II. At the Hospital.
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"You don't say." Naruto said to the ANBU shinobi, frowning. "Look, sorry... But half the people who usually say I "need" to go with them... Hell, ALL the people who say that are normally trying to kill me. Or worse. So, uh, no. You'll just have to step aside, man."
There was a short moment of tense silence. Hinata's grip over Naruto's hand became tighter.
"I get it if you don't really trust the ANBU because of Danzou..." The hooded man said. "... But him, the Root and us are not in the same boat. We helped the Hokage through the history of this village, the invasion of Pain was no exception. Tsunade-sama is alive partially because of us... So, please..."
"If that's the case, then how about you get that mask off your face, huh?" Naruto smirked defiantly. "I asked who you are. And I want an answer."
"Naruto-kun... There's a reason behind that mask." Hinata said, looking serious. "It's not just to conceal one's identity. It's also because they want to be free from the things they themselves do..."
"Huh?" Naruto gazed at Hinata, who in return gazed at him. She wasn't bluffing and she wasn't speaking for the sake of it either. She really looked like she knew what she was talking about, which made Naruto feel a powerful feeling of regret and guilt. His first realization about that girl was how much of a "weirdo" she was for him. And though during the Chuunin exams his opinion changed considerably, he still couldn't bring himself to count on her for things in which he needed help. But ever since Pain's attack... She...
"What Hinata-sama says is entirely true." The ANBU said. Both Uzumaki and Hyuuga turned back to him, their cheeks coloured a bit red. "Naruto... Looking at our own faces after realizing what we have to do as ANBU members... Not many are able to do such thing. We develop certain... Habits, to keep our minds and our hearts distracted from those actions we are responsible for. Wearing a mask for about anything we do, is one of those habits... Of course, this is applied to those ANBU with the highest rank. Rookies and bodyguards, however strong, they have no such burdens to bear. Yet."
"But the war is over." Naruto replied stubbornly. "There's no longer any threat coming from any village, an alliance has been formed. A true one. There's no need for more interrogation, torture or unnecesary, violent things like those. And if you really want to be free of those things you do... Or did... You have no choice but to face them. Take that mask off and face yourself... Prove yourself that you are better than those things. You need to forgive yourself."
The ANBU chuckled in a way very much like that of the person Naruto had fought the most ruthlessly in the war. Uchiha Obito. The only reason why it seemed a chuckle, was because apparently it amused the ANBU. But on different circumstances, if they had been fighting, Naruto would have not seen the difference between that laugh and a plain snort... Such was the coldness coming from him. Although, unlike Obito, this person's coldness wasn't towards Naruto or Hinata... It was towards himself.
"His soul, and his mind..." Naruto frowned thoughtfully while speaking to himself inwardly. "... This guy is also at war. Thre's a war inside him... And he is just as lost about his as I am about mine."
"I appreciate your concern, Naruto. Sadly, there is no time for this right now... There is a reason why I need you to come with me, and not just any random reason."
"Tch!" Naruto shook his head. "What's up with people with high ranks and masks? It's almost as if the more power you get, the less you want people to know who you are... Haku... That Obito guy... This ANBU... Even Kakashi-sensei, in a way..." He thought bitterly. Afterwards, he sighed and rubbed his neck annoyedly. He was NOT looking forward for that...
"Whatever. Say the reason then..."
"A little while ago, and ANBU squad came back from a mission that took place in Amegakure."
"Hidden Rain? But... Isn't that...?" Hinata frowned. Naruto started to feel like he really needed to spend more time with her. The fact that her face could produce such expressions was catching him off guard. She looked at him, and he only found out seconds later, as he was lost in her eyes, trying to figure them out.
"Oh! Uh, yeah. That's supposed to be where the Akatsuki came from. Anyway... What about it?" He felt his face a bit warm... For who-knows-what time ever since Hinata got there.
"Well, such ANBU squad happens to be MY squad. We found a particularly familiar woman there... She was injured fatally, and the only thing she managed to say was a man's name." The ANBU turned on his feet and with a hand sign, requested them to follow him. "Your name to be specific."
"Naruto-kun's name? But you don't know anybody from Amegakure, do you?" She looked at him yet again, and he started to think that he was enjoying it way too much.
"Not that I remember of..." And then, just then, as the ANBU's footsteps got further away from him, and as the night wind caressed his face softly, the memory of the whole reason why his perception of Hinata had begun to change. The memory of an attack on his village, and of the attackers. A man and a woman from Amegakure...
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"Where in the HELL is Shizune...? I need sedatives right NOW!" A blond, hot-headed woman yelled frustrated as she used her hands and greenish chakra to stop another woman's bleeding. They were on a relatively large Hospital room, though due to the lateness of the event, pretty much everything but that room was shrouded in darkness. It was about to be midnight. Despite the fact that Hospitals are commonly known (or popular) for their "whiteness", especially on their beds and walls, the room in which the blond woman was healing the other was getting more and more dyed in red, as consequence of the blood coming out endlessly from the patient.
"She's seconds away from here, Godaime." A voice said from no where in particular. Used as the Godaime Hokage was with flashy, stealthy and "out-of-nowherely" appereances (especially with shinobi), her focus on the patient was not lost. She did give a fast gaze to the room's door's threshold, as in the middle of it an adult figure appeared in a cloak and wearing a mask.
"Sekai?" She asked, as she pushed into the wound harder. "Wait, if you're here, then that means..."
But before she could even end the phrase, yet another hot-headed blond (male this time) made his way inside the room, rising his voice as loudly as the Godaime had done before him.
"What in the HELL is going on around here...? Oi!" He glared at the ANBU, while the Hokage found herself near losing focus as soon as she realized just who it was the one holding the blonde youngster's hand. "...You said it was a fatal injure, but this is nothing like it! She's frikin' dying, man!"
"Naruto, shut your damn trap!" Hokage said irritated slightly. "Get your ass here and start being helpful... I'm going to run out of chakra soon, and there's no way I'm going to ask Saku-... Er..." She caught Naruto's small but definitely noticeable vein itching in his forehead and felt a sudden danger. "... By the way, Hinata, is that you?"
"H-Hai!" The woman holding Naruto's hand said, red on her cheeks (which made her look incredibly cute) "I'm sorry, Tsunade-sama, I see that I am interrupting you..."
"Baka. Don't you dare let go of my hand, you hear me?" Naruto said frowning a bit, apparently with no reason (apparently). He stood behind Tsunade's back, and put his other hand in her shoulder, while Hinata looked down for a bit and chuckled childishly at Naruto's last comment. As she felt the warmth and the energy of the Uzumaki's chakra feeding her own, Tsunade's expression in her face went slightly nostalgic and motherly.
"So he has begun to move on, huh? Sakura is not going to like it one bit." She thought happily. As Naruto finished his job, Tsunade went back to her aggressive, medic self and pushed her Medical Ninjutsu with more strenght in the wound. A woman's voice was heard throughout the outside corridor.
"Tsunade-sama....!!!!"
"Well, it was about DAMN time." Tsunade sighed in relief as the black-haired, slender and attractive apprentice of hers made her way inside the room to join the fray. She held several small, black vials with a few drops of some liquid inside them inside her hands.
"Shizune, where in the love of these large breasts of mine were you? If this brat doesn't get here, this woman dies...!" Tsunade said as she struggled still, ignoring Naruto's "hey, whaddaya mean "brat" old hag?" comment (fortunately for him, that is). Shizune hurried up and opened a tiny one of those vals, after which she gently and slowly opened the patient's mouth and readied to spill the vial's content.
"I wasn't able to find any sedatives strong enough... Apparently, they got all crushed in the invasion, and with the war happening right after, we really didn't have the time to re-stock... I was forced to make one sedative by myself, and split it in small rations. It should be enough to put an elephant or two to sleep, though. Only a tiny one."
"I see. Brilliant job. Sorry for yelling at you." Tsunade said, and that earned Shizune's quick smile. The crowd's whole attention was shifted to the patient, though, as she coughed up some blood and struggled to talk.
"What the...?" Tsunade and Shizune snapped. The latter frowned.
"Don't move and stay down! What do you think you're playing at, moving around in such condition...? 'Taku!" The black-haired woman also pushed the blood in with her medical chakra, though the patient didn't seem to listen to her. She was too determined to talk.
"Wait... W-wait... There's no need... To waste more time in me... I just need to..."
"...To shut up and lay down. That's what you need. You must have a death wish to come and tell a medical ninja what she's supposed to do or don't. Now, if you'll excuse me...?" Tsunade forced her to lay down with only her finger. The patient was still struggling though.
"Stubborn girl, huh?”
“I need to speak to Naruto...!” She exclaimed in a painful voice. There was a moment of silence that lasted for several seconds. The medical nins looked at each other, while Hinata and Naruto did the same and the ANBU merely laid against the wall. Naruto frowned.
"Konan, right? Is that your name?"
The woman, whose blue hair was slightly red due to blood, and whose usually pretty face was showing pain and agony, nodded with an incredibly slow motion. Her orange eyes were almost fading out every second that she remained conscious. Naruto shook his head.
"Whatever it is you need to tell me, keep it to yourself until you're healed."
"No...! There is no time... Madara... He...!" But she started coughing blood again before she could end th sentence.
"You don't understand. Probably because you were injured and unconscious the whole time..." Sekai, the ANBU said. Everybody looked at him. "... The war is over, as Naruto would be very happy to tell you."
"What...?!" Konan's eyes widened, she looked at Tsunade and then at Naruto. It seemed as though she was fearing the purpose of staying alive had just been rendered useless, but then her fire was sort of rekindled, and she shook her head.
"That's great... But this is not just about the war... Please...!"
"Konan." Naruto said firmly and with stern voice (Tsunade felt a tiny drop of sweat falling over her back, as she had only a few times listening to Naruto in that mood). "I don't know if it is that you ignore the characteristics of the war, but anyway... I have had enough of dead people talking to me. If you need to say something and if you think it's so important that you can't wait to say it, then use that strength to stay alive. I'm not gonna hear anything from you in this state. So shut your trap."
Konan looked at him for several seconds, and then she smiled in the same way as a child who had just been forgiven for his mistakes would. She closed her eyes and whispered a low "okay", after which Shizune poured the few sedative drops inside her mouth. Konan's body somehow seemed a bit more relaxed later on. Silence fell amongst the crowd in the room, as the night wind blew through the open window. Tsunade and Shizune began closing the wound with their medical skills, until the bleeding was stopped completely and the wound was no more: Konan's stomach had returned to normal. Her skin colour slowly came back, and the only thing that could be heard after hours of medical care, was Konan's peaceful breathing.
"I'm sorry, Hinata. I was about to take you on a date or something, and ended up bringing you to a Hospital to do these things..."
Shizune, Tsunade and Hinata all looked at Naruto (the first two, whose faces were directed to Konan, turned their heads at the blond jiinchuuriki with such speed that their necks got hurt in the process). The Hyuuga heiress, flustered but evidently happy and flattered, shook her head (she had never let go of Naruto's hand, which to Tsunade was a sign of something much more surprising that the fact that Hinata was there to begin with).
"Um... It's okay, Naruto-kun. To me, even if it was a strange one, this was a date... The first one, actually." She said, caressing Naruto's hand with her own hand's fingers in a childish way. Naruto chuckled and then smiled at her with that foxy, bratty smile of his, which made Tsunade want to smile too.
"Is that so? It was my first "date" too! And it was with you, of all people. Talk about weird..." He said. Tsunade contained (with great effort) her desire to punch him in the head after he said that. "What do you mean "weird", you dimwit? Now she's going to feel awful! You ruined it!" she thought, as Hinata's expression showed a slight hint of disappointment.
"...But..." Naruto played with the Hyuuga's hand in an also bratty, yet cute way. "... I really liked it. I wouldn't have wanted it in any other way. I'm glad you're here, Hinata." He pulled the white-eyed woman towards him gently, and kissed her on her cheek shortly. What happened afterwards was so fast that Tsunade felt a bit dizzy. First, Shizune and her looked at each other exchanging surprised reactions to Naruto's understanding of a woman's feelings (or perhaps his luck at nailing the right spot this time). And then, while both women expected Hinata to blush violently and faint, they were yet again surprised by the fact that she chuckled and tried to kiss Naruto in his cheek as well... Only she failed to aim at his cheek. Her clothes (she was still dressed for a wedding, unlike Tsunade or Shizune) were definitely not made for being in a hurry or making fast movements, and though she probably wanted to surprise Naruto with a kiss as much as he had done with her, she wasn't fast enough to do it. Her kiss ended up in Naruto's lips.
Tsunade, right after seeing this (and this is when everything got fast as lightning) was torn between her mysterious jelousy (perhaps motherly jelousy, or elder sisterly) and her joy of actually seeing Naruto acting romantically with another girl. Before she could decide anything, though, Hinata and Naruto broke up. Well, more like Hinata backed off as she could, evidently embarrassed for her actions.
"N-Naruto-kun!... Uhhh...!! I'm... I'm sorry!" She was NOW blushing violently, and Tsunade was about to either kill her or hug her. She couldn't make her mind up.
"What are you doing...?" Naruto touched his lips for a second, and then smiled. "It's not like I hated it. If you think you can kiss me, then how about you stop adding "-kun" to my name? At least that way, when I kiss you, I will feel less like a stranger."
"Oi! You two!" Tsunade said loudly, her forehead's vein itching dangerously (though she was trying her best not to smile). " 'The hell you think you're doing on an injured person's room? Not the time! Go home and come back tomorrow. She'll be able to talk by then. Is that understood?!"
"H-hai!!!" Hinata said right away, and Naruto merely whispered a lazy "whatever".
"What was that, brat?"
"I said whatever, old hag. You deaf or something? Guess it comes with age, huh?"
Both blonds stared at each other, smirking defiantly with more veins itching. Shizune sighed in resignation and put herself between the two.
"Tsunade-sama, please set an example for your own words. There is an injured woman here. Naruto-kun, please go home."
Both blonds then turned on their feet, letting out a loud "hmph" annoyedly, and walked opposite ways. Shizune chuckled lowly, though, as she was able to identify Tsunade's hidden smile, as well as Naruto's. The black-haired apprentice faced the ANBU.
"Sekai-senpai. Could you please...?"
"Forget it. I'm walking Hinata home. At least give us some privacy, will you?" Naruto said calmly as he walked with Hinata towards the door. Sekai nodded and stepped aside to give them room. Without further ado (although Hinata did wave Shizune good-bye in a noble-like fashion), the two Konoha rookies were gone. Tsunade waited for some minutes until their footsteps were gone, and bursted into laughter.
"For Kami's sake, can you believe it? He was actually all cool and sweet with the girl...!" She shook her head, and began picking up the bloody bandages, and cleaning the room with Shizune's help. The latter laughed as well.
"I admit this is a huge surprise, almost more than the wedding was. I hope no one sees them, though! It's too soon for them to begin living the experience of a Shinobi couple. Sakura and Sasuke are still being chased by news-papers and whatnot..."
"I agree... Plus, the brat hasn't got over Sakura yet. Hinata needs to break that huge barrier before actually making it... Before being his girlfriend."
"I'm sorry... Did I hear right? Haruno married the Uchiha?" Sekai asked from the threshold. Both women looked at him.
"Oh, that's right. Sekai you were on mission, so you wouldn't know... Yes, she married Sasuke. Today. And quite the wedding it was..." Tsunade sighed, proud of her pink-haired, also hot-headed apprentice.
"But... Why? Wasn't Naruto the one who...?"
"I know, right? But what is there to do? You of all people should already know the likes of a woman's heart's whims, shouldn't you, Sekai?"
The ANBU folded his arms and snorted (albeit painfully).
"Sorry. Don't know what you're talking about."
Tsunade chuckled. "Right, of course you don't."
After half an hour of the three ninjas cleaning and tidying the room, while Konan slept peacefully in her bed, Tsunade sat on the bed opposite to Konan's, accompanied by Shizune. Sekai returned to his laying against the wall fashion.
"So..." Tsunade tucked her hair behind her ear and became serious. "... Tell me more about the mission. You said she mentioned the existance of another Rinnegan...?
III. That Night...
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"You don't say." Naruto said to the ANBU shinobi, frowning. "Look, sorry... But half the people who usually say I "need" to go with them... Hell, ALL the people who say that are normally trying to kill me. Or worse. So, uh, no. You'll just have to step aside, man."
There was a short moment of tense silence. Hinata's grip over Naruto's hand became tighter.
"I get it if you don't really trust the ANBU because of Danzou..." The hooded man said. "... But him, the Root and us are not in the same boat. We helped the Hokage through the history of this village, the invasion of Pain was no exception. Tsunade-sama is alive partially because of us... So, please..."
"If that's the case, then how about you get that mask off your face, huh?" Naruto smirked defiantly. "I asked who you are. And I want an answer."
"Naruto-kun... There's a reason behind that mask." Hinata said, looking serious. "It's not just to conceal one's identity. It's also because they want to be free from the things they themselves do..."
"Huh?" Naruto gazed at Hinata, who in return gazed at him. She wasn't bluffing and she wasn't speaking for the sake of it either. She really looked like she knew what she was talking about, which made Naruto feel a powerful feeling of regret and guilt. His first realization about that girl was how much of a "weirdo" she was for him. And though during the Chuunin exams his opinion changed considerably, he still couldn't bring himself to count on her for things in which he needed help. But ever since Pain's attack... She...
"What Hinata-sama says is entirely true." The ANBU said. Both Uzumaki and Hyuuga turned back to him, their cheeks coloured a bit red. "Naruto... Looking at our own faces after realizing what we have to do as ANBU members... Not many are able to do such thing. We develop certain... Habits, to keep our minds and our hearts distracted from those actions we are responsible for. Wearing a mask for about anything we do, is one of those habits... Of course, this is applied to those ANBU with the highest rank. Rookies and bodyguards, however strong, they have no such burdens to bear. Yet."
"But the war is over." Naruto replied stubbornly. "There's no longer any threat coming from any village, an alliance has been formed. A true one. There's no need for more interrogation, torture or unnecesary, violent things like those. And if you really want to be free of those things you do... Or did... You have no choice but to face them. Take that mask off and face yourself... Prove yourself that you are better than those things. You need to forgive yourself."
The ANBU chuckled in a way very much like that of the person Naruto had fought the most ruthlessly in the war. Uchiha Obito. The only reason why it seemed a chuckle, was because apparently it amused the ANBU. But on different circumstances, if they had been fighting, Naruto would have not seen the difference between that laugh and a plain snort... Such was the coldness coming from him. Although, unlike Obito, this person's coldness wasn't towards Naruto or Hinata... It was towards himself.
"His soul, and his mind..." Naruto frowned thoughtfully while speaking to himself inwardly. "... This guy is also at war. Thre's a war inside him... And he is just as lost about his as I am about mine."
"I appreciate your concern, Naruto. Sadly, there is no time for this right now... There is a reason why I need you to come with me, and not just any random reason."
"Tch!" Naruto shook his head. "What's up with people with high ranks and masks? It's almost as if the more power you get, the less you want people to know who you are... Haku... That Obito guy... This ANBU... Even Kakashi-sensei, in a way..." He thought bitterly. Afterwards, he sighed and rubbed his neck annoyedly. He was NOT looking forward for that...
"Whatever. Say the reason then..."
"A little while ago, and ANBU squad came back from a mission that took place in Amegakure."
"Hidden Rain? But... Isn't that...?" Hinata frowned. Naruto started to feel like he really needed to spend more time with her. The fact that her face could produce such expressions was catching him off guard. She looked at him, and he only found out seconds later, as he was lost in her eyes, trying to figure them out.
"Oh! Uh, yeah. That's supposed to be where the Akatsuki came from. Anyway... What about it?" He felt his face a bit warm... For who-knows-what time ever since Hinata got there.
"Well, such ANBU squad happens to be MY squad. We found a particularly familiar woman there... She was injured fatally, and the only thing she managed to say was a man's name." The ANBU turned on his feet and with a hand sign, requested them to follow him. "Your name to be specific."
"Naruto-kun's name? But you don't know anybody from Amegakure, do you?" She looked at him yet again, and he started to think that he was enjoying it way too much.
"Not that I remember of..." And then, just then, as the ANBU's footsteps got further away from him, and as the night wind caressed his face softly, the memory of the whole reason why his perception of Hinata had begun to change. The memory of an attack on his village, and of the attackers. A man and a woman from Amegakure...
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"Where in the HELL is Shizune...? I need sedatives right NOW!" A blond, hot-headed woman yelled frustrated as she used her hands and greenish chakra to stop another woman's bleeding. They were on a relatively large Hospital room, though due to the lateness of the event, pretty much everything but that room was shrouded in darkness. It was about to be midnight. Despite the fact that Hospitals are commonly known (or popular) for their "whiteness", especially on their beds and walls, the room in which the blond woman was healing the other was getting more and more dyed in red, as consequence of the blood coming out endlessly from the patient.
"She's seconds away from here, Godaime." A voice said from no where in particular. Used as the Godaime Hokage was with flashy, stealthy and "out-of-nowherely" appereances (especially with shinobi), her focus on the patient was not lost. She did give a fast gaze to the room's door's threshold, as in the middle of it an adult figure appeared in a cloak and wearing a mask.
"Sekai?" She asked, as she pushed into the wound harder. "Wait, if you're here, then that means..."
But before she could even end the phrase, yet another hot-headed blond (male this time) made his way inside the room, rising his voice as loudly as the Godaime had done before him.
"What in the HELL is going on around here...? Oi!" He glared at the ANBU, while the Hokage found herself near losing focus as soon as she realized just who it was the one holding the blonde youngster's hand. "...You said it was a fatal injure, but this is nothing like it! She's frikin' dying, man!"
"Naruto, shut your damn trap!" Hokage said irritated slightly. "Get your ass here and start being helpful... I'm going to run out of chakra soon, and there's no way I'm going to ask Saku-... Er..." She caught Naruto's small but definitely noticeable vein itching in his forehead and felt a sudden danger. "... By the way, Hinata, is that you?"
"H-Hai!" The woman holding Naruto's hand said, red on her cheeks (which made her look incredibly cute) "I'm sorry, Tsunade-sama, I see that I am interrupting you..."
"Baka. Don't you dare let go of my hand, you hear me?" Naruto said frowning a bit, apparently with no reason (apparently). He stood behind Tsunade's back, and put his other hand in her shoulder, while Hinata looked down for a bit and chuckled childishly at Naruto's last comment. As she felt the warmth and the energy of the Uzumaki's chakra feeding her own, Tsunade's expression in her face went slightly nostalgic and motherly.
"So he has begun to move on, huh? Sakura is not going to like it one bit." She thought happily. As Naruto finished his job, Tsunade went back to her aggressive, medic self and pushed her Medical Ninjutsu with more strenght in the wound. A woman's voice was heard throughout the outside corridor.
"Tsunade-sama....!!!!"
"Well, it was about DAMN time." Tsunade sighed in relief as the black-haired, slender and attractive apprentice of hers made her way inside the room to join the fray. She held several small, black vials with a few drops of some liquid inside them inside her hands.
"Shizune, where in the love of these large breasts of mine were you? If this brat doesn't get here, this woman dies...!" Tsunade said as she struggled still, ignoring Naruto's "hey, whaddaya mean "brat" old hag?" comment (fortunately for him, that is). Shizune hurried up and opened a tiny one of those vals, after which she gently and slowly opened the patient's mouth and readied to spill the vial's content.
"I wasn't able to find any sedatives strong enough... Apparently, they got all crushed in the invasion, and with the war happening right after, we really didn't have the time to re-stock... I was forced to make one sedative by myself, and split it in small rations. It should be enough to put an elephant or two to sleep, though. Only a tiny one."
"I see. Brilliant job. Sorry for yelling at you." Tsunade said, and that earned Shizune's quick smile. The crowd's whole attention was shifted to the patient, though, as she coughed up some blood and struggled to talk.
"What the...?" Tsunade and Shizune snapped. The latter frowned.
"Don't move and stay down! What do you think you're playing at, moving around in such condition...? 'Taku!" The black-haired woman also pushed the blood in with her medical chakra, though the patient didn't seem to listen to her. She was too determined to talk.
"Wait... W-wait... There's no need... To waste more time in me... I just need to..."
"...To shut up and lay down. That's what you need. You must have a death wish to come and tell a medical ninja what she's supposed to do or don't. Now, if you'll excuse me...?" Tsunade forced her to lay down with only her finger. The patient was still struggling though.
"Stubborn girl, huh?”
“I need to speak to Naruto...!” She exclaimed in a painful voice. There was a moment of silence that lasted for several seconds. The medical nins looked at each other, while Hinata and Naruto did the same and the ANBU merely laid against the wall. Naruto frowned.
"Konan, right? Is that your name?"
The woman, whose blue hair was slightly red due to blood, and whose usually pretty face was showing pain and agony, nodded with an incredibly slow motion. Her orange eyes were almost fading out every second that she remained conscious. Naruto shook his head.
"Whatever it is you need to tell me, keep it to yourself until you're healed."
"No...! There is no time... Madara... He...!" But she started coughing blood again before she could end th sentence.
"You don't understand. Probably because you were injured and unconscious the whole time..." Sekai, the ANBU said. Everybody looked at him. "... The war is over, as Naruto would be very happy to tell you."
"What...?!" Konan's eyes widened, she looked at Tsunade and then at Naruto. It seemed as though she was fearing the purpose of staying alive had just been rendered useless, but then her fire was sort of rekindled, and she shook her head.
"That's great... But this is not just about the war... Please...!"
"Konan." Naruto said firmly and with stern voice (Tsunade felt a tiny drop of sweat falling over her back, as she had only a few times listening to Naruto in that mood). "I don't know if it is that you ignore the characteristics of the war, but anyway... I have had enough of dead people talking to me. If you need to say something and if you think it's so important that you can't wait to say it, then use that strength to stay alive. I'm not gonna hear anything from you in this state. So shut your trap."
Konan looked at him for several seconds, and then she smiled in the same way as a child who had just been forgiven for his mistakes would. She closed her eyes and whispered a low "okay", after which Shizune poured the few sedative drops inside her mouth. Konan's body somehow seemed a bit more relaxed later on. Silence fell amongst the crowd in the room, as the night wind blew through the open window. Tsunade and Shizune began closing the wound with their medical skills, until the bleeding was stopped completely and the wound was no more: Konan's stomach had returned to normal. Her skin colour slowly came back, and the only thing that could be heard after hours of medical care, was Konan's peaceful breathing.
"I'm sorry, Hinata. I was about to take you on a date or something, and ended up bringing you to a Hospital to do these things..."
Shizune, Tsunade and Hinata all looked at Naruto (the first two, whose faces were directed to Konan, turned their heads at the blond jiinchuuriki with such speed that their necks got hurt in the process). The Hyuuga heiress, flustered but evidently happy and flattered, shook her head (she had never let go of Naruto's hand, which to Tsunade was a sign of something much more surprising that the fact that Hinata was there to begin with).
"Um... It's okay, Naruto-kun. To me, even if it was a strange one, this was a date... The first one, actually." She said, caressing Naruto's hand with her own hand's fingers in a childish way. Naruto chuckled and then smiled at her with that foxy, bratty smile of his, which made Tsunade want to smile too.
"Is that so? It was my first "date" too! And it was with you, of all people. Talk about weird..." He said. Tsunade contained (with great effort) her desire to punch him in the head after he said that. "What do you mean "weird", you dimwit? Now she's going to feel awful! You ruined it!" she thought, as Hinata's expression showed a slight hint of disappointment.
"...But..." Naruto played with the Hyuuga's hand in an also bratty, yet cute way. "... I really liked it. I wouldn't have wanted it in any other way. I'm glad you're here, Hinata." He pulled the white-eyed woman towards him gently, and kissed her on her cheek shortly. What happened afterwards was so fast that Tsunade felt a bit dizzy. First, Shizune and her looked at each other exchanging surprised reactions to Naruto's understanding of a woman's feelings (or perhaps his luck at nailing the right spot this time). And then, while both women expected Hinata to blush violently and faint, they were yet again surprised by the fact that she chuckled and tried to kiss Naruto in his cheek as well... Only she failed to aim at his cheek. Her clothes (she was still dressed for a wedding, unlike Tsunade or Shizune) were definitely not made for being in a hurry or making fast movements, and though she probably wanted to surprise Naruto with a kiss as much as he had done with her, she wasn't fast enough to do it. Her kiss ended up in Naruto's lips.
Tsunade, right after seeing this (and this is when everything got fast as lightning) was torn between her mysterious jelousy (perhaps motherly jelousy, or elder sisterly) and her joy of actually seeing Naruto acting romantically with another girl. Before she could decide anything, though, Hinata and Naruto broke up. Well, more like Hinata backed off as she could, evidently embarrassed for her actions.
"N-Naruto-kun!... Uhhh...!! I'm... I'm sorry!" She was NOW blushing violently, and Tsunade was about to either kill her or hug her. She couldn't make her mind up.
"What are you doing...?" Naruto touched his lips for a second, and then smiled. "It's not like I hated it. If you think you can kiss me, then how about you stop adding "-kun" to my name? At least that way, when I kiss you, I will feel less like a stranger."
"Oi! You two!" Tsunade said loudly, her forehead's vein itching dangerously (though she was trying her best not to smile). " 'The hell you think you're doing on an injured person's room? Not the time! Go home and come back tomorrow. She'll be able to talk by then. Is that understood?!"
"H-hai!!!" Hinata said right away, and Naruto merely whispered a lazy "whatever".
"What was that, brat?"
"I said whatever, old hag. You deaf or something? Guess it comes with age, huh?"
Both blonds stared at each other, smirking defiantly with more veins itching. Shizune sighed in resignation and put herself between the two.
"Tsunade-sama, please set an example for your own words. There is an injured woman here. Naruto-kun, please go home."
Both blonds then turned on their feet, letting out a loud "hmph" annoyedly, and walked opposite ways. Shizune chuckled lowly, though, as she was able to identify Tsunade's hidden smile, as well as Naruto's. The black-haired apprentice faced the ANBU.
"Sekai-senpai. Could you please...?"
"Forget it. I'm walking Hinata home. At least give us some privacy, will you?" Naruto said calmly as he walked with Hinata towards the door. Sekai nodded and stepped aside to give them room. Without further ado (although Hinata did wave Shizune good-bye in a noble-like fashion), the two Konoha rookies were gone. Tsunade waited for some minutes until their footsteps were gone, and bursted into laughter.
"For Kami's sake, can you believe it? He was actually all cool and sweet with the girl...!" She shook her head, and began picking up the bloody bandages, and cleaning the room with Shizune's help. The latter laughed as well.
"I admit this is a huge surprise, almost more than the wedding was. I hope no one sees them, though! It's too soon for them to begin living the experience of a Shinobi couple. Sakura and Sasuke are still being chased by news-papers and whatnot..."
"I agree... Plus, the brat hasn't got over Sakura yet. Hinata needs to break that huge barrier before actually making it... Before being his girlfriend."
"I'm sorry... Did I hear right? Haruno married the Uchiha?" Sekai asked from the threshold. Both women looked at him.
"Oh, that's right. Sekai you were on mission, so you wouldn't know... Yes, she married Sasuke. Today. And quite the wedding it was..." Tsunade sighed, proud of her pink-haired, also hot-headed apprentice.
"But... Why? Wasn't Naruto the one who...?"
"I know, right? But what is there to do? You of all people should already know the likes of a woman's heart's whims, shouldn't you, Sekai?"
The ANBU folded his arms and snorted (albeit painfully).
"Sorry. Don't know what you're talking about."
Tsunade chuckled. "Right, of course you don't."
After half an hour of the three ninjas cleaning and tidying the room, while Konan slept peacefully in her bed, Tsunade sat on the bed opposite to Konan's, accompanied by Shizune. Sekai returned to his laying against the wall fashion.
"So..." Tsunade tucked her hair behind her ear and became serious. "... Tell me more about the mission. You said she mentioned the existance of another Rinnegan...?
III. That Night...
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"Oh shit... Oh shit... Oh shit..." Naruto kept thinking as he and Hinata walked down the street, past several bars that usually opened till late, and that were actually closing early due to it being Sunday. Slow business. They had had a very rough time trying to avoid the main bars, though. Many people from Konoha had been at the wedding, and even more people still would be going to the after party (Kakashi, Yamato, Ino and Chouji being confirmed by merely the sake of it), which meant that should the both of them run into them... Especially in a wedding mood... All sorts of gossip and teasing would be pending for the Hyuuga and the Uzumaki. Still, even after being miraculously able to avoid them, Naruto was still struggling inside. Forget the war he had before. This one battle was getting particularly messy.
"Oh shit, oh shit.... I was too nice... Or was I? Damn! And even in front of Tsunade-baachan... This is disgraceful, now she's gonna have it with me all the time. Oh shit... And more importantly, we kissed. Like, KISSED! Shit, shit, shit... Neji would surely kill me if I was alive. Perhaps now he's just laughing on the afterlife, the bastard... What should I do...? Is she gonna think that I'm asking her to be my girlfriend? How do you even ask for that? Shiiiiiit....!!!"
Similarly, while he was somehow trying to get a glimpse of Hinata's expression as they walked beside each other towards the Hyuuga mansion, the young woman herself was (unbeknownst to the blond man) submerged in pretty much the same dilemma.
"Oh shit... Oh shit... Oh shit..." She tried her best not to look at Naruto in the eyes. She knew full well that one look and one look alone would be enough for her to lose it and start running away. "... Oh shit... I kissed him. My first kiss!! And his, too! Well there was this time with Sasuke-kun, I heard... Yeah, but I'm a girl! His first kiss with a girl... Or is it? Has he kissed Sakura-san before? Or Ino? Or Ten-Ten? Or...? Agh!!! What am I thinking? Why in the world would he kiss them? Aren't I the one who knows him the most? Wait... No I'm not! It's probably Sakura-san... So she kissed him, the tomboy *****?!!"
She tried to look at him once, and her heart almost jumped all the way out from her mouth as her eyes found his. Once this happened, both Naruto and her let out a tiny, faint yell of nervousness, and looked away. Which was curious. They had enough confidence to hold hands for hours, yet not enough to look at each other after one kiss.
"Oh shit..." Hinata touched her lips with her fingers and then tasted her lipstick's flavor. It was kind of similar to strawberry and maybe apple. "... Shit! Does he like apples? Maybe I should have looked for a lipstick with Ramen flavour... Agh! Don't be stupid, how disgusting would that be? He's not a ramen freak...! Okay, not that much! He's gonna think I'm a bitch. Just kissing him as if I didn't care about his own personal space... He's gonna think I don't care about impressions... Oh shit!"
On the other side of the matter, Naruto rubbed his head and spiky yellow hair, and snapped his tongue loudly.
"She's gonna think I didn't like it if I keep going on like this... But if I say I did, maybe she's gonna think that I usually kiss or let myself be kissed by anybody! Does she know about that one time with Sasuke? AGH! Don't even remember that! Gross! Gross!" He shook his head strongly.
But then, right then, his mind mentioning Sasuke one time was enough for him to have mental pictures of him and Sakura at the wedding. Sharing a kiss. Putting rings on each other's fingers. Sharing speeches towards each other. Having their first dance. His own, painful and completely lame Best Man Speech. Ino's Bridesmaid Speech... The prospect of a Honeymoon... And obviously, that very night the both of them would share a roof. Sasuke's. Also, they would share a room. A bed... And much, much more.
His face somehow lost all traces of childishness and joy. He was thankful that Kurama wouldn't wake up, despite the fact that he was making a lot of noise about his "human nonsense". Also, although he didn't notice it, his grip over Hinata's hand was tightened unintentionally. Hinata looked at her hand and his after this, and then at him. To her surprise and also fear, his eyes had lost their brightness, and he looked considerably upset.
"What the...? Could it be that he really was annoyed by our kiss...? No... No, this is different. He doesn't get this upset over small things... Maybe...? Did he remember Sakura-san?"
Hinata also frowned at the thought of the pink-haired medical ninja. She didn't hate her, but it was something that she really found irritating... The fact that, despite it obviously being Sakura's important day, she didn't have it into her to take at least one moment in the wedding ceremony to thank him properly. To mention him in at least some way, even an indirect way. After all, the reason she was even marrying Sasuke was Naruto. Okay, yes, probably every single person knew that. Maybe most of those who were and still are close to Team 7 already knew what kind of effort did Sakura put Naruto through. Whether it was uncounciously or willingly, she did put him under that responsibility. And it wasn't like she had done something to repay him... But Hinata had tried to stop herself from believing or thinking these kind of things. One thing Neji had taught her, was how immature it was to be fast to judge those people who we think are hurting one's feelings willingly. It was true, of course, that she had not much of a close relationship with Sakura at all. Whatever she might be thinking about her, could be wrong easily... One's judgements, especially from far away of the whole situation, tend to be wrong.
But the truth remained unchanged. Naruto was hurt. And she was seeing it with her own eyes... She and probably everybody else had, back at the wedding and even before that. He was deeply hurt...
"Naruto-kun..." She called him lowly. He didn't answer. His expression was quite grim. She then called his name again while squeezing his hand once. Only then he sort of woke up from his trance, and looked at her. She felt like throwing herself to him and hug him as strongly as possible as soon as she saw his eyes fading away.
"Oh..." He chuckled nervously. "... I'm sorry Hinata. I was lost there for a sec. Were you trying to tell me something...?"
"N-no... I just... I think I know what you were thinking. And the reason you were "lost"." Hinata felt Naruto's grip on her hand soften. He looked forward, smiling... Or faking a smile.
"Is that so? What's that...? Please don't say it's because of that teme of Sasuke and Saku-..." But before he could even finish the sentence, Hinata had pulled him gently towards her and had sealed his lips with hers. She forgot about her fears, about her insecurity and let the rage and frustration felt towards Sakura's actions and Naruto's hurt heart transform into more strength, and more love. She loved Naruto dearly, and there was no hiding it. But each time he was hurt, she loved him even more. Because, in a similar way to her, he would never say he was hurt. He would endure it stupidly, as if he thought the rest of the world expected him to be like the cold blade of a Katana. Emotionless, expressionless and deadly. Knowing that he was like her in that aspect, was the same as saying that he could understand her own pain... And was the same as saying that she was no longer alone.
From Naruto's side, in fact, Hinata had no idea how right she was. As soon as he felt her lips on his, he was more than willing to kiss her back and hug her. He did. Wrapped his hands around her waist and pulled her towards him as strongly as it was physically possible. He felt a warm, liquid thing coming out of his eyes, and he knew he was about to be embarrassed as never before. But there was not much he could do about it. Those tears were just one percent of the actual tears he wanted to shed. Hinata wrapped her hands around his neck and stopped the kiss gently. She was about to speak, and Naruto knew she meant to say his name. He put his index finger in her lips to shush her.
"Not Naruto-kun. I told you. If you're confident enough to kiss me, please call me Naruto." He said. She nodded right away and put her hand on his cheek, while whiping out one of his rebellious tears. "Oh... Uh... Sorry. Dust in my eye, you know..."
"No... Please don't lie to me." Hinata said, frowning slightly. "...It took me years and many, many, many guts to bring myself to kiss you, or even talk to you. I... You know I'm not usually like this. Don't... Please don't answer me with lies, even if they're small, even if you're trying to act tough, or even if you don't want me to worry. I don't want that. You can trust me. You can tell me anything... I want... I need to be here for you. I need you."
"Hinata..." Naruto's eyes widened. But before he could say anything else, or before Hinata could interrupt him with another kiss or hug, there was a familar voice being heard from not too far away.
"Okay, call me stupid or whatever..." The voice said. "...But I definitely saw Naruto and Hinata together. Bro, I swear! They were, like, holding hands and shit!"
"Well, shit." Naruto (and even Hinata) thought bitterly. It wasn't like they were embarrassed of being with each other. At all. More like they just didn't want people making an uproar about the two of them being the way they were. "By the way... After this... What are we?" Naruto said to himself and his mind. Shaking his head, he felt the familiar voice (which by the way belonged to Inuzuka Kiba) getting closer, and another voice answering the first one.
"And I'm telling you, Naruto wouldn't do anything like that. He'd feel that he's stealing people's attention from Sasuke's wedding and whatnot. And Hinata would, like, have a heart attack if she was holding hands with him for more than five minutes, anyway..." Nara Shikamaru's voice said lazily. Naruto reacted as expected from a ninja, and hid himself and Hinata on the closest, narrowest alley he could find. By the time he had done so, and only seconds later, both Kiba and Shikamaru (still wearing their noble Clan's tunics), followed closely by a sniffing Akamaru, stopped and talked with each other right where the Uzumaki and the Hyuuga had been before.
"Nah, bro, she's changed. Didn't you see her at the war? Fighting all high and mighty, and shit? She's into him, and she's not the same lameass, shy as hell, weirdo girl she was before. Now she's actually got guts and everything. You can tell by her smell and her fighting style. And Naruto is kind of in the mood to get over Sakura, if you know what I mean by that...?" Kiba played with his eyebrows and wiked at Shikamaru, who apparently had a hard time figuring out if he wanted to burst in laughter or punch Kiba in the head (Naruto knew because he felt the same).
"That's disgusting, Kiba. But yeah, I agree he could use some getting-over-Sakura kind of thing..."
"See? I'm sure he's got her!"
"Nah, no way. He's not got it into him. I mean, he's a pervert and stuff, but he would never do that to anybody, least of all Hinata. Mainly because he knows how much it hurts to be used, you see..." Shikamaru lit up a cigarette, a habit he had returned to after his father's death. Naruto's forehead vein itched at the mention of him being a pervert, though he could swear Hinata had chuckled at least once. After this, he suddenly and without no reason, felt her breasts being pressed against his chest due to the fact that the alley was quite narrow. The situation was getting funnier, more frustrating, more shocking and surprising by the second.
"Yeah, sure. But he's a man, though. He'll feel the need eventually, and why would it be wrong...?" Kiba kept replying, though by this time, they had already kept going forward. Hinata and Naruto let out a sigh of relief, until their ears caught a loud "WOOF!" that almost made them have a heart attack. They looked down.
"A-Akamaru...?!" Both of them whispered surprised, as they saw the white, large dog sniffing them out and gasping happily as he recognized them. The blond and the black-haired looked at each other, mentally asking each other what in the world should they do then, as Akamaru's words were only understood by Kiba, and the dog was just way too loyal to him to keep any sort of secrets.
"Uhhh..." Naruto tried stroking him, which apparently made the dog happier. "... What a good dog... I'm sure you're a smart dog, right Akamaru? You won't go telling Kiba any funny things?"
"Y-yeah, he's a smart dog, aren't you, Akamaru-chan!" Hinata said nervously, trying to do as Naruto did.
Akamaru merely answered with two "woofs" that were neither a "yes" nor a "no", and left running all of a sudden, before any of the young shinobi could say anything. Naruto cursed, frustrated. "What the hell? We get talking frogs, apes, slugs and snakes, and we can't get a talking dog? There's something wrong with this world."
From afar, yet again, Kiba's voice was heard as he played with Akamaru.
"Oh, there you are, boy! Gooooood boy, good boy! Where were you, bro? Been sniffing out some food or anything? Oneesan will kill me if you eat anything funny you know! Plus, your crap will smell worse than it should..."
"Again, that's disgusting Kiba." Shikamaru answered once more, though Kiba wasn't listening. Naruto and Hinata looked at each other, terrified. Four, maybe five seconds of silence, and then Kiba bursted in laughter.
"He's saying that he was indeed sniffing some food out, and then he found Naruto and Hinata on an alley hugging each other and-... WHAT?!"
"Shit!!!" Naruto reacted quickly again, and carried Hinata on a newlywed fashion (she let out a small yell of surprise, flustered), after which he would jump with remarkable agility from the wall of the frontal building to the wall of the building behind, zig-zagging in the air between jumps, until he reached the rooftop. Once there, he rushed towards the only place his mind had enough time to tell him...
---------------------------------------------------
"You don't need to do it, I can walk."
"Come on, let me at least fulfill my role, will you?"
"Okaaaaaaay, but only until the entrance door."
"Nope. All the way to my room."
"No fair! It's embarrassing, plus, you're tired!"
"Yeah, speak for yourself. You're more tired than I could possibly be, dummy."
" 'Taku. So stubborn. Why is it that you are so stubborn?"
"But you love me that way, right?"
"Haha, yeah. Keep talking."
Somehow, the one who was told to be stubborn managed to open the door to one of the many houses on that neighbourhood. Sasuke didn't seem to mind at all, carrying Sakura in a traditional, newlywed way while opening his old house with his foot. Sakura, whose childish expression of disagreement (inflating her cheek and gazing away, though blushing as much as it was humanly possible) was probably just making Sasuke grin, felt her stomach betray her in more than one occasion.
"So this is it... This is Sasuke's house... I can't believe I finally made it..." She felt about to cry, but held the tears back and smiled, feeling heppier than ever before. Sasuke, who seemed to be as much as happy himself, merely gazed at the house from time to time. It had been a month since he had gotten there, and he had a bit of a rough time restoring the whole house to its original state (since after years of not no one living there, everything could get rusty). But now, he was satisfied to find that he had a place to take Sakura to, a place to live in.
"At what cost, though?" His only revealed eye closed for a moment, while he pictured Naruto in his head and tried to not ignore the jiinchuuriki's feelings and putting his happiness due to the wedding as an excuse for that. He was sure of one thing: if there was anything he had been to everybody in Konoha before, it was selfish. And the fact that even now, after being forgiven and given a chance by everybody, he was still selfishly marrying the one woman his best friend/brother loved the most, made him feel a strong sense of guilt.
He wouldn't ever regret marrying Sakura. He loved her. His love for her was real, even though he had to fight many fatal fights to be able to retain it. Nobody on his right mind would give such pure love up, not from a woman like that. Not from a woman that not only waited, but also fought for making him come back despite the fact that he had gone as low as to try to kill her...
... But again, at what cost?
"Sasuke-kun?" Sakura had called. Sasuke woke up from his small trance. They were already on his room. Sasuke let Sakura sit on his bed (tried his best not to ruin her beautiful Kimono while at it), and smirked quite arrogantly (it did seem that any smile coming from his mouth would make him look arrogant) while poking Sakura on her forehead with his fingers, trying to imitate his late brother.
"Sakura, how much longer do you plan on calling me "Sasuke-kun"? We're married now, you know."
"Tee-heeh, sorry." Sakura said, chukling and showing her tongue childishly. She took Sasuke's hand from her forehead and put it on her cheek, after which she just sighed happily. "You're so warm..."
"Am I?" Sasuke sighed happily as well, and kissed her forehead. "I somehow think that you are the warm one of us two."
"Mattaku..." Sakura's kiddie expression of anger came back. "... Always arguing with me. So annoying."
"Oh, is that so? So what if I just go...?" Sasuke (who inside was laughing, but outside made a serious expression) turned on his feet and made to go away from the room, feigning being upset. He immediatly felt Sakura's hand pulling his arm back to her with more strength than was necessary. The result to this was neither on Sasuke's plan to make her go even madder nor on Sakura's plan to just make him come back. The result was Sasuke (overpowered by Sakura's now natural strength) falling in his bed (as he wasn't really resisting anyway) and Sakura, due to inertia, being thrown over Sasuke.
The Uchiha, who didn't really mind, merely laughed lowly while staring at Sakura with his black, deep eye. Sakura blushed and realized Sasuke's previous intentions, frowning afterwards.
"Ugh, you're such a devil..." She undid the frown and before Sasuke could reply, sealed his lips with hers. Sasuke caressed her back while she did the same with his face and chest. Their kiss went deeper by the second, and after a minute had passed, they stopped. The only source of light being the full moon shining through Sasuke's room's window. Sakura laid her head on Sasuke's chest, and began running her fingers over his right pectoral, making circles. Sasuke in turn, laid on his bed (some pillows below his head) and played with Sakura's hair. Silence. For several minutes... Or hours...
"Sasuke...?"
"Hmm?"
"I love you."
"I love you too."
"Are you happy?"
"Haha, what? Of course I'm happy, bakka..." Sasuke said looking at her.
"Then why have you been so... Thoughtful?" She was looking back at him, clearly worried but trying not to show it. "Somehow, it feels like you're having second thoughts..."
"Is that what it seems?" Sasuke smiled guiltily, and then asked Sakura to lay her head in front of his, at the other side of the bed. "I'm sorry. I was thinking, yeah... But not having second thoughts. At all."
Sakura, who seemed incredibly relieved, sighed and kissed his lips shortly.
"Then, what were you thinking?"
"Naruto..."
Silence. Dead silence fell over them both. Even the wind (which had been blowing lively up until then) had died away, and the moon had started being covered by clouds slowly. Sakura's mind went completely blank for a couple of seconds... And then she felt close to tears again.
"Oh my God... You're right!" She covered her mouth, her eyes terrified of herself, while Sasuke (who apparently had been expecting such reaction), merely hugged her in response. Pulled her against him. "I can't believe I...! I didn't even...! Not even once! And he did the Best Man's Speech regardless... This is so...! This won't do. This won't do at all... At all!!"
"There you are... Overreacting again." Sasuke shook his head. "Listen... Calm down. Listen to me." He put his hand on Sakura's cheek and forced to look at his eyes. "I know how you feel. This is how I've been feeling before the wedding was even planned. I... Had a talk with him already..."
Sakura's eyes widened again.
"What did he say?!" She said quickly. Sasuke shook his head again. "...What?"
"He won't admit it."
"You mean he won't admit that he...?"
"Yeah." Sasuke sighed. "But it's not like I can blame him. I would have probably done the same thing on his position. We hate people looking at us with eyes full of pity. Pity doesn't make us feel any better... And it certainly doesn't solve the source of our suffering. Somehow, my guess is that he was thinking that admitting his feelings would make him look weaker than he is. And even worse, if he did it in front of me, he wouldn't forgive himself... Ever. It's like, the ultimate display of weakness and humilliation in his opinion... You don't show that to your rival, now, do you?"
"No... You're right." Sakura had a quick mental picture of Ino.
"...Plus, there's also the fact that... Well. He does love you, and he doesn't want us to be worrying about him on the day of our wedding... I mean, the Naruto that loves the both of us wouldn't want that. The Naruto that cares for his own wishes... I don't know. He never really lets that one out."
"He's so stupid. You both are. Being so proud, so stubborn... 'Taku... Making me worry all the time for these things..."
"We're men, Sakura." Sasuke smiled. "Saying that out pride and our stubborness is stupid would be as meaningless as us men saying you women are stupid because you like to spend a hundred years looking at the mirror. But for you there's probably a strong reason behind it, right?"
"And what would be the strong reason behind Naruto hiding his feelings? Or not talking to you, or, hell, even ME?"
"In my case, he doesn't talk to me due to rivalry. In yours... Well... Think about it." Sasuke stared at the ceiling, thoughfully. "What would you do? If he all of a sudden said that he loved you? How would you react, and more importantly, what would you say? That is, knowing full well that you don't want him to feel hurt."
Sakura stared at the ceiling as well, and gave it a thought for several seconds. As Sasuke said, she found no response.
"I wouldn't know what to say. Actually, more than that, I don't think there even is anything to say..."
"Exactly." Sasuke closed his eye. "For now, the only thing we can do is enjoy the happiness we have found because of him. Even if it pains me greatly to say it so selfishly... He did fight for this to happen. For us to be able to do this..." He turned to Sakura and kissed her gently, while holding her hand. Sakura returned his kiss in a more passionate way. This kiss was just as long as the first one, and carried with it stronger and deeper feelings.
At a certain point, Sasuke couln't see the difference between a fight of tongues and what he was having with Sakura. Their kiss had gotten so serious that Sakura had gone all the way to scratching his back. Her nails, though not as sharp as claws, were strong and long enough to tear his robe apart (which he didn't want). Thus, he removed it as fast as his need to keep kissing Sakura let him. The latter helped him remove it right then and there, and continued to scratch his back and neck.
Sasuke moved fast and strongly, making it so that he was facing up and Sakura down. She was on him. He was now the one with his hands on her back. While making out, the Uchiha unleashed Haruno's obi carefully (quite the impressive feat, seeing as their animal instincts had already aweakened) , and started removing her Kimono as gently as it was possible during their current situation. Sakura helped him out as well this time, and threw the very expensive dress away from the bed, revealing both a small, white, silky blouse (that acted as intermediary between the Kimono and her breasts and stomach) and a thin (way too thin) thong "covering" her femininity.
Sasuke rose his eyebrow while smirking.
"Now, what do we have here...?"
"Shut up. No seeing if there is no giving." Sakura said, smiling but making a firm Tsunade-like expression. She removed Sasuke's pants and left him on his underwear (black). His strong and resistant legs were exposed, while his abs were also a remarkable attention caller. Sakura felt like burning, but then Sasuke (with his hands on her back) pulled her back to him and kissed her. At this moment, there was a strong contact between the Uchiha's hidden penis, and Sakura's ***. Even though clothes were still getting in the way, underwear was usually tight enough for them to be able to feel each other. While kissing, a lot of grinding took place, and as it is implied, Sakura's moans grew stronger each time Sasuke became more erect. Yet, none of them had taken the next step of removing each other's last piece of clothing.
That was the first time they had had this sort of contact with anybody, and though hunger was considerably strong, nervousness was also a force to be reckoned with. Needless to say, they were also young and poorly trained in these aspects. In Sakura's part, her parents were just way too perverted to speak to (they would give a very awkward wink to each other whilst talking to their daughter about the matter) and in Sasuke's part... Well, by the time he was old enough to care about ***, he was way too submerged in hatred against Itachi. And should the thought of *** even cross his mind, his only "mentors" would have been Orochimaru and Kabuto... The mere mentioning of their names was an automatic "NO, HELL NO" inside his mind.
That being said, and be that as it may, Sasuke and Sakura seemed just too excited to let the hunger go.
Sakura imitated Sasuke's previous whim and made it so that now she was the one facing up and him down. She pulled his head towards her and kissed/bit his neck while he did the same with hers as he could. Both tried to feel every single inch of each other's skin with their hands. Exploring, playing, scratching, rubbing, kissing, biting, tasting, pulling, even slapping (yes, Sasuke and Sakura liked slapping apparently).
Half an hour later, after countless toying and fooling around, Sasuke and Sakura were panting loudly and still grinding each others ***. Sakura put her hand on Sasuke's hidden left eye... And started to remove the eye patch.
"W-wait..."
"No... Let me... I want BOTH of your eyes..." She didn't even need to ask again. Sasuke merely let the eye patch fall to the bed and his hair, because of the fact that he was facing down, was no longer covering his eye. No scars. No injuries. No different color. Nothing. A normal, black and beautiful deep eye.
"Why...?"
"My left eye... Itachi's... Its Sharingan is slightly stronger. Amaterasu might just unleash out of nowhere-..." But Sakura shushed him with a kiss and wrapped her naked legs around his waist to make his *** grind on hers. Afterwards, Sasuke bit Sakura's blouse and removed it in one furious motion, consumed by hunger and lust. Sakura's breasts weren't big, more like normal and "young" in a manner of speaking. He didn't care. Not only did she compensate it with nice, round and beautiful hips, and legs, but also with her long, curvy legs. As he had done with the blouse, and before Sakura could even feel embarrassed due to him staring at her, Sasuke went for her thong.
"W-wait...!"
But he didn't listen to her, and bit the thong off, removing it as well. There she was... Naked. Completely naked. To be fair, Sasuke removed his underwear as well and revealed to be completely erect. Sakura (whose eyes knew full well where to go) felt both scared and curious to know how would it feel to have "that" inside her.
"W-wow... Sasuke... Does it hurt?" She asked, as she surrounded his penis with her hand. Sasuke moaned lowly, which Sakura found exciting. She then started to feel wetter than she had felt with all the grinding and fooling around they had had before.
"N-no... But it does kind of annoy me."
"How does it feel?" She stroke his penis slowly, looking at it closely and feeling it throbbing and its veins itching everytime she did.
"Come now, you're a medical ninja and you don't know...?"
"Careful, now. I'm too close to your balls and you know my strength, right?"
"I apologize for my rudeness. Please forgive me." Sasuke said almost automatically, which made Sakura not only stop the stroking but also smile devilly and face Sasuke with dangerous eyes.
"Huuuuuuuuuh? What was that...? I kind of like that polite and submissive Sasuke-kun..."
"Wh-what? Hey! Ch-ch-chotto matte!" Sasuke said as her stroking speed went higher and she grabbed his testicles softly as she did. "What's with that expression...?"
"Which expression?"
"Don't joke with me. Your face is clearly saying "I wonder what would happen if I threaten him with his balls again", isn't it...? AGH!"
Too late. Sakura, who was already applying a little strength to her grip over his balls, merely laughed. She kept stroking Sasuke faster and faster. Surprisingly enough, Sasuke's penis became even bigger by the time she felt like he was reaching the summit of his pleasure.
"I-idiot... You are so gonna pay for this..." Sasuke said, shivering with his *** being stimulated with such roughness yet delicacy. He was loving it (he was completely red), but at the same time it meant punishment for her.
"Am I?" Sakura asked mockingly, feeling Sasuke throbbing even more. Sasuke somehow found the strength to counter her strategy and broke free from her grip. Afterwards, he conveniently found his eye patch laying on his bed, and used it to tie Sakura's hands against the bedside swiftly.
"What the...? What are you doing?!"
"I did say you were gonna pay, didn't I?"
As soon as her hands were tied, he laughed evilly and began kissing her... Or rather, running his tongue over every single inch of her body. Neck first, then lips (which he also bit), and then slowly going down. Neck again. Shoulders. Chest. Breasts. Nipples (at which point he sucked them and bit them at the same time). Belly. Waist. Both legs all the way to her fingers. Back up to her belly... And then he got serious...
"Sasuke... Don't..."
But he didn't listen, and he kept going down slowly. Sakura was shaven, though a small, vertical trail of pink hair was visible right before her other lips. Sasuke licked his bottom lip, and proceeded to taste her small, tiny clit. At this point, all Sakura could do was shiver and roll around in pleasure. Nobody had ever done that to her, and the outcome of such experimentation was causing her to lose her mind already. Sasuke felt satisfied by her growing moaning, and so he stimulated the rest of her femininity with his fingers. Gently. He rubbed, inserted, and toyed around with its lips whilst licking and sucking her clit.
"S-Sasuke... S-SHIT...!!" Sakura's moans and panting became one, and now her speech pattern only knew her husband's name and several onomatopoeias. She was crying, though it was obvious it wasn't pain. It was lust. It was pleasure. As much as he had wanted to cry while she masturbated him mercilessly. Men do not cry at ***, though. It was their job (or so he thought) to make women cry due to pleasure.
After five minutes of torture, Sasuke untied Sakura and laughed at her flustered face. She kept panting and didn't seem to make her mind up between being angry at him or asking him if she could be his *** slave. All she could do, was spreading her legs open. Sasuke gulped a bit, and layed in such a way their faces were against each other. Taking advantage of the fact that she was considerably wet, Sasuke decided to come in. He put his penis inside, entering gently and allowing himself (and his wife) to have a taste of what adults usually spoke so little and yet made so much of a fuzz about. And after he was inside, he felt he understood why.
The sensation of being inside Sakura (and of having Sasuke inside, from her perspective) had completely erasen what little remained there of reasoning. All what mattered right then was each other's eyes and feelings. Hunger was still there.
"Did I hurt you...?"
"N-no... I mean, it did hurt... But it's weird..." Sakura panted. "... I can't describe it... It hurts, but I like it..."
" 'Taku... What does the Hokage teach you for Medical Skills?" Sasuke mocked her, and didn't give her any room to answer, as he started to move in and out. Sakura let out a tiny scream each time he penetrated her. The bed was also moving so much that he feared it was about to brake apart... He didn't care though. Nor did she. They kept the love making up, not wasting time and kissing each other, or biting, or licking, or sucking, or grabbing, or slapping (because of course, they like slapping). After several minutes of enjoying each other's body, Sasuke felt he was already reaching his climax.
"Inside..." Sakura managed to say somehow, as she also felt him about to come. She had already came herself, what with Sasuke's small revenge, and she was exhausted yet curious about how would it feel to have Sasuke's orgasm inside her. She was to restore his Clan, anyway. Being pregnant wasn't a "no". It wasn't like he needed any convincing, though. Sasuke continued moving his hips until, eventually, he gave in to ecstasy and let out his orgasm inside her.
Minutes later, after their gasping had ended and what remained was only their sweat and the messiest bed they had ever seen before, both looked at each other and kissed. Their strength leaving them (the outcome of dealing with a wedding and then make love), and the prospect of the first morning together made them whisper a weak "I love you" to each other, and fall asleep.
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"AGHHHH!!! It's so messy, so messy, so messy, so messy!!!!" Naruto ran all over the place, taking literal mountains of whatever it was laying on the floor (Ramen cups, bowls, eating-sticks, glasses and whatnot) and trying to get them out of the way. His bed wasn't messy at all, in fact, Hinata had first thought that it was the tidiest bed she had ever seen.
"No, seriously... Not even I give that much importance to making my own bed at mornings. Maybe it's because he's not been sleeping here lately? I'd love to make it messier..." By the time her thought had finished, she blushed. What she had just said inwardly had so much of a sexual meaning that she was glad Naruto didn't read minds. She chuckled, though, as she saw him really concerned about what would she think about his flat's messy state. He was too stubborn to give that one up, though, as he was with pretty much everything else.
On Naruto's side, a storm was raging inside his mind, and he was now seriously wondering where had Kurama went. He must have had one of Tsunade's sedatives if he was really that asleep. However, the truth remained unchanged. A girl was on his flat. A girl. And not just any girl. Hinata, of all people. And judging by the looks of the VERY intimate moments she and he had had up until mere minutes ago, he felt like his flat's untidiness was kind of a let down. In the past, no girl had even set foot on Naruto's threshold, other than...
... He dropped some clothes to the floor, frowning.
"...Anyway, I need to hurry." He took care of the remaining items on the floor and sat on his bed, beside Hinata. His noble tunic and her Kimono had had so much activity for that day that he felt like a shower was more than primordial. He then was haunted by the fear of being smelly... After all, Akamaru did find him by smell.
"Nah, dogs' noses are more sensitive. That's why."
"I'm sorry for that, I usually don't bring girls here... Shikamaru comes here oftenly, but of course he doesn't mind one bit."
"I don't mind either." Hinata said smiling. "My father is always after me because I'm also messy with my things, so..."
Naruto smiled.
"Are you hungry?"
"Yes. I want to eat you." Hinata found herself thinking. Seconds later, she swallowed that thought dry and replied with a shy "no".
"Are you sure?"
"No I'm not. I want you now." She thought again, though she merely nodded "yes" as a response.
"Ugh... That was a close one, with Kiba and Shikamaru. Damn..." Naruto rubbed his spiky hair as always, whenever flustered. "...Oh! Please don't get me wrong. I really like being with you. It's just, you know how they are..."
"Yeah, it's okay. I'm also fearing the same... And I also like being with you, Naruto."
Naruto's eyes widened for a bit, and then he blushed and chuckled, scratching his cheek.
"See? That's the first time you call me "Naruto"... Have you any idea how good that makes me feel?"
"Probably as good as I felt when I kissed you." Hinata said. Silence.
"Crap. I did say that one." She thought, scared. Both young shinobi looked at each other, and then shyly looked down, red on their cheeks. The flat was lit by a white lightbulb on the ceiling, and the window was open. Through it, wind was caressing both of their backs, and relaxing their tense, growing feelings.
"You know, before Kiba came... You were saying something important..." Naruto said, staring at the floor. Hinata looked at him, and then back at the floor.
"Um... Yes. Well we had just kissed... And you had shed a tear, but you were trying to hide it again. I didn't want that... So I was telling you that you didn't need to hide things from me. That you could trust me... Tell me anything... That I wanted to be there for you... That I needed you..."
Silence again. After some minutes of wondering whether or not it was the right thing to do, Naruto went to his wardrobe and looked for a shirt that no longer fitted him. Minutes later (Hinata staring at him confused), he retrieved one orange shirt with a black, spiraled flame pattern on its center. He put it right on Hinata's lap, and kissed her on her cheek.
"To be honest with you... I don't really have enough courage to walk you home after all this ruckus... And more importantly, I don't want to. There are..." He sighed. "... There are many things I need to say to you. But... I mean, I realize you're tired and all. So why don't you go take a shower in my bathroom, and I'll go get something nice to eat? You know, maybe actually having some sort of "date", as promised..."
Hinata smiled in such a way, that Naruto was seriously wondering just how much was it that she cared for him. The only thought of spending time together seemed to create a smile on her face, as opposed to many other reactions Naruto had seen or felt in the past.
"O-okay!" She said, and she stood up. In a small flat like Naruto's, finding the bathroom was no big quest. She went inside and closed the door slightly. Naruto smiled and changed to more casual clothes himself (orange pants and a more fitting version of the t-shirt he had just given Hinata, though with no patterns on it, and black), and jumped out of his window towards the first food store he could find.
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Twenty minutes later, Naruto came back with the only thing he could find. Apples, strawberries and chocolate sauce. He bought some vanilla ice cream as well, to make it seem like dessert at least. He put the goods on the only table he had, and looked for some plates and spoons. By the time he had to walk past his room, though, his eyes met what he thought was nothing short of godly.
Apparently, Hinata had very enthusiastically wore his old shirt. And though it was big enough to be considered a dress, "dress" wasn't quite the appelative to describe it. It was so tightly wrapped on her body that the first thing he thought was of a sort of hybrid between a swimsuit and a leather one piece dress. He wasn't complaining though. He was pretty... "Surprised" of the way her breasts were so accentuated.
"Um... Naruto? Er... You don't like it?" She asked, after ten seconds of him staring at her.
"Oh! Um... Sorry! Yes, I like it, and I like it a lot! I mean, it's not like I'm an expert in these things, but... Uh... You look... You look great Hinata." Naruto gulped, as Hinata smiled gladly at hearing his answer. "I'm sorry, I couldn't find anything really fancy or stuff... You know, most of the food suppliers were bussy with the wedding and whatnot, so the only things I could find were..."
He pointed at the few apples and strawberries laying on the plates he had found, along with the ice-cream bucket and the chocolate sauce bottle. Hinata smirked, remembering the taste of her lipstick.
"...I love ice cream. And chocolate sauce too."
"...What about the fruits?"
"Those too. It's okay. I'm not really that complicated to please when it's about food..."
Naruto gave her a warm smile as "thanks" and asked her to sit on his bed again while he brought the ice cream and everything else. Minutes later, both of them were sitting on his bed, Naruto against the wall and Hinata with her back against his chest. No shoes. Their legs were together. Hinata felt so small, and yet protected being outsized by Naruto. the blond Uzumaki grabbed a spoon and took a good amount of ice cream on it, only to pour on it chocolate sauce and show it to Hinata.
"What do you say? Can I take this much without freezing my brain or what?"
"Haha, silly. Nobody can do that without freezing." Hinata answered, tasting an apple with chocolate sauce.
"Oh yeah? Okay, okay, then how 'bout this... If I don't freeze, you tell me a secret of yours. If I do freeze, I tell you a secret of mine. You know, since I was already gonna talk to you anyway. Let's do it in a funny way, at least, right?"
"Okay!" Hinata smiled, feeling completely happy that she even sensed Naruto's voice so close to her ears. "Let's see if you do it."
"Here goes nothin'..." Naruto put the whole spoon on his mouth and swallowed the ice cream on one go. One second. Nothing. Two seconds. Nothing. Three. Still nothing. Four. He poses in Rock Lee's nice guy fashion. Five, he goes all blue on his forehead and feels dizzy.
"Hahahaha, silly... I told you. Here, let me see if this makes you feel better." Hinata drank some chocolate sauce from the bottle, and then with her hands she made Naruto's face be right in front of her. She kissed him, and shared her drink with him. Naruto, be it by the sensuality of such action, or by the gentleness and softness of Hinata's hands, or by anything else unknown, he felt warm again and then some.
"Well, as promised. I have a secret coming." He said smiling. "Though, you know me. I'm not quite the secretive person... Why don't you just ask me any question you want?"
"Okay." She thought for a few seconds, crossing her legs (Naruto was impressed he had so much self control after a display of such a beautiful pair of legs and such a voluptuous body). "Naruto..."
"Yes...?"
"What do you feel towards me?"
BAM!. Right in the feels. Right in his head. His heart sped up, he began to sweat a bit, and he felt his whole body going red. He didn't run away, his eyes were still firmly set on Hinata's. It's not like he wasn't going to answer. What he was fearing was that, not even he himself knew the answer to that. Up until that day he had only loved (or thought he loved) Sakura, but now... After all what he had shared with Hinata during the night, after having his first kiss, his first date, and the first girl ever coming inside his flat (that girl being Hinata as well), he felt like he had have no damn idea what it was to actually love a person.
"S-sorry, maybe I should have asked something else..."
"No." Naruto said quickly, and took her hand with his. "You need the answer. And believe it or not, I need it too. I just need you to promise me that... Whatever it is I answer you, you don't judge me or hate me-..."
"I love you." Hinata interrupted him. Naruto felt like he was back in the depths of his mind, talking to a certain red-head that would have had the most important place in his heart had he have the chance to live with her. That certain red-head had said the same words to him. And very much like what he felt then, he now felt happy and... Strong.
"I love you with all my heart's strenght. I could never hate you or judge you, even if you did that with me. Whatever your answer is, I'll still love you. You'll have to kill me to change that, Naruto."
"O-okay..." Naruto smiled, held back his tears, and breathed in. "...When you came for me during Pain's attack, I... I had never heard those words. I love you. I had never, ever, ever heard that before. You must have wondered why did I never say anything to you about it. Well... I... I had no idea what to say. There was Sasuke being a missing nin, a war coming up next and... Many other things. I thought my best choice was to postpone my reaction to those words. But then..."
Naruto hugged Hinata and held her against his chest, taking her by surprise.
"...I started training to control the Kyuubi's chakra. And who do you think I met inside there? Deep within my soul?"
"Who?"
"My mother. Uzumaki Kushina." Naruto kissed Hinata's hair and forehead. "And she said those words to me as well... And then I remembered you. And the way you stood up for me that time... And I felt so guilty... "
His hug became harder, the more he talked. Hinata felt she was about to cry, but she tried her best not to.
"...I think I haven't been fair to you at all. You have given me so much, yet received so little... And now that you're asking me what do I feel..."
He faced Hinata, in a very similar way to what he did with Sakura back at the Iron Country, when she had tried to lie.
"...I need to say that there is love born within me towards you. I feel love. I love you. And this is something I've realized just now, as I speak... So, you can't expect me to be as used to this feeling as you are. I've only loved someone, but never been loved. But you... You were always loving me behind the stage... For God knows how long. So I need..."
Hinata had finally come to tears. Tears of happiness, of joy, of realization that one of the deepest dreams she had ever have in her spirit and in her heart was right then being made real by the Jiinchuuriki's words and actions.
"... I need you to stay with me. Until... Until I'm not breathing. At which point, I need you so much, that I want you to follow me to whatever lies beyond death."
Crying, Hinata threw herself against Naruto's arms again. Naruto said no more, and smiled gladly, feeling something that he had never felt before. Kurama's voice came to his mind after hours of silence, and his words made Naruto even happier.
"That sorts out how to find inner peace, Naruto. Time to go and do the same for the world, if that's what you really want."
"Yeah... You're right. This... This right here..." He tought while hugging Hinata tightly. "... This is peace.
"Naruto..." Hinata sobbed. "... I love you so much... So much... You have no idea how much I needed to hear that from you... How much I've waited..."
Naruto shushed her with his lips. The chocolate sauce, the ice cream, the strawberries and the apples fell all around the floor. As the vanilla ice cream melted, it mixed with the chocolate sauce in the same way Naruto moved Hinata below him and kissed her as much as it has humanly possible for him. Her sensual body was so close to his, her breasts were also making contact and her legs were just too soft to ignore. Hinata had apparently been wanting to do the same thing for who knows how long.
As some strawberries and apples danced and spun around the floor, Naruto's clothes were slowly removed by Hinata's soft hands, the shirt first, and then his pants. Similarly, he did the same with her only clothing. It was then that they gasped at each other's ears and realized that they were half naked and in the same bed. But though both of them blushed considerably, none of them cared about their fear, and proceeded with kissing and massaging.
Hinata was wearing no bra, nor anything else to cover her breasts. They were probably too large to be bothered with, as far as a Kimono is concerned. Subsequently, as Naruto's tongue raced around her body, he came to realize how sensual and exciting being Hinata's lover was. Only a few get the blessing of a woman with such breasts that has also nice hips and legs. Usually, having one means not having the other. But she was balanced in that aspect. She had it all. He tasted her nipples as he managed somehow to massage her legs and touch every side of them. Hinata moaned every time his tongue played with the tip of her nipples.
"Does it hurt you that I do this?" Naruto asked as he bit both nipples together and sucked them gently. Hinata moaned greatly, scratching Naruto's back as much as her nails let her. She shook her head.
"N-No... I am very sensitive, though... P-please be gentle."
"No need to ask that, I would kill myself before hurting you." He sucked them again, adding just a minimum amount of strenght while at it, which made her moan even louder. Her body's reaction, besides moaning, was sending one of her hands after his ***. Though it was still covered by his underwear (as was hers), he was also very sensitive about it, so as he sucked he let out tiny moans as well. For a couple of sexual ignorants, they were doing better than expected, or at least he felt like that was the case. So far, no regrets.
Hinata started stroking him as soon as he moved one of his hands to her *** and began playing with it over her underwear (black panties with white ribbons on the edges). With his hand, he could also measure how wet she was getting (this of course being a coincidence, as he had no idea how was he doing what he was doing), while he himself felt like his penis got thicker and harder with Hinata's hand stroking it through cloth. Minutes after that, Naruto moved Hinata up, so that her femininity was right above him, and his penis right in front of her. He got a very pleasing view of her ass and legs, better than the one before, and also got to remove her underwear more easily. She imitated him, and got in exchange a full picture of his friend down there.
"W-wow... How do you walk with this between your legs?"
"Well, it usually isn't like that. Though now, I'm wondering if having you around will make it difficult for it to go back to its little version..." Naruto said, as he caressed her legs and ass before he played with her.
"W-why is t-that?" Hinata said, stroking Naruto's penis with her hand (and starting to wonder if it was enough with just one)
"Because you make me crazy, Hinata. You're too hot."
"T-then I guess we'll both have problems..." Hinata then thought of a better idea, and removed her hair from her face, putting it behind her. "... I also doubt I'll ever find it in myself to control my body knowing you and this thing are close by..."
She then lowered her head, and before Naruto could prepare for it, she put his penis completely inside her mouth. All the way to his testicles. Naruto let out a loud moan, squeezing her ass as much as his fingers were able to, and as payback he lowered it enough for him to lick, suck and kiss her vagina. Both Uzumaki and Hyuuga began a concert of interrupted moans, hard gasping and sucking, licking noises.
" 'Taku... Such an innocent girl, all warm and kind... And she's just sucking my **** like she knew how to do it since before I was born...Is this how hot she gets because of me?" Naruto thought, trying to give Hinata as much pleasure as he was receiving from her, though he thought he was far from succeeding.
"Oh God... He seemed so ignorant about it. Who would have known he would actually give me this much pleasure...? Is this how hot he gets because of me? Hinata thought herself, trying to know what a man's orgasm was right then and there, by giving Naruto all she got, while receiving from him more than she could handle.
On a certain moment, at which Naruto felt close to climax, he swapped positions again. He sat on the bed, and made Hinata sit on him. Then, slowly, and having her hands wrapped around his neck (and her nails scratching her back again), Naruto began going in, penetrating her as slow and as gentle as he could. She moeaned louder than when he gave her oral ***, or when he sucked her nipples. Perhaps she was on pain...?
"Does it hurt... Hinata?"
"N-no... Or yes? I d-don't know...!"
"Should I stop-...?"
"No! Don't...!"
Seconds later, Naruto was all the way in. He and Hinata looked at each other, both sets of eyes exchanging each other's happiness. Souls were connected. Bodies as well. Flesh. ***. Sweat. Fluids. Life. Love. Lust. Naruto began moving Hinata up and down from her waist, slowly at first and gradually speeding up. By the time four minutes had passed, his bed was about to break apart and their bodies were making noises each time they met. Though what was louder was Hinata's moaning. Naruto bit her neck and occasionally her nipples or her lips. Soon, he felt about to climax... But he began stimulating her clit as well (having no idea how he found it, though), trying to make her climax with him.
A couple of minutes passed, Hinata came first out of her being incredibly sensitive. Naruto came last, having an orgasm almost as long as hers, all the way inside her. Both of them fell on the bed, quite exhausted. Too lazy to go and turn the lights off (or perhaps just too attached to Hinata that he didn't want to let go), Naruto used his ninja aim to do so by throwing one of his paper Shurikens, which he used for practice. The lights went off, and Hinata looked at him.
"I love you."
"I love you, Hinata"
Soon enough, they fell asleep, not realizing that probably the whole neighbourhood had heard them, and that next morning would be the first morning they'd spend with each other. Or with anyone, for that matter.
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The sound of his steps was not heard. And that's the way he wanted it to be. He was running away. They had found them. All of them. His family, his friends... Dead. All of them. Blood. Too much blood. He was scared. His eyes were terrified, but no one would be able to see them. Covered by a black piece of cloth. It had been a month, only. A month, running away from whatever it was that chased him.
He had no strength left.
Suddenly, his senses alarming him, he "looked" behind him. A flying kunai was getting closer to him and he had only got less than half a second to dodge it, losing some red hair of his. Gazing at the kunai, he was terrified to find a tag tied to it.
"Shit."
He jumped away, only to find the potential owner of the kunai on midair. He dodged more attacks as he could, and landed in the middle of the forest through which he was running. A far away explosion was heard, and the fire coming with it lit the branches of several trees, along with the enemy's identity. A man with pale skin, the face of a hungry viper, black, long hair and sharp, intimidating eyes.
"You weren't seriously planning to run away, were you?"
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!!"
The red-haired man kept running away, no destination in particular. Jumping between branches, trying to avoid any further contact with him. Him.
But the pursuer appeared right in front of him as soon as he landed. Frustrated, he tried to attack with a punch. The enemy deflected it and punched back, right on his stomach. He was sent flying against the trunk of another tree. The other man walked towards his victim slowly, apparently tasting the moment. As soon as he got two steps away from the one with his eyes covered, this one made some quick hand seals and hit the ground with his palm.
"Fuuin No Jutsu! Karyuu Fujin!"
Black kanjis and marks were drawn all over the ground and the trees, after which, from where the summoner's hand had been before, a giant dragon made of blazing hot fire stormed and raged its way against the man with snake-like face. He backed off right when the dragon would have touched it, but apparently it was too late. The dragon was about to explode.
"Being suicidal, now, are we?" The man laughed mockingly. He bit his thumbs and put his hands on the ground similar to the previous person.
"Sanjou Rashoumon!"
As if planted on the ground like trees or mangroves, three colossal portals with demon-like sculptures rose between the dragon and the summoner of said portals. A huge explosion obliterated several hundreds of trees, after which the pursuer would look for his pray yet again. He was gone.
"Heh... As expected from the Uzumaki Clan. Experts at sealing and unsealing the most unexpected things."
Smiling, Orochimaru kept going on his way, his objective clear.
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"Oh shit, oh shit.... I was too nice... Or was I? Damn! And even in front of Tsunade-baachan... This is disgraceful, now she's gonna have it with me all the time. Oh shit... And more importantly, we kissed. Like, KISSED! Shit, shit, shit... Neji would surely kill me if I was alive. Perhaps now he's just laughing on the afterlife, the bastard... What should I do...? Is she gonna think that I'm asking her to be my girlfriend? How do you even ask for that? Shiiiiiit....!!!"
Similarly, while he was somehow trying to get a glimpse of Hinata's expression as they walked beside each other towards the Hyuuga mansion, the young woman herself was (unbeknownst to the blond man) submerged in pretty much the same dilemma.
"Oh shit... Oh shit... Oh shit..." She tried her best not to look at Naruto in the eyes. She knew full well that one look and one look alone would be enough for her to lose it and start running away. "... Oh shit... I kissed him. My first kiss!! And his, too! Well there was this time with Sasuke-kun, I heard... Yeah, but I'm a girl! His first kiss with a girl... Or is it? Has he kissed Sakura-san before? Or Ino? Or Ten-Ten? Or...? Agh!!! What am I thinking? Why in the world would he kiss them? Aren't I the one who knows him the most? Wait... No I'm not! It's probably Sakura-san... So she kissed him, the tomboy *****?!!"
She tried to look at him once, and her heart almost jumped all the way out from her mouth as her eyes found his. Once this happened, both Naruto and her let out a tiny, faint yell of nervousness, and looked away. Which was curious. They had enough confidence to hold hands for hours, yet not enough to look at each other after one kiss.
"Oh shit..." Hinata touched her lips with her fingers and then tasted her lipstick's flavor. It was kind of similar to strawberry and maybe apple. "... Shit! Does he like apples? Maybe I should have looked for a lipstick with Ramen flavour... Agh! Don't be stupid, how disgusting would that be? He's not a ramen freak...! Okay, not that much! He's gonna think I'm a bitch. Just kissing him as if I didn't care about his own personal space... He's gonna think I don't care about impressions... Oh shit!"
On the other side of the matter, Naruto rubbed his head and spiky yellow hair, and snapped his tongue loudly.
"She's gonna think I didn't like it if I keep going on like this... But if I say I did, maybe she's gonna think that I usually kiss or let myself be kissed by anybody! Does she know about that one time with Sasuke? AGH! Don't even remember that! Gross! Gross!" He shook his head strongly.
But then, right then, his mind mentioning Sasuke one time was enough for him to have mental pictures of him and Sakura at the wedding. Sharing a kiss. Putting rings on each other's fingers. Sharing speeches towards each other. Having their first dance. His own, painful and completely lame Best Man Speech. Ino's Bridesmaid Speech... The prospect of a Honeymoon... And obviously, that very night the both of them would share a roof. Sasuke's. Also, they would share a room. A bed... And much, much more.
His face somehow lost all traces of childishness and joy. He was thankful that Kurama wouldn't wake up, despite the fact that he was making a lot of noise about his "human nonsense". Also, although he didn't notice it, his grip over Hinata's hand was tightened unintentionally. Hinata looked at her hand and his after this, and then at him. To her surprise and also fear, his eyes had lost their brightness, and he looked considerably upset.
"What the...? Could it be that he really was annoyed by our kiss...? No... No, this is different. He doesn't get this upset over small things... Maybe...? Did he remember Sakura-san?"
Hinata also frowned at the thought of the pink-haired medical ninja. She didn't hate her, but it was something that she really found irritating... The fact that, despite it obviously being Sakura's important day, she didn't have it into her to take at least one moment in the wedding ceremony to thank him properly. To mention him in at least some way, even an indirect way. After all, the reason she was even marrying Sasuke was Naruto. Okay, yes, probably every single person knew that. Maybe most of those who were and still are close to Team 7 already knew what kind of effort did Sakura put Naruto through. Whether it was uncounciously or willingly, she did put him under that responsibility. And it wasn't like she had done something to repay him... But Hinata had tried to stop herself from believing or thinking these kind of things. One thing Neji had taught her, was how immature it was to be fast to judge those people who we think are hurting one's feelings willingly. It was true, of course, that she had not much of a close relationship with Sakura at all. Whatever she might be thinking about her, could be wrong easily... One's judgements, especially from far away of the whole situation, tend to be wrong.
But the truth remained unchanged. Naruto was hurt. And she was seeing it with her own eyes... She and probably everybody else had, back at the wedding and even before that. He was deeply hurt...
"Naruto-kun..." She called him lowly. He didn't answer. His expression was quite grim. She then called his name again while squeezing his hand once. Only then he sort of woke up from his trance, and looked at her. She felt like throwing herself to him and hug him as strongly as possible as soon as she saw his eyes fading away.
"Oh..." He chuckled nervously. "... I'm sorry Hinata. I was lost there for a sec. Were you trying to tell me something...?"
"N-no... I just... I think I know what you were thinking. And the reason you were "lost"." Hinata felt Naruto's grip on her hand soften. He looked forward, smiling... Or faking a smile.
"Is that so? What's that...? Please don't say it's because of that teme of Sasuke and Saku-..." But before he could even finish the sentence, Hinata had pulled him gently towards her and had sealed his lips with hers. She forgot about her fears, about her insecurity and let the rage and frustration felt towards Sakura's actions and Naruto's hurt heart transform into more strength, and more love. She loved Naruto dearly, and there was no hiding it. But each time he was hurt, she loved him even more. Because, in a similar way to her, he would never say he was hurt. He would endure it stupidly, as if he thought the rest of the world expected him to be like the cold blade of a Katana. Emotionless, expressionless and deadly. Knowing that he was like her in that aspect, was the same as saying that he could understand her own pain... And was the same as saying that she was no longer alone.
From Naruto's side, in fact, Hinata had no idea how right she was. As soon as he felt her lips on his, he was more than willing to kiss her back and hug her. He did. Wrapped his hands around her waist and pulled her towards him as strongly as it was physically possible. He felt a warm, liquid thing coming out of his eyes, and he knew he was about to be embarrassed as never before. But there was not much he could do about it. Those tears were just one percent of the actual tears he wanted to shed. Hinata wrapped her hands around his neck and stopped the kiss gently. She was about to speak, and Naruto knew she meant to say his name. He put his index finger in her lips to shush her.
"Not Naruto-kun. I told you. If you're confident enough to kiss me, please call me Naruto." He said. She nodded right away and put her hand on his cheek, while whiping out one of his rebellious tears. "Oh... Uh... Sorry. Dust in my eye, you know..."
"No... Please don't lie to me." Hinata said, frowning slightly. "...It took me years and many, many, many guts to bring myself to kiss you, or even talk to you. I... You know I'm not usually like this. Don't... Please don't answer me with lies, even if they're small, even if you're trying to act tough, or even if you don't want me to worry. I don't want that. You can trust me. You can tell me anything... I want... I need to be here for you. I need you."
"Hinata..." Naruto's eyes widened. But before he could say anything else, or before Hinata could interrupt him with another kiss or hug, there was a familar voice being heard from not too far away.
"Okay, call me stupid or whatever..." The voice said. "...But I definitely saw Naruto and Hinata together. Bro, I swear! They were, like, holding hands and shit!"
"Well, shit." Naruto (and even Hinata) thought bitterly. It wasn't like they were embarrassed of being with each other. At all. More like they just didn't want people making an uproar about the two of them being the way they were. "By the way... After this... What are we?" Naruto said to himself and his mind. Shaking his head, he felt the familiar voice (which by the way belonged to Inuzuka Kiba) getting closer, and another voice answering the first one.
"And I'm telling you, Naruto wouldn't do anything like that. He'd feel that he's stealing people's attention from Sasuke's wedding and whatnot. And Hinata would, like, have a heart attack if she was holding hands with him for more than five minutes, anyway..." Nara Shikamaru's voice said lazily. Naruto reacted as expected from a ninja, and hid himself and Hinata on the closest, narrowest alley he could find. By the time he had done so, and only seconds later, both Kiba and Shikamaru (still wearing their noble Clan's tunics), followed closely by a sniffing Akamaru, stopped and talked with each other right where the Uzumaki and the Hyuuga had been before.
"Nah, bro, she's changed. Didn't you see her at the war? Fighting all high and mighty, and shit? She's into him, and she's not the same lameass, shy as hell, weirdo girl she was before. Now she's actually got guts and everything. You can tell by her smell and her fighting style. And Naruto is kind of in the mood to get over Sakura, if you know what I mean by that...?" Kiba played with his eyebrows and wiked at Shikamaru, who apparently had a hard time figuring out if he wanted to burst in laughter or punch Kiba in the head (Naruto knew because he felt the same).
"That's disgusting, Kiba. But yeah, I agree he could use some getting-over-Sakura kind of thing..."
"See? I'm sure he's got her!"
"Nah, no way. He's not got it into him. I mean, he's a pervert and stuff, but he would never do that to anybody, least of all Hinata. Mainly because he knows how much it hurts to be used, you see..." Shikamaru lit up a cigarette, a habit he had returned to after his father's death. Naruto's forehead vein itched at the mention of him being a pervert, though he could swear Hinata had chuckled at least once. After this, he suddenly and without no reason, felt her breasts being pressed against his chest due to the fact that the alley was quite narrow. The situation was getting funnier, more frustrating, more shocking and surprising by the second.
"Yeah, sure. But he's a man, though. He'll feel the need eventually, and why would it be wrong...?" Kiba kept replying, though by this time, they had already kept going forward. Hinata and Naruto let out a sigh of relief, until their ears caught a loud "WOOF!" that almost made them have a heart attack. They looked down.
"A-Akamaru...?!" Both of them whispered surprised, as they saw the white, large dog sniffing them out and gasping happily as he recognized them. The blond and the black-haired looked at each other, mentally asking each other what in the world should they do then, as Akamaru's words were only understood by Kiba, and the dog was just way too loyal to him to keep any sort of secrets.
"Uhhh..." Naruto tried stroking him, which apparently made the dog happier. "... What a good dog... I'm sure you're a smart dog, right Akamaru? You won't go telling Kiba any funny things?"
"Y-yeah, he's a smart dog, aren't you, Akamaru-chan!" Hinata said nervously, trying to do as Naruto did.
Akamaru merely answered with two "woofs" that were neither a "yes" nor a "no", and left running all of a sudden, before any of the young shinobi could say anything. Naruto cursed, frustrated. "What the hell? We get talking frogs, apes, slugs and snakes, and we can't get a talking dog? There's something wrong with this world."
From afar, yet again, Kiba's voice was heard as he played with Akamaru.
"Oh, there you are, boy! Gooooood boy, good boy! Where were you, bro? Been sniffing out some food or anything? Oneesan will kill me if you eat anything funny you know! Plus, your crap will smell worse than it should..."
"Again, that's disgusting Kiba." Shikamaru answered once more, though Kiba wasn't listening. Naruto and Hinata looked at each other, terrified. Four, maybe five seconds of silence, and then Kiba bursted in laughter.
"He's saying that he was indeed sniffing some food out, and then he found Naruto and Hinata on an alley hugging each other and-... WHAT?!"
"Shit!!!" Naruto reacted quickly again, and carried Hinata on a newlywed fashion (she let out a small yell of surprise, flustered), after which he would jump with remarkable agility from the wall of the frontal building to the wall of the building behind, zig-zagging in the air between jumps, until he reached the rooftop. Once there, he rushed towards the only place his mind had enough time to tell him...
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"You don't need to do it, I can walk."
"Come on, let me at least fulfill my role, will you?"
"Okaaaaaaay, but only until the entrance door."
"Nope. All the way to my room."
"No fair! It's embarrassing, plus, you're tired!"
"Yeah, speak for yourself. You're more tired than I could possibly be, dummy."
" 'Taku. So stubborn. Why is it that you are so stubborn?"
"But you love me that way, right?"
"Haha, yeah. Keep talking."
Somehow, the one who was told to be stubborn managed to open the door to one of the many houses on that neighbourhood. Sasuke didn't seem to mind at all, carrying Sakura in a traditional, newlywed way while opening his old house with his foot. Sakura, whose childish expression of disagreement (inflating her cheek and gazing away, though blushing as much as it was humanly possible) was probably just making Sasuke grin, felt her stomach betray her in more than one occasion.
"So this is it... This is Sasuke's house... I can't believe I finally made it..." She felt about to cry, but held the tears back and smiled, feeling heppier than ever before. Sasuke, who seemed to be as much as happy himself, merely gazed at the house from time to time. It had been a month since he had gotten there, and he had a bit of a rough time restoring the whole house to its original state (since after years of not no one living there, everything could get rusty). But now, he was satisfied to find that he had a place to take Sakura to, a place to live in.
"At what cost, though?" His only revealed eye closed for a moment, while he pictured Naruto in his head and tried to not ignore the jiinchuuriki's feelings and putting his happiness due to the wedding as an excuse for that. He was sure of one thing: if there was anything he had been to everybody in Konoha before, it was selfish. And the fact that even now, after being forgiven and given a chance by everybody, he was still selfishly marrying the one woman his best friend/brother loved the most, made him feel a strong sense of guilt.
He wouldn't ever regret marrying Sakura. He loved her. His love for her was real, even though he had to fight many fatal fights to be able to retain it. Nobody on his right mind would give such pure love up, not from a woman like that. Not from a woman that not only waited, but also fought for making him come back despite the fact that he had gone as low as to try to kill her...
... But again, at what cost?
"Sasuke-kun?" Sakura had called. Sasuke woke up from his small trance. They were already on his room. Sasuke let Sakura sit on his bed (tried his best not to ruin her beautiful Kimono while at it), and smirked quite arrogantly (it did seem that any smile coming from his mouth would make him look arrogant) while poking Sakura on her forehead with his fingers, trying to imitate his late brother.
"Sakura, how much longer do you plan on calling me "Sasuke-kun"? We're married now, you know."
"Tee-heeh, sorry." Sakura said, chukling and showing her tongue childishly. She took Sasuke's hand from her forehead and put it on her cheek, after which she just sighed happily. "You're so warm..."
"Am I?" Sasuke sighed happily as well, and kissed her forehead. "I somehow think that you are the warm one of us two."
"Mattaku..." Sakura's kiddie expression of anger came back. "... Always arguing with me. So annoying."
"Oh, is that so? So what if I just go...?" Sasuke (who inside was laughing, but outside made a serious expression) turned on his feet and made to go away from the room, feigning being upset. He immediatly felt Sakura's hand pulling his arm back to her with more strength than was necessary. The result to this was neither on Sasuke's plan to make her go even madder nor on Sakura's plan to just make him come back. The result was Sasuke (overpowered by Sakura's now natural strength) falling in his bed (as he wasn't really resisting anyway) and Sakura, due to inertia, being thrown over Sasuke.
The Uchiha, who didn't really mind, merely laughed lowly while staring at Sakura with his black, deep eye. Sakura blushed and realized Sasuke's previous intentions, frowning afterwards.
"Ugh, you're such a devil..." She undid the frown and before Sasuke could reply, sealed his lips with hers. Sasuke caressed her back while she did the same with his face and chest. Their kiss went deeper by the second, and after a minute had passed, they stopped. The only source of light being the full moon shining through Sasuke's room's window. Sakura laid her head on Sasuke's chest, and began running her fingers over his right pectoral, making circles. Sasuke in turn, laid on his bed (some pillows below his head) and played with Sakura's hair. Silence. For several minutes... Or hours...
"Sasuke...?"
"Hmm?"
"I love you."
"I love you too."
"Are you happy?"
"Haha, what? Of course I'm happy, bakka..." Sasuke said looking at her.
"Then why have you been so... Thoughtful?" She was looking back at him, clearly worried but trying not to show it. "Somehow, it feels like you're having second thoughts..."
"Is that what it seems?" Sasuke smiled guiltily, and then asked Sakura to lay her head in front of his, at the other side of the bed. "I'm sorry. I was thinking, yeah... But not having second thoughts. At all."
Sakura, who seemed incredibly relieved, sighed and kissed his lips shortly.
"Then, what were you thinking?"
"Naruto..."
Silence. Dead silence fell over them both. Even the wind (which had been blowing lively up until then) had died away, and the moon had started being covered by clouds slowly. Sakura's mind went completely blank for a couple of seconds... And then she felt close to tears again.
"Oh my God... You're right!" She covered her mouth, her eyes terrified of herself, while Sasuke (who apparently had been expecting such reaction), merely hugged her in response. Pulled her against him. "I can't believe I...! I didn't even...! Not even once! And he did the Best Man's Speech regardless... This is so...! This won't do. This won't do at all... At all!!"
"There you are... Overreacting again." Sasuke shook his head. "Listen... Calm down. Listen to me." He put his hand on Sakura's cheek and forced to look at his eyes. "I know how you feel. This is how I've been feeling before the wedding was even planned. I... Had a talk with him already..."
Sakura's eyes widened again.
"What did he say?!" She said quickly. Sasuke shook his head again. "...What?"
"He won't admit it."
"You mean he won't admit that he...?"
"Yeah." Sasuke sighed. "But it's not like I can blame him. I would have probably done the same thing on his position. We hate people looking at us with eyes full of pity. Pity doesn't make us feel any better... And it certainly doesn't solve the source of our suffering. Somehow, my guess is that he was thinking that admitting his feelings would make him look weaker than he is. And even worse, if he did it in front of me, he wouldn't forgive himself... Ever. It's like, the ultimate display of weakness and humilliation in his opinion... You don't show that to your rival, now, do you?"
"No... You're right." Sakura had a quick mental picture of Ino.
"...Plus, there's also the fact that... Well. He does love you, and he doesn't want us to be worrying about him on the day of our wedding... I mean, the Naruto that loves the both of us wouldn't want that. The Naruto that cares for his own wishes... I don't know. He never really lets that one out."
"He's so stupid. You both are. Being so proud, so stubborn... 'Taku... Making me worry all the time for these things..."
"We're men, Sakura." Sasuke smiled. "Saying that out pride and our stubborness is stupid would be as meaningless as us men saying you women are stupid because you like to spend a hundred years looking at the mirror. But for you there's probably a strong reason behind it, right?"
"And what would be the strong reason behind Naruto hiding his feelings? Or not talking to you, or, hell, even ME?"
"In my case, he doesn't talk to me due to rivalry. In yours... Well... Think about it." Sasuke stared at the ceiling, thoughfully. "What would you do? If he all of a sudden said that he loved you? How would you react, and more importantly, what would you say? That is, knowing full well that you don't want him to feel hurt."
Sakura stared at the ceiling as well, and gave it a thought for several seconds. As Sasuke said, she found no response.
"I wouldn't know what to say. Actually, more than that, I don't think there even is anything to say..."
"Exactly." Sasuke closed his eye. "For now, the only thing we can do is enjoy the happiness we have found because of him. Even if it pains me greatly to say it so selfishly... He did fight for this to happen. For us to be able to do this..." He turned to Sakura and kissed her gently, while holding her hand. Sakura returned his kiss in a more passionate way. This kiss was just as long as the first one, and carried with it stronger and deeper feelings.
At a certain point, Sasuke couln't see the difference between a fight of tongues and what he was having with Sakura. Their kiss had gotten so serious that Sakura had gone all the way to scratching his back. Her nails, though not as sharp as claws, were strong and long enough to tear his robe apart (which he didn't want). Thus, he removed it as fast as his need to keep kissing Sakura let him. The latter helped him remove it right then and there, and continued to scratch his back and neck.
Sasuke moved fast and strongly, making it so that he was facing up and Sakura down. She was on him. He was now the one with his hands on her back. While making out, the Uchiha unleashed Haruno's obi carefully (quite the impressive feat, seeing as their animal instincts had already aweakened) , and started removing her Kimono as gently as it was possible during their current situation. Sakura helped him out as well this time, and threw the very expensive dress away from the bed, revealing both a small, white, silky blouse (that acted as intermediary between the Kimono and her breasts and stomach) and a thin (way too thin) thong "covering" her femininity.
Sasuke rose his eyebrow while smirking.
"Now, what do we have here...?"
"Shut up. No seeing if there is no giving." Sakura said, smiling but making a firm Tsunade-like expression. She removed Sasuke's pants and left him on his underwear (black). His strong and resistant legs were exposed, while his abs were also a remarkable attention caller. Sakura felt like burning, but then Sasuke (with his hands on her back) pulled her back to him and kissed her. At this moment, there was a strong contact between the Uchiha's hidden penis, and Sakura's ***. Even though clothes were still getting in the way, underwear was usually tight enough for them to be able to feel each other. While kissing, a lot of grinding took place, and as it is implied, Sakura's moans grew stronger each time Sasuke became more erect. Yet, none of them had taken the next step of removing each other's last piece of clothing.
That was the first time they had had this sort of contact with anybody, and though hunger was considerably strong, nervousness was also a force to be reckoned with. Needless to say, they were also young and poorly trained in these aspects. In Sakura's part, her parents were just way too perverted to speak to (they would give a very awkward wink to each other whilst talking to their daughter about the matter) and in Sasuke's part... Well, by the time he was old enough to care about ***, he was way too submerged in hatred against Itachi. And should the thought of *** even cross his mind, his only "mentors" would have been Orochimaru and Kabuto... The mere mentioning of their names was an automatic "NO, HELL NO" inside his mind.
That being said, and be that as it may, Sasuke and Sakura seemed just too excited to let the hunger go.
Sakura imitated Sasuke's previous whim and made it so that now she was the one facing up and him down. She pulled his head towards her and kissed/bit his neck while he did the same with hers as he could. Both tried to feel every single inch of each other's skin with their hands. Exploring, playing, scratching, rubbing, kissing, biting, tasting, pulling, even slapping (yes, Sasuke and Sakura liked slapping apparently).
Half an hour later, after countless toying and fooling around, Sasuke and Sakura were panting loudly and still grinding each others ***. Sakura put her hand on Sasuke's hidden left eye... And started to remove the eye patch.
"W-wait..."
"No... Let me... I want BOTH of your eyes..." She didn't even need to ask again. Sasuke merely let the eye patch fall to the bed and his hair, because of the fact that he was facing down, was no longer covering his eye. No scars. No injuries. No different color. Nothing. A normal, black and beautiful deep eye.
"Why...?"
"My left eye... Itachi's... Its Sharingan is slightly stronger. Amaterasu might just unleash out of nowhere-..." But Sakura shushed him with a kiss and wrapped her naked legs around his waist to make his *** grind on hers. Afterwards, Sasuke bit Sakura's blouse and removed it in one furious motion, consumed by hunger and lust. Sakura's breasts weren't big, more like normal and "young" in a manner of speaking. He didn't care. Not only did she compensate it with nice, round and beautiful hips, and legs, but also with her long, curvy legs. As he had done with the blouse, and before Sakura could even feel embarrassed due to him staring at her, Sasuke went for her thong.
"W-wait...!"
But he didn't listen to her, and bit the thong off, removing it as well. There she was... Naked. Completely naked. To be fair, Sasuke removed his underwear as well and revealed to be completely erect. Sakura (whose eyes knew full well where to go) felt both scared and curious to know how would it feel to have "that" inside her.
"W-wow... Sasuke... Does it hurt?" She asked, as she surrounded his penis with her hand. Sasuke moaned lowly, which Sakura found exciting. She then started to feel wetter than she had felt with all the grinding and fooling around they had had before.
"N-no... But it does kind of annoy me."
"How does it feel?" She stroke his penis slowly, looking at it closely and feeling it throbbing and its veins itching everytime she did.
"Come now, you're a medical ninja and you don't know...?"
"Careful, now. I'm too close to your balls and you know my strength, right?"
"I apologize for my rudeness. Please forgive me." Sasuke said almost automatically, which made Sakura not only stop the stroking but also smile devilly and face Sasuke with dangerous eyes.
"Huuuuuuuuuh? What was that...? I kind of like that polite and submissive Sasuke-kun..."
"Wh-what? Hey! Ch-ch-chotto matte!" Sasuke said as her stroking speed went higher and she grabbed his testicles softly as she did. "What's with that expression...?"
"Which expression?"
"Don't joke with me. Your face is clearly saying "I wonder what would happen if I threaten him with his balls again", isn't it...? AGH!"
Too late. Sakura, who was already applying a little strength to her grip over his balls, merely laughed. She kept stroking Sasuke faster and faster. Surprisingly enough, Sasuke's penis became even bigger by the time she felt like he was reaching the summit of his pleasure.
"I-idiot... You are so gonna pay for this..." Sasuke said, shivering with his *** being stimulated with such roughness yet delicacy. He was loving it (he was completely red), but at the same time it meant punishment for her.
"Am I?" Sakura asked mockingly, feeling Sasuke throbbing even more. Sasuke somehow found the strength to counter her strategy and broke free from her grip. Afterwards, he conveniently found his eye patch laying on his bed, and used it to tie Sakura's hands against the bedside swiftly.
"What the...? What are you doing?!"
"I did say you were gonna pay, didn't I?"
As soon as her hands were tied, he laughed evilly and began kissing her... Or rather, running his tongue over every single inch of her body. Neck first, then lips (which he also bit), and then slowly going down. Neck again. Shoulders. Chest. Breasts. Nipples (at which point he sucked them and bit them at the same time). Belly. Waist. Both legs all the way to her fingers. Back up to her belly... And then he got serious...
"Sasuke... Don't..."
But he didn't listen, and he kept going down slowly. Sakura was shaven, though a small, vertical trail of pink hair was visible right before her other lips. Sasuke licked his bottom lip, and proceeded to taste her small, tiny clit. At this point, all Sakura could do was shiver and roll around in pleasure. Nobody had ever done that to her, and the outcome of such experimentation was causing her to lose her mind already. Sasuke felt satisfied by her growing moaning, and so he stimulated the rest of her femininity with his fingers. Gently. He rubbed, inserted, and toyed around with its lips whilst licking and sucking her clit.
"S-Sasuke... S-SHIT...!!" Sakura's moans and panting became one, and now her speech pattern only knew her husband's name and several onomatopoeias. She was crying, though it was obvious it wasn't pain. It was lust. It was pleasure. As much as he had wanted to cry while she masturbated him mercilessly. Men do not cry at ***, though. It was their job (or so he thought) to make women cry due to pleasure.
After five minutes of torture, Sasuke untied Sakura and laughed at her flustered face. She kept panting and didn't seem to make her mind up between being angry at him or asking him if she could be his *** slave. All she could do, was spreading her legs open. Sasuke gulped a bit, and layed in such a way their faces were against each other. Taking advantage of the fact that she was considerably wet, Sasuke decided to come in. He put his penis inside, entering gently and allowing himself (and his wife) to have a taste of what adults usually spoke so little and yet made so much of a fuzz about. And after he was inside, he felt he understood why.
The sensation of being inside Sakura (and of having Sasuke inside, from her perspective) had completely erasen what little remained there of reasoning. All what mattered right then was each other's eyes and feelings. Hunger was still there.
"Did I hurt you...?"
"N-no... I mean, it did hurt... But it's weird..." Sakura panted. "... I can't describe it... It hurts, but I like it..."
" 'Taku... What does the Hokage teach you for Medical Skills?" Sasuke mocked her, and didn't give her any room to answer, as he started to move in and out. Sakura let out a tiny scream each time he penetrated her. The bed was also moving so much that he feared it was about to brake apart... He didn't care though. Nor did she. They kept the love making up, not wasting time and kissing each other, or biting, or licking, or sucking, or grabbing, or slapping (because of course, they like slapping). After several minutes of enjoying each other's body, Sasuke felt he was already reaching his climax.
"Inside..." Sakura managed to say somehow, as she also felt him about to come. She had already came herself, what with Sasuke's small revenge, and she was exhausted yet curious about how would it feel to have Sasuke's orgasm inside her. She was to restore his Clan, anyway. Being pregnant wasn't a "no". It wasn't like he needed any convincing, though. Sasuke continued moving his hips until, eventually, he gave in to ecstasy and let out his orgasm inside her.
Minutes later, after their gasping had ended and what remained was only their sweat and the messiest bed they had ever seen before, both looked at each other and kissed. Their strength leaving them (the outcome of dealing with a wedding and then make love), and the prospect of the first morning together made them whisper a weak "I love you" to each other, and fall asleep.
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"AGHHHH!!! It's so messy, so messy, so messy, so messy!!!!" Naruto ran all over the place, taking literal mountains of whatever it was laying on the floor (Ramen cups, bowls, eating-sticks, glasses and whatnot) and trying to get them out of the way. His bed wasn't messy at all, in fact, Hinata had first thought that it was the tidiest bed she had ever seen.
"No, seriously... Not even I give that much importance to making my own bed at mornings. Maybe it's because he's not been sleeping here lately? I'd love to make it messier..." By the time her thought had finished, she blushed. What she had just said inwardly had so much of a sexual meaning that she was glad Naruto didn't read minds. She chuckled, though, as she saw him really concerned about what would she think about his flat's messy state. He was too stubborn to give that one up, though, as he was with pretty much everything else.
On Naruto's side, a storm was raging inside his mind, and he was now seriously wondering where had Kurama went. He must have had one of Tsunade's sedatives if he was really that asleep. However, the truth remained unchanged. A girl was on his flat. A girl. And not just any girl. Hinata, of all people. And judging by the looks of the VERY intimate moments she and he had had up until mere minutes ago, he felt like his flat's untidiness was kind of a let down. In the past, no girl had even set foot on Naruto's threshold, other than...
... He dropped some clothes to the floor, frowning.
"...Anyway, I need to hurry." He took care of the remaining items on the floor and sat on his bed, beside Hinata. His noble tunic and her Kimono had had so much activity for that day that he felt like a shower was more than primordial. He then was haunted by the fear of being smelly... After all, Akamaru did find him by smell.
"Nah, dogs' noses are more sensitive. That's why."
"I'm sorry for that, I usually don't bring girls here... Shikamaru comes here oftenly, but of course he doesn't mind one bit."
"I don't mind either." Hinata said smiling. "My father is always after me because I'm also messy with my things, so..."
Naruto smiled.
"Are you hungry?"
"Yes. I want to eat you." Hinata found herself thinking. Seconds later, she swallowed that thought dry and replied with a shy "no".
"Are you sure?"
"No I'm not. I want you now." She thought again, though she merely nodded "yes" as a response.
"Ugh... That was a close one, with Kiba and Shikamaru. Damn..." Naruto rubbed his spiky hair as always, whenever flustered. "...Oh! Please don't get me wrong. I really like being with you. It's just, you know how they are..."
"Yeah, it's okay. I'm also fearing the same... And I also like being with you, Naruto."
Naruto's eyes widened for a bit, and then he blushed and chuckled, scratching his cheek.
"See? That's the first time you call me "Naruto"... Have you any idea how good that makes me feel?"
"Probably as good as I felt when I kissed you." Hinata said. Silence.
"Crap. I did say that one." She thought, scared. Both young shinobi looked at each other, and then shyly looked down, red on their cheeks. The flat was lit by a white lightbulb on the ceiling, and the window was open. Through it, wind was caressing both of their backs, and relaxing their tense, growing feelings.
"You know, before Kiba came... You were saying something important..." Naruto said, staring at the floor. Hinata looked at him, and then back at the floor.
"Um... Yes. Well we had just kissed... And you had shed a tear, but you were trying to hide it again. I didn't want that... So I was telling you that you didn't need to hide things from me. That you could trust me... Tell me anything... That I wanted to be there for you... That I needed you..."
Silence again. After some minutes of wondering whether or not it was the right thing to do, Naruto went to his wardrobe and looked for a shirt that no longer fitted him. Minutes later (Hinata staring at him confused), he retrieved one orange shirt with a black, spiraled flame pattern on its center. He put it right on Hinata's lap, and kissed her on her cheek.
"To be honest with you... I don't really have enough courage to walk you home after all this ruckus... And more importantly, I don't want to. There are..." He sighed. "... There are many things I need to say to you. But... I mean, I realize you're tired and all. So why don't you go take a shower in my bathroom, and I'll go get something nice to eat? You know, maybe actually having some sort of "date", as promised..."
Hinata smiled in such a way, that Naruto was seriously wondering just how much was it that she cared for him. The only thought of spending time together seemed to create a smile on her face, as opposed to many other reactions Naruto had seen or felt in the past.
"O-okay!" She said, and she stood up. In a small flat like Naruto's, finding the bathroom was no big quest. She went inside and closed the door slightly. Naruto smiled and changed to more casual clothes himself (orange pants and a more fitting version of the t-shirt he had just given Hinata, though with no patterns on it, and black), and jumped out of his window towards the first food store he could find.
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Twenty minutes later, Naruto came back with the only thing he could find. Apples, strawberries and chocolate sauce. He bought some vanilla ice cream as well, to make it seem like dessert at least. He put the goods on the only table he had, and looked for some plates and spoons. By the time he had to walk past his room, though, his eyes met what he thought was nothing short of godly.
Apparently, Hinata had very enthusiastically wore his old shirt. And though it was big enough to be considered a dress, "dress" wasn't quite the appelative to describe it. It was so tightly wrapped on her body that the first thing he thought was of a sort of hybrid between a swimsuit and a leather one piece dress. He wasn't complaining though. He was pretty... "Surprised" of the way her breasts were so accentuated.
"Um... Naruto? Er... You don't like it?" She asked, after ten seconds of him staring at her.
"Oh! Um... Sorry! Yes, I like it, and I like it a lot! I mean, it's not like I'm an expert in these things, but... Uh... You look... You look great Hinata." Naruto gulped, as Hinata smiled gladly at hearing his answer. "I'm sorry, I couldn't find anything really fancy or stuff... You know, most of the food suppliers were bussy with the wedding and whatnot, so the only things I could find were..."
He pointed at the few apples and strawberries laying on the plates he had found, along with the ice-cream bucket and the chocolate sauce bottle. Hinata smirked, remembering the taste of her lipstick.
"...I love ice cream. And chocolate sauce too."
"...What about the fruits?"
"Those too. It's okay. I'm not really that complicated to please when it's about food..."
Naruto gave her a warm smile as "thanks" and asked her to sit on his bed again while he brought the ice cream and everything else. Minutes later, both of them were sitting on his bed, Naruto against the wall and Hinata with her back against his chest. No shoes. Their legs were together. Hinata felt so small, and yet protected being outsized by Naruto. the blond Uzumaki grabbed a spoon and took a good amount of ice cream on it, only to pour on it chocolate sauce and show it to Hinata.
"What do you say? Can I take this much without freezing my brain or what?"
"Haha, silly. Nobody can do that without freezing." Hinata answered, tasting an apple with chocolate sauce.
"Oh yeah? Okay, okay, then how 'bout this... If I don't freeze, you tell me a secret of yours. If I do freeze, I tell you a secret of mine. You know, since I was already gonna talk to you anyway. Let's do it in a funny way, at least, right?"
"Okay!" Hinata smiled, feeling completely happy that she even sensed Naruto's voice so close to her ears. "Let's see if you do it."
"Here goes nothin'..." Naruto put the whole spoon on his mouth and swallowed the ice cream on one go. One second. Nothing. Two seconds. Nothing. Three. Still nothing. Four. He poses in Rock Lee's nice guy fashion. Five, he goes all blue on his forehead and feels dizzy.
"Hahahaha, silly... I told you. Here, let me see if this makes you feel better." Hinata drank some chocolate sauce from the bottle, and then with her hands she made Naruto's face be right in front of her. She kissed him, and shared her drink with him. Naruto, be it by the sensuality of such action, or by the gentleness and softness of Hinata's hands, or by anything else unknown, he felt warm again and then some.
"Well, as promised. I have a secret coming." He said smiling. "Though, you know me. I'm not quite the secretive person... Why don't you just ask me any question you want?"
"Okay." She thought for a few seconds, crossing her legs (Naruto was impressed he had so much self control after a display of such a beautiful pair of legs and such a voluptuous body). "Naruto..."
"Yes...?"
"What do you feel towards me?"
BAM!. Right in the feels. Right in his head. His heart sped up, he began to sweat a bit, and he felt his whole body going red. He didn't run away, his eyes were still firmly set on Hinata's. It's not like he wasn't going to answer. What he was fearing was that, not even he himself knew the answer to that. Up until that day he had only loved (or thought he loved) Sakura, but now... After all what he had shared with Hinata during the night, after having his first kiss, his first date, and the first girl ever coming inside his flat (that girl being Hinata as well), he felt like he had have no damn idea what it was to actually love a person.
"S-sorry, maybe I should have asked something else..."
"No." Naruto said quickly, and took her hand with his. "You need the answer. And believe it or not, I need it too. I just need you to promise me that... Whatever it is I answer you, you don't judge me or hate me-..."
"I love you." Hinata interrupted him. Naruto felt like he was back in the depths of his mind, talking to a certain red-head that would have had the most important place in his heart had he have the chance to live with her. That certain red-head had said the same words to him. And very much like what he felt then, he now felt happy and... Strong.
"I love you with all my heart's strenght. I could never hate you or judge you, even if you did that with me. Whatever your answer is, I'll still love you. You'll have to kill me to change that, Naruto."
"O-okay..." Naruto smiled, held back his tears, and breathed in. "...When you came for me during Pain's attack, I... I had never heard those words. I love you. I had never, ever, ever heard that before. You must have wondered why did I never say anything to you about it. Well... I... I had no idea what to say. There was Sasuke being a missing nin, a war coming up next and... Many other things. I thought my best choice was to postpone my reaction to those words. But then..."
Naruto hugged Hinata and held her against his chest, taking her by surprise.
"...I started training to control the Kyuubi's chakra. And who do you think I met inside there? Deep within my soul?"
"Who?"
"My mother. Uzumaki Kushina." Naruto kissed Hinata's hair and forehead. "And she said those words to me as well... And then I remembered you. And the way you stood up for me that time... And I felt so guilty... "
His hug became harder, the more he talked. Hinata felt she was about to cry, but she tried her best not to.
"...I think I haven't been fair to you at all. You have given me so much, yet received so little... And now that you're asking me what do I feel..."
He faced Hinata, in a very similar way to what he did with Sakura back at the Iron Country, when she had tried to lie.
"...I need to say that there is love born within me towards you. I feel love. I love you. And this is something I've realized just now, as I speak... So, you can't expect me to be as used to this feeling as you are. I've only loved someone, but never been loved. But you... You were always loving me behind the stage... For God knows how long. So I need..."
Hinata had finally come to tears. Tears of happiness, of joy, of realization that one of the deepest dreams she had ever have in her spirit and in her heart was right then being made real by the Jiinchuuriki's words and actions.
"... I need you to stay with me. Until... Until I'm not breathing. At which point, I need you so much, that I want you to follow me to whatever lies beyond death."
Crying, Hinata threw herself against Naruto's arms again. Naruto said no more, and smiled gladly, feeling something that he had never felt before. Kurama's voice came to his mind after hours of silence, and his words made Naruto even happier.
"That sorts out how to find inner peace, Naruto. Time to go and do the same for the world, if that's what you really want."
"Yeah... You're right. This... This right here..." He tought while hugging Hinata tightly. "... This is peace.
"Naruto..." Hinata sobbed. "... I love you so much... So much... You have no idea how much I needed to hear that from you... How much I've waited..."
Naruto shushed her with his lips. The chocolate sauce, the ice cream, the strawberries and the apples fell all around the floor. As the vanilla ice cream melted, it mixed with the chocolate sauce in the same way Naruto moved Hinata below him and kissed her as much as it has humanly possible for him. Her sensual body was so close to his, her breasts were also making contact and her legs were just too soft to ignore. Hinata had apparently been wanting to do the same thing for who knows how long.
As some strawberries and apples danced and spun around the floor, Naruto's clothes were slowly removed by Hinata's soft hands, the shirt first, and then his pants. Similarly, he did the same with her only clothing. It was then that they gasped at each other's ears and realized that they were half naked and in the same bed. But though both of them blushed considerably, none of them cared about their fear, and proceeded with kissing and massaging.
Hinata was wearing no bra, nor anything else to cover her breasts. They were probably too large to be bothered with, as far as a Kimono is concerned. Subsequently, as Naruto's tongue raced around her body, he came to realize how sensual and exciting being Hinata's lover was. Only a few get the blessing of a woman with such breasts that has also nice hips and legs. Usually, having one means not having the other. But she was balanced in that aspect. She had it all. He tasted her nipples as he managed somehow to massage her legs and touch every side of them. Hinata moaned every time his tongue played with the tip of her nipples.
"Does it hurt you that I do this?" Naruto asked as he bit both nipples together and sucked them gently. Hinata moaned greatly, scratching Naruto's back as much as her nails let her. She shook her head.
"N-No... I am very sensitive, though... P-please be gentle."
"No need to ask that, I would kill myself before hurting you." He sucked them again, adding just a minimum amount of strenght while at it, which made her moan even louder. Her body's reaction, besides moaning, was sending one of her hands after his ***. Though it was still covered by his underwear (as was hers), he was also very sensitive about it, so as he sucked he let out tiny moans as well. For a couple of sexual ignorants, they were doing better than expected, or at least he felt like that was the case. So far, no regrets.
Hinata started stroking him as soon as he moved one of his hands to her *** and began playing with it over her underwear (black panties with white ribbons on the edges). With his hand, he could also measure how wet she was getting (this of course being a coincidence, as he had no idea how was he doing what he was doing), while he himself felt like his penis got thicker and harder with Hinata's hand stroking it through cloth. Minutes after that, Naruto moved Hinata up, so that her femininity was right above him, and his penis right in front of her. He got a very pleasing view of her ass and legs, better than the one before, and also got to remove her underwear more easily. She imitated him, and got in exchange a full picture of his friend down there.
"W-wow... How do you walk with this between your legs?"
"Well, it usually isn't like that. Though now, I'm wondering if having you around will make it difficult for it to go back to its little version..." Naruto said, as he caressed her legs and ass before he played with her.
"W-why is t-that?" Hinata said, stroking Naruto's penis with her hand (and starting to wonder if it was enough with just one)
"Because you make me crazy, Hinata. You're too hot."
"T-then I guess we'll both have problems..." Hinata then thought of a better idea, and removed her hair from her face, putting it behind her. "... I also doubt I'll ever find it in myself to control my body knowing you and this thing are close by..."
She then lowered her head, and before Naruto could prepare for it, she put his penis completely inside her mouth. All the way to his testicles. Naruto let out a loud moan, squeezing her ass as much as his fingers were able to, and as payback he lowered it enough for him to lick, suck and kiss her vagina. Both Uzumaki and Hyuuga began a concert of interrupted moans, hard gasping and sucking, licking noises.
" 'Taku... Such an innocent girl, all warm and kind... And she's just sucking my **** like she knew how to do it since before I was born...Is this how hot she gets because of me?" Naruto thought, trying to give Hinata as much pleasure as he was receiving from her, though he thought he was far from succeeding.
"Oh God... He seemed so ignorant about it. Who would have known he would actually give me this much pleasure...? Is this how hot he gets because of me? Hinata thought herself, trying to know what a man's orgasm was right then and there, by giving Naruto all she got, while receiving from him more than she could handle.
On a certain moment, at which Naruto felt close to climax, he swapped positions again. He sat on the bed, and made Hinata sit on him. Then, slowly, and having her hands wrapped around his neck (and her nails scratching her back again), Naruto began going in, penetrating her as slow and as gentle as he could. She moeaned louder than when he gave her oral ***, or when he sucked her nipples. Perhaps she was on pain...?
"Does it hurt... Hinata?"
"N-no... Or yes? I d-don't know...!"
"Should I stop-...?"
"No! Don't...!"
Seconds later, Naruto was all the way in. He and Hinata looked at each other, both sets of eyes exchanging each other's happiness. Souls were connected. Bodies as well. Flesh. ***. Sweat. Fluids. Life. Love. Lust. Naruto began moving Hinata up and down from her waist, slowly at first and gradually speeding up. By the time four minutes had passed, his bed was about to break apart and their bodies were making noises each time they met. Though what was louder was Hinata's moaning. Naruto bit her neck and occasionally her nipples or her lips. Soon, he felt about to climax... But he began stimulating her clit as well (having no idea how he found it, though), trying to make her climax with him.
A couple of minutes passed, Hinata came first out of her being incredibly sensitive. Naruto came last, having an orgasm almost as long as hers, all the way inside her. Both of them fell on the bed, quite exhausted. Too lazy to go and turn the lights off (or perhaps just too attached to Hinata that he didn't want to let go), Naruto used his ninja aim to do so by throwing one of his paper Shurikens, which he used for practice. The lights went off, and Hinata looked at him.
"I love you."
"I love you, Hinata"
Soon enough, they fell asleep, not realizing that probably the whole neighbourhood had heard them, and that next morning would be the first morning they'd spend with each other. Or with anyone, for that matter.
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The sound of his steps was not heard. And that's the way he wanted it to be. He was running away. They had found them. All of them. His family, his friends... Dead. All of them. Blood. Too much blood. He was scared. His eyes were terrified, but no one would be able to see them. Covered by a black piece of cloth. It had been a month, only. A month, running away from whatever it was that chased him.
He had no strength left.
Suddenly, his senses alarming him, he "looked" behind him. A flying kunai was getting closer to him and he had only got less than half a second to dodge it, losing some red hair of his. Gazing at the kunai, he was terrified to find a tag tied to it.
"Shit."
He jumped away, only to find the potential owner of the kunai on midair. He dodged more attacks as he could, and landed in the middle of the forest through which he was running. A far away explosion was heard, and the fire coming with it lit the branches of several trees, along with the enemy's identity. A man with pale skin, the face of a hungry viper, black, long hair and sharp, intimidating eyes.
"You weren't seriously planning to run away, were you?"
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!!"
The red-haired man kept running away, no destination in particular. Jumping between branches, trying to avoid any further contact with him. Him.
But the pursuer appeared right in front of him as soon as he landed. Frustrated, he tried to attack with a punch. The enemy deflected it and punched back, right on his stomach. He was sent flying against the trunk of another tree. The other man walked towards his victim slowly, apparently tasting the moment. As soon as he got two steps away from the one with his eyes covered, this one made some quick hand seals and hit the ground with his palm.
"Fuuin No Jutsu! Karyuu Fujin!"
Black kanjis and marks were drawn all over the ground and the trees, after which, from where the summoner's hand had been before, a giant dragon made of blazing hot fire stormed and raged its way against the man with snake-like face. He backed off right when the dragon would have touched it, but apparently it was too late. The dragon was about to explode.
"Being suicidal, now, are we?" The man laughed mockingly. He bit his thumbs and put his hands on the ground similar to the previous person.
"Sanjou Rashoumon!"
As if planted on the ground like trees or mangroves, three colossal portals with demon-like sculptures rose between the dragon and the summoner of said portals. A huge explosion obliterated several hundreds of trees, after which the pursuer would look for his pray yet again. He was gone.
"Heh... As expected from the Uzumaki Clan. Experts at sealing and unsealing the most unexpected things."
Smiling, Orochimaru kept going on his way, his objective clear.
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