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Disclaimer: All Naruto characters are the copyright of Masashi Kishimoto. I’m just borrowing them to write up a story with no intention of making any money. This is for fun. That’s all. :) No copying of my story is allowed. That's stealing if anyone copies my story into his/her own story. Write your own story without taking others' works! (angry glare)
Story rating: M (R)(for adult and sexual themes)
Written: February 2009-Present
Summary: Love can pop up unexpectedly with someone you least imagine to fall for. NaruTen.
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Unexpected Love
Chapter 5 – First Step
By JuPMod (aka JPMod)
For most people in the world, education of a person would fall mostly in the person’s childhood years, which started with infancy up to adolescent. Of course, most consider any education beyond adolescent to be just additional higher education separate from the basics. Yet, in reality, education would be continuous throughout a person’s life, for no one truly stopped learning as he or she reached a certain age.
This wisdom was particularly true for everyone in the shinobi lifestyle. A ninja did not stop learning after reaching a certain rank or level, for doing so would be proven fatal against opponents, who could counter a jutsu or form. It was true that continuous education did not guarantee a ninja would live a long time in an unpredictable shinobi world, but if the chances of surviving to reach old age increases with one’s continuous education, much like The Third Hokage had achieved by learning from others even his students, one could not dispute a shinobi from constantly learning.
So if one would happen to see Konoha’s Weapons Mistress curled comfortably in the left corner of her living room’s couch, reading a book on advance shinobi tactics, one would not have any problems of her doing so, especially if she wanted to prepare herself for the jounin exam.
This was what Tenten was doing when the time was a few minutes past 9 PM and the darkness of night was seen through the windows of her family’s second-floor apartment. In nothing but a pink tank top and dark blue slacks with her shoulder-blade-length brown hair loose and free, the kunoichi was focused on her reading with only the light from two floor lamps to provide illumination from each side of the couch. The only non-clothing she was wearing though was a silver necklace with small gold and silver kunai and shuriken.
After pulling up a bit the blanket, used to keep her legs and bare feet warm, and picking up a mug of hot chocolate off the small square table next to the couch and in front of the lamp, the 19-year-old woman was about to continue reading, when the door, which led downstairs to the first-floor family store, opened to reveal her mother, Kyohaku. The 40-something woman flipped off the switch for the staircase lights before closing the door behind her, and with her daughter watching, she flipped on another switch to turn on the overhead lights from the open kitchen, which was adjacent to the living room.
“How are your studies going?” Kyuhaku grinned gently at her only child as she walked toward the kitchen.
“Okay,” Tenten supplied before turning back to her reading after taking a sip of her drink, not bothering to ask regarding the store since it was known they closed shop at 9 PM anyway. “It sure is not going to be easy to get that promotion. I’m worry for Naruto though. He’s not the type to read books or scrolls, unless it contains jutsu or information he can put in immediate use while training. You know that Sakrua and I had to convince him that it would benefit him as a jounin to know advance tactics and other useful knowledge. He had come a long way from his reckless genin days, but he’s still the same in some ways.”
The older woman chuckled at the same time she pulled out an empty mug from a cupboard. “Do you want him to change totally?”
Tenten’s lips curved into a small, amused grin. “No. He wouldn’t be Naruto if he changed totally. It would be like Lee and Gai giving up ‘The Fires of Youth’.” With a sigh, the young woman put down the book on her lap then leaned her head sideways against the soft cushion of the couch’s backrest. Her brown eyes became unfocused as her mind thought of a certain blond man with whisker birthmarks on his cheeks. Her freed left fingers came up to glide over the silver necklace she received from said blond.
After pouring hot water from the still-warm kettle into the coco mix in her mug, Kyuhaku turned around to face her daughter to say something, but her mouth stood still upon seeing the look on Tenten’s face. The female blacksmith produced a concern grin at the sight.
In the past month, ever since her daughter had told her of the near kiss with Naruto, Kyuhaku had seen that faraway look occasionally on Tenten’s face, whenever the girl was thinking of her blond training partner. Tenten had said that sometimes there were awkward moments between Naruto and her, especially if they were so close that their faces nearly touch. However, her child brushed it off and said that things would sort out eventually. Now, Kyuhaku was not so sure whether things would sort out between Naruto and her daughter, unless one or both of them came to terms with their feelings.
“Kami, she’s so blind to not see what is laying in front of her. It was the same with her feelings for Neji.” Sighing, the older woman took a sip of her hot chocolate before proceeding into the living room to walk around to the front of the couch. Just like it was for the Hyuuga prodigy, she knew she has to make her child open up her eyes regarding Naruto.
Seeing the still-glazed expression on her child’s face, Kyuhaku let a small chuckle escaped her lips before noisily cleared her throat. As expected, Tenten was shaken out of her thoughts, looking up at her mother, who wore a semi-amused grin. “Thinking about him?” she asked, and the weapons maker softly chuckled again upon seeing her daughter peered down with blushing cheeks and a tiny, warm grin, her fingers still on the necklace.
Settling down besides her daughter, Kyuhaku placed a comforting hand on Tenten’s blanket-covered knee, prompting the young woman to look up into her mother’s face as her left hand came off the necklace to settle in her lap. “Tenten, I think you and Naruto have to talk about what nearly happen a month ago. Things are not going to sort out on their own as you thought.”
Tenten was startled at first at the suggestion just before letting her body relax as she thought it over. She knew her mother was right. “Just I don’t know how we can get pass this awkwardness between us, Mom. Every time we managed to end up in a position to allow a kiss to happen, we freeze up.”
Kyuhaku smiled reassuringly, having a hunch what was wrong. “Did you want him to kiss you during that time last month?”
“Yes,” Tenten didn’t hesitate to softly answer.
“Did he want to kiss you?” asked the older woman.
“From his facial expression, I have no doubt he had wanted to kiss me,” the Weapons Mistress replied, thinking of his handsome face at that near-kiss moment.
“Then what are you afraid of?” Kyuhaku gently inquired.
This time Tenten did waver in responding. “I… I… I don’t know,” she spoke so softly. “Maybe of what will happen afterward?”
Kyuhaku squeezed her child’s knee, having guessed correctly what was the problem. “Tenten,” she grinned knowingly and reassuringly, “you said many times you trust Naruto and know he will not hurt you. That has not change, has it?”
“Of course not!” Tenten blurted out. “He’s one of my best friends!”
“So was Neji,” the older woman grinning almost cockily. Tenten gave a tiny grin at the point made.
Seeing her daughter’s grin again, Kyuhaku pressed onward. “Do you remember what I told you when you were just as confuse regarding your feelings for Neji, afraid of what would have happen afterward if you two kiss?”
The young woman nodded. “You said that we didn’t need to jump in the water’s deep end, for Neji and I can walk into the water’s shallow end and slowly wade into the deep end at our own comfortable pace.”
A pleased grin graced Kyuhaku’s face. “Precisely. You trust Naruto, you enjoy being with him, you care for him as a good friend, and most importantly, you find him attractive. If he feels the same things for you, I do not see why both of you can’t take that first step into the water together and slowly find out whether there is something more.”
After giving her child’s knee a pat, Kyuhaku stood up and took a sip of her chocolate drink before addressing her daughter again. “Good night, sweetheart. I’m going to bed early.”
“Good night, Mom, and thanks,” Tenten gently grinned up at her mother, who nodded once in acknowledgement before walking around the couch toward the hallway situated on the left side of the kitchen. She turned off the kitchen lights from a switch in the hallway before strolling down the hall to her bedroom.
Alone once more, Team Gai’s kunoichi faced forward, looking down at the book in her lap. She also realized she had held her mug during the entire conversation, thus she was grateful she didn’t accidentally spilled the hot chocolate all over herself.
Taking a sip of her favorite guilty-pleasure drink, which she had inherited the habit from her mother, Tenten reflected on what her parent had said. She knew Naruto and she really needed to talk regarding their feelings for one another. It was bad for them to be walking on eggshells around one another whenever they became physically close, and knowing the blond chuunin was attracted to her and vice-versa, the brunette couldn’t see any fault for them to take that first step, especially now she knew she wanted it.
An idea came to her mind, making her wickedly grin. The plan certainly would be fun for the both of them, and further more, Tenten would enable to verify once and for all that Naruto really found her very attractive. It would be the perfect way for them to take that first step together.
Feeling confident in her plan, Tenten put down her mug on the small table before resuming her reading, but not before she had one last final thought. “Tomorrow after our training will be ideal to engage the plan. I wonder how Naruto will react. Maybe I’ll finally get him to have a nose bleed.” After giggling on the metal image, the young weapons mistress finally focused on her studies.
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“Katon: Housenka no Jutsu (Fire Element: Phoenix Fire Technique)!”
A spray of fireballs shot out of a female mouth and headed toward one group of blond kage bushins that was happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. About ten of the clones puffed out of existence upon getting hit by the attack, and soon after, the jutsu user was on move through the forest once more, trying to avoid being outflanked by even more kage bushins.
After nearly two months since she had started her training in element chakra manipulation, Tenten had come far in knowing katon jutsu. Thanks to a few katon scrolls that used to belong to the Uchiha Clan, the brunette kunoichi was able to add several katon jutsu to her attack arsenal. Combined with her scroll of weapons, the young woman now has more offensive and tactical skills than she did not have before her fire-natured chakra training.
“All thanks to a certain blonde man,” Tenten mentally thanked the person who helped make her stronger as she flung rapidly a barrage of kunai to knock away another a few ‘enemy’ bushins.
As she ran through the forest, aiming to get out into the Memorial Stone training field’s main clearing, the Weapons Mistress mentally frowned upon knowing that despite her progress, she still has not able to create any katon jutsu through the use of her chakra sword. The best she could come up with was to create an aurora of flames around the blade, but other than that, jutsu without hand seals were not within her grasp yet. Until she could fully master her nature chakra, she would not able to perform katon jutsu without seals, and that goal may not become reality for many months to come.
Jumping into the clearing, feeling a sense of relief she now has more room to maneuver and launch her weapons, Tenten turned about to face the forest just as a wave of Naruto clones flew out of the trees right at her. Drawing out her chakra katana from her back, the bun-haired chuunin activated the flaming sword feature and went right into close-range combat with the fake Narutos, who gave her no chances to use her weapons scroll or any katon jutsu. This was fine with her, for she just loved the adrenaline rush hand-to-hand combat gave her as she used her kenjutsu and taijutsu abilities to fend off the Naruto ‘army’.
While the weapons-loving brunette battled the horde, the real Naruto was practicing his wind jutsu on the other side of the clearing. His progress was advancing, thanks to his Kage Bushin training technique. Not only did he now have several A-rank jutsu under his belt, but he has mastered his chakra kodachis that would make them lethal weapons. By extending his wind chakra to make the blades longer and sharper as he pleased, the two short swords truly have became an extension of his being, thus any opponent, who did not know him, would be quickly eliminated by underestimating the range of the swords.
Finishing cutting up another tree with ease, the blond chuunin decided to take a break, and when he turned around, his sight took in the vision of his kunoichi friend battling his bushins on the other side of the clearing. Sheathing his swords behind his back, Naruto watched Tenten spar, admiring her strength and form, as he done many times before.
A sigh escaped his being as his grin faltered. Tenten was a great friend to him, ever since he first came to her store nearly a decade ago, and since watching her fight during the Chuunin Exams when he was twelve, Naruto had admired her highly as a kunoichi. Yet it was only in the past several months he came to appreciate her as a woman.
She was intelligent and strong, great traits for a warrior, yet she was warm and have a great sense of humor. Unlike Sakura, Tenten has far better patience to teach things to him, and definitely unlike Sakura, she did not hit him for saying anything stupid. As far as he knew, the brunette had not ever lost her temper, saved just one time when he saw her among a several pissed off women who had been chasing Jiraiya from the Konoha women’s hot springs a few years ago. To go on top of her wonderful personality, she has grown to be quite a looker with a toned body any man would drool over. Overall, she was a woman any man would be lucky to have as a girlfriend and potential wife.
And this was the crust of his problem he currently has regarding his beautiful friend. Ever since that near-kiss a month ago, Naruto was not sure exactly where he stood with her. Was she just a friend, or was his feelings developing into something more? He definitely had wanted to kiss her during that moment they were drawn to one another, yet since then, he was not so sure whether to follow through with the notion or not. He had not ever been in relationship with a girl before, so he has no idea whether it was what Tenten really wanted or not, thus he did not want to ruin the friendship he has with her.
Naruto scowled as he looked away from the fighting female. “Kami! Why am I so hesitant over this?! I trust her with my life as a friend and fellow ninja, so I know she will not hurt me in any way.” The scowl fell as he closed his eyes. “Why can’t things ever be simple?”
With his eyes closed, the young man was unaware that Tenten had been watching him out of the corners of her eyes while fighting his clones. She frowned upon seeing his depressing expression, and given she didn’t like seeing him in a sullen mood, the Weapons Mistress decided to liven things up for him.
After knocking back a Naruto clone with backhand punch, the kunoichi swiftly unsealed a windmill shuriken out of her scroll and snapped it open into its four-blade form before spiraling it across the field toward the real Naruto. All the Kage Bushin Narutos went wide-eyed at this move, wondering what the hell she was doing. “Boss!” one clone cried out. “Watch out!”
Blue eyes snapped open to see a fast moving rotating windmill shuriken heading right at him at neck level. “KUSO!” hollered out the blond before quickly ducking, and once after the flying buzz saw whizzed by and lodged into a tree, did the man straighten back up again to cast a miffed and perplexed gaze at the smirking girl. “What are you doing, Tenten?!”
“I was trying to cheer you up, Naruto,” replied Tenten too innocently with a simple shrug. “It doesn’t suit you to look all dreary.” With challenging eyes and a devilish grin, she held up her katana once more and pointed it at her training partner. “How about going at me one more time for the fun of it?”
That expression of hers told him she was teasing him, edging him to spar with her one-on-one like they had this morning. Just this time, she was doing so to get him out of his funk and not out of any training needs. Feeling grateful that she cared for him, Naruto let an equal sly grin appeared on his face, getting into the game she had set.
“Guys…” he ordered out to his clones as he approached the crafty kunoichi, drawing out his twin kodachis. “Go retrieve all of Ten-chan’s weapons. I’ll deal with her for the time being.”
All the clones smiled wickedly at the command, knowing their Boss was going to have some fun now. After giving out snappy salutes, the remaining dozen Kage Bushins scattered about to retrieve all the weapons the female weapons expert had used during her workout with them.
As Tenten and Naruto began feeling that emotion every time they spar together, they prepared themselves to do battle once more. Each couldn’t describe it, but it was an invigorating sensation that made them anticipated the rush and flow of wanting to spar with one another. It was something that each knew they have not ever felt when sparring with anyone else. Not ever.
Almost like they were reading each other’s minds, they rushed out at each at the same time, and their blades clashed together as they met each other at the half way mark. Like many times before, the two fought each other with everything they had, and it was quite a rush for both of them.
Many minutes later, the pair broke apart, sweaty and somewhat panting. A grinning Tenten sheathed her sword, indicating the end of the spar. There were times that they would fight with no one getting the upper hand, thus during such occasions, the Weapons Mistress would sheath her katana or kodachis to indicate the end of the fight. It was fun to spar with him, but even she knew she did not have the stamina to fight him for long durations.
“You are such a stamina freak,” Tenten teasingly jabbed.
A grinning Naruto shrugged before sheathing his swords. “What can I say? I have it, so I use it. Is it any wonder I can least outlast Lee at times?”
Tenten chuckled at that, since it was true anyway. “Yeah. No wonder he loves to spar with you the most, other than Gai-sensei, that is.” Naruto rubbed the back of his head as he chuckled with his patent closed-eyed fox smile.
After shaking her head with a warm smirk at him, the bun-haired woman let out a sigh before speaking again. “Naruto…?” Seeing he was paying attention, she continued. “How about we quit training early today? Since it’s a warm day, we can go swimming at Waterfall Lake. I already brought along a dinner picnic sealed in a scroll. We can go swimming in the lake and have a nice picnic dinner afterward.”
Naruto was pleasantly surprised at her offer. They had been treating each other to dinner occasionally, ever since he had bought her dinner months ago on her birthday. Yet all those times were at restaurants, thus this suggestion was the first time they would have dinner together that was not at a restaurant setting. The blond grinned at his friend, for he certainly did not mind the change of venue. It was certainly a nice alteration from the normal routine.
“I’m all for it, Ten-chan,” he stated. She grinned at the suffix, not minding it at all. It was a clear sign that Naruto considered her a very close personal friend. She knew he still called Sakura ‘Sakura-chan’ despite they would always remain friends.
“Good,” the brunette replied before strolling over to a pile of weapons left by Naruto’s Kage Bushins, whom no doubt had finished their retrieval job during the sparring match. “I’ll meet you at Waterfall Lake in a few minutes. After I seal away my weapons, I’m going directly there.” Taking her large scroll, which she had dropped before engaging in the fight with Naruto, Tenten began sealing away the small stockpile of weapons.
A confused expression marred Naruto’s face. “Are you not going home to change? I have to do so, since I didn’t bring my swim trunks with me.”
Tenten chuckled. “I’m wearing my swimsuit under my clothes, Naruto. I was prepared for this, since it was I who planned it.”
“Oh,” the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki blinked, feeling like an idiot for not figuring out the obvious. He should also have known, since he knew girls could able to hide their swimsuits underneath clothing if they knew they were going swimming. “I’ll see you at Waterfall Lake then,” he admitted sheepishly before he vanished in a poof of smoke, indicating he has Shunshin to his apartment.
Softly laughing at his embarrassment, Tenten continued to seal away the many kunai and shuriken, as well as a few other weapons. He was cute when he was flustered, and it was fun to see him like that at times.
Her amused grin however slowly turned into a devious one. “All is going to plan,” she mentally stated, her hands continued with the work at hand.
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Waterfall Lake. It was a pristine small lake that sat at the base of a waterfall, and the runoff from the lake then flowed over a rock edge to run downstream to another river connected to another nearby waterfall. The lake was considered one of few nice watering holes around Konoha good for swimming, bathing, and other recreations.
Waterfall Lake was part of several lakes, streams, and rivers that were part of Konoha’s overall territory, which surrounded the enclosed shinobi village. After all, training grounds, like Training Area 44, AKA ‘The Forest of Death’, needed a lot of acres of land that were not possible within the walled village. The training of shinobi just would not have been likely without the vast training fields stretching out many kilometers outside the village.
Yet for Uzumaki Naruto, who Shushin into the left area of Waterfall Lake, the lake was a reminder of a time, when he first trained under Jiraiya for one month prior to the final rounds of the Chuunin Exams. For this lake was not far from another waterfall where the late Toad Sennin had peeped on a trio of women swimming and playing in the waters. Of course, both waterfalls also happened to be nearby The Great Konoha Ravine, and for the blond, he would not ever forget that moment when Ero-sennin pushed him into the ravine to force him to summon a toad big enough to save him. No one in Konoha or anywhere ever bothered to explore just how deep the ravine was, and Naruto had not wanted to find out the hard way. He was very lucky he had summoned Gamabunta, or else he would have made a very huge bloody mess at the ravine’s bottom, wherever how far down that was though.
Spotting Tenten, who had already set up the picnic blanket and basket along the shore nearby the waterfall, the blond Hokage-wannabe strolled toward the brunette weapons specialist, who grinned upon seeing him approaching. To her brown eyes, he looked quite good in the white T-shirt with the Leaf symbol on the front, orange swim trunks with black flames along the leg hems, and simple sandals.
“Hi, Tenten!” greeted Naruto with a grin while carrying a white fluffy towel over one shoulder. He could see she was still in her kunoichi outfit, yet beside the picnic basket, he made out several towels, which he deduced was meant for his use as well as hers.
“Hi, Naruto!” replied Tenten. “Are you ready to go swimming? I certainly am.” Her face scrunched up in distaste. “I want to wash off the sweat and grime on me.”
Naruto chuckled at her words. “Yeah, I can see you need a bath alright.” His expression became an understanding one. “Then again, so do me.” With that said he tossed his towel onto the picnic blanket and pulled his T-shirt off to toss it next to the towel.
Tenten felt her face heat up upon seeing that toned tanned body with fine abs, flat stomach, and hard chest. Kami, she knew she had seen his body last year at a pool party, but this time, her view of him was different.
Seeing he was smirking, knowing he knew she was flushing over his body, the bun-haired young woman grinned a bit sheepishly and shrugged prior to her hands started to unsnapped her Chinese dress along the front seams. This time it was Naruto’s turn to blush, as one by one, Tenten shed her clothes to reveal the swimwear underneath.
As the last piece of Tenten’s clothing hit the ground, Naruto was doing his best to prevent the blood in his head from coming out of his nose. The two-piece swimsuit she was wearing was not the red semi-conservative halter-top he had seen her worn the previous summer at a pool party, for that swimsuit least covered her ass and shown little cleavage. This one, he was currently seeing, would easily be described as quite alluring and sexy. Heck, the blond knew that if Tenten were to walk down the streets of Konoha in this number, she would be leaving a trail of blood behind her from the nosebleeds from all the perverted men (and some women).
The top seemed to be a crisscrossed strap top, where the strap from each side went diagonally across the chest to cover the breast on the opposite side. The straps in the back crisscrossed to meet at a silver ring, where the swimsuit top could be adjusted, and it was clear that Tenten had adjusted the top to pull her breasts upward and toward the sides, exposing eye-popping cleavage from the bottom up. Yet another interesting feature was that the top has two colors – pink for the left strap and right chest cover and red for the right strap and left chest cover.
The bottom piece was a high-hip bottom with a triangle front. It was quite sexy with the bikini’s leg lines running up along the lines where her legs met her torso, and just like with the top, the bottom has two colors – red on the right side with pink on the left side, which overlaps the red at the crotch. The back however was the most eye-catching, for the material was half covering her shapely round derriere and outlined the crack of her ass.
After a couple of minutes of staring at his very feminine training partner, Naruto realized he was gawking like a fool, and despite his best efforts, a small trickle of blood seeped out of his right nostril. With cheeks quite red, the blond wiped away the blood, before he turned his head away.
He did not want his nose to bleed any more, as he did his best to calm down his racing heart.
Seeing his reactions, Tenten was quite pleased at the results. It was very obvious that Naruto found her to be incredibly attractive and sexy in this two-piece swimsuit, which showed off her toned body well, and knowing this, she was quite excited at the prospects of what was about to come. Her heart raced a bit on the thoughts, at the same time her lips curved devilishly upward on one side.
Deciding that he was teased enough, the brown-eyed woman gestured to him to follow her. “Come on, Naruto. Let’s go swimming.” She then strolled the short distance to walk into the water and waded into the lake enough for the water to reach her thighs. The water was a bit on the cool side, but tolerable to swim in given the warm weather.
Smiling slightly on feeling his eyes was watching her, Tenten dipped down to begin swimming, and upon reaching far enough so she needed to paddle her feet to stay afloat due to no footing, she turned around to see Naruto was still watching her. Laughing at the sight, she called out to him. “Come on in, the water’s fine!” Her lips curled up slyly. “Or are you afraid of getting wet, Whisker Boy!”
That brought out the desired effect, as Naruto narrowed his eyes at her before pointing at her with a crafty grin of his own. “Oh, you are so going to get it, Weapons Girl.” He gently flicked off the sandals with his feet onto the picnic blanket before he rushed into the water, and once he reached waist height, he dived underneath toward his prey.
Tenten has no intentions to let him capture her easily, so she too dived underwater, and given the water’s pristine clearness, her brown eyes saw him coming at her, so she swam away toward the waterfall with him on hot pursuit.
Upon reaching the waterfall, Konoha’s Weapons Mistress surfaced unable to swim underneath the falls due to the turbulence of the descending water into the lake. She was about to paddle toward the right when a blond-headed body shot up besides her, his arms about to wrap around her frame. “Got you!”
A quick female hand splashed water into his face, before the owner began pushing backward away from her pursuer. He recovered in time to see her back stroking away with a witty face. “No you did not,” she crowed before sticking out her tongue at him. “Nyaa!”
Naruto grinned menacingly at her and was about to take off after her, when he saw her hands went through a few hand seals. He was unable to react in time before the jutsu was completed.
“Mizu Tama Bomu no Jutsu (Water Ball Bomb Technique)!” the brunette called out before her palms pushed forward through the water and shot a cannonball-size water ball right at the blond, who took the hit against his crossed arms. By the time he recovered, his quarry was even further away.
“You can’t catch me now!” Tenten boasted in a singsong fashion, and once more stuck her tongue at him. It was a quick and clever ruse to use a simple harmless D-rank water jutsu, meant just for water games, to distract him while she back peddled further away from him. It would take him a lot of effort to swim the distance to catch up to her.
Blue eyes saw that she was right, but a moment later, his frown turned into a smirk. “That’s what you think!” he shouted. The next moment, he shot out of the water, and with chakra applied to his feet, he ran across the watery surface toward the startled girl.
“No fair!” Tenten playfully shrieked, pointing an accusing finger at the fast-approaching, wicked-grinning Naruto.
Just before reaching her, the young man dived under, and using his momentum, he caught her around the waist and pulled her under. She went with another playful shriek. A couple moments later, the pair emerged with a splash, laughing together as the brunette tried to humorously pry his arms away from her.
Catching her breath and still giggling, Tenten gave up and just let her captor hold her around the waist from behind. “You cheated,” she said with a playful slap on his arm before turning her head enough to look up at his victoriously grinning face.
“I didn’t hear any rules being made, before you started the game, Ten-chan,” Naruto claimed with a knowing smirk.
“True,” the brown-haired woman conceded her face matching his, “but I least expected you to gentlemanly honor the notion that you suppose to catch me without using the water walking technique.”
The golden-haired man snorted a laugh. “Who was the one who hit me with a water ball bomb jutsu?”
“Aww,” Tenten mocked in sympathy. “Was the great Toad Sage outwitted by a simple D-rank jutsu?” Her smirk returned, before her tongue stuck out at him.
Once more, Naruto snorted a laugh, and soon after, his smirk widened with twinkling eyes. “How about I torture you, Weapons Girl?”
She felt his fingers moved across her waist, warning her immediately to what he was up to. “Don’t you dare!” Tenten warned mockingly at him.
However, the playful threat went unheeded, for Naruto’s fingers began tickling his prisoner, making her laugh and shrieked joyously. Tenten tried to escape, but her blond warden held firm, enjoying torturing her as much as she was receiving it.
So for a long time, Naruto and Tenten took pleasure in each other’s company in the lake. They swam, dived from the waterfall cliff, and played around like they were kids again. It was a joyful way to spend the remaining afternoon hours.
Laughing at a joke Naruto made regarding how she always kept a sharp edge in her skills, Tenten hugged her friend and buried her head in his chest. It was a simple hug that the whisker-faced boy returned, laughing with her.
As their laughter died down, the brunette gazed up at the same time he looked down. Before they knew it, each was caught into the eyesight of the other, unable to tear away as they exam each other as they done a month before.
Tenten’s lips formed into a tiny grin, and this time she didn’t feel any nervousness at all being in this situation. She took in his expressive cerulean eyes, the damp golden locks, the way the water droplets ran over his face, neck, and hard chest, and the smooth skin under her fingers. “Kami, he is wonderful.”
Naruto however felt a bit unease. His fingers found themselves registering the soft smooth skin of her back, while his eyes were recording her soft grin, the shining brown irises, her wet brown mane with drops dripping off the front bangs as well as loose strands of hair hanging off her bun, and the way her skin glistened with water droplets nearly everywhere on her form. “She is quite beautiful. I wish I could be in her arms forever. Yet…”
Seeing the hesitation in those blue orbs, Tenten knew this was it. She tightened her arms so he would not pull away, while she gave him a warm, gentle, and reassuring grin. “It’s okay, Naruto. I don’t mind.”
“Eh?” blinked Naruto in confusion. Did she say what he thought she said?
Tenten pressed on, her gaze not leaving his. “It’s okay to feel this way for me. I feel the same to you. I don’t mind this at all, especially being like this with you.” She moved closer, touching her front into his, causing him to gasp at the sensation of her skin against his, especially those breasts pressing against him.
“Ten-chan?” asked the blond; his voice laced with confusion yet also hope.
Smiling at the progress she was making with him, the weapons-loving kunoichi maneuvered her arms to wrap them around the year-and-an-half younger shinobi’s neck. She was thankful they were both in shallower waters to allow him to have a footing on the bottom with the water level at his pectoral, while the water enabled her to stay buoyant to not put strain on her arms. Her heartbeat was increasing, and she could feel through his chest it was the same for him.
“Naruto,” she continued, “we’ve been dancing on eggshells with each other ever since that near-kiss a month ago. My mother confronted me last night, and after talking with her, I came to realize that we do want this, but we’re afraid to take that step.”
“Yeah,” Naruto confirmed. “You’re a great woman, Ten-chan.” Her smile broadened with a blush upon hearing those words. “I have wanted to have such a relationship my whole life, to be love and to love. I thought I had a chance with Sakura-chan, but that was not possible. When we nearly kiss a month ago, I knew I wanted to take that step with you, yet I’m afraid what might happen after. I don’t want to loose your friendship, Ten-chan.”
“You won’t,” Tenten reassured him, her heart feeling for him. “We’ll continue our friendship, just it will be something a little more, something special.” A warm sigh escaped her being. “My Mom told me this, when I had the same hesitation regarding going further with Neji. We do not need to plunge into the deep waters at first, for we can take our first steps together in the shallower end first and gradually work our way deeper at our own pace. No rush. We can explore together our new relationship without fear or hesitation.”
After thinking about her words for a few moments, a tiny grin spread across Naruto’s face. He liked what he heard. “I like that we’ll continue our friendship,” the blond admitted, before his grin curled up a bit on one side. “Just in what way will we do to show our friendship has become special?”
Tenten heard what he really meant, making her eyes blazed and her heart raced. “I’m sure you already know what way we’re going to show it, Whisker Boy,” she softly spoke, her eyes narrowing as she saw him lowering his lips towards her, his eyes narrowing as well.
“I certainly do, Weapons Girl,” Naruto whispered, his breath could be felt on her lips and vice-versa, their eyes now slits gazing right at each other. “I most certainly do.”
Their lips connected, and it began with soft pressure, their slit eyes still open at each other. Yet the electrical feelings overwhelmed them, making them closed their eyes and increased the pressure, making each moaned into the other’s mouth, their arms tightening due that each not wanting to let go.
“Kami…” Tenten managed to mentally said as she lost herself in the feelings of the taste of his sweet lips, his body wonderfully pressed into hers, the feel of his wet golden locks as she moved a hand into the mane, and the thrilling sounds of his moans. All of this was overloading her senses, wanting him more, and she received it when he encouraged her to open her mouth and once she did, he pressed his open mouth onto hers, making her moan deeply.
Naruto couldn’t even think straight, for there was nothing else on his mind other than her. His mind only thought of the silk smoothness of her skin under his fingers, the fantastic pressure of her body molding against his, the exhilarating sounds of her persuasive moans, and the addicting touch of her soft open lips. He was drowning, and the tide rose dramatically when he felt her tongue ventured into his mouth to mingle with his, producing another moan out of his being. His tongue danced with hers, letting himself surrender to the electrifying feelings coursing through his body at the touch of her silken tongue.
It felt like an eternity for the pair, wanting the feelings to last forever. However, the need for air ended the ride, prompting each to pull their heads away and opened glazed eyes at one another as they caught their breaths with their open mouths, their cheeks quite blushed. Both were unable to speak, while their overloaded minds tried to process the incredible experience.
“Wow,” Naruto finally spoke softly after a couple minutes of silence. He still couldn’t believe just how powerful that kiss has been.
Tenten let a small warm grin formed upon hearing that word. She moved her arms underneath his and wrapped them around his back upward rest her hands on his shoulders from behind. Only then did the female weapons expert rest her face in the crook of his neck. “Wow indeed, Naruto-kun,” she spoke just as softly before kissing his neck, loving the shiver he produced upon the feeling of her lips, and once she settled comfortably into his embrace did Naruto relaxed warmly with a similar grin as hers, enjoying holding her this way.
After a couple more minutes of silent snuggling, Tenten hauled her head away to lock her brown orbs with his blue ones. “That was the most amazing kiss I had ever received.” He grinned a bit proudly at the admission. “Given what I knew about you, I thought this would be your first kiss.” Her lips twisted up a bit in a teasing manner. “Not counting Sasuke, of course.” She giggled at his half frown and half amused expression, knowing he would forever be teased regarding that accidental ‘kiss’ years ago.
Shaking off the thoughts of what had transpired long ago, Naruto grinned somewhat sheepishly at the woman in his arms. “Well, Ten-chan, to be honest, you’re only the second girl I have ever kissed.”
Her eyes went wide upon hearing that, for it was big news to her ears. “When? With whom?” she immediately blurted out. “It couldn’t be Sakura or any girl in the village, or else the whole village would have known about it.”
The blond gently chuckled at her shock. “You wouldn’t believe me, if I tell you.” He paused for a moment, expecting her to say something, yet at her wordless expression for him to tell her, the young man let out a breath and carried on. “Princess Yukie of Spring Country.”
A stunned Tenten’s eyes went wide again as her mouth hanged open in disbelief. “Are you kidding me? Yukie? Princess Yukie Fujikaze?! Spring Country’s ruler who also had happened to be an actress?!” Seeing him nodded an affirmative and the look on his face, the brunette knew he had spoken the truth. “When? It was not when your team had helped overthrew the rogue ninjas and restored her to the throne. Sakura would have said something.”
“No, it was not during that time,” Naruto confirmed her guess. “It had happened during the training trip with Jiraiya when I was fourteen. We stopped by Spring Country, in order for him to help promote the new Icha Icha movie that came out. With him busy, Yukie had invited me to a private dinner with just the two of us, and by the end of the dinner…” The blond blushed and chuckled at the memories. “Well, simply put, she had seduced me.”
Tenten once more was astonished. “She seduced you?! Are you saying that not only she was your very first kiss with a girl, she also happened to have taken your virginity?!”
His nod affirmed what she said. “Yeah, she did. I had wanted to save myself for Sakura-chan, but I guess my hormones did me in, especially with a beautiful older woman kissing me senseless.” Another chuckle escaped his mouth. “I’d learned a lot from Yukie during the two days we spent in her bedroom chambers. She had wanted to award me for helping her before, and that she pretty much wanted to do it with me anyway, since it had been so long for her since she last had sex.” He made a simple shrug. “It was just a fling, nothing more.”
After blinking at him for a few moments, Tenten let a small grin appeared on her face, while she shook her head slightly at him. His ‘first time’ was sure the stuff of any Yukie Fujikaze Fan Boy’s wet dream. Heck, she had a feeling that most of the men in Konoha would envy Naruto for loosing his virginity to a very beautiful princess and well-known actress.
“I don’t know whether I should feel disappointed that I was not the first girl to kiss you or feel relief you have the experience to have given me a wonderful kiss,” the brunette joked with light laughter.
Naruto laughed along with her. “How about choosing the latter? I think you would have preferred to be kiss by a man with experience, and I for one think you’re one hot kisser too, Ten-chan.” Her big smile and blushing cheeks, as she looked down at his chest, told him Tenten was very pleased by the flattering remark.
“So,” the blond shinobi said, making her reestablished eye contact, “does this mean we’re now boyfriend and girlfriend?” One golden eyebrow went up at the end of the question.
Feeling the emotion at his query, Tenten allowed a true warm grin to radiate her face. “Uzumaki Naruto, my boyfriend. I like it.”
“As I said, I like to explore this with you, Naruto-kun, so you can say we’re boyfriend and girlfriend now,” the bun-haired woman warmly stated. “We’ve been kind-of dating during those occasional after-training dinners in the past several months, but overall, I enjoy being in your company. We really do not need to change much. We’ll continue to train, enjoy each other as we go out to dance, eat, and do other things. It’s not like we do not know each other, since we’re best friends.”
For the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki, he felt his heart swelled on the thought that he now officially has a girlfriend. “You’re right,” he grinned with his expression warmly matching hers. “It’s good to know that it’s not like we’re dating total strangers. It would have awkward, if we had started out that way.”
“Precisely,” Tenten grinned, happy to know they were quite comfortable and trusting of each other already for them to take this first step together. Deep down, it felt right to her.
A mischief thought came to Naruto’s mind, making his lips curled up slyly. “Of course, now that we’re boyfriend and girlfriend, we’ll add that additional benefit on top of our friendship, ne?”
Knowing what he meant, the Weapons Mistress once more felt the electricity between them, her heart beating a bit more as her lips grinned devilishly. She definitely wanted to do that ‘additional benefit’ again with him, now and many more times in the future. “Oh, we’ll be doing that often, Whisker Boy,” she nearly purred, before her right hand slithered from his back to up his front to palm and caress his right cheek.
Naruto’s breath hitched at the touch of her fingers, especially when they were caressing his whisker marks. His eyes narrowed while his voice became softer and bit husky. “We’ll get practical experience the more we do it.”
Tenten raised her head towards his, half-lidded brown eyes blazing. “Definitely,” she whispered in agreement, before her right hand grabbed the back of his head and pulled his mouth onto hers, kissing him fiercely, which he returned with gusto.
As the newly official Konoha couple carried on to press their open mouths together heatedly, resulting in body shivering moans radiating through each other, the world around them moved on without their awareness for the time being. They took their first step together and entered into a whole new world… for the both of them.
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TBC (End of Chapter 5)
A/Ns:
1) Tenten’s pink & red two-piece swimsuit has been inspired by the art titled “Naruto Girl Bookmarks” by Kyomana over at DeviantArt. The link can be found in my Author Profile or copy-and-paste the following URL and remove the spaces…
kyomana . deviantart . com art Naruto-Girl-bookmarks-64620514
By the way, if anyone knows the name of this style swimsuit shown in the art, if there is such a style in our real world, let me know please. This way I can edit in the name of the style in the story as well as make any corrections to the description of the swimsuit.
2) By the way, I deeply appreciate the people who tell me whether I made a mistake in the Naruto names, techniques, etc. I’m not perfect when it comes to the Naruto world, so if I make a mistake, I appreciate people tell me the appropriate way to pronounce something.
For example, do I really need to put a ‘s’ after ‘jutsu’ if I mentioning the plural? Some fics have the ‘s’, while others do not. I understand that the Japanese do not have any ‘s’ to mention the plural of a word. So which is right? Can anyone tell me?
3) The Katon: Housenka no Jutsu (Fire Element: Phoenix Fire Technique) is a C-rank fire jutsu according to most online sites. It’s stated that it is mostly use as a distraction, but it can be use for attack purposes. I feel it’s fitting for Tenten to know this jutsu, which I think is a common jutsu in Konoha and not just for the Uchiha Clan.
The Mizu Tama Bomu no Jutsu (Water Ball Bomb Technique) is just as mentioned in the story. It’s simply a D-rank water jutsu meant for fun or could be use for a handy distraction in the field. I think there are hundreds of simple D-rank jutsus that exist in the Naruto universe, meant for everyday practical purposes or for fun. I can’t imagine any shinobi not taking advantages of such jutsus to simplify his/her life. Heck, I bet the Academy students would get a kick out of the fun jutsus. :)
4) I made Naruto not a virgin, because I really can’t see Tenten kissing him and he fudges it due that he has no experience. IMO, if he had some experience in kissing a girl and about sex, I think he would know how to kiss Tenten and make it quite enjoyable for both.
Of course, it left me with the question to which girl would be the one to teach Naruto about kissing and sex. Anko came to my mind at first, but given her personality, I think Naruto would be too scared to even enjoy himself. Kurenai also came to mind, but she is the sensei of three of Naruto’s classmates. She also is interested in Asuma, so I really can’t see her doing the deed with Naruto.
Yet when I thought of Princess Yukie from the first Naruto movie, I immediately thought she would be perfect. She views Naruto as a hero. I have no doubt she does have experience, and if I place Naruto’s ‘first time’ during the training trip with Jiraiya, it would be ideal. Naruto did not officially have a girlfriend at the time, and even though he still thought of Sakura, I really can’t see a 14-year-old able to resist his hormones at the hands of a beautiful older woman like Yukie.
Oh, the idea overall to use Yukie came to me when I remember a PWP (Plot, What Plot?) fanfic where Naruto reaches puberty, and thanks to the Kyuubi, ends up going into heat every month on the full moon. He was in Spring Country at the time, and Yukie wanted to award him just when he was in heat. I figured I could use the same idea, just without Naruto having a monthly sex cycle. ;P
5) Well, after four months, Naruto and Tenten finally had taken the first step together. Yeah, Tenten made it possible, because I think Naruto would be somewhat afraid in taking that first step, for he has no experience what so ever when it comes to having a girlfriend. It’s a new feeling for him. Yet now that he and Tenten are past that stage, they can be an official couple now.
And for anyone’s information, don’t expect them to be saying the L word any time soon. They’re exploring for now, so their feelings has yet to evolve to that second step. When? Only I will know. ;p
And for those wanting the couple to get to the hot loving (The third step), you still will be waiting for some time. XD
Story rating: M (R)(for adult and sexual themes)
Written: February 2009-Present
Summary: Love can pop up unexpectedly with someone you least imagine to fall for. NaruTen.
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Unexpected Love
Chapter 5 – First Step
By JuPMod (aka JPMod)
For most people in the world, education of a person would fall mostly in the person’s childhood years, which started with infancy up to adolescent. Of course, most consider any education beyond adolescent to be just additional higher education separate from the basics. Yet, in reality, education would be continuous throughout a person’s life, for no one truly stopped learning as he or she reached a certain age.
This wisdom was particularly true for everyone in the shinobi lifestyle. A ninja did not stop learning after reaching a certain rank or level, for doing so would be proven fatal against opponents, who could counter a jutsu or form. It was true that continuous education did not guarantee a ninja would live a long time in an unpredictable shinobi world, but if the chances of surviving to reach old age increases with one’s continuous education, much like The Third Hokage had achieved by learning from others even his students, one could not dispute a shinobi from constantly learning.
So if one would happen to see Konoha’s Weapons Mistress curled comfortably in the left corner of her living room’s couch, reading a book on advance shinobi tactics, one would not have any problems of her doing so, especially if she wanted to prepare herself for the jounin exam.
This was what Tenten was doing when the time was a few minutes past 9 PM and the darkness of night was seen through the windows of her family’s second-floor apartment. In nothing but a pink tank top and dark blue slacks with her shoulder-blade-length brown hair loose and free, the kunoichi was focused on her reading with only the light from two floor lamps to provide illumination from each side of the couch. The only non-clothing she was wearing though was a silver necklace with small gold and silver kunai and shuriken.
After pulling up a bit the blanket, used to keep her legs and bare feet warm, and picking up a mug of hot chocolate off the small square table next to the couch and in front of the lamp, the 19-year-old woman was about to continue reading, when the door, which led downstairs to the first-floor family store, opened to reveal her mother, Kyohaku. The 40-something woman flipped off the switch for the staircase lights before closing the door behind her, and with her daughter watching, she flipped on another switch to turn on the overhead lights from the open kitchen, which was adjacent to the living room.
“How are your studies going?” Kyuhaku grinned gently at her only child as she walked toward the kitchen.
“Okay,” Tenten supplied before turning back to her reading after taking a sip of her drink, not bothering to ask regarding the store since it was known they closed shop at 9 PM anyway. “It sure is not going to be easy to get that promotion. I’m worry for Naruto though. He’s not the type to read books or scrolls, unless it contains jutsu or information he can put in immediate use while training. You know that Sakrua and I had to convince him that it would benefit him as a jounin to know advance tactics and other useful knowledge. He had come a long way from his reckless genin days, but he’s still the same in some ways.”
The older woman chuckled at the same time she pulled out an empty mug from a cupboard. “Do you want him to change totally?”
Tenten’s lips curved into a small, amused grin. “No. He wouldn’t be Naruto if he changed totally. It would be like Lee and Gai giving up ‘The Fires of Youth’.” With a sigh, the young woman put down the book on her lap then leaned her head sideways against the soft cushion of the couch’s backrest. Her brown eyes became unfocused as her mind thought of a certain blond man with whisker birthmarks on his cheeks. Her freed left fingers came up to glide over the silver necklace she received from said blond.
After pouring hot water from the still-warm kettle into the coco mix in her mug, Kyuhaku turned around to face her daughter to say something, but her mouth stood still upon seeing the look on Tenten’s face. The female blacksmith produced a concern grin at the sight.
In the past month, ever since her daughter had told her of the near kiss with Naruto, Kyuhaku had seen that faraway look occasionally on Tenten’s face, whenever the girl was thinking of her blond training partner. Tenten had said that sometimes there were awkward moments between Naruto and her, especially if they were so close that their faces nearly touch. However, her child brushed it off and said that things would sort out eventually. Now, Kyuhaku was not so sure whether things would sort out between Naruto and her daughter, unless one or both of them came to terms with their feelings.
“Kami, she’s so blind to not see what is laying in front of her. It was the same with her feelings for Neji.” Sighing, the older woman took a sip of her hot chocolate before proceeding into the living room to walk around to the front of the couch. Just like it was for the Hyuuga prodigy, she knew she has to make her child open up her eyes regarding Naruto.
Seeing the still-glazed expression on her child’s face, Kyuhaku let a small chuckle escaped her lips before noisily cleared her throat. As expected, Tenten was shaken out of her thoughts, looking up at her mother, who wore a semi-amused grin. “Thinking about him?” she asked, and the weapons maker softly chuckled again upon seeing her daughter peered down with blushing cheeks and a tiny, warm grin, her fingers still on the necklace.
Settling down besides her daughter, Kyuhaku placed a comforting hand on Tenten’s blanket-covered knee, prompting the young woman to look up into her mother’s face as her left hand came off the necklace to settle in her lap. “Tenten, I think you and Naruto have to talk about what nearly happen a month ago. Things are not going to sort out on their own as you thought.”
Tenten was startled at first at the suggestion just before letting her body relax as she thought it over. She knew her mother was right. “Just I don’t know how we can get pass this awkwardness between us, Mom. Every time we managed to end up in a position to allow a kiss to happen, we freeze up.”
Kyuhaku smiled reassuringly, having a hunch what was wrong. “Did you want him to kiss you during that time last month?”
“Yes,” Tenten didn’t hesitate to softly answer.
“Did he want to kiss you?” asked the older woman.
“From his facial expression, I have no doubt he had wanted to kiss me,” the Weapons Mistress replied, thinking of his handsome face at that near-kiss moment.
“Then what are you afraid of?” Kyuhaku gently inquired.
This time Tenten did waver in responding. “I… I… I don’t know,” she spoke so softly. “Maybe of what will happen afterward?”
Kyuhaku squeezed her child’s knee, having guessed correctly what was the problem. “Tenten,” she grinned knowingly and reassuringly, “you said many times you trust Naruto and know he will not hurt you. That has not change, has it?”
“Of course not!” Tenten blurted out. “He’s one of my best friends!”
“So was Neji,” the older woman grinning almost cockily. Tenten gave a tiny grin at the point made.
Seeing her daughter’s grin again, Kyuhaku pressed onward. “Do you remember what I told you when you were just as confuse regarding your feelings for Neji, afraid of what would have happen afterward if you two kiss?”
The young woman nodded. “You said that we didn’t need to jump in the water’s deep end, for Neji and I can walk into the water’s shallow end and slowly wade into the deep end at our own comfortable pace.”
A pleased grin graced Kyuhaku’s face. “Precisely. You trust Naruto, you enjoy being with him, you care for him as a good friend, and most importantly, you find him attractive. If he feels the same things for you, I do not see why both of you can’t take that first step into the water together and slowly find out whether there is something more.”
After giving her child’s knee a pat, Kyuhaku stood up and took a sip of her chocolate drink before addressing her daughter again. “Good night, sweetheart. I’m going to bed early.”
“Good night, Mom, and thanks,” Tenten gently grinned up at her mother, who nodded once in acknowledgement before walking around the couch toward the hallway situated on the left side of the kitchen. She turned off the kitchen lights from a switch in the hallway before strolling down the hall to her bedroom.
Alone once more, Team Gai’s kunoichi faced forward, looking down at the book in her lap. She also realized she had held her mug during the entire conversation, thus she was grateful she didn’t accidentally spilled the hot chocolate all over herself.
Taking a sip of her favorite guilty-pleasure drink, which she had inherited the habit from her mother, Tenten reflected on what her parent had said. She knew Naruto and she really needed to talk regarding their feelings for one another. It was bad for them to be walking on eggshells around one another whenever they became physically close, and knowing the blond chuunin was attracted to her and vice-versa, the brunette couldn’t see any fault for them to take that first step, especially now she knew she wanted it.
An idea came to her mind, making her wickedly grin. The plan certainly would be fun for the both of them, and further more, Tenten would enable to verify once and for all that Naruto really found her very attractive. It would be the perfect way for them to take that first step together.
Feeling confident in her plan, Tenten put down her mug on the small table before resuming her reading, but not before she had one last final thought. “Tomorrow after our training will be ideal to engage the plan. I wonder how Naruto will react. Maybe I’ll finally get him to have a nose bleed.” After giggling on the metal image, the young weapons mistress finally focused on her studies.
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“Katon: Housenka no Jutsu (Fire Element: Phoenix Fire Technique)!”
A spray of fireballs shot out of a female mouth and headed toward one group of blond kage bushins that was happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. About ten of the clones puffed out of existence upon getting hit by the attack, and soon after, the jutsu user was on move through the forest once more, trying to avoid being outflanked by even more kage bushins.
After nearly two months since she had started her training in element chakra manipulation, Tenten had come far in knowing katon jutsu. Thanks to a few katon scrolls that used to belong to the Uchiha Clan, the brunette kunoichi was able to add several katon jutsu to her attack arsenal. Combined with her scroll of weapons, the young woman now has more offensive and tactical skills than she did not have before her fire-natured chakra training.
“All thanks to a certain blonde man,” Tenten mentally thanked the person who helped make her stronger as she flung rapidly a barrage of kunai to knock away another a few ‘enemy’ bushins.
As she ran through the forest, aiming to get out into the Memorial Stone training field’s main clearing, the Weapons Mistress mentally frowned upon knowing that despite her progress, she still has not able to create any katon jutsu through the use of her chakra sword. The best she could come up with was to create an aurora of flames around the blade, but other than that, jutsu without hand seals were not within her grasp yet. Until she could fully master her nature chakra, she would not able to perform katon jutsu without seals, and that goal may not become reality for many months to come.
Jumping into the clearing, feeling a sense of relief she now has more room to maneuver and launch her weapons, Tenten turned about to face the forest just as a wave of Naruto clones flew out of the trees right at her. Drawing out her chakra katana from her back, the bun-haired chuunin activated the flaming sword feature and went right into close-range combat with the fake Narutos, who gave her no chances to use her weapons scroll or any katon jutsu. This was fine with her, for she just loved the adrenaline rush hand-to-hand combat gave her as she used her kenjutsu and taijutsu abilities to fend off the Naruto ‘army’.
While the weapons-loving brunette battled the horde, the real Naruto was practicing his wind jutsu on the other side of the clearing. His progress was advancing, thanks to his Kage Bushin training technique. Not only did he now have several A-rank jutsu under his belt, but he has mastered his chakra kodachis that would make them lethal weapons. By extending his wind chakra to make the blades longer and sharper as he pleased, the two short swords truly have became an extension of his being, thus any opponent, who did not know him, would be quickly eliminated by underestimating the range of the swords.
Finishing cutting up another tree with ease, the blond chuunin decided to take a break, and when he turned around, his sight took in the vision of his kunoichi friend battling his bushins on the other side of the clearing. Sheathing his swords behind his back, Naruto watched Tenten spar, admiring her strength and form, as he done many times before.
A sigh escaped his being as his grin faltered. Tenten was a great friend to him, ever since he first came to her store nearly a decade ago, and since watching her fight during the Chuunin Exams when he was twelve, Naruto had admired her highly as a kunoichi. Yet it was only in the past several months he came to appreciate her as a woman.
She was intelligent and strong, great traits for a warrior, yet she was warm and have a great sense of humor. Unlike Sakura, Tenten has far better patience to teach things to him, and definitely unlike Sakura, she did not hit him for saying anything stupid. As far as he knew, the brunette had not ever lost her temper, saved just one time when he saw her among a several pissed off women who had been chasing Jiraiya from the Konoha women’s hot springs a few years ago. To go on top of her wonderful personality, she has grown to be quite a looker with a toned body any man would drool over. Overall, she was a woman any man would be lucky to have as a girlfriend and potential wife.
And this was the crust of his problem he currently has regarding his beautiful friend. Ever since that near-kiss a month ago, Naruto was not sure exactly where he stood with her. Was she just a friend, or was his feelings developing into something more? He definitely had wanted to kiss her during that moment they were drawn to one another, yet since then, he was not so sure whether to follow through with the notion or not. He had not ever been in relationship with a girl before, so he has no idea whether it was what Tenten really wanted or not, thus he did not want to ruin the friendship he has with her.
Naruto scowled as he looked away from the fighting female. “Kami! Why am I so hesitant over this?! I trust her with my life as a friend and fellow ninja, so I know she will not hurt me in any way.” The scowl fell as he closed his eyes. “Why can’t things ever be simple?”
With his eyes closed, the young man was unaware that Tenten had been watching him out of the corners of her eyes while fighting his clones. She frowned upon seeing his depressing expression, and given she didn’t like seeing him in a sullen mood, the Weapons Mistress decided to liven things up for him.
After knocking back a Naruto clone with backhand punch, the kunoichi swiftly unsealed a windmill shuriken out of her scroll and snapped it open into its four-blade form before spiraling it across the field toward the real Naruto. All the Kage Bushin Narutos went wide-eyed at this move, wondering what the hell she was doing. “Boss!” one clone cried out. “Watch out!”
Blue eyes snapped open to see a fast moving rotating windmill shuriken heading right at him at neck level. “KUSO!” hollered out the blond before quickly ducking, and once after the flying buzz saw whizzed by and lodged into a tree, did the man straighten back up again to cast a miffed and perplexed gaze at the smirking girl. “What are you doing, Tenten?!”
“I was trying to cheer you up, Naruto,” replied Tenten too innocently with a simple shrug. “It doesn’t suit you to look all dreary.” With challenging eyes and a devilish grin, she held up her katana once more and pointed it at her training partner. “How about going at me one more time for the fun of it?”
That expression of hers told him she was teasing him, edging him to spar with her one-on-one like they had this morning. Just this time, she was doing so to get him out of his funk and not out of any training needs. Feeling grateful that she cared for him, Naruto let an equal sly grin appeared on his face, getting into the game she had set.
“Guys…” he ordered out to his clones as he approached the crafty kunoichi, drawing out his twin kodachis. “Go retrieve all of Ten-chan’s weapons. I’ll deal with her for the time being.”
All the clones smiled wickedly at the command, knowing their Boss was going to have some fun now. After giving out snappy salutes, the remaining dozen Kage Bushins scattered about to retrieve all the weapons the female weapons expert had used during her workout with them.
As Tenten and Naruto began feeling that emotion every time they spar together, they prepared themselves to do battle once more. Each couldn’t describe it, but it was an invigorating sensation that made them anticipated the rush and flow of wanting to spar with one another. It was something that each knew they have not ever felt when sparring with anyone else. Not ever.
Almost like they were reading each other’s minds, they rushed out at each at the same time, and their blades clashed together as they met each other at the half way mark. Like many times before, the two fought each other with everything they had, and it was quite a rush for both of them.
Many minutes later, the pair broke apart, sweaty and somewhat panting. A grinning Tenten sheathed her sword, indicating the end of the spar. There were times that they would fight with no one getting the upper hand, thus during such occasions, the Weapons Mistress would sheath her katana or kodachis to indicate the end of the fight. It was fun to spar with him, but even she knew she did not have the stamina to fight him for long durations.
“You are such a stamina freak,” Tenten teasingly jabbed.
A grinning Naruto shrugged before sheathing his swords. “What can I say? I have it, so I use it. Is it any wonder I can least outlast Lee at times?”
Tenten chuckled at that, since it was true anyway. “Yeah. No wonder he loves to spar with you the most, other than Gai-sensei, that is.” Naruto rubbed the back of his head as he chuckled with his patent closed-eyed fox smile.
After shaking her head with a warm smirk at him, the bun-haired woman let out a sigh before speaking again. “Naruto…?” Seeing he was paying attention, she continued. “How about we quit training early today? Since it’s a warm day, we can go swimming at Waterfall Lake. I already brought along a dinner picnic sealed in a scroll. We can go swimming in the lake and have a nice picnic dinner afterward.”
Naruto was pleasantly surprised at her offer. They had been treating each other to dinner occasionally, ever since he had bought her dinner months ago on her birthday. Yet all those times were at restaurants, thus this suggestion was the first time they would have dinner together that was not at a restaurant setting. The blond grinned at his friend, for he certainly did not mind the change of venue. It was certainly a nice alteration from the normal routine.
“I’m all for it, Ten-chan,” he stated. She grinned at the suffix, not minding it at all. It was a clear sign that Naruto considered her a very close personal friend. She knew he still called Sakura ‘Sakura-chan’ despite they would always remain friends.
“Good,” the brunette replied before strolling over to a pile of weapons left by Naruto’s Kage Bushins, whom no doubt had finished their retrieval job during the sparring match. “I’ll meet you at Waterfall Lake in a few minutes. After I seal away my weapons, I’m going directly there.” Taking her large scroll, which she had dropped before engaging in the fight with Naruto, Tenten began sealing away the small stockpile of weapons.
A confused expression marred Naruto’s face. “Are you not going home to change? I have to do so, since I didn’t bring my swim trunks with me.”
Tenten chuckled. “I’m wearing my swimsuit under my clothes, Naruto. I was prepared for this, since it was I who planned it.”
“Oh,” the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki blinked, feeling like an idiot for not figuring out the obvious. He should also have known, since he knew girls could able to hide their swimsuits underneath clothing if they knew they were going swimming. “I’ll see you at Waterfall Lake then,” he admitted sheepishly before he vanished in a poof of smoke, indicating he has Shunshin to his apartment.
Softly laughing at his embarrassment, Tenten continued to seal away the many kunai and shuriken, as well as a few other weapons. He was cute when he was flustered, and it was fun to see him like that at times.
Her amused grin however slowly turned into a devious one. “All is going to plan,” she mentally stated, her hands continued with the work at hand.
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Waterfall Lake. It was a pristine small lake that sat at the base of a waterfall, and the runoff from the lake then flowed over a rock edge to run downstream to another river connected to another nearby waterfall. The lake was considered one of few nice watering holes around Konoha good for swimming, bathing, and other recreations.
Waterfall Lake was part of several lakes, streams, and rivers that were part of Konoha’s overall territory, which surrounded the enclosed shinobi village. After all, training grounds, like Training Area 44, AKA ‘The Forest of Death’, needed a lot of acres of land that were not possible within the walled village. The training of shinobi just would not have been likely without the vast training fields stretching out many kilometers outside the village.
Yet for Uzumaki Naruto, who Shushin into the left area of Waterfall Lake, the lake was a reminder of a time, when he first trained under Jiraiya for one month prior to the final rounds of the Chuunin Exams. For this lake was not far from another waterfall where the late Toad Sennin had peeped on a trio of women swimming and playing in the waters. Of course, both waterfalls also happened to be nearby The Great Konoha Ravine, and for the blond, he would not ever forget that moment when Ero-sennin pushed him into the ravine to force him to summon a toad big enough to save him. No one in Konoha or anywhere ever bothered to explore just how deep the ravine was, and Naruto had not wanted to find out the hard way. He was very lucky he had summoned Gamabunta, or else he would have made a very huge bloody mess at the ravine’s bottom, wherever how far down that was though.
Spotting Tenten, who had already set up the picnic blanket and basket along the shore nearby the waterfall, the blond Hokage-wannabe strolled toward the brunette weapons specialist, who grinned upon seeing him approaching. To her brown eyes, he looked quite good in the white T-shirt with the Leaf symbol on the front, orange swim trunks with black flames along the leg hems, and simple sandals.
“Hi, Tenten!” greeted Naruto with a grin while carrying a white fluffy towel over one shoulder. He could see she was still in her kunoichi outfit, yet beside the picnic basket, he made out several towels, which he deduced was meant for his use as well as hers.
“Hi, Naruto!” replied Tenten. “Are you ready to go swimming? I certainly am.” Her face scrunched up in distaste. “I want to wash off the sweat and grime on me.”
Naruto chuckled at her words. “Yeah, I can see you need a bath alright.” His expression became an understanding one. “Then again, so do me.” With that said he tossed his towel onto the picnic blanket and pulled his T-shirt off to toss it next to the towel.
Tenten felt her face heat up upon seeing that toned tanned body with fine abs, flat stomach, and hard chest. Kami, she knew she had seen his body last year at a pool party, but this time, her view of him was different.
Seeing he was smirking, knowing he knew she was flushing over his body, the bun-haired young woman grinned a bit sheepishly and shrugged prior to her hands started to unsnapped her Chinese dress along the front seams. This time it was Naruto’s turn to blush, as one by one, Tenten shed her clothes to reveal the swimwear underneath.
As the last piece of Tenten’s clothing hit the ground, Naruto was doing his best to prevent the blood in his head from coming out of his nose. The two-piece swimsuit she was wearing was not the red semi-conservative halter-top he had seen her worn the previous summer at a pool party, for that swimsuit least covered her ass and shown little cleavage. This one, he was currently seeing, would easily be described as quite alluring and sexy. Heck, the blond knew that if Tenten were to walk down the streets of Konoha in this number, she would be leaving a trail of blood behind her from the nosebleeds from all the perverted men (and some women).
The top seemed to be a crisscrossed strap top, where the strap from each side went diagonally across the chest to cover the breast on the opposite side. The straps in the back crisscrossed to meet at a silver ring, where the swimsuit top could be adjusted, and it was clear that Tenten had adjusted the top to pull her breasts upward and toward the sides, exposing eye-popping cleavage from the bottom up. Yet another interesting feature was that the top has two colors – pink for the left strap and right chest cover and red for the right strap and left chest cover.
The bottom piece was a high-hip bottom with a triangle front. It was quite sexy with the bikini’s leg lines running up along the lines where her legs met her torso, and just like with the top, the bottom has two colors – red on the right side with pink on the left side, which overlaps the red at the crotch. The back however was the most eye-catching, for the material was half covering her shapely round derriere and outlined the crack of her ass.
After a couple of minutes of staring at his very feminine training partner, Naruto realized he was gawking like a fool, and despite his best efforts, a small trickle of blood seeped out of his right nostril. With cheeks quite red, the blond wiped away the blood, before he turned his head away.
He did not want his nose to bleed any more, as he did his best to calm down his racing heart.
Seeing his reactions, Tenten was quite pleased at the results. It was very obvious that Naruto found her to be incredibly attractive and sexy in this two-piece swimsuit, which showed off her toned body well, and knowing this, she was quite excited at the prospects of what was about to come. Her heart raced a bit on the thoughts, at the same time her lips curved devilishly upward on one side.
Deciding that he was teased enough, the brown-eyed woman gestured to him to follow her. “Come on, Naruto. Let’s go swimming.” She then strolled the short distance to walk into the water and waded into the lake enough for the water to reach her thighs. The water was a bit on the cool side, but tolerable to swim in given the warm weather.
Smiling slightly on feeling his eyes was watching her, Tenten dipped down to begin swimming, and upon reaching far enough so she needed to paddle her feet to stay afloat due to no footing, she turned around to see Naruto was still watching her. Laughing at the sight, she called out to him. “Come on in, the water’s fine!” Her lips curled up slyly. “Or are you afraid of getting wet, Whisker Boy!”
That brought out the desired effect, as Naruto narrowed his eyes at her before pointing at her with a crafty grin of his own. “Oh, you are so going to get it, Weapons Girl.” He gently flicked off the sandals with his feet onto the picnic blanket before he rushed into the water, and once he reached waist height, he dived underneath toward his prey.
Tenten has no intentions to let him capture her easily, so she too dived underwater, and given the water’s pristine clearness, her brown eyes saw him coming at her, so she swam away toward the waterfall with him on hot pursuit.
Upon reaching the waterfall, Konoha’s Weapons Mistress surfaced unable to swim underneath the falls due to the turbulence of the descending water into the lake. She was about to paddle toward the right when a blond-headed body shot up besides her, his arms about to wrap around her frame. “Got you!”
A quick female hand splashed water into his face, before the owner began pushing backward away from her pursuer. He recovered in time to see her back stroking away with a witty face. “No you did not,” she crowed before sticking out her tongue at him. “Nyaa!”
Naruto grinned menacingly at her and was about to take off after her, when he saw her hands went through a few hand seals. He was unable to react in time before the jutsu was completed.
“Mizu Tama Bomu no Jutsu (Water Ball Bomb Technique)!” the brunette called out before her palms pushed forward through the water and shot a cannonball-size water ball right at the blond, who took the hit against his crossed arms. By the time he recovered, his quarry was even further away.
“You can’t catch me now!” Tenten boasted in a singsong fashion, and once more stuck her tongue at him. It was a quick and clever ruse to use a simple harmless D-rank water jutsu, meant just for water games, to distract him while she back peddled further away from him. It would take him a lot of effort to swim the distance to catch up to her.
Blue eyes saw that she was right, but a moment later, his frown turned into a smirk. “That’s what you think!” he shouted. The next moment, he shot out of the water, and with chakra applied to his feet, he ran across the watery surface toward the startled girl.
“No fair!” Tenten playfully shrieked, pointing an accusing finger at the fast-approaching, wicked-grinning Naruto.
Just before reaching her, the young man dived under, and using his momentum, he caught her around the waist and pulled her under. She went with another playful shriek. A couple moments later, the pair emerged with a splash, laughing together as the brunette tried to humorously pry his arms away from her.
Catching her breath and still giggling, Tenten gave up and just let her captor hold her around the waist from behind. “You cheated,” she said with a playful slap on his arm before turning her head enough to look up at his victoriously grinning face.
“I didn’t hear any rules being made, before you started the game, Ten-chan,” Naruto claimed with a knowing smirk.
“True,” the brown-haired woman conceded her face matching his, “but I least expected you to gentlemanly honor the notion that you suppose to catch me without using the water walking technique.”
The golden-haired man snorted a laugh. “Who was the one who hit me with a water ball bomb jutsu?”
“Aww,” Tenten mocked in sympathy. “Was the great Toad Sage outwitted by a simple D-rank jutsu?” Her smirk returned, before her tongue stuck out at him.
Once more, Naruto snorted a laugh, and soon after, his smirk widened with twinkling eyes. “How about I torture you, Weapons Girl?”
She felt his fingers moved across her waist, warning her immediately to what he was up to. “Don’t you dare!” Tenten warned mockingly at him.
However, the playful threat went unheeded, for Naruto’s fingers began tickling his prisoner, making her laugh and shrieked joyously. Tenten tried to escape, but her blond warden held firm, enjoying torturing her as much as she was receiving it.
So for a long time, Naruto and Tenten took pleasure in each other’s company in the lake. They swam, dived from the waterfall cliff, and played around like they were kids again. It was a joyful way to spend the remaining afternoon hours.
Laughing at a joke Naruto made regarding how she always kept a sharp edge in her skills, Tenten hugged her friend and buried her head in his chest. It was a simple hug that the whisker-faced boy returned, laughing with her.
As their laughter died down, the brunette gazed up at the same time he looked down. Before they knew it, each was caught into the eyesight of the other, unable to tear away as they exam each other as they done a month before.
Tenten’s lips formed into a tiny grin, and this time she didn’t feel any nervousness at all being in this situation. She took in his expressive cerulean eyes, the damp golden locks, the way the water droplets ran over his face, neck, and hard chest, and the smooth skin under her fingers. “Kami, he is wonderful.”
Naruto however felt a bit unease. His fingers found themselves registering the soft smooth skin of her back, while his eyes were recording her soft grin, the shining brown irises, her wet brown mane with drops dripping off the front bangs as well as loose strands of hair hanging off her bun, and the way her skin glistened with water droplets nearly everywhere on her form. “She is quite beautiful. I wish I could be in her arms forever. Yet…”
Seeing the hesitation in those blue orbs, Tenten knew this was it. She tightened her arms so he would not pull away, while she gave him a warm, gentle, and reassuring grin. “It’s okay, Naruto. I don’t mind.”
“Eh?” blinked Naruto in confusion. Did she say what he thought she said?
Tenten pressed on, her gaze not leaving his. “It’s okay to feel this way for me. I feel the same to you. I don’t mind this at all, especially being like this with you.” She moved closer, touching her front into his, causing him to gasp at the sensation of her skin against his, especially those breasts pressing against him.
“Ten-chan?” asked the blond; his voice laced with confusion yet also hope.
Smiling at the progress she was making with him, the weapons-loving kunoichi maneuvered her arms to wrap them around the year-and-an-half younger shinobi’s neck. She was thankful they were both in shallower waters to allow him to have a footing on the bottom with the water level at his pectoral, while the water enabled her to stay buoyant to not put strain on her arms. Her heartbeat was increasing, and she could feel through his chest it was the same for him.
“Naruto,” she continued, “we’ve been dancing on eggshells with each other ever since that near-kiss a month ago. My mother confronted me last night, and after talking with her, I came to realize that we do want this, but we’re afraid to take that step.”
“Yeah,” Naruto confirmed. “You’re a great woman, Ten-chan.” Her smile broadened with a blush upon hearing those words. “I have wanted to have such a relationship my whole life, to be love and to love. I thought I had a chance with Sakura-chan, but that was not possible. When we nearly kiss a month ago, I knew I wanted to take that step with you, yet I’m afraid what might happen after. I don’t want to loose your friendship, Ten-chan.”
“You won’t,” Tenten reassured him, her heart feeling for him. “We’ll continue our friendship, just it will be something a little more, something special.” A warm sigh escaped her being. “My Mom told me this, when I had the same hesitation regarding going further with Neji. We do not need to plunge into the deep waters at first, for we can take our first steps together in the shallower end first and gradually work our way deeper at our own pace. No rush. We can explore together our new relationship without fear or hesitation.”
After thinking about her words for a few moments, a tiny grin spread across Naruto’s face. He liked what he heard. “I like that we’ll continue our friendship,” the blond admitted, before his grin curled up a bit on one side. “Just in what way will we do to show our friendship has become special?”
Tenten heard what he really meant, making her eyes blazed and her heart raced. “I’m sure you already know what way we’re going to show it, Whisker Boy,” she softly spoke, her eyes narrowing as she saw him lowering his lips towards her, his eyes narrowing as well.
“I certainly do, Weapons Girl,” Naruto whispered, his breath could be felt on her lips and vice-versa, their eyes now slits gazing right at each other. “I most certainly do.”
Their lips connected, and it began with soft pressure, their slit eyes still open at each other. Yet the electrical feelings overwhelmed them, making them closed their eyes and increased the pressure, making each moaned into the other’s mouth, their arms tightening due that each not wanting to let go.
“Kami…” Tenten managed to mentally said as she lost herself in the feelings of the taste of his sweet lips, his body wonderfully pressed into hers, the feel of his wet golden locks as she moved a hand into the mane, and the thrilling sounds of his moans. All of this was overloading her senses, wanting him more, and she received it when he encouraged her to open her mouth and once she did, he pressed his open mouth onto hers, making her moan deeply.
Naruto couldn’t even think straight, for there was nothing else on his mind other than her. His mind only thought of the silk smoothness of her skin under his fingers, the fantastic pressure of her body molding against his, the exhilarating sounds of her persuasive moans, and the addicting touch of her soft open lips. He was drowning, and the tide rose dramatically when he felt her tongue ventured into his mouth to mingle with his, producing another moan out of his being. His tongue danced with hers, letting himself surrender to the electrifying feelings coursing through his body at the touch of her silken tongue.
It felt like an eternity for the pair, wanting the feelings to last forever. However, the need for air ended the ride, prompting each to pull their heads away and opened glazed eyes at one another as they caught their breaths with their open mouths, their cheeks quite blushed. Both were unable to speak, while their overloaded minds tried to process the incredible experience.
“Wow,” Naruto finally spoke softly after a couple minutes of silence. He still couldn’t believe just how powerful that kiss has been.
Tenten let a small warm grin formed upon hearing that word. She moved her arms underneath his and wrapped them around his back upward rest her hands on his shoulders from behind. Only then did the female weapons expert rest her face in the crook of his neck. “Wow indeed, Naruto-kun,” she spoke just as softly before kissing his neck, loving the shiver he produced upon the feeling of her lips, and once she settled comfortably into his embrace did Naruto relaxed warmly with a similar grin as hers, enjoying holding her this way.
After a couple more minutes of silent snuggling, Tenten hauled her head away to lock her brown orbs with his blue ones. “That was the most amazing kiss I had ever received.” He grinned a bit proudly at the admission. “Given what I knew about you, I thought this would be your first kiss.” Her lips twisted up a bit in a teasing manner. “Not counting Sasuke, of course.” She giggled at his half frown and half amused expression, knowing he would forever be teased regarding that accidental ‘kiss’ years ago.
Shaking off the thoughts of what had transpired long ago, Naruto grinned somewhat sheepishly at the woman in his arms. “Well, Ten-chan, to be honest, you’re only the second girl I have ever kissed.”
Her eyes went wide upon hearing that, for it was big news to her ears. “When? With whom?” she immediately blurted out. “It couldn’t be Sakura or any girl in the village, or else the whole village would have known about it.”
The blond gently chuckled at her shock. “You wouldn’t believe me, if I tell you.” He paused for a moment, expecting her to say something, yet at her wordless expression for him to tell her, the young man let out a breath and carried on. “Princess Yukie of Spring Country.”
A stunned Tenten’s eyes went wide again as her mouth hanged open in disbelief. “Are you kidding me? Yukie? Princess Yukie Fujikaze?! Spring Country’s ruler who also had happened to be an actress?!” Seeing him nodded an affirmative and the look on his face, the brunette knew he had spoken the truth. “When? It was not when your team had helped overthrew the rogue ninjas and restored her to the throne. Sakura would have said something.”
“No, it was not during that time,” Naruto confirmed her guess. “It had happened during the training trip with Jiraiya when I was fourteen. We stopped by Spring Country, in order for him to help promote the new Icha Icha movie that came out. With him busy, Yukie had invited me to a private dinner with just the two of us, and by the end of the dinner…” The blond blushed and chuckled at the memories. “Well, simply put, she had seduced me.”
Tenten once more was astonished. “She seduced you?! Are you saying that not only she was your very first kiss with a girl, she also happened to have taken your virginity?!”
His nod affirmed what she said. “Yeah, she did. I had wanted to save myself for Sakura-chan, but I guess my hormones did me in, especially with a beautiful older woman kissing me senseless.” Another chuckle escaped his mouth. “I’d learned a lot from Yukie during the two days we spent in her bedroom chambers. She had wanted to award me for helping her before, and that she pretty much wanted to do it with me anyway, since it had been so long for her since she last had sex.” He made a simple shrug. “It was just a fling, nothing more.”
After blinking at him for a few moments, Tenten let a small grin appeared on her face, while she shook her head slightly at him. His ‘first time’ was sure the stuff of any Yukie Fujikaze Fan Boy’s wet dream. Heck, she had a feeling that most of the men in Konoha would envy Naruto for loosing his virginity to a very beautiful princess and well-known actress.
“I don’t know whether I should feel disappointed that I was not the first girl to kiss you or feel relief you have the experience to have given me a wonderful kiss,” the brunette joked with light laughter.
Naruto laughed along with her. “How about choosing the latter? I think you would have preferred to be kiss by a man with experience, and I for one think you’re one hot kisser too, Ten-chan.” Her big smile and blushing cheeks, as she looked down at his chest, told him Tenten was very pleased by the flattering remark.
“So,” the blond shinobi said, making her reestablished eye contact, “does this mean we’re now boyfriend and girlfriend?” One golden eyebrow went up at the end of the question.
Feeling the emotion at his query, Tenten allowed a true warm grin to radiate her face. “Uzumaki Naruto, my boyfriend. I like it.”
“As I said, I like to explore this with you, Naruto-kun, so you can say we’re boyfriend and girlfriend now,” the bun-haired woman warmly stated. “We’ve been kind-of dating during those occasional after-training dinners in the past several months, but overall, I enjoy being in your company. We really do not need to change much. We’ll continue to train, enjoy each other as we go out to dance, eat, and do other things. It’s not like we do not know each other, since we’re best friends.”
For the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki, he felt his heart swelled on the thought that he now officially has a girlfriend. “You’re right,” he grinned with his expression warmly matching hers. “It’s good to know that it’s not like we’re dating total strangers. It would have awkward, if we had started out that way.”
“Precisely,” Tenten grinned, happy to know they were quite comfortable and trusting of each other already for them to take this first step together. Deep down, it felt right to her.
A mischief thought came to Naruto’s mind, making his lips curled up slyly. “Of course, now that we’re boyfriend and girlfriend, we’ll add that additional benefit on top of our friendship, ne?”
Knowing what he meant, the Weapons Mistress once more felt the electricity between them, her heart beating a bit more as her lips grinned devilishly. She definitely wanted to do that ‘additional benefit’ again with him, now and many more times in the future. “Oh, we’ll be doing that often, Whisker Boy,” she nearly purred, before her right hand slithered from his back to up his front to palm and caress his right cheek.
Naruto’s breath hitched at the touch of her fingers, especially when they were caressing his whisker marks. His eyes narrowed while his voice became softer and bit husky. “We’ll get practical experience the more we do it.”
Tenten raised her head towards his, half-lidded brown eyes blazing. “Definitely,” she whispered in agreement, before her right hand grabbed the back of his head and pulled his mouth onto hers, kissing him fiercely, which he returned with gusto.
As the newly official Konoha couple carried on to press their open mouths together heatedly, resulting in body shivering moans radiating through each other, the world around them moved on without their awareness for the time being. They took their first step together and entered into a whole new world… for the both of them.
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TBC (End of Chapter 5)
A/Ns:
1) Tenten’s pink & red two-piece swimsuit has been inspired by the art titled “Naruto Girl Bookmarks” by Kyomana over at DeviantArt. The link can be found in my Author Profile or copy-and-paste the following URL and remove the spaces…
kyomana . deviantart . com art Naruto-Girl-bookmarks-64620514
By the way, if anyone knows the name of this style swimsuit shown in the art, if there is such a style in our real world, let me know please. This way I can edit in the name of the style in the story as well as make any corrections to the description of the swimsuit.
2) By the way, I deeply appreciate the people who tell me whether I made a mistake in the Naruto names, techniques, etc. I’m not perfect when it comes to the Naruto world, so if I make a mistake, I appreciate people tell me the appropriate way to pronounce something.
For example, do I really need to put a ‘s’ after ‘jutsu’ if I mentioning the plural? Some fics have the ‘s’, while others do not. I understand that the Japanese do not have any ‘s’ to mention the plural of a word. So which is right? Can anyone tell me?
3) The Katon: Housenka no Jutsu (Fire Element: Phoenix Fire Technique) is a C-rank fire jutsu according to most online sites. It’s stated that it is mostly use as a distraction, but it can be use for attack purposes. I feel it’s fitting for Tenten to know this jutsu, which I think is a common jutsu in Konoha and not just for the Uchiha Clan.
The Mizu Tama Bomu no Jutsu (Water Ball Bomb Technique) is just as mentioned in the story. It’s simply a D-rank water jutsu meant for fun or could be use for a handy distraction in the field. I think there are hundreds of simple D-rank jutsus that exist in the Naruto universe, meant for everyday practical purposes or for fun. I can’t imagine any shinobi not taking advantages of such jutsus to simplify his/her life. Heck, I bet the Academy students would get a kick out of the fun jutsus. :)
4) I made Naruto not a virgin, because I really can’t see Tenten kissing him and he fudges it due that he has no experience. IMO, if he had some experience in kissing a girl and about sex, I think he would know how to kiss Tenten and make it quite enjoyable for both.
Of course, it left me with the question to which girl would be the one to teach Naruto about kissing and sex. Anko came to my mind at first, but given her personality, I think Naruto would be too scared to even enjoy himself. Kurenai also came to mind, but she is the sensei of three of Naruto’s classmates. She also is interested in Asuma, so I really can’t see her doing the deed with Naruto.
Yet when I thought of Princess Yukie from the first Naruto movie, I immediately thought she would be perfect. She views Naruto as a hero. I have no doubt she does have experience, and if I place Naruto’s ‘first time’ during the training trip with Jiraiya, it would be ideal. Naruto did not officially have a girlfriend at the time, and even though he still thought of Sakura, I really can’t see a 14-year-old able to resist his hormones at the hands of a beautiful older woman like Yukie.
Oh, the idea overall to use Yukie came to me when I remember a PWP (Plot, What Plot?) fanfic where Naruto reaches puberty, and thanks to the Kyuubi, ends up going into heat every month on the full moon. He was in Spring Country at the time, and Yukie wanted to award him just when he was in heat. I figured I could use the same idea, just without Naruto having a monthly sex cycle. ;P
5) Well, after four months, Naruto and Tenten finally had taken the first step together. Yeah, Tenten made it possible, because I think Naruto would be somewhat afraid in taking that first step, for he has no experience what so ever when it comes to having a girlfriend. It’s a new feeling for him. Yet now that he and Tenten are past that stage, they can be an official couple now.
And for anyone’s information, don’t expect them to be saying the L word any time soon. They’re exploring for now, so their feelings has yet to evolve to that second step. When? Only I will know. ;p
And for those wanting the couple to get to the hot loving (The third step), you still will be waiting for some time. XD
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