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Chapter One: Ripples

Naruto hummed thoughtfully as he sat with Sakura on the sofa, his fingers stroking a slow, gentle path up and down her side. 'Hey Sakura?'

Said pinkette, who was leaning her back against him, her legs spread out along the sofa, as he tucked his arm around her middle, didn't look up from her book. 'Yeah?'

'I just realised we never finished that training you made up to seduce me,' he said absently.

'The tickle interrogation thing?' Sakura replied, still not breaking away from her book. 'Well no, it seemed kind of a moot point. Was the days of sex instead not good enough for you?'

The teasing tone was the only thing that didn't send Naruto into a spiral of apologies, instead he placed a soft kiss against the back of her head and chuckled. 'Of course it was, smartass.'

Sakura wiggled back into him and smiled to herself as she turned the next page of her book. 'What made you think of it anyway? That was months ago.'

He shrugged lightly. He wasn't really sure to be honest, it had just sort of popped into his head a couple of days ago and hadn't really left. A nibble in the back of his brain ever since and he didn't know why.

It wasn't like they hadn't been having amazing sex on a more or less daily basis, missions allowing, ever since. When you started your relationship with tickling and handcuffs … chances were you were gonna explore all kinds of fantasies together.

But the fact that they hadn't completed the mission, made up by Sakura or not, was probably why it kept bothering him. Leaving a mission unfinished bugged him something awful.

'We never really talked about why you went with that particular scenario though did we?' Naruto asked, turning to face her properly. 'Why tickling Sakura-chan?'

The pinkette turned to look at him at long last. 'Honestly? I think I was running out of ideas to get it through your thick head that I was attracted to you.' Sakura nudged his chin with her fist. Earning herself a kiss on her knuckles. 'And we both know that tickling is a genuine interrogation technique that gets used. It seemed logical enough that you'd buy it.'

'Plus it turns you on,' Naruto added with a cheeky grin.

'Yes well,' Sakura said with a slight blush. 'You're incredibly sexy and I wanted you badly. Forgive a girl for wanting your hands all over her body okay?'

Grinning, Naruto reached his hand underneath Sakura to give her ass a playful squeeze. 'Forgiven. Sorry I was so dense it took extreme measures.'

She leant up to capture his lips in a slow kiss, her free hand looping around his neck, splaying her fingers amongst his hair as she sighed into the slow embrace. 'I'm not complaining. And it's not like we didn't end up doing the other two "punishments" later.'

'Regularly in regards to the third one huh Sakura-chan?' Naruto kissed her again. A little more pointedly.

'Mmm,' Sakura smirked. 'Your face when I first blew you still floats into my head sometimes you know, you looked so shocked and so delighted.'

They shared a laugh and snuggled back up. Sakura resuming her book as Naruto closed his eyes and relaxed into the sofa, his fingers taking up their gentle path over her side again.

It was at least ten minutes before the silence was broken.

Naruto had actually started to drift off in the comfortable moment, the soft rise and fall of Sakura's back against him as she breathed, a more soothing lullaby than he could have ever imagined it would be.

'So …' Sakura asked in a tone that screamed put on indifference. 'Would you want to try the tickling interrogation thing again? Finish it off this time though?'

He couldn't stop the smile that snuck onto his face as he ran his palm over her side to rest on Sakura's tummy. 'Would you?'

Naruto's index finger crept towards Sakura's belly button, making the beautiful woman jump against him as she shrieked delightedly and her book was dropped, both her hands grasping at his tickling fingers.

'Not now!' Sakura giggled as she held his hand away and manoeuvred off of him and swatting at him gently when he playfully reached out again. Her chest swelling as she breathed heavily and shot him a dirty, and still suggestive, look. 'Kami, give a girl a chance to plan out something first. Honestly.'

He leant towards her, letting her close the gap between them with a soft kiss. 'Well how long did it take you to plan the first one?'

Sakura, who was still looking at him like she expected him to launch at her, edged closer to him again, picking up her book from where it had fallen on the floor and sighed as she fell back against the sofa cushion.

'Weeks,' Sakura admitted with another blush. 'Though that was more about getting the nerve up to put it together and thinking of how to get you to fall for it. And figuring out how to get the supplies without it being obvious what I wanted them for.'

'Who did you get the handcuffs and feather from in the end?' Naruto asked. 'I mean you got the wraps from your own drawers right?'

Sakura nodded. 'I got the handcuffs from Interrogation actually, I just told them I wanted to practice how to get out of handcuffs without just snapping them. In case I couldn't for some reason. They complimented my foresight.'

'Anko would probably approve of what we really use them for.' Naruto waggled his eyebrows at her and it earned him another blush and a playful swat at his arm. 'What about the feather?'

'Costume shop,' Sakura laughed at the memory. 'I got it off a hat and stripped it down so it didn't look so fluffy. I've still got the hat somewhere actually.'

'Resourceful as ever Sakura-chan,' Naruto complimented her as he pulled her into a cuddle, lifting his hands from her sides when she glared at him. 'So this new interrogation game wouldn't take nearly as long to set up?'

'Eager are you?' Sakura teased, kissing his jaw. 'Don't worry Naruto, you won't be waiting long, I'm already thinking of how to change it up. It'll be a lot easier now I know what makes you … rise to the occasion.'

Her hand ran down his stomach to his groin, practiced fingers seeking out the growing tent Naruto had sitting in his lap.

She gave him a gentle stroke that made him groan and then her hand was gone and she was turning to lean against him as she was before. 'Now be a good boy and let me finish my book in peace, I'm just getting to the good part!'

Naruto chuckled and kissed her neck. 'Tease.'

'Shh,' Sakura hissed as she delved back into her book.

Naruto hummed idly, walking through the door to Kakashi's office as Kotetsu and Izumo waved at him. The beauty of the duo being on Kakashi's door today being that he wasn't going to be stopped by some gushing ninja or kunoichi who wanted to talk to the village hero.

Not that Naruto wasn't flattered, or didn't put aside time to talk to anyone and everyone who wanted to talk to him, but he was hoping Kakashi-sensei had a mission for him. He needed to earn some more money, he was running a little low and he'd promised Sakura a nice restaurant for dinner as soon as he got back from his next mission.

'Yo Kakashi-sensei!' Naruto called as he pushed open the office door and found his old teacher sitting behind the same wooden desk both the Third and Tsunade had sat behind. His hat, the kanji for six next to the Hokage kanji, hanging on the back of the office chair, the red and white robes still looking weird on the silver haired man.

'Hey Naruto,' Kakashi said, turning to the other person in the room and gesturing. 'I told you the door wasn't going to stop anyone Anko.'

Anko, who Naruto was only just noticing was there, scoffed and leant with her elbow on the chair, her side almost pressing against Kakashi's head. Well her boob more than her side but Naruto was trying not to focus on that.

Anko still wore the same fishnet vest and tan trench coat she'd always worn and while as a boy Naruto hadn't really cared that her rather ample assets were all but on show … As a man he was less able to ignore them.

But he did his best. You were not meant to perv on your sensei's wife. Especially when she was also the wife of the Hokage.

'Yeah well, Naruto's not a fair test of the theory. He's gonna burst in regardless of whether the door's closed or not.' Anko poked her husband in the head. 'He's not exactly known for restraint. Hiya kid.'

'Hiya,' Naruto said with a big grin, before it dimmed and he looked back at the door. 'The door was closed for a reason huh? Want me to come back? I mean I could go down to the main mission hall instead I suppose if you two are doing something important?'

Kakashi turned to his wife, staring in a way that somehow managed to look both amused and distant at the same time. 'Are we doing something important Anko-chan?'

'Guess not,' Anko said with a slight huff. 'Though we will talk about this at home later, got me?' Anko stared her husband down with an intent stare that promised all number of things.

Naruto wasn't sure if he was reading it properly or not because some of those things seemed to be stuff Kakashi … or any man really … would enjoy so …

What the hell had he just interrupted and why did he feel he should be grateful he hadn't been a couple minutes later?

Anko placed a quick kiss on top of Kakashi's head, whispered something that made the Hokage smile but wasn't loud enough for Naruto to hear, and sauntered towards the door.

'See you boys later, best of luck on whatever mission you get Naruto,' Anko said as she patted him on the shoulder. 'Tell your girl I say hi.'

'Kay,' Naruto said with a simple shrug. 'I will.'

And with that, Anko was gone and the office door was shut again. Leaving the two men stood in muted silence looking back at the door with intrigued and fond expressions respectively.

'So,' Kakashi said, bringing them back to the matter at hand. 'You wanted a mission right?'

'Hm?' Naruto replied eloquently. 'Oh yeah, got anything that pays well? That doesn't include a particularly long time away from Konoha?'

Kakashi scratched at the back of his neck and hummed mildly. 'Not to hand really. I sent most of the missions off to the Briefing Rooms. You probably should have gone there. Everything but C's and D's are probably going to be gone by now.'

Naruto pouted. 'Damn it, and I promised Sakura-chan a fancy restaurant. Are you sure you haven't got anything Kakashi-sensei? Please?'

The silver haired man rolled his eyes as Naruto put his hands together in front of his chest and prayed at him. 'Alright, alright, calm down. I might have something to keep you busy for the day, I'm not sure it's a mission but it's addressed to you. I was going to call you in later, but seeing as you're here …'

Naruto beamed. 'What is it?'

'Now now, don't get excited,' Kakashi said with a knowing chuckle. A drawer opening on his side of the desk as he stuck his hand into the shallow hole. 'It could be nothing.'

The blond shrugged and waited with much restrained curiosity as he watched his former sensei root around his desk for whatever he was talking about.

'Aha,' Kakashi said in muted victory. 'Here it is, it came into the office with a roll of new missions according to the ninja manning the New Missions desk. He couldn't open it but your name was clearly written on it. He thought it might be fan mail or something.'

With that, Kakashi pulled out a light pink scroll, the same colour of Sakura's hair Naruto noted in a passing thought, and placed it on his desk before them both. Naruto's name written in kanji scrawled across the label.

'Huh,' Naruto said, confusion swimming across his face as he studied the scroll. 'When did you get it?'

'Yesterday evening,' Kakashi said with a shrug. 'It's been checked over and over. There's nothing shifty about it best we can tell. But when you open it all it does is this.'

Kakashi opened up the scroll to reveal it was entirely blank except for the mark for where you should put blood to unlock the secret contents. It was a tried and tested technique to keep secrets when you couldn't be sure who would be looking at the contents of a scroll.

Ninja had been using them to pass secret messages almost as long as there had been ninja to do so.

'And when you try to put your blood on it …' Kakashi bit his thumb and pressed the bloody digit to the seal, only for the page to warp and the words 'For Naruto Uzumaki's Eyes Only' appear. 'So yeah, that's something you could puzzle over today. Then you know, go to the Briefing Rooms tomorrow to get missions like everyone else?'

Ignoring his leader's well-meaning dig, Naruto picked up the scroll and inspected it critically.

It definitely didn't appear to be anything funny, Kurama wasn't screaming at him to put it down … which he'd taken to doing if he was handling something dangerous and wasn't aware of it.

No, the Kyuubi was silent, and as far as he could tell the scroll was just some kind of private message for him. Not a mission but like Kakashi said something to keep him occupied until tomorrow. He was sure Sakura wouldn't mind waiting a little longer for a nice meal.

He'd tell her about his money situation when she came over after work tonight.

He could spend the day figuring out the scroll he supposed. Couldn't hurt.

'Naruto?' Kakashi asked. His chin resting on his palm as he leant on his desk. 'If you're taking the scroll can you please do that and leave? I do actually have paperwork to do.'

The blond nodded and grinned his trademark grin. 'Course Kakashi-sensei, I'll go figure this out. I'll let you know what I find out tomorrow.'

Kakashi waved him out of the office with a smile. 'You do that, say hi to Sakura for me.'

Naruto waved as he left the room, already staring at the scroll as he wondered what it could possibly be.

Naruto shouldered open his front door, still staring at the scroll in his hand.

Naruto meandered through his hallway, kicking off his shoes, and plonked down on his sofa to try and open up the scroll.

The pink really was the same colour as Sakura's hair. Which was kind of bizarre. Normally scrolls with missions on them were a bland brown-grey colour, business-like and run of the mill. But extravagant colours weren't unheard of, sometimes it meant the mission supplier was a particularly eccentric individual, or they wanted to make sure their mission stuck out, or even the person ran out normal scrolls and had to use whatever was laying around.

He wasn't sure what the inspiration for the cherry blossom pink scroll paper was but he would hazard a guess at a mix of the first two. It had certainly gained the attention of the ninja sorting through missions and even Kakashi.

Deciding to just see what was so damned important that only his blood could reveal, Naruto rolled open the scroll, leaving the edges flat against his coffee table, loading the corners with coasters and anything else he could use as a paperweight, Naruto gave the blank page one last look over.

Then he bit his finger, let the blood swell and pressed it to the seal in the middle of the scroll.

The sprawl of black lettering flowed out, the page before him warping and forming into words, a letter more than a mission request form, and his first real hint of who had sent the mission revealed itself at the top corner. A giant T where the mission ranking normally went told Naruto that this was not your ordinary mission.

Sakura was so corny sometimes, a T ranked mission on a pink scroll the same shade as her hair? He was going to tickle her brains out.

Which was probably the point he mused with a smirk.

The form, which now the letters had settled was clearly a modified version of the standard mission form and not a letter, looked actually quite identical to the layout of every form Naruto had ever seen.

There was the name of the mission: Tickled Pink. Which made him snort at Sakura's corniness yet again.

The target of said mission: Sakura Haruno.

The details, which he would peruse properly once he'd read the rest of Sakura's set up, were lengthy and clearly well thought out.

Even a reward of all things. Sakura hadn't promised him money for completing the mission, of course, but instead the promise of lots and lots of sex. With one Sakura Haruno. Because she had made a very silly attempt to pretend the mission request was coming from somebody called: Hakura Saruno.

So yeah, Sakura hadn't been kidding when she said she'd put something together and it really had only taken her about a week or two, they'd had that talk about their first time on this very couch about ten days ago.

His girlfriend was so freaking resourceful when it came to sex that he wondered if she should stop thinking he was the pervy one in their relationship. Though, it could just be the both of them were equally pervy. He could get behind that.

'Okay Sakura-chan,' Naruto said to himself with a rueful shake of his head. 'What mission have you given me?'

He laughed, blushing a little at the very thought of the way he was meant to complete his mission to 'tickle Sakura Haruno into an orgasming mess and don't stop' and gaped a little bit as he double-checked that yes, Sakura had literally told him to make her cum until she couldn't even think anymore.

An erection made itself very much known as he envisioned what that would look like, along with the memories of times when they'd just been lost to the ecstasy that was each other.

Thank Kami no one had tried to get past the seal to make sure only he could read it. Sakura would have been mortified.

According to the scroll he was meant to 'kidnap' Sakura on her way home, bring her back to an undisclosed location, which probably meant blindfold her and bring her to the bedroom, and play the role of an enemy ninja and interrogate her until she caved to the tickling and orgasms he denied her.

Or until she gave all the answers to the questions and then he would get his reward.

There was also a suggestion that as the aim of the mission was only to make Sakura cum as many times as possible by tickling, that if he wasn't comfy playing kidnapper, they could just play 'I Quit' and he could tickle her into submission and then give her forfeits. Or other games they could include, each sounding more dick-stiffeningly sexy than the last.

When he'd finished reading the suggestions of games they could play, Naruto was left with only two thoughts in his head.

First, Sakura had either been thinking about this for way longer than he had or had had a chat with someone about kinky sex and the ideas had just filled her brain.

And second that he had to plan for the best time to absolutely wreck his kinky as fuck girlfriend as possible. It's what she deserved.

He looked down at the storage seals on the bottom of the 'mission' form and chuckled. He wondered what possibly could be in there.

Naruto had just about collected up and hidden the mission details Sakura, he meant Hakura Saruno, he was so going to make her pay for that one, when he heard the rattling of keys in the front door.

It was a good thing he'd decided to pack up when he had then, Sakura had put a whole lot of work into their role play. It'd be a shame to undo all of it because she walked into him going through the 'tools' she'd supplied.

Some of them, a particular orange device had made him stiffen with just the memories it inspired, he'd seen before. But it would appear Sakura had gone shopping since last time they'd brought toys to bed.

Shutting the drawer he kept his actual ninja tools in, the pink scroll nudged to the top right corner, Naruto ventured out of his room until he was stood at the top of his stairs. The smile Sakura gave him as she saw him was enough to bring all of his desire to the forefront of his mind.

A mind that had been thinking of every inventive way he could please her for the past few hours.

He wasn't going to be able to wait until he could enact his mission. Hell, he wasn't going to be able to wait til after dinner. He needed her now.

His girlfriend was just shutting the door as he came down the stairs to meet her waiting arms.

Their lips met in what was meant to be a quick peck, but deepened when Naruto lingered on her kiss long enough that Sakura managed to pick up his point.

Or at least he assumed the light dusting of pink on her cheeks meant she got what sort of mood he was in.

'Hello to you too,' Sakura smiled as she untangled herself from his arms, pausing briefly when his hand didn't move from her ass. She gave him a flirty wink. 'I think you missed me Naruto.'

Naruto squeezed her ass in response and Sakura smirked.

That smirk set off a brand new set of memories and desires. His already stiff member throbbed at their proximity and Sakura laughed lightly as she felt it on her waist.

'At least let a girl get her shoes off first,' she teased, pushing on his chest so he got out of her space and shucked off her jacket, revealing the emerald green button up blouse, the top two buttons open, to reveal the hint of creamy skin and cleavage.

When her jacket was hung up and her shoes were eased off Sakura was back in his arms, cupping his cheek and kissing him slowly, deliberately.

'Bedroom?' Sakura asked as she looped her arms around his neck and peppered his jaw and cheeks with soft kisses. 'Because I can just tell dinner isn't happening until after.'

'Or I could take you right here?' Naruto murmured against her lips, their bodies meeting as she melded against him. Her tummy rubbing at his erection delightfully. 'Ladies' choice.'

Sakura laughed again as he pushed her back against the nearest wall, the burn of desire lighting her green eyes. 'Bedroom.'

He let her push him back again, settling close enough to her that he could smell the want on her.

She took his hand in hers and led him up the stairs, adding a slight exaggeration to the sway of her hips as she climbed higher. His eyes glued to the black pant clad perfection that was Sakura's shapely rear.

The pinkette led him directly in front of his double bed and faced it.

Naruto was already right behind her, pressing himself against her back, a soft pleased breath leaving Sakura's lips as she felt him against her ass and tilted her head to the side, just in time for Naruto's lips to find pale flesh.

Fingers played with his hair as she rocked against him, the occasional groan of need trickling from her lips.

'What's got into you today?' Sakura asked hazily, reaching around to rub a hand over his crotch. 'You'd think I wasn't here last night.'

'And this morning,' Naruto added as he cupped both her breasts and massaged them through her blouse and bra. 'Do I have to have a reason to want you Sakura-chan?'

She chuckled as he began to undo the buttons of her blouse, nibbling and kissing her neck and ear as he went. The business-casual top hanging off her shoulders loosely, revealing a pale bra. And the inviting swell of full breasts that he ached to kiss.

Turning in his arms, Sakura kissed him hungrily, his hands already reaching up to relieve her of the blouse. His belt undone and his jeans pulled down around his ankles by Sakura as he undid her bra.

She held her arms out so her bra would fall down them and to the floor, the slightest jiggle of her now free breasts drawing his eye as she righted herself, his hand instinctively going to cup and squeeze her. Her hard, pink nipple grazed by his thumb.

Sakura moaned softly as he pinched her nipple, urging him towards the bed with a long kiss, only stopping when her thighs hit the mattress.

He stepped out of his jeans and as Sakura was undoing her own slacks, Naruto grabbed both of her thighs and tipped the kunoichi so she fell backwards and landed on the bed with a squeal of surprise, legs in the air.

'Naruto!' she laughed as she tried to prop herself up on her elbows, but said blond was between her legs and kissing her before she could get steady.

'You did miss me,' Sakura breathed heavily when the kiss was broken and she ran her fingers under his shirt.

'Don't hear you complaining,' Naruto whispered as he caught her lips in another steamy kiss, falling against her. Her legs wrapped around his waist instinctively. She moaned into his mouth as he ground against her.

'Shut up and get these pants off me,' Sakura all but growled.

'Yes ma'am.'