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A Fine Line Between Us	By : eksimenrol Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female > Naruto/Sakura Views: 4636 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 4
- 5
- 6
Quick notes:� All is cannon until 311.

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Chapter Five:
Cute Thoughts

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�� It wasn�t
until we were seated and our food had arrived that I noticed something.� �Hey, where�s Shikamaru?�

�� It was
Chouji that responded to me �His dad wanted help to get some horns for
medicine, so he left.�

�� That�s
odd; he�s usually quite good at showing up for mission meetings.�� Ino seemed to be staring at Sai the whole
time we�d been here.� Chouji seemed
indifferent to the newcomers and called dibs on Shikamaru�s share of the
food.� �Wait Chouji, we should introduce
ourselves to Sai first.�� Wow, piggie must have a soft spot for Sai.

�� Everything
was going perfectly fine, then Chouji introduced himself and Sai
hesitated.� He wouldn�t, would he?� No, Sai is far too intelligent than to insult
Chouji, I mean he�s seen the man fight, he should know better.� �Um it�s nice to meet you too, uh-�� Oh no, this is not
good; he�s going to say it.� He is going
to call Chouji fat!� He�s screwed; I
should call for the stretcher now.� Then
Naruto saved his ass.� The blonde
actually jumped across the table, nearly putting his hand on the hot grill,
clamped his hand across his mouth and told him how he fucked up.� Why can�t I keep my eyes off him?

�� Was he
trying to say something just now?�� Crap Chouji heard him; I got to save
Naruto before something happens to him.

�� Ah, no, I
don�t think he was.� I didn�t hear him
say something.�� Buy it, please buy
it!� Oh great it�s Ino�s turn to hit on
Sai.� I wonder what he�ll say about
her.� Heh, knowing Sai he�ll call her an
ugly pig or something equally true.

�� Nice to
meet you, um, Ms. Beautiful.� What!� Oh no, oh hell
no!� This isn�t right, no this can�t
be.� Ino, beautiful?� Let me at him.� I�m going kill
him!

�� Naruto
seemed to be paying attention, because he spoke up.� �Sakura, can I speak with you for a moment
over here?�� As he dragged me off to who
knows where I could only think of one thing.�
Ripping Sai limb from limb slowly and painfully.� �Sakura, you have to calm down, he doesn�t know
what he�s talking about-�

�� Why the hell is it beautiful with Ino?�� I can�t
even say the two words in the same sentence without wanting to hit
something.� �I mean, I�m much, much
better looking than Ino ever will be, aren�t I?�
Of course I am I�m beautiful.�
Aren�t I?�

�� Naruto
carefully took hold of my shoulders and looked deep into my eyes.� �Sakura, you are the most beautiful woman
that I know, and no one else even comes remotely close.�� He thinks I�m beautiful?� He thinks that no one else is more beautiful
than me?� What can I say to that?�

�� Suddenly he
pushed me towards the dark corner of the restaurant entrance.� What the hell is he doing?� Oh no, he thinks that because he called me
beautiful, he can make a move on me?� No
way, it�s not going to happen.� I let him
have it, again I vented my frustrations, all my pent up worries of not being
beautiful enough.� �SHANNARO!�

�� That�s when
I noticed the waitress behind him shaking in fear.� �Um miss, you didn�t need to hit him.� It was my fault, I bumped into him and he
pushed you.� I�m really sorry.� Please forgive me.�� She couldn�t even look me in the eye.� Am I really that scary?

�� It�s
alright; I�ll take him to the hospital.��
Fat chance, they see this they�re going to want to talk to the Hokage,
and she�ll want to know what he did to set me off.� I tell her the truth and Shizune will but
scraping my ass off the wall for weeks.� �Just give me a moment to say goodbye to my
friends, and I�ll pick him up.�

�� Everyone
seemed to buy the excuse that Naruto tripped over something and needed to go to
the hospital.� Well everyone but Ino that
is.� She gave me this look, almost like
she was up to something.� Whatever that
look was, I ignored it and left to pick up Naruto.

�� It wasn�t
hard to figure out where to take him, his place was across town and mine was on
the way to the hospital.� I managed to
get him settled on the couch, face down, when I noticed the jagged shards of
glass jutting out of his back.� Why do I
keep hurting him when he doesn�t deserve it?

�� You know,
looking at him, he doesn�t seem like such an idiot, well when he keeps his
mouth shut.� He�d almost be cute if he
weren�t Naruto.� What am I thinking?� I�m loosing my mind; I want him to forgive me
so bad I�m starting to think he�s cute.� Okay, I�m going to stop thinking about
him.� I�m just going to heal him up and
send him home.

�� Ok Sakura.
Focus on the problem, he has a lot of glass sticking out of his back, we need
to take them out now.� Okay I�m going to
need something to put the glass in and something to take it out of him
with.� Those tweezers and that empty bowl
will do.� Okay time to fix this boy
up.� Seems he got lucky, there�s a lot of
glass, but I don�t see many small shards.�
But some of these are deep; I�m going to need to put something on it to
prevent infection.� Well I better get to
work.

�� It took me
the better part of an hour to remove all of the glass shards, and when the
final shard was removed I let out a satisfied sigh.� The hard part is over, now I just need to use
the antiseptic ointment from my field kit and we�re done.� I left that in my room, didn�t I?� As I made my way from my bedroom I heard a
yelp from my couch.

�� Naruto,
you shouldn�t be moving after the landing you had.�� I let out a quick sigh.� If he doesn�t move I can have this finished
in ten minutes.� �You need to stay off
your back.� You uh, sort of landed on a
glass vase, and I spent the last 20 minutes pulling shards of glass out of your
back.� Lie on your stomach, and take off
your shirt.� Let me look at your back,
make sure you don�t get an infection or something.�� He�s not going to do it.� Okay time to get serious, I�ll give him the do-as-I-say-now-or-you�ll-learn-the-meaning-of-pain
look.

�� It�s okay
Sakura, my back doesn�t really hurt that much.� �It�s not working, he�s trying to wave me off,
and I�m not going to stand for this.�
Honestly, who does he think he�s dealing with?� Oh great he�s trying to get up, now I�m going
to have to force him down.� Or not, looks
like he can�t get up.

�� That�s better
Naruto.�� Now all that�s left is to get
that ointment on.� I carefully applied it
to each of the wounds in his back after removing his shirt.� �How are you feeling?� Any better?��

�� Just a
headache, and I was a bit dizzy earlier, but I�m fine-�

�� You
probably have a concussion.� I�m really
sorry about before Naruto, I shouldn�t have hit you like that, it wasn�t your fault.�
After you pushed me into that corner and I hit you the waitress that
bumped into you tried to apologize for what she had done, but it was too
late.�� How long have I been rubbing his
back?� I swear I finished with the
ointment ten minutes ago.� For ten
minutes all I�ve been doing is rubbing his toned back.� What the hell am I thinking?� Okay, time to stop before I do something I�ll
regret.

�� It�s okay
Sakura; my back is feeling a lot better.�
And I accept your apology, so don�t worry about it, I forgive you.�� He gave me a smile and tried to get up once
again.� What is this man doing, he�s
going to hurt himself if he does that.

�� Stop
trying to get up, you�ll only make it worse.�
Now stay right there Naruto, I�ll be back in just a minute, I need to go
get something.� And I don�t want you to
move one inch.� You�re hurt and you could
make it worse.� Tell you what, if you�re
good, we�ll even go out for ramen.�� Wow,
I must really feel sorry for him, I offered to get ramen with him.

�� Okay
Sakura, I won�t move an inch.� I
promise!�� Same old Naruto, every time
he�s happy he grins like a fool.� I can�t
help but chuckle at how cute and childish he is.� Great I�m doing it again, calling him
cute.� What the hell is wrong with me
today?

�� Just
relax, I�ll be right back.�� I quickly
left the room with all my equipment.� I�m
going to need to clean and sterilize this stuff.� Screw it I�m too tired to do it right now,
I�ll do it after I get Naruto out of the house.� ��

�� I entered
my small living room to find the loud blonde asleep on my couch.� He looks so peaceful, so innocent laying
there.� Peaceful and
innocent and not at all cute.�
Nope, he�s not even close to cute, with the messy hair and small bubbles
of drool in the corner of his mouth.� Oh
who the hell am I kidding?� In the
smallest, tiniest tiniest way I find Naruto
cute.� But I don�t know why.� Maybe if I stare at him I�ll see all his faults
and stop thinking that he�s cute.� Taking
that thought to heart I climbed atop him to get a closer view.

�� Okay, this
is completely insane. I�ve spent the last hour staring at his unconscious
body.� And still I find him cute.� One hour and I�m
nowhere near figuring out why.� I don�t
have feelings for him do I?� I mean, I
care about him sure.� I enjoy his
company.� But do I really want to be with him?� Great, I�m not even sure if I don�t
anymore.� Maybe I do want to be with
Naruto, maybe all my fixation on Sasuke was just a fling or crush.� I need to talk to someone about this.� I know I�ll go see Ino, she was a help
before, maybe she can give me some advice on getting over this, what ever it
is.� Well if I�m going to see Ino, I�m
going to have to get rid of Naruto first.�
I let out a small sigh; he can be so troublesome sometimes.

�� I leaned
over Naruto.� �Naruto?�� It was only a whisper, but he woke with a
start.�� He jumped at me, well I did
startle him, I guess he was having a very peaceful sleep, and my whisper woke
him.� Oh no, he�s coming at me.� Oh great, he�s going to hit me.� But it�s not his fault, so I�m not going to
hit him.� Well I will hit him because
there�s no way to stop him from coming at me like that, but I won�t blame him,
at least not entirely.� I started this by
shocking him, so I�m going to take my lumps and apologize to him.� Well if it�s going to happen I might as well
prepare myself.� I winced prior to out
collision.�

�� Great, he�s
scared.� I can feel his sudden breaths
against my face.� I can even smell
him.� There�s a slight musk about him,
like he�s constantly working out, and a hint of noodle broth.� Must be training and ramen.� It�s not that bad though, and entirely
Naruto.�

�� It�s kind
of odd how this is taking so long, we were only inches apart when I woke him,
how long does it take for two people to crash into each other?� I might as well just close my eyes and wait
it out.

�� That�s when
it happened.� The
moment when his face met mine, the moment when I opened my eyes.� The moment when he kissed
me.� I should be angry, hell
pissed that he would do such a thing.� I
should be beating him upside the head so many times that when he leaves his
coma he�ll have headaches.� I should be
rationalizing that he didn�t mean to.�
But I�m too shocked to find out that it doesn�t feel horribly wrong to
have his lips on mine.� What does that mean?

�� So there we
sat, we did nothing but sit and stare at each other.� He�s scared of me, trying to think of what he
can say to get out of being hurt.� I�ve
hit him far too many times for him to think otherwise.� I have to take responsibility for my
mistakes.� I have to make it up to him.� I have to apologize.� I have to say it.� Three small words, tree
words with a much grander meaning then what they are.� Here it goes.�

�� I-� Don�t
stop now.� �I�m sorry.�� It was sincere, it was honest.� It was the pure truth in verbal form, no lie
or deceit at all.� �I�m sorry about that
Naruto; I didn�t mean to bump into you like that.�� Why would apologizing leave me with this
blush?� I know I�m not embarrassed, so
why?

�� Then he
spoke, and it made it easier for me to deal with the guilt.� �Ah, it�s okay Sakura.� It�s my fault too.�� He ending up letting out a small chuckle, but
it was only to cover his nervousness..� �I guess I shouldn�t have reacted like that
when you startled me, huh?�� Again, he
chuckled nervously, why would he be so nervous?�
Then it hit me, I was still hovering over him.� Maybe that�s why I�m blushing so much.�

�� So that�s
why I finally got off of him, retreating to the far side of the couch.� Somehow the farther away from him I got, the
worse my blushing seemed to grow.� I
can�t even look at him.� I quickly turned
my back to him.� What the hell is wrong
with me?� I�m yammering like a schoolgirl.� �Um Naruto?� Do you think, err, that is are you feeling
better?�� I can�t even keep my hands from
fidgeting.

�� Huh? Oh
yeah, a lot better thanks.�� He sounded
happy, I�m glad he does, because I don�t know what I�m feeling.

�� Oh good,
um then would you mind leaving please?� I
just have a lot to do and it�s already kinda late, and a, um, well yeah.�

�� He barely
even hesitated, so much like Naruto; he�d do anything for me.� �Sure thing Sakura.� I should probably be getting home
anyway.�� Without moving I could hear him
head for the door and trip while putting on his sandals.� �Um Sakura, I was wondering if you�d help me
with some training tomorrow.�

�� Huh?� Oh tomorrow? I�m sorry; I have a shift at the
hospital.� The Hokage wants me to look
after Kakashi before he gets released.��

�� Okay
then.� Well I�ll see you around then.� He
opened my door, and still I hadn�t turned to say goodbye.

�� Naruto,
wait!�� I ran to my door and saw him a
few feet from the entrance.� I�m not sure
why I�m going to do this, maybe to make amends, maybe because I want to.� Maybe it won�t hurt to go on one date with him.� I might even be able to teach him something
about women.� �I should be off around six
tomorrow, if you want to get dinner or something.�� I did it, I asked Naruto out.� And I�m not even really embarrassed to say
that I did.� And still I have a blush
that just won�t go away!

�� Sure thing!� I�ll
meet you at the hospital at six.�� He
didn�t jump for joy, he didn�t run at me and try and hug me.� He smiled, looked my in the eye and then
left.

�� Long after
he had left I still stood there.� �I�m
not sure why you�re acting so mature Naruto, but I�m looking forward to
tomorrow night.�

Author notes:� All
right all right!� I am almost caught
up.� I will be after the next chapter,
where Sakura goes to Ino for advice.� Now
for some news.� I was trying to have this
chapter done last night.� However a computer
error caused my system to crash and I would have had to reboot, which at 3 am
was not going to be fun.� So I decided to
call it a night and work on it today.�
The good news is that I only lost 3 lines, and they didn�t sound good so
I never rewrote them.� I�ve had people
ask for longer chapters, this one is by far the longest I have ever written, it comes close to 5 pages.�
I�ve also have people question as to how I can update so quickly.�� This being the 3^rd update in a
week.� Well is quite simple.� I�ve been cheating for the last 2
chapters.� Basically I copy and paste the
corresponding chapter from A Fine Fine Line and
rewrite all but the dialogue.� Therefore,
most of the new stuff is just reactions to what is said and done.� I�ve also been cheating in the fact that at
the time of writing these moments in A Fine Fine
Line, I thought of what Sakura�s thoughts and actions for each moment were and
then wrote in response to that.

Response to Reviews:

RichardtheDragon:� Yeah, I was kinda working half ass on those,
but this one makes up for it I hope.

Naruto-sama:� Yeah that chapter was written in like 2 hours
straight. �I was on a roll on that
one.� And while not in school, I now am
starting a second job, but I�ll always have my evening free to write in, so I shouldn�t
fall to far behind.
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