Past and Future

Chapter 22: The Ending

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Kushina and Sakura spent the hour together. Kushina was allowed to be out at the hospital. Tsunade didn't want Sakura to leave until her wounds fully healed, which Minato agreed on, unfortunaly for Sakura. Even Kushina had told her to stay but Sakura could guess even Kushina didn't like to stay at hospitals. The hour had gone to quick and Minato left with Kushina, leaving Sakura alone.

MEANWHILE

Sarutobi looked at team 7, thinking about telling them something about Sakura. He knew they wouldn't take this well but Sarutobi didn't want to send Sakura back to the future in this condition.

"Well, I might as well tell you now. As being Hokage, and looking at the rapport about Sakura's health from Tsunade, I'm going to have to tell you some bad news. I don't want to send Sakura back to the future in her condition. From what Tsunade told me, she has no idea how long it will take before Sakura is fully revcorved from the wound Sasuke gave her."

No one said a thing. Naruto looked serious for the first time, at least in front of the Hokage. "Old man, I know what your trying to say. The time travel would risk Sakura's health and you don't want that." Naruto looked at Kakashi, who was a bit confused. "But we can just wait for her to recover so we can take her with us."

Sarutobi sadly shook his head. "I know you want her to go back with you, but maybe it's best to let her go? You have seen how happy she is and taking her back to where Sasuke is waiting isn't something she would like to return to. Let her stay here. Sure it would go against the rules when it comes to time travel but I think she would be more happy here. And if you want her happy, let her stay here."

Sarutobi let it sink in for them, Naruto met his eyes and nodded. Sarutobi knew by looking in Naruto's eyes he was ready to let Sakura go if it would make her happy. Naruto looked at Sai, who looked at Kakashi, like they were waiting for him to say something about it.

Sigh. "You might be right Hokage-sama"

With Minato and Kushina.

They were walking to take Kushina back, she had yet to gain trust from the Hokage to get free and contiune her shinobi duties.

"Minato, do you know if Sakura will stay?" Kushina asked. She looked at Minato.

He sighed. "I don't know Kushina. A part of me hopes she will stay."

Kushina smiled a small smile. "So it's not just me who hopes she will stay, I want her to stay, I doubt she wants to go back."

Minato nodded. "Yeah, we just have to wait and see."

WITH SAKURA

Sakura sat watching through the window, she was tired and wanted to have company. She wished Minato would hurry and get back.

''Where is he? He wouldn't take this long to leave Kushina." The door opened and in came Naruto, Sai and Kakashi.

"How are you feeling Sakura?" Kakashi asked, a hint of worrry could be heard in his voice. Sakura looked at Kakashi and threw her hands up in the air. "I could have been better, but I'm fine."

"Sakura-chan, I, we need to talk to you." Naruto said "We were at the Hokage's talking and we decided if you really want to and are truly happy here, you should stay."

"Nani? Are you serious?" Sakura asked looking at Naruto, then at Sai and last at Kakashi who nodded. "Yeah, we are serious Sakura. We can't force you to go back to a Konoha were you would be unhappy. The Hokage told us to let you go and let you decide what you want."

Sakura looked down she didn't dare to look at her teammates, beacuse if she did they would remind her all of their times they spent together. Tears started to fall.

"I want to stay beacuse I found someone who loves me for who I am. And I know I love him too much to let him go. And I don't want to go back but at the same time, I want to beacuse of our friends…"

"Sakura. Don't let them be a reason to go back." Naruto said with narrowed eyes. Sakura was shocked to hear those words from Naruto but at the same time, happy. They wanted her to be happy, to stay with the man she loved so much and he loved her too. Sakura smiled "I…I want…I want to stay here" Sakura whispered tears falling. Naruto smiled and took her hand.

"See it wasn't so bad, Sakura-chan." Naruto wrapped his arms around her, hugging her for the last time. Sakura tried to hold back her tears but failed. Naruto let her go and Sai walked forward and gave her a hug.

"We'll miss you, old hag." Sai muttered but smiled a true smile. Then last Kakashi. "Sakura, we'll miss you and hopefully u can make the future a better one then the future we know." Kakashi hugged her and took something out from his pocket. "I want you to have these. If Sandaime knew I gave those to you, I think he wouldn't he too happy."

Sakura looked down and saw it was two pictures of team 7 and team Kakashi. "Don't worry, Kakashi-sensei. I won't tell him you gave me these." Kakashi smiled his usual eye smile. "Good girl. Behave now and take care of sensei and my teammates for me will you?"

"Hai, of course I will." Sakura smiled. Kakashi, Sai and Naruto stood up.

"So this is it? It's time to say goodbye now Sakura-chan." Naruto said. He almost started to cry but he turned around to wipe the tears away.

"Wait? You're leaving now?" Sakura asked, panic rising. Kakashi nodded. "We can't stay here too much longer, Sakura. The charka that lady Tsunade used to send us back is limited. So we must go now I'm afraid. "

"Goodbye Sakura-chan. don't worry I'll beat up the Uchiha for you." Naruto said grinning. "Goodbye, I guess this is the last time we will see each other." Sakura said but Kakashi shook his head.
"Remember Sakura. You have me here and there is a chance to see Naruto but not as your teammate." Kakashi said blinking with his eye. Then Sakura smiled.

"Bye!" They left, leaving her alone once again. Tsunade came in and right then Sakura couldn't hold back her tears. Tsunade hurried to her side hugging her without saying any words because she had no words that could help her. Tsunade looked out through the window "You better hurry and come back Minato or else…"

Minato was on his way back to Sakura when he saw Team Kakashi. They were just outside of the hospital. Minato frowned, something wasn't right. Naruto was the first one to notice Minato, so he waved to him and grinned. Kakashi also noticed him but he looked more serious. Minato walked up to them.

"You visit Sakura?" He asked. "Yeah, we did." Naruto said. He opens his mouth to speak but stopped himself. Minato had a feeling there was something they wanted say.

"Something wrong?" Minato frowned when he saw their faces. They looked a bit sad but at the same time…

"Sensei, take care of Sakura. Make sure nothing happens to her." Kakashi said, while he opened up his book and started to read. Minato tensed but asked "What do you mean by that Kakashi?"

Kakashi sighed, he knew his sensei well, but he had no idea how he would take this. "Well, we have a time limit for being in the past and now, it's time for us to go back…

Minato frowned, his words almost tore him apart but Minato letting his thoughts running through his head didn't catch Kakashi's word.

..Without sakura"

"Huh? Gomen but could you say that again Kakashi?" Minato asked, he couldn't believe he had heard those words. Kakashi smiled his eye smile.

"I said without Sakura. I never thought you would get bad hearing sensei." Kakashi joked and chuckled. Minato's eyes widened and never thought that would be true. Sakura would stay here with him.

"But are you really sure about this? Have you talked to Sakura?" Minato asked knowing how much she had missed her friends and family.

"We talked to her just a moment ago and the Hokage didn't want to send Sakura back to the future in her condition. And we can't wait, because of the time limit."

"What Kakashi-sensei is trying to say is, take care of Sakura and make sure nothing bad happens to her." Naruto said grinning.

Minato watched him but smiled. "Don't worry I will."

"It's time for us to go now bye!" A bright light appeared and when it was gone, team Kakashi was also gone. Minato watched the place where they had been standing and then looked up at the sky.

"I will take care of her, there is no need to worry." Minato whispered and continued his way to Sakura. Minato walked to her room. He opened the door and saw Tsunade hugging Sakura. Tsunade looked up and smiled. Sakura also looked up. She swallowed and smiled to him. He walked over to her, Tsunade let her go and decided to leave them alone, so she walked out. Minato dried the tears away. He sat down on the bed, pulling her to him. He kissed her forehead, whispering words only for her to listen to.

"I love you, Sakura Haruno, and I will always love you no matter what happens, I will protect you with my life. "

2 years later

A young woman with long pink hair wearing a long dark blue kimono with a white sash. The woman was on her way to the Hokage tower, to see if the Hokage had time to get some lunch with her. Emerald eyes were looking around, shining with happiness and joy. A few people said hello to her and she answered them. When she was just outside of the Hokage office she knocked on the door waiting for an answer.

"Come in"

The young woman smiled and opened the door and walked in, closing the door behind her. "Hello Hokage, I didn't interrupt something did I?" The woman asked.

The Hokage who had his back to her turned around smiling. "You didn't interrupt , you never do Sakura-chan"

Sakura shook her head. "Well then, I guess you have time to get some lunch with me, Minato-kun"

Minato walked to her, wrapped his arms around her holding her tight. He buried his face in her neck, sighing. "That sounds good, I need something to eat now, and the paperwork is killing me."

Sakura smirked "And yet you wanted the job as Hokage, you can't complain now." Minato looked up at her.

"Are you crazy? I would never complain about it, I wanted to become Hokage and I did make it real, and knowing you, you already knew I would become the Hokage right?"

Sakura looked at him with amused eyes. "Of course I did, I just wanted to let you work to get there, I couldn't go and say you would be the next Hokage now could I?"

Minato looked at her under silence. "You're right, that wouldn't be good for me if you told me that."

"By the way, got any news about Orochimaru yet?" Sakura asked.

"Changing subject are we? Well no, our spies haven't seen or heard anything about him, why so curious?"

"Because, when you find him, I want go and kill him. So he isn't any trouble for the village later on. It was because of him, that boy betrayed the village, by giving him a curse mark." Sakura said smiling.

"Don't worry, he won't be any trouble for us, I will make sure he won't lay his hands on any of the people of my village. By the way, there is something I want ask you."

Minato took her arm and guided her to the chair making her sit. Sakura frowned but everything became clear when Minato knelt down and took her hand.

"Haruno Sakura, since I meet you I have loved you, you are my everything. I don't know what I would do if I lost you, but I want to ask you, would you marry me?" He asked and picked up a small box and opened it, inside was a diamond ring.

Sakura didn't know what to do she was so shocked. This wasn't something she would excepted to happen at least not today anyway. When she got over her shock and tears of joy she finally answered. "Of course I want marry you."

Minato grinned and put the ring on her finger and pulled her up to kiss her deeply. They broke the kiss when they needed air to breath.

"Oh by the way, Minato-kun, I have some good news to you" Sakura said smiling.

"Oh? What's it?"

"I'm pregnant"

"…."

"Minato?"

DUNS!

One hour later after waking Minato and soon to be father, the whole village knew that the Hokage would be a father, after he had flashed around the village and screamed it like an idiot. But hey, that was one of many things Sakura Haruno loved Minato for.

One year later.

Congratulations, it's a healthy baby boy." Tsunade said smiling looking at the parents.

"Can I hold him?" Sakura asked tired but happy.

"Of course. Here" Tsunade carefully lifted the baby to Sakura and she took him in her arms watching him with so much love.

"Isn't he cute?" She asked her husband and looked at Minato. Minato kissed her forehead.

"Of course he is, you are his mother after all."

"So do you have a name for the boy?" Tsunade asked the parents.

"Naruto. Namikaze Naruto. "Sakura whispered but loud enough to Tsunade to hear. Then a thought hit her. Kakashi-sensei had been right. She would meet Naruto again but not as a teammate, but as a mother.

She looked at Minato who talked to Tsunade. Yep everything would change but at the same time it would almost be the same. Almost.

I'm truly happy that I met Minato, it was like we were meant to meet each other, after this I wouldn't doubt anything because anyything can happen.

Minato and I met, past and future. And this is just the beginning.

END

Authors note: ALL RIGHT PEOPLE! PAST AND FUTURE IS NOW FINISHED!

I feel great to finish my very first long story. Even though I didn't like how it ended. But anyway. Sakura and Minato got together in the end, and sakura gave birth to Naruto Namikaze.

I hope you like it and enjoyed the whole story, even though there was some trouble on the journey with this story.

When I wrote this, I felt not so good a friend in my class at school had just a few days ago died and left many friends here on earth. Everyone loved that guy. A very funny and happy guy.

I hope you will in future read my stories, I already started working on a new one but A kushinaxMinato story, Love them as well. I hope you might take some time to read that story, "Love and War" take care of you and your friends and remember, you never know what tomorrow will bring. I lost a friend but I will continue to write stories.

But enough of that, Now I want you to review, tell me what you think about the ending, I didn't like how it ended but I didn't have the energy to change the plot. And tell me what you think about the whole story

BYE!

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