Chapter 8: Hinata's Answer.

'Will you marry me?' She thought as she laid awake in bed. She was stunned that Naruto asked her, not that it was a bad thing. She had really come to like Naruto and even told Hanabi that she wanted to marry him so why was she on pins and needles? For the last week she tried to avoid Naruto which was driving her crazy because ever since day two they had shared a bed together and he had been sleeping in the living room.

"I'll make it up to him tomorrow." She said to herself as she fell asleep. The next morning she got up and went to the living room to speak to Naruto but he wasn't there. She looked around and saw Hanabi and asked, "where's Naruto?"

"He left last night, he said that he wants to give you time to think about his question. So he's gonna stay at our old house in Konoha until you go to him with an answer." When Hinata heard that she wanted to leave immediately but she was stopped by Hanabi. "Naruto wants you to really think about the question because you've been avoiding him all week and he also thinks that you're mad at him." In truth Hinata wasn't mad, it just felt a little overwhelming at the time.

Now Hinata felt sad that she drove Naruto from the house unintentionally. "What do I do Hanabi?" She asked with a tear running down her cheek. She missed Naruto so much even though he hadn't been gone longer than twelve hours, but also throughout the week he had been sleeping in the living room so to her it felt like he'd been gone longer.

Hanabi looked at her sister and said, "take some time today and think about it. Naruto asked you to marry him and you just looked at him with your mouth agape." Hinata barely remembered anything after Naruto asked her to marry him, she was sure that there was a good reason for that… "and then you fainted."

She fainted after being proposed to? As she face palmed herself while saying, "dammit all!" She realized that she hadn't fainted since before Naruto came along. Which she actually thought was due to her awakening as a vampire but now she realized was because of Naruto. He had done more for her than anyone has in her life.

She spent most of the day in the garden she started a month ago, she pondered Naruto's question. She knew she had really strong feelings for him, no doubt about that.

She kept on thinking of their life together, how it would never end. They'd probably have a couple kids running around… 'wait, can vampires have kids?' She thought. Yes they can but she doesn't know that. Either way as she was pulling weeds and watering the plants she couldn't think of her life without Naruto. "I'll tell him yes." She said out loud.

"Figured you would." Said Hanabi who stepped outside two seconds before Hinata said it. Hanabi was right, no matter how she thought of it she realized she loved Naruto.

Later that day Hinata got dressed up in a nice kimono, she didn't necessarily have to but if she was gonna tell the man she loved that she wants to spend the rest of their eternal lives together she figured she should look good. She didn't wear makeup because she knew Naruto didn't like seeing her with makeup on, because he loved her natural beauty.

Throughout the day Naruto walked through the village, remembering the days where he was homeless in Konoha. Since Naruto's eyes would give him away, he had to wear a hooded robe and appear as a monk. He went to Ichiraku ramen for old times sake because the last time he was there was when he and Hinata had their first date together.

Hinata went to the house but Naruto wasn't there. She thought she should go look for him or she should just wait there for him. Ultimately she decided to wait for him. She sat in the silence of her childhood home remembering all the times her father yelled at her for nothing.

When she got to the house it was about noon and she waited for about three hours for him to come home. When he did arrive she had fallen asleep.

"Hinata?" He said as he slid the door open and saw her curled up in a ball. She slowly opened her eyes and saw Naruto standing in the doorway with a robe on.

She rubbed her eyes and yawned as she sat up. "I've been waiting for you, I wanna talk." She said.

Naruto thought that she was mad at him but the smile on her face told him otherwise. "Sure thing, what is it?" He asked as he sat down.

For a few minutes they sat in silence looking at each other before Hinata said, "I have an answer to your question." Now for Naruto time stopped, he didn't know what she would say.

"Perhaps I asked too soon?" He asked thinking that she'd say no, but he was wrong.

Hinata shook her head and said, "no you didn't. I was actually waiting for you to ask me but I had no idea if you would." Naruto looked at her with a questioning look on his face, "since I became a vampire you have been so kind to me, nobody has ever been that nice to me in my life."

Naruto was starting to see sadness on her face and he reached out and placed a hand on her shoulder. "Hinata I was a homeless orphan before you came along. You showed me kindness I never knew existed."

Tears started to slowly flow from Hinata's eyes as she looked at Naruto who was grinning at her. With one hand Naruto gently wiped the tears from her face and leaned in to kiss her but she held out a hand to stop him.

"Before you kiss me Naruto, I'd like to give you my answer." Naruto stopped breathing, he didn't know why but he did. "My answer to you is yes, yes I will gladly marry you." Naruto thought he was going to have a heart attack, if a vampire could have one. What Naruto did next he did on instinct, he grabbed Hinata and pulled her into a deep kiss.

They kissed for an hour, their senses were numb but they heard something that sounded like giggling. Hinata stopped kissing Naruto and listened to where it was coming from and it was coming from the stairs. Naruto walked over to see who or what it was and he was shocked at who it was. "Hanabi, what are you doing here?" He asked sternly.

Hanabi giggled and said, "I'm just spying on you two, you spent the last hour kissing after sis said yes to you." Hinata gave Hanabi a light smack in the arm. "Sis what was that for?"

Hinata was embarrassed anyone could see that, "we deserve a little privacy from time to time."

Hanabi chuckled and said, "I know but I wanted to know if Naruto is going to be my new brother."

Naruto chuckled and shook his head. "What's so funny Naruto?" Asked Hinata.

"It's like we already have a child and we haven't even tried." He said through his laughter.

Hinata thought it was funny too and said, "I don't think we can have children because we're vampires." That's when Naruto realized that he never told her.

"Um... Hinata vampires can have children." Said Naruto which got Hinata to look at him in curiosity.

"How do you know that Naruto?" Asked Hinata.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head and said, "you remember the night that I turned?" Hinata nodded her head and then he continued, "well since I was on the fine line of life and death I wound up meeting my parents and a former village elder. They told me that vampires can have kids and that vampires have a longer carry time than humans."

Hinata thought About the night that he turned because he did have knowledge about how they were able to go in sunlight and have solid foods. "So you knew about that but kept it to yourself until we were going to get married?"

Naruto saw that Hinata was a little irritated, he scratched the back of his head and said, "I wanted to be sure you were ready to hear that information because we had just started dating and I didn't want to bring up sex yet."

"He has a point sis." Said Hanabi with a giggle. Hinata was now blushing furiously because the thought of sex was embarrassing at the moment.

Hinata shrugged her shoulders and said, "I guess I can't blame you there. But no more secrets please?"

Naruto held out his thumb and said, "I promise no more secrets."

The three of them walked back to the house and on the way they had to stop and feed on an animal since none of them had blood all day.

The sun was starting to set when they got back to the house. Naruto was only gone for a day but he was happy to be back home and hopefully be back in his own bed with Hinata.

They say at the table and started to plan their wedding. They had one dilemma, and that would be who could do the ceremony? They couldn't do it in the village because someone could find out they were vampires.

Just as they were discussing that issue a voice came from outside, "maybe I could help you there." Naruto opened the door to see Gaara standing outside with the pack.

Confused Naruto asked, "how can you help with that Gaara?"

Gaara chuckled and said, "I'm a Shintoist priest. I've done weddings before and I'll do yours for no charge."

Since they were on good terms with each other they all sat down and planned the wedding. Tenten let out a small growl at Hanabi because she was holding Neji's arm. "Tenten calm down, you know Neji has no attraction towards Hanabi." Said Ino.

Hinata looked in the direction of Neji and Hanabi and said, "I know why Hanabi is close to Neji." Everyone turned their heads toward Hinata. "Hanabi was always fathers favorite child even though he wasn't necessarily the nicest toward her, but maybe she feels a fatherly attachment toward Neji." Hanabi wasn't paying attention to what her sister said because she had fallen asleep against Neji.

Tenten giggled and nudged Neji, "looks like we have a child now."

Naruto leaned close to Hinata and whispered, "I take back what I said earlier, Hanabi is his child now." That made Hinata laugh.

A/n: Alright guys here's chapter 8! Now I know that a lot of people have stopped reading my stories but honestly I don't care :P it's those who still keep reading, they're the ones I care about! Thanks to my loyal readers!