Naruto last remembered replying to an urgent email from one of his statisticians who was completing a census on the other side of the village before he had fallen asleep on his desk.
He didn’t know when exactly Sakura had infiltrated his office, but, at the moment, he didn’t care.
She was sitting in his lap, holding his torso to the back of his chair with her hands on his chest as she kissed his neck. When she licked a particular spot located on his pulse, he moaned, resulting in a giggle from the pink haired woman.
Naruto was in heaven as he reclined in his chair while Sakura moved sensuously against him. Although pleasant, it did cause him to wonder… she never initiated any of their secret trysts, and he usually had to beg her for him to touch her until she finally caved in to his desires.
Why was this— how was this happening?
It was still, very wrong for them to be doing this as both of them were married to other people, but, Naruto felt like it was the most natural thing in the world to do with this particular woman.
You see, he loved Uchiha Sakura more than anyone in his life.
More than his dream job as Hokage.
More than his perfect, beautiful wife, Hinata.
More than his two adorable kids, Bolt and Himawari.
More than his life.
Naruto could honestly swear to the heavens that he loved his Sakura-chan more than anything and everything. He was alarmed when could not remember when his obsession with his former team mate grew to this extent. His love for her existed even before his dreams were ever formed.
"I love you… Sakura-chan." He moaned abruptly as his hips moved into her.
The once reciprocated movements above him stopped, and there was only the faint sounds of sobbing. Naruto’s eyes shot open and he grabbed her by her naked shoulders.
"Did I hurt you, Sakura-chan!?" He checks her for any injuries that he may have inflicted when he became lost in his thoughts. She shakes her head as her face contorts from pain into sadness.
"No. Naruto… this is wrong."
She steps off of him and starts to gather up her clothes that were scattered atop his messy desk. Naruto panics and pulls his pants up before following her to the open window.
He grabs her wrist so she couldn’t leave.
"Please… whatever I did, I’m so sorry! Sakura-chan, don’t go!!" He begins to cry himself as he feels that his heart is being ripped out of his chest with the thought of her leaving him.
"Naruto. We have children! We are married…" Sakura says weakly, trying as best as she could to avoid the blonde man’s eyes.
"That’s never stopped us before." He pleads, blocking her exit with his half naked body.
Sakura looks angrily at him, tear trails blazed on her cheeks.
"You should have fought for me!" She yells at him, yanking her wrist out of his grasp in his surprise at her outburst.
"Why didn’t you ask me out before Sasuke? Hm!? He was gone for two years!”
Naruto was silent.
"You acted like you didn’t love me anymore, like your love for me was just a pale, fading, love, a silly crush!”
Sakura lowers her head as she continues.
"You saved me." She whispers.
"You inspired me. You lived your life for years under a silly promise you made to me. I even confessed to you in the snow. You made me love you back.” Her fists shake at her sides.
"Then you replaced me with her.” She spat furiously, zipping her dress up speedily.
"And now you’re manipulating my feelings for you for sex.”
A growl is heard from Naruto briefly before he swiftly pins her with his arms against the wall.
"Leave Sasuke." Naruto says, leaning over her smaller frame menacingly.
"Leave him. Marry me."
Sakura looks into Naruto’s stormy eyes with a look of shock.
"I-it’s not that easy, Naruto."
"Then, don’t talk to me about manipulating feelings for sex.”
Sakura’s eyes are downcast and full of shame. Naruto takes her chin in his fingers and tips her head up to look at him. His face wasn’t angry like she had expected it to be, but it was laden with compassion and full of love and longing.
"I will leave Hinata for you, in a heartbeat. I’ve always been waiting to do so if ever you wanted me to… or if Sasuke died in an unexpected accident while we were sparring…" He grins playfully, causing the pink-haired medic nin to tear up and cry once more.
"That incident with the moon… I fell in love with Hinata because she reminded me of you."
Sakura’s emerald eyes widen in recognition.
"But, it was a pale love. This…" He covers her lips in a chaste kiss before pulling back and looking straight into her eyes.
"This is fate."
The woman in front of him crushes his torso to her body in a desperate hug, weeping softly onto his bare chest.
"I… I love you, Naruto."
When Naruto freezes in place and becomes cold to her embrace, Sakura looks up to find a pained expression on Naruto’s face.
"Wh-what’s wrong? Naruto?"
Was he rejecting her final confession of love for him?
The young Hokage laughs nervously, putting her fears to rest. Then she notices his little ‘friend’ whom she had just crushed as she hugged him and jumps back a little to give him some room to recoil.
"I-I’m so sorry, Naruto!" SHe clasps her hands to her mouth in horror.
Naruto falls back into his chair and clutches his groin, rocking back and forth.
"Ahhh… Sakura-chan… I love you, too." He groans in agony, spinning in his chair as he struggles to regain his senses after his junk was accidentally assaulted.
"I can help make that better." Sakura whispers into his ear as she stops the movement of his seat by holding the armrests firmly with her hands.
"Hmmm… that sounds good." Naruto grins, one eye still clenched shut in pain as Sakura leans in to kiss him.
"Um… you’re leaving Sasuke, right?" He says breathlessly between kisses.
"Of course."
Kiss.
"Hinata?"
Kiss, kiss, rustling of clothes.
"For you… anything. It’s how I’ve always been, Sakura-chan. Believe it."
The End.