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DragonPony022: I am glad that I have an artist that can honestly tell me how I am doing with projecting what i hope to consider good art. i for one cannot paint for money, but photography of scenery and mountains are a hobby of mine. I just hope to describe how I see things in the art world. There is more art in this chapter, so if you could tell me how I did and what could be improved upon, I would love to hear about it.

Logan Locke: You know...You're Right! Thanks for setting up yet another goal for me to pass. I swear, you should set goals as a fitness instructor, then no one would be fat in the world. You set manageable goals and then we go for it with your generous encouragement. The payment of course, are chapters for you to read. Libraries are places of quiet, shame on Sakura! :) I am showing how Sakura's walls are crumbling and she is in need of another friend who can accept her as she truly is. That is what this next chapter will be primarily about.

ILuvYouHaters: Maybe so, maybe not. It all depends of how Sakura treats him.

MundaneBeast: Indeed. They seem to hold the same forces against the other, but that can easily change.

Zasqas: Thank you

XxAshishxX: of course narusaku Rocks!

DiizGirlJess: Really? Naruto is always sweet on Sakura...don;t pull them apart Jess...not again. ;)

Czar Joseph: Glad to have that.

Czar Ryno: Glad to have the feelings down, not to pull your strings again for this chapter :) BTW, didn't understand the paint the maids quote you said, what does it mean?

DuhBomb: Funny Pose Rhyme Scheme.

7th Demon of Razgriz: Quicker is usually better.

DaNightsTemplar: Sorry, but no InoSakuNaru. Already too far in the story, And I'm already setting another story up that way.

AN: HEy Guys, Are you stoked for the weekend of my chapters, that's right, plural, and hopefully your reviews. I have decided, at least this week, that if I continue to get reviews like I have, you can get a total of three chapters by Monday night. It's Friday, so what do you say? Maybe we try it out? And besides, five thousand words in this chapter. Just to show you guys how much I have appreciated your reviews. :)

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Chapter 4: Lens Of A Goddess

Seven days passed, and they were so slow for one Sakura Haruno. She simply couldn't concentrate on anything right now in her history class. That didn't sound right, Sakura thought as she listened to Asuma–Sensei talk about the past of Konoha. It was more precise to say that there was one thing constantly on her mind that superseded all other thoughts. Sakura winced as she held her head in annoyance; why couldn't she get Naruto out of her head?

Her thoughts were stuck on Naruto. He was nice, so nice to her, even though she knew that he had an obvious crush on her. He was a gentleman, he was kind, he listened to her stupid thoughts, and Sakura found that since she had started to befriend him, she saw his longing looks at her from across the hallway and how his locker was right next to hers for the last four years. Had she really been that superficial in her high school life to not notice him?

Thinking back on her own short existence, Sakura didn't completely understand how she hadn't noticed Naruto until now. In a high school sense, she hated the jocks with a passion. Most of them had on occasion touched her lewdly and a few had sneaked under her cheerleader skirt before earning a swift kick in their precious family jewels. Even with all that, the jocks who managed to touch her gloated much more than what she hit them for.

It wasn't to say that Sakura had never liked a guy's touch. She had kissed boys on the cheek before and had held hands, but then again, she hadn't kissed a boy, or gone any further with one, except once, but she repressed that memory as much as she could. She had gone further than kissing with Ino, but that was experimenting and that was it. But lately, she had been having a dream, a dream of lewd touching.

The dream started out with Sakura swimming, naked, through an ocean, and as she reached the beach, she found that she was suddenly falling and landed, breathless, face up on a mattress, but it was not her mattress, but Naruto's. Sakura looked up and there, just as breathless as she was, was a naked Naruto, his large member making Sakura blush with the sheer size and appearance of it, ready to pierce her and show her just how much of a woman he was about to make her.

Sakura smiled up at him, and touched his cheek, nodding her head for him to make her a woman. Naruto slowly leaned forward, his fingers grazing her womanly entrance and her inner thighs and as he prepared to thrust inside her, Sakura smiled widely.

And that was how the dream always ended; Sakura was never thrusted into and couldn't find out if Naruto at least in her dreams could make her a woman. Sakura would open her eyes to a new day and her smile would be on her face, as well as a deep pink blush and sticky sweat coating her skin at the implications that the erotic and yet romantic dream meant to her.

Ever since that dream had begun to replay itself, the afternoon she had gone to Naruto's apartment for the modeling paintings and photos, Sakura found herself walking into her closet and picking out skirts, blouses, bras and underwear, the last two Sakura didn't understand why she did them as well, but she was dressing not to impress others, not to the jocks, or her fellow cheerleaders, nor to the general population, but instead to Naruto in the forefront of her mind. It was always would Naruto like this? Would he like that?

As Sakura was thinking all of this, she looked to her left and saw Naruto near the window, in the same class as her. He had been in her classes since freshman year as well, damn it! Naruto seemed to be staring intently at the board, trying as hard as he could, to follow along. Sakura sighed sadly, he was in three of her seven classes this last semester and she didn't notice him at all. She really was a terrible person for not realizing that.

Sakura looked down at her arm and noticed a little orange sweatband on her wrist and remembered talking with Ino and had put it on for the sole reason that Ino told Sakura that Naruto was a person who was very bright and liked bright colors. Sakura also had on a bright ocean blue skirt and a red blouse, and she even had on bright emerald underwear that when she put it on, imagined Naruto peeling them off, as she gazed into his vast ocean like eyes. Heck, Ino said that Naruto had a thing for girls with bright hair; that meant blondes, and perhaps, just maybe, a tiny sliver of that definition included pink?

The bell sounded for the day and Sakura picked up her bag quickly and walked the opposing way of everyone else and moved across the room away from the doo to arrive at Naruto's side, who was slowly putting his equipment and books in an orderly fashion into his backpack.

If there were a few things Sakura had learned, it was that Naruto was organized and followed through with what he set himself up for. The thought turned dirty as Sakura imagined Naruto setting himself a task of fucking his pink haired muse for three days straight.

Sakura shivered at the perversion and waited patiently for Naruto to notice her. When he did, Sakura received a big, no...Huge smile from him, which made her smile all the more. "So Naruto," Sakura began a little nervously as she saw some girls looking her way, their faces scrunching in disgust at Naruto. "It's been a week. A-are they done?"

Naruto yawned a bit and stretched a bit and rubbed his eyes as he stood up. "Spent last night putting on the finishing touches, but yeah, it's all done. The picture at least. We still have to do the…you know."

"Yeah, I know. I have my swimsuit with me. So, do you mind if I walk over with you?"

At that question, Sakura saw Naruto tense up and grew a little worried. Slowly, the hand rubbing his tired eyes lowered as he looked at her like she was the crazy person in the room, a personality she had never been associated with by the general populace known as high school. "Are you sure that's a good idea? Being seen…around me?"

Sakura shook her head as she released a breath of sighing, annoyed at his question and pulled him by his painter's sleeve into the hallway where the rumors immediately began to whisper at what The Sakura Haruno was doing Talking to the low painter. "Naruto," Sakura began to speak, pulling Naruto towards the exit, "I am at the top of the social pyramid. I make the social class of who is popular and who is not. Now are you a gentleman or not?"

"...Are you implying that I'm not a gentleman if I don't walk you to my house?"

"That's exactly what I'm implying Naruto," Sakura spoke as she looped her arm in his once they turned the corner from the school and onto a much less crowded road from school. "And a gentleman always shows a lady the way. So, what do you say we talk about something, because we have a long walk to make, and a lot of awkwardness to avoid."

As they walked from school to Naruto's second floor apartment, they didn't talk really about anything in particular, but rather everything that came into their teenage minds. They talked about sports and how the Konoha Foxes had done well in the fall. They had talked about past school projects and after listening to Naruto's exploits, Sakura wished that she had had him as a lab partner instead of all of the jocks who spent the better part of their time together flirting with her.

They turned a corner, nearing Naruto's house after twenty minutes of walking, and as they did, Sakura's horny sensation of the last week surged up her body and into her mind from when their elbows briefly touched. And if that wasn't bad enough, she got a vision as well. Oh Boy!

Naruto was pressing his lips against Sakura's in a loving fashion and Sakura reciprocated the kiss by pleading with her tongue at Naruto's lower lip. Naruto's hands slowly traversed Sakura's lower frame, stopping to lightly grope her ass cheeks making Sakura mewl into the kiss. Suddenly, a twat was heard and Sakura arched her back, pushing her breasts and groin deep into Naruto as she felt another slap hit her ass. Sakura smiled and spoke through the kiss, telling him what to do huskily.

"…Harder!"

Sakura suddenly breathed harder and wondered where that came from. Had it really come from a simple touch from Naruto? If a simple brush of the elbow could get Sakura hot enough to almost ask Naruto to slap her ass, what would a hug or even a kiss do? What about sex?! AND WHY IN THE HELL was she thinking about sex?!

"You okay, Sakura?" Naruto asked as they had slowed their pace of walking.

"Huh?" Sakura breathed before wracking her brain to think of something and pulled at her collar. "It's just a little hot out here."

Naruto smiled at her clothes and could see some sweat forming, but thought that maybe she was a little feverish. "It's still winter, Sakura."

"Oh! R-right." Sakura smiled stupidly and stuck a bit of her tongue out. "Silly me, right? I'm probably just a little hot."

Naruto stared at the bit of tongue coming out of Sakura's mouth and just wanted to hold it there. With it in his hand, Sakura couldn't pull away, she'd never leave him, she'd be forced to give him a kiss and hopefully after a single kiss, she would never leave him.

"You're always hot." Naruto muttered a little loudly and Sakura blushed heavily at the turn of events and they quickly increased their pace, both of their faces red from the perverted thoughts roaming through their heads.

Sakura had to ask herself as they finished their walk though, why did Naruto have this effect on her? Other guys peppered her with compliments of all sorts. She got radios and music outside her bedroom window, poems, love letters, pleas in front of the school, but she never had acted on any of them. They all chased her, but…maybe Naruto was chasing her in a different way that made her chase him back? Whatever the case, Sakura knew that Naruto had a crush on her, and at the very least, by now, Sakura knew that she had at least some kind of feelings for Naruto. These feelings…they were feelings that went in line with those of a best friend, right?

After a few more minutes of awkward silence, they finally arrived at Naruto's apartment and headed up the stairs, Sakura making Naruto blush as she went up first, and her skirt billowing up and showing him a glimpse of emerald.

Sakura waited at his door like an excited puppy and Naruto realized that she really wanted to see these paintings that he had made of her. Naruto opened the door and led her inside and as they passed the counter, they dropped their backpacks on top of the marble and continued forward to the portrait that Naruto had drawn for Sakura.

Sakura was stunned by what she saw. There Sakura was, just like last Friday, with her left leg over her right, sitting and smiling at Naruto and in this picture straight at herself. Her body wasn't deformed, and if Sakura was bold enough, her silk blouse covered breasts were perfect. The skin color was creamy white and shined brightly in the picture as a black dress covered her body before the top was covered by Sakura's hair covering her shoulders and a side of her face from view. Was that really how her hair looked? Whatever the case, it looked just so…real; just as real as a…photograph in today's world. It really was one of a kind.

"Well...do you like it?" Naruto asked after a minute of seeing Sakura's neutral face look at her self-portrait and as he asked that, a growing smile graced her face and she turned to smile brightly at him.

"Naruto, this is simply amazing. It looks so real!"

"Great! So glad you approve of it!"

"Hey, Naruto. Would you mind getting me a glass of water?"

"Oh sure! No problem!" Naruto exclaimed as he moved off to get Sakura whatever she asked for.

Sakura saw him leave and smiled as she had this boy whipped already. To think, she could tell him to do something and he'd do it. She could embarrass him like a nasty female bully, she could ruin his life if she so wished, she could…make him love her completely. Sakura sighed; she really needed to sort out her feelings for Naruto sooner rather than later.

Sakura's eyes caught notice of a canvas with a white cloth over it and turned around to find Naruto nowhere around her. He wouldn't mind if she peaked, right? Sakura slowly picked up the cloth, but as she did, the cloth fell to the ground, showing Sakura another picture of…Sakura.

In this picture, Sakura was lying on her stomach, her stomach bare of clothing as the top had bunched up wonderfully at her breasts that were pushed together on the couch underneath her. Sakura's legs were in the middle of flailing behind her, just brushing the skin of the other limb and moving through the air. In front of Sakura was a book that was an old school book that Sakura remembered reading as part of the series called Shinobi Wars. And at the very best of the painting was that the perspective of the painting was looking at Sakura from across the armrest and Sakura as if caught, looked up with a slight blush at the viewer, while her eyes slowly looked back down at the book, unable to resist reading further.

"Hey Sakura."

Sakura yipped loudly and turned around, hiding the painting behind her to see Naruto smiling at her with her awaiting glass of water. Sakura took it with a blush that she swore would match this latest painting of her and took a small sip as Naruto joined her at her side.

"How did you know that I love reading books?" Sakura asked, trying to not bring up the fact that Naruto had drawn her nude.

"In middle school, I always saw a book in your hand. You were always reading in class and were never caught because you were able to answer the questions on the board without having to even look up."

Sakura smiled at the statement a little sadly. This boy had had a crush on her since middle school? Sakura wanted to ask Naruto why he never asked her out, but before she could, something else caught her attention on the balcony. Sakura slowly walked around the canvas, in a trance, and over to Naruto's small balcony, past his private bedroom area, and saw the most beautiful painting she had ever seen in her life.

The painting was a close up of a girl's face, showing half of it vertically and going into detail to show laugh lines and small dimples and a freckle that the girl had near her ear. But what was enhanced in the painting was the emerald eye that was blown up to most of the painting size, as if it was zoomed in on just the eye. Part of Sakura's pink hair cascaded over the eye, but what Sakura saw in the eye showed so much emotion to her. It showed her own inner turmoil, as if she was hiding things that were not shown to others in her daily life. It showed to her a lack of confidence and yet an amusement that held the confusion at bay. It looked both mysterious as the dark color of emerald, and calm as a gentle breeze in a forest, calculating every look that it received.

Sakura was utterly stunned as she felt like she was utterly exposed in conjunction with the painting, as if it was her that was lacking the confidence and hid it with her happy and laughing demeanor. With that said, Sakura turned and blushed rapidly at Naruto with unveiled adoration and as tears welled inside her eyes.

"I-Is that My eye?"

"Yes. I've decided to name it, 'Eyes of a Goddess.' "

Sakura slowly caressed the canvas, glad that it was dry from the sunlight, and smiled fondly. "It looks better than my own." Sakura sighed as she walked back in, only to be stopped by Naruto's next words.

"Sakura, you are a goddess at our school, and to be honest, you are the most beautiful person I've ever seen."

"Oh Naruto." Sakura smiled as a tear unconsciously fell down her face. "That is so flattering. I really can't believe that."

"You should, because it's true." Naruto sighed as he looked back at the painting. "I did this right after you left; stayed up all night to do it. I just couldn't get your eyes out of my system;...I still can't."

Sakura smiled and sniffled to gather her wits about her. She needed to tease Naruto more, her teasing just felt…right with him. She didn't have her feelings down, but her body knew what it was doing. "Naruto?" Sakura watched Naruto turned around before smiling brightly. "If you can't get my eye out of your system, how will you get rid of this image from your perverted mind?" Sakura asked before moving to take off her skirt and blouse.

Sakura smiled as Naruto was seriously about to freak out when he saw… that Sakura had her bikini underneath her clothes. Naruto looked back up as Sakura was settled in a pink and emerald bikini in…his…apartment...breathing at every word he thought, and was confused when he saw the girl smirking at him and pointing down at his groin. Naruto looked down and immediately blushed as his member had grown hard from the sudden event and the fact that his crush since elementary school had followed him back to his place and was stripping in front of him.

By the time Naruto looked up, he wanted to scream as he saw Sakura on her knees in front of him, staring in a trance at his clothed member, with head cocked a little to the side as if in admiration of what he had. Sakura knew that she wouldn't move further than this, but his member's size matched what her dreams had imagined and Sakura was stuck at a cross roads, but at the moment, they had something else to do.

Sakura backed up and reached behind her, and grabbed Naruto's camera on the table before handing it to him. Naruto nodded his head and turned on the camera before holding it expertly and began to take pictures of Sakura who stood in the archway to the balcony, sometimes resting her hands on the window sills.

Sakura blushed as Naruto moved slowly in a semicircle around her, and noticed that he took a while to take even a single picture and Sakura would hear the shutter for the camera snap shut. Sakura would see Naruto circle around her, appearing all over her and after five minutes, Sakura began to smile more and drape herself along the archway and even on top of the balcony rail as if on an actual photo shoot.

After a good twenty minutes of doing these things, the two were laughing and having a lot of fun. Naruto was getting great photos and Sakura loved the attention he was giving her. Naruto stood up from his knees and looked at the last photos and in that pause, Sakura's hand had been grasping the string behind her neck.

Sakura breathed heavily as she had felt so elated and happiness welled inside her heart with Naruto's eyes upon her. Sakura had looked at her bikinis this morning and these pink and emerald combination was her sexiest pair. The pink shading was see-through and the emerald was the only things protecting her lady parts from view.

But as Naruto got ready to begin the session once more, Sakura wondered if she could keep his attention more than right now. The way he moved around her showed his passion in what he did, and Sakura saw the love he was showing in his eyes as he stared at her exposed body. But maybe, maybe she could tease him by showing him some more?

Naruto placed the camera next to his eyes and focused the camera before taking it away and was about to tell Sakura to get ready when he saw her smiling nervously as she pulled at something behind her back, and as Naruto realized that it was a string, the top of Sakura's bikini slackened and began to fall to the ground.

Naruto's eyes widened at the possibility of seeing Sakura's creamy white breasts but wanted to groan as Sakura quickly held her top in place with her hand over the thin material. Naruto felt his erection becoming painful down below, and knew that his full length even covered was clearly seen by Sakura whose eyes drifted down a few seconds ago. Why did he have to wear a tighter pair of cargo pants today?

"N-Naruto," Sakura nervously stuttered as her tongue slipped along her lower lip and saw Naruto follow it the entire time. "L-let's have some more fun, okay?"

"O-okay."

Slowly, Naruto began taking more pictures and Sakura switched arms and positions. After a while, Sakura let her top fall and used her arms to hide her breasts from view. The nervousness between the two began to fall away and the smiles came back, and after another thirty more exciting minutes, Naruto took the last picture, his camera stating that it was full, as Sakura lay back on the balcony rail, her legs spread completely showing that her bikini bottoms had ridden inside her and her hands holding each of her breasts respectively, as she smiled deeply into the camera.

Naruto turned around and Sakura let her hands drop to her sides where she picked at her bottoms and realized that they had ridden deep into her womanhood and ass and that Naruto had seen it all. It didn't occur to Sakura that Naruto could turn around any moment and see her upper figure. In fact, Sakura was sure that she would be fine with Naruto seeing them, as long as…as long as he still called her beautiful. Sakura was sensitive about her figure as most girls were, but her womanly areas were…ugly, in her opinion. To hear someone, anyone call her beautiful after seeing her, would be an emotional rollercoaster of happiness for Sakura Haruno.

So, when a towel was thrown in her face, Sakura was confused. She looked over at Naruto to see that he had thrown it backwards and hadn't taken his chance to look at her topless figure. Sakura's heart swelled then and there for Naruto and she knew now that Naruto was her friend and a great guy to be around. Sakura wrapped the towel around her upper body and moved over to Naruto's picture printer where he had connected his camera and the pictures of the last two hours began to print.

Sakura blushed. Had it really been two hours? It had passed by so quickly, she had had so much fun posing for Naruto. Was this the end? She didn't require anything else from Naruto past these printing pictures, but maybe she could inspire him to spend more time with her, to try to get her to shed the rest of her clothes. The thought made Sakura wet downstairs, and she thought of what Ino had done with Naruto. Could she really do that? Could she let her defenses down for this boy standing here next to her.

"Well Sakura," Naruto breathed out as he gave Sakura a manila folder and the pictures on top, "here you go." Sakura looked at her last photo and saw that she was indeed exposed and that the tip of her breast was partially on view, but as Sakura looked at Naruto to comment on it, she saw that he was deleting the pictures!

"Y-you're deleting them?"

"Huh?" Naruto looked up and smiled as if it was common sense. "Well yeah. They're private, aren't they?"

"Well…you keep some of them, okay?" Sakura pushed her thoughts lightly. "F-for inspiration."

"R-right."

Sakura suddenly pushed herself forward and hugged Naruto deeply and this time, Naruto slowly hugged her back. Sakura basked in Naruto's warmth as feelings spread from her heart to every part of her body and Sakura squeezed harder, breathing in his painted scent.

"You are incredible Naruto."

"No, you are my muse, I have the easy job of capturing your beauty." Naruto rebutted and tried to let go, but Sakura kept hugging him and moved her mouth to her painter's ear.

"I have a challenge for you Naruto. To inspire you to go further."

"W-what is it?"

Sakura breathed in. It was now or never. "I want you to paint me…naked…"

Naruto's eyes bulged. Was this a dream?

"It's not a dream," Sakura stated, knowing what Naruto was thinking. "I want you to paint me… but without seeing me that way. If I like it," Sakura whispered in his ear, "I'll pose again for you, but this time…in Any Position you want as long as the photo stays between you and me."

"A-A na-naked photo? For you?...And me?" Naruto blushed as the memory and his secret stash of erotic pictures featuring Ino came to the front of his brain.

"You've done a couple with Ino, I saw them." Sakura insisted.

"Well, y-yes I did photograph Ino, but…"

"But what?"

Naruto sighed and pushed Sakura away before walking off and Sakura followed him until he reached the balcony railing, and leaned next to him. "I was thinking about you as I watched Ino pose." Naruto admitted with his eyes closed.

Now Sakura was the one who blushed with all her blood rushing to her skin, her eyes bulging as wide as they could possibly get. "So, when you saw Ino's womanhood and her breasts…you thought of me?"

Naruto grimaced but nodded. Soon he felt Sakura's hand on his shoulder. "T-that's brutally honest, and I like honesty in my friends."

"...Friends?"

"You're my friend now, Naruto. As for your project, you have two weeks to get it done. Do it for your reward; if you imagine me when you see Ino, can you imagine what you'll do if you see me in a position however you want me."

And with that, Sakura strutted over to her swimsuit top and put on her clothes before Naruto listened as the door closed and as soon as it did, he smiled and moved over to his white canvas. A naked picture of Sakura in which he knew not what she looked like? He had his work cut out for him, but he felt something stir inside him. A new passion; a passion of pleasing the girl of his dreams.

Hope you all loved all the teasing and the new challenge.