Hello readers and welcome back to a new chapter. Now my AN was kind of long last time so I will try to keep it short for all of you now. Though just know that I am always thankful for all of you reading my stories.

I don't own Naruto

Chapter 48

"mmhhh" Sakura slightly groaned as she felt herself start to escape from the clutches of sleep. She then opened her eyes only to immediately shut them due to the sunlight going into her eyes. "Ugh, Damn sunlight why do you have to wake me up….and why is my head so painful?" She thought bringing a hand up to rub her temples. "What happen last night?" She asked herself not remembering a lot of what happened after she got out of the hospital. Still she forced herself to wake up and slowly opened her eyes making sure to look away from the window. When she did this she quickly noticed that she wasn't in her own room; an observation that quickly woke her the rest of the way up as she jumped out of the bed. Sadly for her though when she stood up she quickly began to feel extremely dizzy and sick forcing her to sit back down. "Ugh. Ok calm down Sakura you just woke up with some sort of chemical heavily affecting you. You aren't in your own room so think about a way out of getting of here to safety." She told herself determined to get out of the house of what she assumed to be a rapist 'den'.

She then refocused on her surroundings and tried standing up, succeeding this time. Still soon after she did so her stomach seemed to flip making her new mission to be finding a bathroom which just so happened managed to an open door close to her. So, after getting there as fast as her dizziness allowed her she quickly dropped around the toilet and began puking the contents of her stomach out into said toilet. She stayed there for a minute or two before she finally felt better and stood up again only to freeze in horror when she looked into the mirror. For what she saw staring back at her was a pink haired girl whose hair looked like it went through a tornado. Though what worried her the most was the fact that she saw her pink bra as the only thing holder her breasts in confinement.

"Oh no." she mumbled out looking closer into the mirror as if something would change. "oh no no no no no." she continued freaking out until she nearly was in tears. "Nooo m-my first time already happened" She thought horrified and depressed. "And not only don't I remember it but I don't even know what creeper stole it from me. It was supposed to be special!" She thought actually crying at the loss of what she considered one of her most prized possessions.

"Sakura-san." Sakura heard whispered out quietly and quickly looked at the door where she noticed Haku was standing.

"H-haku-san!?" Sakura mumbled out shocked. "If you are here t-then that means this must be Naruto-kun's home." Getting a positive nod. "W-well I guess at least it was with someone that actually cares for me and not some freak." She muttered out confusing Haku.

"What do you mean?"

"Haku look at me..the only possible reason I can think of for looking like this is if Naruto had se-…you know… with me while I was under whatever is making my head so foggy." Sakura told the girl who's eyes widened slightly.

"Oh, Sakura you really don't remember what happened last night do you?" Haku asked the pinkett who nodded her head. "Well Sakura Ayame-san found you last night at a bar completely wasted. She then brought you over here where Naruto and me quickly took care of you. We placed you into his bed and wanted you to sleep it off." Haku explained to the girl who is now confused.

"B-but then why am I nearly naked and- and my hair like this?" Sakura asked and watched shocked as the girl giggled at her misfortune.

"Well that is actually what made it a bit funny. You see after we put you into the bed we went out to talk with Ayame and heard noise coming from the room soon after they left. So, Naruto-kun quickly went there to check on you and found you rolling around on the bed complaining about being too warm…that is where your hair got messed up by the way. Anyways before we could do anything to help you get cooler you quickly stood up in front of us and quickly removed your clothes right in front of him." Haku explained giggling. "You should have seen how shocked he looked before turning pink and looking away." She told her before going into a small laughing fit at the expression Naruto had before pulling herself back together. "Anyways after that happened Naruto quickly told me to help you before running out of the room." She told her with a smile. For while she should be upset that her boyfriend is looking at another girl but due to accepting the whole CRA thing she wasn't. Besides she still was his servant so even if he wasn't in CRA she wouldn't have minded all that much either.

"So we didn't do…that?" Sakura asked getting a nod that made her sigh in relief. "Thank kami." Sakura told the girl in relief before realizing what she was. "I mean not that he would be a bad or anything but I want to be with someone special...I mean he is special but…ow my head" Sakura tried to explain but her head started hurting when she tried to think of a proper reasoning to appease the girl if she took offense.

"Well that will happen when you drink a lot Sakura-san." Haku told her before handing her a glass of water. "Here take this and there is some medicine in the cabinet if you don't feel capable of doing a medical jutsu." Haku told the girl who gladly took the water. Haku then walked out of the room going to tell Naruto that Sakura was up while said girl gladly drank the water to rinse her mouth.

+Few minutes later+

Sakura who was still sitting on the bathroom floor due to not feeling completely confident in her ability to walk while dizzy. So, when Haku came back she was pretty much in the same state she was before.

"Feeling any better?" Haku asked kindly.

"A little bit but I still feel dizzy and sick to my stomach." Sakura admitted. "Honestly if this was from booze like you said then I have no idea why Tsunade-sensei likes the stuff so much." Sakura admitted.

"…Haku is she dressed now?" Sakura heard a male voice ask.

"Naruto-kun?" Sakura asked surprised he came back to speak with her. Though she was semi-surprised to see Naruto in the doorway though nearly laughed at the fact that he seemed to be closing his eyes as much as possible.

"Hello Sakura. I am glad you are doing better this morning. Now do you want to talk about the reason you were found wasted by Ayame and her friend? We are all worried about you…oh and just as a reminder I did NOT mean to see you in your underwear yesterday. You simply caught me by surprise when you did it." Naruto told her clearly sweating and preparing to be punched out of the village.

"Heh don't worry Naruto Haku explained it already to me. Though I thank you for being courteous enough to not stare at me…anyways you were worried about me?" Sakura told him confused for while she was even surprised herself that she really didn't mind the fact that Naruto saw her that wasn't really what she was focused on. Instead she was surprised that he would worry about her after all the things she did to him when they were younger.

"Well of course I was Sakura we are friends. Now how about we go into the Livingroom and see if we can get the bottom of what caused all this shall we?" Naruto asked her before reaching down to her forgetting why he had his eyes closed. "Gah!" Naruto called out in surprise blushing at the fact that he accidentally saw her again. "Sorry! Haku can you get some clothes on her then meet me in the living room please." Naruto asked Haku as he quickly walked away with the blush still on his face.

"Heh what a knuclehead." Sakura mumbled laughing at his reaction though surprisingly not bothered by the fact he 'peeked' at her again. Still she with the help of Haku quickly got out of the bathroom and got dressed before finally meeting with Naruto again.

"So what got you drinking?" Naruto asked the girl as soon as she sat down on a chair.

"W-well what makes you think that this is something wrong? I mean you know how bad my sensei is with booze maybe I just got a bad habit." Sakura told him trying to not have to think about the real reason.

"…Sakura we have been teammates for ages and I have never seen you take more than a few sips of booze. Now if you don't want to talk that's fine I won't force you. But know we just want to help you." Naruto told her not buying her story at all

*sigh* "You know me to well sometimes." She admitted to him before finally deciding to just tell him and just deal with his reaction. "The reason I drank so much is because of the research we were doing on the blood. For we did get a lot of information b-but then came the last test. After I gave the results Lord Danzo came wanting a test a l-live specimen." She told him now shaking a bit remembering his screams. "I just stood there listening as a man screamed and became one of those things." Sakura told him horrified. While she was far from weak minded she just couldn't accept the fact that she just stood there while a man that she knew nothing about was tortured just for the sake of science. Course she expected both of them be upset with her but instead was shocked when Naruto wrapped her up in a tight hug.

"Oh Sakura-chan I am sorry you had to go through with that. It must have been awful…but you weren't the one who did it. Danzo was." Naruto told her while gently rubbing her back. "Yet again I am stuck trying to make people I care about feel better…I must give them some of my bad luck..but at least I think I kind of have what to do down." Naruto thought as he did this still hoping that what he was doing was making her feel better.

"B-but I just stood there letting it happen." Sakura told him clearly nearly going to cry.

"You hand no choice. Danzo while an asshole still holds weight in the village. If you tried anything you would have been stopped. So, please don't think it is your fault…just try and move on from it and focus on better days…future days." Naruto told her.

"B-b-ut" Sakura began but was snuffling a bit.

"Shhh, just let it out." Naruto told her at least understanding the signs of when people need to cry. And with that said she began to cry into his shoulder.

(An while Sakura does become a bit more bad ass she still is under the effects of some of the alcohol so her 'walls' isn't completely up. Plus she is more than a bit shaken up from watching someone being tortured without reason)

They then sat there for several minutes just letting Sakrua let go of all of her stress until she finally pulled away with her eyes puffy and nose slightly running.

"Feel better?" Naruto asked the girl kindly who nodded.

"Yea, thank you Naruto-kun." Sakura told him with a small smile on her face. "Only Naruto-kun is willing to try his hardest to make anyone feel better…even if they were mean to him for years." Sakura thought fondly of her blond friend. "Now I better go actually do something with my day I guess." Sakura told him blushing out of embarrassment seeing as she realized it was still early in the morning.

"Hehe Ok Sakura-chan. I hope you are feeling better…and next time you feel the need to drink away your sorrows just come to me ok?" Naruto told her kindly getting a nod from the girl. Sakura then quickly walked up to him and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before quickly running out of the house with a blush back on her face.

"Why did I do that?" Sakura mentally asked herself as she rushed out as fast as she could while still feeling a bit dizzy even though some of the after effects of the booze.

+ Back with Naruto/Haku +

Haku just shook her head at what she just saw Sakura do knowing full well why she did it. "I know I shouldn't mind it if my master has more girls…well more than he already does but I would prefer if I didn't have to share him with EVERY girl he meets. *sigh* Only I can manage to be with the one guy out there than can woo any girl simply by being himself." Haku thought though if she was honest with herself she wouldn't change him for anything.

"You're sweet Naruto-kun. Now I'll get breakfast started." She told him walking towards the kitchen.

"…wait wasn't she wobbling just a little bit before she left? How did she manage to rush out of the house without much problems?" Naruto asked confused only to get a shrug.

"I guess all that crying burnt off some affects." Haku told him simply not caring enough to think about it much. She then went on to cooking a basic breakfast for them. Soon enough said meal was ready and both of them happily ate.

"So, what are your plans for today?" Naruto asked her.

"I guess I will do some cleaning around our house and then probably go to the library for a bit." Haku tells him.

"Ok. Do you want me to help you with cleaning?"
"Oh, no I would never ask my master to help me with my chores." She told him with a smile on her face while Naruto sweat dropped at her answer.

"I thought we were past the whole 'master' thing….I am not your master and you are NOT my 'tool'. You are my girlfriend so in fact I should be the one trying to make you feel special instead of you trying to make me feel like I am your master." Naruto told her.

"Yes you are right I am your girlfriend..which gives me even more reason to make sure that my master is kept happy." She told him sweetly while shooing him out the door so he couldn't argue more with her. Only stopping when Naruto finally was outside and the door was shut.

*sigh* "Well I guess I should figure out what I am doing today." Naruto mumbled seeing as he didn't feel like arguing more with Haku or trying to break into his own house. He then began walking through the village with no real destination. After a few minute Naruto found himself getting closer to the Yamanaka flower shop. "Hmm, I wonder what Ino-chan is up to today." Naruto thought with a small smile before walking into the store where he saw her mother working.

"Hello to Yamanaka Flower shop how can I help you today?" She asked him with a kind smile on her face.

"Umm hello Mrs. Yakama is Ino-chan around?" Naruto asked her feeling a bit nervous. After all this was his first time meeting his girlfriend's mother.

"Huh? Oh Naruto-san it is nice to finally see the man that has captured my daughter's heart…you are treating her good aren't you?" She asked him with her sweet smile on her face though her aura has become much more threatening.

"Y-yea I am trying to make sure she is happy." Naruto told her slightly afraid of the women.

"Oh good. Then let me go get her for you Naruto…but know if you make her cry my husband will be the least of your worries." She told him starting off sweet but sounding down right lethal at the very end causing Naruto to sweat.

"Damn mothers are scary…please don't tell me every parent is like this." Naruto thought terrified of the thought of parents. Still he didn't have long to think about this seeing as he heard rushed footsteps coming from the back of the store.

"Naru-kun!" Ino called out happily while rushing to give him a strong hug.

"Ha, go on and have fun Ino-chan I can man the store alone for a while." Ino's mother told her kindly waving off the couple.

"Thank you Kaa-chan!" Ino told her happily before dragging Naruto out of the store. "Come on Naruto you heard her. Let's go do something fun." She told him with a smile.

"O-ok what do you want to do?" Naruto asked the girl trying to catch his footing from being dragged out of the village before Ino finally stopped a decent ways away from the store.

"Haa finally away from the store." Ino mumbles before turning towards Naruto. "Sorry about the rush but Ma rarely lets me take a day off when it is my turn to help in the store so I wanted to leave before she changed her mind…now what to do.." Ino mumbles clearly having no idea herself.

"Umm how about we go see one of the Princess Gale movies? I hear that a lot of people enjoy them?" Naruto suggested getting a smile from Ino.

"Perfect idea let's go!" Ino tells him excited to spend some time with him..and the movie.

+Little while later+

"Princess! You need to escape don't worry I will hold them off!" A man tells the women standing just behind him while he blocked a few sword swings.

"No, Riruka I won't leave you! We will stay together and face this head on." She told him while prepping to shoot an arrow.

"...ugh this movie is so cheezy when you have faced worse battles than this!..whatever at least Ino-chan is enjoying it." Naruto thought trying to hold back a yawn as he glanced over at the girl currently leaning on his shoulder while completely focused on the movie. He couldn't help but smile at the carefree nature that Ino seemed to always have no matter what the situation.

"Ahh these movies just get better and better." Ino thought with a mental smile. Course she also was sure to glance over to take a look at how Naruto was doing and was semi surprised to see him still pretty much awake. "heh, he either actually likes this movie or he has managed to at least last longer than when I saw a movie with my team." Ino thinks happy to see him actually awake. So, seeing this she simply got a bit more comfortable while leaning on his shoulder before refocusing back on the movie to hopefully enjoy every last bit.

+After the movie+

"Ah, that was so good don't you think Naru-kun?" Ino asked happily. For while even she knew that compared to ninja fights the movie's fight scene was bad; the rest of it was at least really good.

*yawn* "Ya, it was great. Ino-chan. So, what do you want to do next?" Naruto asked.

"Huh you really are up for more?" Ino asked shocked.

"Ya, of course I want to continue. After all we haven't spent time together in what feels like ages so we should spend all the time we can while we aren't randomly blocked by a mission. Besides wasn't there a new store that opened up recently?" Naruto told her intent on trying to spend a decent amount of time with each of his girlfriends. After all what kind of a boyfriend would he be if he wasn't at least trying to be fair with them. Course this statement made Ino smile even more.

"Ok you officially are THE BEST guy I have ever known!" Ino tells him with an even larger smile and she grabbed his hand and walked towards the store as fast as she could while remaining with Naruto. After all she never had a male actually want to go shopping without her having to beg or blackmail him. So, she happily enjoyed her date while Naruto tried to both keep up with her shopping craze and trying to enjoy himself as well.

Still after a little while Naruto had to admit that he actually enjoyed himself a little bit simply because Ino was helping him get some stuff he needed as well and her attitude was infectious. So, he actually had to admit that as long as it was with people he actually wanted to spend time with then shopping wasn't THAT bad…not that he would admit it.

A bit later and Ino walked out of the store happily while Naruto carried several of her bags.

"You sure you don't want me to help you Naru-kun?" Ino asked only to see Naruto shake his head.

"Na, after all isn't this what boyfriends are supposed to do to help their girlfriend?" Naruto asked her making her giggle a bit.

"Huh what do ya know for once a male assuming stuff made a girl's life easier." Ino thought amused but didn't mention it to Naruto. After all who'd complain about not having to carry your own bags. "Aww are you a sweet boyfriend." Ino told him teasingly while pinching his cheeks only for him to shake his head out of her fingers.

"And you just love to tease." Naruto told her only to see her stick her tongue out at him. "Ha, ha…Anyways let's go get something to eat. I'm starving." Naruto told her.

"I know just the place." Ino told him happily deciding that she wanted to go to her oh so familiar grill restaurant.

"Heh, you really like this place don't ya?" Naruto asked amused.

"Yea of course I do. After all a lot of good memoires was made here with my team." She told him with a smile on her face.

"Oh, I thought being around them always bugged you? I mean for a while all I heard you talk about was how annoying they were." Naruto asked confused.

"…well yes they did annoy me for a while but they have always been almost like extended family to me..and you basically are expected to argue with them a lot." Ino explains with a small blush on her face at admitting how much she cared for her teammates.

"Huh, who would have guessed that you cared so much for them. I wonder how they feel." Naruto told her surprised that the three clans were really that close.

"Who knows. After all I was kind of a bitch to them when we were younger." Ino admitted remembering all the comments about Shikamaru's laziness and Choji's….girth.

"Hey, I am sure that if you all have spent that much time with each other than I am sure that they have forgave you already." Naruto told her trying to cheer her up.

"Thanks Naruto. Now let's eat." Ino tell Naruto who quickly agrees.

~Just outside~

"Hmm…I still don't see what sis likes so much about him. I mean he is with another girl right now." Hanabi thinks as she watched Naruto and Ino walk towards a restaurant. She then waited until they were brought to a table before sneaking in herself. "Hmm…but I do got to admit he does seem pretty caring and those whiskers do look cute….gah! Curse you brain!" Hanabi thought with a blush realizing where her thoughts were leading to. She then simply tried to focus on listening in more but couldn't help but lose track of her thoughts and blush a bit.

"Hanabi?" She heard from behind herself making her eyes widen in surprise. For she was so focused on her 'observations' that she forgot to watch her surroundings as well. She quickly turned around and saw Hinata looking at her clearly confused.

"H-hello Onee-chan." Hanabi greeted the girl blushing due to the embarrassment of being caught.

"What were you doing here?" Hinata asked her sister confused.

"Uh I was uh…" Hanabi began trying to explain in a way that would make her a lot less creepy then what she actually was doing.

"Hey Hinata!" they both heard and looked to see Ino waving said girl towards them while unknowingly saving her sister from thinking of an answer. Not even thinking about this fact Hinata walked over to the other table with Hanabi quickly following after her to take the chance she got….not to spend time close to the blond but to observe him of course.

"Hey Ino-san, Naru-kun. How are you doing?" Hinata asked the two while sitting on the other side. Meanwhile Hanabi would have sat on the same side as her sister but before she could they heard some more voices coming towards them.

"Hey guys!" Choji calls out happily wearing an apron and carrying a tray of raw meat for them to cook.

"Choji you are working today!?" Ino asked surprised seeing as he only worked here when they really needed extra people…he tended to be working on other things for his clan.

"Hehe ya I am." He tells them with a simple. "One of our chefs had to take a sick day so I needed to cover. Anyways how are you guys doing?" Choji asked deciding to sit down by Hinata and thus take the space up for Hanabi. An event that makes said girl just look at the chubby man in disbelief of his timing..but the smell of the cooking meat soon brought her back to her senses and made her realize that she was actually a bit hungry. Something that Naruto seemed to noticed.

"Hello…"

"Hanabi"

"Hanabi-chan feel free to join us for a meal…I don't know how it managed to become this but this is more of a friends meal now. So, come sit down and grab some food…I ordered plenty for myself but I guess I have to share now." Naruto told her with a chuckle. He then pat the seat next to him which Hanabi took due to having no real good reason not to…or other options.

So she quietly sat down and waited for the food to cook while trying to keep to herself as much as she could.

"hmm he really does seem nice to invite me as well…I might as well enjoy the meal seeing as this is as close to learning about him from up close as I will get. But I am so hungry that it is hard to think of anything but the smell the grill is producing…well that and maybe this cologne that is just tempting me to lean in closer." Hanabi thought quietly only to blush dark red when she realized what she admitted to herself. Still she shook her head and simply tried to focus on the meal alone…and not the cute blond with a few inches of her.

Thanks for reading this all of you…and the few that actually read the ANs as well. Anyways just to make it clear the Sakura event happened early in the morning and then Naruto met Ino basically as the stores were sort of starting to open for the day. Next they did go to a movie in the morning (theaters near me do have them like that on the weekends so why not just make the Narutoverse fit my desires) and basically have a good portion of their date before lunch.

Also Ino to me will be the more bubbly and childlike person seeing as everyone else has a more serious tone for the relationships. So, if I make her seem more like an "airhead" its not my attention. I just want her to be the girl that has fun with life.

Finally even though I wanted to keep this short I just want to let you know that I now have even less time seeing as my job became a full time position now. Something that I am happy about and it shouldn't affect the time that I take to produce each chapter…just hopefully I don't need to rush one or two because of this (hence why I keep you sort of informed of my reasons)

Anyways Ja Ne.