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"What a night that was" was all Naruto could think after waking up to the sun shining brightly in his new room. He got up quickly and decided to take a quick shower and savor the warm water that was crashing onto his body. 

"I wonder if anyone is awake.." Naruto thought as he wandered around the house. He heard a bunch of metal clunking together outside and decided to check out what the noise was all about. 

Sakura was underneath a car that looked centuries old with a toolbox that looked about the same age as the car. 

"Was there something you needed?" Sakura rolled out from under the car to look at Naruto. 

"Oh well, I heard a noise out here and wanted to see what it was... I take it you're pretty handy." Naruto let out a small laugh to lighten the mood 

Sakura shrugged "This is the only thing my dad taught me when I was younger." 

"What happened to you for you to be out in a place like this?" Naruto thought aloud. 

Naruto could see the girl's body physically tense up at the question, determined to fix the mess quickly Naruto added: "If you don't mind me asking of course." 

Sakura let out a soft sigh as she leaned back on the old car, "For some reason, I feel like we are gonna know each other for a long time so there's no point in lying."

"My dad... he was a nice man at least when I was little. He would care for me and call me his little princess all of that y'know? I think he had a hard time when my mom left him to be with someone else but he still cared for me like I was the only thing that mattered to him. He owned an auto shop and taught me the in's and out's of fixing cars and running a business. I wanted to be someone like him when I grew up, I thought he was this caring and loving person. But there was one thing he would always tell me, he would always tell me how I would end up with a wonderful husband to raise a nice family and live in a nice house with, the whole nine yards. I guess he wanted to project the life he wanted onto me. As I got older I realized that his dream isn't something I wanted, I did want to live in a nice house and raise a family but something about his story was just... off." I slowly became aware that I wasn't into... men." 

Sakura looked up at Naruto to see his reaction but it wasn't malicious or hateful, or anything she expected. He looked like he was looking at her fondly? Sakura looked down at the concrete as she continued her story. 

"When I finally came to that realization it wasn't anything super surprising or anything, I always felt different from other girls but I knew my dad would still love me for who I was, I was his princess after all." Sakura let out a watery laugh. 

"One day he was telling me all these expectations he had for me and my life and I couldn't help but feel guilty for keeping this secret from him, I felt like I just needed to tell him. So that's what I did, I looked him in his eye and told him that I didn't want to raise a family with any guy or have a husband but rather a wife. And he just-" Sakura took a deep breath in. "He just stared at me for a long time... it felt like he was staring into my soul, he got up from where he was sitting and just slammed the door to his bedroom. I didn't know what to do, at that time I was just a teenage girl who thought she could tell her father anything because I was his little princess. He wouldn't leave his room unless he wanted to grab a beer from the fridge or deal with a customer. At one point I had enough and I wanted to confront him about the way he was acting to his daughter. So one day I barged into his room and asked if I had done something wrong to him or if I had disappointed him, I just wanted answers!"

"And the only thing he had said to me was to get out of his house." 

"So that's exactly what I did." 

"I packed all my shit and left... I was a fucking mess, I thought he would love me for who I was! I was his daughter! His princess!" 

Sakura screamed and cried into Naruto's shoulder as she relived the pain of her memories. It was something she thought she could get over with time but it had still brought back hurt and anger. 

"Hey, hey it's okay." Naruto held Sakura close in his arms making sure to never let go. He had been through hard times in his life, he never had parents, to begin with, but he could never imagine what it was like to have that love and have it snatched right under your feet. 

Sakura wiped her tears away and leaned back on the cool metal of the car. "I'm sorry for being such a mess, it just brought back a lot of emotions I tried so hard to lock away." 
 
"No!" Naruto practically shouted, "Don't ever apologize for something like that, I can't imagine how hard that was for you" 

"You know sometimes I think that my mom might have had an affair or something with a woman and that's why she left... he might have some pent up anger or something I dunno." 

Sakura shook away her thoughts and looked at the man next to her. "Heh anyways, thanks for being a shoulder to cry on blondie... literally" Sakura chuckled 

"Anytime." Naruto smiled back 

Naruto decided that he was gonna make breakfast for everyone in the house.

(It was the least he could do) 

He found his way to the kitchen and opened up the cupboards to find four cups of ramen sitting inside. 

"Score!" Naruto made his way to the sink to put together the ramen cups for everybody. 

"Hey, guys I made breakfast!" Naruto shouted down the hallway as he set down the last ramen cup 

Sasuke was the first one to come down the stairs and Hinata and Sakura followed. 

"Why so loud blondie?" Sasuke scratched his head as he walked down the stairs still wearing the shorts he had on last night but without his shirt. 

Naruto's eyes might have lingered a little longer than was deemed normale at the man's bare chest. 

"Hello? Earth to Naruto?" Hinata waved her hand in front of Naruto's face 

"Oh right sorry.." Naruto laughed sheepishly "I made ramen for everyone, eat up" 

"I don't think you could call this breakfast but thanks anyway Nart." Sakura laughed as she brought her ramen cup to the scuffed table. "Hey! I worked hard on these Sakura." Naruto said with a fake pout. 

"Well look at what we have here! You two seem to be getting along." Hinata smiled fondly while looking between the two  

"You could say that..." Sakura turned a slight red at the thought of what happened this morning. 

"Hey, didn't you say you had a list for me or something?" Naruto asked quickly changing the subject. 

"Oh yeah, here's the list everything we need is on here." Sakura handed Naruto a small piece of paper with neat handwriting on it. 

It read: 

-Food

 -Feminine Shit 

-Soap

 -Carburetor Cleaner

 -And if you can a new toolbox

Naruto quickly skimmed over the list and felt someone looking over his shoulder.

"I could help you with that list if you want," Sasuke said looking down on Naruto

"And why do you want to help me?" Naruto questioned, "You don't look like the type to help someone." 

"Well you did help me out that night so I'm just repaying the favor I guess" Sasuke shrugged as he threw on his jacket. 

"Well, I want to get this over with so let's go." Naruto threw on his jacket and dragged Sasuke outside 

Naruto called shotgun because he wanted to, not because he didn't know how to drive or anything... definitely not that. 

"Hey, I think that's the grocery store right there" Naruto pointed at a small store with a whole bunch of bright yellow signs saying "Going Out of Business" plastered on the windows. 

They parked the car and went inside the store. When they walked in there was no noise, no jingle of any bells, no squeaky door, nothing. There was someone at the register but it was just an old man who looked like he was sleeping. 

Naruto's first instinct was to look up at the ceilings to see if there were any security cameras and where they might be. There were only two security cameras and they were all unplugged and hanging off the ceiling by just one cord. 

"They probably unhooked all these things because they're going out of business soon." Naruto thought to himself 

"Hey, Sasuke, I think we're in the clear," Naruto whispered. Sasuke gave a thumbs up and made his way to the reusable bags. Naruto falling right into his steps grabbed a few bags and they went to work.

Making sure to not be too loud, they filled their bags with so much food they were sure the girls would freak. Once they were sure they had cleaned out the store, Naruto turned around and wrote a small note that read "Sorry!" with a small heart next to the words. 

That old man was a heavy sleeper. 

"That went a lot easier than I thought," Sasuke said taking a small look at the backseat filled with food and drinks. "Yup, now on to the auto shop Sakura mentioned." 

They drove a little farther on the street they were on and saw a small auto shop on the corner and parked a little far away from the actual store. 

"You got a plan blondie?" Sasuke turned to stare at Naruto. "I do!" 

Naruto walked into the auto shop with an air of confidence that he didn't have before. Naruto walked closer and closer to the buff men who were crawling around the auto shop. 

"Hey, Mr-" Naruto took a quick pause to look down at the man's name badge "Mr.Kiba I'm gonna be your new manager!" Naruto said with so much enthusiasm. 

"We weren't told 'bout a new manager," Kiba replied confused. "Well look, I was assigned to this very auto shop right here!" Naruto insisted 

"Hey man I think you have the wrong sho-" Kiba started but Naruto was quick to cut him off

Naruto climbed up on top of a car hood and yelled to all the employees "EVERYBODY! TO THE CONFERENCE ROOM!" 

He didn't even know if they had a conference room but he yelled at them nonetheless. "Sir, I think you've got the wrong place" Kiba seemed like he was snarling like a dog at Naruto at this point. 

Naruto decided it was time to use his trump card. "You better listen to me before I call the people at HR!" Did people at auto shops even have HR?

"HR-" The man started "You know what fine... the guys and I are gonna tell our customers that they got to wait a little bit, we'll be in the conference room." 

"I'm gonna inspect your set up at this dingy place first but I'll be there soon" Naruto looked around at all of the employees as they slowly trudged to their conference room. 

"That was your plan?!" Sasuke looked at Naruto incredulously 

"I mean it worked right?" Naruto gave the man a lopsided grin and made his way around the auto shop. "What the hell is Carburetor Cleaner anyway?" Naruto questioned as his eyes quickly skimmed the shelves of the store. 

"Got it." Sasuke held up two big silver spray cans and put them into his huge jacket pockets. 

"Sweet, now we need to find a tool bo-" 

"HEY! We've been sitting here doing nothing for twenty minutes we got customers to help" Kiba leaned his head out into the room Naruto and Sasuke were in. Sasuke quickly ducked behind some shelves hoping he wasn't spotted. 

"Who just moved back there?" Kiba questioned 

"What are you talking about? I'm the only one here sir" Naruto feigned impatience 

"Tch, let me have a look for myself," Kiba slowly walked closer and closer to the spot where Sasuke was hiding. Naruto couldn't help but feel nervous, he knew if worse came to worse he and Sasuke were going to have to book it out of there. 

"GOT YOU!" Kiba yelled out as he turned the corner to the next aisle. Naruto sucked in a deep breath ready to yell out at Sasuke to run. 

"Huh, guess I was wrong," Kiba scratched the back of his neck sheepishly and looked back up at Naruto. "Uh, sorry Mr.Manager" Kiba made his way back into the room he had come from 

"Just hurry it up will you..." he muttered under his breath as he went back into the conference room.