[ I HAVE AN ORIGINAL STORY CALLED: Cursed Beauty!
It's a secret fanfiction of this book, TaniaJanae923 ]

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Chapter 47: Wrong Bottle

"Woooo! I feel real good!" Jiraiya held his bottle of saki in the air as Naruto and Nia just sighed.

"Is he drunk?" Nia asked the blond as she kept staring at her master.

"Pretty close to it," Naruto replied as he slurped his ramen, "He's drunk once he starts heading off to hit on every woman he lays eyes on."

"Jiraiya-sensei, we have to meet up with the hokage, remember? What if she gets really mad at you for showing up drunk?" The kunoichi warned.

"Don't worry about me. I'm fine for right now." The sannin replied honestly as he set his bottle of alcohol down in favor of eating some rice balls instead.

Nia sighed and accidentally grabbed the bottle of saki Jiraiya had drunk out of as she talked to the two guys. The drinks Jiraiya brought were contained in identical looking bottles. However, two were filled with juice while the other was alcohol.

Nia had yet to drink out of her bottle so when she drunk out of Jiraiya's, she had no idea what flavor was the juice. However, when she drunk it, she thought of the flavor to taste rather good.

'What kind of juice is this? It's amazing.' The girl then thought as she chugged every last drop of alcohol into her system.

Not too long after, she began to feel very sensitive. Her body began to feel tipsy and everything just seemed so darn funny all of a sudden.

"Curly Brow, can you pass me the pepper?" Naruto held his hand out.

Nia giggled, "Haaaa! Pepper, paper, what's the difference? Ahahahaha!"

Naruto tilted his head, "Err... what?"

The girl then stood up and began to twirl, "I feel like I am one with the world! The world is my every fantasy in the world. I will rule the stars and shall make the sun explode in greatness!"

"What are you talking about?" The genin laughed as he grabbed the pepper himself, "Pervy Sage, did you hear what she said?"

When Jiraiya grabbed his bottle, he quickly realized it was empty.

"What happened to all my saki? I was just about to-"

"WOOOOOO!" Nia next began to dance around and kicked all the food somewhere else, "Let's get wild, you guys! I wanna show all the rabbits not to mess with me again!"

"GAHHHHHH!" Naruto panicked as all the cupped ramen got destroyed, "ALL MY BEAUTIFUL ULTRA DELICIOUS RAMEN! THEY'RE RUINED!"

As the kunoichi danced awkwardly around the area, Jiraiya sweat dropped as he took no time at all to figure out how his bottle of alcohol was empty.

U-Uh oh... Don't tell me she drunk it on accident?

"I'm sooo totally gonna just do it!" The girl laughed and keeled over before springing back up, "I'm just gonna go over there and just make out with that invisible tree I always fantasized about." Nia then began to walk but tripped over her ankle and fell straight on her stomach.

Jiraiya sighed heavily.

Yep... She's completely drunk....

"Hey Curly Brow, you alright? You're kinda acting weird." Naruto helped the girl to her knees.

In the state she was in, the young man had just became the hottest man she had ever seen in her life.

The girl hiccuped as she blushed and swayed side to side.

"Hey baby, you're damn sexy! Let's have some fun."

"Huh?"

Nia pressed herself against the genin's chest and traced her fingers alongside it.

"You know, I've been thinking a lot about you lately and," The girl seductively bit on her bottom lip and pulled down Naruto's zipper on his jacket all while maintaining eye contact with him, "I'd really like to see a bit... more of you."

"Um, Curly Brow... you're really acting strange," Naruto replied with a slight blush, "Seriously, you okay?"

Again the girl hiccuped and pinched his cheeks and shook his head side to side, "You're- You're a cute one... Always worrying about me and just being- just being like a cookie. This I why I want you sooooo bad."

The genin blinked, "What do you mean?"

Nia let go of his cheek and leaned into his ear and whispered, "I want you to make me yours sooo badly. I wanna make you feel good. I want you to make me scream your name."

At this, Naruto's ear twitched and his blush deepened.

"That sorta... t-tickles my ear, ya know?"

Taking his hand, Nia directed it to her side and had him rub up and down on it while she began to caress his cheek and shower it with light kisses before moving down to his neck and nibbling it.

"Haaah..." Naruto shivered in pleasure before he resisted the girl's advances and softly pushed her away by the shoulders, "O-Okay Curly Brow, even though that felt great, maybe we really should keep things slow, ya know?"

Nia hiccuped and kept swaying side to side, "No! I don't wanna keep things slow! I wanna make love right here, right now! Just go all out!"

"SERIOUSLY?!" The blond became excited and held his arms out, "If you're really serious, come to your hero already, ya know!"

The girl giggled and grabbed Naruto's hand then lightly began to suck on his index finger.

"Mmm, if your finger tastes this good, I wonder if what you're hiding down there will taste even better...?" She said in a sultry voice.

Immediately, steam blew out of the genin's nose and hearts grew in place of his eyes as he was actually able to understand what it was the girl was saying to him thanks to the action she was performing on his finger. He cupped the girl's hands in his own then exclaimed,

"Oh yeah! Don't worry about a thing! That'll be the best thing you'll ever taste in your life, believe me!"

The kunoichi winked and giggled, exciting her crush further. Just seconds after, Jiraiya threw his sandal at the ninja's head rather roughly.

"What the hell was that for, Pervy Sage?!" Naruto was aggravated by the action.

The sannin stood up, "Before you go try making love to her, just know she's completely drunk. She accidentally drunk out of my bottle and it's causing her to act the way she is because of it. She's not herself, Naruto."

"No!" The blond then stared right into the kunoichi's eyes, "Tell me it's not true! I thought for sure you were ready this time!"

"I'm not drunk, you squirrel!" Nia yelled at her master before she hiccuped again.

She then turned to her crush and ran her fingers through his hair in a strange fashion, "Let's just do it! Let's just TOTALLY make out, right here!"

"Fine by me!" The genin dismissed the idea of the girl being drunk and went for a kiss but as he did, Jiraiya threw another sandal at him with even more strength than before and knocked his student onto his side.

"Look, I know she got you excited and all, but I wasn't kidding when I said she's drunk." The old man stood near Naruto as he looked down at him as black swirls were in place of where his eyes should've been.

Seeing this made Nia extremely angry.

"That was my person you just broke!"

Jiraiya sweat dropped and looked over his shoulder. When he did, the kunoichi slammed a foot against his back, making a cracking sound as it did.

Jiraiya screeched in pain before being sent bouncing yards away until his face met the bark of a tree. He fell onto his back and was now the one to have black swirls in place of his eyes.

"Naruto!" The girl then sat the genin up, "Are you okay?!"

Naruto rubbed his head but nodded anyways. He looked behind him to see what Nia had done.

"Oh man! He'll be knocked out for a long time for sure, ya know?!"

"Now that he's out of the way, lets finish from where we left off..." The girl began to smile flirtatiously.

"Errm, I think we should get you taken care of," He replied, "I think Pervy Sage is right about you being drunk."

"I'm not drunk!"

Naruto placed Nia's arm around his neck and held onto her side then stood, "C'mon! I'm taking you to my place to rest so Iruka-sensei won't think I'm the one who made you this way."

"But I wanna have sex with you..." The girl tipped over and barely was able to walk.

"You don't know what you're saying or even how you're behaving! I'm not taking advantage of you!"

Nia attempted to kiss the genin's cheek anyway to which he moved away from. As they made it to his apartment, the girl had already made multiple attempts to seduce the young man in vain.

The blond sat his friend on his bed then sat beside her. When he did, the girl attempted to make yet another move on him, causing the genin to instead stand.

"Why won't you make love to meeeeeee?!" The girl glared but then hiccuped.

She threw a pillow at Naruto, to which he caught.

"I already told you I'm not taking advantage of you, okay?!" He responded as he threw the pillow back on his bed.

"But I'm not druuunk!"

"You tripped over a garbage can and nearly busted into someone's house on our way here. You can't even walk right without my help."

"I so can!" Nia stood off the bed for a good second before her legs wobbled and caused her to fall straight back on it.

"See! Point proven."

Seeing as how determined her crush was about rejecting her love, Nia began to get upset and started crying.

"GWA! What the heck are you crying for now?!"

"Y-You won't m-make love to me." The girl wept as she brought her hands up to her eyes.

"You're not in your right mind. You wouldn't want that right now." Naruto tried to reason with his friend.

This only caused her to sob even louder.

The blond sighed as he listened to all the weeping.

"I bet if I were Sakura, you'd jump at the chance to sleep with me!" Nia became angry before she again hiccuped.

"That's not true! She'd kill me if I tried to do that!"

"Then sleep with me!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"I said no, ya know!"

At this, Nia gave up and cried into her hands, "I knew it! Y-You really don't like me."

"I do!" Naruto responded, "but you're drunk!"

"I'm not druuuuunk!" Nia stomped her feet.

"Here," The genin went up to her and softly layed her down and placed the sheets over her, "Just get some sleep. Hopefully when you wake up, you'll be back to normal."

"But I want you to bang me..."

Naruto sweat dropped.

Now that I'm seeing how easy she is when she's drunk, I'm actually glad she's really guarded when sober...

"I promise to give you something special when you're back to normal okay?"

Immediately, the drunk teen smiled widely, "Really? You will?"

"Yeah."

She then got moody again and replied, "Noooooo, that's- that's not good enough! Y-You... You get in this bed right now and let me lick you all over!"

"...You really are a freak in the sheets!" Naruto replied as he scratched his head, "but you're drunk so no!"

Nia then sat up and began to lift her shirt.the genin gasped and pushed down at her hands.

"No!" He blushed, "Keep your shirt on for crying out loud!"

Finally Nia moved her hands away, relieving the genin. However, as soon as he let his guard down, she threw him on the bed and sat atop of him.

"GWAAAA! WAIT A MINUTE! TIME OUT!" The blond freaked out and squirmed around, "Curly Brow, just calm down, would ya?!"

The girl didn't do or say anything, she just stared at whom she had feelings for. After a minute of Naruto panicking, He finally calmed down and saw the look in Nia's dark brown eyes.

They were soft and tender. There was a hint of sadness in it yet also a hint of desire.

"Eh?" Naruto blinked a few times.

"Do you... like me?" She then asked softly, "Or do you like Sakura?"

"!"

The girl then sighed.

"I like you..." She said, "I like you... and I don't know why. I mean I do but... you're completely different from me. You're everything I'm not and for some reason, I'm drawn to you."

"...?"

"I always thought that I liked people like myself: Quiet, shy, keeps to themselves, and pretty much anti-social but then when I did like people like that, I realized that I didn't actually like them... Whether I talked to them or not, every single time I realized I was only intrigued by their looks and not for who they are. They were boring to me, there was nothing to talk about and nothing to do. Me liking someone with my personality just doesn't match. I can't stand falling for someone who's introverted. They're only good as friends. They're not my type."

She then looked down for a second before looking back at the genin and hiccuped.

"You're loud, social, reckless, a jokester, completely oblivious to things, and a bit perverted, but I still like you. I like you for you. Your personality compliments mine so well, it's crazy. You balance me out." Nia said.

"I guess you do have a point," Naruto agreed, "Now that I'm thinking about it, the majority of my strongest bonds are with people who are my complete opposite. There's Gaara... Kakashi-sensei and Sai are pretty different from me too. Oh yeah, Shikamaru too and Neji also! Hinata's definitely on the opposite wheel but I don't really know anything about her now that I really think about it. I don't talk to her much. Then there was of course Sasuke who was definitely my complete opposite. Now, there's you."

"You see me as your opposite too?"

"What kind of question is that?! Of course you're my opposite! You said it yourself and we both know it anyway."

At this, Nia giggled but then hiccuped, "I still wanna stay by you, but most of all, I really want to-"

"You still drunk? You sound like yourself again..." Naruto interrupted with a blank stare.

Quickly the girl took a pillow and smacked her crush with it several times, though playfully, "Listen to me when I taaaaaaaaallllllllk!" *hiccup*

"Yeah... you're still wasted..." The genin saw birds floating in a circle above him.

He then got his composure back and replied, "I'm confused... what're you trying to say to me?"

Nia pinched the blond's cheek and stretched it a little, "Are you gonna listen... t-to my fabulous magnificent speech, Whisker Cheeks?!"

"What the- I thought you were done calling me that!"

"And I thought you were gonna make love to me!"

"In your dreams, Curly Brow! You can't get me in that mood no matter how hard you try!"

Immediately, the kunoichi scooted back and began to grind against the teen. At that moment, everything became pretty erotic.

"I wanna be good enough to get you in the mood, so get into it right now!" The very drunk young woman became offended as she rocked back and forth on the most sensitive part of Naruto's body.

"Haaaah, oh maaan! I... I can't believe you're actually going through with this!" Naruto tried to resist getting aroused, "C-Curly Brow! I... I WAS JUST KIDDING, YA KNOW?!"

He then sat up as his body grew warm and next attempted to get his ridiculously drunk friend off him. However, Nia only wrapped her arms around his neck and kept rubbing on him surprisingly skillfully.

"Ahhh! Ooooo, my hero feels so sooo good! Ahhh!" She then moaned into his ear, "N-Narutooo, I love it!

"GYAAAAAAH! WHAT KIND OF TORTUROUS EXAM IS THIS?!" The genin had a nosebleed but then quickly covered it up with his sleeve as he made sure to keep his hands away from Nia.

His face was completely flushed and his heart throbbed like crazy. It didn't help that the rubbing felt good either. Though he tried hard to not get excited mentally, his body did so physically.

'Resist! Resist! Resist! Resist!' He bit hard on his bottom lip and closed his eyes, 'My body is completely turned on but I gotta keep my mind in check! It's all about willpower at this point!'

The kunoichi then began to kiss his cheeks then nibble on his ear. The blond let out a groan but then quickly covered his mouth.

THIS IS TORTUUUURE, YA KNOW?! I feel like someone's putting a bowl of Ichiraku ramen in front of me and telling me not to eat or smell it! Dammit!

"Naruto?" Nia kept grinding but pulled out of the hug and instead rubbed her hands on the genin's shoulders, "I like you! Your shoulders feel sexy."

As the golden opportunity finally showed itself, Naruto grabbed ahold of her wrists and slammed her down on her back on his bed, now being the one to be on top.

He gazed at the smiling girl then squeezed his eyes shut and tightened his grasp on her wrists. His body wanted to give in badly and just make love already but his mind knew that it wouldn't be right. Nia wouldn't want that. She wanted his heart and body, not just his body. She wanted him to be in love with her and only her, but he still had his feelings for Sakura to deal with.

"What's wrong?" The girl questioned then hiccuped.

"I'm not... taking advantage of you. I know you're not being yourself right now and I know you have pretty deep feelings for me. You tell me so much it makes me wonder why you feel the way you do even though you already told me your reasons. But still... "

"Why does it have to be Sakura who has your heart?" The girl randomly spoked.

Naruto opened his eyes.

"How come just because she's pretty means you gotta be with her? It'd be different if you actually liked her, but you only like her mainly for her looks. Whenever you talk about her, it's always because she has a cute smile, pretty eyes, and nice hair. You completely ignore the fact that she hits you, refuses to acknowledge your feelings, had feelings for someone else, and calls you an idiot all the time... it's like you let her get away with hurting you in some way because she's hot to you."

Because of her drunken state, it caused Nia to openly vent what she's kept inside for a while that she had no intention of spilling out while sober.

"I know that I'm not pretty or anything but can't you at least acknowledge my feelings?! Please stop chasing after a girl just because she's hot when she treats you like garbage! That pisses me off so much! Even I didn't lay my hands on you during our worst arguments. I let it go cause I care about you." The girl then blushed heavily and admitted, "I liked you since that day you helped me when we were inside that cave!"

"What?" Naruto's eyes widened.

"Don't you remember?" The girl then hiccuped, "The cave where our chakra was being sapped. I liked you after realizing just how kind you were. I got scared when you transformed because I thought you were gonna die. It scared me to death! I was completely terrified! I thought I was gonna lose you."

"What? That long ago? That happened several months ago. Even then... I hadn't even known you for more than a month when that happened..."

"And? I spent that whole month only talking to you and Jiraiya-sensei since we were traveling. That means I spent countless hours speaking to only two people but since Jiraiya-sensei kept going off to those bars and stuff, I was left with you for at least a few hours more. So pretty much, the only person I talked to for that whole month was you! Of course I'd end up catching feelings eventually."

"I... I had no idea... I had no idea you felt that way towards me back then," Naruto replied, "Is that why you kept staring at me so much? Why you kept getting embarrassed every time you and I would have a moment together? Why you kept asking about Sakura?"

"I repressed what I felt for you cause I felt unworthy. I felt you were too good for me. I still feel that way. You're too good for me, Whisker Cheeks."

"Wait! So then..."

"Deep down, I wanted you to like me but I was afraid that if I gave in to my feelings and tried to win you over, you'd reject me completely."

"This doesn't make sense! I thought you liked someone else!"

"NO! NO! NO!" Nia became irritated, "NO ONE COMPARES TO MY HERO! I LOVE HIM!"

The genin froze upon hearing that last sentence. He didn't know what to feel or what to say. He never heard anyone say they loved him to his face.

"Wait, Curly Brow... you don't mean that love, do you?" Was the only thing he could get out of his mouth.

His heart was beginning to pick up speed and his face slowly became red again.

The kunoichi squirmed around, trying to free herself from Naruto's grasp.

"Let's have sex alreadyyyyy!" She pouted.

"Curly Brow, seriously!" The genin demanded, ignoring her drunk talk, "Answer! C'mon!"

Nia arched her back in a attempt to free herself but that was all in vain. The girl then squirmed around a bit more until she finally gave up on getting to make love with whom she desired and relaxed. She turned her head to the right and stared at Naruto's hands holding down her wrists.

"I don't know what to do..." She mumbled, "I don't know how to respond to the feelings that I have for you. I never felt this way before... I don't know what to do. How should I deal with it?"

'Now she looks sorta sad...' The genin took notice of the girl's expression, 'She has the worst mood swings when she's drunk, ya know.'

"Narutooooo, tell me what to doooo!" Nia again squirmed around as she was overcome with emotion, "I don't know what to do! I was always told that my feelings were wrong, that I shouldn't have feelings for people because I'm not pretty enough! What am I supposed to dooo? I can't hide my feelings from you, I'm too emotional. It kills me to keep my feelings to myself. I don't wanna have my heart broken. I don't wanna lose having a chance with you. I don't want anyone else to have your heart. I don't know what to do!"

"Curly Brow, calm down!"

"Noooo," The girl kept squirming around, trying to free herself, "I don't know what to do! I'm so scared! I didn't mean to fall for you, I wasn't trying to feel this way. I just wanted to be your friend and that was it. I didn't mean to like you! I'm so sorry! Please don't hurt me."

"I'm not gonna hurt you!" The blond pushed down harder on Nia's wrists, "I don't mind if you like me, ya know? I didn't know you had feelings for me, so I never noticed you in a romantic sense until you told me. You don't have to be so afraid of me. I'm not gonna be mean to you, I promise."

"Please stop... My feelings are all over the place, Whisker Cheeks. I have to go stop the rabbits from taking over the world, remember? I gotta go."

Naruto sweat dropped.

I can't stand the randomness she has when she's drunk... it's ridiculous.

"Look Curly Brow," He then got serious, "I think... you're sorta cute. You get excited when I talk to you, happy when you see me, shy when you're close to me, forgiving when I do something wrong, gentle when you're touching me, embarrassed when I joke with you, smile really hard when I compliment you, and sorta hide behind your hands if I flirt even a little bit with you. I don't know who would actually have a problem with a girl acting like that when they know she likes him."

"Whisker cheeks makes me smile. I love being by Whisker Cheeks."

"I like being by you too, ya know. I just wish you'd stop beating yourself up over your appearance. The fact that you want to be accepted for who you are, to be treated like an actual person, and to be seen more than what horrible label people have given you makes me feel pretty close to you. I know you want to be accepted, to have others treat you kindly, and to just not have people treat you like you're nothing just like me! I know you're still trying to find your way out of the darkness and I promise that I'll help guide you out of there like I did for my other friends. I won't make you feel like you're nothing, I swear."

"So then... Whisker Cheeks likes me?" Nia asked.

"Yeah... I acknowledge your feelings. You're pretty shy and you're really insecure, but even so... at least you had the guts to spit out your feelings for me even though you were scared. At least you said and did things that made me feel better about myself. It's not like you stayed at the sidelines being too afraid to say something to me that would make me feel a gazillion times better than before! You at least try even though you feel underserving of me. You try to make me feel happy and that's something I just can't ignore." Naruto admitted.

Finally, he let loose of the girl's wrists and hugged her instead.

"N-Naruto," Nia became even more excited as she felt something against her, "Y-You're poking me... are you ready to give me a good time?"

"Huh? What do you mean?" The genin replied a bit naively as he then looked down where she was looking.

"GAAAAAAH!" He completely freaked out and became embarrassed, "I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THIS THING!"

Quickly, he hopped off the bed and scurried into the bathroom. By the time he came out, he saw Nia fast asleep on his bed.

'Finally...' He sweat dropped, 'Now she can't tempt me anymore.'

Noticing she was on the opposite side of the bed, Naruto repositioned her on the correct side and placed the sheets over her.

"There. Now you'll be a bit more comfortable, ya know?"

The genin then began to gaze at the kunoichi. He found his action to be a bit strange but he shrugged it off. For once, the girl looked peaceful in her sleep. She didn't look sad nor did she looked bother. Her attitude was beginning to change, though rather slowly. She still had her glasses on so he took it off and placed it atop his drawer.

As he stared at her, memories of what Jiraiya had said to him about her over the course of them getting to know eachother began to replay in his mind:

"You know Naruto... she's been staring at you for quite some time now... I think she may like you or something."

"The only reason you think I'm lying is because she keeps looking away whenever you turn to look at her! She was staring at you with really tender eyes, I'm telling you!"

"Is it just me or do you notice the sparkle in her eyes whenever you're nice to her?"

"Naruto, you're as blind as a bat and the most oblivious person I've ever met when it comes to women... it's obvious she likes you. Even I can tell. She doesn't even have to say anything, you can tell by the way she acts with you. Trust me, I know my stuff, Kiddo."

"It boggles my mind you two actually kissed. You're so different from one another it's a bit ridiculous. She's quiet, you're loud; she's well behaved, you're mischievous; she's a thinker, you're reckless; she appreciates my books, you don't; she doesn't argue with me, you do... ahhh, I guess the saying that opposites attract does apply after all..."

"What you feel for Sakura is mostly based off physical attraction and your craving for attention... what you feel for Nia may be a little more than that. Perhaps a lot more. I just think you're not acknowledging your feelings properly."

"Nia may already be in love with you but is forcing herself to ignore and deny these feelings due to fear of rejection or because her insecurities are keeping her from acknowledging her true feelings. That's what I truly believe."

Pervy Sage... do you really think that? Her feelings are... more than a crush? If that's true... then what are mine? Do I feel the same way too or...

The blond threw his head back and ruffled his fingers through his hair.

Gahhh! This is too difficult for me to understand! I don't know anything about this stuff! Isn't it just easier to think I'm in love with Sakura?! I mean, I've liked her since I was a kid! But then... if I really did love Sakura... then how the hell did I end up liking Curly Brow?! She was just the girl who kept pushing me away, but now she's the girl who keeps trying to get close to me! It's too damn adorable! Dammit! All this thinking is gonna make my head explode, ya know!

An idea then popped into his head. In just a few seconds, two clones were summoned and the three sat down at a table in the front room.

"Okay you guys, the question of the day is: Who do I like?" The original asked.

"Sakura." Clone one said.

"Curly Brow." Clone two answered.

The two then looked at one another.

"What?! That's not right!" They simultaneously yell.

"Sakura's pretty!"

"Curly Brow's cute!"

"You didn't think that at first though."

"Well I do now. She's cute!" The clone that liked Nia better defended itself.

"Wait a sec, guys," The original tried to calm his clones down, "Not so loud. You'll wake Curly Brow."

"If you didn't like her, how did she get you turned on?" Clone two asked the original.

"She was moving back and forth on me! It felt good, I couldn't stop my body from responding to that, ya know! Besides, she was moaning in my ear... that really... you guys already know!"

"See?!" Clone one pointed at clone two, "You only feel lust just like she said!"

"That's not true!" Clone two slammed its hands on the table and stood out of its chair, "If I did, I would've just taken advantage of her just moments before. She threw herself at me but I know she was too drunk to understand what it is she was doing. I want to honor what she told me. Also... I want her to be mine!"

"EH?!!" The original and clone one gasped.

"Curly Brow's liked me for a while and I had no idea about it so when she told me just how much I meant to her after thinking that I only bothered her, my heart leaped. I was actually really relieved and when she called me her hero, I felt this whole new emotion just explode inside me, ya know?!"

"But I've always liked Sakura!" Clone one replied.

"But Curly Brow makes my heart race."

"So does Sakura, ya know! She's really hot!"

"That's all you like about her! Curly Brow is really kind! She wants to stay by my side and she's just so gentle. She makes me feel good. Sakura does that only sometimes. She was always about Sasuke."

"Well maybe she'll return my feelings one day?"

Clone two sat back down and crossed his arms, "I don't want her to anymore... Curly Brow loves me and she tries really hard to let me know how much she cares about me despite her fears. Besides, I want a girl who can understand me."

"What do you mean?" The original asked.

"It's just as Pervy Sage said: She gets what it's like to be shunned, to be ridiculed, to be an outcast... I feel like I can connect with her on a deeper level than I ever could with Sakura, ya know?" Clone two explained, "That alone makes me want to keep her safe! She's vulnerable. I gotta make sure she doesn't slip further into darkness. I'd never be able to forgive myself if that happened and I let it happen."

Clone one and the original lowered their eyes. Clone two did make a good point. Even if they all tried to, there was no denying Nia would be able to relate better to his past than Sakura could.

"But I'm so used to having feelings for Sakura... it feels weird to just-"

"Quality over quantity, ya know?" Clone two interrupted, "Yeah, I've spent a long time hanging around Sakura and I think she's really pretty but... even though I didn't think Curly Brow was cute initially, she really did grow on me after I actually got to know her. She gives me the acknowledgement I've been seeking for since I was a kid. I feel like a gazillion bucks when she's with me. I'm the man, the hero! You can't tell me that doesn't make you feel good, ya know!"

"It does feel really good," The original agreed, "but-"

"I can still protect Sakura... but only for the reasons that she's my friend and comrade... Curly Brow is more for personal reasons"

"Curly Brow's too insecure!"

"Sakura's too aggressive!"

"Ugh... I feel like this is getting no where..." The original sighed.

He then sat up and walked back to his room with his two clones following behind. Upon entering, clone two made his way through the pile of junk on the floor and sat on the bed near the sleeping kunoichi. He sat her up much to the original's annoyance then held the girl very close to itself.

"If you're just gonna choose Sakura over Curly Brow, then I'll just have her to myself then. I'll be her hero!" The clone said.

"What the- you can't just take her from me like that, ya know!" The original got mad and pointed his finger at clone two, "She's mine to protect! I'm her hero!"

"I'm the one who cares for her! You're just some two timer! Go chase Sakura!" Clone two retaliated then brought Nia even closer to it. Now wrapping its arms around her, "When I confess, I'll be the one to make love to her all I want."

"All right, that does it! Now you're really starting to tick me the hell off!" The original grabbed the clone's arm and began pulling on it, "As if I'd let you have what's meant for me and me only! You're not stealing her away from me so hands off, you fake!"

As the two fought over the girl, the clone that preferred Sakura sighed.

"You know... I really wish you'd go for Sakura, but I think it's pretty obvious at this point you would like to give Curly Brow a chance..."

With that, it vanished into thin air, giving Naruto its answer on how he feels at the moment. With this information provided, the genin's eyes widened for a second before he decided to get rid of the remaining clone.

He then layed Nia down again and let out a deep sigh.

That damn clone... trying to take her from me. As if I'd let that guy be the one to have her...

As his two clones thoughts poured into his mind, Naruto placed his elbows near his knees and cheeks on his palms.

'Oh man,' He thought, 'Did I seriously just get jealous over my own clone?'

"Argh... what I feel is too difficult for me to understand. I feel like my feelings for Sakura are keeping me from really acting out on my feelings for Curly Brow. The way I feel for them are two different things. Maybe Pervy Sage is right... maybe I did mistake my feelings for Sakura as love when really it was just a crush? If that's true, wouldn't that mean I actually have deeper feelings for Curly Brow?"

Finally having enough of overthinking, Naruto stood up and decided to head outside to check on his master. However, when he took a few steps forward, he tripped and slammed into his dresser, causing the photo that was on top of it to fall. Before it could though, the blond caught it.

Everything in his room was a complete mess. Food and clothing were on the floor, multiple filled garbage bags needed to be taken out, and some of his clothes and undergarments hanged from clotheslines.

If only I had some kind of maid or something... maybe then I won't be tripping over everything and I won't find roaches crawling around.

His eyes then drifted to the photo in his grasp.

Of course, his attention went to the boy on the far left.

'Sasuke...' He thought as he felt an emptiness inside him swell up, 'It's already been almost a year since you died... since then... I tried to live my life trying to accept this... but deep down... I don't think I'll ever be able to live this down.'

As he continued to have endless thoughts of his fallen comrade, memories began to repeat itself all over again in his mind.

Placing the photo back where it was, Naruto then thought of Jiraiya again and him still possibly being knocked out outside and how him, the old man, and Nia were supposed to be at the hokage's office in just a few minutes after looking at the clock."

Damn! I'll just have to pretend to be those two and go in to see Granny myself then!

With a sign, two shadow clones, different from the ones before, appeared and when they did, they used another sign to transform into the two that were needed for the meeting.

"Okay guys! Make sure you have their personalities and voices perfectly lined up, got it?" The original demanded.

"Woah, they're so squishy! Feel them." The clone who turned into Nia fondled it's breasts.

Angered, the original slammed his fist against that clone, "HANDS OFF! I didn't give you permission to touch her!"

"Sorry..." The clone apologized as it made sure not to touch itself where it shouldn't.

"Okay then! Off we go!"

The three quickly left the apartment and headed off to where they were appointed to be.

Hopefully Granny won't know it's me...

•••

It was now dark and Nia had finally woken up from her slumber but was experiencing a terrible hangover. The girl sat up and placed her hand on her head.

"Damn, what happened?" She asked herself as her head throbbed like never before, "My head feels like it's gonna explode and I feel sick to my stomach."

It didn't take her long to realize she was in a totally different room she had never been in before. The lights were off but the moonlight entered through the window right next to the bed, giving it some source of light.

Dear God, this room is a mess!

Suddenly, the door opened and the lights were turned on. Quickly, Nia hid under the sheets and her heart nearly exploded from fright.

Wait! What if I was drugged and was kidnapped?! Ohhhh, what am I gonna do?! I don't wanna die in this junky ass room.

"Oh boy, I thought Granny was gonna find out for sure. I can't believe I made it through that whole meeting without slipping up," Naruto talked to himself as he then went straight to his bed and shook the person laying in it, "Hey Curly Brow, are you okay now? You back to normal yet?"

'KYA! IT'S NARUTO!' The girl nearly had a panic attack, 'If I take off these sheets, he'll see my hair all messed up and how much more terrible I look after I sleep! He'll never love me!'

"Curly Broooow, wake up already. You've been sleeping all afternoon, ya know? It's almost ten o'clock now." The genin then tried to pull the sheets.

"I'm awake already, okay?!" Nia tugged at the sheets tighter.

When she felt Naruto let go and heard him beginning to talk again, she took the chance to flip over and began smoothing her hair and combing it down with her fingers as best she could.

I can't let him see me like this!

However, since she was more focused on her appearance than on what Naruto was doing, she stopped tugging on the sheets and the genin pulled it off of her. The girl nearly had a heart attack when he did so.

Immediately, Nia covered her face when Naruto rolled her over.

"Erm... why are you hiding your face?" He asked as he sweat dropped.

"Where are we?" She replied with her hands still over her face.

"Wait! You don't remember anything that happened?!"

"All I know is that I feel really sick. I got a huge migraine and I feel like I gotta vomit."

Quickly, Naruto removed the girl's hands away from her face then placed his hand on her forehead, "Oh man! Your forehead is on fire, ya know?!"

Nia noticed she didn't have her glasses on as everything was a bit blurry but she continued to gaze at the blond anyway.

What's with this guy? He's more concerned about my health than how I look right now...

"Naruto, where are we? Seriously."

"This is my place." The genin answered and winked.

"O-Oh!" Nia became incredibly nervous and began to tremble. She then hid under the sheets once more.

This only made Naruto smile, "Good, you're acting awkward again! That means you really are back to normal."

Just about a minute later, Nia felt too extremely nauseous and asked where the bathroom was. When Naruto directed her, the girl got down on her knees, lifted the toilet seat up, and proceeded to vomit out all of the alcohol and food she had consumed during the day.

"Man you weren't kidding when you said you were sick! You're just like Pervy Sage when he gets a hangover! Are you okay?!"

"H-Hell no!" Nia was barely able to say before she threw up again.

When he saw her hair getting too close to the toilet, Naruto held it up like he usually did whenever Jiraiya would get sick like this too.

"N-Naruto," The girl weakly grabbed onto the boy's pant leg with her right hand, "Who did this to me?!"

"Err... You sorta drunk out of Pervy Sage's bottle and got drunk, so I had to take you here so you can get some rest."

Again, Nia vomited a few more times before she finally was able to get the alcohol out of her system.

"Naruto!" She then stood up and hugged him weakly, "You're a good person for watching out for me. Thank you so much."

"Yeah, no problem but... GYAAA! AT LEAST WASH YOUR MOUTH BEFORE YOU TOUCH ME, YA KNOW!"

Immediately, Nia pulled away and apologized incessantly.

"I'm sorry!" She said over and over, "I should really get to Iruka's then. Its really late! He'll kill me if I don't show up tonight."

"You're too sick to walk all the way over there by yourself. You look like you're gonna pass out. I'll just carry you on my back," Naruto offered and kneeled, "Get on."

"Kyah! No, that's okay!" Nia became shy and refused.

"Just get on already, would ya? We're not leaving till you get on."

"Okay fine," The girl gave in and positioned herself on his back, "We can go now, I'm on."

Standing up and readjusting Nia, Naruto then carefully made it through his apartment then walked out into the village streets. It was night so no one was really walking around and only a few lights lit up the village.

For about a minute or two, no one said anything to eachother. Nia felt too ill to start a conversation and Naruto was busy just trying to get her to Iruka's. At one point, he looked over his shoulder and gave a warm smile.

Flustered, Nia hid her face.

"Um, is there a reason why you just smiled at me?" She asked.

The genin chuckled, "Oh I was just thinking about how I carried you like this when we were stuck in that cave back around the time we first met, ya know?"

"Oh really?" The girl began to smile to herself and felt her stomach and heart flutter at the memory, "You remember that?"

"Yeah." Naruto nodded.

After all, you told me you started liking me that time we were trapped in there while you were drunk and everything.

"Thank you for helping me back then again and thank you for helping me now. You're really nice, Naruto. My hero is the best."

"O-Oh, don't mention it," The blond felt flattered and slightly blushed, "Actually, I wanted to ask you something..."

"What is it?" Nia responded as the two were close to their destination.

Naruto looked back at her and grinned, "Since you like me and all... do you... maybe wanna... go on a date... with me sometime? You know... after you get better?"

Immediately, Nia completely almost melted into the ground.

"Are you serious?" She began to smile really hard and got a high dose of euphoria kicking into her, "A date... with my hero?!"

"Is that a yes?"

"HELL YEAH IT IS!" The girl incidentally got a bit too carried away then quickly grew embarrassed, "I... I mean... of course, I'd love to."

Oh my god, I'm so stupid! Now he probably knows I've never been on a real date before! He probably thinks I'm desperate or obsessed! Oh god, I'm so embarrassed! Oh god! Please don't think I'm some creep.

"Great!" Naruto made it to Iruka's and knocked on the door, "Your feelings for me make me feel really good, ya know?"

'KYA!' The girl quickly became relieved, 'Thank the ninja heavens! He thinks my feelings are sweet! Thank god! I thought he would think I was some creepy desperate girl or something.'

"Naruto?" Iruka opened the door, "What're are doing here so late? Shouldn't you be- WAIT! Nia?! What're you doing with Naruto this late at night?! Why do you look terrible?!"

At this Nia sighed.

My self-esteem...

"She got really sick while we were with Pervy Sage. I brought her here cause she's too sick to walk herself. She was vomiting like crazy." Naruto explained.

"Okay, just bring her in here and set her down in the smaller bedroom." Iruka had Naruto walk into his home.

He went to where he was told and gently placed Nia on the bed.

"I'll go get some medicine. You can go home now, Naruto. Thanks for bringing Nia here." Iruka then left the room.

"All right then Curly Brow, I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" The blond smiled and waved before he began to walk away.

The girl grabbed his wrist then held onto his hand, "Wait! Don't leave!"

"Huh?" The genin looked over his shoulder, "You need something?"

"I just... wanted to say thank you. Thank you for being so nice to me. I really like you. I hope you have a good night's rest." Nia softly spoked

"Yeah, no problem. Get some rest too so you'll be feeling a lot better than you did today, okay? See ya."

"Bye." The kunoichi released her crush and let him leave the room.

Her head ached like crazy but the fact that she had something planned to look forward to after she got better made her wanna recover as quickly as possible. She was so excited that she couldn't stop smiling. Maybe Naruto really did like her? Maybe he really was either over Sakura or trying to get over her?

Whatever it was, as long as her feelings would eventually be returned fully was all the teen girl cared about.

The only question was: Was she truly ready to have a romance in her life?

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A/N - 8 THOUSAND WORDS! This chapter has over 8,000 words! This may be the longest chapter I've ever written ever lololol 😂 the only other chapter that I believe can rival the length of this one is one of my chapters in my Gohan story.

QOTD: What song do you think would describe NaruNia?

Lol imma start doing these now on every chapter 😂

lol! Anyway I hoped you enjoyed this cause I did. Thanks for reading! Please comment and vote and have a nice day ❤️