Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Summary: This story follows from Chapter 11. Be warned that things are definately getting very twisted now. I am weaving myself a very dangerous web indeed.

You have been warned: Language, Manga Spoilers, Sexual themes and Violence.

"Jutsu" means Jutsu name

"Inner Sakura/Kyuubi" means Inner Sakura or Kyuubi speaking

"Inner Thoughts/Flashback" means Inner Thoughts of a person or a Flashback when stated

CHAPTER 12: WINDS OF CHANGE
Having finished her analysis of the unconscious Naruto, Tsunade turns to the battered Lord Hiashi, Sakura and the fidgeting Hinata, "Sakura was right to bring Naruto to me. But rest-assured ... he will be fine."

"Did you want me to have a look at you while I am here Lord Hiashi?" Tsunade asks.

"No ... I shall be alright. Though I was lucky Naruto used a small rasengan." Hiashi laughs, coughing and holding his bruised stomach.

Tsunade turns her curious gaze to the blonde haired boy lying in the hospital bed. "I will need to ask him how he got through your Eight Trigrams Empty Palm Jutsu." Tsunade says worriedly. "I believe that half the reason why he is in this hospital bed."

She turns her gaze back to Hinata, "I believe the other half is your fault." Hinata ashamedly touches her fingers together and turns her feet inwards. She had never felt so terrible in her entire life. The entire time she had just sat there watching Naruto, she simply had wanted to smother him with kisses until he had forgiven her, but she felt utterly ashamed of herself, and lacked the courage.

Tsunade then turns her heated gaze to Sakura, "And you ... what a terrific minder you turned out to be."

Sakura goes crimson. She had no words to describe how terrible she felt.

"Hinata ... I want to see you in my office. Your improvements over the last few weeks have sparked my interest ... Now all of you get out of here and leave the boy be."

Hinata stammers, "But ... But ..." Her father drags Hinata from the room. Hinata reaches for Naruto, "I ... must be ... when he ... wakes."

Inner Hinata was frantic, "LET ME GO! LET ME GO! I'LL KICK YOUR ARSE! BELIEVE IT!"

Sakura had just finished having a shower and was rummaging through her closet. She had left Naruto's hospital room the same time everyone else did, but that didn't mean she couldn't go straight back; and Hinata would be preoccupied for a while. This was her chance. She knew Naruto better than anyone, and he would be up before dinner.

"Arhhh ... there it is." Sakura pulls out the dress she was looking for and throws it on her bed. Her eyes sparkle as she examines the night's selected evening wear.

Turning to face her full length mirror, Sakura frowns at the image before her. Her legs were smooth, her thighs toned and nicely shaped. Her stomach was taut, but not muscular. Her bosom wasn't as big as Hinata's, but they would be enough of a handful for Naruto. And they were extremely sensitive; surely a plus. She turns crimson as she looks at the hairless area between her legs.

Inner Sakura shrieks in excited delight "Let me touch it!"

Sakura turns around and checks out her bottom, "Definitely smaller then fat-arse Hinata." Taking a deep breath, she turns back to her bed and reaches for her red g-string.

Inner Sakura blows on her nails and casually cuts in, "I bet Hinata wore a g-string!"

Sakura's heart beats a little faster and she trembles with nervousness as she reluctantly takes her hand away from her underwear. She gulps and reaches for her strapless bra. Thankfully her inner self had no arguments. It was smaller than what she typically wore and the material was very thin. Sakura then reaches for her black dress; it was very elegant and would definitely catch Naruto's eye. She lifts her arms up, and lets the silky material fall over her body. It went just below mid-thigh and it was very snug. Sakura runs her hands over her dress, smoothing it out. It had a v-neck at the front exposing the inner sides of her breasts, and it dropped considerably low at the back. The cut at the bottom was similar to Hinata's orange dress for it was the latest fashion craze. To finish off the outfit, she slips on a pair of black open-toed stilettos.

Sakura nods at the mirror. It was time.

Naruto groaned in pain. His whole body ached, "I am definitely not doing that again." Checking the time, he flicks the covers off and jumps out of bed, "I'M SO HUNGRY!"

Naruto notices his orange tracksuit on a nearby hospital chair. He wonderingly looks down at his current attire and notices the hospital gown. He reaches behind his neck and unfastens it, letting it fall to the floor.

"Ah-hem" Sakura coughs.

Naruto turns around. His eyes widen in shock. Sakura was standing before him in a truly heart-wrenching dress. Naruto takes her in from head to toe, and back up again. Her dress was short ... but not too short and the slits were flowing randomly with the soft night breeze entering through the open window. Much of her leg was revealed; sometimes all the way up to her hip. The way the dress sat over Sakura's shapely body left very little to the imagination. For a brief moment, he couldn't take his eyes off what were clearly her nipples; they seemed to be poking through her slim dress. Naruto had to blink for fear he would go blind.

Inner Sakura hoots with glee, "GRAB IT! ... GRAB IT!" Steam was coming out of her ears.

Sakura smiled at him; her pink hair billowed gracefully with the gentle breeze, and her green eyes, they looked hungry ... fierce ... almost lustful. Sakura liked her lips. Naruto stared at her tongue; it seemed to move in slow motion as it run over her succulent lips.

Naruto knew that his penis had hardened upon seeing her before him, but he stood there utterly transfixed for what seemed an eternity. His throbbing movements brought Naruto back to reality.

"SAKURA-CHAN!" Naruto turns and puts on his underwear as quickly as he could.

"I am so sorry. Please don't hit me." Naruto begs for forgiveness with his back to her as he attempts to cover himself as quickly as possible. Naruto grabs his pants and in slipping on one leg, falls flat on his back and bangs his head on the hard hospital floor, "OUCH ... OUCH ..." He rubs the back of his head.

Suddenly Sakura was bending over, looking directly down at him. "No hurry Naruto ..."

Naruto bashfully smiles, and slips on his pants whilst lying on the floor, "Where are you going?" Inside he was a mess, he didn't know if he was coming or going, "Everyone has a better sexy jutsu's then I do."

Sakura responds cheerfully, "I just thought I would take you to dinner ... like a date."

Naruto jumps up with his fists clenched, his erection still protruding from his pants, "A DATE! ... REALLY SAKURA-CHAN!"

Sakura cocks her head to one side, and laughs adoringly, "YEP!"

Sakura had taken Naruto to a rather obscure restaurant; the lighting was dim giving it a warm kind of ambience. It was here that she had planned to discuss at length a great many things without fear of being interrupted.

Ever since leaving the hospital, Naruto had not stopped smiling. It made Sakura's heart soar knowing that he still cared for her. But what made her even happier was the reaction she had got in his hospital room. Seeing Naruto naked like that had also turned her on immensely. Her nipples had hardened and she could feel the moistness between her legs. It most certainly wasn't planned for she had been sitting in his hospital room waiting for him to wake.

"Are you sure I am dressed okay?" Naruto asks scratching his head.

Sakura had organised this with the restaurant owner earlier. He was a bit worried at first at having Naruto here, but Sakura put up a fine argument, "You're fine."

A man with a broken arm approaches their table, "What would you like to order?" Sakura looked at the man knowingly and was about to order when Naruto cut in ordering something akin to his favourite dish. Sakura simply ordered sushi.

"I am sorry about today Naruto ..." Sakura wanted to get things rolling.

Naruto grins cheekily, "You don't need to apologise. I have always wanted to touch ... ah-hem ... well anyway. I am definitely not a pervert like Kakashi-sensei or pervy-sage." He couldn't look Sakura in the eye.

Very quickly their dishes had arrived. Naruto peeks past the waiter; inside the kitchen. This was the second dinner he had gone too where the food had arrived unusually fast. Naruto shrugs.

Sakura looks up from her food, "There was something I wanted to ask you?"

Naruto looks up; again his mouth was full of food, "What is it?"

Sakura was trembling with anxiety; she didn't have the courage to ask, so she veers in another direction, "What happened with Ino?" It was a question she already knew the answer too, as she had spoken with Ino at length earlier.

Naruto squints, "Erm ... okay ... Well ... I found her in my head when I was with Hinata-chan ... My body was killing her, so I told Ino to leave. Today at the hospital, when I touched her, I seemed to be sucked into her head. Inside, I just rattled off some names and she was better."

With her hands clasped under her chin, she smiles lovingly. Ino had told a much more descriptive version of events, Naruto was simply being modest. It saddened her to know that Naruto's childhood was so terribly awful. She would have given anything to lessen some of that pain, or taken back some of the things she herself had done to him.

It was time; Sakura gulps and very slowly slips off one of her stilettos. Naruto was too busy finishing off his meal to even notice.

"Naruto?" Sakura says trying to get his attention.

"Yeah?" Naruto looks up.

Sakura was so nervous, she had to forcefully put her hands flat on the table to stop them from shaking, "I wanted to tell you that ... I don't like Sasuke."

Naruto drops his eyes a little at hearing his friends name, "I know Sakura-chan ... I know you love him. I saw you cry when I was fighting him."

Sakura had stiffened, "How could he get it so wrong!"

Sakura places her hand over his, "They weren't tears for Sasuke ... Naruto."

Naruto was now totally confused, "Wha ..."

Sakura continues, "I was worried about you." She had gone very red with the admission.

Naruto starts choking on his food and drops his chopstick as he thumps his chest trying to get the food down. Naruto turns ashen white with the ramifications of what Sakura had just said, "She doesn't love Sasuke ... she was crying because she was ... worried ... about ... me." His heart had started beating faster, his hands were shaking, he needed some time alone to gather his thoughts. Naruto looks down to see where he had dropped his chopstick, "Erm ..."

Sakura, knowing that Naruto was about to go under the table, lifts her dress a little higher and parts her slitted dress, she then opens her legs enough to give him a view. She looks left and right to ensure no one had seen her, and tries to cover her reddening face.

Naruto was now fully underneath the table, searching for his chopstick. Having found it; he looks at Sakura's foot. She was wiggling her toes. He then follows her leg up. His eyes widen ... Sakura had her knees parted. He could see right between her legs, "OM MY GOD!" He could see the folds of her hairless lips; they were a soft pink hue, moist and inviting. They glistened in the dimly lit room. Naruto had instantly hardened. He banged his head in a knee-jerk reaction to get back to his seat.

Sakura, holding down the table to stop further utensils from falling, feigns ignorance, "Are you okay?"

Naruto sits back at his chair, he looked a bit frazzled, "DIDN'T SEE A THING!" He holds up his chopstick and looks at it, as if to say ... Look ... I found it.

Having Naruto see her like that had made her tremendously aroused. Sakura had never felt like this before ... down there ... ever. Her legs were clearly shaking, her knees practically knocking the table. She clamps her knees and thighs shut, and parts her feet a little to give her some more leverage in keeping them together.

Naruto clears his throat, "So ... ah-hem ... theres a chance that ... me and you?"

Sakura relaxes a little and lets the tension ease from her body, "I think so." She reaches out with her foot and begins to rub along the inside of Naruto's leg, "A very good chance."

Inner Sakura demands, "HIGHER! ... GOD DAMIT ... HIGHER!"

After many hours of questions, Tsunade had finally finished with her. Hinata was tired, but she had to see how Naruto was going before she even considered going home. Like Tsunade had said, she was half the reason he was there in the first place. Hinata stifles her sobbing; she thought her body had no tears left. She was wrong.

Hinata quietly opens Naruto's hospital room door and sneaks herself inside. Upon noticing the made-up bed, and the absence of his clothes, her worry turned into something more zealous.

"Byakugan!" Hinata shouts. Sensing Naruto's chakra in a rather ambiguous part of town, she launches herself out the window and immediately sets out. He wasn't in the range of her vision, but she knew instinctively that he wasn't alone.

"This is my fault." Hinata whispers as the tears start streaming once more down her face.

Hinata had eventually reached the restaurant where Naruto was having dinner. She wouldn't have been able to see him from outside with her normal vision, but her Byakugan saw everything. He was sitting across from Sakura and her foot was resting between his legs, her toes wiggling around the head of his erection.

Inner Hinata was furious, "THAT'S MY MOVE ... AND THAT SHOULD BE MY FOOT!"

Hinata tries desperately to think of a way to stop this but her mind was having trouble focusing.

Naruto was in a dream, "Sakura likes me?" Her foot was tenderly making him harder and harder. The blood flow had definitely flowed from his brain to his penis. It made it difficult to think.

Sakura was smiling and laughing girlishly, for they had talked for hours, about everything. Sakura felt like a tremendous burden had been lifted off her shoulders. She could now act and talk freely around the person she held most dear in this world. Having to carry that burden had been a terrible strain.

"So Naruto ..." Sakura asks.

Naruto simply rolls his eyes into the back of his head and gurgles with perverted glee, "y...eee...ssssss..."

Sakura reddens but continues wiggling her toes, "How do you feel about ... Hinata?"

The mention of her name made Naruto's eyes open and some of the blood to rush back into his head. A slight breeze came out of nowhere and blew across the table, encircling Naruto. He turns to the right and stares at the wall.

"What is it?" Sakura asks, looking at the wall trying to figure it out.

Naruto turns back to Sakura and laughs happily, scratching the back of his head, "Hinata-chan is here."

Sakura responds disbelievingly, "Hinata ... No way ... How?" she pauses and frowns, curious, "Naruto ... how do you even know?"

Naruto scratches his chin in thought, not believing it himself, "The breeze told me."

Sakura freezes in shock, "But how?"

Naruto smiles knowingly for he knew the answer to that one, "She can sense my chakra." But that wasn't the question Sakura wanted answered.

Hinata couldn't think of anything. All she knew was that the longer she remained still, the more time Sakura got to spend with Naruto.

Inner Hinata was dressed like Rambo, but holding two massive swords, "LET'S DO IT!"

Hinata runs at the wall, screaming. With her gentle fist style technique she strikes it; sending a massive surge of chakra through her fist.

Hearing a little tiny scream, Naruto and Sakura turn back to the wall. Suddenly it explodes before their very eyes, debris was falling everywhere. People began screaming and running out of the restaurant, others were taking shelter thinking it must be an earthquake. Stepping over the rubble, Hinata emerges. Realising that a ninja was the cause of the commotion; the remaining onlookers make an escape, fearing for their lives.

"Hey Hinata-chan ... why didn't you come through the front door?" Naruto smiles at seeing her again and points in the general direction of the front entrance, "It's right over there."

Sakura stands up in her black dress and faces her.

Ignoring Naruto, Hinata takes note of Sakura's attire; her jealous rage had tipped her into the verge of madness, "YOU DONT DESERVE HIM SAKURA!"

Naruto had gone red and was frozen in shock. He didn't know what he was going on, nor what he was supposed to do. Anything he said may make things worse.

Sakura yells back in defiance, "I had to tell him how I feel!" Fearing things were going to get rough; Sakura cautiously lifts her foot and removes her remaining stiletto.

Both girls were beginning to shake with restrain. Each wanted to launch themselves at the other. Hinata was beginning to glow a fierce blue, the intensity of which was pulsating with the thump of her heart beat, "Not wearing that you didn't."

Sakura furrows her eyebrows and smiles evilly, "Like it? Naruto sure did."

Naruto gasps in horror. He tries to get Sakura's attention by tugging her arm; he wanted to tell her that mentioning his name may have been a bad idea. But he was having trouble making his tongue work.

Hinata was practically bristling with fury, "When Naruto-kun brings Sasuke back, you will simply toss him aside ... You have caused him nothing but pain. I am going to put an end to that right now."

Sakura screams at her rival, "YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT NARUTO!"

Both girls launch themselves at each other, screaming in maddened rage. Hinata readies all of her chakra to strike the deadliest chakra points of them all, the ones surrounding her heart. Sakura, clenching her fist, musters all the strength she possesses into one fatal blow to Hinata's head.

Naruto could see the murderous look in each of their eyes; he couldn't let this happen.

Time stood still, Naruto positions himself between the two girls. He closes his eyes and laughs embarrassingly trying to calm the situation, "Now hold on ..."

Hinata's byakugan was blinded by a golden light. It was like staring at the sun. She knew she had to act fast before she lost her vision entirely, "Whose voice is that?"

She follows through with her attack and strikes mercilessly at the hearts chakra points.

Sakura was in a jealous rage, all she was could see was Hinata's big bobble head, and she wanted to smash it to bits. With her chakra enhanced strength, she strikes at Hinata's face, "Whose voice is that?"

Her fist makes contact.

Naruto's smile falters, his arms fall limp to the side. Hinata had struck him perfectly. Before he had a chance to collapse, his head is struck by what feels like a thousand explosive tags.

From inside Naruto's subconscious, the fading sound of the Kyuubi's voice is heard "DARK ... DARK ... THE LIGHT IS FADING ... MY STENGTH ... FADING ... WHY?"

Naruto's skull had been completely shattered. Blood starts flowing out of the sides of his mouth. His eyes, normally of such blue intensity, dim to grey. He falls to the ground, the blood from his multiple head fractures forming a large puddle.

Hinata smiles triumphantly, oblivious to the consequence of her actions.

Inner Hinata does a little song and dance, "DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD ... WHICH OL' WITCH? ... THE MAN-STEALING WHORE WITCH WITH THE MASSIVE FOREHEAD!" Inner Hinata's dance had turned a little viscious as she begins stomping up and down on a really poor effort of a lifesize Sakura doll.

The golden light which had earlier blinded her byakugan vision fades.

Inner Hinata stops dancing and shakes her head in disbelief. "Can't be ... he was sitting over there." She shakingly points off in the direction of Naruto's table.

Hinata releases a blood-curdling scream. Unable to cope with the shock, she collapses next to Naruto's unmoving body, splattering his blood onto Sakura's bare feet.

Sakura was covering her mouth with both her hands. She couldn't move. She takes a few feeble steps backwards and falls to her knees. She reaches out to touch Naruto's lifeless body. She was paralysed with grief. Sakura knew that it was too late. Her terrifying scream shatters the serenity of the night sky.

She starts pounding on Naruto's chest, "HOW DARE YOU!" Her fists were causing Naruto's mouth to spew forth fountains of blood, "YOU HAVE MADE PROMISES NARUTO UZUMAKI!" She continues pounding in fury; breaking his ribs. Her tears were making her vision blurry, she couldn't see anything.

Suddenly tendrils of red chakra start circling Naruto's body. They lift his lifeless form into mid-air. His eyes widen.

Sakura leans back, frightened for Naruto'es eyes were pure red. His pupils were no where to be seen.

"I AM NOT READY TO DIE!" Naruto's voice was different; it was deep, deadly, and powerful. It was the voice of the Kyuubi.

The tendrils of chakra begin to mercilessly repair Naruto's corpse; forcing the escaped blood back into his body, filtering it. It begins to repair Naruto's crushed skull. They weave around his chest, repairing his heart and his shattered ribs.

Gradually, Naruto is lowered to the ground. He opens his eyes, the blue intensity returning, but his consciousness was only fleeting.

Sakura crawls her way to Naruto's collapsed form and puts his head in her lap. She can feel his pulse strengthening. Stroking his hair, she lets the tears flow.