Naruto had a strange wake-up call. It wasn't his mother dumping a bucket of water over his head. Nor was it Ino poking him until he finally woke up, or stroking him until he woke up. No, he was awakened by a relentless jostling of his bed. He twitched awake, grimacing, not knowing what was going on. His eyes opened and through bleary vision he saw... Two beautiful, pale heart shapes looming above him.

His ears picked up whispers.

"It's so warm... I can feel the heat coming off of it."

"Of course it's warm! Would you want it to be cold?"

A light giggle. "No! I'm just surprised."

"Well go ahead! Touch it!"

"What if he wakes up?"

"Then he'll ask you to touch it."

"Okay..."

The picture became clearer. the wiggling ass on his left was Ino's. The one on the right was Sakura's. It was strange seeing their lady parts from this angle, their tight slits even tighter for having their legs closed.

But right as he felt Sakura's soft hands gently grab his stiff cock, Ino lowered herself to lay flat on the bed, her lower legs kicking back and forth as she watched her friend get used to handling a man's, their man's, cock. "That's it, gentle but firm, not too fast. Don't want it to be over too quickly. Just get him nice and hard."

"It seems way bigger like this," Sakura marvelled quietly, her hot breath tickling the sensitive flesh.

"Yeah, it was a little intimidating the first time I did this," Ino agreed. "But it isn't so scary once you get the hang of it. Are you ready to give it a try?"

"O-Okay," the pinkette gulped, "Here goes."

Once again, Naruto felt her hot breath was over his member, before the softness of her lips wrapped around it eclipsed the feeling entirely. He almost groaned but he didn't want them to know he was awake quite yet.

"There you go," Ino cooed, her hand in Sakura's hair, "Remember, watch your teeth, use your tongue, there you go."

"Mmph," Sakura murmured in acknowledgement, her tongue wriggling and writing around his cockhead. She hadn't taken much of him in yet but was making up for that with her enthusiasm as she tasted her lover's cock for the first time.

"You're doing great, Sakura," Ino praised her efforts, "Are you ready to go deeper?"

With a wet pop, her lips came off, leaving his cockhead cold and needy. "I'm nervous," Sakura admitted. "Will you help me?"

"Of course!" Ino quickly promised. "Okay, get ready."

Once again Naruto felt Sakura's wet mouth envelop the end of his manhood, feeling that wonderful suction again. With one eye slitted open, he watched for the moment Ino grabbed hold of Sakura's head and began to push her down. Suppressing his own groan as her tight mouth took a couple more inches of him inside its wet warmth, he pulled his newest lover's left leg over his body.

She grunted in surprise but Ino took it as discomfort from her own actions. "It's okay, it's okay, just breathe through your nose."

Sakura nodded, not giving the game away as she found herself squatting over Naruto's face. Naruto was happy for it. While he was enjoying her burgeoning blowjob skills he took the opportunity to return the favour a little. Using his limited but effective experience, his fingers got to work stirring Sakura's glistening pussy lips. All with Ino none the wiser.

"Mmmmm," Sakura groaned around his cock as Ino guided her bobbing head up and down the now spit-soaked cock.

"See? It's pretty fun once you get into it, right?" Ino asked excitedly. "Remember to play with his balls a little. Gently."

"Mmhm," Sakura agreed, mostly for one of Naruto's fingers sliding in and out of her pussy while another worked her clit. "Mmm, mmm." One hand moved to come over his leg and gently cup her boyfriend's sac, rolling his balls with delicate fingers.

"Okay, want to try something a little more advanced?" Ino asked, slowing her guiding hand.

"Mmm?" A questioning hum. Whether it was fortunate or unfortunate timing, this was the point Naruto decided to bring her lower half down and introduced his tongue to the mix. "Mm!"

"So eager!" Ino crowed quietly, "And you called me a slut. Okay, get ready. The trick to this is all about timing your breathing and suppressing your gag reflex. It might take a little practice."

"Mmm! Mmm! Mmm!" Naruto quickly figured out where Sakura was most sensitive, even not having to see her face, just from the way her body reacted.

But for all that those noises she made were for a rapidly impending orgasm, Ino took them as enthusiasm. "Okay! Here we go. One, two, three and," Ino pushed Sakura's head down as far as it would go, Naruto's cock poking into her throat. The blonde quickly pulled her back up as she sputtered around the sudden invasion of her oesophagus at the worst possible time. "You okay?" Ino asked.

"Oh fuck!" Sakura coughed, "Oh fuck! Naruto! Naruto!" Sakura's body quaked, her hands balled into the bedsheets as she rode her boyfriend's face to a climax right after she choked on his cock.

"What?" her friend asked, suddenly realising something was up. Looking back she realised what was happening. "Naruto!" she reprimanded. "How long have you been awake?"

"Since right before Sakura touched me for the first time?" he asked more than answered.

"Naruto!" Sakura called out again, plunging back down to take his cock back into his mouth for a couple of seconds, "Please don't stop!" she begged, peppering his shaft with kisses as she said it before she inhaled it once again.

"Oh!" Ino gasped in dramatic disbelief as Naruto went right back to eating Sakura's pussy to the pinkette's obvious delight. "Well! Fine! I'm finishing Sakura's lesson and then it's my turn!" she demanded, putting her hand back on the newly enthusiastic cocksucker's neck to guide her pace to something more even.

For her second orgasm of the morning, Sakura didn't stop sucking, just screamed her orgasm around his dick, the vibrations a delightful thrum over the sensitive flesh. Sakura was a fast learner, especially for things she was enthusiastic about and pleasuring her man was one such thing. With guidance from Ino, a can-do attitude and the motivation of love, she soon felt his balls tighten inward in her hand. The gentle pulses as they delivered their life-giving seed up his shaft and out of his tip.

Sakura didn't slow in the slightest, letting her boyfriend's cum spray the back of her throat. She swallowed it down eagerly. There was no hesitation. It came from Naruto so she would cherish it. Another jet splashed directly on her tongue as she pulled back and that soon followed the first. On and on it went, the love-drunk medic nin drinking down Naruto's hot cum like it was refreshing water and she a woman dying of thirst. Somehow as the pulses stopped and the flow of his seed slowed to a trickle, she felt disappointed.

Her lips slowly dragged their way up and off of his still hard cock, savouring the last of his gift. "Huh," she uttered, rolling it over her tongue, "It tastes way better than I thought it would."

"Hmph. You're welcome," Ino harrumphed. "Now move over. It's my turn!"

Within an hour, the three of them were washed, dressed and ready for the day, sitting down to breakfast with the matriarch of the house. "Good morning son, girls." Kushina herself wasn't dressed, sat at the table in a dressing gown and from what Ino could see, nothing else (not that she was looking).

"Morning Mom."

"Good morning Kushina."

"Good morning Lady Uzumaki."

Kushina smiled at their ever so common house guest. "Sakura, I think you can call me Kushina by now. You've spent almost every night this week under this roof."

"I'm sorry, ma'am, I didn't mean to be an imposition."

"It's not an imposition," the redhead waved it off. Really she was planning to tidy and properly furnish another bedroom in preparation for what was obviously on the horizon. "But if you're not going to call me Kushina," her smile gained a harder edge to it as her crimson hair began to rise menacingly, "Definitely don't call me ma'am."

"Uhh!" Sakura stared wide-eyed at the display. "Sorry, ma– I, I mean, Lady Kushina?"

The sinister crimson mane slowly returned to its proper place, the former clan head smiling serenely again. "Close enough."

-(-)-

Team 8 weren't necessarily a well-oiled machine as far as team cohesion went. It was of course early days in their cooperation. They had only been a team for a couple of weeks after all. But the progress they had made was more than acceptable. Kurenai Yuhi had taught before, but only for offering tutelage to younger ninja, never a full Genin team. Even so, she managed well enough to foster a sense of camaraderie between the three teenagers through the time honoured tradition of making her team resentful of her. The standard procedure of putting Genin through D-Rank missions only during their first month of enlistment did much of the work. No one enjoyed doing grunt work, especially when schooling portrayed the job of ninja as never-ending adventures of daring and intrigue. All it took was getting them to do the jobs they were assigned, and then not helping. And then once the missions were done drill them in team combat.

Direct all of their ire towards her, and then force them to work together. It was inevitable that their ire would see them band together against a common 'foe'. Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame might have gotten along like oil and water at first, but their rivalry was slowly quelled by necessity.

It certainly made Hinata's job as peacemaker between the two of them far easier. It was an impossibility for the meek girl to put her foot down. She needed the help.

Perhaps when they went out on their first mission that cooperation would allow them to work together without their sensei's supervision. Kurenai certainly hoped so. It was why she ended the day's training early, telling her team to go get something to eat together at her expense.

"Oh man, we're gonna eat like kings tonight, right Akamaru?!" Kiba asked his ninken partner riding on his head.

"Arf!" The little dog barked its agreement, tongue hanging out of its mouth. The white puppy hopped off of Kiba's head to run around his partner's feet excitedly.

"Where to go though," Kiba pondered to himself, "Since Sensei is footing the bill there's no need to cheap out. Ooh! Maybe barbecue!"

"I am not certain I can agree to such a choice," Shino spoke, his voice muffled slightly by his coat. "Why? Our third teammate may have objections to something so heavy."

"Hey, come on! Barbecue places aren't just red meat, they have salads and stuff!" Kiba countered, though as he took a moment to actually hear the argument beyond the disagreement, he winced. If there was one surefire way to get him to back down it was bringing up Hinata. "Hey Hinata! What do you think? Barbecue? Or maybe sushi?"

"Anything but shellfish," she answered distractedly.

Only as she spoke did Kiba realise how far back she had fallen. Kiba turned around to see what was up to see her staring off in the distance behind them. It wasn't hard to see what had distracted her. Walking down the street away from them was Naruto, walking hand in hand with both Ino and Sakura, smiling and laughing. Hinata's hands were clasped in front of her, staring at the trio with a look of deep longing.

Kiba's hands balled into fists, but he forced himself to loosen them again. "Hey, Hinata, come on!" he exclaimed, kneeling, "Can't you see how excited Akamaru is? Let's go get some food!"

"Right... Sorry..." she responded, still gazing into the distance, the target of her affections near disappeared into the distance. But that was fine, she could just use her Byakugan–

"Kiba," Shino tried to intervene in what might become a bad situation.

"Hey," she startled as she felt a hand pat her on the shoulder. Kiba's hand. He was right there behind her. "You really like him, don't you?" She didn't answer verbally. Her shoulders hunched, her fingers pressing together, looking away but giving a slight nod of confirmation. "I don't get it! He barely even notices you! He's already hanging out with other girls! With that stupid law he won't ever be able to treat you right like I– any other guy would!" He bit his tongue to stop himself from saying something he needn't.

The pale-eyed girl wished she knew how to put her feelings into words. She understood it wouldn't be like a normal relationship. She could never be his one and only. If that had ever been a possibility it no longer was one. Even worse, could she ever be his wife? After waiting so long? With the complicated politics of her clan? That didn't seem likely. And yet... "He's... like the sun," she answered. An impossible, inscrutable answer that she knew would tell her teammates nothing, but to her explained everything. To be part of that warmth, that brightness, she would feel like the luckiest girl in the world.

No, Kiba didn't understand what those four words meant. He would never be able to look at Naruto with her eyes, see what she did. All he could see was the guy who didn't even notice the amazing girl who was so dedicated to him. All he could see was the guy who made it impossible to win Hinata's heart. No, he didn't understand the words, or the meaning behind them, but seeing her joyous expression, the affection in her voice, he understood the feeling behind them.

After all, if to her Naruto was the sun, to him, Hinata was the moon.

And if only that wasn't the metaphor. If only it was something else, something that didn't say she was the sun's perfect counterpart.

"You know, I'm, uhh, I'm gonna go home," Kiba said finally, stooping down to gather Akamaru in his arms. "I, heh, I forgot that my mom wanted me to help Hana with the kennels today."

"Oh," Hinata said, "Well, that's a shame. Maybe we can go eat together some other time?"

"Sure," Kiba nodded. "Call it a rain check. I'll... I'll see you guys later."

Shino adjusted his sunglasses as he watched the other male member of Team 8 walk away with hands in his pockets. "I will go home also. Why? I would not make for good company on my own. Goodnight, Hinata."

"R-Right! See you tomorrow!" Hinata nodded with a soft smile that lasted only long enough for Shino to turn and begin walking away. Her eyes turned back to Kiba's back. Her Byakugan activated for only a moment, enough time to see Kiba wipe his face with his sleeve. "I'm sorry, Kiba," she whispered before making her way back to the Hyuuga estate.

-(-)-

Anko was maybe getting just a little bit frustrated with doing missions with Team 10.

Well, 'doing missions' in the sense that Genin did the work and she supervised. And heckled. It was the one great privilege of being a Jonin sensei. She sure as shit didn't take this kind of job for the money. Four months of D and occasionally C-Rank pay, the lion's share getting split between the Genin so they could feel accomplished as ninja. That was before being able to take the lowest tier of real missions. Yeah, Jonin sensei also got B-Rank pay once a month for looking after the kids for the first six months. A steady paycheck but no chance to make real money on real missions.

But she wasn't even able to really enjoy the one good thing about this job because she had to spend so much time Naruto wrangling. It wasn't even the kid's fault. Sure he would bitch and moan about another D-Rank but when it came to doing the work he came at it with the same bottomless enthusiasm as he did anything else. Kid had a good work ethic.

No, the problem wasn't with Naruto. It was with their clients. Whether it be cleaning an attic, painting a fence, dog walking, it didn't matter. At some point while the kids were working the client would find some excuse to drag Naruto away for a bit. "Oh, you kids look thirsty, why don't one of you help me get you all some nice cold drinks?" "Excuse me? I'm sorry I need to sort some garbage but I'm oh so old and saggy and feeble. Could a strong young man help me?" Or some other bullshit like that. And the kid would go, and he wouldn't come back, so Anko would be forced to track him down.

Invariably she would find him looking very awkward as he was introduced to the client's daughter, granddaughter, niece or whomever. Getting told all about the girl's wonderful homemaking skills and wouldn't she make just a wonderful wife one day. Maybe the two of them should get to know each other in private, wink wink nudge nudge PLEASE BREED MY FAMILY SO WE CAN LIVE THE GOOD LIFE.

Alright, they didn't say the last part but they might as well have had a great flashing sign saying as much for how unsubtle they were being. Even the kid could see it. Well, after the first time at least. It was kind of cute how he'd cling to Anko's side, almost hiding behind her from the girls who looked at him like a side of beef garnished with ryo. Most of the time she understood. Some of those girls were real heifers. Most of them were below ninja standards, appearance-wise. Active chakra networks did a lot of favours when it came to attractiveness and the active lifestyle meant the number of female ninja who weren't in great shape was a very low number.

Though a couple of them were kind of cute. She was maybe a little surprised he didn't take the prettier ones up on it, whether in the short or long term. He was inexperienced and impulsive after all. A pretty girl giving him doe eyes wanting to spend some private time with him, with not only the right but encouragement to breed them with impunity? But he never did. In his own words, 'They didn't want Naruto. They wanted the Uzumaki." A surprisingly mature stance for someone his age, Anko thought. Didn't mean she wouldn't laugh at his discomfort every time. She had to get her fun somewhere after all. But still, it was interesting to see these strange moments of insight mixed in with his usual oblivious gullibility.

She still wasn't going to fuck him though. Stupid Sensei. She honestly didn't know what was going through his head sometimes. Everyone thought he was kind of an oddball, well you could say that about pretty much any great ninja, but he was a weird one even by those standards. Anko thought she had a better grasp on who Orochimaru was having learned so much under him, her view of the world shaped partially based on his. But then there were times like this where she just didn't get what his aim was.

Did he want her to join the kid's burgeoning harem? Be the woman on the inside of the Uzumaki clan for him? Or had she misread the situation and he didn't want her to get intimately involved with the Uzumaki? It wasn't a bad theory actually. Naruto Uzumaki was an investment of Orochimaru's. The village desperately needed the clan to be revitalised. Their ability with seals was irreplaceable. Some of their veterans swore by the advanced creations the Uzumaki produced decades ago, things that were impossible to recreate without mastery of the craft. And now the number of true seal masters in Konoha was down to two. Kushina and Jiraiya (who barely counted as 'in Konoha'). The Uzumaki were a force magnifier, allowing every ninja in their forces to be capable of more. Losing them was a tremendous blow for that alone. And the idea of completely losing the ability to seal the Nine Tails...

She looked at the young man, where she had sent him to train his chakra control by doing exercise on the river. Her new theory... It made a lot of sense. A lot more sense than Sensei pimping out his prized apprentice as breeding stock. She realised how dumb, how paranoid she had been, assuring herself she would be more open with the blond now. There was no need to be as uncomfortable around him as she had been. He was a good kid.

But, she didn't only have one student. So it was important to make sure all of them were growing and learning to better themselves. Ino was doing fine sparring with one of Anko's mud clones. Well, doing fine wasn't quite right but she was doing better. The Yamanaka (former Yamanaka?) needed to learn how to defend herself even if not in her own body, even in a body less capable than her own. So Anko gave her some pointers in how to tailor her fighting style to a weaker, less flexible body.

Sakura... Oh, Sakura. The girl was sweating up a storm doing push-ups as Anko sat cross-legged on her back. The girl was miserable by the end of every training session but that was inevitable. Endurance is always the worst kind of training. It's intentionally making yourself feel like shit so you won't feel like shit the next time you do the same thing. She was making progress, but that was the other thing that sucked about endurance training. It took time.

"How you holding up, Pinky?" Anko asked. "You've got another ten to go."

"I'm, haa, fine, haa, Anko-sense!" the girl panted.

"That so?" Huh. The run, then the sit-ups, then this, and she said she was fine? Anko had to admit she liked the attitude even if the girl was lying through her teeth. "Well you can take a break after this anyway."

"No!" Sakura denied as she finished her set. Anko got off her to let the girl get to her feet, which she did, her legs shaking. "I can keep going! What's next, Anko-sensei?"

Huh. That was interesting. It was good to see the girl show her spine had some steel but, "Now you've got me curious. What brought on this motivation?"

"I want to be a stronger ninja!" Sakura insisted and Anko genuinely believed her. Right up until those green eyes flicked left toward the river.

Anko's eyes narrowed. That... Well she knew Sakura had feelings for the kid, but that didn't tell her what changed between their first team meeting and– "Oh. Oh, fuck no."

"Sensei?"

"Team meeting!" Anko shouted, getting the attention of her other two students and her clone. "Team meeting now! Right now!" The other two kids scrambled over, the mud clone dissolving into a clump of wet earth.

"What's up, Sensei?" Ino asked.

"Down. Sit down," she ordered, her three Genin quick to follow the order. Only once they had did she lower herself to the dirt. "Okay," she opened the impromptu meeting. "Okay. Okay, you three are fucking." The three teenagers showed a descending scale of embarrassment from left to right. Sakura blushing, Naruto rubbing his neck awkwardly, Ino preening proudly. "You three are fucking and... And that's fine." It wasn't fine, but she would say it was fine. "But remember this one very important thing. On a mission, you be one-hundred percent professional. You spend the entire time making goo goo eyes at each other it'll get you killed."

"Pfft, we wouldn't do that, Sensei!" Naruto scoffed.

Anko signalled with her eyes, directing his attention to his right where he saw Sakura staring lovingly at him before she blushed and looked away on being caught.

"Sakura, what did I just say."

"Uhh!" the pinkette froze like a startled deer, "That it's okay that we're f– making love?" the girl tried.

"Gahhh!" Anko groaned at the sky. "Gods save me from fucking teenagers! And fucking teenagers." Returning her gaze to her students, she looked at each in turn, paying special attention to the cringing Sakura. "Be professionals in the field. That's what I said. I'm not gonna complain that you're going along with Sensei's plan. But when you're on a mission you're ninja before you're lovers, got it?"

"Got it."

The mildly frazzled Jonin sighed in mild relief, even if she didn't believe for a second the lesson would sink in that easily. "Okay. Naruto, Ino, get back to what you were doing. Sakura, you're done for the day."

"But I can still–!"

"Pinky," Anko called her, giving her a look that brooked no argument. "You're a medic. You know better than most that when your body says 'stop' you stop. You want to hang around until the others are done, you can. Do something that isn't strenuous. But you're done exercising for the day, got it?"

"Yes, Anko-sensei."

The Jonin watched as her pink-haired student wandered shakily over to a tree and sat leaning against it. She continued watching as said girl managed to keep her eyes open for only a minute before she passed out in exhaustion.

This was what Anko was dealing with and it was almost time for baby's first mission. She could only hope nothing crazy would come of it.