Naruto had been put in some awkward, and heartfelt amount of predicaments in this chapter, and so has Ino, but will that start something special, or create something they can't control.
"Naruto would you go on a date with me?" she finally spatted out after a few moments. And that was not what he expected her to say, at all.
Naruto didn't know how to respond to this,and started stuttering when he tried, "W-well I ummmmmm." Ino only smiled at him, and eventually started giggling a very seductive giggle, which only through Naruto further off guard. He then quickly started thinking to himself, trying to calm himself down a notch.
"What the hell do I do? I've never been asked out on date before, and the last person i'd thought it would be from was Ino!" he started thinking, "Okay look calm down Naruto, I just have to calm down and think." he thought, while taking a slow deep breath, and turning his head to face Ino, "Well? are we going to go or what?" she asked in a kind of annoyed tone. She was obviously getting impatient with Naruto,as he was more stalling for time to think, than trying to answer her right away, "Well it would be really nice to go out with Ino, I mean she's really pretty, has a nice body, and smile, but I really don't know much about her. But I figure it wouldn't hurt to try, I mean she asked me! So I figured she has to see something she likes in me right?
"Yeah why not! We never really hang out, and i see you as a good friend so we might as well!" he remarks, smiling his usual goofy smile. Ino expression changes from being slightly annoyed, to beaming with happiness. Naruto notes this, and chuckles at her, which makes her pout, and glares at him, "What's so funny" she asks, getting angry, Well you looked so eager to hang out with me, i found it funny" he answers with his grin." The idea of her getting excited made anything Naruto made her blush more, but Naruto only chuckled more, and they stood their for the while, Ino wrapped around his arm while, he laughs, and she glare. It was her that broke the moment, " Can we just go! I'm hungry to!" she exclaimed, tugging him in the direction of the ramen shop. Naruto only chuckled and went with her thinking if this kept up he would enjoy his date.
Naruto was more in his thoughts when he was being lead to his favorite ramen shop by the one girl who would never give him the time of day, "I still wonder why suddenly she would want to go out with me. I guess it wouldn't kill to ask" he thought to himself. "Hey Ino? Why did you suddenly want to hang out with me today?" This question stops her dead in her tracks, and she slowly turns around, "Umm, well" she starts nervously, "Dammit! I didn't think he would get so curious! But then again why not? We never hang out, and I usually ignore him! I would be curious to!" she thinks to herself quickly. trying to think of something to tell him. "Well I just thought we should hang more! I mean we are friends, right?" she states quickly, trying to put quick pressure on him.
He thinks for less then a second before answering, "Well of course we're friends! Even though we barely hang out, I see you as one of my close friends!" This takes Ino back once again. she couldn't get how nice he was to her, or how highly in his friend circle he saw her. She tries to move past the fact before she starts showing signs of infatuation, "Well come on Naruto! Or we'll catch the lunch rush!" she says hurrying him up, the only reason he didn't push the subject more was because she was right, the lunch rush would appear right around 11:00 and he always tried to avoid putting his order after that time. he remembers the last time he did that he was waiting there until it ended at 2, at which he was starving. He then hurries at her command
~15 minutes later
"Thank kami we're here! I'm starving!" Naruto says, getting over excited as he usually does when it come to anything ramen related. Ino only giggles at his overexcitement, and follows his lead as he enters the small stand.
"Hey old man Ichiraku!" Naruto loudly greets, happily walking to the counter of the ramen shop. The old man behind the counter named Teuchi near all the pots, and cutting boards turns, and waves to Naruto. He is flipping ramen pans, and chopping vegetables hastily, as knows the lunch rush will be coming soon. The young girl behind the counter named Ayame, smiles at his childish behavior at the thought of ramen and waves, as he and Ino enter.
"Hey Naruto, Ino, welcome back to Ichiraku's. Would you like your regular favorite of Miso ramen?" she says, with her usually warm, friendly smile. "With extra char siu?" he asks excitedly. "Of course! We wouldn't make it any other way for you Naruto!" she answers. Ino can only do the same thing Ayame is doing and smile at Naruto hyper, and childish personality. She then wonders why she never hung out with him before. He always seems to make her laugh and giggle with his stupidity, and he is in fact one of the nicest guys she has meet, if not the nicest, and she just likes being around him. Her thoughts are cut off by Naruto himself.
"Hey Ino!" he screams, trying to get her out of her thoughts. "Luckily there wasn't anyone in the stand but them or that wouldn't caused a scene!" she thought to herself, surveying the area either way, "Ayame just wanted to know what kind of ramen you wanted." he said, confused by her sudden actions. She noted this and already had a alibi for it, "Oh sorry! You kinda startled me!" she answered, blushing even though that was just a lie to cover her spacing out, Naruto only grins bigger, and laughs at her a bit, which makes Ino get annoyed, "It's not funny!" she exclaims, getting a lighter shade of red, "You know you're kinda cute when you're annoyed" he roused, only making her blush more, and turn away from him, "I'll have beef ramen, and you're paying!" she adds on, trying to get back at him, but it doesn't take him back bit.
'Sure!" he says, his smile only getting bigger,"Anything for the beautiful girl who gave me her precious time." This made Ino blush even harder. She was fortunate that she had already turned away from him, because she was embarrassed that he got her so flustered, so quickly. She also noticed that his aura changed, He was more shy in the beginning of the date, now he had a more cocky, embracive feeling to him. She also had this growing feeling towards him, but she couldn't make out what it was.
He then came closer and tapped her shoulder, "Hey Ino?" he asked, his warm voice sending warm sensations down her back. her voice was weak, and broken down, like a fatigue, but more emotional, "Y-yes Naruto-kun." she shuttered, cursing herself mentally at the suffix she used in his name. he chuckled at this, which only made her melt on the inside because of him. She then felt a wet sensation down between her legs. She silently moaned, and hoped that she had just been so distracted, and preoccupied that she just pissed herself a little. She already know that wasn't the case, and she knew what was happening, She was being turned on by Naruto, and sio easily at that!
"How the hell did this happen. I only asked him out to just have a good time, and now i'm slowly getting an infatuation towards Naruto! I mean I don't mind! he is pretty cute, and has a nice laugh, and pretty eyes, and beautiful hair, and… oh kami! I'm really getting a jump start off of him!." She tries to calm herself down, but his presence was overwhelming, and she found herself paralysed at the situation she was in. Her breathing became heavy, and she starting sweating, and this was the one moment that she was glad he was kinda dumb, because he didn't notice the heavy effect he had on her, and her raging hormones. After a few more moments, she realized she would have to play it off, or he'll suspicious, or someone she knew would see and automatically figure out what's wrong with her.
She then turned to Naruto, and pulled off the "Smile of Miracles" for someone in her state, and said, "What's wrong? I thought you wanted to ask me something?" He immediately popped out of the trace he was in, which she somehow was so obvious to the fact he was in, and excitedly said, "Oh yeah! i just wanted to say that i'm glad we hung out today! Even though you've been kinda distant for the past few minutes" his voice trailed off mid-sentence, and Ino immediately felt bad. She couldn't even control her own hormones enough to pay intention to guy who is trying to show her a good time, especially after all the times she has ignored him, and talked behind his back.
"No Naruto it's not you that's making me act this way!" she sputters out, straight forward lying through her teeth, "i just have a lot on my mind, that's all!" " Well like what?" he asked, leaning back to a more comfortable position on the bar stool. She plainly put, didn't know how to react to this. No one, but Sakura, and sometimes her mother even cared about her problems. Shikamaru, Choji, and Asuma Sensei never had the mind to ever concern themselves with her matters, and since Sakura was always busy with her duties at the hospital, she never had a lot of time for the blonde kunoichi
"Well it doesn't really matter! I mean it's small matters!" she says, trying to move pass the subject, but naruto will not waver, "No Ino! I don't think that a problem someone has could ever be small! There's always some importance to it! whatever is bothering you, you can tell me, okay?" he says, bumping his fist to his chest, while making a thumbs up sign with it. She again, didn't know how to react to his kindness, nor the fact he actually seems to care about her. She always wondered how someone like him could always have a smile on his face. He seems alone sometimes to her, yet he is always smiling, and happy. Naruto sensed her uneasy tension, and got worried.
"Hey Ino you okay? he asked, getting a worried expression on his face. All she could do, was look at him, look at his blue warm eyes, and try to search them for an answer herself. She could only sigh, and try to move past this situation. It became confusing for her, and she hastily tried to find the perfect way to move past the situation.
"I'm soooo hungry! I wonder how long it's gonna take them to fix our food." she exclaims with a fake pout, Naruto on the other hand, can only do the one thing he's been doing since the date started, and laugh. he was rolling on the floor, laughing his butt off at her outburst. Ino just sits their, confused, and this went on for 5 more minutes until, Naruto got up, and tried to explain to Ino why he was laughing, but not before he asked Ayame for a glass of water, as he was dry from laughing so hard. When she turned around to pass him the water, she saw exactly why he was laughing, but it didn't hit her until Naruto was about to speak up, and she even laughed herself.
The ramen she was, "complaining about" came a few minutes ago while she was in deep thought. Her sudden outburst of laughter made Naruto laugh even more, and the two sat there, laughing like little immature children, not caring that they are causing a little scene. Ino was more laughing at her own stupidity, then anything else that could be found funny. When they finally calmed down, the first that they both did go to eat their barely warm ramen, and laughed at how they were so much in unison when they went to pick up chopsticks, to how hastily ate there ramen with a big slurp. She blushed again, and put her head down to face the floor like she had dropped something, and Naruto chuckled at this. The hand she had placed on the edge of her seat was sweating at the nervous sensation she was getting from him, and only got worse when he accidently touched his hand on hers. Only it wasn't an accident.
She immediately looked up at him as if to apologize, and then was stopped by his next action. he ended up leaning forward, accidently kissing her. At first he was going to pull away, and apologize as he actually had slipped on her sweaty hand and leaned too forward . However it was Ino that kept the kiss going, Naruto was more shocked at this than Ino was at putting a his hand on hers, but applied no resistance, and only when with what Ino was doing. Most of the people had left from the lunch rush, and the only person who saw this was Ayame, who was quiet about it, and Tenchi was too busy cleaning his pots to see the passionate emotion between the two blondes.
As soon as she pulled away, she had immediate regrets about what she just did, but it was Naruto's smile that changed that, "Well that was nice" he teased, "Mind if we do it again?" he asked with a goofy smile. She didn't know whether to actually just go and kiss him again, or laugh at how he's so eager to kiss her again. "You know" she started, "If you want to go on another date after this,you have to promise me something." she said with a mischievous smile. He only kept his smile, and asked, "What do i have to do?" she only moved forward to him, and said, "This" before she kissed him full on, leaning on his leg for support. He reacted as quickly as it happened, and embraced the kiss full on, putting a hand to the side of her waist for "support". They sat there for the longest, enjoying a passionate kiss that sent sparks flying down her very being, pulsating through her veins like a bad drug, which Naruto was becoming. The only thing is, she saw nothing bad him, and she hope she never would.
Naruto was the one who broke the kiss this time, staring straight into her eyes he was trying to see the reason she was so interested in him. Maybe it was his laugh, smile, or just the way he was, but he would never know unless he asked. But he didn't. Mostly because he was having a beautiful moment with Ino, and he felt the sudden question would ruin it. He didn't speak up after breaking the kiss, and it was Ino who had to break the silence, "Hey Naruto you okay, she asked worriedly, praying mentally she didn't do anything wrong. he saw heard the worry in her voice, and in her eyes he saw the something he saw as a kindness, he didn't know how to response a first. Which only made her seem more worried.
"I'm find Ino! Honestly I just didn't have any idea that you liked me!" he said, his smile gleaming to Ino even in the dim light of the ramen stand. She herself didn't know how to respond, as she didn't know how she ended up liking him, she always thought he was sort of cute, and his hyperactive personality always amused her, especially when he would be beat up by Sakura. And was one of the nicest guys see knows, considering all the other guys are jerl, assholed, and horn pricks, who only want to sleep with Ino rather then be her friend, or boyfriend. But naruto seems different.
He's respectful in his own way, always happy and nice to her, even if she ignores him sometimes. Or talks about him behind his back, or never really saw anything screaming potential in him…. "Wow i'm a crappy friend!" she thinks, banging herself on the head mentally, before looking up to face Naruto. but before she could say anything, her stomach rumbled loud, which made Naruto fall out laughing, but thsi time she joined him, finding he immature reaction hilarious. It was naruto who broke their second episode of laughter.
So Ino, you want to finish our ramen and head out somewhere?' he asks, in a charming manner, and Ino is easily swooned, nodding her head in response, and turning to her ramen to finish it. Naruto did the same, but was surprised that when he was done, she had already finished and was waiting for him. She only smiled in response to his shock, and threw a peace sign at him, and stuck her tongue out him, teasing at his shock. Naruto quickly smiled in response, and continued to slurp down ramen in a very gusto manner. When he finally finished, he got up, and gave what little bit of money he had in his wallet to Ayame, and extended his hand to Ino, and just smiled.
"Ahh what a gentleman!" she says in an elegant tone, taking his hand and letting him lead her out of Ichiraku.
They walked halfway down the block before she asked, "So where are you taking me?". he thought about this for a minute before answering, "Well I did have this one place in mind." he started, "It's a little off from the village, so I hope you don't mind the walk" The thought of walking out the village with Naruto kind of excited her, but the thought of walking far in general made lazy thoughts pop in to her mind. Being on a team with probably the laziest shinobi in history rubbed off on her, for very bad streaks of procrastination. She quickly choose to just walk with him, considering that she had nothing better to do today, and she was enjoying herself so far.
They walked through the gate of Konoha in a steady pace. the other person who was even there was Genma, who took a double take to make sure he was seeing right, "Those two huh?" he thought to himself, messing around with senbon in his mouth, "I never would have thought, but then Naruto, he is a charismatic kid. I figure he would bag one, one of these days! I just never thought Ino!" he slouches back, and smiles at the new development he has come across. He watches them walk away, and wishes him good luck, silently while looking up at the shining sun, which has no attention of going anywhere.
Back to Naruto and Ino walking down the forest path, at which Naruto is humming an old tune which is unfamiliar to her. after a few more minutes of him repeating the same tune over again,and again, curiosity gets the best of her, 'what are you humming?" she asks looking up at his happily calm face. he looks to her, and half humming through words to keep from losing his beat, "It's just….. an old song….. that pervy sage… my teacher taught me….. while I was away training." he finishes, whistling louder getting more into his whistling.
She then tried to copy his tune, him stopping to give a nod of approval if she got it right, and shaking his head, and repeating the tune if she got it wrong. For the next half an hour while they were walking their was no talking, just humming song he has taught her, and vice versa. When they finally got to where he was taking her, she only gasped at it's beauty.
The waterfall at which Naruto trained to complete his Rasenshuriken was, as it always was, a spectacle to behold. A huge waterfall which below held a nice array of different flowers, and shady big tress. This was the perfect place for a date and Ino agreed, as he was taken back,and mesmerized by the natural beauty of nature naruto had brought upon her. She was mostly intrigued by all the different types of flowers in the clearing ahead. She runs ahead of Naruto, and proceeds to label each one b it's name, and type. Naruto only laughs at her amazement, to which she ignores, and position himself in a nearby tree to nap a little bit while she distracts herself with the different types of flowers.
20 minutes pass before she satisfies her inner passion for flowers, and everything about it, before searching for Naruto, who was right above her and sleeping like a stone. Laziality looking for him, she gives up after a few minutes and starts heading towards the waterfall. She decides while he's "away" she'll take a swim, and wait for him to get back. She then proceeds to strip down until she is in nothing but her birthday suit, which both parts are pink with a design of swirly cookies, and dive into the little pond head first enjoying the warm, radiant water on her soothe, silky skin.
The little pond in deep enough where she could dive, but not that far before she hit the bottom, and quickly resurfaced, repeating the process a couple of times. She then decided to just float their, half asleep enjoying the water, and the bright sun pouring down on her. She lay there in peaceful serenity for the longest time, until she heard a loud thud, like someone had hit the ground. She jumped to the surface, her ninja instincts kicking in to put her guard up and survey the area. She found nothing, but a Naruto who had fell straight on his head, and was in a state of shock.
"Naruto! she exclaimed, running to his side and setting him right side up, "Are you alright?" she asks in an uneasy voice. His eyes are spinning in a hypnotic way like he's in a state of delirious confusion. He however got up almost immediately when she got over to him, and started to get up to her discomfort.
"Are you okay Naruto? You hit your head pretty hard there!" asked in the endearing nervous tone. "I'm fine!' he started shaking his head to focus more on the situation. he then looks to Ino,and flinches back, and gets completely red. She stares at him for a moment wondering why he acting like that, until she remembers she stripped completely naked when she went swimming. She then, immediately after realizing this, jumped back, and starting covering her size C assets, and her virgin area, while slowly and carefully moving back to the pond wear her clothes were, naruto completely back to the state she found him in, now lay in a pool of his own blood from a massive nosebleed he experienced from the sight of Ino's massive assets. But being as he was only looking up when he saw her, he didn't catch a glimpse of her lower area.
the next thing he remembers Ino is staring over him, looking worried, but obviously embarrassed from the fact he ended getting a glimpse at her naked. He sat up, and for the longest time didn't say anything, mostly because he didn't know what to say, or do in this situation. After what seemed like a couple of minutes of them just sitting their, Naruto tried to break the silence, "hey Ino look, i'm sorry about….", but his sentence was cut off from the next thing she did. She full on kissed him, closing almost all the space between them. She kissed him with passions that Naruto had never experienced before. The kiss, to Naruto was so intense with feeling and emotion that he couldn't break away. He started holding her close,like a prized possession he longed to receive. He was so overwhelmed with this feeling that sparked inside of him from kiss, that when she pulled away to see his reaction, he pulled her right back to him, cradling her in his chest. this act made her blush red all over. She wondered if he started getting feeling for from that kiss, and also if she got feeling for him from a long time ago