The Cherry Tree and the Fox

Read plz: >////<

If you remember the ED I made a while ago for TUQ and named it "The Fox and the Cherry"....well....I received some notes about a short story submitted by

He wrote a very heartwarming fanpiece about Naruto being a fox and Sakura being a Cherry tree that cannot bloom.
You can read the story here:

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Since I did browse his gallery a long time ago it is possible that the name of the fiction he wrote kin dof resonanced with my mind today O_o (because I think I might have read the name of the story while browsing his gallery that time...and the title was really nice. But I am quite the bad reader so I didn't read the story up until recently after receiving links to it by various ppl who had seen the ending video thus, I am sorry if someone misunderstood...)
I got inspired by the lyrics of the Sakurabito song. The cherry and the fox wasn't actually intended to be in the vid... But th thought just fit too well.

He wrote the story BEFORE I did the "ending" video
while I didn't read the story BEFORE making it
Thus, I wanted to make this clear for once - I didn't got inspired by his work, although it is truly inspirational and very nice.

I liked the story so much that I wanted to draw something. And because I liked the ending the best I drew how I visualized Naruto and Sakura in human form


Media> watercolor, marker brown and black, touched up in PS