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LAST TIME: Our heroes finally managed to defeat Orochimaru and Kabuto! They are on their way back to Konoha…but what does life have in store for them next? Let's find out in the ultimate grand finale (yeah right) of…

Romeo and Juliet – SasuSaku style

Chapter 28

Sakura's POV

They were at the back of the group. It seemed that Naruto wasn't as dumb as people make him out to be, because he was the one who suggested that Sasuke and Sakura go last, so they could catch up. Sakura was very grateful to Naruto and decided that she would buy him an 'all you can eat for 500 ryou' pass for Ichiraku ramen. It would be costly…but it was worth it. She did owe Naruto after all. Sighing, the pink haired kunoichi glanced up at her husband. His face was emotionless, a sure sign that he was thinking and a not-so-sure sign that something was troubling him. Sakura decided not to ask him about it. She would wait until they got home, unless he told her beforehand. Reaching out, she took his hand in hers. He glanced at her, flashing one of his rare but beautiful smiles. Turning her attention back to where they were going, Sakura couldn't keep her own smile from showing. Her heart was in her mouth, her feet felt like they were flying and butterflies were having a hay-day in her stomach. Although Sasuke hadn't said a word to her since they left Orochimaru's lair, she was quite comfortable just being in his presence. It was good to hold him again.

They travelled for the rest of the day, and made it back to Konoha in record time. The light was only just fading from the sky and Sakura was surprised. Why did it take over a day to get to the lair, when it took less than a day to get back? Sakura had no idea, but it was comforting to see those large gates with the symbol of Konoha on them. Turning to Sasuke, she opened her mouth…

"UCHIHA SAKURA!"

She winced. 'Crap. I guess Friar Kakashi didn't get over me leaving…'

Inner Sakura gave her a sympathetic smile before plugging her ears and shutting her eyes. Sakura gulped and turned to see Kakashi glaring at her with his visible eye. She gave him a weak smile and half raised her hand in greeting.

"H…hey Friar Kakashi…g…great to -gulp- see you."

Kakashi wasn't listening. He pushed his face right up to hers and prepared to deliver the lecture she knew was coming.

"Sakura…I thought I made it perfectly plain that you were not to go on that mission. Did I or did I not?"

"Y…you did…"

"Then what possessed you to go?!"

Sakura stuck her chin up defiantly. "I told you. One way or another I would have gone. I'm not hurt am I? Sasuke's here, Orochimaru and Kabuto are dead! What's the big deal?"

"The big deal is that you could have gotten hurt! Sakura, you're pregnant, do you have any idea how dangerous it was for you to go? Do you know what could have happened?"

"But it didn't…"

"That's not the point!" Kakashi threw his hands in the air in frustration. "What if everything had gone wrong? I give you orders for a reason! You would do well to follow them next time."

Sakura rolled her eyes when Kakashi's back was turned, but she replied with a very meek 'hai'. She turned to Sasuke and grinned slightly, only to be met with a small frown on his face and angry eyes. She blinked in surprise.

"He's right Sakura." The boy replied. "You could have gotten hurt." Unlike Kakashi, Sasuke's voice was quiet and controlled, making it harder for the girl to be defiant. She sniffed.

"Well I wasn't was I?"

"You could have been. What would I have done if Orochimaru had been tougher? What would I have done if he took you?"

"I…I…that is…" Sakura couldn't answer him. He turned away, quietly looking at the forest they had just come from.

"You can't answer me." He stated simply. "Let me give you the answer then." He stared straight into her emerald eyes with his own onyx ones. "I would have died." Her eyes widened in shock. "If he had gotten a hold of you, hurt you…I…"

Sakura watched in shock as her love turned back to the forest, tears filling his eyes. His body shuddered slightly and Sakura felt herself shiver as well. Naruto put his hand on her shoulder.

"The funeral." He said. "When you were having your 'funeral', Tsunade asked for Sasuke to come. When he got there…I've never seen anything like that from Sasuke before. It was frightening Sakura. Even though he knew you weren't dead…he cried. Sobbed his heart out…I thought he was going to collapse…I've never seen him so…" Naruto shook his head unable to finish.

Sakura felt tears in her own eyes. She understood now. They had wanted her to stay, not just for her own protection, but so that they wouldn't have to put Sasuke through the torment of her death if anything had gone wrong. That was why he had been so quiet on the way back home. He was going over in his head what might've happened. She let a sob escape her lips before she hugged Sasuke tightly from behind. Burying her head in his back, she cried, mumbling how sorry she was between wails. He slowly turned back to face her, wrapping his own arms around her and pulling her close. He rested his forehead on the top of her head and just held her, waiting for her to calm down.

Sasuke's POV

He felt terrible. He had made her cry so much, she was sobbing her heart out on his chest. He hadn't meant to make her cry, he just wanted her to understand…to realise…just how much she meant to him. Hugging her as tightly as he dared, he glanced up at his friends. Ironically, Naruto was the only one who understood his silent request. Giving Sasuke a nod, he dragged the others off, muttering something about damned perverts watching other people's relationships. After a little while, Sakura's howling and wailing died down to small hiccups and silent tears. Pulling away, Sasuke wiped the tears from her face and nuzzled noses with her. He shut his eyes and sighed contentedly. He was just glad to have contact with her again, despite how angry he had been at the fact she had put herself in such danger. The small girl in his arms mumbled one last sorry, hiccuped a final time and wiped away the new tears that had begun to form. Sasuke watched her in fascination. Who would have thought it? How could such a gentle creature control all his thoughts and not even know it? How could she get him to do her bidding simply by looking at him with those large green eyes of hers? He shook his head. It was a mystery he would never understand and the little waif in front of him was at the heart of it. Taking her into his arms again, he kissed her. It lasted for a long time and neither of them wanted to pull away from each other ever again.

5 years later

She stood laughing. Sasuke was such a good father! He was throwing their four-year-old up in the air and catching her. As Sakura looked at their daughter, she couldn't help but feel proud. The child had purple hair, no doubt a result of mixing pink and blue-ish black together, with deep green eyes. She was tall, like her father, but had her mother's childish nature. At the moment the young girl was squealing and giggling, as Sasuke had finally gotten tired of throwing her in the air and had proceeded to tickle her mercilessly. Tsunade and Jiraiya had been around earlier to play with their granddaughter. After getting over the initial shock that Sakura was 'back from the dead thanks to God's pity for them all', the two had completely taken to the idea of Sakura and Sasuke's marriage, blessing them without a second thought. Sakura couldn't have been happier…until now that is. Then she felt a drop on her nose. It was beginning to rain.

"Sasuke! It's starting to rain, let's get inside." She called, heading back towards their house. About 10 minutes later, Sasuke and their daughter appeared, absolutely dripping wet. Sakura tutted and fetched some towels.

"I told you it was raining." She scolded Sasuke. He just grinned at her.

"Sorry. We got a bit side-tracked. Nyoko thought that splashing me with water from a puddle would be hilarious. You didn't honestly expect me to let that lie did you?" He chuckled.

Sakura just shook her head. "And you call me the childish one. Come on Nyoko, I don't want you catching a cold." Sakura had named their little girl Nyoko after a dream she'd had 5 years ago at her 'funeral'. Straightening up, she smiled down at her daughter. Despite the fact she was only four, she was already looking to be a promising ninja. Nyoko grinned back. Then the front door opened. Sakura turned in surprise when she heard the noise.

"Mind if we stop by here for a bit?" Naruto smiled sheepishly at her, while a heavily pregnant Hinata stood waving. Somewhere behind her, Sakura heard Sasuke sigh.

"Dobe…why do you have Hinata out in the rain?"

"It caught us by surprise baka." Naruto didn't use his usual nickname of 'teme' to Sakura's relief. She didn't want Nyoko to hear that, especially since Naruto was like the girl's uncle.

"Uncle Naruuuuu!" The child cried jumping at Naruto. "Auntie Hinaaaaaaaaaa!"

Sakura couldn't help but grin. Nyoko really loved Naruto and Hinata, so it wasn't a surprise she had taken to calling them auntie and uncle. Walking over to her friends, she grabbed Hinata by the arm and gently pulled her into the living room.

"You need to sit down Hinata-chan. Don't put too much stress on yourself, what with the baby coming. Where have you left Kohana?"

"She's with Ino and Shikamaru. When we left, Izanami was telling her what game they were going to play." Naruto answered, coming into the room with a joyful Nyoko on his shoulders. Sakura nodded.

"How's Tenten, Neji and Shika?" Sasuke asked, coming into the room with some hot chocolate for them all.

"They're fine." Hinata replied. "Apparently Neji's very proud of his daughter, she's supposedly got Tenten's love of weapons."

Sakura laughed. "Thank goodness she has Neji's calm attitude, otherwise we'd be looking at a mini Tenten."

After a while, the rain cleared up, and Hinata and Naruto left.

"Dinner time I think!" Sakura chirruped.

She walked into the kitchen and began preparing food. Sasuke sat in a chair at the table, reading the paper and a bored Nyoko was on his lap.

"Daddy, can I plait your hair?" She begged. Sasuke sighed and nodded. Nyoko squealed and jumped up, immediately turning her attention to her father's hair. Sakura understood only too well her daughter's fascination with the male Uchiha's hair. She loved it as well. Turning around she watched them, as Nyoko told Sasuke all about her day. It seemed that despite the fact he appeared interested, he wasn't listening at all. Sakura frowned slightly. Where had she seen this before?

"Izanami has a new sister!" The girl was saying. "She's kawaii. Kohana's going to have a new brother or sister too isn't she?"

Sakura nodded. "The doctor says it's going to be a brother." She said, going back to making the food. Why did she feel like she had heard this before?

"Yeah, a brother." Nyoko nodded. She pushed her father's head to get his attention. "Daddy?"

"Yes Nyoko?" He said absentmindedly, taking a sip of hot chocolate.

"Can you get me a baby brother or sister?"

Sasuke spat out his drink in surprise, and Sakura dropped the pan she was holding. Now she remembered where she'd seen this before. The room was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop. Sasuke coughed awkwardly and then glanced at Sakura slyly, a mischievous twinkle in his eye.

"What do you think Sakura-chan? How about we start looking into it tonight?"

Sakura began to giggle.

"Alright then Sasuke-kun." She replied, winking at him. "Off to bed Nyoko." Sasuke smirked at her cheekily, looking very smug.

"But I haven't eaten yet!" The young girl complained.

Sasuke got up and left the room, coming back with a small bag in his hand.

"Why don't you go and have that sleep over at Ino and Shikamaru's house tonight?" He suggested, secretly sending sexy glances in Sakura's direction.

"But you said I couldn't go because…"

"Change of plan. Here's your bag, run along now. It's only down the road."

Sakura was watching Nyoko from the window, making sure she had really gone, when a pair of muscled arms slipped around her waist and Sasuke nuzzled into her neck. Even though she couldn't see, she knew he would be smirking.

"Let's see what we can do about that little brother or sister shall we?" He whispered into her ear.

Sakura smiled at him seductively. She had always wanted to find out how that dream ended…

Orochimaru's POV

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" He cried.

The horror. The sheer indescribable horror.

"NOT THE TELLITUBBIES! THIS IS INHUMAN!" Orochimaru was not happy. He had to spend the rest of eternity constantly switching between a zoo in heaven where little angel children stared at him in terrified awe, and the torture room in hell, where they made him watch tellitubbies and boys and girls getting 'it' on. Not only that, but he was wearing a frilly pink tutu with bunny slippers and a pink tiara that had the words 'gay, paedophilic sex is wrong' written on it. Oh yes…Orochimaru was definitely paying big time for the crimes against nature that he had committed.

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Me: Well, there you go! The last instalment of my story. I hope you liked it! I had a lot of fun writing this chapter and I hope I didn't disappoint. Thank you again to everyone who has reviewed throughout this story.

Inner Me: That doesn't mean you can get away with not reviewing this chapter though! As this is the last chapter, we expect a lot of reviews, so keep them coming!

Me: Also, keep an eye out for my next story. It's going to be called 'Sound's gate: Shadows of fire' It will be SasuSaku with slight NejiTen and NaruHina, possibly even a tiny bit of ShikaIno, but I'm not sure about that last one. It's going to be long and complicated, but hopefully it should turn out okay!

Sasuke: Hang on! You said I was free from your fanfictions when this was over!

Me: No. I said you were free from THIS fanfiction. There are others that you are going to be in.

Sakura: Review please! Arigatou once again to all of you who have been bothered to leave reviews!