A/N - Let's do this.

As Naruto hit the last step, he stopped and stood, looking at Sakura's door for a moment. With a slight frown, he shoved his hands in his pocket, casually walking the rest of the way. His facial expression was hard as he willed himself not to show or feel any emotions while he grabbed the door knob, pausing for a moment before pushing it open and walking in.

He half expected to see Sakura sitting in a chair in the middle of the room, watching the door and waiting for him. Instead, Sakura was on her bed, criss-crossed, with her eyes in her palms.

Already his defenses were weakening.

He sighed, half because of the aggravation that swept over him for being weak, and half in relief to see Sakura was doing just as bad as he was.

Naruto walked over and sat on the edge of the bed silently and continued to stay silent as they both remained mute. He stared straight ahead with dull eyes, his heart heavy and his mind finally free from all the thoughts that had been buzzing around continuously since last night. Distantly, his ear twitched at the sound of a clock ticking without a moments rest, as if timing their time of none speech. Just when he was about to turn around and look at Sakura, she spoke.

"Naruto." She said barely over a whisper, and again his defenses weakened even more, the sound of her hurt voice breaking him into two.

"Yeah." He responded with a dead voice, dragging his eyes towards the ground as he sighed out heavily, rubbing both of his eyes.

'I'm really sorry." Sakura cracked out, and Naruto's heart squeezed at the sound.

"That isn't what this plan is about," Naruto said dully, boring his eyes at the ground as he struggled to contain his emotions, "We are suppose to be talking."

"But-," Sakura started, but then cut herself off, taking a moments pause before starting again, "Fine," She said, sounding fierce with aggravation, "How is this suppose to work."

"From the look of Ino's text," Naruto mumbled, "We are suppose to get out both of our sides of the story, and tell each other what's wrong with it."

Sakura crossed her arms, "Right. Who's first."

"You are of course." Naruto said, leaning back to sit straight up, "So I can see exactly what you saw and I can explain it logically."

"Fine." Sakura said rudely, her eyes at the door that lead out of her room, trying hard not to even glance at Naruto, "Ino told me that Sasuke said you and him were going to Shika's place to hang out. I was near the area, so I decided to go over and, to be honest, steal you away so you could hang with me instead because after the argument we had the night before about you smoking, I really missed you. And during school we didn't exactly talk normally, which made me miss you even more. I wanted to make up properly." Sakura paused, thinking about exactly what happened, "I went to Shika's door but when I rang the doorbell, no one came. I knew his parents were at work and he wouldn't have minded if I let myself in, so I checked to see if the door was open and walked right in. I thought you guys would be playing some videogames or something, but when I didn't see you in the living room, I checked upstairs, but no one answered my calls. That's when I figured you guys must be playing pool or something in the garage, so I checked."

Sakura frowned as she started to remember the scene, "I heard from Kiba say that 'Everyone deserves a proper goodbye,' and I heard everyone laughing. When I opened the door and peaked inside, I saw you looking at the blunt. I pushed the door all the way open, because for some reason," She paused, frowning even more in anger, "I figured what I was seeing with my own two eyes was some sort of a mistake. Because, for some reason, I believed my very trust worthy boyfriend over my own sight. That's when everyone stopped laughing, and you finally noticed I was there. But I didn't plan on sticking around, why would I? Just so you could lie in my face about how you weren't about to smoke."

Naruto listened to the story, his frown growing deep as he heard the ending, "I think, maybe, you should have continued to believe in you're 'Trust worthy' boyfriend."

Sakura snorted sarcastically, "Yeah, ok."

Naruto turned to her, still frowning deeply, "Seriously, you should have. Let me tell you how it went down on my end."

Sakura listened expectedly.

"After the night we argued, I went home pretty down, because I never like arguing with you and it always took a full day or two for us to get back to normal, and I always hated waiting for that to pass." Naruto stopped, looking at her as if she were suppose to get something.

Sakura stayed silent.

He shook his head, turning forward, "You aren't getting it. After we argued, I was upset that I had to wait for us to go back to normal. I wasn't upset about having to stop smoking, I didn't think about how you were controlling everything I do-"

"Fine!" Sakura said in aggravation, "Then next time I won't say a damn thing so I won't have to be 'controlling.'"

Naruto groaned, "You're getting angry over nothing. I said I wasn't thinking that."

"If you said it," Sakura pointed out angrily, "Then you must have thought that one day."

Naruto shook his head, still looking ahead, "This plan is stupid." He stood up and walked towards the door, "It's whatever Sakura, I'll see you around, alright."

But before Sakura could stop him, or even Naruto could grab the door knob, his phone from his back pocket rang loudly as Sasuke's ring tone jingled. Eyebrows coming together, he slid the phone out and answered, "Hello?"

"You better not be trying to leave." Sasuke said in a bored tone over the phone.

Naruto's eye twitched, "What the fuck dude, are you outside the door or something?"

"No, I just know you that well," Sasuke said with a sigh.

"He tried to leave?" Ino's chippery voice came from the background.

"Yeah, the idiot." Sasuke answered.

Naruto growled, "Still on the phone you know!"

"Yeah, that's the problem," Sasuke said with aggravation, "Sit your ass back down and talk it through, or I swear I'll use force."

Color drained from Naruto, but still he tried weakly to act tough, "I'm not scared of you."

"What do you keep doing to him, Sasuke?" Ino asked, "The way he sounds, its as if he's about to piss himself."

"He's just a pussy." Sasuke said.

Ino giggled.

"The fuck!" Naruto yelled.

Sasuke sighed, "Just sit down and finish dobe. Bye."

With that, Sasuke hung up.

With Naruto's eye still twitching with aggravation, Naruto slowly made his way to the edge of the bed and sighed, "Right, where were we."

"Start over again. Please?" Sakura asked softly.

Naruto sighed again and started, "When I went home that night, I was upset that I had to wait a day for us to get back to normal. The thing you aren't getting is, I wasn't upset about having to stop smoking. And I wasn't thinking you were controlling. I was thinking how much it sucked that we argued when we both hated it so much, and I was upset that I had to wait so long. Smoking wasn't even on my mind…" Naruto paused, closing his eyes as he continued, "That whole day at school was torture for me. I felt as if me and you were being so fake towards each other, acting like things were fine when they really weren't. I hated it. Sasuke offered we go over to Shika's to hang because I told him that I couldn't bare facing you anymore today, afraid that we would go through the whole fake routine again. When we got there, we did play videogames and everything was chill, but Kiba stated he had enough weed for two joints, and asked if we wanted to smoke."

Naruto opened his eyes, continuing, "I was going to say no, but Sasuke already said sure. And I really didn't feel like being a weed block and stopping him from smoking just because I had to, so I just went along with it and went with them. We went to the garage and they smoked and laughed, and when it was passed to me, I just grabbed it. It was automatic for me, I can't explain it." He paused with a frown, "I know that sounds like a really lame excuse, but I can't tell you any other reason why I took it. I told them I couldn't and Kiba asked why not. Shikamaru told him why and they started to laugh and that's when you heard Kiba said take a hit anyway, everyone deserves a proper goodbye. When you came in, I was looking at it, and to be honest, I was really thinking about it. But, seriously Sakura." He said, looking behind him to look at Sakura, "I really don't think I could have done it. Even though I was thinking about it, I really don't think I could have."

Sakura looked away from him, staring at the wall that was left of her, "You were thinking about it…"

"But I wouldn't have." Naruto said confidently with a nod, "I couldn't have done that to you."

"Why should I believe you?" Sakura whispered.

Naruto took a breath, trying not to become angry at the question, "Because, Sakura, wouldn't it be a bit odd if after everything we have been through, and after every time up till now I have listened to you without question, that out of no where I would chose yesterday to say 'Fuck Sakura, Imma do what I want'?"

"I didn't want to believe it." Sakura mumbled.

Naruto turned around fully and climbed totally on the bed, "Of course you didn't, because it's me, Sakura." He said softly, sitting next to Sakura, who had brought her knees up to her chin, "The guy who is so deeply in love with you. The guy who has heeded you're word as if the president himself has said it to me.(1)"

"You really weren't smoking?" Sakura asked softly, turning her heard and looking at Naruto.

Naruto smiled slightly, "Baby, why would I ever risk losing you? I couldn't bare it."

Sakura closed her eyes, tears starting to fall, "I'm really really sorry."

Naruto smiled, wrapping an arm around Sakura, "Shh, it's fine. I should have explained myself better instead of running away and being angry."

"You had the right too, I was being so stupid." Sakura signed, leaning against Naruto.

Naruto kissed Sakura on her cheek, "No you weren't. I was doing horrible with out you by the way."

Sakura smiled slightly at that, "Yeah?

Naruto nodded, "Should have seen me, I was a wreck."

Just then Ino creaked the door open, peaking her head through, "Oh! You see, I told you they were done. Look at the cuddling in the corner."

Ino walked in full, and Sasuke followed with his hands in his pockets, "Yup." He said with a smirk, " A bunch of idiots."

Naruto glared at Sasuke, "Would you get the fuck outta here!"

Ino skipped towards Sakura, "Are you alright sweet heart?"

Sakura nodded with a small smile as Sasuke laughed, turning around, "You don't have to tell us twice, we are off to finally spend time by ourselves."

Ino winked at Sakura with a smile, "You know," She said, turning and walking towards the door, "Without our stupid best friends and their drama filled life."

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Don't sound too excited Sasuke, you're going to be busy wooing Ino with romantic stuff anyway, remember."

Ino giggled and glanced at Naruto as she continued to walk, "Good point."

While Ino wasn't looking, Sasuke turned around, mouthing for Naruto to help him. But the golden best friend just laughed as Ino pulled Sasuke along, closing the door behind them.

A few seconds afterwards, Sakura climbed on top of Naruto's lap, facing him, " You know I was doing horrible too."

Naruto looked up at Sakura as she sat on his lap, "Really?"

Sakura smiled slightly, leaning forward, "Yes. I missed you so much." Naruto grinned and Sakura continued softly, "I love you. My heart really hurt without you. Do you forgive me?"

Naruto smiled gently, "Yes babe, I forgive you."

With that, Sakura continued to lean forward till their lips touched and the kissed in blissful silence.

The end.

(1) - I wanted to say hokage, but obviously this is suppose to be out of the village type of story and more modern. So president it is.

Who doesn't like a fluffy ending from time to time! Thanks for reading, hoped you enjoyed. Catch ya on the flip side yo! lol jk See ya

Shycadet loves.

Out.