Chapter 3 - How?

Naruto was walking to the village gate. He needed to guard it against enemies, just for today, of course. Later, he would visit Minami. He looked at the bouquet of flowers he bought for her. As he looked, he noticed a shadow creeping. As he stared upwards, he almost fainted.

"I-it's you!" he gasped in surprise, but with a kunai in hand, pointing at the person in front of him.

Sakura was in bed, even though it was noon. Minami had found out her feelings. Ever since Sasuke left, she had found out how nice Naruto was. Sasuke. She had remembered that once, before Sasuke was declared KIA, (Killed In Action) he had tried to kiss her, but she refused. She didn't know why, but she had pushed him away, and had run off. She didn't know it would be the last time she would ever see him. But, now he's dead. She hated even thinking about it, but Sasuke, her Sasuke was killed.

She got off her ass, and changed into some decent clothes. She admitted it, she liked Naruto as more than a friend, but the problem is, that bitch Minami now knows she loves Naruto. Sakura walked to the kitchen cursing a loud.

Minami was home, thinking of Naruto, and her plan. She was to meet Ino at the academy door. She just recited her part, and left her house.

When they encountered, they said their hellos, and chit-chatted. Then Minami put her plan into action.

"Hey Ino have you heard? Sakura has a big time crush on someone."

Ino immediately asked, "Who! Tell me!"

"Naruto."

Ino froze. "You're kidding! I'm going straight to Hinata's house to tell her!"

But Minami stopped her. "Just promise not to tell Naruto. He has a crush on Sakura, and he could toss me aside like a broken senbon. You understand me?"

Ino gave her a thumbs up as she ran off.

"Perfect." Minami whispered to herself, rubbing her hands together.

Naruto stared at the person in front of him. "So, you're back Sasuke! Where the hell have you been?"

"Just open the village gate and let me in…" Sasuke said with a glare.

"Sure I'll open the village gate to someone that's been declared KIA for 2 years, and was really alive and in hiding. The weird part is that you've come back." Naruto dryly responded, kunai still in hand.

Sakura was walking around the village just for exercise, when she heard Naruto's voice, and someone else's. Wait, it sounded like Sasuke's voice! I couldn't be! She rushed to the village gate, and there she saw her precious Sasuke-kun! Sakura felt a tear coming. He'd been alive for 2 years and had never came back. "Sasuke! You bastard! Where have you been! You were declared KIA 2 years ago! AWNSER ME!" Sakura screamed at the top of her lungs.

That attracted quit a lot of people. Among the rush of voices were comments like, "Sasuke's back!" or "Why isn't Naruto letting him in?" but mostly, "Where has Sasuke been!"

TenTen found her way to Sakura. She just put her hand on her shoulder.

Tsunade heard the commotion. "What in the world! Sasuke Uchiha's back!" She ran out the door in a blaze to clear up the situation.

When she arrived, almost the whole village was at the gate. As she made her way through, she took Naruto's kunai and just threw it on the cold hard ground. She opened the door for the two ninja. "Sasuke, you are to come with me IMMEDIATELY!"

All the attention was focused on Sasuke, well, except Naruto… Minami had just arrived at the scene. He picked up his kunai and put it away before hiding the crowd-smashed bouquet.

Naruto and Minami had gone to Naruto's apartment. For the first time in a week, (After the first date.) Minami had kissed Naruto. It was a long kiss. Naruto thought it lasted about an hour, he just wanted it never to end. But not all wishes come true… It was late afternoon, the sun was setting, and the whole room was a blaze in orange. Then, Naruto piped up, "This would make a perfect second date."

"Yeah… So let's have our second date! Maybe outside on your bench, so we're close by somewhere to go into when it gets dark." Minami suggested.

As both nodded, they left the apartment and sat on the bench outside of Naruto's apartment.

"What a beautiful sunset!" Naruto admiringly said looking above. They scooted closer to each other. Of course, they kissed, and kissed, and kissed until it was dark. They stood up to go inside, but the door was locked. By that time, a sprinkle of rain had come. By the time Naruto stuck his hand in his pocket and found the keys, it was raining. When he found the right key and opened the door, it was a downright downpour. They were both all wet.

"Bad idea to go on a second date today." Minami stated, laughing.

Naruto pointed to the bathroom. "You can change in there, and you can take a shower to get warmer." Naruto shivered. "I'll just change and get dry in my room."

"I don't have an extra pair of clothes." Minami interrupted.

Naruto opened up his closet and pulled out an extra-large shirt that went up to the knee's.

When both were out and dry, they sat on the couch. It was still raining, and Naruto's umbrella had been torn in five different spots.

"It's probably going to rain all night, so can I stay here, just for today?" Minami urged.

"Well, I can't let you go home soaking wet again." Naruto responded.

TO BE CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 4