Okay, so this is just a little friendship fic drabble thingy that I wrote at 1:00AM.
No romance, unless you're that type who thinks boys and girls can't just be friends. =)
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Sakura ran her fingertips lightly over the swelling on Naruto's face, just above his right eye. The swelling was already turning a lovely shade of green-blue-yellow-purple of a new bruise.
"Darn it Naruto. What on earth did you do?" Sakura growled, giving it a harder poke than necessary.
He whimpered. "Take it easy Sakura-chan. All I did was ask Hinata-chan to lunch."
"Oh. Alright, so it wasn't your idiocy that got you into trouble this time." It was Neji being a ridiculously overprotective cousin.
Sakura sent a tiny stream of chakra to her fingers, watching in satisfaction as the swelling vanished, and the forming bruise disappeared.
Naruto grinned and felt his face. "Hey! It's gone! Thanks Sakura-chan!"
She huffed. "Of course it's gone, Naruto, I am one of the most highly skilled medical ninja in Konoha. Did you really think a stupid bruise was going to cause me any problems?"
Naruto's grin fled like a bunny confronted with a ravening wolf. "Geez Sakura-chan. When's the last time you ate? You sound like a bear."
Sakura frowned. "Ah....I'm not sure. I've been busy, Naruto. A concept you may not be familiar with."
Naruto smiled again. "Come have lunch with me. We'll go get ramen, like old times."
"No, Naruto. Out. Now. Before I give you a black eye that'll make the one Neji gave you look like it was from an infant."
"Alright. Alright." He held up his hands in a placating gesture. "I'll see you later." He backed out of the door of her office, shutting it behind him.
Sakura raised an eyebrow. That seemed a little easy for Naruto, but she had patients to see to, and dismissed it.
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Naruto made an impatient noise in the back of his throat, and shifted the bowls of ramen so that he had a free hand. He reached over and gave the nurse a poke. She slapped his hand away, and he hurriedly rebalanced the ramen. "C'mon lady, I just wanna know where Sakura-chan is." The nurse looked back up from her patient. "If you're not out of here by the time I count to five, I'm going to shove a thermometer up your-"
Naruto was already gone. The nurse smiled in satisfaction.
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After heckling the nurses for nearly half an hour, and searching the hospital for another ten minutes, Naruto finally found that Sakura had moved to her office to go over medical charts nearly 20 minutes ago. He poked his head through the door, and grinned broadly.
"Sakuraaa-chaaaaan" He singsonged, using his foot to close the door behind him. "Look what I brought!"
Sakura did not need to look. She could smell the ramen. Beef, Chicken, and Miso. And it made her stomach howl like the aforementioned ravening wolf.
Naruto grinned. "Knew it."
"Haha." Sakura said. She was already shoving ramen down her throat. She hadn't realized that she had been so hungry.
After sating most of her hunger, she sat back and sighed. "Thanks Naruto"
He grinned and crossed his arms behind his head. "No problem. Remember that time we took Kakashi-sensei to Ichiraku's and tried to get him to take off his mask? And we followed him around and tried to ambush him?"
She laughed. "Yeah." Now that she had eaten, she was in a much better mood. "Ah, the good old days, right?"
They sat in silence for a bit, before Sakura spoke again.
"Thank you Naruto. I don't know what I'd do without you."
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Oy Vey. This is probably an awful fic and I'm just to tired to know it. Oh well.
Yell at me if you will.