Naruto Uzumaki: “Slobbery Givings”

A/N:

This story idea was inspired by an old Halloween story that Dogpoundman wrote on the original Kennel wiki.

Obviously this one’s somewhat vaguely Thanksgiving/Christmas based, since the Naruto verse doesn’t celebrate Thanksgiving/Christmas. But it’s possible they may have a festival during November/December… Yeah, just go with it.. XD

Anyway, Taren/Fleetmaster has being given credit as a co-writer.

Also, this story will feature familiar dogs , and dogs that Naruto’s yet to meet, with at least one of them probably even being used for a separate story where they co-star with Naruto. Which dogs are in this story?

Well, you’ll have to find out. ;)

On a side note; this story is its own separate thing, so it’s not really a part of the Einstein and Naruto series of stories.

All and all, Happy Thanksgiving weekend!

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Autumn is a season with plenty of reasons to celebrate, thanks in part to the many things it represents. As a season where harvest is important, it represents both preservation and abundance, this is why Konoha had festivals takijg place during the autumn seasons out of gratitude for the harvest. Of course in the case of one particular genin, that abundance would certainly be about more than just crops, but we’re getting ahead of ourselves.

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Our story begins in a forest where Lady Tsunade stood, patiently waiting for a few other Kunoichi to arrive. The aforementioned group that she was waiting for consisted of Sakura Haruno, Ino Yamanaka, Hinata Hyuga, Tenten Higurashi (at least she was certain that was the weapon user’s surname), and Tsunade’s own assistant, Shizune, who was acting as the girls’ jonin leader for the “mission” they were supposed to be returning from. A mission that, in Tsunade’s opinion, was of great importance, given what she had in mind for the orange wearing genin named Naruto Uzumaki.

*Just hope Shizune and the girls‘ll be able to get those six over here in time, especially with the help they’re getting from Yuffie and that Kairi girl…* Tsunade thought to herself as she took a sip from her flask

~

[**Meanwhile**]

At the moment, the young ninja, Yuffie Kisaragi and her red haired friend, Kairi, had already brought the group of Konoha girls to the place where the first of ‘those six’ resided in. More specifically, the pier side of a large city, one so quiet that the only sound that could be heard were the footsteps of the girls as they walked.

“Are you sure this is where we’re supposed to meet our first ‘helper’ for the funhouse?” Shizune asked; “Not that I’m questioning you, it’s just a tad odd as a meeting place is all…”

”Oh we’re sure!” Kairi with a smile; “Mr. Fagin even said that our ‘helper’ would be eager to meet us in this area. Just be careful though, he’s more than a bit eager to make new friends…”

As if on cue, a loud series of barks echoed around the docks. The shinobi all looked up to see a big grey Great Dane charging at them, his massive pink tongue hanging out behind him like a flag. Kairi tepped forward and spread her arms, grinning widely. "Hey there, Einstein! Been a while, hasn't it, boy! OOF!"

Kairi's energetic welcome was cut off as Einstein tackled her, the two rolling a few times on the wooden dock before Kairi hit the ground on her back, Einstein standing over her. The Great Dane's huge tongue immediately went to work, landing on Kairi's cheek with a loud SPLAT and dragging up her face, pushing her eye shut and leaving a thick trail of drool in its wake as Kairi kicked and flailed. "Hahahahahaha! Einstein! Cut that out, boy! I'm glad to see you too! Hehehehahahaha! Stop! That tickles!"

"I guess he's eager to greet old ones, too!" Sakura giggled, walking over as Kairi continued to get worked over by Einstein's enormous tongue. She reached out a hand and placed it gently on Einstein's head, scratching him. "Nice to meet you, Einstein! You ready to go?"

As Sakura scratched his head Einstein dragged his tongue off of Kairi's face, looking up at Sakura and grinning a doggy grin. His tongue, so shiny with slobber that Sakura could see herself reflected in it, was suddenly coming *her* way, so fast that she didn't even have time to try and back away as it slapped onto her cheek, splatting loudly and lifting it up just as much as Kairi's had when Einstein had tackled her, if not more so.

Unfortunately for Sakura however, unlike Kairi, Sakura was finding herself being lifted up to her tippy toes, which wasn’t hard considering the Great Dane was considerably taller and physically stronger than any of the four young genin). Sakura crinkled her nose from the sensation as Einstein nearly hoisted her off the floor, courtesy of the sheer strength of his tongue even for a dog his size!

As soon as the tongue flicked off of the girl’s cheek and caused her to land on her sandled feet, her legs now a bit shaky, the Great Dane started giving Sakura an onslaught of licks!

"Ack! Gugh! Hey! Hahahaha! Cut that ohohohout!" Sakura squealed, gulping with laughter as her head was knocked up and down by Einstein's great sloppy tongue, her cheeks being lifted up over and over again while she staggered backwards, Einstein following after her as his tongue swept up over and over, leaving Sakura's hands to flail helplessly. Everyone else laughed, Kairi managing to get up and swirl her hand around her face to clear off some of the slobber as she stood up and grabbed Einstein by the scruff of his neck.

"Okay, *okay,* you big sloppy goofball! Leave Sakura alone! We've got places to be!"

Despite the fact that a dog as tall and strong as Einstein could easily get free from Kairi’s grip, he understood and relaxed, though not before ending his slurpy kisses by planting his big tongue against the entirety of Sakura’e face, pressing all the way to where it was near her ears and slurped upward, making the young girl’s fingers and toes curl from the sensation of her cheeks and nose being pushed up by the lick.

~

[**Later**]

“Maaaax, here boy!” Yuffie called out, giving out whistles as she and the girls walked on a sandy beach, and with the others looking around for their next ‘helper’ for the funhouse.

"Um, Yuffie, are you sure he's going to be around here?" asked Hinata, looking around the beach. It was bare of other animals, or even people, leaving her and Yuffie alone. "I mean, it looks like the whole beach is deserted."

"Oh, believe me, he's around," Yuffie replied. She stopped suddenly, putting a hand to her ear. "In fact...I think I hear him coming now!" Just as Yuffie said, a loud chorus of barks was coming their direction, and Yuffie waved at their source, a big floppy ball of white and gray fur that was bounding across the beach towards them, a fat pink tongue trailing behind him like a flag as he charged at the two girls. "Hey there, Max!"

Max the sheepdog jumped up in a spray of sand, putting his furry paws on Yuffie's shoulders and giving her cheeks a pair of big swipes with his big tongue, each one lifting her cheek up and pushing her eye shut as Yuffie laughed. "Hahaha, I'm happy to see you too, mutt!"

"So uh...this is Max?" Hinata asked, hesitantly walking closer. "He uh...he seems friendly."

"Oh, he is!" Yuffie laughed. "Max, this is Hinata, she's a friend of mine! Wanna go say hi?"

Max let out a booming bark and got down from Yuffie, charging at Hinata. She let out a squeak as Max barreled into her, knocking her to the sandy ground.

It was pretty easy too, given that like with the other genin, Hinata was smaller and younger than Kairi, Yuffie, and Shizune, ontop of Max being pretty big even for a sheepdog, to the point where Hinata was more than certain that Naruto would only be able to come up to the dog’s nose at most (provided the short blonde stood tippy toe to a degree).

In fact, the dog was so much larger and stronger than she was that he needed only one paw to push the Hyuuga heiress down so her back was planted against the sand, the girl only having enough time to give out a grunt before her one of her pupil-less eyes widened. We say ‘widened’, since her other eye was completely pushed shut from Max merely slapping his tongue on her right cheek. Yet at the same time, despite how thick and wet Max's tongue was, Hinata couldn't help but giggle, especially as Max started to lick her face in earnest, sending slobber flying as he licked her cheek again and again!

"Heeheeheeheeheeheehee! Mahahahax! Stop! Cut that ohohohohoout!" Hinata squealed, pushing frantically at the sheepdog's chest as Max only broadened his range, licking Hinata's other cheek as he alternated between them. Yuffie laughed at the sight of the young genin kicking and flailing, enjoying listening to the slurping sounds. It wasn't just *her* getting licked by Max for once, at least while she was visiting!

"Alright, Max, alright, come on, we got someone else for you to meet!" she said. She patted Max lightly on the head to get his attention, but it still took the sheepdog a final few slobbery slurps to leave Hinata lying breathless on the beach, her face thoroughly soaked in drool.

~

[**Later still**]

In a Midwest city in the United States, the 7 girls were in the living room of large apartment complex, where at the moment, negotiations were being had.

”We can’t thank you and agreeing to convince your family to let us borrow your dog Ronnie Anne. ” Shizune said as she shook hands with an Hispanic girl wearing a purple hoodie, one who was only a year younger than Sakura, Ino, and Hinata at that.

“It’s no big,” Ronnie Anne said as she formed a smirk on her face; “the big lug’s been wanting to have someone new to play with anyway!”

“Good to know. As a sign of gratitude, we’ll be sure to have his playtime with Naruto recorded for you to enjoy, same with Naruto’s other playmates!” Shizune said.

”You bet I’ll enjoy it! Given how much of a dork he is, he’s probably been had this coming anyway!” The tomboyish latina said with a laugh.

As the two conversed, Tenten was keeping the dog in question entertained. Though, of course, *she* wasn't having as much fun as she lay flat on her back in Ronnie Anne's room, her arms and legs splayed out limply as the huge family dog stood over her, his absolutely gigantic slobbery tongue engulfing her face over and over again. Each slurp lifted Tenten's cheeks up and coated her face in a fresh coat of drool, and made her arms and legs flop as she weakly attempted to protest the slobbery hound's attentions.

"Mmmf! Lalo! MMmmph! Down, boy! Mmmmmph! Get off me! Mmmmphum! You're soaking me!"

"You ready to go, Tenten? Sakura asked as she stuck her head in Ronnie Anne's room just in time to watch the massive dog’s tongue utterly engulf it again. Sakura couldn't help but giggle at the sight. "Seems like Lalo's taken a licking--I mean, a liking to you!"

Tenten groaned in disgust as Lalo's tongue lifted her cheek up hugely, squashing her eye shut.

~

[**Still later**]

At the moment, the group were currently in the countryside of England. More specifically, they were on a farm, a ‘plantation’ if you will. While Shizune was conversing with the owners of the farm, Kairi and Yuffie had opted to show them the real reason they came to this particular countryside abode. And thankfully, said ‘reason’ were currently inside a barn, enjoying the girls’ company and vice versa, with many a small happy yip filling up the interior of the barn.

“I can’t believe there are so many puppies that live on this farm!” Sakura squeed with delight as she held a puppy in her hands, rubbing her nose against the pup’s own nose. One couldn’t blame the pinkette for both her amazement and delight, considering that she and the three other genin of the group were playing with not five or even fifteen puppies. No, they were playing with a swarm of **ninety nine** puppies, all of them completely and utterly adorable at that!

“And the two of you are saying you personally know these cute little guys?” Tenten said to Kairi and Yuffie while she was playing with some puppies on a hay bale. She was interrupted before she could ask anymore, courtesy of one of the puppies playfully nipping one of her earlobes, making her wince but grin all the same.

“Got that right!” Yuffie said while she and Kairi were playing with the puppies with some toys they had on hand. In fact, the Kisaragi heiress was currently playing tug of war with some of the puppies as they pulled on a chew toy; “They stayed with us for a while until their world was no longer swallowed by darkness…”

”It probably helps Sora rescued the puppies once when they were scattered throughout different worlds, far as I’m concerned that only made them like us even more!” Kairi said as she waved a rope toy about while she looked at Tenten, only to have a blur of white and black wearing a blue collar to take advantage of her distraction by tackling her into a pile of hay, the sound of something slobbery slapping her cheeks and pushing them up ringing in her ears; “Hey no fair doing that, I was distracted!”

"Uh oh, looks like we've been recognOOF!" Yuffie giggled before she found saw another black and white blur, this one wearing a red collar. To keep from being tackled into the same hay bale, she had to plant her feet down and hold the blur in her arms. All the same however, she immediately had her face smothered by a broad pink tongue. Both girls found themselves the to be the playmates of a pair of adult Dalmatians, who were now taking advantage of their position to thoroughly lick their faces while the two girls squealed and giggled.

"Perditahahahahahaha!" Kairi squealed as she kicked and flailed while her cheeks were being lifted up over and over again. "Cut it out girl! Stahahahap! That tihihihickles!"

"Pongo! Pongo! Down boy! Down! Hahahahahaha!" Yuffie squealed between licks as Pongo licked her over and over again from her chin to her forehead, each slurp stretching her face out and sending drool flying everywhere. Tenten giggled as she watched her friends get licked, the two Dalmatians' tails wagging in blurs as they let Kairi and Yuffie know how happy they were to see them again, lifting their cheeks up, stretching their faces out, and just in general giving the two a thick coating of drool on their faces. They were lucky Dalmatians weren’t a large breed like the other canines that the group had recruited for the funhouse, though Pongo and Perdita made up for it with the energetic nature their breed was known for, along with good cheek licking strength for medium sized dogs.

~

[**Later again**]

This time around, the group had tracked the latest dog (at this point) to a suburban neighborhood. Negotiations with the dog’s family were already finished, though before they could bring the pooch with them, one of them had to play with the dog in the backyard so he could get to know the group a bit better.

And who better to do that than the only genin of the group who hadn’t gotten slobbered?

“Ngh! Y-you’re pretty damn heavy, you know that?” Ino grunted as she tried to pull a rope toy out of the dog’s mouth as he sat there. The dog in question was a Saint Bernard with a green collar along with having a somewhat fluffy coat that was brown at the top and white on the underside. More impressive than his well kept coat, however, was that he was rather big even for his breed, enough to even rival Einstein and Lalo in terms of sheer size, though he was certainly more muscular and broad than Einstein given he had a similar build as Lalo.

Of course, that same build was what allowed the much bigger and stronger dog to causally keep Ino from budging him in the slightest as he sat on his haunches, causally keeping the toy from escaping his powerful jaws.

"Oh come on!" Ino yelled as she finally released the toy and walked closer "All of the others were happy to get going! What's wrong with you? Are you asleep or just dumb?"

She reached her arm up to the top of the huge dog, lightly patting the top of the saint bernard’ head. "Come on, you big galoot! What's it going to take for you to get moving?"

As if he'd been waiting for that question, Beethoven suddenly raised his forelegs up, his enormous paws coming down on Ino's shoulders and bearing her down to the ground. Ino didn't even have time to squeal in surprise before the Saint Bernard's absolutely massive tongue had consumed her entire face, all the way back to her ears, sparking laughter from the rest of the group as she let out muffled protests and kicked and flailed her legs while Beethoven went to work on her face. Ino's face was thoroughly slobbered with the first pass of his tongue, but Beethoven kept going, lifting her cheeks up like they were putty and pushing her eyes shut as he licked her over and over again.

"Attaboy, Beethoven!" Sakura crowed. "Slobber her good!"

Ino would have said something insulting to Sakura, but by the time she could Beethoven's tongue had covered her face again. As the sounds of Ino's slobbering continued in the background, Sakura turned to Shizune. "Is that everyone, Miss Shizune?"

"I believe so," Shizune said. "Now all we have to do is take them back to the village and get Naruto."

“Pretty sure we still have one more on the list…” Yuffie said with a quirked eyebrow.

“Right, thank you for reminding me…” Shizune said; “Of course, I think we may have to wait until we get all the other dogs to the village before we get the last one…”

”W-what makes you say that?” Hinata asked.

”Well, we already have so many large dogs to deal with as is, save for the dalmatians. And, well…”

Shizune looked back up at Beethoven, who was still licking Ino's face, the blonde girl's protests having become muffled giggles as she helplessly pushed at the dog that was smothering her face in the folds of his giant tongue.

"We may have trouble with Beethoven here..."

~

[**One final later**]

Having finally gotten the Saint Bernard off of Ino and dropped at a secure location with the other canines for them to stay before presenting them to Tsunade, the group found themselves in a more unusual world. Every person in this world had no shoes and were dressed in animal skin clothing that resembled togas, some of them worse ties weirdly enough. Probably didn’t help that they even used strange animals in a similar manner as one would with either common tools, or even as certain vehicles of all things! Thankfully not every animal was used in such a manner, but it was still a bizarre sight to behold regardless.

Heck, the last dog they needed was at least still a pet for a family, and they managed to find him, since he was a fairly well known member of the community. Though, despite succeeding in borrowing him, there was just one teeny tiny little snag the group had. Not only was this dog the biggest out of the seven (in fact, one could almost mistake him for a buffalo from a distance with how big he was), but he wasn’t even a *conventional* dog at that!

Probably didn’t help that he’d taken a liking to Shizune, which he was more than willing to show while the group was walking back to spot where they were to open up the portal back to Konoha.

Shizune let out a displeased groan as the unconventional dog’s enormous tongue dragged up her cheek, stretching it out before slurping it off in a spray of drool for the umpteenth time, not even needing to reach his head up to slurp the woman thanks to his sheer size!

“Can't you save the slobbering until we get where we're going?" she asked as she wiped the saliva off with a sleeve; "I'm not even the person you're supposed to be licking!"

"I guess Dino just likes you, Shizune!" Yuffie said, before the group stopped on a patch of open ground that the portal would be in. "Okay, now all we have to do is open the portal and you guys will be all set to go!"

"Oh finallEEP!"

Shizune squeaked as Dino took advantage of the group stopping to full on tackle her to the ground. The girls all couldn't help but laugh as the older woman finally got her turn, Dino's tongue working like a floor waxer as it swirled all over her face, leaving Shizune kicking and flailing helplessly as Dino's thick tail wagged back and forth while he molded Shizune's face around like a ball of clay, lifting her cheeks and stretching her face out with each lick.

"Guess Dino wants Shizune as an appetizer before he gets to the main course!" Kairi giggled as Dino's tongue stretched Shizune's whole face while the Snorkasaurus licked her from her chin to her hairline. "Be sure to save some of that slobber, boy, you've still got a lot of licking left to do!"

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[**Konoha**]

   The main course for our story

“Why the heck are you bringing me out here in the fields Granny Tsunade?” Naruto Uzumaki asked as he followed the hokage, his hands on the pockets of his pants and nothing but confusion as obvious on his face in the same way the leaves turning color signified autumn; “I don’t know what this even has to do with the festival…”

“It’s just something that Shizune and I concocted for you. Figured you’d want something more ‘interesting’ to do…” Tsunade said, withholding the urge to lightly cuff him upside the head for the nickname as she looked around for their destination; “Besides, it shouldn’t even take us much longer to get there…ah!”

Tsunade perked up as she spotted a small manor house that had just become visible through the trees. It was a small place, but she'd been through it before, and knew that it would suit their needs perfectly well.

"There it is."

Soon enough they were at the place's front door. The manor was old and abandoned, and flaking roof tiles and chips in the walls showed its age.

"Go on in," Tsunade said, giving Naruto a light slap on the back. "I'll be waiting right out here for you, while you go and have some fun… Unless you think you can’t handle it?”

”Tch, as it! I can handle anything you throw at me, believe it!” Naruto boasted with an overconfident grin as he marched up to the front door.

Little did he know that as he walked in, Tsunade formed a rather mischievous little grin.

~

No sooner had Naruto taken six steps forward, the door suddenly closed behind him, the sound of the door mechanically locking up by itself ringing in Naruto’s ears. Didn’t exactly help that it was so dark that he could hardly see a single thing. However, he DID hear what seemed to be soft music, albeit feintly playing. So, with little else to go on, he allowed the music to guide him through the practically pitch black darkness.

The deeper down the dark hall he went, the more clear and elegant the music sounded to the boy, to the point where it seemed to make up for the fact he was in complete and utter darkness, as he allowed the music to dictate his navigation, not even caring where he was going. He could practically nearly-

\*Bump\*

Naruto winced as he felt himself bump into something wooden. Judging from this, along with how much more clear the music became from behind whatever he bumped into, Naruto realized he’d found the door to where the music came from!

After using his hands to feel around, Naruto soon found the doorknob, proceeding to turn it and push the door open. As he walked in, he saw, to his astonishment, that the brightly room was completely black and white!

The walls and ceiling? White with big black dots adorned all about! The soft carpeting of the floor? Black with white specks here and there!

Even the furniture was black and white!

Thankfully, while Naruto had a hard time figuring out where the room began and ended, he was able to see the source of the lovely music. Twenty feet at the very center of the room was a grand, black piano. For whatever reason, however, the piano was playing the music by itself, with no other human in the room aside from Naruto himself.

No sooner did had he gotten close enough to where he was just within a few feet of the elegant instrument, he heard the door behind him close and lock up with an audible click. Afterwards, the piano changed its rhythm and tempo, with the sound of what seemed to be Sakura and Ino’s voices singing.

***We'll have a dalmatian plantation***

***A rambling old place with a view***

***The peace and quiet will identify it as our little dream that's come true***

***Imagine that rustic location***

***The hills and the evergreen trees***

***And meadows of clover to run and romp over***

***As free as the pine scented breeze***

***We'll snuggle close in the evening***

***In the glow of burning logs***

***And all night long we'll hear the sing of crickets and frogs***

***And there we will grow and we'll prosper***

***And never again will we roam***

***Can't wait to begin our sweet living that's in our —***

***Dalmatian… Plantation… Hooooooooome~***

Naruto blinked in astonishment as he climbed onto the piano’s bench, wondering exactly what he was even supposed to do in this room. So lost in thought was he, that it took some rather cold and wet licking against the back of his hand to snap him out of it. Squeaking in surprise at the unexpected sensation, Naruto drew his hand away while he sat on the bench.

As he turned his head about, he found himself looking at the face of a rather beautiful Dalmatian with white ears and a coat well kept with glossy looking black dots adorned on the body and ears. About the only thng that WASN’T black and white was the blue collar adorned around the dog’s neck.

And as befitting of such beauty, this dog was clearly female when judging by the feminine elegance of her eyes.

”Oh, he-hey there girl’” Naruto said with a relieved smile as he pushed himself off the bench, and stood in front of the Dalmatian. Since the Dalmatian was close to his size, he didn’t even need to crouch to gently scratch behind the lovely canine’s ears while feeling around her blue collar until he found the tag; “You gave me a bit of a scare… ‘Perdita’…”

Perdita whined happily, wagging her tail right before she leapt up at Naruto, planting her paws on her shoulders and giving him a big lick in the face. She lifted his left cheek up and squashing his eye shut with it despite her tongue not being particularly big. The girls that had brought her and her husband here hadn't been wrong:

Naruto was delicious!

As she slurped her tongue off of his face in a spray of drool, she did it again, and again, slapping Naruto's cheeks around with her tongue and rolling them up each time.

”Bleh, you’re pretty affectionate!” Naruto said with a bemused smile as he scratched her behind he ears again. Thankfully for him, Perdita had given him a break in order for her to lick her lips and let the taste of the human pup’s squishy cheek get familiar to her tastebuds.

Unfortunately for him, Perdita had eventually stopped licking her lips after having felt she was accustomed to the taste of his left cheek. With a gentle smile, Perdita raised herself up further on her hind legs, showing that despite dalmatians not being a large breed, she was still much taller than Naruto she was (when not on all fours at least). With her new elevated stance, she was able to have her her forelegs reach around to the back of Naruto’s neck so that she could pull Naruto closer to her and keep the adorable human pup from escaping the ‘grooming’ he was about to get. She then dove her head down at Naruto’s face, planting her tongue on his right cheek and giving it an elegant yet big lick that folded the whisker marked skin upward easily, all the while forcing the boy to slowly walk backwards during the start of his ‘grooming’.

"Mmmf!" Naruto groaned as Perdita's tongue dragged up his face. "St-stop that! Cut it out! No licking!"

Perdita didn't care, though, repeatedly licking Naruto's cheek before eventually spreading out. She began licking his other cheek too, and even on occasion gave him big licks from his chin to his forehead, covering his face with her tongue as more drool began to fly everywhere while she licked him around the room. Naruto could only flail and stagger about, helpless to resist until he came in contact with a wooden wall, Perdita pinning him against it as she continued to lick his face.

Naruto gave out some boyish laughter as his new playmate slurped him silly, the tongue even licking him from his neck to the underside of his chin in a way where it tilted his head backwards for a moment until it flicked off the tip of his chin.

“C-c’mon, you’re soaking me!” Naruto said with laughter lacing his voice.

Perdita merely let out a small bark before giving the human pup a lick that stretched his right cheek upward. Up and up the skin of his cheek went, partially obscuring his vision for a moment or two before Perdita’s elegant and very wet tongue slurped off his cheek. The Dalmatian then rubbed her head against the boy’s face in a display of practically motherly affection, giving him a gentle yet cheeky expression before releasing Naruto from her hold on Naruto and getting back down to her regular quadrupedal stance.

Just as Naruto was wiping off Dalmatian saliva from his face, he heard a more masculine bark coming from his left, making Naruto turn his head, only to be met with a broader tongue that slapped itself onto the center of his face and folded both cheeks upwards, along with his nose, even to the point of forcing his head back to go flying off of his forehead!

Naruto coughed and sputtered after the tongue finished the full face lick. As he blinked his blue eyes open, Naruto saw another Dalmatian stand next to Perdita with his tongue lolling out and panting. Aside from having two solid black ears and a red collar, another characteristic that made this dog different from Perdita was that the dog was clearly male, especially given he was bigger than Perdita. And from the way Perdita nuzzled up against the dog, this one was clearly her husband.

“N-nice to meet you too… ‘Pongo’…” Naruto said as he read the tag on the male Dalmatian’s red collar; “Just hope you two’ll — Why are you looking at me like that?”

The canine couple quirked their eyebrows playfully as they stepped toward Naruto, forcing him backwards.

“Ohhh no, don’t you dare, sit!” Naruto said, only for Pongo to respond by raising himself on his hind legs to make himself taller than Naruto and placing his front paws against Naruto’s shoulders. The dog’s broader tongue allowed him to give Naruto’s left cheek a firm lick while also covering more surface area compared to his wife, pushing the skin upwards all the while.

As soon as the quick lick finished, Pongo used his paws to push Naruto backwards without following him, allowing Perdita to have a turn with the boy by leaping at him and forcing him backwards with a lick from chin to forehead that partially slicked his blonde bangs up.Before he could even process what happened however, the husband and wife duo suddenly nimbly leapt at their playmate, their athleticism and combined momentum allowing them to knock Naruto off his feet as they landed on the black and white sofa.

"Nono! No! Down! Stop!" Naruto yelped as the two dogs, pinning him to the sofa, started to lick his face in earnest, their big pink tongues slapping and slurping his cheeks and face as they molded it around like clay. Naruto's cheeks were lifted up over and over again, the boy flailing helplessly as he futilely tried to fight off the two dogs. His face rapidly became soaked even more than Perdita had made it, but he couldn't help but laugh even more, the two dogs tickling him as they continued to slobber all over his face.

"Hehehe! I mehehehean it! Both of you cut it ohohohohout!" Both dogs ignored him however, and continued to lick Naruto's face, their thin tails wagging back and forth as they worked Naruto's face over with their tongues. Any further protests from Naruto were muffled as the pair's tongues covered his face in their thick pink folds.

The only time the two dogs stopped licking in that barrage was when the Dalmatian’s winked at each other knowingly. Afterwhich, Perdita used her jaws grab onto the back of Naruto’s jacket collar and lift pulled his upperbody up and positioned him so that he was sitting up somewhat. The dazed boy not even realizing what was happening until he cleared his head, seeing Perdita on his left and Pongo on his right.

He only had time to squeak in surprise as the two reached their heads at him, each tongue swinging out and slapping against a whiskered cheek. Naruto was adorned with forcibly widened smile, thanks to the dalmatians’ decently strong tongues lifting the cheeks up by dragging along the skin and even squishing his eyes shut.

"Mmmmmmmm!" Naruto grunted before the two Dalmatians slurped their tongues off of his face. Naruto flopped back against the back of the couch and giggled weakly. "Heheheh...you...you two are something else!"

Both dogs smiled at him, then each one gave Naruto one last lick, each tongue swiping from his chin to his forehead before the two dogs walked away together, leaving a soaked Naruto to recover on the couch.

As soon as Naruto had wiped the slobber off his face and wringed some out of his blonde bangs, he looked around until he saw the dalmatians each use a foreleg to point out towards one of the walls. Before Naruto could ask, a door suddenly materialized itself on the wall, much to his amazement. As soon as he got to his feet and walked over to the door, Perdita stood on her hind legs pressed her front paws on Naruto, giving him a motherly kiss. Well, a motherly kiss in the form of a light, but all the same skin stretching lick on his right cheek that partially covered his eye.

”Heh, see you later too girl…” Naruto said as he scratched Perdita behind the ears with one hand while using the other scratch Pongo along his neck, chuckling as Perdita gave him one more motherly lick before getting back down on all fours. The two dalmatians stepped back and allowed Naruto to walk through the open door.

~~~

[*Meanwhile, in a recording room*]

“Alright, let’s send the next one in…” Shizune said, fighting back giggles from the slobbering Naruto had gotten from the dalmatians; “How’s he coming along Kairi?”

Over the intercom, Shizune could hear the sound of sound of a slobbery tongue slapping against a cheek and slurping it up, with exclamations of “Max down!” provided by Kairi. After a couple of moments, Kairi sighed with relief as she seemed to get the sheepdog under control.

”He’s good to go for the next room Shizune! Ariel also said she’s ready to be teleported from her world to the next room. Not only that, but she’ll be ready to sing her little solo for Naruto before ‘you-know-who’ begins the real fun with him!” Kairi said over the intercom.

”Glad to hear Kairi!” Shizune said with a nod of approval.

”Hahahahaha! Oh man, If Pongo and Perdita were more than enough to overpower the kid, then he’s not gonna last long against the bigger ones, especially since he’s such a little squirt!” Yuffie said, slapping her knee while she was laughing! As soon as she took a moment to calm down, she breathed in and out; “Anyway, I think I’ll go and make sure Sakura’s got Einstein ready for when Naruto’s finished with Max…”

”Good idea… Einstein’s already taken a liking to her from what I’ve seen. We want to save the big guy’s licks for Naruto…” Shizune said, only to cover her mouth from giggling when she heard the sound of Max barking over the intercom.

~~~

[**With Naruto**]

This time around, Naruto found himself in a hallway that was lit up with lamps on the walls. Oddly enough, the lamps themselves were shaped like open clamshells, with the lightbulbs acting as the clamshells acting as pearls. Curiously enough, Naruto smelled in the air, almost akin to salt really. As he walked down the hall, the smell grew stronger and stronger, until he came upon a door with what appeared to be a door with a carving on the center that was shaped like a beautiful woman, with a fish’s tail in place of legs.

As he opened the door and walked in, he found himself standing on a sandy hill near a beach, with the sound of seagulls filling the air, and the door behind him suddenly disappear.

“How am I even at a beach, much less OUTSIDE?!” Naruto said as he looked around with a shocked look, especially considering how awfully spacious this ‘room’ was to have a beach. From the looks of things, the manor he was brought to was a LOT bigger on the inside than the outside suggested, making him wonder how it was even possible.

When he felt a headache form, the boy decided to stop asking questions and was about to take another step down to the beach until a wooden sign popped out of the sand, the sign itself saying:

*Caution, considerably sized tidal waves near the shore. To save on laundry, change into a pair of swim trunks provided for guests.*

As soon as he finished reading, Naruto noticed an arrow pointing to his right. He then looked to his right and saw a changing stall about thirty feet away from him. With a blank stare at the unusual convenience, Naruto shrugged his shoulders and walked over to the stall.

After a few minutes of changing, Naruto came out of the stall, decked out in nothing but a pair of blue swim trunks with orange verticals stripes along the side of his hips and down to the bottom of the trunks. Now that he was wearing the proper attire, Naruto naturally made his way down the sandy hill, only to trip on a rock and roll down the hill stopping on the shore of the beach with a faceplant.

As he got to his feet while spitting out the wet sand, Naruto started walking down the beach again, all the while hearing a melodic humming in the air that was lovely. Unlike with the other room though, the one singing (or rather humming) didn’t sound familiar to him at all, though this girl’s voice DID sound lovely.

Soon enough, after a bit more walking, just as he turned around the corner of a cliffside, he suddenly felt a pair of hands scoop him off the ground, causing Naruto to find himself face to face with a green eyed, sixteen year old girl with BEAUTIFUL long red hair.

“Hi there little guy, I take it you’re Naruto? My name’s Ariel…” The redhead said as she held Naruto up and kept him face level with her.

”Y-yeah…” Naruto said, shocked at how GORGEOUS she was, lightly blushing all the while from the fact she was holding him up. It probably didn’t help that she wore two piece bikini, the top being purple and the bottom being green.

”Well, I’ve heard quite a bit about you from a couple of friends of yours. How about I keep you company for a bit while we wait for another friend of mine?” Ariel said as she shifted Naruto’s position so that she was carrying him bridal style, she then down the shore while carrying Naruto.

”Say, uh… Were you the one I was hearing humming while I was walking? I l-like your voice…” Naruto said with a bashful smile.

”Oh, I just like to sing sometimes… There’s actually a couple in particular I like singing to myself at times. How about I sing to you to help past the time until my friend arrives?” Ariel asked.

”Sure! I-I’d like that!” Naruto said.

”Glad to hear~” Ariel said with a giggle as she finally came to came to a stop, gently placing Naruto ontop of a large rock where he was to be the audience to her little impromptu concert.

Ariel put a little distance between herself and the rock, clearing her throat a little before she began the song.

***Look at this stuff***

***Isn't it neat?***

***Wouldn't you think my collection's complete?***

***Wouldn't you think I'm the girl***

***The girl who has everything?***

***Look at this trove***

***Treasures untold***

***How many wonders can one cavern hold?***

***Looking around here you'd think***

***Sure, she's got everything***

***I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty***

***I've got whozits and whatzits galore***

***You want thingamabobs?***

***I've got twenty!***

***But who cares?***

***No big deal***

***I want more***

***I wanna be where the people are***

***I wanna see, wanna see 'em dancin'***

***Walking around on those, what do you call 'em?***

***Oh, feet***

***Flippin' your fins, you don't get too far***

***Legs are required for jumping, dancing***

***Strolling along down the, what's that word again?***

***Street***

***Up where they walk, up where they run***

***Up where they stay all day in the sun***

***Wanderin' free, wish I could be***

***Part of that world***

***What would I give if I could live out of these waters?***

***What would I pay to spend a day warm on the sand?***

***Bet'cha on land they understand***

***Bet they don't reprimand their daughters***

***Bright young women, sick of swimmin'***

***Ready to stand***

***And ready to know what the people know***

***Ask 'em my questions and get some answers***

***What's a fire and why does it, what's the word?***

***Burn?***

***When's it my turn?***

***Wouldn't I love, love to explore that shore up above?***

***Out of the sea***

***Wish I could be***

***Part of that world.***

Naruto couldn't help but stare as Ariel sang, captivated both by the girl’s beauty and her voice. Of course, with him so busy watching her, he wasn't looking at his immediate surroundings, and so remained completely oblivious to the large, furry form that was creeping up behind him. Ariel kept singing, unable to keep a smile from her face as she anticipated what was about to happen. Naruto didn't even notice the shuffling of sand behind him before he suddenly felt a big weight pressing on him, knocking him forward and nearly off his feet. Naruto turned his head, only to have half of his face covered by a gigantic, pink, slobbery tongue.

Ariel's song was cut off by a chorus of giggling as she couldn't keep quiet any longer.

"Go on, Max!" she called as the sheepdog covered half of Naruto's face in drool. "Give him a good licking!"

As a result of the weight of something harrier and MUCH bigger than him pressing on his smaller frame, the blonde boy was unable to get up and the dog’s larger frame forcing the boy to eventually collapse and sit on his knees, unable to even flail his hands about since the paws of the great big something were on his shoulders. All the while, Naruto could see absolutely nothing but PINK as the tongue slowly slurped up from his chin, even pressing against so much of his face that it practically reached his ears.

“Mmmmmmph!” Naruto gave out a muffled groan from sensation of Ariel’s friend slowly but STRONGLY stretch both of his cheeks upward along with his nose. Max didn't stop there, either. Even as he slurped his huge tongue off of Naruto's face, sending a spray of drool into the air, he repeated the lick again, and again, each time sending more drool flying as he licked Naruto's cheeks and face eagerly, lifting and stretching them with every slobbery swipe as Naruto knelt on the sand, helpless to resist except to futilely try and turn his head away. It probably didn’t help that with quickly Max was licking him, Naruto didn’t even know what this dog looked like, though he definitely he was considerably harrier, heavier, and stronger than the dalmatians he’d befriended.

His tongue was also thicker and than either of the Dalmatians’ respective tongues, his face feeling like a rubber band as it was repeatedly pushed upwards from how firmly Max dragged the tongue along his skin.

Thankfully for Naruto, Max ended the initial barrage of full face licks with one last big one that even pushed the skin of his forehead up somewhat, ending in a spray of drool as the tongue flicked off, leaving Naruto’s blonde bang completely slicked up and his face drenched with dog saliva as he coughed and sputteredx

As soon as he felt the weight no longer pressing on him from behind, the kid spat some drool off of his lips.

“As you can see, Max has pretty good taste when it comes to playmates!” Ariel joked with a chuckle as she watched the blonde boy shakily try to balance himself as he shakily stood back up.

”And slobbery to boot…” Naruto muttered, his nose crinkling from the feel of dog drool covering his face as he used a bare forearm to wipe the saliva off, only to be interrupted by the sensation of something cold and wet pressing itself against the back of his head and…

Sniffing?

Naruto blinked his blue eyes open again as he slowly turned around, only to find himself having crane his neck just a tad as he finally officially saw what Max looked like. He figured Max was larger than the Dalmatians, but he didn’t expect this grey and white ball of fur (which even covered the dog’s eyes) to be so big, so much so that the boy had to stand on his tippy toes a bit just so he could come up to the bottom of the dog’s big black nose!

And seeing as the stunned Naruto was finally able to see what Max looked like in full, the sheepdog decided it was only polite to give him a more ‘formal’ greeting as he dove his big head downward.

\*Smack\*

The act of this ALONE was enough to partially obscure Naruto’s left eye with the skin of his own cheek, thanks to Max tongue much more of his cheek than Pongo. And Max hadn’t even pushed the cheek up yet.

All the same, Naruto instinctively closed both eyes and grimaced, his nose crinkling from the sensation of something so big and wet pressing against his cheek. Max lifted Naruto's cheek up even further with his gigantic tongue, before he finally slurped the tongue off of Naruto's face with another spray of drool. Naruto staggered backwards and fell back on the beach. Rubbing his cheek with a hand, Naruto looked up at the dog, unable to help himself as he grinned. "Wow, Max! I've had some good lickings in my time, but you look like you could really give me a good one!"

Max decided to take this compliment as an invitation, and dove on atop of Naruto, pinning him to the sandy ground as he immediately began to smother the boy's face in his absolutely gigantic tongue. Naruto let out a muffled yelp, but he was unable to push the dog off of himself as Max's tongue completely consumed his face, leaving Naruto unable to do anything but mumble as Max dragged his tongue all over the boy's face like a floor waxer. Ariel, in the meantime, laughed from her perch on the rock, enjoying not being the target of Max's tongue for once!

As soon as the tongue flicked off of Naruto’s forehead during the next full face lick , Naruto coughed and spat some dribble off his lips to the side, scratching the sheepdog behind his ears as Max licked his own lips to enjoy the taste of the boy.

“You know Ariel, Max is awfully sneaky when I’m not expecting it, but I bet I can outrun him!” Naruto said to the redhead with a grin.

“Oh really?” asked Ariel with an amused grin; “Well, how about we put that to the test then? You’d be surprised at how quick he can be…”

Ariel put a thumb and an index finger to her lips and gave a sharp whistle, signaling Max to temporarily get off the boy, who obeyed her command.

”Alright Max, how about you give Naruto a good headstart this time?” Ariel said with a hearty chuckle; “It’d be a good way to get some exercise for you~”

Max gave a loud bark at the idea of such a challenge, wagging his stubby tail all the while. He watched as the cocky boy shakily got to his feet, the kid cheekily sticking his tongue out at the sheepdog right before he began running down the shore.

With Naruto’s headstart of a few seconds or so up, Ariel grinned impishly as she gave the word:

”Alright Max… Fetch!” Ariel said enthusiastically. Max immediately let out a loud bark and took off after Naruto, chasing the boy down the beach as his huge tongue trailed behind him like a big pink flag.

Naruto was running ahead of him, and though the boy thought that he could easily outpace the dog, Max was capable of putting on a big burst of speed of his own. However, for now, the sheepdog was enjoying the chase as Naruto led him around a collection of various rocks, all of different sizes. Eventually, Naruto hid behind one particularly large rock, pressing himself against it as Max ran by...then stopped, his nose in the air as he started to sniff.

Max slowly turned himself around as started sniffing the blonde boy, who slowly moved himself along the rock. While he did hear the sheepdog get closer from the increased volume of the sniffing, Naruto grinned in confidence, thinking that the sheepdog wouldn’t be able to catch him. However, little did he know that this cockiness would soon be shot down, as Max was considerably smarter than he seemed to Naruto.

In fact, Max, having figured that Naruto was behind one of the rocks, had maneuvered himself onto the otherwise of the big rock Naruto was behind, waiting from around a corner and pretending to be sniffing somewhere else. Until finally, as Naruto came back around, he came face to face with Max's big black nose...and his gigantic pink tongue! Which had soon plastered itself across Naruto's entire face, covering Naruto's vision in a thick, wet, pink carpet.

Naruto let out a muffled yelp as Max's tongue slid up to his forehead, stretching it out before throwing itself off in a spray of drool. Naruto staggered backwards and Max followed, tackling the boy to the ground. His tongue swung down again and splatted onto one of Naruto's cheeks, squashing it out and stretching it as Max dragged his tongue up Naruto's laughing face.

\*SPLASH\*

A wave of sea water crashed upon the boy and the sheepdog, drenching them both considerably, Max’s shaggy fur even looked waterlogged as a result as he got off of Naruto just long enough to caugh up some salt water and for the boy to try and escape.

Only for the soaked boy to be tackled to the sand again as Max had finished in just a couple moments , Naruto’s back now against the rock as Max picked up where he left off by re-planting his tongue against Naruto’s cheek.

“Mmmf! Okayhehehe you caught me, that’s enough!”

By the time Naruto had finished his sentence, Max had finished with the cheek stretching lick, the sheepdog having proceeded to then slap his tongue against Naruto’s other cheek and decided to give it a slower but even bigger lick. From her perch on the rock, Ariel giggled as she watched Naruto kick and flail against Max as the sheepdog continued to slobber all over him, stretching his cheeks out over and over again.

"Max! Mahahahax! Stohohohhop!" Naruto squealed as his head was rolled from side to side by each of Max's tongue-swipes. All the while, each tongue swipe dragged the skin of Naruto’s cheeks about and pushed each an eye shut.

~~~

[*With Yuffie*]

Yuffie had managed to navigate the considerably sized interior of the manor turned funhouse. Of course the kunoichi did have a couple of moments of navigational errors here or there, but all the same the girl still had finally found the door to the room where Sakura was keeping a certain colossal canine company.

”Hey Sakura, how’s our favorite Great Dane coming along?” Yuffie asked the pre-teen pinkette as she opened the door to the room, only to form surprised yet rather amused .

“Why don’t you ask him…?” Sakura asked as she sat in a chair, one hand pinned to her lap by a pair of forelegs and the other holding onto a light green leash that was clipped onto a similarly colored (and brand new collar) that was clasped around the powerful neck of Einstein.

Thanks to having pinned Sakura to the chair, Einstein was in able to keep her from pushing his face away, an opportunity he seized by planting a big ole kiss on her right cheek and pushing the skin upward, making the girl grimace but still grin in appreciation from the affectionate tongue bath he was giving her.

”C’mon you big goof, you’re supposed to save your energy for your main playmate!” Yuffie laughed as she walked over to help out the younger girl just as Sakura got a full face lick.

~~~

At the moment, Ariel had walked over to her sheepdog while he was enjoying himself, the redhead noticing that her let’s blonde playmate still pressed against the rock after 30 slobbery minutes had passed and walked giving weaker giggles as Max kept up the half hour barrage of tongue swipes (a couple of them even lifted Naruto’s head up by dragging from throat to chin point).

No sooner had Ariel whistled with her index finger and thumb to her lips, Max stopped in mid lick, his tongue keeping Naruto’s cheek pushed up as he looked at his mistress.

”Alright Max, I think he’s had enough~” Ariel giggled as she stood there with her hands on her hips; “Don’t want him to be TOO worn out for the next rooms, do you?”

Max, being who he was, then proceeded to slurp his tongue all the way off of Naruto’s cheek in a shower of slobber. The sheepdog then proceeded to reposition the boy so that he was able to get a grip onto the seat of Naruto’s swim trunks and carried him to the redhead.

As soon as Ariel was holding Naruto up bridal style, she was walking along the shore of the beach, her pet walking alongside her.

Or rather, walking while reared on his hind legs, with his forelegs pressed against her, and his tongue swiping against the amused girl’s cheeks.

~~~

\*Groan\*

Naruto grunted as he blinked his blue eyes open, the boy’s once blurry vision now clearing as he saw that, rather than a beach, he was now in a pretty massive yet a bit misty forest, one that could make the woodlands of the Fire Country envious in terms of the thickness!

He shivered from feeling of cold air breezing against his bare skin, letting him know that he was still wearing his trunks from before.

Upon realizing that what happened with Ariel and Max wasn’t a dream (nor the one with Pongo and Perdita), the blonde boy shook off his dizziness and got to his feet, wiping some dirt off of his still damp trunks as he looked around, wondering just what sort of new ‘playmate’ he was to have next.

”Hey Naruto, how’re you holding up?”

“S-Sakura?” Naruto immediately turned around from the sound of a familiar voice, only to find himself face to face with his taller, pink haired teammate, clad in a long sleeved version of her usual red dress, and a pair of pants that were of a similar shade of green as her usual bike shorts.

”Who else did you expect you dork?” Sakura laughed aloud; “I was invited to this place like you were. Though from what she’s told me, there’s someone else in these woods, And he’s been waiting to play with the both of us for QUITE a while. Well, mainly you, but you get what I mean…”

“Who’s-?”

Naruto’s eyes were bugged out as he heard the sound of a feint, but audible deep barking echoing throughout the woods.

”THAT would be ’he’… I think we better get going Naruto. Don’t want him to catching either of us so soon you know.” Sakura said, finding herself giggling as she watched the nervous boy immediately attempt to make a run for it.

All the while, Sakura impishly grinned, having successfully duped Naruto as she jogged off to the part of the forest where Einstein was waiting for her to unleash and sic him on the blonde. Entering the clearing where she'd left the dog, she walked over to where Einstein was tied to a tree trunk that the massive Great Dane laid next to. She knelt down in front of him as he laid there, grinning as she asked.

"Okay, boy, it's time. You ready to have some fun with Naruto?"

Her answer was a gigantic slap from Einstein's tongue that splatted against her cheek, lifting it up so hugely that it pushed her eye shut and nearly knocked her over, and without him even getting up at that!

"Hehehehe! I'll take that as a yes!" Sakura giggled. Standing up and wiping her cheek off, she unclipped Einstein's leash. "Go on boy, go get him!"

Letting out a loud, booming bark, Einstein took off into the woods. Sakura giggled again and jumped up into the trees, where she could follow Einstein stealthily...and watch Naruto get even more soaked from yet another affectionate dog.

~~~

Naruto, in the meantime, was running as fast as his short legs could carry him, urging himself to keep going in the hopes he’d be able to find the door to get him out of this ‘room’ before the dog that Sakura warned him about caught up. After all, as much fun as the Dalmatians and Max could be, he wasn’t sure he wanted to be slobbered three rooms in a row. Plus, if the sound of that deep barking back from where he started running was of any indication, this one was likely MUCH bigger than Max was, making him wonder if he could even last long against this dog that was no doubt looking for him.

Unfortunately for Naruto, with the forest being so deep along with the mist, he was effectively running blind, causing him to trip on a rock and to face plant into a puddle of mud.

Crinkling his nose from the feeling of the mud, he pushed himself up and wiped some of the mud off his face. Just as he turned to his right and continue his attempt to escape, his annoyed expression turned to that of confusion as he felt something cold and wet press against the top of his head and-

\*SNIIIIIIIIIFFFF\*

As soon as he felt the cold wet something sniff so strongly that he felt his hair (still slicked up from Max) being pulled up a bit until it stopped? Naruto’s eyes practically shrank as he slowly reached his hands around to feel for whatever was sniffing him. It wasn’t until he reached around behind him that he felt something solid with what was no doubt a short fur coat.

As he dragged his hands up, they soon stopped at a deep chest. Hesitantly, Naruto craned his head up to see that, towering over him, was the silhouette of a Great Dane wearing a green collar, one so much taller than him that the boy was only able to come to the entirety of the dog’s lanky yet powerful forelegs.

The towering dog gave him a bark as a greeting, making Naruto yelp in surprise at the reveal of the deep bark from before as he immediately made a run for it. Unfortunately, the Great Dane was able to capitalize on the fact that he was camouflaged by the mist, no doubt thanks to both the thickness of the mist and the color of his coat (save for the collar). It probably didn’t help that not only were Great Danes were fast, but this particular one had even longer legs that granted him a greater stride than Naruto.

As a result, Naruto was unable to prevent an ambush, in the form of something large, pink, and slobbery slapping against his chest and stopping him in his tracks. Not only did it knock the air out of him, but it even lifted him off his feet as it dragged all the way up to the tip of his chin. Not only did it to push his head up, but it even caused him to roll backwards cartoonishly from the powerful lick reversing his momentum.

”Ughhhh!” Naruto grimaced as he wiped the dog slobber off his chest and neck while shakily getting to his feet. After a couple of moments, he heard panting on his right, with something warm blowing against his blonde hair. He slowly turned his head, and found himself with his nose pressed against the big black nose of the big, grey Great Dane he was now officially meeting — whisker marked face to big friendly dog face, which the aforementioned dog had lowered so he was more level with the much smaller boy.

“I don’t suppose you could just let me go to the next room, right?” Naruto asked with a meek, dorky little grin. The great dane shook his head, his gigantic tongue flopping about a bit with the motion...before he swung it back around and slapped it onto Naruto's face, squashing his cheek and pushing his eye shut in the process. Naruto let out a groan as the tongue dragged across his cheek before it slurped off in a spray of drool, sending him staggering to the side. Naruto wiped his cheek and grinned at the dog in resignation. "I thought not!"

Einstein let out a booming bark before he pounced at Naruto, knocking him to the ground with a loud "OOF!" from the boy before he found himself pinned to the forest floor with one paw, the dog’s gigantic, drooling tongue hanging over him.

"Aw c'mon!" Naruto begged. "I already got slobbered by three dogs! Can't you give me a break?"

His new playmate sent his tongue flopping again with another shake of his head, then hit Naruto with a full-face lick, his gigantic tongue engulfing Naruto's face all the way back to his ears.

”MMMPH!”

Naruto’s fingers curled up from the sensation of this massive tongue (one much bigger than Max’s at that) slowly stretching his face out, as his cheeks and nose were folded upward by the tongue dragging up his face. Clearly, the canine wanted to make sure he was able to enjoy the taste of Naruto’s whole face and test the squishiness. It wasn’t until the tongue finally slurped off of his forehead in a shower of dribbles that Naruto could see something other than pink.

Naruto coughed as he laid on his back and looked up at the canine as he licked his own lips at the taste. It wasn’t until he took a closer look at the tag on the dog’s nice looking collar that he saw the name of his playmate:

”Einstein”.

Just as Naruto pushed himself and tried to crawl out from rinsed the dog, however, Einstein suddenly plopped himself down, his towering frame pinning the lower half of Naruto’s body to the forest floor as the dog used his long fore legs to keep Naruto’s smaller frame closer to the great dane’s chest.

“N-no, stop heel!” Naruto squirming as he tried to push himself away from Einstein’s chest, only for the Great Dane to crane his neck down and launch a big ole tongue swipe at Naruto’s left cheek.

\*Smack\*

"Awwwwhawhawhawhawhawhawhaw!" Naruto groaned, but laughed anyway as the tongue dragged up his cheek and squashed it out, squishing his eye shut as Naruto could do nothing but endure the slurps.

With Einstein's weight pinning him to the ground he stood no chance at getting away from this, as Einstein slurped his tongue off of Naruto's cheek before he started slurping Naruto's cheeks even more, making them bounce up and down as the force of his tongue bounced Naruto's head up and down, sending more slobber flying through the air as Einstein goes back and forth between Naruto's cheeks.

It helped that thanks to both his greater size/strength compared to Max (along with keeping Naruto pinned and up close), the Great Dane’s point blank tongue swipes were also folding Naruto’s cheeks up higher than even the sheep dog was capable of. So much so that not only was the side of Naruto’s hair being pushed up along with with his cheeks? But Naruto thought, for just a moment, that he was feeling the tip of each of his upper cheeks touching the bottom of his forehead!

Still, much as he didn’t want to say it out loud, he was almost having fun getting a tongue bath from a dog that was big enough for him to ride like a horse!

From where Sakura sat in a tree watching the scene, she couldn't help but giggle as Naruto laughed and flailed, the loud, rhythmic SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT! sounds of Einstein's tongue repeatedly slapping Naruto in the face echoing through the forest. The boy's face was like putty as Einstein's tongue dragged his cheeks around, drool flying around with each slobbery slurp. After Sakura had been spending so long getting licked by Einstein until it was the Great Dane's turn for some fun with Naruto, watching someone else get licked silly was a great change for her.

"Cut it ohohohohohout!" Naruto was laughing as Einstein pasted him in the face with another giant lick. "No! No! No licking! No!"

Soon, Sakura couldn’t hold back much longer and gave full blown laughter at the boy’s expense, finding what was going on both hilarious and surprisingly adorable.

Thankfully, Naruto didn’t know, considering that the loud smacks and cheek stretching slurps on his face were keeping him from hearing Sakura’s laughter.

Now, both Einstein and Sakura knew that Naruto still had three rooms left after this, so the Great Dane couldn’t let the boy be too worn out from the tongue bath he was getting. But either way, it didn’t mean that Einstein couldn’t at least savor this.

Thus, Einstein decided on savoring this slobbery session by seeing how much he could really stretch Naruto’s cheeks if he was able to get them to touch the bottom of his forehead. Winding his head back, Naruto was able to open one eye and grin. "Oh no, what are you gonna do now, boy?"

His question was answered when Einstein's tongue splatted against his face, dragging it upward as far as it can go as he pushed it upward, keeping his tongue plastered to Naruto's cheek as hard as he could as Sakura watched Naruto's cheek go up, and up, and up, stretching out further and further. It had been so tenderized by not only the previous three rooms but also Einstein's own licking session that it was like taffy now, soft and squishy and stretchy, and it was soon past Naruto's eye and past even the bottom of his forehead, and continuing to rise!

Rather than laughing, Sakura was stunned into silenced awe from the sheer strength of Einstein’s lick, unable to look away as she watched the tongue push up until it flicked off, the skin of the cheek bouncing and wobbling from the sheer amount of stretching it endured.

Einstein wriggled his brows at Naruto cheekily, as if to let the boy know he was just getting started right before he continued.

\*SPLAT\* Once again Sakura could only watch in awe as Einstein's tongue dragged Naruto's cheek up hugely. After seeing it stretched out just as much as the previous lick, Sakura finally dropped down from the tree and walked over to the pair. "Okay Einstein, okay," she said, gently grabbing the Great Dane's collar and pulling him off of Naruto. "He's still got some more to go, after all, right?"

Einstein nodded in agreement, but if he couldn't play with Naruto anymore, he'd just been given the next best thing. Sakura's eyes had time to widen before the dog whirled on her, his enormous pink tongue trailing behind him before she found herself tackled onto the ground, a cacophony of slurping sounds immediately drowning out Sakura's protests as she kicked and flailed and laughed as Einstein dedicated himself to licking her silly, unable to even push Einstein’s face way despite her hands holding onto the upper part of Einstein’s open mouthed snout.

While the dog was occupied Naruto unsteadily got to his feet, then took off, heading towards whatever exit he could find. Just as he pressed as hand against a large oak tree however, a door suddenly appeared on the tree and automatically opened up, causing Naruto to yelp as he fell through the opened door, which closed automatically behind him.

”Einstein, c’mooooooon, you’re getting me soaked!” Sakura said, only for one of her cheeks to be pushed up along with part of her nose by a slobbery kiss from her Great Dane friend.

~~~

[On the other side in the next “room”]

”Lalo-“

\*Smack\*

”Mmfff, Lalo stop!\*

Tenten was currently inside a hacienda-style house, pinned against a wall near the stairs thanks to Lalo pushing her against it with one paw on her chest while the bun haired tomboy was wrapping her arms around his neck . Naturally, the girl’s left cheek was being pushed upwards by the dog’s tongue.

”Y-you’re supposed to wait until I’ve gotten Naruto at the spot for you to-“

\*Smack\*

”Mfff! Do this…” Tenten said as she endured a skin stretching slurp on her right cheek that made her grin in bemusement; “C’mon, lemme get the leash on your collar!”

She couldn't, however, as Lalo decided that he was more interested in licking her face instead of following their plan. His big pink slobbery pillow of a tongue repeatedly engulfed her face, lifting her cheeks up and stretching her forehead out as she managed to wrangle the leash onto his collar anyway, shoving him backwards. Lalo got off of her, panting eagerly in her face, before Tenten stood up and rolled her hand around her face to clear off the dog's drool.

"Come on, you goofball," she said, and led Lalo to the door. The dog happily trotted after her, and Tenten led Lalo outside, then faster than the dog could react she unclipped the leash and retreated back inside, shutting the door. She breathed a sigh of relief, wiping off a bit more drool as she couldn't help but giggle. "You might as well give me a break before you get back to slobbering all over me," she muttered as she peeked out the window as she saw a familiar-looking blonde ninja coming closer to the hacienda, clad in nothing but a pair of swim trunks, no doubt from the room with Max.

Soon enough, the tell tale sound of a knock on the front door let Tenten know who was there, thusly she immediately answered and opened.

“Hey there Naruto, how’re ya soon’ blonde?” Tenten asked as she knealt down a bit to better level her face with Naruto’s. Given how short he was despite only being a year younger than her, the tomboyish genin had actually once nearly thought the boy was younger than he actually was.

“Oh, aren’t you Bushy Brows’s teammate?” Naruto asked as a memory lit up in his head.

”Yup, Tenten’s the name in case you forgot…” Tenten said as she wrapped an arm around the boy’s shoudlers and brought him into the hacienda; “How about I help you clean up a bit before I give you a tour of this ‘room’?”

“R-really? Thanks! I thought I’d never get all this dog slobber off of me after the other room…” Naruto said.

“Pfff, yeah, I see what ya mean. Don’t have any clothes that fit you, so you’ll have to stick to your swim trunks,” Tenten said with a grin as she lead him to some stairs that no doubt led to the bathroom; “Thankfully, you should still enjoy what this room has to offer. Tsunade got the idea for it after a ‘diplomatic mission’ I went on to another country outside of the Shinobi Nations, You wouldn’t believe the country had, from the culture, to the archtiecture, the food, EVERYTHING!”

~~~

Soon enough, Tenten had helped Naruto get cleaned up and ready for the tour, the two having walked down the road until they came up to the entrance to the village. All the while, Tenten was finding herself more and more amused at how gullible the younger boy was, given he hadn’t been asking her if this room had another “playmate” waiting for him. She could imagine the LOOK on the boy’s face once they got to the spot where said “playmate” would be waiting for the orange clad genin.

All she had to do for the entire tour was make sure he was kept unaware before she brought him over to Lalo, which is where the fun would REALLY begin. She ended up leading Naruto all around the village at first, showing him the sights, the people, and the food, which Naruto (of course) didn't think of as better than ramen, but still pretty good. Eventually, after some hours, Tenten led Naruto to a small alleyway between two buildings. "Okay!" she said finally. "Here's our last stop on the tour!"

Naruto looked down the alleyway skeptically. "This random alley?"

"Not just any random alley," Tenten replied, "it's a *special* alleyway. There's a nice surprise waiting for you at the end!"

"Are you not gonna come with me?"

"Nope," Tenten said. "It's all yours."

"Alright then," Naruto said. He turned down the alley, moving cautiously. Much as he didn’t like it, this was Tenten, and she wouldn't lead him purposefully into any kind of danger as far as he was concerned. As he turned the corner to go further down the alley, Tenten whistled with her index finger and thumbs to her lips.

Lalo, who had been following the pair as discretely as possible (as much as a bullmastiff roughly the same height as Einstein could be anyway), trotted up to Tenten, his giant floppy pink tongue hanging out as he panted eagerly and wagged his tail. Tenten smiled, rubbing his head without having to bend over due to how MASSIVE the he was.

"Alright boy, I did my part," she said. "Now you do yours. Go show Naruto a good time."

Lalo acknowledged this with a wet swipe from Tenten's chin to her forehead with his huge tongue, throwing her head back in a spray of drool that got in her hair buns as she giggled. "Go on, you sloppy goofball!" she said. Lalo borfed quietly and then went down the alley, following after Naruto.

~~~

By the time 20 minutes had passed, Naruto had realized that the alley he’d gone down was practically a maze that he couldn’t make heads or tails of, wondering if he’d ever get to the surprise that was waiting for him!

Just he sighed in annoyance, Naruto stopped as he heard the faint sound of what seemed to be panting that was seemingly all around him, leaving him unsure where it was coming from.

Naruto groaned, well-aware of what was coming his way by this point. "Aw man! Really? Can't I go anywhere without getting slobbered on by a dog?"

The sounds of the panting grew louder and more distinct, and Naruto turned around to see a giant, fat Mastiff standing behind him at the same towering height as Einstein, a giant pink tongue hanging from the yellowish colored canine’s mouth as he grinned at Naruto.

With a borf, the mastiff then charged, causing Naruto to backpedal, while holding his hands up to try and stop the do.

"Wait, wait, wait, boy, don't do this, no, down, down, heel, no, NO!"

\*SPLAT\*

While the dog was tackling Naruto, the boy’s eye was already forcibly shut by the entirety his own whisker marked cheek from the simple act of the huge tongue planting against the skin of the aforementioned cheek. Naruto’s other eye widening with shock from not only the sheer size of his new playmate and his tongue, but even just the fact that it everything was happening so quickly that it only took him a couple of moments for him to actually FEEL it.

\*Schluuuuuuuurp\*

The mastiff took the time to slowly but STRONGLY fold the cheek up with a lick. With Naruto now on the ground from the force of the tackle AND the lick, He was left vulnerable on his as the dog's giant tongue slurped off his cheek in a spray of drool. The massive mastiff’s tongue immediately swung around slapping onto Naruto's opposite cheek, lifting it up just as much as Naruto tried to push the dog off of him.

"C'mon boy!" he groaned. "I've already gotten licked more times than I can count today! Get off me!"

His playmate didn't pay him any mind, however, and shut up Naruto's complaining by slapping his giant tongue across Naruto's whole face, smothering him that slowly dragged from the boy's chin to his forehead, stretching his face out like a wad of gum before it slurped off in another spray of drool. Naruto let out a gasp as the dog’s tongue swept off his face, but any further complaints devolved into giggling as the dog continued to lick his face, lifting his cheeks up and molding his face around like clay.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! D-DOWN BOY! GOOHOOHOOHOOHOOD BOYEEHEEHEEHEEHEEHEE! GET OFF! NO! NO LICKING! HAHAHAHA!"

“Lalo” (as Naruto learned was his name from the tag on his collar) took a moment to lick his lips from the taste of the blonde boy as he tried to get out from underneath him. Unfortunately, his attempt to get out from under the mastiff’s paw on his small body was met with Lalo launching a considerably slobbery but not undeserved barrage of cheek stretching kisses with that HUGE tongue.

“Mff! C-com Lalo, stop! Mmff! No licking!” Naruto said in between kisses, overpowered by Lalo’s size and strength on top of his affection. Lalo didn't stop, however, and instead only increased the pace and strength of his licks, stretching Naruto's cheeks out even further and from time to time engulfing the whole thing with a big chin-to-forehead swipe of his tongue as Naruto kicked and flailed helplessly, laughing between licks as Lalo soaked him in drool.

From outside the alley Tenten listened to the sounds of slurping and Naruto's boyish giggling, chuckling to herself as she walked away. Lalo was a smart dog; when he was done with Naruto he could find his own way back to her...though Tenten knew that the dog would have a fresh coating of drool just for her when he did.

~~~

(Meanwhile)

Ino was currently brushing Beethoven’s coat, the saint bernard being so huge that the blonde girl was even sitting on the dog’s back while faced backwards, with Beethoven standing there and allowing her to get his brown and white coat freshened up.

“I don’t know how your family’s able to keep a pooch as big as you consistently groomed, but I’ll bet it isn’t easy. Wouldn’t be surprised if it takes a team effort to vacuum all this fur of their furniture!” Ino laughed cheekily as she combed out a knot in the canine’s fluffy coat.

A knock on the door of the room Beethoven was being kept in reached the pair’s ears, as did the sound of it creaking open as turned to see Hinata’s head poking in.

”Um, i-is Beethoven ready? Tenten said that Lalo’s finished up with Naruto and brought him to the next room. Though now Lalo’s apparently playing with Tenten…” Hinata said, softly giggling upon mentioning the girls’ bun haired friend and her new playmate.

”I’m just about done with Beethoven’s coat!” Ino said with a grin; “This big doofus is surprisingly cooperative when he wants to be.”

Beethoven gave Ino a light, but skin stretching lick on her right cheek. Despite the feeling grossing her out a bit, the Yamanaka heiress still pat the Saint Bernard on his head as she said.

“Yeah yeah, I appreciate that you have ‘good taste’ in girls there big boy, but I’m not the blonde you should be concerned about slurping…” Ino said with a mirthful laugh, as she turned herself all the way around while on Beethoven, now facing forward as she held onto the dog’s leash while it was clipped onto his collar, even using it as a sort of makeshift rein to keep herself from falling off; “All right boy, let’s go out and make sure he gets a heck of a play date!

Ino urged the Saint Bernard to move forward by giving his sides a squeeze with her legs, the dog actually obeying her command as he moved towards the door, though he made sure to fill Hinata’s vision with pink as he slapped his gigantic tongue onto her face and covered it all the way back to her ears.

~~~

(In the room with Naruto)

Naruto was currently shivering as he walking in a meadow that was somewhat snow covered, with nearby mountains that were no doubt far more icy and covered in snow.

“L-Lalo j-just HAD to bring me here…” Naruto grumbled, giving out a small sneeze before he continued; “Why c-couldn’t the next room be a beach like the one w-with Ariel and Max?!”

“Well unfortunately for you shortstuff, beggars can’t be choosers. Cute trunks by the way!”

Naruto froze in mid-step as he heard a familiar voice, making him turn around as he saw Ino Yamanaka come out from behind a tree and causally lean against it, all the while wearing a purple colored parka and pants.

“Ino?! You’re in this mansion too?!” Naruto said with shock.

”Yep, you wouldn’t even believe how big this place is!” Ino said; “It’s so easy to get lost in it sometime. Though thankfully, a new friend of mine was able to help me navigate this room…”

”W-what new friend?” Naruto shivered confusedly.

“Rather than just tell you, how about I introduce him to you?” Ino formed a cheeky grin as she said this, ducking back behind a tree.

After a couple of moments, Naruto’s pupils shrank as he saw Ino came back, except now she was riding on the back of a brown and white dog so big that he was not only easily able to rival Einstein and Lalo in terms of size, but was certainly able to outmatch him in terms of fluffiness.

“Naruto, meet Beethoven. Beethoven here’s a Saint Bernard, a breed used to help rescue people buried in snow. Of course in your case, he’s mostly here to play with you and see how much of a ‘licking’ you can take.” Ino said, wriggling her eyebrows impishly, holding back laughter at how nervous Naruto was looking right now.

”W-well I’ll bet he wouldn’t catch me with how chunky he is, especially with all this snow to slow him down!” Naruto shivered while trying to put on a brave face.

“Wow… I guess great minds DO think alike, eh Naruto? I was actually thinking we could do something like that! Just hope you can run with those legs as much as you can run your mouth!” Ino laughed before giving Naruto a cocky grin; “Tell you what, how about we give you a head start? It’ll make the ‘hunt’ more interesting for Beethoven…”

Naruto mentally cursed himself for flapping his gums the way he did, playing right into Ino’s hands to boot!

”F-fine…” Naruto shivered; “B-but don’t be surprised if I leave him in the dust… Snow… Whatever!” With that he turned and took off as fast as he could...which admittedly wasn't very fast considering how cold and stiff he was, and how deep the snow was. He couldn't even muster the energy to jump up into the trees, and so Ino and Beethoven watched impatiently as he staggered off through the snow. Ino looked down at Beethoven.

"Good thing we brought those clothes, huh boy?"

Beethoven ruffed in agreement as Ino looked back up and called out to Naruto. "Your time's half up, Naruto!"

With a yelp escaping his lips, Naruto’s eyes widened as he picked up the pace. Adrenaline forcing him to move considerably faster with a similar incentive that a rabbit would have while being chased by a fox.

Ino couldn’t help but laugh aloud at not only the HILARIOUS sound that escaped the boy’s lips, but at how much incentive she was able to give him even with the deep snow as he eventually managed to finally make it over the side of a snowy hill.

Ino waited for about a couple more minutes as she waited until she patted Beethoven on the head.

”Alright Beethoven… FETCH!”

Ino squeezed Beethoven’s sides with her legs while holding onto the leash tightly, giving out an excited whoop and holler as the Saint Bernard took off running with his rider still on his back.

All the while Naruto was still attempting to struggle his way through the snow, even having made it up the hill. At rhe moment, he was hoping to reach a slope that he could use to hopefully slide down hill. That is, if he could wade his way through the deep snow. The sound of barking in the distance, unfortunately, let him know his head start was up.

"Just… Who knows how many more feet left!" Naruto grunted to himself with determimation he hopped in between running strides, trying to hopefully cover more ground quicker and reach the slope before-

“May as well give up Naruto, you make a SNAIL look speedy by comparison in this all snow!”

Ino’s distant laughter rang in Naruto’s ears as he tried to get to the slope that was just 20 feet away. It was just unfortunate for him that the blonde girl was correct about his predicament. But still, he wouldn’t go down without fighting his way through so much snow!

However, with Ino and Beethoven closing in, Naruto barely had time to turn around as the huge St. Bernard charged. Ino jumped off as Beethoven leapt over a mound of snow with his huge front paws sprawled out at Naruto. The boy yelped before he was hit by a wall of fur and sent rolling down the snowy hill. Among the sprays of white, Ino could see yellow hair and a massive pink blob that could be nothing else but Beethoven's tongue as he slapped it against Naruto's cheeks, causing them to be stretched out yet again from a licking as the two of them came to a stop at the bottom of the hill. Beethoven's huge paws pinned Naruto to the ground, and the dog's tongue was already working busily, repeatedly engulfing Naruto's face despite the boy's muffled complaints.

Ino ran to the slope, clapping and laughing over the sounds of Beethoven's slurp-session. "Nice job, Beethoven! You caught him in practically no time flat!"

"INMMMMMMPH!" Naruto tried to yell only for his face to be smothered by Beethoven's tongue again as he was licked from his chin to his forehead while he laid there, buried under a mix of snow and a coat of brown and white fur that was keeping his smaller body warm.

Ino came sliding all the way down the slope, laughing with mirth in her voice. She soon came to a stop as she sat next to Beethoven, patting her big buddy on the side affectionately.

”So, what do you think? Pretty fast for someone so ‘chunky’, eh shorty?” Ino teased Naruto.

”I-Ino, get him off!” Naruto pleaded as he squirmed his nearly entirely pinnned down body.

“Nah,!I think I’ll let ole Beethoven use you as a salt lick for a while. He’s earned it!” “Ino said, using both hands to rub Beethoven around the neck; “He’s such a good fluffy boy, one who deserves to see if his playmate’s face as tasty as taffy!”

Beethoven thanked his friend for her praise by craning his neck down and giving Ino a couple of warm licks to her face before he’d restart his slurpy session with Naruto.

“Guess you have a thing for blondes, don’t you boy?” Ino chuckled as she let her new friend fold one of her cheeks up while she sat next to him.

Beethoven barked once in agreement before he went back to licking Naruto's face, stretching his cheeks out hugely and engulfing his face over and over again with his titanic tongue. Ino could only laugh as she watched Naruto once again squirm under the dog's body, helpless to move as Beethoven pasted him in the face over and over again with his gigantic tongue. With how huge his tongue was, it was easy for a dog like Beethoven to stretch Naruto’s face out, his cheeks and nose pulled along all the while.

All the while, Ino went from sitting next to Beethoven to using the big lug as a pillow of sorts, giving him gentle scratches behind his ear all the while as she enjoyed watching the Saint Bernard work her fellow blonde’s face over with that wet and warm tongue.

Suffice to say, Ino knew Naruto wasn’t going anywhere, so she may as well enjoy the free entertainment until it was time for Naruto’s session with his final playmate.

“Hey Beethoven, wanna see how much you can push his cheeks up?” Ino said with a cheeky smile.

Beethoven agreed with the suggestion as he shifted his position. The next thing Naruto felt was his cheek being pulled upward by the dog's gigantic tongue, Beethoven's tongue being so big and wide that it actually lifted his upperbody a short distance off the ground while Beethoven's strong lick dragged his cheek nearly up to be level with his bangs. Almost as soon as that lick slurped off Naruto's face, Beethoven swapped cheeks, doing the same with the other one and alternating back and forth, Naruto's upperbody being lifted up off the snow covered ground over and over again as it was soaked in more drool that’d no doubt be frozen by the cold.

One thing was for certain though, Beethoven was no slouch when it came to licking someone that he felt was worth giving a hefty barrage of canine kisses. All Naruto could really only hope at this point was for this the session to eventually end.

“Atta boy Beethoven, lick those squishy cheeks into shape!” Ino laughed as she watched her fluffy friend work the boy over, patting the Saint Bernard on his back as she laid against his huge frame.

“Mmf! Q-quit encourag-UGHHHh!” Naruto grunted as his upper body plopped against the snow, right before his current playmate slapped his tongue against the boy’s cheek and dragged his cheek up slower but firmly as a way to keep his upper body lifted in the air longer. All the while, the smaller blonde boy just cringed from the feeling of that huge tongue slurping the skin of his cheek up and adding yet another layer of dog slobber to it!

~~~

(With Shizune)

At the moment, Shizune was in the control room, giggling to herself as she watched the monitor of Naruto’s play date with Beethoven. While the oldest kunoichi of the ‘dog handler squad’ was initially a bit skeptical of this ‘fun house’ idea that Tsunade came up with, she had to admit, it was rather cute and entertaining that the boy on the screen was getting to experience something like this.

And given how much the dogs were taking a liking to the young blonde, she was finding herself wondering if he was an Inuzuka in a previous life!

She was, however, snapped out of her thoughts unexpectedly when she heard a knock at the door of the control room. "Um, Miss Shizune?" Hinata's voice said from the other side of the door. "I think it's almost time for us to start getting Dino ready."

"Oh, already?" Shizune stood up. "Alright then, Hinata, let's get him set up."

"Yes ma'EEP!" Hinata's voice was cut off in a shocked squeak as Shizune heard the sound of running feet, then a tackling noise. Soon, loud slurping noises were coming from the other side of the door, and Shizune walked over and pulled the door open. Hinata lay on the floor in front of the door. Dino's huge purple form on top of her and eagerly consuming her face with lick after sloppy lick, spraying slobber everywhere as the Hyuga girl kicked and flailed in protest.

Shizune breathed a sigh of relief as she heard Hinata laughing. The licking she'd gotten as they'd retrieved Dino for their little game was enough for her, and it was nice to see Dino going after one of the other girls instead. She watched as the dinosaur's massive tongue lifted Hinata's squishy cheeks up, pushing her eyes shut with each lick as his long, thick tail wagged back and forth.

"Dino! Dino! Dohohohohohown boy!" Hinata was giggling, helplessly pushing at the dinosaur's chest even as he continued to smother her face in his tongue. "M-Miss Shizuneheeheeheeheehee! Hehehehehehelp!"

”Looks to me like he wants someone to help him warm up…” Shizune said as she covered her mouth, holding back laughter.

All the while, the near buffalo sized purple dinosaur barked excitedly as he gave Hinata a big ole slurp from chin to forehead that slicked her blue-ish colored hair upwards into a curl. Having heard Shizune’s voice though, Dino naturally gave the young woman turned his head to face her.

Shizune ceased her muffled giggling as she saw, this and held her hands up and said aloud:

”Dino, no, not me! Don’t you do it boy, you already have Hinata!"

Dino disagreed, since why would he settle with just one girl to use as a warm up when he could use two at the same time! Naturally with his long neck (and overall size), Dino didn’t even need to get off of Hinata (much less rear on his haunches) as he was able to stretch his neck out and reach his head over to Shizune.

\*Smack\*

Shizune crinkled her nose as a HUGE tongue pressed against her left cheek and forced her eye shut without even moving his tongue up! But when it DID start to move up, Shizune's cheek was stretched out even more than Hinata's as Shizune groaned in disgust. Having crawled out from under the massive dinosaur, Hinata sat upright and swirled her hand around her face, giggling as Dino slurped his tongue off of Shizune's face and then repeated the move with the other cheek.

"Okay, Dino, okay!" she said, giggling a bit. "Down, boy, we still need to introduce you to Naruto!"

--(In the last room)--

Naruto gladly shucked off the thick coat that Ino had given him after Beethoven had ended his licking, looking around at yet another new environment while clad in his swim trunks.

“A jungle now, huh? Well, better than freezing my butt off this time…” Naruto said with a sigh relief.

The place was overgrown with all manner of bushes, trees, vines, and flowers, and somehow, even though Naruto was sure most animals avoided the mansion, there were also some animal noises (birds, monkeys, etc)

"Wonder who it'll be this time… Probably best to keep on the lookout."

He started off his first steps into the room by keeping his eyes wide open and alert, trying to keep his new and soon-to-be playmate from getting the jump on him this time around. In fact, he was wishing that through this new found vigilance, this would be the ONLY room that he would be able to avoid a slobbering…

If only it were THAT easy.

As he walked, however, the boy yelped as he found himself being snatched up by the seat of his swim trunks, courtesy of something that ran by. Or rather, someone who SWUNG by.

And that someone, as it turned out, was none other than a familiar woman with short brown hair that was dangling him by his trunks while swinging on a vine.

”Sh-Shizune?!” Naruto said, with shock as evident on his face as the odd faux fur trimmed leopard print bikini the older kunoichi had on.

”Hello Naruto, glad you could make it!” Shizune said before softly giggling; “Sorry for this unusual greeting, I just need to bring you to a spot you have to be at for this room…”

“Why are you dressed like a jungle girl?” Naruto asked with a puzzled look.

“Oh, this? It’s just something to match the theme of this room…” Shizune said with a slightly embarrassed smile.

Soon enough, after a bit more vine swinging, Shizune soon found the spot she was looking for, landing on a nearby tree branch and dropping the boy onto a bush 10 feet below that cushioned his fall.

“H-hi Naruto…”

As he turned to face the source of the familiarly shy voice, Naruto found himself gobsmacked as he saw Hinata Hyuuga herself come out from hiding behind a tree clad in just a sleeved dress, one made from blue faux fur with purple tiger-like stripes.

“Hey Hinata…” Naruto greeted back with rosy cheeks from seeing Hinata in that get up, honestly making for a rather cute jungle girl at that even with the girl’s shy disposition; “Do you know why I was brought here?”

”Shizune brought you here, b-because… Well, s-she believes that you would make a good playmate for someone. H-his name’s Dino…” Hinata said as she pressed her index fingers together.

”Okay, what kind of dog is he’?” Naruto asked as he cringed, bracing himself for the worse.

”W-well — He’s not an actual dog per se… B-but he DOES act like one enough to be considered one…” Hinata said.

”He even comes when you call him!” Shizune interjected from above the two genin; “I’ll show you…”

Shizune took a deep breath as she prepped herself, proceeding to then call out:

”Dino, PLAYYYYTIIIIIIIIIIMMMEEEEEEE!”

*Dino?* *Who’s that?* Naruto thought, cocking an eyebrow in confusion.

The boy perked up as the rapid-fire barking of a dog reached his ears, along with the sounds of something crashing through various bushes, heavy footsteps getting closer and closer.

He turned towards the direction of the noises, only for something big and purple (with a couple of black spots) to charge through and head right towards him as Shizune and Hinata leapt back up into the trees.

Just as Naruto had attempted to do the same however, he felt a set of teeth grab onto the seat of his trunks and casually lob him into some shrubbery. As soon as the blonde boy got to his feet and spat out a leaf, however, he found himself standing in a considerable shadow of his new playmate and saw what he looked like.

By and far, ‘Dino’ was not only the most ‘reptilian’ and purple out of his playmates of the funhouse, but he was the BIGGEST of them all! Similar in size to a buffalo, but also taller and longer thanks to his sauropod-like neck and tail; Dino’s size allowed him to create an even greater gap in size between himself and Naruto, the latter of whom was already much smaller than Max, Einstein, Lalo, and Beethoven to begin with.

“Whew… For a moment I thought you were gonna ta-“

\*SMACK\*

“NGH!”

Naruto felt himself being pushed back ever so slightly, finding nothing but pink filling the vision of his right eye while the left half of his face visibly cringed.

The reason?

It was all thanks to Dino swinging his long neck down and planting a dinosaur sized kiss directly on Naruto, the massive reptile’s tongue having enveloped the entirety of the right half of the boy’s face (blonde bangs included).

“Mff- Please don’t…” Naruto muttered out from the left half of his mouth as he stood there with the right half of his face covered by the dinosaur’s huge dog-like tongue. But unfortunately for him, if there was one thing Dino loved, it was licking people! He dragged his huge tongue up Naruto's face, stretching his lifting Naruto off his feet and dangling him for a couple of slow, agonizing moments as that tongue dragged the boy’s right half of his face up before it slurped off of his face in a spray of driblets

"H-Hey!" Naruto stammered as he landed on his feet shakily. "Look, I've already gotten licked enoOOF!"

Anything else was cut off as Dino simply pushed Naruto to the ground on his back with one of the dinosaur’s hand-like front appendages planted on his torso. Dino’s enormous pink tongue flew at his face again before it smothered the entire thing with a loud splat as it planted itself all the way back to Naruto's ears.

”MMMMFFFFFF”

"It's a lot more fun when we’re not the ones he's licking!" Shizune said from up in the trees, Hinata covering her mouth as she burst into giggles at the cute sight of Dino stretching Naruto’s face, with his cheeks and nose dragged upwards by the massive tongue.

No sooner had the tongue slurped off of his forehead and slicked the boy’s hair up more than he’d already been with his other playmates, Dino only allowed him a couple of moments to breathe before the blonde found himself being enveloped by Dino’s tongue again, the lick being slow but no less strong and firm thanks to Dino’s long and powerful neck providing leverage.

Inch by inch, the boy’s face was stretched up by the lick as he laid on his back and endured it, completely unable to do anything to resist it thanks to the dinosaur outclassing him in size and strength. Finally, Dino's tongue swept off his face in a spray of drool. But that wasn't all. Almost as soon as his tongue left Naruto's face, Dino began to lick Naruto in earnest, repeatedly slapping his tongue against the boy's cheek and slurping it upward again and again.

"Hey, hey, hey, cut that out! Down, boy!" Naruto groaned as he kicked and flailed under the dinosaur's one handed pin, unable to do anything but push at Dino’s broad chest futilely as his cheek was lifted up over and over again. "Heel! Heel, I said! Quit ihihihihihihit!"

Even with all of the other lickings he'd endured, Naruto couldn't help but laugh at the ticklish feeling Dino's tongue gave him, especially since the dinosaur was so friendly! He turned his head from side to side, trying to avoid the licks, but Dino didn't mind where he licked, as long as he got to! Naruto's cheeks were both lifted up to his forehead over and over again as he futilely struggled and laughed, leaving Shizune and Hinata giggling in the trees.

During the slurping, Dino was thinking up a way he could make the particular tongue bath he was giving Naruto stand out from the other tongue baths the other dogs had given the boy. After all, he may have been a lot bigger and stronger than the rest of the dogs, but he knew that wasn’t all there was other things that made him stand out from the other dogs, and it wasn’t even just the fact that he was dinosaur either…

Then, in the midst of folding Naruto’s left cheek upward, Dino landed on an idea!

As soon as the dinosaur’s tongue swept all the way off of Naruto’s now wobbling cheek, Dino immediately got his hand-like appendage off of Naruto’s torso. Just as the boy was gasping and coughing, spitting slobber off of his lips, Dino used the digits of his front ‘hands’ to gently grip onto the underside of Naruto’s arms and scooped him up off the ground while the buffalo sized dinosaur sat on his haunches.

Dino sat there as he held the blonde in his hands, giving him an impish look on his face before planting his big ole tongue on the boy’s chest and slowly swept it up to Naruto’s neck until it reached the underside of his lower jaw, tilting Naruto’s head up as a result.

"Yurrrrrrrrrrrrk!" Naruto groaned as Dino's tongue dragged up the bottom of his chin, but even as it slurped off of his chin in a spray of drool, Dino's tongue was already coming down again! Naruto flailed helplessly as Dino's tongue slapped against his face, lifting his cheeks up and dragging his face along with it over and over again. Between licks, Naruto once again tried to stop the dinosaur's giant tongue from coming at him.

"D-Dino! Dmmmmph! S-stop! Mmmmmmph! Down boy! DoMMMMMMPH! L-Lemme gMMMMMMPH!" All of Naruto's protests were cut off as Dino slurped his face from his chin to his forehead over and over again, stretching it out cartoonishly in its wake before slurping off in a spray of slobber.

All the while, Naruto found himself getting the fight licked out of him as he endured so much dinosaur kisses from the buffalo sized sauropod, unable to even attempt to squirm his way out of Dino’s hands as he was kept dangled in midair and in point black range of Dino’s powerful tongue. Still, while Dino was slurping one of his cheeks up HUGELY, Naruto was finding himself almost glad that he came to this “fun house”.

Dino continued to lick Naruto for a good while more, the young boy dangling in his arms as his massive tongue repeatedly engulfed his face and threw his head back each time it slurped off of his forehead. Naruto had given up trying to struggle free by this point, instead laughing for all he was worth as the huge tongue soaked him in coat after coat of drool. "HAHAHAHAHAHA! G-GOOD BOY, DINO! GOOD BOY! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Up in the trees, Hinata and Shizune giggled, too. "Well," Shizune said, "I think our work here is done!"

"I think so too, Miss Shizune," Hinata said. "I think we can leave Dino to handle the rest!"

The two of them leapt away into the forest as Dino bore Naruto down to the ground, the loud splatting sounds of his tongue hitting Naruto's face echoing off the trees.

(**End**)