The next four days were amazing. Well, the evenings were. Also two of the mornings. Sakura had taken to hunting daily and hadn't failed yet to come home with something worth selling, they'd scraped together more than half a hundred silver pieces! They'd have even more if Sakura hadn't spent a good portion of her earnings on decent food, not that he'd fault her for that.

After the sun started to dip she'd built herself a nice fire while he enjoyed the luxurious bath his host offered and twice shared with him. Then they'd all go to bed. Then an hour or two later Tsunade and him would go to sleep. Naruto was starting to wonder if their host lied about her age because goddamn she was not lacking in stamina. Thouh he certainly didn't have any complaints.

Life was so much sweeter when you had something like that to look forward to at the end of the day.

Though the days themselves were hard. His work hours were spent clearing some of the forestry around Tsunade's house, having obtained her permission for Sakura to set up a yurt next door. He'd felled half a dozen thick trees and chopped enough wood to last 'the hag' the rest of her life probably. Of course, Sakura was the only one strong enough to actually pull stumps and move the logs. That always stung the pride a wee bit, but fuck was he glad to not have to do those chores.

No, he just chopped the trees.

It's what he was doing when Sasuki came up the path back to their new defacto home. He smiled brightly when he noticed her, even called out jovially. She didn't even look at him. Concerned her followed her, which led him inside the house and straight to the bedroll where she collapsed face-first into the soft furs.

"Tired?" he offered lightly, not receiving a response. He placed a hand delicately on her back, right between the shoulder blades, stroking lightly. "Are you alright?"

"Five gold," she muttered, barely audible over the muffling in front of her mouth.

"What?"

"Five. Fucking. Gold. For four days work and dangerous work at that1" the two hands are her side came up to the side of her head, balled fists betraying her rage and frustration even more than the words. For the life of him, Naruto couldn't see what the problem was. His tone was congratulatory.

"That's a lot of money!"

She slammed a fist on the wood floor.

"It is absolutely not!" she even turned her face to look at him. "We'd need twenty times that just to buy a livable house, we'd need a hundred times that to build a small farm! Not to mention buying the actual land to get my fucking noble title!"

He began rubbing her back slowly, part of him surprised when she didn't stop him.

"50 silver though, that could buy us almost a whole month living at Ayame's inn," he offered, seeing her eyes soften just the slightest bit he continued with his point. "A whole month of vacation with good food, how many people can pay for something like that? And you earned it in less than a week! Plus, Sakura's been making money hunting too!"

"How much?"

"Uhh, 60 silver I think,"

"Great, I earned less money fighting monsters than a simple huntsman,"

"Then a giant hunting in the wild woods," he retorted firmly. "Do you want to take a bath? Have you taken one here yet?" he knocked hard on the wall by the stove. "There's a pit dug right on the other side of the metal here, all you gotta do is turn a handle and make sure the stoves got wood and you can get hot water! It's awesome!"

Her eyes widened the slightest bit.

He sucked in a silent breath.

"…yes,"

"I'll go set it up for you," he offered, squeezing her shoulder and taking to his feet, though he stopped when she made a hesitant noise. Paused his action to look down on her, now lying on her side in the humble bed. His eyes shone with concern.

"…Thank you,"

His smile returned. It remained firmly in place as he went about pumping water for the little stone tub, careful about how much of the piping hot liquid he let in from the tank under the stove. It didn't take long, and better still Sasuki came out just as he was finishing. She even stripped in front of him!

Naruto shamelessly admired the view as she slinked out of her clothes and gracefully eased herself into the water-filled hole. Under the shadow of the house there wasn't enough light to keep her visible anyplace naughty, it's why he didn't feel particularly awkward slinking to a seat in the grass beside her.

She stole a glance at him before speaking.

"You can join me if you want. I mean, your sweaty and gross too," she said the second sentence like a jab, almost a complaint, and it did nothing to dampen his spirits. Eagerly he pulled his own clothing off, thrilled to take an early day off if it meant some intimacy with his closest friend.

Or whatever the fuck they were.

The water was perfect, hot enough to really feel hot, but not enough to be uncomfortable. He breathed a deep sigh, leaning against the wall and blushing lightly whenever his toes accidentally brushed against hers in the limited space. Sasuki blushed too, and that's probably why she turned around, although that action led to her drifting slowly backwards into his chest, and not moving after she did. He laughed silently before kissing her bare shoulder affectionately.

"I missed you,"

"I'm sure you had plenty of fun with the hag," she spat back, but her tired words carried no real venom.

"I still missed you," he retorted simply, wrapping an arm around her to enjoy the feel of her skin along with the warm water. It was their first time being really naked together, he realized when his cock began throbbing against the soft top of her heavenly ass. He kissed her wonderfully soft skin twice more.

"Do you want me to help you relax?" he asked enticingly, wiggling his fingers over her bare stomach.

"Okay," she replied simply, keeping that quiet tone. Even as his fingers went to that most special place all she offered were some quiet hums, some purring from his elegant little kitten. It was probably for the best she kept the noise down, Tsunade was around here somewhere. Hell, even the path further north was visible, though they didn't have the best view and it was rarely traveled anyway.

It still made this just a bit more exciting, a bit more lecherous.

All he was doing was rubbing three fingers up and down against it, though as he noticed the noise this action made with the water up to his shoulders, he tried a different approach. Slowly he pressed two fingers inside of her, just up to the first knuckle. She sucked in a breath but said nothing.

He went a knuckle deeper and begin wiggling them softly inside her. As Sasuki began breathing through her mouth he brought his second hand up to cup her chest. Just palming it, kneading in the smallest possible motions as he speared in deeper. When she clenched around him and coughed out an ack, he started retracting.

Flexing back and forth, back and forth, using that spot as the border, he slowly played her body. Sasuki managed naught but some needy whines right up until her orgasm, where she slipped out a short blubbering gasp. Three more deep breaths through her mouth and she was back to normal. Well, back to her elegant ever-serious self.

"I…."

"Can I put my cock in now?" he dared ask.

"No!" she protested sharply, almost automatically. "I'm not wasting a silver a day on women's tea just because you like filling me up!"

"We both like it I thought?" he jabbed, delighting in the pink that filled her face at the brief, angry pause.

"I was going to offer for you to rub it between my thighs or something but nope! That's not happening now," she offered haughtily, smugly. He stole a quick kiss on her mouth. A goofy smile dominated his face as that delightfully flustered look fell over hers. It lingered as he pulled himself out of the bath, his fully erect cock briefly at eye level with the beautiful raven princess.

She looked, and a long while too.

"I'm going to go take care of this then," he said, shaking it back and forth. "Relax a while, you earned it,"

She smiled at that.

Although, as he stepped naked through the back door into the kitchenette of the house, Tsunade was frowning. She blocked his path to the stove and his easiest means of drying up as she eyed him up. One hand rested on the countertop and one brow raised as if asking a question.

Not sure what to say, Naruto said nothing.

"You know you're still sleeping in my bed if you and your little friends want to sleep here, right?" before he could think of an answer she took two quick steps forward. More pressingly, she gripped his cock firmly in her hand. "Got to pay your rent, little boy…"

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