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Summary: When Sakura confesses her feelings for Naruto, he doesn't know what to think. He is torn between his forever crush on Sakura and new feelings for Hinata. So which one will he chose... the lies or the truth?

All characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto

This chapter was written by: Smencil

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Chapter two – Hinata's story

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Hinata lay in her bed. She had been healing injured ninjas all day, with the best she could manage. The Hidden Village in the Leafs was still in a bad shape after Peins massive explosion.

She had asked Ino why Sakura wasn't here to heal people, since she had been trained by the fifth hokage. Ino said she had went after Naruto, although she didn't know what Naruto was up to. Probably something with Sasuke.

The blond ninja had for sure already forgot about her love confession. Of course she didn't say that to Ino. No one but Hinata and Naruto knew about her sharing her feelings to her love. Unless Naruto had told Sakura about it.

Hinata hoped not, that would be embarrassing. Maybe Kakashi had got it out of him, or Yamato. Kiba had told her Yamato could be pretty scary if he wanted to.

"Hinata-imouto?" she heard a calling from the door. The person knocked.

"Come in," she said.

"Are you feeling allright?"

"Yes, thank you Neji-niisan," she answered and smiled kindly at her cousin.

They had been on good terms for a while, and she had come to think of him as an older brother.

He sad down on the big bed and took her hand. She smiled at him as he kissed her hand and let it go.

"Thank you," she said and smiled once again at him. He was allways so kind and sweet around her. He would protect her from anything... anything in the whole world.

"How many more needs to be healed?" he asked.

"I think about… two thousand more. But we got all the builders healed today so they can start building up Konoha again," she said.

"I've heard some of the citizens are very disappointed in the ninjas way to handle the city," he said and looked out of the window. It was becoming dark, and the moon shined brightly-

"Shino said to me, that some of them will try to pull down the hokage, and make Konoha a peaceful city without ninjas to protect them, or start dangerous wars..." he finished.

"That horrible!" the girl stated and looked Neji directly in the eyes.

"What will we do?" she asked.

"I don't know, it's also new information for me," he said and smiled at his cousin.

"But don't worry," he said, "I'll keep you safe!" he finished, and with that he walked out and left her to sleep.

--RUNNING OUT OF LIES--

"Well... what did you do, dude?" asked Kiba, with his mouth wide open. Lee stared with big black eyes and his fuzzy brows were turned up. Sai just looked at him.

"Okay, here we go," Naruto said and inhaled.

"I was about to get my ass beat up by Pein, when Hinata-chan stepped in and tried to fight against Pein." At that, they gasped.

"Hinata-chan? Did she really do that?" asked Kiba, sounding proud of his teammate.

"Yea," Naruto answered. "Then Pein said something stupid and Hinata started to go all protective on me... and then... she said... she loves me"

He swallowed, as the other two waited for him to continue, "Then she tried to attack Pein, but he almost killed her with one hit. I thought she died, and then I went 8-tails on him," he finished, and looked around at the shocked faces in the room.

Even Sai looked surprised.

Kakashi and Yamato walked in, with no Sakura behind them. She was propbably standing out there and crying a river. As always.

"Are you okay, Naruto?" asked Yamato and forced a little sad smile on his face.

"Yeah, but I can't believe she would tell me all that bullshit!" he said angrily and they all patted him on the back in understanding.

"Should we send her back?" asked Lee.

"No, we need a healer if something goes wrong..." said Kakashi, but looked a little sad, as he also wanted her to go home.

"Couldn't the city just send a new healer?" said Kiba.

"Sakura-chan is the best healer we could get, she has been under Tsunade!" said Naruto. He still cared for his teammate. She was probably just confused. A lot confused.

"Give her a break, and she'll be fine again, I think," he said and grinned at the others.

They looked shocked at him. They surely hadn't expected the scarred boy to take it that easily. But as always, Naruto was fast at forgiving.

"Shall we head on tomorrow? We are on a mission, remember?" Kiba grinned and smiled friendly at the ninjas, showing his fangs.

"Sure, we can't stay here forever," said Yamato and smiled, "Now let's give Naruto some rest," he finished.

They all agreed and left. It was dark and Naruto felt tired. He fell asleep fast with his last thoughts going to Hinata.

--RUNNING OUT OF LIES--

Knock, knock.

Hinata wakened from her sweet dreams, and sat up in the bed. It was past midnight and she had been asleep for at least two hours.

"C-come i-in" she said and stretched her arms. The door opened and a man in all black came in.

"W-who a-are yo-you?" she trembled, looking horrified at the unknown man.

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