Chapter 21: POP! Goes the Question!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto! If I did I would have a big house and I would be Japanese, which I am not, sadly…
Here is another chapter. I was reading through the lovely reviews that I got for my last chapter, I should write more often, this story was actually forgotten! I felt slightly ashamed, but here you go!
I was shocked, I didn't even know what was going on, I saw the velvet covered box come out of his pocket, I saw him open it and kneel, and I saw the sparkle of it in the light. But I was unable to process it in my head. He knelt sat beside me, holding the chain that he had taken off a few minutes before form his neck. He had ninjaed the ring into the velvet box with out me seeing. That ninja him.
I opened and closed my mouth a few times and felt my face heat up.
"Hinata?" Naruto asked, "Are you okay?"
"I-I-I-" I Stammered
"You…?" He pushed
"I-I-I-" I stammered again
"Hinata, Will you marry me?" Naruto asked me.
I didn't say anything; instead I hugged him tightly and kissed him. I took the ring and placed it on my left ring finger and hugged him again. I looked at the ring and felt this strange urge to jump up and down with joy. I manage to suppress the urge and settled for kissing Naruto again.
He blushed and smiled. "Can I take that as a yes then?"
"Yes!" I laughed and hugged him again.
"Yay!" And he hugged me back. We spent the rest of the day just walking around town and talking and a gazed at my ring a lot. You do that when you get something as pretty and as shiny as this ring.
As we walked, Naruto talked about he was planning on purposing, but he changed plans.
"I was going to talk you out for dinner, but then I thought that you would like it better if I did it a park in the sun light." He was saying when I actually started paying attention. Don't blame me! The ring was so shiny! (AN: I based the outgoing Hinata on my personality, by the way ^^")
"Well, I wouldn't have cared if it was raining either, just as long as I was with you." I told him, hooking my arm in his. I love this being able to walk thing, its fun! "But I'm glad it's sunny anyway" I told him.
Somewhere Else with Other People in Third Person!
He was hitting the walls of the room they kept him in.
"Let me go! Let me talk to the person in charge!" Isshin called, causing Kotetsu to come and talk to him.
"Lady Tsunade is on her way, calm down." He told Isshin.
"But the Akatuski might already know that the Hyuuga is safe and they would have killed my family!" Isshin yelled in Kotetsu's face.
"Where is the prisoner?" Tsunade asked as she walked into the room thing.
"Over here," Kotetsu called to her.
"What do you want?" Tsunade asked with contempt thick in her voice.
"You have to save my family!" Isshin cried, falling to the floor and sobbing.
"How do we know that this is not a trap?" She asked him, her hands on her hips.
"Because would I lie about my own family being trapped?" He asked her, his face red and livid.
"Because People will lie for the stupidest reasons and for the stupidest people!" She yelled at him.
"But they stole my family and forced me to capture Hinata" Isshin cried back, "They promised me that if I kidnapped the Hyuuga girl and then in turn kidnapped Naruto, they would set my family free! My wife and children! Please!" He begged, falling to his knees and started to pound the floor with his fist. He also started to shake with sobs of despair. Tsunade looked down at him, contempt clear on her face with deep hatred in her eyes, Shizune with Ton-ton behind her. Isshin gasped for breath and looked up at the two women and pig hovering over him, "please" he whispered. Shizune looked at Tsunade and opened hr mouth to speak, but closed it because Tsunade started to speak.
"If you tell us as much as you can about where your family is being held, and where the Akatsuki base is" Tsunade told him, "We will help you find them and we will charge the Akatsuki with kidnapping and the other long list of crap they have done."
"Oh thank you thank you thank you!" He cried and tried to reach her through the bar of the prison cell, Tsunade backed away with disgust still on her face.
"If however you do not help us to the best of your ability, you will be charged with kidnapping and attempted murder." She told him sternly.
"But I never tried to kill the girl." He said defensively
"But she could have still died because of how badly she was taken care of." She shot back; her eyes burning with anger, making Isshin cower at her glare. "Now if you will excuse me, I have Hokage business to attend too, COUGHdrinkCOUGH!" And Tsunade turned on her to leave, but turned her head back, "I will send someone to get the information out of you" And she left, Shizune and Ton-ton following (and so will we!)
"Well done lady Tsunade, You didn't kill the man." Shizune told her smiling and Ton-ton made her cute little piggy noises (I love Ton-ton!)
"Oh shut up Shizune." Tsunade told her and headed towards the Hokage tower place, and yet Tsunade still smiled secretly to herself. It was true, it did take a lot of self control not to throttle the little rodent that had begged her for mercy, and yet somehow she managed and now felt that she deserved a drink for this. As they made their way to a bar, Hinata and Naruto walked by them, Hinata was leaning against Naruto as they walked and looking at her left hand.
HINATA POV!
As Naruto and I walked, we saw Tsunade and Shizune with Ton-ton (SO CUTE!). Naruto saw them as well and waved. I was leaning against Naruto as we walked with my arms wrapped around one of his arms so he used his free arm to wave. We met Tsunade and Shizune and cute Ton-ton in the middle of the side walk and Naruto put this big goofy grin on his face. Tsunade raised one of her eyebrows and looked at me.
"Hi Lady Tsunade, how's it going?" I asked cheerfully.
"Well we questioned your kidnapper," (Naruto growled slightly) "And he told us that he was being forced to do it by the Akatsuki who wanted to use you to capture Naruto." Tsunade told me "And that the Akatsuki kidnapped his family" (A.N. the second guy ran away or something, all I know is that I just remembered him. Oops!) "To give him motivation to kidnap you." (A.N. #2, Wow that sounds kind of confusing…)
"Huh?" Naruto asked, goofy grin now gone. (See told you it was confusing, poor Naruto)
"His family was kidnapped so that he would kidnap so they could kidnap" Tsunade summarized for him.
"Oh," Naruto said, goofy grin returning.
"What are you so happy about?" Tsunade asked looking Naruto and I.
"Well," Naruto started but started snickering like he was really proud of something.
I rolled my eyes and held out my left hand to show Tsunade, Shizune and Ton-ton the ring that glittered there. They all looked at it and its shiny-ness for a minute before any of them said anything.
"Ohhh!" Shizune cried and hugged me with Ton-ton in between us. "Congratulations!" And Ton-ton made her cute noises in agreement. Tsunade smiled and nodded her approval. Naruto start to grin again and slung his arm around me.
"Yeah, she said yes!" Naruto told them unnecessarily, his eyes sparkling as I giggled and Shizune and I did the whole jumping up and down gleefully.
"This is fabulous!" Shizune squealed happily. "That means that there is going to be a wedding soon!"
"Yeah, that means that I have some planning to do and I have to talk to my family and Naruto has to talk to his family, and I have to talk to my friends!" I told them smiling still waggling my finger with the ring at them. Just as I said that I felt my phone buzz and pulled it out my pocket and looked the screen. "Hey look, it's August!" I opened the phone and put it to my ear. "Hello?"
"Hi!" August greeted, "Listen, I know you said that you would be gone a few hours, but Itachi just got home and I was wondering if I could go and see him or if he could come over and "help" Me watch over Minami?" She rattled off.
"Yeah sure, actually I'm going to call everyone else and invite them over-" I looked at Naruto questionably, who nodded telling me it was okay to do so, "I have some big new!" I finished
"Great, did you want me to call anyone?" August asked.
"Yeah could you call Sakura and Ino?" I told her, "Could you ask them to come over to mine and Naruto's place?"
"Okay," August said brightly, "See you later" and she hung up. I pressed the end button and searched in my contacts to find Tamari's number and pressed send. I held the phone to my ear.
"Hello?" Tamari answered her phone on the first ring.
"Hey, could you come over to my place, I have some news that I need to tell my friends." I told her.
"Okay, I'll head over there right away." She told me and hung up.
"Okay, that was Tamari," I told no one in particular.
"Well I have Hokage stuff to attend to" Tsunade said and walked away and waved, Shizune followed with Ton-Ton in her arms, still smiling widely. Naruto put his arm around me and led me in the direction of home. I looked through my contacts again and found Ten-Ten's number and dialled, again raising the phone to my ear. When she picked up I told her the same thing that I had told Tamari and she said that she would be leaving her home right away.
Naruto and I walked with his arm still around my shoulders. We walked quietly, ignoring the stares that I got, and in some case I still got death glares from the fan-girls that hoped that Naruto and I would split up, I waved at them happily, being careful to flash my ring for them to see. Naruto saw what I did and snickered quietly giving me a squeezed me gently. This caused the girls to glare harder while a few of them burst into tears. I felt kind of sorry for the girls that started crying but I did not feel sorry for the girls that were glaring at me. I'm sorry but if you glare at me, you will not have my sympathy!
Naruto and I just rounded the corner to his house when there was a blinding flash of green. I squeaked and hid my face in Naruto's back while he conversed with Lee. No one should wear that much green and have that bad of a bowl cut! I know I know the guy but even back when I was nervous all the time I still hid so I didn't have to look at him. I had my left hand (the one with the ring) gripping Naruto's arm, so Lee was still able to see the ring and got this big shocked look on his face (don't as me how I know what look was on his face, I was to busy having my face buried in Naruto's back) and he started jumping up and down and did the 'Good guy Pose.' Naruto half grimaced half smiled. I kept my head buried into Naruto's back. Naruto made some excuse for us to leave and for Lee to go else where, where we weren't. We managed to make it to Naruto's house without being accosted by anyone else. We met all of our friends outside the front doors and Naruto let them in. We walked in to an empty house… or so we thought!
DUN DUN DUN! Sorry, I didn't know where to end it, so I Ended this chapter there! Hope you enjoyed this chapter that came out so long after the last chapter, sorry it took so long! I have been busy! Anyway, R&R Please. Thanks Again!