Chapter Two: Step Two-Naruto
The next day Idate arrived at Kohona, he waited at the water front for Naruto. He had asked the boss if he could go see her, the boss obviously let him and told him that he would arrange for Naruto to meet him and show him around. He was so excited to see Sakura. He had requested that no one tell her, he wanted to keep it a secret.
Naruto finally showed up, he ran the entire way there, stopping in front of Idate barely breathing. Before Idate got a chance to say anything Naruto yelled,
"Ahhh I'm sorry Idate I was talking with the guys and I got side tracked..."
Idate just shook his head,
"That's alright…how are things?"
Naruto smiled that smile he was known for,
"Wanna go get some ramen and catch up?"
Idate nodded and walked alongside him.
A few miles away at the hospital Sakura was making her rounds. There weren't a lot of major injuries but she had a lot of her usual checkups, a few of said inspections were Hayate, Kotetsu, and Neji. Sakura loved having conversations with Hayate, he was actually quite nice although he looked like he was about to drop dead at any moment, he was rather smart. She walked in and was talking to him about a book that they both had read. She couldn't help but laugh at his choice of books,
"I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to read Hayate, what I'm saying is that you should read books that aren't that girly…"
She said with a laugh as she scribbled something down on her clip board. A knock at the door shook her from her thoughts,
"Hey Hayate don't keep my nurse from me…I need me my checkup..."
Sakura turned to find Kotetsu leaning against the door. Sakura just rolled her eyes,
"Alright Hayate I'm going to give you something for that cough, It won't cure it but it should help subside it for a while until you come in for surgery."
Hayate just shook his head, she turned and picked out a pill bottle from the cabinet. Kotetsu leaned over, checking out the kunoichi's ass. He smirked slightly as she turned around,
"I'm serious Hayate, If I don't see your name on the surgery list with in the week…I'll be after you…don't test me…"
He scratched the back of his head.
"Alright alright…"
As he hopped off the examination table and took the pill bottle from her, walking out,
"Thank you again Sakura…"
She just smiled and nodded at the man. She then turned her attention to Kotetsu, grabbing her clip board she exclaimed,
"You're really early…what's your rush? I still have one more patient before your appointment…"
As she walked out of the room. He smiled and followed her,
"Well Sakura I have a proposition for you…"
She just rolled her eyes,
"and what might that be Kotetsu?"
He smiled down at her, he loved hearing his name come out of her mouth. He draped his arm around her shoulder and exclaimed,
"How about dinner?"
She shimmied out from under his arm, not looking at him she smiled and answered,
"I'm sorry I can't, I'm meeting Naruto for dinner, he said he had something he really wants to talk about."
A look of disappointment flashed across Kotetsu's face, but didn't stay there for long, he was about to ask her something else when she arrived at another room. She turned around and placed her hand flat on his chest, stopping him. He smiled down at the hand on his chest,
"I have another appointment before you so you'll just have to wait Kotetsu."
As she walked into a room and shut the door, locking it. She turned to that a smirk had come to Neji's face,
"Well…Sakura I did not know you wanted me that badly that you could not wait until after my exam…"
Sakura huffed,
"Don't flatter yourself Hyuga I am trying to prevent Kotetsu from barging in on another one of my exams."
Neji's smirk didn't falter,
"I could get rid of him for you…"
Sakura laughed as she prepared her paper,
"As much as that would be funny to watch, I don't think you should injure him, I mean he is the hospital guard for my shift tomorrow."
Without missing a beat Neji exclaimed,
"I was not implying on beating him up Haruno, although that would be easy, it wouldn't be as fun."
She raised a brow at him, shaking her head, she decided she didn't want to know what he meant. She placed her clipboard down on the counter. She walked over to Neji and placed her hands along his face, trailing to his forehead, then to his eyes. He sighed in contentment as she poured her chakra into his eyes.
"Have they been bugging you lately Neji?"
"Hm?"
He questioned,
"Your eyes…have they hurt? Some of the pigments in your eyes tell me that you've been in some pain."
He shrugged,
"Nothing you can't heal…with your magic hands."
Sakura giggled before removing her hands from his eyes, trailing them down his neck. He kept his eyes on her as she laughed,
"Well although I can heal you Neji you really should try and take better care of your eyes, I'm going to give you some eye drops and I want you to use them, every night before you go to sleep or in the morning."
He just nodded. As she lightly pushed him down onto the table so she could examine the rest of his body. To her surprise she didn't find anything else wrong, but then again, this was Neji Hyuga. She clapped her hands together,
"Alright…"
As she turned around and grabbed her clip board, quickly writing her notes down. He sat up and kept his eyes on her. She turned around again and grabbed a bottle from the draw and a dropper top, she placed them in a plastic bag before turning to him and handing them over. He took them.
"Two drops each eye once a day."
He nodded and stood up walking up to her,
"You sure you don't want me to take care of him for you?"
Sakura giggled,
"No thank you, I'm sure he means well…"
Neji nodded and walked out of the room, glaring at Kotetsu as he walked by. Sakura stood in the room scribbling the rest of her notes on her clip board as Kotetsu walked in, smile plastered on his face. Sakura looked at the clock and smiled, he was her last appointment of the day, then she would be meeting up with Naruto. She was so curious as to what he had planned for her. Little did she know Kotetsu had been standing in front of her as she was day dreaming, smile on her face. He chuckled, which brought her from her thoughts.
"If you're going to keep staring at me like that my offer still stands for dinner beautiful…"
As he placed his hand on her cheek. She just laughed up at him,
"Actually I was thinking of how happy I'll be to go home, shower, and go out with Naruto and find out what surprise he has for me tonight."
Kotetsu smirked and stated,
"Well I could save you the trip, you could shower at my place."
Sakura rolled her eyes and pushed his hand off her face.
"When are you going to stop pretending that you don't like me and just go out with me already…"
Sakura just laughed as she pushed him down slightly,
"Have you ever thought I wasn't pretending?"
Kotetsu smirked,
"Of course you're not but that's okay, I can play along."
He winked at her,
"So dinner?"
Sakura rolled her eyes,
"Not tonight Kotetsu…"
"How about breakfast?"
"I have to work…"
"Lunch?"
"I will still be at work…"
Sakura was just about to finish up his checkup when Kotetsu grabbed her hands away from his face, squeezing them lightly in his hands,
"Come on Sakura…have dinner with me tomorrow night…"
She tried to look away but he gently turned her face back to face his,
"I promise you won't regret it Sakura…please…"
His eyes were just pleading. She sighed,
"Tomorrow night, five o'clock?"
A huge smile broke across his face,
"That's right when our shifts end?"
He exclaimed. Sakura nodded while scribbling everything down on her clip board,
"So?"
He smiled and exclaimed,
"You don't wanna freshen up or anything?"
She chuckled to herself,
"Nope, see cuz if I do I might see my bed and think I'd rather go to sleep…"
As she started walking out of the room. He smirked,
"Hey I would gladly go to your apartment and do some things in your bed."
Sakura grumbled as she walked out of the room and went to the locker room. She quickly changed, she was so excited to see Naruto, she wanted to know what his surprise was. A huge smile spread on her face as she walked through town towards the raman stand. Little did she know she was about to get the surprise of her life. What she also didn't know was that Kotetsu sent his lackey friend Izumo to spy on what Naruto's big surprise was. He wanted to know what it was so he could top it the next night. This was his first actual date with Sakura and he was going to make sure that it wasn't the last.
