Whoot whoot we're BACK!!! After a year…….whoopsie daisy…..

Shikamaru silently walked in the front of the group as they headed back to the village. Behind him, however, he could not say the same for the rest of his team.

"Shiiiiikkkaaaaaa," Ino whined, "When are we getting back? I need my beauty rest!"

Choji joined in. "Yea! And I need to eat! I ate all of my chips already!" TenTen ran up next to Shikamaru to put in her two sense.

"And I have to sharpen my weapons! Do you know how effective a dull blade is? It's not! That's how!"

Kiba started to complain about is dog. "Akamaru wants his special food!" It was silent for a few moments. Shikamaru sighed, finally. Some peace and quiet.

"Youthful Friends! Lets make our trip home more enjoyable with a youthful race!" Lee shouted with enthusiasm. Everyone groaned.

"I don't have enough energy to run!" Choji complained. Lee sighed dejectedly but gave up on his 'youthful race'. Silence once again took over the group until…

"Um, Shikamaru," Ino walked up to their team leader, "I've got a problem…" Shikamaru looked over at her, his expression hardly showing concern. "Um…how do I say this? I'm blee…..I have my…..well….once a month-

"You got your period!" Lee shouted with joy. "Your long journey to womanhood has finally ended!" TenTen responded back whacking him on the head with one of her many dull weapons.

"So, how bout that youthful race?" Kiba piped in.

It was late at night when the group finally made camp. Everyone was doing their own thing. Neji was snoring like hog, Sakura was sleeping like an angel (in Sasuke's opinion anyway). Naruto and Hinata snuck away to the edge of the camp while Kakashi spied on them and Sai took notes on this 'strange' human behavior.

Shino sat by the fire playing with his bugs oblivious to what was going on behind him. He looked up only once when he heard Sasuke sit down by Sakura.

Sasuke however was not oblivious to what was going on but he chose to ignore it. It made him fell….jealous…

He turned his attention back to Sakura hiding how worried he was about her. When is she going to wake up? Sasuke drummed is fingers against his leg. He was concerned but growing impatient. Naruto appeared at his side out of nowhere with a big smile. "Don't worry your pretty little head emo-Teme. Sakura will wake up soon enough and you can make out with her all you want." Naruto gave Sasuke a noogie.

"Unlike you that's not my only concern." He looked pointedly at Hinata who bushed profusely and looked down.

"Naruto stop picking on Sasuke, you know how sensitive he gets."

"Haha yea, you're right Sakura-Chan!- Sakura?!" Naruto fell over in surprise and Sasuke kept his reaction down to a small jump. "You're awake!"

"Sakura…"Sasuke helps her sit up. "How long have you been up?"

"Long enough to see you blush at Naruto's comment" Sasuke twitched at what she said and narrowed his eyes at her. Naruto laughed in the background only to have Sasuke's attention turn toward him. "Boys, let's get our baring before we're at each others' throats." Her friends looked back at her. "Now, down to business. First, what happened in the fight with Raiden? Second, Where in Kami's name are we? And third, and most important, where's the food, because this ninja is hungry!"

Sakura's only answer was that of blank stares. "Um…are you feeling okay Sakura-Chan?" Naruto question, genuinely concern.

"Of course I am! I'm hungry, just woke up from being unconscious, used a lot of my chakra for the Uzumaki and you guys wont shut up! Yeah I feel just dandy."

"Somebody woke up on the wrong side of the ground."

Naruto was then greeted by a fist to the face, causing him to fly backwards into a sleeping Neji thus waking him up. Sakura then stated. "When I say you don't shut up I actually am saying SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

"Would someone mind telling me why this idiot was thrown at me!!" Neji shouted at the group.

Sasuke ignored him and turned his attention to Sakura. "Well the answer to your questions are that, you defeated Raiden with your Uzumaki, we are currently at camp about a day away from Konoha…and-" He was no sooner cut off my Naruto who had answered Sakura's last question.

"We haven't had dinner yet, so I'll go make something-"

"NO!" Everyone in the camp shouted, excluding Sasuke who gave one of his notorious glares. Sakura then continued on where everyone else left off. "Last time you cook, it moved." Sasuke was then about to suggest something when Sakura beat him to it. "Don't even think about it, Uchiha's and cooking, do not equal out."

After dinner which Hinata cooked, the group decided that the next best course of action was to get some sleep before the journey ahead of the. The only one that sleep didn't over come, was Sasuke and Sakura. "Sakura….do you remember after the fight…?" Sasuke questioned gazing at her through the warm glow of the campfire.

She smiled brightly at him. "Of course I do silly. I blacked out and woke up to you two idiots shouting your brains out." He happiness soon changed to sarcasm.

"Hn…" He said grumpy.

She laughed at him and smiled. "Why what happened?"

"You feel after the fight."

"And what does that have to do with anything?"

"Shut up, don't make this any harder than it already is…"

"Okay…I'm a little on the confused side…" She then looked at him, she could tell he was not amused. "Fine, carry on emo-one." She rolled her eyes, while he glared at her.

"I'm sorry you fell." He said as he looked away from her.

She sighed. He could be so sweet yet at time so difficult. "I'm guessing, you mean 'I'm sorry I didn't catch you' is that about right?"

"Hn…"

She laughed once again and said, "Apology accepted big guy."

"Good…"

Sakura twitched, but let it drop as she scooted over next to him. "Sasuke-Kun, I'm really glad you finally decided to stay with me…you really have no idea how much it means to me…"

"Hn…Sakura…" He then slowly and gentle closed the cap between his and Sakura's lips. After the kiss, Sasuke took her hands in his and gazed into her eyes with so much love it made Sakura blush.

"Sakura…we both know how we feel towards each other." He said looking away awkward. "I….uh….need s-someone….to uh…" He stuttered while his eyes looked everywhere but towards Sakura. "I….n-need someone to help carry on the Uchiha legacy….and that s-s-s-someone would be you…of course…"

"You want me to have SEX WITH YOU!?!?!?!"

"no! Marry you…idiot."

"Oh…"

"Sakura-Chan, will you make this lonely man your groom?"

SEQUEAL ALERT!! READ IF YOU WANT TO KNOW!!

And that's it!!! This story is finally DONE!!! Sorry it ended in the worst possible way but here is the things….there's a sequel!!! And no its not a time skip where they have kids…

And before I tell you what its name is I want to some one thing up for you….they all make it back to the leaf village safe and sound.

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, schools been a bitch and lifes not any better, well I think I am here to stay…as long as work doesn't get worse….well anyway I'm sorry and I hope I haven't lost any of your loyal reviews

Well anyway I mentioned that the name might be The Lies that Hide Behind the Eyes

…..corny I know but hey its catchy and its close to the orginal….well any way I know you all will like it….theres a lot of jealouy betrayal and DRAMA!! More Naru Hina romance and more Neji Sasuke fights YAY!!

Well thank you to all who reviewed and read my story, this would not have been possible without my loyal readers!!! THANK YOU AND GOOD NIGHT! (Throws up index finger and middle. ) PEACE!