WanderingRurouni's Collection of One-shots and Short Stories
(Started, 3/20/2014 - Published, 3/30/2014): "Physical Therapy"
CONTINUITY: One-shot(Never rule out any possible future continuity)
INSPIRED BY: Two stories here on FanFiction.
NARRATION: Third Person, Limited – Naruto(Originally written in First Person, too awkward to publish.)
MAIN CHARACTERS: Naruto/Sakura
RATING: M
GENRE: Romance
SETTING: Alternate Anime World
WORD COUNT: 7,092
WARNINGS: "Doctor's Appointment" flavored lemon. Complete with "Flavor Text" Dialogue.
DISCLAIMER: I KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT HUMAN ANATOMY.
OTHER NOTES: There are some "Meta" References(Author's thoughts) inserted in the story-not important, but something you may find interesting.
Also: Since I have not mentioned it yet, ALL characters are ADULTS. Age is not given on purpose, characters are as old as whatever the legal drinking age in your country is.
Thanks for reading!
Naruto held out his hand, Kakashi stepped forth, and handed him a single leaf.
"What am I supposed to do with this?" Naruto asked.
"Try to cut it in half, using only your chakra." Kakashi instructed. Naruto held out his hand, and accepted the leaf into his palm. It seemed so impossible, and after a few hours, he saw his progress-only a few millimeters into the leaf.
"Damn." He said aloud.
"Don't despair." Kakashi did his best to reassure him of the situation. "It's going to take a long time. But there's a way that we can make it go faster."
Naruto stood in a field within the forest, with thousands of shadow clones, all trying to cut a leaf, only using chakra. The progress was slow, slow and agonizing. But eventually he reached his goal.
One tree, and one thousand leaves later, he looked across the field at Kakashi.
"Good! One last time now!" Kakashi formed the Raikiri seals, and brought his arm down to the ground. In his hand, chakra began to gather, and within seconds, he commanded the power of lightning within his palm.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted as two clouds of smoke appeared at his sides, and two shadow clones began to move their hands above his open palm at great speed. A white light began to glow, and with it came a loud screeching sound, a sound that would terrify anyone who could hear it. It was a deafening cry that grew louder as the energy grew stronger.
"Good job, guys." He gratefully thanks the clones.
"No problem, boss!" One of them acknowledged before he disappeared in the same cloud of smoke that he had shown up in.
"You can call on us anytime!" The other shouted before he too, disappeared. Naruto focused on the energy in his hand, the ball of pure white energy kept spinning, and soon, the round edges shifted into blades of white light.
He was holding a giant shuriken, made of energy that could destroy diamonds, in the palm of his hand.
"Ready?!" He heard Kakashi called out to him.
"Ready!" Naruto replied with a nod. The moment he saw Kakashi move, Naruto charged towards him, intent on meeting force with force. Within inches of each other, a blast of energy shot out at the point of impact. When lightning met wind, it was as if the sun had exploded in their hands, lighting up everything in sight.
When it was all said and done, the light died. their arms rested, and were at ease.
"You've done well, Naruto." Kakashi complimented. "By being able to match the strength of my Raikiri, you have now completed your technique. Congratulations."
"Thanks, Kakashi-sensei, but we seem to have a problem." Naruto replied.
"What is it?"
"I can't move my right arm."
"Are you sure?" Kakashi said in disbelief.
"Do I look like I'm not sure?" Naruto replied with angry sarcasm.
"Let's take a look." He said while approaching Naruto. "Does it hurt?"
"No, I can't feel anything." Kakashi took hold of his arm, rolled up his sleeve and continued to examine. "I can't even feel what you're doing right now." Naruto reiterated.
"Hmm...Your arm feels cold, it seems like there's no circulation."
"You're saying that his heart isn't pumping blood into his arm?"
"Effectively, you're arm is dead. We need to get you to the hospital ASAP."
They immediately took off to the hospital, and reached it within a few minutes.
"We'll figure out how to fix this." Kakashi reassured Naruto on the way to the hospital. Naruto held his right arm in place with his left arm so that it didn't swing with every step that he took. It hung, limp, and there was absolutely no sensation coming from it.
"How's the arm feeling?" Kakashi asked somewhat sarcastically as they neared the doors to the hospital. Naruto responded by slamming his hand against the steel door handle.
"I didn't feel anything." He said flatly. Kakashi's expression changed, as if he was now worried about Naruto's mental well-being more than physical well-being. They stepped into the check-in lobby, set up all the paper work, and soon enough, Naruto was lying down in a hospital bed, with his heart being monitored, an I.V. sticking in his arm that did feel pain, and a thick cast that could serve as another layer of bone wrapped around his now disable right arm.
This sucks. Kakashi-sensei said that I had completed the technique, but the truth is different. What kind of shitty technique hurts the user? Now we're gonna have to start over.
He closed his eyes as the sun set. The last thing he saw was the sun's light, with an orange color clinging to the walls, tinting them in a fiery hue.
...
Two voices interrupted his slumber a few hours later. The room was lit by bright fluorescent lights. From the opposite side of the curtains that separated patients he heard voices, and neither of them came from anyone who could have been a patient.
"What happened to him?" Tsunade spoke.
"His own technique, when we clashed, he suddenly lost any control of his right arm." Kakashi replied.
"Kakashi, there's some bad news."
"What is it?"
"Naruto cannot use that technique ever again. Do you understand?"
"He's worked so hard to create it, and now you're telling me that he can't use it?"
"Kakashi, don't forget who you're talking to."
"Forgive me, Hokage-sama."
"I know it will hurt to tell him that he can't use it anymore, but the nerves in his arm are severed, that technique destroys the nerves and muscles that it comes into contact with...If he continues to use it, his arm will become permanently disabled."
"It'll crush him when he hears the news."
"We have no choice."
"I'll tell him when he wakes up."
Opening his eyes, Naruto noticed that the cast had been removed and his arm was scarred in red, as if it had just been slashed by a thousand swords. There was another hand clasped in his; a pearl white in contrast to his own. His eyes followed her arm up, and found her with her head held low, with crystal tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Sakura-chan?" Naruto softly whispered.
She brought up her tear-stricken eyes and met his.
"Sakura-chan, why are you crying?"
"Naruto...A-are you alright?"
"Never been better!" Naruto shouted with a smile. "...Well, actually, maybe not. Ha ha."
The curtain dragged back almost immediately when he spoke.
"Naruto! You're awake!" Tsunade shouted with surprise.
"Yeah, I am."
"Did you overhear anything?" Kakashi asked.
"Yeah, I did." I replied honestly. "I can't use his own technique anymore."
"That's correct. We're going to have to come up with something new later on when you get control of your hand again."
"When? You're telling me that I can still regain the control?"
"Yes." Tsunade answered. "But it will take a long time, your muscles need to recover, your nerves will need to be repaired, and you'll have to relearn how to control your movements with a therapist"
"Who's the threapist?"
"Me." Sakura answered with a small smile while wiping away tears.
I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't happy to be spending time with her.
...
SESSION 1: Muscle Reconstruction and Nerve Reconnection
"Okay, before we can teach you how to use your arm again, we'll need to have your body rebuild itself." Tsunade explained.
"Is it as easy as having someone heal me?" Naruto asked.
"Unfortunately, no. Our first priority is to reestablish the muscle that has deteriorated. As you can imagine, it's going to hurt."
"Yeah...But I'll take it as long as I get the use of his arm back."
"You won't be saying that when you feel the process."
"Shit."
"You'll have to give us a few hours; it takes a long time to set up."
She turned around and left the room, Naruto sat still, imagining the pain and horror that could make him want to keep his now limp and lifeless arm. His head fell back into the hospital bed's pillow as the door closed.
A few hours later, the door opened again.
"Naruto? How are you feeling?" Sakura's voice entered the room.
"I guess that I've been better." He looked over at his arm again. "Yeah...That's it." Then something caught his eye. "Sakura-chan...What are wearing?"
"It's regulation now." She explained her long white lab coat, a black top, and an unusually long skirt (an unusually long skirt for Sakura). "I don't like it too much. It feels stiff...What do you think?" She turned around, as if she were at a fashion show, and Naruto's eyes moved down her figure, stopping when he noticed the black stockings that she wore.
...She had to use the word 'stiff'
What are the chances?
"N-No! You look fine, Sakura-chan!" He saw a smile stretch across her lips after he spoke. "So...Why are you here again?"
"You're about to undergo one of the most agonizing procedures we have, Naruto. Did you forget?'
"I guess you can say that I wasn't exactly looking forward to it."
She walked up to him, and took hold of his lifeless hand.
"Don't worry Naruto. I'm sure you can make it through this." Reaching into her back pocket, she pulled out a small plastic bag, with a single capsule within; ripping the bag in half, she brought the capsule into her palm. "Here. Take this. It'll help with the pain."
Naruto sat there confused, dumbfounded, and a little insulted. His right arm couldn't move, and the I.V. cord attached to his other arm was too short for him to reach over unless he wanted to stain the white room in red.
"...Sakura-chan...!" he grumbled in frustration. "I can't do anything!" he noticed her blush with a smile, with his own cheeks lighting up in embarrassment.
"Right. I'm sorry." She whispered through light laughter. His own expression crumpled up into a face that a small child would make if he had just been tripped on the playground by his own friend.
Sakura flipped the capsule between her index finger and thumb.
"Say 'ah!'" she smiled. Naruto did as he was instructed with his blood pressure so high that it felt like his veins were popping out of his arm. She placed the pill onto his tongue, and he could swear that she slid her finger against his lips, and down his chin.
I swallowed that pill, and then smiled at her awkwardly.
...Did she do that on purpose?
That's when she walked over to the other side of the bed.
"Hold still." Sakura took a firm grasp on his arm. "Take a deep breath." With a swift tug, she pulled out the I.V., healed the wound on the spot, and gave him another warm smile; the heart monitor skipped a beat when he met her eyes.
Wait a minute...
"Sakura-chan, couldn't you have just-"
"Oh, I almost forgot, I've got an appointment that I need to get to, Naruto! Someone else will come and wheel you out of here to the operating room!" She interrupted him, and ran off towards the door. She looked back at him again before exiting the room, and with another smile.
...Couldn't you have just taken the I.V. out in the first place...?"
Within the next few minutes, a nurse came into the room with a wheelchair.
"Ready to go?" She asked with a friendly tone after detaching every single cord that was stuck into him.
"Y-Yeah. I think I'm ready. Have you ever seen this happen before?" he asked while being lowered onto the wheelchair.
She didn't answer immediately. But after 30 seconds of awkward silence, she replied:
"We're not allowed to discuss other patients," and laughed nervously.
THAT'S reassuring.
Naruto was wheeled down to another room, his jacket was removed, and his limp arm was inserted into a white tube that was connected to a giant motor.
Through the motor that ripped through the air, he heard a voice echo through the room.
"Okay Naruto, are you ready?" It called out.
"As ready as I can be." he replied with a deep breath.
The motor began to cry even more, the room began to shake, and his muscles began to scream.
Then he began to scream.
Naruto could feel every muscle in his body straining. Every single string of flesh began to pull away. The other muscles in his body, from his feet to his chest felt like they were shifting towards the tube, as if the muscles in his arm were being rebuilt from every other muscle in his body. It dragged on for what seemed like days; the pain of every ligament wrapping, tightening, and reforming around his arm. Tsunade was right. He felt like cutting it off right there.
The motor seemed to roar for the next lifetime before it eventually died out. The pain was definitely unbearable, but it did pass.
Then it started again; metal braces emerged from the table, wrapping around his limbs, totally restraining him.
"What the hell is going on?!" He shouted in a panic.
"Relax, Naruto." One of the operators told him while restraining his arms further. "The next step causes muscles spasms. We need to keep you as still as possible." Three others entered the room, and held him down. "Get ready."
The motor roared again, and electricity jolted through his entire being. It started in his arm, and quickly spread a path of pain that stretched from his spine to the soles of his feet. All the while, his limbs shook as if the epicenter of an earthquake was at his chest, sending out great shock waves to his arms and feet. They began to shake with such intensity; he felt that there were only two outcomes. He would either break the steel braces, or the braces would break his bones..
I read somewhere that there was another guy who had experienced this, a kid who lost his arm and dealt with this pain when he was just twelve. How in the hell did he not lose his sanity?
Naruto blacked out the moment that the thought crossed his mind.
That kid must have been tough.
The pain was unbearable.
...
SESSION 2: The Sense of Touch
When Naruto found the strength to open his eyes again, he was lying in his own living room, flat on his own couch, and footsteps were approaching him. Other than the sound of a creaking wood floor, whoever entered his house did not make a single sound. When she rounded the corner, she greeted him with a beautiful smile.
"Naruto!" Sakura shouted. "How are you feeling?" She asked while placing down a large bag on a chair that sat at the entrance of the kitchen.
"Fine, I guess. Why are you here, Sakura-chan?" He answered back.
"Did you forget already?" She asked while rummaging through the bag. "Today you're starting your physical therapy." She scolded him while removing a large needle from the bag that she brought in. "Take a deep breath."
The needle pierced through his skin like it was butter.
"OW!" he cried out as the sharp pain stung his arm. "Hey, wait...I can feel pain!" he exclaimed. "So I guess it really did work."
"Of course it worked." Sakura reassured him.
"But you know what didn't work? The painkiller you gave me before the operation."
"Oh, that? I did that for an entirely different purpose."
...Huh?
"Wait...what purpose? What was the point of giving me that pill then?"
"Nothing! You don't have to worry." He suspected a hint of secrecy and embarrassment in the tone of her voice. "It was just an experiment...Just a placebo."
"Then...What's this for?" he pointed to the metal object that still stuck out of his arm.
"This is just a remedy to help you with movement."
"Uh huh. And how do I know it's not just another placebo?" he sarcastically called her out.
"Naruto, I promise that it's not a placebo." She replied with laughter that even brought a smile to his face. "Feel anything yet?"
Blood rushed to his face. When the sense of touch returned, her soft hand wrapped itself around his, and warmth began to grow from her grasp as she held it tightly.
"Y-yeah." he replied with a cracking voice. "But I still can't move my fingers or arm." She removed the needle, and healed the little wound.
"That will have to come another day." She reassured him with a smile that was just as effective at easing pain as an injection of morphine. "Do you still need me?"
"Uh...I don't think so."
"Then I'll be going. I'll be back tomorrow." She leaned over and kissed his cheek.
He froze in surprise, even though the blood rushing to his face was nearly boiling. Through her own blushing cheeks, she smiled her heart-warming smile, and turned around.
He watched her leave the room, heard her close the door, and with the cool touch of her lips still present, only one thought crossed his mind.
What the hell is going on?
...
SESSION 3: Subtle Movements and Messages
"Okay, focus now, Naruto." Sakura instructed while moving his arm, extending it out to its full length, and then folding it over onto itself again. She did this with a firm grip on his wrist, and a soft hold on his elbow. "Try to keep this motion."
His arm fell flat onto the table as soon as her grip loosened. She shot him a look of annoyance and frustration.
"I'm sorry Sakura-chan, but I can't move my arm."
"Just keep trying." She commanded while rubbing her temples. His hand was laid out again, fingers curled, palm face-up. "There has to be something that we can do." He tried again, focusing as much as he could on his disabled right arm.
Nothing.
"I'm sorry, Sakura-chan. But nothing's working."
"There has to be something that we can do!" Sakura said with a tight fist wrapped in her hand. "I know!" She shouted with a snap. Turning around she began searching through the same bag that she had brought on her first visit.
"Another needle?" Naruto asked. "Please, don't tell me it's another needle."
"It's not." She removed another capsule from the bag and held it with her fingers. "Here, open your-"
"Uh...It's fine, Sakura-chan. I'll just take it myself." He added while opening his left palm.
"Here." She placed it in his hand with a smile. "Just swallow it." He followed her instructions faithfully, and placed it into his mouth. "Oh, I should warn you though-"
He swallowed the pill.
"...The rest of your body will go limp."
His legs relaxed, his arms fell, and He felt like he was sinking into the couch as he sat there, staring a hole into the ceiling.
"We'll set you up on your bed, and spend some time there, and then we'll see what happens." She took hold of his right hand and dragged him up to his legs; his legs that couldn't support anything.
He fell, turning onto his back, falling towards the floor, and with a loud crash, broke the table in half.
Naruto opened his dazed eyes, and found Sakura on top of him, looking directly into his eyes. Both of their faces were flushed in red as they lay there. She blinked, recovered, and shot back up to her feet.
Instead of standing, she fell back down onto him.
And then they realized why.
His hand was wrapped around hers.
"I-it worked." Naruto said while releasing his grip. She looked deeper into his eyes than she had earlier; and with a single movement, strengthened her grip around his hand, and wrapped her arms around him.
"It's actually working...?" She whispered.
"Uh…Sakura-chan…?"
"S-Sorry, Naruto!" she shot up to her feet, and pulled him along. Pivoting on her foot, she sat his otherwise limp body on the couch, and smiled.
"Yeah…So…How long do you think until I can fully move again?" he asked nervously.
"Soon." She replied with a smile and a light blush.
…
SESSION 4: Within Arm's Reach
"Yeah...Sorry about that. It was kind of...awkward." He said aloud to Sakura while taking a seat across from her. His arm was still immobile, and being held in a sling. "...But, hey! At least we know that everything's working, right?"
"Right." Sakura replied with a smile, and then turned her face down towards a piece of paper. With a stern look, she furiously patted the back of a pen against her chin.
"Sakura-chan...What exactly are you looking at?"
"Medication, treatments, and supplements that may help solve your paralysis problem." She answered without lifting her head.
"Anything?"
"Not yet." She ran down the list with her pen, and appeared to cross out various options. "Every treatment we currently have either disables another part of your body..." She paused; her eyes seemed to scan him.
Ten seconds of silence went by.
"And...?'
She shook her head and blinked as if her sleep cycle had just been interrupted. "Right!...It either disables a part of your body, or it has unknown side-effects that could be deadly."
"So, we're at a loss then?"
"It looks like it, Naruto. There isn't a quick treatment anymore. But I suppose we could try one more thing." She stood up and undid the sling that held his arm. "Let me see your arm." She enveloped his hand in her own, and extended his arm to its length.
"What exactly are you going to do?"
"I'm going to try and force the muscles to move with your own chakra, if I can disturb your own flow of chakra, then maybe your body will respond automatically."
"Sakura-chan, do you realize how unrealistically stupid that sounds?"
She glared at me with annoyance.
"If YOU understand how dumb it is, don't you think that I do?...What other choice do we have?"
"How do you even know that it'll work?"
"I don't, Naruto. That's why we're going to try it."
Sakura extended his arm onto the lengthy back of the couch and placed her hands over it. With an emerald glow, He could feel something entering his arm, pushing its way through his muscles, and flowing into his blood stream.
Sakura's breaths became heavier within seconds. It looked as if she was pouring her very life-force into his arm.
She was visibly exhausted when she saw his arm twitch.
"Sakura-chan, it worked." His arm was moving again. He could feel it. "Sakura-chan, you can stop now." Only a few seconds had passed, but she was visibly under very heavy stress.
Her eyes closed and she fell forward. he caught her in his arms, and rested her head against his chest, She would be fine in the long run, but for now, her chakra was extremely low.
"Damn, you've done it now, Naruto. You idiot." He looked down towards the woman that he had admired so much for so many years. "I'm sorry, Sakura-chan. I'm sorry I lied to you. I had control of his arm this entire time." he picked her up, laid her down on the couch, and stood up, with full control of all his limbs.
I just wanted to spend more time with you.
…
SESSION 5: Ulterior Motives
"Okay...Try it again." Sakura commanded. He held out his hand and opened his palm. "Good, keep going." One by one, he folded his fingers into his palm, and extended it back out. "You're definitely getting better." She closed his hand with her own, and let it fall back to his side. "It looks like using chakra to force muscle movement wasn't such a stupid idea, huh?"
"Ha ha, yeah, I guess not." he said while nervously rubbing the back of his neck. "Look, Sakura-chan, there's something that I need to tell y-"
Before Naruto could finish his sentence, Sakura grabbed his shirt and wrapped her arms around him.
"I'm so happy for you, Naruto. I'm so happy to see that it is actually working."
He took hold of her arms and slightly pushed her away.
"Sakura-chan, I have to tell you something."
"What is it?"
"I-I've had control of his arm ever since the control of my hand came back...I lied to you, just because I wanted to spend more time with you." She looked into his eyes with confusion at his confession. Naruto began to suspect that his confession was a dire mistake, and in response, he closed his eyes, expecting a fist to strike him at any moment.
Sakura reacted in a way that he had not come to expect from her.
Her hands clasped onto his jacket again, and quickly tugged him closer. Her warm lips embraced his. She pulled away from him, both of their faces were bright red, her expression, slight embarassment: his expression, utter shock.
"There's something that I have to admit to you also, Naruto." She looked deeper into his eyes. "All of those 'treatments' I gave you were supposed to hinder your recovery. Because..." She moved closer to him, and with her breath on his ear, whispered: "...I just wanted to spend more time with you."
"Is that why you were doing all of those things?"
"You noticed?"
"I was confused."
"I'm glad that you noticed." Sakura wrapped her arms around his neck, and turned her head to face his. Naruto slid his arms down her body and took hold of her hips while turning himself to face her. Her lips caressed hers with a passion that had been building for the last decade. She pulled away and with a single breath whispered: "...Because I-"
"Excuse me!" A voice called from the outside, accompanied by furious knocking. Naruto and Sakura froze when the voice entered earshot. "Sakura?! Naruto?! Are you in there?!" Ino's voice penetrated through the walls.
"What the hell does she want?" Sakura whispered.
"...Well, no one said that we have to answer the door...maybe we should just wait until she goes away." Naruto replied.
Sakura placed a finger in front of her lips. "Shh" she added with a smile.
Ino didn't stop knocking.
"SAKURA?! SAKURA?! I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE! I CAN READ YOUR THOUGHTS THROUGH THE DOOR!"
She can't do that. No way.
"YES I CAN, NARUTO! NOW LET ME IN OR I'LL LET EVERYONE WHO CAN HEAR ME KNOW EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN THERE!"
"Unbelievable." Naruto quietly scolded while walking towards the door. Before he could leave the room, Sakura took hold of his hand.
"I'll answer it. Just pretend that your arm isn't healed yet." She motioned for him to put on his makeshift sling.
Naruto could make out two voices bitterly spitting venom at each other through the hollow walls.
"What the hell do you want, Ino?!"
"What are you doing Sakura...Don't you remember the code that you swore upon? There's a line that doctors can't cross with their patients."
"Quit your bullshit, Ino. What the hell do you want?"
He heard Ino laugh.
"I'm just messing with you! Tsunade-sama wants you to bring Naruto back to the hospital. She wants to check on his progress."
"Is that all?" Sakura asked in a deep tone with a loud sigh.
"Yes! Oh and don't worry, I'll keep your...secr-"
"GOOD!"
Naruto then heard the door slam.
Sakura returned to him and let out a deep sigh.
"We've got to go." She commanded
"Now?" He asked
"In a few minutes I...I still need to change."
"...Right." He added with a nervous smile.
…
SESSION 6: Beyond Regulations
"You're feeling well enough now?" Tsunade asked
"Yes, I feel better than I have in weeks." Naruto answered.
He was in a similarly white hospital room, sitting up on a hospital bed.
"Was this really necessary though?" He held out his hands to emphasize his outfit, A thin blue robe that didn't even cover his back, held together by two small white strings, tied in a single knot.
"Last time I was here, I was allowed to wear my normal clothes, why is it that I have to wear this?"
"Regulations." Tsunade replied flatly.
"Regulations my ass! Who the hell is making these?!" Tsunade shot him a look of extreme anger and annoyance.
"Look, KID! I came up with these regulations, and if you continue to complain, you won't have an arm anymore to worry about, so shut the hell up!" She grabbed his right arm and began to tighten her grip around it. The feeling of his muscles tearing began to rip through him.
"O-Okay, I'm sorry!" She released her grip and turned around.
"Someone will be with you shortly. I can't deal with this anymore." Tsunade said finally before closing the door behind her.
Only minutes later, the door opened again, and a familiar kunoichi with pink hair entered the room. She closed the door behind her, which locked with a click. She held a clipboard in one hand, and a black pen in the other.
"Hello again, Naruto." She said in a monotone voice.
"H-hey." He replied flatly.
"Are you ready?"
"Ready for what?"
"Before you can leave, you need to undergo the standard outpatient physical." She flipped a switch by the side of the bed.
"WHA-? When the hell did this become mandatory?"
"Naruto, please, just let me do my job, and we'll get you home as soon as we can."
"Sakura-chan...You don't have to do this. You can just tell them that you did it."
"Naruto, please..." She rubbed her temples in frustration. "Just do as I say."
"Okay." He said with a deep breath. "What do you want me to do first?"
"Lean back." Sakura ordered. Naruto slowly fell onto his back, laying down on the bed at an angle, as if he was reclining back in a chair. Sakura placed the clipboard and pen onto the countertop next to the bed. She searched through the cabinets and brought forth a stethoscope.
The cold metal contrasted against the warmth of his chest. She listened intently to his heatbeat, her hand rested on the otherside of his chest.
This didn't help what she was checking for.
"Naruto...Is something wrong?"
"Sakura-chan...There's no way that you'd not know why this isn't a good idea." He answered back with a smile. "There's no way that I can keep my heart-rate down when you're around me."
"Just try to relax." She directed him with a small smile. She placed the cold metal object onto his back. "Okay, take a deep breath."
She moved it along his back, and ordered him to breath again. When the exercise was finished, his heart was pounding so quickly, it felt like it would burst out of his chest, and chills crept down his spine every time he came into contact with the cold metal.
"Naruto...I didn't get to finish what I said earlier."
"What was it, Sakura-chan?"
"You've been by my side for a long time, and I know that it seems like I hate you, or that I don't care about you, but-." Naruto brought his lips to hers without hesitation. In his vulnerable situation, he wasn't even thinking, his body had moved on its own. He pulled away, their breaths still merging in the space between them.
"Sakura-chan...I love you, I always have, you don't need to justify yourself or your actions to me."
Sakura moved her lips against his when she heard his words. She pushed him, and laid him down onto the bed.
Her tongue moved, pushing and entangling itself against his. His mind was going blank, filled with ecstasy and bliss.
He pulled away and took hold of her hand when he felt her palm sliding down his leg.
"Sakura-chan? We can't do this here!" He whispered.
She pointed to the switch that was located next to the bed. "That switch marks the room as a room with a physical in process." She slowly licked her lips. "No one will bother us."
He didn't know what to say.
"Let's try something different." She whispered into his ear. "Let's see how physically fit you really are."
He still didn't know what to say.
But he found his head nodding as Sakura gently rested her forehead against his.
"Are you sure about this?" His breath merged with hers as their breathing synchronized.
"I'm sure." She whispered back.
Sakura brought her lips to his again, with her hand slowly pushing away the thin blue fabric from the robe he wore. She slid down along his leg, and slowly wrapped her fingers around him, one at a time, letting her contrasting cool touch send chills through his regenerated muscles.
Sakura thrust her lips onto his when she finally took hold of him; stopping his moan from escaping his lips. He lost his breath, but soon regained his composure.
"We still have to keep quiet." Sakura whispered with a grin. Naruto nodded with blissful instinct. Her grip tightened, and he let out another breath; with her firm grasp upon him, she began to move, gently twisting her hand while simaltaneously moving it up and down.
With time, she began to feel heat building in his core as he grew in the palm of her hand. Her fluid movements became faster, building tension with every passing second. Naruto planted his hands into the mattress of the bed, trying his best to remain composed and collected. But her soft touch was pushing him closer and closer to his climax.
Sakura leaned over and kissed him again, her tongue tangled with his a second time, The sensual overload caught him off-guard, causing him to fall onto his elbows. The momentum released her lips from his, a long clear string still hung from the distance that separated them. Sakura licked her lips, and whispered into his ear.
"It's okay, Naruto. Don't hold back."
His head flung backwards and sunk into the white linen pillow. He could feel her hand still wrapped around him, every pulse from his body pushed aginst her hand, sending shocks through his system. His limbs gave way, and he fully fell flat onto the mattress, taking in deep, desperate breaths.
When he opened his eyes and released his mind from the pure ecstasy he had just experienced, he saw Sakura, facing away from him, removing her jacket. She placed it onto the countertop next to the bed, and continued on. He heard the sound of buttons popping, one by one, and then saw Sakura hold her arms down at her sides, letting the black garment slide down to the white tiled floor. Lastly, she brought her two hands, and locked them on the hemline of her skirt, and began to pull it down, where it joined her black top in a pile of clothing.
He could not help but admire her ivory skin, and toned figure. In his mind, Sakura was by far, in a class of her own beauty, above everyone, and below no one. His heart raced as she bent over while sliding down her skirt.
She straightened herself, and turned to face him, dressed only in a black bra, a black pair if panties, and those extremely seductive stockings: raising a hand towards him, she urged him off the bed with a single finger. He followed without question, her words still echoing in caverns of his now empty mind. There was only one thing to focus on now.
Sakura took hold of his blue robe, and pulled it off. She draped the white coat over his shoulders, and stuck his arms in the sleeves.
"Sakura-chan...What are y-"
"Shh." She hushed him with a single finger on his lips. Her grasp still on the jacket, she turned around, and pulling him along with her, sat on the bed. "I'm ready for my physical, Uzumaki-san."
With her seductive words entering his ears, chills crawled down his spine, while blood flooded like a raging torrent to his core.
Is this really happening? A thought flashed into his mind before he forced it away, focusing only on the moment, he walked forward, and lowered himself onto the tiled floor, using the oversized coat to balance himself on his knees. He heard Sakura's light moans as his fingers ran up her thighs, softly rubbing every inch of her beautiful skin along the way. With two fingers, he reached for her black panties, and slid them aside. Naruto heard Sakura's struggle to keep her voice down as the heat from her grew, and his breath rhythmically touched her, making her skin tingle with anticipation.
He moved towards her slowly and methodically, his warm breaths became shorter, pushing towards her faster by the second. Naruto noticed Sakura shifting herself, wrapping her hands in the white linen cloths, and moving her hips with such agonizing tension that she could have tore through the mattress; the tension in her body that only built upon his slow approach.
"N-Naruto, h-hurry, I can't stand the wait anymore." She cried out in a whisper.
He couldn't lie to himself; it aroused him even more to hear her speak in such a unusually soft, and somewhat weak tone.
He slowly brought his lips towards her, and planted a kiss that sent electricity through her entire system. Extending his tongue, he acted with even more vigor, in smooth motions; he moved his tongue against her. Sakura's moans skipped in and out of his hearing as she tried her best to suppress her own voice.
He moved his tongue deeper, pushing up against her with more pressure, and then slowly moving down, gently massaging her. Sakura's grip loosened on the white cloth, her legs wrapped around Naruto, pushing him forward, he could feel the fabric from the coat pushing against his back. Sakura's hips began to move, lifting her into the air, and slowly letting her back down onto the bed.
Naruto moved up, and took hold of her with his lips. Sakura let in a deep gasp as he did; her core began to rumble as he isolated her within his lips, and started to move his tongue against her. Her legs loosened, and her hands felt like they had lost all blood circulation, falling onto the bed. She breathed in another desperate gasp for air and let out a labored, ecstatic whisper of pleasure as her body shook with the mind-blanking impact of orgasm; she regained her composure, brought her head back, meeting his eyes and giving him one order.
"Take off the coat, Naruto."
Naruto slid his hands back, letting the jacket float to the floor; he balanced her right leg on his shoulder, and held himself erect with his hand.
"Are you sure about this, Sakura-chan?"
She nodded with confidence, He moved closer, and with a single smooth motion, entered her. They both let out muffled moans as Sakura tightly wrapped around him while he simultaneously moved into her. He took hold of her leg, and with every ecstasy filled thrust, pulled her towards him while he pushed himself towards her. Sakura moved her suspended leg back down.
She held out her hands, inviting him to her. He responded by moving his hands to her hips, wrapping them around her midsection, and with a single movement, he brought her into a vertical position.
Sakura's body seemed to lose all sensation in pure bliss, her entire body went limp, her head fell backwards, and her limbs hung in the air, swinging back and forth.
She sunk down onto him as he pushed deeper into her. He thrust his hips continuously, listening to her light moans as he moved. Sakura hung by his grasp as if she were a ragdoll, taking him in with every exhale that she made. Life rushed back into her as she found the strength to straighten her posture again, and wrapped her arms around his neck. With a knot tied in her hands, she held onto him desperately. The heat from their breathing merged in the space between them.
Naruto could feel her hands on the nape of his neck. She took on another desperate breath, and embraced his lips again. Their eyes closed together as Naruto felt Sakura's silent whimper of passion and ecstasy enter and stay in the boundaries of his throat.
His knees began to buckle, in response; he turned and let his own body force him down onto the mattress. Sakura did not remove her lips from his own, but instead, twisted her tongue around his. She placed the palms of her hands against his chest, and pushed herself up with all the strength she could muster.
Her eyes still closed, she let out shallow desperate breaths while moving her hips. Using her own arms, she pushed herself up, and descended back down, Naruto felt the pressure from her soften, and then tightened again. Sakura felt her skin crawling as she moved, her own elbows gave way to the passion from her core, and she fell forward onto him.
She did not however, stop moving; her hips still in motion, letting him out, and taking him in, pushing him closer to climax. Naruto's hands slide down her body almost instinctively, and with a firm hold, moved with her; encouraging her even more.
"S-Sakura-chan. I'm-" She descended down upon him again, and embraced his lips once more, blocking out his muffled cry, his moan of pleasure combining with her own, as she felt him inside her.
Her lips gently broke away from his. She looked deeply into his sapphire eyes.
"I love you, Naruto." She rested her forehead against his: he looked into her emerald eyes, and added in a whisper.
"I love you, Sakura-chan."
...
He awoke an unknown amount of time later. His body was correctly aligned with the hospital bed, and his head was sunken into the pillow.
The door to the bathroom of his hospital room opened, as a fully-uniformed Sakura stepped through the door.
"Did you have a nice nap, Naruto?" He looked around the room in confusion. "You did very well in your physical. By all standards, you're in top condition."
She walked over to him, and picked up the clipboard that laid on the countertop. He watched as she reached towards him, and flipped the switch next to his bed to read "OFF"
She turned towards the door, and began walking.
Before she exited the room, she looked towards him.
"I can't wait to see you again." She added with a wink.
...And I hope to see you again soon, Sakura-chan.
Edit: 4/4/14 - Here's a little hint for the next chapter.
From r/WritingPrompts(Courtesy of Reddit): "Your computer gains sentience and falls in love with you. You agree to have a date and see where things go."
Make your inferences...and I'll see you next time.