This is the continuation of Naruto Gokan. I already apologize in advanced for my mistakes. I've read the story for about three times and this is the best I can do. If you want to help me, please go ahead.

I'd like to thank everyone that reviewed Naruto Gokan. It really made me want to put up the continuation asap.

-Chapter 1-

"You know what I will do?" Naruto grimaced for the millionth time at the hot desert air that surrounded them. "I'll ask Gaara if I can place a Jutsushiki somewhere and next time we just use the Hiraishin no Jutsu to get to Suna."

Ever since he had mastered his father's famous jutsus after months of intense training, Naruto was busy placing seals all over the place. He was obviously determined to never use his legs again. Hinata had counted at least six Jutsushiki in their apartment. In the mornings he Hiraishined from the bed in the kitchen to help her make breakfast and from the kitchen counter he proceeded to Hiraishin to his chair. In Hinata's opinion it was getting ridiculous but she understood that he was immensely proud of mastering the Jutsu, so she let him be.

"Naruto, you can't just place a Jutsushiki on foreign ally territory." Hinata explained carefully sidestepping a scorpion. "They will not accept it."

"Ah, but I won't use it to attack them or anything. Well, I guess they wouldn't believe me either way." Naruto sighed. "But maybe they could monitor it or place a seal on it and only enable the Jutsushiki when I told them I will come?"

Hinata couldn't help but smile at his enthusiasm. He wasn't entirely wrong, the road to Suna was exhausting and hot, having a faster way would be great. Besides if that was the case, maybe she could see her sister more often. Whether or not Suna would accept such a seal, she didn't know. After she had contemplated this for a while and then she nodded approvingly. "I do believe that could work, but only because you and Gaara are such good friends and our relationship with Suna is exceptional. But we are going to have to talk to Gaara about it."

Naruto, in his position as Hokage, had the duty to visit every other of the Great Shinobi Nations once a year. Usually his assistant would accompany him, but since Hinata had wanted to see her sister and his assistant had familial commitments, she had been allowed to take her position. As the main coordinator of Konoha's Foreign affairs she didn't need to justify herself if she visited another country.

Out of the corner of his eyes Naruto watched Hinata wipe a trickle of sweat from her brow. She really shouldn't look so good while doing something so profane. Under the merciless rays of the Suna sun her shimmering blue hair only flared up when she jumped, not a single breeze eased the heat. Absorbed in the beauty next to him Naruto almost fell flat on his nose when he avoided tripping over a dry log, but managed to find his balance before she realized it. To cover up his creepy staring at her he happily slung an arm around her and hugged her slender figure close "Awesome, that way you can visit Hanabi more often, or she can come to Konoha for just a day or something."

The red of her cheeks, caused by him and only him, made Naruto smile even more widely.

"But Naruto, using the Hiraishin over such a large distance takes much Chakra!" She protested, albeit weakly. She was aware of his insanely large amount of chakra but somehow she worried a lot about him shouldering too much.

"Yeah, I'm glad I have such large reserves in addition to Kurama's chakra I don't need to worry about that. And neither do you, 'Nata." He told her nonchalantly but still squeezed her hand reassuringly.

Hinata sighed; she was fighting a losing battle, In the end she let it go for now and the two of them continued their travel in silence. Soon her thoughts drifted to her sister's situation in Suna. The more time she had to think about it, the more she realized that problems just kept piling up. Lately she had been feeling overwhelmed and the last few days she had trouble sleeping.

"Why are you so tense?" Naruto had been watching her for quite some time now. For the last two weeks she had been wearing a solemn expression whenever she thought he didn't watch her. He had decided to leave it alone until she talked to him out of her own free will, but after observing the very same look on her face now, he became impatient. "I mean you seem pretty worried lately."

Biting her lip, Hinata considered telling him, despite her earlier resolve to talk to Hanabi first. She had to talk to Naruto sooner or later anyway and she really did want to talk to him about it. Worrying on her own was harder than talking to him to sort things out together. Technically it was Hanabi's and Gaara's private affairs. As the foreign affairs representative it was her duty to take care of such matters, and only then talk to the Hokage if she had sufficient proof and done a background check. However Naruto wasn't only the Hokage, he was also her boyfriend. And that was who she needed to talk to.

"Hanabi and Gaara are dating." She finally said. They had stopped under a poor excuse for a tree, that defied the immense heat and whose leafless branches casted a sparse shadow on them.

"Uh, yeah, what else is new?" Naruto shrugged and he grinned widely when he saw Hinata's surprised face. "You are not the only one able to write a letter you know? Gaara and I have a very lively correspondence. I'm really happy for the both of them."

He looked at Hinata who nodded hesitantly. "Or not?"

Her hair fell around her like a curtain hiding her eyes from him before she answered. "No, it is great they found each other."

"But?" Naruto stopped and put the strands of her tenderly behind her hair to reveal lavender tinted eyes full of fear. "You're not afraid Gaara is going to hurt her, are you? Because he changed, he is not the same person he was at the Chunin exams!"

A soft smile made her way to her lips, "No, that is not what I'm afraid off. Rather I think both of them might get hurt if we make only the slightest mistake."

"Because of the Byakugan? Don't worry 'Nata, I'll charm the village council somehow and I'm sure that Suna will be delighted to gain a bloodline limit." Of course Naruto had realized the brisance of the matter, but he was confident that Konoha would also see the advantages of such an alliance.

The Byakugan belonged to Konoha; therefore this was not only an internal Clan affair but rather a village affair. If the current relationship to Suna should one day worsen, they had lost an advantage by giving up the Byakugan. His teeth clenched, he could not allow the Byakugan to leave the village but he could also not let one of his best friends and the sister of his girlfriend suffer. So he would make this work - that was a promise.

Hinata nodded slowly and leaned closer into his embrace. "That's one of the problems."

"One? How many are there?"

"The way I oversee it? Three major problems, and one that should be smaller."

The blonde hugged her closer after he felt her distress. "You think that the Hyuga Council will forbid a relationship outside the village?"

His girlfriend nodded hesitantly. "Partly, but that's the least problematic one. After all with a mighty alliance outside Konoha the Hyuga clan itself can only gain."

"Ok, so let me see." Naruto took a step back so that he could look into her pale but deep eyes. "The internal affair between the Hyuga Clan, the village councils of Konoha and Suna,… what are the others?"

"Well, first of are the other three shinobi nations. If they realize Konoha is willing to share one of the most sought out Doujutsu with his closest ally, they may form an alliance because they think Konoha and Suna are planning something. We cannot risk this to escalate into another war."

Naruto closed his eyes and sighed heavily. Shit, he didn't think the other nations had a say in this, and well they didn't but despite it they could ruin everything. Hinata was right. "Is that it? Or am I missing something else."

She was tempted to smile at his hopeful blue gaze at her. "The Clan council of Konoha might cause trouble."

"How is that going to be a problem? Most of the Clan heads are our friends and besides they have nothing to do with this." Naruto frowned.

"Strictly speaking they don't, but you don't want to cause a ruckus there and lose their back-up. As the Hokage the internal content of the Clans is an important key to your power."

"Still I don't see why they should be against this."

She took a deep breath to calm her shaking voice. "Well, you just have to look at the current Hyuga Clan. We are by far the most influential Clan in the village. I am head of the foreign affairs and thanks to my previous work as a Hyuga representative the Clan has gained friends, money and connections that exceed most of the other Clans. Then there would be the fact that I am dating the current Hokage which, they think, gives me additional influence and now my sister will date the head of another village. If…"

"If the Hyuga Clan will settle down there as well, their position in the village would be untouchable." Naruto finished for her. "And you think that despite being our friends, the Clan heads have to consider their own position and an almighty Hyuga Clan is not what they want."

Hinata agreed with a nod of her head miserably.

"You really thought over this a lot, didn't you?" He took a step closer to her, her head was bowed and again she used her hair to hide her face from him. Naruto truly disliked her doing that.

"Ever since I heard about it from Hanabi." He could barely make out what Hinata said. Her voice was hardly above a whisper.

"Why didn't you talk to me earlier?" His deep voice had gone soft and he brought his hand up to stroke her cheek and tilted her head so that her beautiful eyes, clouded with worries met his cobalt blue ones.

"I-I just did-didn't want to worry you." He frowned and she continued to explain, "If Gaara and Hanabi are not serious about taking their relationship to the next level, we don't have to worry. So I wanted to talk to her first."

"Well, I don't know about your sister, but I know Gaara. And he wouldn't be in a relationship he didn't value. It's hard enough for him to form bonds as it is." He said slowly, "But I still don't like that you kept this from me. It made you worried and if you had talked to me about it at least we could have shared that worry."

"I'm sorry, it's just that…"

"It's ok, Hinata. But please don't do this again. We can solve everything together."

She smiled up at him, his sheer presence and knowledge of the root of her melancholy eased her mind. "I promise. Thank you, Naruto." Her arms wound around his neck and he pressed her against him. Hinata loved being in his arms, his scent and the warmth of his body made her feel safe and protected.

They continued to travel at a slower pace, Naruto deep in thoughts. "Hinata, don't worry we can do this together."

Next thing he knew Hinata had stopped. Confused Naruto followed her example and she threw herself into his arms. Naruto was taken by surprise, not that he complained. Quite the opposite, usually Hinata was still very shy about his affection. Not as much as she had been, but her blushing and stuttering had increased since they had started dating.

Especially when he was being all, quote Kiba 'lovey-dovey', with her, then she became all flustered. Naruto thought it was the cutest thing ever, especially since he figured that he was really the only one who was able to get her to behave that way. He was generously overlooking the one time where Kiba had made her blush. No one had told him that Hinata had blushed only because he was standing right next to her at Gaara's party. And yes it still irked him and no, he hadn't forgotten about it yet.

"Thank you so much. For the first time I feel like this can work out, with you by my side." She whispered in his chest.

Naruto was glad that he had been able to help her and lift the weight somewhat. Now if only everything would work out.

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