I was about to go to bed when I realized I hadn't posted the chapter. xD

Anyway, this chapter is one that needed to happen. It will explain WHY I had the results turn out negative. There's an issue that I thought needed to be settled.

This was also an experiment. This entire chapter is one big conversation. I don't think I'm THAT good at writing these things, but I wanted to see how it would turn out. Let me know what you think!

I do NOT own Naruto.

The remaining two days were spent getting ready for the party. Though we had the food bought, we hadn't even set up the apartment. We bought some streamers and what-not, we even moved the furniture around to accommodate everyone. Naruto bought a television mount and mounted it to the wall, and moved the couch, chairs, and coffee table to our guest bedroom. It was tedious, but it was the perfect distraction. After reading the results of our test, we needed one.

Unfortunately, all of these chores only took one day. To keep our minds off of it, Hinata and I decided to rent a movie everyone wanted to watch.

"Don't you think it will be easier to call them, Hinata?" I asked, driving the car around town.

I looked at her, but she didn't answer. I knew she couldn't, didn't want to.

We need to talk about this...

I pulled the car into a nearby parking lot and parked the car.

"Naruto..."

"Hinata, I know it hurts, but we have to talk about this."

"Naruto, you know I can't."

"No, Hinata. You won't. There is a difference."

She looked at me, angry.

She just won't admit when she's wrong. Maybe I did rub off on her.

"Naruto, don't you DARE-"

"Hinata."

"NO. You need to stop treating me like a child."

"THEN STOP ACTING LIKE ONE!"

She shut up.

I took a deep breath, calming myself, before I spoke again.

"It was not my intention to treat you like one. But do you realize how you sound, right now?"

"There you go again. You treat me like I don't know how to handle this." She said, obviously peeved.

"I'm not saying that. I'm saying that-"

"Naruto, stop. I don't need you to "get onto" me. What happened to the man who knew what I needed in order to cheer up."

I looked at her with all the love I had. "Hinata, I'm trying to do that, but you won't stop to listen."

"Listen to what? You are being condescending."

"Because that's the only way I know to get you to listen! Every time I try to speak with you-"

"So you do think of me as a child," She looked out the window, "I can't believe this."

I continued to stare out the window. We had pulled into the parking lot of a grocery store. I watched as children walked with their parents to put groceries into their vehicle.

God, it hurts. Why can't I...

I was mad at Naruto. No, I was ticked off. I admit, I don't know how to handle a fight like this. We have rarely fought in our relationship, so my first instinct was to turn around and slap him. I couldn't bring myself to, though.

I felt a pair of arms surround me in an embrace. I didn't move, doing everything I could to suppress the shudder that overcomes me when he does this. I needed him to know I was angry at him. I knew I wouldn't, couldn't stay mad at him forever, but he needed to know how much he upset me.

He whispered into my ear, "Hinata, you know I don't think of you as a child. With the life you have lead, you have been an adult longer than most," he hugged me tighter, "I just wish you would stop blaming yourself for this."

His last statement made me wonder. Did I really blame myself for this? Thinking back over my life, I can see that I did indeed blame myself for a lot of things. I blamed myself for not taking up for Naruto when he first came to school. I blamed myself for not being able to save my sister. I blamed myself for not being able to save my father that night. My thoughts drifted to a few seconds earlier when I was blaming myself for the pain I felt.

He's right, I have been blaming myself. Maybe he did know what I needed, after all.

I wasn't going to tell him he was right, though.

"Naruto, you need to stop treating me like this. You think that just because you hug me that you can make me not angry at you?" I turned around, forcing him to let me go. Instead of the scowl that I expected to be on Naruto's face, I saw a smile.

I stared at him, doing my best to suppress the contagion that is his smile, "What?"

"You finally got it."

"Got what?"

"I haven't seen that fire in your eyes in a while."

"What in the world is wrong with you, baka!"

He laughed, making me even more angry. I couldn't hold myself back, so I reached up and hit him in the head, making him stop immediately.

Rubbing his head, he said, "I suppose I deserved that."

I crossed my arms with a defiant "HM!"

"Hinata."

I turned my head, refusing to look at him.

"Hinata."

Nope, not gonna look.

"Princess."

Okay, I admit, that made me look at him.

"What?"

"You know I love you, right?"

"Yeah, well, I really don't like very much right now."

"That's okay, as long as you love me." He put the key in the ignition and started the car.

"As long as you realize that the problems we endure in this life aren't our fault. Sure, there are some issues that we bring upon ourselves, but, even then, we must get right back up and keep fighting."

He pulled away from the parking lot, heading to the rental store.

We rode in silence for a while. I was avoiding looking at her, trying to think of what to say next. I was on thin ice.

"You know, Naruto, I really do wish you would stop treating me like a child." Hinata said.

I faced her, "Huh?"

We locked eyes, "You feel like you have to protect me from everything. I understand that you want to do that as my husband, but you act as if I can't take anything."

"Like when?"

"The night after the car chase." She looked down, "You read me a letter you found on the dresser."

"Yeah, but you fell asleep."

She looked at me again, "What happened to that letter?"

"..."

"Naruto?"

"I don't know."

"You don't know?"

"Nope."

"Are you sure you didn't burn it?"

"How did you-"

"I followed you in there, Naruto. I was trying to process the letter when you left, and you took it as I was asleep."

I looked down, "I just-"

"Just, what? Wanted to protect me? Naruto, you and I have endured A LOT growing up. I can take it. It was THAT letter that prepared me for the next day. I expected something to happen." She stared at me, "What would have happened if I really HAD fallen asleep?"

"I-"

"I might be dead, Naruto."

"Hinata..."

"Naruto, stop treating me like a child who needs to be protected from everything. I'm not the naive child from high school anymore." With that said, she looked away, out of the window.

I wasn't going to say anything, and obviously neither was Hinata. After putting her seat belt back on, she continued to stare out of the passenger-side window, watching the view zoom by. Even if she was angry at me, I was still captivated by her beauty. The window was down, and I saw a puddle on her side of the road. It took everything within me not to soak her. If I did, I would be staying at Sasuke's tonight.

The video store was a good fifteen minutes from the house, but we had stopped at a store in the opposite direction. From the point we were at, we had a good thirty minutes until we reached the store.

"What did you mean?"

I looked over to Hinata, who was still staring out the window.

"Mean about...?"

She turned to me, " You said that I 'finally got it.'"

I returned my attention to the road. "I admit, Hinata, I did treat you the way I did, purposely."

I could literally feel the steam coming off of her body.

Yep. She's mad.

"And WHY would you do that?"

"To get the reaction I got earlier."

"So you did this to ANGER me!?"

I could have sworn the temperature increased twenty degrees.

"Nope, not at all."

Because I didn't elaborate, the temperature increased another ten degrees.

"I did it to get you to realize something."

"And what is that?"

"That you need to stop blaming yourself for the problems we endure. The fact that we can't have children is not your fault."

"Who say's I blame myself?"

My eyes had been on the road this entire time, so I looked at her, as we were at a red light.

"Because I used to do the same thing."

"What are you talking about?"

I looked at my lap. "Do you remember the night Ero-Sennin was killed?"

"I do." The temperature cooled a bit.

"For the longest time, I blamed myself for his death. I kept telling myself that if I hadn't of went with the guys that night, he would still be alive."

"But that wasn't your-"

"Exactly," I interrupted, "but I kept blaming myself, even though, in the back of my mind, I knew it wasn't my fault."

"W-what made you stop blaming yourself?"

Her stutter told me that I hit the nail on the head.

"Do you remember the eulogy I wrote for him?"

She nodded.

"As you know, I poured my heart and soul into that thing. I poured hours into making it perfect. But, it never seemed to come out right," I chuckled, "I literally had two trash bags full of crumpled-up paper."

Thank God, it's getting cooler in here.

"In the end, I ended up with what I did, but it wasn't until I gave the eulogy that I realized something."

I paused for dramatic effect, making the temperature drop a little more.

"As I looked out at the congregation, and I saw your face," I looked at her, "Do you know what I saw?"

She shook her head.

"I saw your smile."

She was puzzled, and the expression she wore made me want to laugh.

"There is one memory I have of my parents. The only memory I have of them is the two of them holding hands, smiling. Their smile used to make me feel at peace. I could literally feel the love the emanated from them."

I met her gaze. "When I saw your smile, it reminded me of them. And, for some reason, it all clicked. Yes, Ero-Sennin was gone, but I couldn't blame myself for that. I had you, the one person that Ero-Sennin had ever praised so much. How could I blame myself if I had the love of the very person that understood me completely?"

Tears began to form in her eyes, and I returned my gaze to the a still-red light. "For some reason, I am at peace when I see you. When I see you, I am reminded of the love my parents and Ero-Sennin had for me," the tears threatened to fall from my face now, "And it pains me to see that you are battling with the same thing. I want to be to you, what you are to me. I want you to feel the peace and love that I feel when I am around you."

The light turned green and I pulled away.

If it were not for the green light, I would have hugged him on the spot.

I never knew...

To think that my love had gone through the very agony that I was. To be honest, I didn't think he was capable of it. He had always had a big smile, that I thought it was impossible for him to be so depressed. I never saw him as one to be down-trodden.

As we rode to the video store in silence, I watched the scenery flash by. My mind wasn't on this, though. My mind was trying to figure out what I would tell him. I had to push my pride aside and tell him I was wrong. Yeah, I hoped he would have apologized for treating me like a child, but I understand why he did it. Maybe in this case, the end did justify the means.

A few minutes later, Naruto pulled into the video store. It was relatively small, so parking was limited. Thankfully, though, it was the middle of the week, so the place wasn't busy.

As Naruto turned off the car and stepped outside, I glomped him.

"What's wrong with you?"

"I'm sorry, Naruto. You were right, I was acting childish, I hope you can forgi-"

Naruto stood me up and lifted my chin, "I already did." He brought his lips closer to mine and we kissed, passionately.

After a minute, we pulled away, and he rested his forehead on mine, looking me in the eye, "And I'm sorry for the way I treated you. It was wrong."

"Yes, it was, but I see why you did it."

He looked to the video store and added, "We didn't visit anyone. What movie should we get?"

I followed his gaze, watching the only other vehicle pull out of the parking lot.

"I don't know. Let's go look around and see what they have."

A few minutes later, we walked out of the video store with our selection.

"Naruto, it's okay!"

"It is not!"

"He was just flirting."

"I don't consider groping a form of flirtation!"

"That was an accident."

"I don't care!"

I couldn't help but laugh.

He is so protective of me.

My gaze followed the father walking into the video store with his child.

Naruto would make a great father.

Littlepans: "..."
Naruto+Hinata: *Still Unconcious*
Shikamaru: "..."
Littlepans: *Looks at Shikamaru*
Shikamaru: *Looks at Littlepans*
Littlepans+Shikamaru: *Walk Away*

Was the believable? I'm not good at that sort of thing, and seeing as how this was an argument, I don't know how realistic this sounded. Don't be afraid to voice your comments/concerns.

Anyway, until next week! After next week, we get another O-make. This is your last week to vote on the one I write about. (Check my deviantArt profile journal if you want to see the ideas/vote.)

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