He wanted to live. Naruto was the safest mark.

Original Chapter by AkaB

Sakura counted down the minutes in her mind until it would be socially acceptable to leave the spring and escape the nightmarish exhibitionist trap that she'd set for herself. Hinata was dazedly sitting next to her, spending all of her willpower on not fainting from the combination of her near-nudity, Naruto's near-nudity, and everyone else's full nudity.

Choji had settled in to talking with Shikamaru, with the fatter boy carrying most of the conversation. Naruto was also holding a loud conversation, but thankfully it was about ramen, which meant that no-one else would have to actually reply to him – his teammates had all quickly learned that he'd gladly carry that subject by himself without them having to pay attention, so long as someone occasionally nodded to him.

Despite hating how on-display she was, Sakura was also surprised at how insulted she felt at Choji's limp penis. Was she too unattractive for him? Her breasts might not be the biggest, but they were right there in front of him! Her slit and the sparse pink hair on her mons were also clearly visible through the clear, hot water! Even Shikamaru, who regularly earned the ire of all of the girls in his Academy class from his complaints about women, even he had rapidly grown a boner at the sight of her!

For a brief, mad moment Sakura thought about repeating her 'sand in the pussy' display before her conscious mind regained its senses. What the hell was she thinking!? She wasn't attracted to Choji, or the other two boys who actually did have erections here! She didn't actually want to be with any of them, so what did it matter if they found her attractive enough to have an involuntary body response to her?

Despite the logic of her thoughts, she couldn't stop the small spike of satisfaction as she noticed the fat boy's eyes starting to linger on her body. Soon, less-than-subtle glances at her breasts from his peripheral vision escalated into straight-out staring. It was kind of strange – she didn't want him to look, but she felt a weird kind of satisfaction when he finally did. Being looked at was embarrassing, but not being looked at had been... hurtful? A blow to her feelings of attractiveness? The emotions were so strange that they were hard to categorize. So when she spotted his chubby penis starting to rise after a few minutes, the emotion she felt was hard to describe. Maybe a satisfying kind of vindication? She didn't want to see the boy's erect cock, but seeing it meant that all of the boys here found her attractive.

'Only Sasuke is allowed to look at my naked body!' Inner Sakura shouted. After a moment, she added, 'But if other boys like seeing me, then surely he will too!'

Next to her, Shikamaru had come to his decision - screw it, he wanted to live. Naruto was the safest mark. After a couple of quick seconds of thinking, he came up with a plan that was most likely to goad the other boy into drawing attention.

“So,” he drawled while leaning forward around Choji (and, not coincidentally, helping the boy to block the site of his cock), “Taking into account that Hinata is as naked as any reasonable person who knows her could expect her to be, what's your excuse?”

Naruto blinked. “What do you mean, what's my excuse?”

“For bringing a towel into the baths, of course,” Shikamaru replied. “That's so unhygienic.”

“What?” Naruto's eyes widened as he faked a chuckle. He still naively thought that no-one could see his erection through his towel, and so the question came out of left field for him. Quickly, he scrabbled for a response. “I just didn't want to make the girls uncomfortable, that's all.”

“Really? I would have thought if they were worried about seeing guys naked then they wouldn't have come to a mixed bathing day in the first place.” Shikamaru shrugged. “Well, I guess you were right when you said that Sakura was the cool one. Even though she's a girl, she was the one from your team who was brave enough to not hide, after all.”

Hinata's eyes widened in horror. She knew Naruto's reaction to challenges well enough to know where this was going to go.

As the main bystander in Naruto's rivalry with Sasuke, Sakura was also well aware of where this was going to go. She tightened the hold on her arm around Hinata in preparation, as she desperately ran through plans to keep the other girl from fainting at the sight of what was inevitably about to happen. Poor Hinata probably wouldn't be able to look at Naruto in the eyes for months if she fell unconscious here! How was she supposed to get the two together if one of them refused to look at the other for months!?

“Hide!?” Naruto shouted as he stood up in the spring. “What, you mean like I've got something to be embarrassed about?” His hand reached down to the towel wrapped around his waist as he added, “Well Naruto Uzumaki ain't embarrassed about nothing!” With those words, he pulled the towel off in one sharp tug before throwing it onto the nearby grass, exposing his hard cock to the world.

Sakura's analytical mind (always on, even in a train wreck situation) idly noted that he was around the same length as Shikamaru, but slightly wider. Nothing outlandish, but decent for his age. She didn't react yet, though. She knew Naruto well enough already to know that he was about to make this worse, somehow. He always found a way to screw up the situation more, even if he eventually managed to turn things around and make it better again later on.

“You believe me, don't you Sakura?” Naruto yelled as he proceeded to prove her right by turning away from Shikamaru and towards her. And since Hinata was right next to Sakura, that meant that the dark-haired girl was also suddenly faced with the full-frontal view of the straining, blood engorged penis of the Hyūga girl's childhood crush that was – thanks to them sitting and his standing – inches away and right on level with their faces.

'Twenty ryo says that he brags to Sasuke that we've seen his cock within the first hour of training tomorrow,' Inner Sakura resignedly thought.

'Sucker's bet. No deal.' Outer Sakura grimly replied as she felt the dead-weight of Hinata's fainting body against her arm.