The consequences from yesterday

Naruto woke up to find both girls still sleeping tightly. He grinned, wondering if maybe he had been too demanding with them yesterday as they were still resting. He was tempted to wake them to see what they had in mind for today, but a quick check of the watch dashed all hopes of that... he had to run now to catch his team.

He refreshed himself as quickly as he could, ate a minimal breakfast (one cup ramen, to be exact) and kissed them both softly. Both stirred at the kiss, but sadly, Naruto could not wait for them to fully wake up. He had to go...

Just as he was racing down the street, he caught the site of a familiar female clad in purple clothes. Yamanaka Ino. Naruto wondered... if she was on the way as well, she shouldn't be here. She would've been doing a detour to go down this street towards the Hokage Tower... Had she been waiting for him here?

"H-Hey there, Ino-chan. How are you doing?", he greeted his teammate.

Ino meanwhile didn't even look at Naruto as he answered. "Surprisingly well... after Sasuke-kun and that Lee guy were done with demolishing the restaurant, we were stuck with paying for the damages. And you should pay up as well, you're partly responsible for it.", she told him.

Naruto remembered. Yup, thanks to Tenten, he had escaped the mayhem before it got totally out of control. "Hehehe, my bad...", he said, rubbing his head apolegetically.

"Still, you and Tenten vanished right after the fight broke loose... how strange.", Ino commented and turned to Naruto.

Naruto froze. Ino had a very cold glare on her face. Her blue eyes were narrowed at him. It was that sort of glare a woman wears when she wants to tell you "If you lie now, you will DIE!", and thus, a sense of dread washed over Naruto. He was definitely intimidated by Ino's aura now.

"Naruto, I wanna know it now, I wanna hear it from your own mouth. Is that Tenten-girl your girlfriend?", she asked, spite carried within her voice when she spoke the name of the girl that had been overly friendly with Naruto yesterday.

"Yes. Yes, she is.", he answered truthfully.

If that was even possible, Ino's glare became even more narrow. "So you fucked her already, I presume?", she asked boldly.

Naruto was a little shocked at her words. Sure, Hinatas screams yesterday were rather out of character, but what Ino asked him here didn't really sound like her either. Still she had that piercing glare that prevented him from lying. "I did...", he said slowly.

"Then I want to come to your apartment after the mission.", she demanded swiftly.

"Eh?", Naruto asked. Where did that come from all of a sudden?

"I'll return your magazines to you and that's gonna be the end of our training, Naruto.", Ino declared, looking right into Narutos eyes as she said so.

After that, both walked together towards their destination. But they were both silent. Ino was fuming with anger, and Naruto didn't dare to say anything, fearing to incur Ino's wrath if he did so.

Ino seemed pissed. Very pissed, actually. And Naruto had no idea why. Was it because of Tenten? Could it be that she was jealous? No way, he already knew how Ino's jealousy was like... it was the cause for her rivalry with Sakura after all, so he figured if it would be that, she would have declared war on Tenten already. So what was going through Ino's head right now, he wondered...

He couldn't say he was happy with Ino calling their training off like that, but what was he supposed to do about it? Ino was angry, and if pain had taught him anything, it was to never talk back against an angry woman.

Thus, they reached the Hokage Tower. In front of the main entrance, Sakura was waiting, leaning against the wall. She walked towards them to greet them, but she any word was held back as Ino just glared at Sakura, then stormed in inside, leaving them alone. Sakura had a wondrous expression on her face. Like Naruto, she had no clue what had gotten into Ino today...

"What happened to her?", Sakura asked in wonder as she watched Ino stomp down the hallway.

All Naruto could do was shake his head. "No clue... I have absolutely no clue, Sakura-chan...", he responded with a sigh.

A small moment of silence passed where Sakura seemed to gather her courage for the next question. "Naruto, are you still willing to teach me... well, you know.... sex?", she asked shyly.

Naruto was surprised. After all, he had expected a more or less similar reaction from Sakura yesterday, but now... "Uhh, yeah, of course...", he answered. Of course he would still help her out, after all, it wasn't like it was unpleasant for him or anything...

Sakura was relieved to hear that. She smiled at his response. "Then, I want to study more. Today, if it's okay with you.", Sakura suggested.

'Finally some good news today, ', Naruto thought. Nodding enthusiastically, he grinned back at Sakura. "Y-yeah, that's totally okay.", he assured her.

"Great. So, let's go inside, alright?", Sakura said and went ahead, with Naruto following her close behind.