"We're... not going to make it are we?" Hinata asked calmly, as she glance through the clearing at the enemy ninja that surrounded them. There had to be at least two hundred.
"It doesn't look like it," Naruto replied, and he suddenly groaned in pain, clutching his abdomen. Hinata glanced at him and gasped.
"Why didn't you show me that wound before. I could've healed it!" she exclaimed.
"I didn't want you to use too much chakra since both of us are already at our limit." he replied, rather winded by his loss of blood.
Coupled by the fact that his connection to the Kyuubi had been cut off a couple of hours ago, his future seemed bleak.
"Let me see it," she murmured gently, prying his fingers from the wound.
Healing it almost simultaneously, it seemed effortless, but he could see the effort that she put into it.
"Thanks," he muttered for the girl sacrificing her strength for his.
"No...problem," she replied each word taking a tremendous amount of her remaining strength.
"Is...is there anyone else left?" He asked her.
"Sakura, Kiba, Chouji...?"
She shook her head sadly with each name he called out. He couldn't deny it. Both of them witnessed their comrades fall in this horribly outnumbered battle, until... until they were they only ones left standing.
"I... I love you," Naruto said his head turned away, afraid to see her reaction to his bold statement.
Her head whipped around to look at him.
"What, what did you say?" she asked horribly disoriented and confused.
"I love you," he repeated. " I have for a really long time. I couldn't keep the thought of you out of my head. You won't believe the number of mistakes I made during training, and missions becuase I was thinking of you. It's how I got this," He pointed to a newly formed scar bisecting the whisker marks along his right cheek.
"And... I really wanted you to know that, since it doesn't look like we'll be making it out of this place with our lives..." he trailed off, looking at her expectantly.
"Naruto... Naruto-kun I... I... I love you too!" she exclaimed, crying into his chest.
He lifted her up, twirled her around, and kissed her. He grinned at her, and she smiled back softly.
They were brought back to reality when a kunai came from the side, making a small cut on the bridge of her nose. They both turned around, getting into position, ready to face the on-coming assault with a renewed strength.
