I DO NOT OWN NARUTO AND/OR THE CHARACTERS

Happy

Naruto saw the love of his life as she stood outside of a jewelry store looking in the window at the jewelry admiring them.

"Wow," Ino thought. "They've got some new inventory, I guess this is from the S-Ranked Mission Sasuke, Neji, and Lee were on."

She was so enamored with their new inventory that she barely noticed the two people walking inside.

"There are those pigs Naruto showed me," Ino thought. "I didn't like them before but they…"

Her concentration was broken by the salesman taking them from the display, upon further inspection, she noticed that he was selling them to someone as another person was buying what seemed to be a very expensive engagement ring.

"Aw," she said as she watched the person buying the ring. "Somebody's getting married, I hope it's someone I know."

She went back to admiring the jewelry after the two people left the store, a minute later she was surprised by two hands covering her eyes.

"If this isn't Naruto, you're going to be in for a world of hurt," she growled.

"I bet it'd still fell good," he whispered softy into her ear causing a tingle in her spine.

"Well, not all of us as a demon healing us," she said turning around as his hands slid down to her waist and she draped her arms around her his shoulders.

"Hey, this demon isn't as helpful as you'd think," he said smiling at her.

While they bantered back and forth, she was surprised as she felt someone putting something in her hair.

"What the…?" she asked feeling her hair.

She turned to look at her reflection in the mirror to find the pig hairclips in her blonde locks.

"When did you…?"

"To quote Kakashi-sensei, 'A shinobi needs to look underneath the underneath,'" he said smiling at her before transforming into the person she saw buying them just a minute ago.

"Okay," she said. "So you're good, what have you been up to anyway?"

"Uh, well, you know how it is," he said after transforming back. "Missions and missing you."

"Really?"

"Yeah," he said smiling.

"Well that's all well and good, hot shot but who's to say that I've been missing you?"

"Please, I know how much you missed me."

"How?"

Without saying another word, Naruto let her go and began walking a way.

"Wait, where are you going?" she asked frantically.

"You should see your face," he said turning around smiling at her.

"You're horrible."

"Hey, come with me."

Unable to say no, she followed him as he lead her to somewhere secluded but was full of a beautiful floral arrangement.

"What is this?" she asked confused.

"Well, I've been doing some thinking after what you told me that night at Moegi's party and I've come to a decision."

He took her by the hand and her heart began racing as he faced her.

"Really?" she asked trying to hide her nerves. "Well, what did you think about?"

"Us…" he said.

"Is he going to say it?" she asked so nervous that she didn't realize that he was speaking to her.

"…you too."

"Wait, what?" she asked.

"I said I love you too," he said louder.

"Right in my ear."

"Sorry."

The ringing in her ear quickly left as she realized that he'd just said.

"You what?" she asked both surprised and hopeful that she heard him correctly.

"I said I love you too," he repeated.

Her heartbeat increased more as did her breathing, she started fanning herself as she took in the information.

"Well, say something," Naruto said.

"I don't know what to say," she admitted. "This is the first time something like this has happened to me."

"Well, then, you're about to become a mute," he said getting on one knee.

"What are you doing?" she asked confused.

"Read my thoughts," he said smiling.

She placed a hand on his forehead and began to search his thoughts until she found what he wanted her to tell her.

"Yes," she said as he pulled out the ring and placed it on her finger.

The only thing she could figure to do was hug him as tightly as she could as he smiled and returned her embrace. A few days later, Naruto was with Sasuke as he was about to take his team from the academy, Naruto was there for two reasons. One reason was to continue his rivalry with Sasuke by raising a better squad of Genin and the other was that, like Sasuke, he decided that this would give him more time to spend in his new relationship. As they walked to the academy together, Sasuke became uncharacteristically talkative and the preferred subject was Naruto and Ino.

"I gotta say," Sasuke began. "If someone would've asked me who you would've ended up with when we were younger, I'd have said Sakura, Hinata, or even Anko before Ino."

"Yeah," Naruto said. "It's still a shock to me too, being engaged takes a little getting used to but it's great."

"Want a little advice?" Sasuke offered.

"Shoot."

"She's right, you're wrong," he said flatly. "Remember that."

"What?" Naruto asked confused.

"That's right," Sasuke said as he began laughing. "Ask anyone, fella, things may be cool because you're in that new 'We Just Got Engaged' stage but at some point, she's gonna start bitchin' you out at the drop of a hat. Especially for three days out of the month, welcome to hell, Naruto."

"Man, shut up," Naruto said annoyed.

"No, seriously though," Sasuke said regaining his usual reserve. "Relationships are a lot of work but you'll find that it's worth it and you two already have a leg up."

"What do you mean?"

"You both like gardening, after a while, Sakura was less fanatical about our relationship and it became normal. Then we had to find things to do together but outside of being shinobi, we found that we didn't have a lot in common."

"Really?" Naruto asked surprised. "I figured that you both loved you more than anything else."

"Well, there was the sex we both enjoyed," Sasuke said with a smile on his face. "Those were a fun couple of weeks. But like I said we worked at it and we realized that it the one thing we had in common was that we loved being around each other and made an effort to be around each other as much as possible. What about your other friends?"

"I talked to them about it and they were disappointed but they were happy for me I'm still friends with all of them."

As Naruto and Sasuke talked, Sakura was in the hospital lab with Ino as they were both doing some research, Sakura tried to focus on her work but she couldn't as she wanted to talk about Ino and Naruto.

"So…"

"I love being with him," Ino answered already knowing the question. "He's the best."

"Wow, it seems like being with him agrees with you," Sakura admitted. "Ever since you got involved with him you just seem to have this glow about you."

"I can't help it, I just feel like I'm in heaven when I'm with him. And he doesn't judge me, I can eat like as much as I want to and he doesn't look at me sideways."

"Really?"

"Yeah, sometimes, it leads to, uh, you know, which I love."

"Yeah, you are a slut," Sakura teased.

"And he has incredible stamina so that makes it better, anyway, I've never felt like this before though."

"How?"

"Happy," Ino said with a smile and tear in her eye. "I think for the first time in my life, I'm actually happy."

Later that day, Ino was leaving the hospital after finishing her research for the day, she was surprised to find Naruto waiting on her.

"I thought you had to get your genin team today."

"That's why I have clones," he said. "I wasn't going to have them do anything today besides meeting each other. Besides, I couldn't wait until later to see you."

"That's so sweet," she said smiling as she hugged him.

They began to move through the village unwilling to break the contact with each other, both happier than they've been in their lives.

MESSAGE FROM lulamaemobster

I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALPHA T. SIGMA FOR LETTING CONTINUE THE STORY, I CAN ONLY HOPE THAT YOU LIKE IT HALF AS MUCH AS I LIKED THE ORIGINAL. ALSO, ANYONE OUT THERE, PERSONAL MESSAGE ME YOUR E-MAILS AND WHO YOU'D RATHER NARUTO HAVE CHOSEN AND I'LL SEND YOU AN ALTERNATE ENDING DEPENDING ON THAT PERSON. NO WEIRD STUFF PLEASE, KEEP IT BETWEEN THE CHOICES HE HAD IN THE STORY.