She stared upwards at the red moon, branded with the Rinnegan and now tomoe points circling the pupil on the concentric ripples surrounding it. White wrappings began forming from her body, made from her own chakra. 'Naruto-kun…' She remembered his body being whisked away on a platform of sand with Gaara and Sakura, she had tried to follow and catch up, she desperately wanted to be there with him, but her body was wracked with exhaustion, she barely moved before her body collapse under its own weight.
His eyes widened, he heard her called his name. He gritted his teeth and looked in the direction where her chakra was. He began to set off to help her, but Sasuke grabbed his shoulder. "Naruto, not now."
'Damn it!' He looked back to their opponent; he couldn't save her until he had beaten this guy. If he could stop him now, the Jutsu would be undone. 'Fight it Hinata!'
Root sprouted from the ground and began circling her body like bandages, until they had completely surrounded her body, her eyes began to feel heavy, she felt as though she hadn't slept in a week, that was all she felt doing like now, to sleep and dream.
"When this is over Naruto-kun, I'm going to be standing by your side. Holding your hand".
'That was all I wanted. That's all I ever wanted…' She remembered her silent promise to herself she had made earlier. Too long had she been running behind him, trying desperately to catch him up to him, to stand by his side, to let him see her the way she saw him.
Her eyes closed after trying to resist as best she could, her mind began to drift off into slumber. 'I just wanted to be with you, Naruto-kun…'
Hinata's eyes shot open, a cold layer of sweat covered her. She stared up at the ceiling thinking of everything she just saw. An all-out war for Naruto, him arriving on the battlefield just in time to save her, Neji dead on the ground, and Naruto holding her hand. 'That… It all felt too real to be a dream.'
She sat up, looking around at the room, whose was it anyway?. It was big, not as big as her usual room, but big enough. It was still rather empty, aside from the large bed she was in, the beside tables and wardrobes, it looked like a half-finished project.
She stood up, climbing out of the bed and moved towards the window. She smiled as she looked out the window. Konoha, up and running again in all its glory. The sun breaking over the buildings, birds and the wind whistled together as they flew past, she opened the window taking in the lush fresh air. 'I never knew when I'd see it like this again…' She thought to herself, closing her eyes and just breathing, taking her home in, but there was an inkling in the back of her mind, a feeling she couldn't shake. 'How did I come back here though?' She had no memory of her journey back to Konoha, truth be told she had no memory of why she was away. All she could remember was that dream, that war.
She looked at the bedside table, on it was a picture of all the rookies teams. From left to right stood Shino, Kiba, Choji, Ino, herself, Shikamaru, Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Lee, Neji, Tenten, and finally Sai. She smiled at the picture, they all looked happy.
"AHHHHHH! WHY CAN'T I DO THIS!?" She was startled by the sudden loud bang from outside the room, followed by the scream of a person. She moved towards the door, opening it she found a corridor, as she moved towards the sound she saw more pictures hanging on the wall. The first was her Genin team photograph, then a picture of her team when they finally became Chuunin.
After that was another picture, and it was then she noticed the change in herself. In the picture stood herself, Kiba and Shino, yet they were older. She couldn't see the change in Shino, as he had covered his entire body. But Akamaru and Kiba, they had both grown bigger. Kiba's hair had gown as well, looking more wild and shaggier.
Herself, she did not think she had changed at all. She still stood the same way, still looked the same way, only her face had changed, looking more mature.
After that was a picture of herself, her father, Neji and Hanabi, she smiled in the picture, as did Neji and Hanabi, her father looked…content. 'Do I live here?' She finally came to the conclusion after looking at some of her favourite memories.
"OUUUCHH! SCREW THIS, I'LL JUST GO BUY SOME!" She was startled by another large cry. 'T-That voice!' She knew instantly whose it was, as she turned to carry on. On the other side of the wall hung more pictures, but they were not of her or even her own personal pictures.
One was of Naruto's Genin team photo, she giggled as she looked at the younger Naruto and Sasuke glaring at each other.
The next was a picture of all three of them again, Sakura stood in the middle, stretching out a banner between her arms that read 'Congratulations', Sasuke stood on her left, wearing the Konoha's standard flak jacket, Naruto stood on the right, hold his own in one hand and giving the peace sign with his other.
Finally there was another picture of them, with Sai as well, the pale man smiling a genuine smile. She noticed the change in all of them, they had all grown, Naruto especially, so short in the academy now stood at the same height as Sasuke and Sai. His hair had grown longer in the picture. Bangs of hair framed his face, she could see the back of his hair had grown as well and he had tied it into a small ponytail, it looked like a shorter version of Jiraiya-sama's own hairstyle.
After that was a picture of Jiraiya-sama and Naruto, finally there was just a blonde haired man and an astoundingly beautiful red haired woman. 'T-The Yondaime Hokage!' She looked at the picture of the man, why was a picture of him hung up in her house? In fact, why were any of these pictures on display?
She finally moved closer to the noise, it was behind the door now in front of her, the smell of… cinnamon? It filled her nose, she pushed the door open and her jaw dropped.
The living room was large, with a couch and big bookcase. A dining table stood behind them leading into an open kitchen.
And in the kitchen stood Naruto, and he was shirtless. His hair had been cut down again, shorter than when he was in the academy, but still just as spiky. The kitchen was a mess, dirty pans were thrown everywhere, next to him was a bag filled with cinnamon rolls, some burned beyond belief, others too undercooked or so misshapen he had thrown them out. "They're not right damn it!"
"N-Naruto-kun?" He turned quickly to see her, he grinned madly and blushed scratching the back of his head. "Damn, I was hoping I could have a decent batch of cinnamon rolls made before you woke up, you've been sleeping like a log since you came back!" He chuckled bashfully.
"W-why are you making cinnamon rolls, Naruto-kun?" She asked with confusion, a blush appearing across her face, like every other time she spoke to him when there was no one else to distract his attention away from her.
Naruto blinked, staring back at her with just as much confusion. "They're your favourite right? Oh don't tell me you've got a new favourite food, I finally found a good recipe for these cinnamon rolls!" He sulked.
'N-naruto-kun knows my favourite food!' She stared in utter surprise, the blush on her cheeks becoming even brighter. "What are you doing in here, Naruto kun?"
"What do you mean? I'm trying to make Cinnamon rolls." Naruto looked back at her in confusion.
"I meant this house?" She replied back weakly, her eyes darting towards the floor.
"Well why wouldn't I be here? I live here!" Naruto grinned back, that usual cheerful grin, even as he had aged, the smile remained the same, the same smile that saved her from herself, the one she had grown to love.
"B-but the pictures, I thought this is my home?" She answered back weakly, all those pictures on the wall, she was sure this was her house.
"Wow Hinata, you must have hit your head hard on that mission." He looked back with something she sensed as worry, before he grinned widely again. "We live together, Hinata, we have been for the past four months, y'know. Look, we had that done when we moved in." He pointed behind her.
She turned her head, on the wall behind her from where she walked out. On the wall was a large picture of just the two of them. Both dressed elegantly. Naruto wore an orange yukata with black fabric on the shoulders, a faint, yet shimmering red swirled through the orange fabric. He grinned that usual grin, and had an arm around her waist. She herself wore a sleek lavender kimono, embroiled with white flowers, a darker purple sash wrapped around her waist. She had that same blush across her face, yet she managed to look forwards and smile gently. Hinata vaguely remembered that picture being taken, she remembered trying hard not to look away and tried not to blush as Sai painted it. But it was a vague memory, she couldn't remember why the painting was done or even when it was done, the memory felt like one half complete.
She looked back at Naruto, then to the picture, then to Naruto again, her eyes widened, her full face went red. 'N-N-N-N-N-N-N-Naruto-kun and I… live together.' Her eyes went heavy, it was too much.
"Hinata!" He eyes fluttered open as she heard her name being called again and again, she had been sat at the dining table, Naruto crouched down next to her, his hand placed on top of hers as he stared at her face.
'A-at least he has a shirt on now.' She looked at the black jumper he wore, similar to the standard blue one Konoha Shinobi wore.
"Maybe I should get Sakura. Your face just went red then you collapsed, that mission must have done a number on you, I knew you shouldn't have gone on it." He mumbled to himself, sitting on the other side of the table.
"I'm fine, Naruto-kun." She responded weakly in return, she knew would really happened just now, but if she could play it off a collapsing from exhaustion over the more embarrassing truth, she'd take it.
"Are you sure? If you hit your head you might have that amnesia thing…" His hand wrapped around his mouth as he squinted, thinking of what could have happen, suddenly his face lit up. "I know! Ask me some questions Hinata, that'll help jog your memory!"
"Um…" Truth be told there were so many questions she wanted to ask, she understood nothing, it was as if she had been asleep all her life, small fragments of a distant dream fluttered through her mind, nothing seemed to feel like this was real. "W-why do you- we have a picture of the Fourth Hokage and that woman?" She chided herself inwardly, of all the questions to ask, but she remembered looking at that picture after waking up, wondering why they would be a picture like that.
"You've got a picture of your family up, I figured I could have a picture of mine. Those are my parents, Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki." He replied with a proud grin.
Hinata's eyes widened, 'Naruto-kun's parents. He finally found them'. It wasn't really how she'd hoped he would find them. She had hoped Naruto would find his parents alive, giving happiness back to him, letting him know what a family was.
"Was Konoha at war, Naruto-kun? Was the world at war?" She found her next question, those memories of her fighting with Neji lingering in her mind.
"Yeah, four years ago, y'know." His face fell a little. "That masked guy in Akatsuki waged a full was for me and Octopops. All the shinobi came together to fight against him and his army of these white Zetsu things."
"How did it end?" She found herself asking even further.
"The real Madara Uchiha got revived through Edo Tensei, he tried to use the guy behind the mask to revive him so he could put the whole world into some huge Genjutsu. But Obito, the guy behind the mask, something happened, he remembered his old self, the part of him that would do anything for his comrades, the part of him that wanted to be Hokage. He turned against Madara, the Shodai Hokage was also revived through the Edo Tensei by Orochimaru and arrived on the battlefield with Sasuke. Kakashi and Obito combined their Mangekyo Sharingan and sent the first Hokage and Madara into some far off dimension, to fight an eternal battle. Obito was gravely injured, and before he died he used the Rinne Tensei to revive everyone who had died during the war."
"I-I see…" She spoke aloud, so what she saw in her dreams, was she just remembering the events from years ago.
"I'm sorry Hinata, I'd stay if I could and make sure you're okay, but I gotta prepare for the Kage Summit." He sighed loudly, moving towards a cupboard near the front door. "It's so boring! All they do is talk! Plus the Mizukage keeps giving me this weird look, like she wants to eat me or something!"
"Are you accompanying Tsunade-sama to the meeting?" She asked innocently, watching as Naruto looked back at her with a puzzled look.
"Are you sure you're okay, Hinata? You sure are acting weird. I mean, why would baachan be going." He replied, taking out an orange cloak with black flames upon the bottom and put it on. Rokudaime Hokage written down the back of it. He pulled out the Hokage hat as well, sliding it on his head and grinned at her.
Hinata sat with shock over her face. 'Naruto-kun is Hokage!'
Naruto continued grinning at her. "Happy Nagato day, Hinata." He called out before disappearing, leaving her with even more confusion and questions.
Hinata walked the streets of Konoha, still filled with so many questions. Why could she not recall anything that had happened previously? She remembered up until Pein attacked Konoha, razing it to the ground. She remembered telling Naruto how strong her feelings were finally. But that was all; she couldn't remember the war Naruto spoke of, or anything that transpired after until when she woke up this morning. But why couldn't she?
She walked past citizens in Konoha, they acted as if nothing was wrong. They smiled at her, which was not something unusual for her, being in the Head Family of the Hyuuga. But their smiles, they had grown even wider, full of happiness towards her. Others, mainly girls her own age she had never seen before stared at her with fake smiles, weakly masking something akin to jealousy, but why? What had she had possibly done to them?
"There's Hinata!" She heard her name being called, in front of her was Kiba, Akamaru and Shino. "Happy Nagato day, Hinata. We've been waiting for you, we are going to see Kurenai-sensei today, remember? We agreed to do so after you came back from your mission."
"Um, yes." She just agreed, she didn't want to point out the fact that she couldn't remember saying those words. She joined her two teammates, strolling silently between them as they yammered to each other through her.
After a fairly long walk they arrived at Kurenai's house, she was sat in the garden with her daughter, who upon seeing Hinata laughed and smiled wildly, sprinting towards her and jumping into her chest, it wasn't hard to catch the small girl, but it surprise her greatly to see how big she had grown, she was only a baby the last time she could remember seeing her. "'Nata-nii-chan!" She blubbered out ecstatically as she curled into her shoulder.
"She's missed you." To her surprise the door behind Kurenai opened, Asuma strolled out, a cigarette hanging limply in his mouth before he light the small stick, taking a deep long drag.
"A-Asuma-sensei, but I thought… I-I mean he Akatsuki?" She stared at the man in shock, she could vaguely remember his funeral, the weeks of wiping Kurenai-sensei's tears.
"Haven't about that in a long time." Asuma mused with a smile, blowing out a small cloud of smoke. "I got really lucky, if Sakura wasn't on that mission, I'd probably be-" He stopped himself, looking at his daughter intently, before smiling again. "Happy Nagato day, Hinata, from the three of us."
"Nagato day, what is that?" She mumbled to herself, apparently loud enough for Kiba to look at her curiously.
"You okay Hinata? You're acting weird, did you bang your head on your mission or something?" He asked her curiously, before she could answer a perverse grin appeared on his face, he leaned towards her, giggling mischievously. "Or maybe Naruto went a bit hard on you last night, and you're still a little dazed."
"K-Kiba-kun!" Her face blushed red with horrified embarrassment, she knew exactly what Kiba was trying to insinuate. "N-Naruto-kun and I have never…"
"Really? Wow, I never imagine Naruto would have that kind of control." Kiba responded rather surprised at her reply, he knew Hinata was terrible at lying, he did even need his nose to smell that out.
"I am not surprised at all." Shino responded bluntly to her other teammate. "Why am I sure? Because Naruto has managed to control the Kyuubi perfectly, that would take a great deal of will power and control not to break that hold."
"Yeah but still, after two years you'd figure-"
"K-Kiba-kun, please stop!" Hinata continued to blush and stop her brown haired teammate's words. But it did make her think, despite the painting of them, she had thought that maybe Konoha wasn't completely rebuilt, there was a shortage of space. She had wanted to live independently from her clan for a while, Hanabi was to the future clan head, even with all her progression, her father even leaned towards giving Neji the status, there was no one her father was more proud of than her cousin. But to be living with Naruto, she assumed it was a compromise for shortage of room to house people.
The red glow on her cheeks grew even brighter, perhaps she had been wrong, two years Kiba said, the painting of them being so close, her living with him. 'Are Naruto-kun and I together?' It was something she had wanted for so long, but she couldn't even remember how it came to be, that was what she wanted more, to build something indestructible with him, slowly, tenderly and with care, for it to suddenly be on her without her memory, despite the swelling in her heart, her dream finally being reached, it felt somewhat wrong, like it shouldn't be.
"Ah Hinata, happy Nagato day." Hinata turned to see Sakura waving towards her. Sakura had grown as well, being slightly taller, it was her face that changed the most, it was softer with more rounded features, her hair seemed more styled and wave but had remained the same length, the same diamond seal that was on Tsunade's forehead now rested on hers.
"Nagato day, what is that?" Hinata found herself asking quietly, everywhere she went people would say it to her, some said it cheerfully, others said it with what she could only describe as disdain for herself. But these were girls she had never met before, what could she have possibly done to them?
"Like I know, everywhere I go people keep saying it." She turned at the new voice. Sasuke had not changed, despite his obviously growth in height and his hair growing slightly longer. He held himself in the same regard, the same look plastered on his face. Wearing a white high- collared short-sleeved shirt with a zipper and dark blue pants with a blue cloth hanging from halfway up his stomach to his knees along with black arm guards that covered his forearms and stretched up to reach his upper biceps. He also wore a purple rope belt around his waist, tied in a bow, in which he carried a sword. The only other difference was an open standard Konoha flak jacket he wore over that.
He continued walking and stood next to Sakura, who smiled at him, he almost seemed to smile back, but it came off as a small smirk.
Hinata noticed it, she watched him almost relax at Sakura's presence. They both looked at her, staring at them blatantly, they quickly looked away from each other, yet a small tint of pink covered both their cheeks.
"Hinata, I just saw Naruto earlier, he said he wants you to meet him later. He never said why, just that its important." She winked at the girl, making her go a darker shade of red. "So he gave me the day off to help you get ready." She grinned evilly pulling out a small bag which had money wrote on it. "A Hokage authorised shopping spree, this is going to be fun, eh Hinata!?"
In an instant the pink haired girl was in front of her, before she grabbed her arm, in a dash they were speeding off towards the market centre, leaving Sasuke behind, who watched as the trail of dusted dissipated the further they became.
"Hn. What a bunch of idiots." He smirked, looking towards the Hokage monument, Naruto's image staring back down at the village, for a second it changed, Sharingan eyes stared contemplatively over the village, but they weren't his own, two long creases going under each eye. In a second it turned back to Naruto, and Sasuke simply smiled up towards his face. "But still, it's good to be home, Itachi."
Hinata walked along the street of Konoha, blushing madly. She felt far too overdressed, wearing the same kimono as the one she wore in the painting of herself and Naruto at their apartment. 'Though, Sakura insisted that I be dressed like this. I wonder what Naruto-kun wants?'
She arrived at the centre of many streets leading in different directions coming together. In the centre of it all was a large statue, she looked at the statue in utter surprise.
It was Sasuke's brother, Itachi. The statute was large, at least 25 feet high. His hands were extended in front of his torso, performing the beggar's bowl. His Sharingan eyes were fixed in stone over the village in front of him.
And sat in his hands was Naruto, who when he saw her approach grinned and jumped down. He was wearing the same yukata he wore in the painting they had done. "You're look great, Hinata!"
"T-Thank you, Naruto-kun." She blushed madly before looking up at the statue again. "What is this?"
Naruto looked back upon Itachi's stony face and smiled. "Itachi was a hero. He protect Konoha, no the shinobi world from the shadows. He always cared for its safety. During the war he was revived as an Edo Tensei, but he broke free, then he went and stopped the Edo Tensei Jutsu himself. I couldn't put him on the side of the mountain because he wasn't Hokage, so I had this made instead. Now he doesn't have to watch over the village from the shadows. He can do it now in the sunlight."
Hinata smiled upwards at the statue, before turning to Naruto who grinned at her, grabbing her hand swiftly. "Come with me, Hinata. That place won't keep my reservation all night, even if I am Hokage now!"
Hinata was less surprised than she should have been when they arrived at Ichiraku's ramen stand. Whenever the rookies came together Naruto always suggested they should have lunch there, often being out voted into trying other establishments.
But she was surprised to find it closed at this hour, Ichiraku's usually ran open late into the night, she remembered watching Naruto being there, getting kicked out by the old man who wanted to rest after a long day's work, Naruto sulking away from the stand complaining that he hadn't had his fill.
Naruto knock on the makeshift door that had been put in front of the usually open entrance, Teuchi opened it a fraction, upon seeing Naruto he opened it wider, Naruto turned to her and grinned. "Come on, Hinata." He waved at her to follow him inside.
The inside of the small stand had been redecorated, the stools were hiding from sight and a small table with two seats stood in their place, various sizes of lit lanterns hung from the walls and the ceiling. Vines of flowers weaved their way through the lanterns on the walls in shades of lavender, red and blue. It was beautiful.
Naruto directed her to her seat, pulling it and sitting her down before moving to the other seat himself, two bowls of ramen where already sat in front of them, almost immediately Hinata began to play with it, she wasn't really that hungry, and all this, sat with Naruto in this beautiful setting, just the two of them, she wouldn't hold anything down even if she tried to eat, her stomach was already a flutter.
"Have you had a good Nagato day, Hinata?" Nothing would stop Naruto devouring ramen, emotion, illness, injury he's stomach it so he could stomach some ramen.
"What is Nagato day, Naruto-kun? Everyone I've seen today has said it?" She finally asked, it had been bugging her the entire day since the blonde had said it this morning.
Naruto looked up from his ramen, before smiling softly. "Today is the anniversary of the day Pein attacked Konoha, we're remembering that day, y'know?"
"T-That isn't really something worth remembering or celebrating." She answered honestly. It had been a day of death, so many around her taken without warning, consideration or mercy. The village laid in ruins. Naruto almost being taken by Akatsuki.
"That's why we don't call it Pein Day." Naruto chuckled a little bit. "Nagato was the real guy with the Rinnegan, he was controlling all of Pein's actions. And in the end he swapped his life for everyone who had died in Konoha that day."
He smiled a little bit, remembering the frail, white haired man, and those strong purple eyes brimming through the darkness despite the state of his body. "He was Jiraiya's student, my senior. I often wondered if I should call him nii-san? In the end his true conviction came through, his true way to obtain peace. He didn't have to give the people of Konoha their lives back, he was dying already from exhausting so much chakra, but he did it anyway. Nagato day remembers that sacrifice, it celebrates our bonds to each other."
Hinata couldn't help but smile at his explanation, there was a purity to it all that only Naruto could have seen, as he always saw the best in the worst situations, like the statue of Itachi she didn't even have to guess that Nagato day came into effect during Naruto's blossoming tenure as Hokage.
"But there's something else about this day, something that only I celebrate." She looked up as Naruto as he continued speaking, to her surprise she saw that their situations had changed, it was Naruto who couldn't lift his head up, playing aimlessly with the food in front of him.
"It was on this day I got told something. Something that deep down I thought I might never hear." His own blush grew as his eyes moved to look at her. "It was something you said."
That is why I'm not afraid to die protecting you! Because… I love you…
Her eyes widened, of course she remembered telling Naruto finally of her true feelings, but she didn't think he had, he had transform into the Kyuubi moments after she fell against Pein, he had never discussed it with her after so she assumed the transformation had affected his memory, making him forget the most recent things that had transpired, it was always a worry to her as she may have had to confess to him again, and she didn't know if she would have that courage, that determination like she did in that situation to do it again. But to think he had actually remembered!
"My dream was to become Hokage, to be respected and admired by everyone in the village, for my existence to finally be acknowledged, but I never imagined in all my wildest dreams to be loved. But you did anyway, even though I didn't know it." He smiled softly again.
"It was one of the times you saved me from myself, when I thought of giving up. But it wasn't the first time, when I panicked during the Chuunin exam's written test, you offered your answers to me. When I felt like giving up before I even went to fight Neji, you placed your faith in me and gave to the courage to fight him. Then there was that moment against Pein, when you said those words I thought I would never hear. There was that moment when I almost gave in against Obito, you brought me back."
He smiled, taking one of her hands in his own. Her blush magnified at the contact, if it wasn't bad enough with all these he spoke so sincerely.
"These hands, they were always pushing me in the right direction, making me stick to my ninja way. We've been through so much over the past years, but I've never been able to speak well about this stuff. I'm not a good speaker, I don't have a way with words, I'm not smart or cool or charming, I start blubbering like a moron… kinda like now!" He grinned sheepishly, chuckling weakly as he scratched the back of his head.
"It's taken a long time, but I think I finally found the right words to say, their just a copy of yours, but you said it so perfectly I wouldn't be able to say it any better if I had a million years to come up with it."
He looked into her eyes again, and her heart melted. Was he…? Would he…? Does he finally…?
"I remember calling you shy, timid and weird. But every time I thought like giving up… when I almost made the wrong turn… but it was always you… you kept me on the right path… you pushed me… you comforted me… you slapped me out of my own silly imaginations… you kept me real! These hands saved me! That's why I want to walk with you, stand at your side, to be with you… Because you know what…? I really love you!"
Hinata only stared back mouth agape in utter shock. Naruto sat there speaking of something he might never have. To be honest with herself, she had thought the same thing. Deep down in her heart she thought that she would never be able to get Naruto to return her love, but there he was, speaking those simple, yet powerful words to her. He called himself a blubbering mess when he spoke, but every syllable was perfect, like a symphony to her ears right through to her very heart and soul. All the chasing, the hoping, somehow it had finally paid off.
Her life was perfect as of this very moment, finally everything she had longed for had come to fruition. Her wildest dream had finally come true, and she would never let it go.
A/N: Yo! So I have wrote up a new story, let me shed a bit of light onto this story.
Obviously it's central character is Hinata stuck in Infinite Tsukoyomi. When i saw it in the manga a saw Hinata's dream and went 'Really? That's it? Sat on a park bench with Naruto?' So this is an expansion/re-imagining of her dream.
I don't like storied that just have Naruto fall in love with Hinata after 15 lines of dialogue with her, similarly I don't like stories that take absurdly long amounts of time to progress the relationship between them, so when I did see her dream I had an opportunity to build a relationship between them quickly, but still have room to progress.
I'm more of a NaruHina fan anyway, not becuase of the whole everything she's done for them reason, but for a different one. Who are the main characters in the series? Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke. And Kishimoto will end the series with each of them attaining their own personal happiness, Naruto will probably become Hokage, Sasuke will probably have his clan finally seen as heroes, and Sakura, well as it is frequently mentioned Sakura is in love with Sasuke, so I think her happiness will be being with him, hence I believe SasuSaku is more likely than NaruSaku. However, i doubt this will happen for a long time. I don't think this war is the end of Naruto, Kishi has said he is open to another timeskip and the new move is dubbed 'Start of a new era', makes me think it'll be the first part of a timeskip.
I was trying to play on Hinata fighting the genjutsu, which is why she couldn't remember anything about the world she was now in, however when Naruto finally says those words to her, she gives in and accepts the place as the real world. I imagine this story will last about 10 chapters before its finished.
I've actually had the new chapter planned out for most of my stories, however I just can't be bothered to write them, I'm using this story to thicken my creative juices so I can provide more frequent updates in my other stories.
Anyways, til next time.