#21tailsofwoe

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53 - “Who cares about what they think?”

Naruto had spent a lot of his life not caring what people thought. 

Seriously, when you learned from an early age that you were always in the wrong, and that most people would either ignore you or tell you off for just expressing yourself ... well you weren’t going to care what those people thought of you.

As long as they thought of you.

It hadn’t really changed as he’d gotten older. Even with the growing respect and admiration of his village and the people within it. If you were to put a kunai to his throat he’d admit that in all honesty ... he didn’t care what anyone thought about what he did.

Especially when it would make him happy. And he was absolutely positive that his latest decision was going to make both him and Sakura exceptionally happy.

He just hoped she agreed because if she didn’t he was going to have a lot of explaining to do to a few different people. Some of them he would actually care if they were upset with him. And at least two of them were never going to forgive him he suspected.

It wasn’t going to stop him, but you know, it’d still be better if he had at least a few people on his side for this one.

Because it was definitely unpredictable, and knuckleheaded, and undeniably very very stupid.

Because he shouldn’t have ever let it get this far before he acted.

Before he was years into a situation he shouldn’t have put himself in. If he’d just had some of that supposed courage he was meant to be brimming with. If he’d just had the balls to admit what would make him happy. If he’d noticed things that were so goddamned obvious that he really should have noticed.

Her RSVP coming back as not attending shouldn’t have been what flicked the switch in his head. 

It shouldn’t have taken her best friend kicking in his door to demand he stop lying to himself and everyone around him. That enough was enough and he had to stop pretending, to stop making every decision that was doing what he was supposed to do.

You’re meant to be the most unpredictable person on the planet! Why the fuck are you doing any of this?! Who can make YOU do anything you don’t want to? What the fuck Naruto! She’s been crying her eyes out ever since your engagement was announced! Do something about it already!

The words rang through his head over and over as he finally came to a stop in front of a so familiar door.

The door he should have been knocking on for this exact reason years ago.

The door he’d wanted to be knocking on ever since he knew the most beautiful woman in the world existed.

Feet first Naruto, he muttered to himself. She’s probably already found the note. They’ll get over it.

He reached up and knocked on the door confidently. 

Just as it was opening actually. He almost knocked on the forehead of the woman coming out the door.

Who had obviously been crying but had put it to the back of her mind. Steel sat in her eyes, determination that had always been so attractive and steadfast.

Kami, how had he ever thought about anyone else?

Her pink hair fell in her face as she came to a sudden stop and she looked up at his face, all determination slipped from her face as she stared at him.

‘Naruto.’ Her voice was uncertain, definitely confused and just a little bit hopeful. ‘What are you doing here? I was just coming to -’

She was coming for him. She’d been coming to stop him. He could see it in her face, the pack on her back. She’d been coming to save him from the worst decision in his life and run away with him if necessary.

Well that settled it.

‘I’m not marrying Hinata.’

He said it. He’d finally said it. Fuck it felt so liberating just to say it.

‘You’re -’ Sakura’s words stumbled to a stop. ‘You’re not?’

Naruto shook his head. He smiled weakly. ‘I don’t love her, never did and I couldn’t keep lying anymore. If I’d gone through with today ... I’d have regretted it for the rest of my life.’

Sakura’s green eyes scanned his face, unshed tears making them watery and the hope in her voice was hiding behind that in her eyes. ‘But I thought you ... You’re meant to be getting married right now! I was going to come and do that whole ‘I object’ thing! What the hell Naruto!’

Naruto grinned at her, her angry expression fighting against the urge to mirror his, her lips turned up instinctively and her eyes crinkled.

‘Sorry to beat you to it. You can blame Ino, she was the one who literally kicked down my door last night,’ Naruto said. ‘That I was marrying the wrong woman and that apparently some people in this village are really, really blind and stuff like that.’

He gave her bag a pointed look and Sakura blushed slightly before it disappeared again with her indignation.

‘Yeah well, Ino-pig did the same thing with me last night! Told me if I really loved you I should do something about it now. Said I should have done something about it years ago but yeah.’ Sakura ranted at him in her doorway, apparently not aware she’d just said she loved him.

Naruto’s hadn’t though and his stomach fluttered pleasantly as he smiled at her. ‘I love you too Sakura-chan.’

She had still been mid-rant when she stuttered to a sudden stop and stared at him again. ‘You love me?’

‘Always have,’ Naruto said with a nod. ‘Always. Do you love me?’

Sakura glared at him. ‘Of course I do! I’ve been in love with you for years! Why do you think me and Sasuke broke up so quickly?’

Naruto glared back at her. ‘Hey! It’s not my fault I just thought things had changed. I never knew why! How arrogant would I have to be to think it was something to do with me? Why didn’t you tell me about it then?’

Sakura poked him in the chest. ‘You were dating Hinata, I thought you’d moved on! Were happy! I wasn’t going to mess that up for you. I love you, I want you to be happy.’

There was a beat of silence between them where they just stared at each other, feelings Naruto had had surging through him again ever since his bachelor party. That he had been making a massive mistake. That he didn’t love Hinata like he was supposed to.

And he had been secretly miserable the longer and longer they’d been together. But playing along because it made Hinata happy and everyone else seemed happy for them.

But now? Stood here arguing with Sakura about how much they had loved each other and sacrificed their happiness for the others ... he hadn’t been this happy or relieved in years.

‘So ...’ Sakura said after the silence lingered just a second too long. ‘What are we gonna do? Get together like the last few years never happened and expect everyone to make do? What are people going to think?’

Every single fibre of his being wouldn’t have been enough to tear his eyes away from hers as she asked every question that he had asked himself last night. A tinge of hope that yes, that was exactly what they were going to do, sitting on her tongue.

‘Who cares what they think?’ Naruto asked in a whisper. ‘I care what we think. And I think we’ve been dancing around each other for far, far too long. I’m sorry Sakura-chan, I should have acted sooner and it shouldn’t have ever gotten this far. I want to be with you, just you, for as long as I live. If you’ll have me?’

Sakura dropped the pack, damn near through it back into the house and then herself at him, wrapping her arms around his neck and pulling his face into her neck as she cried into his.

‘Yes,’ Sakura half-cried into his ear. ‘Yes, I’ll have you, oh thank Kami, I want to be with you too. I was so scared Naruto, too scared. I’m sorry.’

They pulled apart just enough for their lips to crash back together. His hands going to her back, up into her hair as they pushed every drop of fear, every ounce of pain and every gasp of joy into each other.

‘There’s gonna be some very angry people coming our way,’ Naruto whispered as their lips broke apart. ‘With both of us.’

‘Who cares?’ Sakura said back, pulling him back into the house with kisses. ‘They can do what they want, say what they want. As long as you’re with me I can take it.’

Naruto pushed the door shut behind them with his foot and felt the first tears fall as he wrapped his arms around Sakura again. The way he should have been doing for ages.

‘I love you Sakura-chan,’ Naruto whispered against her lips.

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