Finally, after how many months. I really don't have an excuse this time. Just me being extremely lazy...or writer's block or my sadistic English teacher. It could be worse. At least I have more time on my hands this time. Enjoy.


Every step she took, something inside made her regret ever taking Naruto's plan to consideration, let alone letting it be executed at this moment. With all her power, she told her feet to turn around and run back to safety, but they seem to have a mind of their own as they continued down the road. She desperately tried to keep up with Naruto's speed, against Hinata's liking, while he was ranting about to her. Even then, to her, it sounded as if she were listening to a broken record.

"You have to... and remember to…don't forget…," and it pretty much continued on and on in that format down the dirt covered road. For a while, she tried to call out to him to slow, but his excitement of taking her into town was far greater than she would have thought. She sighed silently to her self giving up quickly as she concentrated on walking briskly to the side of Naruto hoping to register the rest of Naruto's rant. Sadly for her, he was now in the middle of telling her a story as they walked passing open farm land.

Every time they took even the slightest turn on the road, Hinata would adjust her newly attained attire consisting of a long sleeved shirt, extremely baggy pants, a hat that covered her ears and most of her face that covered the top of her tied up hair, and lastly a scratched up pair of sunglasses for her big, lavender eyes. All the clothing were colored a faded black with small stain spots scattered across and the smell of the countless dust particles that made a permanent home in them.

Hinata looked around finding her surroundings quite similar yet different than her own back home. A vast rice field edged with the trees that made up more of the forest terrain. She could see far off in the distance, in between the forests' trees, the gates that led into, what Hinata figured, Naruto's home town.

"There it is," Naruto finally announced after a while, pointing towards the giant gate that grew as they got closer. "Don't be fooled by the fancy things, it's actually a giant dump they decided to call a city."

"It can't be that bad," Hinata replied actually curious to find what a waits her. In her imagination, she saw that it would be practically the same as her town with only some slight changes.

"You're going to be in for a surprise then. Don't say I did tell you so," Naruto warned waving a finger around. Approaching the gates, Hinata felt her stomach dropped again and the urge to run away came rushing back to her. Sitting at their post sat two bored gate watchers. At first glance, they were well-built with huge bodies and arms with some sort of a blocky appearance.

She took a glance at Naruto who, unsurprisingly, was calm like he was taking another walk in the park.

"Morning Naruto," One of them called out with a waving hand. Naruto slowed, but didn't stop.

"Morning," Naruto yelled back giving a friendly wave. Hinata, right next to him, attempted to hide behind his large frame, only to fail miserably.

"Who's your new friend," The other one called out obviously curious. With that, Naruto caught Hinata off completely off guard and quickly wrapping an arm around her shoulders and turned her into clear view.

"This is Hinata," Naruto announced to them pointing a finger to her now beat red face. Hinata gulped.

"Mor-Morning," She stuttered waving friendly back at them in an attempted low voice like Naruto told her earlier on their walk. Something in her mind told her she had done it well enough, because they gave her a strange look before shrugging it off and waving back at her.

"Now if you excuse us," Naruto began quite loudly. "I'm gonna show hur-him around town." Before either of them could reply, Naruto swiveled himself and Hinata back in the direction of the city and into the gates. When they were out of sight, Naruto let Hinata go free, letting her stand up right once again.

"That was great, Hinata" Naruto congratulated giving her a slam on the back making her lose her balance, again. "Now come on, just follow and stay close to me," Naruto whispered advancing into the city. Hinata quickly followed wanting getting lost the last thing to happen. She was some what relieved it was as bad as she was told. The streets seemed to have your usual stereotypical people walking around from the extremely busy people to the casual ones.

Hinata gazed around as Naruto pointed out certain buildings like the local bakery, post office, and various shops and like Naruto had said before, they were ignored like regular people. Finally, after going down a hand full of streets into the quiet side of town, Naruto loudly announced their arrival.

"Here it is," Naruto practically shouted pointing to an ordinary building that had sign above the entry way saying "Konoha's Public Library". From the looks of it, you could have mistaken that it was close despite the sign that clearly read "open" near the entrance.

"To be honest Hinata, I really never been in here before," Naruto confessed quietly as they entered the silent atmosphere best known at a Library. The interior was actually nice and decent compared to the other places her guide had pointed out earlier. Just like outside, the place was practically deserted, which Hinata didn't mind at all.

"Where to start?" Naruto asked mostly to himself, crossing his arms and tapping his foot.

"Shouldn't the atlases be under the references, no?" Hinata asked walking towards into the shelves of books lined up in aisles looking around.

"Under the what?" Naruto asked walking right behind her now feeling like he was the one walking into foreign territory. They both stopped once they were in the heart of the building in a small sitting area, both completely surrounded by columns of shelves. "Are we still in the same place?" Hinata didn't answer but continued walking knowing exactly where she was heading.

Just as Naruto was about to follow, something interesting caught his eye holding him back from continuing on. A manga plopped on one of the many tables in the large room, left unattended and utterly forgotten. A manga he knew very well.

"Hey Hinata." Hinata turned around to see Naruto standing by one of the tables, holding the manga in his hand already open to the first page. "I'll catch up with you in a minuet, okay."

"Alright," Hinata replied continuing on her way with out taking any glances back. She made her way to the very back of the building finding exactly what she was looking for. In front of her, stood tall, boxed shelves occupying scrolls from that reached from the ceiling to the floor. Curiosity struck her then and the question of where to start grew in her mind as her eyes gazed from one side to another.

"Might as well start at the beginning," She thought with a shrug before walking to the end of the shelf already reaching out for the outer most scrolls. Just as she touched the outer rim, something clutched the side of her shoulders and a revolting breath blew at the side of her face. The next thing she knew, a loud roar blasted right by the side of her ear.

She quickly turned around and gave her own yell, but instead of a roar, she let out a high-pitch screech that rang throughout the walls. She immediately stops once she stared at her perpetrator. A new face registered in her mind. The most noticeable features were the red triangles down his face and messy brown hair. He was standing practically exactly as she was with his mouth agape, hands over his ears, and a shocked expression plastered on his face.

"Holy shit," he finally said slowly as the echo in the room vanished to silence. A small whimper averted her eyes to the ground to see a large, white dog shrinking back near its master's feet.

"Wha-what happened?" Naruto appeared two aisles away looking around frantically till his eyes laid on Hinata. A wave of relief passed over Naruto's expression till his eyes roamed over the other guy.

"Kiba," Naruto called out annoyingly already walking up to the two.

"Naruto?" Kiba answered turning his head in a flash looking surprised slowly uncovering his ears.

"What did you do him?" Naruto asked aggravated getting straight to the point. Kiba stood there utterly flabbergasted till he finally shook his head back into reality.

"What are you talking about? He was the one screaming like a dieing cat," Kiba accused pointing to Hinata who was still backed up against the book shelf stiff as a board. The large, white dog beside Kiba's feet barked loudly. "Which side are you on?" The large dog tilted his head to the side retreating slightly replying with a small whine. Naruto quickly spun around to come face to face with Hinata who was still in her state of shock.

"Are you alright?" Hinata blinked a few times before actually comprehending the words being said to her. She nodded slowly gulping, trying every bit to calm down her racing heart. She silently cursed her self for over reacting. She felt some what guilt seeing Naruto go back yelling at the brown-hair boy. "What in the world were you thinking?"

"What's going on here?" Hinata sung her head around at the new deep voice that entered the argument, nearly jumping out of her skin at the sight of new company heading straight them. Coming out of the shadows of the shelves, two new people revealed their presents. The first one completely passed Hinata without a second glance, already heading straight for the two boys.

From the small glimpse she managed to obtain, he was pale with a heavy semblance of irritation. She stared at the back of his upright hair as he passed. She did a double take on the second one who was still hidden in the shadows and having nearly every inch of his body covered.

"What did you kill this time?"

"Uhh…" Both boys manage to mumble out, now both forgetting their previous acts. After a split second, it finally clicked. Naruto tilted his head to the side while Kiba slowly grew a smile on his face before suppressing his laughter. Sasuke rolled his eyes annoyingly with a sigh.

"Whatever. Anyway, it's a good thing you're here. Now I don't have to go looking for you." Sasuke grabbed hold of Naruto's arm and started dragging him away back towards the entrance.

"Wait, what are you doing?" Naruto asked angrily, halting Sasuke movements jerking his arm back. "If you haven't noticed, it's my day off." He turned around to walk back but instead of going where he wanted he was swung around again.

"Don't you think I know that," Sasuke snapped dragging him away once again. "There are only a few papers for you to sign, then it's my day off, and if I'm not off, you're not off." He turned around shooting sharp glares. "Understood."

"Got it," Naruto gulped ready to follow Sasuke to the front. He paused in mid-step and quickly turned around, remembering the reason he was here in the first place. "Hinata!" Hinata perked up her ear at the call of her name. "Wait for me here, I'll be back in a second." She could simply manage a nod of the head sensing the disbelief of being alone in unknown territory. She immediately tensed up feeling the touch of weight wrap around her neck and rested on her shoulders.

"Don't worry about it," Kiba said hugging against Hinata like an old friend. "We'll take care of him for you." Naruto's face went from shock to angry in a flash. He took a step ready to turn around again.

"Don't you dare." Before he even moved a muscle, Sasuke voice called him from the front. His tone wasn't one to be taken very lightly. Naruto looked back and forth between where Sasuke went and Hinata, cursing under his breath before sprinting back to the entrance way. "I'll be back in a short while, Hinata. I'm warning you Kiba." His voice rang through the building. Hinata watch in devastation as he ran out of sight, knowing that this was going to be a long, tiredsome day than the one they had originally planed.


So yeah, hopefully with this new time I have been given, I can get another chapter up quickly but don't count on it...it'd take to long anyway.