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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
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Quick
notes:� All is cannon until 311.� All events take place on Day 4

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Chapter
Nine: Haunting His Thoughts

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�� I
awoke the next morning quite refreshed and with a large smile on my face.� I�m going to tell him today.� I just hope I don�t chicken out halfway
through.� I wonder what he had planned
for us last night?� Knowing him it was
probably dinner at that ramen stand of his and a walk home.

�� But
then again he did buy me those dumplings and said to get well soon.� Maybe he�s actually taking this seriously.

�� Naruto
and serious in the same sentence, and I�m not being sarcastic.� Something must be wrong with me today.� But now that I think about it, he has changed
from how he used to act as a little kid, well a not so little kid.� He used to be so loud, and now, well he still is loud, but he knows when to keep
his mouth shut.� And he�s gotten smarter
too, in a way.� I mean there was the way
he came up with that brilliant, if slightly perverted, way to get the bells
from Kakashi.� And his new moves, well
not really new moves.� He�s perfected the use of his shadow clones,
using them to dodge in mid air.� He�s
become unpredictable.� I�d swear that he
could make the impossible possible.� He�s
both childish and mature.� When he needs
to be he�s serious as can be, but when it isn�t called for he�s so care free.

�� He�s
Naruto.

�� I
should go see him, today right now.� Tell
him what I�ve decided.� Tell him I�m
sorry.� I should just get up and go over
there.� I have nothing better planned to
do today.� Maybe I�ll help him train like
he asked me the other day.� I quickly
threw on some old training clothes that Tsunade had given me last year.� They were too big back then, but now they fit
quite well.

�� Looking
at myself in the mirror I felt a wave of nostalgia hit me.� I look 3 years younger in this.� I turned and looked at myself side on.� Well in some ways I do.� Maybe he�ll think I�m more womanly now.� Hopefully he�s willing to train with me.� I had to blush at the indecent thoughts that
sprang to mind at those words.

�� I
need to watch what I think about when I think about him, I�m turning into
Tsunade.

�� After
I finished preparing myself to train for the morning I made my way to his
house.� I wonder if he�s awake yet.� Knowing Naruto, he�s probably dreaming of a
giant bowl of never ending ramen, and slowly drowning in a puddle of his own
drool too.� Only one way to find
out.� I determinately made my way up the
last few stairs to the final floor of his building.� As I raised my hand towards the door to knock
I heard a muffled thud.� That�s odd, none
of the windows are opened, and there are no signs that anyone broke in.� I placed my ear against the door and listened
for a long time.� Was that sobbing I
hear?� That can�t be, in all my life I�ve
never seen Naruto sob.� Something can�t
be right.

�� I
knocked on his door quickly.� �Naruto?� Are you up yet?�� After no answer I knocked again.� �Naruto, I can hear you are you okay?�� I couldn�t hear him moving towards the door;
instead all I heard were more sobs.� �I�m
going to open the door, so if you�re no decent, speak up now.�� There was still no response, so I took grip
of the doorknob and slowly turned it.

�� As
soon as the door was open, I lost control of my body.� I ran towards Naruto and took him into my
arms.� This was the worst I�ve ever seen
him.� He was almost hysterical, tears
streaming down his face, his gaze frozen on an empty corner of the room.� Something was very wrong here.� Naruto was
barely able to fight whatever was wrong whit him, and no diagnostic I could
think of would allow me to see what was tormenting him.� I tried to remove any genjutsu that might
have been affecting him, with no luck.

�� Naruto,
what�s going on?� Naruto look at me.� Look at me
Naruto, not that.�� I forcibly took hold
of his head and stared him deep in the eyes.�
He was getting worse; his vision was tunneled in on some phantom that I
couldn�t see.� His pulse was racing, and
if I couldn�t stop whatever it was that was causing this he would be in danger
of having a heart attack.� I needed to
get all of his attention off of that phantom and onto something I could
control.

�� That
was when it hit me, what I needed to do.�
I summoned all the courage I had.�
I summoned all the strength I possessed.�
After making sure I had a firm hold on each side of his face I pulled
him towards me and kissed him.

�� Every
ounce of emotion I had for him, every care and hope went into that kiss.� It was wonderful, it was heavenly.� But it was bland too.� He was there, but not.� Almost like he was sitting back watching me
do all the work and couldn�t make a move of his own.� I tried to break through his paralysis,
forcing my tongue beyond his lips.�
However it was useless, he was nearly catatonic.� He was getting worse, anymore of whatever he
is seeing and it might kill him.� I
didn�t want to do it, but it seemed like the only way.� �Naruto, please forgive me.�

�� I
was glad he passed out on the first punch, I�m not sure I had another left in
me.� No I was faced with a new
problem.� What to do with him?� His blood pressure was returning to a healthier
rate, but if I don�t find the root of the problem, then I might lose him.

�� I
need help, and I need someone I can trust.�
Ino.� She�s the only one I know
and trust who can get inside his head and figure out what happened to him.� Placing his unconscious body back on his bed
I gave his hand a small squeeze before making my way out his front door.� �Hold on Naruto, I�ll be back with help.�

�� I
took off at a dead run, leaping towards the nearest building and jumping off
just as quick.� Each landing fueled the
force to propel me forward.� My goal was
constantly in sight, the Yamanaka Flower Shop.�
It was almost 7, and this is one of her days off from hospital
duty.� She should be helping her mother
prepare the shop for customers.

�� Quickly
landing a step away from the front door to the shop I wasted no time in
knocking and pulled open the door.� The whole
dead bolt snapped under the force of my pull, the hinges let out a groan before
they snapped too.� I didn�t care; I
needed to get Naruto help now.

�� Sakura,
what the hell is wrong with you, you couldn�t wait one hour before we
opened?�� I looked up at her from where I
was heaving with exhaustion.� I hadn�t
thought in all my determination to get Naruto help to use chakra.� My legs were killing me, my arms were
screaming at me for the actions they had just done.� I was out of breath and staring into Ino�s
eyes.� She stopped her rant about me
barging in here.� She looked deep into my
eyes and became visibly worried.� �What
happened?�� She sounded calm.

�� Something
happened to Naruto, he�s in bad shape and I tried everything.�� I was on the verge of tears.� �Please Ino, you have to help me.�� She wasted no time is hopping over the
counter and running over to me.

�� Where?�� She was already rushing me out the door as I
responded to her question.

�� His
apartment, come on.�� Again I leapt to
the top of the closest building, pushing chakra into my feet to help cushion
the blow from landing and to send me flying towards the next building.� We made good time, arriving one after another
and rushing into his room.� He was still
unconscious, but every so often a soft mumbling could be heard from him.

�� Sakura,
what happened here?�� She made motion to
the state of his room, the damp tousled sheets, the dried water stains dripping
from his eyes. �The dark stain of tears
on his shirt.

�� I�m
not exactly sure.� I came over here to
see if he wanted to train, and he wouldn�t answer.� So I opened his door and found him just
sitting there, staring at the corner.� He
was bad Ino, hysterical even.� And his
heart was beating so fast.� I tried
everything I could think of.� I did everything
that I thought would snap him out of it.�
Nothing worked.� The last thing I
tried was hitting him, but all I ended up doing was knocking him out.� Sadly I think I actually saved his life this
time because I hit him.� I�d swear it was a genjutsu, but there was no
way it would have stayed active after everything I tried.� Please Ino; you�re the only one who can help
him.�

�� I
don�t know about this Sakura, I�m not sure he�d enjoy me sniffing about his
mind.� That�s a very private place, and
I�d be privy to every one of his secrets.�

�� Please
Ino, I can�t lose him, I trust you.� And
I know that Naruto would trust you too.�

�� She
looked me over for a few seconds before letting out a heavy sigh.� �Okay Sakura, I�ll do it.� But I�m not very comfortable with this, so
I�m going to go slowly at it.�� A gave
her a quick nod and moved to get more comfortable.� She did the same and took a few deep
breaths.� �This will probably take a while.� I�ve done this a few times but never really
on my own.� So if something is going
wrong, I want you to squeeze my shoulder three times.� That will be my signal to pull out, got
it?�� I gave her a quick nod.� �Good.��
She closed her eyes and formed a hand sign I had never seen her use
before.� She placed both her hands on his
forehead keeping the same symbol.� Slowly
a glow seemed to form around her hands, growing to form around both her body
and his.� Slowly, her body relaxed until
it was slumped up against his headboard, his head cradled in her lap to allow
access.
�� They
stayed that way for quite some time.�
Hours seemed to pass, and yet there was no change at all.� She was still sitting there with his head in
her lap. And there was nothing I could do about it.� I was helpless to watch as time passed so
slowly that I was going crazy sitting here.�
Then she moved.

�� It
was sudden; she quickly gasped and then resumed her previous stance.� Something had happened.� Her brow quickly knotted in effort as she
started to jerk to the left and to the right.�
It looked like she was pushing against a very strong wind.� Fighting to reach something.� Was she getting close to the reason for
Naruto�s breakdown?� Was she having
trouble?

�� Should
I grab her shoulder like she said to? I crawled towards her, and took grip of
her shoulder like she had said.� And that
was when her head suddenly rushed up to stare at me in the face.� Was that supposed to happen?� I didn�t squeeze.

�� That,
that bastard why would he do
this?� How could he do this to him?��
Ino was livid.� What the hell
happened in there?

�� Ino,
Ino!�
Calm down will you?�� She started
to calm down after looking at me.� Then
she noticed her current location and blushed madly.� She very quickly exited the bed and made to
stand in the doorway.� �What happened in
there Ino?� What did he see?�

�� She
gave me a fearful look, thinking over if she should say anything to me.� Before I could yell at her to just tell me
she spoke up.� �It was Sasuke.� He was tormenting him Sakura.� I�m not sure how, but I heard what he was
saying to Naruto.� It wasn�t pretty
Sakura.� Frankly, I�m not sure how he was
able to stand it all.�

�� What
was he saying?�� I could feel the anger
festering within me.� I would not let it
take me over.

�� Sasuke
was begging Naruto to give up on loving you.��
I couldn�t stand it.� I wanted to
kill that Uchiha.� Naruto�s small bedside
table took the result of my frustrations, crumbling to splinters as a surrogate
for my rage.

�� Is
he going to get better?�� I hope she was
able to fix whatever that revenge seeking bastard had done.

�� Yes,
it wasn�t really hidden, but then again, anyone not going as slow as I was
would have missed it.� We got lucky.�� She gave a sigh before looking at Naruto.� Was that fear in her eyes?� Oh no, she found out about the fox, she�s
going to freak.� �He�s a strong fighter.�� She wasn�t afraid of him, she respected him.

�� So
you found out about the fox, didn�t you?��
She looked at me for a moment with shock before giving me a sad smile.

�� I
always wondered what that very special secret Shikamaru said he was hiding from
the world.� Now I know.�� I looked over at her and our eyes met.� She could see the plea behind mine, to let
his secret be.� �He should be alright Sakura.� I sort of made him fall back asleep before I left
him.�

�� What-�

�� He
was woken up halfway through the night by that thing in his head.� And he spent maybe 4 hours battling it.� He needs some rest, and he should be fine.�� She gave a small chuckle as she finally
started for the front door to the apartment.�
�Besides, it gives you an excuse to nurse him back to help.�� Her laughter reached me as my face started to
flush at the innuendo.

�� Damn
you Pig.�

Author notes:� I�m back yet again, and this time I have a
lot of words to show for it.� 4 � pages�
and all was written in on sit down.� Sadly
it looks much shorter than I thought it might be.
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