Naruto felt a hand on his shoulder and smiled at Shizuka as she gave him a reassuring hug.

"We could always have an alliance between Nadeshiko and Konoha after we get married, so this isn't necessarily the last time you will see Konoha, Beloved." she told him. Seeing Naruto perk up a bit made her smile. She herself loathed goodbyes so there was no way the man she loved was going to endure that if she had a say in the matter. Sure leaving everything you knew behind was painful, but she'd do what she could to lessen the sting of it for him.

He took in the large eyes, perfectly coifed hair, clear skin, full lips, and lean, firm curves and he marveled at her. Hers was a beauty beyond describing, but, ultimately, it was the eyes that ensnared him him. Her eyes were large, twin pools of deep, verdant green, much unlike his own. Hers were eyes that knew pain, but at some point that pain had been taken to pieces; it had been dissected, disassembled, examined from every angle, and then, summarily consumed.

Shizuka and him were much alike if he really stopped to think about it. He knew that Shizuka had also loved someone once as well, and subsequently locked her heart away after that someone had been slain. She too, knew what it was like to have loved and lost.

He sighed and gave her a smile, taking her hand in his and entwining their fingers. Shizuka smiled and leaned in planting a kiss on his lips.

After a moment or two, her tongue lapped at his lips, shyly, as if seeking entry.

Entry which he allowed her, drawing off a soft whimper from the lieutenant as his hands traveled down to her hips, and pressed her up against the wall, eliciting a soft moan from the back of her throat as they broke for air while her right hand now reached up to cup his whiskered face.

Naruto was kind soft, caring, he wouldn't fight you unless you either tried to kill him, went after his loved ones. She loved that he could be so tender and loving at one moment, then a fierce warrior the next, with no visible distinction between the two, no mask of emotions to put on for others. He was himself, pure and simple.

Shizuka felt the heat rising in her face. She wanted him to be in her life, after all, how could she not? His presence felt warm and comforting...made her feel like as long as he was close nothing was going to go wrong. He wouldn't let it. Still, as one whom had known loss of a loved one before, she was aware that once you let someone in, they knew. They knew you. They knew everything about you. Your pet peeves, what made you smile, cry...

And they knew how to break your heart into a thousand tiny pieces, too small to gather up and make whole again.

She knew for a fact that she'd never have to worry, shattering someone's heart was something he utterly loathed. She adored that about him. She wasn't trying to place him on a pedestal. Naruto was still human. He had his faults and weaknesses though he didn't show them.

"Shall we go, my husband?" Shizuka cooed, eager for their return to Nadeshiko so she could have some...fun...with the man she loved. With the thought of the Amazon-like ways of her village making it so she could enjoy the boy that had come to find a foothold in her heart, Shizuka smiled and nodded, handing him a black outfit and pulled a collapsible changing room out of a storage scroll, telling him to change into something less recognizable in case anyone with a grudge against him or anything came across the pair.

Taking the outfit, Naruto's thoughts turned to if there were any remnants of the Akatsuki (no matter how unlikely that would have been), though he didn't voice them, not wanting Shizuka to worry about him being hunted down like an animal and getting his soul shattered like an eggshell by a terrorist group that were out to extract Kurama from him. He entered the changing room and, a few minutes later, came out in his new, Nadeshiko village attire.

It was a uniform similar to what ANBU captains wore. It was all pretty standard, real, black combat pants, black long sleeve shirt, black shoes, and a black headband with the Nadeshiko village symbol on it. There wasn't a wooden ANBU mask, since giving him one would be really cutting it close with going against protocol. The collar had a face mask extension though, so he could cover his face from the nose down. As far as weaponry went, added onto the usual kunai and shuriken and whatnot else was in his shinobi tool pouch, a Kodachi at his hip.

What really made Shizuka like the outfit, through, was how form-fitting it was on him. She admired the way Naruto's uniform fitted to his torso. The black accenting his visible, and surprisingly, defined abdominals and pectorals. The Kunoichi licked her drying lips as she scanned her eyes over her fiance's form, soaking in every detail and wondering exactly what lie in wait for her beneath his clothes.

Shizuka put the changing room back into the scroll and then turned to Naruto, a thoughtful expression on her face then with a quick series of handsigns, Naruto was two inches tall and Shizuka picked him up and held him to her face with an expression of sheer adoration.

"Relax, my love. It's a travel-based jutsu. It'll automatically cancels itself when we get to our destination." Shizuka cooed softly so as to not hurt his ears now that he was smaller. With that, she did something that left her groom flushing red with embarrassment: she stuffed him between her breasts and then took off for Nadeshiko village, which was located near the Land of Water. Long story short was that Naruto had a long, bouncy, soft ride ahead of him. He knew he shouldn't have been so flustered seeing as he and Shizuka were going to become husband and wife, but what red-blooded male wouldn't have been flushed in his situation?

As she ran back her village, Shizuka felt her nipples began to harden poke against the shirt as she shuddered, loving Naruto being so close to her bare flesh. She vowed to herself then and there that she was going to be a lot kinder to Naruto than the Konoha bitches had been. Of course, she was still going to keep in mind he was hers, but she'd never do anything horrible to him and make him want to leave her. Embarrassed from being as erect and hard as a steel girder bellow the belt, but never wanting to leave her due to mistreatment.

As soon as Nadeshiko village came into view on the horizon, Shizuka skidded to a stop and pulled Naruto out of his spot between her bust and hugged him before setting her man down and he turned back to his normal size.

Shizuka giggled at how Naruto's face was still red he was from where she had placed him and then grabbed onto his hand and started dragging him down the road. Beaming as they entered the village, Shizuka greeted her fellow kunoichi. This was easily, Shizuka decided, the best day of her life. Well...except for one thing about her fellow Nadeshiko kunoichi...

"Who's that?"

"He looks strong."

"Hey, why don't you take the mask off, I bet you're really handsome!"

Shizuka bite down, her molars grinding against each other in a rare bout of anger. As expected, the other warrior-women wanted a piece of HER man! She dragged Naruto through the village, but was overjoyed when he didn't start flirting with all the women around him, merely saying "I'm with Shizuka-chan." in response to their vain attempts to win his attention. It made her smile. Naruto and his loyalty...heh...it was another thing she loved about him. Now where was she going to head to to see to it the Nadeshiko village got the hint that Naruto was hers and hers alone? There were two places in the village that set that up: the wedding shrine where he could take an oath of only loving Shizuka, or Shizuka could take him to her own home.

Either way, Naruto was going to be all hers for the rest of their lives from now on. Question was, which was her choice?