"Jacket?"

"Check."

"Form fitting pants?"

"Check."

"Sexy but not too sexy fishnet shirt?"

"Check."

"Flowers?"

"Check."

"Are you 'topping?'"

"Yes?"

"Then, condom?"

"Check? I think? Jiraya gave it to me when I asked but, what do I actually use it for?"

"No idea, but it's important you have at least one at all times as the top."

"Damn how was I going through life before, was I not always on top?"

"Maybe not" Gaara was helping him prepare the last minutes things of the date.

"Thanks buddy" Naruto had to admit, Gaara wasn't so bad.

"Of course bro" Gaara's use of slang was also improving, Sasuke had done him good. "Now get out there you stud."

"Alright Hinata's ready… Now this is a look" Haku had not seen his date outfit yet, having been getting Hinata ready. "I think I prefer the well-dressed Naruto though, personally."

"I'll keep that in mind for our next date night then" he was still going to wear the fishnet shirt, it just felt right. "Wish me luck?"

"Luck" Haku gave him a kiss before sending him out of the room.

He headed downstairs, Hinata was waiting for him by the door. She was wearing a fairly nice dress, luckily for him it wasn't a formal one. He did not want to go and change clothes.

"So what does this big secret entail?" she was still playing along with not calling it a date.

"I would say follow me and close your eyes, but you have x-ray vision so just follow me" he took her hand and led her to the date site.

"I'm glad I didn't wear heels, how far away is this secret?" they'd been walking for quite a bit.

"Still a little further away, trust me" Naruto maybe could have picked a closer place. "It'll be worth the walking."

"Alright I trust you" she kept following him.

The walking was filled with mostly a comfortable silence between them. Spending time with her that wasn't training was actually quite calm. He sped them up slightly as he saw the place, excited to see her reaction.

"What do you think?" he'd found a small waterfall thanks to the clone search, it fed into a small pod that was crystal clear.

"I'm surprised you know about this place" Hinata giggled at him. "I used to come here all the time to think."

"Way to ruin the surprise past Hinata geez" he was a little disappointed, this was so out of the way.

"It's still lovely" she gave his hand a reassuring squeeze. "A very nice surprise."

"Well there's still a bit more to the surprise" Naruto clapped to have the hiding clones bring out the picnic material.

After the set up was finished the two sat down on the blanket. The waterfall made the air here feel refreshing, perfect after the hike here.

"So while I was planning this, I realized something that was, kind of whack" Naruto handed her some of the food. "I don't know as much about you as I should considering we've lived together for a month."

"And what is it you don't know about me?" Hinata seemed a little hurt by that.

"Welllll, what's your favorite non-ramen food?" he decided to just dive right in.

"That's easy, I like cinnamon buns, or if I'm not allowed to eat only sweets zenzai are good too. Anything else?"

"What's your favorite flower?"

"Oh, um, I guess white lilies? I like most flowers though."

"So on like, a scale of great flowers to awful, where do roses fall?"

"I'd say their pretty good, why?"

"I can accept pretty good" Naruto pulled the roses he bought out of the basket. "But next time I'm aiming for amazing so be ready."

"Oh, you didn't have to buy me flowers" she took them anyways, blushing a little.

"Well maybe not, but I did anyways" Naruto wanted to make sure she knew he cared about her.

"Oh no I'm very happy you did, I will not deter more flowers being given to me in the future" Hinata smiled at him. "I just mean, well, you didn't have to do all this. I know I said all of that the other day, but I don't want to force you to go out with me."

"You're not forcing me to do anything" Naruto offered her his hand. "I did this because I want to, and I told you before. I want to know the real you."

"You sure know how to make a girl feel special" she took his hand and scooted closer to him.

"I know" bragging was his favorite activity. "You have future dream Hinata to thank for some of this though to be fair to her."

"Now, you just said some words that didn't really make any sense, but I'll let it slide since I like you."

"Huh, what other stuff will you let slide because you like me?"

"I'm not going to say."

"What why not?"

"It'd ruin the moment."

"Fine, we can savor the moment" Naruto pulled her closer to him, so they were leaning on each other. "But I won't be happy about it."

She leaned her head on his shoulder, humming happily. Watching the waterfall made him feel so calm for some reason. Maybe it had something to do with having Hinata there too. He turned to look at her, seeing the older Hinata instead. He could tell this was another of his future dreams. He looked forward, his two children were playing in the water. Something was missing though.

"Where's…" he couldn't place what it was, but it felt so important.

"Where's what?" he was back with the present Hinata again.

"Nothing, I was just, distracted" why did he keep having those dreams. "I do wanna know something else though."

"And what's that?"

"What would you do when you came here? Just sit and think or play in the water?"

"I mean, I did technically play with the water yeah" Hinata looked like she was reminiscing. "I would dance with the water, it brought me some peace."

"Do you want to dance now?" he was hopping she could teach him how to actually dance.

"Um, maybe not, I don't want to get my dress wet, and I think my usual method to avoid that is a bad idea."

"Oh? Is it some kind of super-secret jutsu? Can you show me?"

"No it's definitely not super-secret or a jutsu, and I think I'd be too embarrassed to show you."

"What's there to be embarrassed about? It's just a trick to stay dry right?"

"Do you really want to know?"

"Yes!"

"I would just, dance naked."

"Oh!"

"Yeah…"

"That's certainly…"

"Yep."

"I'm just having a hard time picturing you going nude in public to dance."

"It's not public! It's a hidden waterfall!"

"Yeah but like, it's outside, and naked outside is like public."

"Oh would you not do it?"

"I mean, probably not, what if someone saw me."

"I'm sure they wouldn't figure out it was you, especially at night, the chance someone would recognize me dancing is so low."

"I bet I could do it."

"Oh? You bet?"

"Ok now the way you said that was weird."

"What you said was weird too."

"It was a little weird I admit it."

"Kid just fuck her and be done with it holy shit" WHAT.

'Yeah he's right, she's thirsty for you kid' what the hell dad. 'Do kids not say that anymore?'

"NO!" he, like an idiot said that out loud.

"Are you ok Naruto?" Hinata now looked pretty worried for him.

"I uh" he had to recover somehow. "Thought I saw a really big bug."

"Oh, is it still there?"

"No it's gone" solid recovery from Naruto Uzumaki.

"Do you, want to dance with me?" Hinata was a little red while asking this.

"I'm kind of a terrible dance if I'm honest" Naruto knew she'd find out the truth sooner or later.

"That's fine, I'm not actually a good dancer, but it's fun" she stood up, pulling on his hand.

"Then sure!" Naruto stood up with her, taking his jacket off to keep it dry.

"Oh" she was obviously looking at his fishnet covered chest.

"Yeah I figure the fishnets won't actually get too wet" Naruto didn't put two and two together.

"Yeah that, that makes sense" she very stiffly looked away. "What about your, pants?"

"Oh yeah, thanks for the heads up" he quickly also took off his pants, he was now just in his boxers and the fishnet shirt.

"No, um, no problem" she was still looking away from him, her hands now clenched on the bottom of her dress.

"Aren't you worried about your dress?" she had said that before.

"What no, I don't even, I don't even like this dress" she quickly headed over to the waterfall trying to avoid the question for some reason.

"Ok then" he followed her to the water stepping out onto it. "So is there some special dance we do?"

"Yeah, I use my chakra to make the water move normally" she slowly stepped onto the water after him, the water slowly rising with her.

"What! That's sick as hell! How do you do that?"

"You just have to let your chakra flow into the water, but" before she could finish explaining he fell into the water. "You have to be careful to keep focusing it to your feet too."

"Oh, makes sense" he went to the shore line before heading back onto the water. "Any tips before I fall in again?"

"You have to make sure you keep your focus clear, just like with meditating."

"I can already say I'm gonna suck at this, be prepared for the splash zone" Naruto was notoriously bad at meditation.

"Splash away" Hinata backed up a little, playing with a little ball of floating water.

Naruto took a deep breath and focused. Let it flow but also control it. He could do this, he was a faster of chakra control.

"DAMMIT" he promptly fell in, earning a giggle from Hinata.

"It takes a while to get the hang of, you don't need to worry about it so much" Hinata was giving him an out, but was he going to take it?

"No I can do this, I'm sure I'm close" he got ready to try again.

He focused again, clearing his mind of everything. He sent more chakra to his feet, being careful not to overdo it and break his control. Once he felt like there was enough he tried to let it flow out. So far so good, he hadn't fallen in yet. He sent more to his feet, making sure he kept an even amount flowing and under his feet.

"You've almost got it" Hinata was starting to sound impressed. "Take it nice and slow."

He could feel the water moving around him. The ripples it gave off as it raised were a good indicator. He opened his eyes, the water had risen a foot up, he gave a triumphant smile to Hinata. Once again it wasn't the Hinata of the present.

"I knew you could do it honey" she encouraged him as he kept going.

"What else would you expect from me?" his grin widened at her praise. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki after al-"

He cut off as he lost his focus and popped the water. Launching it onto Hinata in both timelines.

"DON'T LOOK" the present Hinata quickly covered herself up with her hands, losing her own focus and falling in as well.

"Crap I'm sorry" he tried to apologize but she turned around quickly. "Is everything alright?"

"I'm…. not wearing, um, anyunderwear" she quickly mumbled out the last part, and her facing away from him didn't make it any easier to hear.

"What?" he waded over to her and put a hand on her shoulder making her jump slightly.

"I'm not, wearing, underwear" she took a quick step away again.

"Oh" it hit Naruto as to why she was covering herself now. "Why, uh, aren't you?"

"It was Haku's idea" of course it was.

"Why did he suggest this?"

"Because it kind of seemed like you were going to, put the moves on me."

"Put the moves on you?"

"Yes the moves.

"What the hell are the moves?"

"Sex, the sex moves, where we have sex."

"WHY DID HE THINK THAT?"

"Because he saw you get condoms."

"Now, at the risk of sounding rather dumb, how are those related?"

"You …" most of her sentence was lost due to the distance and mumbling.

"You what?" he moved closer to her.

"YOU PUT IT ON YOUR PENIS SO YOU DON'T GET ME PREGNANT" she hadn't expected him to move closer and yelled this in his face.

"WAIT WHAT" Minato had not mentioned this in the talk.

'YES I DID, YOU JUST DIDN'T FUCKING LISTEN.'

"Did you not know that?" she looked pretty surprised.

"Yes I'm an orphan I've never been given, the 'talk'" Naruto put quotes are the word talk.

"Oh, well, um" Hinata was clearly debating something. "When a person with a penis and a person with a vagina have sex. Pregnancy can happen. Condoms prevent that most of the time."

"Ok now I need to know, did your dad give you the talk? And was it as awkward as I think it would be?"

"Yes and yes" she scratched the back of her head, trying to not think about that memory.

Her doing so brought something to Naruto's attention. Mostly what her dressing being soaking wet meant, and how her breasts looked with a blue dress clinging to them. She saw his eyes, and quickly covered herself up again.

"I think we should get out of the water."

"I agree completely one hundred percent" Naruto quickly ran over and put his pants on.

"Can I, wear your jacket?" she didn't have anything dry to put on.

"Yeah of course" without looking at her Naruto handed it to her.

"Thank you" she quickly put it on and closed it up.

"Ok, another question that might seem stupid, what the hell is topping?"

"It's, um, ask Haku?" Hinata also didn't seem to know.

"I'm sorry about, all this confusion" Naruto had accidently made a lot of implications today.

"No I'm sorry for, trusting Haku about my choice of clothing" she sounded a little bitter.

"Can you imagine? Us having sex? He's crazy" Naruto laughed a little.

"I mean" Hinata was getting a little red again. "Yes…"

"Oh" Naruto was not sure how to reply to that.

"Sorry I shouldn't have said that, forget I said that please."

"No no, it's fine, I'm just, not used to, any of this."

"This?"

"People liking me, loving me, wanting to kiss me, wanting to have sex with me. It's kind of all new, and really unexpected."

"Oh, I'm sorry for making you feel uncomfortable."

"No that's not it! It's nice, I just, don't know how to do any of that. Sex stuff. You know?"

"Suuuuure."

"Oh god am I the only one who doesn't know how to have sex."

"What, no! I just, did some, research."

"Please never say it like that again you sound way too much like Jiraya if you do."

"Noted, but like, I kinda just, looked it up?"

"How? Also why?"

"Well, with books, and the internet. And in case it ever came up, and because you know. Teenagers."

"Right. We're horny or something."

"I mean, yes right now in particular, but also in general too. Why do you think I sleep on the couch so often?"

"Because you like alone time?"

"That's, a way of saying it."

"Am I about to learn a new thing?"

"Maybe, do you not, um, should I just say the word instead of talking around it?"

"Yes that would help immensely."

"Do you not know what masturbation is?"

"What what is?"

"Oh god, am I really about to explain this to you while I'm soaking wet and you're shirtless."

"I mean we're both soaking wet?"

"Right, that's, yup exactly."

"You don't have to explain it, in theory I can ask Jiraya."

"From everything you've said about Jiraya that can only go awfully" Hinata sighed and shivered a little. "Is there any chance we can go somewhere warmer?"

"Oh I can help with that" Naruto started cranking some of the fox's chakra, heating the air up.

"Wow yeah, that's a lot better" Hinata moved closer to him to get more heat. "Since when were you a space heater?"

"Technically since I started being able to form the chakra body I guess? Since this chakra is like superhot."

"Wait does it burn you?"

"Not anymore, it used to sting a bit back before I was used to it, but um, maybe don't touch it to be safe."

"Got it, don't touch the bright red chakra, easy enough" she still moved a bit closer, making sure to keep a few inches between them.

"So uh, maybe for the next date I'll let you in on the plans" Naruto was very sure this was a wash.

"Maybe, but I think this was nice. Or most of it was nice until I fell in the water."

"I'll just bring extra clothes on any date I plan from now on, as a precaution."

"I think you came well prepared all things considered. I just came a lot um, less prepared."

"We can say that's Haku's fault."

"Oh yeah it's definitely his fault, but why do you have a condom?"

"Well, uh, I decided to ask someone for advice. It was Gaara. All of his advice came from some magazines Haku gave him to read. The one was, if I was going to be 'topping' I'd need a condom, and since you know. I'm Naruto, I figured I'd be topping."

"Well, you're not wrong."

"Wait you do know what it is?"

"I'm still going to make Haku explain it to you, also why did you ask Gaara? He only recently learned how to interact with other humans aside from murder."

"His advice was good, unless you think my outfit wasn't good."

"Oh no, I think it's great, the fishnet shirt tight pants combo. Masterpiece."

"So yeah, it seemed like a good plan to trust him."

"Maybe next time just, look up what a condom is used for first. Or what topping is. Wait does Gaara know what those are?"

"Not even slightly, it was in fact the blind leading the blind."

Hinata laughed a little at that, her shivers had stopped. The fox chakra was pretty good for drying people off it turned out. He was never using towels again. Turning off the aura he put his around Hinata in case she was still cold. She leaned against him now that it was safe to.

"You haven't gotten a haircut recently that I didn't notice right?" he had to be better than future Naruto.

"No? Why?" the question was very confusing to be fair to her.

"Well in the visions I've been seeing lately, the future me is kind of a jerk, and apparently just never notices if you get haircuts. So I wanted to make sure I was at least more observant than him."

"Ok, I let it slide before, but what the hell does that mean?"

"The visions part or?"

"Yes, the visions part."

"Uh, well, in my dream last night I was a grown up version of myself. There were our two kids, and you were there, and I was, or will be I guess, the worst husband slash father ever."

"Well that's kind of a bummer."

"Right! So I tried to fix it while I was future me, and future you had a lot of complaints. Like a solid ten to fifteen minutes worth of them. Which is why I want to learn more about you, and just in general be better as a partner."

"What kind of complaints did I have? Besides the haircut one I guess."

"Oh geez uh, I would never be home because of work. I'd eat your leftovers all the time, I would miss our date nights, I never picked up on some hints you'd drop."

"Ok that last one is a universal Naruto issue."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"I, ok this sounds bad, kind of stalked you for years and you didn't know I had a crush on you. For like, six years."

"Damn, six years? That's like" he didn't have a metaphor or anything smart to say. "Longer than five."

"That is a true observation yes, but I guess it all works out."

"Yeah, weird how all that plays out."

"Are the kids like, split or?"

"Split?"

"Yeah like are some from Haku and some from you?"

"Oh, I don't know? I haven't actually seen Haku in any of the visions yet."

"That's kind of weird right?"

"Not as weird as the fact we name one of the kids Boruto."

"WE DO WHAT?"

"Right! We're such bad parents, or ok I'm a bad parent, but still you allowed it!"

"I would never allow it, I think, I'm sure you tricked me somehow."

"Why does everyone think I'd name a child Boruto? Do I seem that cruel?"

"A little yeah."

"Wow I want a future divorce."

"Too late I already filed for one after you didn't say you liked my haircut" she stuck her tongue out at him.

"I'll overrule it as Hokage just so I can divorce you first for being mean to me."

"Wow, weird flex but ok."

Naruto ruffled her hair, some major awkwardness aside this had been a pretty great date. It was going to be lonely spending time with just Jiraya for the next month or two. Shit he hadn't told any of them he was leaving.

"So hypothetically" he figured this would be a good lead in. "If was to say I'm leaving the village on a mission for upwards of a few months tomorrow, how well would it go over?"

"What!" about as well as he expected. "You got out of the hospital two days ago, why are they sending you on a long mission like that?"

"Me and Jiraya have to find the next Hokage?"

"You have to what now."

"Yeah, the old man is gonna step down, but we need to get um, Tsunade? I think that's her name, to be the new one."

"You have to track down someone who's avoided the village for years, and convince her to become Hokage?"

"When you put it like that, it sounds very hard I admit. But I am really good at finding sannin so I give it a month tops."

"Have you told Haku yet?"

"I tried to, and then he fell asleep, and then I had the vision dreams, and now we're here."

"He's not going to be happy about this."

"Oh I know, but I only found out yesterday so he can't blame me."

"I can't wait to hear how that goes" she shifted against him to lay in his lap.

"Sorry" Naruto knew Haku was probably going to throw a fit, a very loud one. "I don't really have any say in the matter though."

"No I'm fine with it, I got today, also I need you to swear to me you don't tell Haku what we did today."

"Why?"

"It'll annoy the hell out of him if he doesn't know if we did or did not have sex. And yes it's petty but sometimes you have to be like that."

"I think I can manage that" Naruto could agree to mess with Haku.

"We could also, you know, before heading back."

"You know?"

"Right, uh, never mind."

"Is this another hint dropping thing?"

"I mean, it's not really dropping a hint so much as it is, just straight up asking."

"Is it related to uh, what's the word, master batons?"

Hinata couldn't reply due to her uncontrollable laughter at the abomination of words Naruto had just said. The humor of his question was lost on himself, sadly it wasn't lost on some unwelcome commentators.

'Naruto we are having another talk tonight, after the fox is done laughing.'

"MASTER BATONS."

"Is it not about master batons?" he really didn't understand what he was missing.

"Please" Hinata was wheezing slightly. "Don't say that again, I'll die."

"Oh, uh, is that not the word?"

"Nope, like you almost had it, but thank you for that" she sat back up, returning to leaning against him. "We should probably head back home soon, we have kinda been gone for a while."

"Oh crap, yeah it's kinda getting late" Naruto hadn't even noticed the sun setting. "Want me to just go the fast way?"

"There's a faster way than just a straight line?"

"I mean, kind of" Naruto offered her his hand.

"Well, I'll bite, what's this faster way" she pulled herself up, once she was fully standing Naruto froze time.

Picking her up he sped off back towards the house. Sure it wasn't really faster technically, but it was always worth it see the shocked look on people's faces. In no time at all they were back, Naruto put her down before resuming time. After looking around confused for a few seconds Hinata caught on.

"Ok freezing time isn't faster it just, takes less time, which is kind of faster" she was doing some kind of mental gymnastics trying to form an argument.

"And yet, we're back, and it was a fast trip" Naruto was more than prepared to argue about this.

"There you are kid, change of plans we leave now" Jiraya was waiting for them by the front door.

"What shit, I haven't told Haku I'm leaving at all" Naruto didn't want to be hunted down by his boyfriend.

"Well make it fast and do it while you pack we have to leave" Jiraya was in quite the rush for someone just out of the hospital.

"Go pack, I can tell Haku when he gets home from work" Hinata was willing to take this bullet for him. "Just don't be away for too long."

"I'll try" Naruto gave her a quick kiss before running inside to pack.

Putting a handful of spare clothes and some instant noodles in a bag was hopefully all the packing he'd need. He also grabbed another jacket since Hinata was still in his other one. With his bag in hand he headed back out the front door, interrupting whatever Hinata and Jiraya had been talking about.

"Finally, geez kid I could feel myself dying of old age waiting for you" Jiraya was acting really cranky for some reason.

"Good luck!" Hinata gave him a quick goodbye kiss and leaned into his ear. "And when you get back I'm sure me and Haku can teach you all about Master Batons."

"Um" Naruto felt himself redden for some reason at that. "Thank you?"

"Cut it out lovebirds" Jiraya dragged him off. "We got a crazy strong old woman to find."

The two hurried out of the village, Jiraya really didn't want to waste any time getting on their way. It was kind of strange behavior from the older man.

"What's the matter? You never rush to do anything."

"My spies told me Orochimaru is also looking for Tsunade, I don't know why he is. But I know I don't like the idea of him finding her first."

"Can't I get like, one week without having to worry about some deranged snake guy" Naruto was getting sick of that guy.

"I ask myself that everyday kid" Jiraya threw a water balloon to him. "But on the upside, you have plenty of time to learn the rasengan."

"What the hell does a water balloon have to do with learning the rasengan" Naruto caught the balloon, barely avoiding popping it on himself.

"You gotta master chakra control for this technique, you have to spin the water inside the balloon strong enough to pop it."

"That sounds easy peasy" Naruto started channeling chakra into the balloon.

He quickly realized it was not easy peasy. Spinning the water with his chakra wasn't doing anything to the balloon.

"Oh yeah, you also have to have multiple direction of spin, just one won't do squat" Jiraya clearly withheld this information to toy with him. "It took your dad a long time to get this technique down, so trust me when I say it'll be hard."

"Yeah well, my dad's a loser so I bet I can have this whole jutsu done before we get back to the village."

"Giving yourself quite the window there huh."

"Always be safe to never be sorry."

"Yeah yeah, now shut up and spin that chakra" Jiraya ruffled his hair slightly. "We got a few days before the next major city so be ready for some walking."

"Couldn't we have gotten like, horses or something?"

"Shut up, we walk because it builds character."

'He's afraid of horses, no idea why though.'

"Wait, you're afraid of horses?"

"WHO TOLD YOU, WAS IT MINATO? THIS IS WHY HE'S THE WORST STUDENT"

'And he's very sore about people knowing that.'

"Wow the frog hermit sannin man is afraid of horses, what a story" Naruto felt like this mission was going to be fun.