Sorry I haven't updated in over a year. I spent almost eight months in the hospital then another six months trying to get my life straitened back up and SO could not even THINK about writing. I'm sorry to say that I'm rushing the ending of this story. I will TRY to come back and re-write this story later. Please understand. I hope you like this last chapter. GOMENASAI!

Epilogue: Three years later

Yakari smiled and laughed as he watched his younger brother cooing at the newest member of their family.

"Ne, Nii-san, isn't Tayuri-chan cute?" Sasuke asked for the one million and second time.

"Yes, Otouto. We all know you find Aniki amusing."

Sasu-chan pouted as his older brother and cousin laughed at him. Ever since his auntie Sakura had announced that she was having another baby, little Sasuke had been obsessed with the life that would soon join their world. He didn't care that his brother teased him or that his mother scolded him for playing with the baby when he was suppose to be training. The two-and-a-half year-old boy was more interested in those pretty blue-green eyes then anything in the world.

And Tayuri-chan was just as interested in him. She smiled and giggled every times he saw him. There was an unspoken and unexplained connection between the cousins that no one could ever understand.

"Henji-kun, your mom is almost ready. You and your cousins better get in place," his uncle Naruto said as he walked in with twins Mikona and Mitoko at his side. The two waved at their friends as their father picked up the three-month-old pink-haired cutie sitting with little Sasuke.

The boys rushed to their places as Naruto took his children and Tayuri to his wife, who was sitting in the front row of guests. Tayuri laughed and clapped when she saw her father standing before her, decked out in full ANBU Black-Ops uniform, minus his mask. He had stopped wearing his hair in a low ponytail when Henjichou was a baby (he'd discovered his father's ponytail one day and decided to NEVER let go of it) and had begun wearing it in a high ponytail on top of his head (he had refused to cut his hair off and Sakura had nearly bitten Ino's head off for suggesting that he cut it shorter like most shinobi do). Itachi stood there as the Seventh Hokage took his place next to the Head of ANBU Black Ops National Security Division A.

"Are you nervous?"

"Hn," the Uchiha replied.

Naruto chuckled.

"You shouldn't be. You and Sakura have been practically married since before you came back to Konoha. It's not like anything is changing other then her name. Well, that, and you get a break away from the kids."

Itachi nodded curtly. Naruto had been kind enough to reward the Shinobi's years of service, inside and outside of Konoha, by sending him and his new wife of a week-long vacation to the Land of Spring to visit one of their best couple's resorts, recommended by Queen Koyuki herself. He and his wife Hinata would be watching the two Uchiha children until their return.

"Thank you for that, Hokage-sama."

Naruto chuckled.

"Itachi, how many times do we have to go over this? You've called me Kyuubi, Vessel, Jinjouriki, Fox, Boy, Uzumaki, Lord Hokage, and Naruto-sama, but never have you referred to me casually. We are practically related. There's no need for formalities."

The Uchiha didn't answer. As much as he protested, Naruto had earned his title as Hokage, and Itachi would respect him by calling him Hokage-sama to make up for the years the man (once just a boy) had not slept for fear of dying by his very hands.

"We're ready to start," Shikamaru said as he appeared next to Naruto.

Naruto nodded and everyone straitened up as the music began to play. Flutes, drums, and harps synchronized to play soft, beautiful music that seemed to flow around the wedding procession as they came down the street in front of the Hokage Mountain. Itachi's eyes widened as his son and nephew sat down in the front row at the same time his soon-to-be wife stepped out of the norimono that had carried her from the Hokage Tower to the wedding ceremony. Her hair was pulled up into a ponytail and her short hair had been placed in little curls that poofed up around the small white band that held her hair back. The train was attached to the bottom of the band and flowed down her back all the way to the ground. Her dress fell off of her shoulders and left her back bare. The bodice of her dress pushed her breasts up, not that they needed it after two kids, and curved into a V in the front. From there her dress skirt tapered off, trailing longer in the back then it was in the front, leaving her feet and the bottom half of her shins exposed. Her shoes were raised flats with little white roses on to. Her toes were exposed and were painted a very light pink. Those, her hair, and her jade-green eyes were the only color other then white on her body. she smiled when she looked up and saw her soon-to-be husband at the end of the aisle, dressed in his formal ANBU Black Ops uniform. His normal smirk had been replaced by a relaxed smile the moment he'd seen her step out of the japanese-style sedan.

She walked almost painfully slowly down the aisle to her beloved, and the vows went by without either of them recollecting any of their words other then the ones they had waited for years to hear.

"Do you, Uchiha Itachi, take this kunoichi, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do you part?"

"I do," he stated with confidence for everyone to hear.

"And do you, Haruno Sakura, take this shinobi, to have and to hold, in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do you part?"

"I do," she replied softly, but loud enough for everyone to hear.

"Then by the power invested in me, by the Fourth Hokage and all the Hokages before her, and by Kami, I now pronounce you, Shinobi and Kunoichi, Husband and Wife. You may kiss the bride."

Itachi snorted.

"As if I need permission to kiss what has always been mine."

Everyone cheered as he wrapped his arms around his wife's waist and kissed her passionately in front of the entire village.

"I don't get what the big deal is," Henji murmured, watching as everone cheered for his parents, "it's not like anything's really different now."

"Your parents went through a lot to be together," a familiar, masked man said from behind the two boys.

"What do you mean, Jiijii?" Henji asked.

"Well, I wouldn't call their story a fairytale."

He looked up at the two beaming lovers and chuckled.

"No, definitely not a fairytale love story."

-The End

... for now.