Sakura walked towards the river. Her hair was dampen in sweat. The sun blazing over head, indacating that it was past noon. All morning, Sakura spent her time with her boys, training. A girl could only handle so many Naruto's. They all worked her to exhaustion. Naruto seemed extra energetic lately. She just coundnt put her finger on what it was that was coming up.

Once She got to the river, She scaned the area for little perverted genin. No one was around. She stripped down to her ninja bra and spandex shorts and stepped into the chilly water of the river. She had hidden her clothes and weapons near a rock close to the bank of the river. The water felt good on her sweaty skin.

She sunk down in the water and swam around. Sakura was to consumed with the pleasure of the cool water on her skin, She didnt noticed someone was approaching. Many someones. In a matter of seconds the whole river was being jumped in by many Naruto-shadow clones.

"Naruto!" Sakura growled, punching the ones around her. She looked around, cetching a glimce of one taking off with her clothes. She let out a scream and swm to the edge of the river. The clones pulled her back in the water. "Naruto!" She yelled. "Im going to get you!" She punched and kicked until all of the clones were gone. She swam to the edge once again and took off after the Naruto that very well might be the real one.

Sakura chased him out of the forest and into town, until they passed her house. She stopped and put on a white skirt with matching white shorts on under it, with a black tank top. She continued her chase after putting on decent clothes. She didnt bother to look anywhere besides the one place She knew He would be. He would have stopped running after He noticed she wasnt chasing him anymore. She walked into the ramen shop and there he was, slurping down ramen with her clothes sitting in the chair next to him. She sat down on the other side of him.

"the usual." She said, when Ayame came over. Naruto jumped out of skin when He heard her voice.

"So Why did you take my clothes?" She asked.

"Because I needed them." He mumbled. She shook her head.

"The real reason?" Ayame put her bowl of ramen in front of her. She broke her chop sticks and started eating.

"Another order." Naruto pushed his empty bowl forward. He turned back to Sakura. "I just told you. I needed them."

"For what?" Naruto stayed silent. He didnt know what to say to her. He couldnt think of a lie so he went with the truth.

"To distract you." Naruto said. Sakura raised an eyebrow. "From remembering what today is."

Sakura thought hard. Yesterday was July 22, Making today July 23rd. What happened on July 23rd. She thought long and hard until She remember. Today was Sasuke's birthday.

"Oh," She whispered, putting her fingers gentle to her lips. How could She forget?

"Are you mad?" He asked in whispers.

"No. Im not. Thank you, Naruto!" She said, throwing her arms.

"W-what?!" Naruto stuttered.

"I cant believe you did this for me!" She said, hugging him tight. Naruto patted her back, still confused. "It means alot to me that you would go to this much problem just to keep me from remembering today was Sasuke's birthday!"

"Todays Sasuke's birthday?" Naruto asked, scratching the back of his head.

Sakura let go of him and nodded. "Yeah. Isnt that why you were distracting me?"

"No. I was distracting you so you wouldnt remember that this is the anniversary of your cats death..." Naruto grinned.

"I dont have a cat." Sakura growled.

"Then whos cat did i kill?" Naruto asked. "Well whatever just eat your ramen before it gets cold. " Naruto motioned to the cooling-off ramen.


A short one-shot i did on DevArt as a thanks for 1,000+ Page Views. I thought I'd post it on here too