A Living Nightmare

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I hope this latest chapter will be interesting. Remember to read and review. This story won't be more than ten chapters long.

Chapter 4: Akatsuki Attack? Or Something else Entirely?

One week later Hinata Hyuuga sat in front of her dresser as she brushed her hair and readied to go out. She loved going out and chatting with her friends. She had retired from being a ninja before age twenty and now her friends were almost exclusively from the clan. She was never very close to Sakura or Ino. She got along well enough with Tenten who was dating Neji and dropping hints of an overdue marriage.

Her former teammates however were almost impossible to track down. Shino had retreated into his work and was almost always off with his clan or out on missions. Kiba was obsessed with animals to a point of irritation and was always out trying to find out new things once not on an assignment or mission. Plus they disagreed about her decision to retire and sometimes argued.

But the person she longed to see more of was Naruto. She couldn't help but feel a pang of jealousy when she heard about him helping Ino. She'd never want to be in the female blonde's situation in a million years. But having Naruto making regular visits to help around the house. Hinata would love that. He rarely came by the Hyuuga clan's area. She met him more times on the street and even that was rare.

"Are you ready Hinata-sama?" a servant asked outside the door, "do you need any assistance?"

"No, I'm fine," Hinata said sweetly, "you can go rest now."

"Thank you," she said and left.

Twenty minutes later Hinata felt ready to go. She couldn't wait to show off her new dress.

Suddenly there was a scream. Hinata froze and ran for the door. When she opened it she saw smoke everywhere and felt faint. She heard more screams as she slammed the door.

"I have to get to Hokage Tsunade," Hinata said and did a jutsu she hardly remembered.

She disappeared and reappeared in the middle of the street. Almost in tears she started calling for help. She knew her jutsu hadn't gotten her anywhere near the Hokage.

"Hinata?" Tenten ran forward as a group started to gather, "what's wrong?" she asked upon seeing a crying but tipsy looking Hinata.

"Someone attacked…I got out while I could…the gas…" Hinata told her then fainted.

Tenten shoved her ice-cream into a bystanders hand and bent to pick Hinata up. "Let's get you to the Hokage."

Ino's orgasm finally came and Sasuke rose up and kissed her. Sex was one of the few things in their marriage that there was no complaining about. Both lay back breathing hard and Sasuke soon rolled over unto his side and fell asleep.

Ino sat up and watched him. In sleep Sasuke looked completely different. No way was this sleeping angel the father of six children only birthed to revive a stagnant clan. No way did he mistreat his wife and attack her often for not being able to have more children. No way. But that was reality and right now was just a Kodac moment that would soon turn dark and dreary all over again.

"I can't live just to have babies for a virtually dead clan," Ino said sadly lying back, "and since I'm barren now….I need more to do with my life," she said, "I need a bigger purpose."

"You have a deeper purpose," a voice declared suddenly in the dark.

Ino screamed and Sasuke was on his feet with kunai in hand and his sharingan on at it's strongest. He even turned on the lamp covering him and wife in a dim but shiny glow.

"I apologize," Kakashi said stepping forward and out of the dark, "Naruto isn't very subtle," he added.

"Naruto," Ino snarled at the former mystery voice while Sasuke sighed.

"We're under alert," Kakashi told them, "Sasuke you're needed immediately," he stated, "you're to head out with one of the North West bound teams to intercept approaching Akatsuki ninjas."

Ino gasped in horror. The Akatsuki had some of the most lethal shinobi imaginable.

Sasuke nodded and got dressed. After giving Ino a quick kiss on the cheek, he and Kakashi were gone.

"Aren't you going?" Ino asked a remaining Naruto who immediately went beet red.

"Um," Naruto said softly, "I'm…I'm assigned guarding duty," he decided to say, "for you and the kids."

"Guarding duty?" Ino asked not believing him, "they'd have Ambu around this village since this house has future Uchiha ninjas," she pointed out.

Naruto hung his head.

"Tsunade put me on nanny duty," Naruto confessed.

"Nanny duty!" Ino shouted.

"When I suggested it before she nearly bust my head open," Naruto whined, "now when we're under attack suddenly it's ok."

"Do you think it will be a full scale attack?" Ino asked worriedly.

"I'm not sure," Naruto said and he immediately felt guilty about being so gun ho earlier, of course no one really wanted an attack to happen.

"Maybe we should check on the kids," Ino suggested and rose out of the bed, "I'm so sorry!" she screamed when Naruto went bright red upon seeing her nakedness.

"Um," Naruto said unable to say anything else.

Ino covered herself with a sheet and urged Naruto to go ahead without her. She then sighed and slipped on her lacy pale blue nightgown. But decided it was too racy and sheer and grabbed a nearby pink silk robe to cover it. Then she took a deep breath and headed out to find Naruto.

"Naruto," a small voice called, "are you staying the night?"

"I'm on special duty Yaso, go back to sleep," Nauto said.

"Stay forever," Yaso said with a yawn.

Ino gasped as she peeked in and Yaso hid under the covers.

"Just go to sleep champ," Naruto said carefully and slipped out.

"He rarely talks," Ino said sadly, "he says one word a week."

Naruto nodded. "He's just shy with words," he tried to say since Yaso did enjoy playing a lot.

"Kane hates me and Zen tries to hold everything together," Ino said, "they're triplet boys who look alike but couldn't be more different."

"Well you finally have a blonde in Uma," Naruto joked, "that's different too," he said and Ino giggled, "don't worry about it, Kane hates me too."

Both went into the dining room and sat down. Naruto cooked instant chicken ramen and soon both were eating steaming bowls.

"You need to go out Ino," Naruto said, "I know you're retired but you need something to do besides watching babies grow," he added.

"Was anyone injured in the attack?" Ino asked avoiding his words.

"They broke into the Hyuuga home, Hinata barely got out before the gas knocked her out," Naruto revealed.

"That's horrible!" Ino cried, "will she be ok?"

"Yeah, Tsunade said so when I wanted to dash off and see her," Naruto said, "I've not been around her much," he noted, "if anything..." he left his sentence hanging.

"Take her out to dinner," Ino suggested, "in fact, how about we all have dinner at a nice restaurant, Sasuke's treat?"

"Sasuke?" Naruto asked incredulously.

"He's gone so often I'm practically dancing alone in his money," Ino stated.

Naruto grinned. "Really?"


It was dawn when Sasuke returned. The attack was a ruse. To put the whole of Konoha on edge. The Akatsuki sceeded. Sasuke only got to go home because agreed he needed to check up on his family. He needed to return right away though.

Sasuke walked into his bedroom.

"What the hell?"

Ino and Naruto were on the ground playing twister. Yaso and Zen were cheering them on.

"It looks fishy daddy," Kane said from the corner where he sulked and glared.

"Yes it does," Sasuke said as the other two adults blushed and disentangled themselves, "Naruto, we need to talk."