I don't Own Naruto, I borrow him from time to time, but I always give him back.
-Chapter Nine: Therapy-
Naruto had devised a plan, a rather sneaky plan that involved several devious parts to the whole accumulation of one grand plan. Over all, his plan consisted of arson, poisoning the water supply, large explosions, and an army of knife wielding clones, that was where he played his role. He'd sat at his desk for the entire week, fretting over the smallest detail, he had a map of the area, a map of the base, a water pipe blueprint, and even a map that showed the terrain.
Temari saw that he'd eaten nothing but ramen for the whole week, and decided that he should have real food. She brought some sake and a dish of teriyaki and set them down.
"Can't drink, must plan." Dark circles ringed his eyes.
"Naruto, at least eat the chicken. It's not healthy to sit in one place for so long and not eat some good food. I'll make some tea if you won't drink the sake." Naruto picked up the chopsticks in his left hand and began devouring the chicken. He paused, looking at the written notes, the maps, reports, all of it.
"I need a break. Temari, do you think you could give me a massage? I'm feeling kind of tense." Naruto stood up. "My lower half too please, my legs have never been so stiff." She glared at him. "That's not what I meant! But if you really want to…" Naruto ducked the hand, backing up slowly, he put his hands up. "I was joking Temari, but please? A massage would feel great." The blond girl looked at him, her face still affixed in a way that expressed the verb 'Glare' perfectly, to a letter.
"Fine, we'll have a drink later. Lay down." He went to. "It's uncomfortable to get a massage with your shirt on. If I'm giving you a full body massage, then you're going to need to lose the pants too." She looked at his attire, it wasn't hard to remove.
"You just want to see me naked." Naruto smirked before obliging. Temari, who now slept regularly with him, had never stopped loving his body. He currently lay face down on the bed. She straddled his lower back, and began kneading his shoulders and upper back.
"Have you ever had a massage Naruto? Your muscles are like stone." It had never occurred to her that not a single person in his village, save for maybe Hyuuga Hinata would even considering touching him, and she was far too nervous. "Don't answer that one, I'm afraid I won't like the answer."
"Why then, do you do your work as a ninja? You can't enjoy assassinating people. We should learn from what hurts us as much as what we love." Naruto said, smiling over his shoulder. "And no, but if this is what I'm looking forward to, then I might have to stay up for a week straight more often." He paused, moaning in pleasure. "We should massage information out of enemy ninja instead of torture. It would work just as well, much less messy." It was about this time that Sasuke and Sakura walked in. Both wore a strange expression. "Yeah, it's totally what it looks like." The blond man smirked.
Sasuke sat in his room, rolling his shoulders, Sakura had been instructing the students on basic medical first aid. That was when Sakura looked at him. "You know, I happened to see that both of them were enjoying it, I could help you with those stiff shoulders." She walked over to him straddling his lap, she placed her hands on his shoulders. "But it's gonna cost you." Sasuke raised an eyebrow, his equivalent to 'How much?' "You…Have to…" She brought her lips close to his ear "Give me a full body massage." She whispered. His eyes widened.
"You mean? All of you?" Sakura nodded.
"Every single inch of me." Her words held a seductive tone. Sasuke's face became a soft smile.
"I think… I can manage that one." And he sat back to enjoy the hands kneading his sore muscles. Thank the gods for weekends.
Morning found both Sasuke and Naruto, clad in pants alone, cooking breakfast for the four of them.
"So?" Naruto asked.
"So what?" Sasuke knew what Naruto wanted.
"How was it?" he saw the eyebrow raise. "You know what I'm asking about, Sakura is a very persuasive girl, and I happen to know that she has a bit of a perverted streak. Let me guess….Full body massage?" Sasuke's eyes widened in disbelief. "Good job Sasuke, you've done the deed. Just remember that you are technically her bodyguard."
"So how was it Naruto?" Sasuke let his usual smirk appear.
"It was good, I didn't think it would be all that the old bastard said it would be, but it was." Naruto took a drink of his tea. "Almost wish I had a cigarette, just to seal the deal." The blonde chuckled.
"Naruto, your sense of humor is weird." Sasuke chuckled as well. "That sounds like something Asuma would do."
"It's just something Jiraiya would do, whenever he came home late at night, he'd have this pipe that he smoked. I asked why, and he told me that it made the night perfect." Sasuke saw the sadness in Naruto's eyes. "But I don't like the smell of tobacco, so I don't think I could do it." He smiled. "Let's go wake the girls as soon as we're done setting the table." They set out the silverware, cups, all of the food, and then woke the female half of their team.
Sakura was surprised to see such a wonderful breakfast in front of her, Temari's current state of being had evolved past sheer surprise, and was something much more.
"Naruto, did you cook all of this?" She asked. He said that he had some help from Sasuke. "Okay then." She kissed him. "Thank you." She walked over to Sasuke and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you as well Sasuke-kun." Sakura's expression was a mixture of confusion and anger at the blonde girl for kissing her boyfriend.
"That was…unusual."
"Not in Suna. There is a tradition, or practice." Naruto began. "After certain…activities of the night, a man makes breakfast for his lover, and if she's content with the breakfast, and previously mentioned activities, then she'll give the man a kiss."
Sakura blushed profusely, and once again, the confusion was evident on her face. "So you're saying that you…and her…did these activities?" Naruto nodded. "Then why did she kiss Sasuke?"
"He helped cook the breakfast. Sakura, you should give Sasuke a kiss, or else I might have to steal him from you." Temari smiled slyly. Sakura walked over to the raven haired man, and placed her lips firmly against his own. "So you guys had sex too?" Temari smirked at the blush that graced their faces.
"N-no I mean maybe." Sakura stammered out.
"Yes Temari-chan, we did." Sasuke stated. "And Naruto told me of this practice when he woke me up, that's why I helped." Sakura simply looked indignant as she took her seat.
"Well, since you kissed my boyfriend, does that mean I have to kiss Naruto?" Sasuke was unsure of whether it was eagerness or the opposite that he heard in her voice. Temari shrugged.
"It's up to you, or him I guess, if he decides it's worth whatever you might do to him, then he might claim it." She paused, looking at Naruto. "I should also say that the kiss is meant to be a bond of trust second only to that of marriage." Sakura blanched. "Are you saying that you basically just engaged yourself to Sasuke?"
"No, I'm saying that he is the only one I trust with my life other than Naruto." She stated as she took a drink of her tea. "If you don't want to kiss Naruto, that's fine." She once again smiled. "It's just more for me."
Sakura was not one to accept embarrassment. She looked at Naruto, uncertainty on her face as she bit her lower lip. It's Naruto, he's saved my life, why shouldn't I trust him with my life? She thought. Because you're afraid of your ability to control yourself with him. The other half of her mentality said. The half that was never wrong about her feelings. No! I have Sasuke, I'll always stay faithful to him. She stood from her spot, and walked over to Naruto, who stood up, and pecked her on the lips gently before sitting down to his breakfast again.
"Naruto, Temari-chan kissed my cheek, that wasn't fair." Sasuke stated calmly, admitting that it was rather sneaky.
"All is fair in love and war my friend." Naruto's words came quickly and with a hint of a victorious tone. "Besides, now we're all family. This way, we'll have more of a bond, something more than just the fact that we were all assigned to a mission to keep us together."
"Stop talking, it's starting to make sense." Sakura said, her blush still coloring her cheeks.
Breakfast passed, and once again all was back to what it had been before, Naruto worked on his plans, Temari acted as a second mind, and brought him tea and snacks occasionally, Sakura and Sasuke were at the nearby academy building training medics.
Their first objective would be to poison the water supply, Naruto had ordered a specific concoction be made, it would be dumped into the supply while the attack was commenced, killing the enemy long after the invasion, and leaving no trace of poisoning. Then, they would be forced to stop using the water in the lines, which is when they'd turn to melting snow.
That was when their second objective would commence, they'd send in ninja to kill the men ordered to collect water. After that, they would disguise themselves as the men ordered to collect, and go around as those men, placing explosives, and then, they'd get the hell out of the main building, destroy the second building, which ran parallel to the first one, and destroy it. That second building was the armory, what better way to hinder a force than to destroy it's armory?
Third and finally, they'd let the enemy trail them, killing them as they trailed a faction of their group, while three of them killed from behind, Naruto's clones would then attack them at the flanks, which would force them to turn and run back to their base, which would be destroyed by the explosive notes planted all throughout the building.
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The two week long operation went off exactly as it was supposed to, One hundred and forty five enemy casualties was a successful mission. Naruto and Temari were currently sitting in the meeting room with the daimyo.
"You're saying that your mission went off without a hitch? Are you sure you did as much damage as you say you have? I want to make sure that I won't be hearing about the Oniwabanshu again after I wipe them out."
"Yes sir, I stayed behind and ran some recon, the ninja at the remains of the fortress said that we cost them as many lives. And we also destroyed almost all of their weapons, they are now limited to their personal effects, consisting mostly of kunai and a few ninja-to."
"Good, you have done well. When your friend Haruno Sakura is done training those medics in nine months, we will attack their base. And we will Annihilate them!" The daimyo planted his fist into his palm to accentuate his words.
-Nine months later-
Sakura looked at her graduating class of twenty five medics. Several of them lacked the chakra reserves, or the necessary control to be medics, many had also washed out, not having the will. They were trained as best as they could be in the Nine months she'd been given to train them, which was slightly longer than standard Konoha medic training of eight months. She congratulated them for their graduation, made each of them take the oath of the medic, and told them they were now ninja who were responsible for the lives of any person that was brought in for them to treat.
Naruto was sitting with Temari, Sasuke and Sakura. Their mission was complete, they had been called back to Konoha, they would not be participating in the attack that the land of snow was going to instigate.
-Chapter Nine: End-
Author's Note: This one was mostly a filler chapter, there will be some sort of action coming soon, but I really wanted to get them the hell out of the snow. I personally hate spending too much time in the thrice damnable white stuff. Anyway, the attack on the terrorist organization that is Oniwabanshu was basically just to give Naruto something to do. Next Chapter: Gaara bends the rules! Naruto and Temari take a trip to…(It's a secret!)