Hi there sorry I haven't updated in a while I've been preoccupied with so much prep, litteraly I've been up to my eyes in it SOOO FRUSTRATING! anyway on to the story

CHP 3 Alone In The Woods

As Naruto,Shikamaru and Hinata were walking in the dense forest they noticed that it would probably be better if they started to set up their tents instead of wait until night time to do it.

"Let's stop here for the night, okay guys." Stated Shikamaru knowing that if they kept this up they would have to use Hinata's Byakugan in the dark because it would be impossible for them to see otherwise.

As they removed their cooking aparatus from their bags it was clear that one of them had to catch them dinner. So they would have to use Hinata's Byakugan anyway.

"Troublesome." Said the specialised Shadow Ninja, who at once went into his special

'Thinking' position. After a while he got back up. "Okay, we're going to need Hinata to use her Byakugan to find a river or a stream, then we're gonna need you Naruto to use your shadow clones to gather wood to make a fire, whilst Hinata and I catch fish with her Byakugan and my shadow

possesion jutsu. Naruto, please don't mess this up okay, because that would be very, very

troublesome." Ordered the thought user. "Shadow clone jutsu!" Yelled the loud Ninja. Then the shadow clones poofed into existence causing the already flustered Hinata to say, " T-two

N-Naruto's." She gasped and then fainted into Shikamaru's arms. "I knew it. This is gonna be a drag." As the black haired chuunin set about putting Hinata on the ground, he noticed that Naruto had gone and a cloud of dust filled his place. Hoping that Naruto was going to collect a lot of firewood ( due to all his clones of course ), though he wasn't sure about what to do with an unconcious girl in his arms. Shikamaru carried Hinata in the dark towaards the river that they had, Shikamaru had, spotted on the map, earlier that day. It took him longer than he thought because Hinata was really heavy. Once he had finally reached the river he put Hinata down rather hard, so now he had the troublesome task of apologising to her.

Hinata awoke to the strange noises of the river to find that everyone was gone and ( being who she is )panicked, just then she found a strange sign on the ground. It looked like a Ninja sealing sign but with strange swirling commas around it and plain earth under it. Hinata decided not to worry about it, so she got up and walked along to a darkened figure. Noticing that it was Shikamaru, she asked "Shikamaru what are you do-" She was cut short by " Ssh you'll scare the fish away." As soon as he said that, he chucked a kunai into the river. As the knife hit the water it shimmered, just for a second Shikamaru thought he saw what he thought was a ninja marking in the water, but it vanished as the ripples faded. " Huh did I catch one?" He glanced into the water. There was a small fish on the end of the kunai knife, with it's head skewered onto it and it's body hanging limp. " Well would ya look at that, I really did catch one, lucky me" He stated rather more sarcastically than emphatically. " H-Hey um, where is Naruto." A rather stuttered voice ventured out from behind him. ' crap ' he thought ' I'm gonna have to her.' " Well he sorta ran off with his clones to find firewood, so he won't be back for a while, as for you, lets just say you got here by 'carriage'. I guess." It was part true of course but the shadow nin didn't care much for it anyway so he continued to catch fish in the river.

After they had set up the tent they organised everything they had and ate dinner, which was mainly fish, complements of Shikamaru, but they had picked the various other plants that had been in the vicinity whilst they were on site. " Hey Hinata," Naruto stated whilst bundling a piece of fish in his mouth. " What DO you see with that Byakoogan thing anyways." Asked the inquisitive young Ninja Jinchuriki. " Well u-um it." Stuttered the Hyuuga with a blush creeping along her face. " I have the ability to see 3d objects with X-ray and 360 degree vision. I can also see chakra networks." Hinata answered back slightly more confident and wise than before. But still not up to the task at hand. " Oh okay!" Shouted the obnoxious Kyuubi Host. Hinata blushed suddenly, realising what he had just said so friendly-like. " Come on guys, let's get to bed." Moaned the always tired Shikamaru. He got up realising that they had only put up two tents. " Oh great, we forgot to put Hinata's tent up." Shik said ( yeh dats his name now weyy ). " Don't worry she can sleep in my tent with me!" Naruto blurted out making Hinata faint... again.

" Hinat...Hina...? Hinata!" Shouted Naruto rather loudly that time. Hinata was wrapped up in a warm blanket with Naruto beside her. She gazed at him for a little while. She was thinking. 'Why is Naruto so close to me? And why am I in bed.' She then turned the darkest kind of red that you could find in the world, and then very expectantly fainted yet another time.

WHOOOOOOOO im glad to see that this is now up and I am workibg on ch4 as we speak

big thanks to reviewers and people who have supported me so far.

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