Chapter #7Temari by: NVR   Naruto continued to work in the flowershop, and the now routine work allowed his mind to focus on who to submit to now that he knew he was going to accept Ino's offer. He barely registered that Ino hadn't called him at all to fetch her a snack or clean her shoes or some of the usual menial tasks she teased him with while he did her job, because he kept surprising himself with the name he had in mind.
It wasn't Sakura, his long time crush and now close friend. He already gave up on her and more than getting excited with the idea of submitting to her he feared Ino rewiring her mind in some big way just to make it happen. It just felt wrong.
It wasn't Hinata either, the girl who confessed her love to him, for a similar reason. The shy girl becoming his mistress? More chance of Ino frying her brain after trying to turn someone so sweet into a natural dominant. No way Hinata would deserve that just for his selfish desires.
It wasn't Tsunade either, she was too old for him. And of course, messing with her meant putting his dream on risk. Absolutely not.
That reduced the options to some girls she wasn't that close to, and somehow the woman that excited him the most wasn't even from his own village. It was Temari, the sand village Jonin and his friend Gaara's sister.
He knew it didn't make a lot of sense, despite being in friendly terms she barely talked with him even after all both villages have gone through and he knew she had something going on with his best friend Shikamaru, but it was in her that he could see the same aura of natural dominance that made him submit to Ino in the first place, and not only behind the scenes like Ino when she was alone in the shop, but even outside, in day to day life, in the battlefield.
His memory was blurry, but remembering the chuunin exam way back and the couple of times he had seen her in action it was definitely different to the way Ino behaved against an enemy (granted Ino's skills were ill suited for battle), but also different to the way other kunoichi like Sakura did, with a confidence and sense of control that none of her peers in Konoha seemed to have. And from the stories he heard from Shikamaru he had no doubt she was a natural dominant, maybe even more than Ino herself.
As he compared Ino and Temari, Naruto chuckled wondering if Ino was also restraining herself in some ways, but like Ino said, maybe both of them could learn something from this, and Ino probably wouldn't have to mess up anything on Temari's mind which was the cherry on top. The more he thought about it the more it made sense, as he also recalled her bravery and the way she as Gaara's older sister somehow supported and helped contain her brother back then when he was consumed by hate and considered a monster, the kind of support he wished he had in his lonely childhood.
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"Huh? What? Not Sakura?" Ino was so dumbfounded she dropped the teasing voice she used on him while he was around serving her. Sitting on the edge of her bed, she looked down at her bitch with a curious expression, he sounded doubtful, yet not insincere.
"Um.. she probably is with Sasuke and I don't want you messing up with her mind so.." Naruto tried to excuse himself but he received a kick on his head as an answer.
"I already told you they won't be harmed" Ino said unimpressed "but that's not all, is it?"
"No Ino, it's not" Naruto was once again surprised with the way Ino seemed to be able to read his mind without using those jutsus of hers.
"Then speak up bitch boy, and stop pissing me off" Ino commanded with another light kick on his head "Is it because of Shikamaru?" Ino laughed
"What? No!" Naruto quickly answered and blushed at Ino's smirk. He knew what she meant but if anything it bothered him, of that he was sure.. for now.
"Hmm, then what is it?"
"It's.. the way she is I guess.. she is like you when we're here alone but.. all the time" Naruto braced himself for another kick at what sounded like criticizing Ino, but it never came.
"I see.. you're always full of surprises Naruto" Ino smiled and caressed his cheek with her foot which made him blush again
"Th-thanks"
"You're free then, I won't ask you to serve me again for the time being. This will be interesting" Ino declared
"So.. how are we doing this?" Naruto asked and this time he got the expected kick on the head
"We? I'm not the one submitting. You will have to figure that out yourself" Ino shrugged
"But I thought you would um.. help me?" Now that he said it out loud he realized Ino shared no details about what she planned on her part.
"I never said that, I said I wanted to test something and I will, but I won't do your work. I'm not a bitch like you" Ino laughed and Naruto blushed. How would he do that to somebody he barely knew? Should he have picked Sakura?
"But it was you who back then made me.. um.. help in the shop" He played his last card
"I know. That means you have a lot to learn then, right?"
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