Holy damn it's been a long ass time since I've updated this. I am FINALLY over my writer's block so I will be more timely in updating this story. And for those of you who don't know, I up loaded a Naru/Hina one-shot called Traveling Soldier. So if you want to go check it out :)


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TenTen smiles as an idea strikes her, "How 'bout we play truth or dear?" She says grinning at Hinata. As TenTen suggests this, Hinata's face drops and she sends a small glare to TenTen.

"Yeah that sounds like fun." Naruto says smiling.

TenTen turns to Neji, "Neji?"

"Sure, why not." He shrugs.

"Ok, then let's play." TenTen says. "I'll go first. Hinata, Truth or Dare?"


"No, I'm not playing." Hinata says as she glares at TenTen.

"O why not? It's not fun with just three people. You've gotta play Hinata." Naruto whines.

"Yeah Hinata come on." TenTen smirks.

"Nope sorry, not gonna happen. Not this time."

"Come one, pleeeeeease?" Naruto pleads

TenTen is trying to contain her laughter as Hinata glares at her for suggesting the game.

"Fine! But I'm not doing anything or answering anything embarrassing… k TenTen."

At this both boys look at each other with confused looks on there faces.

"No! That's not fair, then there's like nothing that was can ask/make you do. Come on Hinata. I promise not to ask things about you know who or have you do you know what." TenTen finally gives.

"Ugh, fine."

"Ok, so Hinata, truth or dare?"

"Truth"

"Hmm… ok, what is the most embarrassing thing you've done this year?"

"Ha, When me and you both tripped in font of like everyone at the mall. Haha that was sooo embarrassing."

"Hahaha yeah, and remember that guy was staring at us like we were insane. That was a fun day." TenTen said giggling, "Ok, your turn."

They played truth or dare until it was about 9:00. They are now just sitting around talking, having already changed into their night cloths. Neji and TenTen are cuddled up together sitting against the couch. Naruto and Hinata are next to each other sitting up against the love seat, perpendicular to the couch. The heat has been reduced and now is about 60o in the house now. Neji and TenTen have two comforters on them, Hinata has one and Naruto sitting with just a small blanket around him, claiming he isn't that cold.

"Are you sure you don't want any more blankets? I can go get more, or you can take some that are under us. Hinata said.

"No, I'm fine. I don't get cold easily. Really Hinata, I'm fine."

"How are you not cold, it's freezing in here."

"Um…well, I um…" he stammers.

"Naruto, just tell her." Neji speaks up.

"Yeah I'm sure it'll be fine, she'll understand." TenTen ads.

Confused Hinata asks, "What are you guys talking about?" turning her head towards Naruto, "Tell me what?"

Heaving a sigh, Naruto begins, "Ok, well you know the stories about the tailed beasts right?" Hinata nods. "Well I'm sure you also know tat along time ago those beasts were either destroyed or sealed away inside of people. The thought was that the beasts died along with its host. Which was true to an extent. The beasts did die with the host, but what they didn't know was that they could be reborn in their descendents, but only if they are needed"

"What do you mean needed?"

"Well if in the life span of the host there's a major attack set against the village it was sealed in, the descendents will be born with the beasts inside. And if you haven't figured yet, I have one sealed inside of me."

"Oh…" Hinata processes what she's just been told. The room is filled with silence for several moments before she begins to speak, "So that mean there is going to be an attack on Konoha? And you have to use your… your beast… to protect the village."

"Yeah."

"Wait, how did you know you had it sealed in you? And how did you know what it has to be used for?"

"We knew I had because of this," he said as he pulled up his shirt to show the seal that's around his bellybutton, "I tell people that it's a tattoo. As for knowing why, my mom's family is the side that has been passing it down, and with each new generation they pass down the journals of the first descendent born with the beast. A history type book of all the past attacks for not only my beast, but also all of the others is passed down. Explaining each attack and also the relationships that the hosts had with each other, and how it all repeats its self."

"So what it gets passed down every sum years and then all the hosts have the same relationships?"

"Well yes and no. Yes the relationships the hosts have with each other are the same but no it's not every some years. The circumstances in the hosts' home life are always the same for each beats. So like the last person in my family to have it grew up with only their godfather to take care of them, who was very much like Jiraiya ha. But yeah the amount of time passed between each new host is unpredictable; it just can't be the very next generation. So when I have kids, they wont be at risk of having to be a host. And it's always the same gender as the original host gender when the beasts were originally sealed."

"Wow… so, which one do you have? There's nine right? With each one getting more and more dangerous with the each tail."

"I have the Nines Tailed Fox."

"Wait…. What does any of this have to do with you not getting cold?"

"Well having the Kyubbi, my abilities are enhanced. So I don't really get cold, only if it's like -40o ha."

"OOO ok gotchya. That explains why you were fine yesterday even after falling in the snow so many times." Hinata says giggling at the memory.

"Yeah…" Naruto says a little confused at how well she was taking the information, "Hinata, how are you taking this so well? Everyone else hated me for years after I told them in like 1ts grade. And many of the people in the village still do." He said solemnly.

"Really? Well that mean! I mean it's not your fault that you have the fox sealed inside you. They shouldn't hold you accountable for something that happened hundreds of years ago and completely out of your control."

"So you don't see me as a monster?"

"No. Naruto I don't care what you have sealed inside of you, it doesn't change anything about who you are or how I got to know you. You just have more energy and stuff than normal people."

"Hey do you guys think you could be a little quieter so we can go to sleep now?" TenTen said yawning

"O yeah sorry, we should probably get to sleep to." Hinata responded.

Her and Naruto grabbed their pillows situating themselves before lying down. Hinata falls asleep with in minutes, Naruto on the other had, just lies there not able to fall asleep. He turns on his right and sees Neji and TenTen cuddled together, sleeping. Looking at them he wishes that, that was him and Hinata, he turns to the other side now looking at Hinata peacefully asleep. Again he wishes he could be right next to her, coddled together. Rolling onto his back, Naruto stairs at the ceiling and lays there for what seemed like hours before finally falling to sleep.

Upon waking up Hinata was shivering again, though she had three thick blankets around her. Looking around she saw that everyone was still asleep and that the fire had gone out. Checking her phone to see the time she sees that its only 6:15, thinking its way to early to be up she lays back down to try and get back to sleep, but being unable to as chills keep running up and down her spine. Finally she decides that she should start the fire again. Wrapping a blanket around her she sands up and walks toward the glowing coals. Since there was some light coming from widows, Hinata decided that she didn't need her Byakugan to see. As she shuffled toward the fireplace, Hinata tripped over a soft lump on the floor.

"Oof…"

"What, huh, I'm up, I'm up." Naruto said as he shot up, upon feeling a figure land across his legs. "…..Hinata?"

"S-sorry Naruto. I thought I could see with out my Byakugan, guess not ha." She apologized as she got up off his legs.

"That's fine, what were you doing anyway?"

"Putting more wood on the fire… I'm cold."

"O, here I can do it, you just wrap some blankest around you."

"O… ok thanks Naruto." Hinata said with a smile.

Naruto got up and grabbed some of the wood stacked by the fireplace. He through it in and restarted the fire with a fire jutsu. When he turns around he sees Hinata with three blankets around her and still shivering.

"You can move closer to the fire you know." Naruto told the shivering girl.

"Huh… O yeah ha." Hinata said nervously still a little embarrassed about tripping over him.

They started talking like they did last might, just more about each other. It's now around 8 o'clock and Hinata is still shivering even though she has four blankets on her and is seated right next to the fire.

"Hinata, you're still shaking. Are you sure you aren't still cold?" Naruto asked for the tenth time within those two hours.

"No really, I'm fine." Hinata replied through chattering teeth.

"Hinata… I may not be the smartest person, but I know a ridiculous lie when I see one. You know if you come over here, I can help keep you warm." Naruto said hoping she would take the offer so had could use that as an excuse to holed her in his arms.

"How? You have no blankets."

"Well one, body heat and two, fox… remember."

"O yeah…" Hinata said still unmoving aside form her shivering.

Naruto just chuckled and gets up. He takes the blankets and wraps them around both of them. He calls up some of the Kyubi's chakra up to generate heat. (A/N- just pretend they are on good terms) Hinata starts to feel warmth around her. The two sit in an awkward silence till Naruto finally breaks it.

"So how is tutoring going? Is the kid staring to understand Japanese?"

"Yeah Marco is making great progress, we can now talk mostly in Japanese when I'm teaching. So by next year I shouldn't have to tutor him." Hinata smiled.

"Well that's good, you must be a pretty good teacher if he's learning this quickly."

"Well learning a language is only difficult if you make it difficult. You just have to find the right way to learn it."

"What do you mean?"

"Well… ok so when I was learning English from my hunt's husband he found something that I could relate to, music. He taught me through singing and I picked it up easily. After the first year we would speak just English at the house." Hinata explained.

"So if I wanted to learn a language I could use cars to help me learn?" Naruto asked a little confused.

"Yeah, I'm sure there's a way to turn words into car parts ha."

"Well you should tell my foreign language teacher that." Naruto said with humor in his voice.

Just then they heard tired groans and turn to see Neji and TenTen waking up.

"Is the power still out?" TenTen asked as she wrapped the blankets tighter around her and snuggled closer to Neji.

"Yep." Came Naruto and Hinata's simultaneous reply.

"Well we should go check the doors to see if we are still snowed in. 'Cause we are gonna need more fire wood if the power stays off all day." Neji stated.

"Don't we have more in the basement?" Hinata asked.

"No, I brought the rest of it up last night, after you guys had fallen asleep." Neji replied back.

At that Naruto released Hinata, who gave a slight protest at the loss of heat, from their embrace and said, "Well then Neji, lets go check. Once we find/make a cleared door way we can hop in my truck and go get wood and food."

After they leave the room TenTen frowns.

"Well now I'm cold." She pouted.

"Me too." Hinata agreed

"We should make hot chocolate!"

"Um Ten… the stove wont work, power's out…"

"Yeah, but you have water, a teapot, fire cooking grate and a fire right…" Hinata nodded to the question, "Then just heat the water over the fire dah silly. Lets make some hot chocolate!"

And with that they gathered their blankets and walked to the kitchen.

"You get the hot chocolate from the pantry and I'll get the teapot and water."

As Hinata was filling the teapot, there was a loud bang, fallowed by a thump.

"What the hell was that?" TenTen asked.

"I have no idea, lets go check it out."

They walked around to the front door to find Naruto with snow all over him and a pile of it in front of the door. Giving a soft giggle Hinata asks, "What happened?"

"The idiot opened the door before letting me look through it with the Byakugan." Neji said with an irritated look.

"Yeah well you were taking to long" Naruto said brushing the snow out of his hair. "Plus I can clear this out easy." He added as he started doing some hand signs.

Fire starts to form and as Naruto approaches the door, he forms it so the fire is the same dimension as the door. He pushes it forward melting the snow that blacks them in. Once he gets all the way through he turns to Neji.

"We should unblock all the civilian doors too, so they can go out and get food and wood and stuff."

"Good idea, lets just get some wood for the girls to keep warm and then we can go out and clear the doors ways."

And with that the boys left out the door. After they had brought in the wood and left, TenTen turns to Hinata.

"So I saw you and Naruto cuddlin when I woke up…" She said with a suggesting smile on her face.


So yeah that's it for this chapter, I promise that I will be updating in a schedule now. Every month I shall put up a new chapter, it will be the first Monday of every moth, so after this one the next chapter will be up on Dec. 5. And maybe a few one-shots in there if I get them written :). Until next time, peacekies