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Trouble 1
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HINATA

"Damn straight!" Naruto said as he spun around to look at him again. "You wanna know why? Because I'm Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage and I refuse to take orders from some jerk like—" He cut off as soon as their eyes meet.

It was just like that, one moment Naruto was doing what he always did when faced with an enemy, start a fight and insult his captors when he suddenly stopped. His eyes went wide as they glazed over. For almost a full minute he just stood there like he was caught in some type of genjutsu. But even after we tried to release it, he still just stood there. Then he let out a strangled cry and fell to the ground. Afraid of what might have happened to him, I completely forgot myself and ran to him. When I found that he wasn't breathing, I let out a scream. Sakura and Kiba were demanding to know what was going on with him and the men just left out the same door they came in from. But I wasn't really paying attention to them. For the first time in my life, I was yelling. Not whispering. Not speaking. Yelling. At Naruto!

Normally I couldn't say two words to him without going red or fainting, usually both. But here I was screaming his name, trying to get him to respond. I couldn't bare to accept that Naruto, the boy who always came out on top only because he refused not to, could die like this, locked in a cage like a feral animal.

Then, as soon as we heard the door shut, there was a poof and Naruto was gone. Before any of us could figure out what was going on, a shadow in the corner moved and Naruto stepped out, looking fine.

"Holy crap. I'm glad I wasn't on the receiving end of that." He said, making me feel so relieved that I threw my arms around his neck in a tight hug. Half a second after doing this I realized exactly WHAT I was doing and darted a couple feet away from him, after letting go of course. I could feel my face heat up as Naruto just stood there with a confused look on his face. Sakura looked a combination of relieved, worried, and surprised all topped with this knowing smile that I couldn't figure out. Kiba was just staring at me like I had grown a second head.

"Naruto, what was that?" Sakura asked him as I tried to hide from everyone's gaze.

"I have no idea. One moment I'm talking, then next I'm getting hugged by Hinata." He said, making my face turn even redder as he looked at me again. I'm pretty sure if he didn't stop staring at me I was going to faint.

"Are we even sure that's Hinata?" Kiba asked as he stared at me too. "Normally she can't get near him without fainting."

"I noticed that. I wonder why."

"Isn't it obvious?"

"No."

"You really ARE a baka."

"So you know why?"

"Yeah, everyone does."

"Except me?!"

"Yes."

"Why don't I know!?"

"Because we're all either waiting for you to figure it out or for her to finally tell you that she—" I watched as a fist connected with his face, knocking him into the wall. Then she picked up a chunk of the wall that just came loose, and chucked it at Naruto. It hit his head and he fell to the ground, then jumped back to his feet, a new lump peeking out of his hair.

"HEY! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!"

"YOU BAKA! I DIDN'T MEAN THAT!" Sakura yelled at them. It was actually quite comical, if she didn't look like she was going to kill someone. "What happened BEFORE that?!"

"I wanted to find out what he had up his very large sleeves." Naruto answered, shyly rubbing his head.

"So you LET him hit you with that jutsu?!"

"No! I'm not THAT stupid!"

"That's debatable." Kiba whispered mostly to himself, despite the fact that Naruto could hear him.

"What was that, dog boy!?" Naruto demanded angrily, Kiba's hair pricked like an angry dogs. He was about to say something back to Naruto but Sakura started tossing a piece of brick in one hand while holding a similar one in the other. Anything they were about to say was quickly forgotten.

"What did you do Naruto?"

"I switched myself with one of my shadow clones while they were fighting." He answered her like it was obvious. "I just didn't want to get hit by whatever he was throwing personally."

"That was actually smart." Sakura said in a surprised voice.

"Why do you sound so surprised!?" he demanded, he opened his mouth to say more but she tossed the brick in her hands in an obvious threat. He promptly shut up and changed the subject back. "Anyways, as I was saying, you don't want to get hit with that."

"Why? What happened?"

"I don't quite know." He said, probably thinking of how to describe the experience. Now with the attention off me, my face had cooled down, and I wasn't in danger of fainting. So I was more focused on what he was saying. "Nothing happened, it was just a lot of pain. There was nothing wrong with the clone. Physically that is."

"B-but it w-wasn't breathing." I whispered, saying something for the first time since he appeared in the corner.

"Really? Huh, you're right." He said, looking up like he was trying to remember something. "I think he was just surprised."

"You mean he went into shock." Sakura suggested.

"No, he wasn't shocked."

"That's not what…oh never mind. What was it like?"

"Um, it's hard to explain." He scratched his head in thought. "It was kind of like getting thousands of cuts with a kunai, getting struck by lightning, getting stabbed multiple times with a seriated blade, and being set on fire all at the same time."

"That bad?" Kiba asked with an unbelieving tone.

"Yes."

"It can't be that bad."

"You wanna try it yourself?" he asked becoming annoyed again. "Be my guest."

"You better not!" Sakura said, a death grip on a brick. "Because if you stop breathing I refuse to resuscitate either one of you."

"'Resuscitate?'" Naruto asked stupidly.

"She means mouth to mouth." Kiba said slyly, and I suddenly had a bad feeling where this conversation was going. I watched as Naruto's eyes lit up with recognition. "The Kiss of Life, or as Lee likes to call it, the Kiss of YOUTH."

"Ooooh! Hey Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan! If I stopped breathing, would you 'resuscitate' me?"

"No, I'd let you both die." He suddenly looked crest fallen.

"But Sakura-chan, why are you so mean?"

"Naruto, even if I wanted to, which I DON'T, I couldn't because you're in a different CELL than me!"

"I'm sure Hinata would, if you needed it." Kiba piped up, wiggling his eyebrows playfully. I turned even redder than before as Naruto got a confused look on his face again.

"Why would she do that?" he asked again.

"Never mind. You're too dense to get it."

"Get what?"

"Exactly." He pointed out, shaking his head in disbelief. "You are completely hopeless."