A kages gone missing!

Naruto and Sakura walk to ichirakus though Naruto did so while sweating bullets, and at a slower pace than Sakura when they got closer.

Sakura asked "I bet your happy to get some ramen after that fight, I'm hungry so I might actually try some this time"

she didn't receive a response so she stopped and turned to Naruto who stopped a couple feet back. She tilted her head in confusion and said "you okay Naruto?"

Naruto broke out of his thoughts of death by knife and sighed he just walked in to get it over with.

He instantly came basically face to face with teuchi who just gave him a long stare then his face softened and he gave Naruto a slight nod and walked into the back the unspoken words of 'take care of my little girl' not needing to be said because he already knew Naruto would, also a little "talking" to by Ayame helped.

Ayame would be basically skipping out from the back if she could but at least she could walk right compared to the morning, that thought makes him grin.

Ayame says "Hey Naruto" but when she saw him with Sakura she instantly glares at her then she walked up to Naruto and pulled him into a heated make out session luckily it was only them there.

Sakura looks at them shocked and for some reason feels a sinking feeling in her gut but she shakes that one off.

"Ahem!" She fake coughed to get their attention.

She forced a smile on her face and said "when did this happen, I'm happy for you Naruto!"

He laughed awkwardly scratching his head "sorry about that Sakura, and it just happened yesterday actually."

Ayame smiles and said "thanks your support Sakura, now let's get your food" Sakura internally winced like she got slapped.

Ayame had just served them their ramen and Naruto was about to start eating when a purple haired Anbu appeared behind them.

Naruto smiles and said "hey Neko-Chan, it's been so long since I've seen you"

She said "Lady hokage has asked to see you both in her office right away" and she disappeared without a word, Naruto instantly frowned something was wrong she seemed so cold she was never like that before at least not to him.

He sighed "I'll see you later Ayame, to bad I didn't get to eat this"

Ayame gave him a peck on the lips and him and Sakura were off to the hokages office.

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"WHAT DO YOU MEAN GARA HAS BEEN TAKEN!" Naruto was about to take off when tsunade slams her hands on her desk.

Tsunade yells "Naruto! Your a jonin now, act like one don't make me regret my decision!"

He clenched his fist and sighed "I'm sorry hokage-sama, gara was involved so I lost my head for second there"

She relaxed into her chair and she said "it's fine just let me finish. I need you to leave now I'll be sending back up as soon as I can and inform temari who should already be on her way back home now. The village elders don't want me to send you but I don't care what they want just don't make me regret it" Team 7 nod and leave her office.

-

Naruto is already at the gate waiting for his team and when they both land in front of him he takes off and they quickly follow.

About an 30 minutes later they catch up to temari who was walking at a relaxed pace, when she heard them approaching she takes a defensive stance and when she sees Naruto she blushed and relaxed her stance.

She says "hey Naruto, I-I didn't know you were back from your trip why are you here?" She wanted to slap herself for being like those stupid fan girls she hates but when she sees his serious face she knows something is wrong.

Naruto says "it's gara he was taken, we were called for help" she instantly turns serious and she joined their group and when they got to the desert she lead them through the fastest path to Suna.

When they got there drama with kakashi and that old lady happened then Sakura showed what she excelled in and learned in the three years Naruto was gone by saving kankuro who nearly died from poisoning.

-

Team Gai joined them at that time and when Naruto and Tenten made eye contact she blushed looking away remembering that special night a few months prior were they lost their virginity to each other.

Naruto would join them on missions often at first she was annoyed by him like everyone else but he eventually started to change himself and they unexpectedly grew closer and closer and she found herself no longer in love with neji and that shifted over to Naruto. On one of their missions things went bad and she was captured after she was drugged by an aphrodisiac and the target was about to start touching her when his head suddenly got sliced off and his body fell backwards.

Naruto stood there protectively in front of her and the sword that she helped him train to use disappeared back into the seal and he turned around after also sealing the body and he picked her up bridal style and she was breathing heavily and clinging on to him he disappeared in a flash and appeared back to her room in the hideout and tried to lay her down but she wouldn't let him go and keeps kissing his neck and rubbing against him.

Naruto said "tenten lay on the bed I need to go get you help" she shook her head

She says "No... I... need... you this one won't ... go away with medicine, Naruto please make it go away"

Naruto looked away and said "I couldn't do that to you, I'll go get neji you love him right mayb-" she shut him up by pulling away then kissing him.

She says "you dummy... stop being so dense, it Mmm... can only be you" he was blushing because that was his first kiss that he counts and first time receiving a confession and even though he wishes all of this was under better circumstances he kissed her back after confirming he felt the same and decided to help her himself.

Back to the present,

Naruto rubs the back of his head and he says "hey Ten-Chan, all of you, it's been a long time since I saw you guys"

Tenten instantly walks up to him and Naruto readied himself for a yelling, hitting anything since he still believes he took advantage of her at that time and that she didn't really mean what she said that's why he left the next morning after thinking it through.

But it never came instead he felt lips against his and saw her eyes closed with tears flowing down her cheeks, she pulled away and hugged him with her head against his chest and he hugged her back confused did he get it wrong?

Tenten said "you really are an idiot Naruto, I wish we could talk more right now but we have a mission" Naruto let out a breath like a weight had been released from his shoulders and he hugged her even tighter.

He laughed and said "I guess I really am an idiot, I'm sorry I just left that day."

Tenten said "it's fine Naruto, but I did really miss you" she snuggled in his embrace.

Naruto then heard cracking knuckles then he heard the familiar yelling of "NARUUTOOO!"