Hey guys, I like to thank all of you who have sent in all the reviews. I enjoyed reading them and getting some advise out of them. I hope you continue to enjoy my story. I know some of you are antsy to get back to finding out how Hinata is doing, and when their meeting will come around. I assure you it is going to happen very soon! I hope you like this chapter! Please R&R! This keeps me hoping that you all like this story.

I have to say this summer has been unusually busy for me, but I have been trying to find time to edit some more of this story! I hope you like it!

Authors: Misahyuga and mrpeeples

It was during the day in Konoha. Naruto was lying on a bed while Sakura checks his vital organs and gasps, noticing that his chakra level is almost to the normal level. She does a quick check over his chakra points of his body and when she finds that he strangely revived himself, she looks down at his face. She smiles, turns around, and leaves the room.

When she came back, she became worried.

Naruto was in a deep sleep. His eyebrows were furrowed, and beads of perspiration ran down his face as he was mumbling words under his breath. Sakura quickly did another check on him, and a look of relief crosses her face. He wasn't in any pain. She then looks down at him, sadly. Maybe, he was trapped in a nightmare. Bending down over him, she listens to what he is saying in his troubled sleep. She could see his muscles tensing and then jerking as his head turns to rest on his opposite shoulder. She had to pull back a little bit to make sure he didn't bump her in the face. She then takes another breath and leans over to listen again.

"No...Don't...stop…everyone...village...no...please...don't kill any more people with my body...I can't bear it…I-!"

His blue eyes snap open as tears flows down his cheeks. Disoriented from the dream, he looks about him and he notices that he was no longer in a cell, but he was in a white room. As his eyes focus on Sakura, his memories flow through his mind and he suddenly remembered where he was…and why he was there. Sakura looks down at him, puzzled. Then she had an epiphany.

That's it! The Kyubi! I should have figured this out earlier! So I am correct about him. I must let Lady Tsunade know about this as soon as possible, she thought. Naruto finally looks up at Sakura. He quickly wiped his tears away, and then surprised Sakura by pulling her into a bone crushing hug.

"Sakura…I'm so sorry. I don't expect you to believe me, but if I told you what happened, you'd probably think that I am crazy."

Sakura smiles and pats him on the back.

"Naruto, I know what happened… it was the kyubi, wasn't it? Your red eyes, claws, canine teeth, and whisker explained-! Naruto! You're starting to h-hurt me," she manages to say as his hug got tighter. She makes a sweat drop.

He realizes he was hugging her way too tightly and he loosens his grip.

"Oh…sorry". After a few minutes, he pulls out of the embrace. His blue eyes lock on hers.

"So…is 'everyone' happy?" he asks, worried.

He was thinking about the person he, at the most, wanted to talk to. That person is Hinata. He needed to find her and quickly. Sakura smiles and nods at him.

"We are glad to have you back, Naruto. I am sure Tsunade will take you off the missing-nin list...because, really, you were a victim in all this. Also Tsunade may want to study that resurrecting jutsu you used."

"I hate to say this, but I can only do that jutsu. I now have the Rinnegan," he says this as he quickly activates his eyes, "and I now have complete control of the kyubi's chakra." He takes the Sage of the Six Paths form to prove what he speaks.

"So, she probably won't ever get to know it."

Sakura's eyes widen as she sees what he has become.

"The last time I saw those eyes… was when Pein almost destroyed our village...you didn't take them…did you?"

He was silent, his eyes staring blankly at hers. Then he suddenly picks himself from the bed and turns to Sakura, "Am I free to leave?"

Sakura realizes that he wasn't going to answer her question, but, clearly, she could see that the answer was yes; he did take them from Pein. She smiles at him.

"Yes, you are free to go..."

"Thank you for understanding, Sakura-Chan. At least, I know someone can see what I have been through." He hugs her again and starts to walk out of the room, but what she says next stops him cold.

"Naruto...I know who you are looking for...She is at home...now…be careful…her father has not left her side since he…was revived."

Naruto turns his head back towards her. With a smile on his face, he says, "Thanks again, Sakura-Chan."

Sakura smiles as he turns his head forward and he leaves the room.

~Hinata is at the temple of the Hyuga's. She is sitting against a wall with her back up against it. Her legs are pulled back holding her arms up. She has her head in between her arms which folds around to support her head. She was crying, or more like sobbing. She was in miserable pain. Her body is extremely bruised with purple-blue swellings and spots from the beatings that Naruto had inflicted upon her, and she feels extremely tender between her inner thighs and a lot discomfort form time to time.

Hiashi gazes at her, sadly, from the shadows. He then turns and walks away for he knew she wanted to be alone, and she couldn't stand to show her weaknesses in front of him. He remembers when she did that all the time when she was younger and how he scolded her for it. This was the result of how she was to him now. If he did try to approach her, and if he did try to help her, she would close up in a shell that even he couldn't even break. Earlier, He had demanded her to tell him how she came upon those bruises while he was…gone. (He couldn't even think of that word.) But Hinata never told him. She just shook her head and said that she will be fine and he needn't worry about her. He walks back to the estate.

Hinata was in part of the temple where she and Naruto had fought, and where she had fallen to him…where he had taken her. She suddenly felt her body sink to the floor. Pain from her stomach sent her into a dizzy strangeness and her body collapses to the floor. Her body protests from the impact and she curls into a fetal position. Some parts of her body were swelling because of the repeated punches that were inflicted upon her, but Hinata was stubborn.

Hiashi had tried to heal the wounds, but he tried in vain. He sighed with frustration, his brows were furrowed.

"Not even Tsunade can fix this. This is strange…I hate this…Hinata…" Hinata only smiled and said, "Don't worry Otou-san. I will be fine. I will deal with these bruises, and it will just have to take some time." After that, Hiashi ordered her to rest and he had forbidden her to leave the Hyuga land, and Hinata obeyed.

Hinata suddenly remembers when she sent a shadow clone out to explore when the commotion had started. (She was hurting so bad, and she was also too embarrassed of her conditions to go out. Her shadow clone looked like her without all the horrible blemishes that she now has.) Moments later, she got the shadow clone's memories, when it dispersed. She smiled through her pain with joy on her face. She is happy that Hanabi is now alive…and the rest of her family is back. She smiles again, happy that they were alive and well. Her mind wonders to Naruto.

What was he doing now? Was he okay? Did he survive that jutsu?

Questions continued to race through her mind as a painless slumber overcomes her and she closes her lavender eyes to escape the cruel reality.