A voice interrupts. “Damn it, our usual spot's taken. How troublesome.”

Original Chapter by AkaB

“Damn it, our usual spot's taken. How troublesome.”

Sakura's eyes widened as her hand shot out from underneath Hinata's towel and lay demurely on her own lap quicker than the blink of an eye. Turning her waist around, she felt her heart sink as two easily recognizable boys walked towards them. Two completely naked boys.

'Oh shit.' Inner Sakura said in her mind, succinctly summarizing her thoughts.

“I guess we'll have to pick one of the less secluded springs, Choji,” Shikamaru noted as they walked closer. “They're usually noisier, though, so it's a bit of a pain in the ass to have to move. Maybe we can-” his voice trailed off as he got close enough to see through the slight mist that the heated spring produced. His sharp eyes darted between Sakura, an extremely flustered Hinata who was clutching her towel tightly to her body, an oblivious Naruto, and back to Sakura. And then down to Sakura's exposed little breasts.

Shikamaru was intelligent. Extremely so. So he did the obvious thing, and brought his fingers up into a seal as he calmly said, “Kai,” while he tried to dispel the obvious genjutsu in front of him. After a couple of seconds of the scene before him not changing, his eyebrows raised. Shikamaru, being an extremely intelligent boy, recognized a lit exploding tag of a situation when he saw one, turned to his companion and said, “Let's get out of-”

Unfortunately, Choji hadn't noticed him talking as he said at the same time, “Naruto? ...Sakura? ...Hinata!? What are you three doing here?”

“Hey guys!” Naruto shouted with a cheery wave. “It's mixed bathing day, what do you think we're doing? What about you?”

Shikamaru sighed as he saw Choji walk forward, rather than away. This was going to be trouble. His eyes darted over to Sakura's cute little breasts, and his soft cock twitched and started to stiffen. 'Yes, so much trouble' he thought as he resignedly joined his friend. Most boys of his age would attempt to hide their growing erection, but Shikamaru was the right blend of lazy and uncaring what others thought of him to just not bother about who saw it.

Hinata let out a small gasp at the sight of the two naked boys cocks – one soft, one slowly going horizontal – and would have tried to escape by dunking under the water if Sakura's firm arm wasn't already half-holding her up.

Sakura would have probably joined her in fleeing under water, if her pride would let her. Her eyes darted between Choji's penis – soft and short, but appropriately chubby for the fat boy, and Shikamaru's – thin but long for his age as it reached its full mast.

'Noooooo! Don't look!' Inner Sakura cried out. 'The only penis we're meant to see is Sasuke's!'

'We already saw the Hokage's penis!' Sakura shot back in her thoughts.

'He was old! He didn't count!' Inner countered. 'And besides, now there's three boys who aren't Sasuke who have seen our body! We need to get out of here before this gets any worse!'

'We can't!' Sakura responded. 'I want to run away too, but we can't! It was bad enough when blabbermouth Naruto was the one to see us naked. But these two are Ino's teammates, so now it is absolutely certain that she will hear about this. If we back down in any way, or leave even a minute early she'll sniff the blood in the water. She will hold this over me for life if I don't play it cool! Ino would win!'

'Never! Ino will never win!' Inner growled. After a moment, she hesitantly added, 'But you're dumping so much embarrassment and humiliation down into me that I feel like I'm drowning in it. I'm not sure how much more I can take before I can't suppress those emotions any more.'

_ 'We'll be fine,' Outer Sakura assured. 'This is surely as bad as it gets.'_

As Sakura quickly debated with her inner personality at the speed of thought, the boys continued their conversation.

“Shikamaru and I often come today,” Choji responded to Naruto. “He gets irritated by the laughter that sometimes comes over from the girl's side-”

“It's so shrill,” Shikamaru absently added. Most of his attention was on the two girls, as Sakura sat there, one arm wrapped around a faint-looking Hinata's waist but looking otherwise unconcerned and doing nothing to cover herself.

“Well, that's what he thinks,” Choji agreed. “So we come today because girls and younger women tend to avoid it. I mean, we actually have a big bath at our clan house that we share at the same time with the women in our family but even they don't come here today - 'It's different with family', they said. Usually the only women you see on this day are wrinkled old grandmas. So it's a bit of a surprise to see you two.”

“Yeah,” Shikamaru said as he raised an eyebrow to Naruto. “These aren't a couple of those solid clones I've heard you can do, using a Henge, are they?”

“What!?” Naruto spluttered. “Why the hell would I need to do that!? Sakura invited me! Tell them, Sakura, Hinata!”

Sakura shrugged as she bundled another ball of embarrassment down at talking to a boy with an unashamedly unhidden erection from her nudity. “Well, mixed bathing has a history going back centuries, so I didn't see anything wrong with inviting a friend and my teammate. Sure, there are perverts out there who'd take advantage of ogling at girls like us. But I'm sure that any decent boy would do their best to not stare.”

If Shikamaru got the hint, he completely ignored it as he looked down at her breasts. “So you're okay with us seeing you naked, then?”

Sakura bit back a growl as the boy talked to her breasts. Before she could respond, Naruto interrupted.

“Sakura's way too cool to worry about stuff like that! She doesn't care what you see! She even spread her pussy before to get some sand out, right in front of us! Isn't that right, Hinata?”

Seeing all eyes on her, Hinata desperately nodded just to get their attention away from her as soon as possible.

Sakura wondered if Kakashi would really, truly mind if she killed her teammate. They could survive as a two-person team, right? With monumental emotional effort, she managed to keep the strain out of her voice as she airily replied, “It's all just skin in the end, I guess. No different to seeing my elbow.”

Shikamaru frowned. He was smart enough to know that there was something very off about Sakura happily having a bath with Naruto. But he could also see the glint hidden in Sakura's eyes. With his mother having a hair trigger temper, he was experienced with the warning signs of impending violence from an angry, violent women. And his senses were screaming at him now that he was just a few questions away from his own death sentence. So, being the lazy boy that he was, he took the easier and safer route. “Well, whatever.” He turned to Choji and asked, “I guess you want to join them?”

“Sure!” Choji responded, not picking up on his friend's reluctance. Turning back to the people in the spring, he asked, “You don't mind, do you?”

Naruto frowned. He didn't really want anyone else here interfering with his time with Sakura. Hinata had been okay – especially once Sakura showed that she was relaxed enough around him to treat her like she did when they were on the girl's side. But two boys? Hell no! “N-” he began, before he was talked over.

“Of course you can join,” Sakura said as she ignored the sobbing of her Inner. She couldn't show any weakness in front of people who would report back to her rival, Ino, after all.