Naruto sighed Sakura was getting more aggressive as time went on. Of course Naruto still felt the physical attraction he had before they started to date, but that was slowly being suffocated by her needy attitude,
Plus she would randomly start kissing him, once in a spar against Sasuke when Naruto had gotten close to her; she grabbed his arm and kissed him. This had shocked and embarrassed him, mostly because Sasuke and Kakashi had seen it.
"Sakura-chan Sasuke's late aren't you worried?" Sakura looked at him and smiled "Naru-dono, I love you, not Sasuke, but I am worried." Naruto faked a smile of relief, and kept look out for Sasuke.
When he saw Sasuke he was shocked to see Hinata holding his hand. Naruto immediately rushed over, his blood boiling "Teme, Stay away from Hinata-chan!" he shouted coming closer to the duo. Hinata fanned herself and a flush appeared on her face.
Naruto stopped in front of them "N-Naruto-kun, don't be m-mad at Sa-Sasuke-kun" Naruto looked at Hinata and backed away a few feet "Fine! What's going on?" Naruto asked not realizing he was acting like a jealous boyfriend.
Naruto watched Sasuke smirk and kiss Hinata on the cheek, he whole face went red "Sorry dobe, but I can do whatever I want, she's mine." Naruto paled and looked once again at Hinata who nodded in confirmation.
Sakura felt faint, Sasuke-kun just was holding Hinata-san's hand like he did it all the time, and he kissed her, it may have only been on the cheek but now Sasuke-kun was telling Naruto-dono (who was ignoring her and acting like a jealous boyfriend) that Hinata-san was his!
"Hinata-san, is this true?" Sakura asked coming to stand next to Naru-dono, and smirked when the pale eyed girl froze "Y-yes Sakura-san." Hinata-san said coming unfrozen, Sakura's eyes shifted to the new couples interlinked hands,
Sasuke-kuns's thumb was rubbing the top of Hinata-san's hand in a futile attempt to calm the fidgety girl down. The smirk faded, and she latched onto Naru-dono's arm, and felt suddenly angry, and disappointed,
"Naruto-dono, are you coming with me and Ino-kun today?" Naru-dono smiled brightly at her "Of course Sakura-cha~n" Sakura watched out of the corner of her eye as Hinata-san's face twitched , and she thought she saw a smirk cross the girls face.
"Sasuke-kun" everyone looked at the girl who suddenly had tears in her eyes, Sakura was shocked, and this was the first time Sakura had ever seen Hinata-san cry. "Hinata-chan!" Naru-dono yelled coming over to the girl who had collapsed in Sasuke-kun's arms, Sakura watched as the girls continued to cry, Hinata-san looked up at her and flushed red "Hinata-chan what's wrong?" Sakura asked coming to help the girl up.
"Hinata-chan are you hurt?" Sasuke asked after making Naruto and Sakura back off. "No I am uninjured" she whispered quietly "I wanted to see Naruto-kun's reaction to a crying girl." She whispered into his ear.
"Hinata-cha~n, are you ok now?" Naruto asked after awhile "Y-yes Naruto-kun, I ju-just hurt my an-ankle." She said simply a blush once again on her cheeks, she hated lying, but she resolved that it was to get her Naruto-kun.
"Hinata, you really shouldn't react like that" Hinata looked back at Sasuke confused "Teme don't say that to a girl you're dating!" Naruto said loudly, Sasuke leaned down and whispered for awhile in Hinata's ear, he said things like
"Imagine Naruto in a bathing suit" and such to make her blush, the last thing he said in a whispering tone was "Hinata, nod you head and kiss my cheek." Sasuke then pulled away Hinata was an almost purple red.
She then nodded and stood slightly on her tip toes and kissed Sasuke on the cheek "C-call me later Sa-Sasuke-kun" She said waving. She was about to leave before she turned with an apologetic smile on her face.
"Sorry I almost forgot good bye Sakura-chan and N-Naruto-kun" she said once again turning to walk away, frowning at herself, she was manipulating people's emotions now. She sighed and decided to talk more about the strategy with Sasuke later.
As she saw her house in the distance she then realized that her parents might expect her to marry Sasuke because of the formal way he had asked permission to date her.
Naruto frowned he did not at all like the idea of that Sasuke-teme dating his sweet, strong, fun, loving, and shy friend, but he had bee shocked when Hinata had kissed Sasuke and then almost forgotten to say good bye.
Hinata was usually so shy, why would dating Sasuke do anything about it? "Naruto-dono it's time to meet up with Ino." Sakura told him taking his hand and guided him around the village. "Hey Sakura-chan, why do you no longer call Ino a pig?"
Naruto watched as Sakura smiled before answering. "I only called her Ino-pig, because we had been rivals, now that I'm with you there isn't a reason to compete with her." she said sounding a bit ashamed at herself.
"Oh" was all Naruto could think of before being dragged into a sweet smelling shop "Ino-kun, we're here!" Sakura yelled upon entering. Ino came out of a back room with an apron on and a smirk
"Ah...good to see you Naruto, so I see that Sakura is no longer my rival because of you?" Naruto shrugged "I guess" and Sakura smiled evilly in Naruto's opinion at Ino who's smirk never left
"I can see why she likes you; I mean you are a Lolita type of cute." Naruto frowned; being called cute by this girl was in no way rewarding. Naruto shuddered if anything it was creepy.
"He's mine, Ino-pig!" Sakura yelled at her firmly gripping Naruto's hand "Who you calling pig? Forehead!" Sakura looked pissed before she forced a smile "Come on there's a sale."
Ino could see Sakura subconsciously wanted Naruto to break up with her, and she could see Naruto consciously wanted to break up with Sakura. So why aren't they breaking up? Was the question.
Then she saw the fear in Naruto's eyes. That's why! Naruto doesn't want Sakura to hurt him "Hey Naruto." Ino said latching onto his back, he didn't even flinch "Huh Ino" She could hear the strain in his voice
"Ino-pig get off my Naruto-dono!" Ino blinked was she the only one to hear the dono? Ino unlatched herself and walked on the other side of Naruto. "Hey Sakura why do you call him Naruto-dono, why not call him Naruto-kun, or Naru-chan, or even Naruto-sama?" She asked Sakura.
Ino watched and saw Naruto tilt his head in question and look at Sakura. Ino looked at Sakura as well, a blush marred Sakura's face, "I uh, well I respect Naruto-dono." She said with embarrassment not only evident on her face but in her voice as well.
Ino looked down and glared, Naruto was holding Sakura's hand. Ino immediately grabbed Naruto's other hand and smiled at Sakura, who had been paying attention to what Ino was doing.
"Ino-pig, take your hands off my man!" Sakura shouted as loud as possible, "As you said earlier we have a sale to get to." Ino said dragging Naruto and pinky out of the sweet smelling flower shop.
Sakura growled and Ino interlinked he fingers with Naruto's squeezing. Naruto stared at her and frowned, Ino pouted, and Naruto smiled "Sakura its fine this way I can be closer to you both, we're all bonding." Ino smirked now even she wanted Naruto.