I have to admit I didn't plan to upload today, but then I read the new Naruto Manga and to cheer myself up I decided to submit a new chapter today. I hope lots of other's will upload as well so that I can read many stories and forget this depressing chapter.

I'm going to say what the Naruhina shippers are trying to deny (and there really trying hard, some are ever good at it): Naruhina won't happen.

I never really believed it would happen in the manga anyway but then Kishi started progressing Hinata so much. Should have known it was too good to be true.

I don't think that Narusaku is canon. Becasue it is one-sided. She does not like him, however this chapter proves that he's still in love with her. That's too bad.

Well, I'll continue to skip Naruhina. But you know what annoys me?

Kishi is great at writing villains and surprising plot changes but he sucks at writing romance. Anyway Naruto isn't about romance anyway, but I just think it's hurtfull to say you like another girl knowing the one who confessed to you is standing right there.

I'm just depressed, but it led to an upload, didn't it?

Thought it's not that much Naruhina (I'm pissed at Naruto... yes I'm weird like that)

I don't own Naruto.

Please note that the rating has changed!

"Where the hell is that idiot? I need to leave" impatiently Sakura tapped her foot.

She was supposed to leave for Suna tonight; at least that was the plan. Everyone had already said their goodbyes to her, and the one person missing was her teammate and best male friend. She'd kill him for that if she wasn't so sad about leaving Konoha and him. Hinata had put off her departure for as long as possible and truthfully Sakura was glad it was finally time for her to go. She wanted to escape all of her memories, all of her sadness. It was symbolic for her and important that the physical move would indicate her moving on from her past love, she needed this, even if it was cowardly to run away. But Sakura wasn't doing so well in dealing with Sasuke's death.

The rhythm of her foot paced up a notch and she looked around once again. In the distance she finally caught sight of his blonde head.

Panting he stopped "Sorry Sakura-chan, I had…"

She pummeled his head before he could finish his excuse; though softer than usual "It was about time, Naruto. I would have left without saying goodbye to you"

"Don't say that Sakura-chan! I'm really sorry" he whined.

She would have been a lot madder at him but over the past weeks they had spent a healthy amount of time together and she was starting to feel like hitting him a lot more frequent. A clear indication of her increasing annoyance with Naruto.

"Good luck in Suna and please watch out a little for my sister" Hinata gave Sakura a hug.

"As if she needs that" the pink haired medic snorted.

Ino was crying ever since this morning and after Sakura had spent more than ten minutes prying her off of her, the blonde was currently holding onto Chouji clutching his arm desperately. It was actually very sweet seeing the loving and lenient look he gave his blonde girlfriend. Sakura smiled at the man and he grinned sheepishly back while patting Ino's head.

"I'm gonna miss you, even if you're an idiot" Sakura told Naruto.

He pouted "You don't have to be so mean! I even asked Gaara to take extra good care of you!"

The pinkette smiled "Thanks, baka" she pulled him into a hug.

"I'll miss you too, Sakura. Thanks for everything and make sure you write, oh and you have to come and visit or we'll visit and…"

The woman smiled and hit him over the head "You can let go of me, you crybaby"

"Hey, I take offense to that" he rubbed his head and hugged her again, a giant smile on his face.

Nothing had changed between them.

…

The dark room was only dimly light by the candle, illuminating the pale face of the infamous Snake Sanin. Everything he had planned out so carefully had turned into ashes, all because he had been stupid enough to entrust the most important task to a self-centered narcissist with a giant ego. In the end he had no one but himself to blame. The ambassador was still alive and so were the flawless relationships to every other nation.

It would take another year for such an opportunity to arrive.

Slowly his thin lips formed a sinister grimace that could have been mistaken for a smile if it had reached even halfway to his eyes. Maybe this would play out in his favor. After all another year meant another year of time to strengthen his forces and time to expand his infiltration and information system. And it also meant that after year with no action from his part the nations would not be expecting a move, they would not see coming what would inevitably hit them.

…

The next weeks had passed with a calmness and peace Naruto didn't expect. He was constantly occupied with Hokage training and if he wasn't he was spending time with his friends, mostly Hinata of course. They lived together after all, even if they didn't talk about it officially.

Piece for piece was falling back into place of his memory. Still, Naruto couldn't help but feel that he was missing something really important and it had something to do with why he never felt all that incredibly guilt for killing Sasuke since he woke up. And yet he couldn't remember it was so frustrating.

"Aren't we done yet, baa-chan?"

"Naruto" a vein on Tsunade's forehead popped, secretly she was glad that he was doing better but she would never admit openly that she missed the 'Baa-chan'.

"I told you not to call me that. This is important; from today on you will be the Rokudaime Hokage, so pay your damn attention to this. You do remember that the ceremony is taking place today, right?"

Naruto grumbled, it wasn't that he wasn't happy about finally achieving his lifelong dream but this meeting was just plain boring. And it didn't help that he was very nervous about the speech he had to hold during the ceremony.

A really important speech, a really important speech Tsunade had told him to write ages ago. A speech he had yet to write. And a speech that had to be delivered in mere minutes. Nervously he shifted his weight. He'd just improvise that's what he had told himself but looking back at it, it would have lessened his anxiety if he had.

…

"I can't believe Sakura is missing this!" Ino craned her neck.

"Is he coming out yet?" Karin asked.

"I'm sure he'll come out any moment now." Ino told her, squeezing the hand Chouji was holding in exitement.

Said man was talking to Temari and Shikamaru. The rest of Naruto's friends gathered close by.

"Whoa Hinata, aren't you nervous at all?" Kiba grinned at his friend. She smiled carefree and shrugged.

"Leave her alone, Kiba" Karui stopped petting Akamaru for a moment to scold her boyfriend, causing the dog to wince in protest. "She know he'll do fine, as do I"

Neji had his arm crossed stoically nodding along with the red head. Until Tenten was walking up to them and simply took his hand in hers. Neji didn't complain and therefore his girlfriend assumed he was fine with it.

"Oh I think it's starting. Everyone shut up" Ino squealed.

"You're the only one who's talking" Shikamaru remarked.

…

"Come on say it. I was awesome" Naruto couldn't stop bragging with his incredibly speech that ended in a gigantic party right in the middle of Konoha's streets.

"Yes we know it" Kiba rolled his eyes in annoyance "You were oh so great"

"Hey watch how you talk to your Hokage" the blond yelled at him good mannered.

The party had been going on for hours and since Naruto understood why Sakura wanted to leave not even her absence could ruin his perfect moment. He still would have preferred her to be there and he missed his former teammate but it couldn't be helped.

Hinata yawned, it was almost morning and they had celebrated the whole night. Seeing how tired Hinata was, Naruto decided they should leave "Hey Hinata, let's go home?"

In a pathetic attempt to keep her eyes open she asked "Huh, but it's your party. Do you really wanna go already?"

The newly appointed Hokage grinned "Yes or else you will fall off your chair and then you'll have to sleep on the floor"

The Hyuga woman protested "No. You should not have to leave because of me. I'll just go home and …."

"Absolutely not, we are both going home now. This is an order, I'm Hokage now, remember?"

"Hai, Hokage-sama" when she said it Naruto's heart skipped a beat. Damn did she have to sound so incredible sexy, saying that? How was that even possible, when she was on the verge of falling asleep right there and then.

"You're not going to fall asleep while walking are you?" worried Naruto glanced at Hinata. The coming morning was warm and Hinata's eyes fell down from time to time.

"Course not. I'm just a little tired, don't worry. Besides were almost there" she reassured.

Naruto was about to offer to carry her home, but …that would mean being really close to Hinata, not that that was a bad thing but he was scared it would give him away.

Hinata was asleep the second her head hit the pillow, for Naruto however it wasn't that easy. The day had been really exiting for him and ever since his fight with Sasuke the time before he slept and after he woke up was the time parts of his memories would return. Restlessly he rolled over to face the window.

…

Hanabi sighed, she had planned to go to the swimming bath today, and she even wore her bikini underneath her clothes and for what?

She had barely been able to gulp down lunch in half an hour. Ever since Sakura had arrived a million things had to be done. Obviously they had now thought about some details that had to be resolved now when she was here.

Apart from that things didn't go as smoothly as she had hoped with Sakura being here. And it was all Kankuro's fault.

Hanabi hadn't been there personally but from what she could later figure out, Kankuro who was supposed to pick up Sakura from the gate had made some of his infamous, not so unusual, inappropriate comment about the size of Sakura's breasts which had set the pinkette off and …well the rest is history.

Kankuro had been hospitalized still muttering about a crazy, flat chested vixen and Sakura had punched a hole in a wall. And ever since then they were at each other throats when they smelled each other from a mile away.

Worst part of her day was that she didn't even get to see Gaara and her chance of going to the pool was gone since it was in the middle of the night. And ever since things had gotten so hectic, hers and Gaara's cookie meetings had stopped. – And there she went again, thinking about him.

The brunette groaned, her chestnut hair fanning out on her arm and spilling over to on the table. How could she fall for the KAZEKAGE? It was stupid, wrong and most of all hopeless. Completely and utterly hopeless, he was the village's leader! The leader of Suna! She was an idiot, like Gaara would ever feel the same for her.

"Is everything alright?" the red head that haunted her every thought was leaning casually against the doorframe.

Hanabi's face rivaled his hair within an instant and her head shot up from the position on the desk.

"N-No-Nothing" - damn it she was turning into Hinata - "Are…" Get a grip Hanabi "Aren't you busy?"

Gaara smiled "I'm finished for today. Sakura is safe and sound in her apartment and Kankuro is still alive. I thought you wanted to go swimming?" He raised an eyebrow at her packed bag that was on the floor untouched.

After hearing her heartwarming story about how mean work kept her from her well-deserved bath, the Gaara smiled ."I have a surprise for you"

Hanabi looked up at him quizzically.

"Get your bathing stuff!" it sounded more like an order than a request but Hanabi knew what he meant.

"You do realize that it is in the middle of the night? The water is freezing" Hanabi had no idea what Gaara was planning but being where they were in front of the door of the swimming bath did give her a certain idea.

"Just wait and see and get ready" Gaara smiled.

A few minutes later Gaara was starting to regret his decision. He was waiting in front of the changing area for Hanabi, knowing she would come out any moment now in a BIKINI. Meaning she was wearing fewer clothes than ever and even with clothes on she was…His thoughts got interrupted.

"Stop spacing out, it is really cold" the brunette warmed her shivering body by rubbing her hands over her arms.

To prevent further embarrassment Gaara turned around before giving her a second glance. Who knew where his eyes might end up?

Hanabi's heart had skipped so many beats, she was afraid it might cause a stroke. Don't stare at him; don't stare at him, repeating this Hanabi did her best not to stare too obviously.

Seriously he was just too hot. Gaara was muscular but not bulky. His shoulders, back and chest were incredibly wide, formed from caring the heavy gourd around all the time. And his arms were so strong and…oh boy why couldn't she stop staring?

"Gaara the water is cold by now. You don't even like warm water, hell you don't like water at all" Hanabi still didn't understand what the Kazekage was planning.

"I know but I had a little chat with Kankuro and he said it was possible to preserve the warm water inside a smaller pool, you said you would like to watch the night sky" he explained like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Hanabi stopped dead in her tracks. Gaara did that for her? She only mentioned it once in the many conversations they had, yet he remembered. Her heart was beating faster, why would he do that? Maybe there was a chance he liked her too?

No, that couldn't be it. He was the Kazekage; every second woman in this village would die for a date with him. There was no reason for him to fall for her, she was plain and boring and her eyes were weird. It was hopeless…yes she was definitely turning into Hinata.

"You don't like it?" when Hanabi stopped following him Gaara had turned around to find Hanabi spaced out.

He couldn't exactly complain tough, it gave him the chance to cast a quick glance over her fine figure. The quick glance turned out rather long in the end. Her simple silver bikini with straps crossed over her back emphasized her moon-like eyes. And Gaara certainly knew by now why he was glad that her clothes hid her body from prying eyes. When he thought about all the times she went to this swimming bath looking like that it made him want to rip every male's eyes out. He was so gonna have a talk with Kankuro.

"NO, I love it, thank you very much" Hanabi sent a radiating smile to him.

They reached the small pool; well it was more like a Jacuzzi, designed for about four people. Small but not small enough for their bodies to touch

"Wow it's so warm" Hanabi let herself sink in deep.

"It is quite pleasantly" Gaara agreed, a little surprised.

"It's good for your back, right?" Hanabi send him a pointed glance, she had been bugging him for weeks to allow her to massage it.

Ignoring her remark he sank in the water opposed from her.

"Are you ignoring me?" still not getting an answer she grinned to herself.

If he didn't want to listen, than she was forced to take the hard way, it was fine with her but he would not like it. She splashed a handful of water at his face taking him by surprise.

"Did you just splash me?" Gaara asked in disbelief

"Depends…did you ignore me?" She splashed him again.

"This is a warning Hanabi. Stop splashing" had he said something like that when he was a child, people would have run like hell. Hanabi instead just grinned smugly.

"Why? Does it annoy you? Don't tell me, you're afraid of a little water" she kept pouring water down at him. "What's wrong? I bet you'd really want to splash me, but I'm a girl and you wouldn't want to make me cry"

"I do not splash people because I'm the Kazekage. The Kazekage does not splash people"

The woman opposed of him started to laugh and with a snicker sent a really large wave on his wave.

When she didn't stop her splashing, Gaara lunged at her. Within seconds he held her hands down behind her back, holding her closer to him. Both of them were tripping wet. And drops from his deep red hair were falling down on her. He barely realized how close they were, so close he could feel her shallow breaths on his neck, all Gaara could do was looking at her eyes.

They were wide and directed solely on him. They did not reflect anything but the pureness of the silver light of the moon. Damn those eyes. They haunted his dreams, he loved them. He loved how pure her silver eyes were. And he loved how they gazed and him and at him only.

Slowly, almost sensually Gaara let his eyes drop to her lips, slightly parted, glittering with wetness and daring him to dip his head. Following his desires he gave in, he released her hands, his arms sneaking around her waist pulling her even closer.

When their lips touched, Hanabi's arms found her way around his neck. Her soft lips met his with the same desire he felt inside of him.

Together they sank back down not breaking the contact their lips sought so desperately. Hanabi straddled him as her hands were running through his crimson hair, deepening their kiss. Gaara let his hands run over her back, pulling her closer to him. When they parted, they parted only enough to look each other in the eyes.

It took Hanabi a little to get her breathing under control "I…Gaara…" Hanabi wasn't sure what she wanted to tell him.

"Yes?" he raised an invisible eyebrow, seeming a lot calmer than she and a little calmer then he actually was.

"I don't know…" she laughed nervously and rested his forehead against his.

"What does this mean, Hanabi?" she knew what he wanted to ask.

"I don't know…I mean…I know what I feel but…" Why was it so damn hard to shape a coherent sentence? She wondered as she stumbled over her words.

"What do you feel?" for a second she could feel the uncertainty resonating in his voice.

"I like you"

His lips were back on hers not a second later. The blood was pulsing through his ears and the way her body was flushed against his made it run to lower regions faster than before. Hanabi's hand ran over his neck and buried them into his crimson hair once again.

When Gaara bit her lower lip she reacted to him immediately and let his tongue invade her mouth.

Closer, he needed her closer! The only thought that ran through his head was that he needed her closer, much closer.

Hanabi kissed him back with all she had; her hands assumed a separate existence and somehow ended up going down from his neck over his muscular back.

Gaara growled in appreciation and the need in him got worse. Roughly one of his hands found a way in her hair and he forced her head back so he had better access to the sweet flesh on her jawline and neck.

The young woman let out a pleasant cry when she felt him leaving his marks on her body. She arched her back when his other hand slide from her waist down her leg and she almost lost it when his hand went back up. Not back to her waist but past it, caressing her stomach and further up over her silver bikini.

The Kazekage snarled when he felt the softness of Hanabi's skin getting interrupted by the material of her bikini. Without a second thought he snapped the interfering clothing in two.

Hanabi sucked air in with a sharp tone when cold air hit her now exposed front. Her hands once again tangled into Gaara's red hair, clenching onto them desperately.

Gaara did not actually want his lips to leave her skin but the temptation of looking at her bare skin was too much to take. He pried his lips from her body and with another rather hard tug on her hair she bend her back further allowing his eyes to travel down her form. Damn it she was so hot!

Fascinated he watched a cold water droplet gliding down from her neck. When it had reached her collarbone Gaara couldn't stop his finger from tracing the previous line of goose bumps the water had left. He felt her body shiver under his touch and it send an exited jolt through his body.

He kept tracing the line of the drop until his calloused finger reached the valley of her breasts. His interest got caught by the change of her pink nipple. It had perked up when he got closer to it. It wasn't the only thing that had him drawn to it. It was also that they looked quiet irresistible and it only added to the fact that she made those sexy moans from the back of her throat.

Hanabi's eyes rolled to the back of her head when she felt his warm hand getting closer to her much too cold chest bringing all of his warmth with them.

"Ah" pleasure shook her body when his finger finally reached that spot.

Suddenly her whole chest was pleasantly warm again and it took her a moment to realize it was because he had brought her body closer to his again.

Quickly her mouth found his again and she got lost in the feeling of his demanding lips on hers.

Gaara lifted her light body up, her legs still entangled around his waist and their lips still locked in a wild kiss. He brought her to the edge of the pool and laid her on her back, so that he leaned over her body.

Her hands on his body made him insane and she still wasn't close enough!

As his hands started their very own exploration of her body he left butterfly kisses on her jaw and neck, she really did taste like chocolate.

"W-Wait" Hanabi uttered out in between moans.

Ignoring her protest his lips went straight to her collar bone, silencing her for a second.

Shit she really needed to get it together. If Hanabi didn't stop him now, she would never be able to. The only problem was she really didn't want him to stop; it was the exact opposite she did not want him to stop in the least.

"Ah!" again a sweet wave of pleasure ran over her bod, threatening to take her away this time.

"G-Gaara wait" this time she said it with more determination and to emphasize her words she gave him a very light push away from her.

Not enough to lose their connection just enough so that he could look at her.

"What!?" his head snapped up and he looked somewhat mad.

Most people would have called the look on his face terrifying but Hanabi was not most people and to her he looked like a little kid that just got denied his favorite sweet.

The Hyuga woman tried to catch her breath "We - can't – do - that" she finally pressed out between gasps.

"And why would that be?" Gaara was trying really hard not to show his anger and control the murderous screaming of his body, demanding to get closer contact with her again.

It didn't help matters that she looked breathtaking underneath him and now she had the guts to smile! Unbelievable, he was dying from want and she smiled innocently lying half naked under his body.

"Answer me damn it" he demanded.

Now she broke into a full-fledged grin "We can't do it unless you are hiding a condom in your shorts"

That actually got him to think and stop "You're not on birth control?"

"Of course not, I never…I mean I didn't need to be. Usually I don't get into situations like that. But trust me starting tomorrow…" she felt her cheeks getting rather hot.

The Kazekage sighed not sure if he should be happy no one ever touched her like he just did or disappointed about the stop the question of birth control put to their activity "And what now?"

"How about buying condoms and relocate at your place?" she suggested shyly, definitely not wanting to stop.

His turquois eyes captured hers, as if reaffirming she indeed said that she really wanted to continue.

"I can't, I'm the Kazekage I can't go around the villages buying stuff like that. You know what will happen? By tomorrow the whole village will know about it" he explained calmer now.

"Well, how did you manage up until now?" Hanabi wondered aloud.

"I didn't" was his simple reply

"Oh" she felt silent again "We could always ask your brother. I'm sure he parades around with dozens of it"

Gaara looked like she just lost her mind "I rather drop dead!"

Hanabi gave him a quick peek on the lips "Well, that's too bad"

Darkly he looked down at her, getting exactly what she was doing "This won't work on me, Hanabi"

Defeated she sighed "Alright, but can we at least get up" she blushed a little "It's getting a bit cold"

Regarding the position they were in and the amount of clothes she was wearing that was no surprise.

With a sly grin Gaara pulled Hanabi close to his body, so she was warm and then got up.

"Maybe we should get dressed" the brunette suggested innocently.

Gaara glowered at her "Fine you win! I'll get that condom"

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