Reviewers;
Duh Bomb: LOL!
XxAshishxX: Patience is a virtue, but yes, it will happen soon. When the next five chapters.
Lestibur: What I'm trying to say is that he is allowing others to base things off his works and sell them publicly. Like if Fanfiction could be sold for money, then one would pay Mashimoto a royalty for the story's characters.
7th Demon: Her reactions are that of a girl who loves to chase animals and such. :)
MundaneBeast: Original? I was using Jack Hannah so much! ;)
Poetic Fire: He lets others use his work as a base point and pay him royalties. So now, they can create new paintings off of his works. Like, the sub-categories that come after the original has been released.
Czar Joseph: That...and he is an artist :)
GhostPoet: I finish my story mostly before I start even posting the first chapter. It'd be a hassle to keep up with writing while still posting this and reading all of the reviews. You dare me to stop? Sorry, another reviewer dared me to keep posting so I can't stop. ;)
Fury Cutter: Well, I see Naruto's role as less in the spotlight whereas Sakura wears her emotions and her lives around her, so most see her as she truly is. Take how she hits Naruto. She expresses herself easily and so I do spend more time with her.
An: Hey you guys and girls! So...I wrote this chaptr after the end of Naruto, and I'll end that topic there. I Don't like someone and he is evil, just see it as that. Here is the next chapter of the Arc.
Tone And Stroke
Chapter 25: Return into the Starlight
Months came and went for everyone in the world and also for the two lovers that were so in love with the other that no secrets were hidden from the other….or were there?
The sun came up and Naruto arose from its rays of yellow and bright white, and as it was his day off from running the gallery, he naturally spent the night at Sakura's place and they had a date night.
But when he looked to his right where his goddess normally slept with her right arm wrapped around him and her chin huddled nuzzling the skin between his shoulder and neck as her shallow breaths tickled his skin, all he saw was an outline of where his girlfriend had slept the night before.
Naruto sighed as he got up and moved around the room, trying to find his sock that Sakura had stolen last night. Sakura had been disappearing like this for the past month or so, and frankly, Naruto was worried. She wasn't getting high, or getting drunk. She wasn't doing drugs. She was happy with her life and if anything, Sakura would return home with a satisfied smile on her face and would kiss and make up with Naruto for the time she had missed with him.
Last night, Sakura had at least been next to him as they watch the next showing of shinobi wars that had come out last night. Sakura had been huddled into Naruto's frame and that was different from usual. The usual for Sakura would be sitting up and looking for each detail of the show that might lead as a foreshadowing of the next episode.
Explosions sounded off in the distance of a hundred yards as shinobi sprinted forward, their chakra shining brightly along their legs to propel them forward through the fires that burned the ground to a black char.
As each ninja reached the halfway point, the enemy charged forward as well, with swords and kunai in their hands to defend themselves against the onrush of attackers who all held the symbol of the leaf and had blonde hair and blue eyes. Suddenly, the attackers became white smoke and out of the smoke appeared three times the original attackers, and the enemy was decimated before their very eyes as they were outnumbered two to one.
Two minutes later, over two hundred leaf shinobi with differing hair colors, body builds, and characteristics ran into the clearing and spread out to check that the enemy was dead. Each of these shinobi breathed heavily and frost spread from their mouths into the air around them from the cold winter climate.
A silver haired man stepped forward, wearing a fire red cloak around his frame, and walked forward until he stood next to the sole remaining blonde haired shinobi in their ranks. As soon as he placed his hand on the shinobi, the boy turned around and upon seeing his superior, bowed his head in acknowledgement.
"You did well once more, Nami." The man spoke.
"Thank you Hokage-Sama. But we must push forward. We are only five miles from the village."
"Nami, the Hokage sighed. Look around you. The men are tired. We have been pushing forward for three days."
"The Cloud will not survive much longer."
"They are strong, Nami. Have faith in them. They have been our allies for four years now. They can be trusted."
"It's not them I don't trust, Hokage-Sama. Saku- I mean…"
"You still refuse to grieve Nami. Saku was the ambassador to the Cloud yes, but she is gone."
"Then we must avenge her," Nami spoke calmly, and the Hokage saw the desperation in his voice.
"This isn't about revenge, Nami. It has never been about that. The Cloud strived for stability, and we have helped them achieve that. They now have the largest army."
"I know, but-"
"Nami, we strive for peace, and we are close to that. Just rest and regain your chakra. I can tell you are low, and you had much more than when we began."
"But- Sasuk-" (pronounced Saw-Sook)
"Sasuk will not get in so easily. The sound will die soon, my apprentice. You are the next Hokage. If you die, the village will be vulnerable."
"I understand, Hokage-Sama. One hour."
"Good."
Meanwhile, inside the outer walls of the cloud village, Sasuk watched as his men charged the secondary walls as the cloud ninja fought back bravely, but uselessly. Sasuk knew better than to send in his experienced shinobi to fight. So instead, his Gennin would wither down the enemy.
Sasuk turned, his black raven hair blowing in the mountain air as his four bodyguards followed his every move. It wasn't that Sasuk needed to be guarded, he had been the one to kill off the old and pathetic leader before him. No, they simply did his dirty work that he was too good for.
Sasuk stepped up to a cart with metal bars and curtains covering the sides and stepped near the back. Two guards walked to the cart and pulled back the brown curtains and Sasuk smiled as he saw the creature hanging from the ceiling, its feet barely scraping the wooden floor, as blood pooled at its feet. And its eyes stared back in anger at Sasuk.
"You are beautiful," Sasuk smiled wide. "Soon, you will be ready, and the Cloud will fall."
A few days later, Naruto was walking around the boardwalk of northern Konoha, thinking of taking Sakura out tonight since she had promised him that she wouldn't be away tonight. Naruto smiled as he passed the Yamanaka flower shop and walked in.
"Naruto-Kun!" The mother of Ino called out as soon as Naruto stepped in, and Naruto smiled back.
"Evening, Yamanaka-San. I was in the neighborhood and was wondering if you had any Sakura petals?"
"I always keep a few for certain orders." Yamanaka-San smiled as she turned around and came back with a bouquet of Sakura's namesake, and Naruto could easily say that Sakura's beauty matched the flowers perfectly.
Naruto moved to take out his wallet hen Yamanaka-San waived him off. "But Yamanaka-San-"
"Naruto, you are keeping my daughter's best friend happy, so take these to her free of charge."
"T-thank you, Yamanaka-San. Have a good night." Naruto nodded to Ino's mother.
"And you too, Naruto." Ino mother called out as Naruto grabbed the bouquet and headed out of the store.
Naruto walked quickly to the end of the boardwalk to where his car was and got in. He was careful to place the flowers into the seat next to them before he revved the engine and made his way to his girlfriend's place. After thirty minutes of speeding a little, he was greeting Jerry and parking his car next to Sakura's.
Naruto was quick to get out and remembered to grab the flowers from the passenger seat, and made his way to the staircase. As Naruto reach the halfway point between Sakura's floor and the floor below, he stopped and tried in vain to push his hair down, and checked his smell and fel his teeth. Hopefully she would be happy to see him.
With that thought in mind, Naruto walked up the stairs two at a time, and before he knew it, he was above the landing to the stairs and his eyes widened at what was happening in front of his eyes.
There Sakura was, or what was left of her body, as a man's body was pressed up against her frame, his hand gripping...Naruto chocked back a sob as he saw the man gripping Sakura's wrist above her head as his lips…interlocked with hers. H-how could she be kissing that- Naruto began to think when he saw Sakura's body trying in vain to get out of the hand lock. Already a hand was moving under her skirt, on her upper thigh.
Now, those who knew Naruto would say he was a nice guy. Loved by everyone who he spoke to, and generally a pacifist when it came to violence. But something liquid formed around his eyes, like a red-ish haze was covering them and before he realized it, he was running forward and slammed his fist directly into the other man's face.
Now, the door had been opened a second earlier and Sakura had been trying to sneak away and inside, but when Naruto punched the man, his grip on Sakura's thigh and wrist pulled her forward, and Sakura's shoulder slammed harshly on the doorway where she cried out in pain as the man continued to fall and thankfully let go.
Sakura suddenly looked to her right and saw her boyfriend standing in front of her protectively and Sakura was quick to hold him from behind as the man stood up, and Naruto's eyes widened as the man was the actor who played Sasuk on Shinobi Wars.
"I'll see you tomorrow morning, Sakura. Don't bother wearing underwear, I'm sure we'd rip that right off."
"You," Naruto breathed heavily, "Leave now, before I rip your throat out."
"Do I know you, Loser?"
"I'm her boyfriend, that's all you need to know. Now get lost."
"I don't need to go anywhere."
"Oh yes, you do." Naruto spoke before he pushed the man forward towards the short flight of stairs, where the man stopped before looking at Sakura.
"I had a wonderful afternoon, Sakura-Chan. I'll see you tomorrow. Usual place?" The man smirked before he turned and walked away.
Naruto just stayed where he was, breathing heavily. He felt his fists being undone by a pair of soft feminine hands that he gripped harder as he calmed down a little. Sakura saw that Naruto was furious and so slowly pulled him towards her door.
Naruto made it halfway when Sakura gasped and he turned to see her picking up the ruined bouquet of flowers on the ground when he had pushed the man on top of them. Tears fell down Sakura's face as she followed Naruto inside.
"S-Sakura," Naruto began as he tried to calm down. "Please tell me what happened. I was about to punch his lights out."
Sakura pushed Naruto towards the bedroom where they slowly sat down next to the other on the edge of the bed itself. Sakura gripped Naruto's hand tightly, and Naruto listened to her confession.
"There's a reason why I've been so busy lately, Naruto-Kun. T-They…The producers are putting me back on Shinobi Wars!" Sakura grinned for a split second, before becoming sad again, but soon Naruto hugged her and kissed her forehead.
"That's great. W-why didn't-"
"I wanted it to be a surprise. I had that scene of me being in the cart."
"That was you?"
"Yeah. I'm the main finale. I was captured by the Sound and they injected something in me, a black fire that burned and hardened my organs and skin. Anyways, I had another scene with Sasuke this afternoon, and afterwards, he walked up and asked if I wanted to talk about the show.
"You know me, I love talking with new friends. I'd never worked with him before this year. And we had a good coffee, but then he asked if he could walk me home. He was touching my thigh, Naruto, and I wanted to say no, but I didn't want to hurt his feelings.
"And then we got here, and I said goodbye. I went to unlock the door and then he spanked me! And then pushed me against the door. I told him to stop, and that I had you!" Sakura cried as she looked like a doe into Naruto's eyes, baring the truth with every word she spoke.
"He said that he knew that I wanted him and he kissed me. I went to push him away and then he restrained my arm! I-I didn't know what was happening…I-I'm so sorry, Naruto-Kun!"
Sakura finally broke down and cried into Naruto's frame as he held her in his arms, but Sakura felt his body stiff, and looked up at his eyes which were a haze that she had seen only once before. The day that Mark had broken his hand, the day that he was told of Sakura's initiation so long ago...a forgotten memory.
Naruto felt a hand on his cheek and jumped a little before he looked down at Sakura's tear stricken face. "What is it?"
"N-Naruto, don't do it."
"Do what?" Naruto smiled innocently.
"Don't do anything stupid, you hear me?"
"I understand, Sakura-Chan. You won't see a thing." Naruto caressed Sakura's back and she leaned back into his chest, while Naruto's mind raced on how to get Sasuke to away from his girlfriend...permanently.
The night came to pass with Sakura falling asleep in Naruto's arms and him spending the whole night stroking her hair, lying awake for hours on end until the dawn arose from the window. Sakura woke up to find Naruto staring into space, but thought that maybe, maybe he had simply gotten up and was still waking up.
Naruto waited for Sakura to leave for the studio before getting ready himself. While Sakura was in the bathroom, he had grabbed her spare card to access the set on Shinobi Wars, and two hours after his girlfriend left, he made his own way to the set, intent on having a 'civilized' talk with Sasuke about boundaries.
"Okay, quiet on the set! So, Sasuke, you are making Sakura into your own woman and she is resisting, so you tease her by biting her neck playfully for this scene. Just try to make it look like your biting her neck. We'll add the blood splatters later on."
"Alright," Sakura nodded her head sighing sadly, not wanting to be anywhere near Sasuke at the moment. She saw Sasuke smirk as they got into the carriage that was Saku's prison, and Sakura laid down on her back, her hands being 'tied up' to the back of the carriage.
Sakura saw Sasuke checking her out, and kicked him in the shin. "Let's get this over with Sasuke."
"Of course, Sakura." Sasuke smirk and got on top of her, closer than what was needed for this portion of practice, and Sakura felt Sasuke part her legs with his knee and push against her clothed womanhood. Sakura held in a noise that would make Sasuke happy, and grunted at it.
"Now now, Sakura. You are my prisoner. May as well be my bitch in real life." Sasuke smirked as no one from the angles could see Sakura's lower half and so moved his knee in repetitive motions.
"Never, Sasuke. Just do it."
"But we haven't even had dinner yet." Sasuke smirked as he saw Sakura glare at him. "Are you dessert?" Sasuke asked as he leaned down and trail his tongue along her jaw and to her neck. Sakura for her part let out a whimper that most mistook for her acting. Sakura could act very well, but she wasn't acting. She preferred Nami doing this. He understood that she had a boyfriend.
"Good job! Cut!"
Sasuke still didn't stop, and so Sakura let go of the rope holding her arms and shoved Sasuke off of her and stomped off, Sasuke smirking as he moved to grab something to drink. Sasuke found Sakura at the water table and so immediately snuck behind her and began to once again suck on her neck. Sakura flipped out and threw her palm sideways and a satisfying smack sounded on Sasuke's cheek.
"Stop it!" Sakura ground out. "I have a boyfriend."
"He's not here. Just be yourself around me."
"She is only herself around people who care about her, Uchiha." A voice sounded out, and they both turned to see Naruto walking up to them. Sakura breathed out relieved and hugged Naruto. Sasuke grimaced slightly before Sakura kissed Naruto's lips.
"I have to put on some make-up for the next scene. How did you get here?"
"Just wanted to see you on set."
"I'm happy." Sakura beamed. "Thank you."
"You'll do great."
"Now that you're here, I will be." Sakura blushed cutely and moved off with one of her assistants.
Sasuke prepared to leave when Naruto called out. "Uchiha-San. A Word please?"
Sasuke nodded and followed Naruto down a hallway that led to the side of the set. Sasuke stopped at the edge and leaned against the metal beams. "So what is it, Uzumaki?"
Naruto growled and suddenly he was holding Sasuke up by his collar and pushed him behind some equipment, out of site from the stage crew. Sasuke struggled a bit, but Naruto was stronger and pushed him against the wall.
"I saw what you did to Sakura. You can act all you want, but you do not kiss my girl again! Do you Understand me?!"
"What's the matter, loser? Is Sakura your property?"
"Sakura-Chan is no one's property!"
"I can see that since she's forever marked as your muse and goddess. You must have captured her, I'm sure." Sasuke smirked darkly. "You keep her on a short leash, don't you? Although, she probably likes it like that, barking like the bitch she is."
Naruto lost it and threw Sasuke against an old table, breaking it with Sasuke's weight suddenly on it. Sasuke coughed and held his ribs as he struggled to regain his breath.
"Sakura is no bitch! You stay away from her. I don't care if you work for this production. I risked everything I had to give Sakura a happy life and she finally has it! I will not let you ruin it! I will do anything in my power to end you, and your career. They'll want Sakura more."
"S-Screw you." Sasuke wheezed out. Naruto walked away soon after that, and Sasuke glared at his retreating figure. He wanted Sakura, let him have her...when he was done with her that is. Sasuke smirked. When he was done with her, she would only whimper like the bitch she was.
Duh Duh Duh! SO...this is my revenge and what I think happens behind closed doors if SasuSaku existed. he'd abuse her! In this story, I Hate Sasuke! So...how'd you like my Kyuubii-fied Naruto? Protective much?! MWahahahahaha!