Reviewer Answering Section;
JayK24: So glad you reviewed all of the previous chapters in a single sitting! It shows how much you truly like my story. I will try my best to not let you down Jay.
Logan Locke: Wow...that was sllloowww in coming. As for the story, I can see the short and long term aspects of what you are saying and trust me in that they will be long term, at least implied. When I thought of that scene of Sakura's desperation, I just thought of the same being true when you pet squeezes through the doors or looks at you from them. It was meant to break our hearts as it had broken Sakura's.
As for Ino, this is exactly why I put her in the story. She is Sakura's second pillar of strength, so that when she is down, Ino will pump her back up, and then when she is stubborn, Ino is the one who warns her to be careful and tread lightly, though Sakura did not tread anything but Naruto if you know what I mean.
Naruto grew up with those paintings, knowing his future by the use of his talent, and found Sakura through his gift. To have it destroyed turns his life upside down, and Sakura is the only person who can change all that. And yes, I had to have Sakura hit him, at least Once, in this story, and I have seen many of my friends awaken from depression due to a slap in reality. (I was one of them) I feel like lemons are still awkward for me, but then again...they are meant to be sloppy and awkward. I just felt like I could imagine them together...in bed...doing the deed...dang! That sounds SO Dirty...
DizGirlJess: I think I love it when I make you squeal. Do you actually squeal when you read these chapters of mine? As for Naruto...I think we Both know what You'd do ;)
Druto: I am glad to entice that response form you Druto, and am glad that you like my story so far. I am in college so I know how you feel, but for me, this has become my hobby, reading other stories and publishing my own to hear what everyone else thinks of it. I, on behalf of all the writers, thank you, sir.
Tony Blu: Aw Shucks, Tony. What else can I say?
XxAshishxX: Naru-Saku- perfect world.
Czar Joseph: Actually, I was just referring to the fact that your usernames both have Czar on them. But cool to know where you guys are from. It really proves that the world is global, right?
Mundane Beast: The summer has just started, but maybe we skip a bit :)
7th Demon of Razgriz: Work as in chapter or story?
Duh Bomb: You can picture your rhymes on a storyboard and they would make sense, though I feel like I'm at a concert for Octopops.
Czar Ryno: Sugar, spice, and everything nice. That means sex, right? ;) Glad I could make the feelings shared between them realistic.
AN: Wow, you guys...you are all amazing reviewers! And you readers! I don't forget about you! So many views in just a month. Just under a month now and we are 12 chapters in! I mean, you all make me feel so appreciated on this site and that means a boatload to me! Now! I'm sure most don't read this anyways, but let's get on with the story, I suppose.
Tone and Stroke
Chapter 12: The Goddess and the Painter-No More
Morning came, and as a girl, no, as a Woman with pink hair opened her eyes, she sighed sadly from exiting her good dream and stretched her body out, before cracking her knuckles and walked over to her closet where only her traditional black skirt and blood red blouse were hanging on the sole remaining hanger.
Sakura shrugged out of her see-through nightie that her boyfriend had bought for her and put on her clothes for her big day. Sakura cared not for her hair today, knowing that after last night, it was three times the sex hair that it usually was. Sakura dragged the hanger and her nightie over to her bed and bent down to the floor to grab a pink suitcase, bringing it out and up onto the bed and unzipped the zipper before she folded her unique style of pajamas into the top of the already full suitcase. Sakura tried to close it again and huffed in exhaustion before spending the next five minutes sitting on top of it as she finally closed the zipper.
Sakura looked in her bathroom and did a quick mouthwash and the brushing of her teeth, before splashing water on her face to wake her up for this important day. Sakura walked out of her bathroom before setting her bathroom utensils in a small pack and put it on the outside of her luggage. She grabbed the suitcase's handle and pulled the heavy load off her bed and onto the wooden floor next to her. Sakura looked at the bed and sighed.
To think, last night, Sakura had Naruto fuck her eighteen year old body three times last night and she could do nothing but pass out from the amount of pleasure her body received. And then she woke up to being freshly cleaned, probably with a wet cloth and dressed in her nightie that Naruto had bought for her. She really did have the best boyfriend ever, but then again…all that was about to change, wasn't it?
Sakura saw the bed, empty with no sheets, her dresser and closet, devoid of all their numerous clothes, her walls, empty of the posters that were packed away. To think that she'd be never coming back here to live anymore. She'd keep the house, renting it to others, but she'd never be back here to stay.
Sakura pulled on her luggage, dragging it behind her as she made her way down the stairs, the luggage sounding as it banged on each step, but the house and sole occupant were silent. After a slow pace, Sakura sighed one last time and arrived outside her front door. She stopped to lock it one final time and then made her way to her car, which was packed to the brim with her junk and pictures of her mother, childhood, and of her boyfriend Naruto.
As Sakura placed the luggage under the passenger seat, her heart shaped necklace opened up and Sakura looked down and held it in her hands with such delicacy as if it could break at any moment. The picture in the locket was of Naruto, the one-time photo that Sakura had taken with Naruto's camera when he had posed for her.
A lone tear fell down her face, and Sakura reached up to rub her eyes and told herself not to cry. There would be time to cry later. Sakura got in the driver's side and noticed the mist that enveloped most of Northern Konoha and sighed. Fall was upon them, and so thinking, Sakura reached into the glove box and took out Naruto's parting gift to her; an emerald and orange scarf that Sakura wrapped around her neck to keep her exposed skin warm for the oncoming of winter.
As Sakura drove, tears bubbled up and pooled in her eyes before they cascaded and fell down her face. To think, she was leaving all of this. Why did children have to graduate from high school anyways? Why couldn't they stay under other's authority and make friends on the cheer squad? Why couldn't they meet a strange student and by the end of a single semester be giving her virginity and soon her life to him?
Why did she have to leave him now? She had to, because long distance were hard and cheating was almost a given, even if done on accident. Sakura didn't want Naruto to feel like she was smothering him or him her. She didn't want to be the sole reason Naruto never dated other girls. He could fuck any girl he wanted, and maybe…maybe she'd try on another size for her womanly area as well? Whatever the case, after today, their relationship was over and more tears fell down her face at the realization that she was wasting time, and so speed up to quickly get to his place and hold him just one more time.
By the time Sakura pulled her car into Naruto's lot, she was balling her eyes out, and no matter what she did, the tears kept coming. She knew that she had to and was going to break up with Naruto. They had spoken already about the situation for the last four months since they began to have sex. They had assured each other and promised not to cry.
Their promises meant squat to Sakura who for the last two weeks had gone bipolar and had cried in Naruto's arms, telling him to kidnap her to take her with him. Naruto saw through these wild pleas and though Sakura saw tears in his eyes, he did not cry like she did and simply squeezed the life out of her, unwilling to let her go. That was why they had gone three rounds in Sakura's bed last night, to make their memory for the other permanent. Sakura knew by the way that her body already quivered that her body would long for Naruto for the rest of her life.
Sakura used the ends of the scarf to dry her face and got out of the car, trying to stop the sniffles as she made her way up the spiraling staircase that had led her to her boyfriend's place every day for the past spring and summer. Sakura used her key for the final time and walked inside.
Naruto's place was similar to Sakura, only he was going to leave things here for the holidays and summers that he may or may not spend here. Sakura let her hands drift along the walls and remembered how many dents had been installed when Sakura had punched through them after Naruto fucked her thoroughly from behind.
Sakura came to the balcony and sighed at the sight. Naruto had finished his last work and was putting away his brushes in a silver unbreakable case that Sakura had gifted to him in exchange for her scarf. But what he had made for the two of them; that was truly remarkable.
Before Naruto and a little in front of Sakura was a painting of a white linen bed with a background of an open pavilion around them and see through drapes all around them, representing a Greek styled temple. And on the bed were two lovers, both blond, one with blue eyes, the other with emerald. They were in the heat of the moment and the girl was filled with the man's and her own climax as they were both moaning out at the experience.
Sakura smiled at her own stupidity when she saw her hair changed to the color blond unlike what Naruto had wanted, and she had to be insistent on the color change. If Sakura did become famous, this painting would depict her as a lover and it hit extremely close, as close as Naruto could paint to Sakura's pleasure filled face whenever she came under his ministrations. Sakura smiled as the rest of her figure under Naruto in the painting was her body.
"Naruto, it looks amazing." Sakura called out and Naruto turned and gave her a smile in return.
"I was just about to name it."
"What are you going to name it then?" Sakura asked as she draped her arms around Naruto's neck. Naruto turned around and kissed Sakura on her neck, making Sakura groan in loving agony.
"Actually, I think that you should name it."
"W-what?" Sakura stuttered as she looked at Naruto like he had changed into a different person, but she loved him. "But that's your favorite part."
"Just try a name out, please? For my benefit?"
"Okay…how about…no, Oh!" Sakura smiled and leaned forward until the summer graduates' faces were a mere millimeter apart. 'The Painter and the Goddess.'
"…I love you Sakura-Chan."
"…I love you too Naruto-Kun." The lovers kissed and after twenty minutes of doing such things, they parted and huffed as they gazed at the other. "Where is your luggage?" Sakura breathed hot air along Naruto's lips.
"Already packed."
"Oh."
"Don't be like that, Sakura-Chan." Naruto hugged her. "I just have to get to the boat earlier than I had planned."
"Well, if you say that, then okay." Sakura nodded and smiled a bit, but inside Sakura didn't want Naruto to leave her. He could just stay the amateur painter he was and come with her. Sakura sighed. No, she wanted him to succeed and turn into an amazing painter that the whole world could appreciate and love his works as much as she did.
Naruto was going to the prestigious Kyuubii Academy of Art which was situated on a cruise ship of all places. Sakura was worried because girls wore a lot less on cruise ships and Naruto may not even remember Sakura in her bikini. The college would go around the world three times over three years, showing the art students the world and how they could incorporate them into their works.
Sakura wasn't going to college because she was an actress. She was heading off to the big city, specifically the larger part of Konoha. It was kind of like Hollywood, but was known as Konoha Lights. The books that Sakura had read when she was a young teenager were being made into a television series. It was kind of like Game of Thrones, and Sakura had been casted as a major role. A major role! She was the right age for the part, and with her commercials in two weeks, she was sure to become a celebrity. She knew how many readers there were to the book series, she was sure to survive at least a few years in Konoha Lights as well as Ino.
Thinking of Ino, she was already over in Konoha Lights, holding down the loft that she and Sakura had decided to rent together. That way, if the both or either of them got famous, they would both be set for their acting careers. Come on! They were hot girls in a sex-driven society; they were perfect for this job.
"Sakura?"
"Huh?"
"You were spacing off." Naruto smiled and they made their way out Naruto's door, after he locked it of course, and made their way down the stairs.
"S-sorry. Just thinking about our lives." Sakura smiled bashfully as they arrived at their packed cars. Sakura had parked her car next to Naruto's car and there they were now...between the cars.
"Just don't do that when you're driving, okay?" Naruto asked as he kissed Sakura with much gusto. Sakura moaned into the kiss and fell back on her car as Naruto kissed along her neckline and Sakura felt his hand sneak under her skirt and touched her barely covered crotch.
"N-Naruto, w-we promised, no more sex."
Naruto groaned, but nodded and backed off. As he did so, Sakura groaned in desperation. She wanted him to saw screw the promise and screw her…literally in the parking lot. Sakura breathed heavier. She was definitely adventurous in sex, but that was only with Naruto. She hoped that they stayed in contact during their time apart. Bit now...the time had come.
"So…"
"So…"
"I-I guess t-this is…g-gooBYE!" Sakura screamed out and held Naruto tightly as he held her and they shared a good cry together in each other's arms.
"It's not exactly a goodbye." Naruto assured her and rubbed circles around her lower back. "Just a see you soon."
"Naruto…I'm moving away and you are travelling the world! How will we ever get together?"
"We'll find a way." Naruto assured Sakura again.
"Y-you know, we never did define how we were going to move on from each other." Sakura surmised suddenly.
"I don't think you gave me any time." Naruto smiled. "You kept my mind and body pretty busy in the bedroom."
"Shut up!" Sakura laughed into Naruto's chest and suddenly the two got close to each other and closed their eyes, sniffing the other's scent, as if memorizing their scents for a lifetime.
"Y-you do what you have to do to succeed, okay?"
"Y-you too, Sakura-Chan."
Naruto loosened his arms and they backed up a step, each small and only separating them further by a few inches. Already the tension told them to jump forward and suck face. They were able to hold themselves back for the most part, but their hands and arms stretched out and Naruto rubbed against the back of Sakura's hands.
"You'll write to me, right Naruto? Tell me of your adventures and exploits with other girls?"
"You want to allow me to see other girls?"
"Of course. From now on, we're just best friends. Nothing more."
"M-maybe I will see a few girls then, but I'll keep seeing you everywhere I go."
"And I will as well. But will you be honest when you write?"
"I'll try." Naruto smirked. "But I have to find you first."
"You want my new address?"
"Naw. I'll just look it up on your stalker site once you start appearing in that show you got casted on."
"Then…I'll be waiting for that."
The two lovers turned best friends moved together and shared one last slow and sensual kiss and as they parted, they slowly moved back and got in their cars. They slowly revved their engines and backed up together. Slowly, Naruto pulled his car around Sakura's as they stopped outside the parking exit. One direction went northeast, the other northwest. Sakura's hand shot out and Naruto pulled her a little out of her car and kissed her hand before they turned their steering wheels and moved down the road, both physical, and in life, in opposite directions.
Neither of them looked back, for if they did, they would never leave. So they left, and they looked forward and tears fell down their faces as the love of their lives were left behind them.
AN: Is this the end?...No. Time skip!