Because You Asked For It: Naru/Hana version

Part 2! I told you all this was coming. People seem to keep requesting continuations for this particular piece.

Again, this is a request... I think there's one more part to it before it's done... and then I'll be moving onto the other requests I've received.
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Sakura had been unable to shake the image of Naruto from her mind. At first she had been able to ignore her inner-self, but after the first two days or so, she had finally given into Inner-Sakura’s demands, and set out to stalk the whisker-marked boy.

Stalking was something she had experience with after all, and Naruto was no where near as observant as her previous object of affection, which made things all the more easier on her.

Just the other day she had cornered him in the baths, while he was with Iruka. The blonde had looked rather fetching when wet and flushed from the heat of the naturally warm waters.

Sakura had been grateful that the heat could explain away her own flushed features, even though the actual cause had absolutely nothing to do with temperature, and everything to do with the lean tanned figure of Naruto when he stood in the not quite hip deep water in order to stretch out the muscles in his back.

She had also been careful- very careful- to disguise herself as a lesser known Gennin boy, of about fourteen years old, so as not to get caught and labled a pervert like Jiraiya, or Ebisu. She had also avoided looking in Iruka’s direction. The thought of her former teacher in the buff was actually rather disturbing, though she knew very well that there were several people who would disagree.

It was actually during one of her perv-on-Naruto sessions, that she came across one of the former rookie nine, attempting to heal up a particularly gruesome looking gash on his shin- rather poorly if she did say so herself- and grumbling about something about stupid blondes, and evil older sisters under his breath as he did so.

Deciding to take pity on Kiba, she stopped and offered to treat the non-lethal, but certainly painful injury. Besides, maybe the Inuzuka boy could tell her which direction Naruto had taken off in.

Kiba hadn’t ever thought he would see a day when his big sister asked one of his friends on a date. Even if he had fathomed the idea- which he most certainly hadn’t- he would have expected her to show interest in Shino, or Shikamaru, or even Neji; never in a million years would he have suspected his sister of being interested in Naruto.

It was sort of shocking.

Alright, so ‘sort of’ was an understatement. He just couldn’t understand the attraction.

But… now that he thought about it, it made at least a little sense. It definitely explained a few things. She had gotten along with the blue-eyed boy surprisingly well the day he had introduced the two of them. Hana never got along with his friends so well right off the bat; it had been unusual to say the least. She had probably felt an attraction to the blonde even then.

It also made sense that she would act quickly on her feelings.

“…Makes sense, I guess,” Kiba spoke as Sakura looked over the wound in his shin. “Nee-chan isn’t the sit around and wait type.” Sakura’s grip on his leg tightened almost painfully for a moment, but the younger Inuzuka sibling simply continued grumbling about how things stood between his sister and the loudmouth as he had been doing for the past ten minutes or so, “Doesn’t mean I have to like it though… And why’d she have to kick me so damn hard?!”
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Please note Inner-Sakura, unlike the term inner-self, is a title/name, and therefore capitalization is grammatically correct.

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