Fakers!

Chapter Five: Where the heart is, where is starts.

"What happened to this fic? 'I guess it ran out of Charcters, settings, and plot. Almost all of those belong to Kishimoto'." ~Hibiki

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"Hi…" He said.

"…Hi" She said.

… Great conversationalists they were…

"Um, could we… erm, talk?" Naruto managed to utter out.

"Sure." Okay not bad so far he thought. "Can we start by why you are in my window, blocking my light, and staring at me that doesn't end in me beating you to death and ruining my carpet?" Okay maybe so bad so far. "And take your shoes off, it's rude."

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"Wow I was wondering about the citizen watches were dodging me, I couldn't find any to get the day's gossip-I mean ah, information." Ino twirled her finger in the condensation her iced tea had made. It was a little cool for the cool beverage, not to mention iced tea was rather off notion for the fire country as it was but she loved the taste. "So they think you and I?" She gestured to themselves.

"Yep."

"Are not only dating?"

"Right."

"But having sex?"

"U-uh yeaah?"

"In very kinky and overt manors?"

"yes." He squeaked his face red.

"And the fact your penis is the size of a-?"

"Can we skip that one? I don't even know why I told you that!" God he was so embarrassed, by him blurting it out as well as her obvious look down… there. And her CONSTANTLY BRINGING IT UP!

"Well this isn't good… This city runs on gossip like you on ramen." She said her chin rested between her thumb and index finger as she thought.

"Hey! I eat other things too!" She ignored him.

"How can we make them stop, without making it seem like we're either covering it up or lying through our teeth."

"I dunno, that's why I went looking for you."

"Sakura and the others if they caught word of the fact I was lying would just rub all this in my face if the truth came out. So it's no good trying to fix it then."

"Do I have a say in this?" He pouted.

"No shut up." He pouted more.

"So we know we can't make them stop without some big scene, we know they won't stop if we tell them the truth, so what does that leave us?" She was stumped but he wasn't he was looking hard at her chewing his lip. The he brightened and looked to her with oomph.

"So, let's prove them right instead!" Naruto had a smile that reminded her of that little shrimp he had been before his training trip. That foxy prankster. "We'll do exactly as they think we're doing!" WHAT?

[SMACK!]

"You jerk!" She growled out, she should have known.

"Ack! Not like that Ino-chan!"

"Then what did you mean, hentai?" He winced at the name. Okay that was a little harsh.

"We play a prank on them. Let them believe what they want, see it, get over it, then when it's all old news and no one cares anymore we 'break up'." She got it.

"So we let everyone think they got the right idea, kinda like what we did with Sakura and the others in the bar right?" He nodded. "But only, it's the entire village?"

"It'll be tough, I mean I'm sure there must be some guy out there you like, I'd hate to give him the wrong idea." She shook her head negative.

"There really hasn't been anyone since Shika." Aside from her previous one shot dates, her first real relationship lasted only a week. She was too high strung, he was too lazy. They say opposites attract, but really there was just too much difference. The Nara and Yamanaka heir had broken it off before things got too crazy, and because of it they were still the best of friends! Okay that sounded too utterly perky even for her. "No one has really interested me since."

"I can't believe it, your too nice and pretty not to have guys follow you around." She had the decency to look away as a blush erupted from her face. Stupid tactless idiot, you don't just blurt that at a girl. (AN: It took me years to figure out that one too…) She puffed her cheeks in a huff trying to make the color fade from her face before she turned to him, ignoring the small grin. "Yup really cute like that." Okay now she was mimicking Hinata.

"W-well what about you? Your sitting here flirting with me pretty damn well!" He blushed this time and began stuttering. "You have to have someone you like. What about Sakura?"

"That…" He sighed and looked out the window. "…Is sorta like you and Shikamaru." Oh.

"Okay what about Hinata? You KNOW she has a major crush on you." Hell the whole village knew it since the Pein attack.

"You know why that can't go anywhere, Yamanaka." whoa. She had seen him hostile at others but that was cold. His stormy eyes had frozen and his shoulders squared. She quickly came to the opinion that an Angry Naruto was a Hot Naruto. Good Greif was there a side of this idiot that didn't seem to make her squirm in one way or another?

"Y-yeah, sorry…" She mumbled. It all came back to those words he had whispered to her two days ago didn't it?

"It's… okay. Sorry." His eyes closed and his shoulders relaxed as he sat back taking a deep breath. "You know why I'm not going to hurt her more. Why I won't let anyone get that close… I'm really sorry about that night Ino, about what I said." Just like that night Ino couldn't resist putting her hand on his chest in comfort.

"I know you are, that's why I said it was okay. Like I said though, your secret is safe with me. I promise." He still remained sullen though and Ino was having none of it. Her hand left his chest and flicked his nose, just like she had that night. He started, his face in a pout before he lost his frown in favor of smiling as she giggled. "There, that's the Naruto I know. So sure, it makes sense." He looked at her confused, which she supposed he would, given they had gone in five different directions in the last two minutes. "About fooling an entire village full of ninja that you and I are hopelessly in love and can't keep our hands off the each other's body." Oh yeah, nothing is more of a esteem builder than a man who rather pleasant in his own right looks at you like that.

"Might be closer to the truth than you know, Ino-hime." Her heart started beating a little faster as he whispered huskily at her. Still remarkably tactless, but so far it hasn't been that bad hearing these. He was making her feel rather like a princess. "Er, Ino-chan." He quickly fixed. Leaning well into his comfort range, she put a finger on his lips and shook her head, okay that was kinda girly girl shit she had read about in those stupid books, bleh. Still got his attention though so I guess there was some merit to it.

"I like that. Hime. Only Daddy calls me that, it's perfect." He gulped as he looked into her sky blue eyes.

"O-okay Ino… Hime." They both blushed at that and he slid away a little to make some space.

"Stupid." She remarked sitting against him in the window. "Look, sit like we're together don't sit across the room from me." She took his arms and wrapped them around her belly.

"R-right." his voice shook, nervousness she assumed.

"G-get use to this, we're gonna need to be lovey-dovey with one another for people to fall for this." Okay so maybe being wrapped up in his arms, his oddly pleasant scent invade her every breath, and his warmth pooling against her back, was making her a little nervous as well.

"Right." He said rather huskily into her ear making her bite her lip again at the sensation against her. What was him and her neck? Yeah! Tell him girl!

"Oh yeah one more point, don't you dare leave something like this on me ever again." She turned her head to the side, exposing her neck to his gaze, and pointed to the area of the hickey. To her surprise his eyes widened and before she knew it his hands were on her shoulders, his fingers dancing against her skin. But what surprised her most was…

"Ino, are you okay, did I do that? I'm sorry! Does it hurt?" His voice was worried, panicked even. She couldn't look him in the eye either to see if he was okay because that same surge from that night hit her again, making her arch into his touch and bite her lip to keep from releasing the sigh slash moan his calloused digit was dragging out of her. He went silent as a moan finally did slip from her lips. His thumbnail had run along the mark, and the stimulation the nerve under it as his thumb softly stroked against her neck was maddening. Her fingers dug into his hair as she shook with pleasure as his other hand joined the stroking a few moments later. The double sided attack on her neck made her positively melt against him. Lulling her head back to rest against his shoulder, she gazed with her eyes half lidded up to find him looking at her with both surprise and… what she hoped was longing. He licked his lips and the urge to kiss them took hold.

"N-Nartuo!" She gasped as she came back into her senses and grabbed his hands with hers. Her breath came in gasps as she tried to calm. "P-please…" If he did anymore she wouldn't be able to stop.

"I-'m sorry! I…" He hung his head, only to look almost shell-shocked when her lips caressed his jaw line in a soft wet trail.

"D-don't be." She remained nuzzled up against him. "You just have no idea how good you are with your hands, do you Naruto-baka?" She half teased him as she regained some control. Bastard really didn't know did he.

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"Really?" He WAS intrigued. His hands, like most ninja, had a rough calloused nature, and like most, were never thought as anything special. The exhilaration he had felt, the joy he felt, the power as she basically writhed in his arms due to them was so… Addicting. So much it scared him.

He had to be careful… Her voice, her movements, her laughter, her joy, her body, her soul. All so… satisfying to be around and breathtaking to behold… It would be so, so incredibly easy to become addicted to her. And that was the very LAST thing he could allow happen.

As he tuned back in as she began to recount what needed to be understood as they prepared to prank the entire village, he only hoped the prank didn't backfire. The fact her lavender and peach scent still stirred that longing he had felt when she looked at him didn't give him much hope.

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"Oi Uzumaki!" His building owner called out to him just as he passed the office window before the apartment stairs, the evening sky had long since past into night when he and Ino had stopped talking. It was nice, sitting with her talking about things, getting to know her better, learning what she liked, …holding her. Yeah he was pretty sure he was sunk as he shook his head and turned back to the Ooya. The man wasn't the nicest, actually what building owner was? Anyway they usually ignored one another, Naruto paid his rent early, and the landlord made sure there wouldn't be any reason for the two to have to deal with each other. So it was rare when they did talk.

"Hai, Ooya-san(landlord)?"

"You gotcha self a neighbor up there now, so no funny stuff you hear me boy?"

"I understand." Ass. And sure enough there are were a strange precession of six movers, doing their job swiftly as they moved steadily up the stairs with him. Making it to the top floor of his apartment he found a familiar face. Letting the movers past he waited until he could walk over to speak.

"…Sai?"

"Oh hello Naruto-kun. Good evening." The pale skinned man smiled in his usually fake way. The blue eyed man looked to his fellow ninja with some wariness, but after today he was just ready to collapse.

"Evening. Why are you here? Did you need sumthin'?" Lord he hoped not, his nice warm bed was so close and he was exhausted.

"Oh not really I was just helping a friend move in." Huh, Naruto hadn't thought the rather emotionless guy even had any other friends (Not that he was being cruel in saying that just rather Sai kept to himself since the fourth Shinobi war's end). In fact the only people the blonde man could remember Sai hanging out with recently were the goth girls and-!

"Hello Suga." A rather flamboyant voice whispered huskily into his ear sending chills though him.

"Grk!" Naruto choked out. His back snapped to attention as the hairs all over his body stood on end. Manly hands gripped his shoulders, massaging his overly tense shoulders in a waaaay too friendly way.

"I was SO tired of my old place, I just wanted to get out of there and somewhere I could have some… company." Naruto was behind Sai in an instant, his eyes wide as he stared with naked fear at Yamaguchi. GAH, Never use the words naked and Yamaguchi in the same sentence again... ARGH! He just did! Dammit!

"You're…. you're the…. The… The new….."

"I'm your new neighbor honey, and I hope to see LOTS of each other from now on." No no no, no way in hell. He'd rather see Baa-chan's naked and probably wrinkly ass without her jutsu than see any more of Yamaguchi.

"hahaha." he laughed more fake than Sai's smile and continued weakly with. "Well that's nice and all, welcome to the apartment Yamaguchi-san."

"Thank you Naruto-baby!" EEEEEEEEE. "Why don't you come on over and we can have a moving in party!" SHIT! LIE for the love of KAMI-SAMA! LIE Like you have never had before.

"Ah that's cool and all." He winced at the man's hopeful expression, even if he was scared to death of the man he hated hurting anyone's feelings." "But I ah, well, I kinda need to get to bed, Ino and I have some things to do tomorrow" Ino wouldn't mind, yeah, she did say he could come over any old time. (he knew damn well she didn't mean the very next day.)

"Oh that's no problem, we could always party at YOUR place instead." All color had drained from his normally tanned face. Oh man, he was screwed either way. There was only one option.

"Actually…." Thunder rumbled in the distance ominously.

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[knock knock knock] It was barely heard over the late night storm that had pulled in from the west.

Ino blinked awake, then blearily turned to her clock. It was half past midnight, who in their right mind would come knocking at her door at this hour. Quickly throwing a robe over her nightie she padded her way over to her door to find a pitiful site. Wet from the rain he looked more like a drowned flaxen rat than the strongest Jounin of the village.

"Mmmm…Naruto?" She murmured sleepily rubbing the sleep from her eyes with the back of her hand. "Whatta doing here?"

"My home is… not safe to sleep at, at the moment. I was kinda hoping that maybe I could stay here? I don't even mind if I have to sleep in the tub." Ino blinked.

"What's wrong with your house?"

"Yamaguchi moved in next door." Ino blinked again, then giggled. "OI! It's not that funny! He wanted to have PARTY and get to 'know me better' as he put it. When I said I needed to sleep he offered to party at my place. Sai was with him, I don't trust either of them at the moment." Pride aside in fear for his virgin rear end the man got on his knees tugging at her robe. "Please Ino-chan, let me bask in the radiance of your kindness and I will worship you forever, please take me in please!"

"Why not Sakura?" She whispered in fear of waking the neighbors.

"How would it look if I went to the girl I use to have a crush on when the girl I Lov-" He gulped, even in the context of the lie they were perpetrating he couldn't say it. "Like is here." He was silent for a moment or two letting her take it all in before continuing.

"You're the only choice, please Ino?"

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Unbeknownst to them, Mrs Kurogama, Ino's neighbor had opened her door just at the moment to figure out what the commotion was about. What she found pushed the old widow into staying more stealthy than any ninja known to man. Juicy news knew no boundaries.

"You're the only choice, please Ino?" In the darkness of the corridor she barely made out her neighbor in her robe standing stunned before that man of hers, the Stud as they were calling him at the corner morning meetings, on his knees, soaking wet, his face awash with nervousness (if she only knew it was either sleeping at Ino's, under a bridge, or taking his chances at his house and waking up… yeah). Oh my! Looks like Harumi-chan's Sensei was making the move! Poor little dear was going to be heartbroken, but oh the looks she was going to get dropping this bomb!

"Yes." Kurogama's eyes widened at what she had just heard!

"Really? For real? Oh Ino-hime thank you! You're my angel! I love you!" Yamanaka's face flushed so bright she nearly lit up the hallway as he took her hands and kissed them. Akane Kurogama nearly squealed with delight! Such a cute and romantic couple. It reminded her of her dearly departed Hiro, bless his soul, and her at that age.

"Baka! Your still sopping wet! Get off your knees and get in here before you catch a cold! Your making a mess on the floor as it is!" She pulled him up and brought him into her apartment and Kurogama giggled mischievously before slipping back into her room.

Tomorrow was a new day, and the girls wouldn't believe what she had for them!

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She made him wait shivering in her entranceway while she stepped back to get a towel big enough to dry off his large frame, being rather petite she wasn't so certain she even had a towel big enough.

"Take off your jacket and shirt, even with that fox in your stomach you're susceptible to infections and I will have no boyfriend of mine getting sick on my watch, real or not!" She remarked over her shoulder as she went. This wasn't the flirty or playful Ino he was use to seeing lately, but rather the medic nin before she switched to the T&I program, so it wasn't much of a surprise that he did as she asked without so much of a blush or hint of nervousness. He had learned long ago that you followed the doctor's orders. His teammate and Hokage had pounded that into his skull, quite literally.

She held out her hands and took his clothes from him with a nod before she looked up at his hitai-ate.

"But Ino…" She put her foot down.

"No buts. That's almost as bad as leaving a wet shirt on." He sighed and pouted at her but removed his prized headband and handing it almost hesitantly in her hand. His wet locks fell right into his eyes blocking the view of her victorious smirk at winning the small argument. He pushed his hair back with a wave of his hand to look at her in the eyes.

"Be careful with it okay, that's the plate given to me by Iruka-sensei. It was his father's before his." her eyes widened as she realized she was holding something rather precious. He reached out and gave her shoulder a slight squeeze. "I trust you. After all if I couldn't trust my girlfriend who can I trust?" He gave a foxy grin when she smiled, laughing softy at his rub, and handed him a towel.

"You're such a baka. I'll go start these in the wash and I'll see if I can find something for you to wear in some of Daddy's things he leaves here. I doubt you'd feel up to wandering around me naked after all." He blushed and began stuttering as she smirked and sashayed away.

"Frankly I don't know how I'd feel about it." He mumbled to himself as he began scrubbing at his face. Three days ago, he heard Ino mention to most of the girls his age that he was good in bed. It made him both so embarrassed and upset about it that he had pulled her aside and said a few things he was both stunned and shamed to say. Things he knew he had upset her about on what was suppose to be a fun night out for her and at once he had forgiven her. She had accepted and being in the playful mood she'd put him in, he had ordered those drinks (He hoped Hinata-chan was doing okay, it was tough to be anemic and a ninja, Sakura had said so before). Two days later the whole town is all about Ino and his' supposed relationship and it seemed like as it went on people's imaginations were getting more and more outrageous. In a desperate and spur of the moment action he had found Ino again and the two had planned for damage control. Fake a relationship for a while, let people get it all out of their systems then 'break up' and things would go back to normal. That made sense to him.

So how was it he was half naked inside his "girlfriend's" house while she found him something to sleep in? That wasn't making so much sense.

A second towel plopped onto his head and small hands ruffled his hair inside of the rough cloth.

"Stop being mopey. Your in my beautiful radiance, remember? So you should be all smiles and worshiping me." He chuckled softly as she cheered him up again. Gently grasping one of her hands he brought each knuckle up and gave a soft kiss to each.

"How can I be sad in the presence of such a amazing person like my Ino-hime." She gave a shuddered breath that made his knees shake.

"S-stop, Naruto-baka." Her voice trembled, just as her hand did, she gently squeezed his hand before he let go. She moved onto his right arm with the towel as he worked on his left shoulder. Naruto kept quiet a little uncertain if he had crossed some line he hadn't known about while Ino tried to focus on anything but his muscular body and that feel of his soft lips against her skin. His torso was done after a short while and Ino handed him some black pants.

"Those seem a bit big for you, Ino-hime." She rolled her eyes.

"Like I said earlier, every now and then when my daddy does something really stupid he gets kicked out of the house and I let him stay over. He has a small stash of clothes incase he needs to go to work and mom's still mad at him."

"He's lucky to have a daughter like you then." Naruto smiled, and took the pants to the bathroom to change and finish drying off. When he came out Ino had to resist drooling, It was apparent Naruto was going commando, as those pants of her fathers were just barely sitting high enough to keep him modest, but only just. He looked like one of those models for those clothes companies, only he didn't have Sasuke's hair or attitude. The pant's really left nothing to the imagination but a certain part she had a feeling more than half the village was obsessed about. "A little snug I guess." He guessed? When he handed her the last of his wet clothes she could almost swore she confirmed he was a natural blonde. How the hell was she, a normal warm blooded female with desires and interests suppose to keep her eyes off her 'boyfriend'. She almost wished they were dating so she would have the right to molest him like her body wanted to.

"Well I won't keep you, I'll be fine in here, thank you again so much Ino-hime." She blinked then reached out and took his hand to keep him from slipping back into the bathing area.

"No Naruto, not in there…" Did he really think she was going to let a man who spent who knows how long out in freezing rain sleep in that tiny cold little bathtub?

"You're letting me sleep on the couch? Thanks Ino-hime." Sure that was an out, but she wasn't taking it. Those were really getting her in trouble recently. She pulled him further till she was at her bedroom door. "I-Ino-hime?" D-damn him for sounding so vulnerable. He made it sound cute.

"You came here first, asked me to take you in, put your trust in me, so now it's my turn to put my trust in you." He looked uncertain. "I refuse to let someone who was soaking wet sleep in a bathtub. And no offense my couch isn't big enough for someone your size, you'd probably break it." While it was really a lie, there was some truth to the statement, he was a large man and even now in the dim light distorted by the rainfall his topless form towered over her, yet it filled her with safety more than fear. She attributed it to being Naruto's warm and inviting nature. She had too, too much riding on her not to mess it up. Not just her feelings but, She smiled softly as he freaked out.

"B-but I'm a… and you're a… It's not proper!" Ino actually laughed out loud at that.

"Since when is Uzumaki Naruto worried about proper?" She giggled.

"Well, most women tend to have a little more reser…" He trailed off as he realized he was about to put his foot into his mouth. Ino thankfully didn't call him on it.

"Well I am not most women, now am I?" She jabbed her thumb into her chest as she smirked up at him. He laughed and shook his head in defeat.

"I just can't say no to you Ino. Besides what male is going to say no to sleeping in the same room such a incredible woman like Yamanaka Ino-hime? I'd be a fool not to." Her smirk widened as he followed her in.

"Who said anything about just the room?" He ran headlong into the doorframe.

"I-Ino-hime?" D-Damn that cute shaky voice!

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It took her ten more minutes to coax Naruto into the room with her. Jeez it wasn't like she was going to BITE him or anything. In a way it was frustrating, here she was virtually telling a man to jump into bed with her, she refused to acknowledge how that sounded, and he was being stubbornly NOBLE! It was two o'clock in the morning, screw noble she just wanted to go to bed. If he didn't accept in the next five minutes he WAS sleeping in the fucking tub, conscience be damned! And it did rather sting her pride he COULD resist her charms.

"Naruto, do you consider me an adult?" She tried, and failed, to hide the smirk that came as he checked out her nightie covered figure again for the third time that minute. Oh yeah that's an ego booster, forget what she said about resisting her.

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"O-of course." he stuttered out. This was a very awkward position to be in for him, and frankly he was wondering why he was resisting this. Oh right sleeping next to that would lead to him in a pool of blood and probably a life as a eunuch. AND WHOULD SHE STOP LIFTING HER TOP UP AND ITCHING THAT SEXY BELLY OF HERS IT WAS DRIVING HIM NUTS!

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"And I think you of as an adult, most of the time." He had the grace to ignore her body long enough to look annoyed at the quip, which was good because the way he was focused on her stomach every time she itched that spot where the stupid scratchy tag was, was getting her a little too hot to think.

"Your point, Ino-chan?" Aw not hime? She must have touched a sore subject.

"My POINT! Is we are both adults and there is nothing wrong with this! Look Naruto if you think I am going to hit you because you might accidentally grope me or something in our sleep don't worry, I understand." She watched as he winced at that. Was that it? He was afraid of touching her inappropriately? "This isn't some stupid book where the two main character end up spooned together after the female specifically told the male he wasn't to come near her. I…" She blushed, remembering Sakura getting mighty upset with her one morning. "I cuddle… So it's gonna damn well happen and I'm comfortable enough you to be my hot foxy cuddle toy, what's wrong with waking up next to me huh?" Damn if her face wasn't going to explode in a fireball his was.

"N-nothing… it actually… sounds really, …really nice." The last part was whispered but heard none the less. A surge of warmth flowed out from her torso filling her body with lightness that willed her into action, she walked over and tugged Naruto up.

"Come to bed." Now damn if that whispered command didn't sound suggestive. It worked too because he stopped resisting. The two of them slipped into the cool sheets of her bed and Ino instantly slid up against his warmth to escape the chill… Okay now her face was going to explode. "Looks like there are some truths to those rumors, huh?" God she felt like a tart sometimes.

"G-gomen!" She wrapped her leg around one of his before he could even pull away. "Ino?" Wow he really must be embarrassed to drop all of the honorifics.

"It's normal, and frankly I find it rather ego inflating that I can cause this in you." She wiggled her rear against it a little, loving that primeval power to make such a strong man's breathe quicken under her touch and gasped a little herself when his large hand latched onto her bare stomach, pulling her against him. Wow, she was being rather bold (of course so was he), and why was it Naruto that caused and allowed her to feel all these things. Not for the first time that day she thought how almost sad it was that it wasn't real. She yawned softly already getting drowsy in the heat his body was creating, and being lulled to sleep by the sound of his heartbeat.

"Goodnight Naruto-baka."

"Goodnight, my Ino-hime." Ino couldn't help but smile and squeeze his hand on her tummy in response to his possessive remark before falling asleep, the smile still on her face.

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Next Chapter: …On Swift Wings

This was postponed due to a virus being collected while researching nightgowns. And before you ask is was sorta like Ero-sennin's kind of research. I was looking for the right look for Ino, and was going to describe it here, but well I came across one of those buttons that refuse to let you do anything but click it, knowing what that meant I tried to kill the browser. Sadly I couldn't shut my browser fast enough to keep a damnable button from refreshing and downloading something. Windows crashed and my computer spent all night restarting. Hell I am writing this right now in safe mode to give a heads up. With any luck I can get this up and going sometime tonight.

Almost nine full pages for this. Well over all the other chapters word wise combined. Think I got a feel for this story.

I've already almost completed Fakers 07 at this point, and man I'm already laughing at what I have thought about after that. However 06 needs to be tweaked to fit 05's work, and 07 for the changed in 06 so give about a day in between the chapters. As you notice probably the chapters are increasing in size as I get a feel for this story, it's mostly because I am not planning what I write per chapter and letting my self go with whatever flow I am making. No having to stop, turn around delete something because it didn't fit the 'plan'. Yeah bleep you memories. And you stripey bag. mocking me.

Oh yeah have you ever read a fan fiction where Naruto or whomever (Doesn't matter what show/book) seem to have a freaking swimming pool for a bathtub? Bah the fact remains that space, the utilization of that space, and the items you fill into it is the key to many homes in a city area like Tokyo. Furo's and springs and big houses are kinda rare unless you get out of the big cities. So Konoha which has many elements of Tokyo, it doesn't seem to me to fit Naruto's dinky little 6-(Manga), 8-(Anime) or 4-(if you count the games) tatami sized room to have even a bathroom the size of a standard American sized house, or even to HAVE one. I always thought of it as some quaint little student's room, like around the size and quality of Yusaku Godai's room in Maison Ikkoku. Just a pet peeve of mine. There are others, but I always try and remain true to the feel of the actual manga/anime/movie/book I am ficcing.

Though will say this. The amount of touching going on in this fic alone qualifies it as OOC. Hell a lone chapter even. But that is where my almost girly romantic side comes into play and refuses anything else but what I have been writing. Bah. I like mush. Sue me. All your get is bad romance fiction ideas till you die.