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Chapter 5
The next day, the four young Konoha Jounins were up and fully recharged; they checked out of the Inn they stayed at and began walking through the quiet and cool streets of Suna.
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Coincidentally, the Kage of the hidden village "happen" to pass by along with his two siblings who were grinning from ear to ear; the young Kazekage simply looked annoyed.
"Ohayo Gaara!" Naruto waved. Gaara nodded in response; the four kunoichis were laughing nervously, Kankuro was snickering from behind Temari. Naruto looked crestfallen for a second but returned back to his hyper, cheery self in a split of a second.
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"I'm assuming Temari-san and Kankuro-san made you to stop by and see us off?" Sakura giggled. Gaara nodded slowly; the three Konoha girls giggled even more. Gaara sighed irritably.
Once the girls calmed down Gaara gave no time to ask the group and started walking off to the exit of the village. The six ninjas sighed; leave it to Gaara to ruin the somewhat joyful moment. After standing there awkwardly, they decided to follow Gaara.
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Once at the gates Temari hugged each of the girls of the Konoha team goodbye. Naruto shook hands with the two brothers. Kankuro uneasily hugged the group goodbye. Gaara smirked and nodded in farewell.
The four Konoha ninjas nodded before dashing away from the Sand Siblings; they began leaping into the sand until they reached a familiar rock. Sakura gave the team some time to rest.
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"Okay, so far we've managed to get 12 miles away from the village gates in," Sakura announced, trying to remember the time they left the village, "20 minutes," Hinata said, completing Sakura's statement; the said girl smiled as thanks.
After roughly ten minutes, the team headed out once again.
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Soon enough it was already sun set and they managed to arrive at the borders of Konoha and Suna in a span of a day, pretty good if they say so themselves. Naruto suggested making camp at a nearby clearing he saw earlier.
Sakura ordered Naruto to scout the area first before they set the camp for tonight. The blonde boy nodded and jumped to a tree branch across from where they were.
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Five minutes since Naruto left the group he came back grinning; "All clear," he said, doing the "good guy" pose. The girls, except Hinata, rolled their eyes; Hinata giggled to herself.
Team Sakura set up their campsite; Sakura went out to fish their dinner, Hinata put up the tents, Michiko looked for firewood, Naruto helped the blue haired girl in collecting the wood.
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With Naruto and Michiko
"You should've stayed at base to help Hina-chan with the tents," Michiko said irritably; Naruto kept ranting about his plans on how to ask the Hyuuga heiress to a date, and currently Michiko didn't like the ideas.
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"Then how about this: I casually come up to her and ask her if she wants to go to Ichiraku's with me," Naruto said, for the sixth time. Michiko grunted, not bothering to respond.
"Take her somewhere romantic," Michiko suggested, picking up another twig. "Yeah, but where?" Naruto countered handing Michiko a fairly large twig. The blue haired kunoichi shrugged.
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"I think this is enough," Michiko muttered, heading back to the campsite, not bothering to call Naruto who was still ranting out his plans to ask Hinata out.
He didn't notice Michiko leave and continued to talk, "Then I'll- hey! Where'd you go? Hello?"
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Back at the campsite
Sakura already came back with the fish and Hinata was finished with the tents.
Michiko came out from the bushes carrying the firewood; Naruto wasn't with her, making the violet haired girl worry. Michiko caught this and smiled reassuringly, "He's fine." All the lavender eyed girl did was nod.
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The fire was already up and the fish was already cooking when a certain orange suited ninja stumbled out of the bushes, startling the three kunoichis.
Sakura and Michiko were about to throw shurikens/senbon needles at the intruder when they noticed the trespasser was clad in orange and put their weapons away. Hinata rushed over to the fallen blonde.
The Hyuuga heiress knelt beside the blonde Jounin, "D-daijoubu N-naruto-kun?" Hinata worriedly asked, helping the blonde up. She received muffled thanks from the orange suited ninja.
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Hinata helped her long time crush sit down next to the fire and handed him the cooked fish. Naruto smiled wearily at the girl before eating the fish. The girls heard incoherent words coming from the blonde boy; something about hot water and noodles. The girls needn't push the subject further knowing that he'll just rant about his favorite food: ramen.
After eating, Naruto volunteered to take the first shift of watching for the night until dusk. Hinata reluctantly agreed while the other two girls shrugged.
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"Wake one of us up if you decide to head back to your tent for some shut eye," Sakura instructed before disappearing to her tent. The blonde boy nodded in understanding and took his post. Michiko followed Sakura's lead and also disappeared to her tent.
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All that's left was a nervous looking Hinata and an edgy Naruto.
"O-oyasumi Naruto-kun; th-thanks for t-taking the first sh-shift tonight," Hinata stammered before quickly kissing the blonde boy's cheek and disappearing quickly to her own tent.
Naruto was shocked by the sudden happenings and unconsciously placing a hand over to where Hinata's lips were at just a while ago and smiled dreamily.
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Inside Hinata's tent the said girl was under her the covers of her sleeping bag smiling a somewhat victorious smile.
"I just kissed Naruto-kun!" she screamed in her mind.
"Yeah but it was just on the cheek," her Inner voice countered; Hinata's eyebrows furrowed but smiled afterwards.
"Still, a kiss is a kiss!" she shot back, not listening to what her Inner started saying.
She smiled contentedly and started drifted off to sleep.
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On the other hand, outside, a happy Naruto was dancing freely and silently.
"Hinata-chan kissed me! Dattebayo!" he kept chanting in his mind; his inner dancing around in circles, throwing confetti all over the place. The outer Naruto was also dancing, crossing out the confetti throwing.
Not too long, he stopped dancing and plopped down on a log near the fireplace, a childish grin on his handsome features. He was also panting due to the nonstop dance routine he just did.
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