Heyy guys. Guess who is back. I am sorry for not being able to upload as frequently as I used to, but I have just been too busy with life to be able to write. I really appreciate how you guys are loving the story, and I will try my best to write as much as possible of it. So why don't we continue on with the story.

- Chapter 7 -

It had been a week since Naruto and Hinata had come for visit to Tsunade and Jiraya, and for the whole week that they have been here, the morning jog had become a routine for the two of them. Each morning they would get up early and jog up to the same location they had gone to the first time, enjoying the sunrise together before coming back and busying themselves with activities for the rest of the day. Naruto would mostly train with Jiraya, and when he was not doing that, he would feed the animals of the small farm after he received the order from Tsunade. Meanwhile Hinata would spend the day around Tsunade, helping her around the kitchen and taking care of the large variations of flowers and herbs in Tsunade's possession, getting to learn more about them.

So today they woke up as per usual, getting ready and going out. During the week, Naruto had decided to slow his pace a bit, so that Hinata could keep up with him. Taking the usual route through the woods, they reached their destination just as the sun was starting to show on the horizon. Sitting down on the cold rock, they started catching their breath.

"You know, one of these days, I will beat you." Said Hinata taking heavy breaths to fill her lungs with air.

"Sure you can." Said Naruto laughing as he laid on his back, looking up at the sky as it was taking a bluer color.

"You think I can't?" Said Hinata looking at him.

"Don't take it personally Hinata, but I still haven't met anyone that can compete with my stamina." Replied Naruto, turning to look towards her, meeting her gaze. "But you can try anyway." Said Naruto, giving his trademark wide grin.

"Where does all your stamina come from anyway? Ramen?" Said Hinata giggling.
"Hell yeah. Ramen is the closest thing to the food of gods." Shouted Naruto, then laughing happily. "But only half of it is from Ramen. The other half comes from my mother's side. Believe it or not, she used to be even more competitive than me when she was our age."

"No way. Mrs. Kushina being competitive? She is always so collected and calm." Said Hinata, not believing what Naruto just said. But she got even more confused when he started laughing as hard as possible, rolling on the floor. "What is it? What's wrong?"
"My mother? Collected and calm? Hinata, I think you are mistaking my mother for yours. Mom is the most hot tempered female you could ever know. She gets angry most of the time about the most tiny things. I can't remember how many times I got thrown things on my head because I said her cooking could get a few improvements."

"And what would she throw at you if she heard you say this?" Said Hinata as she saw Naruto shudder a bit visibly and his face turned pale.
"I don't even want to imagine." Said Naruto before standing up and extending his hand to Hinata. She accepted it, getting up, then redoing her ponytail, sorting her hair a bit.

They continued walking back slowly. Then Hinata remembered something she had wanted to ask him ever since they had gotten here, but always forgot.

"Naruto, why are you training with Jiraya? It doesn't look like you are just training to keep your body in shape." Says Hinata, causing Naruto to stop and she stopped beside him too. It got silent between them after Hinata asked that. "It's okay if yo..."

"It's because I do MMA cage fights." Said Naruto looking distantly as he said that. Hinata was waiting for him to turn towards her and laugh, telling her it was a joke, but that never came.

"Wait, Whatt? You do cage fights? Why would you do that for?" Said Hinata, looking deeply at him.
"Because I enjoy it. I like the adrenaline of it and I like fighting others to see who is stronger." Said Naruto turning to her.
"You like beating others, just to see if you are stronger than them?" Said Hinata, look of disbelief in her eyes.
"It's not exactly like that Hinata. Guys I go to the cage with, they know what they are getting into as do I. They get hurt and so do I." Said Naruto raising his voice a bit unintentionally.

Noticing his raise of voice, Hinata looked down. "Do your parents know about this?" Asked Hinata.
"They do. They even stopped me once, when they first learned about it, 2 years ago." Said Naruto leaning against a tree nearby and sliding down until he was sitting on the floor. "I got an even worse beating from mom than I did in the prior match." Said Naruto laughing but Hinata didn't find that funny at all.

"2 Years ago? So you are telling me, you have been doing this since you were 17?" Asked Hinata and Naruto just nodded. "Naruto, why would you do something like this? Do you wanna get yourself hurt? Or maybe worse?" Said Hinata, worry never leaving her sound.

"BECAUSE I FUCKING LIKED IT HINATA!? I LOVE THE FIGHTING, THE ADRENALINE AND EVERYTHING IT BEING BETTER THAN THE OTHER PERSON." Naruto yelled hard in front of Hinata, causing her to shudder, not knowing Naruto had this inside of him and bringing tears to her eyes, as she turned away running away from him in the direction of the house.

Being filled by rage, Naruto slammed his fist on the side of a tree, and then back on the other side, repeatedly until his knuckles started bleeding and he needed a breath. Turning around, he slid down the tree, laying at the bottom of it. He stayed there for some time until he felt a few drops of rain hit his face. Getting up, he walked back to the house, his knuckles lightly bleeding. As he reached the porch, he saw Hinata waiting there with her bags in front of her.

"What's with the bags?" Asked Naruto as the raining started to pick up.

"You are driving me back to my home." said Hinata not looking directly to him.
"Now?" Asked Naruto as he looked at her but she still wasn't facing him.

"Yes. Now." Said Hinata picking up her bags in her hands.

"Okay, fine. Let me change and grab my bags and keys." Said Naruto as he sighed and went upstairs.

A few minutes later, Naruto came back with his bag on his hands and his knuckles bandaged up again, with a few red spots on top of them. Tsunade and Jiraya were behind him. Opening the car, he shoved his bag inside the trunk and Hinata followed soon after. Bidding their goodbyes to the older pair, they got into the car and they drove off.

As they continued to drive, the rain started pouring even heavier over them, as the wipers of the car could get enough of it away from the glass. Neither of them said a word to each other as Naruto just kept focusing on the road and Hinata laid her head on the window, her eyes half closed. Seeing as Naruto was going to keep driving through the deep rain and not stop, she decided to be the grown up.

"Naruto. Stop the car. You can't drive through this rain." Said Hinata not turning to look at him.
"No. I can get us through this." Said Naruto.

"No you can't. Just stop it already before you hurt someone." Said Hinata raising her voice.

"I WON'T HURT ANYBODY AS LONG AS YOU DON'T DISTURB ME!?" Shouted Naruto turning to look at her.

"I'm trying you to get to do what's best for everyone" Said Hinata yelling back at him.
"And since when do you know what's best for me?" Naruto kept on yelling, no longer paying attention to the road and speeding up the car.

"Naruto..."

"You can't tell me how to live my life. I'm NOT a child." Shouted Naruto again.

"Naruto... WATCH OUT!?" Screamed Hinata pointing at a huge light coming straight for them and a loud sound of horn following it.

Through the shouting, Naruto hadn't realized that he had gone into the opposite lane, heading straight for a large truck. Trying to get back into his lane, he hit his brakes hard and tilted to the right. The car slid, drifting right but not completely clear as the truck hit the backside of the car, sending it rolling from where it came from, as all they remembered before their world went dark was the loud horn of the truck.

- END of Chapter 7

Sorry guys that I haven't updated in a long long time but I have been really busy. And sorry yet again for the short chapter, but it will set up things for later on and it also answered a question or two from earlier chapters ;)

So I hope you guys enjoyed it and make sure to let me know what you thought of it.