I slid a kunai under the vinyl sealing of my window, feeling for the lock. Ino didn't leave until 8 or 9 in the morning, and I really couldn't be late for work. All my mind could focus on was work. Work was better than thinking about my guilt.

Though I did wish I didn't have such perfect attendance. If I were lazier, me being a few minutes late to work every once in a while, I wouldn't have people questioning what was going on with me. Ino was enough. If I went through the front door, she was sure to hear my key and demand where I'd been, so my best bet was crawling through my bedroom window to grab a change of clothes and then leave the same way.

I had left Naruto completely unconscious in his bed. Despite Naruto being a somewhat heavy sleeper, I didn't think I would have been able to accomplish the task if he hadn't drunk so much beer. He wound up completely on top of me. The death-grip he had on me for most of the night was almost unsettling. When his fingers finally loosened, I thought he was dead. It seemed cruel to leave him, but I didn't have the energy or the time to have the talk afterwards. And I had no idea how to react if he brought up the Sasuke-kun clone stunt he pulled.

The window was fairly easy to manipulate. I felt numb, like a ghost when I slid it open to quietly crawl on top of my bed.

The fright of finding Ino sitting in my desk chair reminded me I was alive, and I lost my balance to fall face first into my mattress. I quickly tried to recover. "What are you doing in my room?!"

"Where were you last night?!" Ino countered.

Not in the mood to come up with a lie, I decided to shut her up with the truth. "I stayed the night at Naruto's!" Her shocked face was worth the invasion of privacy. "That's right!" I said throwing off my shoes. "Naruto and I are fucking again. I know, you saw it coming. It's happening. Why are you in my room? You're not my mom. I don't have to tell you when I'm not going to be home."

Ino's wide eyes narrowed slightly. "I knew you were keeping something from me. I cleaned your desk by the way."

I stared at her, frozen. I hadn't cleaned it very well when I had cut myself. Irrational thoughts flew in and out of my brain with the knowledge that Ino had seen my blood all over the place.

"Yeah, I'm OCD like that, I know, but if we're going to be cutting ourselves, we need to have a conversation."

Would people think I had a problem? Would they think I was crazy, that I had finally cracked? What if they said I couldn't work at the hospital anymore, or worse, be a shinobi?

Of course, I had seen many more far unstable people remain shinobi.

"I don't cut myself," I stated anyway. "It was a onetime accident."

"Haruno Sakura of Team Seven, Hero of the Fourth Great Shinobi war, who saved the entire world from the Infinite Tsukuyomi and who has punched a goddess in the face, accidentally painted her entire desk red with her own blood?"

"I can't really hurt myself, Ino."

She stood. "No, looks like you got Naruto to do that for you." She reached over and stabbed two fingers into my neck, over a still sore bite mark." She did it so quickly that I couldn't hide my wince in time. "I found this." And wrapped around her slender finger of her other hand was my heart, concealed in the smoky parchment of Sasuke-kun's letter.

I screamed in outrage, making a violent grab for it. Ino made a half-hearted attempt to pull it out of my reach. She was taller than me, but the vicious pinch to her boob (the first thing I could grab really) made her surrender rather quickly.

I seized the letter too harshly, the paper crinkled in my grip, which just fueled my anger for now it wasn't perfect anymore. Sasuke-kun's work was ruined.

I had hidden it safely in a jewelry box; Ino would have had to pick the lock. She purposely breached my privacy. We were shinobi, but I hadn't felt the need to booby-trap my room or use special chakra seals. I was living with a friend I had trusted.

"How dare you!" I stomped my foot, causing the entire building to shake, my bed, desk and chair thumping against the floor.

Ino glared determinedly back at me. "What are you going to do about it, Sakura? You going to fight me?!" She smacked on her chest in challenge. "You gonna beat me up?!

I stared back coolly at her, wondering the best way to teach her the lesson. Murder was having an appeal. My go-to, simply punching a body through a wall, would have damaged my home.

"It's not me you're mad at!" So she seemed to think. "It's Sasuke. The fucking prick. He could have just rejected you like he did me. It's his right. He doesn't have to be with someone he doesn't want to be. But no, he had to drag you in, give you that tad bit of hope, to keep you clinging on. He didn't have to, but he did. He did it so he could have the chance to fuck you first before he disappeared off into the sunset! We are going to go find him!" I paused my planning of assault to listen to her for a second. "We are going to find him, and skin him alive, and mount his dick on the wall and use his blood to -"

"I'm not mad at Sasuke-kun," I stated, feeling suddenly exhausted again. I didn't think I was mad at Sasuke-kun. I hadn't been at first. But that letter to Naruto… and the way Sasuke-kun just kept fucking things up… It was getting tiring. "I have to get to work."

Ino settled down. "Fine. Then I'll be mad for you. Don't waste the extra energy on him." Her eyes studied me for a moment more. "And if you're too tired to heal those hickeys, I have a green tinted concealer that will do the trick." And just like that, the fight was over. "Chop! Chop! You're gonna be late!" She grabbed my arm and dragged me to the bathroom.

"Don't you have anything else better to do?"

"No. Since I moved out, my mom said if I'm too good to live with her, I'm too good to work at the flower shop."

"She fired you?" I asked in disbelief as Ino pulled out her makeup.

"Ha! Tried to. It happened to be a day when we got a shipment, and she needed me to help her carry all the rubber tree plants that came in because her frail old bones couldn't take it. I suspect she'll be begging me to come back soon." She compared several different shades of concealer to my skin. I put a hand on Ino's head, letting go of my anger of her completely. She gave me a small smile back. If Ino wanted to use my problems as a distraction, I might as well let her. I certainly did the same thing.

"So you and Naruto now," she started, picking a shade. "Are you a couple?"

A couple? Me and Naruto? Without Sasuke-kun…

"I don't know," I said. "I don't…" Ino busied herself brushing the cream over the dark circles under my eyes. "I don't really want a boyfriend right now." I felt like I didn't want anything anymore.

"Me neither," Ino agreed. "Fuck them. I mean, literally fuck them, but no relationship for me either."

How did Naruto feel? I knew for certain he wanted me and Sasuke-kun to be his partners at the same time. But without Sasuke-kun, would he be okay with just me? I was pretty positive he would. I wasn't sure if I felt the same. Last night probably sent all kinds of the wrong message. I clenched my fists, hating myself.

"This makeup is waterproof," Ino informed. "But you gotta wait until it's at least dry before breaking out into tears." I nodded my head as she moved over to the bite marks on my neck. I was too tired to cry anyway.

I still had to talk to Naruto. More uncomfortable conversations… When could things go back to normal? Would it indeed be possible?

"I'm going out tonight," Ino said, finishing. I was glad she didn't go further with the makeup, as it wasn't something I wore usually. I could tell that she had to really try to stop though, as she was eyeing her blushes already. "I wanted to tell you, so you wouldn't be worried when I wasn't home. Because we're roommates."

"Ha," I sighed.

"I figured I needed some revenge on the male population. Fuck a few dicks, break a few hearts. My expectations are low, so I won't be disappointed this time. You wanna come with?"

"Not really. I'm not really up for it, and I should talk to Naruto… about not being his girlfriend," I said with absolute dread.

"Oh, I see. Good luck with that." She gave me a pat on my arm, and a long hard stare. 'I'm here for you,' it said, and I rolled my eyes in acceptance.

I had asked Naruto to come to my apartment to talk instead of his. I was too familiar with his place, and I didn't want to accidentally wind up sleeping over there again. With Ino out for the night, she wouldn't be sticking her nose in our business either.

When I answered the door, I had the thought that Naruto looked handsome. The only reason being that I was so used to seeing him either dirty returning from a mission or lazing around his own home. He looked clean, and his hair was just a tad bit neater than usual. I blinked at him.

"You don't have to invite me in."

"What?"

He looked away from me, leg fidgeting. "Last night was a mistake. So, you can just go ahead and dump me to my face, and then I'll go home and nurse my wounds."

I felt a little numb. I couldn't believe Naruto would make it that easy for me. No, if I simply sent him home now, I would never see him again. "Please come in, Naruto."

He let out a breath, looking up at the sky as he tried to keep his face together. "Fuck."

We went into the living room. Ino and I only had the couch so far, with no other chairs, so when we sat down together, the both of us sat as far to each end of the couch as possible. We weren't facing each other. I thought that might help.

We sat in silence for too long, neither of us looking at the other. Naruto broke the silence first. "I know you don't want to be my girlfriend."

I made a fist with the hand on the armrest. "I don't think I'm ready…"

"I understand. It's not what you agreed to. And shit." He laughed. "I gotta stop getting drunk and fucking you. I'm so sorry. I didn't…" The dry amusement left his voice as he became serious. "I didn't mean to hurt you like that."

"You didn't hurt me," I corrected, looking over at him. He had his hand covering his face as he leaned away from me, but he peered at me from the corner of his eye.

"Are ya sure? I don't know my own strength sometimes, and I felt like I… broke you."

"You can't break me," I said confidently. "And if anything you did was not okay with me, I would have told you. I don't care how drunk you get, I'm going to make you stop if I want you to. I thought you were done underestimating me."

He put his hand down then. "I'm sorry, Sakura-chan! I didn't mean it like that! Of course, you can…" He swallowed. "... take it."

I turned away from him, almost blushing. "I liked it. It was good."

Naruto made a noise in agreement, but it almost sounded like a whine.

I noticed we were carefully avoiding talking about the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu. Maybe he didn't remember.

"But I want us to be friends. Ever since this whole…" Sasuke-kun "... thing happened, our friendship has been weird. I don't really know how to explain it because it's not like we do anything differently. We still hang out with each other and are there for the other with whatever we need, but… it's this weird awkwardness. First it was the not having sex, but we've had sex and it's still there and I'm afraid we destroyed our friendship with this almost weird relationship we've had."

"No!" Naruto turned his body to face me. "Never. I would do anything…" he stopped himself, trying to reword his sentence. "I'm down with whatever you want, Sakura-chan. Don't worry about the whole…" He laughed. "... girlfriend thing. No pressure! It's not even something I want anyway. I mean, I'd be okay with it if you wanted it. I'd be there for you if that's what you needed. But we won't ever stop being friends."

My head went back with a dry laugh. I wanted to kiss him silly until he shut up. Naruto was really bad at lying, but I understood what he was saying. Despite how either of us felt, our friendship was the most important. I was so grateful. I didn't deserve his friendship. I wanted to crawl into his lap and smoosh his adorable nervous face with mine.

"And the sex… thing. We don't have to do it. No obligation…" He stared back into my face, and after a pause, he read my god damn mind. "Do you wanna do it?"

Yes. "No! Naruto the whole sexual tension is what's making everything weird!"

"Tension?" His face scrunched up as if he didn't know what I was talking about, and then it lit up with an idea. "What if you just pretend, I'm gay or something? We can look at pictures of hot men if you want. Is that what you do with Ino all day?"

I smiled at him, as I felt Naruto's bubbly personality fizzle out the tension like a warm citrusy cleaning solution. Things could get easier between us, surely. We had gotten over the same exact problem two years ago. Maybe I was just over thinking. Maybe the both of us were just over thinking. "No, that's not what we do all day."

Ironically, we were actually right back where we started, Sasuke-kun being gone just leaving the two of us. Things seemed less hopeful and more definite now, but were they really? Would I ever stop wishing Sasuke-kun might come back? Would I ever stop using Naruto as a crutch?

"Lame. I can be a better friend than her."

I frowned, remembering that Ino had broken into my room and found Sasuke-kun's letter. I wasn't really mad that she was in my room. I was mad that she read Sasuke-kun's words. Those words were for me. They were mine. It was a stupid, trivial thing to be mad at, but… "Ino's been annoying," I answered.

"There's still time to change your mind on roommate choices. My offer stands."

"Ha, ha, ha," I laughed sarcastically at him. "It's just going to take some getting used to each other. Boundaries need to be set. However, now's the perfect time for us to break into her room and look for that dildo." The perfect revenge, I thought.

"You serious?" Naruto stared at me with wide eyes. "Won't she like, kill us?"

"Are you really afraid of Ino?"

"Yes," he answered.

I scoffed. "Come on. She won't be home tonight." Besides, I needed to be doing something other than just sitting next to Naruto and not having sex with him. It was petty, but I wanted to be immature for a bit. These stupid, childish games tended to bound Naruto and I closer together anyway. It seemed like a good distraction. "Think of it as a secret mission." And then Naruto was willing.

I tried her bedroom door, and it was locked. I squawked, affronted. She didn't trust me! The apartment doors didn't have the highest quality locks, so any long metal instrument could easily pop it open. I went to my room to retrieve my ninja tools, Naruto getting more excited by the minute. I unlocked the door with a senbon needle.

"Wait!" Naruto grabbed my arm before I could walk into the room. "What about traps?"

"I doubt she put traps in here. It's a dildo. Not a secret weapon." I waved my arm through the entryway, and Naruto pulled me into him instead. I laughed a little, not sure if he was roleplaying or actually believed in the traps.

Naruto threw a ninja star through the doorway, making sure the metal landed on its side harmlessly in the middle of the floor, so as not to damage the wall or the carpet. Maybe no traps, but Ino would kill us if we left behind marks.

"It smells like flowers," Naruto commented as we looked into the room, everything in perfect order. Several paintings of flora hung on the wall.

"I'm going in," I stated when Naruto did nothing. He cried out like he would witness my demise, but once I was in the middle of the room, I gave a turn, showing him I was completely safe. He ventured in next. "Okay, go ahead and touch anything you want! I don't care. Ino's been a butt and she deserves it."

"You mean like this?" Naruto asked as he immaturely rubbed his behind against her wall.

"Exactly!"

Naruto began to have a ball, going around just simply touching everything with glee. I opened up her closet in search of what I came here to find. All her clothes were hung color coordinated. "Hey, this is mine!" I pulled out a red stretchy dress that I hadn't seen in forever. I handed that over to Naruto. "Hold that." I squatted down, finding an array of shoe boxes but none of them looked quite like the box I had seen the dildo in. After opening a few of them I discovered they all actually had shoes in them. Naruto began to help once I grew frustrated. "I thought she kept it in the closet…" I looked around the room to see if maybe it was somewhere else.

"Hey, I found one without shoes!" I crawled over to him, and he dumped the contents onto the ground. It was a box of photos and other keepsakes such as rocks, pressed flowers and some sort of crystal. The majority of the pictures were of Ino's family when she was young. I felt a little bad looking at the photos, studying one of her in her father's arms. "Here's one of you!" Naruto snatched it up before I could see it. I had already found a couple of Ino and I together as kids so that wasn't surprising. "Wow, Sakura-chan. Why does Ino have such a sexy picture of you?"

"Give me that!" I grabbed the photo out of Naruto's hand. It appeared to be me on the beach in a swimsuit. "Don't ogle at it, perv. This is just when Ino and I went to the beach together last summer."

"Yeah, but you look real hot in that picture, Sakura-chan."

I glanced at it again. I was face down sunbathing, so I hadn't noticed her snapping the shot. My ass looked extra round in it due to the angle, and the bottom part of my bikini was showing more skin than I knew it would when I had bought it. She had somehow got the lighting to work in her favor on such a sunny day. "Hmm, this is a good picture of me." I wondered if I could convince Ino to give it to me.

"I think she has a crush on you," Naruto grinned.

I huffed. "You assume everyone wants to bang everyone."

"Do they not, though?" Naruto rolled his eyes. "Hey, let's check under the bed. If I was gonna have a sex toy, that's where I'd put it. I wouldn't want to have to walk all the way to the closet with a boner."

"Okay," I said, ignoring everything Naruto said after 'under the bed'. We both crept over Ino's carpet until we got closer to the bed frame, and sure enough I could see a box under there. "Ah-ha!" I pulled it out.

Naruto and I sat on the floor, the box in between my knees before I lifted the top off dramatically.

Naruto started laughing.

"What?"

"I don't know. I think I'm uncomfortable."

We stared at it for a moment longer. It was a little bigger than I remembered. I noticed that Ino had a small bottle of lubrication in the box as well. That would be practical I supposed. I grimaced.

"Do you think…?

"... she uses it?" I finished in a whisper. "I don't know. Do you think she does?"

Naruto shook his head, eyes still on the instrument. "No."

She had told me she bought the dildo to prepare her body before losing her virginity. Maybe she hadn't been prepared at all for her first time. "How do you know?"

"It doesn't smell like vagina." He leaned over and inhaled. "It still smells like silicone."

"Ew!" I shoved his face away. "Don't smell it! She could have just cleaned it, you know!"

"The plastic is still on the lube bottle."

"I didn't bring you in here to smell Ino's sex toys, regardless! There's something seriously wrong with you!"

"Why did you bring me in here then?"

"Revenge. Ino read- Ino broke into my room first!"

"Hot."

"Would you stop?!"

"Let me see that." He slid the box closer to him.

"Are you sure she's never used it before? Don't touch it!"

He already pulled it out of the box. "There's no way," he said, holding it in a manner that had the long thing bounce in the air. "If she could fit this in her, she should charge people to watch because it would be a talent. There's no way this can be comfortable… Can it?" he asked, looking at me. "Could you fit this inside you?" I pushed his arm away from me, the bouncing toy nearly knocking me in the face.

"Please don't touch me with it. I don't know. I don't know how you would use it. It doesn't look like it has a place you can grip it."

"Hold on! I think this is double sided."

"What?"

"That's why you're so confused. This smaller, thicker part here, you're supposed to hold it with your vagina muscles so it's like, you have a dick when you don't. It's a strapless strap-on!"

"No, it isn't! Why would Ino buy such an absurd thing?!" I didn't want to ask Naruto how he even knew what a strapless strap-on was.

"Maybe she bought it by accident. Or maybe… she plans to fuck you with it…" He continued to wiggle the obscene object in my face.

"If you don't put that down, I will be shoving all nine inches of silicone down your throat."

"Hey, don't threaten me with a good time."

"Would you ever use one?" I asked, suddenly curious.

"I already gotta dick."

"No, I mean…"

"You mean like pegging?"

I nodded my head, eyes locked on his.

He grinned. "Maybe if she asked me really nicely, I'd let her. What about you?"

I scrunched up my nose. "I don't know." I knew how to get myself off efficiently with my own hands. I had no idea how to do it with a foreign object. Maybe one that was smaller…

There was a sudden loud buzzing noise. "It vibrates! Holy cow." Naruto dropped it to the floor. "Fuck, that goes right into my elbow."

On the ground, the thing was vibrating so hard that it was moving closer to me. I immediately jumped away from it before it disappeared under the bed.

"Oh no! It's escaping!" Naruto tried to make a grab for it, but he couldn't get his arm past his shoulder under the bed. "I can't reach it!"

"For fuck's sake." I was smaller than him, so I got on my stomach, head to the side of the floor as I reached both arms under the bed. There was something else in my way, so I grabbed that first with my left hand, before reaching for the vibrating dildo with my right. I flung it out from underneath the bed as fast as possible, Naruto grabbing it to switch it off. He was right; that vibration was strong.

"Fuck, I'm stuck."

Naruto grabbed me by the legs and swiftly pulled me out from under the bed before I could think.

"She's got a whole collection!" Naruto exclaimed. I looked at the thing I was still gripping, and it appeared to be a handheld massager. "Yep. She uses that one!"

"What?!" I dropped it with a loud bang, practically jumping into Naruto's lap as if that could protect me. His arms tightened around me instinctually. "You can smell it?!"

"Nah, it's just still plugged into the wall," Naruto pointed out.

I stared at it for a moment longer trying to calm down. "She probably just uses it for her neck or something after she trains," I reasoned, but I was still wiping my hands on Naruto's shirt as if I had just touched something gross.

"Aw, Sakura-chan is in denial… So cute…!" He clutched me tighter, pressing me into his chest. "I've got you. I think that's enough scarring Sakura-Chan's innocent mind for today."

I pinched him, but that appeared to have no effect. I took to clutching his shoulders instead.

"So, do you feel your revenge has been fulfilled? Have we successfully violated Ino's privacy? Seriously though, I kinda feel like I've committed a crime."

"Hmm." Truely, I had wanted to find something to gloat about, but I couldn't gloat to Ino that I knew her dildo was double sided and that she hadn't used it. It also felt weird to say that I found the bikini picture of me. I felt more shameful than anything else.

The red dress though.

I could definitely say I had at least found out she had stolen my dress!

"I guess so." Naruto's fingers were moving against the seam of my shorts and shirt. I should have told him to quit it, but I was also rubbing his shoulders and I didn't really want to stop, as my hands were restless and needed to focus on something. "I did find my dress."

"Uh-huh," Naruto said distractedly.

"So that alone will be proof that I've been here, and she'll have to think twice before breaking into my room again. It's easy enough to do." Out of habit, I started to check Naruto's chakra and muscular system. Might as well. I was a medical ninja and Naruto was my friend after all. "Have you been stretching during your training workouts?" I asked.

"Of course!"

I pressed on both of his pectoralis minor muscles, and he rolled onto his back with a shout of pain. I smirked, finding them quite tight. "This is what a handheld massager is really for," I said, poking at the stiff muscles sharply. "Everyone has their shoulders rolled forward all the time."

"Fix it for me?"

"I'm not going to use Ino's massager," I said, but I began kneading the muscles back with my fist. "Yikes, your right shoulder is really bad." Naruto winced. I sighed. "Just because you can't feel with your right arm anymore doesn't mean you should neglect it," I scolded. "You probably ignored this shoulder the entire time before you got your prosthetic, and since you're right-handed, it's now being abused." I talked over the sound of Naruto's moaning. The sound was most likely because it hurt, judging by the tears in his eyes, but I was finding it strangely arousing.

I dug my thumb deep under his collarbone before very slowly going down the tendon.

"Holy bitch! Fuck! Why does that hurt so much?! I do stretch!"

"It's the smaller muscle here, not the main pec," I said, grabbing him with my other hand to point out the difference. "Do you want me to stop?"

"No." He stared up at me, face blushed and slightly disheveled looking. "Fix it. Please. I'll just return the favor."

"Like you'd know how."

"You got chest muscles too," he said, eyeing me.

"I do, but I work them out with the massager."

"You have one too?!" My thumb went over an especially hard knot, and he cried out before any weird, perverted thoughts could go through his head.

"Breathe through it," I ordered. I watched his ribcage expand and even though I was sitting up, I could still feel the gush of air leave his lips and brush against my face. His right arm was stretched out on the floor, but he still had his left hand resting on my hip. I hadn't noticed when his fingers had found themselves under my clothes and were softly stroking my skin, or when they gripped my flesh when my knuckle went over a painful lump.

He sighed as the muscle finally relaxed and I moved to a new spot. I probably could have felt him better without his shirt on, and oils would help me glide over his skin easier, but picturing Naruto shirtless and all oiled up was proving to be quite a distracting image. Good thing this work was slow going.

I checked all of his ribs next, making sure none were out of place. There wasn't any reason to, but my fingers danced over his abdominal muscles. They immediately flexed and I felt his hips tilt a little.

"Haa, Sakura-chan…."

"Yes?" I asked innocently. I was all ready to explain that this was just a simple friendly massage and important for his health.

"Maybe we should stop for a moment."

"Am I being too firm?"

"Ha, no." He gripped my hip and pushed me back a little bit, so my butt brushed against his erection. He stared at me, wondering if I was going to continue to play dumb on what I was doing.

"Oh," I admitted.

"I mean, if we ignore it, it'll go away. Probably."

"How long will that be?"

"My record? Without doing anything about it? About three hours."

"Three hours?!"

"Well, you see, Pervy-Sage and I had to -"

"I don't want to know. Three hours is too long. Let me just take care of it."

"What?!" I watched Naruto's face go brain dead for a moment until I reached behind me and pressed into him with my hand.

"Okay?"

He nodded his head eagerly.

In all fairness I was just paying Naruto back for last night. We had already slept with each other several times. We continued to remain friends. We were still friends.

I got off of him so I could have better access to it. When I pressed against it a second time, Naruto moved his hips up for more force. I undid his fly next.

"Shit, this is really happening…"

I paused what I was doing and looked at his face. "But… it's, okay? We're still friends…"

He nodded vigorously.

I slid my hand down his underwear, his blood rushing making him feel hot to the touch. "And since we're such good friends…"

"Great friends!"

"I'm simply returning last night's favor…" As I wrapped my fingers around it, I could feel it throb and I had the memory of it striking so deep inside of me. I moved my hand up and down, the other hand holding his underwear out of the way. I was a little unsure on how to keep my grip. Naruto's eyes rolled back into his head, both of his fist smacking against the floor.

The skin glided easily. I could feel some precum at the tip, but it wasn't enough to truly coat him. "Do you need a lubricant?"

"W-what?"

I realized I didn't actually know how Naruto got himself off, considering how open he was into talking about it all the time. I had the thought that lube must be better than none. I grabbed Ino's unopened bottle from the box. Ino wasn't going to use this anyway.

Naruto gasped as he watched me tear the plastic off with my teeth. I noticed the bottle was cherry scented and flavored. It made me pause because I couldn't find a reason why Ino would buy flavored lube for herself. I had a brief thought that maybe it was intended for me, since 'cherry' was similar to my name.

How stupid.

It was Naruto's fault that I even had the thought, so I poured the lube on him cold, and he cried out startled. I used the friction of my hand to warm it up. I was beginning to realize that this was making a mess, and I tried to pull his pants down more with my other hand. Naruto attempted to help, but it was like his arms had lost their strength. The lifting of his hips seemed to stop intending to free himself of his clothing and more to reach into my hand.

I wasn't sure how fast I should move. I let Naruto thrust into my fist, his head thrown back and one of his legs kicked out in frustration. "Fuck. F-fuck." He looked like his hands were searching for something to grab on to, but I was too far away to get a good hold of. I timed my hand with his thrusts and his body settled down, now only focusing on the task. I caught his eyes on me and felt myself blush at his intent stare. I watched him watch me bite and then lick my bottom lip.

"Touch yourself," he whispered.

I blinked at him before raising my free hand. "Like how?" First, I rested the hand on my chest, tracing one of my breasts. "Or like…"my voice grew taunting and more seductive as my hand trailed down to my stomach, into the rim of my shorts.

Naruto whined, hips moving faster. I closed my eyes for a moment as I felt my own fingers, but I was soon looking at Naruto again, from his face to his chest, then stomach, and to what I was doing to him with my hand.

The heat, his pulse, his breath, it was all rising and I moaned in desire, over how forbidden the whole situation seemed to be. He was almost there too. "Wait!" I pinched the tip of his dick to prevent him from cumming.

The back of his head slammed against the floor. "Shit!"

"We can't make a mess on Ino's rug!"

"O-okay?"

"Fuck it, just cum in my mouth."

"Oh my god, Sakura."

I removed my hand from my shorts and switched positions to be in between his legs, pulling his pants down several more inches. Naruto sat up a little, gathering the hair out of my face with both of his hands before holding it all in his right. I covered his tip with my mouth, eyes locking on his for some guidance. He stared back completely mesmerized as I went down a few centimeters, my one sticky hand still holding him up at his base.

My whole body seemed to melt when I felt the fingers in my hair tighten and him guide my head slowly down before back up. I felt myself tighten up, with the thought of him thrusting into my throat like he had done with my hand. Instead, he kept the pace almost unreasonably slow. The cherry lube and my spit dripped out of my mouth somewhat embarrassingly, but Naruto's gaze made me feel nothing but hot and sexy. I let him take control of my motions, becoming wetter when he brought me down a little deeper than before, almost teasingly. I tugged against my hair, trying to show that I was ready for more, but he just kept pulling me back up. He tugged against the suction of my mouth. I sucked harder like that would keep him in me.

After a few more moments of this, he ripped me off his dick to give me a messy kiss, licking cherry flavored drool off my chin. I was a little annoyed that he didn't let me finish. Why did men keep trying to prevent me from completing this task?

I turned my head slightly away from his attacking mouth. "Naruto, let me try -" He sucked my lips into his teeth. I pushed him away, guiding him back down to the floor. "Let me try to go deeper. You said you would teach me how to deepthroat, remember?"

"Huh?" Naruto's voice was deep with lust and his eyes cloudy and unfocused. I was not sure if he could understand spoken language.

"I've been thinking that it might be the angle, you know. Let me try it this way." I turned around on all fours, one leg going over Naruto's head. Naruto's arms were around my hips immediately, clutching at my clothing. "Don't rip my shorts," I warned.

"Take them off then," he whined, his breath already hot on my crotch.

"No. I need to concentrate on what I'm doing." I put both of my knees on each of his biceps, effectively restraining his arms. I felt his wet mouth on the inside of my thigh, giving me a nip. I yelped and squashed his face with my thighs. "Don't bite me or I will bite back," I threatened.

Naruto moaned in answer. I couldn't reach him if I sat on his face, so I had to move away as I leaned forward. My hands rested on his thighs, and I made sure he would not have the strength to lift his hips unintentionally. I grabbed more lube. Of course, my throat was already lubricated with saliva, but I thought it might help regardless. That, and the cherry scent was pleasant, making it a little less likely for me to gag. I should just think of it as a long cherry flavored lollipop.

I took a deep breath with him in my mouth, finding that I was still able to breathe. That was good to know. Very slowly, I moved inch by inch, reminding myself to breathe. I swallowed first before attempting to go past my throat, but the majority of my drool didn't make it down and instead spilled out of my lips. That was alright. Naruto couldn't see it. This angle was helping me more than my past attempts, and I was able to go farther than I ever had before. I felt like I needed to swallow again and when I did so, Naruto started spewing out unintelligible words behind me. It was unnerving, swallowing with him in my throat, and I had to stop myself from pulling him out too fast. Once I was free, I made myself cough, clearing my throat before trying again. I let myself be enamored by the abilities of my own body for a bit. I could push him as far as I wanted if I concentrated and was slow. It was easy to keep Naruto in check and his voice was more than encouraging.

I didn't think I could get him off like this though, as I needed to do it slowly so as not to choke. My dry hand reached around to cup his balls. Naruto shivered as I caressed them. They felt firm from his arousal. I got bolder as I explored, pressing my forearms on Naruto's hips to keep him from thrusting but allowing both my hands free.

Finding what I was looking for and listening carefully for any protests, I pushed two lubed fingers of my wet hand into him. He jolted, his body becoming as tight as a stringed bow. The sound he made sounded like his soul literally left his body. I hadn't timed it right because he was cumming before I had him in a comfortable place in my throat.

I coughed, cum coming up my nose and spewing out of my mouth. I tried to cover it while I hacked into Naruto's crotch, doing my best not to get it on Ino's floor but failing.

"Sakura-chan…" Naruto whispered hoarsely. I felt a heavy arm fall against my back. He grabbed me, pulling me into his chest as I tried to get my limbs in order and heaving at the same time. He patted my back firmly before using his shirt to wipe my face. "Sorry… Sakura-chan," he apologized breathlessly. I was still coughing. "Here." His weight on me toppled me over, and his one hand clumsily batted at the button of my shorts until it became undone. "Sit on my face…"

"What?" I said, trying to clear my throat.

"Friends… sit on each other's faces." He pulled down my shorts somewhat drunkenly, and once one of my legs were free, he rolled back onto his back and flung my leg over his face.

"Wow, why are you so good at that?" I asked out of breath, the burn in my nose all but forgotten.

He hummed, pleased, into my folds.

"C-c-can you breathe?!" I tried to push myself up, but Naruto pulled me back down with a growl, lapping up at me languidly. I guess Naruto didn't need to breathe. I found myself grinding my hips into his face, his nose nudging my clit until he opened his jaws wider.

Naruto's mouth was so hot. The warmth of his breath sent me into shivers. The roll of his tongue was so satisfying. I clutched at his hair with both hands, riding his face into completion.

I collapsed to my side, finished, trying to keep my one sticky hand from touching the floor. After I had regained my breath, I scrambled up to a sitting position. "What have we done?!" I stared at Naruto's wide eyes as he laid on the floor, face glistening wet, but suddenly paling at my words. I looked around the room wildly. "How are we going to keep Ino from finding out?!"

A rush of color returned to Naruto when he realized I wasn't freaking out because of what we had done, but where we had done it. He wiped his mouth. "Uh. How she gonna know?"

I stood up panicking. "We need to clean this all up!" The rug was wet from lube and most likely other bodily fluids. I held my one sticky fist out of the way as if it was an injury. I flung open the closet door and to my luck, not only did I find a vacuum, but Ino had a carpet cleaner in there too. "Oh, thank god!" Ino being a neat freak, I wasn't surprised. I tried to pull out the contraption with one hand and struggled as it was my left.

"I'll do it," Naruto stated, standing up and pulling back up his pants. "You go clean up. I got this." His hair was sticking up unnaturally from when I had grabbed it with my lubed covered hand.

"Okay, I'll be right back!" I left to wash my hands and then came back to help Naruto straighten up Ino's room to be exactly as she left it. I decided we needed to boil the dildo, because it had been under Ino's bed, even though it wasn't like she had dust bunnies. I wasn't sure if she would even ever use it, but better to be safe than sorry.

"You don't think she'll notice that the lube bottle has been opened, do you?" I hid the plastic in my pocket.

"Nah!" Naruto reassured me.

Once we left the room and locked it again, I turned to Naruto. "Do you want to maybe… take a shower or something?" I asked, eyeing his messed-up hair. "And then maybe I can throw your shirt in the wash," which was covered in sex stains.

"Yeah, sure!" He was already taking the T-shirt off. "And after, you think we could watch a movie or something and eat popcorn?" He knocked me in the shoulder. "We gotta keep things normal between us."

"Yes, of course. But-Well, I don't think I have any movies you'd like."

"That's alright. I'm kind of just in the mood for popcorn. I'm hungry."

"Okay, yeah sure."

While Naruto was in the shower, I entered the bathroom to make sure he was using my soaps and towel rather than Ino's. There was no lock on the bathroom door, so I just walked in.

This somehow led me into having sex with Naruto in the shower.

We had sex again watching the movie on the couch.

Then again in my bed as Naruto stayed the night.

Another time in the morning, in the kitchen for the sole reason that it was the only room in the apartment we hadn't done it yet. Naruto told me not to think too much about it, and he made sure I did not.