A/N:

Thank you for those who read, alert, favor, and especially take your time to review this story.

Before you read this chapter, I want to emphasize one thing. This is a Naruhina story, and as I used to say in my profile, it means no other pairings; which means no Narusaku, Nejihina, or Sasusaku, shikatem, ect. But our couple is so cute, you cannot blame me to make others fall for them. So no hard feelings, hee hee. And you can not say one-sided love as a pairing because pairing/couple= 1(have some feelings) + 1(also have some feelings); or it could be considered a pairing if the story focuses on the two characters although one of them do not return the feeling or there is a lot of interactions between the two; at least that is how it is in my opinion.

So enjoy the chapter and tell me what you think.

Disclaimer: Do not own Naruto

(7/15/11)

Tenten's dai genius plan # 1: Execute: Tenten. Helpers: secrets for now

Naruto looked at his friends suspiciously, all of them had those guilty smiles on their faces again;

"What's up with you guys? Why do we all go to the academy? I'm very busy. Hinata, let's go."

"Hold on, Naruto." Kiba growled. "We are supposed to remodel the school. Do you think I enjoy this? But an order is an order."

"I have better thing to do. I haven't started on my book yet, and only I will be the one who has to listen to Bachan's nagging."

"Come on you two, this is not a time for quarreling. Let's get to work." Ino sighed. She still didn't quite understand why her plan had not worked; and now she had to go along with plans of others; she should think of something quick and put it into action. But before she could come up with any idea, Tenten had called them over,

"Naruto, Hinata, come here, Chouji is stuck over here, help me to pull him out."

Naruto rushed out to Tenten, he looked into the closet,

"Where where? I don't see anything in here."

"Of course you don't."

Before he realized it, he and Hinata were pushed into the closet. He heard a click and giggles came from the girls. He could not believe it, he was trapped into a closet with his wife, and by Tenten of all people. How stupid could it be?

"Oups. Sorry Hinata, Naruto. I accidentally locked you guys here. Wait for 20 minutes and I'll come back with the key."

"Like I'll believe you. Get us out of here now."

But no one answered as the sound of footsteps fading further and further.

"Naruto-kun. I'm sorry."

"It is not your fault, Hinata."

Naruto tried to turn around to face Hinata, but he froze as his hands touched something soft, very soft. Face burning like crazy, Naruto stuttered:

"S-s-sorry Hinata, I-I I d-didn't m-mean to..."

"It's ok, Naruto-kun."

Naruto could not see very clearly in the darkness, but he could feel the heat coming from their bodies, and somehow the closet was very hot. Sweat running through their body like rain, concerned, Naruto asked,

"Hinata, do you want to take off your jacket, it is really hot in here."

"I'm ok, Naruto-kun."

But Hinata obviously was not ok, she looked like she could passed out from the heat at any moment. Naruto took out his jacket and tossed it away before he decided to make a bold move.

"Hinata, take it off." He grabbed her zipper, pulled it down and took her jacket off. Her face now was like a tomato; and how could he say it, a very delicious tomato. Curse Otou-chan, curse their future children, curse their marriage. Naruto put his hand on her waist, pulling her closer and began to kiss her neck,

"Hinata."

"Naruto-kun"

Hinata moaned as Naruto lightly bit on her neck, she wrapped her hands around his neck, pulling him even closer. The feel of their bodies against each others through their thin t-shirts, dampening because of the heat, was incredible. It gave them the sensations that they had never felt before. There was a connection, stronger than they had never known existed; one more step and they could complete that connection, to link their life together once and for all. Naruto raised his head, looking deep into her eyes, his eyes were full of concern and guilt.

"Naruto-kun, I love you."

He would remember this moment for the rest of his life. As he leaned closer and was about to put his lips on hers. The door exploded into pieces, revealing a ragging Neji. Instead of thanking Neji for rescuing them, Naruto silently cursed for his presence. Why did Neji always appear in critical moments?

Neji pulled Naruto's t-shirt, his voice very cold,

"What do you think you are doing, bastard? How dare you touch her in that way?"

This... Naruto, shivered, could it be that Neji's recent hostiles toward him were the results of jealousy. If Neji was jealous of him and Hinata, could it be that he had held some feelings toward his own cousin. Anger devoured Naruto,

"What do I do with my wife is none of your business, keep your nose where it belongs, and", Naruto pressed his tone to emphasise the words, "You are the one who should stay away from my wife. Don't you even feel ashamed of yourselves for looking at your own cousin with such eyes?"

Neji's face was very pale as he turned away and left.

"Neji-nisan"

Hinata pulled his shirt and tried to keep him back. Neji took her hand off, turned around and looked at the couple sadly,

"I only do what I think is best for Hinata. Yes, she is important to me more than just a cousin, but I would never do anything to harm her and make her sad. But you, Naruto, you are the one who has the potential to do such thing. That's why I don't want you to get close to her."

"Don't give me that crap, I would never do anything to harm her."

"Hinata is very dedicated. You don't need to do anything, just being with you is dangerous enough to break her."

"Don't play smart words with me. Keep it simple."

"Do you love her?"

Naruto looked away, he liked Hinata, a lot, a lot, a lot; and he did love her. It was just that he didn't know if it was the right kind of love or not.

"I like her a lot."

"That's why you will break her."

Neji turned his back again and left. Hinata looked at Naruto sadly,

"Why do you have to say such thing to nisan?"

"I didn't do any wrong. He is the one that has problem. Do you even understand the way he looks at you? Why do you try to defend him?" Anger got better at him, fear and guilt also added up and made the matter worse. Naruto grabbed her wrist roughly, he looked at her with such anger he had never felt before. "Do you also hold some feelings toward him?"

Tears swelled in her eyes,

"He is my cousin, my very best friend, of course I love him. I would never want him to be sad. He was just overreacting a bit; he means no harm to us."

"So you love him. Then what does that make of me. Didn't you just say you love me a second ago? Are you going to say I love you to every single man you set an eye to?"

Hinata slapped Naruto hard on his face and ran away; tear flowed like rain on her face. Naruto put his hand on his chest, this was too painful, making the one you loved unhappy and cry like that.

"I'm such a jerk."

XxXxXx

"You sure are". His friends at a corner murmured.

"But this is really bad". Kiba commented, "what are we gonna do now that they broke up?"

Ino knocked on Kiba's head,

"Baka, they did not break up; they just had a little fight, that's all. All what we need to do is to get them to make up. You know what, actually it will work perfectly for us, usually when people get into a big fight, they make up by, you know...doing this" She put her thumbs together playfully, and they all laughed hard.

"Where so you get that idea from?" Kiba asked, after recovering from laughing and somehow having regained his commonsense.

"It's all over magazines, books, movies." The girls exclaimed, looked at him like he was an alien. "You should spend less time with dogs and more time trying to find someone."

Kiba growled back, "Like you are the one to talk, look at you two, are you able to even have a date with all of that knowledge."

"But at least I am not a dog freak like you. And for your information, men are all over me, it is just I have not found someone that is worthy enough to be with me."

"Come on, Ino. We all know that your luck with men is the same as the Hokage's luck with gambling."

Seeing Ino was about to talk back, Tenten interrupted,

"Come on you two, we have a crisis here. Instead of quarreling, we need to think of a way to bring those two back together and help them to have children as soon as possible."

"If it is not because of your plan, we will not be in such a pinch like this." Ino complained.

"Hey, it's not fair, there is nothing wrong with my plan, we would have succeeded if it had not been for Neji's intervention. Isn't it your job, Kiba, to make sure no one will intervene?"

"Uh, yeah, I put Lee and Chouji to watch the north and the south while Ino and myself watched the west and the east. He did not come from my direction. Also I have set a lot of traps along the way."

"Tch, traps of such level could only postpone him a little. By the way, he did not come from my direction either."

"All we needed to do was to postpone him long enough until they finished their deeds." Tenten sighed, "But they had been taking too long, and Neji was able to break in too soon. Let's find others and report to the Hokage for now."

First they went to the south to find Chouji who was still too busy eating his potato chips. By the way, these were not the potato chips that he used to eat when he was twelve; these were special potato chips for the eighteen years old Chouji; its size was about five times as big, and of course holding a bag ten times more was not a problem to our Chouji, right? Enough with my rambling; anyway, since he was so concentrated on his important task, he had not noticed the presences of his friends, and they had to drag him out to meet with Lee at the north; which made his friends wondered if he could even know if Neji passed by.

To the north where Lee kept his watch, the four witnessed an interesting scene,

"Hey Neji" Lee yelled," Let's do a rematch, this time let's play rock, paper, scissor. I don't believe I would lose to you three consecutive matches."

His friends shook their heads, undid the bunshin and dragged him back to the Hokage's Tower.

A/N: for those who don't get this, Neji made a clone to distract Lee while he himself sneaked in.

Tenten's dai genius plan # 1: Execute: Tenten. Helpers: Lee, Kiba, Ino, Chouji. Mission fail. :(

Chouji's recovery plan.

"Naruto, hey, Naruto"

Naruto turned his head. It was just Chouji, but he was in no mood to meet any of his friend today; he needed to find Hinata first and apologize to her.

"Sorry Chouji, I'm in no mood to talk today, I'll talk to you later, ok?"

"Is this because of Hinata?"

Naruto sighed, "So you know?"

Chouji looked down. It was partly his fault that Naruto and Hinata had the fight, so he wanted to do something to help.

"Do you want to eat something? No ramen this time, though."

Naruto smiled. It was good to confine with your friend once in a while though, and he really needed to have someone to talk to right now.

"So let's go grab some barbecue."

In the barbecue restaurant:

Naruto sighed; he was so stupid to think that Chouji could help him with his love life. All he had done since they came here was eating non-stop.

"Naruto, you are a jerk."

"I know, I was just so angry that I could not control myself and end up hurting her badly."

"What made you so angry? It is not like you to say such thing to both Neji and Hinata."

Naruto's face turned red, he didn't want his friend to know of his childish reasons, but he did not want to lie to him either.

"Neji."

"What's wrong with Neji, and how he is related to this?"

Naruto's face became even redder, he murmured

"Because I suspect Neji has some feelings to Hinata."

"What did you say? I didn't hear you very clearly"

Naruto leaned closer and whispered into Chouji ears,

"I think that Neji has some feelings to Hinata."

Chouji looked at him, surprised,

"So what? They are cousins and also very best friends, it is normal that they have feelings to each other."

Naruto sighed, Chouji sure was dumb; he should not confine with him in the first place. With this kind of stuff, Iruka sensei or even Shikimaru might be better listeners.

"Naruto, you don't have to worry so much. Bring a lot of food that she likes and she will forget you in no time."

"Really?" Naruto asked, full of hope; Chouji might not be so useless after all.

"But remember, you have to handmake all of those foods to show her that you are seriously want to apologize to her."

"Just that huh, there is no problem."

So Naruto and Chouji bought a ton of ingredients and came back to Naruto's house to cook; or more precisely, Naruto cooked and Chouji ate.

"Hey Chouji, leave some for Hinata, dattebayo."

"We have a ton here, and beside girl should not eat too much; you don't want Hinata to get fat, do you?"

"If it makes her happy, I would not mind at all. Hinata is Hinata whether she is fat or not will not matter at all."

"You say that because she is still skinny, but if she suddenly gets fat, I bet that you will get bored of her."

Naruto suddenly got angry,

"Who do you think I am, Chouji? Do you think I am the kind who goes for appearance? I love Hinata, it does not matter what she will become, I will never stop loving her because of that."

Chouji smiled,

"Oh, so now you love Hinata, why don't you just say so when Neji asked you?"

Naruto scratched his head,

"I just don't know if it is a right kind of love. You know, romantic love and not just sister love."

"If it is just a sister love you would not get jealous of Neji out of nothing."

'So he does understand the problem.' Naruto thought, 'he might not as stupid as I think he is, but I am not jealous of Neji, and it is not for nothing.'

"Beside", Chouji continued, "If you really don't care about her appearance and want to keep men away from her, there is one way."

"What is this?" Naruto leaned closer, his face was full of hope.

"Feed her like a pig, making her fat and ugly so that men will not even want to take a glance at her. Since you do not care about her appearance, you will never leave her; then she will belong to you and you alone since except you no one would accept her and want to be with her."

"Isn't it too selfish? This is no good, I would not do something that could potential harm her."

"The only thing that could potentially harm her, and that is if you leave her once you get bored of her."

"I would never do that."

"So there is no problem then, Hinata would also not mind about her appearance. There is no harm involved; and you would have her all for yourselves."

"That's still no good though; what if I die and no one wants to take care of her because of, you know, her new appearance; also she is a shinobi, being overweight could affect her mission, she is not from your clan, you know, so she cannot utilize her size to any advantage. And most important, eating too much is not good for her health, what if she gets sick or die because of eating too much? Hey, no offense though, Chouji, you need to eat for your clan technique but Hinata's clan technique is different, it might..."

"Ok ok, I get it. So you care about her a lot. Shouldn't you be happy that she has others who care about her the same as you do, like Neji, for example?"

Naruto stared at Chouji for a while before he grabbed the food and ran out of the house,

"Thank you Chouji"

XxXxXx

"Naruto-sama, sorry but we cannot let you go inside."

"I'm Hinata's husband. The heir's husband. Doesn't it make me your leader too? Let me in."

"Sorry Naruto-sama, but we have taken direct order from Hiashi-sama and Neji-sama to not let you in or meet with Hinata-sama. So if you could kindly leave.."

Naruto made his hand sign and noticed how all the guards were prepared to fight back. He sighed and left. He didn't want to start a fight in front of Hinata's house; that could only create more troubles for her. Even if he could sweep all of these shinobies in just one second, what good could it bring to him, to their relationships? Hinata could be even more angry at him, and more important she might be sad knowing that her people were beaten by him. The last thing that he wanted to do was to create conflicts with her clan and make her sadder than she already was.

Walking back to his house, he transformed into a Hyuuga, and walked back to the mansion, passed the gate easily and tried to sneak into Hinata's room. He knocked on her window,

"Hinata. Hinata."

Hinata came closer to the window, she raised her eye brow,

"Who are you? You are not a Hyuuga"

Naruto released the justsu and transferred back,

"It's me. Naruto. I need to talk to you."

A/N: Like I said, I'll probaly try to speed up the story a little bit, so hopefully after the next chapter we could reach to the climax. It's still pending though because I haven't done with chapter 11 yet.

Please review and let me know what you think about this chapter and the story so far. I'm very nervous because this is my first fic. Well, actually up to today I have written some oneshots, so it will not be my first completed work. But it is still my first fic ever, and my first try on Naruto; so I really want to know what works and what do not.