Uuhhhaaaa it's sandy death 101 again folks and bringing you another chapter of cerulean cries.

So were getting close to the chunin exams but before that there are several more minor details that need to be told. So we should do that then huh. 3...2...1 ON WITH THE SHOW!!!!!

Chapter 10: home again

Naruto opened his eyes and tried to sit up feeling pain all over his body. Naruto was pushed back down by a gentle push. He glanced over seeing hinata sitting there smiling at him. He looked behind hinata and saw they were inside a tent. "How long was I out hinata chan" naruto asked trying to sit up again. This time when she pushed him back down he saw hinata's abdominal area was completely bandaged and exposed aside from her kimono top that was draped over her shoulders.

Naruto sat up faster this time and stared directly into her eyes causing hinata to blush. "I'm sorry you got hurt hinata chan" he sighed. Hinata pushed naruto back down with more force this time. Naruto was shocked but stayed down this time.

"Please don't worry naruto Kun it's only four cracked ribs, I'll be fine in a few days" hinata smiled without stuttering. "Four cracked ribs, are you kidding" naruto gasped sitting up so fast that he caused a flash of pain to spread through his body. "See I told you to stay still you're going to hurt yourself even more if you keep moving around" hinata sighed pushing him back down.

"You should do what she says or I'll have to call rin in here and believe me when I say she's not so kind when it comes to uppity patients" kakashi said sticking his head into the tent.

"Kakashi sensei what happened to those enemy shinobi" naruto asked causing hinata to push him back down again. kakashi sighed. "Seeing as they didn't have any information on them I decided to burn there bodies" kakashi said.

"oh and that pin prick feeling your having is every single one of your tenketsu trying to recover from the strain you put on them and it should go away in about an hour or so and when it does we will head back to the village so until then stay put" kakashi smiled as he pulled his head out of the tent.

Naruto was about to speak but kakashi interrupted. "And hinata is there to be sure that you don't move until then as she can see your condition with her byakugan" kakashi chimed causing naruto to shut up and sigh.

Naruto looked at hinata. "I don't think you would let me go early" he asked. Hinata just smiled and shook her head. Naruto smiled. 'I didn't think so" naruto herd hinata gulp but though nothing of it.

The next think naruto knew he was locking lips with hinata. At first he was surprised at her boldness but it soon passed and he gave himself into her kiss.

Hinata pulled away after a few seconds and smiled at naruto and naruto smiled back. "Thank your for saving me naruto Kun" hinata smiled. "Your welcome hinata chan" naruto smiled " but I guess this makes us even for when you saved me at the training grounds" he smiled causing hinata to blush.

Three hours later

Naruto had fallen asleep again and was doing so peacefully. Hinata was still watching him intently when all of a sudden the healing of naruto's tenkentsu was complete. Now hinata was debating on weather or not to wake naruto up. He was sleeping peacefully for once. When she saw him sleep before he was always on guard and alert for any attack but now he was actually sleeping peacefully.

But hinata knew that naruto wanted to get home, hell she wanted to get home as well but naruto needed the sleep. Hinata sighed and decided to wake up naruto.

Hinata shook naruto gently and he soon snapped awake. "Good morning" he yawned. Good afternoon naruto kun" hinata smiled. "I take It since you woke me up I'm ready to move again" naruto asked.

Hinata just smiled and nodded. Kakashi was casually reading in a nearby tree when he was shocked by a loud "finally" causing him to fall out of the tree and land on his head. "I take it we can go now" kakashi sighed.

Konoha main gates

"And here we are" kakashi smiled looking at rin. "Oh right, your all dismissed until tomorrow morning at 8:00 am" kakashi sighed looking back at his team. Sasuke nodded and walked off.

"Shall we go" naruto asked hinata. Hinata looked up and nodded. As the two walked down the streets of konoha they received looks from almost everyone they passed.

Naruto just shrugged it off and hinata was to tired to even notice. She had stayed up a little over twelve hours watching over naruto most of which he was out cold for.

"You look about ready for bed" naruto said carefully eyeing over her. Hinata nodded. I'm really tired from the battle" hinata lied. Hinata did not want naruto to worry about her so much and it killed her to lie to him like that.

Naruto looked at her. "Well you deserve some sleep after watching me all night" naruto sighed as he grabbed her hand and dragged her using shunpo to there apartment.

Before hinata could answer they were at the door of the apartment. Hinata sighed and wanted to scold naruto for using his shunpo but was to tired to do so.

Hinata snapped alert when naruto's guard went up. "w-what wrong naruto Kun" hinata asked hoping that nothing was wrong. "The apartment lock is working" he said. "Isn't that good" hinata asked hopeful.

Naruto looked at hinata and drew his kunai. "It never worked". Hinata activated her byakugan and began scaning the door for traps When she saw none she was about to pick the lock but saw a key in the mailbox next to the door.

"Naruto kun look" hinata said taking the key out of the mail box. Hinata handed the key to naruto and he opened to door.

The entrance way looked normal enough but something was amiss. A shoe rack had been added near the door. "I don't remember getting this" naruto said as he looked at it. "Naruto kun look" hinata cried.

Naruto looked up and saw that the shoe rack wasn't the only thing that was new. The main room had been completely painted over and no longer showed the red stains of blood. There was now a pull out couch that replaced naruto's old couch.

Across the coffee table was a TV stand with a small TV on it. The kitchen now had a full set of chairs around the table as well as a whole new set of dishes and cutlery. "What the hell is going on here" naruto sighed in awe at the apparent renovations to his apartment.

Hinata walked over to the kitchen table and spied a piece of paper. Naruto walked over towards his room and noticed another door there. "Okay I defiantly know that wasn't there when we left".

Naruto opened the door and saw a snow white, twin sized bed. There was also a dresser and a nightstand complete with a mirror. "I had no idea this room was even here" naruto said in awe as he walked out of the room. Naruto approached his room and opened the door to find out it was almost unchanged but now had a dresser.

"Hey hinata chan you have to check this out" naruto called with excitement. When naruto heard no reply he walked out into the main room and saw hinata curled up on the couch fast asleep with a note in her hand.

Naruto smirked and gently took the note from hinata's hand. Naruto set the note down on the new coffee table and grabbed a spare blanket from his room. Naruto gently covered hinata in the soft blanket and she almost instantly curled up into it and murmured an almost inaudible "naruto Kun".

Naruto smiled and then read the note. To naruto and hinata. I figured it would be irresponsible of me as a father and as a mentor if I allowed two of heirs of konoha's great three clans to live in such an under furnished apartment. Hiashi p.s welcome home hope you did well on your mission.

Naruto smiled, and for the first time he locked his door, made sure hinata was asleep and went to bed himself.

The next morning

Hinata slowly opened her eyes. "I must have fallen asleep after reading fathers note" she moaned as she stretched in a feline like manner. Hinata casually glanced at the clock as she heard it ticking. "Is it really seven forty-five" hinata yawned aloud as she walked into the washroom.

Hinata gazed at the mirror and started fussing with her hair. "I guess this is what hannabi warned me about huh" she sighed as she tried to fix her hair to at least make it look presentable.

As she fussed with her hair she noticed the pain in her chest was gone. "Didn't I have four cracked ribs yesterday" hinata wondered as she undid the bandages around her abdomen.

Not only was the pain gone but the bruising around the injuries was gone as well. "I'll ask rin about it later' hinata sighed as she walked out of the bathroom.

Hinata was about to wake up naruto when she noticed the new door besides his own. She walked inside and saw that most of the furniture from her room at the hyuuga complex was there as well as a new bed.

Hinata looked at the bed with a wary gaze. "I know I have to wake up naruto but…" hinata said to herself.

Hinata looked at the door and once she was sure that it was clear she jumped onto the bed and wiggled her way under the covers.

"Mmm this is so warm and cozy" hinata said to herself feeling giddy. Hinata was shaken from her thoughts by a sound at the door. "Naruto Kun is that you" she called out softly.

Naruto poked his head into the room leaning on the door frame. "I don't think we'll have anymore arguments on who sleeps on the couch now huh" naruto smirked.

Naruto realized that hinata was mainly hiding under the covers except for her eyes he could also tell she was blushing madly. "What's the matter hinata chan" naruto asked confused.

"n-n-n-naruto y-y-your" she said pointing. Naruto looked to were she was pointing and realized he had walked out of his room with no shirt on.

"Oh sorry about that hinata chan" naruto smiled as he walked out of the room. Hinata could feel her heart pounding in her chest. "I can't believe he has this affect on me" hinata sighed as she got out of her new bed.

She was about to walk out of the door when she stopped and looked at the bed. "I'll see you tonight" hinata smiled to herself as she walked into the living room.

Naruto walked back out of his room wearing a black sleeveless shirt instead of his usual clan shirt.

Hinata felt a slight blush creep onto her cheeks as she watched naruto put on his sandals. Naruto stood and smiled at her. "Were late as it is so we should go and meet the others" he sighed. Hinata nodded and quickly put on her sandals.

In front of ninja academy

A semi loud growling sound could be heard from a certain dog like person. "For the love of god kiba can you please shut up" a long blonde haired kunoichi screamed. "Shut up ino I hate to be kept waiting" kiba roared in retaliation. A loud bark came from akamaru as a sign of support. "Hey kakashi sensei why is your team so late" shikamaru asked as he lay on his back gazing at the clouds.

"Yes kakashi why is your team late" asuma asked while giving kakashi the death glare. "Well I guess I have been pushing them a little hard lately and the all kinda got well umm…..beat up" kakashi said nervously while rubbing the back of his head.

"How and how badly" asuma frowned taking a drag on his cigarette . Kakashi gulped, he knew asuma hated it when a fellow leaf shinobi got hurt in battle. "Oh just four cracked ribs for hinata, a few cuts and bruises for sasuke and extreme overuse of the tenketsu for naruto from facing three jonin level slayer nins" kakashi said still rubbing the back of his head.

Asuma was about to say something but felt three new people enter the area. Kakashi and herself both looked up at the top of the academy. There stood naruto sasuke and hinata who were now falling towards the ground. Al three landed in front of there sensei.

"Sorry were late kakashi but we didn't expect you to be here on time" sasuke sighed as he stood. Naruto and hinata also stood. "Saved buy my students" kakashi sighed to himself. Kurenai still gave him a 'this isn't over' kind of look.

"SASUKE KUN I MISSED YOU" ino cried as she ran towards sasuke. Sasuke turned around just in time to see ino smash into a blue coloured wall that appeared out of nowhere. "Oww were the hell did this wall come from" ino cried. "Hey thanks naruto sasuke smirked. "Naruto kun that was mean" hinata frowned.

"I know hinata chan but I couldn't help it" naruto shrugged. Ino was now glaring daggers at naruto. Naruto smirked and looked at her with his getsueigan. "What the hell is he" ino gasped as she ceased looking at him. "Naruto" hinata said in a warning tone. "Sorry" he replied.

"Naruto that's enough" kakashi sighed "and ino your flirting can wait till after our announcement" kurenai added in.

"So what is this ever so important announcement and why does it require us to be up at this troublesome hour" shikamaru sighed. "Well if you want it quickly then all six of you are going to be participating in the upcoming chunin exam along with team eight and team gai" kakashi sighed. "You all have three days to prepare yourself and hone your skills for the exam" asuma smiled. "Until then you are all dismissed" kakashi said as he waved his had in front of him as an order to scatter. All team seven members dispersed immediately leaving the team ten genin confused.

Holy flying crap man. I'm really sorry for being so late with this chapter again. Anyways I have decided that the invasion of the hidden leaf arc will be included in this story but with some major changes. Also in the extreme rush I will not be able to post the review and give a response for this chapter. But there is a solution…..review again. So until next time people.