Marry For Love

Chapter 26-Risking her own Future Now

The next morning, Naruto awoke to the window open, full of morning doves cooing in the outside bushes and a wonderful feeling of soft, deliberate kisses dripping down alongside his neck. Naruto groaned happily as he moved his arms around his fiancée's slim frame and looked down at her.

"I love that."

Sakura smiled back with a wide grin and emerald eyes shining and full of life. "I love you."

Naruto smiled back, rolling his eyes as he leaned back into the pillows, Sakura following him as she moved to entangle their naked limbs together. "I suppose we're back in high school all over again."

Sakura giggled softly. "We did say it every ten minutes back then, but I swear that I meant it every time I said it, Naru. And if you want us back in high school love, then I'll gladly go back to our genesis story and love you all the more."

"So did I...Sakura?"

"Hmm?"

"Do you think we would have married back then?"

Sakura smiled dopily. "Well, before I left, I don't think I would have said yes, but you also would have knocked me up so I'd like to think you would have asked me. But then again," Sakura smiled up at him. "I wouldn't change anything. I met Ino and she's a deep part of my life story."

"Speaking of school," Sakura smiled as she draped her nude body over him like a predator trying to convince her prey to roll itself in spices before the feast. "I can always put on my school uniform from St Maria's again, if you want." Naruto gulped as Sakura smiled darkly. "Though you did so like it last Friday night when you absolutely shredded it from my body...and this time we can worry about the buttons later."

"...Not today." He smiled and sat up, his arms moving to hold her close. With the new position of a sitting hug within his lap, Sakura relented as she leaned into his embrace, settling her chin into the crook of his neck as she loved the affection of touch.

Sakura smirked at the micro-reaction of his neck muscle flexing. She could just imagine Naruto with his thinking face adorned on his face. "What are you thinking about now?"

"...I have to think about how to deal with an irate Hinata."

Sakura sighed in defeat. That's right. Sakura had won the war over Naruto's heart, but the economic backlash was going to be very huge with the reconstruction of a messy affair that was their own. "How bad can she be?"

Naruto gulped. "Pretty vindictive. I once was talking to her cousin after a board meeting and he said that in high school, an ex broke up with her not on her terms and she ruined his future career and that of his family's."

"How far along were you in the signing process?" A voice called out. Both bed occupants turned and looked over to the open doorway and saw Ino casually leaning against the doorframe in her sleeping robe with her blonde locks pinned up in the back with a hairclip. Ino cast them a knowing, teasing smile as she cocked her head towards them. "You know you guys let me hear everything last night keeping it this far open, right? Just so you know."

But both of the young adults smiled back at her, shrugging casually as Ino passively eyed up their nude figures from her position. The blanket did a certain amount of job covering up their lower halves, except for Sakura's rogue leg slipping outside of it up to her upper thigh, but their upper halves and primarily Naruto's frame glistened in the morning rays from the window.

To the both of them, Ino was a special friend for their shattered and newly rebuilt relationship, having cared for Sakura in Naruto's stead and being the bonding agent that had helped them get together just yesterday. That and the fact that they currently had sex addled minds helped the situation tremendously.

It was because while Ino's sky-blue eyes roamed over their bodies, the two occupants also stared and ogled Ino's own lack of attire as she always seemed to have when at home. She knew what they were doing and could have covered up, but inside her home, her walls came down. Even now while having on underwear, her see through silk robe still did wonders for her, emphasizing her chest and thigh as only a flirtatious model, maybe even a porn star, could attract. And finally, the last reason was that their sexual appetite was being fueled by the erotic sight, helping them ready themselves for a morning round of copulating once it hit a fever pitch.

Naruto was the first to get out of the three way staring contest, hissing as Sakura's fingers touched just shy of his cock under the sheets, her nails digging into his thigh, subconsciously admiring her friend's bust which she had always envied having.

"Anyways…" Naruto choked, his voice shaking the girls from their staring. "It was pretty late in the process. Hinata and I were supposed to be married yesterday and come back from our honeymoon a week from Tuesday to officially sell the company. But Hinata said that it was just a formality and that everything major had been signed."

Naruto's voice cut off as he turned back to Ino, trying to stay focused on her face and not her…well, figure. "Why do you ask?"

"Ino's a lawyer, Naruto." Sakura reminded him.

"I know that much, but you handle murder cases, right?" Naruto cocked his head a bit to the side.

Ino smiled with a hotly gaze back at him as she pushed off the door and stepped further into the room before placing herself on the side of the bed to look at them, her bare leg sliding along the silk sheets next to their own. Naruto gulped at her suggestive position between the two of them, and was glad that his arousal was covered. But he focused on her words as she spoke.

"Contrary to what television tells most, I'm not a defense attorney. I do go to court on occasion, but I specialize in contract law, primarily in aggressive and hostile contracts." Ino smiled confidently. "Your case could definitely count as one. Let me look it over."

"Are you sure, Ino?" Sakura interjected. "Won't you get in trouble with your firm? I mean, isn't your firm choosing their next Junior Partner and all next month?"

"Hey. I'm sure I can spin this to show me taking initiative to bring clients in." Ino's smile soured as she gazed back at Sakura. "Besides, I don't want you to have to suffer for who you love."

Naruto nodded. "Alright. I have a copy at my workplace. We can stop by later today."

"I'm sure I can find a loophole somewhere." Ino smiled, her eyes that of a cougar as she got up and left the room.

As she left, Naruto turned back to Sakura and frowned. "Do you think she saw me naked?"

Sakura smiled widely. "Naruto, she's been around since we reconnected so I'm sure she heard us before. But I'm also certain that she watched part of it last night too. Ino is way too promiscuous for her own good."

"And speaking of someone being sexually charged," Sakura spoke haughtily as she grinded her pelvis, making Naruto hold in a guilty groan of arousal. "I felt you harden as you ogled her. So I have to watch you, Naru."

"Do I have to watch you?" Naruto growled into her ear as he reversed them on the bed, and sucked on her neck, eliciting a content mewl from her lips. "You were staring at her far longer...And you've been with her already."

"Oh you~..." Sakura mewled. "Besides, it'd be even better if she watched."

"Why is that?"

"When we have a child, she's going to want to be the godmother."

"So?"

Sakura smiled as she bit his ear, cooing into it as his hands sculpted past her abs. "When they need it, who do you think we can use to give them the sex talk?"

At that absolutely mean idea, Naruto backed up to smile down at her. "Blackmail. You are such a rebel."

"I know." Sakura smiled back, pulling him down as a carnal feast began in the bedroom.

"Damn! That doesn't work either!" Ino berated herself as she set the pen down and sighed into her chair, the backing leaning towards the floor into she looked up at the ceiling above her.

Ino turned her head and spun on her heels, taking in the numerous boxes that now lay stacked and organized throughout her small windowless office. The boxes covered up her favorite painting of the Isles of Mist in their radiant glory, and also hid her potted plant from view. That second one didn't matter as much to her; it was probably dead anyways. God knows she didn't have a green thumb like her parents.

It had been a week and Tuesday was in two days, and for all her work, Ino had nothing. Even at a cursory reading, she knew that this contract was close to what people in her business call ironclad. She may be the best wringer her firm employed, but the people who made this contract had done a stellar job. Monday morning, she had gone straight into her boss's office and pitched her wild idea. There were only two senior partners who actively worked at her firm, and five junior partner positions opened at any one time. She knew that she was taking a risk in this endeavor, and what it could cost her.

Her boss had told her that it was a high risk, small return at best, but at her insistence, he gave his approval. The consequence, if she failed to deliver, were the next six months of Saturdays manning the phone line, meant for the 1st years.

She didn't expect going against the legal arm of the Hyuuga would have been easy. They were as old as the city of Konoha itself, but she was determined. It just didn't help that she had found loopholes but couldn't act on them. Neither party, Naruto nor Hinata were dying and despite Naruto and Sakura loving each other, Ino doubted that they'd be willing to flee the country and thereby abstain from the contract.

Ino had pulled the two junior associates who were working below her and had them go through the contracts and the companies but that came up as nothing. She had exhausted her available resources and if she didn't find anything soon, her own pile of work cases were going to suffer. She hadn't been home in three days; sleeping here was better than looking into the lovebirds' eyes and saying that she was incapable of ensuring their future happiness.

Ino was looking at fifteen thousand dollars in overtime that was to be paid with her own paycheck if this became a bust. True that some of her fellow lawyers paid that much at a party, but this was not a high class firm and she was a conservative, but sexy lawyer.

But she had to find out that loophole! Ino wanted to throw something, anything at the wall! This wasn't only about her friends but also herself now. If she failed at this, then next month when they chose a junior partner for the 5 year mark, She'd lose her chance completely, and would probably have to move on and leave for a worse off firm than this one.

The sound of knuckles knocking on her open door made Ino pause running her hands through her hair and look over. She smiled gratefully at the sight of Sasuke standing around waiting for her.

"Hey." Sasuke uttered and Ino stood up and happily walked over.

"Hey yourself." She replied as they shared a brief hug. The lunch last week hadn't turned into anything besides being friendly with the other, and while she met Karin and she was a nice wife who was open about sex and other people for her husband's and her crazy lives, she was not letting the woman touch her body. After all; she was the city coroner, and that creeped her out like no tomorrow.

"Find anything?" Sasuke questioned and immediately, Ino grumbled as she stormed deeper into the room.

"Nothing useful."

"Here, I got you some lunch."

"Oh thank God! I'm starving!" Ino sighed as she snatched the bag from Sasuke and reached in before taking a small bite and squealing. "Oh, this is so good!"

"Naruto asked me to check in on you. Said you hadn't been home in a few days."

"Heh… home. He realizes that I'm the one on the lease, right?" Ino pointed out brazenly, Sasuke smiling at how the confidence exuded from her. "Eh, I'm totally fine with him there. He makes Sakura happier than I ever could, but I...I uh…"

"You want to come back with something positive."

"Exactly!" Ino slumped into her desk, resting her backside against it as Sasuke leaned next to her. "I just… I need something to come to me. A revelation or something. Somewhere in these boxes is that one sentence that can make me succeed."

"Well, good luck with that."

"Thanks for getting me lunch by the way."

Sasuke shrugged. "No problem. I had to give an ultimatum to our competitor two floors down from here, so it was easy."

"Uh-huh." Ino nodded her head along as she took another bite.

"Damn shame we can't sell off this section of the company though." Sasuke rolled his eyes. "It's the one area where we're losing ground and I have been on Naruto's case forever about it. It'd be perfect to get rid of and-"

"That's it!" Ino suddenly screeched, shooting up to her feet and smiling brightly at Sasuke who looked like a kid lost in a candy store.

"For what?"

Ino brought her hands up to Sasuke's face and kissed his cheek. "You are a genius."

"Well, I am a genius but…What did I say?"

"Competitor. Perfect." Ino smiled madly as Sasuke watched beside her as she reached for her phone and began to work things out.

"I'm home!" Ino called out as she closed the garage door and staggered inside. No sooner had she called out than a stampede of female legs raced into the living room and jumped into her arms, happily sniffling into her embrace. "Aw, did you miss me, Forehead?"

"You were gone three days! Of course I missed you, Ino!" Sakura wobbled her lips and Ino sagged into the embrace and nuzzled herself closer to hug back. She missed her too.

As she opened her eyes, Naruto walked out and smiled at her. "Sasuke called. He said you might have something."

Ino grinned like a hyena and smiled wide. "I think I got one….Yeah I do…Tell me….Is there some rift in the company? Say…"

R x R!