Touch
A NaruSaku Drabble
Keyword: Touch
AU: A drabble for The Heaven & Earth drabble contest
Naruto loved to touch her Sakura had discovered in her time dating the hyperactive blond ninja; holding hands, caressing her cheek, squeezing her shoulder, Hugs, and kisses. It all came back to one simple fact. Naruto loved no needed to touch her.
She understood why though. He'd had such a hard and lonely life. He'd been deprived of love and affection for so long that when ever he'd been given the chance to be touched he'd leap at it.
She noticed that different people in Naruto's life touched him in different ways.
Tsunade when she wasn't swatting him on the noggin for being an idiot would hug him close like a mother to a child. Sometimes she would kiss him on the forehead.
Jiraiya before his death, and Kakashi-Sensei both would either squeeze his shoulder or ruffle his wild blond hair affectionately.
Iruka would also ruffle his hair affectionately or he would pat him on the back much as a father would do.
But the touches he most longed for she knew came from her. Kisses, or hugs, gentle touch's on the arm, holding her hands or resting her forehead against his; It didn't matter. Even the times when she'd clobber him he'd cherish. Usually because she would heal the bruises later, but also because he knew he'd get to feel her gentle touch.
So she watched now as he wrapped his arm around a blank faced Shikamaru and a wide grinning Choji as he laughed that long loud laugh that could be heard clear across Konoha at some joke he'd made. Ino glomped him and draped herself across him whispering something into his ear which caused him to turn beet red, and Sakura's right eye to start twitching dangerously.
She stalked over and decided to stake her claim to Naruto by grabbing him by his jacket and yanking him out of the pile he was in causing Ino and the rest of Team Asuma to tumble into a pile.
She then kissed him as long and deep as she could, before dragging him off by the hand to Ichiraku Ramen for dinner.
"HAH!! Take that Ino pig nobody touches my man!! SHANNARO!!" Inner Sakura howled in Triumph.
Yep Naruto loved to touch. But so did she.