Chapter 51: Swooned

"Curly Brow... it's been like ten minutes and you're still holding onto me really tightly," Naruto said as Nia clung onto him in a embrace, "You weren't kidding when you said you weren't gonna let go of me, huh?"

"Mhm." Nia mumbled shyly as her heart stammered at the affection she was giving.

The two were at the training ground with Jiraiya and Kakashi. The older man was writing in his book once more as he had a brief conversation with his friend.

"Looks like you weren't kidding when you said those two really hit it off," Kakashi plainly said as he stood next to the sannin who was sitting on the grass, "So... Naruto confessed you said?"

"That's right. You heard right, Kakashi. It's about damn time he did too cause I was close to pulling out all my hair thanks to those two making their feelings for one another so darn complicated, you know?"

Kakashi chuckled, "I know what you mean. The way you explained everything to me sounded like something out of one of your romance books."

"Even those books were a lot less complicated, Kakashi."

"Well... you're not wrong, Master Jiraiya."

They then gawked at the two teens hugging a few yards away.

"It's surprising to hear he's over Sakura," The copycat ninja commented, "At times I thought he'd never get over her. Quite frankly, I was beginning to worry."

"Yeah well, you can thank me for that one really."

Kakashi placed his hands in his pockets, "I'm a little surprised you didn't try to persuade Naruto into going after the better-looking woman, Master Jiraiya. What made you wanna persuade Naruto into acting out his feelings toward Nia?"

"He smiles a lot when he's with her. Nia makes him feel at ease. He's not stressing himself with her like he did with Sakura. To put it plain and simple: She makes him happy somehow," Jiraiya answered as he finished writing a sentence in his book, "I wanna see Naruto happy. It makes me feel at ease as his master. If that means he'll be able to be in a better mood with Nia then so be it. I don't see what's the problem with him falling for her."

"Well, it is a master's job to keep his pupil feeling one hundred percent..." Kakashi replied.

"Exactly." Jiraiya agreed.

"I guess Sakura did give him a hard time with her obsessing over Sasuke and all. Not to mention the strain she put on him to bring Sasuke back to her." Kakashi then reminisced the times his female student swooned over the Uchiha.

However, as soon as his name was mentioned, Jiraiya set his ink down and directed a solemn expression to the jonin.

"You do remember our duty in defending Nia with our lives, don't you?"

Kakashi nodded as the atmosphere around them suddenly grew serious. The wind blew through the grass and the air became a bit cold and chilly.

"She's one of the nine-tails guardians and therefore has a death sentence... Have her killed and Naruto will be in even more danger."

Jiraiya sighed then said, "You need to be careful too, Kakashi. You have one as well."

"As much as I would like to say it's not true... I do in fact do." The jonin acknowledged the truth of it all as he then looked up to the sky.

And wherever Sasuke is... I hope he knows he may be targeted as well...

Back where Naruto and Nia were, the kunoichi held onto the genin's hand as she timidly stared to the ground.

I still can't believe what he said to me earlier... I still feel my heart racing. I feel like I'm in some kind of dream.

"Curly Brow, your feelings for me are so strong... I'm still shocked about them..." Naruto began to caress her cheek.

Nia shivered at his touch. Her face burned with love. He was acting so at awe with her. It was a bit embarrassing for her to say the least.

"You're not gonna be this horribly shy around me forever, are you? You weren't like this at all when we first met remember?"

"Mhm." Nia nodded as she remembered that time, "I was so cold to you. I'm sorry..."

"Don't worry about it. It's not like you act like that anymore. You're like a whole new person now."

This made the girl smile. She looked up at her crush and locked eyes with him before looking away then stared at his lips.

"Naruto... we haven't really had a proper kiss since before we had arrived at this village, huh?" Nia muttered as her heart continued to throb with anticipation.

Naruto didn't say anything and only gazed at her; He looked out of it.

"Naruto...?"

"You love me..." He finally said as his cheeks began to warm slightly, "You love me..."

Nia nodded, "Yeah... I do."

The blond smiled widely and in his happiness, leaned forward and kissed the kunoichi softly at first and then with a swift gradation of intensity that made her cling to him as the only solid thing in a dizzy swaying world. His insistent mouth was parting her shaking lips, sending wild tremors along her nerves, evoking from her sensations she had never known she was capable of feeling. And before a swimming giddiness spun her round and round, she realized she was kissing him back.

Nia felt weak in the knees but at the same time didn't wanna stop. Her body, on the other hand, was begging her to pull away before her mind would go blank. However, she didn't listen to it and instead, in her excitement, wrapped her arms around Naruto's neck again and deepened the kiss.

She thought of his lips to be rather warm and a little rough while Naruto thought of her lips to be rather soft and plumped.

When they pulled away for air, Nia quickly became embarrassed once more and hid her face in her hands all while smiling.

"Thank you," She said, "Thank you for letting me show you how I feel."

Naruto scratched the bridge of his nose and blushed, "That was pretty good, ya know? You really had my heart pumping."

"Oh gosh..." Nia nearly bled through her nose, "This is so embarrassing."

"What're you talking about?! Let's do that again! That got me really psyched, ya know!"

Removing her hands away from her face, Naruto instead cupped his hands on it then once more pressed his lips against Nia's. Again the girl felt as though she had been lifted into the heavens. She placed her hand over Naruto's and squeezed it softly as she kissed him back. This time, Naruto began to step forward and ended up backing Nia up against a tree.

Their kiss broke apart for a second before they found their way back to one another again. Nia's heart pounded as Naruto pulled the back of her head closer in order to deepen the kiss. Then, finally having enough of the mostly innocent affection, he boldly placed his tongue onto Nia's and began circling around it. However, startled by this sudden movement, the girl pulled away but Naruto again brought her close to him and repeated the process.

His heart was throbbing as he then broke out of the kiss and began pecking the girl on the cheeks.

"Naruto..." Nia became extremely flustered and began to lightly push away at the genin's chest, "Please don't overdo it. I'm feeling really weak in the knees right now. My heart's killing me. I feel like it's in my throat right now."

"I feel that way too," The ninja admitted as he then moved his lips onto the girl's neck, "I'm getting all kinds of tingly emotions inside me, ya know?"

Electricity shot throughout Nia's body and she began to get much warmer than before. She was getting butterflies in her stomach.

Out of nowhere, the genin began to bite on her neck. When he did, the sensation she felt from it caused her to slightly and quietly moan. At the sound of this, Naruto excitedly stopped and looked to her. She hid her hands in her face. He removed them again and blushed deeply.

"So that's your sensitive spot, huh?" He smirked before he bit on his lower lip then grinned again and next made eye contact with Nia who pretty much became entranced by his action, "That's all I gotta do to make you make those noises?"

She didn't say anything but the look in her eyes made everything clear.

Naruto bit on his lip.

Damn. I should probably stop, but... but... she started making those noises and it's making me... it's making me feel really excited!

"Curly Brow!" He tightened his hold on the girl and pressed his body onto hers as he then attacked her face and neck with kisses, "You're being such a good girl and it's making me feel really good and happy, ya know! You're so sweet!"

"Ohhh! P-Please don't say that! I'm not... I'm not a good girl..." Nia began to feel actually turned on to what he said to her much to her surprise.

She began to hold onto him tightly as he once again began kissing her then grabbed onto one of her hands that was on his shoulder and brought it between them then squeezed it.

'I can't believe how submissive she is!' The genin thought as his face burned with desire, 'Its like she'll let me do anything to her! Man, she's got it real bad! I'm so turned on! Now I'm starting to understand what Pervy Sage was talking about when he would go off to those pubs to meet women!'

"Curly Brow, who's your hero?" He asked as soon as he broke the kiss and stared directly into her eyes.

"You are..." She replied, earning a kiss for the answer she gave.

"Again!" Naruto begged, "Say it again!"

"You're my hero..." The girl said in a sultry yet timid tone. She was beginning to feel overwhelmed by the emotions she was experiencing for the first time.

Naruto gulped at the tone that entered his ears and had a bead of sweat run down his temple. His chest tightened.

'I really should stop now...' He thought as he felt himself getting a bit carried away, 'But she actually looks really turned on by all this and she keeps confessing her feelings for me. She wants me so bad and it makes me feel really good. It's like she's tempting me and trying to get me to do something more to her. Oh man... I feel... I feel so...'

"Curly Brow!" The blond gave in to his emotions and began getting a bit more assertive, "Come here!"

Kakashi, who was still having a talk with Jiraiya, turned his head to check on how the teens were doing and made a face.

"U-Uh oh," He said as he watched what was going on between the two young ones, "Master Jiraiya... you might... wanna drop your ink and take a look at your students for a moment..."

"What is it, Kakashi? What are they- " Jiraiya's eyes nearly bulged out of its sockets, "HOLY RASENGAN! What in heavens name are they-"

"Exactly... what have you been persuading Naruto to do with Nia, Master Jiraiya?" Kakashi noticed just how intense his student was getting in a passionate manner.

Jiraiya threw his head back and laughed with his tongue out, "Just been giving him the finest advice in getting the woman you love to give into your advances when you're caught up in the moment is all! He's learning the best techniques from me, Kakashi."

"I see... I guess that explains why Naruto... has a bulge and why Nia... looks to be completely-"

"She's only following what I asked of her. Naruto's insults on my makeout series has finally gotten on my last nerve. He needs to know the extreme intense desire to mate with someone so he could stop looking at my writing like it's a piece of garbage. His innocence needs to go. He's getting to be about that age, my friend."

"Well I don't think I'm really at ease with all this so I'm going to stop this. You haven't properly taught him how to restrain himself, have you?"

"I thought I'd never see the day I would have to, or at least, I didn't expect it so soon."

With that question being answered, Kakashi quickly appeared next to the teens, grabbed onto Naruto's wrist then pulled him away from Nia. He also made sure to stand in front of the girl's view to prevent her from seeing just how excited she had made the genin feel.

"That's enough, Naruto. You need to learn some self-restraint in these sorts of situations." He scolded the young man.

"But Kakashi-sensei! You don't understand! My body started to just act on its own! I got too caught up in the moment, ya know!" Naruto defended himself.

His sensei sighed, "How about we discuss this later, shall we? In the meantime, why don't you fix that emergency you're having right now?"

"What are-"

Kakashi coughed and gestured to what he was talking about. Naruto finally took the hint.

Oh man! Not again!

Quickly, he went away somewhere privately where he could take care of this... emergency.

Kakashi turned to Nia who looked to be very flushed in the face. She hid her face in her hands out of embarrassment.

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about," Kakashi tried to calm her down, "These desires and emotions you feel and have for one another are part of what makes us human. You shouldn't feel ashamed or embarrassed for having them. It's all that comes with becoming an adult. However, sometimes... you should learn to control these intense new emotions and learn when and where it's the most appropriate time to express them."

The girl nodded and placed her hands underneath her sleeves. She still wore Naruto's jacket.

"I'm sorry... about all that. I hope you can forgive me... and I'm also sorry... about Naruto. I feel like I'm sort of... corrupting him little by little. I know he wasn't really keen on these sorts of things back before I confessed to him, so-"

"As I said... it's all part of growing up," The jonin reminded the girl, "Sure, you've been getting Naruto to act in a way I've never seen him act but Master Jiraiya plays an even bigger role than you do as to why Naruto's feeling such emotions and desires, but still... he's maturing. It's a good sign that his mind and body are starting to really crave for what nearly almost every adult wishes to have. You nor him are really meant to stay innocent forever and not crave for a deep intimacy with someone."

As Kakashi continued to speak with Nia, Naruto came back and he got in a lecture about what his sensei had just said to the girl. When he left to go back and chat with his master, Naruto apologized to Nia about his actions.

"You didn't do anything wrong, Naruto." Nia quickly dismissed his apology, "I was... enjoying what happened too, so-"

"You liked it?!" Naruto sounded extremely surprised to hear such a thing.

Nia nodded and blushed, "Mhm... I like... being a good girl... to you."

"O-Oh..." Blood slowly slid down one of the genin's nostrils.

Nia smiled and kissed him on the cheek. She then became very timid and hid her hands behind her back and swayed side to side.

"You know Naruto... I'm really attracted to you and one day, I would like to make love with you, but..."

The girl then began to get serious and said, "I just don't move this fast... or at least, I'm not comfortable with doing this right now. However, if you would like, I really would like to go on a few dates with you and see where that takes us..."

This immediately brought a smile to Naruto's face. He cupped her hands in his own then replied, "I understand. I can respect that."

In his mind though, something else was going on. The girl had stroke his ego to a greater degree than ever before.

OH MAN! She totally wants it SO BAD! She wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants, she wants it, she wants it...

As this continued being said repeatedly in his head, Nia looked around then asked, "Say... weren't we, or I mean I,
supposed to meet everyone or something today?"

She wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it...

"Naruto?" Nia called but he was unresponsive.

Hearts floated above his head as he just kept smiling at her.

She wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it...

"Naruto, did you hear me?"

She wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it...

"Helloooo?" Nia pulled her hand away from Naruto's grasp and waved it in front of him, "Is anyone there?"

She wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it...

The blond was in a daze. His mind was too focused on what the girl had admitted to wanting and it became all he could think about at the moment.

She wants it, she wants it, she wants it, she wants it...

Giving up on trying to get the young man back to his senses, Nia took off. This was all that was needed for the genin to snap out of it.

"Wait, Curly Brow! Where are you going?!" He asked as he followed her.

"I'm going to ask Kakashi something since you keep ignoring me." She said as she kept walking.

"No! I'm all ears! You can ask me!"

"That's okay."

"No really! I'll listen this time I swear!"

"Kakashiii!" The girl called.

Naruto summoned a clone and had it stop the girl in her tracks. It pulled her in a hug and said, "I love you, Curly Brow!"

"Huh?" The kunoichi's heart skipped a beat as she momentarily forgot what she was doing, "R-Really?"

The clone nodded then tried to kiss her. Before it could though, the real Naruto kicked it out of existence all while saying, "Yeah right! Nice try! As if I was going to let you have that, fake!"

"Naruto, I love you too!" Nia gave in to her emotions and hugged her crush tight.

Again, the hearts came floating back on top of his head and his heart thudded wildly.

"Curly Broooow!" He blushed and began rubbing his cheeks against her own as they both smiled widely, "It's so cute how much you adore me, ya knooow?"

"I wanna stay like this," The girl held onto the young man tightly, "Can we stay like this? Pleeeeeease?!"

"I don't know..." Naruto suddenly pulled away then turned away and scratched his cheek as he blushed then looked over his shoulder, "I'm not too sure you really wanna hug me..."

"I do wanna hug you!" Nia responded with flushed cheeks, "Let me hug you!"

Naruto blushed deeper but continued to tease her, "Errrrm....? What should I do?"

"Hug me!"

"I'm sorry, what was that?" He put his hand behind his ear and leaned toward the girl, "I didn't quite hear ya right, ya know?"

"Hug me." Nia said softly.

"I'm sorry, come again?"

"I said hug me!" The girl became louder and tried to wrap her arms around the genin.

However, he dodged it by stepping to the side, causing Nia to nearly trip as she missed her target.

She looked back at him and tried again. However, just like how she dodged his attempts to kiss her earlier, he dodged her attempts to hug him.

"Nope!" The genin denied yet another hug as he jumped over the girl and did a front flip, "What goes around comes around, ya know!"

"Narutooo!" The kunoichi became a bit desperate for his affection and chased after him as she ran with hearts appearing over her head as she did so.

"Sorry!" The blond kept side stepping the girl and hopping over her with each attempt, "I'm too shy right now so I can't give you affection. You gotta try harder if you wanna hug your hero!"

Of course, he was only giving Nia a taste of her own medicine from how she was acting back at his apartment.

"You're not shy!" The girl leaped forward to receive her hug and managed to grab ahold of the boy, "Gotcha!"

However, as soon as she said that, the boy had turned into a log.

"A substitution...?" Nia realized she was tricked and began to have dramatic tears form in her eyes.

She sat on the grass and brought her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around them.

"That hurts my heart..." She pouted.

She just wanted a hug from her hero.

Standing behind her, Naruto smiled softly down at her as a tiny blush appeared on his cheek.

'She's sulking over a hug...' He said to himself as her confession came back into his memory.

"I love you..."

Remembering this, he grinned sheepishly and said, "Curly Brow, hug me! I'll let you hug your hero, ya know?"

The girl turned around to see her crush standing behind her with his arms spread as he wore the goofy grin she loved so dearly.

Excitedly she stood up but hesitated to do anything more.

"You'll really let me hug you?" She asked bashfully.

Naruto smiled widely.

Nia became excited and went in for the hug. However, when she did, Naruto side stepped her once more.

"SIKE!" He tricked her then laughed, "Better luck next time!"

At this, Nia began to have over exaggerated tears stream down her face.

"B-But, my hug." She sulked even more.

Quickly, the genin pulled her into an actual hug and held onto her tightly as he softly ran a hand down the back of her head.

"I was just kidding," He smiled, "It was a joke."

He then went in for a kiss, but when he did, Nia poof into smoke and a log had instead replaced the girl where she had once been. She had used a substitution also.

"WHAT THE HECK?!" Naruto realized he had kissed the log and began looking around for the kunoichi.

Laughing her head off from a distance, Nia approached the genin and put a hand on his shoulder while she keeled over and placed her other hand on her thigh.

"I can't... I can't breathe!" The girl laughed loudly as she struggled to keep her breathing in tact, "Oh my god, that was too damn funny! Ahahahaha!"

"How did you- When did you even-"

Naruto was confused.

Seeing as to what happened, Jiraiya and Kakashi began to chuckle too.

"You think this is funny?!" Naruto became embarrassed over being tricked.

"She played you, kid." The Toad Sage laughed as he watched his student become even more flustered.

"And I thought you said you were the king at these sorts of things, Naruto." Kakashi joined in on the fun as well.

Dropping his shoulders in defeat, Naruto sighed as everyone laughed at what had happened.

"I can't believe you made me kiss a log..." He sulked.

"Did you want to kiss me instead?" Nia's heart leaped with excitement as she became serious once more.

Naruto stood up straight and stopped sulking. Again he softly smiled at her and nodded.

Nia quickly covered her face in her hands at his answer and blushed very deeply.

"Oh gosh..." She went into lala land.

"Before we do this though... what were you trying to ask me earlier?" The genin questioned the girl.

She answered, "I asked: When are we gonna go have me meet everyone? Remember when we were all talking about celebrating my promotion to chuunin and welcoming me here back before we made it back here? When is it gonna happen?"

"Yeah," Naruto nodded, "That's happening today when Sakura comes to let us know everyone is gathered up."

"Oh okay." Nia said as she somewhat became nervous.

"You'll be fine so don't sweat about it," Naruto removed Nia's hands away from her face and slowly leaned downward toward her, "Now... where were we?"

In seconds, their lips met the other and the warm and tender feeling from kissing one another washed over them. They held onto the other's hand and slowly began to get warm in the face.

Kakashi smiled a bit from seeing this.

"Well at least Naruto's happy." He said.

"Yep," Jiraiya agreed as he to smiled, "They're a pretty good fit. Maybe not as amazing as the couple in my books, but pretty decent."

"Are they official?" The copycat ninja replied.

"No. I just told them that they shouldn't rush into anything just in case their feelings may change along the way. I don't want them to have to deal with the stress of trying to break up with the other person if things don't work out. They're just playing it safe for right now you can say."

"If so... why are they kissing? Shouldn't they save that for if they become a couple?"

"As long as they're not doing more than that, they should be fine for now." Jiraiya answered as he once more picked up his ink brush, "Now... where was I?"

Kakashi looked back to Naruto and once more gave a sincere smile.

I'm happy for you Naruto as long as your happy.

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