When Sakura's plan for the ultimate show of affection towards Sasuke backfires, Sakura suddenly finds herself caught between the man who conquered her art as a young girl and the man that has conquered her very being. Will old emotions win out or will Sakura succumb to the sweetest surrender?

Advisory- This story contains mature themes and subject matters. If you are easily offended by things like family planning and bad words. Don't read. Thank You!

The Sweetest Surrender

By animechick262003

Chapter One

Sakura walked down the baby diapers and detergent isle of the drugstore for the sixth time. She could see the clerk watching her from the overhead mirror. Sakura imagined he suspected she and Ino were up to no good. He couldn't have been father from the truth. She had a real reason for being there and it was located on isle seven. Now if only she could muster the courage to waltz over there and get what she'd come in there to get.

It should have been simple enough except her cheeks flushed crimson, and her gut threatened to send her afternoon lunch to the drugstore floor every time she came close to isle seven. Sakura glanced towards the exit. It wasn't too late. Running clear out of there was a good option. The butterflies in her stomach would die down and she stop having to swallow down that sour taste that clung to the back of her tongue every time the thought of someone she recognized seeing her. Yes, she could escape and forget it all. Forget that she'd ever come up with this bright scheme to show Sasuke once and for all the ultimate depths of her affection for him.

Sakura jerked her head to the left avoiding further eye contact with the exit. A minute more and her anxiety would have escorted her strait out the front door where she'd be safe from probing eyes and her desire to die from embarrassment. "This is your last Chance." Sakura muttered the reminder she'd reached the end of the road. In a half hour every shop in town would shut down for the nights festivities. That included this place.

If she'd gotten the condoms from the hospital she wouldn't be going through this right now but again embarrassment had won out keeping her off the hospital wing that catered to the needs of women. This tiny drugstore in the center of Konoha was her last alternative. If she didn't get the condoms here, she'd never get them.

"The clerk is going to suspect us of being shoplifters at this rate."

"Too late he already does." Sakura glanced back at Ino." Weren't you the courageous one who swore she'd get me what I needed to make my special night go off without a hitch?"

"Yeah, well that was before I realized all these old people come here for their denture fixets. I can't run the risk of some old granny telling my mom I was in the drugstore buying you know what."

"Some help you guys turned out to be." Sakura huffed

"Give me some credit. I at least made it through the door. Hinata fainted on the sidewalk when she saw the sign."

"Like I said, some help." Sakura rolled her eyes and moved down isle five. Light bulbs and extension cords. Not exactly what she was looking for, but one more isle and she'd be there.

"Hey Sakura, I was thinking."

"We agreed you wouldn't do any thinking today." Sakura could tell by Ino's tone where this conversation was leading and she wasn't trying to go there. She'd come this far. Last thing she needed was for Ino to be putting thoughts in her head. Thoughts she didn't need to be having if she wanted to make her statement to the stupid solemn boy of the Uchiha clan.

"But this is a really good thought."

"If it's anything like the thinking you were doing yesterday and the day before that, it's not good."

"Are you sure you want to go through with this?" Ino asked and Sakura sighed. That had to be the hundredth time the blonde had asked her if she were really going to go through with the event she'd planned for over two months.

"You did it."

"Yeah well, I regretted it later."

"Because he hurt you." Sakura glanced back at Ino. Looking at the somber expression on the normally cheerful girl made her hear hurt. If ever there was a poster child for misplaced affections, Ino were it. Ino had never told with whom she'd carried out the act of surrendering her innocence, but Sakura suspected she knew who Ino had loved so deeply as to do such a thing. But she'd never know that hurt. She and Sasuke were different from Ino and Shikamaru. There was no other love like Temari there to threaten what she and Sasuke would have. "Sasuke would never hurt me."

"It's a precious gift, Sakura. The most precious gift you can give anyone, and once it's gone, you can never get it back. You can never get it-" Ino's words choked off. Sakura could see the tears brimming along the ridges of the other girl's eyes, and it hurt just a little more. "What am I saying? Hey, you and Sasuke are not like me and that guy. It's real, and when it's real, nothing can come between you. Nothing and no one. You and Sasuke have what's real, right?"

"Yeah, it's real. It's real." Sakura answered knowing her utterance was more to calm Ino than her own certainty as to true depth of what she and Sasuke shared. True, she'd loved the
Uchiha for as long as she could remember, but had he loved her? Could he love her? Even a little?

"My rambling seems to have stalled our quest," Ino smiled and took Sakura by the hand. "Let's go. We haven' anymore time to waste."

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One isle over Sakura found what she was looking for. Well.. sort of… "Ah…you never mentioned there was such a huge variety," Sakura said watching as Ino collected an assortment of condoms from the drugstore shelf and handed them to her. Sakura cheeks flushed deep crimson as she read over the labels. "Ribbed for her pleasure?"

"Yeah those are a good choice. They add to the sensation, but considering this is your first time perhaps something a little less sensation inducing is better," Ino chirped removing the box from Sakura's hands and replacing it with five other boxes. "We do want you walking the next day."

"You're scaring me," Sakura gulped. "Hey, is it really that painful?"

"Depends on your guy. Is he a gentle lover or is he rough?"

"Sasuke definitely gentle."

"Has he hand many lovers or only a few? An inexperienced lover can make for a not so good experience, but and experienced lover can make for your first trip to paradise."

Sakura blushed "Was your first time paradise?"

Ino smiled her thin pink lips spread thin over her teeth. "Paradise doesn't begin to describe my adventure, Sakura."

"Me too…I want adventure too." Sakura squealed with excitement. " Do you think I will have your kind of adventure?"

Ino shrugged "If you're lucky enough…maybe or maybe you'll have something ten time better."

"Hey you two!" the voice billowed down the isle startling the two girls to their sense's. Sakura looked up and saw the store clerk, arms folded and glaring at them from the end of the isle.

"Sakura tossed four of the five condom boxes to the shelf and started towards the clerk. "Yes?"

"The store is closing in ten minutes. Buy something or get out!"

"We've got what we came for," Ino chimed in making her way toward the check out counter. Sakura followed her lead.

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"Glow in the dark!" all three girls screeched in unison.

They make them glow?" Hinata muttered collapsing butt first onto the park bench.

"Yes they make them glow," Ino answered. "And apparently Sakura wants to make Sasuke glow too." Ino snatched the box from Sakura and read the label. " Green…no neon green. Sauske will have a neon green glow in the dark penis."

"Sakura–chan likes neon green glow in the dark penis?" Hinata muttered.

"No I don't like neon green glow in the dark penis. It's Ino's fault! she gave them to me!" Sakura snatched the box back from Ino and shoved it into her pants pocket.

"I gave you an assortment, not just those. This wouldn't have happened had you actually read what you were picking up.".

"I didn't have time to read. That guy scared me back there. It was all instinct. I went for the first box within reach."

"Obviously," Ino sighed "Well look at the bright side, you'll definitely see Sasuke coming."

"Yes, think of him as a lantern lighting the way," Hinata added.

"Thanks, Hinata. That really helped, except I don't want my first time to be with a lantern. I don't want him lighting the way."

"Well considering all the stores in Konoha are now closed, you have little choice. Let Sasuke brighten your night or do nothing at all, and miss this opportunity to let Sauske know how you truly feel."

''I don't want my fist time to be with a lantern." Sakura declared a second time. Not that screaming this out loud garnered much more than glares from passersby's because it certainly didn't do away with or help the fact that she was stuck with a pack of glow in the dark condoms. "Why is this happening to me? What more can go wrong?" Sakura whined plopping down on the bench next to Hinata.

"Are you deliberately trying to piss the Gods off? Never ask what more can go wrong." Ino huffed. "That being said, I think glowing man torch is the worst you have to look forward to for the evening. The rest will be paradise. You will make the ultimate confession and claim the man you love once and for all. Afterwards, you can tell your kids how Hinata and I brought you and their father together. Well not everything, but a word of thanks would be good."

"All we need now is to make Sakura-chan so beautiful Sasuke-kun can't look away." Hinata climbed to her feet and extended her hand to Sakura. "Come, we have to make tonight perfect."

"Hinata's right. I can work with your cloth hair, but that forehead of yours…well we'll just have to pray about it."

"Ino!"

"I'm only stating facts, forehead girl. Besides, not everyone can look as beautiful as me. That's why we have make-up, in your case, lots and lots of hair which I will use to cover that forehead of yours."

"Inooo!"

"No need to thank me now. Thank me at the wedding reception." Ino turned and started down the sidewalk Hinata in pursuit.

Wedding reception? Sakura's cheeks filled with blood. Could this night be the beginning of something as wonderful as marriage and children? Would she and Sasuke's destiny be forever changed? God she hoped so!

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Well a good friend of mine has been begging me to write something for the Naruto Fandom, and here it is. This is just for you Erica. I hope it's what you hoped for. Chapter Two will be up later tonight. Oh and if you like don't hesitate to let me know.