Reviewers;

SasukeShouldDie: It is exactly what I was trying to get across. And yes, a cold shower for Naruto is definitely in order.

Czar Ryno: Love is always creepy when you see it from the sidelines. Try being in a room with a couple making out. It's creepy. But really, Love has no bounds, and at times, Naruto is yes creepy, but when Sakura teases him, she is being creepy too. Also, thanks for the age insight, will correct it here on this chapter.

7th Demon of Razgriz: well, let's see if they get together, shall we?

Hanmac: I'll see what I can do about Ino hearing Sakura's talking about Naruto.

GB: Too lazy to sign in? ;) JK. Oh well, you still deserve a review slot.

Fury Cutter: Thanks for the compliment. While i have thought of having the two girls pose together, that is something that I think would cause a rift between Naruto and Sakura. These posings are their time together and crucial for them to know the other.

Mangaka Shuzen: You make me blush, and I mean as in turn red all over! I am never good at concealing my appreciation for compliments, so thank you so much!

Duh Bomb: Staircase to heaven? huh...might still the imagery of that for a future chapter...thanks for the inspiring poetry Bomb.

MundaneBeast: You know that Naruto will do his best to complete this for Sakura...Believe it! :)

Logan Locke: I am glad you loved it! And the review was not too small, instead, you condensed yourself and made a very nice section of criticism and compliments that I really appreciate. I agree that it is a little quick, but this is over three weeks as of yet, and Sakura is learning how Naruto feels others know him as and she is letting herself open for him as, as you guessed it, another potential friend like Ino.

Her teasing and flirting is something usually hidden except for her best of friends, like Ino and Naruto is the other guy who is honest and someone who girls want and get as they want the guys on the borders of society, such as bad boys, as other portray Naruto as. I did not realize that people do the general nice guy or girl for even one night stands, as while I am one of those nice guys, as I am told, I know that I could not leave a girl after a night spent getting to know them. hence, one night stands and picking up girls are not for me. Oh Well!

Sakura's eyes were definitely somewhere else as she saw Naruto's attraction towards her and is subconsciously flattered and aroused by it as well as the possible attraction towards the artist. They are definitely on the up and whatnot, but now it is what they do next and how Naruto handles Sakura's challenge.

AN: Thank you for everyone who have reviewed and viewed my story as of so far as chapter five, which is this chapter, and this is the time for Naruto's challenge to take place, or maybe Sakura has something else in mind? Hmm? By the way, thanks to Czar Ryno, I have decided to make sure everyone undestands the ages and that all main characters are of Legal Age. They are all consenting and are Adults.

Main Character Ages: 18

Tone and Stroke

Chapter 5: Asking Beyond The Norm

That night, Sakura tossed and turned in her bed, as if the blankets and sheets were trying to choke the life out of her, whimpering over and over again as the feelings grew worse and worse. After two hours, Sakura finally caved and grunted as she threw off the sheets, finding that her body was on fire and stemmed from her sensitive loins and aroused breasts. Sakura sat up in frustration and threw off her pink nightie, leaving her only in her pink satin panties as her only protection.

Sakura breathed rapidly, wondering what was going on. She couldn't sleep in this condition. She was a mess, as she looked down to see goosebumps and sweet glistening over the entirety of her skin. Sakura lifted her hands to the top of her head, and slowly wiped the sweat that surrounded her eyes and face. Why me?

Why was she imagining Naruto spanking her ass into submission? Why was she bending over and telling Naruto to ravage her behind behind? Why was she going to allow Naruto to photograph her in any position he wanted? Sakura's eyes widened tenfold as she realized that he could not only determine what position she was in, but also the place as well! What if he wanted her to pose naked in the middle of the school hallways? Or pressed against the glass looking into the art room? Why was it that she was imagining Naruto fucking her in all of these scenes instead of photographing her?! Why had she made this stupid and yet erotic bet?!

Sakura groaned and let out a yell of how unfair her life was into her pillow and reached for her phone, before opening up the screen and pressing the speed-dial for her best friend. Ino had posed for Naruto; she would know what he wanted and liked and maybe tell Sakura what was in store for her. As the phone rang in her ear, Sakura's eyes became unfocused as realized that this was completely different than Ino's situation.

For one thing, Ino had offered to strip as a kind of erotic photography and for future settings, and yet, Sakura had found out earlier today that Naruto had thought of Sakura when Ino had posed for him. This situation had Sakura 'Surrendering', giving up her freedom of choice, letting her walls down, showing her entire essence and body to Naruto and he could live out his wildest fantasies with her. Sakura's past fantasies suddenly had Naruto covering his fingers in her juices that flowed out of her, and it was at this exact moment that Ino picked up the phone.

"Hello?" Ino voice sounded tiredly on the other end.

"Oh Naruto." Sakura's voice moaned, as she licked her lips at the erotic sight before her wanting eyes.

"S-Sakura?" Ino's voice sounded once more, totally embarrassed at the sound she just heard.

"Huh? I-Ino?!" Sakura asked as her eyes unglazed and her mind refocused. When had she hit the call button again?

"Are you with Naruto? Oh my god?! Are you fucking Naruto?!" Ino chirped suddenly, at the thought of Sakura having dialed her in the heat of the moment.

"What?! No Ino! I-I just-" Sakura stated quickly, stuttering to catch up with the situation she now faced.

"So...no Naruto?"

"N-no."

"Oh, that would have been the highlight of your high school life." Ino grumbled, before hearing Sakura's voice on the other end of the phone line.

"Hey Ino, I need to tell you something."

"Shoot."

One hour later, Sakura finished her story of what had happened over the last few days and Ino was silent as she took everything in.

"W-well?" Sakura asked, eager to hear her best friend's opinion after hearing every detail she had done with Naruto. "W-what do you think?"

"...Sakura," Ino spoke after a short silence. "I'm pretty sure you've falling for Naruto?"

Sakura sighed and leaned back into her pillow, her unbound hair cascading over the white sweat filled covers. "I knew it."

"So? What are you going to do?"

"I-I don't know. Ino, I don't want to start a relationship before I start my career! There is only summer and the this semester left, and I've never trusted long distance relationships. Plus, I learned that Naruto is going to college on an international tour of the world!...We'd never see each other." Sakura sniffled abit, and wondered why she was doing so for a guy she liked, but still wondered why.

"Well, Sakura. Just going off of what I have done, I'd say you have a fling."

"A fling? Y-you mean, kiss and sex without dating?"

"No, you date, not sex since you both are virgins, at least I think, but the dating is not exclusive, or it's like a beta test. You try it out, you end it as best friends and then wait until you guys are more settled down so see if you still have these feelings."

"But…what if Naruto finds other girls he likes better than me. Ino, I didn't even notice him until a month ago!"

"Just test it out. I know! Aren't you going to prom this Saturday?"

"W-well, I haven't exactly chosen a boy to take. I kind of have to go as a candidate for Prom Queen."

"I'm not going with a date. But you should" Ino paused. "...Ask Naruto."

"Ino, prom is about the guy asking the girl."

"Sakura, we live in a woman's world. We control what men do. Tell him to ask you out to prom."

"A-Alright. I-I'll ask him."

"Oh! And Sakura?"

"Yeah?"

"If you want those dreams of yours to become reality…just let Naruto into your pants."

"Ino!?"

Three days passed and Monday arrived, causing Sakura to once again become as nervous as she was in the middle of the night three days ago. Sakura looked through her closet, looking for something cute to wear to get Naruto to agree to go to prom with her.

She knew that going to prom was unlikely to Naruto, part of the lower side of a social high school society, and she needed to convince him to go with Her, the Queen Bee of the high school. Every girl would begin to want him and stare at him with desire after he had been seen with Sakura at prom, and every guy would be in envy to be in his position.

Sakura looked outside and saw the sun was shining brightly. It was the first day of spring. Sakura smiled, she knew exactly what to wear. She dug into her closet with gusto and took out her spring collection until she reached the very end and smiled brightly, Naruto would ravage her if he agreed to go to this dance with her.

An hour later, Naruto was sitting at his desk, straining to think about how to draw Sakura naked and not be a complete pervert to her. It didn't help that the way she said she'd pose in 'Any' position had his imagination running away and fucking her in Any and Every position he could think of. Naruto refocused down to the sketching on his desk, and he quickly ripped it out of his notebook as he had unconsciously drawn a nude Sakura with her hand covering her womanhood. Luckily, her face hadn't been drawn, and no one around him had seen what he had been drawing.

Naruto snuck the piece of paper into his jacket and would…well, look at it later, For Inspiration of course! Hopefully. Maybe. Naruto continued to think about stuff to draw until the door to the classroom door opened. Naruto looked up and literally dropped his jaw in utter shock.

What he saw in the doorway of the classroom was Sakura in a spring seasoned sakura pedaled sundress that stopped at her knees and as she moved into the room, the bottom floundered up higher, causing Naruto to see her upper thighs and almost saw below her sundress completely before it became a rhythm and Naruto realized that the dress was slightly longer in the back, crating an artistic backdrop of wind flowing behind his pink haired muse. Naruto quickly filed the memory away, waiting to paint it at a later date.

Sakura smiled at Naruto's stunned gaze and made her way over to him, her dress's shoulder straps draped on her upper arms instead of over her shoulders as if it could drop off at any moment, and as she passed her usual group of classroom friends, they all watched as she stopped in front of Naruto and grabbed his hand.

"Sakura?" Naruto whispered, worried for her image's safety while Sakura remained silent and pulled on his hand. Naruto wondered what she wanted and decided to get up and follow her. So thinking that, Naruto stood up and let himself be pulled by an insistent Sakura who pulled him out of his classroom and down the hallway.

Naruto knew that Sakura was supposed to be in a different class right now, and he knew that she was ditching class when the bell for the start of class sounded.

"Sakura, you're going to get a tardy." Naruto spoke aloud, saying the first thing that came to his mind.

"There's a first for everything." Sakura smiled lightly at Naruto's comment before finding a janitor's closet on the second floor of the school building and shoving Naruto inside before she quickly followed him inside and closed the door, casting both of them into darkness. Naruto turned around just as Sakura flicked on the light and Naruto saw by the look in her eyes that Sakura was just as nervous as much as he was, but she had a longing in her eyes, a longing to maybe tell him something.

"I'm sorry for making you get a tardy Naruto, but I have something to ask you, and I couldn't hold myself back from asking."

"I don't have any ideas yet on your picture, Sakura." Naruto replied dumbly.

"Huh?" Sakura uttered before realizing what he was thinking about. "Oh…no. I knew that it wouldn't be done so fast. I have something I'd like to ask you for."

"You can ask me for anything."

"I-I know that." Sakura smiled nervously as she bumped her open palm lightly on Naruto's shoulder, and something white fell onto the ground and before Naruto could realize and stop her, Sakura had smiled at him and bent down to pick it up. Sakura opened the paper as she stood up, and Naruto saw her eyes widen at the picture he had drawn earlier. "Oh My! I-I didn't-I-um…" Sakura blushed and looked down and placed the paper back inside Naruto's jacket pocket, as the red on their faces became another color in the room.

"I'm sorry." Naruto uttered, wondering if she would smack him or call him an idiot.

"No! I-I understand that you have to-p-practice for a naked portrait painting…it's realistic by the way! Really…nice."

"Um…thanks?"

"Say Naruto…you watch porn, don't you?" Sakura asked, suddenly wanting to help Naruto understand that he was not so different from her.

"…I…I do, when I'm depressed."

"It's okay to admit it." Sakura smiled lightly. "We all watch and read them, you know. But it's always better to watch them with a friend who understands."

"…Are you offering?" Naruto asked, his voice getting lower and huskier and Sakura looked up in time as their eyes connected and the air in the room suddenly grew hot. Their bodies in this small closet were close to the other, within centimeters, and slowly the two of them rubbed their cheeks against each other, ghosting across the other's lips, but not touching. Just…so close.

"N-Naruto…"

"Yeah?..."

Sakura backed up against the door and breathed out as she felt her body betray her just now. She wanted to taste his lips, but she had to hold off for as long as she could. "Will you go to prom with me?"

"…."

There was silence for a whole minute before Naruto spoke up in the lightly lit room. "Do you really want me as your date for such a memorable night?"

"I do."

"It's a dance you'll never forget, Sakura. You-"

"I know what I want, Naruto."

"I can't allow you to do this to yourself." Naruto shook his head sadly at the fact that he was crushing his idea of a perfect night with the perfect girl. "People would look at you differently."

Sakura gasped silently. He was still protecting her? "Naru-"

"I would know Sakura!" Naruto exclaimed, pushing his name back down Sakura's throat. "How people look at me and how they look at you. You are a goddess, and I'm a nobody!"

"You're not a nobody!" Sakura yelled back at Naruto breaking them both apart for a few seconds, setting the atmosphere around them into something new. "High school" Sakura paused as she told her true feelings. "…High school is nothing, Naruto. It's where we make friends that may or may not last a lifetime. After high school…that's how most will remember us. I'm a goddess? Ha! Besides Ino, no one knows the real me. And until last month, I thought no one within these brick walls would. Naruto, I want you as my date, because you know me the best. So, can you go with me or not?"

"…Sakura, I…of course I'll go with you-"

Sakura gasped happily and hugged Naruto tightly. Thank you!"

"-On some conditions."

"C-conditions?" Sakura stuttered. Naruto should be glad just to be going with Sakura Haruno. How unpredictable her painter was.

"If I'm going to be your date, then I pay for everything."

"But-" Sakura began to protest.

"No! I pay for your dress, your corsage, the limo, the tickets! Even the dinner!"

"Y-you'll pay for my dress?" Sakura asked, as she saw that Naruto was now going over the usual scheme of things. "Isn't that a little over the top?"

"Nothing is over the top for prom. I wasn't even going to go, and here you are asking me of all people, and I'm going with the girl of my dreams!...I mean-"

"It's cute that you dream about me Na-ru-to." Sakura muttered, trying to hold off the major rush of blood to her cheeks, all in vain. "...You really want everything?"

"Just go with Ino and make sure that you look as amazing as you always do." Naruto spoke as he took hold of Sakura's head and held her there. "Now if you'll excuse me, we both have class." And with that, Naruto couldn't resist any longer and planted a brief wet kiss on Sakura's cheek before running out of the closet and back to his classroom. Sakura meanwhile watched him go, her hand covering the cheek where he kissed her as a small smile showed clearly on her astonished face.

"So Sakura, how do I look?" Ino asked as she tried on the fifteenth dress for the dance. Ino wasn't going with anyone, but that didn't mean she didn't have to look sexy. Sakura and herself were actually required to go because they were on the list to be the Prom Queens, meaning that one perk was not paying for a ticket. Sakura smiled at the argument she had had with Naruto over that small incentive.

"Ino, for the fifteenth time, you look beautiful."

"The dress is a little long," Ino complained at the black dress she had on and looked to Sakura's face that looked at her from around the curtain that separated the girls. Ino sighed as Sakura retreated back into her own area and began to change out of the dress and into her last one.

"So Sakura, have you realized your feelings for Naruto yet?"

"Um," Sakura began to unzipped her dress and paused as Ino figured she was trying on her own dresses. "Noooooot exactly. We hugged and he even kissed me…on the cheek!" Sakura sounded flushed and Ino smiled. All through high school, Ino was the one with a boyfriend at all times and Sakura was her lending ear. It was nice to have the situations reversed.

"Well, what does that mean?"

"Well, we're not going to date, but what do we do? I want him to touch me Ino. And yet, I'm scared if he does touch me. I might smack him for no reason! You know how I can get."

"Sakura, if you want it, you'll let him. Now let me see what you're going to wear." Sakura opened the curtain and Ino whistled and smiled brightly. "You might want to bed with Naruto before prom, because you're going to kill him with that dress."

The Prom is up and the two are going, that is that. :)