Content Warning: This chapter contains nothing but hot, lemony smut. If you are turned off by that, the serious stuff begins next chapter. Otherwise, enjoy!


Chapter Twenty-One

Temari tied her hair up in her customary tails as she finished toweling off in the bedroom she shared with Shikamaru. As she waited for him to finish showering, she walked over to her chest of drawers and extracted two items most dissimilar – a sleek, lacy black thong and the mauve wool sweater Shikamaru had gifted her years earlier. While tortured from lack of sleep, Temari had been horny around her husband for over a week without being able to satisfy the urge. The recent sting of battle and victory had had her blood boiling since before they left the moon. Now that they were home and safe, the urge to celebrate made her skin burn with fever.

Temari pulled on the black, tight, lacy thong. It wasn't her first choice, but she wanted to be sure to make an impression. To keep things simple, she pulled her mauve sweater over her upper body; she wore nothing else underneath. The quality of the material showed even years later – it didn't chafe her bare breasts in the least.

As she waited, another urge filled her, the urge not to let her husband sink back into what he had been before the world was ending. She checked herself in the dresser mirror. He's a sucker for skimpy things that accent your ass; you'll be fine! For so long after her injury, Shikamaru had been restrained out of necessity – almost six months passed before either felt safe to be intimate again. After necessity had disappeared, he'd fallen into a pattern of distraction and what seemed like disinterest. Before the moon mission, Shikamaru had a brilliant flash of his former self, only to again have necessity steal it away again.

This is necessity! Temari stood with hand on her hip as she heard the water stop. She waited patiently as she heard the sounds of him running water in the sink. There was the unmistakable sound of him brushing his teeth and later shaving. Dear god, is he planning this, too?! Temari sensed the slightest hint of moisture in her womanhood at the thought of him being back in form, and her heart began jumping.

Shikamaru emerged from the bathroom with a smirk. He wore a towel around his waist, and his toned chest was highlighted by moonlight as he turned off the restroom lights. "So," he tilted his head and smirked, "is this where you tell me to stop my grinnin' and drop my linen?"

The crude line was unbefitting the situation, even if it was what she had in mind. "You're shit at being romantic, you know."

"Romance," he let the towel drop, revealing him in all his naked, aroused, glory, "is overrated at this hour of the night," he stole a glance at the clock, "correction, the morning." He walked close, causing Temari to heat up as she saw just how turned on he was. "Besides, you weren't ever one for romance," he kissed her lips, teasing, as his hands snuck to her hips. "At least, not the first time we did this," he spoke in a husky whisper.

Before she could retort, his hands were sneaking up the material of the sweater, and Temari raised her arms without a second thought as she let him take the sweater over her head and arms and off to the bedroom floor. He stared pleased at her breasts, "You are so beautiful," he leaned in again, kissing her lips as his hands ran up and down her body, eventually cupping her breasts. His thumbs gently stroked up and down on her nipples, making them stiffen, and causing Temari to tilt her head back and moan.

"Flattery…" she moaned, feeling the thong slipping down as shadowy hands traced along her legs, "… will get you anywhere!" He began sucking along her neck and collarbone, eventually migrating back up to her ear – one irresistible turn on. Her body tingled, and she was becoming soaked under his teasing. "All right, enough of this!" Temari flung him around, sending him onto his back on the bed. Temari jumped over top of his, straddling him with a momentary tease, and she impaled herself on his erection. "AHHH!" she moaned as she adapted to the sudden stretch.

"I never get sick of that!" he grinned wide as he head thrust back into the mattress.

"I'm sure you say that to anyone who'll fuck you!" she taunted as she drove up and down on him.

"I mean it!" His hands grasped her hips, and his fingers began kneading her ass as he helped drive their pelvises together faster and harder that before. "There is nothing sexier than the woman you love climbing on top of you," he heaved, "telling you how horny she is, and proceeding to ruin you!" He drove them together, "Come, girl, ruin me the way you did our first night!"

Shikamaru's challenge couldn't go unanswered, and Temari thrust up and down on him with reckless abandon. Gods, were going to both be bruised when we finish! She closed her eyes, bit her lower lip, and interlocked her hands behind her head as she leaned back. She felt herself constricting around him, "Whomever taps out first makes breakfast!"

"AH! TEMARI… CUMMING!" Shikamaru shouted at the top of his range as he painted her insides white. Shit! Should have used a sound cancelling jutsu!

"Hahaha… AHHHHH!" Temari went from laughing to screaming as she rode him to orgasm. Fuzzy-headed and dizzy, she slumped forward slightly. "You tapped out on purpose, didn't you!" she playfully swatted his stomach.

"No offense, troublesome woman," Shikamaru smirked, "but your cooking is on par with Asuma Sensei's!" He laughed as he playfully swatted her thigh. "If he didn't have Kurenai, he'd be living out of cans and packaged ramen!"

"I'll get you for this!" she squeezed him between her legs.

"You already got me!" he laughed. "And looks like you're stuck with me!"

Temari laughed along with him, "Yes, I am!" Gods help me! I'm going to be carrying his child someday!


The ache in Hinata's hip from lying on her side for so long forced her back to wakefulness, reluctantly. She opened her eyes to the heavenly dream that was Naruto still asleep beside her. Was it all a dream? Hinata looked at her watch, December sixth, almost 1800 in the evening. Her head came back to rest on Naruto's arm. She'd slept at least half a day away, and heavy fatigue coupled with the feeling of safety made her want to go back to sleep.

However, an unpleasant pressure in her pelvis insisted she go seeking relief. As delicate as she could, she slipped from Naruto's grasp and made her way to the restroom. Once relieved of her bladder's contents, Hinata stood before the sink and washed her hands. As she washed her hands, the faintest glimmer of white appeared in the mirror, and Hinata jerked about, only to see it was a reflection of the white tile on the wall behind her and not Toneri. Damn, is he going to stalk me from beyond the grave as well? The unsettling thought of him in her head soured Hinata's mostly empty stomach.

As she stared back into the mirror, the reflection staring back was not her own. She blinked; Prince Endymion was staring back at her. Her initial fear dissipated as he stared with a smile. He's handsome, but he's no Naruto! Hinata caught a glance of a familiar accessory he was carrying that she hadn't noticed back on the moon. His sword! It's identical to the Hyūga family blade! With the slightest nod, the image dissipated, and Hinata was left with nothing but her reflection and the sound of running water. Hinata took some of the cold water and splashed her face, further dispelling the tendrils of sleep.

Hinata stared at her face. She was pale, with the exception of dark circles under her eyes. At the very least, the angry crisscross of red blood vessels in her eyes had faded with proper rest. Hinata fumbled in the restroom vanity for a hair tie and brought her black hair into a high ponytail. Hinata turned her head side to side, examining her reflection for even the remotest sign of anything being out of place. She lifted her shirt, searching desperately for the narrowest of scratch mark, the faintest bruise of a hickey, and she found none. She dropped her pajama pants and did likewise with her lower body, front and back. Hinata splashed her face again before shutting off the water and patting her face dry.

You're messed up girl, but at least you made it out alive with everyone else. The thought did little to assuage her as she pulled back up the pajama pants. Hinata clutched the countertop and stared down into the sink. She wasn't sad, and she had no tears left to cry. She was angry, and it burned in her core like a smoldering ember. Anger seethed toward Toneri for putting her through the closest thing she could equate to a living hell for almost five months. Red heat burned at the thought of his lips on hers, his tongue invading her mouth, and the horrid images he'd fed her of what else he'd planned on sticking in her after their sham wedding.

Anger turned inward. How could you let him hurt Naruto, Hanabi, Akane, and Konohamaru the way he did! How could you put others in harm's way when all he was after was you! How could you dismiss Naruto and his Mom's concerns about your plan, which ultimately failed! How come you let him take you away! Hinata beat a fist against the countertop. "Goddammit, stop it!"

Deep down, she knew none of it was her fault; she did everything she could have done given her circumstances. She took several deep breaths, letting the heat drain off. She needed catharsis; she needed to feel normal; she needed to feel like everything the last few weeks had been nothing but a bad dream. Her Byakugan activated, and she inspected the false panel that hid where her ANBU gear had been kept. It still concealed another surprise that she'd never had the chance to use. Like now is the time?

"How isn't it?" Nine-Tails asked in his throaty tone.

What would you know about it, Kyuubi?

"I know enough to know you aren't the only one who has been sick in the stomach wondering if your relationship was damaged beyond repair by what has happened. Do you think he wasn't spending night after night worrying that he'd wake and you wouldn't be at his side? Do you think you were the only one ready to throw up when you two had your little spat on the moon?" Kyuubi paused, measuring his next words, "Do you think he was ignoring you when you fantasized countless nights before this crisis, hoping he'd come over to play?"

You knew about that?!

"You have no secrets from me, Hinata. By the way, he wasn't ignoring you; he was worried he was going to distract you from your studies. I had to warn him that he was he was so focused on the grand gestured that he was forgetting the small ones that truly matter," Nine-Tails paused again, "Now, I'm warning you. You want to get on with your life and put things back to the way they were, it means doing things big and small. It means doing things that may make you nervous or afraid. Of course, if you want life to pass you by, you can just stay locked up in this house the rest of your life. Of course, there is no guarantee that will be any safer than facing the world."

Hinata's hands tightened to fists. She quietly left the restroom, walked to her hidden panel near her closet, and slid it open. She turned her eyes back to Naruto, still soundly asleep but clutching for where Hinata had been earlier. Not grand gestures, just small ones. Hinata extracted her eclectic costume she'd meant to wear for Naruto the night she'd celebrated with the girls. The night that got ruined by Toneri.

Hinata stripped her current outfit and tossed it in the nearby hamper and stared at the various articles of clothing, blushing as she did so. You wanted this for months. You know he'd want it if you offered it! Hinata donned a black set of silken and lace panties that hid little and teased what they hid. Next came the pink pushup bra she'd gotten from the Kunoichi's Secret. As she looked in the mirror, the lingerie hugged her body, accenting her curvy form even further. The effect was superfluous, but she wanted him to enjoy the fantasy as much as she would.

The next pieces made her shudder as she pulled them over her body – her white doctor's coat and her stethoscope. The jacket stayed unbuttoned, and she hung the stethoscope around her neck and shoulders. I can't believe I'm doing this!

The weight in her pocket reminded her the look wasn't yet complete. She extracted a strawberry red tube of lipstick from one pocket, and applied it to her lips. Doctor Hyūga, you are so naughty! After the last time she and Naruto had been intimate, being this sexy had been a fantasy – a fantasy she'd delayed because of Toneri. He's not getting this. He's not taking this from me! She capped the lipstick and prepared to examine her patient.

"Naruto… Naruto…" Hinata whispered low as she beckoned Naruto back from deep sleep. Hinata stalked toward the bed silent, careful not to alarm him too badly. "Naruto…" she whispered, struggling to keep herself from giggling. For the first time in what felt like a lifetime, she was horny and finding it difficult to hold back. "Oh, Naruto…" she ruffled his blonde mass of spikes, coaxing him back to the land of the living. "… I've got a surprise for you!"

Naruto's eyes cracked slightly at first, opening wider and then blinking, "H-Hinata?!" Naruto's voice was choked with surprise.

Hinata placed a finger on his lips, "Please, when I'm wearing this jacket, it's Dr. Hyūga!" Hinata giggled as she crawled over top of him.

"What are you..."

"You sir, need to be checked over," Hinata grabbed a fistful of his shirt and summoned Tailed-Beast chakra, shredding Naruto's t-shirt into confetti. She ran her hands up and down his now exposed stomach and chest, "I need to be sure he didn't damage anything!"

"Hin—er, Doctor Hyūga! Are you –" Hinata cut off his words with her fingers on his lips again.

"Naruto, let me be straight with you," she playfully ground her hips on his, causing his erection to spring to life. "I'm not okay; I know I'm screwed up. But I need this! I need you!" She grinned, "Dr. Hyūga has been waiting for this since the night the girls and I went out for drinks. This was the surprise I told you about when we were on the moon. I've let stalkers and the end of the world put this on hold too long! Is that clear!"

"Perfectly!" he strained.

"Excellent, now where was I?" She put the earpieces of her stethoscope in her ears, "oh yes, it was here!" her words came muffled as she placed the metal bell on his chest. She was rewarded by the musical sound of his heart: lubdublubdudlubdublubdub. "Now time to see how it performs under stress," before Naruto could speak, Hinata planted her lips overs his and began sucking and licking throughout his lips and tongue, giving him a taste of what they were soon to do. Naruto's heart began thundering in the earpieces of her stethoscope: LUBDUBLUBDUBLUBDUBLUBDUB.

"Good!" Hinata pulled back, licking a stray bead of saliva from her lips, "very good. Your heart is working stellar!" She looked down at the elastic band of his longue pants and began untying his drawstrings, "Now it's time to make sure everything else is in working order!" Hinata considered shredding his pants and boxers much as she'd done with the shirt, but she remembered these longue pants were a gift to him from her Mom. Hinata instead hooked her fingers under the elastic and pulled downward until he was completely bare and on display. "I never get sick of doing that!"

"I never get sick," he huffed, "of you doing that!"

"Good," Hinata reached into her pocket of her jacket, extracting a small plastic bottle of lubricant.

"W-what's that for?!" Naruto stared in shock.

Hinata put a dollop of the gel in her hand before replacing the bottle in her pocket. "It will make the exam go easier. She worked the gel in her hand for a moment before encasing her hand around his towering erection.

"AH!" Naruto moaned and thrashed about, much to her delight.

"Yes," his erection expanded as her hand pumped back and forth with ease, "very good!" He twitched in her hand. Hinata nuzzled into his side, maintaining her grip, and began sucking hickeys into his chest, neck, and shoulders.

"Ahhh!AHHHH!" Naruto moaned under the pleasant barrage.

"Naruto," she sucked his ear, now enthralled by the effect she was having on him, "you have to become Hokage soon!"

"W-why is that?!" he gasped.

"Because," she traced his ear with her tongue, letting her hot breath carry her words as she continued to toy with his penis, "I want to do this wearing the Hokage's headdress and jacket," she grinned. "If you're really good, I'll even do it on the Hokage's desk!"

"You're so lewd!" he laughed, and his manhood twitched.

"I mean, it might be a bit awkward," she twirled her fingers around him like a toy, "I know for sure your parents did it on that desk, at least once!" she laughed. "It might even be where Akane was conceived!"

"Good to know, for when it comes time to make a baby!" he laughed again.

It will be happening sooner rather than later, boy! "Naruto, tell me you were serious about getting married the second we got back."

"The second we're done here," He brought his mouth to hers, "I'm taking you before Mom and having her notarize our marriage certificate!" He stared concerned, "I mean, if that is okay with you!"

"Oh, it's fine!" she again climbed over him, letting his dick go. She still had a month and a half before her shot wore off, after that, she'd start ovulating again in a few weeks. Small price to pay if it means no other man can claim me. If I have to have a baby, I want it to be yours! Hinata was still a bit uncertain about pregnancy and childbirth, but it paled compared to what they'd both just suffered through. Last time as an unmarried woman, have fun with it! "Naruto, I need you to do something for me!" she pleaded.

"Anything, just say it!" concern spread across his face as his eyes widened.

"I need you," she seized his hands, guiding them up to her breasts, "to check me, now. Every last inch of me!" she guided his hands along her bust, caressing back and forth. "I need you to make sure nothing has been damaged… can you do that for me?" She was coy, hoping he'd accept the challenge.

"Anything for my wife!" he grinned

"Anything?" she asked.

"Anything," he asserted.

Anything can mean quite a bit! She bit her lip, cheeks burning. "Do you like my breasts, Naruto?"

"They are my favorite," he winked as he massaged, "and they're kind of attached to my favorite person in the world. I call it win-win!"

Hinata chuckled as he pawed and caressed, "I grew them just for you, ya know!" she giggled for a moment, but soon became serious, "Naruto, there is something else I need from you, aside from checking me over."

"Name it!"

"Need you to help me forget!" she gasped as his hands continued their lecherous deed.

"Forget?" Naruto paused his playing with her, and stared again.

"I need you to help me forget," she climbed up him, straddling his torso as she leaned forward, burying his face in her cleavage. "I need you to love me so hard that I forget everything that has happened the past few months." He began kissing and sucking along her breasts as she began running fingers in his spikey hair, "I know it won't fix everything, but just tonight," she paused to moan; her panties were becoming moist. "Tonight, I need to forget everything! I need you to erase all things Toneri and alien-related out of my head!"

"Well then," he replied breathy and muffled by her chest still in his face, "I say it's time for clinical trials of what we did last time!"

"Yes," Hinata slid her jacket off finally, "I'd say so!"

Naruto reached up and unclasped her bra; the tension holding her released. Naruto continued to kiss and suck at her breasts as he began sliding the bra off from her arms. Naruto traced up and down her spine as he kissed along her neck, stomach, and breasts. Heat continued to build as his mouth and hands worked her, stealing her away from everything that had tormented her. Hinata could hold back no longer, and she clawed away her panties, wrestling until freed. She gripped him by his still lubricated shaft, lowered herself onto him, and lost herself as she felt the familiar pleasure of him entering her body. "Oh god!" he moaned as she moved up and down on him.

His hands scanned, caressing along her legs, thighs, and butt. He varied from feathery to firm as he thrusted upwards as she pressed down. Profound pleasure filled Hinata as the pressure of him between her legs took her away from the world around her. She closed her eyes and let him take her to a world of unbridled pleasure. "Just like that!" she exclaimed as the pressure of him built. Her hips tingled as he found all the right spots.

"Hinata," Naruto's head thrashed side to side as his caresses became slower, more forceful. Hinata opened her eyes, seeing that he'd closed his. Naruto's face writhed as his head thrashed rapidly side to side – heavenly torture overwhelming his senses.

His eyes shot wide open in shock, and his mouth dropped open as Hinata seized his hands, interlacing their fingers. The wave hit both of them at the same time, and both gasped desperately as supreme pleasure froze the world around them. They remained frozen, Naruto's Byakugan had activated, as had her own. Frozen in the light of cosmic energy around them, Hinata could actually see the threads of destiny tying them together. Together now and forever!

The Byakugan deactivated as the high of bliss receded slowly. Dizzy and fuzzy in the head, Hinata collapsed forward into his waiting arms. He encircled her with his embrace as he slowly slipped from her body. "That, was something else!" he giggled.

"Yes," she sighed breathlessly, "it was!" Never letting anything or anyone come between us again!


Naruto lay back, starry-eyed and relaxed for the first time in months as Hinata stretched out in his embrace. Mild embarrassment crept into the back of his head as her body pressed against his. Hinata had performed an exam most certainly not approved in any medical text, and she had shaken his brains loose in the process. In spite of what they had just done, his lust was far from spent. As his dick stiffened, it poked into Hinata's thigh.

"I see," she grinned, "you're not as bashful as last time!"

"No," Naruto said with a cleansing sigh. Last time, his mind had been plagued with worry competing with teenaged lust. Even still, Naruto was still getting used to doing it without protection. Maybe you should tell her your surprise.

"Naruto, are you sure this is what you want?" she asked.

"What do you mean?"

"The second we get married, this goes from being purely an escape to being a necessity."

"I already consider lovemaking with you a necessity," one hand loosened her hair from its hair tie and a mass of raven hair covered them.

"You know exactly what I mean, silly," Hinata took his ear between her lips, tracing the edge with tongue as she nibbled, "Be honest, are you ready to be a father?"

"After everything I've been through the last few weeks, yes," Naruto nodded his head, his voice shaking from her teasing his ear. "Of course," his hand stroked down through her silk hair, along the curve of her back, and finally finding her incredible rear end. Naruto stroked her incredible glutes, and her body shook, "I think, it might be time for my little surprise!" Naruto patted her butt as he spoke.

Hinata paused her teasing, "I know that voice," she spoke thoughtful, "it's the voice you use when you've had everything figured out all along."

Naruto snickered, "What if I told you," he rolled her to her side, nose to nose with him, "I found a loophole in that little bit of legalese?" His naughty hand continued to massage her butt as he spoke.

"You tease! Give it up!" she undulated as he continued to stroke her amazing glutes.

"It seems a certain grandfather," he paused with a teasing kiss on her lips, "liked to have his cake and eat it, too." Naruto smirked, "Okay, poor choice of words!" He giggled, "Anyhow, he got called to serve in the Second Shinobi War before he was to be married to your grandma. Her side of the family demanded he fulfill the marriage obligation while others argued he might die during the war and shouldn't marry."

"And this helps us how?" Hinata raised an eyebrow.

"He didn't want to run the risk of breaking clan custom of needing to produce an heir one year from his wedding night. He legally married your grandmother, but they didn't have their formal wedding until after he returned from the war, almost two years later."

"What?!" Hinata's eyes widened in disbelief.

"I checked the case law as well as the customs that night you went out with the girls. We in theory could be married up to three years without having to have the wedding – by extension, without needing to produce children, either."

Hinata's jaw dropped, and she took a deep gasp. Tears welled at the corner of her eyes. "N-Naruto…"

"Honey, I thought you'd be happy…"

"I AM!" she pulled him in for a kiss. She sucked at his lips as her tongue scoured along lips and his tongue, "I've never been happier!" Hinata squeezed him tight and giggled, "Judging by what is poking me in the thigh, neither have you!"

Both laughed, "I'm truly happy; although, I will be even happier the day I get to declare it in front of everyone!"

She kissed him again, "So, I take it that means we're sticking with our plan, Cherry Blossom season after next?"

"Works for me," he raised her leg up onto him and his hand massaged her thigh and back to her butt.

"Do you want me, Naruto?" she asked point blank.

"So bad it hurts!" he squeezed her butt with his wandering hand.

"Then take me!" Hinata rolled him over top of her and let her legs apart.

Naruto entered her with ease. Warm beads of sweat traced down his back as he moved in and out. Hinata's hands began rubbing up and down his arms and chest. As he increased his strength and tempo, Hinata's hands sculpted his shoulders and began scratching her fingernails along his shoulders and back. "Ahhh!" Naruto moaned.

"More!" Hinata shouted.

Naruto obliged, sinking down onto his elbows, body on body with Hinata. Her legs squeezed around him, and her hips rose up to meet him. There was pressure on his shoulder, and Naruto looked to see Hinata biting into his shoulder. Naruto tightened his grip around the sheets beneath him. His loins pulsed, and he released his seed within Hinata again. "Ahhhh!" he came again, electricity running down his spine.

Hinata tightened her legs around him, and she brought her arms around his body, sculpting him lovingly. Hinata panted as she squeezed him close again. "You make me burn," Hinata lay her head back on the pillow.

"You make me hungry," on cue, Naruto's stomach growled. He laughed, "For real, doing it this much builds up quite the appetite!"

Both laughed until almost pink, "All right, I say we shower, grab dinner, and…" Hinata trailed off, voice thick with mischief.

"And?"

"After dinner, I think we need a long, soothing bath before we turn in for the night."

"I mean, bath time was always my favorite time!"


The gentle sensation of lips on his lips pulled Sasuke back from the depths of sleep. Heavy, weighted eyelids initially refused to move despite the pleasant assault of lips on him. Undeterred, the invader's lips moved down from his lips to his chin, down to his neck, and to his chest. Sasuke began panting as the kisses slowly morphed from the soft flittering of a butterfly to more forceful suction and nips along his chest and abdomen.

Sleep gave way until he finally opened his eyes to the deep blue and purple of winter evening – light from the streetlamp outside the apartment casting shadows throughout the bedroom of the apartment. Sasuke blinked to clear his eyes, realizing for the first time that he was bare-ass naked. The adrenaline surge carried with it the memory of going to the hospital after the crisis averted and carrying Sakura over his shoulder to take her home.

Frozen in shock, Sasuke now stared wide-eyed as Sakura sat up and leaned over him, the light from the streetlamp revealing she was wearing a simple white tank top and a red, lacy set of hip-hugging panties. "Hi!" she greeted.

"Sakura?" he asked, cotton still clouding his brain.

"The one and only," she winked, her green eyes glowing like emeralds in he reflected light.

"What… what are you doing?!" was the best he could manage.

"You sir," she bent down, beginning to kiss his stomach again, "have been naughty twice now!" His ab muscles danced and jumped as Sakura kissed, sucked, and licked along his washboard stomach. She stared up at him, demonic in the intensity her eyes glowed in the dime light. "I think it's my turn!" Her lips moved down along his stomach until they reached the protuberance of his pelvic bone.

"S-Sakura!" he exclaimed. Without a word in response, Sakura traced her tongue on the underside of his manhood, her hot breath across his nether regions sent shivers up his spine. "Sakura! W-why?!"

With another playful stroke of her tongue, she spoke, "I've never given head to you or anyone," she paused with a slight giggle, "I figured it was time!" She took his length in her mouth fully and began sucking, tongue teasing along the sensitive skin as he closed his eyes and his head thrashed about on his pillow.

"AAAHHHH!" Sasuke moaned as his length throbbed, and it took everything he had to not come in her mouth immediately.

"Sasuke, look at me," Sakura commanded, and his eyes opened. She licked him with another swipe like she was licking an ice cream cone. Sakura smirked with mischief as she grasped the tank top, brought it over her head, and flung it across the room. While her breasts were not large, especially compared to Hinata or Ino, the perkiness of her breasts and nipples turned him on with the knowledge at how turned on she was. Without an additional word, Sakura yanked down her panties, straddled over him, and began to ride up and down on his hardened cock.

"S-Sakura!" he shouted, "What brought this on?!" He bit down on his bottom lip as she thrust herself down on him.

"You've taken me twice, both times by a most pleasant surprise," she smiled as her hot, soaked channel squeezed him, begging him to let go. "I've spent almost two years holding back," she again drove up and down on him. She took his hands in her hands and interlaced their fingers, "In that time, I've learned just how short and precious life can be!" Sakura continued to ride him with a slowing increasing tempo. "Tell me, do you like that?" Her coy smile drove him mad.

"Yes!" his hips bucked up and down on the mattress. Sasuke didn't know if he was leaking or if he was feeling her moisture, but he knew he wasn't going to be able to hold on. "S-Sakura!" he exclaimed, "We're not protected!"

"I changed to the injection for that very reason," she giggled. "Let it happen, boy!"

"AHHAAHHHH!" Sasuke grunted and groaned as he erupted within her. I just hope that injection is better than the patch Tenten was using! His heart fluttered in mild panic at the narrow chance of making a baby, but the euphoria of her spasming around him and her melting over him stole him away from his worries.

"I've been waiting for that," she said breathless, "a real long time!" Sakura was muffled by his shoulder.

"I was always curious what you'd be like in charge," Sasuke chuckled, "sex fiend!"

"Sasuke?" her voice rose in pitch.

"Yes?" he asked.

"Do you love me?" she asked.

"I do," he freed his right hand and ran it down from her shoulders to her back to her butt. "I wouldn't have let you do what you just did, otherwise!"

"Sasuke," he sensed her apprehension, "where are we going with this?"

"Where would you like it to go?"

"That's not fair," she protested.

"Life isn't fair," he patted her butt gently, "I've learned that the hard way. Now tell me, what's got you upset?"

"I'm supposed to be your caregiver," she said.

"And before that we were boyfriend and girlfriend and – lovers," the last term required some effort to get out. "I'd like us to be lovers again."

"Do you love me, Sasuke?"

Mild annoyance came over Sasuke, but it was soon replaced with the realization that he'd barely ever uttered the words to Sakura. Don't be like Father. "I love you, Sakura."

"I love you, too!" warm tears traced down her cheeks, running onto his cheek. "I never thought…"

"Hey," he rolled them to their sides, nose to nose, "I didn't get the chance to say it when we were sixteen," he tapped her forehead. "Believe me, I would have, had there been time." Sullen regret came over him, "When I'd been brainwashed to think you'd died…"

"It's in the past," she cut him off.

"I thought my reason for living was gone," he finished, "And then you turned out to be alive, and you didn't let me run away." He squeezed her close to him, "I could never again find someone if I lost you!"

"Sasuke, I'm so confused right now," Sakura whimpered into his chest.

"That makes two of us," he rested a hand on top of her scalp, tussling her pink hair gently. "I'm here, you're here; what do we need to talk about?"

"Am I still to be your caregiver?" she asked.

"Do you think I'm ready to not have one?" he asked in reply.

Sakura stared long and hard with her green eyes, "Yes," she nodded. "From everything I was told, you performed admirably while the team was on the moon. Even before, you kept it together in the Land of Sound."

"And you're afraid that changes things about us?"

"Your parents did want you back at some point," she reminded him.

They have a funny way of showing it. Sasuke sighed as he thought about the heartache Mother and Father had endured in his absence. It wasn't fair to be the brooding little boy who never felt good enough for his father. "That doesn't mean they have to take me away from you, silly," he started massaging her back and shoulders. "Damn, you're tense!"

"The world nearly ended a few times, and… there is more…" she turned evasive.

"More?" Sasuke's concern began rising.

"Sasuke, I don't know where to begin," she whimpered.

"Lay on you stomach, and tell me as I massage some of those knots out." Sakura stared for a moment, then turned, and sprawled out. Sasuke straddled her hips and started digging his thumbs into her low back.

"Ah!" Sakura protested as she shook up and down.

"Too firm?" he asked.

"No, just surprised me," she corrected, "continue."

Sasuke continued to work, Sakura letting brief sighs of relief as he tackled her aching back and shoulders. "So, you mind telling me what had you looking like you'd seen a ghost?"

"Your choice of words is ironic," she recounted a fanciful tale of encountering the ghost of Queen Serenity of the fabled Moon Kingdom while on the moon. If it were anyone else, I'd be wondering how much she'd been drinking. Having seen Sakura under the influence, he could tell she was being serious. "Sasuke," she resumed, "Queen Serenity warned us, more Ōtsutsuki are coming."

The words made his hands pause. Sasuke had suspected for some time that there were more. And now you have your answer for sure. "Well, ain't that super," he resumed massaging her back.

"You are remarkably calm about this," Sakura turned her head to look up at him.

"I'm not calm," he worked her shoulders, "I'm numb. I've been brainwashed, tortured, and nearly died a few times in the past few years. All the same, I'm not surprised in the least about more of the rotten bastards coming. I figure that was why she was trying to build an army of Zetsu creatures."

"I'm scared, Sasuke," Sakura spoke pensive.

"I am, too," he began working his way back down to her lower back, "Any children we might have will have this hanging over them."

"Children?!" Sakura shook under him and craned her neck to stare.

"You do want children, right?" Sasuke asked, matter of fact and enjoying Sakura's stunned reaction. Despite his stoic nature, the thought had crossed his mind lately.

"I-I do, but… where did this come from?!"

While far from ready to be a parent, Sasuke did take great amusement about Sakura being bashful on the subject. "Sakura, do you think for a moment my parents aren't going to demand more grandchildren soon?"

"Grandchildren?!" Even in the dim light, Sasuke to see Sakura's cheeks turn the shade of her hair.

"My parents were never oblivious to your affection for me, Sakura," Sasuke resumed massaging her back, "They planned this, you know."

"Planned this?" Sakura remained on her stomach, incredulous.

"They knew I could never come home with them," he shuffled downward until he was straddled over her thighs and his hands were working the muscles of her rump, "They could have left me institutionalized for the rest of my life."

"You know you would have gotten better," she protested, voice straining as he continued to knead her butt, "I wouldn't have let you rot away in a padded room!" she squirmed under his hands.

"I know you wouldn't have, and I appreciate it," Sasuke grinned as he continued molding her ass like clay.

"Sasuke!" Sakura shivered and squirmed.

"My parents also knew my marriage prospects were gone," his hands worked back up to her lower back, and then came down on the mattress. He lowered himself over her and began kissing, licking, and sucking along her spine.

"AH!" Sakura screeched, grasping the sheets of the bed as he teased along the length of her spine.

As he reached her shoulder, he resumed speaking, "…except for a certain medical-nin that believed in me!" She traced her spine to her neck with his tongue, "They didn't want me to become just to be another patient you discharged."

"How… how do you know all this?" Sakura gasped.

"My big brother occasionally has a big mouth," Sasuke chuckled, "especially when it comes to saying things other people are too embarrassed to say!" Sasuke took her ear between his lips and traced the outer edge with his tongue.

"Sasuke!" Sakura's legs moved under them until she was up on her knees and her hips were grazing his manhood. The invitation was there, and this time he didn't hesitate as he released the ear and entered her still wet channel from behind.

Sakura's pleasured moan drove him over the edge, and he didn't hold back. He glided back and forth within her. Sakura pressed her hips back and he pressed in, and he grasped the sheets as he tried holding back. "More! More!" Sakura screamed. Sasuke obliged until the euphoric release of his seed inside her came. They remained still in the aftermath, both panting as minor aftershocks hit them. "Sasuke?"

"Yes?" he strained.

"Is… is this how it will be going forward?"

"What do you mean?" he asked as he softened within her and slowly moved out of her and rested his exhausted form over her.

"I mean, birth control is pretty effective and all… but…"

"If we have an accident, I'll be a man about it, I promise." Sasuke spoke.

"And if we don't?" she asked.

"You're asking when we're planning on getting married and starting a family?"

"I mean… yeah," she sighed, exhausted by recent events. "You do want a family, right?"

"It would be… different."

"You don't sound so sure."

"How about we spend the rest of this year just getting used to being us again," he said, massaging her back again.

"And then?" hugged herself closed to his body.

"And we revisit this on New Year's Eve," he tightened his grip around her. Sasuke's mind wandered back to the name of the shop Naruto had recommended – The Jade Dragon. "Deal?"

"Deal!" she nuzzled back into him.


Author's notes: Hello, everyone, and I hope you enjoyed this rather wild foray. As promised at chapter's start, we will be returning to more serious content next chapter - namely some things regarding Konohamaru's future. Thanks again for reading, and I'll see you next chapter!