Blind Chapter 6: end1, a naruto fanfic

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"Blue" Ino said

"White" Sakura replied

"Blue"

"White"

"Green?" Lee stuck his head around the doorframe

"!" Ino uttered

"?" Sakura replied hiding

"Lee get out!" Ino screamed shoving the unfortunate man across the hallway and throwing him out of the front door. He sat in the street for a moment or two looking downcast, suddenly though he smiled, standing he re-tied his hair and looked around.

Naruto was walking down the street

"Naruto!" Lee shouted

"Yep?" Naruto replied coming carefully closer

"Want to go get ramen while I wait for Sakura?" Lee pointed to where the stand stood behind him

"Sure!" Naruto grinned.

On entering they saw Iruka and Kakashi sitting holding hands, Naruto shook his head towards a seat far away from the couple.

"How come you don't want to sit near your sensei's?" Lee asked as they sat down

"They don't get to spend much time together, so's I figure we should let them be" an evil glint came into Naruto's eye "So… when's the date?"

Lee raised his eyebrows "You don't know!?"

"What about you and Sakura having this big date? Sure I do"

Lee banged his head on the table "Where have you been?"

"Ero-sennen and me went to the land of snow after the mission with Tenten was finished, I didn't get chance to be back at the village we needed to deliver something to the queen, still tell me about this date! What are you going to wear? What's Sakura going in? Where are you going?"

Taking a deep breath Lee spoke "I'll be wearing formal ninja kit, Sakura will be wearing a dress (in either white or blue) and it'll be in the Village hall, oh and Tsunade will be there"

Naruto looked blank…then puzzled…then something whirred in his head…there was an audible click followed by Naruto shrieking "Wait, you're getting MARRIED?"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes I'm sure"

"Are you SURE?"

"I'm SURE"

"Are you sure you're sure"

"YES!"

"Are you sure you're sure you're…."Bam

"Ino I AM SURE!" Sakura let her friend down from where she had been holding her against the wall

"Alright" the blond woman said, "I was just checking"

"Why though, I wouldn't have said yes if I wasn't sure"

"I just hope it isn't a scheme to get over Ssasuke…"

Sakura froze a moment before replying, "Oh I sent him an Invite"

"WHAT?"

"Yeh, "Dear murdering bastard, please come to my wedding" wasn't sure where to send it so I just addressed it "Snake lovers room, paedophile's hidden layer" Sakura twirled around angrily

"Sakura…. I'm sorry its just I knew you loved him…"

"Past tense Ino…. near the end he was a team mate a brother, his betrayal isn't something I like to talk about"

"I still don't understand why you're marrying Lee"

After calming Naruto down Lee had told him everything, from the day he came back to Kahona to proposing to Sakura.

"Do you mind?" he said suddenly punctuating the silence following his story

"Huh?" Naruto's eyes lost their faraway look "Why would I mind?"

"Well…I…. um know you had a thing for Sakura"

"Ah, I kinda got over that, she's a team mate, and more like a sister now, the girl I like is…" Naruto froze his face fighting between normal and total adoration "…. there"

Lee turned around to see Hinata Hyuuga enter the ramen stall. She greeted the two sensei's tiredly and ordered a bowl of ramen.

"Hinata's an ANBU captain now?" Lee asked quietly noting the pure black outfit she wore and the cat mask, which hung from her backpack

"Mahhh" Naruto replied laying his head on his arms on the table "Just 'cos she's not AS good as her cousin doesn't mean she's not perfect, she doesn't even stutter anymore…man she's perfected so many techniques now…"

"Naruto" Lee said

"She always made me laugh I miss her being around…"

"Naruto…" he tried again

"Not to mention she's beautiful I mean her hair…."

"Naruto" a different voice broke in…. a female voice

Naruto squeaked and looked up.

Hinata stood there with a bowl of raman in her hand; she had obviously been coming to join the pair. She carefully put her ramen on the table.

"Did you mean what you just said?" she asked in clear even tones

Naruto nodded keeping eye contact.

Lee wasn't the only one to gasp when the Hyuuga heiress leant forward and kissed the daemon vessel.

When they pulled away Hinata was blushing but not as much as Naruto.

"I…have to go" Lee said giving his seat to Hinata. He fled the stand trying not to laugh.

"I still don't understand why you're marrying Lee"

Lee froze at Ino's question, it had been one he had been struggling with for about a month now, ever since he proposed

"Ino…."

"No tell me and I'll leave it alone"

"Alright" Sakura sat down gathering her thoughts "When I couldn't see he was there for me, I didn't even know it was him, I'd always known him as being loud and nerve wracking." Lee smiled at that "I might have loved him then but I didn't know until after I drove him away…. I didn't realise how much he cared for me, it's hard to explain. When I first lost my sight I wanted him there so badly, and then I realised I loved him but I'd driven him away probably forever" Sakura laughed suddenly "Then a man came and he helped me, made me laugh…. and I began to fall for him. I changed, I realised that there's more to loving someone than their looks…. one of the main reasons I never let myself fall for Lee. Here I was falling for a guy I couldn't even see. Imagine my surprise when the man who had been helping me turned out to be Lee. When I woke up after all the pain and saw him, I couldn't recognise him. Then I realised that I could see past his outer appearance…even if he is handsome enough to fight girls off with sticks now…I realised I could see his inner beauty…. the part of him that forgave me" Sakura stroked the ring on her finger "The part of him that loves me…. I could see HIM"

Lee wiped away tears that had been flowing down his cheeks and walked into the room. "Ino…. could you go away for a bit" it wasn't a question so she left as Lee walked past her and held out his arms to Sakura.

She too had been crying and ran to him.

When she was safely in his arms Lee bent down and whispered "I'd forgive you a hundred times over" she smiled up at him and Lee bent down to touch his lips to hers.