Chapter 7: Suspicions and Conditions

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"There's a city just over the next hill, we'll rest there for the night. There's this one inn that the Hokage and I always stayed at, it has the most incredible hot baths."

"You rest too much. Let's stop for a tea break, I have to go to the bathroom, There's always time to stop and smell the roses." Sasuke mocked Shizune. "Just what the hell type of mission are you running"

"Women are always so troublesome, that's why they should have let a man lead the mission" Shikamaru threw in.

Before they knew it, both Sasuke and Shikamaru were flying head over heels in and uncontrollable spin. They were slammed up against a tree and landed on top of each other.

"Ahh, look at the cute couple, maybe you two would like to share a bed" Shizune laughed. "Don't you dare think that because I don't say much that I didn't pick up a couple of things from the Hokage, Now then, if you're both done smelling each other's rosy ends, let's head towards the village"

"Fucking bitch" Sasuke muttered under his breath

"Troublesome, just plain troublesome" sighed Shikamaru

"I'm sorry, did you two have something more to say?" Shizune raised her hand ready to deliver another blow

They immediately jumped into the air, running ahead of her "Well meet you there" their voices trailed off as they ran into the distance.


"He's late, as usual. Well, since he's not here, let me just try this one time. " He quickly formed a set of seals "Kage Bushin no Jutsu"

One clone appeared next to Naruto "Okay, here we go. Doryū Jōheki" The earth symbol on Naruto's shoulder lit up and begin to spin. Naruto and the clone placed their hands on the ground.

"What, nothings happening, I was able to make a small hill before…." The ground shook causing Naruto to lose his balance; suddenly a six foot dirt wall appeared raising Naruto and his clone into the air. Unfortunately, since the wall wasn't that thick both the clone and Naruto ended up landing on their heads.

"Hehe, that wasn't so bad" The clone disappeared

Naruto began to stand up but his legs quickly buckled under his weight.

"Well now, that was interesting. I always knew that you were a hardhead, now you proved it"

"Kakashi-sensei, is it okay to take a brea…." Before Naruto could finish his sentence he passed out.

"Hmmm, it won't be much longer before he is able to use the clones but it's just a little to strenuous on him right now"


"I can't believe how many requests have been coming in lately; on top of that, I'm constantly having to watch Tsunade-sama to make sure she's not slacking off. How does Shizune do it?"

Sakura was bringing the daily reports and requests to Tusnade, she glanced down at the report on top and came to an abrupt stop. Three words glared out at her "Strange Orange Glow".

She quickly turned around and took the papers to her office. She would have to go through the whole stack to make sure that there were no other reports.

"Twenty five in total. If this keeps up well have to start having our rendezvous in a cave" she thought to herself

She had totally lost track of the time, an hour had passed already. She rushed down to Tsunade's office with the rest of the stack and plopped them onto the desk.

"Sakura, where have you been, I can't find anything!" the Hokage was visibly agitated.

"I'm sorry, the request office was really backed up. These are the latest mission reports, these documents need your signing and these are new requests. Is there anything else that you need?"

Sakura was anxious to get back to her office to review the reports in detail and destroy them. She thought that they had been cautious enough by going to the waterfall but with Naruto's chakra growing brighter and brighter they would have to find a new area.

The thought of Naruto's orange chakara made her wet, she wished he were here right now. She would have to find a way to meet him tonight.

"SAKURA!!" Tsunades loud voice brought her out of her daydream. Sakura's face was flush. "Are you okay? I've been talking for five minutes before I realized that you weren't paying attention."

"Gomen nasai, it's just taking me a little time to get use to the additional duties. I was thinking about all the other things that I have to do. It won't happen again."

"Hn, good, now as I was saying, I need to you take Ton Ton for a walk and give him a bath"

" Pig washer, what the hell does she think I am" Inner Sakura was pissed

"Hai" She picked up Ton Ton and went on her way.

Actually, now that she thought about it, It may give her an excuse to go see Naruto and talk to him.


"Here we are, Nyuto Onsen, one of the biggest and most prosperous city's in this area. Not to mention that they have a plethora of hot springs. There is an inn that the Hokage and I always stay at just around the corner"

"So, what, are we going to invite the Terrakage for a little R&R and hopefully get on his good side" Sasuke sarcastically said.

"Hey look a shogi tournament!!" Shikamaru quickly grabbed Sasuke by the collar dragging him out "We'll catch up to you, don't forget two beds" Shikamaru yelled back to Shizune.

Shizune continued on, turning the corner and entering the inn. "Hello, how has business been?"

"Shizune, so glad to see you again, it's been a while" the inn's keeper smiled knowing that they would be making a lot of money this weekend. "Where is your boss?"

"She was unable to make it, do you have any rooms available?"

"Actually, we have a lot of rooms available. Business has been slow lately. Rumor has it that there was a big ordeal over the border at the land of the earth, who have restricted travel across their borders"

"Hmm, can I at least send a message?"

"Sure, our messenger birds are amongst the fastest in the land" the inns keeper motioned his hand towards the birds.

Always the stickler for detail, one in particular caught Shizune's attention. "That looks just like the messenger bird that delivered Sakura's message" She thought to herself.

"Say, do you remember if you had a blonde hair boy and pink haired girls stay her in the past couple weeks?"

The inns keeper put one hand on his chin "Hmmm, you know, my memory isn't as good as it used to be" sticking his other hand out with the palm open.

Shizune placed some money in his hand

"You know, I seem to recall a couple similar to that" his fingers motioned

Shizune sighed and put some more money in his hand

"Ahh, It's all coming back to me know. She had green eyes and was about this tall. He looked like he had been in a fight and didn't come out on the winning end. I must say, they must have had one hell of a night, they couldn't keep their hands off of each other when they checked out. Cutest couple I had seen in a while, they looked like a perfect match. Although, he was kind of a loud mouth. He definitely didn't want to leave"

Shizunes eye's opened widely. She looked over her shoulder to make sure that Sasuke and Shikamaru had not come in.

"So they didn't stay in separate rooms?" she wondered out load

"Separate rooms" He laughed out loud. "They stayed in the Honeymoon suite"

Shizune couldn't believe what she was hearing, this couldn't be the same Sakura. A wave of anger washed over her "Had she been enjoying herself while my beloved Yamato laid dead, buried in a foreign land" She thought to herself

She calmed herself down, remembering how Sakura had comforted her after giving her the envelope. 'There must be more to it, maybe it was to maintain their cover" She decided against saying anything to Sasuke for the moment

"Thank you for the information. Now, I need to two rooms for the night. One of the rooms needs to have two beds. I also need to send this message to the Hidden Village of the Earth.

There will be two men that should arrive here shortly, they will have this symbol on their headbands, give the key to other room to them. Tell them I will meet up with them later"

She was still bothered by the information she had just received. She made her way to her room and immersed herself in the hot spring tub. All she could do now was wait for a response.


"You need to put more concentration into it, and if you ever try to use the clones again without my permission, I'll hang you upside down from a tree. You cost us four hours of training"

"Hn" replied Naruto. He quickly formed the set of seals "Doryū Jōheki" The Six foot wall appeared between Kakashi and himself. It was four feet thick.

Naruto stood back and put both hands behind his head, smiling profusely. " Hey Kakashi, you see this" he yelled

The next thing he knew, he was covered in a pile of dirt.

"Not bad, but it needs to be stronger"

"Ah, why did ya have to go and do that" He said as he dug his way out of the dirt.

"Naruto, you can't afford to be happy with the small successes your having. Some of your better techniques relied on Yamato controlling the kyuubi. Right now you're just trying to learn one technique but there are at least two more plus managing to control the Kyuubi. I think for the rest of the day you should study the scrolls. You are making good progress but don't let it get to your head"


Sakura waited until Kakashi left to approach Naruto.

"Am I starting to overthink being cautious, I mean it's not out of the realm that I would be passing by and want to check up on a friend. No, it's when you start to let your guard down that you get caught" She thought to herself.

Ton Ton started to rut around the dirt hill that Naruto was sitting on, building a small wall and knocking it down.

"Great, now grannys pig is starting to make fun of me"

Sakura walked over and ruffled his hair "Don't worry, you'll get it. By the way, can you make some time to come by tonight, there are some things that we need to talk about"

Naruto didn't like the sound of that. Almost every time that somebody said that, it was never good news.

"Should I be concerned?"

"There are just some precautions we need to go over. I don't have much time right now to explain, I have to still give Ino, umm I mean Ton Ton a bath." She winked at him and blew him a kiss.

Naruto laughed and shook his head. "She never misses an opportunity to poke fun at Ino, even if Ino isn't around"

He stood up brushing the dirt away from his pants. "Well, I guess I actually should do some studying this time"


Naruto had been reading over the scrolls for two hours. "That's it!" he exclaimed

His fingers retraced the line again "The earth is a living being. There is power in everything and balance is always maintained"

He leapt out the window and back to the practice area. Forming the seals he shoved his hand into the ground, letting his chakra flow through it. There it was, he could feel it now "The lifeforce of the earth."

The earth symbol on his shoulder spun faster and faster, he could feel the power in his arms

"Doryū Jōheki!!"

The earth rose and continued to rise forming a humongous ridge.

"Let's see Kakashi-sensei knock this one down" He planted a kick into the way just to make sure. "That definitely isn't going anywhere" he said rubbing his knee.

He spent the next two hours practicing making ridges, mountains and various other shapes.

His chakra was spent and he was exhausted. He lied on his back looking up at the various ridges. The sun was finally beginning to set, a cool breeze ran over him.

"Well, I guess that's that. I should be heading over to Sakura's and then…" He paused for a second, he knew that he could get by with not coming home for one night during training but Hinata would be expecting him to at least make an appearance tonight.

It's not that he didn't want to go home, he just wanted to spend more time with Sakura. "Why do the things you want the most always require the most work?" He pondered the question for a moment.

He stood up, his resolve firm "It's because that which is given to you isn't appreciated as much as that you earn, there are no shortcuts"

He looked again at the ridges "Don't celebrate the small successes" he echoed Kakashi's words, knowing full well that there was a lot more to do.


Darkness had finally fallen when he arrived at Sakura's house. He knocked on the door, looking around to see if anybody was watching; suddenly he was pulled into the house, greeted with a warm longing kiss.

"I've been waiting to do that all day" Sakura said.

"Well, was it worth the wait" Naruto asked smiling

"I'm not sure, I think I need another one to make sure" She pulled him closer and could feel his hard cock against her, which reminded her of the reason she had asked him to come over.

"Naruto, before anything we need to talk about the orange chakra"

"What about it" He asked while kissing her neck

"It seems like several people reported a strange orange glow the other night and were asking the Hokage to investigate. I managed to take all the reports out and destroy them but if we don't do something about it soon, we're going to have problems." She ran her fingers through his hair "I know how you feel but you need to learn how to control it"

"It's just so hard" Naruto took her other hand intertwining his fingers with hers. "When I'm making love with you, I completely lose myself. My heart knows no boundaries"

"Just try to focus more, I"ll help you. There should be a way to channel it"

She moved her hand down his chest, letting it drift down to stiff rod, tugging on it firmly. "Do we have time for a quickie?"

He groaned out in pleasure wanting nothing more than take her right then "I don't have much time but if you'll allow me…"

He laid her down on the couch, removing her panties with his teeth. She was already dripping wet. The smell of her honey hive was intoxicating and inviting. He parted her lips with his finger and moved his tongue slowly upwards towards her love button.

He concentrated his wind chakra to to the tip of his tongue making it vibrate rapidly.

Sakura moaned loudly "Ohhhhh, Naruto" her body shook in delight. She moved her hips up and down forcing her swollen knob upon his fleshy muscle. Her body bolted jolted into an upright position, tense, she pulled his head into her and tried vocalize the ecstasy she was feeling. Her mouth was wide open, her breathing stopped momentarily and she slumped back down on the couch. Catching her breath, she looked down "incredible" was all that she could mange to say.

Naruto raised his cum soaked faced, his grin stretched from ear to ear. "Well, hopefully that will hold you over until we can meet again"

"Bathroom, Clean face, orange soap" Sakura said between breaths

Naruto walked into the bathroom looking for the orange soap. Green, red, purple, blue "How many color soaps do you have?"

Sakura sat up. She looked at the huge wet stain on the couch "That'll take some time to get out" she laughed. She tried to stand up but her legs were still wobbly. "Wow" She couldn't believe how intense that was. "The orange soap is on the second shelf to right" she yelled out

Naruto came out wiping off his face "What's so special about the orange soap?"

"It neutralizes all the strong smells. It's a special blend that I bought just the other day at Akina's. You should buy some, especially with all the training you're doing" She pinched her nose waiving her hand underneath

"Ha Ha"

"Grab some of the jerky from the cabinet, it'll help with your mouth, remember we have to be very careful"

"Hn" Naruto walked over to Sakura and kissed her on her forehead

"Do you think you can get away in three days to meet me by the waterfall again?" She really wanted to meet tomorrow but she knew that they needed to space things out.

"I'll find a way" Naruto smiled, winking as he walked out the door.


Shizune sat relaxing in the hot tub, her mind was still trying to wrap itself around Naruto and Sakura. "What if it is true, what if it wasn't for cover?"

She had gotten to know Sakura fairly well over the last several years and she couldn't imagine her doing anything to betray Sasuke. "It didn't make sense, she had pined for Sasuke for so long, why would she risk losing him?" Shizune thought to herself.

"Although …" having had to deal with Sasukes attitude thus far on this mission "maybe they're having trouble, even so, isn't Sakura the type to try to deal with those problems" She knew she had to stop thinking about it or it could affect the outcome of her mission.

While, for the most part, she had no problem waiting hand and foot on Tsunade, she hated waiting for everything else. One of the perks of being with Tsunade was that she didn't have to wait for much of anything. This is why it was driving her crazy thinking about Sakura, she knew that she would have to wait to find out the answer.

"I hope the Terrakage answers soon" she sighed.


Author's Notes

PB You have such a special effect on me, you just can't even begin to understand. You're great, I honestly and truly believe that. Your smile is warming and to put it simply you're just extraordinary. 831

Kim-Kaguya: Thanks for betaing, your help is really appreciated. Now as to answer your question, yes Sakura is overjoyed, she's been really overjoyed in this chapter :P but alas no pink chakra will be emerging. But maybe, just maybe she will have something special for Naruto, She does love him a lot.

Also folks, I have a new link for Kims fanart fic. It is now

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drag-eart: Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

TuffChick: Well… All I can say is keep reading. I don't like to give the story away. Thanks for reading and for the review

King of the abyss: I'm working on some things that will add lemon. You know originally, I was only going to try to make this 3 chapters but the story took on a life of it's own. Now I don't know how many chapters it will be :P

AzureBalmonk: Thank you soooo much for the review. You hit the cheating and sense of reality right on the head.

I will give this much information to all the readers I don't plan on having Naruto or Sakura die. As for Sakura marrying Sasuke first, I'm just trying to keep as close to the story as possible. Sakura did tell Sasuke she loved him before she left. Personally for me and this story I really don't see it as Sakura and Naruto having settled for their other partners. I feel that even though they are cheating, they still do love their partners, it's just that their love for each other is stronger than either could have realized.

jarediz13: I can't give away the ending, that would just spoil things ;) In chapter 6 I didn't spell it out that much for Naruto but yes he still is having intimate relations with Hinata, he still does care for her and one sure way to get caught quickly is too start ignoring your partner. I did have Sakura have sex with Sasuke in the last chapter. Again, same thing as Naruto, they both have to maintain things as normal as possible, otherwise they will get caught quickly.