It was a heated battle. Kakashi had been critically injured and Sakura was healing him as Naruto went head to head with the enemy. They were returning from a simple escort mission when he had jumped out of the bushes and attacked them. He was no average ninja.
"Watch out naruto. he did this to kakashi!"
"Don't worry Sakura I will not allow him to hurt my special people."
"Your special people eh," said the strange man. He was next to sakura before anyone could blink. "I take it this girl is one of your special people?"
"Don't touch a hair on her head!"
"Oh it seams the runt has a soft spot for the lass," he slowy brought a kunai up to her neck. "Well isn't that a shame." He said.
Naruto's blood was rushing. He brought the blade up and swiftly brought it down. 'This it' thought Sakura. The sound of metal on flesh consumed the air. Sakura opened her eyes to see Naruto in between her and the man and the tip of a kunai appearing in between his shoulder blades.
"Naruto-kun..." She had said kun and hadn't noticed nor had she consciously meant to, it just slipped. He slowly turned with a thumbs.
"I told you sakura... Nobody is going to hurt my special people." He grasped the arm holding the kunai with one hand, while cooking up a rasengan in the other.
"What the h-"
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The man had spun rapidly- He put everything he had iinto it- and whent flying over a cliff. Just then naruto collapsed and kakashi regained consciousness.
Naruto woke up in a hospital bed. He slowly turned to see Sakura in the chair next to the bed reading a book.
"Sakura-chan..." She had never been there while he was unconsious, if he were lucky she would stop in to visit while he was.
"Naruto-kun!"
'Again with the suffix' he thought. "Hi Sakura-chan!" He said scratching is head. "What happened?" He remembered perfectly what happened he was just confused.
"After you saved me you passed out and me and Kakashi lugged you to the hospital."
"Huh.." He sighed.
"Whats wrong?"
"How long was I out?"
"Three days."
"How long have you you been here?"
"Three days."
"Huh..."
"What's the matter with you?"
"Uh- I guess I was just wondering why you were here is all." He suddenly saw how rude that sounded.
"What do you mean Naruto-kun? You stay with me whenever I'm not well, but if I do it for you, You say that!" He could hear the the sadness in her voice, she secretly understood where the remark could come from saying how she was never really nice to him even though he did everything for her.
"No, no, thats not what I meant!" He said nervously sweating bullets. 'Again with the suffix...' he thought. It was silent for a while until naruto tried getting out the bed.
"Where do you think your going?"
"Uh-"
"That's right, nowhere."
"But I have to train Sakura-chan."
"No your staying here until I give you permission to leave." She said being a lead medical ninja, though of course that wasn't really why she had said it. Naruto's stomach growled.
"Can I at least leave to eat?"
"No I will go get you something from the cafeteria." And the last thing He heard was the door lock. He sat there pondering for what seamed like an hour but was actually ten minutes. 'Why is she being so nice to me?', 'Does she really care about me?', 'Whats taking her so long', and, 'She knows I hate the cafeteria food...'
On her way back from Ichiraku with Naruto's takeout inner Sakura began to give her two cents.
'So it's like a date?'
'No...'
'Why, you know you like him.'
'Do not.'
'Oh? Then why did you wait 3 days for him to regain consciousness?'
'That doesn't mean anything...'
'Who are you fooling? Certainly not yourself...'
Click!
"Hey, Sakura-chan!" She took the container out the bag and handed it to him.
"What the..." He wondered opening it.
"Eat up. On me!"
"Thank you so much!" he said eyes watering. He went to dig in until he looked over and saw Sakura hadn't gotten anything for herself. "Uh, Sakura-chan... Where's yours?"
"Oh my gosh- I completely forgot!" Her stomach growled.
'See you must like him to forget about yourself like that.' She began too respond but she waited. Was she starting to take a liking to him?
"That's ok Sakura-chan, we can share." He set the container in between them. luckily she planned on him engulfing it and bought him two servings. He pulled out extra chop sticks. "I always keep extras just in case of an emergency."
"Thank you Naruto-kun."
'Oh Naruto-kun!'
'Shut up...'
"So its like a date then?" Naruto asked nervously tapping the tips of his fingers together. When she leaned in he flinched expecting to get hit for asking but instead received a kiss on the cheek.
"Yes Just like a date."
AN: First ever fanfic rate and review shall definitely add more hoping to make full story out of it.