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Sakura, Hinata, and Tenten all decided to follow Yami, though unlike Yami they ended up getting dressed in their usual clothes. They watched as the girl sat down in front of the bath house, wearing the white robe wrapped firmly around her body so that nothing showed that she didn't want showing. They didn't know how she usually dressed, but they could appreciate her consideration for the others around.

"What do you think she and Naruto-"

"Shhhhh, here he comes!" Sakura urgency hissed at Tenten as she covered the older girl's mouth with her hand.

There was Naruto, with a much looser bath robe than Yami being worn in a way that showed his chest and stomach, with two plates of dango in his hands. Balanced on each of the plates were small bottles of milk, and he had a grin on his face. The three ninja remained silent as they watched Naruto sit down across from Yami, passed a plate to her.

"Nothing beats milk after a hot bath, and dango is always a hot springs favorite. You're going to love it while we wait for our clothes. We really made a stink of them, didn't we?" Naruto spoke with a laugh. He sat down next to her on the bench she was sitting at, and she saw each plate had three sticks of dango, with three balls per stick. She grabbed the milk first, and gave it a sip.

It was good.

'A... a... a stink?' Hinata thought with her face turning hot red, steam almost coming off her face at the phrasing that Naruto used.

Yami nodded.

"It's good."

"Yeah, I love milk. Though, it's not so good expired, as I learned the hard way. Drink as much as you want, we had a long night last night." Naruto offered her as he downed his small milk bottle with a single chug. He let out a loud sigh of relief, before he leaned forward and took a dango stick, and snagged a dango off of it.

Yami didn't eat at first.

'Long night... Lucky girl.' Tenten thought with a goofy smile crossing her mouth, light pink cheeks at hearing a little dirty detail.

Yami nodded her head in agreement with Naruto.

"I didn't know you had such... odd skills. Using your clones like that... really made a mess." Yami shivered when she remembered how the giant snake had been turned into one big mess. She was scrubbing her ship inside and out before she was flying it, or living in it, because she knew for certain that stuff was inside of it.

Sakura and Hinata turned bright red.

'Using clones for THAT... is Naruto a sex GENIUS?' Tenten thought with widened eyes, covering her mouth with her hands to keep from saying anything. Not a lot of people had enough chakra to spare to use clones so willy nilly, so nobody ever really bothered thinking of ways to use them for that.

Sakura's jaw dropped.

No, it had to be a misunderstanding, there was no way that Naruto got a girlfriend while she wasn't paying attention. A girlfriend that apparently he was very active with, and in such a creative way.

Hinata felt faint, but managed to hold on to her consciousness.

"Yeah, I've done that before, it gets the job done... but it leaves everything a mess. More than anything, I'm surprised you lasted the entire night." Naruto mentioned as he pat Yami on the back. She gave her sternum a few gentle pats when a bit of dango got stuck, before she didn't choke.

She took the praise.

"I'm not inexperienced with going a night without sleep." Yami told him neutrally, without bragging about it. There were times she would stalk her target all night before she would find the weakness she needed, and strike them. She was tired, but she could push off her sleep until it was nighttime. She knew that tonight she was going to have a very restful sleep, though she would remain alert in her sleep as always.

With that said though, she went back to silence.

Naruto on the other hand, laughed.

"With your skill, I don't doubt it! You were really amazing Yami-chan, I really want to do some more stuff with you!" Naruto wasn't quiet like Yami when he spoke. Despite Yami not having the most speed or power, her raw skill made up for it.

When she used the Cursed Seal user's own body to kill him, when she learned her own blades couldn't hurt him, absolutely genius of her. She timed it so well, and she only suffered a non-life threatening wound because of it. Taking down a Cursed Seal user wasn't easy, most Chunin weren't able to do it.

Yami nodded.

'He wants to do MORE stuff with her? When did he become so infatuated with this girl? How much about Naruto do I not know?' Sakura's thoughts turned more depressing when she realized she might not know Naruto as well as she thought. He not only had a girlfriend, but was apparently very sexually active with her. He never even told her that he had a lover, and didn't even hint at her.

She thought that they were close, but apparently, he was keeping a big part of his private life away from her.

It hurt a little.

"... Though... I'm sorry you got hurt. I should have let that happen." Naruto spoke a little more softly as he looked at her side, covered by her bath robe.

Yami shook her head.

"It's okay." Yami's words got a breath of relief from Naruto. Yami took a bite of her own dango, and she smiled softly.

It was good too.

"I live alone, so if you want, you can stay at my place until we get your place cleaned up... That is my fault, so I'll help clean up." Naruto offered her. It was completely his fault that her home was covered in gore, so he would help her clean it all up. While they were doing that, she was more than welcome to stay with him. There wasn't much else that they could do, since most hotels hadn't been restored yet, and Yami didn't trust anyone in the village enough to sleep around them.

Yami nodded her head in agreement, because that sounded fine with her. She trusted Naruto enough after fighting him, fighting by his side, and being around him, to sleep in the same area as him.

'Living together!'

With that Hinata fainted, dirty sex details were one thing, but hearing about them moving in together was something else. Sex was one matter that was physical, but living together involved a lot of trust. You didn't always let people you had sex with move in with you, but when you lived with your girlfriend AND had sex with her... that was a completely different level of bond.

"Oh shit." Tenten whispered as she caught Hinata before she could hit the ground and alert the 'loving couple' to the fact that they were there.

Sakura covered Tenten's mouth again and jerked her head towards Naruto and Yami.

They weren't noticed yet, good.

"You know Yami-chan, you don't talk a lot. After what we've been through together, I would like it if you told me more about yourself." Naruto furthered the conversation with Yami. Yami looked at him out of the side of her eye, and shifted uncomfortably, but she did nod her head after thought was placed into it.

She wasn't used to talking much about herself.

"Maybe later... I want to know more about you too." Yami did want to know more about him. So much more, and she had so many questions she wanted to ask. The mission to get her ship back brought up so many things to her attention, and she wanted to know the answers to those questions she gained. "Like, what's a Jinchuriki?" Yami spoke in a low voice, practically under her breath.

She watched Naruto's reaction carefully, and she could see a shift in his shoulders, a small shift but noticable to her. He didn't look at her directly, but he nodded his head.

"... Maybe later... it's not something I really like to talk about in public a lot. Jinchuriki, it isn't a very... it isn't a nice word." Naruto, to Yami, seemed far more quiet than she could imagine him being. He seemed uncomfortable, sure, but more than that he seemed like he was sad about something.

She nodded.

She would ask about it in private later, but she wasn't going to force him to answer any question that he didn't want to answer. Not when he was being so willing to help her with everything, after she tried to kill him and all that.

Naruto smiled.

"Hmmm?" Yami hummed as she filled her mouth with dango.

"I was just thinking, it was my Pa that made me a Jinchuriki in the first place. He was really respected, still is... you see people respect me now, but it wasn't long ago that I was..." Naruto trailed off softly, and Yami should guess what he was going to say. She understood the context clues of everything he had said.

So this was why Naruto didn't understand love, the conversation Sakura spoke of. Yami didn't understand how such a happy person didn't understand love, but if his hints meant anything... then Naruto might have gotten even less love growing up than she herself did.

Yami placed her hand on his hand, and gently pat him, with Naruto looking at her with a soft, but thankful, grin.

"... It's... okay."

She wasn't used to trying to comfort people, but she didn't like that look that was on his face. She wanted to get it off his face. Naruto moved his hand out from under hers, before he scratched the back of his head.

"Thanks Yami-chan." His thanks was simple, but it conveyed everything that he wasn't saying out loud as well.

Sakura smiled.

'I can't hear what they are saying, but that's a really nice smile Naruto has right now.' Sakura couldn't hear what they were mumbling to each other, but she didn't need it to see her friend's smiling face. She saw the changes in expressions he had, but his current expression made her happy.

"... You're still answering my questions."

"Yeah, figured as much. This dango is good, but it isn't really filling. Lets go check on our clothes, so that I can really fill you up." Naruto told Yami as he stood up, having already finished his plate off. Of course, he was talking about ramen, and Yami rolled her eyes, knowing as much.

She didn't really care what she ate, she was just hungry.

Sakura blushed.

She slapped her cheek though, remembering this was Naruto that was saying this. Thinking like Naruto, he was more than likely talking about going to eat ramen. Putting emphasis on the words to make it sound sexual was, more than likely, purely an accident on his part. She wanted to believe that she knew Naruto well enough to know when he was talking about perverted stuff.

Still... she needed to make sure.

She needed to tell the others.

Chapter End!
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