Reviewers;
JayK24: They met again finally. Yeah! There will be challenges, but they should overcome all.
Ferious: Wrong guess.
Logan Locke: ...you're kidding me with 750, right? Like, wow. That means I have to put forth my nbigger stories on the front burner of my mind, Logan. You know how I'm feeling right now, Dreams become reality for NaruSaku, at least, in the fanfiction world of NaruSaku writers. The dinner was meant to be tender and I felt I achieved that much. I feel like lemons are becoming easier, not as perverse, and more affectionate. But that's just me. Short review for you today. Again, you know why.
Fury Cutter: That Was A few chapters, just didn't want to have it with them staring off for weeks on end. Besides, they are not back together...yet.
Tony Blu: It is in fact...cheesy, but I like my grilled cheese sandwiches very much.
Czar Joseph: I will continue to write more. Don't you worry, My Friend. Sakura is feeling too...'sensitive' to drive at the moment.
NerdSoxx: Thank you and good luck on the classes. ;)
XxAshishxX; You and me both. Sakura is the...Perfect woman, at least, before the manga became ruined.
ILuvUHaters: No, Naruto is now a world renowned artist. Just known in Konoha around where he was born, but that may change, don't you think?
ArkAngel1179: You know me sooo well :)
Duh Bomb: Ino left so that they could get frisky. I mean, come on. Like you haven't known when sex is in the near future.
Lestibur: Thanks.
MundaneBeast: Supposed to be inaccurate, they don't see her as that, but it is implied, since the young celebrities are basically having to have a relationship.
Czar Ryno: Wow...Just Wow.
AN:...So...Naruto ended...and they ruined NaruSaku for all us. This is not a spoiler alert, this is fact. I will not recommend reading past the battle of madara and Obito. It's stupid. I want to quit writing, but I can't. To me, Naruto and Sakura are the best character that i could ever use for a story or many stories.
My reviews are shorter because my sulking is greater. Fifteen years ruined. They are making a Movie to Explain the Ending. NaruSaku on today 11/7/14, is now considered to be a minor pairing and not 'plausible,' even though it points to it all the time. The point of naruto is now this; The good guy Does Not get the Girl. The Girl loves the Bad Boy who kills and murders without reason or purpose.
NaruSaku is now a revolution and may I be the first to ask you to stick with the pairing. Nothing else matters. If you are SasuSaku or NaruHina, you are stupid, as is the publication company who twisted the plot of Kishimoto.
Long Live Naru Saku! For Life!
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Tone and Stroke
Chapter 16: Looking Towards The Painter
The morning sun peaked out over the horizon and Sakura opened her eyes as warmth engulfed the entirety of her body. Sakura just laid there, her memory telling her that she had met up with Naruto and after just one perfect afternoon, she had already fallen back into her deep love for him and for their numerous mating rituals.
Sakura was on her side and so turned over onto her back and sat up, feeling a little scratchy and moved to scratch herself, but felt some type of cloth around her frame and hands. Sakura looked down at herself to see Naruto's black shirt covering her smaller frame. Sakura brought the covers up above her head and noticed that besides the shirt, she was naked, but…they had fallen asleep in their birthday suits.
"Hey Naruto, do-" Sakura began to ask as she looked over to see Naruto gone from her side. Sakura soon heard the sound of running water and sighed happily. Naruto was taking a shower and before he left her side, he had covered her in his shirt to keep her warm.
Sakura pushed the covers off of her and stood up and watched as the black shirt fell off one shoulder and moved to barely cover her womanhood while showing off the lower half of her ass. "Oh well." Sakura thought aloud, Naruto could see her ass all he wanted, she wasn't giving up his shirt anytime soon...or maybe she would. Sakura thought with a small smirk adorning her face.
Sakura walked out of her bedroom and into the living room, walking over to the coffee table and picked up the remote, turning on the television and flipping through the channels. Sakura heard the water in her shower turn off and soon after, she heard the bathroom door open.
"Sakura-Chan?" Naruto called out.
"Out here, Naruto-Kun." Sakura replied, smiling at the fact that she had already started to call him with his endearing name already after a single night together. Then again, it was a most pleasurable night.
Sakura turned her attention to the news and after another minute, she felt Naruto's hands grope her ass and Sakura moaned lightly as she leaned back and let Naruto nuzzle into her neck.
"I see you're still wearing my shirt."
"Good luck getting it back." Sakura smiled.
"You can keep it; I just need to see you like this in the morning."
Sakura blushed as she felt Naruto's stiff member push through his towel and touch her ass affectionately. Sakura smiled as she turned away and walked over to the refrigerator and opened it before bending over, causing the shirt to ride up and Sakura looked back to see Naruto frozen solid.
"Naruto, do you want anything?"
"Um…"
"An-y-thing?"
"Um…"
Sakura placed a hand on her ass cheek and slowly slid it between her legs and smiled perversely. She was horny, and Naruto had to make it up to her for making her this way with his hard member in the morning. She knew it was morning wood, but did he have to smack her ass with it?
"Orange Juice."
"Okay." Sakura smiled sadly as she grabbed two glasses of the juice and used her ass to close the door. After all, her ass was her best feature; she may as well use it. Sakura walked back and sat on Naruto's lap, making him groan at her actions. Sakura smiled and held the juice in front of Naruto as he sipped it before continuing to kiss Sakura's neck as they watched the morning news.
"Sakura, do you always watch the news every morning?"
"Yeah. Call me cautious, but I need to know if there is anything is said about me."
"Well, I'm sorry, but I do have to get to work." Naruto commented and Sakura groaned and leaned back into him.
"So that's why you showered here. I was hoping to catch up on things we couldn't talk about or do in the letters."
"You're right. We haven't seen each other longer than we were together. I'll call you later today. Okay?"
"Okay," Sakura sighed and turned around, reaching up to kiss Naruto's cheek, before stripping out of his shirt and gave it to him, standing nude in all her amazing goddess glory.
"Sakura-Chan," Naruto smirked, "I had my jacket when I came in."
"Oh…silly me," Sakura smirked before slipping it on again. Naruto left without being deterred; Sakura did not forget anything, she was teasing, and he would get her back someday.
An hour after Naruto had left, Sakura was still in his shirt, but had added panties and shorts to her body as she laid against what she said was the comfiest sofa in the world. Sakura, with her recent and sudden withdrawal from Shinobi Wars had nothing to do on a weekday, and for once, she just wanted a break from having a job, so in other words, she was on vacation.
And as she laid back and prepared to sleep it off, a rapid knocking on her door alerted her attention. Many people knew where she lived, but few could get past the heavy security. And even fewer knocked on her door. So with a sigh, Sakura got up off her comfy couch and made her way over to the door and tipped up near the door's peephole.
Sakura sighed as she unlocked the door and pulled it open to show a blind looking male with long bluish black hair. "Hey Neji."
"Sakura, we need to talk."
"Sure, come on in." Sakura let Neji past her and closed the door before they walked over to the counter. "So, what does my lawyer and agent have for me?"
"This." Neji stated and dropped a newspaper on the counter and Sakura gasped and widened her eyes as she rushed forward to pick up the front page to look closely at the three pictures on it. They were pictures of Naruto and Sakura from the previous day, one of them hugging with Sakura smiling into the crook of Naruto's neck. The second had Naruto caressing Sakura's cheek and the final one had the both of them caressing the other's cheek. All of the pictures were taken outside the diner, but they were there nonetheless.
Sakura read the title of the article which said, Special Someone? "The article goes on to state that you spent the entire afternoon in that diner talking, and then left…together. Is this Naruto you were with?"
"Yes, Neji. He was here about an hour ago."
"Well, call him."
"Right." Sakura nodded her head as she reached for her phone. "Right."
"Hello?"
"Naruto?
"Hey Sakura. Um, I think we made the front page?"
"You think?" Sakura giggled nervously. "Naruto, they'll find out about you quickly. "Do you want me to send Neji over to prep you for questions?"
"Sakura, I'll be fine."
"Are you sure? Neji is really good and-"
Sakura, I'm sure he is very capable, but think about it. Your lawyer defending an unknown person? That would mean a relationship, if we are…um…having a relationship."
"I want to, but we should discuss it first."
"Just what I'd want as well."
"Okay, well good luck. You'll need it. The reporters are like piranhas on feeding day."
"Thank you. I'll keep that in mind."
"…I love you."
"...I love you too, Sakura-Chan."
Naruto ended the call, placing his phone back in his pocket as he made his way inside the art gallery that was now his. He had a few buyers for his works, around ten thousand dollars apiece for his originals, and then some random buyers would ask for one of his paintings on the walls. It was good money, but when they expected more, it meant heavy business to keep up. Naruto smiled as he walked inside the air conditioned building. At least he still had the inspiration from last night to hold him over for the rest of eternity.
"Naruto!" Naruto turned to smile at his local artist and college friend Sai Shimura, who he had become friends with on the college cruise experience. Sai mainly did black and white paintings but had a knack for fung sway and stuff like that, so they shared the art gallery equally.
"What is it, Sai?"
"Reporters... Lots of Reporters!" Sai exclaimed as he pulled at Naruto's arms before pushing the backroom curtains slightly away to show the art gallery at its capacity, except these people weren't here to look at or buy. In front of the artists were forty cameramen and what had to be almost thirty reporters, all looking around for Naruto's arrival.
Naruto grimaced as he ducked back inside. "Sai, we weren't supposed to open for another hour."
"They've been outside for the last three. They are eager to have an interview with you right away, as soon as you step into the gallery."
"Give me a minute to cool down and then I'll be ready."
"I'll tell them that you just arrived. Sai said aloud before walking into the gallery, and immediately was flashed at with cameras and bombarded with questions for a single second before the news crews saw that he wasn't the man they were looking for.
"Hey! You're not Naruto!"
"No! But he just pulled in, and will answer your questions shortly."
Naruto heard the news reporters smile at that and breathed in and out. He couldn't yell at them to get out, and he had to make sure that Sakura-Chan, no for them to hear the suffix would mean death for her acting life, Sakura was just his inspiration. So thinking, Naruto breathed out and put on his happiest smile and walked out to greet them.
Immediately, great flashes of white covered his vision, and Naruto wondered how Sakura had ever let him photograph her like this. How could she walk in heels when these flashes of light covered your vision completely?! Nevertheless, Naruto made his way to stand in front of the reporters who screamed out their questions to him.
"One question at a time please, and also…why are you all here? My art gallery's opening was awhile ago."
"No! No! We don't care about the stupid art!" A luscious looking brunette reporter remarked, before realizing her mistake as she was talking to an artist, but Naruto smiled anyways.
"Then why are you all here? I didn't save a cat up a tree, did I?"
A chorus of light laughter filled the room before they began once again to be on topic. "Naruto Uzumaki, yesterday afternoon, you were seen Holding hands with The Sakura Haruno. Tell us, was it a date?"
"No."
"Was it a one night stand?!" Someone yelled from the back.
"No! Listen, I really don't know anything besides telling you the truth of the matter. Will that suffice?" To eager nods, Naruto heaved forward a breath happily. "Look, Sakura and I are just old friends."
"How long?"
"Was she a lover?"
"Did you take her virginity?!"
"Did she give you oral?!"
Naruto was flabbergasted, his mouth hanging open as his eyes widened at the questions these people were asking him for. But he decided to play it safe. "She was a friend that I met in high school."
"How did you two meet?" A more conservative reporter asked.
"Well, Ms. Haruno-"
"Oh Come on! You're friends, right?"
"Yeah?"
"Then call her Sakura-Chan!"
"Anyways-Sakura was placed into an art class and I was the assistant, and well…she wasn't doing too well?"
"Sakura Haruno fails at art?"
"Not anymore, I sure. But she asked me to tutor her, and so I did. A little bit later, she found out that I did photography and I helped her with her initial modeling and actress photos."
"Excuse me, you are saying that you guided Sakura into the acting world?"
"Not at all! Sakura has had her heart set on her career since she was very young, and inspires others. That is how I see her today on Shinobi Wars. Next question?"
"Have you gotten to third base with Miss Haruno?"
Naruto blushed a bit, but played it off well. "Base? I'm not sure what the bases are."
"Well, first is-" the reporter began before receiving static in his earpiece. "Sorry, we're not allowed to explain it on national television."
"N-National?" Naruto gulped.
"We have reports that in the last year of high school, you took Sakura Haruno to the prom. Is that right?"
"Yes. She asked me to do a portrait, and we agreed that I could have the privilege of being her date."
"Privilege?"
Naruto smiled coyly. "Any time spent with Sakura was a godsend to me. I did not make many friends in high school. Her friendship meant so much to me back then."
"What about the reports that she gave you head at the graduation lake party? What is she to you, Naruto? A lover? A bitch? Please, give us something! Are you smitten with her?!"
"Of course I am smitten with her!" Naruto sighed as he exclaimed and the reporters smiled happily. "But what artist is not with their inspiration."
"Sakura Haruno is your inspiration for your works?"
"Yes." Naruto motioned to Sai and he nodded before bringing up a covered painting up to the front. "All through middle school and most of my years of high school, I was in search of my inspiration, a girl I could not stop thinking about. A female inspiration is called a muse, for they inspire everything. I had many, including a commonality with Sakura before I truly met her in her best friend Ino Yamanaka."
"Were you intimate with Ino as well?"
Naruto ignored the reporter and moved on. "Then, Sakura asked me to tutor her and paint her, and so I did. This, here, is the first painting in a long line of inspirations by Sakura Haruno." Naruto pulled the canvas down and all over the televisions around the land of Fire, people gasped at the sight.
"I decided to name this painting after Sakura's high school title, 'Eyes of a Goddess,' because that is who she is. Her eyes illustrate unshown fear and worry, not just for herself but for every other person she knows. It shows her shyness of the hair she is so fond of to hide behind. And yet, the confidence in her eyes and in her smile, they showed me that she was mysterious and a puzzle for me to unlock bit by bit.
"You ask me if I am smitten with Sakura Haruno? Most of those that watch Shinobi Wars, myself included, are smitten with Saku, but I am smitten with my past muse, and I have made my works through the Eye of a Goddess. Any other questions will have to wait for later, because unlike you all who are here for business, I need to open the gallery for the middle school tour on art."
The reporters nodded their heads and five minutes later, they were all outside the art gallery, as Naruto showed the way to young teenagers.
South from the gallery, in the center of Konoha known as Konoha Lights, in a secure loft stood a pale eyed Neji Hyuuga, with his eyes scanning the news just after the live interview that had gone out from nearly every major source for news.
Neji looked over and saw the form of Sakura trembling as tears raked across her face and her right hand covered her nose and mouth and choke back tears of joy.
"Naruto-Kun, you lovable baka." Sakura muttered.
"Sakura, am I to assume that this Naruto is the 'guy' that Ino and you always talk about?" Neji asked his two years his junior client.
Sakura looked over and nodded her head. "Neji, by now, your confidentiality is solid. Naruto was my lover all those years ago, and I can't stop but just adore him and his ways of making me happy, even if he does it on national news."
Five hours later, Neji had left for some legal documents and Sakura was still flipping through the channels as she lay on the couch. As soon as the interview had ended, the reporters had moved to anything related to Konoha High, followed by Sakura's upbringing as a star.
Now, it moved to the ending reports of Naruto and Sakura's high school life.
"Today is perhaps the new era of possibly understanding Sakura Haruno and those closest to her." The reporter on the channel reported, making Sakura scoff at the absurdity. But then the reporter spoke again.
"We even have a few reports now, which we will go into later this week, but we have confirmed reports from the cheer squad that multiple girls, including one Ino Yamanaka, had posed for Naruto, and possibly even with their clothes off their growing bodies. If this is to be believed, then somewhere in the world is a picture of a younger Ino Yamanaka before her car accident. How much more beautiful she must have been."
Sakura blushed at the mention of the nude photos. Only She and Ino had done nude photos with Naruto and she trusted those girls on the team with that information. The accident had only been minor with Ino getting a ticket, not a fender bender, for her car stalling on the freeway. These reporters never got their live action facts straight.
"Oh Wait! Here Naruto is now! Naruto!" The reporter yelled at a Naruto who was bashfully trying to hide and get away without being seen. Sakura smiled at his amateur trial run. Paparazzi were everywhere, and you had to think like them to get away. "Naruto! How do you feel about the numbers?"
"What numbers?"
"The numbers that over the last few hours, you have received over a million votes signifying you as the most eligible bachelor of your generation?" Sakura heard this and grimaced. Other girls were going to try to steal Her Man?!
Woah! Where did that jealousy bug come into play? Geez. "I'm not looking for another muse right now, but I'm sure I'll find someone in the near future." Naruto said confidently into the camera and Sakura could imagine him staring into her eyes as he said those exact words.
"Oh Naruto!" Sakura slid a hand over her face. "You fell right into their trap."
And right on cue, the reporter smiled. "So Sakura still is your muse and the girl that your heart longs for?"
"Look," Naruto said as he opened his car door, and glanced exasperated at the reporter. "Sakura and I are really good friends, and we hadn't seen each other in four long years. So if we snuggle in bed a bit, just let it go, okay?"
With that, Naruto got in his car and drove away, while inside her loft, Sakura's eyes were widened, her arms wrapped around a pillow that her chin was stiffly rubbing into. "Naruto-Kunnnnn," Sakura groaned into the pillow. He had done so well! All morning! But this! "Naru-Kun, you Baka!"
"You heard it here first folks! Here on Konoha Public Broadcasting! KPB! Naruto has at least Snuggled, in Bed no less! Last night! With The…Sakura….Haruno!"
WHAT?! I feel this is exactly what paparazzi do, and though they tell us facts, most is fiction and they simply wither away at celebrities' defenses until they crack. Still though, Naruto was doing so well...