The First Date

Sakura was still leaning on Naruto shoulder trying to be as close as possible to him as she could as they walked along the snowy road. It had been about 12 minutes since they had left Sakura house. They have been walking in complete silence after she had said where they were going.

Sakura did not care if it was too quiet because right now being able to lean on Naruto was a dream come true and something she always wanted to do with him. Her other dream was coming true as well and that was walking like this in the snow on their way to a date which she had dreamed about doing since she was an 11 years old. She was so happy right now. Sakura then decided to tighten her grip on Naruto hand and lean in more trying to get even closer to Naruto then she already was.

Naruto was blushing when Sakura lean in more and he was starting to get many pervert thoughts in his head when he could feel Sakura's breast rubbing against his arm. He was still as freaking out because he was going to be going to ice-skating with Sakura soon. To put it freakily he sucked worst then a newborn trying to learn how to walk.

After a few more minutes of walking, they came to the ice skating stadium. Naruto finally spoke, "Holy Crap this place is huge!" Sakura who still attached to Naruto arm looked up and said, "Yep it sure is." With that said, Sakura begun to walk and Naruto forced to walk as well. He was sweating bullets because once Sakura saw how bad he was at skating she was so going to laugh her ass off literally.

Meanwhile in a car near by…

Two people were watching from a near by car as the couple walked in through the slide doors and then one of them pulled out a cell phone and dialed a number and then ringing could be heard and then the following was said,

"Hello this is Blazing eyes. Who is calling? Said Blazing eyes

"This is Smoke and Illusions reporting in we have spotted Pinky and Lighting entered the ice-skating stadium. What do you want us to now? Said, Smoke

"Follow then and make sure that no one is after them. I don't think anyone is right now but to be safe I want you to keep an eye on them just to make sure." Said Blazing eyes

"Roger and what should we do if they spot us?" said Illusions

"Well then lie and say that you just happened to be there as well or say that you two are on a date which would not be far off now would it?" Said, Blazing eyes

At this, the other end of the line was quiet then there was a cough

"Why do people always think that we are an item for crying out loud!" said Smoke

"Well I can't help it that you too make it so clear that Haruhi could see it," said Blazing eyes

Then Illusions said something after a few minutes

"Anyways we are going in now Blazing eyes and we will try to do that"

"Also Smoke how many times do I have to you that smoking is bad for you. Okay then text me if there are any problems and if there is then One Eye will show up to help you out " said Blazing eyes

"Roger that!" Said Smoke and Illusions

With that the line went dead

Blazing eyes then dialed another number and said

"Haruhi this is Blazing eyes. I wanted to tell you that Lighting and Pinky have arrived safely at their destination and Smoke and Illusions are going to be keeping an eye on them"

Meanwhile back with Naruto and Sakura…

Sakura had paid for their admission into the place. Sakura had now let go of Naruto hand, which made them both upset because they missed each other's warmth that it brought to each other when she went to pay.

Sakura and Naruto walked up to the counter and the guy behind the counter asked them what size of shoe they both wear so he could get the right side for them both to wear. After he got the right, size for them, both he handed them their pair skates and he took their shoes to hold onto until they finished ice-skating.

After getting the ice skates and thanking the person behind the counter. Sakura grabbed Naruto's hand again and they walked over to the lockers so they could put there stuff in so nothing would be stolen. After they finished getting everything in the locker, Sakura took the key out of the locker and put the key in her front pocket.

After that, Sakura reached for Naruto hand intertwined it with her own hand, they walked towards in empty bench, they sat down, and Sakura let go of Naruto hand so they could both get their skates on and get out on the ice and have a good time.

After Sakura had hers on, she looked over to Naruto and found that he was taking his time for some reason. Since Sakura did not feel like waiting got down on the ground and started to tie his one skate that was currently on his foot and Naruto raised an eyebrow and said, "What are you doing Sakura? You know that I can do that myself."

At this Sakura shot, Naruto annoyed look and said, "You were taking to long for my taste so I am speeding up the process and now were done!" Naruto looked down and found that she already had them both on his feet. Naruto was in a state of shock at how fast she did that.

Sakura stood up now and grabbed Naruto right hand that was on his lap and lifted him up from the bench and bringing Naruto out of his shocked state and right into panic mode. When he saw that, he was getting closer to the ice and he was already having a hard time trying to keep his balance with the skates on his feet.

After they had got on to the ice Naruto almost immediately fell down if it were not for Sakura holding Naruto hand he would have. Sakura chuckled and said, "Watch your step Naruto the first step on is always the hardest." Naruto just shot her a look that said "That was not funny you know"

Naruto and Sakura were now a few feet away from the wall and Sakura has moving her feet the she should on the ice. As for Naruto, he was more like walking on the ice and tripping on it. Sakura notice and said in a mocking tone, "Oh my is the great "Orange Lighting" having a hard time moving on the ice. Does Naruto need me to hold his little hand so he does not fall?"

Naruto gave Sakura a look and said, "No I do not need help just watch me!" At this Naruto started to glide a little over the ice and then he tried to turn around to look at Sakura only to lose his balance and fall straight on his butt and hit his head on the ice.

Sakura seeing this quickly glided over to where Naruto had fell to make sure he was alright and when she got to him he was mumbling curse words at how much his head and butt hurt right now. Sakura offered Naruto her hand to help him up and Naruto reached up and toke it and said, "Here Naruto let take you over to the wall for a bit at least until your heads stop hurting you."

Naruto had his left hand gripping the wall and the other one rubbing his head trying to make the pain go away. Sakura glided over to the other side of Naruto (the side where is one hand is holding on to the wall) Sakura put her left hand on the wall and her right hand on top of Naruto and said, "Naruto if you sucked so bad why didn't you tell me? We could have gone somewhere else"

At this Naruto chuckled and said, "I had no right since you were the one taking me out even through I had asked you out on this date. Also you seemed really happy as well to go here so I didn't feel right telling you that I suck at ice skating."

At this Sakura chuckled and said, "I would not have cared Naruto. As long as I am with you where ever we go does not matter to me." Sakura blushed at the almost near love confession and Naruto was blushing as well at the words she had used. No one had ever said words like that to him ever.

Sakura quickly took her hand off of Naruto left hand and trying to quickly change the subject said this, "Hey Naruto wait here I want to warm up a bit and also I am going to try and do some cool things out here since no one is really here right now. So watch for me and let me know what you think." At this Sakura took off to warm up and every time she went around she would wave and smile at him.

Naruto was watching her and the way she moved with such grace and style he had never seen before. Naruto had to admit Sakura had come a long way because he remembered that Sakura used to hate anything that had to do with any large body of water. It did not matter if it was frozen or not she hated it.

Why might you ask to put it simply she did not know how to swim when they were kids. Naruto was the one to teach her how to swim when they were 10 years old. Just watching her right now made him fall in love all over with her again.

Sakura was watching Naruto from the corner of her eyes and she could see that he was watching her every move see made and that made her blush. Now normally Sakura is the person to show off. However, since Naruto was here she wanted to show off some of her skills and she started to show off. She started with an Inside Axel jump, and then followed through with a Falling leaf and then after skating around again the huge arena and got ready for the more of her tricks.

At this point Naruto mouth was almost touching the floor at how good Sakura had improved when he was gone. Through she was kind of making him feel bad because he sucked and she had enough talent to become a pro. He knew one thing and that was Sakura had to teach him at least how to ice skate so that way he could be out there with here and not against the wall that just screamed "I can't ice skate so you might as well laugh!"

Sakura who was now out of breath from doing all those tricks., slowly she glided her way over to Naruto and said, "Hey Naruto! I am back!" Naruto was still looking at her as she came closer with a smile on his face and said, "You were wonderful Sakura-Chan! That was amazing how you could do something like that!" Sakura smiled with a clear blush on her face and said, "Why thank you Naruto."

Sakura went back to Naruto left side, put her right hand on top of Naruto again, and said, "So what do you want to know now Naruto."

Naruto looked at her and said, "Well I was wondering if you could teach me how to keep my balance on the ice and that way we could skate together." At this Sakura smiled and said, "Sure Naruto I wouldn't mind at all if we did that for a while."

Meanwhile with Smoke and Illusions….

The two were watching the couple from booth from above as they were drinking hot chocolate. They were watching the couple look all lovely dovey at each other on the ring.

Illusions toke a sip of her hot chocolate and said, "Just look at those two out there and the way they are looking at each other and Haruhi says we stand out more then them. I think that girl as problems because these two clearly stand out more then we do don't you think."

Smoke took a drink of his hot chocolate as well and said, "I agree with you their Illusions I mean it is clearly wrote all over their face. At least we don't make it stand out so much as they do."

Illusions just shot Smoke a yeah-right look and said, "They wouldn't think anything was going on between the two of us if you didn't also by flowers from that one shop every time."

Smoke gave her a glare and said, "What you really like floors so what was I supposed to do and that shop is the only one that sells those floors in this town."

Illusions blushed and said, "Well yeah I guess you are right." "But you know the only reason that anyone thinks that their something is going on between us is. You just had to go into that shop two months ago when Haruhi was their along with that loud mouth blonde that rumors have begun to spread about us on both fronts."

Smoke only put his head down in shame and said, "Yeah your right"

30 minutes had passed by now….

Sakura had taught Naruto the basics and he was actually learning very fast and applying it really well for a newbie. At this Sakura chuckled at the thought because when it came to school Naruto sucked at learning and applying what he learned. However, when it came to sports he learned how to apply almost instantly. That was when they were kids she had no idea if that still applied to the current Naruto.

Naruto finally had the hang of it was now skating and keeping up with Sakura for the most part. Naruto moved closer to Sakura, reached out, and toke Sakura right hand into his left hand.

Sakura was shocked at how bold Naruto was to do that since she did not thing he had it in him. Sure, she was acting very bold as well today but for Naruto to do something like that was just shock to her system.

Sakura then started to get closer to Naruto and rested her head on Naruto shoulder and let out a sigh had how good this felt to be here with Naruto like this. When Sakura did that, again Naruto blush turned ten shades of red and almost fell because of it.

After 15 minutes of skating around like that, Naruto feet were starting to hurt since they had been out on the ice for an hour with out taking a break. Sakura decided to separated and skate backwards in front of Naruto and said, "Hey Naruto I am getting kind of cold. How about we get some hot chocolate and relax a bit and then we can get out of here and go to this nice family restaurant in town and it is just a few blocks down from here."

Just then, Naruto saw a kid coming right for him at high speeds and looked like he was not going to stop. Naruto quickly tried to skate out of the way when the kid came by and cut Naruto off. Naruto lost his balance and was now going to hit the ice.

Sakura seeing this quickly glided over to stop Naruto from falling, reached out for Naruto right hand. She was planning to use all her strength to keep him from falling on the ice. After grabbing hold of his hand she was about to pull up when she lost her footing as well due to his weight, speed and the ice did not help either.

The next thing he knew was that he was on the cold ice and he had something on top of him so when he opened his eyes he saw Sakura clutching on to Naruto shirt. Naruto blushed and said, "Sakura-Chan you all right."

At this Sakura looked up, smiled, and said, "Yeah I am alright. What about yourself?" Naruto chuckled and said, "I am fine just a little beat up from the fall."

Naruto and Sakura both toke in what position they were on the ice and how close their heads were to each other's at that exact moment, blushed, and turned their heads in the opposite direction. Naruto feeling very bold right now lean his head in and was planning to kiss her right now. Sakura was freaking out and was thinking, "Oh my god is Naruto going to kiss me. What should I do?"

IS "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU SHOULD DO. IF I WERE YOU I WOULD KISS HIM WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU DO!"

At this Sakura tiled her head and moved her head in and was about to kiss Naruto. When all of a sudden they heard yelling and this is what they heard, "Sir you are not allowed to smoke in here so please put it out right now or we are going to force you to leave!"

At this, Sakura and Naruto both looked at where the noise was coming from and both gave death glares at who ever caused it even if they did not see the person in question.

Sakura got off Naruto now due to the mood being ruined things to the employee shouting and the man who was smoking. Sakura reached down and helped Naruto to his feet and they slowly made their way to the exit of the ring. They made their way to get some hot chocolate to warm up after ice-skating.

After buying two cups of hot chocolate they made their way over to a near by table and they sat their drinks down on the table and toke off their skates to give their feet some room to breath.

They both were being very quiet due to what had happened out their on the ice. Sakura wanting to break the silence said this, "So tell me Naruto where did you go for those two and a half years and how did you get known as the Orange Lighting?"

Naruto chuckled and said, "Well we went to New York City and pervy sage entered me into Harry S. Truman High School. I did a lot of studying their at first, since pervy sage said that was the one thing that I lacked the most and that was knowledge of how the world works and what not."

"There was a this race event at our school to see if anyone could keep up with this guy from Japan who was currently studying aboard. I think is name was Arima Emerson and he held the fastest times here in Japan for track and field."

"I some how beat him and after that I signed up for the track and field and before I knew it I started getting called "Orange Lighting" by all the girls and then the guys soon followed calling me that." It was really embarrassing really."

When he looked up, he saw Sakura right in front of his face with wide eyes and a very shocked expression on her face and then she said, "You beat Arima Emerson! He is a grade higher then us. Wow still can't believe you beat that guy."

10 minutes later, they had finished with their hot chocolate and were now walking back to the counter to get their shoes back so they could leave. After handing the guy, the ice skates and getting their shoes back. They sat back down on the bench that they had previously sat on, quickly put their shoes on, and tied them. Naruto was the first one done this time and he stood up and offered Sakura his hand so she could get up.

After she was done getting them on and tied them, she reached out and toke Naruto hand. He then lifted her up and she fell forward into Naruto chest. This made both Sakura and Naruto blush. After a minute or so she pushed off from Naruto and she said with a blush clearly on her face, "Lets get are stuff from the locker and get going to the family restaurant I told you about so we can have dinner and talk some more."

With that said, Sakura and Naruto walked over to the locker and toke out their things. Naruto was getting his black jacket on and his orange scarf and Sakura was getting on her red jacket with her pink scarf.

After they were done Sakura toke Naruto right hand into her left hand an intertwined her fingers with his and then she leaned her head on Naruto shoulder and Naruto leaned his head and rested it on top of her pink hair. As they walked, out of the ice skating stadium and made their way to the family restaurant.

Meanwhile with Smoke and Illusions…

They had just got back into their car and started the engine to warm it up and Smoke dialed a number and waited for someone to pick up.

"Hello this is Blazing eyes. Who is this?"

"This is Smoke I wanted to inform you take Pinky and Lighting have left and are now head to a restaurant. What should we do now?" said Smoke

"I want you to tell me where they are after they get to their destination and then wait there until One Eye and Torture Interrogator arrive. Then you two are done for tonight so you can do what ever you want after that."

"Yes Sir we will," said Smoke and Illusions

"That is all text me when they get to their destination." said Blazing eyes

At Julian Family Restaurant…

Naruto and Sakura had now reached Julian Family Restaurant. Naruto separated from Sakura to open the door for Sakura to enter. Sakura was pissed that Naruto had separated from her but at the same time happy that he was being a gentlemen and holding the door open for her.

After walking inside, they welcomed by the manager of the restaurant at the desk. "Hello welcome to Julian!" How may I help you today?"

Sakura spoke up and said, "We would like a table for two please." At this, the manager chuckled and said, "Ok right this way you two love birds." After that being said both teen, blush and look down at their feet.

After sitting down at the table and taking a drink of the water that was on the table. They were both browsing the menu to see what they wanted to eat. Naruto knew what he wanted right off the bat and that was the Julian Super Size Ramen bowl for 500 yen and Sakura wanted Julian Curry Special for 550 yen.

Just then, a man came up to their table and said the following, "Hello I am Kenta and I will be your waiter for the day. Would you like something to drink?" Sakura and Naruto both said at the exact same time, "Hot Chocolate."

After writing it down on the pad, he then looked up and said, "Do you need more time to order?" Naruto and Sakura just looked at each other and then they both said, "No we know what we want."

After Kenta took their orders and their menus from them, it left Sakura and Naruto alone for a bit so they talked about random thing and old memories when they were kids. Then a server came to their table with the two hot chocolate they had ordered. She said, "Hello my name is Karin and I will also be looking after this part of the store so if you need anything just call for me okay."

Naruto asked a question that involved her ice-skating, "So tell me Sakura-Chan why you got into ice skating if you don't mind me asking?"

At this Sakura smiled and said, "Well if you must know I started doing it to start to build confident in myself so when I needed I would have it for what ever it was that I needed it for. In addition, it was a great way to stay in shape. But the real reason I did was because I wanted to impress you when you got back."

At this Naruto was at a lost for words now. The whole reason she was so good at ice skating was because she wanted to impress him. Then he said, "Wow Sakura-Chan I don't know what to say to that."

At this Sakura chuckled and said, "Don't worry about it Naruto I didn't expect you to say anything about the reason why I did. I already got what I wanted and that was to hear you compliant on it and that is good enough for me."

Sakura then remembered that she was also the vice captain of the Karate Club. "Hey Naruto I bet you will be shocked when I tell you that I am also the vice captain of the Karate Club as well." At this Naruto went pale and said, "That is scary Sakura. I feel sorry for any girl that gets in your way."

At this Sakura gave Naruto a pissed look and said, "What is that supposed to mean huh?" Naruto laughed nervously and said, "Nothing Sakura really. Just forget I said anything okay." At this Sakura used her foot and kicked Naruto leg and then he said some-what loudly "That hurt Sakura!" At this Sakura mumbled "Idiot Naruto."

Several Minutes later Kenta and Karin came back with their food. Kenta was holding Naruto's ramen and Karin was holding Sakura's curry in their hands. After setting their food in front of Naruto and Sakura, they asked if they needed anything else and when they said "No". They left the table to help other customers.

One hour later….

Sakura and Naruto had long since finished their meal and had ordered one slice of cherry pie for Sakura and one slice of apple pie for Naruto to eat. They had talked about a lot of stuff during their time at Julian's and to them it felt that they had not even separated for those two and half years.

After they were finished with the meal, Naruto had insisted that he at least leave the tap for the Kenta and Karin which Sakura had not problem with. They walked up to the counter where the happy manager was, Sakura handed him their bill, he type it in, and the total came 2000 yen or in US terms 20.00.

As they were leaving, the manager said very cheerfully, "This is why I love winter getting to see all the young couples enjoying each other company when walking in the snow with the snow falling down around them. While they hold hands and try to get as close as possible to each other to keep warm then when they get home they get all warm under a blanket and then who know s where they go from there!"

Then Kenta and Karin shouted at the manager "Manager you are embarrassing all the couples that are still here you know!" At this, the manager gave them the look that says you two are included as well you know and said, "But it is the same for the two of you as well!" At this, Karin turned red and shouted, "This is so embarrassing!"

Naruto and Sakura were now walking back to her house with them doing the same thing they did before they got to the Julian. After about 16 minutes they had reached Sakura front door and the lights were all off inside. Naruto and Sakura turned towards each other, smiled, and blushed. Through they were both a little sad that the night was going to end already.

Sakura went to the door and when she got out her keys, she unlocked the door and let Naruto and herself inside. Naruto had to get is bag pack after all before he could leave. Sakura and Naruto just looked at each other and then Sakura said very cheerfully "I had a really great time tonight and I hope we can go on another real soon."

Naruto then nodded and said, "I would like that a lot and this something I wanted to do since I got back." Sakura then looked at Naruto wondering what it was that he wanted to do since he got back and then she said, "Well what is it. I want….." She was silenced by Naruto lips on her own as his hand wrapped around Sakura waist and pulled it closer and her right hand moved up to Naruto blonde hair and ran her fingers through it as they were both caught up in the heated kiss. Sakura reached over and locked the front door.

Arima is from Suzuka Manga, Anime

Karin and Kenta are from Karin anime or Chibi Vampire Manga Series