Orochinaru appeared out of nowhere infront of the two teens, he eyed them both with caution, smiling widely when he laid his yellow orbs on Hinata.

"A Hyuuga?" He beamed reaching out to touch her face. Hinata stared wide eyed at him, she'd never seen him up close like this, he was scarier and uglier than she'd imagined.

"No!" She shrieked, jabbing him with her index finger, sending his chakra points into an uncontrolable spasm. Naruto crashed his fist into orochimau's jaw, sending him soaring a good many feet away from them.

He recovered instantly, and shot a menacing glare at the two, mainly at Naruto.

"Why is it that everytime, I get what I want you show up to try and take it away from me, go away the Hyuuga is mine!"

Naruto returned the glare, "What do you mean,'something you want'? What do yo want with Hinata!" He was begining to lose his temper, how dare Orochimaru speak about her as if she was an object.

"What do you think Naruto, You're a smart boy, you figure it out!" He teased, wiping a stray drop of blood from his lip.

Hinata's heart started to pound. Orochimaru wanted her? For what? The last time he wanted something, he went through nearly anything to get his hands on it. She wasn't as strong as Sasuke was, she wouldn't be able to handle it. She would be caught and killed and used in his weird medical sience projects. Her mind was reeling out of control, she had to stop it before she lost her sanity.
She took in a deep breath, reminding herself that she wasn't the same girl as 5 years ago, she was stronger now, as strong as anyone else in the leaf village and just as capable to do damage.

"Hinata." Naruto's soft voice snapped her out of her thoughts, "I won't let him get you, I'll protect you." He smiled at her, it was a smile that made her cast all doubts out the window. Naruto fought for Sasuke, and he would fight 100x harder for her, she knew it.

Hinata nodded with new found assurance, she and Naruto both stood to fight their enemy.

"How sweet." The snake master mocked, "the both of you seem so amoruous are you infatuated in some way?" He recieved no answer, Naruto and Hinata stood their ground ready for any attack he might throw at them.

"It seems we aren't alone." Orocimaru looked around in the trees, "One weak Hyuuga and a fox demon, is one thing but two? I think I'll pass." He poofed away, only to appear between Naruto and Hinata.

"I'll get my hands on you somehow, My little Hyuuga." He said but before he placed his cold thin lips on the apex of he neck, biting down hard. She screamed in pain grabbing her bleeding neck, falling towards the ground.

"Oh no!" Naruto's stomach dropped, he knew all too well what Orochimaru had done. "Get off of her you sick pervert!" Orochimaru dissappeared for good, and Naruto had no time to react. He caught Hinata before she hit the ground, Her eyes were glazed over and she had a pained expression on her face.

"Hinata! Hinata speak to me, say something!" He shook her lifless body violently, trying to get a reaction out of her, any reaction. She just laid still, her chest barley rising with each small breath she took. "Hinata no, don't let the seal take over you." He yelled noticing that the black circular seal was growing branches.

"Naruto!" Neji was beside him, "What happened to her?" He asked in a panic, seeing his younger cousin lying in Naruto's arms.

"O-O...Orochimaru...bit her." Naruto dropped his head to Hinatas neck, covering the curse mark.

"What!" Neji shouted, enraged, "How could you let this happen!" He grabbed Naruto, making him drop Hinata on the ground, Screaming directly in his face.

"It happened so fast, I had no time to react." Naruto, didn't struggle to get away from Neji, he blamed himself too, he should have known what Orochimaru was capable of. He let his gaurd down.

"Why, Naruto, Why did you bring her here?" Neji asked releasing Naruto and calming down. He was searching for some logic, he was unable to comprehend Hinata as, now, one of Orochimaru's subordinates.

"T-Tsunade assingned us this mission, we were only supposed to scout the village, to see what they were all about." Naruto sat beside Hinata, who had yet to make any kind of movment.

Neji bent down and picked her up, "We have to get her back to the village as soon as possible, Tsunade wasn't there to save Sasuke, but maybe she can help Hinata."

Naruto didn't move, he sat where Hinata's bodywas lying, "Naruto, get up! We can't stay here, he might come back with reinforcments."

"Let him come back!" Naruto growled, "I want him to find me here."

Neji siged, "If you won't come back for me, or for yourself, come back for Hinata...When she wakes up, she is going to want to see you."

Naruto rose from his postion, still infuriated, but willing to push it aside for Hinata's sake, "alright, lets go."

Naruto shuddered, for a person who spent most of his time in a hospital, he really didn't like them. The chairs in the waiting room were hard, the receptionists attitude was hard, the floor was harder then a floor should be and it was freezing cold.
The only thing that kept him rooted was the thought that he might be able to see Hinata today. She'd been asleep for 3 days now and it was the longest 3 days in his whole life. Tsunade worked effortlessly to bring her out of her seal induced coma, but had no progress, she was in Hinata's room more than she was in the Hokage's tower.
By the time Tsunade came out into the lobby it was night time, The Hyuuga's that had been waiting left bitterly, deeming it another uneventful day. They eyed Naruto as they passed him, wondering why he was waiting so long.
He got the worst look from Hiashi, who casually bent down and said, "This is what you wanted all along, how can we marry her off now?"

It took all Naruto had in him not to knock the living daylights out of the clan head, it also took the fact that Hiashi could beat him to a bloody pulp if he so chose to.

Neji was the last person to say something, "I have to talk to you, it's a matter of grave importance." He sounded urgent at the moment, but a conversation with Neji was the last thing Naruto wanted. Hinata was top proiority.

Naruto snapped out

"Is she going to be alright?" Naruto looked up at Tsunade, his bright blue eyes shimmering with water.

Tsunade nodded her head,"I did the best I could do for her, Hinata will be alright so long as she doesn't let hatred or revenge take her over, she will be cursed for the rest of her life though."

"Thats okay then, " Naruto felt a glimmer of hope with Tsunade's words, "Hinata has never hated anyone, she is the kindest person I know!"

Tsunade turned the cornners of her lips up in a tiny smile, "She is isn't she?"

"Can I see her, is she awake?"

"Yes, she wants to see yo too, funny that Sasuke hasn't been by, and she is his fiance." She noted with a coy yet suspicious glare.

Naruto widened his eyes, "How did you know about that?" The wedding was supposed to be secret, or at least kept underwraps until it was final.

"Hiashi, told me everything, but that isn't important, have you spoken with Sasuke?"

Naruto scoffed, "Che, he hasn't said anything to me either, its like the only person he talks to now is Sakura."

Tsunade squinted her eyes, she wasn't the only one who noticed that Sasuke was withdrawn after this mission. She walked out the door, patting Naruto on the shoulder, she would have to look into this first thing in the morning.


"YOU TOLD NEJI?"

Sakura cringed, sobbing as Sasuke silently hissed at her.

"Y-You don't understand, I had to, he would have figured it out anyways." She defended, knowing that no matter what she did that day, Sasuke was going to be pissed off.

"He wouldn't have figured anything out if you just kept your fucking mouth shut!"

The raven haired ninja, stormed back and forth infront of Sakura, he wasn't sure if he should kick her ass out or yell at her some more. This had to be, by far, the dumbest thing she has ever done. He stopped in front of her running his fingers through his shiny black locks and siged.

"I have to go see him, I have to tell Orochimaru something."

"What?" Sakura gasped, "why?"

Sasuke pushed past Sakura and headed for the door, "The plan is ruined Sakura, We have to figure out another way to do this."

"Sasuke don't do it, Neji is willing to help, we can't throw him under the bus."
She ran infront of him, standing between him and the front door.
Sasuke didn't say a word, he eyed Sakura carefully, not knowing what to say. He was almost ready to tie her up and lock her away, just so she wouldn't do anymore damage.

Sakura sniffled a bit, scared of ominous glare she was getting from the only man she ever truly loved. She leaned forward and touched his face, noticing the stress of the past few months were affecting his apperance. Suprisingly he just stood there and allowed her to run her fingers across his cheek. He had heavy bags under his eyes from lack of sleep, and his pale white skin began to take an unhealthy yellow pigment.

"Let me help you", she begged, "I don't just want to follow you anymore, Sasuke, I love you, and I know you love me, despite the things you do or say. I don't want to see you beat yourself up about this. We can save Naruto and Hinata together, you can't do it alone.

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Naruto knocked on Hinata's door, there was no answer. He knocked harder, Tsunade said she was awake why wasn't she answering.

"C-Come in." A weak voice called from the other side. Naruto pushed it open to see Hinata siting upright on the hospital hair was a mess, she was pale as white paper, and her face held a look of worry, but she was beautiful none the less.

"Come in Naruto-kun." She said sheepishly, trying to smile in hopes it would change the expression on his face. "Why do you look so upset?"

"...It was my fault." He began,blaming himself for what happened to her.

"No, it wasn't, if you weren't there, I wouldn't be here right now, everyone knows that." Hinata played with the thin white sheets that coverd her up. Her marble face was gaining color at a very fast rate.
She was chewing at her bottom lip, and avoiding Naruto's eyes.

"Hinata?" He asked, assuming somthing was wrong, she may have acted like this on a regular basis, but now she seemed different, "Whats the matter."

"N-Nothing is the matter, I'm f-fine." She inwardly cursed herself for the stutter, the habit she managed to decrease over time came back in full force.

She sighed deeply, patting the side of the bed she wasn't lying on. "Naruto, come sit my be."

He crossed the space between them slowly, sitting next to her. "Hinata are you sure there isn't something wrong?"

Hinata glazed her hand over his, "I'm not so sure." She said looking directly at him. "I've been th-thinking, We're a hopless cause, you and I, i-if the marriage doesn't come between us, the curse mark will."

"Thats not true, I won't let anything come between us, I've delt with this cursed mark issue before."

"How did that go for you?" She asked with the tiniest hint of sarcasm.

"Everything was resolved wasn't it?" Naruto defended crossing his arms arrogantly.

Hinata giggled, he was so cute when he pouted like that. she couldn't force herself to break up with him like she planned, instead a whole new desire took over her. If being with him was pointless she would make some value in it.

"N-Naruto-kun, I l-love you." She shut her eyelids tight letting the words fall out her mouth, she couldn't hold it back any longer, ofcourse he knew she really liked him, but she had to make sure he knew she loved.

"...Hinata? You-You what?" He sat with a fumbled look on his face, had she really said that, she was just about to break whatever they had off, and then she says she loves him. Naruto was quiet for a while.

Hinata didn't say anything either, she was sure she ruined the relation ship they had by being too hasty, it had only been...a year, her expectations for the two of them may have been too high. Naruto eventually chuckled soft and low, coaxing Hinata to open her eyes and look up at him with confusion. He laced his fingers through hers, with a wide grin on his face.

"I love you too Hinata-chan."

There was silence, after a few seconds the only thing that made noise was the IV attatched to Hintas arm, ever few hours or so it would release an appointed amount of medicine into her system.

Hinata breathed in, she waited her whole life for him to say something like that to her and now he finally did. Her heart began to beat fast and an unnatural sense of euphoria filled her up inside, partially due to the drugs that worked their way into her blood, but mostly due to the fact that the she just heared 5 words she wanted to hear for so long. Naruto, unsure of what to do next leaned forward and pecked her on the lips. It was awkward but gentle. Naruto smiled,as quick as it was he relished every second of lips were so delicatly soft. It was like Kissing a flower. Hinata widened her already large eyes, his kiss was quick it caught her off guard,she smiled back, Glowing a bright scarlet but she was still unsatisfied. There was a fire burning in her heart the moment he said something to her, She thought leaving him was the answer, but that didn't work, confessing her true feelings maybe douced it a little, but the second his lips met her's that fire intensifed 100x.
She didn't know what was taking her over, but she liked it, and she wanted more. Eagerly she leaned foreward kissing him, it was a long and powerful kiss, Naruto happily returned it, holding her around the waist,
The both of them drew back panting, "Hinata, what was that?" The glee in Naruto's voice was hard to miss.

"I don't know." She said, laying her head in his shoulder, "I don't know what came over me." She nudged her head up and began nibbling at his neck, then slowly began to snake her hand down his chest.

"What are you doing, d-didn't you want to wait for your...husband?" He grabbed her wrist, holding it at his belly button. He remebered how she said she wasn't allowed to have sex until she was married. But the man she was marrying was Sasuke, not him.

"I never wanted to wait on Sasuke, I wanted to wait on you Naruto-kun." Her eyes pleaded with him to let her go, Naruto stood up.

"I won't let you do this, this isn't what you want. You're losing it." He only stood up to get away from her, he didn't want to encourage any of her behavior because his hands might move on their own. Hinata swallowed hard, her bottom lip that was turning red from her chewing began to tremble.

"I'm sorry Naruto. I understand if you don't want to do this with me." Her voice shook as if she were on the verge of tears.

Naruto's heart immediatly sank, he sat down again pulling her close to him. "Thats not it at all, I love you , I told you that. But this isn't like you Hinata, I don't want you to do somthing you will regret later on."

"How could I ever regret anything I do with you? I've thought about it, and this is what I want, my husband will be Sasuke, but he will never be my love, that place is taken by you."

Naruto opened his mouth to reply but nothing came out, The angry passion in Hinatas tone had rendered him speechless

Unwilling to wait for his response Hinata once again connected her lips with his, and once again he happily obliged.


Okay guys, please excuse the grammar problems, the misspelling and maybe some writing style errors and I think some characters are a little OOC, Oh and sorry for the chapter just ending abruptly.I'll fix this chapter I promise! I have neglected this story for so long, and I even forgot where I was going with it. I really don't like re-reading my stories(I find so many things wrong!), but im gonna have to re read this whole thing to see what direction I was headed. hahaaha, This chapter is so old, from months ago that I never bothered to finish, but I started on it again and I'll post it anyways because I feel so guilty :( Please tell me everything that is wrong...I can take it . (I might cry)