"Mate? What does that mean? What's a mate?" Naruto asked confused.

"A mate is a certain individual that stands out from the rest. Their scent is intoxicating and you feel you can only ever find peace in their arms. You feel protective and possessive about her/him. Your inner demon will only except that person. It seems that Haruno Sakura is your mate." His mother said.

Naruto took it all in. 'My mate... Sakura is my mate. MINE!' He thought. He knew he should be some what annoyed with the fact that he didnt get to choose who his mate was but oddly he couldn't find in him to be angry.

"So does this mean she can move in?" Naruto asked excitedly. Everyone starred at him bewildered. "Naruto you can't just up and move the girl in with you. You have to take into account that she doesn't even know who you are and what you are. You have to woo her and make her fall in love with you." Minato said.

"But how am I suppose to that? I can't just go up to her tomorrow and ask her out." Naruto whined. Tsunade rolled her eyes.

"Hmm. Maybe I can come up with a partner project tonight. You guys can be partners." Kakashi said. Naruto nodded his head with joy. Tsunade smirked. "Better woo her quickly before some other guy does." She said tauntingly.

Naruto stiffened. His face contorted angrily and he growled. "Mine." He said, eyes flashing black for second. "Tsunade?!" Kushina said. "Calm down Naruto-kun! You'll sweep her off her feet. Don't worry." Kushina assured her son.

It took a while but he finally calmed down.

Naruto went to sleep that night with heated dreams of his soon to be mate.

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The next day in first period Sakura found out that she was going to be paired with Naruto on a project. The project was to pick a person who made a major impact on history and write a paper and create a poster about him/her.

The project was to be done at home. She would have to go over to Naruto's house. She blushed. She would be in his room.

"So I'll let you have the rest of the period to discuss about the project. It's due in two weeks." Kakashi said.

Naruto turned his desk around to face hers. "Sakura-chan!" He said smiling at her. Her heart skipped a beat. 'Snap out of it girl!' She thought. "So who do you want to do the project on?" She asked. "Well I was think you could come over tonight and we could discuss it and do some research. You can stay for dinner." Naruto said excitedly.

"Okay sounds good." She aid calmly. But on the inside she was a nervous wreck. "So whats your favorite food?" Naruto asked. Sakura blinked. 'Random.' She thought. "I don't like spicy things. I love sweet things but I don't really have a favorite." Sakura said, tapping her finger on her chin as if she couldn't decide.

Naruto inwardly stored that information away and asked her another question. He couldn't help it, he was dieing to know these things!

"What's your favorite color?" He asked. "White." She said. "Really? I thought it would be p-" She cut him off. "If you say pink, i'm gonna hit you." She said threateningly. He looked sheepish. "So why is your favorite color white?" He asked.

Sakura smiled at him. "Because white can be anything it's wants to be." Naruto stared in awe at her. "That's so cool Sakura-chan!" He said smiling at her. She blushed. "Thank you Naruto-kun."

Naruto's eyes widened when he heard call him by his first name and with the honorific, -kun.

Sakura looked at his widened eyes. She thought she said something wrong. "I'm sorry. I used your name with out your permission." She said.

Naruto shook his head. "No, that's not it. My name just sounded like so much more coming from your lips." He said.

Sakura's face turned ten shades of red. "Naruto-kun!" She was so full of emotion she did what came naturally, she hit him in the face.

Naruto jumped back and covered his now black eye. He wandered what he did wrong. Sakura jumped up and rushed over to him. The whole class and Kakashi starred wide eyed at them. "I'm so sorry! It's just what you said! It was over whelming and I just didnt know what to do and! I'm sorry!." She said frantically. She moved his hand away touched the skin around his eye.

Naruto couldn't feel the pain the moment she touched him. He was in shock. When her soft fingers touched his skin fire shot through him. Little tingles rushed up and down his spine. He grabbed her hand and started pulling her over to the door. "Sensei, we're going to the infirmary." He called as he pulled her out.