Marmaduke and Naruto 1 - Delux Dane Delight

Credit once again goes to Taren from discord for helping with writing this.

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Today was seemingly normal, with Shizune walking to the Hokage tower after finishing doing some errands. Accompanying her, of course, was TonTon, the little pig trotting alongside her and grunting a bit, in the hopes of getting a meal. As Shizune walked, however, a clattering noise came from a nearby alleyway, followed by rustling and more clattering, making her stop in mid-step.

“What on earth?” Shizune raised an eyebrow as she started walking over to the alley, ignoring Tonton’s warning squeals as she cautiously made her way to the source of the strange noises.

After getting a close enough look, she saw it was a dog, and a big one too, a great big brown Great Dane that had knocked over a trash can and was now pawing through its contents looking for something to eat.

“Oh my goodness!” Shizune exclaimed with shock. She recalled hearing about Great Danes and how tall and muscular they were, due to being bred as hunting dogs...

This particular Great Dane, however?

This one was so big, that she was more than sure that the dog, when standing on all fours, was easily as tall she was!

The dog stopped upon hearing Shizune's yelp of surprise, and turned his head towards her, his tail slowly starting to wag as he began to pad in her direction.

Shizune mentally chastised herself as she slowly backed away.

“N-nice dog, please stay...” She said nervously. The dog continued walking towards her, his mouth dropping open and letting his enormous pink tongue roll out like a big pink welcome mat as his tail continued to wag. Just as soon as she was going to order the dog to stay again, the brunette woman found herself pressed against a wall, her eyes widening in realization.

The dog came up to her, being able to look her straight in the eye. Before she knew what happened, that massive tongue swung out and up and slapped onto Shizune's face, lifting her cheek up and pushing her eye shut in a great big slobbery slurp, the sound echoing off the alley walls.

Shizune blinked in surprise before she broke into a grin, having now realized how rather friendly this delux sized dane was.

“Well... At least I know you’re not aggressive...” Shizune chuckled before she examined the canine’s collar. She didn’t find a name, but what seemed to be a serial number:

‘MRMDKE-1954’

“Hmmm... I think Lady Tsunade should have a look at you...” Shizune muttered, giving the Great Dane a scratch behind the ears. She then looked straight at the dog in the eye with a smile; “Well... How would you like to meet someone I know? She’s waiting for me right now, and I’m sure she’d like to meet you too!”

The Great Dane barked eagerly, his tail now wagging even faster as he gave Shizune another cheek-lifting lick. Shizune couldn’t help but giggle at that, patting him on the head in response.
~

Soon enough, Shizune had arrived at the Hokage Tower with TonTon in her arms, and the mysterious Great Dane walking next to her. There were a fair share of shocked and confused looks being directed towards the huge dog, with a couple of the employees working at the tower even mistaking him for a horse.

The instant they were at Tsunade’s office, Shizune knocked on the door.

“Lady Tsunade, I’m back! And... I’ve found something I think you’ll want to see...”

"Come in, Shizune," Tsunade said.

Shizune mentally prepared for herself, knowing what was more than likely going to happen next. She then proceeded to open the door, making it wide enough so that the Great Dane could walk in first.

"What in the world?!" Tsunade said, widening her eyes as the dog went in first. "Shizune, what is *this?*"

“Um, this is the ‘something’ I found...” Shizune said with an embarrassed grin as she watched the pooch walk in while she followed him. And given she could see him wagging his tail, she had a feeling he was about to ‘greet’ Tsunade.

"I see..." Tsunade said as the huge dane walked up, easily looking the Hokage in the eyes  "And what's your name, big fella?"

The Great Dane's answer was a friendly lick up the center of Tsunade's face. After standing there in silence, with bits of slobber dripping down her chin, she grinned and chuckled.

"Well, he's certainly friendly!"

“I found him in an alleyway, looking for food... His collar doesn’t have a name tag, I but I noticed there’s a serial number on there.” Shizune said, showing the older woman so she could see it.

"Hm...so it does," Tsunade said, looking at the tag. "MRMDKE...Hm...Well, he needs a name and that's as good as any... We'll call him Marmaduke."

Marmaduke barked happily, wagging his tail.

"Now the question becomes where he's going to go. We obviously can't keep him here."

Much as Shizune liked Marmaduke, she couldn’t exactly keep him since she already had to make sure that TonTon was well fed, and she was certain that a dog as big as Marmaduke was would drive the food bill up even further.

Of course, there was the possibility that Marmaduke could live with the Inuzukas, but they were sure that he couldn’t learn any of the techniques their ninja dogs knew.

After a little while of thinking, however, Shizune suddenly hit upon an unexpected idea:

“Perhaps... We could give Marmaduke to Naruto?”

"Heh..." Tsunade chuckled. "That actually sounds like a good idea... A dog is a good way to teach him some responsibility!"

“Plus, he could use the company...” Shizune said; “I’m sure Naruto will take a liking to Marmaduke!”
~

Naturally, after everything was planned out accordingly, Shizune was sent out to get Naruto. Luckily for her, it didn’t take too long before she managed to find him walking home from training.

“Wh-where’re you taking me?!” Naruto asked when Shizune began leading him away by the wrist.

“Lady Tsunade’s waiting for you!” Shizune said; “She has something special for you at a private area...”

“What is it?” Naruto asked, his face twisting in confusion.

“You’ll see...” Shizune said as the two walked.
~

Soon enough, they arrived at a compound, somewhere near the training areas, right where Tsunade was waiting for them, just as Shizune said.

"Ah, there you are, Naruto. We've got a surprise for you..." Tsunade said as she folded her arms and looked at the boy.

“What is it Granny Tsunade?” Naruto asked with confusion on his face.

"Well, Shizune and I found something today that we think might help you to become a better shinobi," Tsunade said. She put her fingers in her mouth and whistled sharply, the bushes behind her starting to rustle. Naruto tilted his head at the bushes rustling, though he couldn’t help but feel a bit nervous at the slightly devious smirk that was forming on Tsunade’s face.

With a loud bark, Marmaduke burst from the bushes, charging straight at Naruto with his enormous pink tongue hanging out behind him like an enormous flag.

Naruto’s eyes bugged out when he saw quite possibly the BIGGEST dog he’d ever seen. Considering he was as tall as Shizune was, and the speed he was running at, it was hard for him to NOT be completely and utterly terrified at the moment!

“S-stay back!” Naruto said, backing away. Marmaduke didn't stop, however, charging right at Naruto as Tsunade and Shizune started laughing. Of course, It didn’t take long before the boy started making a run for it.

Marmaduke, however, was faster, and was able to catch up to the young boy and his shorter legs fairly quickly. He gained on Naruto rapidly, and eventually leapt into the air, tackling Naruto to the ground and sending them both rolling. After a bit more rolling, the two came to a stop, with Naruto flat on his back, looking up at the huge pooch pinning him down with one of his massive front paws on his chest. Marmaduke looked down at Naruto, his enormous pink tongue hanging freely as he wagged his tail from side to side.

“G-get off of me!” Naruto exclaimed, trying to not show the amount of fear he had.

“Oh don’t worry Naruto, he’s friendly!” Shizune giggled.

To illustrate this Marmaduke swung his tongue down right onto Naruto's cheek, lifting it up with a loud slurping noise as it pushed Naruto's eye shut.Seeing as Naruto’s right eye was currently being pushed shut, it was up to his left eye to widen in shock from the strength of the lick. With how massive that tongue was, it practically covered the right side of Naruto’s face, even more so when it was slurping upwards.

“Agh! Quit it!” Naruto said, the skin of his cheek being lifted higher with each passing second.

Marmaduke didn't, however, and instead licked him again, somehow managing to raise the skin on his cheek even higher as he did so and leaving a thick trail of drool in his wake. Naruto grimaced, his nose crinkling from how gross that tongue felt on his cheek. Of course, it didn’t help that the current Hokage was no doubt finding amusement from this.

"Give him a good bath, Marmaduke!" Tsunade called as the enormous Great Dane switched targets, slapping his tongue onto Naruto's other cheek to coat it in drool too.

Naruto winced from the sudden impact of the tongue strongly smacking onto his left cheek, powerless to do anything as his eye was forcibly shut from his cheek being firmly folded upwards. As soon as that cheek was done, Marmaduke then began to use his tongue like a pendulum, swinging it back and forth and smacking it onto Naruto's cheeks over and over again, throwing more saliva everywhere as he lifted Naruto's cheeks up with each slap.

“Come on! Someone get him off of me!” Naruto exclaimed while his right cheek was pushed upward.

“I think Marmaduke wants to get aquatinted with you, since he’s now your new dog !” Shizune said; “It’s better we let him do this for a few minutes!”

“Wait!” Naruto had to bite his lip for a couple of moments as Marmaduke slurped up his left cheek; “MY dog?! But why me?!”

Marmaduke changed his target again as Naruto yelled, splatting his tongue against the underside of Naruto's jaw and dragging it upward, the boy’s eyes bugging out from how strongly the Great Dane was stretching his chin out.

"You need to learn some responsibility, Naruto!" Tsunade said. "I think a dog this size will definitely help!"

Naruto had to wait to respond, given his lower jaw was pressed shut thanks to Marmaduke’s tongue being pasted against his chin.

“I don’t even know how to take care of a dog! Much less one the size of a horse!”

"I'm sure you'll figure it out!" Tsunade replied as Marmaduke gave Naruto's chin another lick.

Naruto sighed to himself as he laid there while Marmaduke tilted his head up, unsure how he was going to be able to cope with this.
~

Eventually, after Tsunade mercifully had Marmaduke finish the ‘bath’ and allow Naruto to get up, it only took getting the proper paperwork being filled out before Marmaduke officially became Naruto’s dog, complete with a nametag and the address to Naruto’s apartment for Marmaduke’s collar, and a bag of dog food.

Soon as the boy and his new dog were home, Naruto simply allowed Marmaduke to explore the inside of the house while he got everything set up for the Great Dane.

Marmaduke sniffed around everything, following Naruto from room to room as he did so and taking up a significant portion of each room with his bulk, and since it was a new space his bulk found itself everywhere as he sniffed every inch of the place that he could. Naruto briefly looked at Marmaduke while he was in the kitchen, smirking a bit in amusement from the how comical Marmaduke looked sniffing around in the space.

As soon as he had the bowl filled with dog food for the Great Dane, he went into the bathroom to wash some of the saliva off.As he did that, Marmaduke set about eating, finishing the whole bowl in roughly two seconds and then going off to find Naruto, his tail wagging from side to side as he did so.

Naruto eventually came out of the bathroom, having gotten the dog slobber off his face, and made his way over to the living room. As he did so, Marmaduke lifted his big nose, catching the boy's scent and happily trotting off in its direction.

Just as Naruto had made it into the living room, he unexpectedly found himself pumping into Marmaduke’s chest. Marmaduke looked down at Naruto, his big tail thwacking off the doorjamb on either side as he let his enormous tongue hang out of his mouth again as he gave Naruto a doggy grin.

“Uh, hey there Marmaduke...” Naruto said, looking up at the colossal canine with an awkward looking grin that made him look dorky; “I take it you like it here?”

Marmaduke let out a short 'Woof!' before his tongue flew forward, splatting onto the entirety of Naruto's face and flattening out to cover the whole thing. Marmaduke then began to drag it upward, leaving yet another thick coating of drool in his wake.

“MMMPH!”

Naruto’s fingers curled up as the tongue dragged his face, lifting both cheeks and his nose at the same time while also lifting the boy completely off the ground! Marmaduke's enormous tongue stretched Naruto's forehead out as it dragged up his face before finally slurping off in a huge spray of saliva before he looked at Naruto, panting, his tongue bobbing up and down. Naruto winced as he landed on his feet, using the sleeve of his jacket to wipe off a good chunk of the Great Dane’s slobber before forming an amused grin.

“I’ll take that as a yes...” He chuckled, patting Marmaduke on the chest before taking a seat on a recliner chair he’d gotten a week ago. Marmaduke followed Naruto over to the chair, cocking his head at him; "I use this when I come home and just wanna relax... Not sure if it can hold both of us though...”

Marmaduke huffed and climbed on anyway, filling the vast majority of the chair with his bulk. Naruto’s eyes bugged out as he sat there, the Great Dane pinning the boy’s smaller body under his huge body, to the point where the kid’s legs weren’t even visible.

“I guess I was wrong...” Naruto said with a bashful grin as he looked up at the face of his happily panting dog.

Marmaduke nodded eagerly, his enormous tongue flopping around, before he went right back to licking Naruto's face, folding his cheeks up over and over again as his enormous tongue lifted them up. Rather than protesting, Naruto found himself chuckling while his cheeks were being bounced by Marmaduke’s licking.

“Okay, I get it, I taste good to ya!”

Marmaduke paused briefly to nod again before he went right back to licking Naruto's tasty face, mopping his tongue all over it and squashing and stretching his face like it was clay.

“MPH!”

Naruto’s face was once again cartoonishly stretched out by Marmaduke. And thanks to his headband being kept in the bathroom to dry off, it allowed the dog to slick his blonde bangs up. Marmaduke's tongue being so big, it covered pretty much all of Naruto's face with each swipe, letting the enormus Great Dane give his whole face a thorough coating of slobber wherever it went.

Naruto seemed to be imbedded against the chair with each full face lick, the boy giving out muffled giggles underneath his dog’s tongue. Luckily, he was given a moment to breathe, turning his head to the left side to spit some dog dribble off of his lips.

“You... You’re something else...” Naruto said with a smile. Marmaduke shoved his nose into Naruto's cheek and nuzzled him in affection, cuddling up to the boy.

“Heh... Maybe you’re not so bad after all...”