Don't own Naruto.
Note: In my version of the story Tsunade doesn't land herself in a coma after she exhausts herself during the Pain attack. She is awake and well. Also, for my story, when Naruto henged into Sasuke to kiss Sakura when they were kids, Naruto followed through with the kiss before leaving to go to the bathroom.
Sorry this took so long everyone. I had to study for my mcat and I have mono, which made me slightly delirious so my writing was really off for a bit. Well here's chapter 4 for you!
Konoha
Inside Hokage tower a pink haired woman stares out a window overlooking the city. She stands at five feet and five inches and has shoulder length pink silky hair. Her toned body and creamy skin are the envy of many women and the source of lust for many men in her village. The curves of her body show easily against the tight navy colored skirt and form fitted red shirt she wears while working. However, the look that reflects in her beautiful green eyes is one of disdain. As the people in the streets of Konoha conduct business and go about their lives, they do so without noticing the scrutinizing stare of the kunoichi glaring down at them. Although she is known as one of the best healers in the entire fire nation, she casts uncaring looks at the people of her own village.
For the past three years she has been losing interest in the on-goings of those around her. Many have noticed her slow degradation and some tried to help. The only person with any luck concerning her apathy is Ino Yamanaka. Even so, the most the platinum blonde girl could get out of her pink haired friend was a childish argument here and there.
She sighs inwardly. 'It wasn't supposed to take you this long Naruto. When are you coming back?'
(Flashback three years earlier)
Just after the Pain attack, the village is regrouping and rebuilding. The efforts of everyone working together have been very fruitful as much of the village has been rebuilt and almost everyone has decent housing again. Naruto's clones have been running around and rebuilding almost non-stop to achieve this and Naruto himself is paying the exhausting price for his commitment to his village. As the exhausted blonde lay in his tent after a particularly hard day of work the pink haired kunoichi walks in.
"Hey Naruto. How are you feeling today?" she asks him with a caring smile on her face.
He turns his head to look at her and yawns, the tiredness of his body showing in his eyes. "Hey Sakura-chan. I feel fine. I'm just really tired today."
She points her finger at him accusingly. "Well that's what happens when you create so many clones and have them work every day without proper rest!" Her voice may be raised, but Naruto knows it is out of concern.
He sighs and smiles at her. "Ok ok Sakura-chan. I'll take it easy for a bit once I'm done helping rebuild. Please just settle down." he says as he waves his hands in front of himself in an innocent manner.
She puts her hand down and looks at him with worry. "You shouldn't push yourself so hard Naruto. I just don't want to see you get hurt." Her eyes begin to tear up as she looks at the young man in front of her, his broken and bruised body once again used for the sake of the village. As she watches her friend breathing heavily from the hard work he has been doing, the medic notices she has been thinking about him a lot lately. 'He does so much for us and never asks for anything in return.' Lately she has been noticing things about Naruto that she used to overlook. 'He's become so strong for us. Why?' She looks at his chest rising up and down and notices his enlarged muscles, which have been pushed to their limit by all of the work he has been doing lately.
He puts on his cheerful grin. "No need to worry about me! I'll be fine Sakura-chan." He throws his arms up for emphasis and winces.
'His muscles must be sore from all of the work he's been doing. I know how I can help him. Even if it's just a little.' The pink haired medic sighs. "Get on your stomach Naruto. I'm going to give you a massage." She says as she removes her gloves.
He just waves his hands in front of himself again and says "No need to trouble yourself Sakura-chan! I swear I'm fine." Once again he winces from the pain of using his muscles.
She ignores him and crouches in front of his face. "Shut up Naruto. I can see in how much pain you're in right now. This will make you feel much better. Please at least let me do this to save me some worry." she casts him another worried glance.
He looks as if he was about to protest, but instead he sighs in defeat. "Fine. You win." He begins to turn around but Sakura stops him.
She blushes. "Umm Naruto. You need to take off your shirt first."
He matches her blush with his own. "Hehe oh yeah. Sorry." He grabs at the hem of his shirt and painfully starts to lift it off. He tries to take it off, but is forced to stop about half way because his muscles start to spasm to heavily for him to move any farther. "Ugh Sakura-chan? Can you help me get this thing off?" He says as he struggles with the small piece of clothing stuck to his face due to it being drenched by his sweat.
The red faced woman stands in awe of the sight before her. She notices his face is covered with his shirt and she almost reaches out to caress his tanned, hard chest while she has the chance. The flustered teen can see his body glisten with the sweat of a hard days work and can feel the inviting heat pour off of him. She finally snaps back into reality and collects herself. "Oh ummm yeah." She helps him take his shirt off the rest of the way and throws it off to the side as she watches his muscles strain while he turns onto his back. She notices he's ready and slowly crawls over to him as her arms carefully reach over his back to begin her work.
With hard labor like the kind Naruto has been doing the medic knows a lot of pressure is put on the lower back so that is where she starts. She charges her hands with chakra and caresses his lower back to feel him go lax under her touch. The young woman smirks and is secretly happy she has this kind of effect on him. The pinkette's smirk grows wider as she feels his tight muscles relax, but still she notices how firm they still feel in her hands. Her face goes red again and she thanks kami that he's looking away right now.
"You're right Sakura-chan. This feels great." Naruto says in a subdued manner.
"Quiet down and relax Naruto." she scolds him even though he complimented her. 'Why do I always do that?' She works her hands down his built arm and shudders. 'Why am I acting so funny around him now?' She feels him shudder the same way she did just moments ago and wonders what he's thinking. 'Sure he is attractive….. and kind….. and he makes me laugh, but he's my closest friend. I'm too afraid to lose him.' She gets her mind back onto business. "Alright I'm done with your back. Turn over."
He picks himself up with far less strain than before and he turns himself around. She looks down at his body and blushes again. She notices now that he's staring at her. His face possibly more red than hers is. "Umm thanks for this Sakura-chan. I already feel much better." He says while turning his face away from hers in embarrassment.
She looks down. "It's no problem Naruto. Just don't push yourself too hard anymore because I don't want to make this a habit."
He looks at her with a devious grin. "Of course Sakura-chan." he laughs to himself. 'I'm gonna push myself even harder tomorrow! I don't want to wait too long for another one of these.'
She ignores his obvious look that tells her that he's going to ignore her advice and gets back to work. She rubs down his neck until she reaches his chest. Inner Sakura tells her that she needs more time to work on his pecs, but actual Sakura knows she's a horny liar. The makeshift massage therapist makes her way down to his well defined obliques, which cut their way in and disappear into his pant line. She sighs a bit when she can't see where they lead. 'Knock it off! Stop thinking like that!' She screams in her head before she notices Naruto stir.
The blonde jinchuuriki is staring at her with his big blue eyes and she is beginning to feel uncomfortable. An odd feeling overtakes her as she stares back into his eyes, it's like the world is causing them to sink towards each other. No matter how hard the pinkette tries to avert her gaze she feels like all she wants is to lean forward to stop this odd sensation growing in her chest. She had no idea that her face had already moved so close to his that he could feel her breath tickle his nose. "What is it Nar..."
She's cut off when he leans forward slightly and kisses her. Her lips erupt with sensations she's only felt once before. The world seems to melt around her as she feels Naruto's hand caress her cheek softly. As Sakura closes her eyes she returns the kiss. She puts her arms around him to support his tired frame and slowly rubs small circles on his back. Their soft lips touch each other gently as the two become lost in each other. She decides to take a step forward and begs for entrance into his mouth by rubbing her tongue up against his lower lip.
Naruto is in heaven. He finally gained the courage to act on his feelings for Sakura and she accepted him! While he relishes in the sensation of Sakura around him, he feels her tongue touch his lips. He eagerly complies with her request and feels the dance begin between each other. His veins are full of adrenaline and nervous energy, while the pains he just had are completely gone and are replaced instead with the shaky nerves of a teenage boy kissing the girl he loves. As he feels her hand snake its way into his hair he pulls her down on top of him. She now has one hand on his chest and the other playing with his blonde tresses as she lay flat against him between his legs. The hold he has around Sakura's waist is new to him, but it feels warm and gentle just like her soft pink lips.
Sakura basks in the feeling and remembers the first time she was kissed. Everything was the same about this kiss as it was the first time except before she was a naïve child and it was Sasuke, not Naruto, she shared it with. It was so tender, so sweet, so full of love. With her eyes shut and her mind overloaded with past and present memories intertwined she moans out loud. "Ohhh Sasuke-kun." She freezes. Her eyes shoot open after she realizes the gravity of what she has just done. They both remain speechless as the two wide eyed teens stare at each other, the hurt in Naruto's eyes almost palpable. He clenches his chest and heaves aloud while he gently pushes Sakura off of him. She hears him scream under mumbled breath and she breaks down. His world has just been destroyed with a single name. Gasping on all fours Naruto's cries quickly die down. The blonde man's breath evens out and his face dons and emotionless mask. Sakura steels her heart and finally finds the will to speak. "Naruto I didn't!"
She is cut off by the heartbroken man. "No. I apologize Sakura. I shouldn't have done that." He looks at her with a stoic face, but she can see that his eyes are full of hurt and anguish. She breaks down more as she hears him leave out the -chan from her name and cries aloud. "Don't worry. I know what I have to do now." Naruto says as he stands up and puts his shirt back on. The green eyed medic watches as he moves out the opening in the tent and she feels the pressure of more tears build up in her throat.
She stands up and rushes out after him, but he's already gone. The pinkette looks around for a few moments before she cries again. "What have I done?" She screams over and over to herself. She stops crying and comes to a decision about what she will do that she is positive will work. The medic decides to wait in his tent for him so she can fully explain herself when he gets back. "I have to make this right. You don't understand Naruto." She closes her red puffy eyes and falls asleep on his makeshift cot he has in his tent. "I'm so sorry. Please don't hate me."
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Naruto leaves the tent and rushes through the forest without direction. He stops and faces an innocent old tree in the middle of the Konoha forest. In his anger the destroyed lover rips the tree to shreds. His fists fly in and out of the pine as he screams to himself. As wood and bark are flayed off of the trunk of the old tree he begins to calm down. The jinchuuriki falls to his knees and puts his bloody hands against his face. He watches the crimson liquid stop pouring out and the cuts heal themselves. He feels the bones he recently broke by pummeling the tree reform and retake their proper positions in his hands. "I understand. She can only be truly happy with Sasuke. I know that now." He stands up and makes his way to the Hokage's current base of operations. "I'm going to make her happy no matter what." With his purpose set, he speeds off to his destination.
(Line break)
The small shack that was recently built to hold up as a base was too small for Tsunade's comfort. The Hokage tower was being rebuilt, but because it was so large and had very little usage as housing it was decided that it wasn't a priority to finish it early. For now, she resides in what is basically just a wood shack with a bathroom, bedroom, and main living room, which was used as an office until better arrangements were made. In the attack by Pain everyone in the village lost all of their personal belongings because the entire village was decimated. The only saving grace in that is now she doesn't have to worry about any of her amenities taking up too much space in her cramped home. She sits down at her desk and sighs as she picks up the first sheet of a huge pile of papers she needs to sort through by the morning. The slug woman begins to read the document when she hears a knock at the door.
"Come in." The sannin says happy for the intrusion into her paperwork even though she just started. Naruto walks in with his head down and sits in the chair in front of her desk. She notices that he looks downtrodden, and that his eyes seem distant and sad. "Naruto? What's wrong?" she says worriedly.
He throws on a big fake smile. "Nothings wrong baa-chan! I just need to ask you for a favor." His body is rigid and stiff and he can't keep his eyes connected with Tsunade's for more than three seconds before he looks at the ground again.
She can see the obvious lie showing through his red eyes and fake smile. "What is it that you want?"
He perks up a bit. "I need a mission." He says quietly while still staring at the ground, biting his lip slightly.
'This is about a mission?' She looks at her paperwork. "I have plenty of missions for you if you would like one." She starts to sift some folders next to her desk.
"I'm sorry. I mean I want to re-establish myself into a still active mission." He looks up at her. "I want to be reactivated into the Uchiha retrieval mission."
The slug princess looks at him in surprise. 'Is that why he's so unhappy? The boy may sound more certain now, but he is definitely still shaken by something.'
"I also request that Kakashi Hatake and Morino Ibiki come with me." He says with force.
She laces her fingers together and puts them under her chin. The busty sannin furrows her brow in thought. "I'm sorry Naruto. All three of you are valuable assets that I can't give up for the time you would need to accomplish this mission." She sighs. "The village just doesn't have enough money right now to let our best ninja go off for extended periods of time without completing any other missions."
Naruto jumps to his feet and slams his hands on her desk. "Then make it a mission to recover Sasuke while destroying the Akatsuki. Last we heard he joined up with them so going after the Akatsuki should lead us to him. Also, most of the people involved with the Akatsuki are A to S ranked missing ninja with enormous bounties on their heads. We will dispatch of them and send them back here to get the bounties. With all of the people involved with the Akatsuki we are sure to gain a profit from this." He basically pleads to her with the look of desperation in his eyes, while his hands are balled and trembling while his face loses its color.
She notices the wavering in his voice as he tries to sound affirmative. 'Why is he so adamant about this?' She looks down at her desk and tries to come up with a solution. The master medic sighs and grabs a mission requisition form from one of her drawers. "Fine. You can have this mission. You will leave tomorrow afternoon. Go prepare your things and say goodbye to people. There is no telling how long you will be gone. Sakura is going to be pretty upset about this." She watches Naruto flinch when she says Sakura's name.
He brings his hand to his chest and clutches it slightly. "Please let us leave today." He says in a whisper.
The legendary sucker is utterly surprised by this request. "Why today! Don't you want to have a little time here before you go?" she asks dumbfounded. 'What the hell is going on with him?' She notices him grabbing his chest and her eyes soften in sadness. "Naruto, tell me what's wrong. I know something is going on. Don't make me worry like this." She speaks softly to her fellow blonde. He pushes his head down more as if to think.
Minutes pass before he lifts his head again to show her his tearing eyes. "Please Tsunade-sama. I need to leave today." He feels his heart crushing again as Tsunade opens the wounds he recently acquired even farther.
She is taken aback. 'Tsunade-sama? He never calls me by my title or my name. I don't know what's going on, but he must be very serious if he's resorting to this to get out of here.' She sighs and finishes filling out the mission form. She hands it to Naruto sadly and says, "Here. Show this to Ibiki and Kakashi and they will leave with you…. tonight." She reluctantly holds out the document. He grabs the form, but she doesn't let go. She looks him in the eyes with a very worried stare. "Please... be careful Naruto. These people are looking for you and they are all very ruthless. Listen to Ibiki and Kakashi. If they say hide, you hide. If they say run, you better do it. I understand that you are very strong, but don't try to tackle the world." Her honest worry and care pour out through her words. She lets go of the form and he smiles a small, but loving smile.
He solemnly turns his back and moves towards the door. He reaches to the frame and without turning around whispers, "Thank you for caring for me." With that he runs out the door to collect his travel partners and leaves a very distraught hokage.
She wonders if she made a mistake. The blonde woman leans back in her chair and sighs. "This kid is gonna be the death of me." She pulls out a jug of sake and takes a few swigs. Looking at all the paperwork in front of her the sannin sighs and begins to start reading the document in between gulps of sake. "Things are going to be pretty boring around here for a while without him."
(Line break)
The next day Sakura walks into Tsunade's office to ask her about Naruto because he never came back to his tent the night before. She sees the blonde woman asleep on her desk drooling over a pile of unfinished paperwork.
"Tsunade-sama." The slug woman stirs and sits up. Her hair is strewn all over her face and dried spit is on the corners of her mouth. She reaches for her bottle of sake to find it empty. She angrily throws it off to the side and leans her face up against her hand to look at Sakura.
"What do you want Sakura?" She says unhappy to be woken up.
"I'm sorry for disturbing you Tsunade-sama. I was just wondering if you have seen Naruto at all." The pink haired girl says while looking at her feet.
"He didn't say goodbye huh? I thought he would've at least said it to you." the still slightly drunk hokage says.
"What do you mean Hokage-sama? Why would he say goodbye? Where has he gone?" the pink haired teen asks in a panic, her small frame shaking in worry.
Tsunade notices how flustered her apprentice is and raises a brow. "He came in yesterday evening and asked for a mission." She slurs most of her words, but the younger medic can understand the drunken speech of her master after hearing it so much.
The pinkette throws all formality out the window and raises her voice to her master. "What mission? When will he be back?" She screams to her teacher begging for an answer.
The drunken sannin holds her head in pain from her students loud exclamations. "The mission is to destroy the Akatsuki and retrieve Sasuke Uchiha. I don't know how long he will be gone, but it will probably be for quite a while." The inebriated princess hiccups and her face falls off of her hand causing her head to almost slam into her desk. She slowly picks herself up again and stares down her student.
The pink haired woman whimpers and puts her hand timidly over her mouth. "He's... gone?" Her green eyes erupt with tears she was holding back all morning as she covers her face with her hands in shame. Her heavy cries sober the inebriated hokage up a little.
The blonde woman stares at her sobbing subordinate with question. "Why are you crying Sakura? Does this have anything to do with why Naruto was acting so weird last night?"
Sakura tenses up. "What... did he say?" She asks with a worried look.
"He wouldn't tell me what was wrong. He just asked for the mission and left. What happened between you two?" The slug princess stands up and moves around her desk. She sits at its end and crosses her arms under her chest awaiting an answer from the younger medic. Tsunade sees the frightened look in Sakura's eyes and frowns. "Tell me what's wrong Sakura."
The panicked teen looks around the room for an exit, but decides that the sannin in front of her would never allow her to make it to the door. She looks away from her teacher with tears in her eyes and a lump in her throat. The heart-breaker begins the story of the previous night's events. "Well... I noticed how hard Naruto had been working recently to rebuild the village so I visited him." After a few minutes of storytelling with some parts leaving both the student and teacher blushing, like when she described Naruto's body, she finishes her story leaving an open mouthed Tsunade.
"Sakura... what you've done is..." She doesn't finish her sentence due to her stun at her subordinates actions. "Do you understand what you did?"
"I didn't mean it sensei! My feelings for Naruto are true!" She says excitedly. The pink haired girl looks down at the floor again. "It's just the kiss was so similar. It felt like the first kiss I ever had and I got lost in the moment. It was all so sudden! My feelings for Naruto are so new I didn't realize what I said until the kiss ended." She starts tearing up again and looks at Tsunade. "I'm so sorry!"
The blonde sannin looks down and holds out her hand to stop Sakura. "What you did was not just a simple blow to a man's ego Sakura. You have decimated him. I'm... not sure he will forgive you for this." She sighs loudly. Even though Tsunade is mad she can't remain angry at her student because she believes Sakura is truly sorry for what she has done. Now her only feelings are ones of remorse and sadness for her precious Naruto. ' He must be in so much pain right now.'
The pink haired girl jumps into her teachers arms and sobs. "He hates me now!" Her teacher wraps her arms around her and rubs her back gently. She feels her pupil drenching her green robe with her tears, but the hokage tries to push aside any anger she may hold for her student at the moment and calm herself down before she speaks.
The slug princess holds her student tighter hoping to ease her pain. "He could never hate you." She tries to say as gently as possible. "He will be back one day. You can talk to him then, but for now you need to calm down." The pinkette moves out of the blonde woman's hold and sits down again. She tries to heed her masters advice and regain her composure to settle her raging mind. Instead her legs fly to her chest and she holds herself in the fetal position as she breaks down once again. She doesn't calm down that day, or the day after, or many days after that.
(Flashback end)
Sakura stares idly outside the Hokage's window. She looks at the beautiful city and the dense woodland surrounding it as the leaves fall from the trees and the children play in the parks. She sees a messenger hawk fly to the roost on top of the tower. The medic doesn't care about any of it. She's just killing time until the Hokage is finished with her paperwork so she can give her report on the state of the healthcare facilities in town.
She sighs as she brings up her memory of her night with Naruto yet again. She likes to cut off the memory just before the kiss gets broken off, before she made her mistake and screwed everything up. She again thinks about the blonde man that has haunted her dreams for three years. The only updates she receives about him are the bodies of missing ninja he sends back occasionally. She still remembers smiling when Kisame Hoshigaki's body showed up in the morgue. His heart had been torn apart by a rasengan to the chest and there was barely any of his insides left. She could almost feel Naruto's chakra still pouring off of the wound as she traced, with her gloved hands, the perfect circle the rasengan creates when it's thrusted into things.
She was so wrapped up in her thoughts that she was completely oblivious to the messenger that arrived at the door. It wasn't until she hears the Hokage gasp does she turn her attention away from the window. She watches as the Hokage stares wide eyed at a parchment in front of her. The paper is shaking as the buxom blonde lets out short, sharp gasps. Finally, the blonde sannin puts down the paper and smiles while tears drip down her eyes. The genjutsu making Tsunade's normally youthful appearance disengages as her hands fly up to her face and she begins sniffling.
"He's coming back." she laughs hysterically. "I'm so happy I can't even hold my genjutsu anymore."
The pink haired woman jerks forward in happy disbelief. "Do you mean..."
The old slug princess sniffles again and nods her head. "It's Naruto."
Back with Naruto and Sasuke
"You think just because no one ever broke his shield that it's indestructible?" Two large red claws close together in front of Naruto. As they begin to open a black sphere takes shape. Naruto breathes out slowly "Yami Rasengan"
Susanoo lowers his shield in front of Sasuke and braces for the attack. The black haired man gazes upon the ball in the blonde's hands. It is pitch black and appears to be just like any other rasengan he's seen in the past, but it seems to have blue lightning running around it. He also notices that Naruto seems to be struggling to hold it in his hands, his knees look ready to buckle, his veins are almost popping out of his skin, and his muscles all look as if they are being pushed to the extreme.. 'Just how heavy is that thing?' Still the raven haired man is fearless. "You're wasting your time Naruto. You wont be able to get through the shield. Just give up." He says looking down at the jinchuuriki even though he was eye level with him.
The blonde looks up at the other man who thinks he's safely tucked behind his ethereal samurai. "Haha... Hey teme... don't get a creak in your neck from looking down at me so much." The deep tone Naruto used made his statement sound like anything but a joke. "This match was over long before now Sasuke." Looking down again Naruto notices his creation is ready for use. He laboriously puts his first foot forward and the ground around his foot cracks under the weight.
Sasuke braces for impact as he watches Naruto increasing his speed towards him and offhandedly he worries a little. He noticed something funny just before Naruto took his first step. 'All the debris in the area is moving towards Naruto.' It is then Sasuke feels a tug from Naruto's direction. 'I think that ball is pulling me towards him! How?' Using his sharingan he analyzes the new rasengan, he can't see anything special about except for one peculiar thing. Light appears to be getting sucked into the rasengan along with the debris he noticed before. Realization of what seems like a physical impossibility hit him. 'That thing is so dense even light can't escape it! I thought only black holes could do that!'
Before Sasuke can pass another thought the dense, dark rasengan crashes into Susanoo's shield. They both feel the crushing pressure as their two strongest just come into contact. After what seemed like an eternal standstill an unimaginable explosion occurs at the point of contact leaving a mushroom cloud hundreds of feet tall. Minutes pass before the debris finally settles enough for the two fighters to see each other. Naruto is laying down on the ground with his head up while Sasuke is leaning on one knee staring into his counterparts eyes. They are both badly damaged and breathing heavily. Naruto's shirt is ripped clean off and his pants are tattered beyond repair while his body has deep gashes across his torso and legs. Sasuke seems to be in better condition with only a few gashes on his upper body, but he looks utterly exhausted.
"You know Naruto, if you didn't pull that attack in the end you would've reached me." Sasuke says as he pushes his hands off his knee to stand up. His stance waivers for a moment, but he stands firm after a minute of wobbling.
Naruto begins to pick himself up as well, all traces of the kyuubi are gone as his eyes have returned to their normal bright blue. "The point wasn't to kill you teme, just to destroy the barrier you put between us. I didn't like it there." he states simply as he makes his way to his feet holding his sides in pain.
Sasuke notices the state of his friend. His body is bleeding profusely and he wonders how much his friend can bleed in one day. "Well because of that I have won our match. You can barely stand and I still got some power left in me." Naruto just laughs. Even though the blood pouring out of the blonde's wounds increases because of his laughter he can't seem to help himself. The jinchuuriki chuckles for minutes before he finally wipes the last tear of laughter from his eyes and calms down. "What is so funny dobe?" Sasuke asks in annoyance.
"You are teme. I already told you our match was over long before now and you never even noticed it haha." Naruto lifts his right hand and points to his own back while chuckling a little. "I still can't believe you haven't noticed them. I mean there are just so many that I put on you."
Sasuke rips off his shirt and tries to look over his shoulder. He can't see his back to well so he activates his sharingan and his eyes go wide with horror. 'I'm covered in some type of seal! There must be at least fifty of them! When did he put these on me?'
Naruto laughs again causing his weak body to spurt a little more blood. "I put them on you during the taijutsu match. Almost every time you waved off one of my attacks I added another seal."
Sasuke sighs before he asks the obvious question of his demise. "What do they do?" He looks up at his friend and watches as every one of the blondes muscles begin to tighten in preparation for something. Sasuke gets into his stance and waits for the attack he knows must be coming.
Naruto gives his friend a wild grin. "I'm so glad you asked." Sasuke watches Naruto seemingly disappear and the last thing the black haired man hears before his world goes dark is "Hiraishin no jutsu."
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Ibiki and Kakashi finally make there way to Naruto and Sasuke's battlefield once they sensed it was over. They watch Naruto standing above an unconscious Sasuke as his wounds seem to steam off of his body. One of Naruto's clone's is gathering up the pieces of the destroyed decapitator sword as the two elder ninja approach the real Naruto. Kakashi clicks his tongue a few times and a hawk comes out of the trees behind them to perch on the scarecrow ninja's shoulder. The silver haired copy ninja looks at his blonde student with pride. "Since you seem to be all done here, should I send word to the village?"
Naruto shuffles around a bit and looks at his new company. "Yeah. I thinks it's about time we went home." Naruto looks around a bit and smiles. "Don't forget to mention the new company that are a little deeper in the woods. They've decided to come with us. However that Suigetsu guy was really pissed when my clone told him that I broke his sword." Naruto laughs and scratches the back of his head and in the words of one of his best friends, "Plus there's that troublesome woman." Naruto shudders and turns a little red as he thinks about the memories of his clone's experience with Karin. Kakashi finishes writing a message and attaches it to the hawk before he sends it away. Its wings flutter in the wind as it makes a bee line for Konoha to deliver it's message.
Kakashi steps forward and reaches down to grab Sasuke. "I'll take him back."
Naruto reaches down and stops Kakashi with a hand on the shoulder. "No I will. I made a promise to bring him back myself and that's what I intend to do." He says before he leans down and throws the unconscious Uchiha over his back in a piggy back style fashion. "You two head off our guests and return to Konoha with them. We wouldn't want any funny business." The two elder jonin just sigh and nod their heads.
Kakashi gives a soft smile under his mask. "Fine. We'll do this your way. We aren't too far from home anyways." The jonin jump away while the clone Naruto made follows close behind them with the pieces of Suigetsu's sword.
Naruto looks towards Konoha and sighs. "I guess it's time to face the music." He jumps out of his battleground and into the trees. His body has at least physically recovered from his fight with Sasuke so jumping from tree to tree isn't to difficult even though his chakra is still quite depleted. Even the extra weight of Sasuke doesn't bother him while he jumps. "I should be back just before nightfall." Naruto tells himself.
Naruto almost falls off the tree he's on when he hears a voice coming from his back. "So we're headed back then?" Sasuke says wearily.
"Whoo you scared me man." Naruto says as he sighs in relief. "Anyways yeah were going home." Naruto begins to jump again and after a few minutes of silence he strikes up a conversation. "So are you excited to go home?" Naruto asks in honest curiosity. He feels Sasuke stir a bit on his back.
"Yeah. However I'm not looking forward to all the busy work I'll have to do." Sasuke almost scoffs out.
"Like what? Maybe I can help?" Naruto turns his head to give his friend a smile.
Sasuke smiles back and sighs. "It's not the kind of thing you can help with Naruto. Re-establishing a clan is a lot of paperwork and red tape. Plus I will need to raise a family so I will need to choose a wife soon enough and..."
Sasuke is cut off before he can continue. Naruto says quietly and sadly, "Have you thought of a wife yet?"
Sasuke was surprised by the question since he didn't think it was a big deal. "Well since it would be very helpful to get the rest of the clan heads on my side I believe the best choice is either Hyuuga Hinata or Hyuuga Hanabi." Naruto stops jumping and lands on a tree branch. Sasuke can swear he almost feels some killer intent coming off of his friend. Silence overtakes them for a few moments before the former Akatsuki member speaks. "Why have we stopped?"
"You can't." Naruto says plainly, but it seemed like there was a hint a malice in his voice. "Please give Sakura a chance... I think she still loves you and I can't allow you to break her heart." Naruto says in a pleading voice this time. Sasuke can feel Naruto shaking as he tries to restrain his emotions. The grip the jinchuuriki has around Sasuke's legs tightens and the Uchiha winces. Naruto loosens his hold a little and sighs. "I'm sorry about that." The blonde says with a sad tone.
Sasuke groans, "It's alright Naruto," Sasuke re-situates himself on his friends back, "and I don't know why this means so much to you, but I will speak with Sakura about this. If she does have feelings for me as you say I will not turn her away. The Haruno household may not be the strongest clan, but the whole marriage thing just seems like a formality to me anyways. I can always come up with another way for the other clans to trust me." Sasuke says to his blonde friend in hopes of comforting him. In actuality Naruto was only more depressed as he feels Sakura getting even farther away because he knows Sasuke won't keep turning her away now that he wants to start a family.
"Thank you." Naruto says solemnly. He will remain jealous of his friend, but forever contented that the ones he love will be happy. 'Just don't think about this too much. You know this was supposed to happen.'
The rest of the ride was in silence. Sasuke never had the strength to get off of Naruto's shoulders so he was carried the entire way by the jinchuuriki. It didn't really bother Naruto much because he considers any extra work for him training anyways. As the scenery starts to look familiar again both men realize they are almost home. They nostalgically look around as they pass some old training grounds they used that still have the scars of their sparring sessions. Finally the gates of their home were visible. They see the familiar markings of Konoha and watch the guards standing at attention as they approach.
The two walk through the gates as the sun sets behind them. "Like I said, just before nightfall." Naruto says with his head turned smiling at his friend.
"Ummm Naruto. Look in front of you." Sasuke says almost in awe.
Naruto turns his head to the front. "What's the big deal?" The blonde says before his mouth drops. Everyone was there to greet them. Naruto could see almost everyone he new from the village standing in front of the gates. Tenten, Neji, Hinata, Hanabi, Kiba, Akamaru, Shino, Shikamaru, Tsunade, Shizune, Teuchi, Ayame, Lee, Gai, Kurenai and her child, Konohamaru and his team, Anko, and many others from around the village were all there to greet him and Sasuke. Farther to the right he also noticed a wide-eyed Ino standing next to a similar looking Sakura. 'They all came to greet us?'
Sakura and Ino were the first to notice it, but certainly not the last. 'Naruto is shirtless!' An almost collective sigh came from the female half of the crowd that gathered to see them. Naruto didn't notice it however as he was still in shock of seeing everyone at the gate waiting for them. Murmurs start between the women watching them. With Naruto standing there, his shirt having been blown off, and his pants singed to almost nothing, the women were appraising him like a piece of meat. Sasuke noticed the odd looks they were giving Naruto and he sighed in relief. 'Thank Kami the fangirls are off of me. I feel bad for Naruto now though. I don't think he understands what's coming.' Naruto lets Sasuke off slowly and the Uchiha stumbles to his feet.
"Hey everyone." Naruto says as he waves around to everyone and the women watch as his abs stretch back an forth from his raised arm. The setting light behind them accentuate the rigid curves in Naruto's muscles as he puts his arm down. 'Why won't they say anything?' A gust of wind picks up behind Naruto and blows towards the crowd. Naruto watches every women take ravenous smells of the air around them before every gaze locks on Naruto. The men in the crowd just look around in confusion at the pink cheeked women that now surround them.
"Haha" Naruto hears the Kyuubi laugh in his head.
Naruto decides it's time to make a plea. 'Kyuubi-chan please control this pheromone thing! I really need to talk with them now and this isn't helping.'
"Okay I will control it if that's what you want." The Kyuubi says deviously so Naruto knows that she going to pull something funny.
Suddenly, every women in the crowd is jettisoned backwards as a shower of blood sprouts from their noses in a cartoon fashion. Uncontrollable moans come from all of them and Naruto grows confused.
'I thought you were going to stop the pheromones?' Naruto outwardly pouts.
"Ohhh you wanted me to stop the pheromones. You said control them so I did. I just turned them all the way up haha." Naruto can see the Kyuubi smirking in his mind. The smell of the women's arousal was thick in the air and Naruto could feel its effect on him. Every single woman in the crowd was now laying on their backs clutching any erogenous zone on their bodies that they could get their hands on. He could tell from the moans coming from his audience, they were all having orgasms right at the entrance to Konoha as he stood there and watched them.
'You just made every woman I've ever cared about orgasm right in front of me! Why would you do that?' Naruto yells to the Kyuubi in ferocious anger.
"Relax Naruto-kun. I've stopped. Plus, I don't think any of these women will complain. It's not like you touched them or anything." The Kyuubi doesn't care at all about Naruto's gripes so long as she is having fun.
Naruto shifts around nervously. 'Thats not the point.' The women have all started to calm down and have begun to stand up to brush themselves off. Confused murmurs go throughout the crowd, but Naruto just ignores them. Before anyone can ask what just happened Naruto speaks. "Can someone bring Sasuke to the hospital for me please? I need to make my report." Almost before Naruto can finish his sentence two figures come dashing out of the crowd and slide on their knees in front of Naruto with their faces towards the ground as if the jinchuuriki were some sort of lord.
"Please allow us Naruto!" Says one figure while the other yips in confirmation of his masters orders, their faces seem to bury further into the dirt.
"Kiba? What's going on here?" Naruto says confusedly to his friend in front of him.
"Uh-oh. I think this is another effect of the pheromones." The Kyuubi says non-chalantly.
'What do you mean? What's happened to him and Akamaru.' Naruto crosses his arms over his chest and looks down at his long time friends.
"It seems you have become the alpha male of the Inuzuka mutts. That scent probably hit the rest of the clan on their grounds as well. I'm sure they'll be here shortly." Moments later twenty more people showed up, all bore the familiar facial markings of the Inuzuka tribe and all had ninken with them. The murmurs of the crowd stop instantly. "I'm sorry kit, but I can't turn down the pheromones enough for them to stop this behavior. Their sense of smell is too sensitive."
As the entire Inuzuka clan stares at the blonde man a feeling of unease settles in Naruto's stomach. A beautiful older woman with wild brown hair and purple lipstick walks forward from the group and stops in front of Naruto. Her animalistic looks and wild demeanor are, in Naruto's eyes, quite attractive. In a manner that does not beget her crazy appearance she gracefully bows at the waist before lifting up her head to give Naruto a wild smile. "My name is Inuzuka Tsume and I am the current alpha female of the Inuzuka tribe." Naruto feels Sasuke's weight drift off his shoulder and he notices Kiba holding the black haired man as gentle as possible, almost as if he thought his life depended on Sasuke's safety. Before Naruto can thank him he feels a hand on his chest. Looking forward he sees that Tsume has pushed her body up against the blue eyed man and is perusing his body with her hands as if she owns him. "Hmmmmm yes. You will be a perfect mate." She says in a low sexy tone. Naruto would normally put a stop to this madness, but he is far too shocked. He knows this is Kiba's mother because he can smell it on her, but here she is now licking his chest while Kiba slowly meanders away with Sasuke on his shoulder to follow Naruto's orders!
Finally someone from the crowd speaks. "Tsume that is enough!" The busty blonde sannin steps forward to take command and Tsume lets go of Naruto. "I don't know what the hell is going on, but I'm going to find out. Right Naruto?" She casts an accusing glare at the young jinchuuriki.
Naruto's face goes a little red. He looks at Tsunade, one of the woman that only moments ago he had writhing in ecstasy by the mere smell of him, and he can still see the look of hunger in her eyes just like Tsume has in hers. "Hai baa-chan."
Tsume scoffs, "Whatever." She looks at Naruto and gives him a seductive smile, the lust evident in her slitted animal eyes. "I'll be back for you my little sex kitten." She jumps away and the entire Inuzuka clan follows except for Kiba who was slowly walking Sasuke towards the hospital.
Naruto turns to engage Tsunade, but stops when a kunai is stabbed through his gut. 'Can't I get a break from excitement!' Naruto coughs up blood and looks down to see a white hand retracting back into the ground. "Zetsu!" Naruto calls out to inform everyone who his assailant was. 'What does he want?' Naruto looks at his wound and notices that it is shallow and repairable. 'If he's not trying to get me then that means!' Naruto looks over just in time to see Kiba get thrown to the side like a rag doll by Zetsu, leaving Sasuke defenseless. Naruto's wound spits out blood and he winces in pain. 'I have to get to him!' However, Naruto doesn't panic at all because Zetsu has no idea he has already been tagged.
Little did Naruto know, another blonde is ready to act on his behalf. While some are stunned at the rapidly changing events that have come with Naruto and Sasuke's arrival, Ino Yamanaka is not. She jumps forward ready to enact a plan. 'Naruto has done so much for us! Now it's my turn to help him! Even if that means helping Sasuke for him.' Her hands form the signs for her family jutsu. 'I cant get to him in time. I don't have a choice, but to use my jutsu to immobilize him.' Ino gets Zetsu in her sights and yells "SHINTENSHIN NO JUTSU!" She tries to help Sasuke, but is far too late.
Zetsu stands above Sasuke ready to strike the traitor, confident he has dispatched of Naruto for the time being. As his hand comes down for the kill he feels his gut wrench as if it were being ripped away with a wood chipper. Naruto has appeared below him using the seal he placed on his opponents hand and has wasted no time dispatching of the intruding Akatsuki member. The rasengan inside Naruto's hand is boring through Zetsu's stomach as bone, bile, and blood fly over the blonde man's bare torso, leaving a hollowed out Zetsu falling to the ground.
'It's too late! I can't stop the jutsu!' Ino is panicked as she sees Naruto rip Zetsu into shreds and stand in the exact spot the plant man did. She feels her consciousness shoot towards Naruto and there is nothing she can do to stop it.
Naruto turns to look at her before he reaches out his hand in a desperate plea. "Ino! Cancel the..." The platinum blonde woman hears Naruto's voice slow down as if time was stopping.
Ino looks around in confusion. Everyone who gathered to see Naruto come back is still there, except there are all frozen in place. Still locked in place like a statue, Naruto's hand is reaching towards her while his face almost looks... scared. 'This doesn't look like a mindscape. This is exactly where we just were.' She furrows her brow in thought. 'I don't understand. I should be in Naruto's body. Did I get trapped in some sort of time-space jutsu?' She looks around again for clues. 'No I can't be. I felt my jutsu engage and I felt my consciousness go into Naruto so this has to be his mind, but this has never happened.' The blonde mind walker steps forward to Naruto's still body. She runs her hand down his muscular arms and shudders when she remembers the powerful orgasm she experienced by his scent. The seed of her attraction to Naruto may have been planted before he left on his mission, but now there is no denying that fact that he is everything a girl could want. The blonde woman stops feeling up Naruto for a moment to look at his face. "Why does he look so frightened?"
Seemingly out of nowhere a seductive voice enters the frozen scene and cause Ino to gasp in fear. "He's worried about you I'm sure." The blonde teen has no idea what she has just encountered or the horrible things she will witness because of this.
Well that's chapter 4 everyone! I hope you liked it. I'm taking your advice and making the chapters longer. Also, I tried to add to the descriptiveness but dammit it's hard for me to do. With the reports I'm used to writing I need to only write the bare-bones data so that I can fit everything into a reasonable sized biology paper.
Oh well. Please tell me how I did! Thanks for reading everyone!