This takes place in Naruto Shippuden.  



Naruto walks along the Konoha streets as he kicks dirt under his feet. Each kick made gusts of sand and dirt swish in the air above his ankles. There are villagers walking around Naruto minding their own business. Women are holding their young ones hands; the men gawk at young ladies. One adolescent teen-aged girl looks aggravated that Naruto had kicked dirt on her white dress. Naruto made no realization to this occurrence as for he had something else on his mind.

Haruno Sakura.

The girl he loved. Usually he would not have been in such a long thought about her, since he had other things to worry about. Such as Sasuke, and how to bring him back. Even so, right now, Sakura was all he could think about. Her pink hair, her emerald colored eyes, the way her voice made that cute moe sound whenever she called out his name. These thoughts were blocking out everything from his mind. He didn’t notice the simple things around him, such as the women scowling because he had violated her white dress with sand. But what could he say? He’s in love.


It was at that moment that a huge burly man grabbed Naruto by the shoulder and swung him around almost tripping him.

“Hey you, Punk!” Growled the 300 pound ogre, “You just dirtied my ladies dress and you aint say your sorry?!”

Naruto looked behind the man at the young girl who was frowning. Her clothes were dusted from the sand he had kicked earlier.

“It’s just dust; she can just wipe it off.” Naruto says.

“That aint the point kid.” The man says. He grabs Naruto by the collar and pushes him against a wall as he starts spitting out insults.

Naruto stares at the man not intimidated. After all he is a ninja, what’s the point in getting scared?

Naruto grabs the burly man’s wrist and squeezes it until he lets go of his orange and black jump suit. The ogre steps back holding his wrist in pain as he looks at Naruto as if he was insane.

“I am sorry… But not for the reason you’re guessing. I am going to have to apologize to your girlfriend in about two minutes because I am about to beat you to a pulp if you don’t leave me alone.” The burly man looks at Naruto with fury burning in his eyes but stops when the pain in his wrist starts to pulse.

“Heh.” The man chuckles, “You… I’ll remember you…” The man walks away with his girlfriend leaving Naruto standing in the streets staring at their backs.

As the blonde boy turns around to walk, a pink haired beauty stands right in front of him with a smirk on her face. Naruto steps back with a startled expression.

“Should you really be starting fights with random people?” The girl comments.

“Hey, I didn’t start anything! That weirdo was just flipping out because his girlfriend was dirty.” Naruto explains.

Sakura looks at him with disbelief but shrugs it off as she losses interest. The two walk side by side as they walk to nowhere specifically.

“So why are you walking out here all by yourself? Where are you headed?” Sakura asks.

Naruto shrugs. “I don’t know, I was just taking a stroll.”

“I see. Would you mind some company?”

“Of course!” Naruto says a little too excited. Sakura holds her hand over her mouth as she giggles. Naruto’s face turns a slight shade of pink as he turns his head to look the other way. He crosses his arms behind his head as they continue walking down the path.

Naruto couldn’t help but smile. He has known Sakura since he was just a young kid at the ninja academy. Their relationship was so different then from how it is now. Back then, Sakura use to yell at Naruto all the time while she gawked at Sasuke. He had to admit, if he was Sakura he would yell at himself too because he was rather annoying. All he did was yell and scream and start fights with people. He was pretty sure that anyone would be yelling at him all the time if they had to put up with his bull crap. He was just glad that the one yelling at him at the time was Sakura. She hurt his feelings; but if it wasn’t for her yelling, they wouldn’t be at the point where they are today. Sakura always told him she was sorry for treating him so badly. He knew that she truly wanted to be nicer, even if it meant sacrificing some of her “Sasuke time” to be with him. Even though she never admitted it, he could tell. Whenever Sakura needed someone to talk to, she always ran to Naruto. When she was on a mission and needed help, she screamed for Naruto’s aid, not Sasuke. It was small occurrences like this that made Naruto realize that Sakura really did care for him. And now look where they’re at, walking side by side, headed nowhere in particular. It was times like this that Naruto was thankful for his past..

“So do you wanna?” Sakura asked.

“Huh? What?” Naruto snaps out of his thoughts as he stares at a smiling Sakura.
“I said, do you want to go to my place? I’m kind of tired and plus I got some ramen we can eat if your hung--”

“I’d love too!”

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Sakura’s place


Sakura ran up the steps to her house and quickly opened her front door with her keys.

“Alright we are here. My parents are out working, they won’t be home for a while. Go ahead and take a seat on the couch, I’m going to change into something more comfortable. Are you gonna be ok in that jumpsuit? Do you want something more comfortable? I’m sure my dad has something for you.”

“Naw, I’ll be fine. Do you mind if I made some ramen for myself? I’m actually kinda hungry?” Naruto asks.

“Ugh, fine but that’s all. Then you sit down on my couch. I don’t need you going around touching stuff.”

“ok,ok.”

Sakura hurries up her stairs to her bedroom and closes the door. Naruto walks inside her house. He takes off his boots and looks around looking at some pictures she has hanging on the wall. There were some of her parents wedding, they looked so happy, Sakura’s first puppy; he’s assuming, and all types. To his surprise she had some photos of her and Ino when they were younger. Those two really need to admit they like each other. Naruto smiles at his thought. Naruto walks over to the couch and takes a seat. Maybe I’ll wait for Sakura to come make me ramen; it’ll be like we’re married. Naruto smiles in pleasure as he imagines this.

A married couple, the husband, Naruto, sits at the dinner table from a long day of work, while the wife, Sakura, cooks him a delicious meal. That would be perfect. That’s when Naruto started to realize something. He and Sakura were in a house all by themselves, no parents, and a lifetime of ramen in the kitchen. Anything could happen. Naruto starts to blush at his perverted thoughts.

Sakura comes walking down the stairs in pink pajama bottoms and a Red taint top. She notices a grinning Naruto sitting on her couch with his legs wide opened. Her face immediately turns into an angry expression as she screams Naruto’s name.

“Naruto! You better not be thinking anything weird!” She threatens.

Naruto snaps out of his unconscious appearance and sits up right on her couch looking for an excuse.

“O-oh hey Sakura-chan! I wasn’t thinking anything perverted I swear!”

Sakura looks at Naruto with a blank stare then offers Naruto anything to eat. Naruto accepts and Sakura begins cooking. Naruto looks over his shoulder and watches Sakura add all types of ingredients to his soup. She added hot sauce, peanut butter, Doritos, and Coca Cola. Suddenly Naruto isn’t so hungry anymore more.

“It’s ready!” Sakura walks into the living room with two bowls of soup in her hands. She hands one to Naruto and takes a seat next to him on the couch. Naruto watches his soup as the brownish looking goop covers all the noodles. He looks over at Sakura as she chomps down on her soup that’s almost half empty. Naruto’s stomach growls, as he gazes at the soup one more time.

“What’s the matter? Why aren’t you eating?” Sakura asks with a noodle hanging out her mouth.

“I’m not thinking about how it’s going to kill me that’s for sure!” A paranoid Naruto says really fast.

“What?”

“I-I mean, um, I’m just sniffing at how great it smells.” Naruto forces a grin.

“Hmph, well hurry up and eat it or it’ll get cold.” Sakura warns.

Naruto looks back at the soup and grabs his chopstick. He slowly lowers the sticks into the soup and yanks out a noodle. He carefully escalates it to his mouth and sucks the noodle off the chop stick. Naruto’s face immediately starts turning all types of colors as he shoves the noodle down his throat.

“So how is it?” Sakura asks finished with her soup.

Naruto gives thumbs up, with a green face.

Sakura smiles and turns on the T.V.

Naruto puts the bowl of ramen on the end table by the couch and watches T.V. along with Sakura.

Sakura flips through the channels trying to find the right show to watch. After about several minutes of flipping through the channel, Sakura turns off the T.V and sprawls out on the couch. She places her feet on Naruto’s lap as she lets her head fall back over the couch’s arm.
“I am soooo bored! There is nothing to watch…” Sakura continues on complaining as Naruto stares at her. The way Sakura lied on the couch revealed her womanly figure. Her curves were visible through her taint top, and her womanly muscles were showed out in a feminim way. Naruto couldn’t help but stare. He wasn’t trying to pull a Jiraiya, but he was getting all blushy seeing her sprawled out like that. How he would kill to be able to lay on her…

“Naruto are you listening?” Sakura picks her head up from behind the couch’s arm and looks at Naruto.

Naruto stops blushing and quickly stares at Sakura.

“Uh-huh; yeah. Of course I was listening,” he lied, “You were saying you were bored.”

Sakura sighed and sat up straight on the couch. She looks at Naruto with a concerned look.

“Naruto, I was saying that I was really glad that you came home with me because my parents aren’t here and I have no siblings. They have been gone for several days already and I was getting lonely.” Sakura explains. “Naruto what’s up with you? You have been acting all weird. Even this morning when I was walking with you I could tell you weren’t listening to a word I was saying. If there is something bothering you, you know you can always tell me, I’m here for you.”

Hearing Sakura say all this to Naruto made him blush. He always knew Sakura would be there for him, even though she never said it. But actually hearing her say “I’m here for you” made him feel so much better. Sometimes, it’s good hear someone say what’s on their mind then having to guess how they feel.

Should I tell her? I mean I know she still loves Sasuke and all but, I really love her. What if I tell her and she doesn’t feel comfortable around me anymore? What if she stops acting so familiar with me because she’s afraid to make me think she likes me? What if I make her feel like I’m forcing my love on her? What if she pretends to like me so she doesn’t hurt my feelings? Or worse, what if she doesn’t want to be my friend anymore? Why is love so hard?!

Naruto starts to freak out from all the thinking. He stands up quickly and walks away from the couch in a crazed mood.

“Where are you going Naruto?” Sakura asks concerned.

Naruto quickly collects his boots.

“I’m sorry Sakura, but I need to get going. It’s been a long day, and I need to get some rest.”

“You can stay at my place.” Sakura suggests.

“No..!.....I’m sorry… But I got to go.” Naruto walks out the door and slams it behind him. Sakura sits on the couch by herself dazed.

Was it something I said?