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Marry For Love

Chapter 8-The Roommate Who Replaced Me

The morning only served to awaken Naruto from what had to be his best slumber than he had had in weeks. His eyes were groggy and his whole body emanated a warmth that urged him to go back to bed and bask in the warmth of last night's activities.

At the memory of last night, Naruto tilted his head to his chest where a beautiful pink haired angel lay asleep atop him. His eyes melted at the sight of Sakura's sleeping face, how small puffs of air cutely proofed out every few seconds from her mouth.

And then he noticed how her smile looked as if she were a cat that ate the canary. Was she really so proud of the fact that they had sex after so long? Or maybe the fact that they had done it a multitude of times just last night. God! His legs felt like jelly right now; could he even walk straight?

Naruto's idle hands began to rub against her nude skin, the blanket they'd spread over them in the early morning lay discarded on their upper thighs. He smiled; Sakura still kicked the covers off in her sleep. So cute.

As he continued to casually caress his conquest, his mind began to spin and twirl over the memories of last night. The sex was as good as their first time together. 'It was still...perfect.' Naruto thought fondly. Neither of them were out of rhythm and though they spoke few words, he knew that none really needed to be said. They transitioned from position to position at the same time, their body's signals moving in harmony.

If Naruto's hand strayed, Sakura's body twisted or edged away and he'd move back in to where it felt best for them. When she had tilted him back to sitting up and further to take control, he happily let her get some time dictating the pace before he would lead her back down beneath him to dominate her once more.

Naruto happily smiled at her sleeping face. They were the push and pull of the ocean waves, or the tidal floods of a delta, rising and falling throughout the day. Neither completely dominated the other, forming a true symbiotic union between them. As he brushed through her hair, a few strands fell in front of her face and when he brushed her bangs past her ear, Sakura snuggled to the side, pressing her cheek into his chest.

"Naru~"

He smiled wide at her sleepy confession. How could he forget this moment between them? Sakura was an angel when asleep, and such a rebel when awake; just like when they were teens.

His eyes wandered back up to the ceiling, following his thoughts on the last two weeks. When she pulled him over as a cop, he'd been so sure that she'd mellowed out, but last night sure told him that she liked the more-interesting things in the bedroom, and was as stubborn in life as well. She sure grew up to be such an intriguing young woman.

A soft rumble echoed in Naruto's stomach and he slowly began to exchange himself with a pillow that was as long as he was. Sakura frowned in her sleep as she readjusted to the softer material, but soon Naruto was able to look down at her naked backside as her leg carved up and over the pillow in a vice grip. Naruto took one more chance to caress her ass cheek, earning a content moan in response.

'Maybe I'll bring her something to drink.' Naruto thought with a smile. She was the rebel in high school, and while everyone went on and on about coffee. He knew that she preferred tea. Green tea with a splash of mango if he remembered correctly. Or maybe it was orange?

He smiled as he found his boxers and began to slide them on. Maybe he could surprise her and wake her up with it by her bedside? A stray look from the end of the bed made him pause, from her soft shoulders to the swelll of her hips, and to the erotic heavenly treasure between her legs-

"Ah!" Naruto groaned as he looked down at the raging tent coming from his boxers. Morning wood his ass, he couldn't help but be aroused around the beauty that was Sakura Haruno.

Stepping into the hallway, he slowly closed the door mumbling to himself. 'Come on little guy, four times last night wasn't good enough for you? You're going to make Sakura think I'm some kind of sex freak!' But his blood would surge even more down below as he turned the corner and straight into the living room and kitchen where the blinding morning sun's rays blazed back at him through the glass screen door to the yard.

"Hey Sakura! You usually sleep in, but I got your-OH!" A feminine, sultry sound emanated from beyond the glow of the sun and as Naruto adjusted to the brightness, his face lit up like a furnace of the sight before him.

Luscious pale legs on the carpet, thighs as soft as a tenderfoot begging to be touched, a set of wide hips and an hourglass stomach. A set of perky breasts almost the size of his fiancee's, followed by hair slated to cover one side of her face, and the bluest of baby blue eyes. That was his first memory of Sakura's housemate, naked but for a silk robe and nightie to cover herself.

Naruto's curious eyes hungrily gazed down at her bare sex, and then to her pink areolas, proudly standing out, pressing against the strain of material that for a fact covered her top half in nothing but a see through purple fabric, and her silk robe was loosely tied at her waist, but as he watched the rope undo itself, it covered nothing and only served to accentuate her body in a violet backdrop.

The girl's hands held a cup of coffee in them under her chest and her mouth formed an O as her eyes froze at the sight of him. And then like a spell disappearing, the O morphed into a salacious smile that promised a night of passionate lovemaking and a lifetime of flirtations.

"Hello handsome." She grinned as Naruto forced himself to look up at her face. But then she extended her hand, and he looked and saw what he thought had to be the best pair of breasts in his life.

"Um, hi."

"I'm Ino, Sakura's roommate."

"Naruto."

"Naruto?" Ino hummed to herself, and then something in her eyes changed, as she set the coffee down and began to cover herself up with the silk robe. Naruto couldn't help that the see through material didn't hide the fact of her nude skin, but it hid enough of her flesh to be less awkward.

"Please forgive my state of undress." Ino spoke up without even a trace of a blush. "I've grown up practically around only girls and Sakura has never brought a boy over before."

"It's um…alright."

"And I'm glad that you find me so attractive. A girl always likes to be reminded of that."

"What?" Naruto questioned as Ino's eyes gazed downwards. Naruto followed and blushed even deeper at the sight of his cock straining heavily against the fabric, giving Sakura's roommate a very good guess as to how big he was.

Ino meanwhile smiled at the sight of Naruto's flushed state, and was inwardly proud of herself in the knowing that he enjoyed the view. If she could make her roommate's high school lover aroused, then she must be doing something right, and the fact that he was so attractive and made her hot with a single stare was a plus as well. A bitter thought that she couldn't have him made her smile turn a little sad.

"Shame Sakura claimed you already." Ino sighed, flipping her hair out of her view of the fine specimen before her. "I would definitely not mind a roll in the hay with you."

Naruto smiled at the flirtation, opening out of his shell a bit. "Nor I with you, Ino, but-"

"Yeah?" Ino cut in and Naruto stammered on.

" -But! Um...Oh gosh."

"You are just too cute!" Ino giggled as she slid forward to hug him and giggled a bit more, pushing his arms in between her chest closer to keep him flustered. "I feel I know so much about you already. Sakura never stopped talking about you in school."

Naruto was blushing at the intimate context of Ino's breasts when that information pulled him out of it. "S-She talked about me in college?"

Ino smiled as she stepped back and directed him to the couch where they sat down. "Actually, I've been friends and roommates with Sakura since she moved away from you junior year."

"We were both rebels and sent there because we were such brats, me more than Sakura." Ino saw Naruto smile at that. He definitely had a thing for rule breakers. "But we were bunk mates, sharing everything from our schedules to our meals. By the end of it, we were best friends and knew everything one could think of."

"That sounds...amazing." Naruto smiled sadly, looking down at the floor. Ino let her smile drop, realizing that her happiest times with Sakura must have been the most difficult for Naruto.

"You know," Ino hinted, nudging his shoulder as she did so. "I was there the whole time, and it was her choice not to call you. You shouldn't blame yourself when Sakura went through that all alone."

"What?" Naruto looked up at her confused and sat up straight to look at her. "What do you mean?"

"What? I mean-…" Ino began to speak before she paused. 'What does he mean what do I mean? Surely they spoke last night and-' Ino thought before she saw Naruto's confused face at her words. With silent realization, she silently eeped and cursed herself.

'Seriously Sakura?! You can have sex with him again and you still didn't tell him what happened?!' Ino mentally yelled at her roommate and best friend for life. 'I told Sakura to tell him the truth and Then fuck him! No more lies! Not just fuck-' Ino held in her rant and breathed in to calm herself. All of this while keeping a neutral expression.

"Well... You know, having to leave without saying goodbye. It hurt her too." Ino finished lamely, attacking Naruto's emotions as badly as she would have saying it to Sakura.

Naruto grew somber, oblivious to Ino's inner screaming. "Yeah. I wish I could have gotten her number so I could at least call her, but her parents said there were no phones allowed where she wentl."

Ino held back a hiss as no doubt, Sakura would have yelled at her parents for their fib. The school had a landline for stuff such as family and boyfriend calls allotted to them. Of course after a time, Sakura hadn't...well, she would have been adamant about not contacting him after that event.

Naruto just shuddered and continued his monologue, taking comfort in someone else who knew Sakura as well as he used to. "It hurt so bad when I realized she was gone from my life, and if I'd heard anything, I'd have jumped on a bus to see her. I really hope that she would have known that."

Ino smiled, hearing with such clarity the love Naruto had for Sakura. He would have taken care of her and their child. She bitterly remembered Sakura's worries back then and would have agreed. Naruto would have dropped out of college and high school to care for her. A sound of creaking reached her ears, telling Ino that Sakura was stretching out and awakening from her slumber. She needed to move fast and push the two lovebirds in the right direction.

"She still has feelings for you, you know."

Naruto looked down sadly. Ino had hit him right where it hurt. "She said she loved me last week. But I'm getting married in just over a month. I don't know how I'm supposed to do this. I-I…"

Naruto froze as Ino slipped closer and rubbed his leg, comforting him. " I can't say anything on how Sakura grew up or how she spent her days beside you; I know the Sakura that grew up after you. "

Ino leaned in further, and made eye contact with Naruto. "What I do know is this; Sakura's Heart does not forget easily. It takes the love and romance and runs with it. It can't be changed or molded or forgotten. Even when the…." Ino began to say baby, but caught herself. "…Even when she graduated high school and came with me to college, she reminisced about you every day. She has never forgotten you, Naruto, so don't forget her."

"Then what am I-"

"Go ahead. Fuck." Ino grinned lewdly. "God knows I love it. But don't just fuck, alright?" Naruto quirked his eyes and Ino leaned in closer. "Now's your chance to end things right; to end things properly."

A wave of realization came upon Naruto's eyes and Ino was proud of that look. They didn't have to have a happy ending, or part with remorse. They could slowly ebb away at the foundations, compromising along the way until all that remained was their friendship; a friendship that would end only after many more years to come.

The sound of the door shutting in the hallway turned both heads as Sakura came around the corner, stretching up over her head, in what had to be Naruto's shirt over her top half, but stopping at her upper thighs, and stretching up made it hide nothing from view.

Ino grinned as she watched Naruto ogle Sakura's long alabaster legs, and held herself back from trying to seduce this man. After all, most of her bedroom conquests were because of Sakura.

Gorgeous Ino might be, but talking up to boys was not easy for her. She only managed to find the worst of guys who treated her like property. Sakura however had a good sense of a person and so knew how to pick guys well.

So Ino always took her wingwoman out and Sakura always shot her in the direction of the best guys. Her bedroom activities afterwards were the best of her lists, but the friends of those boys always wanted to get with Sakura too, but she didn't put out, despite the many offers she'd been given. Yes...Her legs…they were nice.

Sakura opened her eyes and made her way to her lover. "Morning, Naruto." She greeted huskily.

"Morning." Naruto reciprocated as he pulled her hips forward and she bent down to lightly kiss. Sakura groaned happily as she stood back up and her glazed eyes looked from her lover's attire to Ino's lack of one.

"Ino, a word."

"Sure." Ino grinned, knowing why she wanted to talk. As they both turned into the hallway, both girls looked at the mirror and could easily see Naruto staring at their asses and comparing them and they smiled at the look he unknowingky sent their way.

Finally, Ino jumped into Sakura's body and wrapped her in a desperate hug. "Please tell me you'd be fine with a three-way!" Ino's legs quivered. She knew not to ask for a time with him alone with Sakura to hold her back.

Sakura giggled at her horny, sex crazed roommate and light tried to push her away. "Down girl."

"P-please?" Ino stuttered cutely and hugged herself tightly, drawing the silk robe closer. Sakura smirked at Ino's meager attempt to convince her to let her seduce her lover.

Not that it didn't do anything. They had their time together since boarding school, their bad times and their good times learning about the other's body and where girls liked it, but it was all in fun. In that girls school, there hadn't been boys to fight over. And the thought of doing that with Ino wasn't off the table. Sakura and Ino had talked about it before, but she doubted they'd end up doing it.

"Is that why you're dressed like that?" Sakura quipped, smiling lightly. "Trying to seduce him?"

Ino let out a quick sound of offense. "Sakura, I would never…" Ino paused to grin at her best friend. "I didn't even know that he was here when I got home. And forget that little tidbit," Ino grinned widely. "You finally had sex after ten years."

"Wha- I didn-"

"Sakura! You're glowing!" Ino cooed as she lightly pushed Sakura back. Sakura let a soft love dove smile grace her face, complete with a bit lip between her teeth as she began to play with a strand of hair.

"So!...how was it?"

"He...he was amazing, Ino."

Ino smiled bigger as Sakura's eyes gleamed with sparkles and shined. "Speaking of amazing, is Naruto still checking me out?"

Sakura managed to subdue her lovestruck stupor and glanced at the mirror behind Ino and indeed her lover was gazing at her ass, though trying and failing miserably to look away. She smiled; 'what a player.'

"Yeah he is." Sakura confirmed. "He can't help but stare."

"Damm." Ino quirked her eyebrow. "Maybe he's trying for a better score, huh? Two roommates is better than one."

"Oi! Back down you sex freak."

"Me?" Ino guffawed. "You had that man ready to ride you to hell and back and you expect me to believe that you two only did it once in high school."

Ino glanced a look back and smiled at Naruto who weakly smiled back. "I mean...he's such a perv...and-" Ino bit her lip. "...and some hot stuff."

Sakura blushed like a tomato, smiling at the memory as she gazed back at him. "We were both holding back, Ino. We were teens afraid to go past that line... But I mean...we did other things, you know?"

Now Ino grinned widely. "Hell yeah you did. You were not as inexperienced as I thought when I got my claws in you."

Sakura blushed. "Yeah. I did know how to kiss….among other things." She spoke as Ino smiled back at her. But a moment of disappointment reached her face.

"But…you didn't tell him, did you?"

Sakura's happy demeanor plunged down a deep ravine of depression and Sakura lightly glared at her friend. "Ino, it's not something I can just say randomly."

"Course you can." Ino shrugged. "Naruto has a right to know, Sakura. I spoke to him for a bit; he cares for you. You can tell him."

Sakura bit back with venomous words. "And say what? Oh Naruto, about a month after I left you, I found out that I was carrying your child, but don't worry. I lost her, so no alimony."

Ino hissed at Sakura's harsh sounds and drew back. Sakura had lashed out at her before, and she didn't want to be too close." I think he would have been there anyways. He seems so in love with you."

Sakura had the decency to shrug. "We were in deep waters back in high school. We sunk so deep into the romance that we would have saved the other without even looking twice."

"Then how do you want to play this?" Ino questioned as Sakura shrugged helplessly.

"I don't know. Last night, he said just until the wedding; I'll take it."

"Sakrua, this isn't healthy for either of you, to get in so deep with your hearts and then stop again as if it was all just good fun. You know that you have a hard emotional time getting over guys, so if it gets more than physical-"

"It's Just sex so we're fine, Ino!" Sakura whispered angrily, moving around the corner. "You told me to fuck him!"

"I told you to tell him the truth and then fuck him. I didn't mean to imply stretching this out for weeks. Do you realize the strain on your heart?" Ino sighed in defeat. So much for a clear action plan ahead. Just wing it. "Just...Don't be surprised when stuff hits the fan, okay?"

Sakura smiled back blatantly. "I expect it to."

Hope you enjoy the pace of the story. The next number of chapters will flesh everything out. Hop you all enjoy.