Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters.

A/N 2/1/14: February already? This year is already flying right by. Well I loved the reviews from last time, they were nice to see. I'm sorry if I have to break up Naruto and Hinata for now, but if we know Naruto, he's not going to give up on her, whether or not they are together. Well here's a warning: There will be self-harm and maybe a lemon later on in the story. You have been warned.

Warning: A heated make out session and sad drinking

Chapter 10: Broken

"Naruto-kun I don't think we should see each other anymore…" Hinata choked out. She felt herself dying slowly on the inside.

Naruto's heart felt like it had exploded, and not in the way that he wanted. He prayed that he had just imagined what she had just said, "Hinata, please tell me you're kidding…"

Hinata bit back her tears as she looked him right in the eye, "I'm not. Naruto-kun, I want you to be happy, and if that means without me, I'm willing to let you go."

"No Hinata please, you've got it all wrong…" Naruto pleaded, stepping forward, only to her step backwards.

"We shouldn't see each other anymore. I'm sorry, but you should leave," she whispered. As quiet as her voice was, Naruto could hear the heart break in her voice. She didn't want to do this at all. But for some reason, she felt like she had to.

"I'm not leaving Hinata. I know you don't want me to leave. You don't want to end things with me. And I can't let you," he stepped closer and grabbed her wrists tightly.

"Naruto-kun, you need to leave. It's over I'm sorry," the heartbreak was saturated in her voice. She wanted him to stay so bad, but she couldn't.

"Hinata, if you're worried about my happiness, all I want is…" he started but Hinata shook her head.

"Please go," she whispered. Him being there was making it even harder for her.

"No, I won't," the hold on her wrists got tighter.

She struggled to loosen her wrists from his grip, but Naruto refused to let go. "Naruto-kun, I'll scream. You need to leave right now."

"Why are you so eager to get rid of me?" his face inched closer to hers. "Just say you don't want me anymore, and I'm gone."

Hinata bit her lip. It was already obvious to her that she'd interpreted the whole thing wrong, but she was not about to change her mind. Even if Naruto did want her, she couldn't see him get hurt. She couldn't control herself anymore and one too many people had already become collateral damage. "I—I—I…"

"See, you can't say it. Because you don't want me gone. You still want me. It's written all over your face. So why are you trying to end things?" he whispered.

Hinata closed her eyes tightly and tried to control her breathing. She couldn't tell him, he'd only try to talk her out of it. She couldn't let that happen, she just couldn't. "Because I have to…"

Naruto shook his head, "No, you don't. You don't have to let me go. No one is stopping us; even your own father gave us his blessing. Please, Hinata! You don't have to do this!"

Hinata finally managed to loosen herself from his grip and stepped back, only be backed into the wall. "I have to do this. Naruto-kun, I—I can't see you get hurt."

Naruto looked confused at the statement, "What do you mean get hurt? Hinata I'm fine."

Hinata shook her head once again. "Yes you're fine right now. But look what happened to Kiba. I'm not in control of myself Naruto-kun. You could be next. Please, we can't be together."

"Is that what's been bothering you? You're afraid I'm going to get hurt because of you?" Naruto whispered, stepping closer until he was practically rubbing against her.

Hinata kept her eyes squeezed shut. If she looked at him, she'd lose all sign of rational thought. "Naruto, please leave."

"Then say that you don't want me anymore. Say it and I'm gone," he challenged. He knew she wouldn't be able to. He already knew how she felt about him. She'd told him a long time ago. He had not forgotten.

"I—I," she choked up.

"Before you say anything else, I do want you to know something," he leaned in so that his lips were practically touching her ear. She opened her eyes slightly.

"Look, I know things have been really weird between us today, but it had to take seeing you lose your mind to realize something. I never want to see you like that. Your smile suits you the most. And I want to be the one to make you smile. I know that sounds cheesy, but it's true," he whispered.

Hinata gasped softly, "N—Naruto-kun…"

"I came here to talk to you, but I bumped into your dad. And he helped me realize a lot. Including what I'm about to say to you," he paused for a second. "Hinata, I—I—Hinata I love you."

The words didn't come out quite as smoothly as he would've liked them to. But it did make him smile when Hinata's eyes went completely wide.

In another time and place, those three words and syllables would have had her heart inflate. But not like this, not when she was feeling like she had to keep him away. "I love you" were the three words that she had always wanted to hear from him. She always pictured that it would make her happy. But right now, it was the saddest thing for her.

"Y—You do?" she whispered. Naruto frowned, because the amount of heartbreak in her voice had only increased.

He pulled away slightly so that he would be looking only at her face. There was a lot of love and sadness in her eyes. As for her, she couldn't help it anymore. If she was going to end things with the one person she loved the most and who loved her too, she might as well end it in a special way. She had gotten what she wanted: Naruto's love. But it wasn't enough to chase her fears or nightmares away. He deserved better than to be saddled with a person like that.

Naruto couldn't take it anymore. She was standing way too close, and he loved her. He closed the space between them. Hinata, at first was completely caught off guard, but the voice in her head seemed to be distant as she gave into their kiss.

This kiss wasn't sweet or romantic in the slightest. It was passionate and urgent. Every emotion they had ever felt and had poured into the kiss. Their tongues began wrestling and Hinata could feel his hands going lower and lower. He stopped at her legs, about to lift them up. But Hinata was quicker. She had managed to inch herself up against the wall enough to jump and straddle him. Naruto was a little surprised, but all the more turned on by her actions.

Naruto's mouth left hers and hungrily began to kiss her jaw and neck. Hinata moaned louder than usual and started grinding her hips against his. He growled against her throat as he began to bite it a little. Hinata gasped, but continued with her actions, earning her even more bites.

If one was to walk in on them right now, they would think that they were having sex right there against her wall. It certainly felt that way because Hinata could feel him through their clothing. The one thing separating them from doing so was their pants.

'What the hell do you think you're doing?!'

'I—I hmmmm…'

'Oh quit your moaning! Have you forgotten what you were supposed to do? One minute you say you're really going to end things, next thing he's dry humping you against the wall?'

'I ummm…'

'Focus baka! You aren't doing yourself any favors here! I mean look at you two right now? Is this how you want to initiate a break up?'

Hinata's eyes opened wide as she looked at the situation. Naruto was ravishing her neck as both his hands her grabbing her butt. His crotch was rubbing against hers and she felt just how hard he was.

"N—Naruto-kun! We have to stop! Please stop!" she pleaded, attempting to push him away.

He continued to kiss her neck, but Hinata grabbed his face and pushed it back. He looked confused. "Hinata what are you…"

"You need to leave, this was a mistake," she panted. She felt her heart crack as she said it. She couldn't bring herself to look at Naruto.

"Hinata, what are you…" he attempted to reach out, but Hinata shook her head furiously.

"I don't want you anymore. You need to leave," she choked out. There she said it, the words that would hurt her most to say. She was pretty sure that the minute that they left her mouth, there'd be no going back. There would be no salvaging their relationship.

Naruto stood there dumfounded. His ears had to be deceiving him. There was no way that the girl, who had loved him unconditionally for years, was telling him that. It was worse than all of the villagers shunning and scorning him for all those years.

"You can't really mean that…"

"I do," Hinata said in a cold voice. "Please get out, or I'll call someone to do it."

He couldn't feel anger after that. The pain and the hurt were too great. But he was a man of his word. If she truly didn't want him anymore, then he would do what she wanted him to do.

"If that's what you really want," he mumbled heartbrokenly. The heart break in his voice wanted to make Hinata cry and take back everything she had just said. She would always want him, but her fate wouldn't allow her to be with him.

She didn't say anything and turned her back to him so that he wouldn't see the tears cascading down her face. She needed for him to believe that her words were true.

"Goodbye," he whispered. The minute Hinata heard the door slide shut, she collapsed onto her knees.

'You did the right thing…'

'Then why does it feel like I'm going to die?'

'He was your first love. But you did the right thing. Being with you would've been too risky. I reiterate, you've done the right thing.'

'Then why does it feel so wrong?'

The voice didn't answer back so she dragged her body off of the ground and onto the bed. She sobbed harder than ever before. She'd finally done it. She told Naruto to go away and out of her life. And with that, she removed any care she gave about herself. She didn't care if she died right then and there. She hoped she would for that matter. Not because he was no longer hers, but because she had hurt him. And she would rather die than face what she had just done. Maybe the voice was right, all she was doing was running away from the guilt, but she just didn't seem to care. The sobs didn't seize at all and they continued until her head hurt and the tears could flow no more. She fell asleep soon after, knowing that her nightmares would hit her with a vengeance…

Naruto wobbled as he walked towards his apartment. Damn it, the sake didn't do shit for him. Yes, he had found the door to the Hyuuga's supply of alcohol. After how badly Hinata had broken his heart, he stopped caring all together. It was very out of character for him to not only break into someone else's supply of alcohol, but also to wander the streets inebriated at night. He thought that he could try to drink away his devastation, but it didn't do anything. The pain remained and only seemed to intensify as the seconds flew by.

How could she say that? How could she just say that she didn't want him anymore? After so many years of pining after him and giving him all of her love, how could she suddenly decide to stop caring about him?

He didn't want to believe it and he didn't. The only reason he even walked out of there was because Hinata seemed so hell bent on ending their relationship. But why? He almost hoped that the liquid in the bottle would help him come up with answers.

He continued to wobble along the empty streets, not paying attention to the small amount of people who were for some reason, walking the streets at this hour.

"Dobe, is that you?" a familiar voice asked. It sounded like Sasuke, yeah maybe it was Sasuke. He hadn't really seen or heard from Sasuke since they got back. He'd had hell to pay with his punishments.

"Oh heyyy thereeee teme!" Naruto slurred as he wobbled towards the blob that was actually Sasuke. Sasuke paused for a second. Was that sake in his hand? How'd he manage to get a hold of that? Everyone knew who he was so there was no way in hell that he could have gotten away with lying about his age.

"You're drunk…" he stated. He wasn't saying it to state the obvious, but there was a hint of genuine concern in his voice.

"Youuu bet!" Naruto yelled and Sasuke sighed.

"Dobe, it's 1:30 in the morning. Why the hell are you wandering the streets this late? And since when do you drink?"

"Why are YOUUU?" Naruto asked, pointing a drunken, accusing finger at his friend. "Out so late huh? Don't be a hypocrite temeeee!"

Sasuke shook his head, "I had errands to run. The Hokage runs us like dogs all day. I'm going home now, well I was going to anyway…"

"So what's stopping youuuuuu?" Naruto slurred.

Sasuke groaned, "There's no way in hell that I'm letting the pride of this village walk home alone."

Naruto scowled, "I can take care of myself!"

Sasuke rolled his eyes as he grabbed one of Naruto's arms and slung it around his shoulders. Yeah, if he kept walking, he'd eventually trip and injure himself on something small like a pebble.

The walk to Naruto's apartment was hell for Sasuke, because not only did Naruto not shut up when he was drunk, he moved around too much. Why he was best friends with him would become one of the greatest mysteries of Konoha.

They got into his apartment and Sasuke pushed him onto the couch and sat across from him. He rubbed his temples as he observed his friend. He seemed extremely fascinated with his own fingers. It was clear to Sasuke that Naruto had never been exposed to alcohol before now. That was shocking. He'd trained under Jiraiya, the drunken debaucher. How did he go so many years without experiencing even a little bit of it?

"Okay, now would you care to tell me why you're drunk off of your ass this late at night?" Sasuke asked, after watching Naruto play with his fingers for 5 minutes.

Naruto stopped fiddling and his face hardened. "I—I just kind of felt like someone sort of took my heart and launched it into a field of chidori."

Sasuke cringed a little. "You're going to have to be a little more specific about that."

Naruto closed his eyes. He drew in a deep breath before pouring it all out, "Well you give a girl all your love only to have her rip out her heart after you tell her that."

Naruto was still quite drunk, but Sasuke saw where he was going with this. "Well you should have seen that coming. I mean Sakura is just…"

"Not Sakura dumbass! Hinata!" he growled. Wow, Naruto was all types of drunk tonight.

"Hinata huh? Well sorry but I've been out of the loop if you haven't noticed," Sasuke answered. "All right, now can you start over?"

"Since when do you care about how I feel? It's not like relationships or love are your areas of expertise," he slurred once more.

"Since we had the misfortune of becoming best friends. Now start from the beginning," Sasuke demanded.

Naruto didn't really hesitate to launch into his story. Apparently he had been seeing Hinata for a while and he had finally realized just how deep his feelings had been for her. His confession led to them having a hot make out session against her wall and her promptly dumping him right afterwards. At that point he had broken down into tears. He'd never actually seen Naruto cry before and it wasn't something that he liked to see.

Naruto kept blubbering until the alcohol finally got to him about 5 minutes after he had finished the story. He had completely blacked out, and if Sasuke knew anything at all, Naruto would not remember any part of this conversation in the morning.

But he had to say, he didn't exactly enjoy seeing Naruto in this much pain. As much as he had contributed to making Naruto's life a living furnace the past few years, he'd never hated Naruto. He just wanted him out of the way because he had been so blinded by the quest of power. But even then, Naruto never gave up on him. Now, he felt like he owed it to Naruto just a bit.

No, he wasn't planning on fixing his relationship because that was his and Hinata's deal. But at least he could help Naruto get back on his feet. And if he had to actually talk to the Hyuuga heiress, he was willing to do that. It would be a risk; he was still scorned by many in the village, especially the Hyuuga.

When the hell did he become so noble anyway? This would be the last time he'd do anything for Naruto. They were still rivals for the position of Hokage after all…

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NO THERE WILL BE NO SASUHINA IN THIS WHATSOEVER! AND DON'T SUGGEST IT EITHER! Yeah that was a tough one to write, I actually had to ask my dad for advice on how to successfully write something sad like that. Yeah, I won't be doing that often. But yeah I'm sorry if you were unhappy about Naruto getting drunk and Hinata being cold and all the OOCness of everyone, but let's just say that everyone is changing a bit. Yeah it was sad to write this chapter but I did it! Well it's going to get intense so fasten your seatbelts! Okay, next update is February 8th! Remember I update every Saturday! Loved it? Hated it? Let me know! Plz R&R! Thanks! Til next time!

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