Max & Naruto Uzumaki: Ship 2

The head of young Naruto Uzumaki surfaced from the ocean’s water , taking a deep gulp of air as he pushed back his shaggy and spikey blonde hair to get a better view of his surroundings.

“Wow… Managed to stay under for three minutes… Or was it less?” Naruto wondered to himself aloud while he floated in the water. The boy shrugged his shoulders before a cocky smirk formed on his face; “Well, either way, I’d like to see Sasuke best that!”

Naruto was thankful he’d managed to luck out in recently discovering a beach that no one else but him knew of, with the ocean providing more than enough room for him explore whenever the genin wasn’t doing missions with his team. Heck, he even always had a pair of swim trunks on hand to wear whenever he came to the beach.

As he swam with that smug grin on his face, he failed to realize that his own cockiness had blinded him to the point where he found himself bonking his head against something wooden. Naruto winced from the fresh sting of the collision with the object his thick skull collided against. When he managed to gather his bearings together, he looked up, his blinking in surprise to find himself staring at a fairly sizable sailing ship, and one that had to be centuries old model at least. Before he could angrily ask whose idea was it for a ship to suddenly get in his way, he heard something that faintly sounded like music playing on deck.

Blinking in confusion, Naruto decided to go up and investigate, using his chakra to stick to the side of the ship.
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Max was as happy as a sheepdog could be, considering that his master, Prince Eric (soon to be King) had recently gotten married to his new wife (and soon to be queen), Ariel of Atlantica. The couple were dancing to the music serenading while the ship was bringing them to the destination where they were to spend their honeymoon.

All the while, Max himself was dancing along with some of the sailors that were enjoying the music. That is, until Max stopped in mid-step, his nostrils flaring and sniffing the air as a curious scent made itself known to him. It was akin to noodles cooked in a salt broth, with other yummy flavors mixed in.

Max didn’t recall any of the sailors bringing any pasta onto the ship, much less anything similar cooking up in the kitchen.

So, putting his nose to the floor of the deck, the sheepdog got to work with tracking down where the scent was coming from.

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Naruto had finished climbing all the way up, canceling out his wall walking technique and holding himself up by gripping onto the edge of a low windowstill. The kid blinked in surprise when he took through it, looking at the people celebrating, amongst them including a couple, consisting of a handsome black haired young man and a red haired young woman dancing to the music. From the way their strange clothes guessed, he could only guess they were wealthy, with their facial expressions indicating they were happy about something.

Before he could speculate on what was going on, he saw a white and grey sheepdog with fur that was so shaggy that his eyes were obscured. Naruto was a little confused when he saw the huge canine sniffing around, as if looking for something. But then, as the dog got closer and closer to the windowstill, the gears in his head turned, making him realize that HE was what the dog was sniffing out!

Naruto involuntarily gave out a sharp gasp, proceeding to then immediately cover his mouth with one hand upon realizing his mistake once he saw the sheepdog start look his way. The boy immediately attempted to hide by pushing himself away from the windowstill and pressing himself against the side of the ship.

For a while, Naruto stayed like this, hoping that the dog didn't get a good look at him and would just go away as he heard sniffing sounds get closer and closer... Then it suddenly stopped for some reason...

Blinking in confusion, Naruto decided to take a quick look, thinking that perhaps the dog had gone away, thinking he was just seeing things. So, he slowly leaned himself back towards the windowstil, until he felt his nose suddenly pressing against something big and wet.

That was when Naruto found himself staring face to face with the sheepdog, whose head was larger than Naruto’s own. In fact, the sheepdog as well have been a bear from how much bigger he was compared to Naruto!

With no small measure of panic forming on the kid’s face, he immediately attempted to dive off of the side of the ship and swim away. The keyword, however, is ‘attempted’, since to omit such a word would imply he accomplished the task. No, instead of diving headfirst into the water, he was actually dangling from the side of the ship by the seat of his orange trunks, the youngster squeaking from how uncomfortable the sudden stop was to him as he hung there with his hips raised and his upperbody dipped downwards.

“Lemme go!” Naruto protested as he kicked his legs in midair.

His captor, however didn’t feel like complying, as he simply hoisted him up onto the deck. The sheepdog then simply trotted away from the windowstill, carrying the much smaller boy away by his swim trunks with the same ease as any dog would when carrying a pup by the scruff.

Naruto crossed his arms indignantly as he swayed a little with each step the dog took, not enjoying something this embarrassing. He could only be thankful his teammates didn’t see this, otherwise he doubted he’d ever live this down.

“You better put me down if you know what’s good for you…” Naruto grumbled as the sheepdog carried him down the stairs that led down below deck, bouncing a little from each step the dog took.

He thankfully stopped bouncing once the dog reached the end of the stairs, and walked through an open door, no doubt a storage room containing some supplies that weren’t really edible to the dog, which Naruto couldn’t really take advantage of unfortunately.

Naruto grunted as he was dropped onto the wooden floor, sitting upward as he looked up at the sheepdog with a look of annoyance.

”Why’d you bring me down here-” Naruto asked as he searched the sheepdog’s fluffy neck, feeling around until he felt his fingers touch a collar, he then moved it so that he could read the tag better; “-Max?”

Max, naturally, decided to explain himself the best way he knew how, as he proceeded to then thrust his head downeard on the runty kid, his big, slobbery tongue smacking itself on Naruto‘s right whisker marked cheek. With how big the dog was compared to Naruto, the tongue was easily able to push the skin of his cheek upward and tilt his head back. The blonde boy’s right eye was forcibly shut while his left one voluntarily closed, his nose crinkling from the wet sensation and the way the skin of his whisker marked cheek felt from being pushed up so hugely and casually by the sheepdog.

As soon as the tongue swept off, with driblets of slobber sent flying, Naruto found himself face planting from the force of the lick, grimacing he felt his cheek still bouncing for a bit from how much it had been lifted up by the dog.

”… I taste that good?” Naruto asked dryly with a smirk on his face as he pushed his wet bangs out of his eyes. Just as he sat himself upright again, he felt the animal suddenly press his much larger body against him, pushing him against a wall and covering both of legs up by laying ontop of him, leaving the boy unable get back up.

“Okay, you had your fun Max, now let me up…” Naruto said.

Max disagreed, as he was clearly just getting started. So to prove this, the sheepdog immediately Planting his slobbering tongue square on Naruto’s chin, Max licked slowly all up his face, the center of it completely covered and pressed all the way to his ears.

“MMMMMPH!” Naruto flailed his arms around, the only things capable of squirming since his legs were completely pinned down. Up and up, his cheeks and nose were pushed upwards until Max’s tongue slurped all the way off of his forehead. Naruto spat some saliva off his lips, his face was now drenched in dog slobber, the top bangs of his blonde hair even slicked up and dripping wet.

After giving Naruto a moment to recover, Max barked before his large head dove down again, his tongue nailing its target.

**SMACK**

Having planted itself Naruto’s left cheek. and licked it upward, forcing Naruto’s eye completely shut as it did. Then Max repeated the notion, again and again, clearly enjoying himself greatly.

”M-Max! Cut it ouuuuut! Hahahahah!“

Naruto was now only able to see out of one eye as Max kept slurping the skin of his left cheek Seeing as the dog was ignoring him, he gave up on protesting any more of Max's slobbering, broke into a fit of giggles as he reached up and scratched Max's fuzzy head. Max, liking the feel of this treatment, began panting happily, his breath warming Naruto’s face up.

“You’re a good boy…” Naruto said, right before he felt Max immediately squish his right up eye shut, courtesy of the dog licking his right cheek up hugely.