Chapter 10 Light at the End

(refresher from last chapter)

"Hinata-chan, I don't want to kiss you while I am still so angry. I want every kiss we share to be under good terms, ok?" Hinata looked a way for a moment wiping off her face and reluctantly agreed.

"Ok Naruto-kun, lets go to Sakura's place, she should be home from the hospital by now." Naruto took her hand in his and they left to find Sakura. Halfway into town, Naruto realized he had no idea where he was going, so Hinata took the lead until they arrived 10 minutes after setting out. After a knock they were greeted by a tired looking pink haired medic nin.

"Hey guys, what do you want? I was just heading to bed." She questioned as she ushered her guests in. "You guys want some tea?"

"No thank you Sakura-chan. Hinata-chan, or I mean we, have a big problem and it involves Hinata-chan the most." Naruto answered.

"Well what is the problem? I'm guessing it is medical related, otherwise you could have gone to someone else." She returned

"W-well, I-I-I, and um…" Hinata starts crying again "I don't know what happened… I didn't want to, but my body just acted… I never had before… Kiba stopped by while I was working… and, and, I might be p-pregnant… he said he could smell it." By now Hinata could barely stand and was being held up by Naruto as she continued to cry into his chest.

"So um, you think you could check her out Sakura-chan?" The medic just stared in disbelief.

"But how? I know you Hinata, and you would never do something like that especially when Naruto was back. If you had wanted it that bad you would have jumped him the day he arrived. Something just isn't right here." Doing a basic scanning jutsu, Sakura carefully touched Hinata's abdomen letting the chakra seep into her body revealing everything to the trained medic.

"Well it would be too early to tell for pregnancy, but the conditions aren't correct, so you can't be pregnant." Relieved smiles fell all around and then she continued. "Well that's strange…" This definitely perked up their hearing to make sure they didn't miss anything. "Ha, just as I thought… I've got more good news and some bad news. The bad news is you have some sort of chemical still in your blood that probably is the cause of your problem, but the good news is that as far as I can tell… you are still a virgin, that's what got the 'weird' out of me, having a 22 year old virgin is a rarity." I don't think two people could have smiled any bigger after Sakura informed them of that.

"Waaahoooooooo alright Hinata-chan" Naruto screamed as he twirled Hinata around by her waist a few times before setting her down and staring into her eyes. "Hinata-chan, I'm so glad. I really didn't want to be through this so soon, but it has gotten me to realize one thing, I don't think anything you could do would cause me to not love you. Even if you put a kunai though my heart, I would still be yours. It is sudden, and I don't have the proper gift, but…" He grasped her hands stroking them lightly "Would you mind being Uzumaki Hyuuga Hinata? Will you marry me?" Sakura gasped and held her hand to her lips as Hinata's eyes went wide as well as her smile as new tears found their way to her face; the ones that feel right.

"No…" everyone almost died "and Yes, in that order… I would love to be married to you. I've been waiting and hoping for 14 years that it would be you who would finally ask that question," She reached out and flipped the hood of his cloak down and was drawn closer as she looked at his cerulean eyes until he greedily latched his lips to her soft pink ones. They stayed in the moment as their tongues danced about each others basking in the taste of each other until they forced themselves apart realizing they weren't alone.

"Alright you two, that kiss looked way too pleasant. You're going to have to leave before I demand some of that."

"Huh? I never knew you were into girls Sakura-chan. I know Hinata-chan is an awesome kisser, but you can't have her." Steam was pouring out from under her pink hair as the two visitors giggled at the obvious joke.

"NARUTO! I do not like girls like that… OUT!" Sakura shoved them both out the front door slamming it behind them.

"Hey Hinata-chan, I bet you could change her mind on that if you kissed her half as good as you kissed me." Hinata playfully slaps his arm

"My kisses are for you and you alone my love." To prove her point she gave him a sweet short one

"I can't tell you how relieved I am to know that you didn't do those things, but that brings me to a couple questions. Will those fake experiences keep haunting you and who do you think could have drugged you?" he asked, but had a few more things on his mind. "My guess is the drug was a form of a hallucinogen that, combines with a genjutsu, creates genuine memories... that is some advanced stuff, so you would need some exceptional experience with it."

"I am glad that it truly wasn't real either, but it is still very vivid in my mind. Hopefully with time the memory will fade so I don't remember anymore. It was weird though, it was like I had no control, I couldn't yell scream or do anything." Hinata started the waterworks again at recalling the event.

"Shhh, you're fine now, we'll get the bastard who did this to you… no us. Can you tell me when you might have been drugged; did you feel weird at any point?" After Naruto asked, Hinata realized she might have something.

"Um, I did have a slight headache today. It left shortly after the um… event."

"What else? When did it start?" he asked excited to find and punish the moron.

"Well, I really don't know… I tried drinking the tea Hanori-san brought for me, but it got… worse…" realization hit her "How did I not realize it at first? It started with the tea Hanori gave me… he had to of done it, he has the knowledge, and skill, plus I think he is angry at me for ending the marriage. I'M GOING TO KILL THAT SHIT!" Hinata was now straining against Naruto as he held her tightly against him trying to calm her… It wasn't working. "I've always wanted to see what the curse seal does to a man, let me try just this once please?" She asked in an evil maniacal way.

"No Hinata, we want to be done with the seal for good you can't be like the rest, but I don't see why he can't participate in the gauntlet match. Just tell him to go, he's Jonin, so he'll qualify. This way he can be taken care of legally and you won't have to fall to the temptation of using the seal," he assured. (oh yeah, he won't get away)

"Fine… but you're going to owe me, and when I cash in my favor, you can't resist; deal?" she asks while smiling with a hint of mischief.

"You got yourself a deal, but what is with the weird smile, it's cute, but seems, I don't know, weird."

"Oh real descriptive, but like you said before, I am weird." Hinata threw back playfully.

"Yep, you are; but you know me, I love weird." Sticking his tongue out, he took off running as Hinata pursued. The two of them ran, way to fast for normal people, but a nice slow run for ninja, around the village laughing and giggling all the way until a younger Jonin interrupted the game. Hinata was amazed that at the speeds they were running that the hood to the cloak never once fell to allow a view of his face, but had to move the thought as the Jonin came closer.

….. Later