One of my regrets with '100 Waifus' is how little time Christopher spent with his waifus from Naruto. Rin Nohara had to content herself with getting the last words in the novel, but Sakura Haruno still deserved a scene of her very own. I finally got around to filling in this plot hole by including Christopher's date with her, which occurs sometime after his date with Rydia but before the disastrous date with Cure Flora:
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Sakura
Haruno and I walked together through a newly-constructed trail in the
woods for our date. It felt reminiscent of the time we were closest
together, braving the Forest of Death, and appropriately she was in
the guise of that time, a slip of a girl, with long flowing pink hair
trailing down her back.
"What
a wide, charming forehead you have. It makes me want to kiss it."
I smoothly rattled off like a playboy.
"That
wasn't Sasuke, that was Naruto pretending to be Sasuke. Are you
actually Naruto?" Sakura's smile had a twinkle in her eye.
Even if she appeared as a 12 year old she was actually a 37 year old
married woman with a full grown child, it would take a little more
than that to rattle her.
"A
lot of people dished on you for preferring me over him." I
informed. "But all that means is they never understood you.
From the very beginning your love was honmono. Why would it change?
And the fact that it never changed is the only reason it was ever
honmono from beginning to end."
"I
tried to stop loving you, but when push came to shove, I couldn't
bring myself to do it. In the end I was still that naive girl who
would abandon anything and go anywhere if it meant I could be with
you." Sakura Haruno thought back.
"And
because I cared about you, I couldn't let you do that. All I ever
wanted was to set you free of my dark destiny." I reported.
"And
all I ever wanted was to set you free of it too." Sakura
wistfully murmured. "But that role was left to another."
"I
think it was the two of you together. Or else why marry you at the
end? Doesn't that mean everything you ever said and did got through
to me?" I contended.
"Not
very well, or you wouldn't have avoided me like the plague for the
rest of our married lives." Sakura Haruno grumbled. "My
own daughter didn't even believe I was her mother by the end."
"Well,
now the world's finally at peace and we can go on dates like this, so
it all worked out, right?" I shrugged off my predecessor's
atrocious behavior breezily.
"Even
as one in a hundred, I'm pretty sure I'm receiving 100 times as much
attention from you as I'm used to." Sakura Haruno smiled, and
then a blush of true happiness at the realization traveled up her
entire face. "I don't even remember if we've ever been on a
date before."
"Well,
let me say something to you no impostor has said before: You're the
most brilliant, beautiful, dedicated, courageous, strong, reliable,
kind, understanding, honest and true woman I've ever met, and I love
you for it, just as I love you for every word and deed you ever
filled with your love for me. Sakura. . .arigatou." I tapped
her on the forehead.
Sakura's
green eyes glistened and then ran over with tears. "About time,
you dummy."
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I'm always looking for new ways to improve the already greatest book in the world, which usually consists of Christopher bonding more deeply than hitherto shown with his plethora of waifus. This is just one more step in the journey before my 17th re-reading and re-editing run begins.
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