*EPILOGUE*

Sakura filed her nails, waiting for Ino to answer the phone.

"Hello?" a voice said at the other end of the line.

"Hey, Ino, it's me, Sakura."

"Oh, what's up, Sakura?"

"I was wondering...if a guy says he doesn't hate you, what does that mean?"

A brief silence from Ino. "It depends, I guess. Who is he?"

Sakura allowed herself to smile. "Oh, someone special."

"Um, okay. Hey, listen, Forehead, I heard Sasuke's fanboys went to the Sand after your little flirting with Sasuke," Ino sounded amused.

"Really? The fanboys? And to the Sand? For what?"

"For who, you mean. Poor Gaara. Younger boys are on Sasuke's fanboys' radar now. As for the girls, they stayed and went after Neji instead. Tenten was furious!" Ino giggled. "Girls didn't see it coming until Tenten bombed the entire training grounds."

A hand flew up to Sakura's mouth. "Oh my God! Are they okay?"

"Well, Neji and Tenten were. The girls are in intensive care. We women are evil, right?," Ino said. "How about your teammates? How are you guys?"

"Sasuke-kun and Naruto are in trouble again," Sakura sighed. "They tried to see how Kakashi-sensei looked without his mask and one of their plans went wrong."

"And you and Sasuke-kun?"

"Are doing so great, thanks," Sakura replied. "News on Shikamaru?"

"Ugh. I don't want to talk about it. Hey, I have to go now. Bye, Sakura. I'll see you later," Ino hung up.

Sakura put the phone down. She sat in silence for a while when something glittering caught her eye. She grinned, remembering the time it was hung up on the wall.

"Why are you still insisting on hanging it up there?" Sakura asked.

"It reminds me of the time the best day of my life," Sasuke replied.

"Oh, stop," Sakura playfully said, hugging Sasuke from behind.

She heard the door unlock and came to greet the one who came in.

"Hey, Sasuke-kun. How did Tsunade-sama punish you guys today?"

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Community service. Let's eat dinner later."

He grabbed her hand and pulled her upstairs, to their bedroom. Sakura gave the glittering ornament one last glance before going up.

It was the bedazzled katana.

Author's Note/s and Acknowledgments:

WOW. So now, it's really done. I made Sasuke and Sakura live together. I like how I made the katana a remembrance of some sort. And yeah, I actually tortured Gaara. Sorry, Gaara! Isn't he such an awesome Kazekage? As for last chapter, have you heard Sasuke say 'Usuratonkachi'? You gotta admit, it sounds really hot. Naruto has his 'dattebayo' and Sakura has her 'Sasuke-kun!' I got the idea from this video (once again, on YT) called "At the End of this Video, you will be SICK of Team Seven'. It's sorta funny. But Team Gai's my favourite team anyway so whatever. Acknowledgments! I don't know if an 8-chapter, plus epilogue, story needs acknowledgements (how do you SPELL this? MS Word accepts it with or without the 'e' after 'g') but it's so fun to see your name (or at least pen name) in a story, RIGHT?

Viry-chan-MY NUMBER ONE REVIEWER AND THE AWESOMEST MEXICAN I KNOW. Also known as a Sasuke fangirl :)) Your PMs always make my day and your reviews have encouraged me and made me feel so loved. THANKS SO MUCH! And don't worry, we'll get on that collab soon. Everyone watch out for it! Well...we haven't actually done it yet but we have started!...if only we weren't so busy talking about SasuSaku XD

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Wouldn't it be so awesome if this actually happened in the series? Okay, I'm gonna end now. THANKS SO MUCH, EVERYONE!