Alright here we go chapter 13 whoo!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto

Naruto had been leading them through a maze of trees for close to an hour now. Keiko and Hitomi walked right behind him while Sakura stayed in his arms. She had snaked her arms around his neck and pulled closer to his chest. She felt him readjust his hands under her and blushed when a hand brushed against her rear. There was nothing sexual or suggestive about it, just a natural reaction from her.

"How much farther, Naruto-sensei?" Hitomi asked.

"Not far now." he replied.

Sakura glanced up at the blonde man. He had stuffed his headband into his backpack so his bangs fell over his forehead. His left eye was still closed with coagulated blood. She had tried to heal his eye several times now but he would either lean away or lower her hand. Eventually she sighed and enjoyed the ride, well, or at least she tried to. Inside she was still fuming over the fact that she tripped over her own two feet. She looked ahead as they came into a beautiful secluded area. Trees surrounded the area in a comfortable circle, nice green grass provided a comfortably soft ground.

"Here we go." he smiled.

"Are you sure it's safe?" Sakura asked.

He nodded with a small smirk on his face. "Yeah, we're so far in, anyone who tried to find us would get lost."

"If you say so..." she mumbled.

"I do." he said and gently set her down.

She scooted a couple of feet away as he put down his backpack. As Keiko and Hitomi sat down too Naruto went into the forest for some firewood. Sakura sighed and rubbed her ankle, the chakra she had regenerated wasn't enough to heal it completely.

"Are you okay Sakura-san?" Keiko asked as she walked over to her.

"Yeah, just a little sore. I'll be fine by tomorrow." she smiled up at the young woman.

Naruto came back with his arms full of firewood. Keiko and Hitomi got to work setting up the fire giving Naruto time to set up his sleeping bag. Sakura watched as the three other ninja went through the camping set up in perfect motion. She sat there not sure on what to do, that is until Naruto placed his canteen in her hands. She looked up at him confused and he motioned to the pot next to her.

"... Wait hold on!" she sighed. "You're still eating ramen on missions?"

"Well yeah... All I need is boiling water." he said.

"Whatever." she said with a light laugh in her voice.

Pouring the water into the pot she put it on top of the fire. They all waited for the water to boil, save for the few chirps of birds and noises of other animals, it was completely silent. Sakura glanced at Naruto to see him staring at the pot of water, Keiko and Hitomi were doing the same.

'Are they all ramen addicts?' Sakura thought.

After a short comical scene of Keiko and Naruto wrestling for the only beef ramen, they all sat around the fire and enjoyed the noddles. Well- Sakura enjoyed them the other three kinda slurped them. She was pleasantly surprised, the ramen had actually filled her up. Night had fallen after their "meal" and Naruto began digging around his backpack.

"Oh c'mon, I know I've got some spares in here." he mumbled.

With a laugh he pulled out another set of clothes that looked like the ones her wore now only a short sleeved top. He dug around some more and pulled out a pair of boxers too.

"Hmm... No towel... oh well." he said.

He shrugged and walked off into the forest, towards the lake he mentioned no doubt.

Grinning, Naruto stripped down to nothing and jumped into the lake. He tucked his legs up to his chest for a cannon ball making a big splash.

"Cold!" he shivered as he broke through the water.

He shook the water out of his hair and started a calm swim through the lake. He turned onto his back and floated as he looked up at the moon. A small laugh escaped his lips as he gazed up at the moon.

'Peaceful watcher my ass.' Naruto thought.

"... I'm getting lazy with my training." he said.

Taking a deep breath he dove back down into the water. He enjoyed the feel of water pulling at his body as he pushed his way through. It had been a long time since he had gone for a peaceful swim, he really couldn't remember the last time. He broke through the surface again and ran a hand through his hair. He wiped away the dried blood over his left eye and blinked it a couple of times.

"Well at least there's no sight damage." he said.

The sound of another body dipping into the water had him turn around. One arm covering her breasts the other on the land to steady herself, Haruno Sakura, in all of her naked glory slowly dropped herself into the cold waters. She had brought her own set of spare clothes and a towel, the water, she figured, if nothing else, would feel nice on her sprained ankle. She felt her teeth chatter at the sudden contact, she had to focus with keeping her arm over herself, she swore her nipples could cut glass right now!

"Sakura?" he asked.

She picked her head up and looked over at the man. "Hey."

"What are you doing out here?" he asked.

"What? Do you own this lake?" she asked with a hint of irritation.

"Oh! Sorry, just figured you would have stayed back at camp." he apologized.

"I would've, but when you mentioned this lake those few hours ago, I just sucked it up and limped out here." she explained.

"Oh yeah! How is your ankle by the way? It looked pretty bad, I'm no medic or anything but..." he shrugged.

"How do you think it is?!" she nearly yelled at him.

He was taken back by her response. He was concerned, there was no problem in that was there? He swam towards her and stopped about two feet from her.

"What's wrong Sakura?" he asked.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?!" now she was yelling at him. "What's wrong is I tripped over my own two feet!"

"Sakura... Everyone trips, it's not a big deal." he tried to put a hand on her shoulder.

Not caring about hiding her breasts from him, she swatted his hand away and slammed her arms into the water.

"Don't you fucking patronize me Naruto!... I am a Chunin of Konoha, the former apprentice to the Godaime Hokage, the legendary Sannin Tsunade! And I fucking tripped," she emphazied the last word, "over my own two feet!"

He had seen her cry, he had seen her yell, but this, this was not something he was used to. He couldn't wrap his head around it, everyone tripped, Kakashi, Tsunade, himself... hell he had even seen Shino trip... five times! Again he tried to put a hand on her shoulder but she flailed her arms about like a stubborn child. One managed to catch him in the left eye which made him growl before grabbing her wrists with one of his hands.

"Dammit! Knock it off!"

She gasped and looked up at him. He was looking down at her and despite the anger in his voice a few seconds ago, his eyes were calm. The moon light reflected on the water causing his eyes to glow a beautiful shade of blue. It made her blush, she noticed that she had been doing that a lot around him lately. He tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and lightly caressed her cheek, an attempt at comforting her, it meant so much more to her. He cupped her cheek and titled her whole head up.

"Sakura." he started off calmly. "It's okay... everyone trips. It happened, there's nothing to do but let it go... okay?"

"O-okay..." she nodded.

"Okay." he smiled.

She couldn't help but notice that his once firm grip on her wrists had lessened to a simple holding of them. His hand still stayed on her cheek with his thumb brushing over the skin every so often. Maybe she always wanted to do this, or maybe it was the atmosphere, well whatever it was it made her leap at him. A simple pressing of lips which lasted for less than a second before Sakura realized what she was doing and threw herself off of him. She quickly scrambled to the opposite shore but remained in the water.

'I can't believe I just did that!' Sakura thought.

She heard the sloshing of the water as Naruto made his way over to her. She was surprised when he leaned against the shore four feet away from her.

"I'm so sorry! I- I mean- I wasn't thinking and-

"It's fine." he cut her off.

"Fine?! No it's not fine! Oh what you must think of me right now!" she cried.

"I said it's fine." he said. "... You're not the first woman to surprise me like that."

"Oh?" she asked.

"Yeah... Ino was the first." he smirked.

Her eyes widened at the mention of her dead friend's name. She couldn't help but think back to the last time she had seen her friend, the platinum blonde had been oozing happiness as she skipped down the halls of the Hospital. If what Naruto was implying was true then it all made sense, Ino had been dating the blonde Jounin.

"So, you and Ino?" she asked.

"Yeah." a simple answer.

"... Who else?" she gulped.

He trailed his eyes over to her then back to the sky before letting a chuckle escape through his nose. He brought his hands behind his head before letting out a long sigh.

"Hinata... and Temari."

Again her eyes widened at the mention of the two dead Kunoichi. She had been on that delightful mission to recover Hinata's remains... but she had no idea she was involved with Naruto.

"...Oh." she said.

"Yeah."

"I'm so sorry Naruto... I can't even imagine what you must be feeling right now." she said. "... Is that why you've been in a, um- less than pleasant mood?"

"Yeah... sorry about that. That day Hitomi and Keiko had me leave to look after you was the day I would always visit Hinata's grave... and today would be the day I would visit Ino's while giving respect to Temari too." he explained.

"You've been through a lot huh?" Sakura gave him a sad look.

"More than most of our group... nothing compared to others." he said.

She took a few steps through the water so that she was right next to him. With a small smile she pressed herself against his side in a hug, she felt his chest rumbled with a laugh as he circled his arm around her. One would think that with them both being naked it would awkward. Sakura couldn't help but blush while Naruto thought nothing of their closeness, just a couple of friends hugging. Now she could truly feel all of the hard muscles that took residence under his skin. A deep, dark perverted side of her was dizzy with lustful thoughts... and her cheeks were no help as they exploded with a dark blush.

Once again his chest rumbled with a laugh. "You can stop being a pervert now Sakura."

"...Shut up."

Sorry that took like forever but yeah there it is

-Raidori