finally || naruto and tsunade

iii

"Suna?" Naruto asked. Tsunade had just told him that she was headed to the Hidden Sand for a medical trip.

"Yes." She replied, inspecting her bag. "While the alliance is still being reformed, the Kage have all decided that it would be beneficial to open up to each other. The Medical Program is just one of many things we're sharing."

Naruto nodded. "Is it just with Suna?" He asked.

Tsunade shook her head. "No. After Suna, I'll return here for a while, and then head to Kirigakure." She explained. "After Kiri, I'll do the same, and then visit Kumogakure, and so on and so forth."

Naruto nodded again, though he didn't say anything this time. Tsunade looked at her younger blond lover, wondering.

"Is there something wrong?" She asked.

The smile Naruto gave her was obviously a fake one. "No." He shook his head. "Not at all."

Tsunade raised an eyebrow, unbelieving. "Hmm?"

"Really, it's nothing." He tried to assure her, laughing nervously. "When do you leave?" He asked her, rubbing the back of his neck.

"We." Tsunade corrected.

"What?" He asked.

"'When do we leave?'" She stated, placing a scroll full of medical syringes into her bag. "You're coming with."

Naruto was silent, just blinking at her with his adorably confused expression.

And then, his entire face lit up like a Christmas tree.

"Eh!? I am!?" He shouted, jumping from the chair he was previously occupying from Tsunade's kitchen.

Tsunade gave him a sidelong glance, smirking. "Of course." She said. "The previous Hokage can't just leave the village without a protective detail, now can they? Even in relative peace time, that would just be illogical."

"Yeah, yeah. Illogical!" Naruto replied a little too excitedly, his true colors showing.

"And if the Hero of the Fourth himself is my guide, surely nothing could possibly befall me on my journey, now could it?" She asked, smiling at the way Naruto nodded in response.

The idiot even saluted her. "You can count on me, Godaime-sama!" He shouted playfully, before developing an evil little expression.

Tsunade had only taken her eyes off of him for a split second to put something else into her bag. And yet, that's all it took for Naruto to strike.

Hokage, past, future, and present, did not squeak, and Tsunade would fight to the death any who claimed she had ever done such an undignified thing. Unfortunately, Naruto was willing to take on that fight, because the noise his woman made when he suddenly picked her up bridal style, was most certainly, without a doubt, unequivocally, a squeak.

And the bastard laughed about it the entire time he carried an indignant Tsunade to her bedroom, unable to resist the charm of the most beautiful woman in the entire world any longer.

| Naras are Scary |

"I still don't know why I can't come along, Tsunade-sama."

"Because Sakura can't run the entire hospital by herself, Shizune." Tsunade replied, walking beside a woman she viewed as a younger sister, or a daughter, even. Shizune had showed up at her place early in the morning, wanting to walk her to the gate before she set off on her trip to Sunagakure.

Which had been an extremely close call, since Naruto had, once again, stayed with her the previous night, something that had become an everyday thing.

Luckily, her orange-clad lover was able to sneak away fast enough that they hadn't been caught, but it nevertheless was a close call.