Chapter 9 (1/2)

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Target: A surprise

Naruto and Tayuya were in the recreation of his apartment within his seal. The reason was so Kyuubi could create a new seal to mark people that Tayuya found in the villages she entered. That way Naruto would be able to locate them later. Coupled with the Hiraishin mark that Tayuya would leave in the villages, not to mention the one Kyuubi would be working into the new seal, Naruto figured he'd easily be able to approach them even if she was no longer in the village.

It was going to be necessary going forward as Naruto was due to leave Suna in the morning and probably wouldn't have time to pursue the two women she had already zeroed out for inclusion. Tayuya had little doubt that she wasn't the only one sad about that as she knew the two Suna kunoichi had gotten used to having him around.

Tayuya grinned considering at the moment she was the one with him in the real world as well. They were both lying in her bed in the cheap apartment she had rented on a month by month basis. Much like in the hospital he was channeling Kyuubi's chakra into her so that she could be there to learn how to apply it when finished. Except unlike then they were both n.a.k.e.d.

In the seal world they were still dressed and sitting side by side on the couch while Kyuubi drew on the wall modifying the formula she was working on to match all the criteria Tayuya had asked for. The former Sound-nin's smile widened as she thought of all the things she planned to do that night with Naruto as soon as she was taught how to apply it. Her smile dropped though when she noticed Naruto's face began to scrunch up.

”What's wrong?”

”I'm not…Oh f.u.c.k,” he suddenly shouted in a way that usually signaled his release.

Kyuubi spun surprised by his sudden outburst but before she could inquire as to what was going on he faded from the seal. Tayuya stared surprised for several seconds before it dawned on her what had happened and she blurted, ”Those bitches.” She cut her connection as well leaving a disgruntled Kyuubi behind as she began to once more feel the p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e that the other women were experiencing.

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”Oh f.u.c.k,” Naruto shouted feeling a strange sensation as his consciousness was temporarily in two places at once as he erupted into the warm mouth surrounding his tool. The moment passed leaving him full aware of the small apartment that he had been occupying with Tayuya as they waited. He directed his gaze down his body to see Matsuri finish drinking his load with a pleased looking Ino saying, ”How's he taste?”

”Like you don't know,” Temari said sitting in a chair at the foot of the bed.

Pouting Ino replied, ”I know, but I was hoping she'd share.”

Temari's response was interrupted as Tayuya shot up saying, ”Oh no you bitches don't. He's mine.”

”But I was the one that got to be with him the least due to my job,” Tayuya countered.

Temari frowned since Tayuya did have a point as she and Matsuri had monopolized his time during the several days Naruto had been in the village as he waited for Gaara to finalize the list of Sand Genin appearing in the next Chunin Exam. However despite Tayuya's point Naruto could tell that neither of the Suna kunoichi were exactly thrilled at missing out on a chance to be with him on his final night in Suna. Ino decided to stay out of it since she knew she would have him all to herself for the trip back.

Hoping to ease the tension Naruto said, ”I have an idea.”

”Please don't tell me you want to use those clones of yours again,” Temari said directing her glare from Tayuya to him.

Naruto winced from her piercing gaze as he remembered his disastrous attempt to use Shadow Clones to make it so each girl had time with him. He had created several and then hidden himself among them to allow the girls to pick which one they would spend the night with. Sadly, the girls learned which one got the real one as clones were not meant for the rigors of s.e.x. Matsuri had been the big winner that night as she had chosen wisely and gotten the real one, while the others had their clones dispel sometime during the act leaving them frustrated. As a result he vowed to take another look at the Forbidden Scroll in order to figure out just what the hell Shadow Clones were supposed to be used for. Since he figured it was only because of his enormous amount of chakra that he got away with using them in combat like he did.

”Not what I had in mind,” Naruto said.

”Fine, but I'm first,” Tayuya said getting an idea of what Naruto had in store and climbed on top of him trying to bury him inside of her.

Naruto grabbed her by the h.i.p.s preventing her from succeeding and then pushed her onto her back before saying, ”Again not exactly what I have in mind.” He grabbed a pillow putting it under Tayuya's a.s.s to raise her h.i.p.s in order to make it easier to enter her from his kneeling position.

As he slid into Tayuya, she m.o.a.n.e.d contently causing the other three girls to dampen their p.a.n.t.i.e.s as their own arousal grew. Naruto continued to move slowly as Tayuya rested her ankles on his shoulders. He stared straight ahead at the three girls at the foot of the bed as Tayuya thrashed her head back and forth.

Naruto's smile grew as he reached one of his hands into the folds of her kimono where her legs met together. The smile grew more lecherous as he felt no p.a.n.t.i.e.s there to bar his access to her sweet spot. Commenting on it he said, ”No p.a.n.t.i.e.s Temari, how bold.” Her response turned into a groan as he buried two fingers inside of her.

Temari grabbed onto his shoulder as she slide down some spreading her t.h.i.g.hs apart wider to give Naruto more room to work as he fingered her snatch. He turned his head towards her and kissed her deeply as he began to pound Tayuya harder and faster.

She responded immediately shouting, ”That's it f.u.c.k me senseless. Oh f.u.c.k…”

Naruto felt his own n.i.p.p.l.e being licked on the opposite side Temari was occupying. Turning his head he found Matsuri, who had taken the time to get out of her clothes, running her tongue around it. He reached his free hand up to cup one of her b.r.e.a.s.ts. As he tweaked one of her n.i.p.p.l.es she m.o.a.n.e.d, ”I…I want you too, Naruto.”

”Don't worry, we have all night,” Naruto said leaning down to kiss her gently. He moved the hand working her n.i.p.p.l.e to her snatch where he buried a finger inside her. As he pleased three of his girls he directed his attention to Ino, who rubbed her own snatch while standing and watching the show. Although her eyes moved over all of them, she mostly focused her attention to the spot his c.o.c.k was currently churning.

Tayuya suddenly tightening around his shaft caught him by surprise as he was busy l.i.c.k.i.n.g Matsuri's n.i.p.p.l.e at the time. It triggered his own o.r.g.a.s.m which he shouted saying, ”I'm c.u.m.m.i.n.g.” As he deposited his load into Tayuya, he was vaguely aware of Ino making her way closer to the bed. Climbing onto it, she leaned over Tayuya's body looking directly at where they were connected. When he was finished he pulled out and Ino suddenly lurched forward taking him into her mouth. He m.o.a.n.e.d as he felt her tongue swirl around his c.o.c.k cleaning it of his and Tayuya's combined release. After cleaning his tool completely she let him out of her mouth prompting Temari to pull him down onto his back. As the Suna kunoichi positioned herself over his rod he continued to watch Ino as she stared at his release slowly leaking from Tayuya's p.u.s.s.y.

He g.r.o.a.n.e.d as he felt his d.i.c.k slip into Temari but kept his eyes glued to Ino. He had noticed that she seemed to have developed an oral fixation and that it seemed to center around tasting his c.o.c.k after each girl he had been with. It had started after she had seen him with Tsunade and after the Hokage had lost consciousness she had immediately gotten up from the chair to latch her mouth to his d.i.c.k. He had figured it was only a matter of time before she would drink directly from a woman's lower lips herself and got the feeling that now was the moment as she stared down at Tayuya's abused p.u.s.s.y.

She leaned forward ever so slowly before giving Tayuya's snatch an exploratory lick. Apparently she liked what she tasted as soon she was eating out Tayuya with the same gusto she had seen him use many times. ”Hey, stop…stop it…,” Tayuya feebly complained coming down from her o.r.g.a.s.m to find Ino was behind the continued sensations she was feeling.

Ino pulled away from Tayuya's p.u.s.s.y to look back at the girl showing her lips covered in both her and Naruto's c.u.m to say, ”No way in hell.” Before she could get back to her meal though, Matsuri moved in front of Ino and pulled her into a kiss. When the kiss ended Matsuri licked her lips sensuously and said, ”Delicious.”

Temari paused a moment in her riding of Naruto to catch her breath as well as take in the e.r.o.t.i.c sight of Ino eating out Tayuya. She wondered for a brief moment what the girl was tasting before she directed her attention to Matsuri. Leaning forward she kissed the panting brunette picking up a hint of what Ino had transferred as the two had kissed. The small taste was enough to spike Temari's l.u.s.t though and she quickly began rocking her h.i.p.s in an effort to get off.

Listening to the sound of Tayuya and Ino as they pleased each other truly was serving as a huge aphrodisiac for Naruto. Responding to Temari's need he began to try and match her rhythm while he continued to please Matsuri with his tongue. Sensing the girl sitting on his face was closest he s.u.c.k.e.d on her c.l.i.t causing her to o.r.g.a.s.m and soak his face in her release. She fell to her side away from the others and no sooner was she clear then Temari's face appeared in front of him. She kissed him greedily giving him the feeling that she was trying to taste Matsuri through him.

Placing his hands on her still clothed h.i.p.s, although her kimono had fallen away from her upper body, he held her still before he began to piston up into her. Temari was forced to break the kiss as she m.o.a.n.e.d, ”Yes, that's it f.u.c.k me Naruto…f.u.c.k me. Fill my p.u.s.s.y with your hot spunk.”

”You asked for it,” Naruto said rolling them over where he could truly pound into her. As he went to work she clasped her legs around his waist locking her ankles behind him. Finally she tensed up using her legs to pull him deeper inside her and screamed her release as she felt Naruto fill her insides. She laid there panting with her eyes closed but opened them in surprise when she felt a tongue begin probing her lower lips. Seeing that Ino who apparently had gotten all the cream she could from Tayuya, who was panting having c.u.m again from the blonde leaf kunoichi's talented tongue, had moved onto the fresh source that was leaking from her. Temari placed a hand on Ino's head to push her away but when the blonde flicked her still s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e c.l.i.t with her tongue found herself pulling Ino into her snatch instead.

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The orgy had lasted for almost an hour before each girl was completely satisfied. Although tired, Naruto had to admit his endless stamina could easily have kept him going for a while longer. He pushed away the d.e.s.i.r.e to succ.u.mb to sleep to take another dive into the seal. Making his way to the recreation of his apartment the first thing he noticed was the completed seal design on the wall. He turned his attention to Kyuubi who was staring at him from the couch with her arms crossed. From her demeanor he could see that she was rather upset with him. Figuring it was due to his sudden departure as well as for the reason he sat next to her on the couch.

He remained silent waiting for her to make the first move and was surprised that she did in the form of relaxing into his side. ”Enjoy yourself,” she asked a hint of the bitterness she felt at having to feel the p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e second hand leaking into her voice.

”I'm sure you already know the answer to that,” Naruto said. Staring at the symbol on the wall which appeared to be an X with a circle around it he asked, ”Is it complete?”

”Yes,” Kyuubi said a little put off at his changing the subject. ”Once she applies it to the target the seal will allow you to sense were these potential conquests are. It will also disappear so the target won't realize she's been marked.”

Kyuubi lost track of how long they kissed but eventually the need to breath overpowered her. Breaking apart she panted and watched Naruto with hooded eyes as he quickly recovered first. He slipped from the couch taking up a kneeling position in front of her. Reaching forward, he placed a hand on her t.h.i.g.hs before slowly moving the kimono she wore apart to reveal her panty covered mound. He looked up at Kyuubi before asking, ”Would you like a reward for a job well done?”

Kyuubi nodded shyly wondering what it was Naruto would do. He leaned and placed kisses on the insides of her inner t.h.i.g.hs. He worked his way towards where they converged slowly taking his time as he moved from one leg to the other. Much to Kyuubi p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e he reached her junction but it quickly turned to embarrassment as he took in several deep breaths making it clear he was breathing in her scent.

”Don't… don't do that,” Kyuubi said wondering why it was she felt such mortification.

But it faded as Naruto said, ”You don't need to feel embarrassed. You smell wonderful.” He proved that by placing his mouth over her p.a.n.t.i.e.s and teased her folds with his tongue. His feather light licks even further dulled by the cloth preventing direct contact only served to heighten her arousal. When he pulled back her p.a.n.t.i.e.s were soaked with the combined fluids of his saliva and her excitement. Reaching up the outside of her legs, he grabbed ahold of her u.n.d.e.r.w.e.a.r and after she raised her h.i.p.s off the couch pulled them down and off.

Throwing them over his shoulder, he grabbed the back of her knees and lifted her legs up and apart spreading her further. Before she could complain about the exposed state the new position left her in Naruto moved forward quickly attacking her snatch with his tongue. Kyuubi's complaints were silenced and instead she m.o.a.n.e.d in p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e while placing her hands in his hair.

Naruto felt a mixture of pride and p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e as she began to try and grind her mound into his face. Letting go of her legs, he wasn't surprised that her grinding picked up in intensity or that she spread herself even wider for him. As she got wetter and wetter he slid two of his fingers inside of her and quickly found the small area that seemed to get the greatest amount of response from the m.o.a.ning woman in front of him.

As he ran his tongue over the top half of her p.u.s.s.y while rubbing the area he began to zero in on her c.l.i.t. Kyuubi m.o.a.ns were picking up in intensity letting him know that she was close. Suddenly he found his head being pulled into her mound as she shouted, ”Oh dear Kami, I'm c.u.mmmmiiiiinnnnggg.” Which was followed by his face being drenched in her release. She went slack and stared at him with a content smile on her face. Naruto moved up to her face kissing her and allowing her to taste herself.

She g.r.o.a.n.e.d as Naruto stood quickly asking, ”Are we stopping?”

”For now,” he said as he began to leave.

Naruto looked back and was about to turn to talk to her but with a wave of her hand she cut the connection returning him to the real world and found that for the moment at least he couldn't reenter the seal. Taking in his surroundings, he saw the content women spread about the bed but realized that much like his earlier mistakes with not considering his girls feelings. He hadn't considered that maybe Kyuubi wanted more than just s.e.x, but the care and comfort he tried to provide for each of the women entering into his orbit.

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Naruto and Ino were about halfway back to Konoha and resting for the night when he felt the pull that meant he was being called. Recognizing that it was Matsuri, he told Ino then Hiraishined to her. He appeared in a red flash inside the bedroom of her apartment not sure what to expect, but it wasn't to see Matsuri, Temari and Tayuya dressed in lingerie.

As he took in the gorgeous curves of the women dr.a.p.ed over her bed he heard Tayuya say, ”See, I f.u.c.k.i.n.g told you he'd show.”

He knelt on the bed and asked, ”What's this all about?”

Matsuri looked nervous and like she wanted to say something but stopped. Tayuya on the other hand didn't have a problem speaking so said, ”Matsuri was worried that you'd forget about us back in Konoha.”

Matsuri poked her fingers together but nodded. Naruto smiled gently and cupping her cheek said, ”I'm here and I'm just a jutsu away.”

Matsuri lost herself in his blue eyes until he began to lean forward and kiss her. Pulling back he noticed her eyes were half closed but before he took things to the next level he asked, ”What's with the lingerie show?”

”Well we figured if you did show you'd deserve a reward,” Temari said giving a bright smile showing off the Kyuubi mark on her inner t.h.i.g.h.

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Naruto stretched as he sat up in his bed having returned to Konoha the day before. As carefully as he could, he extracted himself from it so as to not wake the girl he was sharing it with. But it proved unnecessary when Hinata turned towards him to say, ”Morning Naruto.”

”Good morning,” he replied leaning down to kiss her.

Before he could tell her to go back to sleep she began to rise as well wanting to get an early start on the day. Hinata truly had to hand it to Shizune as she couldn't believe all the young woman had needed to handle when it had just been her assisting Tsunade. She frowned though when she noticed Naruto quickly getting dress as she had been hoping to share a shower with him that morning. With a cute pout she said, ”Do you really need to rush off? I thought Kakashi had a habit of showing up late.”

Naruto chuckled but said, ”He was pretty insistent on being on time.” Kissing her again he added, ”Besides, we both know what will happen if we shower together, and I don't think I want to start this new training after being completely drained by you my Hyuuga Princess.”

Hinata blushed at what he said but was forced to admit he raised a rather good point since that was exactly what she had wanted to do. Receiving another kiss, Naruto quickly left trusting her to lock up after she did. Making her way to the shower she stepped under its warm spray. Picking up a new shampoo that Ino had left behind she began to work it into her hair as she let the events of the night before replay themselves in her memory.

Naruto had come to her asking to take her out for the night. She had happily accepted and he had taken her out to a fancy restaurant. During dinner they had discussed his trip to Suna. However, he did leave out most of the details about the other women due to the public venue. He did speak about Gaara and his burgeoning relationship with Sari though. As expected the young woman had been quite pleased that she could finally announce that she was the one that was with Suna's most eligible bachelor. Although she still didn't know why it was that her number one rival seemed completely at peace with it.

Naruto had then asked her about what was happening with her. She had started out by telling him that her father seemed pleased by her decision to help Tsunade as an assistant. Naruto had frowned at her causing Hinata to worry that he was displeased with her. He was, just not in the way she expected as he had asked if she was telling him that to let him know about her current standing in her family. She had broken eye contact but nodded.

She closed her eyes and could almost feel his gentle cupping of her cheek to make her look at him as he told her, ”I asked you how you were doing. I don't care if your dad likes or dislikes your decision Hinata and if you are doing this to please him, and me as a result, and not because you enjoy it. Then you should quit.”

Hinata quickly assured him that she did enjoy it. But from that point on she had talked about her duties and how she felt about them. Towards the end of dinner though talking coherently had been rather difficult since the target Naruto was working on entered the restaurant along with her daughter. The reason had been since as soon as Tsume and Hana had entered he had begun to release his enhanced pheromones. Hinata smiled as she thought of all the people that had gotten lucky that night as a result since all the patrons had obviously felt them.

Yet only two people had zeroed in on the source of them. Once they did though Naruto had quickly paid for the meal and escorted her towards his apartment. Naruto's plan for Tsume called for a rather slow seduction and for the first part would generally rely on appearing in and around the area of Konoha that the Inuzuka tended to frequent. The restaurant they had eaten in had been one such place. Although the Inuzuka were brash and many considered them unsophisticated. The truth was many of the finer restaurants of the village were located in what many considered Inuzuka territory. This was due to while the Inuzuka didn't care for many of the more worldly things money could buy. They did love good food.

Even she had been surprised to learn that, having thought the Akimichi would be the people to see about food. But, due to their gargantuan appetites their restaurants tended to offer more of the bulky types of meals. Still quite a few great restaurants were located there but Naruto's goal was to appear more and more in what Tsume considered her territory in order to make her feel a new Alpha was encroaching. And if the slight barring of her teeth as they had passed Tsume's table showed anything it was that his plan appeared to be working. Hana on the other hand had seemed quite interested in Naruto though in a less challenging way.

As they had made their way to Naruto's they had taken a pretty public path. As they had walked the pair had noticed people talking about them. Which highlighted one of the downfalls of Naruto's d.e.s.i.r.e to take each of his girls on dates, and that was in a shinobi village people loved to talk about other people's business and secrets. Therefore, since Naruto had already been seen on a date with Hinata, Ino, Ayame, and a blonde bombshell that nobody truly knew who she was, he was developing a reputation as a player. To combat that as they had passed through the market area Ino had made sure to stop them and talk. All three of them had found it difficult not to laugh as the people paying attention to them, although they tried not to show it, had all but given themselves away since they obviously were expecting some huge blow up between them. Not the calm conversation that had ended with Ino wishing them a good night. As a result they hoped people would begin to think that the dates were simply a night on the town between friends.

The night had ended on a far less innocent note when after entering the apartment Hinata had all but attacked Naruto finding keeping herself in check to be impossible now that they were alone. Turning the shower off before she began to indulge in the memories since she didn't want to be late as a result of needing to take care of her building urges she spared a moment to drop the henge hiding her chakra. Although the lighter green color had darkened, she frowned since it still wasn't the red she so desperately wanted.

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Naruto wasn't sure how to feel about returning to Team Seven. On one hand, he was excited and hoped Kakashi had something impressive to teach him. But on the other he wasn't exactly sure about how to act around Sakura. The truth was he was rather surprised that she was taking his distancing himself from her as hard as both Ino and Ayame described. Ayame had told him of his teammate's visit to her stand while he was gone and of the small argument between them.

When he had originally decided on his current course of action when it came to Sakura, he had expected a quiet acceptance to it. Almost like things had been between them during Team Seven's tenure together three years ago. Minus all his begging her for dates though. While they had gotten on well enough, Sakura had never really gone out of her way to get to know him. He had just assumed that she would gladly go back to that.

Although touched by her new need to have him in her life more, if it ever came up he would have to accuse her of having a revisionist view of Team Seven. As he felt the current policy of emotional distancing was a more accurate reflection of their previous relationship. He supposed her tearful begging him to bring back Sasuke and his vow to do just that had changed more between him then he suspected. Regardless it was that uncertainty of what to expect from her that had him a little nervous about the day's training.

Stepping onto the training field he saw he was the last to arrive. Kakashi upon noticing him closed his book and with a light tone said, ”Hm, right on time. For a moment I thought we had switched places.”

Naruto chuckled good-naturedly saying, ”I'd have to keep you waiting several hours before you could claim that Kakashi-sensei.”

Kakashi shrugged before saying, ”Well before we get to the heart of your new training. Sakura has told me that you've been busy training yourself while I was out of action. Mind sharing what you been up too?”

Naruto caught Sakura wincing as Kakashi dropped her name. He felt his hackles rising and struggled to keep it from his face. However he did narrow his eyes at her. It was a gesture not missed by Kakashi. Before he could ask though Naruto said a little of the anger he felt bleeding into his voice, ”Well what Sakura apparently failed to mention was that Tsunade doesn't want me talking about it.”

Kakashi noticed that Sakura looked away from Naruto. Shrugging he said diplomatically, ”I guess it slipped her mind. But I also heard you've done some sparring against Yuugao.”

Naruto nodded before saying, ”Yeah, she's a tough taskmaster. I can see why she's the head of Anbu.”

Sakura's head whipped around at that to stare at him in wide eye surprise. Although Naruto had told her he sparred against an Anbu. Learning that it was the head Captain and one of the people that had been exhibiting signs of something she was beginning to think of as ”The Glow,” thought it was unlikely to be a coincidence. What were the odds of women entering Naruto's orbit suddenly gaining a brighter and more cheerful outlook on life. But she was forced to admit that in truth he had been doing that for years as she thought of Koyuki, Daimyo of the Land of Snow, Haruna, from the Land of Vegetables, and Toki of Bird. They were just three women that Naruto had similarly affected, but it was easy to forget that since she didn't have to see it every day. Still she wondered why it was that women in Konoha seemed to be more taken with him than usual lately. She also wondered why it was that he hadn't asked to take her on a date like she had heard he had done for Ino, Ayame, Hinata, and some blonde civilian.

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”So after that, Kakashi-sensei had me and Sakura spare to show off what Yuugao had taught me before explaining he wanted to teach me how to add Wind element to my chakra in order to complete the Rasengan,” Naruto said to his date that night. ”I just wish she would stop trying to snoop in my business.”

”Did you tell her that?”

”Yeah,” Naruto said. ”After the spar, Kakashi dismissed us saying he figured we'd need a way to keep the Kyuubi in check for some reason. He said it had to do with the method we were going to use and that he knew someone in Anbu that would be able to help. Well anyway as I was leaving Sakura tried to come up and start a conversation with me like she did nothing wrong. I told her that I didn't appreciate her trying to manipulate Kakashi into forcing me to reveal what I've been up too.” Tsunade shook her head prompting him to ask, ”What?”

”It's just three years ago you'd be excited that she was showing this much interest in you,” Tsunade said. ”Also I think you're being a little unfair.”

”What, how is it unfair that I want her to keep her nose out of what I'm doing outside of the team?”

”Oh that isn't what you are being unfair about, but in being so self-righteous in her making a mistake.” A part of Tsunade expected him to blow up at that. But Naruto proved he would probably always be capable of surprising her by simply leaning back in the chair and crossing his arms. Taking that as permission to continue she said, ”Well she's a young woman trying to understand why it is you have thrown a brick wall up between you two. She was simply hoping to use Kakashi as a means to put a small crack in it.”

”But why are you saying my being upset is self-righteous?” Naruto asked challenging.

”In forgetting that you've made a few mistakes yourself,” Tsunade answered. ”Don't forget you made quite a major blunder recently in Suna in your blurting out to Gaara what you've been up too.” Naruto tried to defend his actions but Tsunade cut him off saying, ”Yes I know it worked out alright. But without even thinking about how your actions would make everyone else feel you leapt in headlong. What would you do if he rejected your ideas?”

”I…I don't know,” Naruto admitted.

”But you persisted without considering just how your actions' consequences could have spelled disaster for all of us. Do you really think I would still be Hokage if people learned of our new connection? Not to mention how Yuugao and Hinata would have been affected.”

”I get what you're saying,” Naruto replied after digesting what Tsunade had said. ”Sakura did what she did without considering the aftereffects if things didn't turn out as she hoped.” Tsunade nodded so he said, ”I'll apologize tomorrow.”

”I didn't say to do that,” Tsunade said laughing lightly at his confused expression. ”She did screw up and you have a legitimate reason to be angry. I just don't want you to use it as a reason to convince yourself you are right in your current treatment of her.” She could see Naruto took her words to heart so said, ”Now I'm tired of talking about another woman on my date so let's change the subject.”

Naruto smiled at her suggestion just as glad to do so. Moving on to more date friendly topics the pair was unaware they were being discreetly observed. Sitting alone at her table Koharu Utatane frowned wondering what exactly it was Tsunade was playing at. It was merely by happenstance that she happened to be there since she often ate at the expensive restaurant. But upon seeing the nine-tail Jinchuriki entering with a blonde had lost interest in her meal. At first she didn't recognize her but despite her advanced age. Her memory was still excellent and it wasn't long before she realized that the young woman was a henged Tsunade. She was slightly disappointed that it took as long as it did for her to recognize the woman especially since she knew of Tsunade's penchant for changing her appearance. However, Koharu had assumed Tsunade to have grown out of such childish behavior. Yet watching the two, Koharu feared she had grown into something else. Something that if it came to light, would tarnish not only the Hokage title, but the very village itself.

As the pair got up after paying for their meal she considered following them to reprimand them since it was apparent they were far closer than was proper considering their age difference. She decided to talk to Tsunade in the morning in order to give the woman the chance to do the right thing. Otherwise she would take steps to ensure the right thing was done, steps which may include involving her fellow elders.

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Sakura was sitting on the swing in the Academy playground that Naruto used to frequent when he appeared down. She hoped that by sitting there she would think of some way to lessen Naruto's anger at her. Sadly nothing had occurred to her. She stood up to go home but stopped when she heard Kakashi say, ”Now what's with the long face.”

Sakura tried to smile but didn't feel up to it instead saying, ”Guess I just don't have much of a reason to smile lately.”

”Ah, you must be referring to what happened between you and Naruto today,” Kakashi said nonchalantly.

Sakura winced before schooling her features and saying, ”Sorry about tricking you like that.”

Kakashi shrugged saying, ”No big deal.” He then began to walk with Sakura as she began heading home.

Sakura though said, ”No it is. I tried to use you to force Naruto into telling me what he was up to.”

Kakashi chuckled as he said, ”I think I figured that out Sakura.”

Sakura nodded before saying, ”I just don't know what happened between us. I mean when he first came back everything was great. But then when I left everything changed and now he barely wants to be around me.”

Kakashi watched her a moment before saying, ”I think you're overreacting a tad. Although today started out pretty rough Naruto was still able to function as a team with you.”

”But as soon as training was over he took off like he wanted to be as far from me as possible,” Sakura sad sadly.

”Well you did just try to…”

”It wasn't only today though,” Sakura said her voice raising a few octaves. ”Ever since that mission to Grass he wanted nothing to do with me. Ayame says it's because he's preparing for the day Sasuke comes back. Like when that happens he'll cut me out of his life completely.”

”Hmmm,” Kakashi said after a moment of thought, ”I suppose that is possible.” Sakura looked up her eyes wide with the panic she felt. Explaining what he meant Kakashi said, ”Well Sakura put yourself in Naruto's shoes.”

”Don't you think I've tried,” Sakura said agitated, ”I've been trying to figure out what I've done to anger him to such a point.”

”Perhaps,” Kakashi said, ”Yet I don't think you've truly looked at things from his point of view. Tell me, what do you remember of the day you were all assigned to Team Seven?”

Sakura immediately said, ”I remember being happy.”

”Why?”

Sakura was about to blurt out, ”Because I was put on Sasuke's team.”

However it died on her tongue, but Kakashi apparently knew what she had been about to say and pressing on said, ”Do you also remember what you said when I asked you what it was you hated?”

”Naruto,” she said weakly.