Caught In Between

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO

Chapter 1

"WHAT!? Send her out to do a b-ranked mission! She can't do anything depending on her life!"

Hiashi's voice was heard throughout Konoha. Sitting in Tsunade's office filled with rage his small daughter was sitting out side the door with fright and worry crossing her face.

It started this morning...

Hinata was tending to her garden of herbs.

She was stopped by one of the servants of regarded her carefully.

"Master Hiashi wants to see you." And with that she left as quickly as she came.

Hinata was left puzzled.

'What could he possibly want with me. This is unusual. Usually he could care less with what and where I am'.

And with enough said she left her peaceful personal space to confront with the bad aura that was descending towards her way.

With her small and fragile hands she tapped her father's door lightly hoping that he wouldn't hear.

But of course he heard and with a boom he spoke up, "Come in. Quit wasting time and have a seat. If you're even afraid to confront with your father than how do you expect to make it in life, no less as a shinobi!"

Hinata knew that she had set her father off and decided to take whatever he had in store for her.

She sat down on the seat as far away from him as she could.

Hiashi just sighed at his daughter's 'stupidity'.

"Hinata," he started "the Hokage just informed me that there is a mission that she needs help with. She needs as much Ninja as she can get." He paused for a minute to see if she was comprehending everything that he was saying.

With a nod of her head he went on," So that also mean you."

All these thoughts went on in Hinata's head.

'Why me? I mean there are a lot of ninjas in Konoha. Or maybe they're secretly being killed off, but the Hokage doesn't let out because it'll cause panic!'

Face turning serious, Hinata turned back to her father who has staring at her, trying to read her expression. Seeing that she was serious he went on.

"So we're going to see the Hokage about what mission she has for you."

With that Hiashi stood up leaving a very confused Hyuuga behind.

...and that's how they ended up in the Hokage's office hearing the news that she was going to be sent out to go on an extended mission...with much higher leveled ninja.

Tsunade, still having a headache by her hangover caused by having too much sake with Shizune, was not in the mood for hearing yelling and screaming.

"Hiashi please calm down. She will not be alone. Sakura and Sasuke are going along. And not to mention Naruto."

Poor Hinata was already shocked hearing about going on this high ranked mission; but hearing that Naruto was tagging along with them made her heart skip.

Her face turned bright red even at the thought of having Naruto by her side, saving her from the danger that she faced as he held her in his big strong arms.

'Hinata are you okay,' he would say, and then lean in for a pure chaste kiss. His head tilting to the side, her head meeting the same then finally when their lips are about to meet he-'

"HINATA-CHAN!!" a loud voice interrupted her sweet-moment of thinking about Naruto.

But come to find out it was Naruto.

He was only inches away from her face.

Putting his forehead against hers, Naruto checked to see if she was feeling sick.

"Are you alright? I've been calling your name for years but all you did was turned red and hug yourself. And not to mention you puckered your lips out like you wanted to kiss me!"

All Hinata could do is turn an even redder shade of red and stare at his closeness.

"SO...what were you thinking? Huh? You seemed to be enjoying yourself ." Naruto continued not noticing how unhealthy red Hinata's face had gotten. He was saying this just to tease her but Hinata thought otherwise.

Not realizing that she was holding her breath for what seemed an eternity all she could do was do what her reflexes wanted her to do...scream.

It wasn't really a scream, more like a squeal from the fact that Naruto was close as close could get in her face.

With her scream filling throughout the whole building, Naruto covered his ears and stared at Hinata's reddened face as if she had just got eaten.

Hinata was feeling light-headed after she had let it out. She would have fainted if Hiashi hadn't stepped out with a piercing glare directed from her to Naruto.

"What is the meaning of this?!" Hiashi's voice boomed throughout the hallway. Neither Shinobis could bring themselves to say anything to the red-faced mad-man.

Tsunade also standing in the doorway, eyes rimmed with red from tiredness and her hangover. 'Today is not the day.' she thought, hand over her face.

To make the situation worse, Sasuke was making his way in the hallways, with a loud Sakura tailing behind him running her mouth as if there were no tomorrow.

"Oh! Sasuke-kun!! We're going to be going on a mission together...all alone...spending time together...by ourselves...in the forest...ya know what that means," Sakura prodded on.

When Sasuke didn't answer, she took that as a ticket to continue on.

"Well," she giggled to herself blushing madly, "we get t-"

"Wall..." Sasuke said calmly.

Sakura looked confused yet there was a glint of happiness in her eyes.

"You mean...you want to do it...on a wall? Well sure Sasuke!! Anything! I was thinking more of-"

SMACK!!

Sakura was so busy thinking her nasty dirty thoughts that she didn't realize Sasuke was literally telling her she was about to run into a wall.

Sasuke just smirked and kept on walking, laughing to himself at how stupid those girls could be.

He didn't want to waste his time to go on some stupid mission with other people, knowing that he could take it upon himself to do it...alone. It would be much easier. Less hassle.

As they reached Tsunade's office Naruto suddenly snapped out his faze of fear and grinned like crazy at a certain Pink haired girl nearing them.

With new strength, he jumped on his feet and ran towards her, passing Sasuke on the way.

"Hey Sakura!" he piped.

Seeing the red mark on her face he put both hands on her shoulders and stopped her.

"What happened?! Did that teme do something to you?" Showing concern Naruto was about to lean in and kiss her forehead when he felt his face get smacked by Sakura's powerful punch.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU WERE ABOUT TO DO!! 'CAUSE YOU BETTER NOT HAVE BEEN DOING WHAT I THINK YOU WERE TRYING TO DO!!"

When Sakura saw Naruto's sheepish smile, she went in to go for some more hits, until they stopped to find an evil aura behind them.

"I...want you all...to SHUT THE HELL UP!!"

And with that they silently made their way into her office not saying a word yet.

Now they knew what Tsunade was like with hangovers...

The four Shinobi's sat in Tsunade's office listening intently to every word that was said.

"You've all been hearing about the Rain and the Snow joining in an alliance," Tsunade began.

"So? That's a good thing right?" Naruto asked.

"No Naruto. It's not that simple. When they join alliances, they have to contemplate on who should they keep peace with or not. They could easily start a war anytime, with any country that they want to, side by side." Tsunade stated.

"Oh! I get it. So one of them could not like us and the other agrees then they start a war? Couldn't we just go to them and offer to be friends?" Naruto asked interested with the mission now.

Tsunade looked at the boy straight in the eye, "No. We cannot. They are smart and will try to take that as us kissing up to them, and will take that to an advantage. Then they'll probably try to get us to surrender to them and fall beneath their ruling. I know we've been okay with Rain and Snow, but who knows what two countries will do knowing that they have more strength and power. Not that we can't take them on. It's just too much work to plan it all out."

The four ninjas looked at each other out of exasperation for their Hokage being so lazy and causing them so much trouble just because 'she didn't feel like it'.

She continued, "So I need you four to go into the Snow, find information on them; go to the Rain, find information on them; then come back to Konoha and report it back to me."

"So Hiashi, is that okay with you?" She looked up at him to see that he nodded his head to approve.

She looked at the other four to read their expressions. They looked the same as they were when they first came in.

Silence.

Naruto was the first to talk, "Alright! Is that it?! When do we leave? "

"Well, you leave tomorrow morning, but first you need to sign the papers."

They each grabbed the pen one-by-one signing down the line.

"Thank you," Tsunade said as she picked up the scroll.

"Oh! And by the way! Did I mention you need to partner off into marriage."

And with that one sentence all of their faces dropped except for one happy blonde, and one blushing pink-haired girl.

A/N

SOOOO...umm here's my first fanfic! Stupid I know. At first I was just typing on my computer just to type, and I was thinking 'Hey let's see if I can actually make a sasuhina fanfic like the rest of these peoplez here,' and I kept writing and writing and writing when i realized how much i had been doing and said to myself 'Why erase all of this?! Just put on And so here it is! At first I was going to do a highschool fanfic about it but i'm kinda tired of those right now. Anyways, if you don't mind, please review so i can know what im doing wrong! Please if you need to criticize me go ahead!! I need to hear it so i can learn from my mistakes!! Thank You Sweetiecakes!!

Also I might not be able to update in a while because my mommas laptop is going away!! tear

But my faja (I love saying that!) said he's going to buy her one for Christmas. And then a computer for the whole family. Since our other one is messed up, (My little brother's Dora the Explorer c.d exploded inside. Why my brother watches Dora the Explorer, I don't know). Anyways we'll see!

p.s.

man i talk too much