A now thoroughly happy Sakura now walked through the halls of the hospital. She wasn't really eager to return to her shift, but she had a duty to fulfill. She just hoped that Tsunade wouldn't kill her.

"SAKURA!" Sakura froze. Speak of the devil...

"Ah hello Tsunade-sama." Sakura replied nervously.

"Where the hell have you been? I will not tolerate you skipping out on work just to dominate Naruto."

"What?! I told Ino to tell you that I had an emergency!"

"I think I can see what that emergency was Sakura. You're smile is so bright it could light up the entire village. Now if you let..."

Sakura actually started chuckling when Tsunade mentioned her smile. She hadn't realized she was smiling so brightly, but she wasn't entirely surprised.

"Hang on Tsunade-sama, let me explain."

"I don't..."

"You're right when I left to go to Naruto, but you're wrong with the reasoning."

Tsunade stopped and looked at Sakura curiously. "Oh?"

"Actually, before I start this story, there's something I want to do first..." Sakura lunged forward and wrapped Tsunade in a hug. "Thank you shishou, thank you."

"Huh?" Tsunade was completely baffled. This was a new strategy for trying to get out of trouble...

"If you hadn't yelled at me yesterday, I would've made a terrible mistake. So thank you for setting me straight."

"I set you straight?"

"Yes, thanks to your words, and then listening to Naruto defend me, I started accepting the feelings that I've been ignoring for a long time... and I realized that I'm in love with Naruto."

"WHAT?!" Tsunade gasped out in shock. Now she was really surprised.

Sakura let go of the hug and stepped back as a frown adorned her face. "But I figured it out too late. I figured it out far too late and I really hurt Naruto, REALLY hurt him."

"Sakura..." Tsunade growled. Naruto was now Sakura's property, so there was nothing she could do about Sakura's treatment of him officially, but she could certainly yell at the girl and make her life hell.

"I pushed him so far that he wanted to commit suicide." Sakura said sadly.

"WHAT?! GOD DAMNIT SAKURA I WILL NOT..." Tsunade started bellowing. To hell with the law, she was Hokage and she would not stand by while this occurred.

"Just let me finish my story Tsunade-sama, I promise you'll like the ending."

Tsunade sighed and motioned for her apprentice to continue.

"So that was the emergency. I realized that Naruto was planning to commit suicide so I had to go and stop him before it was too late. By the time I got there he had already stabbed himself in the chest with a kunai and had lost a lot of blood. I used all of my chakra to heal him, and then gave him some blood pills, so he's fine now. But I was completely exhausted and fell asleep."

"You managed to keep him alive on your own after he stabbed himself in the chest?" Tsunade asked. "Impressive Sakura." Even if Tsunade was angry at Sakura for what she had done to Naruto, she had promised her favorite blonde that she would still try to be nice to Sakura. And that was an impressive feat.

"Thanks. But anyways, Naruto woke up before me and he was intent on killing himself again." Sakura's eyes had a haunted look as she thought back to that memory. "He held the kunai up to his neck and told me to let him die because he couldn't handle being around me when I don't care about him at all. But I managed to convince him of the truth, that I love him, and I gave him a choice to prove it."

"A choice?"

"A choice between being free and being my foot slave."

"Sakura you can't free him if you wanted to..."

"I know that. But I told him I would treat him as I normally would, and he would basically be free. I would try to restore his status as a shinobi and I would work to find a way that he could become Hokage. Basically he would be free, just not legally."

"Hmm, we probably could get him reinstated as a shinobi." Tsunade mused. "The Hokage issue would be much more challenging however..."

Sakura smiled softly. "It doesn't matter, he didn't choose to be free."

"WHAT?! He actually chose to be your foot slave?"

"He knew that I like owning him, and he kinda liked being owned by me too. And once I told him that we would still be together, and that I would bring him with me on missions he choose to be my slave."

Tsunade smiled softly at Sakura. The girl standing in front of her was nothing like the girl that was standing in front of her yesterday. THIS girl was someone she was proud to call her apprentice.

"That's my apprentice. I'm happy Sakura."

Sakura smiled at Tsunade. "I am too. I've never been this happy before in my life to be honest."

Tsunade chuckled. "That's what love will do. Now that I know he actually wants to be my foot slave bring Naruto by tomorrow, I would like him to clean my feet. I've always wanted to make that little brat pay for always calling me hag and this will be the perfect way."

"I'll only do it if he wants to Tsunade-sama."

Tsunade smiled warmly at Sakura. She couldn't believe that she was thinking this, but she was actually glad Sakura enslaved Naruto. Sakura would take good care of him now.

"Oh? But isn't he your foot slave? Shouldn't he do whatever you tell him to?"

"Oh he will." Sakura replied. "But I love him, and yesterday when I first enslaved him he told me he'd rather only serve me. So that's what he'll do. He'll by my foot slave, and no one else's unless he wants to.

"And you won't be offended if he wants to lick another woman's feet?"

Sakura smiled softly at Tsunade. "I know that he wants to serve me most of all. And yea, I would be upset if he came to me and asked to let him lick another woman's feet, but I don't think he'll ever do that. Everytime another woman wants to use him as a foot slave I will ask him. I can't really be angry at him for saying yes to my request can I?"

Tsunade chuckled at her apprentice. "No, you can't. So he'll be by tomorrow then?"

Sakura chuckled. "Probably."

"If you need to give him some motivation, tell him it's the only way I'm letting you off the hook for missing so much work today."

"Ooh, that'll work." Sakura replied with a smile. "I'll just drop him off tomorrow and you can use him while I work here."

Tsunade grinned brightly at Sakura. "That's a great idea! Thanks Sakura!"

"But don't let him serve anyone else. Well, he can serve Shizune, but no one else. I'm alright with you and Shizune using him because you both are very important to me and have done a lot for me. Really other than you two, Ino is the only other woman I'll allow to use him as their foot slave."

Tsunade was touched that she meant so much to Sakura.

"Well I look forward to playing with him tomorrow. I'm gonna go and make sure my feet are as dirty as possible for him tomorrow. After I'm done with him, he'll never call me "Baa-chan" again."

Sakura laughed. "Good luck with that."

"Alright Sakura, get to work now. You don't have to stay extra, just finish up your shift. You can work with Ino today."

"Thank you Tsunade-sama!" Sakura walked off to find Ino. She was even happier now that the woman who had trained her was talking to her again. She honestly had no idea what she would do if she was disowned by Tsunade. But thanks to Naruto she wasn't.

Sakura's smile grew even brighter at the thought.