Naruto carried Hinata back to his apartment. Nothing was said on the way. Hinata was thoroughly embarrassed and exhausted.

"Here we are," said Naruto enthusiastically. His apartment was a small jungle of clutter and disarray. The main room sported two chairs and table laden with empty ramen cups, Konoha memorabilia, and spare kunai and shuriken. There were even more empty ramen containers in the overflowing trashcan.

The bathroom was kept pretty clean, but the bedroom was a total mess. Clothes were piled into islands of fabric on the floor. A small writing desk was stuffed with papers and inks. Several battered toys lay in a corner, abandoned and collecting dust. The bed looked like some wild animal had made a nest in the sheets, and on one of the bed posts his beaver nightcap swayed in the gently breeze from the open window.

"Well uhh Hinata, if I had been expecting a sleepover I would have tidied up a bit," he said stuffing clothes into random drawers and hastily clearing an area on the table. Hinata smiled. She liked his apartment better than her room. It seemed to suite him better.

After heating up some ramen for Hinata Naruto left. "I'm going to get T'sunade. I don't like how that ankle looks."

She was alone again. The clutter didn't seem to bother her as much as when she first saw it. If anything it made her feel rebellious. Hiashi always demanded perfection in anything, especially in the household. He had lightened up lately but he still demanded cleanliness, organization, and the right aesthetic apply to every room in the household. After finishing the ramen Hinata decided to clean just a little bit of the house.

All she did was put the dirty clothes in the hamper, gather the papers on the desk and put clean sheets on the bed. As she gathered the papers in the pile she noticed a picture in a simple frame on his desk.

It was team seven and Kakashi. She remembered envying Sakura for her position on team seven. She also remembered the pang of disappointment when Naruto gave out a shout of glee when he learned that Sakura was on his team. Yet Sakura was just his friend. Suddenly Hinata felt ashamed. Naruto had given her a place to stay during the night and here she was intruding into his room and touching his stuff and getting jealous of Sakura. Embarrassed, she folded a blanket with the seals of all the hidden villages, and retreated into the main room where she made him a cup of ramen for when he returned.

Naruto ran as fast as he could toward the Hokages mansion. After pounding on the door for two minutes he was greeted by a tired Shizune.

"Whaddaya want," she said groggily.

"I need to speak with T'sunade Sama immediately. It's urgent," he proclaimed.

"Okay whatever, but this better be good she gets irritated if she doesn't get sleep."

"SHIZUNE WHO IS IT," bellowed the hokage.

"It's Naruto. He says it's urgent."

"Sigh… bring him in." As he approached the door Naruto vaguely wondered if he should have waited until the morning. Inside the room an irritated T'sunade slouched in her office.

"What the fuck did you wake me for?"she said clearly irritated and, as the bottle of sake in her hand indicated, slightly drunk

"Hinata's hurt. I think her ankle's twisted," he said trying to put on a brave face.

"You disturbed me just for that, oh well where is she?"

"At my place."

One of T'sunade's eyebrows raised and a slight smirk formed at the corners of her mouth. "Oh, really…?" she said suggestively eyeing him with amusement.

"It's not like that. I'm not like Ero Sennin, Ebisa, or Kakashi. Will you just help her?"

"Fine, I'll send someone in the morning. But next time pick a better time to contact me. Oh, and Naruto, don't give Hiashi Hyuuga any reason to complain to me about you tomorrow."

Before he could protest Shizune ushered him through the door and locked him out.

Naruto ran home to find his house neater and Hinata sleeping on the floor with just a blanket. I would have let had the bed and slept on the floor myself he thought. Picking her up he laid her gently on the put making sure to support her injured ankle with a pillow. This will be interesting to explain to whoever shows up in the morning he thought with a grin. On his way out he grabbed a pillow and a spare blanket. After finishing the ramen she had left him Naruto fell asleep on the floor.

Naruto woke up to someone pounding on the door. "Open up Naruto, T'sunade tells me you have a patient inside that I need to help." Naruto jumped at the sound of Sakuras angry voice. Of all the people she had to send T'sunade just had to pick Sakura. Dam that old lady was just too clever.

"Just a minute,"he shouted. Ignoring his screams of protest Sakura kicked down the door. "Sakura, I was going to let you in…" he whined. She glared at him.

"It's five o clock in the morning. T'sunade told me that you said it was urgent so she sent me here as early as possible in the fuckin morning, NOW WHERE'S THE DAMN PATIENT!" she screamed.

"Hinata's in my room. She twisted her ankle." Said Naruto hastily.

At this Sakura's scowl spread itself into a smirk that resembled T'sunade's'.

"Oh now I see why she sent me in the morning instead of at night," She said eyeing him suggestively. "Naruto I never would have guessed that you would turn out to be a pervert. Did Jiraiyas' training help?" she coyly questioned.

"YOU'RE THE PERVERT FOR THINKING THAT," Naruto shouted.

"Calm down, I was joking. Stop glaring at me. Which room is yours?"

Hinata had woken up when she heard Naruto shouting about perverts. A few seconds later Sakura walked in the room.

"Hey Hinata, which ankle is it?" she asked concentrating her chakra in her palms.

"My left one," said Hinata thoroughly embarrassed.

After several minutes the chakra had corrected the sprained ligament. "All better," said Sakura cheerfully. "Kurenai still wants to see you Hinata. I saw her talking to T'sunade right before I left. Don't do anything naughty to her Naruto." And with a jaunty wave Sakura departed out the door.

"Really you'd think she'd have a sense of decency, seeing how many times she's beat me up for saying stuff like that," Naruto muttered under his breath before turning to Hinata. "Can you walk again," asked Naruto. After a few steps Hinata nodded.

"Great I'll make breakfast," said Naruto grabbing two cups of ramen.

His name really suits him (1) thought Hinata to herself after seeing how enthusiastic he was about his favorite dish.

After breakfast they set out in search of Kurenai to see what she had planned for Hinata.

Note: 1 Naruto is a processed fish decoration for ramen. It usually has a swirl in the middle. Hinata is commenting on Naruto's love of ramen.

Thanks everybody for the advice on the computer problems, and thanks for reading.

I hope you like chapter three.