Updated: July 17, 2013

The spelling errors are… frustrating to say the least. So As I run through this story. If this is your first time coming across this, I want to welcome you to a much more in depth Naruto relationship story entitled: "Fox Gets Petted" I hope you enjoy what I bring to the table as I try to take a different spin on the world of Naruto and get some much needed Love for our much appreciated Favorite Character.

Naruto.

I do not know about disclaimers after all of these years, but as I usually do. I Do Not Own Naruto.

Enjoy!

(KONOHA)

The sun rose over the village. The five faces on the Hokage tower beam under the amazing bright rays provided by the potent sun. These aforementioned beams also affect the face of a blissfully sleeping teen that promptly rolls over. He grumbles as the alarm clock goes off and with a flick of his hand, the alarm clock is sent flying into the wall before it breaks.

"I'll fix that another time…foolish alarm." The teen mumbled.

The boy is about to drift off yet again to a land unknown, before small yips grow in range and volume before coming to his ear as a very warm tongue appears and licks his face.

"Knock it off Kyoshi!" Mumbles Jonin Namikaze-Uzumaki Naruto; all around savior of the Shinobi Nation. The fox, with red fur and two tails does not and continues to lick away at the sleeping teen. Naruto sighs before getting up and laying his back on his bedpost. As he awakes, his sight leads him to looking around his huge bedroom.

His bed was king size with silk white covers and too many pillows to count.

Window to his right was covered with navy blue drapes, and a door that led to a balcony if you would move the drapes.

To his left was a huge walk in closet with the door open, many different jonin outfits and different colored flak jackets visible. A pile of shoes and boots lay out upon the floor. His black tiles were filled with dirt and other things from his constant moving through the day. Next to the closet was a huge chest draw with four draws in a nice hunter green. One draw is open and a neatly folded stack of white tee shirts are visible.

The door to his room was three paces from the drawer. On the right of the door was a wall filled with many weapons. Kunai, three- pronged kunai, ninjato, daggers, shiruken, an ANBU mask, ANBU armor, a cloak with blood and flames at the bottom, and a huge clan painting of a whirlpool on the ceiling in dedication to his mother and the Uzumaki clan of whirlpool. In the corner between the weapons and window is a mannequin dressed in Hokage robes with a jonin outfit under it and the hat. All in all, his room was pretty nice.

Naruto stretched before picking up the medium sized fox in his arms and walked out the door. As he turns left and passes four doors on his left and staircases leading downstairs to his right, he opens up the door directly in front of him into his bathroom. Black and gray marble was everywhere within this room which consisted of the tub, the sink, and the floor. He placed the fox to the floor and began his morning routine. Brush teeth, shower, fix up his golden hair that reminded many people of his father from back in the day, and then head on out for the day.

Dressed up in standard Konoha uniform and putting his hitai-ate on forehead before grabbing his pouches and equipment, he specifically puts on two pouches on both thighs and picks up two cruel-looking daggers before spinning them and putting them in two side holsters on the outsides of his thighs. As he heads downstairs he stops halfway as he remembered something rather important.

"It's my day off."

Naruto sighed before going back upstairs and disrobing. He returns everything neatly (a habit beaten into him by Tsunade), before putting on a skin tight navy blue shirt and white pants with a black jacket half way zipped up and matching crystal clean white ninja sandals. He ties his hitai-ate around his neck and yips to the fox, which swiftly jumps onto him and wraps his body around his neck.

"Let's enjoy this day no Kyoshi?" said Naruto as he steps outside, his fox companion yipping in agreement.

(Two minutes later, Konoha shopping district)

Ino Yamanaka was bored.

Plain bored.

There was nothing to do today. No missions, her parents gave her the day off, half of the ninja she knew or wanted to hang out with were currently on missions, the only kunoichi she could think of to relax with was busy, and then that was not mentioning her roommate Sakura, who was working endless shifts in the hospital.

"I hate days like this," Mumbled Ino.

"That makes two of us," Said a deep voice. Ino whipped around as only one person had such a distinctive voice.

"Ahh... Naruto!" said Ino as she smiled at the said person who was walking up towards her. She had to look away swiftly to hide her blush. Who knew that Naruto would fill out like this?

Dare she say it, after saving Konoha during the Pain attack a few years ago, she began to see Naruto in a different light. She just never got the chance to…hang…out…with…him…

Naruto almost stopped walking once he seen the dangerous smirk on her face…almost.

"So…Naruto-kun, what are you up to on this fine day? No missions for you I see. Does that mean you're free?" asked Ino in a semi- interested voice, the way she sounded, Naruto couldn't be so sure she was up to something. Most blondes were.

"Yeah, free day for me," Replied Naruto as he scratched the fox on his neck. His eyebrows rose as he seen Ino sway her hips towards him, causing him to sweat just a little bit. Ino wasn't ugly. She had pale blond hair that went down to her mid back, today she was wearing purple sneakers with the tightest of blue jeans. Her outfit ended with a purple figure was exquisite, testifying to the long hours she spent training her body to be at its peak. Naruto could still see the hidden seal on her back that represented her being a part of ANBU. She was head interrogator, and an excellent one at that. She continued her strut before stopping at his face and invading his privacy, not that he minded. As they were nose to nose, Ino smirked and latched onto his hands.

"Then we're going shopping! Since you make so much money on those missions you keep talking about, I want some shoes, some dresses, a new purse, and some bathing suits, some…"

Naruto sighed as he was led to his fate of spending more money. He didn't mind though. It was at least something to do. Besides, how bad could it be?

(Three Hours Later)

"ARE YOU SERIOUS?"

"YES I AM SERIOUS!"

"I REFUSE, YOU'RE CRAZY. THERE IS NO WAY I AM DOING THAT."

"OH COME ON… JUST TAKE IT OFF!"

"I AM NOT TAKING IT OFF. YOU CAN'T MAKE ME."

"ARE YOU SURE? DO YOU REALLY WANT TO TEST ME IN MAKING YOU DO SOMETHING AGAINST YOUR WILL?"

"ARRGGH…"

This was the scene that people were seeing and trying to stay out of. If anyone knew of these two blondes, it was that they were extremely head strong and determined to not do anything they didn't want to.

As it was though, Naruto was being asked, better yet, forced, to put on a shirt. But not just any shirt.

Shirts, in a plural sense.

Seventeen shirts of various shades, colors and styles.

In addition to jeans, shorts, slacks, shoes and hats and coats.

Naruto just did not want to be bothered with that. He already spent loads of money feeding Ino's shoe addiction, why did she love so much purple? Purple this, purple that, it was too much!

Actually, take that back. He forgot he was a fiend for orange as well.

So now he had Ino in his face growling, to which he returned with equal fervor. He refused to back down from this challenge. He was Uzumaki Naruto. Jonin of Konohagakure, son of the fourth Hokage, taught by the legendary Kakashi Hatake the copy-cat Nin and the late toad Sannin Jiraiya.

No. was a very viable option.

Ino was about to choke him before coming to her senses and smirking.

Naruto did not like the sign of that as he knew how devious she could be.

"Watch me Naruto-kun…you will put on everything." Said a deviously smiling Ino as her hand slowly went to her back pocket so Naruto would not know what was about to happen.

"You can't make…" Naruto stopped talking as in a swift second his shirt was ripped and slowly the article of clothing fell to the floor, which caused a chain reaction of stopping women and slowing down time.

Strong and finely tuned muscles were the thoughts running through her mind about Naruto's body, extremely muscular and sturdy. She should have done this earlier. Naruto was a hunk. The feel for him began to manifest even more than before.

Naruto watched in slow motion as his shirt fell to the floor. He began breaking out in hives as he knew the effect this would cause. Drooling woman with hearts in their eyes would rush him if he was around when the shirt hit the floor. He grumbled at the blushing and smiling Ino. That was dirty of her to have a hidden kunai in her pocket. In a yellow flash Naruto was in the dressing room with all of the clothing before the shirt hit the ground and out the room, at the register with his shirt miraculously taken along with Ino.

Ino smiled.

"Told you," she chirped as she latched onto his arm and leaned into his shoulder.

"Females are so troublesome," mumbled Naruto, channeling Shikamaru as he began paying and putting his newly acquired clothing in a huge storage seal. Good thing he decided to take these with him.

Before anything else was said, a huge grumbling noise was heard. Ino blushed as she looked away from a surprised Naruto who soon after laughed.

"Let's go to my place and get some food," Said Naruto as he led her to some food. Ino blushed at that but said nothing as she knew he meant strictly food. They were… friends, sort of. Ino blanched at the thought that she really didn't know much about Naruto. All these years of watching him make a fool of himself, asking Sakura on dates, pranking the teachers and being a loud mouth. Who knew he would be coming one of, if not, the strongest Shinobi in Konoha. She smiled.

Time to ask questions and learn about Naruto.

"Fine by me. So… Naruto… what do you like to…"

The two sat by the pond in Naruto's estate watching the goose, frog and sunset while enjoying some sandwiches that Naruto's clones whipped up. Ino had learned a lot about Naruto and him about her. After the harsh story about his life before he got older (which made Ino curl into him crying, making him blush a bit), they continued talking and realized they both shared a love of flowers, training, motivating and annoying people at the same time, even read the same manga, which brought a surprised funny face from Naruto, causing Ino to laugh very loud and joke on him about how his face looking like a gaping fist.

Naruto suddenly caught a gleam as he held some of the pie he had made.

"Hey Ino," Naruto said, as he discreetly cocked his hand, holding the pie back.

"What is it Naruto-k…" Ino never got to finish her sentence as a wet 'splosh' sound landed on her face. She slowly widened her eyes in surprise and touched her face to remove the substance dripping down her face, ignoring the loud sounds of laughter.

"Look at your face now Ino! You look very sweet… and you smell like the best of pies," laughed Naruto as he rolled on his side and tried to push himself up despite his gut hurting from his laughter.

Pie

On her face

Thrown by Naruto

He must die

"Naruto-kun…" whispered a voice. For some odd reason, every animal in the clearing left, including his foxy companion, the sky grew dark, the roses withered and died and killer intent began leaking.

No one

Jokes with Ino's face

NO ONE

"You…," were the words that came from Ino, her head down and body shaking, before a small chuckle came from her throat. Her hand found her way to some soy sauce that came with the rice they ate. Her other hand grabbed onto his shirt.

"SHALL PAY!" shrieked Ino as she tossed the soy sauce onto Naruto's face and hair. The two then began a food fight before Naruto tackled Ino and they went rolling down the hill they were on before they fell into the pond and came up to start tossing water on each other's face, all the while laughing like little school children.

The two continued until Naruto swam towards her. Grabbing her around the waste he then brought her and himself underwater before emerging and then throwing her back in, laughing. She never rose up.

But he felt himself being lifted up before landed in the water back-first as Ino emerged laughing. Naruto came up and the two panted in exhaustion before Naruto smiled.

"You look beautiful when you're soaking wet. Did you know that? Anyway, let's go get cleaned up," Naruto innocently said as he made his way out the water, never seeing the small blush that lit her face up.

Naruto was embarrassed.

But…

It was not his fault.

He let himself get so open. Well his eyes and mouth anyway.

And the bottle of water he had in his hand was definitely making a puddle at his feet.

And his face felt hot. Was he coming down with a fever?

He doubted it.

His reason was simple

The person coming down those steps just might have made time freeze with such a simple amount of movement

He would start the description with her hair. Her usually pony tail was abandoned and was wild and untamed giving her a very exotic look. Her eyes were shining under the lowering sun as it reflected and showed mirth, humor and mischievously. But the fact that the white shirt she had on was his old shirt from when he was twelve, even on her it was big, but somehow hugged to her curves and made her look so beautiful. Then were the shorts that stopped at her mid upper thighs. These were also from when he was twelve. They were a nice shade of green and in his pocket, as he never took it out, was a small gem he had found exploring the forest after a training session.

Even in simplicity, Ino looked stunning. At that moment, the one thought that ran through his mind was,

Sakura who?

They truly did not know what happened but it did. They had talked the night away. It was now twelve in the morning; luckily, neither had a mission in the morning.

The two sat on Naruto's couch and talked some more about things, about Naruto learning his heritage and learning about family, what kind of jutsu was he learning, what kind of people had Ino had to interrogate as she was now head of interrogations after being an apprentice under Ibiki. The conversation led into the night before Ino headed to her house. She knew her roommate would ask her questions if she got home any later.

Naruto walked Ino home, telling her to keep all she had on and giving her the scroll that held all of her shopping items. As they walked through Konoha, the village was somewhat silent but still bustling with nightly routines and activities as people stumbled out the bar or were heading to the clubs. Ninja needed to have fun, because they could die at any moment.

Finally they reached Ino's door. The butterflies in both stomachs were not appreciated.

"Uhm… thank you Naruto." Ino finally said as she turned towards him. Naruto smiled.

"Anytime; we should do this again. Throwing pie in your face was truly the best prank I have done in years." Naruto said chuckling, to which Ino punched him on the arm playfully before she invaded his space again.

And wrapped her arms around his neck.

His breath hitched and his body automatically felt warm and…

Accepted.

"We should do this again… Naruto-kun. This is the most fun I've had in months." Ino practically purred into his ear playfully as she released him and headed to her door, pulling her keys out.

Or would have had she not remembered that her keys were in her jeans which were in the scroll. But felt something poking out of the pocket. She decided to look at it later.

A little embarrassed she knocked on the door knowing that Sakura was up.

"Have a goodnight Ino." Naruto said with a smile as he retreated down the steps and made his way down and back to his mansion.

Ino watched him go. It was always the same image. Him going into a fight, him going to avenge the dead of his fellow Nin back against Kakuzu, him going off to face Sasuke.

She was always watching him walk away but now…

After today, she wanted to walk with him. Be with him. She wanted Naruto.

"Naruto…?"