Authors note: I had this posted already, but I decided to take it down, and rewrite it a bit, to make it a little more lighthearted than it was before.

Authors note 2: I've seen a lot of Fem!Naruto stories and a handful of Fem!Sasu. So I figured I may give Male!Sakura a chance. Seems like an interesting idea right?

Pairings: Sasuke/Naruto, (male)Sakura/Naruto. The final pairing is undecided. Let me know what you guys would want!

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It had been a only few months since they had successfully and officially brought Sasuke back from Otogakure, and Sakura loved how happy Naruto was. It seemed that, over the years, the crush Naruto had on Sakura eventually faded away. Naruto wasn't striving for Sakura's attention anymore. He wasn't flirting or being overly friendly like he used to be when they were first put together as Team 7, almost five years ago.

And Sakura was, to say the least, pissed off, and maybe even a little bit saddened by it.

From the beginning, Sakura always watched Naruto, secretly, ever since they were very young. Sakura was always there, watching how, parents picked up their children while Naruto walked home, all alone. Sakura watched how the villagers treated Naruto, how they used to glare at him, look at him with fear and hatred in their eyes. Sakura wanted to do something so badly. To reach out to the young boy that was around the same age as Sakura. However, Sakura couldn't suddenly come out and say the he liked the blond-haired teen, especially with the jutsu he had on the entire time.

The reason Sakura used a genjutsu to hide his gender, was all because of his parents. His parents weren't ninja's, and they had so badly wanted a little girl, but then Sakura was born, and Sakura was born a boy. Try as they might, Sakura's mother could not conceive another child, and it was made painfully obvious that she would never be able to bear more children.

Sakura's parents wanted a girl, so she could marry into a strong and powerful shinobi family. So their daughter could become known, so their daughter could carry on in a strong, powerful clan.

So they raised Sakura as a girl, forced her to put on a genjutsu whenever there were others around. Forced him to lie to all of his friends about his gender. Sakura, of course didn't want this. He was born a male and felt male. He didn't want to do anything girly. He didn't like having (or, pretending) to have girl parts. His parents, however, worried that he wouldn't keep the genjutsu, threatened him. They threatened disowning him if he didn't keep the genjutsu, if he didn't keep up the act.

Sakura was told to find a boy to fall in love with, and stick with that boy. Now that, for Sakura, was easy. He may have known he was always a boy, but he also always knew he liked boys. He didn't like girls. Didn't like their body-parts, their whining, anything. Sure, he cared about the girls he had that were his friends, but he couldn't stomach thinking about kissing one or going any further.

And fall in love he did. He fell head over heels...

...For Uzumaki Naruto.

When he told his parents, they were instantly disgusted. They hated Naruto as much as the next person, and forced Sakura to turn away. Instead, they asked their son to show interest in Uchiha Sasuke, because the young Uchiha was the heir of the Uchiha clan, and the only survivor, so he would be a perfect mate for Sakura.

For a while, Sakura did turn his attention to Sasuke. He fawned over him, flirted over him, all the while ignoring or being a complete jerk to Naruto.

Just as his parents wanted.

But after a while, Sakura couldn't help but wonder why he always listened to his parents. Parents know best, right? Your parents to anything in their power to love you and make you happy. But was this the case? As he got older, Sakura couldn't help but question his parents actions.

The two and a half years Naruto had been away were the hardest years of Sakura's life. He missed his crush, and couldn't wait for his return. He vowed that, no matter what his parents thought, he'd tell Naruto how he felt, and dispel the genjutsu. It meant that Sakura's parents would disown him, but that didn't matter anymore, as long as Sakura could be with Naruto. He would take care of the blond, and love him, making up for any pain that Sakura caused for Naruto in the past.

However, when Naruto returned, everything seemed…different.

Naruto was happy to see Sakura, but the pink-haired teen noticed something different. Naruto no longer had a crush. Instead, Naruto looked at Sakura and saw a friend, only a friend. And it pissed Sakura off a bit. He had finally decided to show Naruto what he really was, and tell him how he felt, and now, Naruto's crush faded away. After all that time pretending to not like Naruto, all that time spent pushing Naruto away, denying his feelings, it seemed like Naruto actually believed that Sakura wouldn't return his feelings.

It was then, that Sakura decided he would wait a little while. He was going to wait until Sasuke returned, to tell Naruto everything, because Naruto would be happy that Sasuke was back, and Sakura wasn't completely sure how Naruto would react when he told the blond the truth. He was actually a bit frightened about what would happen when Naruto found out that truth.

"Naruto!" Sakura called out, smiling when Naruto looked over to 'her'.

"Yes, Sakura-chan?" Naruto responded, dashing over to his friend. He was doing some training in the woods, when Sakura had come around, searching for the blond.

"I have something to tell you, and well, show you." Sakura smiled nervously, his heart beating slightly, hoping Naruto wouldn't be frightened and flee.

"What is it Sakura-chan? Is everything okay?" Naruto asked, sensing that something was wrong with his friend.

Sakura sighed slowly.

"Naruto, the truth is...I never liked Sasuke. Well, sure, I like him, but not how everyone thinks I do. I like him as a friend, nothing more. I've been pretending the entire time, because my parents wanted me to," Sakura began.

"Eh! Why would they want that?" Naruto asked, swirling a kunai with his fingers.

"Be…because, they wanted me to marry into a strong family." Sakura responded slowly.

"Oh…Umm, okay…So what exactly does this have to do with me?" Naruto asked, wondering where this conversation was going. It didn't really matter to him whether or not Sakura even liked Sasuke anymore.

"Naruto, I've been under a genjutsu my entire life. My parent's wanted a girl, so I've been disguised as a girl. But in reality…." Sakura sighed, and dispelled the genjutsu. His hair grew shorter, and spiky, but it stayed pink. His breasts disappeared completely, leaving his chest flat.

"I'm not a girl, I'm a guy." Sakura's said in a deeper-than-Naruto-remembered voice.

Naruto's eyes widened as the kunai slipped out of his hand in shock. After four years of being on the same team as Haruno Sakura, he never knew. He never knew the secrets Sakura had been hiding from him. He never knew that Sakura actually saw Sasuke as a rival. He never knew the one that Sakura actually loved was Naruto.

Naruto never knew that Sakura was actually a guy.

"Wha...Sakura-chan, you can't be serious?" Naruto stuttered. He wasn't even sure if he should call Sakura "Sakura-chan" anymore, but it was habit, so it came out naturally.

"I am serious. My parents, as I have said, wanted me to marry into a strong family. They told me that if I ever dispelled the genjutsu, or fell in love with someone from a...not so well known family, they would disown me." Sakura said, watching Naruto's every move, reading his body language.

"Disown you? That's horrible. You're their...child. They should love you regardless. But...why now? I don't understand. What's so different about right now? What made you decide to do finally be yourself?" Naruto asked, starring into Sakura's eyes. His deep blue eyes wide with wonder.

'Gosh I can't take it when he looks in my eyes like that. He's too perfect.' Sakura thought.

"It's because of you, Naruto. I-"

"What? Me? What did I do?" Naruto interrupted, wondering what he could have done to make Sakura makes such an important decision in his life.

"Please, Naruto, let me finish. I decided to do it now because I didn't want to lie to myself, and I didn't think it would be fair to you," He looked over to Naruto who looked like he wanted to say something, but stayed quiet so his friend could finish.

Sakura took a deep breath, his heart pounding and hands sweating and shaking. He has to do this now. He had to be honest. Naruto deserved at least that much. Plus, what's the worst that could happen? Naruto cared so much about all of his friends. He wouldn't do anything to hurt them.

"I love you, Naruto, more than you can even imagine."

A gasp was hear, and Naruto's eyes widened even more, if possible.

"Naruto, please, I-"

He backed up slowly from the pink-haired male, a bit frightened at what had just happened, and ran as far and as fast as he could, wanting to get away and think. He used to have a huge crush on Sakura, but now Sakura revealed to Naruto, to Konoha that she was actually a he, masked under a genjutsu for nearly seventeen years.

That changed everything.