This is a fan fiction owned by me. I do not own Naruto nor do I make money out of this. Kishimoto Masashi-sama does that.

Please enjoy the story! I will give the date for the next update always in the author note after the story.

Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke are about seventeen, eighteen.

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'this sucks.' Sasuke cursed. Team 7 was on a mission to kidnap a lady of some royal family. The plan was to flirt with her and separate her from the party. Then bring her to her father who was dying; his daughter didn't want to see him, but he insisted and hired team 7to bring her to him. as a last wish and to hope that his daughter would forgive him so that he could rest peacefully.

Sasuke was suppose to flirt with the girl because of his good looks, but his stubborn personality was in the way of the flirting. The lady wasn't impressed by Sasuke's good looks, she wanted a normal conversation. Too bad Sasuke wasn't much of a talker.

'Sasuke-teme, hurry up and flirt with her! Stuff you pride in your butthole and do it. It's a mission, remember.' Naruto hissed trough the headset.

Sasuke casually went to a corner and pretended to look at a painting.

'I can't, whatever I am saying doesn't work!' he hissed back.

'I think you are doing great, Sasuke-kun!' Sakura said in a fangirl way. She was happy that the plan wasn't working. Sasuke shouldn't be flirting with any woman accept for her!

Kakashi sighed. 'Sasuke, the man is dying. We need her in a hour or else we won't make it.'

Sasuke snorted.

'fine, one more time, then.'

Sasuke mangled himself in the crowd and looked out for Aya, when he saw her, they made eye contact. But Aya just looked away. Sasuke groaned of frustration. 'if she was like one of my fan girls, this would have been easy. But nooooo, she has to be different!' Sasuke walked over to Aya and tapped her on her shoulder.

"excuse me Aya-chan?" Sasuke said with a smile.

The lady turned around. "yes?"

"uhm, lovely party isn't it?"

Aya smiled and nodded. "I know, it's lovely. I first wasn't about to come. But then I heard there was free food." She laughed. "no, I am just kidding. I was brought here by my friend, her fiancée is throwing this party. I really am enjoying this though. And you?"

Sasuke almost threw up. His face was hurt because of the smile on his face. 'just keep smiling, just keep smiling! …AAAaaargh! I can't do this!' his mind screamed at him. His face got his smirk again. He snorted.

"it's just a stupid party, nothing to be so happy about."

Aya looked taken back, before she walked away with her nose in the air.

'yeeaah, real smooth mister good-looking ice prince.' Naruto sighed.

'I can't do this, anymore. Can't someone henge in me or something?'

'wow, mister I am perfect is giving up?'

'Kakashi, what should we do? And Naruto, stop talking to Sasuke like that!Should I change in Sasuke-kun?'

'…No, I don't think that will work. Sasuke insulted her to many times. I think we should do something else.'

'like?'

'…Naruto, you go.'

'WHAT?! Kakashi-sensei, Naruto can't do that! he doesn't know how to do that!'

Sasuke took out his ear microphone. Sakura screams went on for about a minute when she calmed down.

'Kakashi, I have to agree with Sakura on this one. Naruto isn't exactly a womanizer..'

'TEME!'

'Naruto! Do it! Be yourself! Be your true self.'

'…what?'

'take off your mask and do it, we don't have that much time left!'

'Kakashi, what are you talking about, Naruto isn't wearing a mask..'

'hehehe, yeah kaka-'

'Naruto! Do it. I will talk with Sakura and Sasuke afterwards.'

Sasuke listened confused to the silence that followed. Then a deep sigh.

'only if they promise not to tell, what is going to happen next.'

'Naruto, I don't understand.'

'Sakura, do it. You too Sasuke.'

'o-okay, I promise not to tell, what happened on this mission.' Sakura whispered. You could hear the doubt in her voice though.

'Hn.' Sasuke snorted. After this was all over, he wanted to know what the hell was going on. He didn't like secrets, and what the hell did they mean with Naruto dropping his mask and stuff? Showing his real self? Aya sure wouldn't want to listen to ramen the whole evening…

'I don't want you to talk to me though, I don't want to be disturbed.'

'Okay, Naruto. Sasuke, you look out for Naruto, go stand with Sakura and pretend you are having a conversation.'

'hai!' Sakura happily squealed, she had already forgotten about everything and was having dreams about her and Sasuke talking.

Sasuke looked out for Sakura and walked over to her.

"I wonder what they meant." Sasuke said. Sakura was a bit disappointed that the subject was going to be about Naruto and not about their marriage…but who cared, she was talking and that was start.

"I don't know. But if Naruto is going to be his true self, it will only be more difficult to take her home." She snickered. Both looked at Naruto who walked into the room with a glass of champagne. He looked around.

Then he spotted Aya in a corner, leaning against the wall. She looked irritated. 'probably because of Sasuke..' Naruto smiled and walked up to her.

"my, my. Is everything okay, young lady?"

Sakura's mouth almost hit the floor. Naruto sounded so mature… it also looked like his appearance changed too. His eyes were narrow, which made him look more serious. His hair was still pointing in every direction, yet it looked like it was made with such a style. His suit looked perfectly on him and his smile just gave him the extra touch that made him look like a god called sex-on-legs. Sasuke gulped.

Aya looked up and gasped. Then she looked away. Probably another hot looking man with the character of a grumpy old boar…

"I am fine, thank you."

Naruto smiled with his eyes closed and took a sip of his champagne. "you don't look so fine to me, young lady."

"I have a name, you know."

Naruto took Aya hand and placed a kiss on top of it. "I am sorry. My name is Tohru. Kouno Tohru. And your name is?"

Aya looked surprised and then blushed a little bit. "Aya. Yamasaki Aya." Naruto let go of her hand and smiled.

Sasuke jaw dropped. It had taken him two hours to get her to say her name! Who was this guy?

"I bet you don't like the party." Naruto took another sip of his glass and stood in front of Aya.

Aya pouted a little. "what makes you say that? Don't jump into conclusions, please."

Naruto laughed. "I am so sorry, again. This is the first conversation I had where I had to apologize in two minutes."

Aya giggled and shook her head.

"you looked so sad."

Aya smiled at Naruto. "I am just a little bit tired, that's all. And there has been this rude man who is irritating me. It was really annoying."

Naruto snickered. Sasuke gritted his teeth and took a deep breath to calm down.

"really? Tell me about it."

Aya looked surprised before she even blushed more. "it's a boring and long story and I am sure you don't want to hear it…I am sure you don't want to listen to my problems…"

Naruto picked up a glass champagne from the waiter and gave it to Aya. "God gave us ears to listen. And I am always interested in stories. Especially those from young ladies who need someone to listen to their problems." Naruto smiled again and offered his hand to Aya who was speechless and still blushing. Aya took his hand.

"let's take this outside." He said with a smile that gave his background a pink color and rose petals suddenly surrounded him. Aya nodded in awe and walked away with him in the direction of the garden.

Sakura and Sasuke were still stunned. Naruto had flirt with a woman, without mentioning ramen in any way, and had succeeded. He had wrapped her up in only 5 minutes without even the good looks of Sasuke.

'Sakura, Sasuke, get ready.'

Sakura was the first one to came out of her shock, she had a slight blush on her face, from Naruto's smile.

"wow, I didn't knew that side of Naruto. Why doesn't he show that side a lot more?" Sakura wondered.

Sasuke could only stare with his mouth open. When he realized Sakura was gone, he quickly followed. He walked with Sakura to the garden and looked for the couple.

"ah, there they are!" Sakura wanted to walk to Naruto but Sasuke stopped her.

"Naruto needs to take her out first."

Aya shyly looked over to the blond god next to her. She had just explained what had ruined her evening. And Tohru understood everything! he even smiled at her a couple of times, which made her blush. His smiles would give her a tingly feeling inside. It was as if he could look right through you and touch your heart.

Aya sighed. "Are you cold?" he asked. Aya slowly nodded. Naruto took of his jacket and put it around Aya's shoulders.

"beautiful girls like you shouldn't be cold."

Aya gasped at the muscular body that was hidden beneath the jacket. The white blouse was tight enough to show off the strong muscles. She looked at Tohru's chest and was already attracted to him. Even though she was only looking him breathe! Aya blushed again and looked to the ground. "you are making me blush, Tohru. It's like you know everything about me and we don't know each other even that well…"

"I want to know every part of you." Naruto said in a husky voice. Aya's eyes widened and she blushed even more. "Tohru! Please..don't say that. It embarrasses me."

Naruto put his hands on Aya's waist. "from the moment I saw you, I wanted to know you."

Sasuke almost gagged. He didn't know it was from the romantic bullshit Naruto was crying out or from the fangirl behavior of Aya. Sakura let out a jealous "hn." Why didn't Sasuke swooned over her like that? Sakura looked at Aya who was smiling from happiness. she would give up everything just to trade places with her.

"Tohru, I-"

Naruto placed a finger on Aya's lips. "ssshh. Don't say a thing."

Sasuke's and Sakura's eyes widened at the sight in front of them. Naruto wasn't going to kiss that girl, right?

…Right?

Sasuke felt a weird felling in his stomach and his chest started to tighten. Sasuke stopped himself from stopping Naruto.

Naruto's face inched closer with Aya's. Aya closed her eyes and waited for the lips that were going to touch hers. She felt Tohru's breath hover over her lips. She swallowed.

But instead of the warm tingly feeling she would have expected, a soft blow in the neck was the only thing she felt before she fainted. Aya fell gracefully in Naruto's arms.

Sakura and Sasuke slowly came out. Naruto gave them a look before picking up Aya bridal style. "Let's go. We don't have enough time if we don't hurry."

Kakashi came out of a tree, he inspected Aya before he nodded. "Let's go."

Sasuke looked at Naruto. Naruto looked so mature right now. Even…handsome…wait, what? Sasuke shook his head. He hoped Naruto would stay like this. He was more happier even if he didn't smile that much. The sparkles in his bright blue eyes were real. His eyes looked truly happy.

It was as if he saw Naruto for the first time. Naruto noticed Sasuke was staring at him. He smiled with is eyes closed and his head a little bit to the side. Sasuke blushed and looked away.

"yeah, let's go." He murmured softly.

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About three chapters left…don't know exactly how much… I will see about that! Next update is going to be Wednesday 19 December

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