HAKU
"So how was it?"
Naruto whips around to look at Haku's knowing smirk. They're outside in Iruka's backyard, testing the accuracy between a senbon, a kunai, or a shiruken while Sakura and Hinata are setting the table.
Championing the shiruken, Asuma had taken Shikamaru to guide his student in the same manner Genma had taken Kiba to help his weapon, the kunai, win some sort of contest between the men. Haku and Naruto stand well away from them when Haku continues saying, "did she forgive you?"
Since Naruto defended him against a teammate as well as took him into his confidence when the blond filled in the details of what had happened with both Ino and Kurenai, Haku didn't need a party to feel welcomed. It's yet another reason Haku finds Naruto to be so singular.
Rather than treating these woman like many men would, as just another notch on his bedpost, Naruto worries about their friendship, about their bond with him far more.
Haku knows with complete certainty Naruto wouldn't be upset if the kunoichi decided to be friends rather than sexual partners and that tells Haku a great deal about Naruto's character, making him thank Kami and Zabuza-sama all the more.
"Um," Naruto tries to answer without being confused by sudden sex with Ino. "She said we can talk later, so I think that's good, but I don't know. She still seems off. I thought someone drugged her again but Kurenai-chan said that wasn't it.
I hope she's okay."
"Me too," Haku adds. "And the qipao girl?" Haku is not a fan of the intrusive girl hounding Naruto-kun with ever increasing offers to purchase Kubikiribch, as if Zabuza-sama's sword were some collectible to be mounted on the wall of a wealthy person.
'Naruto-kun may not have the height to wield Kubikiribch properly, but Zabuza-sama entrusted it to him, and with Naruto-kun is where it will stay,' Haku mentally asserts.
"Tenten?" Naruto asks. "Yeesh, talk about obsessed. But you know? I think she finally gets it's not just a sword to me.
It means more than selling it." Haku smiles with satisfaction before striking the target dead in the center with his senbon, impressing the other four shinobi. "Told you," Naruto happily brags. "Haku's a damn surgeon with those things."
"I'm surprised you even know the word surgeon," Kiba laughs.
"Keep it up Dog Breath and you're going to need one when I get done with ya," Naruto hollers and Haku laughs, yet again, marveling at the absurdity of his life now.
INO
"I'm thinking I'd like you to try and control your urges," Kurenai answers. "Our options at that point are you struggle to hold out until the strength of the trigger eventually lessens, or you act on those impulses.
If you're absolutely sure you may act" Kurenai asks Ino with her eyes if that sentiment is still accurate. When Ino begrudgingly nods her head, Kurenai continues, "then, reclaiming complete control over yourself would mean making you stop with gradually declining increments; like weaning you off.
That brings us to an important question." Ino waits before Kurenai asks, "are you truly okay involving Naruto?"
That is not what Ino was expecting to hear. Confused, Ino answers simply, "well, yeah. I mean, I'd rather not, but Sasuke-kun isn't ready for a relationship and, well, you know, Naruto's the trigger for my... urges, so it would have to be him, right?"
Kurenai nods before stating, "I ask because he's not quite as impersonal when it comes to connections with others. At the very least, it's unlikely he'll be as clinical about this as you are."
"So?" Ino blankly wonders. "He gets to have sex a couple- a few more times withand I'm not being arrogant herethee hottest kunoichi in our year no strings attached. You know how many guys would kill for that opportunity? I can't see him having a problem with this."
"Do you know why he had sex with you today," Kurenai patiently asks. When Ino tilts her head as if to say, 'shouldn't that be obvious?' Kurenai shakes her head, 'no,' and answers, "he said you asked for help. He told me you said, 'help me now, talk later.' What do we know about him, Ino-chan?"
" He had a hard life."
"And continues to do so," she corrects before quickly asking, "how many people genuinely cared about him?"
"Not many."
"Despite an entire village of people, a classroom of fellow students, he had two maybe four people who cared about him all adults."
"So he's lonely," Ino agrees with a huff. "I get it, but if anything, that should make him more okay with this-"
"Not necessarily," Kurenai states. "Do you think someone like him would want a meaningful or a meaningless bond with someone?"
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