Chapter 17
A Devil's flower.
Morning 8:00am.
Naruto woke up, feeling drowsy, but also feeling weight on top of him, looking to his left, he sees Kurenai, sleeping in her underwear, resting her head on his left shoulder looking comfortable, if the smile was any indication, he smiles towards her and kissed her forehead lightly, not waking her up.
The thing that confused him some more though, was there was a weight on his right.
Looking to his right shoulder, he sees another cute, pretty sight, Hinata was hugging into him, her coat somehow was off her, Hinata's head was laying laying on his shoulder.
It would seem, in the middle of the night, everyone somehow, without disturbing each other, moved around, with Kurenai on the left of him, Hinata on the left of him, with himself, smack dab in the middle of both girls.
Naruto was feeling slightly nervous, not towards Kurenai, he knows Kurenai loves him and vise versa, but more towards Hinata, she's always been a nervous mess around him, blushing and fainting because he was too close to her, but if she woke up now, with each other face to face, sleeping in the same bed, that's just asking for trouble.
So instead of using his normal shadow clone, since it makes a sound and he has to call out, he splits a clone from him, thanking Kami-sama for Ryoko's power to make a double, the clone then moved to the cupboard, got a few spare pillows, then moved in front of the bed, phased under the bed, then phased the pillows into the bed, until the Naruto laying down felt the pillows in his back, slowly phasing and floating out of the girls hands.
Turning around, he sees his idea was a success, he knows he couldn't use shadow clones because of the popping noise when they appear, he also couldn't use substitution Jutsu, since the smoke from it would wake them with uncomfortable coughing.
His double phases through the bed, pillows and girls without disturbing anything as well as the girls, especially the girls.
The double looks around and sees that 'their' idea worked, the double floated over to 'Naruto' standing next to him, they both smiled, shook each others hand at a job well done, then flickered and merged back into one.
He moves towards Mimi, seeing her still sleeping, Naruto rubs her back gently, then moves to his kitchen and chops up some carrots for the little cabbit, for when she wakes up.
Before, Kurenai and Hinata wakes up, he comes up with a awesome idea.
Phasing out of his apartment, Naruto flies towards his destination.
He lands in front of Yamanaka Flower Shop, you see he got a brilliant idea of getting both Kurenai and Hinata some flowers, an apology for taking Hinata away from her family, but he felt it was for the best, hoping Kurenai would support him for it too.
As for Kurenai, to thank her for loving him and wanting to be with him.
He knows the shop doesn't open officially before 9, but he knows that he can pay for that later.
Naruto knocks on the door, waiting for someone to answer him, that's when a certain, blond gossip queen came to the door, she looks at the stranger and blushes, his long blond hair, his bright cat-like yellow eyes full of mischief, his chiseled features, she couldn't help but think, 'Sasuke who?' Shaking out of her thoughts, she smiles to the new comer, her work training coming through.
"Hello sir, I'm sorry but we're not open yet." Ino tells the young man.
Naruto rubs the back of his head, smiling nervously, making Ino think of his 13 year old self, he says, "Yeah, I know, but I'm hoping to get some flowers for someone." He knows if he said his two girlfriends, Ino would call him a playboy pervert and she'd slam the door in his face before he could get his good morning flowers for his girls.
Ino wasn't sure but for some reason she lets him in, as long as he pays it should be fine.
Naruto looks around and sees two sets of flowers that would be perfect for the girls in his bed, a few Roses for Kurenai and a few Lavender for Hinata, to match both girls eyes.
Ino ringed up the prices, she knows she'd seen this man before but for the life of her she couldn't think where from.
Naruto knows he was messing with Ino's head, Ino has always been someone who chases after a possible gossip center.
He decides enough is enough, she's suffered enough of his mystery, "Well Ino, I must say, even though my bloodline has awakened, you still didn't recognized me yet."
Ino was shocked that this stranger knows her, and apparently, she knows him too, but what did he mean his bloodline awakened, 'Just who the hell is he?!'.
Naruto smirks and knows Ino was dreading his answer, "I'm Naruto."
That did it, Ino was gob-smacked, the guy in front of her, who looks to be in his 20s, is Naruto, she couldn't believe her eyes, Naruto always looked so thin in his orange outfit, but that could be because it was baggy or both.
But for him to suddenly turn into this hunk of a man, yet what was even more shocking is that she thought Naruto was a hunk now, "WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU!?"
Her yell scared a cat in an alleyway.
Luckily Naruto covered his ears, past experience helped him, he then explained his bloodline awakened, not the alien part of it, he also explained that he couldn't talk about what his bloodline can do, which Ino understands, being in a clan herself, though the gossip in her wanted more infomation about Naruto's changes.
Then Naruto explains that because he's the last of his bloodline it puts him down for the C.R.A. She was a little angry at that, thinking he was a pervert, until he tells her he'd only bring girls in if they loved him for himself and not his bloodline, understanding that, Ino then asked him something that he was kinda dreading, "How many girls have you got so far?"
Naruto knows he can handle an angry Ino, she's only slightly stronger than Sakura, but he didn't feel like being chased, so got ready the flicker away, he tells her, "Well at the moment I have, 4 girls and another deciding if she wants to join or not."
Hearing him say that, she was shocked at that, how did Naruto the dead last get 4 girls and 1 possibly entering too, to somehow fall for him, but before that there is one important thing she needs to know, "Who are they!?"
Naruto sighs, he knew how Ino gets when it comes to gossip and this was a gossip goldmine for her, with a serious look, that surprises Ino, "I'll only tell you IF you don't tell ANYBODY who they are, I want them to have a normal life for them, for me it doesn't matter, all I care about are the girls."
Hearing the protectiveness in his voice, she couldn't help but feel that she wants someone to protect her like that and make her feel safe.
When she thinks that an image of the Naruto in front of her entered her head, of course she was jealous of the girls now, then she realized one thing, 'Maybe I should join,' Shaking her head, 'No he won't let me, hell I hardly know him and besides now's not the time.'
She gives Naruto a serious look, "I won't say anything about them, I promise to keep their names a secret."
Naruto can see Ino will keep it, nods his head and tells her, "Alright, there is Tsunami, a woman who lives in Wave Village, Haku, who I meet in Wave, but went and joined the rebels in Kiri, then I meet Anko Mitarashi in a bar and got into a drinking contest, the next day we "had fun" since I helped her, then the forth person to join is Kurenai Yuhi, she wanted to make sure I was serious about Anko and that she was safe with me."
Ino was surprised about all the girls and young women that have fallen for him, especially Kurenai, "How did you get Kurenai!?" She knows the type of person Kurenai was from hearing the gossips.
Naruto sighs, of all the things to ask, she had to ask about him and Kurenai "getting together", he explained that Kurenai told him it was all Anko's fault, though she doesn't regret it, how Anko told Kurenai what they did and how she went into detail when Kurenai was in a state of shock, then how she started following him a couple of days later, but because of Anko's prank Kurenai was feeling frustrated, and him undressing in front of the window knocked her out.
He explained everything, because of Ryoko's personality, he didn't leave anything out, not even the "juicy" part, Ino was a blushing mess.
Before she could get a word out, Naruto then says, "Oh yeah, the girl that doesn't know if she'd join or not is Hinata, she's always been shy about everything." He then explains what he did to the Hyuga, she was shocked both at the Hyuga for doing that to Hinata, and at Naruto for doing such a thing, kidnapping or rescuing, she didn't know which to pick.
That's when he remembers, "Oh right, I got to get back to Kurenai and Hinata before they wake up, I still need to make breakfast for them and explain to Hinata what I did with her and her family."
He gave Ino the money took the flowers and walked to the door, but then stopped at the door, turns to look at Ino over his shoulder and says, "And don't forget, you promised to not tell anyone about my girls, also I guess as payment for the secret, I could help you in your training, since I'm helping my team and Kurenai's team with my Shadow Clones, it turns out I'm a good teacher." He finishes with a smile.
Before Ino could get a word in he was out the door turning left out of her view, she runs to try to catch up to him, but when she's out the door, she couldn't see him, it was like he vanished into thin air.
Ino was standing in front of her store, trying to think what the hell happened, then she thought to herself, 'Wait, he slept with Kurenai, until she couldn't walk the next day!, That caused a big blush to appear on her face, 'How much stamina does he have to out last TWO Jonin!?'
Back at Naruto's apartment.
Naruto arrives back to his place and sees the girls still sleeping, they must be tired after Naruto pushed them, Hinata in training, Kurenai in "other things", he moves to the Kitchen places the flowers in separate small glasses, and starts cooking, the smell rose Kurenai, but Hinata was still sleeping, training really tired her out.
Kurenai see's Hinata across from her and carefully sits up, not to wake Hinata, she moves her legs from the bed a slowly places them on the floor, testing them a bit to see if she's got her feelings in her legs back, she moves slowly up, not waking Hinata up, she felt a slight strain, but that was all, probably from staying in bed all day yesterday, she wouldn't risk it too much.
She slowly made her way to the kitchen, one foot at a time, taking her time not wanting to fall down.
She made it to the kitchen, Naruto just finished plating up, with bacon, eggs, beans and buttered toast on the side.
Naruto sees Kurenai made it to the table and helps her sit down, then brings her plate over to her with the roses he bought for her.
She smiles at the kindness, as well as the roses, feeling as though she's falling even more in love for him.
They finished their breakfast, Naruto picks up a tray with Hinata's food on and asked Kurenai if she could help him, in both opening the door, since he didn't want to scare Hinata by phasing through the door, and telling her what happened last night.
Kurenai feels her legs were better now after moving about a bit and eating, agrees with him.
They both moved towards Hinata, Kurenai sitting next to her and Naruto to the side, holding the tray, Kurenai nudges Hinata awake slightly, helping her to sit up, Hinata woke up slightly, stretching cutely and rubbing her eyes, she sees Kurenai next to her, then blushes at both seeing Kurenai in her underwear and seeing Naruto carry a tray with lavender flowers on it.
Kurenai realizes what's the matter with Hinata then says, "We've got somethings to tell you."