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Ok. So after a really long time thinking about it, I realize that my brain is not going to be able to write this chapter unless I can include every thing that has happened in the manga. So sorry if you haven't been keeping up but unless you do want this chapter… you will just have to deal and hopefully enjoy!
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The thunder storms lasted all night, Naruto watched them from his bedroom window and Hinata saw them from her favorite chair in the living room. They had both fallen asleep where they sat to watch. And in the morning they both woke up to one of the most spectacular suns rises ever. It was orange and pink and had golden flecks shining through the clouds. It was gorgeous only seconded by the sun rise they saw together on a mission.
Naruto got out of his apartment and went to take a walk, as well as some milk. In steed of immediately going to the store he found himself wandering around and he was soon at his favorite swing at the academy. His brain started to remember every thing that had happened to him since he decided to be a ninja, at a very young age he knew he wanted to be a ninja. They had told him his parents died at the hands of enemy ninja, now at sixteen he knew what had happened to his dad, he was the Yodame Hokage. He still didn't know what had happened to his mother, it got under his skin worse than if she was just dead, could she still be alive? Tsunade would know but she wasn't stable enough to talk to yet. Sasuke had yet to be found, it seems the rumor of him becoming an akaski member was true. Naruto had so many questions for Sasuke.
She found him at the academy; he was looking down, with his shoulders hunched forward and his hands wrapped around themselves between his legs. The worst part of it though was that his eyes were grey looking, bleak, dull and removed all the things that Naruto wasn't.
"Naruto-kun . . . are you okay?" she went and knelt down beside him, touching his shoulder as she did.
Her touch snapped him out of it. "Oh! Hi Hinata!" he hid his pain behind a false fox grin.
"Naruto, stop smiling if you don't mean it." She said firmly "It makes me feel like a traitor to our friendship when you won't tell me what is upsetting you." She looked down and said kindly. "Is there something I can do to help?" She looked up at him "I'll do anything I possibly can." A fierce determination showed through her words.
Naruto smiled softly, he often forgot how much Hinata cared for him. "I ah…" He sighed "what do you think Sasuke is thinking? It's almost been four years since he left. I have to wonder if he ever intends to come home."
"Naruto do you think that Sasuke wants to come home?"
"I know I would want to." He said defensively "I mean this is my home, this is where I have people who care for me and want me near them. The only place I can get ramen this good. Kakashi and Sakura are here and you…" he looked at her "Your always there for me."
"And you were always there for Sasuke even when he didn't want you there." She giggled just a little bit. "Just as he was there for you even when you didn't want him." "At the end of the day he still has to remember that." She sighed "he just has things he needs to get done before he can come back." She looked down. "You had things you needed to get done before you could come back. And look, you have completely turned Konoha upside down."
He laughed, "More like destroyed it!"
"Well I was trying to be nice considering that I already snapped at you today."
He looked back down "what do you think that Pain and Jiraiya meant for me to do? They entrusted the safety of the world to me, I am now the one who is supposed to bring peace to the world. How can I if I can't even bring back one of my friends? I'm not a diplomat! Or even a peaceful person!"
She stopped him. "The world doesn't need another diplomat who will make a mountain out of a mole hill or a peaceful person who doesn't get involved in any thing, just because it's against there morals! We need for people to actually care about what happens to there neighbor and will lend there strength to those people. We need a leader who is not afraid of change and is fearless and indifferent to those who would say other wise just because it would make them uncomfortable. Some one who will hang the polite niceties that are holding us back from real progress! Some one who will look out for today and tomorrow and learn from the past not live in it! We need some one who will fiercely care for the little guy and who is no afraid to tell the corporate leaders to go shove it!" she put her hand over her mouth and blushed, speaking through her hand she continued. "A true leader will lead the people without any special techniques or flourishes but by a simple 'this way' and with only two words spoken the people will know that he cares about them even more than they do. A leader is not a true leader until he not only cares about the people but is able to lead them forward." She looked deep into his eyes, her pale lavender eyes showed a fiery love and passion for what she said and believed in.
That same look, exactly like yesterday, that sent pleasant shivers down his spine. "You know that when ever you look at me that way I always believe every word that you say." He tried to recall what he was trying to explain. "I had this dream once; it showed this beautiful woman who made me feel like conquering the world was possible. When ever you look at me like that I always remember that dream." He didn't say what else he was thinking, that that woman was the woman he was going to marry. "Do you think I can become that person?"
"I don't think that you need to become anything that you already aren't. Jiraiya and Pain both already saw that you had all of these amazing qualities and more! Not only that but you are still only sixteen, what has taken years for most people to accomplish you have done in only sixteen years along with having no support group or millions of dollars at you finger tips."
"Hinata why is it always you who knows exactly the right thing to say to me when ever I am feeling like this." He smiled at her.
Her heart began to do a back flip "I've practiced a lot." She said under her breath.
He was already up and across the street. "Hinata I'll take you out to ramen. So come on and hurry up! I'm so hungry! If you don't hurry up I'll just have to carry you there!" she still stood there stunned. So he reached around her and picked her up effortlessly and hoisted her up and over his shoulder.
She was a tomato color as she said "Naruto-kun what are you doing" in a breathless tone.
"Taking you to Ichiraku of course!" he was laughing the whole time.
"Why in this manner?" she said
"Because I got rid of the polite niceties that held me back from progress!" They both began to laugh even harder.
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They went to the park after lunch, in the heat of the day it was good to stay under the cool shade of the oaks. Hinata sat herself down against a tree. Naruto plopped himself down right next to her, immediately afterwards he began to play with her hair. She turned and placed her back against his chest from the side. They both found themselves asleep together, because they stayed up all night to watch the thunder storms.
The clouds started to gather, they slowly crept across the sky till all was covered with a dark grey blanket. There was a chill in the air and the warm air that had lulled them to sleep earlier now brought them huddled together from the cold. They didn't wake up until the rain started, first gentle then violent in there assaults against there body heat.
"Hinata I think its time to get out of the rain." He said lifting her up off the ground.
"Ya" she said
He then made a shadow clone that went to get the milk he neglected to get earlier. Again scooped her up and began to run home.
"Naruto-kun I can walk myself."
"It's faster this way" and they were there at his apartment only a few seconds later.
He set her down and let her in first "Sorry about the mess." He said as he slipped his spotted boxers into a near by drawer. He went into the kitchen saying "Sit any where you want" She heard some clanking around "I'll make some tea". She decided to sit at the small table with two chairs.
Later he brought out two cups of instant ramen "I didn't have any tea" he said as he went into nervous monkey pose.
"Thank you Naruto!" she said
"Itadakimasu!" they both exclaimed.
Once both had eaten half way through their cups she stared at Naruto, trying to word what she was going to say. "Naruto-kun are you going to keep all your promises?"
"What kind of question is that? I will try to the best of my abilities! With all that I have within me!"
She giggled a little "You don't even know the promise I am talking about do you?"
He blushed a little because he was caught in the act "No" he said making the pouting fox face.
"You promised Neji-sama that you are going to change the Hyuga clan." He could tell she was trying to hide her seriousness.
"I intend to… as soon as I become the Hokage."
"Good because Neji-sama and I will be ready and waiting when the time comes, we both believe in you and were counting on you."
"I wont let you down!" he said as he knocked down his ramen.
"but you'll let the ramen fall!" she laughed and he laughed as well.
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He took her home round eight o'clock and they both went to bed after a very pleasant evening.
That night he dreamed of his wife more clearly and finally remembered what she smelled like, an indescribable clean and spicy smell.
Just talk to her
Ok so only four and a half pages in word but that is better than nothing. I am so sorry that it has been so long since I updated. As always your reviews light up my day!
