Disclaimer-yea yea I'm sure you know what I'm going to say already so I won't bother.

Ok here's the 10th chapter hope ya'll enjoy it I know I loved writing it or am I enjoying writing the 11th one I can't tell but o we I still think this one was fun to write. Just in case you forgot in the last chapter Hinata isn't dead.

Chapter 10: YOU BAKA!

'Thoughts'

---- Hinata's mind/ somewhere else

YELLING

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As Naruto and Kamiko headed back to Kanoha down the shaded trail, they took a rest and Naruto sat down Hinata's body in the shade under a green tree.

"Hey Naruto?" asked Kamiko as she sat down in the shade.

"Yea?" Answered Naruto as he sat across from Kamiko.

"Did you even check Hinata-san's pulse?"

"Uh, now that you mention it, no."

"YOU ARE SUCH A BAKA!" Yelled Kamiko running to Hinata's body. "SO WHAT YOU JUST ASSUMED SHE WAS DEAD!"

"Well yea I didn't think anyone could live through a shuriken attack with a shuriken lodged in the neck."

"YOU BAKA!" she yelled again. Then Kamiko put two fingers on Hinata's left wrist and checked her pulse. "YOU SERIOUSLY ARE A BAKA!"

"Why? What do you mean?" asked Naruto watching Kamiko frantic around the rest area in the shade looking for something.

"YOU BAKA SHE'S ALIVE!"

"WHAT SHE IS!" Naruto said stunned.

"Yes but barely." Kamiko said getting the blanket out of her bag she had and she put on Hinata to warm her up. Kamiko grabbed her empty bottle and threw it to Naruto, who almost didn't catch it. "Hare go get water and fast!"

"Rodger." Naruto said disappearing into the shaded forest.

"Ok Hinata-san we're going to make sure you stay alive for Naruto," Kamiko whispered under her breath. Kamiko grabbed her other water bottle that had just enough to get the washcloth she had wet. She soaked the cloth and started cleaning Hinata's wounds that were visible with the wetted cloth.

Kamiko checked the wound on Hinata's neck. "Wow you're real lucky Hinata-san." She said relived. "One inch closer and then you seriously would be dead. You are one lucky teme." And at that note Kamiko got her bandages out of her bag and she wrapped them around Hinata's wound that was on her neck first, then her arm and her other wounds that were visible so far.

A couple minutes passed and Naruto came back into the shaded rest area with the water bottle full of water.

"Hey Naruto come here." Commanded Kamiko.

"Yea." Naruto said as he came towards her.

"Ok I got two of the five shuriken wounds and I got some of Hinata-san's injuries that that one ninja from the grass did, but the rest of the shuriken attacks and the rest of the cuts from that grass ninja is under her shirt, so I would have to take off her shirt to wrap up, but I don't know if you want to do it because she barely knows me and she probably doesn't trust me as much or you can have me do it and you can leave for a little and she could get really pissed off at you."

"Why you asking me what I want to do?"

"Well duh, because you love her and she loves you."

"W-what?"

"You do have feelings her you even said it for yourself, didn't you?" Kamiko asked smirking under the shaded tree.

"W-well yea but…" Naruto said starting to stutter like Hinata always did.

"Well then do you want to wrap her wounds because I know Hinata-san doesn't trust me very well and she trusts and knows you a lot better."

"Uh…"Naruto was thinking about it.

"Well…"

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'I can hear them.' said Hinata in her mind 'they're fighting.'

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"What is it Naruto we got to get her fixed up before she really does bleed to death or we get attacked."

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'I can hear them.' Said Hinata in her mind again. 'So I must be still alive. Naruto please don't let Kamiko fix my wounds I don't trust her enough.'

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"Fine I guess I'll do it." He turned red under the shaded tree.

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'Hai arigato Naruto-kun, I know you can't hear me but arigato for all you've done for me and now this.'

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"So what are you waiting for, the next Chinese New Year?"

"C-can you help me?"

"I guess." Kamiko said annoyed in the shaded area near Hinata.

"Thanks." Naruto said gulping. Then Naruto unzipped Hinata's ripped jacket to where her dark purple shirt was. He took off her dark purple shirt and he thanked God that the wounds weren't under her bra. He grabbed the, once wet, cloth and wetted it again and cleaned Hinata's shuriken wounds and sword wounds from Tai the grass ninja. After he cleaned her wounds he then carefully wrapped them in the bandages Kamiko had out.

A light breeze let out and all the birds started flying in the direction of the wind. Kamiko was looking at all the birds flying overhead and wasn't even thinking of helping Naruto. Kamiko looked over at Naruto and saw that he was finished. "See look now you're done you didn't even need my help, not like I was going to help you anyways."

"Hey, so you mean that you just said you were going to help me and you weren't, oh well whatever it wasn't that bad, I guess." He said putting back on Hinata's partly ripped shirt and covers back on her.

All the birds flew out of site and Kamiko noticed the sun setting. "Ok here's the deal Naruto, we need to camp out here until morning or Hinata-san wakes up." The light breeze blew again blowing Kamiko's hair to the side. "And you will carry her the rest of the way to Kanoha, got it?"

"Got it."

"Ok good, and one more thing we need to take shifts on watching Hinata-san."

"I'll take the first shift." Naruto volunteered, the sun was setting fairly slow, as the light was getting dimmer and dimmer. "And we also need to report to Tsunade and tell her the mission was a success and ask to get Hinata-Chan's wounds healed for her."

"Right." Kamiko said, the light from the sun still getting dimmer and dimmer. "Ok we'll each take about 3 hour or so shifts, just barely enough time to sleep a little and eat."

"Got it." Naruto said sitting by Hinata's right side.

"And if there is any sign of enemies or Hinata-san awakens then we warn each other by whistling. Wait, you do know how to whistle don't you?"

"Yea, see." Naruto put his lips together and whistled, as there was very little sun left over the mountains.

"Good."

"Ok, but one thing I'm not leaving this post until sunrise tomorrow." He said, as all the light was almost gone.

"But, why?"

"Because I care for her and if anything happened to her over the night it would be all my fault."

"Oh, hey Naruto, do you like Hinata-san mare than just a FRIEND?" Asked Kamiko with a smirk on her face. The sun was completely gone and all that kept the light and out was the stars and the moon.

"Uh, well." Naruto started to feel the blood rush up to his face and his cheeks started to turn red.

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'Naruto-kun'

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"Well, uh, ok I'll admit it, ok I love her!" Naruto shouted out in the starry night sky.

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'Naruto-kun.' Hinata was blushing inside her mind.

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"Well she loves you too you baka."

"I know that's the reason why I want to be by her side when she wakes up."

"So you can tell her your true feelings?"

"Maybe," Naruto said smiling in the night sky. "Or it could be because she doesn't trust you remember."

"Oh yea," Kamiko said with an anime sweat drop.

"Ok you go get your rest and I'll stay here with Hinata-Chan."

"Ok, and I'll whistle if there is trouble where I am, and you whistle if Hinata-Chan wakes up or there is trouble." Kamiko said. The crickets started chirping around the near-by pond and the frogs started croaking.

"Right, now go, and that's an order."

"Ok," Kamiko said as she left into the darkness of the forest.

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The moon was still high in the sky and the crickets were chirping and the frogs were croaking at the near-by pond. Naruto was looking up at the starry night sky with his electric blue eyes. He looked towards Hinata and seen that she was breathing better than she was earlier.

"Hinata-Chan, I know that you probably can't hear me…"

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'I can hear you loud and clear Naruto-kun.'

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"But if you can't that's ok too. You know a couple of years ago, before I went for my training, I think I always loved you, I was just to damn dense to see it, I mean Whenever you were with Kiba, my heart sank and I wanted to kill him every time he touched you, and whenever you were around me it felt like my heart was going to beat so hard that it would fly out of my chest."

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'Naruto-kun that is exactly how I felt when you were around Sakura and I was around you.'

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"Hinata-Chan you know," he looked back down at her, "when you were attacked with those shuriken and I thought you were dead, well, I think that was the saddest time in my life, I really thought you were dead, I just wanted to cry my eyes out because I had no parents or friends when I was growing up, and, well, you were the only one who was nice to me. When that shuriken attack happened I thought that if you were dead then I wouldn't have anyone special anymore."

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'Naruto-kun, why are you doing this. Why are you telling me all of your feelings for me all of a sudden?'

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"Hinata-Chan, please, please try and wake up."

'Naruto-kun.' Hinata tried to wake herself up and her unconscious eyes were trying to open, to Hinata her eyes felt like they were glued shut and she closed her eyes harder and tried opening them then but it seemed that they didn't what to open.

"Hinata-Chan." Naruto said excitedly as he saw that she was trying to wake up. A couple of minutes later Hinata's eyes opened up very slowly and she saw Naruto by her right side.

"N-Naruto-kun."

"Hinata-Chan, I'm so glad you're alright." Like a baka he was he picked up Hinata's injured body and started hugging her, actually more like squeezing her.

"Ow, N-Naruto-kun th-that hurts."

"Oh yea, Sorry I forgot you were injured for a second there." Naruto stopped hugging and he sat her down gently. The frogs stopped croaking but the crickets were still chirping as the sun started to come up over the mountains in the east.

"That's ok." She said and started to smile.

"Hey Hinata-Chan, did you hear everything that I said?'

"Uh," She blushed.

"You did, huh?" Hinata just nodded. "Oh, uh." Naruto started to blush just a little hardly anything you could see.

"Naruto-kun, I have a healing salve in kunai pouch would you mind getting it and putting some on my wounds?" asked Hinata in a really sweet tone.

"Um, ok." He said as he opened her kunai pouch to get the healing salve. "So you seriously want me to put these on your wounds?"

"Yea, I just want to heal faster and get back home."

"Uh, ok." He unwrapped her bandages that were on her arms and neck and he put that gooey clear healing salve on those wounds. Hinata winced as he put the salve on some of the wounds; he stopped when he saw her wincing. "I'm sorry did I press down on your wound to hard?"

"N-no I'm ok." She said as she was in pain.

"Ok." He said and took off her shirt and unwrapped those wounds and put the salve on those wounds. As Naruto continued with the salve he was putting on her she was still wincing and she was blushing a deep pink at the same time. Naruto finished putting the salve on and wrapped her bandages around the wounds again and put her shirt back on her. "Ok, I'm done."

"Arigato." She said and she smiled.

"It's no problem Hinata-Chan," he leaned in and kissed her on her forehead. Hinata blushed a little. The crickets were still chirping and birds started chirping as the sun was risen a little over the mountain, "oh yea, we have to tell Kamiko you're alright."

"Ok." Hinata said a bit saddened. Out of nowhere Naruto crushed their lips together Hinata didn't even see it coming and starting blushing a bright crimson red.

"I'm sorry Hinata-Chan." He said not referring to the kiss he just gave her.

"F-for w-what?" She started stuttering again.

"For not being there in time to protect you." He said Birds still chirping a light warm breeze passed throughout the area then was gone.

"It's ok."

"No it's not I almost lost you because I wasn't there in time to protect you."

"It's ok Naruto-kun."

"Hinata-Chan I know that it isn't ok I almost lost the person I love." He said quieting his voice down to a whisper.

"Naruto-kun." Hinata said in a whisper as if there were people around to hear their conversation. "Let's go home Naruto-kun, call Kamiko and lets head home." She said smiling.

"Ok." He said and whistled. After a couple minutes Kamiko appeared through the darkened forest as if the forest wasn't even lit by light birds still chirping to the sunrise and all the crickets stopped chirping.

"Hinata-san you're awake!" Said Kamiko surprised.

"Yea, Now can we go home please." She begged, which made Naruto laughed. "What's so funny?"

"N-nothing." He said between gasps for breath. Hinata gave him the best glare she could without moving her head, and then at that exact moment Naruto stopped laughing.

"Ok let's go." Kamiko said.

Naruto picked up Hinata bridal style down the path to Kanoha as the birds were chirping in the morning light in the forest.

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A/N: Well That's the tenth chapter thanks for most of your reviews and by the way there are still more chapters to come I'm sorry about the last chapter I was bored and crap and well since it's summer vacation now it won't be (well I hope it won't be anyways) too random. Oh yes and if I get to random at points please point it out to me I am trying to become better at my writing I really am I've been working really hard to improve it. And I'm so sorry that this chapter was so long. I don't know why but I was inspired to write this when I was listening to B.O.Y.B from System Of A Down.