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A Fine Fine Line	By : eksimenrol Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female > Naruto/Sakura Views: 5904 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Quick notes:� No new Spoilers.

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Chapter
Eleven: Something from the Heart

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�� Wait
a minute, so let me get this straight.�
You just left them there arguing over what they should dress you in for
your date.�

I slurped up the remains of my
second bowl of ramen and looked up at the man.�
�Yup, didn�t want to be some doll for them to dress up.� Anyway, they were just going to go on and on
about what I could wear until I actually had to pick Sakura up for out
date.� This way I get my free lunch, and
I avoid their little games.�

�You�re also minding your
manners.� You swallowed before you
spoke.�

�Well a wise old man once said to
that to get the girl, a guy has to grow up.��
He smiled at that.

�So he did.� But what do you mean free lunch?� I promised you three bowls, no more.�

�I know.� But I�m on a budget for the next few
days.� I need the money I would spend for
lunch to buy Sakura a gift.�� He looked
up at me after my words.

�Gift eh?� What did you have planned?�

�Well, I don�t know yet.� Something simple, something
that won�t cost much.� And it has
to be something special.�� Something from the heart.�
But what to get her?� Staring into my bowl won�t help me.� Maybe I should just go out and look for
something.

�Hmm well if you�re looking for something
special and something cheap, I might have a good idea for you.�� I looked at the old man questioningly.� �Don�t look at me that way; it�s not really
my idea, well not really.� This was
something the Fourth came up with.� You
see before he became Hokage, he was in a similar position to yours.� He was in love with a woman from the former Whirlpool Village.�
Well she and most of her village had fled to Konoha after their village
was attacked and destroyed.� He loved
that woman with all his heart and he wanted to prove it to her.� But she wouldn�t give him the time of
day.� He asked her what he would have to
do to get her to go out with him.� She
gave him the impossible task of bringing her village back to her.� Heh, he said no problem, and like a page out
of your book made it a promise of a lifetime.�
He took off after that and went to the ruins of her village.� I�m not sure what happened there, or what he
had to go through but he returned a few days later.� He was bruised and bloody, his arm was broken
and he was barely conscious when he arrived.�
He walked clear across town, to your apartment complex actually, and
knocked on her door.� When she opened the
door, he collapsed.� She of course rolled
him off his stomach and administered aid to him.� I never found out what truly happened in that
hallway, but what I do know is that when I visited him in the hospital later
that day there was a flower that only grows in Whirlpool on his table with a
note attached to it from Kushina.� It
seems that his plan worked, she went out with him as soon as he was better.�

�Wait you mean the Fourth went all
the way to her home village and brought her back that flower?�

�You know, it�s been almost twenty
years since that day in the hospital and only now does it make sense to
me.� For as clueless as you are Naruto,
you sure know how the heart works.�
That�s why I know you�ll come up with something special for your
Sakura.�

�Yup, I�ll figure something
out.� And hopefully twenty years from now
you�ll be talking about it the same way you talk about the Fourth.� Probably growing old
together with Tsunade or something.�

He smiled at that.� �That sounds good.�� He seemed to be looking off towards the rock
face image of the female Hokage.� �Tell
you what Naruto; I�ll help you out a bit.�
I�ve got a few hours before I have to see Tsunade today.� How about you come with me and we get you
some new threads?�

�I thought I told you I ran from
Shizune and Tsunade because they wanted to dress me up?�

He narrowed his eyes as he looked
at me.� Pain erupted from the back of my
head where his hand slapped me.� �Brat,
I�m not like them.� First, I know what
I�m looking for that you will like.�� He
raised one of his fingers.� �Second, I
know a little about what a woman likes to see in a man, which begins with his
clothes.� And third, if we take longer
than half an hour, from the time we enter the store, then I�ll let you give
Tsunade my research to burn.� She�d love
you for that.� However, you have to agree
to follow my method, no questions asked.�
And no complaining or stalling for time, you do that and the deal is
off.� So what do you say Naruto, half an
hour and you�ll look like a new man, do we have a deal?�

I gave it some thought.� Here he is offering to get me just what I
need with supposedly little effort on my own part, and if it doesn�t work I
have a great gift to give Tsunade for all her trouble.� This is a win-win situation.� Still there is something wrong with
this.� �What�s the catch?�

�No catch.� I just figure I should do something nice for
you.� I mean your birthday is coming up
soon, isn�t it?� I need to go out and
gather up the intelligence my spies have gathered over the last few weeks and I
probably won�t make it back in time to be here to help you celebrate.� So consider today your gift.�

�Half an hour you say?� Okay deal, but I get final say on the
clothes.�

�Naruto my boy, it wouldn�t be
right to get you something you didn�t like.�
So this is what you�re going to do.�
Go visit Tsunade and Shizune; tell them that you appreciate all the help
they are giving you today, but that I promised to take you shopping for your
birthday.� That should take you about an
hour, depending on what they have to say about it.� After that I want you to meet me at your
place, I�ll take you shopping after that.�

�� Wait a
minute; you want me to go back
there?� You�re crazy!� I just got
away from them, if I go back they�ll tie me up, they�ll kill me.� Please tell me that was a joke.�

�� The old man
was silent for a long time.� He looked up
at me and suddenly he looked like he hadn�t gotten any sleep for days.� �Listen Brat, that old woman cares as much
about your chances with Sakura as you do yourself.� She just wants to make sure you don�t screw
this up.� What you need to do is tell her
that you are thankful for all the help she�s given you, and that I�ve offered
to do my part to make you presentable.�
So go to her office, and if you have to make the deal that you will
visit her directly after you get your new clothes so she can see them.�

�� I don�t
know about this.� I mean she�s probably
really pissed at me right now.�

�� Heh, yeah
she is.� But all you need to do is
remember the following steps.� Duck, beg and plead.� Duck so you miss her first attack at
you.� Beg for her forgiveness.� And plead that she�ll let you go out on your
date in one piece.�

�� I looked
down at my empty bowl and grimaced.�
�This is going to hurt, isn�t it?�

�� Yup, but
like anything worthwhile in life, no pain, no gain.�� He was right of course, I needed to suck it
up and go back there.

�� If I don�t
survive, tell Sakura you suckered me into doing something stupid that got me
killed.� No sense her hating the Old Lady
because of me.�

�� She�s a
lucky woman that Sakura, and sure, if you die I�ll take the blame.� It was my idea after all to go back.� Listen, you better get going, I�ll meet you
at your house in an hour.�� He got up and
began walking down the street.� When he
reached the end of the block he turned back to me and laughed.� �That or at the hospital, see you later
Brat!�� With that he disappeared in a
swirl of leaves.

�� Oh hey Naruto!�

Author notes:� I�ve
made a new goal now.� I have two ideas
for stories that fit in this universe.�
And when I have the time, i.e. when I�m done my two fics,
I�ll write them.� I�m not going to give
away the who�s and when�s right now, but they will both be fairly short, say
about 8-15 chapters each.� Also, for the
first time since I started this fic, I�ve held back a chapter.� I had this chapter available for quite a few
days now, but I�ve been holding it back so I could release it along with my
Sakura Fic, which is named A Fine Line Between
Us.�

Response to Reviews:

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glad my words have brought you down memory lane. �Sadly I can�t continue for all of eternity.� That would require immortality and an endless
pool of plot points.

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is definitely great. �Personally I�d rate
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