AN/ alright this chapter will have the first NaruSaku moment so far in the story. I guess that's all I can think of for the starting authors note so I'll just start the story now.

Disclaimer: don't own Naruto... that's all.

"Speech"

'Thought'

'Inner Sakura'

'KYUUBI'

Just Following Orders

Chapter 4: You're Mine

Sakura woke up at around the same time as she always does. '6:55. Great. That gives me enough time to shower, dress and leave before he gets back from his mission' she thought, grimly.

'Ugh! Why is he such an asshole! I thought he was supposed to protect us not beat us and try to rape us!' Yelled inner Sakura.

'I know but it's not like I can do anything about it. He's a lot stronger than I am. He's a Jonin for crying out loud.' She told her inner self as she walked to the bathroom connected to her room.

'Maybe we should get Naruto-kun to beat him up for us.' Said her inner.

'I don't know. I mean, you really think he's strong enough to beat a Jonin?' Sakura asked herself while she waited for the water to get the right temperature.

'Of course!' shouted inner Sakura. 'You saw him take down Mizuki-sensei yesterday, didn't you?'

'Yeah. But he was only a Chuunin. Jonin are a lot stronger than Chuunin.' Reasoned Sakura as she stripped and walked into the shower. The warm water relaxed her tense muscles instantly. She always got tense when she thought about her step-father.

'So? Naruto-kun is a lot stronger than Chuunin as well. I say we ask him for help.' Insisted inner Sakura.

Sakura shook her head. 'No. I don't want to put him in danger cause of me. Besides, do you really think he'd help me? I hit him and call him names.' She thought sadly before applying shampoo in her hair. 'And even if I didn't, he wouldn't help me. Remember, he told us to leave him alone when we were younger.'

'Ugh. Oh! Maybe he only said that cause he likes us and gets nervous around us!' said inner Sakura in an attempt to bring up her host's spirit.

'Yeah. And maybe Sasuke's straight.' Responded Sakura causing her inner self to start laughing. She quickly rinsed her hair and began lathering soap on her body, trying hard not to touch near her womanhood for too long. She had to hurry. She only had an hour before he got back and by then she wanted to be long gone.

'Okay. You make a good point but I still say there's a chance he likes us back.' Stated her inner self. 'So why don't you just ask him if he'll help us today?'

'I don't think he'd help me even if I got on my knees and begged him.' Said Sakura like it was the absolute truth. She washed off the soap and looked to see if she had any more before shutting the water off and stepping out onto the cold tiles of her bathroom floor.

'Then do something else on your knees for him.' Stated her inner self suggestively making her host blush a deep red.

'You pervert! I don't even know how to do anything close to that!' She thought back, still blushing.

'Ooh. I didn't hear a 'no'. Guess that means you'd do that if you knew how.' Countered her inner with a smirk.

'Uh… I... um…' Sakura had difficulty forming a response to that and just stood there in her bathroom, blushing. She came back to her senses when she started getting cold and grabbed a towel. 'I don't think so. I want him and him only so I don't think I'll ever learn to do that.' She thought as she began to dry herself.

Inner Sakura shrieked. 'Just do it! Gain some experience with him and make him ours!'

Sakura smirked. 'Ours? Sorry but he'll be all mine.' She stated and heard her inner mumble something about, 'selfish pink haired bit-'. Sakura ignored her and went to her room to find some clean clothes to wear. After ten minutes she was all set to go. She was dressed in her usual outfit. Red sleeveless shirt, spandex shorts and a light pink skirt over her shorts. She looked at the clock which read 7:43. 'Damn. Gotta hurry before he gets home.' She thought.

'Hurry up and get the hell out of here!' yelled inner Sakura as Sakura ran out of her room and down the stairs. She was almost to the door when she heard something. The toilet in the downstairs bathroom flushed and the door opened.

Sakura froze on the spot. 'No. Please tell me it's not him. Let it be a burglar or something. Anything. Just not him.' She thought as she heard footsteps head her way. A couple seconds later she felt a hand on her shoulder and she tensed even more. She was literally on the verge of tears until she heard the person speak.

"Relax honey. It's just me." Said the woman behind her. She had dark pink/ light red hair and dark green eyes. She was wearing a dark red night gown and had pink slippers on. Sakura's mom looked at her daughter with a worried expression. "You okay Sakura?"

Sakura jumped at her mother and hugged her as she cried on her chest. "M-Mom! I'm s-sick of th-this! I d-don't want t-to worry about getting beat ev-every time I hear som-someone walking down the ha-hall!" she cried out.

Her mother just held her and tried to calm her down. It wasn't working as she was starting to get teary to. "Shh. D-Don't cry Sakura." She said trying to keep her own voice from cracking. "I-I know how y-you feel. I'm getting sick o-of worrying if my l-little girl is going to get hurt b-by the man I thought w-would protect us." She said rubbing her daughter's back as tears started making their way down her own cheeks. "But for now we have to try and endure this." She kissed her daughters forehead. "You'll be fourteen in a couple months meaning you'll be allowed to move out legally."

Sakura looked up at her mother. "But what about you, mom? I can't just leave you here with hi-"

She was silenced by her mother's fingers over her lips. "I'll be fine Sakura." Said her mother. She then looked at the clock. "You better hurry and get out of here. It's 7:55. He'll be home any minute. I know it's still half an hour till the academy starts so go to the Yamanaka flower shop. Ask Ino's parents if you can stay until school starts." She ordered and Sakura nodded. Giving each other a final hug Sakura left out the door towards Ino's house.

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As she neared the store she smiled. She walked inside and found Mrs. Yamanaka in front watering the plants. "Um… Mrs. Yamanaka?" she asked shyly causing her to look up.

"Ah, Hello Sakura. How you doing?" Asked the blond woman as her blue eyes studied Sakura. She saw her red eyes and decided to take a guess. "Running from your house before Ishida gets home, huh?" Sakura nodded. "Well Ino's still asleep so you can wake her up for me if you want."

Sakura smirked. "Don't mind if I do." She said causing Mrs. Yamanaka to giggle as Sakura walked of towards the stairs leading to the house section of the building.

Mrs. Yamanaka heard some yelling coming from upstairs and started giggling again. Suddenly the noise stopped. It was silent for a minute before all hell broke loose.

"HOW COULD YOU SLAP ME!?"

"I TOLD YOU TO LET ME SLEEP!"

"YOU DIDN'T NEED TO SLAP ME!"

"YOU COULD'VE LISTENED TO ME BUT NO! YOU HAD TO KEEP BUGGING ME! AND I THOUGHT YOU HAD A SMART BRAIN BEHIND THAT BIG FOREHEAD OF YOURS!"

"THAT'S IT! I HOPE YOUR PARENTS LIKE BACON, PIG!"

"BRING IT ON, FOREHEAD!"

Mrs. Yamanaka sighed. 'Must they fight every time Sakura tries to wake her up?' she asked herself mentally trying to block out the noise of the rumbling going on upstairs. Then everything turned silent again. Mrs. Yamanaka, fearing the worst, ran towards the stairs. When she got there she laughed at what she saw.

Sakura heard Ino's mom laughing and huffed. "It's not funny." She muttered.

"Yes it is." Said Mrs. Yamanaka as she looked at her husband holding the two girls up in the air by the back of their waistbands. Ino in the left and Sakura in the right. "Was it really that bad that you had to break it up, Inoichi?" she asked her husband.

"They were about to start using the broom and mop sticks." Said Inoichi dryly before looking at his wife. "Yuzu…. Why is it you always make Sakura wake up Ino for you when she comes over?"

Ino's mother looked at him like he was crazy. "That's a stupid question. I'm not gonna get smacked." She answered and heard three sighs.

Inoichi looked at Sakura. "Never listen to my wife again." He said before he put her down and looked at his daughter. "Go get ready for school Ino." He put her down and she walked back into her room.

----------Academy Some Twenty Minutes Later------

Ino and Sakura were currently walking to the Academy. They were talking about who was gonna be in whose team when they neared the Academy and noticed everyone was standing outside.

"What do you think is going on?" asked Sakura.

"I don't know. Lets ask someone." Responded Ino as she searched for someone who could tell them what was going on. She spotted Shikamaru off in the side of the group of kids. "Hey Shikamaru!" she yelled and started running over to him.

Shikamaru looked towards her and sighed. 'It's too early in the morning to argue with her.' He thought. 'Maybe I should run away…. Nah. That would mean I have to move. That would be too troublesome.'

Ino heard him sigh as she neared him. "What's with the sigh you lazy bum? Never mind. What's going on? Why isn't anyone in class?" she asked.

Shikamaru sighed. "I don't know. I just came and saw the doors were all locked. It's so troublesome. Why can't they let us in instead of making us stand out here?" he then proceeded to sit on the ground and lean against the building.

Ino and Sakura sweat dropped. "Shikamaru, you can't be that lazy you can't even stand for a couple minutes." Said Sakura as she watched Chouji, who was right next to Shikamaru, eat chip after chip.

Chouji actually stopped to speak. "Yeah he is. That's why he didn't learn how to walk until he was four." He said and returned to his chips.

The girls bust out laughing. "Y-You didn't learn to w-walk till you were f-four?" asked Ino through her laughter. She had her eyes squeezed shut so she missed the small blush of embarrassment that appeared on Shikamaru's face.

"Thanks a lot Chouji." He muttered.

"Don't mention it buddy." Said Chouji as he opened another bag of chips.

Things died down after that and they waited for the doors to open. Ten minutes later Sakura was leaning against the building when the doors finally opened and out came Iruka dressed in black.

He walked forward and cleared his throat. "Ahem. Well, as you all know, today you're all supposed to get placed into teams and meet your Jonin sensei." He said and heard some excited chatter. "But due to a sad development, we will only tell you your team number and the names of your teammates today and tomorrow you will meet your sensei. Now if you could all please go to your classroom and wait for your teacher, we will be with you shortly." With that he turned and walked back into the building.

The kids all took a minute to digest this information before walking into the Academy towards their classrooms. Sakura, Ino, Chouji and Shikamaru all walked together.

"Why do you think they're making us meet our sensei tomorrow instead of today?" asked Ino as they entered the room.

Shikamaru sat in the closest empty chair, "I don't know." He yawned out and laid his head on the desk.

Ino looked at Sakura who looked back at her. "What?" she asked.

"Why do you think they're doing this?" asked the blonde again.

"How should I know? Do I look like I work here?" she responded.

"Yeah, you're right. You have to be a Chuunin to teach and we all know you'll never make it to that." Said Ino, smirking.

Sakura was about to say something when she saw Naruto come. She looked at him and noticed he looked, she couldn't quite place it, but he looked kind of shaken and a little anxious.

Naruto walked into the classroom and looked around for Sakura. He found her near the middle with the Yamanaka girl and the Nara and the Akamichi boys. 'I need to get Sakura away from everyone else so I can mark her.' He thought.

Kyuubi-sama had made it quite clear that morning that if he did not mark Sakura before nightfall, there would be pain. Ten times as much as he had felt that morning in the forest of death when Kyuubi-sama had possessed his body while there was a poisonous snake nearby. Naruto found out two things that morning. One, poison makes his body feel like it's on fire while he waits for it to come out through the wound and two, Kyuubi-sama does not issue out empty threats.

He walked over to the back of the class and sat down in a manner like Shikamaru. He needed rest after the pain from that morning. About three minutes later as he was nearing sleep Iruka came in the classroom.

"Wake up Naruto!" he yelled. Naruto just turned his head away from him. "If you don't wake up right now, I won't tell you what team you're on!" that got a reaction as Naruto lifted his head. What he did next though surprised Iruka.

Naruto lifted his right hand up a little and stuck out his middle finger. "Fuck you Iruka-sensei. I'm tired. Leave me alone." He then lowered his hand and dropped his head on the desk again.

The class was quiet for a couple of seconds before everyone burst out laughing about how the apparent 'rookie of the year' was so disrespectful. Iruka, though, was furious. But as mad as he was he wasn't about to let him know that. He calmed himself a little and cleared his throat loudly.

"Well, why don't we just ignore Naruto like we usually do and continue with the announcement I was going to make before I walked into this room." He paused and saddened. "At approximately 4:19 yesterday afternoon, Mizuki-sensei was found dead in this very room."

Everyone's eyes widened except for Naruto's since he was trying to sleep. And since he was the one who killed him. His lips curled up a bit. Suddenly people were asking questions and looking around the room as if trying to find some evidence. Iruka silenced them quickly.

"We don't know who did it but the cause of death was several deep vertical slashes. One on each arm and three that almost cut right through his mid section." He said and watched as some kids were getting close to passing out.

"Iruka-sensei," called out Kiba. "How come I don't smell the scent of blood in here then?" he asked and started sniffing harder.

Iruka's eyes widened. "Kiba! Cover your nose!" he yelled causing said boy to look at him confused. "This room is still covered in a substance that destroys a person's sense of smell!"

Kiba paled as Iruka ran over to him and covered his face in a cloth. Naruto listened to what was happening and tried hard to not smile in pride that his invention doesn't were off quickly. He then decided he wasn't going to get brutally beaten by Kyuubi-sama because his teacher wouldn't hurry up.

"Iruka-sensei, could you please tell us who is in which team. I want to know already." He said in an impatient tone of voice.

Iruka half glared at Naruto. "If you haven't noticed, we have a small situation here." He said and Naruto dropped his hand, that was lifted in the air, back on the desk. After making sure Kiba was okay, Iruka went up in front of the class. "Well, much as I hate to admit it, Naruto has a point. I'm going to call out the team members first followed by the team number." He stated and pulled out a folder and began reading names.

-------Skip to Important Teams-----

Naruto was getting bored. Six teams and he wasn't in any of them yet. Seriously, why does Iruka make them sit through this? He was about to fall asleep when he heard an important name get called. "Sakura Haruno," he lifted his head up a little. "Naruto Uzumaki," he sighed inwardly and dropped his head only to pick it up again at the last name. "and Sasuke Uchiha. You three are Team seven."

"Hinata Hyuuga," A pale girl on the far left side of the class looked up. "Shino Aburame," Shino looked up and fixed his glasses. "and Kiba Inuzuka." Kiba nodded almost making Akamaru fall off his head. "You three are Team eight."

Naruto started thinking about how he was going to mark Sakura so he missed who was in Team nine. Not that he cared anyway. He had better things to worry about. Like how to save his own ass from torture.

"Shikamaru Nara," Shikamaru turned in his sleep and fell off his chair. After a bit of laughter and some lecturing from Iruka he was back in his chair, asleep. "Ino Yamanaka," Ino groaned. "and Chouji Akamichi." Chouji never stopped eating his chips. "You three are Team ten."

Iruka looked up from the folder and at his students. "These are your teams. Tomorrow at noon you are to come here to meet your Jonin sensei." He looked at the clock. "Well… its around noon right now and since there isn't anything to do today you guys may go." Everyone cheered besides Shino, Sasuke, Naruto and Shikamaru who was still asleep.

"Just one last thing before you go." everyone groaned. "There will be a small funeral in honor of Mizuki in back of the Academy tonight so if any of you want to come and give your respect, it will start at 7. Now you may go." Iruka smiled when almost everyone cheered and ran out the door.

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Once outside everyone started to head for their homes. Sakura was walking with Ino to her house since there was no way in hell she would go to her own while he was there. As they were walking Sakura noticed that Naruto seemed to be dragging himself in the same direction.

"Hey Ino." She said and the blonde girl looked at her. "Does Naruto live anywhere near your house?" she asked.

Ino shrugged. "I don't know. I've never really seen him anywhere other than the Academy and Ichiraku's." she said and looked at her pink haired friend. "Why?"

"No reason. It's just that he seems to be going the same way we are." She answered, glancing behind her. Ino apparently got the signal as she looked back at Naruto. They both kept looking back at him since he had his head down while he was walking.

Naruto was getting annoyed with them looking back at him every ten seconds. He looked up and caught them when they turned. "Is there a reason you two keep looking back at me every ten god damn seconds?" he asked.

"W-What are you talking about!? We weren-" started Ino but was interrupted by him.

"Please. I can tell you two kept looking back cause your footsteps slow down a little when you look back and speed up when you two try to stay a certain distance from me." He said dryly.

All three of them slowed to a stop and Ino kept studying him. "How is it you can do all these advance Jutsu's like the once you used yesterday and beat Sasuke-kun like it was nothing?" she asked.

He shrugged. "I train." He said and kept his emotionless gaze. He then looked at Sakura straight in the eyes. "Sakura. We're on the same team, right?" he asked pretending to not know the answer.

Sakura was a bit startled by the question but still nodded her head. "Y-Yeah. Weren't you listening?" she asked him.

"Sort of. I usually ignore Iruka like he does to me." He said and shrugged. "But since we're teammates, I was thinking we could talk, you know, get to know each other."

Inner Sakura almost fainted. 'Oh my god! Did he just ask us out on a date!?' she yelled inside Sakura's head.

Sakura, although just as excited, tried to be realistic. 'No. He just wants to talk to me because we're teammates. So I don't think it is a date.' She told her inner. Even though she new it wasn't a date didn't mean she was going to deny him. "Um…. I-I guess we c-could."

'What the hell was that!? Who are we, Hinata?' scolded her inner.

Naruto looked at her for a while before turning and starting to walk off. Sakura was crushed. Did he decide to leave because of her stuttering? She mentally berating herself when he looked over his shoulder at her. "You coming?" he asked.

Sakura looked up and not trusting herself not to stutter just nodded her head. She then turned towards Ino. "I'll see you later Ino." Was all she said before she ran off towards Naruto.

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"So… where are we going?" she asked after they had been walking for a couple of minutes. They were currently in a park and since it was still midday, there wasn't any one else around.

"I dunno." Responded Naruto. He noticed she stopped and turned to see her looking shocked.

"What do you mean you don't know?"

He shrugged. "I've just kinda been walking around looking for a good place to sit and chat." He lied. In truth he was looking for somewhere with no one around so he could mark her. 'This is good enough.' He thought as he looked around the park.

Sakura sighed. "Then lets just talk here." She said and he nodded. They went over to a small clearing and sat on the ground. Naruto was leaning against a tree and Sakura was holding herself up with her hands behind her. "Now what?"

He shrugged again. "I dunno. We ask each other questions?" he said as if a little uncertain.

"Well duh but about what?" She asked leaning forward, towards him.

"I dunno." He shrugged and she glared at him. "What do you want to know?" he asked her watching her as she let down her glare and started looking thoughtful.

"Um… well… how old are you? And how old were you when you entered the Academy?" she asked. She had always been curious as to how he failed the graduation exam three times yet they were the same age.

He looked at her. "Uh… I'm fourteen since yesterday and I entered the Academy when I was around 6." He said in a bored tone.

"6? But I thought kids are supposed to enter at the age of 7. How did you get in a year early?" she asked, amazed.

He looked at her again with his expressionless face and shrugged. "I dunno. I think it was something about my Taijutsu being good enough to gain me early admission." He answered.

'Idiot. How could you forget about how good his Taijutsu is?' inner Sakura berated her host. 'Here's the kid who would beat up others twice his age like it was nothing.'

'Oh. Yeah. Guess it just slipped my mind.' Responded Sakura sheepishly in her head. She looked at Naruto and found him half asleep against the tree base. She thought he looked cute and had to resist the urge to go and put her head on his shoulder and join him in a nap. "Naruto?"

Naruto looked up at her sleepily. "Yeah?" he yawned out and stretched.

"How come you're so tired?"

"Huh? Oh. Uh… I was training really hard this morning." He half-lied. He had been training in the forest like he did every morning before the snake showed up. That's when Kyuubi-sama had possessed him.

"Oh. Well I guess that makes sense." She said as she wondered what kind of training he was doing to be so exhausted.

"What do you think of Sasuke?"

Sakura was a little startled by the question. "Huh?" Came her intelligent response.

He stared at her. "Sasuke. What do you think about him?" He asked again. 'All I got to do is get her to answer this and then I'll put my plan into motion.' He thought as he waited for her response.

'I think he is an arrogant jerk with a stick lodged so far up his ass it's stuck in his throat and that's why he never talks to anyone.' said inner Sakura.

Sakura completely agreed with her inner but wasn't about to let Naruto find out she still liked him instead of Sasuke. "He's soo dreamy. He's mysterious, handsome, cool, strong, and an Uchiha. That means he's like royalty." She lied through her teeth. Inner Sakura was about to puke and Sakura was there with her.

Naruto could tell she wasn't saying all her feeling about the Uchiha but pushed that observation aside. 'Who cares if she likes, loves, or hates that Uchiha. I just want to mark her and get this over with' he thought, still keeping his cold blue eyes on her. "So you like him?" He asked her.

'HELL NO!' shrieked inner Sakura.

"I'd say more like love him is more like it." She lied and her inner instantly threw up. She was trying as hard as she could from doing the same. She was staring at Naruto, who had put his head down after her declaration of love.

'Idiot! I told you he liked us! You just crushed his heart!' inner Sakura yelled at her host. She was over exaggerating things and they both knew it but she couldn't help it. 'Apologize and tell him the truth!' she ordered.

Sakura didn't get much time to think about if she should seeing as she suddenly found herself pinned under a smirking Naruto. "Hn. Is that so? Well I've got something to tell you that may crush any dreams you have of him in your future." He spoke as he had her hands pinned above her head and her legs at his sides. He started moving his face closer towards hers.

Sakura's heart was beating fast and her face was flushed from their position. She saw his face getting closer. 'Oh god. What's he doing?'

'I told you he likes us!' inner Sakura yelled Happily as he drew closer.

Naruto stopped a couple inches away from her face. They were close enough to feel each others breath on their faces. He smirked again. "And that thing is," he got closer. "You're mine." He covered her lips with his. Her eyes widened but closed after a few seconds.

He smirked into the kiss. 'Now, while she's shocked I'll break the kiss and mark her quickly.' He thought as he tried to separate from her. There was a problem with his plan though. Try as he might he found he couldn't pull himself away. He actually deepened the kiss.

Sakura felt his tongue glide across her lower lip and hungrily opened her mouth and met his tongue with hers in between. As their tongues wrestled their hands began to wander. She felt his left hand go down and grasp her ass and his right hand go and squeeze her left breast gently. She, in response, wrapped her legs around his waist and fisted some of his hair softly.

They continued like that for a couple of minutes. They had started breathing through their noses two minutes into their make out session. Finally they had stopped for a break. They were both looking at each other while they panted heavily.

Naruto finally getting control of his body again wasted no time and went to her neck, he could tell she thought he was going to kiss it and had to resist doing just that. When he got there he licked the spot for a while and bit into it. He heard her grunt and then saw that a small black mark was appearing in the base of her neck.

It looked like a spiral surrounded by a curved line above and below it. The lines had four other lines sticking outwards each. Naruto recognized this symbol. 'Kyuubi-sama. Is that…. Is that the same seal as the one that keeps you locked inside of me?' he mentally asked but didn't get a response.

While he still had his teeth in her neck Sakura was having her own thoughts. 'Ugh. That h-hurts so much. Ow. Why d-does it hurt so mu-much?' she asked herself expecting her inner to say something but she never did. She started to feel light headed and could feel herself losing consciousness.

He pulled his teeth out and looked at her. She looked tired and a little sick. Her eyes were lidded and her head was off to the side. He, for some reason, cupped her face and kissed her softly one last time.

Sakura's eyes started to close after the kiss but still heard the last thing he said. "Or at least, now you are."

To be continued………….

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AN/ Alright, this has got to be, by far, the longest chapter I've written so far for any story. Twelve almost thirteen pages! Damn. The most I've ever written in my life! So if you couldn't guess in here Sakura and Ino are friendlier than in the show. This is do with the fact that she spends a lot of time at Ino's cause of her step-father. Also……. well I don't really remember what I wrote and I'm to lazy to go check it over right now and want to post this up so….. if you have any questions just say it in a review or send a PM. Last thing. Please review.