Hey. Hi. I am soooooo sorry about not writing in a long time, but with school and stuff, it's hard to get stuff done. You know what it's like. So to make up for the delay, I've decided to write a chapter which tops my other stories with eight pages of rough draft. Twice as much as the others. And that doesn't include the edits I make. Enjoy

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Really.


In My Spare Time: Chapter 4: Departure

Hinata just couldn't believe it. Yesterday, she had woken up and been told by her father that she would be going with master Jiraiya and Naruto on the training mission and that she should pack. When he told her, he said that it was direct rule and that it was very important. When she had heard this, Hinata couldn't believe it, and yet, here she was, about to leave Konoha for three years with master Jiraiya, the great Toad Sage, and Naruto, her crush.

"Are you ready?" asked her sensei, Kurenai. "Do you have everything? Do you have your training gear? Rations? Money?"

"Y-yes, I have everything," Hinata weakly smiled. She was exhausted. She had been up all night packing.

"Wow Hinata," Kiba said, starring off into the distance. "You're going to be gone and stuff. It's going to be, well, different. You should write or something … you know…" Everyone turned to look at Kiba.

"Umm… Kiba," Kurenai said, giving Kiba a worried look. "Are you-"Suddenly, Kiba jumped forward and hugged Hinata, who squeaked, but allowed him to hug her.

"We're going to miss you!" Kiba sobbed

"K-kiba! I- I don't know what to think of this. Truly, I'm appalled at your behavior," Hinata said, blushing slightly.

"I don't even know what 'appalled' means!" Kiba said, sobbing.

"Wow Kiba. This is so out of character for you," Shino said. "I thought your only emotions were impatience and anger."

"Shino, be nice to Kiba," Hinata said to Shino.

"Don't worry," Kiba said, straightening up and wiping the tears of his eyes. "I'm too sad to be mad at Shino. It's just… I feel like I have to be sad for you, because we're like your family, other than your 'unaccepting' dick of a father and uptight 'honorable' cousin."

"I resent that," said the voice of Neji Hyuga. Everyone turned to see Neji walk up to them.

"Well hello Neji-san," Hinata said politely. "What brings you here?"

"Is it wrong for me to come and say goodbye to my cousin before she leaves for three years?" asked Neji in a mock-offended voice.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry Neji-san!" Hinata said, truly looking it. "I didn't mean it that way. It's always good to have you around." Neji was very taken aback by this and smiled guilty.

"Sorry Lady Hinata. I was only joking around," Neji explained. Hinata blinked a few times before mouthing 'oh' "Anyway, I did want to say goodbye to you. I would have come to you first, but I felt the need to have a…chat with Naruto."

"Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked, looking around, and spotted Naruto lying on his side, curled up into a ball, and looking as if he had seen a ghost. Hinata gasped and looked back at Neji. "What did you do to Naruto-kun?"

"Oh, nothing," Neji said causally. "I just had a little chat with him…"

5 minutes before

"Hello Naruto-san," Neji said as he walked up to the group Naruto was in.

"Huh?" Naruto said, turning around. "Oh, hey Neji. How are you?"

"I'm fine," Neji said politely. "Hey Naruto, can I have a word with you? Privately?"

"Sure," Naruto said, following Neji a little outside the group to talk alone. As soon as they were out of hearing range of everyone else, Neji turned to Naruto.

"All right Naruto, listen up. I know you're a good person, but that doesn't mean I fully trust you. If anything, and I mean ANYTHING, were to happen to Hinata, then I would break every bone in your body so fast that you wouldn't even be able to say 'ow'." Neji threatened a speechless Naruto.

"D-don't worry, Neji," Naruto said, trying to reassure him. "I won't let anything happen to Hinata. I promise." Neji still glared at Naruto.

"You better," Neji said, and then pulled out a small package that, as far a Naruto could see, held a small, circular rubber object. "Here," he said and handed it to Naruto.

Naruto took it and held it up to his face, trying to figure out what it was. "What's this?" Naruto asked curiously.

"Protection," Neji said, and then turned around and walked away. At this, though, Naruto went white.

'Protection?' Naruto thought to himself franticly. He opened the package and took out the rubber circle. As he took it out, it unfolded into a long tube. Naruto never knew much about sex or anything like that, so he didn't know exactly what it was, but he got a good enough idea due to the shape. 'He's going to juken my -?' Naruto gulped. He made a mental note to be extra nice to Hinata. He wouldn't let anything happen to her.

Present Time

"Alright," Jiraiya said clapping his hands together. "You kids said your goodbyes? Ready to go?"

Naruto looked at Jiraiya and said, "Yay! Let's go!" Then out of the corner of his eye, he caught Neji's glare. He remembered what Neji had said to him, and walked over to Hinata who was saying goodbye to her team mates, and put his hands on her shoulders and said nervously," You ready Hinata? Feel good? You're not going to feint, right? Not light-headed? You're feeling good, right?" Hinata was first shocked when

Naruto had came up behind her and grabbed her shoulders, and further shocked at how nervous he sounded. She never heard him so nervous before, except the time they went into that haunted house on a mission.

"Y-yes, I'm f-fine Naruto-kun," Hinata said, blushing slightly, wondering why he was so scared. Then she looked over and saw Neji smiling. She immediately understood. "Here, Naruto-kun. Go over with Jiraiya. I'll be over in a second. I need to have a talk with my cousin." She said very sternly.

Naruto blinked. He had never heard Hinata so mad. "O…kay…I'll just… yeah…" Naruto said, trying to conceal his surprise, but doing it poorly. He stood where he was. Hinata walked over to the smiling Neji.

"What did you do to Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked Neji sternly. Neji smile only widened.

"My, my. This may be the most angry I've ever seen you," Neji joked.

"You better not have hurt him in any way," She said, glaring at Neji, so harshly that if looks could kill, Neji's death would be slow and very painful.

"Calm down Hinata," Neji reassured her. "Naruto is physically fine. Mentally… let's think of this positively. Now you have a friend how looks out for you."

"Neji!" Hinata nearly yelled, grabbing her laughing cousin.

"Hey! I would think you would be happy, having him give you attention and all. I mean, with the right motivation, which I gave him, he has become your personal servant. You should try him out sometime." He snickered at the joke he made. Hinata blushed madly.

"I-I h-have to g-go," Hinata said, walking away, looking as red as a tomato.

"Now that's the Hinata I know," Neji laughed, noticing the stutter in her voice. Hinata just ran over to Naruto and Jiraiya.

"L-let's go," she said uneasily.

"Great!" Jiraiya more or less yelled. "You were taking forever. Well, now that you're ready, wave goodbye. You won't see any of Konoha for awhile." They looked behind them at the gates. There were huge, but reminded them of the big adventure they had ahead. They smiled.

Then they looked at the people who were smiling and waving goodbye to them. Their friends and family. But now they waved good bye. For three years. They waved and smiled, too. Then they turned around and walked on.

The adventure had begun

10 hours later (About 6:00 P.M.)

"Are we there yet?" Naruto asked for the five hundredth time. Jiraiya sighed. He pulled out a little book which was full of crossed out numbers, and crossed out the number 499,999 and wrote 500,00. Then he said the same thing he said to Naruto the times before.

"No," Jiraiya said plainly.

"Aww," Naruto whined. "Really?" Jiraiya sighed.

"Naruto, look around," Jiraiya commanded, "and tell me what you see." Naruto did as instructed and looked around.

"Trees," Naruto said boredly.

"Yes," Jiraiya said, "trees. And what do you think that means?"

"That we're lost," Naruto said. He was tired, and didn't feel like playing Jiraiya's game. Jiraiya turned to Naruto and hit him on the top of his head.

"We're not lost!" Jiraiya said. "We're on a path!"

"Well why is it taking so long?" Naruto nearly yelled. He was getting angry at how slow they were moving. "WE are we walking? We can't we run?"

"Yes," Jiraiya sighed, "but, a ninja must practice patience and ability to limit one's self. That's your first lesson of this trip."

"No it's not!" Naruto yelled. "You're just being lazy!" Jiraiya glared at Naruto and hit him on the head.

"If I was testing you two on your patience, the only one that would pass is Hinata," Jiraiya said sternly. Naruto blinked. He'd forgotten about Hinata. He looked back to see her walking along quietly not too far behind them.

"Oh yeah," Naruto said, smiling at Hinata, who blushed. "Sorry Hinata. I forgot you were there."

"I-it's ok," Hinata said quietly. "I'm fine." This made Naruto grin.

"That's great," he said, flashing her his trademark grin, causing her to blush harder and turn away. They walked on for a little longer without complaining before Hinata started to yawn and Naruto looked up and realized how late it was.

"Hey Pervy Sage," Naruto said. "When are we stopping? It's getting late and Hinata is starting to yawn." Hinata blushed and Jiraiya looked over his shoulder. He knew Hinata wasn't going to complain about all the walking.

"I-I-I'm f-fine! Honestly, you d-don't need to f-fret over me," Hinata said. Naruto of course, didn't pay attention.

"C'mon Hinata, we've been walking all day. You can't still have energy," Naruto said with a disbelieving look.

"Then why don't you carry her?" Jiraiya suggested. At this both Naruto and Hinata blushed (or in Hinata's case, just blushed harder.)

"Umm…I-I…well… ok, I guess…" Naruto said. Before she could do anything, Hinata, who was too tired to notice Naruto crouch down in front of her, tripped onto his back. She made a squeak sound at the sudden change. Naruto grabbed her under her legs and made sure she was securely on his back before standing up.

"You comfortable?" he asked her. Once she had overcome the shock and realized he was talking to her, she whispered a very quiet 'yes.' "Good," he said smiling. "By the way, your yawns are pretty cute."

Now if Naruto had looked back or notice Hinata's grip loosen or notice her head fall onto his shoulder, he would have known that she had just feinted. But he didn't…because he's Naruto…silly Naruto.

They walked on for about an hour before Jiraiya looked over at Naruto.

"How are you doing?" Jiraiya asked. Naruto looked over.

"Okay," Naruto said. "Why?"

"I don't know. You just look tired," Jiraiya said, sounding just a little concerned. It was true. Naruto was tired, but Jiraiya knew the kid would walk across the five nations without stopping for a rest if he had the patience for it.

"I'm fine," Naruto said. Even if he was tired, he wouldn't admit it. "But if we're close, I wouldn't mind some sleep."

"Good," Jiraiya said, "Because we're here." Naruto blinked. Without noticing it, Naruto had walked into a town. The town was bright with lots of shop lights. It was obviously bigger than a town because it was mostly comprised of tall buildings. Naruto wondered how he hadn't noticed it.

"Where are we?" Naruto asked, starring around in amazement.

"The village of lights," Jiraiya said. "I imagine you can see why." Naruto nodded. They continued to walk until they came to a large building with a sign on the front that said "Hotel."

"Oh, good," Naruto sighed. He was tired and Hinata was getting heavy (due to how tired he was.) They walked through the doors into the hotel. Naruto was amazed. The hotel looked incredible. The floor was made of marble. The furniture was white and pink, and there were flowers everywhere. "Wow. This place is awesome, but what's with the colors?"

"Let's go get our rooms," Jiraiya said, dodging the question. At the sound of voices the clerk looked up. At the sight of Jiraiya, he smiled.

"Jiraiya!" said the clerk, greeting him with a great smile. Jiraiya looked over and when he recognized the face, smiled, too.

"Russell! Good to see you!" Jiraiya said and walked over to the clerk and shook his hand. "How are you?"

"Great!" said Russell, showing him his left hand, "thanks to you! If it weren't for your advice…I… It's just great to see you again!"

"You're welcome," Jiraiya said smiling. "Anyway, we need rooms."

"Yes! Of course!" Russell said, snapping to attention with a smiling face. "How many rooms and how long?"

"Two rooms and two weeks," Jiraiya said

'Two rooms?' Naruto asked himself in his head. 'Oh yeah! Hinata gets a room.'

"One for you and one for them, huh?" Russell asked.

"That sounds about right," Jiraiya said, smiling again.

'What?' Naruto thought wildly.

"I can see why. The way she's snuggling into his neck… you can almost see the chemistry," Russell smiled. There was a loud 'eep' and Hinata jumped off of Naruto's back. When they all turned to look at her, she was blushing harder than ever.

"Umm…here…have some room keys…" Russell said awkwardly, breaking the silence and handing them some room keys.

"Thanks. Let's go," Jiraiya said, grabbing the two and dragging them along as they searched for their rooms. 'I have to do something! It can't go down like this! I haven't messed with them yet! It hasn't even been a day!' Jiraiya thought. Jiraiya set them on their feet and had them walk. They walked along a little further, looking at the room numbers as they went.

"Anyway," Jiraiya said, trying to distract them from thinking about what had just happened," do you guys want to order some food? You must be pretty hungry." Naruto brightened up at this.

"Yeah! That sounds awesome! I'm starving," Naruto said, slipping into his own world of his favorite foods, consisting mostly of ramen. Hinata giggled at Naruto's small antics over food. The giggle brought his attention back to Hinata. "Oh yeah! Hinata, are you okay?"

Hinata blushed lightly when he talked to her, but was otherwise confused. "W-what do you mean Naruto-kun?" She asked.

"Well you were out cold for a while, and then you just jumped up like you had been awake for a long time…" Naruto said, then realizing what he had just said and started to think of that possibility. He didn't think for long though because, feeling panicked, quickly hugged Naruto in the spur of the moment.

"I-I'm f-fine," Hinata said. "Thank y-you for c-caring." Hinata stepped back from the hug and, blushing deeply, smiled. After the shock of being "surprise hugged" had worn off, he smiled back.

"We're here," Jiraiya said, breaking up their little conversation. Then he handed Hinata the room key and Naruto their bags.

"Hey, why'd you give me my bag? I thought I was sleeping in your room," Naruto asked.

"Umm… I was just giving it to you now so that I don't have to give it to you later," Jiraiya lied. He had actually wanted a room to himself, but in order to get that, he had to get rid of Naruto.

"Oh, ok," Naruto said, and grabbed Hinata's stuff. Hinata, who was still too tired to do anything, had fallen asleep while sitting against the wall, so she didn't resist when he took away her stuff. He walked into the room to set their stuff down.

Jiraiya, who didn't waste a single second that Naruto wasn't looking, quickly pulled out a piece of paper with seal on it and attached it to the inside of the door. He straightened up just as Naruto turned around to come get Hinata. He reached down to get her, but was suddenly caught in a daze, just watching her sleeping so peacefully.

"What's wrong?" Jiraiya asked, knowing exactly what was going on but didn't want to spoil the moment and instead decided to take it as an opportunity to embarrass him.

"Nothing," Naruto said. "It's just… she looks so… peaceful." He continued to gaze upon her with a sort of awe. He continued to stare, caught in his own little world of his own.

"Do you think she's cute," Jiraiya asked, hoping he would do some kind of unconscious confession or something. Which he did.

"Yeah…" said Naruto non-consciously, not really realizing what he was agreeing to. Then Jiraiya's struck him. "I-I m-mean no!"

"So you think she's ugly?" Jiraiya asked, smiling.

"No! I just mean… umm…" Naruto thought for a second, trying to think of an excuse for his blunder.

"Well you have to think she's one or the other. Do you think she's cute or ugly?" Jiraiya asked, trying hard not to laugh.

"I… well… I guess cute…" Naruto blushed sheepishly.

"Do you like her?" Jiraiya asked as seriously as he could. At this, Naruto blushed so hard, he could be considered in league with Hinata. Then, Naruto reached down, picked up Hinata, and ran away into the room to avoid further embarrassment. At this, Jiraiya fell on the floor laughing.

Naruto ran into the room and set Hinata down. He was so glad Hinata wasn't awake, or else that could have been really embarrassing.

When Naruto turned around, Jiraiya was leaning against the door, smiling at him, which brought his attention to the piece of paper on the door.

"What's that?" Naruto asked, pointing at the paper, noticing the symbol on it.

"A seal," Jiraiya said calmly.

"A seal?" Naruto asked, confused.

"I believe that's what I said," he said, smiling.

"Why?" Naruto asked.

"I made it myself so that anyone who is a virgin cannot touch it." Jiraiya said, giving Naruto a big smile.

"What!" Naruto yelled, then suddenly confused. "Wait. Why are you putting it on Hinata's door?"

"To keep you guys in," Jiraiya said and then closed the door while saying, "have a nice night."

"What?" Naruto yelled, and jumped at the door. As soon as the door closed, the seal turned blue. Then Naruto hit it.

When Hinata woke up, it was to hear someone yell 'what.' Next thing she knew, she heard a loud zapping sound. Suddenly, Naruto flew over her head, and smashed into the wall. Hinata looked over the side of the bed to see a blackened Naruto. He looked like he had just been lit on fire.

She then casually asked him, "Are you staying in here?" Naruto opened his eyes and looked at the Hyuga princess before sitting up and saying, "I guess."

"But t-there's only o-one bed," Hinata said, starting to get nervous. Naruto then jumped to his feet and looked for himself. She was right. There was only one bed.


There, I'm finally done. IT took me long enough. I was busy with homework and stuff, but I could finally do it. Hey, I write this stuff out ahead of time (Had horrible writer's block for awhile) but if you guys have any suggestions, I'm all for them. It would be great to hear how you guys think I should do it. I might even use some ideas. We'll see.

R&R please.