Road to Nowhere

Chapter 4

"Hey Naruto! Wake up already!" Sakura exclaimed through Naruto's apartment.

"Yah I'm coming… HEY… is that… BACON!" Naruto roared through the apartment after sloppily putting his clothes on.

Bacon was the only thing that, besides ramen, he ate in the morning, but he was usually too lazy to make it.

"Naruto I just saw this bacon lying around so I figured I'd make some for you," Sakura explained to Naruto.

"Thanks Sakura-chan, I love bacon," he said before he started to chow down. "Man you got to get some better eating habits Naruto," Sakura playfully said.

"Don't worry Sakura-chan I always work it off," Naruto mumbled, due to the fact that he had a mouth-full of bacon when he responded. "Naruto slow down! Geez you're going to choke, oh, and wait for me please," Sakura said with her back intentionally turned so as to make Naruto think that she hadn't noticed he had nearly finished his plate.

Naruto became wide eyed with strips of bacon hanging out of his mouth, 'actually this is pretty funny,' Sakura thought to herself.

Naruto, in panic, made a shadow clone quietly for it to get some bacon off the platter sitting next to the stove. This however was noticed by Sakura who turned around to send the clone, which had already poofed away, across the room.

"Darn… that would've been fun," Sakura said, which made Naruto go cold and swallow hard.

"It's ok Naruto calm down you can have more bacon," Sakura said so as to keep Naruto from peeing his pants.

"Whew… you really had me going Sakura-chan… I love you and all but, you scare me sometimes," Naruto shakily said.

"Yah I know," she coolly responded.

Naruto promptly got up and gave her a kiss so as to calm down any remaining bits of anger she had left. Which succeeded.

After the kiss Sakura who didn't want to end it so quickly swooped in for another one, which soon turned very passionate indeed. Naruto grabbed Sakura's butt and held her back tight.

Sakura stroked Naruto's soft hair, but she realized something… The Bacon! "Naruto the bacon," She said in between kisses.

"Oh it's ok Sakura I'll have some later," Naruto ignorantly replied.

"No I mean it's burning," she said as she gently pushed Naruto away and turned off the burner and put the bacon on the platter.

Sakura took a bite and found, to her relief, the piece wasn't burnt at all, "Phew, I thought I burnt it," she said.

Naruto agreed and actually said they were better than the last batch, but he remembered something… "Oh my god Sakura… we have a mission today," he remembered.

"What no we… wait you're right we have that C rank to the next village," she said, "Ummm Naruto if you wouldn't mind if you could please clean up your kitchen while I go home and get my gear."

"Sure Sakura-chan no problem," Naruto said as he began to put the dishes away with one shadow clone and put the bacon in the fridge with the other, all the while cleaning the table himself.

Sakura left in a hurry because not only was she going to have to change and get her gear… she also had to explain to her parents why she had left and not come back last night.

When she got to her house it was just as she had suspected, her parents sitting on the love seat in their living room while they looked from her to the armchair across the room.

"Sakura… welcome home," her father angrily but controllably said, "please… take a seat." With him motioning his hand to the armchair.

She reluctantly sat down and waited for one of her parents to break the silence.

"Sakura where did you go last night," her mother said after minutes of silence.

"Out at a restaurant with a friend," Sakura replied coolly.

"Oh and who was that friend," both of her parents asked simultaneously, "and also," asked her father, "why did you not come back last night."

"It was with Ino and the reason I didn't come back was…" Sakura was cut off. "That's BULLSHIT Sakura!" her father yelled which was followed by his wife asking him to calm down even though she was clearly just as mad.

"Ok Sakura we know you were with the Uzumaki boy last night after he took you to dinner, to be honest I highly disapprove and furthermore forbid you from seeing him anymore except on missions," her mother said which was cut off by a…

"Mom… you know nothing about Naruto… he is kinder than you are willing to let through your thick skull and a much better person than the two of you combined."

Her father rushed across the room to smack her so hard it would send her to the floor, and he hit but… it was only… "A SHADOW CLONE, damn it Sakura Haruno get down here NOW!" her father screamed.

It was too late now though; she had already left knowing she was going to report this to anbu as a smile widened across her face. Not only that but knowing that Naruto would definitely have a word with him now.

Sakura rushed to Naruto first and told him everything that happened. He instantly got so mad that she could see his fangs start to lengthen. He insisted they go pay them a visit so he could show them how 'persuasive' he could be.

When they got there Sakura's father was punching the wall with rage that his daughter had pulled such a trick on him. His wife was also huddled against the wall with terror that she would be next.

When he noticed Naruto standing in the doorway he instantly lunged at him with a kunai with full intent to kill. Naruto however easily dodged to the side, grabbed his attack arm, and punched him in the gut hard enough to send him crashing to the ground.

Naruto then walked over to the terrified mother of Sakura huddled in the corner and helped her up and the three walked out of the room to the nearest anbu station, which was only a block away.

When they go there Naruto and Sakura sent one anbu member with Sakura's mother to the mental hospital to check for post-traumatic stress syndrome, while two other anbu went to go arrest Sakura's father and take him to prison.

(Author's note)

You know I've read a lot of stories where Sakura always has to talk to her parents about this and I have to say… it was satisfying having Naruto come in and beat the crap out of him without even remotely trying. Hooray for punishment! But anyways, as always, comments are appreciated