- a few months later -
"The Chunin expedition to the Land of Snow didn't make it, huh? Looks like all the Konoha News these days are always bad and depressing. It won't be long before the Leaf Village's rep goes down thanks to that."
"And all happened after Kakashi-Sensei became the Hokage... That can't be a coincidence."
The two girls laughed as they sat at the small café table.
"I gotta say, though, Guy-Sensei always saw it in him, being his rival and all."
"To think you had to put up with all that for so long, Tenten."
"You get used to it."
Tenten looked down at the plate in front of her friend and scoffed, "you won't fit into your bridesmaids dress if you keep eating like that, Ino..."
Ino choked on the cake she was in the process of eating, "excuse me! I went on my cake diet for weeks! Now that I'm married, I can binge what I want, thank you very much. Besides, it's not my wedding."
"But if you're the Maid of Honor, I think you should put a little bit more effort into it." Tenten chuckled weakly, "you should be a little more mindful about that..."
"Yeah, I guess..." Ino sighed, "so this is it, huh? Shikamaru's planning on proposing to Temari, Choji just proposed to Karui last week, Naruto and Hinata have been married for a couple of weeks, Kiba's dating someone, I think we're all getting old... It feels like it, too."
"Stop talking like you're a tired old man." They laughed as Ino turned her attention to the newspaper that laid on the table between them, "anyway, you were talking about Shikamaru's wedding, right? I feel like we were just at Naruto and Hinata's wedding. So much is going on. I wonder if Shikamaru's already got everything planned... I haven't really seen Temari around that often, so you'd never think they were engaged... Hold on, they're not, are they? Does she even know? Man this guy--"
"What the hell?!" Ino gripped the newspaper and stared at it in disbelief, "n-no way! You gotta be kidding me!!"
Tenten jumped at the sudden reaction, "wh-what?! What's wrong?! What happened?!"
Ino shoved the paper in front of Tenten's face, hands shaking in shock and excitement, "look right there! Front page! How the heck could I've missed it?!
Tenten read the title and smiled to herself, "well, look at that. I guess the Konoha News isn't all that bad."
"They never told us a thing!!" Ino crushed the paper under her fingertips, "and they made the front page! Now the whole village knows!"
"I know." Tenten laughed, "Sasuke and Sakura just got married."
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"Who the heck published this..." Sakura's shoulders shook with annoyance as she stared at the cover story if the newspaper, a picture of her and Sasuke filling up half of it, "wh-when was this even taken... Wait, hang on..." She read the author of the article and sighed, "why am I not surprised... Kakashi-Sensei wrote this, for crying out loud..."
"It's alright. Don't you want the world to know about us?"
"O-of course..." Sakura walked closer against her new husband the day after they'd made the commitment of a lifetime before the Hokage and their teammate.
"Congratulations!"
"We're so happy for you two!"
"The Uchiha clan will be restored in no time!"
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🌸The Journey🌸
FanfictionAfter four years of traveling, Sasuke returns home for a week to see the Hidden Leaf Village and what it's become, as well as to see his friends and family he left behind. While there, he gains new goals and dreams. And with the hopes of making his...
