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Chapter 4:

My life, Your life

Naruto and sakura finally entered the apartment of naruto. They walk towards the lounge.

Sakura examined the whole room in front of him.

"i—is this where you live naruto-kun?" she hesitantly asked naruto. Naruto just embarrassedly nodded.

She was stunned upon the surroundings that was in front of her, she stepped back seeing all the wreckage; the lounge table was full of dust and has a ashtray that was full of left over of cigarettes scattered above the table.

The floor hasn't been cleaned for at least—the first shinobi war. She gulped then starts to look the other side of the room; it was no exemption of course. The glass of the windows are shattered, she looked up and sees a thousand of spider webs in the ceiling, she will not be surprised if there's a five ft. giant spider living there she thought.

"hey pip squeak, who's the gorgeous chick? Your girlfriend.." the fat owner of the apartment asked naruto.

"Heh Heh heh, if you put it that way then—" Sakura disrupts the talk of the two.

"Were just good friends that's all…" she replied she smirk "but soon enough….soon enough…"

sakura thinks to himself.

Naruto just gloom out in the corner as usual.

"Oh come on, don't just stand there. Lets go to your room!" sakura grabbed naruto's arms and walk straight to naruto's room. . After they have gotten into the second floor they walk on to the hall that leads to the third room where naruto's room lye's. Naruto shakily grabbed the door, he seems to be agitated.

"sakura-chan? Don't mind the mess okay?" as he opened the door sakura was once again stunned on to what she sees. But now it was far more devastating than the first floor. To simply put, it was a sea of garbage. Dishes were piled up high above the sink, some left-over of instant ramen cups were scattered into the table, used dress were unorganized and scattered all over the place, tons of ninja books were scattered in the floor, kunai can be seen all over the place.

The used and cleaned dresses were mixed up together. It was a complete devastation

She couldn't believe someone can make this kind of mess. Naruto sweat dropped "hehe…I was planning to clean that.." naruto nervously said then afterwards he started to clean up the room. "geez" sakura sighed.

As she stares at the room of naruto she noticed that there is only one bed…table…chair…cabinet…etc…as if he only had a one item per each kind. She felt guilty because of the way she interacts with him.

She felt sorry for him… she promised himself that he will not punch him or call naruto an idiot ever again.

When…

She suddenly felt a Wriggling like-thing that was crawling beneath her feet. Upon closer inspection she noticed that a insect is crawling in his sandals. It has a:

two antennas…

two wings…

brown-like color skin…

a cockroach to be precise.

. . . . . . . . ."WAAAAAAAAAAA!" she screamed. Sakura almost passed out because of the cockroach that was crawling in her foot. "get it off! Get it off GET IT OFF!" she continuously shouted, causing naruto to panicked. Naruto sat down and squashed the cockroach by his hand on sakura's sandal.

He realized that what he'd done is completely wrong…really wrong…

He sweat dropped anime-style! "Bad idea…" he thought. "Im dead…"

"NAAAARUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTOOOOOOOOOOO!" The inner sakura has been unleashed from its cage, now even the great kyuubi can stop the havoc that sakura will do to naruto.

Naruto was shaking really badly "s-s—Sa—Sakura-chan...Let's talk these over…"

It no use, sakura can't hear him anymore. She positioned herself in front of naruto and deliver a very powerful punch like the one that tsunade does.

"YOU IDIOT!"

Like always, naruto was blast off to the sky, making a huge hole on his roof.

"oh no…I did it again…"

-3rd hokage's house-

konohamaru: "Grandma look! A shooting star" pointing at the 'star'

Grandma: "is that a shooting star, kinda weird?"

Konohamaru: "Who knows…."

-Back at the apartment-

Sakura was finished cleaning up her sandals and naruto was finally been brought back after his travel from the skies.

"geez! From all of the places that you would kill the bug, Why on my sandals!" sakura asked with still a little annoyance on her voice.

"I was panicking, I thought something bad happened to you sakura-chan…" naruto explained with a big lump on his cheek.

Silence….

"GROWWLL" suddenly naruto's stomach started to make sounds. She tried to hide his laughter—but failed.

A huge burst of laughter came out of sakura's mouth all of a sudden. She continuously laugh after, "GROWWLLL" her stomach started to make sound also causing him to stop laughing. Her face was red as a tomato. Naruto just laugh at him also

Sakura explained, slightly annoyed "Hey, after all of the cleaning that I've done you've expect me not to be hungry?"

"Hahaha—It's just that—hahaha!" naruto couldn't put in the words that he was gonna say. He just grabs his stomach to stop laughing. After awhile Sakura joined naruto laugh without any reason. Like they say, laughter is the best medicine.

Finally the laughter died out. They both just smiled at each other. "Don't worry I will make something for us to eat okay? so you've just sit there and relax" sakura enthusiastically said. They were like newly-wed's.

Sakura brings what they have bought in the grocery store and walk toward the kitchen. She pulled out some cabbage, eggs and other stuff to make an omelet. She then slices the cabbage like a pro, naruto couldn't say anything but "Whoa! Your really good at cooking sakura-chan!" sakura happily replied "my mom teaches me to cook since I was a little girl"

Naruto continued to clean his room. afterwards he suddenly heard a knock on his window. "Ero-sennin?" he narrowed his eyes as he walk towards the window. "Yo, naruto! Can I stay for awhile at your room?" jiraiya replied.

"and why should I" naruto suspiciously respond

"I'm your Sensei! and apprentices should follow the orders of their master no matter what!"

Naruto rolled his eyes and sighed "lemme guess, you got to a bar full of ladies then used up all your money on sake and 'stuff' am I right?"

"W—well.." Jiraiya scratches his hair thinking some good explanation.

"You used up all your money thus you can't rent a room on a hotel then you come here into my apartment so that you can have a place to rest up?" naruto annoyingly respond. Jiraiya asked again now begging on a praying position "So can I?"

"…….No" crossing his arms together.

"WHAT? WHY IS THAT?"

sakura speaks but not leaving the kitchen "naruto, Is someone out there?" Jiraiya ginned. a VERY huge grin from ear to ear "Ohoho! And who might that be? Naruuutooo?" Jiraiya teasingly asked.

"umm well.. its ah.. umm… sakura-chan…" naruto embarrassingly respond lowering his head. Jiraiya quickly grabbed his apprentice neck "You've got a really cute girl to spend the night ALONE, I'm jealous. Gimme the details" whispering on naruto's ear. Naruto explained why sakura ended up sleeping on his room. Jiraiya's jaw dropped upon his excitement. He clutches on his chin

"Well naruto, you are lucky today. I Jiraiya the 'Master of these things' will teach you everything that I know about theses stuff" he grinned.

"I don't need your advice on 'These things' get it, Ero-sennin?"

"B—but naruto! These situation only come once in a life-time! You've gonna take advantage of it!"

Naruto sighed. "I guess it cant be helped.."

"Harem no jitsu!"

'Poof'

"oho—" Jiraiya beamed

rubbing the cheeks of the perverted sanin "I don't need it jiraiya-sama I'm just happy the way it is…now if you would just politely get of my room E-R-O—S-E-NIN?" Naruto said mischievously.

Jiraiya had a nose bleed causing him to fall down into naruto's window.

Naruto just blew a kiss on jiraiya "and stay there ♥" then he change back into normal to avoid suspicion of sakura

"its finished!" sakura commented. She then brought all of the food that she makes into the table. It consist of omelet, eggs and some salad

Naruto smelled the aroma all over the room it made her to become more eager to eat "looks tasty!" naruto said with a huge smile on his face.

Meanwhile Jiraiya was peeping on the corner of the window of the room

"Isn't that nice…Its really a wonder how time passes by..." he smiled, proud of his foster son he silently walks away.

"good for you naruto…"

"Hope you like it"

Naruto first eat the omelet that sakura prepares for him. His eyes widen "this is really good!" naruto commented on the dining table, eating really rapidly. Sakura laughed lightly as she sit besides naruto to join him to eat what she prepared.

As she eats sakura noticed that naruto's room consist only of one room and a single bathroom and kitchen and a single table in the living room. The living room is also the place where they both eat up, so it means that it can also be called as dining room.

There was a really big hole in the roof because of the event with the cockroach earlier. She chuckled when she thought about it.

There's also a balcony where you can see the mountain where the faces of all the hokage were carved.

"your room is quite small naruto-kun. Why stay at a place like this?" sakura hesitantly asked.

"well it's the only one that I can afford. The money that I only got is when we get our pay-check after completing some mission"

"but the money that we got from a mission is too low and team seven hadn't have many mission after sasuke left so how can you get thru your daily expenses with such a small allowance?" sakura curiously asked.

Naruto stopped eating "Well.. I get a part time job, sometimes if I haven't got any money left" naruto jokingly replied

sakura thinks to herself "poor guy"

They've finished up eating, naruto cleaned up the table while sakura washes the dishes.

"Back at our house we've got tons of dishes stored at our cabinet…while naruto had only two dishes and cups"

She thought as she continued to clean up the dishes. After she finished up cleaning the dishes she sat right next to naruto in the living room. she noticed the huge hole that she did earlier that evening. "I'd better say sorry, after all that he'd done good to me…this is the exchange that I gave him" sakura felt guilty and embarrassed

"naruto-kun?" sakura sweetly asked naruto just replied "hmmmm?"

"I—im sorry for what I did earlier" she lowered her head to hide her embarrassment. "its okay, I should be the one asking for your forgiveness because…I squash the cockroach in your sandals…" he looked at sakura very kindly. With a sincere smile on his face which make sakura felt guiltier.

"No! You're not the one that should be saying that….i am.." she lowered her voice.

Naruto smiled. He looked up the hole.

"You know what sakura-chan? You've done me a favor for doing that to me earlier..."

She looked at him very confused "what's that supposed to mean? I've done him a favor on punching him and making a hole out of his roof? Yeah right!" she thinks to herself. She hesitantly asked "w—what do you mean naruto-kun?"

Naruto smirk a very tender smile "You want to know why…look up" she looked up slowly

"the moon?"

It was a full moon. It glows really bright lightening up the night for both of them.

"Yeah…I've got the chance to see the moon really clearly today….together with you sakura-chan"

the comment of naruto caused sakura to blush really madly.

"I'm happy that you're here, Sakura-chan" Naruto smirk and passionately looked at her "looking at the same moon together…"

"I feel ashamed of myself, compared to the life of naruto, my life's so easy. He has no family relatives, he has a little amount of money, he has a really small room to live in, all of the townspeople hated him for some reason…and every time he tries to talk with me, what did I do? Call him a idiot or punches him for no reason...yet he still manage to smile…I'm such an idiot for not realizing it much sooner." She pauses for a bit to look on naruto then start to drift his mind again.

"All of the mischievous thing that he'd done during our days in the ninja academy…maybe he just desperately seeks attention by doing those things…deep inside that goofy smile of yours hides a lonely child that desperately seeks affection on others"

" I fell so ashamed of myself…"

To be continued…

Chapter 5:

Meteor Shower

A/N: this chapter was originally called 'Alone with you' in mediaminer. You will probably understand why did I change the story when you read the original..hehe...you know what I mean, if you want to read the original ver. Feel free to go to mediaminer. The title is the same as well as the username