Chapter 36 and 37 have been posted
Naruto sighed as he enter his room in the palace as he really did not expect Haruna to react like that.
"I wonder if the other two Damiyos I know would react like Haruna did if I was staying with them?" Naruto thought as he remembered about Koyuki and Toki.
Out the three Damiyos he knew personally, the one he had seen the most of would mostly like have to be Koyuki. While he had not seen her in person since leaving Land of Snow, because she had not given up her acting career. He continued to see her through movies that she made that which far and few in between now as she was the leader of country after all. She did not have as much time to film movie as she did when she was just actress only but she told him three years ago that she was not giving up on being an actress and she had kept her word.
However rather then thinking about them he had other matter to attend to at the moment. Reaching into his sleeve he pulled out the scroll which Sakura was currently residing in. He had managed to get back here and explain away the reason for his disappearance without having to reveal what he really did to Haruna.
Make sure that the door was closed and locked as being official guest of Damiyo herself allow him to certain level of privacy. Thus he was allow to lock his door and not have anyone bother him until he unlocked them. This might be violation of that trust but he could not allow anyone outside small group that already knew about Sakura currently being a human puppet. Sasori might have used in underground fights and to go bounty hunting but he did so while he had genjustu on her that made her appear to be a normal human. Anyone that saw her true form normally did not live long enough to tell anyone from the looks of it. There were expection of course like Sasuke and Kabuto but latter did not really seem to care while the former was probably too absorb by his revenge to even care.
Releasing Sakura from her scroll she took one look at her teammate before she started removing her clothing.
"Woah! Stop right now Sakura" Naruto demand as she frozen in the middle of lifting her shirt over her head revealing what was underneath to the blond who just remember the connection the two of them shared while she was in this state.
With Sakura in this semi-conscious state she would react to his thoughts thus must have pick up on his plan to get all that blood washed off her and change clothes as well. However because as she was now she had no sense of modesty or worries about another person seeing her naked. She started the second she had picked up on Naruto's plan.
While Naruto just stood there as he wanted to look away but could not really do that as Sakura stood there topless before him having completely remove her shirt. Not really realizing what was wrong the pink hair puppet girl finished taking off her clothes and left them where they laid.
Cocking her head to the side she walked up to Naruto completely nude which was really help him recover from the initial shock of Sakura taking her shirt off before him. Staring in his face she then turned around and walk off to the bathroom to clean herself off as she could not sense anything other thoughts coming from him at the moment thus would do what she last picked up on.
When Naruto finally came around to his sense he notice Sakura was there anymore but just pile of her bloodied clothes instead. He did however hear the sound of running water and rushed over to the bathroom where Sakura was sitting on the side of the tub cleaning herself off.
'Its appear that this time around Sakura's semi-conscious persona is capable of independent actions' Naruto thought as before he had contiously think about her doing something. It was pain at first but he got used to it after awhile.
When Sakura noticed him standing there she walked over to him and handed him the wash rag she was using to clean herself with.
She then turned around and point to her back where there were area where she could not reach herself. Well that technically was not true as since she was not human at the moment. She could simply twist her head in manner that would allow her clearly see her own back then twist her arm in manner on possibly for someone like her.
Naruto gulped as this be the first time he would acutally touched her like this. Sure there were other time like when he craved the seal on her chest. This was more personal then that time as this was like something from out of Ero-Sennin's preverted book.
'He probably have that preverted smile on his face with thumbs up while yelling ok or something like that' Naruto thought as he quickly shook and the following perverted thoughts that came to mind out before Sakura could possibly react to them.
Upon placing his hands on her back to wash out the blood, Sakura straight out like his hands were ice against her body which should not be possible since pink hair friend did not have sense of touch. So his actions should not have cause a respond like what had just happened.
Though as Naruto was thinking over what had just happened he was broken out his thought by a question from someone he was not thinking expecting at the moment
"What are you doing, Naruto?" Sakura asked as she turned her head around to look at him as best she could at the moment.
"Ummm….I….that is…..there a good reason for this!" Naruto said stumble over his word as somehow making direct contact with Sakura's body cause a switch between her personas.
"Why am I naked and in your bathroom?" she asked calmly a little too calmly for Naruto's liking.
In a flash Naruto vanished and pair of spare set of her clothes were in his place. He also got that blood of her back too.
"Ok…ay?" Sakura said as she did not really understand what was going on as the last things she remember was….
Though as Sakura tried search her memories for answer her expression went vacant again for moment before she came around remembering looking for ingredients then she must have come back with Naruto ended up washing up in his bathroom where being his usual self came in on her at the wrong moment.
That must be what happen Sakura reason as her own subconscious mind was preventing her remember what really happened thus the fake story she was now believe was fact.
"Hey Naruto where is my jacket? This is not it?" Sakura asked as she noticed it was not with her spare set of clothes.
"I am getting it cleaned" Naruto told her as he guessed her mind was blocking the events that happened today from her.
"Alright…I better get going would not want Haruna finding me in here" she said quickly exiting once the coast was clear.
Once she was gone, Naruto wonder just how he was going to get Sakura's jacket (formerly his) clean from the blood stains which were not that many as she seem be very protective of it. So stains were the only thing on the jacket as appose to the rips and tears from the rest of her clothes.
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