K, this fanfic has been rattling around in my head since I saw this chapter, and I finally decided to write it up and share it. Enjoy, I hope you find it as amusing to read as it was in my head when I thought of it. I'm not sure if it's been done before because I didn't look, but I really hope it hasn't.
This takes place immediately after chapter 347, contains spoilers.
I do not own Naruto… if I did, Naruto would be getting some sweet cherry pie… CHERRY BLOSSOM PIE AM I RITE? LOLOLOLOL… Okay, I'll STFU now.
EDIT: A/N: Well hey hey hey. Fixing the grammar and a few things, then putting up le second chapter, enjoy!
Konohamaru was heading towards the training grounds to meet his team after meeting up with Naruto to show him his dazzling new variations of the Oiroke (Sexy) jutsu. He was happy that Naruto had given him such praise. It meant he was catching up to his role model, but if only he could beat him just once.
Konohamaru felt himself being held in place to his scarf, and then pulled into an alley to his right. Konohamaru entered a fighting stance and noticed an enormous man holding his scarf. The man was easily eight feet tall and made a silence motion in front of his mouth. The man was wearing a large black cloak/robe-like outfit, it was similar to the 'Akatsuki' that all ninjas were supposed to report immediately if they saw one in the vicinity of Konoha. Konohamaru noticed there were no red clouds on this man's cloak however, and that his forehead protector was an unmarred and of Konohagakure. The man had strange eyes, he seemed to have no pupils or irises, and his hair was remarkably similar to Naruto's, just longer in the back, it was reaching his shoulders. The man gave Konohamaru a lecherous grin.
"I saw that jutsu you did out there… it was rather impressive." he said with a slightly sadistic tone in his voice.
Konohamaru sighed and gave him a stern look. 'Great, a pervert, he probably wants me to do the jutsu for him again.' he thought to himself.
The man grinned even wider, and said something that surprised Konohamaru. "Can I make a suggestion? With this you'll finally be able to beat Naruto AND Sakura simultaneously… and he won't be mad at you, in fact you may make him into an even greater ninja."
Konohamaru raised an eyebrow before speaking, "What the hell are you talking about? How could Oiroke make him a better ninja?"
Konohamaru was too confused to notice that it seemed like the man knew exactly what Konohamaru himself wanted. The man crouched down on his knees and leaned close to Konohamaru, whispering something into his ear. Konohamaru began cackling in an almost evil fashion and got a face reminiscent of Yamato when he would try to scare people with his infamous 'Ghoul-eyes.' Konohamaru dashed out of the alley quickly, hoping to catch up to the remaining two members of Team 7 before they left Ichiraku. Left behind in the alley was the strange man who was laughing with happy grin on his face and shaking his head.
"Hey! Naruto! Sakura! Wait!" Yelled Konohamaru from across the street as he dashed as quickly as he could.
He had gotten lucky, Naruto, Sakura, Sai and Kakashi were just about to leave. Konohamaru hunched over to catch his breath, leaving Naruto puzzled as to why he came back.
"What's up Konohamaru?" asked Naruto, curious as to why he was in such a rush.
Konohamaru gave him a sinister grin, and turned his head towards Sakura with the grin still on his face.
"I just thought up a way to beat you both." He said to the two ninja before him.
Sakura cracked her knuckles as she prepared to pound Konohamaru, she had been embarrassed by him enough already that day. Before she could finish cracking her knuckles he performed a kage bunshin, making only one kage bunshin of himself.
Naruto sighed, "You already showed us this Kono-," Naruto was suddenly cut off by Konohamaru calling out the name of his new technique.
"Knockout Couple Jutsu!"
Sakura and Naruto's jaws practically fell to the floor. Kakashi's visible eye widened briefly before he fell to the ground laughing hysterically and literally rolling on the floor laughing in a fashion that didn't match his usual demeanor in the very least.
Sai tilted his head and actually laughed a little, "Oh I read about this in a book!," he said while laughing.
There before the four of them was a strange sight. Konohamaru had transformed himself into a naked Naruto, and his clone into a naked Sakura, and put Naruto holding himself on top of Sakura, brushing her cheek with his hand while smoke covered delicate parts. Naruto stood that making noises that you would expect to come from a toddler's mouth as his jaw hung open. Sakura was just staring with wide eyes and her jaw still hanging as well, Konohamaru couldn't' help but notice a little dribble of drool even coming out of Sakura's mouth! Konohamaru dispelled the transformation and the clone and began rolling on the floor laughing just like Kakashi before getting up and bolting off before Sakura decided to snap out of it and berate him like never before.
After a few seconds of the image gone, Naruto was the first to snap out of it. Naruto had dreams similar to that, but Konohamaru actually performing a jutsu to make it come to life had taken him completely off guard. He had never even thought of doing something like that. Something surprised Naruto even more though, and that was Sakura's reaction. She wasn't angry! She was just as shocked as he was! He too noticed the little trail of drool going down her chin as she still seemed to be in a daze with a 'dreamy far-off' look in her eyes. Naruto's eyes widened.
'No way… her reaction… did she like the idea of me and her like that? Nah… she's just so shocked she can't rea-,' His thoughts were cut short by something that removed all doubt from his mind. A small trail of blood trickled out of Sakura's nose. Naruto blushed furiously and gasped as he noticed it. 'What the hell!? Sakura did like that idea!'
The gasp caused Sakura to snap out of it, making her shake her head and look around a little bit before becoming furious and a vein bulging out of her head. "WHERE DID THAT LITTLE BRAT GO!?" she screamed at the top of her lungs, she looked around and saw no sign of him, a smile on Sai's face, Kakashi still rolling on the floor laughing, gasping for air and banging his hand against the ground and Naruto just staring at her with a shocked look on his face.
The vein in Sakura's head bulged even more. "Naruto… What are you staring at?" She said with a venomous tone.
Naruto waved his hands in front of him as a scared expression dawned his face. "Oh uh nothing S-S-S-Sakura-chan!"
She sighed loudly and looked around, turning back towards Naruto to notice him still staring, the vein bulged out in her head once more as she cracked her knuckles. "Naruto… why won't you stop looking at me!" She seemed to turn a little red to him.
"Oh um… Sakura-chan well you have… something on your face." He said as he made a motion of rubbing his index finger against the skin between his nose and upper lip, he also made a motion of rubbing his thumb against the side of his chin. Sakura reached for her chin and realized she had a little drool on it, she wiped it away, embarrassed that she had been drooling but she could play that off from shock. When she went to wipe under her nose however… she was mortified to find the still wet trail of blood. She turned bright red and shrieked with embarrassment and ran all the way to her house without saying a word to the rest of her teammates. She immediately locked the door to her room when she got home and cried on the bed, something she rarely did as an adult.
It had been a couple of days since the incident with Konohamaru at Ichiraku and Naruto wasn't particularly looking forward to seeing Sakura, but knew they had to talk. She had skipped a couple of meetings and team training sessions, probably out of embarrassment. Naruto himself had been embarrassed, why had she reacted the way she did? He didn't understand, did she have feelings for him? Or was she just infatuated with him. He was curious and wanted to find out. After training with Sai for a while Naruto decided to head over to Sakura's house to talk with her. He rang the doorbell to her house and after about half a minute her mother answered.
"Ah you're Naruto right? How can I help you dear?"
Naruto smiled, it wasn't often that a random member of village was so nice to him. "I came to check up on Sakura, is it okay if I see her?"
Sakura's mother smiled. "I'm glad that's the reason you're here. She hasn't come out of her room in a few days and it seems to be related to you because she said under no circumstances am I to let you in." Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"So she doesn't want to see me?" Sakura's mother sighed.
"That's about the gist of it, but she can't stay in there forever, why don't you go in there and talk to her." Sakura's mother smiled at Naruto and handed him a small key. Naruto smiled and nodded and was guided towards Sakura's room.
Naruto couldn't help but look around in wonderment as he saw the Haruno home, it was such a nice place. And it was no wonder that Sakura turned out to be such a nice person, deep down anyways. Naruto wondered what it would be like to grow up in a place like this and not in a ramshackle little apartment. When they reached her door Sakura's mother knocked and a curt response came from within,
"What do you want?" the voice called sounding like it had come inbetween sobs.
Sakura's mother sighed and called out. "Sakura, enough is enough, you need to talk to your friend." Sakura stayed silent and her mother patted Naruto on the back, pointing at the door, motioning for him to go in. Naruto unlocked the door and stepped inside to see Sakura laying on top of a messy bed with her face buried in her pillows.
When he closed the door she looked up and gasped when she saw it was Naruto, turning bright red before lifting her pillow, laying her head down and covering herself with it.
"What do YOU want?" came her muffled voice from beneath the fabric. Naruto sighed, wondering why was she being like this. Naruto sat down on the other side of her bed facing away from her.
"I thought we should talk… I mean you seem to be blaming me for all this, but I didn't tell Konohamaru to do something like that." He heard Sakura continue sobbing underneath her pillow, albeit very muffled. "And I mean… I wanna know why you reacted the way you did Sakura-chan. Why did you seem to enjoy that sight so much? And now why are you embarrassed and mad at me?" Sakura's sobbing slowed down and eventually came to a stop, she lifted her pillows, pulled her head out and laid them back town, this time laying her head on top of them sideways, looking at his back. He was still facing the wall and showed no sign of looking her in the eye. Sakura let out a little sigh.
"Honestly I don't know why I reacted the way I did… when I saw it a billion things flashed through my mind… I mean… I'll admit I kind of liked the idea of what I was seeing but still… I don't understand why I liked the idea!"
Naruto scratched his head and turned towards her, making her heart skip a beat for whatever reason.
"Well… do you like me?" Sakura blushed and turned away from him.
"I don't know Naruto! I didn't think I did but now I just don't know. That's why I'm mad, because you've got me so confused! That and since you've made me confused about you, you've embarassed me in front of everyone!"
Naruto frowned a little bit and leaned in close to her, giving her a soft kiss on the cheek. Sakura turned even redder, and she started to tremble a bit before turning towards him and growling at him.
"Naruto… did you just kiss me?" Naruto nodded and gave her a small smirk.
"You turned red and trembled too."
Sakura turned even redder, but this scared Naruto, he didn't know if that was anger or embarrassment that was making her red.
"Naruto?" She asked, sounding meek, making the situation seem even more surreal to Naruto.
"Yeah Sakura-chan?" he answered as he looked into her eyes.
"Would you… do it again?" she asked quietly, making his eyes widen.
Without thinking Naruto leaned in and gave her a long soft kiss on the lips, making her close her eyes, tremble even more and whimper slightly. When he broke the kiss she took a few deep breaths before opening her eyes, pushing herself up and pulling him into a hug. She gave him a soft kiss on the lips and he returned it with gusto. When they finished the kiss they had a genuine smile on their face, it had been the first time for the incident.
A block away in a nearby park a large mysterious figure robed in a black garb sat on a bench, laughing as he shook his head and smiled.
"It's about damn time. Now he has someone who's so precious to him that he'll do the impossible to protect her and keep her happy." He looked towards the Hokage monument with a grin. "Just like I promised you bro."
The mysterious figure got up soundlessly and wandered into the forest, the only person who had any recollection of him was Konohamaru, but no one in the village believed him because no one had seen such a person enter or leave the village. Some of the veteran ninjas and vague recollections of a young ninja who had similar features many, many, many years ago. Many could not remember anything about the boy though… it's amazing the legacies that can be lost after such a terrible disaster like the Kyuubi attack isn't it? But perhaps… it's for the best.
Wooooo all that in one sitting! You'll get to see who the mysterious figure is in chapter 2! Konohamaru's Dare!
