Marry For Love
By: Tim B. Wolfe
Chapter 10-What's Your Number?
(2 weeks until Wedding)
Sex was definitely their thing. Some couples read books together, others went to exotic places to expand their worldview; Naruto and Sakura, they had amazing sex.
Like after sex right now, the two sat on the couch, their bodies twitching with the leftover adrenaline as each of them idly thumbed along the other's skin, stirring up the insides of their lover until Naruto's lower half was ready to go again.
Then again. Maybe it was anything simple and romantic that they excelled at. Sakura kept her eyes closed as Naruto slipped his fingers along her thighs, lightly mewling as it electrified her nerves. Oh why couldn't men be ready to go again like girls were? Sakura responded by sliding her hand over the bulge of his boxers, drawing up a hiss.
"You're not ready to go yet?"
Naruto groaned and pulled her closer onto his lap as she leaned forward and shared a kiss. "You're insatiable, you know that?"
"I do…" Sakura grinned, loving how he always called her that. "But I understand you're doing your best."
"Wha-my best?" Naruto scoffed at this wild woman. "Sakura, I got you off like four times!"
"And you usually get me off more, don't you?"
"You can't go high every time. You change it up."
"Oh like you're one to talk! I got you nice and ready and then you got a call and had to take it."
"...you know why…"
"...Yeah, I know…" Sakura sighed and slid back off, cuddling into his shoulder to keep them closer together. Maybe they wouldn't get another round in, but she could still be satisfied if he held her. It made her feel...special.
'I wonder how many girls have been in his arms…' Sakura thought before looking up. "Hey Naruto?"
"Yeah?"
"How many girls were you with? I mean, you went to college."
Naruto chortled. "For a year. You had all four years, unlike me."
"Yeah, well when you get top marks at a boarding school, they really want you at colleges."
The two laughed together and settled back into each other, Sakura closing her eyes as she listened to his heartbeat, and the way it sped up when she made him laugh.
"…..Three…"
"What?" Sakura looked up, and noticed him blushing.
"Three...Besides you, I've been with three other girls…"
"Any deep ones?"
"Um...you remember Shion?"
Sakura's eyes widened with a smile. "You mean Shion from high school? The one who ran a cult and wanted babies? That one?"
Naruto chuckled, nodding his head. "Yeah. After you left, well, her cult threw her out. We were both depressed and we got together for a few months senior year. Nothing else though."
"And the others?"
"Eh...one night stands my first two weeks of college. The girls were lonely, they didn't have friends around them." Naruto sighed. "Dang! When I think about it, I only fuck girls when I'm emotionally depressed."
"I hope I'm not-"
"Oh no! You I get happy with!"
Sakura giggled as she closed her eyes again. "Glad to hear it."
"…..How many for you?"
Sakura's eyes shot open, and she glanced at the quiet fire alight in front of them, warming the area as the sounds of heavy rain poured outside. Sakura lightly shrugged and leaned away but Naruto smiled and pulled her back.
"Come on, Sakura. I laid my heart for you. I mean, you're so beautiful. You have a badge, a gun! You go with Ino to nightclubs and such. Surely you've had some interesting times?"
Sakura's entire face lit with a massive blush. Her rogue thought had backfired and she gulped and told him the truth.
"….u…"
"What?" Naruto leaned in. Her voice was a whisper to the room. Was it a big number?
"….Just you, Naru."
Naruto's breath left him. Wow. His heart swelled with pride. All these years, she had lived her life, and hadn't been with another guy. She had the body, she had the brains, her personality was flexible to match anyone.
'And she chose me.' A snarky thought pierced his mind, and he was floored with a sense of amazement. 'This girl...' Naruto gazed at her moderate, but still sizable bust...at her stomach and limbs, toned and athletic. At the curve of her ass, just perfect, and then finally at her eyes, those piercing emeralds that could make him do anything. This girl's body was only his.
"You don't like guys?" Naruto joked as Sakura meekly shoved him away.
"Maybe I just like a man with experience, alright?"
"Experience you say?" Naruto wiggled his eyebrow. "By the amount of girls, or by the amount of time I've fucked your body?"
"I...um…"
"Maybe I just need to touch you more, huh?!" Naruto yelled as he shot forward, sliding his fingers along her bare stomach.
"No! Naru~!" Sakura screeched as she fell back on the couch, her lover tickling her fiendishly as he jumped on top of her, holding her down as she laughed and giggled and breathed heavily.
"Naru please!"
"Admit it!"
"Admit what?!"
"That I'm the best you ever had!"
"Y-y-you're the only no-one I've ever had!"
"Say it!"
"Okay! Okay! Y-you're the best!"
"Now say you're a chicken!"
"Naru~!"
Sakura's stomach flew up and down, her legs bouncing across the cushions as Naruto savagely tickled her into a frenzy. Naruto finally stopped, but he eagerly watched her stomach shoot up and down. Her breathing erratically trying to calm down but the shortness of air only made her entire face blush.
Naruto smiled in victory. With the breath taken out of her, she looked like a satisfied vixen after sex, which was good considering that he still wasn't ready to go. His eyes caught the way that the flames of the fire flickered over her pale white skin of her stomach, simply perfect and scarless and-
Sakura finally began to get her breathing under control, when Naruto's soft fingers slid over the side of her stomach, and immediately guilt and regret surged through her as she looked up and saw Naruto tracing over her nearly transparent scar.
"Sakura, what is this?" Naruto asked as he traced over the two inches of jagged lines just under her ribs on the left side of her stomach. It was so transparent that he'd missed it all these nights they'd been together. There must be a story behind it. "Sakura?"
He looked up and saw the tightness in her jaw, the horror in her eyes. This was something terrible, wasn't it?
"It's...it's nothing, Naruto. I just-"
"Sakura! This looks like you got stabbed!"
"No! I just!..."
"Please? Tell me?"
Sakura's entire world shifted. Here it was. Her chance to tell him everything. She hadn't said it because she knew she'd hurt him this way. This scar represented the life that could have been, the life with him that she could have had, but didn't. She had to tell him.
"Please, Sakura? Tell me."
"I had a…" Sakura began to confess before her throat closed up with guilt. He was getting married in two weeks...she could ruin the marriage...his company would sink...and she'd be the cause of it all. She'd already ruined his life once...she'd couldn't do it again… "...Surgery." Sakura's eyes teamed with tears. "I had a surgery."
"What? When?"
Sakura looked away. She could at least tell him some things about what happened. "It was a few months after I got to the boarding school. I wasn't feeling well...There was...a lot of blood...and I...I wasn't too well off after-"
Sakura was caught off guard when Naruto's arms suddenly shot out to hold her tight to his chest. At the contact, her emotions broke free of her control, like a flood from a dam and unleashed itself as she grasped his body tightly as her agonized crying muffled into his chest.
With Sakura breaking down into him, Naruto held back his own tears. This was not happy tears like their first night together ten years ago. This was agonizing pain that had etched itself into her very being. Now Naruto understood why Sakura had been so reluctant to tell him.
The memory of the first night after they'd reunited in the bedroom came to mind, meeting her roommate and how Ino's first talk had gone with him. She said that Sakura had gone through something a few months after they'd been separated, something that had changed her life forever.
She had hinted at this, right? This surgery along her stomach that must have caused depression and loneliness. Naruto felt angry tears well up in his own eyes as he dug his head into her shoulder, his grip tightening around her shivering frame.
"... I would have been there for you….every step of the way." Naruto whispered, and the shivering stopped….for a second.
Then Sakura only balled more at his words, as she herself couldn't believe how much this was affecting her right now. Shouldn't she be happy at that phrase from him, knowing that if she'd called, then he would've been there right beside her? But that was the point, wasn't it? She hadn't called him, so he didn't know what she had gone through. He didn't even know the truth because she was such a coward, but...Sakura opened her teary eyes to bitterly smile into his shoulder. Just him saying this made her feel better.
The crying continued for another hour, neither saying a word as Sakura let her sobbing run rampant and Naruto only held her more. Finally Sakura sniffled and backed up, her eyes red and dry. "...Thank you…" She hoarsely spoke up. "That means a lot to me...knowing that you would have been there if you could."
"Hey, it's alright." Naruto coaxed her up to his lips to gently kiss her. Sakura grimly smiled into the kiss, wondering how he could still want to kiss her when she was at her worst. Sakura's body came alive again as she eagerly grinded against him and he groaned happily as he gripped her sides lovingly and sucked on the nape of her neck as she jumped into his arms.
Sakura leaned back from him, holding on as he stood up and made their way towards her bedroom. She still grimaced though as he laid her down on the bed.
"I wish you never saw me break down like that though."
But Naruto smiled back at her, thinking her comment pathetic. "Don't be silly. I saw you through all your hard time in high school. You're with me now. I'll always take care of you."
Sakura smiled as he silenced any retort she had in her throat with a heavy kiss and as they began to thrust back and forth in their lovemaking, she was bitterly reminded that this 'Always' had an expiration date of two weeks remaining.
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