Chapter 9: You can hide, but you can't Run!

The next morning, Naruto wakes up to a clink…clink…clink on his window. He gets up, rubs his eyes and walks over.

"Good morning, Yawns Sakura-chan." Naruto says not fully awake yet.

"Hey, hurry up and get ready. You promised to take me out to breakfast this morning." She said.

"Huh? Oh yeah, okay. I'll be out in a few." He replies.

"Alright, I'm gonna head over to Ichiraku's. They serve breakfast on the weekends."

"Okay okay, I'll meet you there." Naruto shuts the window and goes to take a shower.

Naurto quickly gets ready and grabs a T-shirt instead of his regular jacket because the weather had been getting warmer with Summer coming.

"That was one hell of a crazy night last night." Naruto says. "I hope Shikamaru got out of there okay."

Naruto sees Chouji turn the corner and smile when he sees Naruto.

"I heard you had a 'fun' night last night." He says with a smirk.

"What about it? And who told you?" Naruto asks.

"Oh just a little birdie. So, what was it like?" he asked.

"What part?"

"All of it! I heard Shikamaru couldn't find you after you guys split up in her house." Chouji said curiously.

"That's not any of your business." Naruto replied sharply, not wanting to think about it this early.

"Ouch, I was just curious. Don't tear off my head over it." He says looking a little hurt, he walks past Naruto frowning slightly.

"Makes me think something happened!" he smiles as he heads into a little shop on the corner, disappearing again from view,

Naruto turns to apologize for yelling, but is still a little groggy and doesn't want to make it worse. So he just heads on his way to meet Sakura.

Naruto gets to Ichiraku's and finds Sakura sipping on a glass of orange juice in the far left stool.

"Hey, sorry I'm late. I didn't sleep to good last night." He says, sitting down next to her.

"It's okay, I waited to order till you got here." She says smiling.

"Ahh, good. I was afraid you'd eat without me. I'm starved." He replies ordering Blueberry Pancakes.

Sakura orders some Rye toast and grabs for the jelly.

"I got it!" Naruto says also reaching for it.

Their hands touch and they both look at each other and blush.

"Ah, to be in love again!" the proprietors daughter says smiling, setting their food down in front of them.

They both blush even deeper, and it's quiet for a few minutes while they start eating their food.

"Umm, sorry about that." Naruto says.

"No, it's okay. I should have asked you grab it for me." She says.

"By the way, you left your Kunai kit out on the field the other day, I have it at my house if you wanna come get it." She continued.

"Yeah, alright. We can go after we finish." He says shoveling pancake into his mouth.

Sakura quietly finishes her toast as Naruto gets out his Frog Wallet.

(Maybe that's what happened to Kermit?)

"Thanks for breakfast." Sakura says getting up.

"No big deal, I got a little money from some odd jobs I've been doing." He says.

"From what I can see, you have more than a 'little' extra money" she says peering over his shoulder.

"Ehh… Do you want to head to your house now, or do some other stuff first?" he asks.

"Let's head around a bit first, there's a sale at Konoha's Secret and I wanna look around." She says

"Uhh…umm" Naruto says articulately while turning red.

"I'll take that as a yes that you're coming along." She says grabbing his hand and running off laughing.

"And stop imagining me in my underwear, you'll see me in it soon enough." She says laughing even more.

Naruto turns cherry red at the thought of Sakura in her underwear and trys to keep pace.

As they enter the store, Naruto is relieved to find that the clerk who greeted him last time is nowhere in sight.

"Hurry up! I wanna try some of the stuff on. I need a guys opinion on what to get." She says looking to see if he'll blush any deeper.

"Okay…" he says uneasily.

"That's okay. You're face will tell me if it looks any good or not. Just sit down in the chair over there and relax." She says, walking towards the back of the store.

"Well, I can do that much at least." He says sinking into the chair.

He sits there for about 25 minutes, when finally he hears Sakura tell him she's ready to come out.

"Ready?" she asks.

"Yeah, I think so." He replies.

She walks out wearing black lace panties that show off a good bit of her hips and a bra that covers about the same amount of her considerable bust.

"WOW!" Is all Naruto manages to get out. He's easily stunned at what she's wearing! She blushes at his stare.

"This is something I thought was really nice." She said visibly embarrassed at wearing so little clothing in public. "I saw it before, but it's on sale now so I thought I'd come here to get it." She says.

"Wow!" Naruto says again, still recovering from shock.

"Stop, I don't look that good in this." She says waving a hand at him.

"No, you don't look good. You look perfect in that!" he replies finally able to talk again.

"You think so? I guess it is pretty nice!" she says.

Sakura noticed his reaction and took it as a good thing, she goes back and goes to get changed back into her normal clothes. (Naruto is disappointed!)

"I'll be right back, and then we can get out of here." She says.

"Oh, okay." Naruto says now sad at having to leave so soon.

A few minutes later, Sakura walks back out wearing her normal clothes and carrying the stuff she just had on.

"I'm gonna get these, I'll meet you out front okay."

"Alright." Naruto says, having fully recovered.

As he walks out, he sees Ino walking out of a gift shop up the way a little.

"Hey Naruto, how's it going? What are you doing here?" she asks.

"Just uhh… hanging out." He says not wanting to tell her where he had just been.

"What were YOU doing in there?" she asks with a raised eyebrow and a slight smile.

"Hey Ino, what's up?" Sakura asks walking out of the store, holding a small box.

"Were you guys in there together?" Ino asks, her eyebrows crawling higher up her forehead.

"Yeah, Naruto was helping me find some things, I asked him to help me today." Sakura replies. "Why?"

"Oh how the mighty have fallen, I remember a time when that never would have happened." Ino said laughing.

"Oh grow up, Ino. It's not like we're 6 anymore."Sakura replies. "Act your age, not your shoe size."

"Ooh, tuff words. I'll leave you two lovers alone!" Ino says walking off.

"Sorry about that." Says Naruto.

"It's not your fault, Ino's just jealous." She says, looping her arm through his.

Naruto looks at her and raises her eyebrows.

"What? If we're gonna be accused of something, we might as well act the part." She says pulling him in tighter.

"We better get going, it's already getting late and I got some things I have to do today." He says obviously embarrassed at having a girl hang on his arm like this.

Sakura takes it in stride and nods her agreement as they walk off, her arm still linked in his.

When they get back, Sakura opens the door and throws the keys on the table. She then heads upstairs saying,

"My mom is still supposed to be away for another week or so, I'm gonna take a quick shower. You be a good boy and stay down here, okay?"

"What? Sure, okay. No problem." He replies walking over to the bookshelf by the door. He starts 'leaf'ing through some of the magazines and stops every so often to read some of the articles.

He sees a picture of Sakura when she was younger. Standing behind her is her mom and someone who looks a lot like her. From upstairs he suddenly hears a door creek open slightly and hears Sakura say…

"Could you come up here for a moment? I need some help."

"Yeah sure, one second."

Naruto quickly places the book back on the shelf and walks upstairs.

"Where are you?" he calls.

"In here." Comes her voice from the bathroom.

"Umm, what's the matter?" he asks reluctant to get any closer to the door.

"Come in here for a sec, I need your help." She replies.

"Okay, should I cover my eyes?" he asks.

"No, your gonna need them!" she says.

Thoughts race to his mind that would come to any normal person in this situation, but he pushes them aside and enters.

"What's do you need?" he asks nervously.

"Just my towel." She says. "It's on the counter over there." She points towards the counter behind him.

"It's hard to see in all this mist, are you sure you put it here?" he asks groping around trying to find the requested item.

"Oh, here it is." She says laughing reaching around him.

Naruto by now has noticed that even through the mist, he can see a good portion of her body and it's not too bad… Sakura notices his inability to look away from her.

"What? You act like you've never seen a naked woman before." She says mockingly.

Naruto's fae truns bright red and FINALLY looks away and seems to have trouble standing up.

"OH! You've never seen a girl like this before have you?" says smiling, "I can fix that for you."

Naruto turns even brighter at the thought of this. The mist form the shower was slowly dissipating and Sakura was covered by it even less because of it.

"I don't have a problem with it, but I think…"

"Don't think!" She says pushing herself against him, pinning him to the wall. She kisses him hard and for what seems like an eternity and finally they break apart if only for air. Naruto has stopped being nervous. He wonders how he can get her to keep going, but before he can formulate a plan. He faints…

The next morning, he wakes up… and he's not in his bed… and not even in his own room or house. He can't remember why he's here and what happened last night. But as he sits up Sakura comes in, wearing pajamas and carrying a breakfast tray with some eggs and pancakes on it.

"I didn't know what you liked, so I made different things. Is this okay?" she says.

"Yeah, …yeah it's fine." He says rubbing his temples. "What happened?" he asks her.

She looks away and replies, "You were walking me home again and fainted on my doorstep, I brought you in here and let you sleep. I must have warn you out more than I thought…sorry." She says.

"Okay…I don't really remember the end of yesterday, but I had the strangest dream last night." He says.

"What about?" she asks, seeing if he remembered anything at all.

"I'm not sure… it's all a little…misty!" he says, looking off into the distance.

"What time is it anyway?" he asks.

"About 11:30, you slept thorough most of the morning…" she said.

"WHAT! I gotta get going! I'm late, I'll see you later." He says jumping out of bed.

He heads for the door and she follows him saying,

"Wait, you might not being feeling well enough to walk yet!"

"I'm fine, I'll see you later." He says walking for the door and going outside. He stops suddenly but doesn't turn around, and says,

"Thanks for taking care of me last night. It must have been a bother trying to get me into a bed upstairs. That was really rude of me to do. I'll make it up to you sometime." He says, turning around to face her.

"It's alright, it was my pleasure." She says with a smile.

Naruto looks a little confused but is runnig late and doesn't have time to waste so he says goodbye and heads off.

Sakura is a little sad to see him go but she's happy in the fact that she can use her wiles to get a guy to notice her, even if he won't remember in the morning. She closes the door…

(End Chapter 9)

What was Sakura's goal for last night?

Will Naruto ever remember it, or be doomed to forgetting it forever?

And what will Hinata do if she finds out what Sakura did last night?

Where does this leave Naruto?

Next part…

Chapter 10: The Secrets are Revealed!

Authors Note: Yay! Chapter 10 already! Sorry about this chapter being slightly late. I was up the night before typing something for Chemistry, and I didn't get the chance to finish this. So this one is extra long because of that! We're finally out of the chapter doldrums and on to better chapter in the coming weeks… Please review! More excitement to come!