Chapter 10
The Day of Reckoning!
The Official Tōdai Test Begins
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Late February XX, 1999
|Morning in the Hinata-sou, Dining Room|
After weeks of studies, cheerful days, unfortunate events from bad days, and a case of Keitaro having a fever, the big day has come as the Japan Public Universities' Entrance Exams are vastly approaching.
The students are sitting at the table eating their breakfast. Naru Narusegawa is doing last minute preparations, Ruto Urashima is reading the newspaper on the headlines, and Keitaro Urashima drinks his cup of coffee. (It was also the day off from school for the students today.)
"Today's the day that I made good on my promise 16 years ago," the landlord determinedly declared.
"Don't talk to me right now," Naru shushed.
"Listen, Naru. There's no point in cramming your head on the day of the exam," Keitaro said in his voice of reason.
"I agree," Ruto said after munching on toast, "It's the same with our school's tests. Cramming like that can make us panic from the sudden excitement, believe me."
Then Keitaro and Ruto hear the sound of an alarm ringing in the dorms. "A fire‽" Keitaro gasped and then the men looked at the kitchen where smoke was billowing from there. And what they found was Shinobu accidentally overcooked the fish for a later meal.
(Must be just one of those days.)
Then the men ran across the kitchen hall and saw something red showing at the door. Keitaro opens the latch and finds that it's Kitsuné in her red translucent négligée, still tired from her night owl ways. Ruto smacked the gawking brother with the harisen and told him to check out the 3rd floor. And inside Room 302, the men, Shinobu, and Kitsuné are seeing Motoko trying to swat down the heavy-sleeper Kaolla's flying alarm clock with her bokken, without much success.
Ruto managed to take down the alarm clock that made the swordswoman wake up on the wrong side of the bed. Then he pulls a trick on the sleeping Kaolla by saying the word to wake her up, "Bananas!"
But the plan worked a little too well as she sat up and hugged Ruto, thinking he's her brother.
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|Outside the Dormitory, 8:00AM|
"Ya go for it, Keitaro!" Kaolla cheered and waved in her pajamas.
"Give it everything you have," Motoko sternly said.
"Both of you! Please do your best!" Shinobu encourages her upperclassmen.
"Right. Take it easy, guys," Kitsuné optimistically said while holding her coffee cup.
"We will," Keitaro said as he waved the group goodbye while Naru moved on ahead.
But then the residents saw Ruto going with Keitaro and Naru and asked him why. He answered, "I have a few errands over where Aniki and Naru-senpai are going. Besides, I want to see more of the city before I can think about taking the University Exams in the near future. We'll be back by sunset." And he left with the examinees.
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|At an undisclosed campus|
The trio arrived at the front gates for their Liberal Arts test for Todai. While Naru is still reading her English to Japanese vocabulary, Keitaro is ready to roll with the promise 16 years ago. But then Ruto asked, "You sure that this is the right campus, guys?"
And then Keitaro ran into a gateman who told them that they don't belong here. He thought that they don't have admittance to the campus, but Ruto explained to the guard, "Sorry, but we seem to be kinda lost, 'ttébayo.💧 Those two are looking for the Liberal Arts exam."
"This is the Hongo campus," the man explained, "Students trying for Liberal Arts need to go to the Komba campus. That's 2 stops southwest from here."
Naru and Keitaro realized their mistake and quickly ran to the respective train to their destination. Ruto thanked the guard and shunshins away from the scene, leaving the watchman stupefied as if he was seeing things. Little do the trio know, there's a certain minivan¹ and a pair of eyes watching them.
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|At the Komba campus (Saitama)|
Examinees are gathering at the main entrance for the forthcoming exam. Keitaro is frantically trying to find his ticket in his coat. The ticket man asked Ruto if he had a ticket, mistaking him for a candidate, but just as he was about to reply, Ruto saw a white minivan roaring towards him and Keitaro.
(All the while, Naru is busy sticking her nose into her book, completely oblivious of the action.)
The van was chasing the Urashima men until they escaped into an entrance. As they continued through the hallways, Keitaro bumped into a woman with long champagne-brown hair (and antennae) with a small turtle on top of her head and she fell backward, with a precarious result.
(She was wearing a long, brown, button-up dress with long, green, buttoned sleeves, and her legs from her attire were spreading wide from her collapsing.)
As he tried to apologize, the dum-dum saw the "Ides of March" on the woman's face.
(In other words, she's dropped dead with a gorgeous look as if she looked like a slightly different Naru with thicker eyebrows.)
Then Ruto noticed the turtle and carefully put it on his head, to which the half-shelled reptilian trusted the blond with a confident "Myuu!", and then he said to the unconscious woman, "Come on, onee-san! Don't go dying on me, 'ttébayo! You still have a test to take before you could even think about kicking the bucket so suddenly..."
And he unbuttons the top section of her dress to give her some air and checks her pulse and airways. Then he did something that Keitaro was surprised by more than just the death-shrouded scene: Ruto Urashima administered CPR (and that is: the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) to try to revive her back to the world of the living.
After a few attempts, the frail-looking woman sat back up and unconsciously spoke in a robotic manner, "Entrance exam number A10582, Mutsumi Otohimé..."
"Easy there, onee-san, You had quite a spill, 'ttébayo. Your little guy would be lost without you," Ruto said as he helped the woman now named Mutsumi on her feet and returned the turtle, "And... you may want to button that top back on."
"Oh, my!" Mutsumi blushed as she regained consciousness and fixed her appearance. Then she kissed Ruto on the lips, leaving him blushing madly, and then she said, "Thank you, kind sir. Oh, I'm sorry. I have a bad habit of kissing somebody for some odd reason..." Then she looked at Keitaro and said, "Oh, my. Don't I know you from somewhere?"
But just as Keitaro was about to answer, he hears a sound of roaring engines near where he is at and then runs away like a craven little coward, leaving his kid brother alone with a dubiously frail woman.
Ruto sighed in exasperation and said, "That's my big brother. He's as anxious for the exam as you are."
"Really... Can you help me find my classroom?" Mutsumi asked, "Ano..."
Naruto said as he returned the turtle to its original owner, "Sorry, Forgot to introduce myself. My name is Naruto Urashima. Friends call me 'Ruto'. And I got a better idea." And he utilizes his Shadow Clone Art to form a double...
("Oh, my!" Mutsumi exclaimed as she rubs her eyes in disbelief.)
...and said, "My double will help guide you to your room while I, the original, go find Aniki before he gets into more trouble."
And Ruto and Mutsumi (with 1 double and turtle) went their separate ways.
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|Outside at the Komba Campus Grounds (Saitama)|
Ruto was looking for his wayward brother. But as soon as he sets foot outside of the entryway, here comes Keitaro... with the speeding van coming towards him and joining the escape with his bungling bother for a brother. They continued running until the brothers got over the safety bars and the van crashed into them and started flipping completely over 6 times until it stopped at the wall of the building and landed on its side.
(The Urashima men felt like it was a close shave from avoiding getting hit by over 2 tons of metal, rubber, and interior.)
Then the driver's side door (that is, to the right side) opened and a man that looked like a professor came out with a ghastly look on his face, along with a gash on the side of his head. The ominousness scared Keitaro so much, he almost piddled his pants, until the man said, "Here."
The man with a gash gave Keitaro his lost ticket to the exams while Ruto obligingly dressed his wounds and put his van back on its proper position (with the help of his doubles, of course).
Keitaro wanted to know who that man of wisdom was, but for some strange reason, the professor and the wrecked van already left the scene.
The Urashima men then head back to the registry as Ruto said, "I think I have to leave now, Aniki. It was a rather quick tour of the campus that was sure to do great on my project. Fortunately, I'll be likely to be hanging around in the city until you're done."
"All right, Nii-san," Keitaro replied as he was taking his ticket to the man in charge, "And be careful."
"I will, Aniki, but do promise me one thing. Please try not to 'bomb' the test or goof off like last time. You know about what happened that time when Kaa-san and Gifu-san heard that terrible news..."
"I... I understand, Nii-san..." Keitaro complied with his head hung low.
"And Aniki? *sigh* Good luck..."
And the younger Urashima went on his way as Keitaro headed to the respective testing room.
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|At a shopping center in Saitama|
Ruto is busy getting some decorations and some sparkling juices for the night at the grocery store. But just as he begins to browse for some much needed supplies, he notices that some people are starting to tail him.
::"This is getting annoying, because somebody's mocking me…"::
So the original Ruto and his small group of doubles decide to play along as they gather the groceries and prepare the coupons. (Yep, Ruto Urashima is an avid shopper for the things that's for the right price of its value and quality.) Then, a man with a disciplinary armlet saying "ROOT Foundation" and said to the boy, "Naruto Uzumaki. There's a man who wants to see you."
"Tell him to come back tomorrow," Ruto replied, "I'll be hanging here all day."
The ROOT enforcer unfortunately just couldn't take no for an answer, but Ruto was one step ahead of his adversary as the enforcer didn't notice the shoelaces were tied to both shoes, tripping him in the process. The enforcer grabbed his short-wave radio and declared, "Send in the goon squad, on the double!"
The masked mob known with headbands showing the "根" (Né) logo swiftly came by and began to terrorize the townspeople with sheer numbers as they mugged and assaulted their victims. Ruto decided to use the opportunity to put down his groceries and secretly unsealed his hidden Tachibana blade hidden from his seal under his wristwatch to dispatch the enemy incognito. He then utilizes his weapon and Shadow Clones as he quickly hammers the enemies down within minutes until they are forced to retire from battle.
Then Ruto focuses on the instigator that started this mess as he begins to lose his confidence (despite keeping his poise) and says, "You fool! You stupid fool! Danzo-sama will break you for this and you'll fry in hell!"
But Ruto grabbed the brute by the collar of his shirt and declared, "Now you listen, you warthog-faced buffoon. Tell your boss that I do not want to deal with the likes of him, because the next time we meet will be his last. And this is no threat; it's a promise. And one more little thing, I don't want you to go away mad. Just go away!" And Ruto jumps and pulls 360º spin as he swung the blade with the grace of a flying swallow.
[Ittoryu-ougi: Tsubame Gaeshi!] (Secret One Blade Style: Swallow Slice Reversal!)
The enforcer felt the blunted side of the blade bashing him as he was sent flying to the wall, leaving a burn from its fiery slash. Ruto then quickly made one of the ROOT soldiers write a note of confession making the ROOT enforcers take the blame onto Orochimaru and Danzo and put them on their bills (to which they are wholly responsible) and shunshins into a closed area to stow the weapon back into his watch. And then Ruto resumes shopping somewhere else while the mess is cleaned up by the police.
(It turned out that the arrested subjects that were hired by the certain political candidates are either unwitting participants, wanted fugitives, and/or are warranted for crimes against the city.)
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Elsewhere, Danzo and Orochimaru began to develop a bad case of the migraines after they heard the news from their associates and on TV about their humiliation. This isn't going to be good for the upcoming elections.
They know all too well that Naruto Uzumaki was there the whole time, simply just to irritate them...
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|Sunset at the Hinata-sou|
Ruto returned from the tour and went shopping for the party before Keitaro and Naru came back from the test. But when the residents smell some unusual scents on Ruto's face; one with an unknown woman and an unusual scent of an animal that they can't put a finger on. (It's something that Motoko can't stand.) He confessed honestly about being chased by a runaway van driven by an eccentric professor who returned his brother's ticket. He also talked about a woman that looked like a relative of Naru (the antennae part) and is also an examinee, and how she almost died from her health complications. He managed to save her life via CPR. But then, she kissed him.
Shinobu, Kaolla, and Motoko are getting very jealous and very mad at Ruto's hijinx while Kitsuné was rather impressed, but he wasn't finished yet. Ruto mentioned that the same woman admitted that her kissing him was one of those bad habits of hers. She also has a pet that she has with her as a companion. Motoko asked about what pet it was and he answered, "A turtle." She shrieked with a high pitch and fainted on the spot.
"Oh, it's just a little harmless sea turtle that actually hangs around with Mutsumi-oneesan. And for a good reason since it was cold outside," he playfully commented, knowing that turtles are normally cold-blooded creatures.
Ruto then asked the girls for forgiveness. They, along with Kitsuné, consented and accepted his apology, but on the condition that it wouldn't happen again. But he has that feeling that if he and Aniki would never see the Mutsumi woman again, it would be too soon to tell.
(But Ruto can't help but think that Mutsumi gave him what appears to be like a child's kiss, but not in the grown-up manner.)
He and the girls then prepare their banners and party trimmings. Shinobu and some of Ruto's doubles are cooking up delicious meals in the kitchen while Kaolla and Motoko prepare their banners for a later time.
And after an hour, their preparations are complete. All that's left are the designated guests...
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|Outside, at twilight|
Ruto senses his brother and senpai approaching the main entrance. So he and the girls are waiting for them outside the dormitory.
The residents ran to the examinees to see how they went, despite being worn out from hours of work on the desk. Keitaro is showing some nervous tension until he says with tears comedically flowing, "I... I'm aceing it! I was really on the roll today! I might have a chance making it in, this time around!"
"Congratulations!" Shinobu cheerfully said.
"Congrats, Keitaro!" Kaolla said while holding a sign saying, [Better luck next time!] as if she's trying to jinx Keitaro and Naru.
Shinobu panicked ("Kaolla-san‽") and Ruto facepalmed in exasperation until Motoko corrected the situation and said, "The wrong sign..." and it read, [Congratulations!].
Then Kitsuné asked her friend who was lost in thought, "What about you, Naru?"
"How could Narusegawa not pass‽" Keitaro exclaimed.
(Kitsuné)» "Yeah, maybe you're right. Say, I got it! How about we go out and celebrate together!"
"Yeah!" Everyone except Naru cheered.
Then Keitaro said to his colleague, "Let's go see the results posted together. Right, Naru-san?"
"Yeah..." Naru quietly agreed.
Ruto senses something isn't right with both examinees, but mostly with Naru. So he declared, "Wait just one minute, guys. Naru-senpai, can I have a talk with you in private?"
Naru consented while the rest went on ahead for the exams pre-party.
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|At the First Floor Lounge|
Both residents sat down on the couches facing each other. Naru is definitely hiding something but Ruto calmly said, "Senpai, you've been rather quiet since this morning. Was there something on your mind?"
Naru realized that there's no hiding her bottled up emotions and said, "Ruto-kun, I'm sorry. I... it's just that... I have something to say about your brother. It happened during lunch break..."
-Flashback-
|Around Noon|
Keitaro was trying to get Naru's attention while ending up tripping himself in the process. She asked the goofball what he was doing. Keitaro answered, "Oh, nothing. It's just that I can finally get a chance to fulfill the pinky promise of 16 years, I'm so excited for this moment..."
(Naru)» "What pinky promise? Weren't you talking about that promise you made to me yesterday?"
(Keitaro)» "Yes... That's the one I made with you."
(Naru)» "What are you talking about? Didn't you say you made a pinky promise to me and another girl to go to Tōdai together?"
(Keitaro)» "Well, when we were young, we used to play at the sandbox back at the former inn. You know, the one we went to yesterday?"
(Naru)» ? ? ?... '!' "I know now! I thought that you were acting moody yesterday?"
(Keitaro)» "Wait! That wasn't what it was!"
(Naru)» "I'm sorry, but that person... isn't me."
Keitaro was suddenly shocked at what his colleague had said.
(Naru)» "About 16 years ago and I would be close to 2½. How could I remember making a pinky promise with you and the other girl?"
(Keitaro)» "But... But... Didn't you say about the current promise we made for us to pass the test?"
(Naru)» "I did, Keitaro. But didn't I always tell you? I know that this is dumb, but about 2 years ago... I already made a promise to someone else that I would get into Tōdai. So instead of saying that it's a promise with him, it's more of a goal. So afterwards, I wasn't receptive to the word promise anymore."
Keitaro was literally feeling like his will and determination was completely drained out of him, whiting him out in a slump.
-End Flashback-
"And that's how it happened..." Naru finished her testimony.
Ruto never felt this angry... No!, pissed with a capital P that is worse than Sasuke's, Danzo's, and even Orochimaru's tormenting. Naru had literally crossed the line by utterly and callously breaking a promise to his brother. {"How dare Naru-senpai desensitize her promises to Aniki!"} were Ruto's thoughts. This is enough to not let even the most enthusiastic student to not be given the strength to be able to pass. So trying not to not lose his temper, he then said, "Naru-senpai, don't get me wrong. I don't want to bear ill will on your work of progress, 'ttebayo. Why, I even like to make good on my promises and goals of going to Tōdai. 💢BUT I DON'T LIKE YOU!💢"
Naru was taken aback by the sudden change in Ruto's personality as he scolded, "Do you realize what you had done? You are nothing but an unscrupulous, hard-nosed, qualmless, self-absorbed, no-good, heartless, emasculating, disrespectful, and despicable woman for your acts against your fellow colleagues. And calling you a bitch would be offensive to female dogs, but that describes yourself, a bitch! Not only have you broken Aniki's dreams by breaking your pinky promise, you betrayed him for being a stooge for that teacher! Your actions will surely cost you more than your chance of going to Tōdai!"
"But... Ruto-kun? I... didn't mean to..." Naru was knocked back by Ruto's argument.
"There's more, 'ttébayo! I heard that you lost your friends from your school about you being overzealous with your studies and your so-called crush, but now history seems to be repeating itself the same way you've done to your neighbors and to me!"
"Now see here!" Naru tried to counter, "Why do I have to apologize to your idiotic bother of yours? All I did was to promise Se-"
But Ruto put his foot down and stuck out his hand, telling the bewildered Narusegawa to stop and then said, "And I thought we have a better understanding between us. I thought you were smarter than that! A fine student for that university of Tōdai... CONGRATULATIONS, SENPAI!" Ruto finished 'stabbing' the major argumentative point as he walked away to the dining room, "Ohh! It makes me so mad that my roommate just had to ruin Aniki's chances... (*With an ogre-face and a distorted voice*) SHE PINKY-PROMISED!👹"
Naru realized that Ruto Urashima, the male tenant/assistant landlord, was probably right. The lack of proper communication with her neighbors and Keitaro was the big problem that she was facing. But with her crush on her former teacher being stuck on her mind, her line of thinking seems to be muddling against the younger Urashima's reasoning. Surely saying sorry to Keitaro and the others wouldn't be so hard… Right?
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|2 weeks later…|
Early to Mid March XX, 1999
The wait for the results is the hardest part as Keitaro sits on the roof, still whited out from what Narusegawa had said. Not even Kaolla tried her best to get the landlord's attention; not even a panty-flaunting or the scare tactic (a frog on her tongue). So she just gave up and sat next to the window facing where Keitaro was staying, just as the other girls were walking by. (Ruto is in the roof access still burning off some steam from earlier.)
"It's already 2 weeks after the test-ya. And Keitaro's still like that," Kaolla sadly remarked.
"Isn't today supposed to be the posting date?" Shinobu asked while looking at the state of her senpai.
"Would it be that because he did poorly on Day 1?" Motoko rhetorically questions with a sweatdrop.
"Hey, Naru. What happened after Day 1 and the time when Ruto-kun got mad?" Kitsuné asked.
"How should I know?" Naru scoffed, "After the test, the idiot just went into that phase and I still have yet to regain Ruto-kun's trust again. He said that I've done both of them a great mistake or something."
"Yeah, but in the morning, the guys seemed so energetic," Kitsuné commented, "Did you really say something bad to them?"
"I don't think so!" Naru denied the allegation.
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Keitaro is staring out into space as he remembers what happened the other day, ::Narusegawa... isn't that girl in my memories... So in other words, she has nothing to do with me?... Am I just an outsider to her?::
Then Keitaro lay down on his back from his daze and then he looked up and saw Naru... and a glimpse of her panties under the leggings. So he slowly rolled down the side of the roof as he blushed as the Narusegawa said, "Today is the posting date! We should be going now. Come on, You gotta get up."
"Maybe you weren't telling Aniki the right way, Senpai."
Naru heard the voice that belonged to Ruto as he shunshins to the roof with petal blossoms for flair as he said to Keitaro, "Aniki, if you don't get up right now, I'm gonna sic Kanako-neechan on you and I won't stop her!"
Keitaro got unnerved and pulled out of his stupor and reflexively said, "Any... anyone but her!"
"That got him out of it," Ruto quietly remarked.
Keitaro and Naru, along with Ruto, prepared themselves as they went to the transit station.
But before they left, Ruto made a promise to two examinees and the residents: if either of them didn't make it, the graduating 1st Year Junior High (7th grader) student swore that he'd cut his rather long, thick, blonde hair down to size.
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|Todai, Komba Campus|
The trio arrived to find a lot of activity going on at the grounds. There are those who passed, and some of them didn't toe the mark. (Of course, there are quite a few absentees who didn't make it to the campus to see whether they made it or not.)
Keitaro was being a defeatist of himself, knowing that he didn't remember what he was writing.
"Come on, let's count to 3 and look at them together," the graduating student Naru said as she dragged her colleague.
"It's better if I don't!" the 20 year old doubting Keitaro exclaimed.
"Aniki, if you won't stick it out in the end, then you'll never know," Ruto explained.
So they decided that on the count of 3, they go and look for their respective numbers on the board while Ruto looks for Mutsumi's number (out of curiosity).
1...
2...
3!
And they searched until they realized they're not on the list at all.
"I didn't make it?" Keitaro rhetorically asked himself.
"Oh, man! I was hoping that the turtle woman Mutsumi-oneesan would make it this far, dattébayo," Ruto complained after not finding the said number.
But then, for some strange reason, Naru left! The brothers tried to catch up with her across the roads and a train station. It turned out that Naru Narusegawa didn't pass the grade, either. Her tear-stained eyes and her sad expression are showing in front of the men.
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|At the Tea and Beer Bar|
While Ruto decided to part ways, the now dubbed "Ronin" chose to drink their worries away, he reminded his older brother that Naru is still a minor, so that means no hard liquor.
But the ronin duo drink and they drink, and they drink their Nama Chuu Draft Beer while paying no heed to Ruto's warning. They drunkenly argued so much, Naru realized that she inelegantly flaunts her hosiery-covered panties from her short skirt. Keitaro was smacked by her right backhand jab, knocking him to the ground. But when the loser got back up and rebutted Naru about her wearing glasses and that person she was talking about, that man wouldn't pay any attention to her (whoever the heck he is).
That's when Naru teared from the cold hard truth, she grabbed her purse and smacked Keitaro on the head like an olympic hammer, knocking him out cold. And then, she resentfully left the bar, leaving the assaulted ronin high and dry (with a gash on his head).
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|At the Express Train Shuttle|
Keitaro, who recovered from the bashing, decided that enough's enough. So without notifying his brother and the tenants, the lonesome loser decided to travel far away to get the worries of the 3rd exam failure and get the brutish Narusegawa off his mind.
As for Ruto, he covered the weary, vigilant neighbors with blankets before letting them know that Keitaro and Naru had literally run away. There's going to be trouble for leaving the Hinata-sou behind...
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The New Ronin Landlord and Brother Arc - End
To be continued…-»
¹ - 5th Generation Subaru Sumbar Microvan (1990-1999 model)
A/N: You may think it's out of character for Naruto to really lose his temper (which of course, they haven't seen his real temper yet...), but that's what happens when you leave it to Naru to let her unrequited feelings get in the way of good reasoning. Naruto is expressing his brother's frustrations for her callousness.
If you want to read what happens to Naru goes too far for her own good, I'd suggest the Love Hina stories by Snafu the Great and other stories that have some stress relieving, Naru-bashing stories that you may like, even though some of them may be tragic... For Narusegawa, that is...
Forgive me cruel chuckle. *cruel laughter* Bashing, hmm...
A little side note that I somehow forgot to mention from the extra story last chapter (Chapter 9), is that the relationship between Naruto and Sakura (in this story) isn't really that close of a relationship. More like, he can only be like a brother and soul mate to the only child - that is Sakura, despite being good friends with Ino, Shinobu and Karin. But that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be friendly to each other in the end, especially when Sakura has adolescent issues about her feelings for her now former crush, Sasuke, and her unexpected pregnancy with their child during the middle of summer vacation.
That's all, until the heat is on...
Current Harem/Pairings/Relationships with Naruto
Shinobu Maehara - (First Love and Best Friend)
Kaolla Su - (Lawfully Bound by her country's laws but still Friendly)
Motoko Aoyama - (Rival/Frenemy - A different kind of Love/Hate relationship)
Mitsune "Kitsuné" Konno - (Sisterly - may probably go further than that; perhaps the kind with benefits)
Mutsumi Otohime - (Friendly terms, even if she's a bit daffy. May likely be a key to his brother's mystery.)
Naru Narusegawa - (Friendly, but sometimes can get hard to handle at times; she can only be like a sister to Ruto)
? - (We'll see her in a little bit. She'll be the little, naughty, sisterly-figure for now; possibly may get along with a girl with a like-mindedness for trouble and maybe to Ruto, blondes think alike and for themselves)
Haruka Urashima - (She's family to Ruto, as simple as that)
? - (Islander from another foreign country, may have a resemblance to one of the girls, but not certain to be related. May show up on a later chapter.)
Kanako Urashima - (She has emotional troubles due to being a stepsister to the Urashima boys. Can't tell if she loves them as family or possibly even worse... forbidden love...)
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-blukmage19
