Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
I'm going to add this ending as a kind of graceful ending of how things kind of turned out, and how I feel things went on, And how I took in things around me. I love all of you and thank you for your kind words when I needed them.
The last chapter:
The Turnout.
Choji held Ino tight in his arms as she cried over her teammates coffin her tears staining the red oak wood case. Its was raining outside, The church full of crying, What was going on outside was not much different then inside. The sound the rain was making, The pattering of it hitting the church was all she could hear.
The world was crying for the,.
Both of them.
Temari and Shikamaru.
Kankaro wasn't there but Temari had confide in him,
What she had told no one else,
She was pregnant.
Sakura was dealt a bad hand when she got involved with Shikamaru, Like she had any choice in the matter anyway.
He still pulled her in, and she never even felt that way about him. And it brought Temari so much pain.
Thats the reason she was so upset. She was pregnant. It made so much sense now, She wasn't just upset about the breakup she was upset about the baby and it father, She didn't think. She took two lives.
Sakura sighed. It was her turn to visit him.
She gasped. He was smiling? He was happy. She heard Naruto gasp too.
His body was pale, His eyes closed to this world. But open to a whole other. Tears strolled down her face as she remembered all thoughs nights of searching for him. Everyone knew where he was. He was with her, Temari.
At least one week later, After he was discovered missing he was found, His body washed up along the side of the stream.
Naruto wrapped his arm around her waist.
"He looks so happy..." He whispered. His friend had suffered terrible loses in his life. His mother and baby sister, His Sensei and then Temari. He never knew his baby boy or girl. And he also lost his father when his mother died, Not physically, Mentally.
"Yeah he does..." Sakura answered, They went to sit back down.
Ino's crying over heard everyone else's. She knew him, Probably better then he knew himself sometimes.
Choji his best friend had tears, crawling down his cheeks also.
Sakura looked around. She spotted Shikamaru's dad, with Akimichi Choza and Yamanaka Inoichi, Sitting by his sides. 'Shikamaru was the only thing he had left', Sakura thought. 'All he has now are his team and his Village...'.
Sakura had a strange feeling to look behind her, Like something was pulling at the back of the shirt.
For a minute thought the rain had stopped, but the sound on the roof still pattered.
She turned slowly, And a huge light shone
The Church doors were wide open and it seemed like everyone was gone, She couldn't feel or hear anything but the light in front of her and the people it revealed, It was Temari, She was holding something, Shikamaru walked up behind her and wrapped his arm around her waist, He was smiling happily and waving at her. Sakura's eyes widened when she realized what she was holding. It was a baby. Temari smiled too, Her eyes sparkling, looking like night stars. Shikamarus hand reached over and touched the baby, Sakura thought he would never know.
Sakura began to cry harder, Shikamaru and Temari were now waving again, But it was goodbye. Sakura did too this time. Wipping her eyes with her other hand. Mascara falling from her eyes.
Shikamaru and Temari turned around. He grabbed her free hand and they walked into the light together.
When the light began to fade Sakura turned around. She began to rehear the crying and the sound of the rain pattering on the roof.
She realized Naruto was looking at her,
"Sakura, What was wrong with your eyes?...A few minutes ago...They were glowing...they looked like...stars...I was worried."
Sakura shook her head and hugged him. "No no Naruto, not scary...not anymore." She whispered. Tear falling again from her eyes. "They're together Naruto...They're happy.." She looked at him, He had tears in the corners of his eyes. "I know."
"I'll miss them..." She hugged him tighter.
He hugged her back and whispered. "So will I."
Haya Chan
I thought the other chapter was going to be the last. But I felt I needed better closure on this piece and in my life. So to all my fans thank you. I am back. I hope you liked this part. It was good to me..Thank you...bye now.