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Man my vacation was nice but when the public demands, it demands…here's chapter 4

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Inner Sakura and Kyubi are in Bold

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It has been a day and it was almost as if Naruto hadn't left at all. Everyone did things as they normally did before, Kiba took Akamaru for walks, Shino collected insects, Shikamaru escorted visitors from other countries, Sakura helped at the hospital and Naruto… well he trained non-stop. Although a thought was on everyone's mind.

They hadn't seen much of or none of the newcomer Jaden at all. He always stayed at his home and this bugged some people, especially people like Naruto and Kiba to no ends but they never went to his house. Or to be specific they didn't know where it was.

Later that day the members of Team 8 were walking back from a C rank mission. "Man that was cake walk" said the Dog tamer Kiba Inuzuka. "It would have been much faster if Akamaru hadn't followed us in while we were sneaking in to the hideout and alerted everyone in it" said the hooded Chunin Shino Aburamae. And behind them was Hinata Hyuga smiling at the two bickering.

They continued to walk to the village and were almost at the gate when they noticed something that they never noticed before. A small house just outside the village walls. Kiba sniffed the air "Someone lives there, we shouldn't bother them". Shino just nodded in agreement "Let's go" was all he said under his hood.

Hinata looked back at the house then to her teammates "You guys go ahead…. I want check the place out" Kiba turned to her "You sure seems like a normal place to me?" She answered "It just seems eerie to me… I won't be long… I promise" The bug master nodded again "Do as you wish, come on Kiba…" He then started to walk down the path towards Konoha. Kiba climbed on Akamaru "Alright then see you later Hinata" As the two disappeared into the gates she walked up to the house.

There were no lights on and it seemed very quiet from the outside. She went up to the door and knocked very lightly twice "Umm he-hello… anyone there?"… No answer. She then reached at the handle and noticed it was open and walked in very quietly. Shutting the door behind her

There were a few dim candles lit to make everything in the house just visible. Many scrolls and weapons cover the walls of the house. It seem like there was no walls on the house due to the amount of things on the walls

On shelves many carvings and statues of what looked like serpents lay on them, they were very well crafted and almost looked alive. She walked all around the place. It was small but comfortable, it was all one room. As she walked next to the bed she noticed a picture and was about to look at when a twig breaking caused her to hid behind the shadows of the bed.

She heard someone walk to the porch of the house and drop something then walk around the house. She activated her Byakugan but the person's chakra made it hard to tell who it was. She slowly crept outside and around the house to see who it was

She was met with a smiling face of brown hair right in front of her "Hiya" It was Jaden, she snuck into Jaden's house, Hinata's face began to glow crimson red and she fell over unconscious. Jaden just stood there for a second then started to panic. "Shoot, shoot, shoot I thought she would just jump back or try to hit me or something…Ahh what do I do???"

He starts to fan her to try and cool her cheeks down but to no avail "Come on wake up, wake up!!!" He ran in the house and got a small cup of water and poured some on her face which caused her to jump up and regain consciousness.

He sighed with relief "Phew thought I put you in a Coma of something… you ok?" She wiped the water off her face "Yea…..I'm sorry… I… I snuck into your house" She said with her cheeks slightly a tint of rose in them. She was extremely embarrassed. 'I should have known he didn't live in the village so he had to live outside of it'. Jaden looked at her confused. She started to twiddle her thumbs as she thought to her self… plus she was staring at the ground like it was the most fascinating thing in the world.

"That's fine but you sure you okay". She looked up for a quick second "Yea but your not mad?" She met his eyes for a second but then returned her gaze to the ground. Jaden smiled "No actually I knew you were here the whole time" She looked up again even more confused. "How you weren't even near here before?" He closed his eyes and grinned "Its one of my special techniques" He opened his eyes revealing them to be no longer brown but a deep green. "I can sense a person's chakra form 5 miles away".

She looked at his eyes once again. They looked even more stunning when they were this color. Jaden then got a little uncomfortable. "Umm is there something on my face?" She then snapped back to reality and looked down though now at Jaden's feet. "No…s..sorry..I got in a daze." He smiled "Its ok but I saw you were investigating so I didn't care."

She nodded still looking down "How did you know it was me though?" Jaden close his eyes and returned them to normal "When I feel a persons chakra I can differentiate between them, for example my chakra glows a shade of green like my eyes while your has a deep creamy white color to it, like your eyes" She blushed even more now then Jaden held his hand out to help her up "Do you want to come inside and dry up a bit?" She just nodded and very hesitantly took his hand and he pulled her up, then she followed him in to the house.

He made hand signs and the candles brightened up and the house was very visible now. She looked at all the scrolls and statues she had looked at before "Were these from your old home" He nodded "Yea nothing was really damaged when it happened so I took all of our secret jutsu and brought them here with me"

"I see" was her reply as she stroked one of the statues which she could clearly tell was a dragon now. "This is really well crafted" she looked over at Jaden who was smiling. "That's not a craft object" she looked at him puzzled when she felt something move under her hand and jumped back. She looked and bright red eyes were now staring at her from the shelf and the once statue was flying and landed on Jaden's shoulder.

"I….I..I..I…I thought Dragons weren't real?" He looked over grinning at her "Some people wouldn't think giant foxes exist either." She saw his logic and just nodded. She walked up to inspect the dragon. It held its neck out floating slightly and let her touch it. It let out a growl like purr and then flew onto her shoulder.

She smiled and pet again. Jaden was smiling as well "He usually doesn't like strangers, I'm surprised he likes so much" She smiled back again. Hinata felt at ease now. She liked the newcomer a lot now. He was very considerate, funny, and very at ease, almost the complete opposite of Naruto. "So you heading back into the village?" Jaden asked

She looked up "Oh yea I should be getting back" Jaden sat up "Will you allow me to escort you back home?" This made Hinata blush 'No one has ever walked me home before… not even Kiba or Shino'. "Umm… sure I don't mind" He got up and the dragon flew back to him "Well lets go then" They exited the house and Jaden held the door for her which made her blush some more. 'He's so nice'. They walked in the village and continued walking in silence for a little while.

Jaden looked around as they were walking and broke the silence "This is a really nice place". Hinata looked at him "You think so?" He smiled "Yea its small but a bustling town with lots of people and the mountain sets the image of a village perfectly". This rant caused Hinata to giggle a little "What's so funny?" Jaden asked. She stopped laughing "I never have heard someone describe Konoha like that." Jaden scratched his head and chuckled "I just appreciate those things" She smiled and looked at the Hokage Mountain. I just think of it as home and I train to protect it and my way of life"

Jaden admired her the way she felt about her home. 'If only I could have done that'. He thought to himself. By that time they had reached the Hyuga complex and the Main Branch house, Hinata's house. Jaden's jaw dropped "You live here?" She started twiddling her fingers "Um yea is it bad?" Jaden almost yelled "Are you kidding its enormous". She blushed slightly and giggled "well I'm going to go in I'll see you later umm Jaden right?" "Yea and I never got your name?" She smile "It's Hinata"

"Hinata Hyuga huh… ok got it…Ill see you later then Hinata" Jaden ran back to the main part of the village waving behind him. "Bye" Hinata waved saying it in a whisper. She felt something strange as he left. She wanted to go run after to him and talk to him more… Was she beginning to "like" him? Before she could think about it, she heard a voice come behind the wall "Well, well, well... so that's what took you so long" A boy on the back of a dog walks around the corner grinning those canines of his. "Ki-Kiba…how long were you there?" He jumped off of Akamaru. "Long enough to see that you like Jaden a lot."

She started blushing like crazy "I don't like him like that…..I…I…" Kiba put his hand on her shoulder "Hey it's ok I'm your friend so you do what you want…ill make the guy like you back if you want" She smiled and looked at him "It's fine Kiba but thanks" He let go of her and hot back on Akamaru "Well I'm gonna go tell everyone you like Jaden so see ya" Her head snapped up "What wait!!!" before she could do anything Akamaru speed off with Kiba laughing as they went. Hinata just stood there as red as a cherry

Neji walked up to her. "Hinta are you ok?" as soon as he said that she fell over and passed out again. "Damnit not again Hanabi!!!! Come out here she's unconscious again"

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Meanwhile back in the hospital Naruto lay in a bed…..again. He trained to hard after he had just got out and collapsed from exhaustion. He was sitting up with his arms crossed. He felt fine but a certain pick hair Konochi wouldn't let him leave. She walked in wearing a doctor coat and stethoscope. "Well since you're in here we might as well do your physical". Naruto looked at her puzzled "Physical?"

"Yes your physical now" she stopped and swallowed 'Why did Tsunade make me do this'. "Take off your clothes to your boxers" Naruto face went red and shocked "NANI????" put her hand to her face "Believe me I did not want to be the one to do this but Tsunade insisted I do it sense were friends… she said it would be a bonding experience" Naruto mouth was twitching with a little laughter. "I'm not sure what kind of bonding Baa-chan is talking about"

Sakura was getting a bit mad now "Look just do it so we can get this over with" Naruto just nodded and began to undress. He took all of his upper body clothes off and he turned but Sakura noticed something on his stomach. "Hey what was that?" "What?" "The thing on your stomach turn around she turned him around and he started to sweat a little "What is it?" she asked "It kind of looks like a seal" Naruto was having a panic attack in his head 'think of an excuse, think of an excuse, THINK OF AN EXCUSE!!!!' "Uhh it's a tattoo…" Sakura looked at him funny "You got a tattoo?"

He was thinking more "Yea it was kinda a spur of the moment decision, but I like it" She looked at it again the shrugged "Well if you wanted it." He smiled in his head 'She belived it… Thank god' "Close call Kit" 'NOT NOW DAMN FOX!!!!'. The Kyubi laughed at the boy's misery and faded back into his cell. Sakura took out her stethoscope and put it up against Naruto chest and checked his heartbeat. It was quickly speeding up.

She then went to his back and checked his breathing and did other procedures. She checked his eyes. "Your eyes seem to be ok" 'They're even better than ok…wait what am I saying?' After she weight and checked his height he smiled "so am I done?" but as he said this she was sweating and looked a little embarrassed. "What's wrong Sakura-chan?" She swallowed "Do… do you need me to give you a…um" He looked confused "A what?" She looked up "Hernia exam?" His eyes turned white and big. "That's were turn and cough right?" Sakura nodded very slowly.

"That's ok" "Thank you Naruto…" She scribbled something on her notepad and wiped the sweat off her brow. "Well you're done and free to go" He smiled "ok thanks Sakura-chan" he began to dress himself as she got up "Well my shifts over so Ill be heading home" He looked up as he pulled his head from in his shirt. "Hey do you mind if I walk you home".

Sakura thought about it 'you know I would usually say no buti guess Ill let him this time' "Alright meet me at the entrance 'k" "Ok" she walked out of the room leaving a smiling Naruto. He got all of his clothes back on then ran to the entrance. A minute later Sakura came around the corner and they left the hospital.

"You know you have a bad habit of going in there" Sakura noted as they walked out "Yea I can't help it, I have to keep training." Sakura just shook her head. "Well tone it down a bit I can't keep healing you everyday baka". She punched him in the arm playfully which made Naruto smile "Ill try" "Thanks" as they walked they passed a familiar white haired ninja who looked like he was almost crying.

"You okay sensei?" asked Sakura. He looked up "That was the best book of all the Icha series" Naruto and Sakura almost fell over. "Sensai we thought your depressed or something" Naruto stated. "I am depresed… depressed that the book is over" Sakura just sighs "Well I need to get home so see ya sensei…come one Naruto" "Okay bye sensei" The two walked off. Kakashi sat against the wall and watched the too talk and saw them laugh.

Under his mask he smiled. 'Well it's about time something happened between them' He looked back at his book and started over

The two nins finally reached Sakura's house. "Well you ready for tomorrow Naruto?" "Huh? Ready for what?" She laughed "The mission were going on tomorrow… I would think you would have remembered." His brain turned on "OH YEA!!! I remember now yea, my first mission in almost 3 years". She smiled "You know you barely changed in all these years and I'm glad... I would have been upset if you calmed down" He rubbed his head and laughed "Well I can't imagine myself being calm either" Sakura opened her door.

"Thanks for walking with me Naruto… Now go home and get a good night's sleep… Doctors orders." She smiled and stuck her tongue out playfully which made Naruto laugh and grin. "Yes Doctor Sakura" he gave a "nice guy" pose and jumped away. As she watched him jump the building tops she thought about him more and the mixed feelings she was having. 'Why am I thinking things like this' she thought to herself and laughed she looked back at the sunset that Naruto was running towards the sunset and with that her thoughts set as well "Will see how things turn out I guess" She walked in her house and stayed there the rest of the day.

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Phew done... chapters should come out a bit faster now since I'm back and now enemployed "sigh" so Chapter 5 will be out sooner or later...plz review...those make me go faster