two buttons buttoned up.  The white shirt was long sleeved, and had open cuffs, that he refused to button. He leaned on the door henge with red roses in a boquet and a red ribbon tightening the neck of the stems of the roses. He looked so dreamy, without his head band on his head, and his older, more refined look. It really made him look his age, 25.

Then Sakura remembered how she looked. She was still shuffling around in house shoes, and a modified version of her outfit from when she was 12. The Dress didnt go anywhere but to the middle of her thighs in front, like a loin cloth. But in the back it was truly long. Then she had a white  non-seethru slip under it with the boots she wore ten years ago. She then compared. She couldn't go with him like this. Naruto stared at her expectantly. She forgot to invite him in! How stupid!

"O-oh, Naruto.. You can come in.. Please eat something while I change? I will be done shortly." She told him, looking back at him to see him slipping off normal shoes, and putting on some of the left-over house slippers. She turned the corner, placing her hand gently on the wall as she looked to see Naruto obeying her and finding some left over cups of intant noodles. He was staring long and hard at the choices of  Miso Ramen, Chicken Ramen, and some left over Pork ramen. And the seasoning and extras sh had on a counter for when she felt that Ichiraku wasn't an option. She turned the corner completely and shut the door lightly to her room, and tried to find some nice clothes.

While all this was happening, Naruto wasn't really going to obey her. He wanted to know if Sakura had been eating much lately. She seemed much skinnier to him. Maybe it was due to the depression she had recently gone into. Sasuke refused to come back with naruto many times over the ten years. But he finally came back five years prior. many of the villagers had not liked this idea, especially Elder Hyuuga and a few of the other Hyuugans, such as Neji. But no one wanted to kill him.

But, gaurds were assigned to watch Sasuke. All day, and all night he was awatched, gaurded, and seen by Anbu officers, and rarely Jounin. About a year after, Sasuke wasn't watched by Anbu, only naruto would check on him, and Sakura as well. Sakura had eventually given up on love with Sasuke. She realizied, friendship would be more comforting to the man than love. Since he didnt know how to react to it, there was no point. One of these fateful visits to the Uchiha brought her discomfort, just 3 months prior to today. She walked in, shouting her greetings, but no one responded. She turned the corner into his room.

And there was a gruesome scene no one would WANT to see. Blood was over the floor, and Sasuke was lost to her forever. She screamed, fell to the floor, and started crying over the shredded body. Naruto was behind her, and couldn't do anythingthing but to clench his teeth and shudder. The horror of the scene was eventually classified as Suicide to the public, but behind closed doors it was known as a horrendous cold-blooded murder.

Naruto wanted the best for Sakura. She was all that he had left. And to loose the special someone he held dear, would drive him into his own depression. He would not loose Sakura, he loved Sakura more than anything left in this world. Therefore, he would rather die in battle himself if it meant keeping Sakura alive to see her children born. "Dad, Mom.. I love ... Sakura-chan." He admitted to his dead parents and to himself. He meant that. He would not change this feeling he had inside him for Sakura. She was his to make happy, no matter what happened to him!