Author's Notes:

Hey folks. Thanks for the positive feedback for the first chapter. I hope this one is to your liking.

Anyway, from this I'd like to do the whole big action adventure story some way. But that will take some time.

Basically the premise is, set a couple years after the current manga storyline, the threat of Orochimaru is growing and finally has to be dealt with. Orochimaru is planning his last ditch invasion of Konoha, to end it for good, the Final Battle. That final battle will be Orochimaru vs. Naruto because, I don't know it just feels right to me. It is a Naruto/Sakura story.

I grabbed the titles from a series of Ring of Honor events, because well, just cool titles. ROH, please don't sue me, I'm a loyal and paying fan.

DISCLAIMER: All publicly recognizable Naruto characters, settings, etc. are the property of Masashi Kishimoto and Shueisha Inc. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. No money is being made from this work. No copyright infringement is intended.

Naruto and Sakura continued to make out on his hospital bed, Sakura noted he was getting quite good at it and enjoyed the taste of his lips and the feel of his tongue stroking her own. What really subdued Naruto is when Sakura took Naruto's lower lip into her mouth and proceeded to suck and nibble on it. The young male ninja moaned into submission. Naruto was really in trouble, this girl, no this woman knew all his weaknesses, but then, she always did.

Sakura then lifted her leg and sat astride her boyfriend. She could feel his growing hardness against her lower-extremities, a wonderful feeling for them both. Sakura grabbed Naruto's bandaged hand, and brought it up to her face. She tenderly kissed it, distracting Naruto from the pain of the inflicted wounds. This wasn't ninjutsu or charka use, it was Sakura's own special technique.

Naruto moved the hand to up to her face, slowly running his thumb across Sakura's lip. Sakura once again clutched Naruto's hand and slowly brought it down to her chest. She prompted Naruto to raise his other appendage to her chest as well. She guided his hands and gently pushed them against her soft breasts, showing Naruto what she liked and how to play with them. Naruto loved the feeling, they were so soft and pliable, and they over-flowed his large hands as he tried to hold onto as much as he could; he almost didn't notice as Sakura lowered the zipper on her shirt.

Sakura lifted her arms out of her sleeveless, outer-garment, her upper-torso now only clad in a black sports bra which highlighted her fit and sexy mid-riff. She crossed her arms over the piece of clothing and lifted it up, exposing her breasts to Naruto for the first time. Naruto's eyes widened, and he marveled at her, she was so beautiful. Sakura started to blush a little from his scrutiny, but then began to moan in delight when Naruto lifted his hands to her bare breasts, utilizing the techniques she tutored with him earlier, "Sakura, you're so beautiful," Naruto said.

"Thank you, Naruto. And now, I want to see more of you," Sakura said as she began to work on Naruto's clothes. With his assistance she lifted his slightly baggy shirt over his head, letting Sakura see his well-toned and muscular body.

Unfortunately his abdomen was taped up. One particularly nasty wound near his heart had yet to heal, Sakura would have to be careful. Sakura noticed another mark on the left side of his chest, near his shoulder. There was a clear almost circular scar shape there, the size of a soft-ball, the skin slightly discolored. Instantly, Sakura realized what it was and almost started to cry. But she didn't let it go that far, tonight she was with Naruto and would put those thoughts aside.

Naruto saw her looking thoughtfully at the particularly old wound, "that one . . . it cut into me deep . . . deeper than any other, I guess that's why it never fully healed. I still wonder about it though." Naruto didn't say the rest, that perhaps the reason it didn't fully heal is because he didn't want it to, and wanted to keep it as a reminder. Another time he thought. Now he didn't want a bunch of melodrama to spoil the mood.

Sakura kissed her hand and then put it to the scar, the gentle pressure causing Naruto to sigh in relief. Sakura leaned down, and pressed her breasts to Naruto's chest, the feeling of her nipples rubbing against his skin driving him crazy. Sakura started kissing around Naruto's neck and shoulder area. She began to gently suck on the area where neck met shoulder, carefully applying pressure with her teeth and then sucking on Naruto's skin. Naruto's breathing began to pick up and he nearly started to pant. When Sakura was done she surveyed her handiwork, a nicely fresh and reddened love-bite mark. She smiled brightly and kissed Naruto again, "Now you have my scar, I like this one a lot better," she said and then began kissing his chin and down his neck and throat. She then boldly licked a line down his chest, dragging her breasts down his body, a special feeling Naruto loved. Sakura paid special attention to pepper little kisses around the wound close to his heart. She even kissed where his abdomen was taped up, where the Kyuubi's seal would be.

Sakura got to his pants. She undid the button and pulled the zipper down, Naruto helped her ease the pants off his body. He did this before remembering what he was wearing under them. Sakura smiled and held in some giggles, looking at his froggy/toad patterned underwear.

Naruto blushed in embarrassment. "That's ok Naruto, we'll just have to take them off then," Sakura said slyly as she put her fingers on the elastic getting ready to pull them down.

"Wait!" Naruto said, stopping her, his hands covering her own.

"What's wrong?" Sakura asked, looking up and making eye contact with Naruto. Naruto blushed even more, "Sai--he said--" his insecurities were again laid to rest by Sakura.

While still looking at him, "You think I care about what that metrosexual queen thinks?" Sakura asked, she the proceeded to perform an interesting action, causing Naruto to blush a shade of red never before discovered in the spectrum of light.

"No, but--" Naruto stammered.

"Not a butt, Naruto," Sakura said as this time she did pull his boxer shorts down over his legs and off his feet. Her following actions were even more interesting than before causing Naruto to nearly go mad with pleasure.

"Sakura, you're so good, so amazing!" Naruto gasped.

There was the sound of an audible pop, "I know," she returned, "Tsunade didn't just train me in medical and fighting skills you know," she said seductively.

"Eh, really?" Naruto asked somewhat nervously.

"Yes, she said it's important that a woman knows how to take control over her man." And with that Sakura got up and off the bed. She started to slowly sway her hips as she put her hands into her tights, she kicked her sandals away and off her feet, and began to lower her pants off her body, revealing that she was wearing grey athletic style underwear, which Naruto found sexy as hell on her. Sakura walked back over to Naruto and got back on top of him. Sakura laid her torso over his, rubbing her breasts all over his chest, sighing in delight and enjoying the sensations.

Naruto deciding to be a little bit more active, used his hands to start exploring her now nearly naked and beautiful body. Sakura was so tightly built, but her skin was still so soft and smooth, he stroked his hands over her back and then began to grasp her soft and amazing ass, Sakura audibly sighing over the attention.

"I keep worrying you might hit me for this," Naruto teased.

"Stop, and I just might!"

"Hn. I'll keep that in mind," Naruto said before he pulled her down to him and he quickly flipped her over as Sakura squealed in surprise. Naruto now had the tables turned on her.

"Naruto, be careful, your injuries, remember?" Sakura said.

"I'll be careful, I promise."

"You better," Sakura said in what was a clear demand. Naruto leaned down and kissed Sakura again, sharing more wonderful kisses with her. Sakura wrapped her arms around Naruto's back and shoulders, rubbing her hands through his hair, wanting him as close to her as possible. Naruto began to kiss down toward her shapely and curvy breasts. He grasped them with his hands and kissed all around the left one, ignoring Sakura's nipple. Sakura began to pant and was getting quite impatient, she tried to get Naruto to move his head to where she wanted it to be, but he wouldn't budge, "Naruto! Please!" Naruto then promptly sucked Sakura's nipple into his mouth, applying a rather firm suction all around it. Sakura nearly screamed, "Naruto! AHH! Oh Kami-sama!" Sakura arched her back, trying to feed more of her breast to him. Naruto wrapped his arms under and around her back to keep her balanced, and gladly obliged her.

Sakura encouraged him to give her other twin some attention and this time Naruto gently scraped his teeth across her right nipple, causing Sakura to yelp. Naruto looked up to apologize for possibly hurting her, but she just shoved his head back to where it belonged, wanting him to feast until his heart's content. Naruto continued sucking on Sakura's nipple and began strongly swiping it with his tongue. Sakura loved the attention and clutched his head to her bosom, she gently stroked his thick and spikey blonde locks, encouraging him on.

"Naruto, please take them off," Sakura asked. Naruto understood. He put his hands in her underwear as she lifted her hips up, once it was gone they would be completely naked together for the first time. Naruto removed her panties.

"Naruto! Please! I need you now!" Sakura was starting to get quite anxious with need, she knew what came next.

"Whenever Jiraiya had a woman around, he was able to touch a spot on her that made her really happy," Naruto teased as he gently applied pressure to a special area and Sakura did scream.

"That bastard, having sex with a woman right in front of you! I'll kill him!"

Naruto leaned down to her side to kiss her openly moaning mouth, catching it with his own, "It's ok Sakura, we're together now, and you seem to react pretty positively to it," he said before softly pushing his thumb over her special spot.

"Naruto! Now please!" Naruto nodded, if he was ever nervous during this session before, it nowhere near matched how he felt now.

Suddenly, Naruto just remembered something, "Wait Sakura . . . what about protection? What if you get--"

"Pregnant? Its ok Naruto, I got it covered. Besides, all active kunoichi are required to use birth control . . . very effective birth control."

Naruto frowned sheepishly, ". . . I didn't know that."

"Well sweetie, it's not exactly something you are supposed to know." Sakura was getting even more anxious and had wrapped her legs around Naruto's lower torso, locking them at the ankles.

"Sakura . . . if it hurts, just tell me, and I will stop, I promise you--" Naruto said before once again being cut off by Sakura's fingers to his lips.

"Naruto, what did I say about this mouth. I know it will hurt, but I'm willing to accept that because, because I love you. You and only you can do this to me, understand?" Naruto silently nodded in reply.

After a bout of passionate love-making, when they both came down from their mutual climax, Naruto collapsed on top of Sakura, his head resting on her breasts, which Sakura kept holding on top of her, gently petting his hair. Naruto started to move, but Sakura kept her legs locked around him, not wanting him to move off her, she wanted him right where he was.

"Please stay," Sakura whispered.

"You sure? It's not uncomfortable is it?" Naruto asked with love and concern in his eyes.

Sakura shook her head, "Ie, I like your weight on me." Naruto began to blush even more at her comments even after all they had done together. Sakura saw this and giggled and started to kiss his head and running her fingers through his hair.

"Your hair is getting pretty long you know, and it's getting really messy," Sakura observed.

"Hm, I guess I should get it cut shorter again soon," Naruto said, not taking too much note.

"Naruto?" Sakura asked after a pause.

"Hm?"

"Promise me you'll let me cut your hair . . . after tomorrow."

Naruto looked up into her jade eyes, "Sakura . . . I . . . yes, I promise you can cut my hair after tomorrow."

"Arigato, Naruto," Sakura said before nuzzling her face into Naruto's neck and giving it a kiss before they both fell asleep together. A while later they both woke up for another round of love-making, this time with Sakura getting to be on top, giving Naruto a chance to relax his injuries. Then they laid awake together, with Sakura's leg and arm draped over Naruto, while she half-rested on his chest and shoulder.

Sakura could feel the gentle thump of Naruto's heartbeat, she loved the feeling and it comforted her, she tried to take comfort in it as much as she could. This was a feeling she never wanted to lose.

"Naruto, I finally realized something, what's most precious to me, the thing I want to protect more than anything and never want to part with," Sakura softly said.

Naruto was listening and took it in, he looked ready to say something rather grave, "Sakura, soon, I don't know what will happen--"

Sakura looked up at Naruto, staring into his beautiful and deep blue eyes, as tears started to well up in her own. She placed her hand over Naruto's heart and gently stroked his chest, "This is what's most precious to me, Naruto. This is what I will protect. No matter . . . no matter what happens, I will always keep this safe and cherish it above all else."

Naruto was rendered nearly speechless, while Sakura started to cry softly into his shoulder, tears started to fall from his eyes as well. Years ago Naruto said he would stop crying, except when sometimes it would be OK to cry, this situation was the latter.

Later, early in the morning after the sun had risen, Naruto and Sakura dressed, exchanging little touches, caresses, and kisses, almost tempting each other to go back to bed, but today returning to life was unavoidable. Sakura released her seal on the door to the hospital room, and heard something on the other side. Her eyebrow suddenly twitched in anger and realization, she opened the door quickly and moved aside.

Konoha special Jounin, Kakashi Hatake, the legendary Sannin and best-selling erotica author, Jiraiya, and the Fifth Hokage of Konoha herself, Tsunade all tumbled into the room, falling flat on their faces.

"Old man! What the hell! Kakashi-sensei! Tsunade-no-baa-chan! What the fuck were you guys doing out there? And don't you dare freaking say research Ero-sennin, or I swear to Kami-sama right here and now I will be all over you like a monkey on a cupcake!" Rage started to well in Naruto. Kakashi had cleverly and shiftily made a hasty exit in the commotion.

Jiraiya got up casually dusted himself off, "In case you didn't notice we are in the middle of a crisis. And we couldn't find the Hokage's apprentice and one of the village's top jounin. That warranted concern, and certain investigation. So now we found you both, safe and sound, investigation solved." Jiraiya's eyes then flit to Naruto and Sakura, and a very perverted grin broke out on his face, "So it seems you two were alone in here for . . . a considerable amount of time," Jiraiya whipped out his note pad, "anything you'd care to share with your masters?"

Sakura was blushing and straddling the line between anger and embarrassment, but she was way too embarrassed about being found out like this by her sensei of all people to let her anger explode. Naruto on the other hand was starting to resemble something out of a Hollywood disaster movie, "Damn you Ero-sennin!" Naruto started to simmer like a great volcanic peak before its eruption, while Jiraiya was in his own perverted world, imagining what . . . well figure it out. Tsunade decided to step in before things got really nasty and simply elbowed Jiraiya through the floor. Time for the Hokage to act like a Hokage.

"Naruto, I want you to report to Battle Station 0 immediately," Tsunade commanded.

"But Baa-chan!" Naruto said almost sounding like a little boy once again

"No buts, and stop freaking calling me that! And do something about your sensei that's most likely picking plaster splinters out of his ass in the lobby."

"But Baa-chan you were the one that put him there! After both of you were eavesdropping!" Naruto exclaimed incredulously.

"Naruto," Sakura said with all kindness, walking over to Naruto and grasping his hands, "do what your elder tells you, we'll talk later, ne?" Sakura said, smiling and winking at him.

Naruto instantly softened up and nodded, "Hn, see ya later Sakura-chan!" Naruto said and quickly pecked Sakura on the cheek before taking off and jumping through the hole in the floor.

Sakura was now as red as a ripe tomato, Tsunade leaned in behind Sakura, grinning slyly, "that good, huh? We'll talk later."

EPILOGUE/PREVIEW:

Naruto and Jiraiya were side by side, on top of the Hokage mountain in Konoha. Naruto stared out toward the horizon. In the distance, a small patch of dark clouds were visible. The clouds which would eventually grow closer and grow into a storm.

Naruto gazed out with all gravity, "Hey Ero-sennin?"

"Yeah," Jiraiya asked while writing some notes in his personal scrolls, some of which he would be sending out soon.

"Do you really think I can beat him?"

"Hmmm. Well . . . probably not. But you are resourceful every once in a while, you might figure something out," Jiraiya said with little conviction. Naruto deflated and a large drop of sweat appeared on the back of his head.

"So that's it then. We go out and try to match their strength, use some sneakiness, and hope I can pull something out?"

Jiraiya stopped with his scroll writing and looked up at his young charge, "Naruto, don't over-think it, you'll just give your brain a cramp. We've both matched Orochimaru before, but ultimately failed in defeating him for good. In order to do that, you are going to have to find parts of yourself you've never used before, you'll have to find your limit and pass it, even at the point of death. That's what it very well might take, do you understand?"

"Yes, yes I do." Naruto said with complete sincerity.

"Alright, we're good for now then," Jiraiya said and went back to his scroll calligraphy.

"You seem pretty laid back about all this Ero-sennin," Naruto observed.

"Someone has to be. You know, Naruto, I once had a friend that used to say, 'whatever happens, happens.'"

"Oh, what happened to him?" Naruto asked, genuinely interested.

"I think a cat killed him or something like that," Jiraiya said as he finished up his calligraphy and rolled up his scrolls packing them in. Naruto once again deflated and sweat-dropped.

In the distance on the ground in the village, Naruto could see a flash of light, a signal command.

"Looks like I'm needed at the moment," Naruto said but procrastinated a bit, like he was looking for words. "Hey Ero—ie . . . Jiraiya-sama," Naruto's use of the term quickly startled Jiraiya and got his attention, "I just want you to know . . . that despite everything, I'm glad I'm your apprentice. Anyway, late," Naruto quickly dashed off to his next destination.

Jiraiya remained, looking out toward the darkness that lay ahead, "You're a good kid. You really are just like the 4th you know. That guy . . . he never called me Jiraiya-sama either . . . until right before that time all those years ago. Naruto, just like him, I'll stand by you to the end."

THE END . . . For now.