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Epilogue: Insanely Happy

Sakura lied back with her arms outstretched behind her head. The sky was a clear crisp blue, and Sakura was out enjoying the nice weather. She wasn't the only one outside either.

"Mama!" Sakura turned as she watched her youngest waddle over to her. Her youngest son, now two, still had some baby fat around his cheeks that begged to be pinched due to their cuteness. "Mama!" he said again, holding out his hands.

"What do you have here, hmm?" Sakura asked happily, grasping him around the waist and plopping him in her lap. She pinched his cheek affectionately, watching the little black-haired boy giggle at his mother's pinch before he turned his beautiful blue eyes back down to look at what was in his hand.

"A ladybug," he said. His green eyes that mirrored her own looked back up at her, waiting for a confirmation to his find.

"Very good, Ruki" she said, kissing his head softly.

"Sakura!" Sakura turned around upon hearing her name being called, watching as her husband and her youngest daughter came into view. Rai, her daughter, was perched atop her father's shoulder looking utterly happy with a wide bouquet of flowers in her hands.

"I found Mama a ladybug," Ruki said happily, holding the bug up for his father and youngest sister to see.

"Sakura, Rai and I picked the most beautiful flowers for you," her husband said. Sakura smiled as Rai leaned down from atop her father's shoulders to hand her mother the flowers. A giggle escaped Sakura's mouth as she saw a white petal from the flowers had fallen into her husband's hair, contrasting with its ebony dark locks.

"You look good with flowers in your hair Sasuke," Sakura said, smiling widely at her beloved Sasuke. He chuckled warmly.

"Do I really have a flower petal in my hair?" Sasuke asked, looking affectionately up at his daughter. Ruki giggled.

"It does look good!" Rai said, giggling happily.

"Are you making fun of me?" Sasuke teasingly asked, his eyes going wide. Ruki shook her head no but Sasuke had gripped her waist and pulled her down and began to tickle her. She began to laugh loudly, trying to ward off her father's tickling. "Maybe I ought to put some flowers in your hair, hmm?" Sasuke asked as he began to affectionately tussled Rai's blonde hair.

"Sakuraaaaaa-chaaaaaaaaaaan!"

Sakura turned, her eyes lighting up with delight as she watched her Naruto, the more beloved of her two husbands run towards her. He came bounding up to her and wrapped his arms around her waist before pulling her into the air, his body flush against hers as he gave her a firm, loving kiss before setting her back down again.

"I win!" Naruto declared as the rest of their children came running up behind him, four sets sweaty hair – colors varying from pink, blonde, to black – plastered to their faces with sweat.

"That was so much fun!" Isai, the eldest said as he caught his breath, sitting down on the ground.

"Dad said he'd get to Mom first! And he did. It was a good race though," Nari said as she sat on the grass next to her big brother.

Sakura smiled widely, watching all six of her children and her two husbands gathered around her.

Everything was so perfect. It felt like Heaven.

Good thing too, since it was.

"Dan! My beloved Dan," Tsunade murmured, her mouth twisted in an insanely happy smile as she reached out toward him. Oh, but her arms were so weak from the excitement from seeing him that she couldn't move. It didn't matter. Dan would come to her. And he did!

"Tsunade," Dan murmured as he wrapped his arms tightly around her. "I've missed you."

"I've missed you too," Tsunade whispered back.

"Nee-chan!" Tsunade turned to look to see her little brother running toward him. She'd have reached her arms out to him too, but Dan was hugging her, and she didn't want to move from him. Still, she smiled widely when her little brother, Nawaki, came and hugged her too.

"Nawaki!" Tsunade exclaimed.

"Sis, I've missed you! I heard you were Hokage! I'm so jealous. You musta had to remember everything I told you I was gonna do to be a good Hokage, right?" Nawaki said, grinning widely, just like she remembered him grinning, just like Naruto always grinned.

"Ah, my love," Dan said again as he kissed the top of her head. Nawaki made a face as though kissing was too gross for him.

"Baa-chan! Aren't you gonna introduce me?" Naruto asked, and Tsunade turned her head to the other side, smiling widely when she saw Naruto, the boy turned man that she had grown to care for like her little brother – perhaps more like her son. Yes, much more like her son.

"Naruto, this is my fiancé Dan, and my little brother Nawaki. Dan, Nawaki, this crazy ninja here is Naruto," Tsunade introduced, smiling.

"Ah man! Looks like you're Hokage too. Rokudaime, eh?" Nawaki said, looking awed and slightly jealous at the Hokage robes that Naruto wore, seeing the kanji for Rokudaime flashing down the back. Naruto grinned widely at Nawaki and nodded toward Dan.

"Nawaki, Dan," Naruto greeted fondly as he came towards Tsunade's group, clapping Dan's shoulder and then Nawaki's. Tsunade smiled even wider, tears streaming down her face in joy as she looked at the group surrounding her, feeling complete in her circle of people whom she loved more than life itself.

If only they were really there. But she didn't know that.

Shizune stood outside a door with a small window, observing the scene of Tsunade talking with people that were not there, her hand covering her mouth as she watched. Tsunade was wearing a white straightjacket, her hair frayed slightly to the side, sticking out from her blonde pigtails.

Her face looked different too. The jeweled looking cluster of chakra on her forehead was missing. Shizune had always known Tsunade to have the chakra concentrated there in the decorative form of a jewel. Its absence was strange for Shizune to see.

"Shizune-san?" a man in a white coat asked hesitantly, a clipboard held firmly in his hands. She turned to look at him, his overcoat stamped with the words "Konoha Insane Asylum" on the upper right part of his chest.

"Is she always like this?" Shizune asked, peering once more through the small window in the door in front of her, watching as Tsunade greeted people that were not there. Shizune felt guilty. She came to visit once every month, but she had stopped by unexpectedly. Seeing her in this state made Shizune wonder why Tsunade had seemed so much more coherent during the other times. Perhaps if she visited more often, she would have found out about this behavior sooner.

"Not always, no. She has her days where she seems more coherent than others. As you know, that concentration of chakra on her forehead had negative effects on her brain. It's such a shame that she decided to concentrate it there. That is why such chakra experimentation should be kept under strict supervision," the man said, watching as the patient began talking to the invisible person called Naruto about how his Hokage duties were going.

"Why is she in a straight jacket?" Shizune asked, seeing how the white coat was wrapped around her as though it embraced her in a hug. "Her chakra is drained daily, so why the need for the jacket?"

"Ah well, you see, she tends to reach out for the people that are not there. When that happens, she seems to lose it even more," the man said, shaking his head sadly. "When she realizes they're not there, she refuses to take her medication. The less medication she takes, the worse her mind gets."

Shizune merely nodded. She had diagnosed her former sensei after all. Tsunade had been brilliant – was still brilliant – but who knew that the little jewel on her forehead that stored chakra would eventually seep into her brain, addling her mind as much as it had?

If only she had thought to do a check up on Tsunade sooner, but who would have thought to do a mental evaluation from excessive access to concentrated chakra to the brain?

"We're doing our best to get her better," the man said, and Shizune nodded. "In another few months, these little episodes of meeting with her invisible people might stop. In a year or two, she may be safe for release."

"That's excellent news! I'll make sure to report it directly to Hokage-sama," Shizune said, grateful to hear that Tsunade wasn't completely lost to everyone yet.

"Why did I want to do this job again?" Naruto muttered. He was decidedly unhappy. His hand was cramped from signing papers all day, and he just wanted to go home and rest.

"Because you look extra sexy in your Hokage robes?" Sasuke asked. Naruto grinned as he turned toward the window, watching as Sasuke clad in ANBU gear removed his Hawk mask and sauntered toward Naruto.

"I remember now. It's 'cuz I can order people around, like you," Naruto said, his gaze looking Sasuke up and down. "Now move these papers off my desk so we can have sex on it."

"Sounds good to me," Sasuke breathed huskily, his hand reaching behind Naruto's head before leaning his mouth against Naruto's.

A knock at the door produced a growl from Naruto as he reluctantly pulled his lips from Sasuke's and turned toward the door, glaring at it and the person who dared to interrupt his moment with Sasuke.

"I could put them in a genjutsu and make them wait," Sasuke offered. Naruto paused, as though really considering the offer before shaking his head and sighing.

"Come in!" Naruto barked.

"Hokage-sama!" Shizune said breathlessly, stopping abruptly as she saw how close to and intimately positioned the two were standing. She caught herself staring, and continued. "I-I have the report on Tsunade-sama right here," Shizune explained as she lifted the documents the Insane Asylum worker had given to her. Naruto nodded, limping ever so slightly as he walked toward her.

Sasuke couldn't help but stifle a smirk as he watched Naruto's limp.

For the past year, Naruto had grown accustomed to having his right leg shorter than his left, and Sasuke knew for a fact that Naruto wasn't limping due to the offset of his leg. Sasuke knew for a fact that the limp was caused from their lunchtime activities when Sasuke had stopped by with a bit more pent up frustration than usual to let loose. Naruto had been so gracious as to help him get rid of his frustration, but he may have been just a tad bit overzealous. Even so, Naruto hadn't complained.

"Is your leg bothering you?" Shizune asked upon seeing Naruto's limp. Both Sasuke and Naruto blushed, and Shizune's mouth made a little round "o" of understanding as Naruto shook his head.

"Tsunade-baa-chan's getting better?" Naruto asked as he read over the report. Shizune nodded.

"She's been doing fairly well, though apparently she has a tendency to see people who aren't there. Today she was talking to my uncle Dan, Tsunade's fiancé, her little brother Nawaki, and you," Shizune explained. Naruto's eyes widened at the news while Sasuke's eyes narrowed.

"Me?" Naruto asked. Shizune nodded and sighed.

"Your invisible self told her that you'd saved Konoha twice in the past week," Shizune said, shaking her head.

"Not bad," Naruto said thoughtfully. "She remembers me pretty well," Naruto said, grinning widely.

"Naruto, this isn't funny. It sounds like she's getting worse to me, not better," Sasuke noted. Shizune turned to face him.

"These little episodes are still occurring, but they're happening less and less frequently," Shizune said, clearly trying to defend Tsunade-sama. Sasuke was about to say that before she had went into the Asylum she hadn't been seeing people that weren't there, but then quickly closed his mouth. He supposed seeing imaginary people was better than wanting to kill people.

"Thanks for the report, Shizune," Naruto said before Shizune and Sasuke could start bickering. Sasuke had never forgiven Shizune for telling Naruto that he'd been the one to kill Sakura. Naruto had a feeling his lover never would either. Shizune glared at Sasuke, before turning to give a slight tilt to the head in a parting bow to Naruto.

As she was halfway through the door, Naruto remembered something.

"Oi! Shizune!" Naruto called. Shizune turned to look back at Naruto. "There've been reports about traveling Konoha citizens going missing in Rock Country. I may need to send Sasuke away for a time," Naruto said, his face blushing slightly as Sasuke knew what Naruto was about to ask for next. "Can you prepare some of the tea for me in case he's got a long absence?"

"Hai, Hokage-sama," Shizune said as she nodded once, looked distastefully at Sasuke before leaving.

"I think if it were up to her, she'd make the tea all the time to help balance your chakra out instead of having me do it at all," Sasuke all but growled. Once Sakura's death had been made public, they had found that she had discovered an alternative method of dealing with Naruto's chakra imbalance, a solution that almost seemed silly compared to everything that Sasuke had done in what he thought was his only effort to keep Naruto alive.

"Yeah, but the idea of having to live off some stupid tea is so much less exciting than living off of your body," Naruto said lewdly, his eyebrows waggling up and down. Then he frowned slightly as he bit his lip. "Plus drinking all that tea makes me have to pee every hour," Naruto said, his face turned into a frown at the unpleasant side affect of drinking the large amount of tea necessary to balance his chakra. Sasuke chuckled lightly as he moved his hand to Naruto's chin and tilted the other man's face so he could capture his lips better.

Naruto's eyes fluttered shut as he waited for Sasuke's mouth to press against his softly. A tingling sensation went through his body at these tender kisses. The thrill of anticipation as he waited for Sasuke to kiss him, the gentleness and loving gesture making the kiss all the more sensual.

"Naruto?" Sasuke murmured against Naruto's lips.

"Hmm?" Naruto wondered back.

"I love you," Sasuke whispered.

"I love you too," Naruto murmured back.

"Good thing too because you're all mine."

The End.

Finally, this fic is finished. This story has been an emotional roller coaster ride for me for over a year now. I've loved it, and I've hated it. Your comments and reviews have made me feel excited and happy to sad and crushed. Even so, I got something great from this story. My best friend, lL0tus and I first met when she read this as a oneshot, and we've been close ever since. I actually traveled quite a distance to visit her this week. This story is for her as she was the one who kept encouraging me to turn it from a oneshot to a multi-chapter fic.

Now, in regards to this story, first of all, no, there will not be a sequel. Second of all, I will respond (eventually) to all reviews and comments made for this chapter as long as I have a way to get back to you. As I am a visitor, I don't have as much time. I promise I WILL get back to everyone that leaves me a way to get back to them. Lastly, this oneshot turned multi-chapter fic was inspired by another story that I'm currently posting called The Agreement. If you liked this fic, you may like that one as well.

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