YO! I'm back in action you crazy nuts! Oh yeah, feels good to be typin' another bitchin' story. I recently mentioned the rumor of Naruto hitting America as the anime. Someone told me it was true, but I had to be absolutely certain.

I found an interesting article in an Anime Magazine all about the rumor, and it was true. The Anime is hitting Toonami this coming fall. Hell yeah, I can't wait, and I'm sure you guys can't either. I read it's just about popular enough to "Dethrone Goku" and the DBZ empire in America, even though it's not even legal in the States yet. That's fuckin' amazing! Every episode, it is guessed, is downloaded by more than $400,000 different people form the net. I've not been able to accomplish this myself, but I will find a way I hope. Personally, I liked DBZ when it wasn't so redundant and whatnot. After Cell Saga, I lost interest entirely.

Oh, on with the story

On a side note, you'll all probably like what I've done in this one a lot. Unfortnately, I'm not very good at passionate kissing scenes, (OMFG! Was that a hint!") so it may be a bit difficult, and it may not be as good as it could be, but you'll like I hope. Just try and use your god-given imagination. Also something that will probably make you all the more eager to read, I'm going to probably raise the rating by a level. There's no sexual anything people. I have the ability to be decent, but I'm warning you it's going to be pleasantly passionate, and I'm not sure just how I'm supposed to rate stuff. I'm just being safe. If you guys read and think the rating should be returned, tell me in your review.

Naruto felt terrible to lie to his beloved Sakura so blatantly, but he couldn't bear to see anything disappoint her anymore. This lie, of course, was that he expected to be staying in Konoha forever. The truth was that he had no clue how long he'd be home. Only Tsunade knew he wasn't expecting to be there long.

Sakura walked Naruto home with his arm tightly wrapped in both of hers. She was seemingly never going to let him go. Naruto found himself staring at a very strange apartment when he opened the door to his home from years before.

It was clean.

Almost too clean.

"Sakura," he said, "what did you do to my apartment?" Sakura stifled a giggle and stood on her toes to kiss his cheek.

"Surprise," she said with a smile. "I kinda tidied it up for you so you could come home to a clean home. I… spent a lot of time here after you left." Her smile turned to a more neutral expression. "I didn't want to let the place be left to the bugs and critters and stuff, so I kinda kept it in tact and spent a few nights here every now and then."

"Okay," said Naruto. "I'll just have to find a way to make it all dirty again. I'm sure I can accomplish that pretty easy."

"You wouldn't dare," said Sakura.

"It's my home," said Naruto. "I can do what I want. What's to stop me from letting my home turn to a mess again? You?"

Sakura playfully tackled Naruto to the floor. He fell with a thud and rolled with Sakura's and his arms wrapped in a grapple. Their roll ended with Sakura kneeling over him on his back, his arms pinned above his shoulders.

"Wow, Sakura," said Naruto. "You've gotten stronger."

"Tsunade-sama trains me well," said Sakura with a sly grin.

Neither of them could deny to themselves how much they liked being in this situation. They both did pretty well to hide their blushes as well as their arousal though. However, the wicked smile on Sakura's lips betrayed her thoughts.

"Bad Sakura," said Naruto, returning the grin. "I know what you're thinking."

"You do, do you?" she asked smartly. Naruto lunged upward, effectively throwing himself up, even with her on top of him, and they rolled backwards right onto Sakura's back, this time with her arms pinned above her head… a very precarious position. The tables, as they say, had been turned.

Naruto smiled triumphantly. "Yes, I do," he said with a victorious smile.

Sakura leaned up and whispered into his ear. "If you knew what went on in my head... it would blow your mind." Naruto blushed deeply, despite his efforts, as Sakura fell backwards to see the results of her work. She laughed.

"Priceless!" she said, struggling between laughs to breath.

"Really bad," said Naruto, covering up his stimulation again. The laughter eventually stopped, and they remained in that position for several long seconds of silence.

It's been so long since I've seen him, thought the female. He's grown so much in so many ways. His voice is deeper, he's taller, a lot stronger… a lot more masculine. Her eyes helplessly wandered to his skin tight shirt over his chest. Was the shirt tight by design, or was it just that it didn't fit over his body on account of muscle mass? She didn't care. He's even more mature. I can still see the same kindness in his eyes, the same love and compassion, along with a little less innocence. I can't believe I survived five years with him gone.

She's so beautiful, thought Naruto. She always has been, of course, but she's bloomed into such a lovely flower, I can't imagine how many other guys want her. Her body had physically matured over the years. It wasn't a secret the Sakura had, as one might put it, grown, not only taller, and not wider, but grown in the sense of the word that makes every man's eyes inadvertently wonder to the chest area. If I saw anyone ever look at Sakura that way, I'd kill him on the spot. She's worked hard for a long time too. I didn't think she'd miss me so much.

"Naruto?" asked Sakura, smiling pleasantly.

"Hn?"

"Are you going to kiss me, or are you just going to straddle me and look at me all night?" asked Sakura.

Naruto blushed. Duh, who wouldn't? The most beautiful woman in Naruto's eyes had invited him to kiss her. He didn't waste time talking or even breathing.

He bent down and pressed his lips against hers, and he let himself fall into the state of nirvana he'd not felt in too long. Parting her lips with his tongue, he probed the inside of her mouth, and she eagerly accepted his challenge, allowing his tongue to enter as she played with it with her own.

Her hands slowly trailed up his back and around his neck. She wanted as much of him as she could get, as much as he was willing to give. She knew he was too much of a gentleman to even consider… well, you know, and she wasn't disappointed. She didn't really want anything beyond passionate, err, very passionate, kissing and, as they say, "making out".

Her hands somehow found themselves crawling under his shirt up his well-toned chest. Naruto didn't realize it until a strong case of chills took him by surprise, and he got goose bumps all over, his hair standing on the back of his neck. They slid up his front, and she aided him in removing the black garment.

He looks damn good.

Her hands slid back around his shoulders and down his back. His skin was smooth, and it was tight over his muscles. He didn't have an ounce of body fat on him it seemed. It was just skin covering rock-hard muscle. She wanted him all the more.

His chills subsided as he focused instead on the girl beneath her. He stroked a few strands of her pink hair from her forehead and wrapped his other arm around her back. They were held together by each other. Naruto felt the more calm, and yet, more alive, than he had ever felt in his entire life.

Five years of longing for one another, five years of pent up passion and desire, five years of missing, of wanting, of needing, was forgotten that night.

That night, both of them knew, they would never forget.

Never

I know it's damn short, and I'm sorry, but it will pick up the morning after their… "event" in the next chapter. There was no sex in this chapter. There was no groping or anything close to it. Nothing sexual, for all intensive purposes. If you want to think about them taking it up a level, that's your prerogative, not mine. For the purposes of the plot, however, Naruto and Sakura would not ask that of their lover, nor would they expect it or want it, knowing they share the same honorable respect for one another.

It's what makes it all the more cute and adorable. So yeah, there's no plot here at all. I'm sorry, but it was just a filler to keep you guys satisfied for a little while longer. (I hope it worked) I've not really attempted a scene like this before, so I'd really like to know how I did. Remember also that I'd like to know if you think it appropriate for me to have raised the bar.