Cecily: I'm back! And I've got more Cast Members here with me! (without using rope)
Sasuke: She dragged me in here with the scent of cookies.
Sakura: I got dragged in here by the scent of cookies!
Naruto: I got dragged in here by the scent of cookies!
Cecily: Turns out Team 7, not including Kakashi, like my cookies.
Shizune: I'm back because I like that Cecily is making food for everyone.
Cecily: Now...I want Gaara in here! But he got a restranting order against me since that time I hid inside his gourd.
Sasuke: ...
Sakura: ...
Naruto: ...
Shizune: ...Cecily-Chan does not own Naruto.

Naruto blue eyes blinked tiredly as he walked down to the tent again.

TenTen sat on the ground, talking with Hinata near the small fire where they cooked thin fish.

The heiress was sleeping in the tent.

TenTen stood up as soon a Naruto sat down.

"Me and Hinata are going to get some more food and fruits before we head out, ok?" TenTen said.

Naruto nodded. "So how's the heiress girl?" He asked, seeing Kiba walked out of the boy's tent, sleepy as Naruto was.

It was early morning; early enough that sun haven't waked up. The sky was dark blue and the diamond stars faded slowly. The large white-faced moon was fading along with them. The air was cold and thin, and wind barely blew. The leaves were glossed over with dew, and the scent of chopped wood and a campfire filled the thin air as it was.

Hinata stood up, and silently followed TenTen as they went to the forest with their small wooden baskets to fill up.

Kiba sat down near Naruto. "So you are still wondering about that Hinata-thing?"

Naruto rubbed his nose a little. "Yeah, I'm getting a little worried."

"Worried?" Kiba asked, knowing he had hit the weak spot.

"Well...I guess I made a mistake." Naruto said, not making eye-contact at Kiba, but looking down at the fire Hinata made. "...you know Sakura, right?"

"Yeah." Kiba answered plainly. He had no idea what that pink haired, green-eyed, apprentice-of-the-Fifth, girl had to do with anything.

"She misses Sasuke a lot. Sakura can't live a day without crying."

"I know that. We had to chase those Sound Ninjas when he left. Sasuke is a big deal to you and Sakura. He was your teammate after all—I won't know what to do if Shino or Hinata left. I'd miss them too."

Naruto nodded. "I can't manage to see Sakura in pain. She's my friend, and it's hard to see anyone hurt that much." Naruto clenched his heart. "Because...it hurts me to see someone special be hurt."

Naruto carried on. "So when I came back from my recent mission, I saw Sakura again, not in pain. She kissed me and told me she loved me, and she wanted to be with me."

Kiba's narrow pointed eyes widened as large as they could possibly get. He didn't say a word.

"So," Naruto continued. "I told her I loved her, only because I don't want to see anyone important to me, in pain or suffering. I do love her, like I love everyone else that I call my friend. And now, when I think my heart is bandaged up and healed because Sakura has gotten over Sasuke, I see Hinata in pain."

Kiba sighed and shook his head lightly. "Sorry, I don't know—" Kiba was going to finish the sentence with, "...why Hinata is mad at you" and obviously lying, but TenTen and Hinata came back with their baskets full.

"Ok, all set?" Hinata said joyfully.

Kiba soaked in what Naruto said and wondered how Naruto saw she was in pain. If Hinata was in pain by the 'Naruto and Sakura' kiss, she was a good actor to cover it up.

"I guess," Naruto sighed as he stood up and smiled. "So where is the place we are delivering Suisei too?"

Shikamaru appeared behind the girls, and sighed. "A few miles out of what TenTen calls, 'a small forest'."

TenTen shrugged as she stepped on Shikamaru's foot.

Hinata smiled a little as Shikamaru yelped and TenTen giggled.

Shikamaru had to carry the heiress again in his arms.

She was weak and light, so he didn't complain.

But she was very sick and had a high fever.

Hinata walked by Shikamaru preparing medicine while Naruto held the basket Hinata brought.

TenTen lead the way as Kiba and Akamaru kept saying it would rain.

Again.

"So...Hinata." Naruto said as he gave her the three small lavender colored berries. "How are you this morning?"

"Fine." She yawned. Hinata placed the berries in her grinding bowl that hit Kiba before, and grinded them into some pink gush.

Shikamaru rolled his shoulders back. "TenTen is fighting with Kiba again." He announced when TenTen hit Kiba in the side.

Naruto smiled, his whiskers perking up on his cheeks. He tried not to laugh when Akamaru bit TenTen's elbow.

Hinata nudged Naruto. "Steel Blue fruit please."

"Oh, ok." Naruto said, as he dug through the basket and handed her the large fruit.

"Peeled a little skin off it, that's all I need." Hinata ordered, not looking at him.

"Ok." Naruto said as he peeled the skin and placed it in the bowl.

Hinata grinded the skin in the berry gush. "Thanks."

"You're welcome." Naruto sighed. "So Hinata, is anything bothering you?"

"No, I'm fine." She replied as she placed her finger in the bowl and sampled the medicine. She stopped walking and stuck her tongue out. The medicine tasted awful, and it stung her tongue and her stomach. "Bleh..." She muttered as she caught back up to Shikamaru and Naruto.

Hinata stirred the gush and then asked Shikamaru to stop walking.

Shikamaru did so, as Hinata put in one small spoonful of the gross medicine in the heiress mouth.

Naruto stood waiting, and then kept walking when Hinata and Shikamaru caught up.

After several moments of silence and watching TenTen and Kiba argue about the rain, Hinata broke the silence in the back when she checked back up on Suisei.

"Shikamaru!" Hinata gasped. "Lie Suisei down!"

Shikamaru did so, lightly setting the heiress on the dirt road, probably ruing her perfect white dress the heiress wore.

TenTen looked back and she and Kiba both ran to Hinata.

Naruto was confused as Shikamaru was, so they both crouched down near Hinata.

TenTen cocked an eyebrow. "Hinata, we have to hurry to the palace the heiress is being married at. Miss Suisei is going to be late for her wedding."

Hinata's white eyes looked at TenTen as she took a deep breath. "Yes she is. Very late."

TenTen kneeled down and was curious. "What do you mean, Hinata?"

"Her pulse..." Hinata muttered.

Naruto was curious too. "What about her pulse?"

Before Hinata could say anything, Shikamaru announced: "She's dead."

Cecily: Ok, I'm still working on the dramatic thing.
Sakura: I gotta admit, that's a mystery.
Naruto: So when is the team going up to the palace anyways?
Cecily: Soon.
Shizune: What's with the rain anyways?
Cecily: You'll see!
Sasuke: And where are the cookies?!
Cecily: Er...the Cookie Monster ate them!