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Together at last


She woke up, still in his lap; she smiled as she sat up, stretching and yawning. Then it hit her, it was snowing, and freezing, and they had slept outside, on a bench.

"OH SHIT!!" she heard. "Sorry Ino….I should have taken you home…."

She shivered, but managed to smile at him, "Don't worry about it…I shouldn't have fallen asleep."

He helped her up and quickly walked her to her apartment, it was beginning to get light out, so they knew they had slept for a long time. Today was the day Sakura was supposed to come home, and Naruto had to give her an update on village information and the such.

"Well….have a good morning…" he chuckled, walking down the street.

She giggle, "You too Naruto." She whispered as she walked into her apartment.

--

The next day, Sakura had stopped by the flower shop to see Ino.

"So Ino-pig, who's the boyfriend?" she asked teasingly. Referring to the letter she had wrote for her.

"I'm not telling." She said in friendly defiance.

"Wha…you actually have one?" Sakura asked, almost amazed.

Ino pouted at her comment, "Well…I don't know…I guess you could call us a couple, but I don't know if he sees us like that."

"Oh…is Ino getting attached to one of her customers?" Sakura asked with a crooked grin, knowing Ino would be mad.

Ino's face began to boil, she hated when Sakura said things like that, always insinuating that she was a prostitute or something, "You know very well I've never done anything close to that." She screamed out.

Sakura was surprised at her response, she would usually just get mad, but she was pissed. "Calm down Ino, it was just a joke."

Ino only huffed and sat down in her chair. "He asked me out to breakfast as friends, then we had dinner, then lunch the next day, and he bought me flowers with another invitation to dinner, then he kissed me, and…" she was cut off.

"Someone kissed you?" Sakura asked in amazement.

Ino pouted again, "Yes…anyways….then we went ice skating and I fell on him and ended up kissing him, but I thought it would ruin any chance I had, so I kinda ran away…but then he found me a few days later and sat on the bench with me, and he cheered me up….and he kissed me again, and I fell asleep on his…." She stopped when she started to cough roughly, she couldn't stop it.

"Ino…you okay?" asked Sakura in concern. But Ino wouldn't stop coughing, her face started to pale and Sakura saw that something was definitely wrong so she rushed her to the hospital so she could properly care for her.

--

She woke up the next morning to see Naruto in a bed next to her, sitting up and looking out the window.

"Naruto?" she asked.

"Hey Ino…good to see your awake." He said with a smile, causing her to feel warm and smile in return.

Sakura was sitting on a chair in the room watching the two, she noticed the smiles, they weren't normal smiles. After another few minutes, Naruto had laid back down and was sleeping soundly.

"So Ino…finish up your story." She said to her friend.

She turned to her with a blush staining her cheeks, "Well…that was the day before you came back…and I had fallen asleep on his lap, and he fell asleep to, so we slept almost all night outside in the cold." She said, gaining a fond grin as she slightly turned to Naruto.

"That must be why you have pneumonia, I wonder how Naruto got it…." She slowly turned from Naruto to Ino, who was looking over at Naruto sleep with a smile.

"No way…" Sakura almost yelled. Ino looked over at her in confusion to her sudden outburst.

"What…what's wrong?"

"It's Naruto, isn't it?" she asked, gaining a victorious grin.

Ino's eyes widened, 'How did she…oh…he's sick too…I guess that's proof enough considering she knows my story….', she sighed, down that Sakura had found out so easily, "Yea…"

"I never would have thought…how'd it happened?" she asked in curiosity, she still liked Naruto, but didn't want to have another relationship with him just in case it caused them to lose their bond of friendship…and it was a very close bond. She was happy for Ino, but very surprised by the pair.

"Well, I always kinda liked him, and when we got back from a mission, he asked me to stay back and he gave me your letter, which I was pissed about by the way." Sakura only chuckled, "Then he asked what was wrong and I showed him the letter, but he laughed and told me it would be easy to find someone, he said the guys were just intimidated, and he said I was pretty. Then we talked about our past relationships…which only took like two minutes." Sakura chuckled again; she knew Ino only went out with Neji very briefly, and that Naruto had only gone out with herself for a few months. She had only gone out with Naruto, but she wasn't necessarily in need of a relationship at this point.

"Anyways….it just happened I guess."

"Well that's great…I just think its funny, we both couldn't stand him when he was in the academy, but put him on a few missions someone, and he becomes friends with anyone."

"Yea…that really is true." She said, looking back over to Naruto. "I just don't think he likes me the way I like him." She said as she frowned.

"I'll find that out." Sakura said with a grin, "Lie down and pretend you're asleep, and turn so you're not facing him." She said as she got up and walked over to Naruto, sitting down in a chair near his bed. Ino complied with Sakura, curious to her plan.

Sakura gently nudged Naruto's shoulder, "Naruto, wake up." And with that, he opened his eyes and looked up.

"Hey Sakura, what's up?" he said, sitting up against the wall and stretching his arms.

"I was just wondering if you want to go on a date?" she asked as sincerely as she could. Ino was about to jump up and crush her friend for that, when she heard him talk.

"Sorry Sakura, I'm kinda seeing someone…well, not really, but we've been on a few dates, and I like her." He said, lying back down. Obviously he was asleep again; his breathing and snoring told you that. Ino was smiling to his response, 'So he does like me.' She said to herself as she turned.

"See, it was that easy." She said as she turned to Ino.

Ino chuckled and sat up, "I was about to kill you."

"Part of my master plan." She said as she attempted a maniacal chuckle, but she failed which caused both of them to laugh. "So…what else have you two done?" She asked her friend.

Ino blushed, "Nothing, only kissed a few times."

Sakura nodded in understanding, "Well, Naruto won't push you, he won't even ask, he's really patient with that stuff." She said, and she admired that about him, and she also blushed, which caught Ino's attention.

"He said you two never…" she didn't finish.

She blushed again at the thought, "We didn't, we did some other things though." She said as she smiled.

"Uhu…" she said, getting a bit jealous.

Sakura noticed and hatched an idea, "Like this one time, we were in his apartment and…"

"Yea, yea…I don't want to hear about it." She said, getting frustrated.

Sakura chuckled, "I'm only kidding, we made out a lot, and felt each other up, but that's about it." Ino blushed just thinking about it.

--

The next day, they were released, but ordered not to do much, so Naruto appointed Shikamaru as temporary Hokage in his stead. Naruto stayed in his room at the Hokage tower, bored out of his mind, then he thought of something. Ino was in her apartment, also bored, and she wanted to see Naruto. She was just lying in bed, trying to rest, but to no avail. A few minutes later, she heard a knock on her door, so she got up to see who it was.

"Naruto?"

"Hey…you look bored." He grinned.

"How could you tell?" she asked sarcastically.

"I don't know if it's too sudden, but, you could come to my place and we could play cards or something, to keep each other company." He was nervous asking her to come over, and she could plainly see this.

She smiled, "Well…I guess that would be okay, but your carrying me." She said as she poked his stomach which made him chuckle.

"Sure." He said and let her jump on his back.

After a few minutes they arrived at the Hokage tower, he stopped at the office.

"Everything okay?" he asked, checking in on Shikamaru.

He only stared at Naruto and Ino for a second, "Ugh…yea." He answered in utter bewilderment.

Ino was smiling as was Naruto and he carried her out of the room, closing the door. 'What the hell?' Shikamaru asked himself.

Naruto opened the door and set her down, then he closed the door behind him. She looked around, she never knew that the Hokage's room was so nice. It had a large (very large) bed with silky red covers, and large silky pillows, a large bathroom attached to it, with a huge bathtub and a large shower. There was a very large window, that was covered with the shade at the moment, the carpet was really soft, almost like a mattress itself. She looked at the bed again, only to see a lump under the covers, then she saw his 

blonde hair, and heard a poof, the Naruto that brought her here had disappeared, causing the one under the bed to wake up.

"Oh…hey Ino..." he laughed, "Shikamaru looked confused." He said as he got up.

"If you weren't there then how…"

"You forget, whatever one of my shadow clones learns, all the sensations and exhaustion they get, I also get once they are released." 'Oh yea…how'd you forget that?' Ino mentally slapped herself.

"So…this is a nice room." She said, still taking in its beauty.

"Yea…I was surprised when I first saw it, its way better than my apartment."

She laughed, "Mine too."

"You want some tea?" he asked politely.

"Yea…that would be great." She replied smiling.

"Alright, I'll be right back, make yourself at home."

She sat on a couch that was near the window, surprised by how extremely comfortable it was.

Naruto came back with her tea and sat down next to her.

"Ugh…my throat hurts…all this coughing…." She said.

"Yea….I've never really gotten sick all that much." He said.

"Really…well then now you know how horrible it is." She said, taking a sip of her tea.

"I don't know…this doesn't seem so bad to me." He told her with a warm smile.

She blushed and looked into his eyes, those blue pools that were his eyes. She gently set her tea cup on a small table beside the couch and snuggled up to Naruto, then she brought her lips to his, and noticed that he wasn't expecting it.

But, he embraced her and kissed her back, this time, it wasn't just a kiss, they were making out, something relatively new to her, and she loved it.

They did that on and off throughout the day, but it was a bit aggravating every time one of them would start coughing and coughing. They also played cards, and talked some more. Naruto even told her some stories about his travels with Jaraiya. She blushed, most of them being perverted, of course, good old Jiraiya. He made her laugh a lot, which not many people could do, she loved being with him.

Naruto had walked her home just as the sun was setting.

"Naruto?" she asked nervously.

"Hmmm?"

"Do….do you consider us a couple?" she asked, turning her head from him.

"I don't know…do you?" he asked casually.

She sighed, "Well….I would like to." She said, and just then he grabbed her chin gently, like the other night, and turned her face to him, he gave her a quick kiss at her door.

"Then yea…we can be a couple." He said with a smile as he walked off, leaving her to her thoughts. She rushed into her apartment locked the door and jumped into bed. 'We're a couple.' She kept saying over and over in her mind as she was clutching her pillow to her chest. She felt the happiest she had ever felt at that moment.

--

"WHAT??" yelled Tenten.

"Who would've thought." added Temari.

Sakura only chuckled as she watched everyone's reactions to what Ino had just told them, she and Naruto wernt sick anymore and were back to their normal schedules. They were all at a booth in a small restaurant for breakfast and she had told them that she was Naruto's girlfriend. They were all surprised by her announcement, but then again, they were happy that she had found a boyfriend. And they had to admit, Naruto grew up to be really hot.

She was only smiling, thinking about him while she was eating with her friends.

"Oh…there he is now." Tenten said loudly, pointing out the window to Naruto, who was walking down the street, talking with Shikamaru. Ino looked behind her and saw him, she blushed and turned back around, looking at her lap, with a huge smile smothered on her lips.

"Why are you blushing….did you two…do it?" asked Temari, teasing her friend.

"What….NO!!" shouted Ino, gaining the attention of the entire restaurant.

"Sure…then what's up with that yelling?" she asked again, "Last night at Shikamaru's, he told me that he saw Naruto carry you to the Hokage's room." She said with a grin.

"Ino…you never told me." chimed in Sakura, wanting to know everything.

"Yea…tell us." said Tenten, also curious. Tenten and Temari always told them everything new between them and their boyfriends, Hinata had also started talking about it now and then, but she was on a misson at the moment. This included the things they did in bed, Ino and Sakura would always feel awkward when they did that, because they hadn't done it themselves.

"Damn you Shikamaru." Ino seethed, making Temari laugh, "We didn't do anything, he made me tea…"

"Naruto…. make tea?" Sakura asked in amazement.

"Yes…he made me tea." Ino replied in annoyance, "And we played cards, and he told me a bunch of stories about his time with Jaraiya."

"That's it?" asked Sakura, smiling and moving her head closer to Ino's.

"Well…we kissed a lot." She said, blushing again.

--

"So why were you carrying Ino into your room?" asked Shikamaru.

"Oh…I invited her over so we could keep each other company." He told his friend.

"So…did you do anything?"

"Not really, we played cards and talked mostly…and we kissed a lot…"

--

After about a month of dating, they had become a very close couple, often going on double dates with Shikamaru and Temari, or Hinata and Kiba. Ino had asked if she could move in with him. He accepted without even thinking twice about it, making her even happier. So here we are, the night she moved anything she needed from her apartment to his large room. She was in the bathroom getting ready for bed, and he was already there, looking out the window, seeing a few snowflakes now and then through the darkness.

He felt the bed bounce and turned to the other side, "Hey there." He said happily.

She got under the covers, "Hey stranger." She giggled, knowing they wouldn't do anything tonight; they still hadn't done anything more than kissing. Sakura was right, he was really patient when it came to that stuff, but she admired it, and she would let him know when she was ready.

She snuggled up to him, her back to his front, and turned her head to kiss him goodnight, he then wrapped his arms around her stomach and kissed her neck gently.

"Naruto…" she said, almost inaudibly.

"Yea?"

"Goodnight."

"Goodnight Ino." He replied, slightly tightening his hold on her, nuzzling his head into the crook of her neck, closing his eyes.


Reviews would be nice, just to see how i did. I was thinking i might make a sequel or two to this, probably of the M rating though...who knows.

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