Okay...so I've received a lot of reviews...and you guys seem to think that I should keep writing this. I feel so loved. So by popular demand, here is another chapter of Worth Waiting For. P.S. Don't kill me for the ending...
That night, Naruto's dreams were plagued with visions of a beautifully naked Hinata. Her long ebony hair clung to her alabaster curves, her eyes liquid moonlight. Her full pouting lips calling his name in ecstasy.
He awoke with a gasp, covered in a sheen of sweat, his heart threatening to burst through his chest. He flung the sheets off of his over heated body.
'Damn it all, I can't be thinking about Hinata like this! She's my friend...besides I love Sakura...right?' he thought angrily to himself.
Knowing that he wouldn't be able to fall back to sleep, he threw on some training clothes and stealthily made his way to one of the practice fields he noticed out back.
As he approached the field, bypassing the guards that Lord Takahashi had posted around, he noticed a chakra signature in the clearing ahead of him. There he found a serene looking Hinata meditating on a large boulder. Naruto knew he should leave, but was spellbound by the placid beauty in front of him.
The Hyuuga princess wore a white clan robes trimmed in dark purple. Her long hair had been allowed to flow free, and was now blowing gently in the breeze that swept through the clearing. As Naruto watched, the young woman took deep calming breaths, settling deeper and deeper into a meditative state.
Naruto found that just looking at her calmed his raging nerves. Before he realized it at least twenty minuets passed. He watched as her long inky lashes fluttered open, revealing liquid diamond eyes. She didn't express shock at seeing him, and graced him with a brilliant smile.
"Good morning Naruto-kun, you're up early, did you sleep well?" she asked in the sweet melodic voice that was all hers. Naruto couldn't answer.
Why was he reacting this way to Hinata?
Why did he feel a foreign heat enter his face?
Why couldn't he tear his gaze away from her beautiful figure?
"Are you alright Naruto-kun?" she asked her brow furrowed in concern. Naruto forced himself to answer, trying not to allow the confusion he was feeling to show on his face.
"Oh I slept just fine. What...uh what are you doing up so early?" he asked the indigo haired beauty.
A small smile graced her face and she looked away from him. "I always get up this early...I find it is an ideal time to meditate and practice. There are not a lot of people around" she answered. As she spoke, she began to lift herself from the boulder she rested upon.
Naruto's mind fastened on something she just said. "Hinata, you said you meditate everyday?" he asked. Hinata noticed the eagerness in his voice. Why would he be so excited about meditation? she wondered.
"Yes, Naruto-kun meditation is an essential part of a Hyuuga's training. It helps focus the mind and shed unnecessary emotions. An orderly mind is the first step in becoming an effective warrior" replied Hinata, sounding as though she were quoting a Hyuuga training manual.
Naruto gave one of his sunny grins, "So that's how you guys keep from snapping and strangling each other" he laughed. Hinata gave him a reproving glare. "My family is not that bad Naruto-kun...We merely don't wear our emotions on our sleeves for the world to see. Our ways may seem strange to outsiders, but it works for us" she defended.
Hinata didn't mean to snap, but as she had come to immerse herself deeper into her Clans ways, she began to understand and respect some of them. What outsiders didn't understand was that emotions ran pretty deep in the Hyuuga. Hinata had found that out in the Clan archives records of her people.
Early Hyuuga were a very passionate and volatile lot. They fought hard and played harder. They had a reputation for savagery that surpassed any Clan before it. This behavior led to the Clan almost self destructing. It was only through an Elder ancestor that the Clan learned the fine art of meditation to tame the fierce fires that ran through their veins.
To this day the Hyuuga have to maintain a strict regimen of meditation to keep their volatile emotions in check.
"Whoa Hinata...look I'm sorry I didn't mean to offend you or your clan. I was just making a joke...a stupid joke" said Naruto taking a step back from the angered heiress. Hinata realizing that she was overreacting took a deep cleansing breath and offered her golden haired crush an apologetic smile.
"No don't apologize Naruto-kun, it's my fault entirely. That is just a very sensitive subject for me. Getting back to our earlier conversation...are you interested in mediation? Do you need some help?" she asked trying to make amends.
Warily the blonde teen eyed her. Ever since his mergence with the Kyuubi, Naruto had to constantly be aware of his emotional state. If he got too angry bad things tended to happen. Jiraiya had told him that meditation would help. He'd also taught Naruto all that he knew, but Naruto still had a hard time sinking into the final stages of deep meditation.
Maybe Hinata knew something that would help. "I need to be able to go into a deep meditative state. When I meditate I can feel myself falling, but I just can't seem to get deep enough" he explained to her.
"Do you wish to show me what you can do Naruto-kun?" she asked.
Ever eager, Naruto sat upon her vacated boulder. Breathing deeply, he began to slip into a different state of consciousness. Hinata watched noting his deep even breaths, the rise and fall of his broad chest. Hinata tore her gaze away from his golden skin. Activating her Byakuugan, she watched the flow of his chakra.
The first thing that she noticed was that Naruto's chakra was purple; the second was that it was very chaotic. It flowed erratically through his body. With a low hmmm, Hinata set about correcting this. Starting with his legs, Hinata used light jyuuken taps to correct the flow.
She refused to let her mind linger over the fact that she was actually TOUCHING Naruto. She didn't acknowledge how warm his skin was, or how good it felt to touch him. Concentrating she was pleased to see that his chakra flow was now streaming more uniformly throughout his system.
Hinata went to make a few more adjustments when the unexpected happened. As she went to tap a chakra point right at his brow, her world was suddenly filled with darkness.
Hinata awoke with a gasp.
Where was she?
What happened?
She opened her eyes and another gasp escaped her lips. She was no longer in the clearing with Naruto, instead she found herself in some sort of marble pavilion. Tall marble columns surrounded her. It was very dark, with gold handled torches lining the wall every couple of feet. She went to turn and found that she was waist deep in a pool of warm water.
What was even more startling was that she no longer wore her clan robes. Instead she was adorned in a sheer orange Grecian gown, her firm breast visible. The V of the bodice dipped down to her belly button, and a band of dark orange ribbon ran under her breast.
She raised her arms and saw she had golden bracelets going up each one.
'What the hell is going on?' she thought wildly.
A low sound caught her attention, causing her to swing her gaze to the right. It sounded like something very large moved just out of her line of sight. Hinata activated her Byuakugan, but found she could not pierce the darkness. She deactivated it with a sigh.
Again she heard it, this time to the left. A scrape of claws and a whoosh of wind. Hinata knew she had to get out of the water, but she was unsure of which direction to move in.
The scrape of claws again broke the enveloping silence. This time thought she caught the glimpse of a tail...or was that tails?
Yes I am ending it there. I know I'm bad...I wanted to write more, but I'm out of time and really wanted to get this up. Don't forget to review.