Naruto- New Feelings

After the battle with Pain, the village of Konoha was finally getting back together. Naruto's shadow clones, along with the planning of the village architects managed to rebuild quite a portion of the village. Though it wasn't in the same likeness, it was enough for all of the shinobi of the village to find a home. Naruto himself made a house instead of his cramped apartment to live in and the village gave him many gifts to thank him for his unwavering bravery in fighting the leader of the Akatsuki. Things were returning to normal finally after a long period of war and disaster. Two days after the rebuilding of Konoha, Sakura Haruno came to Naruto's new home. She really wanted to speak to him; he was being smothered by the rest of the village before and she got but a moment to herself with him. She knocked on his door.

"Who is it?" said Naruto from the other side.
"It's Sakura," she replied.

He opened the door and she blushed to see him shirtless. He had his toothbrush in his mouth and a brush in his hair. He blushed to see her there, especially in what she was dressed in. She wore a pink tanktop and a short mini red mini skirt. She as usual wore her headband facing to the sky on her head rather than on her forehead. She carried two books and a small gift wrapped present in her hands.

"You just woke up I guess?" she laughed nervously.
"Yep, I was really tired, all those shadow clones really took it out of me," he replied scratching the back of his head.
"May I come in?" she asked.

Naruto stepped to one side and motioned her to come in with his hands. She walked in and he closed the door before walking into the bathroom. She sat in what seemed to be his living room, complete with a two seating couch, a small TV and a recliner, along with a large bookshelf. She noticed that the ground was littered with scrolls and ninjutsu handbooks and were wide open as if he were just reading them. He soon returned, wearing his usual black tee but he didn't take off the long pajama pants he normally wore to sleep.

"I see you've been studying a lot," she commented.
"Yep, trying new things, I can't win every battle with just a Rasengan after all," he chuckled.

She put down her books and picked up the present before walking up to him and holding it out to him. He looked a little surprised and he slowly took the present from her outstretched hands. He opened the small box concealed in the paper and found a necklace inside of it. He looked back at Sakura before looking at the necklace properly. He noticed how it bared a striking resemblance to the necklace he used to wear until the Nine-Tailed Fox destroyed it during the battle with pain but instead of a green crystal, it was a light sapphire color and the band was patterned with what seemed to be tiger stripes.

"Wow Sakura, thanks!" he said with a smile.
"You're welcome, when I didn't see your necklace on your neck I thought you lost it so I made this one for you, the crystal I got from Kakashi-sensei," she explained.

He then handed her the necklace and turned his back to her. She took the hint and fastened the necklace around his neck. She blushed from the close proximity to him but managed to do the task without a slip up. He then turned around and thanked her again before going to put the box in his drawer so he wouldn't lose it. He returned and sat in the couch with her before picking up one of her books. He noticed how it was a taijutsu book. He turned to her.

"Isn't your taijutsu strong enough? I mean you could break anyone with a single punch!" he exclaimed.

Sakura giggled and nuzzled his hair with one of her hands. He blushed from her act of friendliness.

"Well, I think my taijutsu is sloppy and unorthodox, if I could get as fast as Lee and still hold the strength I normally put in my hits, I could be an even better fighter," she explained as she closed her eyes and twirled her index finger.

Naruto nodded comprehensively. Sakura then looked at him again, particularly in his eyes.

"The villagers were saying something about your eyes being yellow, I think they were lying to me," she said as she examined his eyes.
"Oh! You must mean this," he replied.

He closed his eyes and formed a hand sign. After several seconds, he opened his eyes and showed Sakura what the villagers meant. He entered Hermit Mode and she gasped.

"Why do your eyes look like a toads?" she asked poking in between his eyes.

He brushed her hand away as if it were a buzzing mosquito.

"It's Senjutsu, I learnt it from Pervy Sage's toads and the eyes show that I perfectly balanced the chakra within me and the natural chakra that I have to collected from the living things around me, like plants and stuff," he explained.

He soon returned his eyes to normal.

"So why did you come here Sakura?" he asked.

She blushed and turned her head away from him. He looked puzzled and leaned towards her, sitting like a cat with his eyes closed. She looked back at him and the proximity again made her blush. She immediately slapped him, sending him tumbling over the side of the couch and landing with a crash, sending books flying up into the air and onto him. He got up with a humorously angry look on his face.

"What was that for!" he demanded with his comically hurt look on his face.

She giggled at him before she grabbed his hand and pulled him onto the couch again.

"I wanted to know if you minded if I practiced taijutsu with you," she replied.

Naruto smiled and nodded eagerly, indicating that he had no problem with it. She then got up and walked outside. He soon joined her and they took their sparring positions. He smiled at her.

"Let's see what you got Sakura!" he said.

And so the training began!