Hey guys, this is going to be my first fanfic it's one I have been thinking about for a while now. It takes place during THE LAST movie and onward. I love NaruHina but I wish we had more substance about their relationship. I think how they got together was too smooth and I am adding drama and more plot. This will go beyond the end of the movie. This first chapter is basically me rewriting the scene from the movie with me adding in the characters' thoughts and feelings while things are happening. I tweaked the conversations a bit because I am going to be stemming quite a bit away from how characters acted because, as I said, the movie went far too smoothly. I also think some of it was a bit out of character.

Note: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO or any of its characters

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PROLOGUE:

The Pain of Separation

"I said, I love you Hinata" Naruto said quietly. She gasped, her whole life had been spent waiting for those words. Ever since the academy she had watched him, she always had a deep admiration and respect for him, no matter how many villagers put him down he kept fighting for his dream, he would be Hokage. She had even adopted his nindo, never going back on your word. He never gave up, and as she watched him she only grew fonder of him. After he left to train with Jiraiya for three years she realized that admiration had blossomed into love.
She looked up at his sparkling Cerulean eyes and down his muscular frame taking in every detail of what was surely going to be her best memory, while glowing golden butterflies danced in the moonlight.

As he waited for her response he looked at the way the moonlight framed her hourglass figure, momentarily lost in the beauty of what was in front of him. It was too good to be true.

The moment was perfect, she paused for a moment, and upon comprehending the gravity of his statement, took a breath, so she could finally tell him how she had always felt, and give him the scarf she just finished; however, just then a pale man dressed in a white kimono came out of the sky on a floating pedestal. His eyes, a pale blue, with chakra dancing around the pupils, they radiated power and appeared to glow. It was Toneri, the man that kidnapped Hinata's sister, and whom they were currently on a mission to stop. Naruto snapped out of his trance and immediately moved into a defensive position in front of Hinata and began to fire questions at the man about Hanabi, her sister. Meanwhile Hinata mulled over what the ancestral spirits had told her and what she needed to do.

Toneri was a member of the side branch of the Otsutsuki clan of the moon. He believed that Hamura Otsutsuki, the brother of the Sage of Six Paths-Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the first shinobi, had ordered the destruction of the shinobi of earth, the legacy of the Hogoromo, should these shinobi use chakra as a weapon of war rather than a tool for peace. This was a misinterpretation of an ancient celestial decree which resulted after a war in which the main branch of the clan was killed by the side branch. After the ten tails was revived in the fourth great shinobi war Toneri began preparations to enact the celestial decree. She learned this while their team had been tracking Toneri down.

They had come across the ruins of one of Hamura's ancient shinobi villages on the moon. Upon uncovering a secret passage to a burial ground Hinata was given a vision from Hamura himself telling her that she was the only one who could stop the moon, it was her destiny, she was the fated "Byakugan princess". After the talk Hamura awakened the dormant chakra inside her that would alow her to destroy the tenseigan- the artifact that had been used to kill the main branch of the moon clan and the one currently propelling the moon. The special chakra was passed down to her by her ancestors who diverged from the moon clan, she awakened her power similar to how Naruto obtained his six-paths sage mode.

At the start of their mission, before Hinata took the secret passage to the moon, and before she had learned of her heritage Toneri had appeared before her and asked for her hand in marriage. She declined instantly and said that she would rescue Hanabi. Toneri pointed out that her team did not even know where to begin to look for her, he showed Hinata a picture of Hanabi, unharmed but with bandages wrapped around her eyes. He asked that she reconsider, and then said that he would return again but this time expecting an answer. Then Naruto showed up and bashed Toneri's head in revealing that it was just a puppet.

The responsibility from her ancestors coupled with the knowledge that her sister was alone in a place they were unlikely to find led her decide that the quickest and easiest way to fix things was to "accept" Toneri's offer of marriage and deceive him.

She used these memories to strengthen her resolve, she could not let Naruto or anyone else endanger themselves again, this was the only way.

She now had to make the hardest decision of her entire life, one she could never have been prepared for: to fake her intention to marry Toneri, stop the moon from crashing into earth by destroying the tenseigan, and save her sister.

It came at a price however, as she could potentially destroy her relationship with Naruto. They had been growing closer throughout the entire mission. She had been knitting the scarf for him as fast as she could because, after she finished she had planned to finally confess her love, and tell him everything. Throughout the journey she had come to love him even more, a feat she never thought possible. And now he had confessed his feelings for her! The timing could not be worse.

'I need to go there's too much at stake, but why now? After he just...' Her inner struggle had to come to a halt when Toneri finally responded to Naruto's barrage of questions with simply "I came to hear Hinata's answer"
Naruto was too quick to defend her. "She has nothing to say to you!"

'I have to save my sister and I am the only one who can stop the moon, there is no other way, Naruto has to wait' Hinata convinced herself one last time, she couldn't let her feelings endanger her sister or the world.

Slowly Hinata walked over to Naruto and handed him the scarf she had been knitting for him for so long. She had to have faith that he would understand.

He looked at her, confused by the bizarre gesture. Her eyes burned as she fought back tears. She couldn't cry now, she had to convince them both.

Hinata slowly made her way over to Toneri, the moonlight reflecting off of her long flowing blue hair, confidence in her stride. Moonlight, the same light that held so much potential just a moment ago had become ominously foreboding.

"Hinata, wait what's going on?" Naruto exclaimed, she was too close to Toneri for Naruto to be able to guarantee her safety should he attack.

"Goodbye, Naruto" she said with a mournful look on her face. When she finally made it over to Toneri she stepped into his arms as he pulled her into a hug. Naruto stood still, totally in shock, trying to process exactly what just happened.

'She had been about to say something, but just like every time before she didn't, and then she went over to Toneri, leaving me a scarf? What the hell is going on'?

'I bet he put her under some nasty genjutsu. That's the only explanation. What does he want with her or her sister anyway!? But she just got on his pedestal without a second thought, genjutsu would just knock her out, right? Maybe she...'

While he was at a momentary loss, Toneri took advantage of Naruto's lapse in concentration and began to fly off.

'NO! It had to be a genjutsu, there's no way she would… I have to save her!'

"HINATA!" Naruto bellowed charging after them, using clones to propel him into the sky, the urgency and pain evident in his voice. His other teammates: Sakura, Sai, and Shikamaru who were asleep began rushing to his aid as soon as they heard his alarming shout, riding atop Sai's painted eagles. They arrived just in time to catch a flying Naruto who had just been hit by one of Toneri's numerous puppets, the blast ripping the long, red scarf he had clutched tightly in his hand right down the middle.

Using the Eagle he landed on Naruto quickly caught up to Toneri and began charging a Rasengan using the chakra of the tailed beast inside of him, his blond hair being bathed in its orange glow.

"Give Hinata Back"! The tone of his voice having quickly changed to desperation as it was becoming impossible to believe she had been taken against her will, the heartbreak was threatening to twist his words.

Toneri merely laughed "Give her back?! She came to me willingly, and as it has been destined since ancient times. We will be married!"

'Married?'

He felt like he had been punched in the gut. He didn't need to hide the feeling of betrayal, it was all he could do to keep it from consuming him. In that instant all of Naruto's resolve melted from his body. But he mustered the strength he had left to utter a single damning question in a quieter voice than he had ever used before:
"Hinata, is it true?"

Hinata could not even begin to consider giving a response if she wanted to conceal the feeling washing over her, the one from every fiber of her being that screamed for her to move, do something, to go to him and tell him it was all a big lie and that she would always love him. She could almost audibly hear his heart break. She couldn't do that, but that didn't stop her from feeling more guilty and repressed than she had any other time in her life, it was all she could do to not crumple to her knees and weep. SHE did this to him, the man who had worked his entire life to gain acceptance from the village had finally reached out to entrust his entire life to her and now he thought she had spit on him. Here, all she could do was stare at her feet like she had every time she was around him since they were kids and try not to feel his devastated gaze. She closed her eyes, it was the only way to fight the tears.

Naruto didn't need anyone to explain what Hinata was telling him, it was written all over her downcast gaze. His stomach turned over as he felt bile rose in his throat, he felt sick. He struggled to construct any semblance of coherent thought as his mind rapidly flashed through all that she had done for him: The cream at the Chunin exams, the flowers at the hospital, even her speech in the last war, and he came to the realization that she was just a nice person, and didn't care for other's suffering, everything has been for the village or out of the goodness of her heart. It was never like that, why would he assume it was? The dreams he had about her feelings for him had been nothing but a reflection of his desire to finally have someone. In his life how many people felt like that about him? No one, even now, with all the gifts from the girls at the festival, no one was attracted to who he was as a person, just his image of a powerful war hero and that would pass with time. There was, however, one memory that could not be resolved in his mind. Her confession of love for him during Pain's attack, at the time he did not understand what she meant, only that she had been willing to die to save him. Maybe it was as simple as that, but he used that memory to fuel the ever dimming flames of hope in the back of his mind and prepared to defend against the attack Toneri was charging. He would bring her back and find it out himself.

Toneri shot a green orb, just like the one he had used to knock Hinata out in the park back in Konoha, straight at Naruto. Naruto immediately countered using the orange orb in his right hand with as much force as he could manage. However, he was shocked to see Toneri's attack wrap around his and overtake it, seemingly absorbing one of his most powerful techniques.

Naruto thrust his hand out in an attempt to push the attack away from his vulnerable body but it slid off his hand and struck his black coat just above his stomach and passed though his body with enough force to once again propel him into the air. His and his tenet's chakra were then ripped out of his back, but as this happened Naruto felt as if something far greater had been pulled from him. The chakra fell, condensing into a large pool with the yin and yang symbols on the top. It that fell a short ways before exploding for a short time in a massive cylindrical display of pyrotechnics, the likes of which no one present had ever seen. As the blast came up and struck Naruto's back the scarf was knocked from his hand and disintegrated, and his body began falling into the crater that lead all the way to the surface of the moon. For Hinata this was all too much for her to take.

"What have you done to him!?" She angrily shouted, barely keeping the full extent of her emotions below the surface. Toneri calmly responded "I just want to avoid petty fights". He then created another green orb in front of her face and knocked her out, not wanting to upset her further. As her vision began to fade she could only watch as Naruto's limp body slowly plummeted towards the abyss, hoping only for his safety, and loathing the unforeseen consequences of her decision before her reality faded to nothingness.
Fin- Chapter One

Did you like it? I added I little more emotion to the characters actions because they didn't seem upset enough for my taste originally. Don't worry, the next chapter is where everything starts to change.

REVIEWS are a drug to me, if you don't give me reviews I will have Itachi put you in his tsukuyomi. (too harsh?) Also I will respond to each one individually for as long as I can.. Guesses as to where I am going to take this and requests are all good. I'd prefer the requests submitted after a long perilous review but I digress. Beggars can't be choozers amirite. I am curious to see if you guys want me to write any other romances in.

P.S. I hope all that wasn't too cheezy.

-HyugaVault