It happened in the most unexpected way. One moment Sakura was yelling at him, pounding on him, pushing him aside for their team-mate, never sure why her heart fluttered when he smiled at her; then, suddenly, Sakura was pulling him close to her, tangling her fingers in his hair and moaning his name, urging him on, without any hint of irony. It was funny, sometimes, how much things could change.

"Sakura-Chan…"

And sometimes, it wasn't funny at all.

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"Naruto you…you idiot!"

The blond Shinobi winced as his female team-mate's voice pierced the quiet of the village. It was early morning, surely he couldn't have done nothing wrong yet? But even as he turned his head, and spotted the pink-haired Haruna Sakura march towards him, clutching a smoking thing­ in her hand, he knew that yes, he was so very, very screwed.

"Morning Sakur-AAH!"

WHAM.

"Naruto, what the hell were you thinking?" Sakura demanded, her green eyes flashing. "I wake up this morning and I find my medicine cabinet DECIMATED. Destroyed. RUINED. And I know it was you because you dropped some ramen on the bathroom floor. What were you doing?"

Naruto rubbed his head wearily. "I…uh…injured myself last night, and I didn't want to wake you up. I didn't ruin all of it."

"How did any of it get ruined?"
"I sorta mixed my chakra with the medicine and I thought that maybe I would heal faster, but-" He grinned sheepishly. "I thought wrong."

"No kidding." Sakura breathed deeply, trying to keep her temper under control. "How did you hurt yourself?"

"Training."

Sakura needed to ask no more. Naruto had become obsessed with his training, not to gain power, but to prove he didn't need the Kyuubi inside him; her face softened. Naruto, noting the change, visibly relaxed.

"Next time Naruto…" Sakura said quietly, putting the ruined medicine in the garbage. "You can wake me up."

Naruto nodded. His eyes lighted with something Sakura wasn't quite sure how to interpret- a cross between hope and desire. Sakura turned her face away and pretended to be very interested in the shop window they stood before. Naruto's eyes unsettled her, but if she were to be honest with herself, she wanted there to be something there: something like the way men looked at the cheesy women in Make Out Paradise.

"We'd better get ready for training." Sakura said, her voice higher then usual.

Naruto nodded, the look gone from his eyes. Had she imagined it? "Okay."

Why were boys so impossible?

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AU: First chapter up! Woohoo's! I'm actually pretty pleased with this one; I was planning on making it a one shot, but decided to sort of have dramatic fluffy tension. XD Lemon shall be galore! RxR please! Comments will be used for my new jutsu. .