Naruto stood just outside the village waiting on Sakura and Hinata. He had already packed his bags days ago in case an important mission such as this ever came up. He brought quite a few shuriken and kunai. He also brought his frog shaped wallet in case they needed to buy anything on the way. He brought his tent, he had hoped Sakura would leave hers so they could snuggle in his for the night.

Hinata appeared first. She saw Naruto standing outside and noticed that he was deep in thought. What is he thinking about? About the mission? Or about...her..? Hinata felt tears building up but fought them back. She lowered her head and stared at the ground and slowly made her way to Naruto.

Naruto snapped out of his daydream when Hinata walked past him. "Hi Hinata ready to go?" He smiled at her. However she didn't respond. "Is something the matter? Do you not feel well?" He ran in front of her and felt her temprature. Hinata face turned red and then she jerked back."What's the matter? If you don't feel well I could get Shino to come with us instead."

"No! It's all right I feel great...I was just thinking about someone" Hinata already red face, just turned redder. "...I mean thing! Something!!

"Someone?" Naruto smiled walking circles around her. "You got a crush on somebody Hinata?"

"N-No! No I don't!" She waved her hands in front of her.

"Yes you do!" He teased her. "Who is it? I bet it's Kiba isn't it?" He poked her rib.

Hinata gulped "N-No it isn't him."

"I was sure it was him. Is it Shino? Shikamaru? Choji? Wait don't tell me it's Sasuke!" He groaned.

"It's not any of them!" She shouted.

Well then who is it? Maybe he's not a ninja. Maybe he's just some regular guy. Naruto stepped away from Hinata "Well you don't have to tell me. But maybe I can help you hook up with him if you want."

The tears Hinata had been fighting back were now rolling down her cheeks. "N-N-No! Y-You can't. He does-doesn't think of me anymore then a friend."

Naruto knew that he had touched a sensitive subject with her. "Don't cry Hinata. You don't now that." Hinata eyes kept dropping tears and Naruto had no idea how to comfort her, he had no experience in this kind of area. He stood still as Hinata just wept away. Gahhh!! Idiot! You know Hinata's shy why did I do that! What should I do? Naruto grabbed Hinata's arm and pulled her into him. He wrapped her arms around her tightly.

"N-Na..." Hinata had calmed down she closed her eyes and rested her head on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry I made you cry. I didn't know that talking about that bothered you."

"I-It's fine. It's kind of embarrassing to have someone see me cry." They parted and Hinata wiped the tears from her eyes."Naruto? Can I ask you something?"

"Sure go ahead."

"Well, how did you and Sakura start going out?" She was staring at the ground.

"Well after that mission we had a few weeks ago we were coming back and we set up camp for the night."

"Sorry I'm late!" Sakura jumped in between them "Tsunade wanted to tell me a few extra things about the mission."

"Like what?" Naruto asked.

"She told me that if we should get to their village as soon as possible. Their village wants to have their ceremony as soon as possible so they are awaiting our arrival. And she also told me that Naruto will be the leader."

"Anything else?" Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"Well she said one other thing. She wanted us to be extra careful since no one really knows just how powerful the Dusk village really is, not even Glory Village knows their full potential."

"Well then let's get moving!" Naruto pointed to the north.

"Naruto...the village is that way.." Sakura pointed to the west.

"Uhhh...I knew that...I was just testing you." He faced where Sakura was pointing and walked ahead of the group.

Hinata and Sakura walked behind him. The tension between them was thick. I'm going to have to wait for a good time to talk to her. Sakura looked at Hinata and saw that she had been glaring at her the whole time. Sakura smiled weakly at her and waved. Hinata looked away in disgust and stared forward.

I should be focusing on this mission instead of her but...I HATE HER!! Hinata formed a fist in her left hand.

"So when do you think we'll get there?" Naruto asked breaking the silence.

"Well to reach the port it will take us about 10 hours. Then from the boat it will be a 2 hour ride. So we should be there before nightfall tomorrow." Sakura picked up her pace and was walking alongside Naruto and he wrapped his arm around her waist. Uh Oh! This is gonna make Hinata feel terrible!

"Well since boats don't run at night we'll set up camp when we're almost there. And walk the rest of the way in the morning." Naruto told his team.

Hinata felt her heart sink. She shook her head and tried to cheer up. I can't be thinking like this or we'll surely fail the mission. Just try thinking about something else. Hinata shut her eyes and began daydreaming. She thought about her and Naruto sitting peacefully under a tree on a summer evening watching the sunset. All her problems already appeared to be going away.

"Hey Hinata! Watch where your going." Naruto yelled as he tripped forward. Hinata had spaced out and walked into him.

"Oh! I'm sorry Naruto! I must have spaced out!" She stretched her arm out, but Sakura was already helping him up.

"It's no big deal. Just try not to space out so much during the mission Okay?" He smiled at her.

Hinata's cheeks turned a light pink and she nodded her head.

Later that night The three of them sat around a campfire. Obviously Sakura was sat next to Naruto who had his arms around her. Hinata sat across from them staring into the fire. She could not bare watching them cuddling. They had been talking about missions they had in the past.

Naruto got up, stretched and yawned. "I'm gonna crash now. See you guys in the morning." He gave Sakura a kiss on her cheek and waved to Hinata before going into his tent.

Sakura watched him enter his tent and then looked at Hinata. She had finally risen her head to look at her. "I know you're mad Hinata"

"Mad? Why would I be mad? You just took Naruto, the guy I've been in love with since back a the academy!" Hinata was red with anger.

"Listen Hinata"

"You didn't even like him! You've always been busy chasing Sasuke and never payed attention to him! You always rejected him whenever he did ask you out!"

"Hinata, please. Lower your voice." Sakura tried to hush her. She looked over her shoulder to see if Naruto had heard anything she said. Naruto had already fallen asleep and was snoring away.

Hinata got up from her stump and was getting ready to got to sleep.

"Wait! Let me explain what happened." Sakura grabbed her sleeve. Hinata looked down at her and sat back down. "Thank you. I never intended to go out with him...it just sorta happened."

"That mission was a joke!" Naruto cried out as Sakura, Sasuke, Kakashi and himself walk down the road. "Granny Tsunade better give us a tougher mission next time. I mean gather goats, and sheep? What kind of a mission is that?"

"Naruto, shut up already!" Sasuke yelled. "You've been saying that since before we even left for the mission."

Sakura giggled "That's right Naruto. Just be quiet." She stuck her tongue out at him.

"Always agreeing with me won't make me like you, you know that right?" Sasuke groaned.

Naruto snickered while Sakura slumped down.

"Okay guys, I think it's about time we set up camp for the night." Kakashi said as he dropped his bag on the floor. He took out a sleeping bag and unrolled it. "I'm snoozing off right now so don't make so much noise." He turned on his side and fell asleep.

"I'm going to take a walk around the area." Sasuke dropped his bag and headed off.

"I'll come with you!" Sakura did the same and walked alongside Sasuke.

What does she see in him? We're about the same in strength, we both have a bad background...mine's worse though. I just don't get it. He set up his tent and crawled in. He shut his eyes and tried to fall asleep. He spent the next 30 minutes or so trying to fall asleep but just couldn't. He walked out of his tent and and walked out to a small field behind the campsite. He lied back in the grass and stared up at the stars. He faintly heard the sound of someone weeping. He got up and walked around to see who it was. He saw Sakura sitting with her knees close to her chest crying. "Sakura what's wrong?" He hurried over to his friend.

Sakura rose her head and saw Naruto approaching her. She wiped away the tear from her cheeks. "N-Naruto what are you doing here?"

"I couldn't sleep so I decided to come out here for a while. Then I heard you crying...what's the matter?" He sat down next to her.

"...It's nothing." She turned her face away from him.

"Come on Sakura, we're team mates! We're supposed to help each other out." He ran over to her other side and looked her in the eyes. But she just turned the other way again. "Fine, I'll just sit here till you feel like telling me." He lied down again.

Knowing him...he'll just be here for a long time. Might as well just tell him. "You win." Naruto sat up and listened closely. "I was following Sasuke...and you know how I get around him." Naruto nodded his head. "Well I guess I just made too mad. He said some things...that I'd rather not repeat." She frowned.

"That jerk Sasuke! Who does he think he is making a girl cry?" Naruto growled and punched his fist into his open hand. "I'll go get him and make him apologize to you right now."He got up and started marching off.

"No! That's alright Naruto." She grabbed his sleeve. "I finally got it through my head that Sasuke just doesn't like me. I'm just an annoying ugly girl."

"Don't say that Sakura!" Naruto knelt down in front of her. "Your not ugly. You're really cute. You know that." He brushed the hair from her face. "And you're really kind too...Most of the time."

Sakura smiled and giggled softly.

"After he said that we stayed up the rest of the night just talking. He really cheered me up and somehow we just decided to go out." Sakura wrapped up her story as she fed the fire more wood.

Hinata sat quietly. She had not spoken a single word since Sakura started her story.

"Listen...I know you're mad... but I got to tell you something that might cheer you up."

Hinata leaned closer.

"I just used Naruto as a rebound. But I decided to give him a few weeks to see if I could actually like him. It's been 3 weeks, and we really don't have much in common. He thinks things are working out but...I know that they are not. I decided that after this mission I'm going to break up with him."

"What?!"

"SHHHH!" Sakura hushed her. "After the mission I'm breaking up with him. If I do it now, he might be lose his focus and that might cause us to fail it." Sakura got up. "You'll have another chance to ask him out again." She walked to her tent and crawled in.

"I'm...I'm getting another chance to ask him out again!" Hinata was jumping for joy at that moment. "Wait..." She stopped "It's great that she's breaking up with him...I hope he doesn't feel to heart broken though."

Writing up the chapters is taking me forever...well it's not a great chapter but I hope you enjoyed it.