Time for reviews;

SasukeShouldDie: After discussing it, yes, this is a mostly pure Naru/Saku story.

7th Demon: Next chapter is up!

Mundanebeast: Hoping to show Sakura as the popular one since she hung around with Ino all her life, and Naruto as the outcast of high school, just without the Kyuubii being the cause of it.

Duh Bomb: Really rapping now Bomb. :)

Keeper of Worlds: Hope I can meet your expectations soon, Keeper.

CruxTheLove: Short story...hmm...is the fifty thousand words I have written for this story short for you? maybe...So far, i have 18 chapters set for posting, for the most part. When you consider that I started writing stories at 20k and my longest at 200k, this will meet around the middle of all of those. And it will move past high school, I assure you.

Czar Joseph: Thank you, your majesty. ;)

Tony Blu: I cannot confirm nor deny if the both of them are players as that would ruin your suspicions of my characters. i guess you will simply have to move on and keep reading?

XxAshishxX: Well, she is eighteen in this story, and I always took Sakura to be a late blooming bombshell, so she is Hot!

Czar Ryno: Hello another majesty, thank you for devoting some time to my story. I know my spelling is usually great as I do spell check my chapters. My grammar was never the greatest, but glad you are giving it a chance nonetheless. As for the interaction, that is the main parts of the story, so prepare to see imagery like you never believed. Masterpiece? Naruto is the painter, not me. (Big Smile :) )

DizzGirlJess: No, not naughty TA! Just unconsciously like that! Okay, pretty much a naughty boy, but come on! He is Talking to Sakura...Haruno!

Logan Locke: Stroke for the paintbrush, duh! Where is your mind, hmm? ;) For me, its the smile as they strut their stuff that I enjoy, but the legs are way important too. Sakura in this story is on the outside the perfect high school student, but underneath the skin? Maybe we'll find out. Same here on the melons. I tried painting, sucked at it, but found that I can sketch pretty well, and so I try to do it at certain times. I find that describing them simply and then imagining them in your head is best.

Glad you noticed the subconscious portion of Naruto, it shows how he is when he is in his passion of painting. Hope you get that virus out of your system and hopefully in return I will produce a great story for you.

Father Anime: Glad to show you what AU can do.

AN: One word...Oh My Gosh! Wait! That was three...oh yeah...OMG! There we go. Anyways, 14 reviews in two days...You Guys and girls Are Amazing! Loved the reviews and therefore, I won't wait a week! Let the story commence. Also, the basis for my reviews and information below;

'Trying to show Sakura as the popular one since she hung around with Ino all her life; Naruto as the outcast of high school, just without the Kyuubii being the cause of it.'

'This story will move past high school, I assure you.'

'As for Ages, One can consider Naruto and Sakura are 18 years of age and seniors in high school, so they are adults.'

Now, on with the Story!

Tone and Stroke

Chapter 2: Tutoring the Muse

Last time on ToS;

I'd do anything for you, Sakura. Anytime, anywhere.

T-thank you, Naruto. Sakura blushed as red as the apple before suddenly the bell rang signaling the start of lunch. Well, bye. Sakura muttered before walking out the door and made her way to the football field, intent on looking at her picture in the bright sunlight.

Sakura sat down on the grassy hill overlooking the football field below and let her book bag drop to the ground. As Sakura took the rolled canvas out and unfurled the painting, the wind blew lightly across the field and Sakura sighed happily at the feeling and imagined adding a small grass background to her painting, but that might be a bad idea unless she got help from a tutor for this class.

As she looked at her painting, she had to once again remember back to a few minutes ago, and traced the strokes that Naruto had shown her and Sakura lightly traced them once more, to remember the strokes and the amount of pressure to add to her future paintings. Naruto said that you had to feel things in the painting to paint them; maybe she could recreate the apple on another canvas?

"Hey Sakura." Ino called out as she came out of one of the school's many exterior doors and sat down next to her lifelong friend. Sakura turned her attention over to her best friend and admired her body. She was gorgeous in her own right; Ino's breasts were a size larger than Sakura's own yet her hips were smaller and slender than Sakura's. Ino wore her traditional purple top and skirt combo that showed off her abdomen that was always visible since their cheerleading outfits had a similar design.

Sakura herself wore a pink skirt, longer than her cheer uniform, and a red sleeveless vest that showed off her toned limbs freely. To add to it, her vest was cut short and showed off her own toned stomach as her skirt was pulled low and showed the outline for her hip bone, bordering on showing her womanly areas for the whole high school, but that was high school for you.

"Hey Ino."

"Wow." Ino breathed as she took notice of Sakura's painting in her hands. "Did you do that? It looks like I could reach out and grab it."

"It does have the tone for that, doesn't it?" Sakura smiled. "Actually, it looked like a squashed tomato for a long while. The TA helped me out a lot."

"Who's the TA? He must be pretty good." Ino whistled as she looked closely at the painting, her nose almost touching the canvas.

"Well…some guy named Naruto."

"uh huh…Wait! Naruto?" Ino's face immediately shot away from the painting and stared at Sakura. "As in Uzumaki?"

Sakura looked over at Ino's surprised face. "You know him?"

"Of course I know him, Sakura!" Ino sounded quickly. "He's the photographer I was telling you about! I even got the photos he did for me just this morning when he gave them to me."

Ino turned quickly around, her blonde hair in a ponytail whipping Sakura in the face before taking out a manila folder and whipping back around to hand it over to Sakura. Sakura spit some of Ino's hair from her mouth and accepted the folder and reached in; taking out some photos and was instantly in shock.

The first photo showed her best friend in black and white and showed a close up of Ino's face smiling at the camera. The second showed a conservative look in a black dress with a grey backdrop. Then, there were more colors in the pictures as it progressed and showed Ino in more sexual depicting photos, pulling on her straps and biting her lower lip seductively.

"Wow, Ino. These are great...Seriously." Sakura smiled at her friend. They always looked at models and photos, always critiquing what would be best and worst for they themselves to try out. "The shading accentuates your whole face, and the lighting is just right for you. He photographed all this?" Sakura asked as she flipped through a few more.

"Yeah, but he also did a couple paintings as well. Then we did a swimsuit shoot, hence why I missed those practices. See?"

Sakura did see, and Ino looked extremely sexually appealing in the swimsuits, and they ranged from the full one piece and scaled back in material to make Sakura blush at how little Ino had on in the last one.

"Ino, these are kind of creepy at how good they are, but wow are they good. Naruto must have had a hard time asking you to do these."

"Actually, Naruto didn't ask for me to do them. I asked him if he could give it a try."

"Well, he sure tried." Sakura giggled slightly and looked at the swimsuits some more. "Did he ask for anything?" Sakura asked. Boys usually ask them for many things in return.

"Surprisingly, only one thing did he ask for."

"And that was?"

Ino blushed a little before she responded. "…He asked that I be his muse, his inspiration for some of his own works."

"What does that entail?"

"Well, we talked about various things during the shoots, and he's going to use my body structure and hair for his paintings."

"What did you say to that?"

"I…don't laugh okay?" Ino blushed and glared at her best friend. After Sakura nodded, Ino reached back inside and took out another folder and handed it to her best friend after looking around in slight paranoia. Sakura took out the pictures and gasped. "I asked for them personally. This is why I missed that second practice three weeks ago."

Sakura blushed deeply at the pictures before her showing her best friend, a girl she had met when she was five, spreading herself spread eagle, naked, on a floor facing the camera, her hands barely and she meant barely, covering her groin and breasts.

"It gets better," Ino pulled the top photo away and Sakura swore she had a nosebleed as this photo was in the same position and the photo was cut in half as a photo and a painting of the scene next to it, but her breasts and lower region were in clear view and stood out in the photo very clearly. Sakura's eyes zeroed in on Ino's breasts, hardened from the experience and sweat slightly coated her body. Then her eyes focused lower on the two replicas of Ino's lower half; one that was Ino's clearly and the other that Naruto had painted…oh god!

"I-it looks…lifelike. It's gorgeous Ino. It really shows how beautiful you are."Sakura smiled bashfully as she put all the photos back into the manila folders, and handed them back to Ino. "It was very erotic, but tastefully done."

"I visited his place a few more times after this since I posed for him. He really has been using my body frame for his paintings, and they are all breathtaking. You should ask him to paint you and photograph you, he is easily the best I've ever seen, and he didn't charge me anything."

"I don't have the time right now, Ino." Sakura sighed. "I need to find a tutor for my art class to pass it and graduate."

"I'm sure Naruto would love to tutor you, Sakura. In fact,"Ino smiled and looked around before grinning back at her pink haired friend, "as he was painting me naked, we talked for a long while to get over the nervousness, and probably subconsiously when he said it, but he let slip to me he'd do anything for the goddess of our high school."

"He called you a goddess?" Sakura smiled.

"Actually," Ino quipped. "He was talking about you."

"Wait a second!" Sakura exclaimed bashfully and stared at Ino. "Naruto didn't even meet me before today. How did I get into this erotic dialogue?"

"Well, I asked who he thought was possibly more beautiful than me, you know, to get a feeling on how I compare to an artist like Naruto. He mentioned you above all others. He recalled seeing you freshman year when you bumped into his shoulder and his eyes found yours and he hasn't seen anyone else that compares since then." Ino touched Sakura's hand, seeing her stunned face and smiled. "Sakura, ask him to take the photos. He won't say no. He won't be able to."

A week came and went and it was art class once more. Sakura smiled a bit as the picture before her was looking much better than a week prior but frowned at the amount of stuff that she had to quickly paint now. The class was getting harder and Sakura really needed that tutor and fast.

Today, art class was the last class of the day, since it was a half-day that occurred once a month, and Sakura wanted to just go to the burger place and breathe in so many French fries but would content herself with a small size of fries and then workout for two hours to keep her muscles soft but toned.

The bell sounded, and Sakura leaned back and stretched, watching as everyone left quickly, leaving her all alone with the exception of Naruto, who was sketching something in a notebook. Sakura packed up her stuff and made her way silently behind Naruto, who was fixated on his notebook, oblivious that he wasn't alone in the room.

Sakura placed her head next to Naruto and looked right over his shoulder to see different shadings of the art room, with the canvases around them in a semicircle. The details both big and small were exquisite, but there was only one person in the sketch, Sakura herself.

"Is that me?" Sakura suddenly asked, and Naruto's pencil dug down to the bottom of the notebook as Naruto jumped out of his seat and fell to the ground in a crumpled heap. Sakura held in a giggle but it escaped as she offered her hand to Naruto, who blushed deeply and accepted her hand and pulled himself up and off the ground.

Sakura picked up the notebook and looked at Naruto. "May I look?" Sakura watched as Naruto blushed deeper but looked down and nodded his head. Sakura opened the notebook to see pencil sketchings of the entire school, from the dented locker on the second floor to the gymnasium as the cheerleaders flipped in the air, to the old stray dog that lived behind the school.

Sakura smiled at the pictures and then came upon one from last week when she had first been painting that showed the front view of her intently gazing at the canvas. It was beautiful and showed her in a good light, but as Sakura looked closely, she swore that she could see a glimpse of her own panties from that day and remembered that her skirt was riding a little high during that class. Naruto's attention to detail was truly extraordinary.

"You are really talented Naruto." Sakura smiled and glanced at Naruto who blushed bright red and looked away. Sakura could understand his nervousness. She was the Queen Bee and was expected to hang around jocks and people as popular as herself. Naruto, as Sakura had learned from Ino, was misunderstood and an outcast, near the bottom of the social hierarchy. "You are a superb artist."

"T-thank you, Sakura." Naruto stuttered quickly accepting back his notebook and looking at her quickly before looking away and gulped nervously, scared to make eye contact.

"One question though; why are you sketching me?"

"N-no reason." Naruto answered while looking down.

"You know, Ino is my best friend." Sakura adopted a neutral expression as she spoke. "She tells me everything, so I'll ask one more time…Why are you sketching me?"

"…The light on you was perfect."

Sakura blushed at the comment and continued her attempt to talk to this boy before her. "Speaking of lighting, I'd like to ask you about something."

"Go right ahead."

Sakura bit her bottom lip and looked out the open door to see students walking passed the art door with frequency. She was already nervous about asking for photos; she didn't need someone walking in on her begging for Naruto to take naughty photos of her, ones like Ino had done, ones that Sakura had a secret fantasy now of getting taken. "Can we talk somewhere more private?"

"If you would like that."

"I would."

Naruto nodded and picked up his bag and walked deeper into the art studio, Sakura on his heels as he stopped next to another door with a mirror next to it that reflected the classroom. Naruto pulled out a key, making Sakura wonder where they were going, if he led her into a closet to take advantage of her, then he'd experience her fist in his family jewels as a consequence.

But when the door opened, it showed a small secondary room with desks that pointed towards the door, Naruto gestured Sakura inside before closing the door and as Sakura turned around, she could see the entire classroom before her.

"The mirror is one way glass. It helps artists to capture their subjects while they are relaxed and unawares."

Sakura smiled nervously. "Remind me never to kiss a boy in the art room." Naruto laughed lightly as the atmosphere lessened and they sat down on the desk nearest to the mirror.

"So, Sakura." Naruto breathed deeply and Sakura could see him sweating in the dimmer lighting in the room. "What did you want?"

Sakura felt like a playful mood at this exact moment and eased herself down, down in Naruto's lap to be precise. "Naruto-Kun," he purred, "I've been wanting to ask you something for so long."

Naruto blushed deeply and looked away, and Sakura felt his member stir underneath her and got off of him. Before she could continue however, the door to the art room suddenly opened and the two teens turned around to see two more teens, juniors, kissing and sucking face as their hands were busy inside the other's pants. The teens knocked over canvass' as they hit repeatedly against the wall until the girl found herself up against the mirror, and the boy got behind her and pulled on her vest and skirt zippers and Naruto and Sakura could only blush as the girl wiggled out of her clothes and stood, her body and free breasts pressed into the glass, as the boy unzipped himself and quickly entered her from behind.

Sakura looked at Naruto and saw him shocked but staring at the girl's lower womanhood and she looked as well as the boy pounded into the girl as the girl moaned and some of her juices left a naughty trail on the mirror. Sakura stood up and pulled Naruto over to the room's corner where they heard everything from the grunts and moans, but saw nothing. Sakura smiled teasingly.

"You're going to paint that aren't you?"

"Two teens forced to watch a sex scene unfold? You bet I will!" Naruto smiled bashfully until he saw Sakura's face and got nervous again. "You're not offended at that, are you, Sakura?" naruto asked quickly, with what Sakura assumed with a bit too submissive for Naruto's character.

"As long as it's not a porno, just sexually flavored." Sakura smiled, her voice going normal once more. She saw Naruto's eyes widen in realization.

"…So…you were teasing me just now?"

"Y-yeah. Couldn't help myself." Sakura smiled bashfully as well.

Naruto looked at a wall to hide his face. "I almost pulled you down to the floor."

Sakura looked down and saw that Naruto had a huge reigned in manhood as it pressed tightly against his cargo pants smeared with paint. "Are you maybe turned on by what I just did?"

"Tell me a guy who wouldn't be?" Naruto smiled at Sakura, making Sakura blush at the intensity as a wave of lust passed between them.

"T-true." Sakura smiled. In truth, that was the first time Sakura had sat in a guy's lap like that. Sakura wasn't usually a flirt, but Naruto seemed to have some kind of an effect on her. The question was; what?

"So, what did you require of me?"

"I-I need a tutor for this class, and you're the TA so I was thinking that-"

"I'll do it!" Naruto smiled at the chance to possibly spend time with his idol.

"Great! Sakura smiled before growing nervous again. And-I-I talked with Ino." Sakura reitterated, trying to get back on the conversation and not looking at the thing between the painter's legs.

"Y-yeah? And?" Naruto asked. Inside naruto's mind, he was smearing his mind in lead paint. Sakura knew! She knew that he knew that Ino had told Sakura how Naruto felt about her?! 'Oh God!'

"I have a proposition. I need a modeling photo. I want you to photograph me…and do a painting of me, for my own personal self. In return…I'll be your muse." Sakura spoke confidently, but with some doubt in her voice.

Naruto's mind calmed and as Sakura told him that she'd be his muse, a fire burned in his eyes. "…I push my muses to stay in a position I put them in, even if they're talking to me and cramping. Can you do that?" Naruto asked with intensity that Sakura had seen when Naruto talked about art. He was in his element right now and purely focused on it.

"I plan to be an actress and a model; I need the practice to stay still; I can do that for you."

"Alright. Then here." Naruto bent down and wrote something down on a piece of paper before handing it to Sakura and as she looked down, she saw his cell phone number and his house address. "Does four pm on Friday work for you?"

"I-I'll be there." Sakura stuttered and she wondered why she did. The two teens turned and saw the couple in the heat of passion and fucking harder. Sakura gulped. They couldn't get passed that without being seen as perverts themselves and for Sakura, she'd be admired for years long after she left high school.

"Hey Sakura?"

"Yeah Naruto?"

"Do you want to start now? At least get a feel of thing to you know, to pass the time."

"…S-sure."

"Stay still," Sakura smiled at his commanding voice and stood as still as possible as Naruto walk around her slowly and as she listened to his softened footfalls, she felt his blue eyes staring at every inch of her, at her lengthy legs, at her exposed back, at her forehead that she thought was a little too big for her.

Naruto sighed deeply and happily. "Well…you look amazing. M-may I…touch you?"

"What do you mean by that?" Sakura blushed and stared straight forward at the wall, too nervous to face him eye to eye. Did he want to grope her and push her against the glass and thrust inside her as she was forced to watch the other girl climax before her? Sakura hated to admit it, but she kind of had a fantasy about something similar happening, and Naruto fit the bill for her fantasy guy pretty well at the moment.

"Position you, turn you and your clothes a bit."

"Where will you touch me?"

…You'll find out." Naruto spoke, leaving much of the question unanswered.

Sakura slowly breathed in and slightly nodded her head.

Naruto spent the next few minutes tweaking Sakura's body from position to position. Sakura simply let him do whatever he wanted and gasped slightly whenever his hands would graze the sides of her breasts or pause his hands on her inner thighs. Naruto adjusted her blouse, unbuttoning a few buttons and then putting them back as they had been. Naruto pulled Sakura's skirt up and down and side to side, making Sakura feel like she was a fuckable mannequin.

The entire time, Sakura and Naruto blushed as they heard the girl screaming into the mirror and finally heard her climax right onto the one way reflective surface before they began to get dressed. Naruto finally stood before Sakura again and looked directly into her emerald eyes and Sakura was willingly forced to stare at him.

"You are absolutely beautiful, Sakura-Chan." Naruto whispered, and Sakura blushed redder than she ever had in her short life. He had meant every word of it, and right now, she was horny and sexually frustrated and…right now, she just wanted to jump into her fellow senior's arms and thank him for the compliment!

The two of them turned and looked past the white substance all over the mirror and saw that the art room was once again devoid of life. Sakura quickly picked up her bag and left the room, followed quickly by Naruto and they stopped outside the classroom, and faced the other.

"So…I'll be your muse." Sakura affirmed their deal as she readjusted her strap in nervousness over the recent situation that had occurred.

"You don't realize how much I appreciate this, Sakura."

"Where did the –Chan go?" Sakura teased one last time, and Naruto smiled like a lovable baka. "And you know how much I appreciate you doing this for me. So, see you on Friday at 4."

"Friday at 4." Naruto smiled and Sakura walked off, but before she turned the corner, her eyes looked back at Naruto's retreating figure. Naruto Uzumaki huh? You are interesting indeed.

Some Sexual scenes in a lot of this story as i feel painting has a lot of hidden and clear signals that painters try to show us all in their works below what they tell us.