It's just weird'attebayo. [He's trying to make this normal, but the reality is that it just isn't. These are his friends and in a way, he's able to have a part of a future he hasn't earned yet- but he doesn't have the everything else that puts them on even footing. The Sakura he remembers had just restarted his heart. Had looked stricken by Sasuke's arrival and dismissal. They'd had everything to lose and only each other to hold onto. In many ways she's the woman he's always known, but the unknown remains. He hasn't been there for the things that carried her from that battlefield into the person that sits beside him now.

Naruto's gaze moves to the water around him- the ripples he causes when he breathes.]

You and me have never done something like this before. I know you probably know a different me, and maybe we've gotten even closer, but I guess I don't know how to act.

It's not really the same, is it?