Good Day Ladies and Gentlemen.

Wow. today is the 2 years anniversary for Naruto: Golden Interference. I NEVER would have thought that the whole thing would go on this long; i thought it would take me maybe 1 to 1.5 years to wrap up EVERYTHING but look at me: two years and i am not even finished with the Chunin Exams. This "little" project has grown way beyond anything i had dared to think of.

Over the whole two years the story has gone through many changes, going even so far as to fully change the course a character would have taken in the start. i dare say things turned around for the better. things are more balanced and most importantly are better thought out than they were two during the two years.

I also never believed that i could stay so long with a story and not abandon it and i must admit that i thought a few times about giving up. But a small circle of returning reviewers, my beta and my brother in all but blood helped me through my stages of doubt and pushed me to keep writing. that is why i say THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH! you guys and girls are great and without you this story would have ended a long, long time ago.

now, without further ado i present you chapter 28 of N:GI. enjoy it.

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"BEHIND YOU SAKURA!" "GOT IT!"

With the flick of her wrist she sent a Kunai flying, an Explosive Tag wrapped around the handle. The following explosion caught four Hyuuga that were swiftly closing in on the two kunoichi.

Sakura jumped left, bending backwards into a back flip and evade the three incoming Juuken strikes. Not too long after Naruko and Yasha left, a force of 150 Hyuuga appeared within the resort, swiftly locating Hinata and Sakura and attacking the two.

Had they not been expecting this, the two would have been easy pickings for the Hyuugas. Sakura jumped to her feet, swift to take her Chakrams from her belt while whirling through several pirouettes. The bladed rings tore through the skin of several Hyuuga that tried to overwhelm her, catching two around the throat area and killing them swiftly. The others jumped back with gashes to their arms or chest.

Attaching a string of Chakra to her weapons Sakura let them fly in a left wide arc, aiming for a wounded and retreating group. She caught several in the back, severing their spines and rendering them helpless.

Sakura ducked and threw a swift right punch into the crown jewels of a Hyuuga, the Chakra enhanced punch sending the man to the ground in pain. Feeling a new presence behind her Sakura rolled froward, feeling the Juuken strike pass through her hair and missing her head by less than 2 centimeters.

While rolling over the ground Sakura was quick to rush through a short series of hand signs, closing her eyes, "Katon: Tenpi." A strong burst of Chakra and bright light exploded from her body. A good number of Hyuuga let out sharp cries around her, their eyes closed and hands pressed over them protectively. 'I just hope I didn't catch Hinata with it,' thought Sakura as she came back up to her feet and pulled her Chakrams back into her hands.

Moving into a dance like series of spinning movements Sakura mowed through a group of blinded Hyuuga, her strikes either killing or ultimately crippling her foes.

Hinata had a little less trouble with her foes. Her Byakugan was blazing strongly as she spun around a low Juuken strike and slammed her own open palm into the woman's temple, the blast killing her in a split second.

Without turning her head Hinata sent her right elbow backwards and into the face of another Hyuuga who had tried to tackle her. With a smirk she heard the crunch as his nose broke and she turned on the ball of her right foot, her left hand pulled back and delivering a vicious palm thrust to the stunned man's chest. Within his chest his heart literally exploded, ending his life slowly and painfully.

Hinata jumped as she sensed yet another presence behind her, vaulting gracefully back over the stunned Hyuuga. Hinata struck with a Juuken strike to the attacker's forehead while she was still in the mid air.

Landing on her feet in a low crouch, Hinata saw at least 14 Hyuuga rush her. Quickly taking up her stance she concentrated before her hands moved into a blur of motions as she created a protective web of Chakra Strings around herself, "Shugo Hakke Rokujuuyonshou!"

Hinata kept the technique going for nearly a minute and then had to stop, her arms going slightly numb from the high speed movement that had forced the blood out of her veins. A twig snapping behind her made the girl spin around and coming face to face with a Hyuuga. Hinata's eyes grew wide and her Byakugan slowly faded, her body freezing up as time seemed to slow down to a crawl.

Sakura stared with open and shocked eyes as she could only watch how a Hyuuga managed to land a heavy hit on Hinata. "HINATA!!!" Sakura tried to rush towards her as she saw how the Hyuuga sent yet another open palm towards Hinata's chest, intending to hit her other lung as well.

The hit connected before Sakura could reach them; Hinata's body flew backwards and crashed on the ground, rolling over it lifelessly. "NO!" Sakura's cry filled the air as she reached the Hyuuga, pulling her right fist back as she let all her Chakra flow onto it. With a primal roar Sakura slammed her fist into the Hyuuga's chest, expelling the Chakra just like Tsunade had taught her.

The effect was instant. The explosion of Chakra tore the woman's chest apart, annihilating her inner organs and bones in a shower of blood. Without a care for anything else Sakura rushed past the corpse and fell to her knees, sliding the last meters to Hinata's lifeless body. "Hinata! HINATA!" Sakura had grabbed the girl's shoulders and was shaking her in panic, the situational shock overriding the training she had in medical knowledge.

Hinata's eyes were open but unfocused, staring up into the dark sky unblinking. "No! HINATA! YOU CAN'T DIE HERE!" Sakura slowly managed to gather some medical Chakra and placed her right hand on the other girl's chest, trying to mend the damage done to her lungs. But to Sakura's shock..... she couldn't find anything to heal..... The two vicious Juuken strikes had totally disintegrated the girl's lungs inside her chest.

"No.... no! NOOOO!" Sakura's scream filled the night as she roared to loss of her best friend into the sky.

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'Why..... why now? Why did this have to happen?!' Her mind and emotions were in turmoil, even in death her mind went out to her love. 'Naruto-kun..... forgive me.... please forgive me........'

"Welcome Young Child, though I had hoped that I wouldn't see you face to face this soon." The soft and calming voice soothed some of the chaos in her mind and slowly she turned to the speaker.

Her breath caught in her throat as she saw a tall and beautiful woman stand before her. Her long white hair was swaying behind her as if moving in a soft breeze. Her slender figure was clad in a flowing white, long dress. Her slender face was dominated by radiant green-blue eyes that shown with a warmth that was warmer than the sun, but at the same time held so much authority the gaze could reduce demons to pets.

Her whole body was surrounded by a gold-silver glow, making it hard to make out details of her face. "Who..... who are you......?"

A soft and melodic laugh filled the white void, "My dear Child, I know that you're intelligent enough to answer that question yourself....After all, if you were a fool you wouldn't be standing here at the gates of Heaven."

Her eyes popped open in shock before she fell to her knees, forehead touching the ground, "Forgive me Kami-sama! Forgive me!"

"Do not bow to me Child, and there is nothing to forgive you, so raise your head." Very slowly she straightened her back, head still bowed to the ground and eyes lowered.

"So it is final.... I died... I left him behind in a world that will now only show him pain....." A soft and warm hand on her cheek made her look up. Pale lavender met a warm green-blue and the girls breath caught ones more in her throat.

"Don't be so fast Child. Your Fate has yet to be decided." Confusion filled the pale eyes, "Wh-what do.... you mean.....?"

The woman took the girls hand and pulled her to her feet. "You string of life is not yet at its end. While this event was not foreseen it could play out well in the very end."

"Please Kami-sama.... what are you speaking of? I do not understand.... I thought you said I died?"

The woman's soft laugh filled the void as a hand came up to softly caress the girl's cheek. "Oh my dear Child; I am not the Goddess of Life for nothing. My word overrules Shinigami's, as he is my servant. Besides, there still is a great destiny awaiting you. But before you can take up this destiny you need to know the truth about several things."

"With all due respect Kami-sama, but what are you talking about? You speak in riddles......"

"Child, do you know why your Mother perished after she gave birth to your sister? It was not due to some incurable disease, it was due to her very being that she died as you see.... she was not Human."

"What?! What are you saying?!" panic filled her voice and very slowly anger as well; even Kami wouldn't badmouth her mother, NO ONE would do!

"Calm down my dear Child. I do not mean to insult the memory of your Mother. While she was not Human she was something more as she was in my service: your Mother was an Archangel in my court. She desired to walk your world to find love she couldn't find in Heaven. And she found this love, although in the arms of a man unable of love himself."

"Yes Child, the union of your Mother and father was not one of mutual love. He only sought a strong heir for him to mold into his mirror image. After you were born he was furious, he was livid that his wife had dared to birth him a daughter. You were forcefully taken away from your weakened Mother and your birthright was sealed away. Your father never desired for you to reach strength."

"After your Mother had recovered from your birth, your father's desire for a male heir grew even stronger. And that lead to her death."

"As an Angel your Mother was able to give birth once and only once. A second child would have spelled her certain death as Angels pass on part of their immortal soul into their child but the soul of an Angel can only spliced once without causing the Mother harm. Your father ignored your Mother's pleas as each night he forced himself on her."

"While she knew that she would die she loved the man too much to ask for help from her fellow Angels. She choose to stay by his side and yours instead of returning to my court, branded and burned for life by love but alive. She choose to stay with you, her beloved daughter, knowing that she would die not much later."

"An Angel can only give birth under very special circumstances and thus your Mother was able to spend eight years with you before she was pregnant again. And with the living cry of your sister she died, her soul passing on into the After Life. She couldn't return to my court, her soul too weak to be reinstalled in her position as one of my Archangels."

"Seeing that he had yet again been born a daughter, your father defiled the body of your Mother. Her soul, weakened as she was, had to watch how the man she still loved mutilated her mortal body in his rage. With that her spirit had been broken and now she is but a shadow of herself in Heaven."

When the woman finished the girl was in tears; she had fallen to her knees, the crystal liquid leaking from her eyes freely as her heart and soul were gripped by an ice cold claw. Her body shook with the tears ans she wished she had never been told. "No.... you lie.... this can't be true...... no......"

"Child, I do not lie. What could I gain from lying to you?" "TAKE ME TO HER!" The girl shot up, grabbing onto the dress of the Goddess, her eyes filled with tears but burning with a fire hotter than the infernal flames of Hell.

"That I cannot do; it is not yet your time to enter the eternal realm that is Heaven. You have still a destiny to fulfill." "I AM DEAD! WHAT DESTINY COULD I POSSIBLY FULFILL!?!"

"While you may have died Child this doesn't mean that you're Dead." ".... ....... ...... ...... What?"

The Goddess raised her right hand, brushing the tears from the girl's cheeks softly. "While your birthright was sealed away you still possess it and in dying you have broken the seal. You can return to the world of the living, you can return to your Beloved. You can still stand by his side and when the final time has come you shall be the link between Heaven and Hell. You will take your rightful place in my Court and together with your Beloved you will watch over the three Realms in my name."

With a soft smile the woman leaned down to the girl, placing a very soft kiss on her forehead. She felt a great warmth spread from the contact, filling her whole being and caressing her soul softly. "Now go Child, your Beloved is waiting and his grief is great." "Naruto-kun......"

And with her last whisper her body slowly disappeared from the white void. "Use this second chance wisely Child; even I can only bend to rules so much. The next time I will not be able to save you from the Shinigami."

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Naruko and Yasha had moved swiftly back to the resort and had made swift and brutal work of anyone in their path. They had come to the battlefield soon enough and what they saw made their blood freeze.

Naruko saw how Sakura held Hinata in her arms, screaming in pain and agony as she grieved for her fallen friend. "Hinata!"

The blond's form shimmered and changed and Naruto landed next to the two girls, his blue eyes wide with shock terror and pain. Sakura looked up at the demon, her eyes filled with tears. "I.... I....... couldn't do.... anything...... It happened..... before my eyes..... I..... I am so sorry..... so sorry......"

Naruto reached out with shaky hands, blood red tears flowing down his cheeks as he pulled his beloved into his arms. Her skin was already getting cold to the touch. "No.... Hinata..... you can't leave me..... I need you...... without you.... I am nothing..... please.... open your eyes..... please......" But the girl didn't react, her lifeless body lying in his arms as he cried bloody tears. Red Chakra started to leak from his body as grief, pain and rage consumed his soul.

His eyes turned abysmal red, burning with rage beyond rage. "I..... I will kill you.... you will all die..... You killed her..... you killed HINATA!!! NO MERCY!!!!" He slowly let his Chakra Cloak cover his body, two of his tails glowing and splitting up. The six furry appendages swayed angrily behind him, each hair becoming harder than diamond as the demon prepared to slaughter each and everything in his path.

Without a thought his Chakra Cloak sent four red tendrils out, lashing out for anything in reach like frenzied and savage snakes. The ground around him burst into flames, becoming scorched and drained of life.

Naruto threw his head back, howling his pain into the night as his Chakra lashed out, flaring widely and untamed. A last tear fell from his right eye, dropping down on the girl's pale cheek before flowing

down the flawless skin.

His mind was racing with thoughts of murder, slaughter and death. Nothing would stop his rage, his blood lust would only be seated when the blood of each and every Hyuuga was been spilled by his claws. Slowly he rose to his feet, Hinata's body still clutched in his arms. He turned around, eyes blazing as he fixed the Hyuuga with a glare hotter than the black flames of Amaterasu.

Deeper and deeper his mind fell into rage and madness, uncaring for anything but slaughter and death.

He could have sworn that he felt a soft caress on his cheek, taunting him with the loving touch of his beloved that he would never feel again. He could hear her soft voice haunting him, telling him that she was alive, that everything would be fine. Casting one last look down on his beloved girl he prepared to shed the last of his humanity to unleash his vengeance on those who dared to ruin his life....

His mind stopped, rage halting and the thoughts of death slowly vanishing from his mind. He looked down into her pale eyes, seeing them look straight back at him with such a love in them that every other emotion seemed non-existent. Her right hand was softly caressing his cheek, brushing softly over his whiskers. "Naruto-kun...... My beloved Naruto-kun....."

Her voice forced down the madness, forced away the rage and called back his humanity and reason...... His left hand shakily rose to touch her hand, feeling warm and soft skin under his rough fingers. "Hinata...... Hinata.... Hinata....." Slowly his demonic voice vanished as he clutched her hand in his own. Was this real? Was she truly back? Or was it the madness that was playing tricks on him?

The red Chakra was pulled back into him as he felt soft, velvety lips pressed against his own, clearing his mind. 'She is alive.... she came back to me...... my beloved..... my Koishii.....' He returned the kiss with a passion burning hotter than the sun, crushing her body against his in desperation.

After what felt like only seconds they parted, both panting from the highly emotional kiss. "Naruto-kun....." He placed her back on her feet, his hands still clutching her arms, fearing that if he let go she would vanish. "Naruto-kun.... I am back.... let me deal with them..... sleep my beloved......" His eyelids felt heavy.... he was so tired.

"Will.... will you be there.... when I wake up....?" She smiled warmly, nodding her head, "I will, for now and for ever."

A serene smile played over his lips as his eyes closed and his mind dropped into unconsciousness.

Very slowly Hinata lowered her Koishii to the ground, the burning sensation that had filled her body collecting on her back and around her eyes. "You caused him pain..... pain beyond anything...... For this I will judge you..... I will sentence you..... and I will execute you...... in the name of Kami-sama....."

Her body began to glow, covering her in a silvery light that grew stronger with any second until it was so blindingly bright that everyone had to close their eyes and look away. The light formed a cocoon around her, impenetrable. Very slowly the cocoon rose higher into the air, floating above the battlefield and casting a bright light into the night. It was like a miniature sun was lightening up the night, it's warm light soothing those of friendly mind and burning those of wicked thoughts.

Feathers suddenly floated in the air, moving around them as if moving in a soft breeze. Two of them felt as if the feathers were the soft caress of a mother. The rest felt their conscious weight heavy on them, clearing their minds for the truth of their deeds.

The cocoon of light began to collapse into itself before exploding outwards, the shock wave blowing away the feathers.

Very slowly they all opened their eyes and what they saw made many of the gap openly, wondering if they were staring at Kami-sama herself.

Ten meters above the ground floated Hinata, her hands clasped together in prayer before her chest, eyes closed. Her hair hand grown out, reaching the middle of her back with ease. Her skin had taken a slightly tanned color with a very slight shine to it. He eyes slowly opened, revealing the same lavender paleness as ever filled with a determination that could rival Naruto. But the most prominent feature..... were the four, snow white and feathered wings that sprouted from her back.....

The back of her white coat and black top had been torn away as the wings grew from her, the upper pair larger and looking more powerful while the lower, smaller pair looked very delicate. The wings moved softly, keeping the girl afloat in the air without much trouble or strain.

"You.... the Hyuuga that caused my Koishii so much grief.... prepare yourself for Kami-sama has spoken her judgment." Her voice was soft as ever, but now there was this.... otherworldly echo within that made everyone shiver.

Spreading her arms wide Hinata closed her eyes and turned her head skywards. Her wings spread wide, reaching their full span of four meters and three meters respectively. "Shinsei: Tenshi Umou no Kouu."

Her wings began to glow in a silver-whitelight, slowly loosing several hundreds of their feathers that started to float around Hinata. Suddenly the feathers shot down towards the remaining Hyuuga below, turning into beams of pure white light as they rained down on them.

The cries of Hyuuga being pierced by the holy attack filled the night as dozens of souls were ripped from their bodies and brought before Kami-sama to be judged and sentenced for their deeds.

It took only minutes before everyone of the attackers was dead, struck down by the very female they had intended to kill out of stupidity.

Hinata's eyes slowly opened, looking down on the slaughter she had committed. A sole sad tear rolled down her right cheek as she whispered one word, "Gomennasai........."

With soft strokes of her wings Hinata slowly lowered herself until her feet touched the ground. Ruffling her wings the four white masses folded neatly against her back. She looked up as slowly Sakura and Yasha came closer, the later shifting back into her original body of Akuma.

"Hinata-chan," whispered Sakura softly as she stared in awe at the girl before her. "What..... how......" Hinata gave a soft but sad smile, "I will tell you when Naruto is awake...... Come, let us go rest......."

Sakura and Akuma only nodded, the male picking up Naruto as they made their way back to their hut. This night had proven to be..... utmost troublesome......

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"....... And that concludes our report Hokage-sama," finished Sakura after giving a verbal overview of the late happenings.

Tsunade sat in her chair behind her desk, rubbing her temples and wishing she hadn't already finished off all her sake. "Let me recap this without the...... unusual complications: there never was an actual threat to the Daimyou's daughter. That was never real. The girl wrote the death threats against herself to force her father to pay more attention to her?"

"Hai Hokage-sama," said Hinata, shifting in her chair to find a comfortable position for her wings. She still wasn't fully used to them.

Mumbling curses under her breath Tsunade shuffled through the papers on her desk. "Hinata, please stand up." The girls did as told, subconsciously flexing her wings a bit. Tsunade walked around her desk and behind Hinata. Activating her Analytic Jutsu Tsunade placed her right palm flat on Hinata's bare back, right between her upper pair of wings. Hinata gave a soft moan, surprising the legendary medic.

"Tsunade-sama.... careful.... we have discovered that the base of my wings is a very sensitive and.... erogenous area." While on the inside Tsunade was shocked and even slightly blushing, on the outside her face was schooled into a professional calm look.

After a few minutes she pulled her hand back. "Hinata..... your wings are directly attached to your spin.... I have NO idea how this is possible.... normally this would put such a huge strain on your body that you should crumble under them."

"Maybe I know why she can still stand," said Sakura, drawing the medic's attention. "While I checked Hinata over for injuries I found out that while her bones are still as stable, if not even more than before, they are hollow; like a birds bones. It's not only the bones in her wings but ALL her bones. My guess is that her skeleton doesn't weight any more than it did before the.... change; I would even go so far and claim that it is lighter."

"An interesting theory Sakura," muttered Tsunade while she walked back to her chair. "We need a full physical for you Hinata; if Sakura is right than it would explain a lot. So, can your wings support your weight? Can you actually fly with them?"

"Not with them alone. But if I add Chakra to strengthen them I can 'fly' up to twenty meters; that is at least the maximum height that we have tested. Also it seems to be just enough to carry my own weight as I cannot carry anyone else."

Tsunade nodded, taking a few notes, "So you say that you actually are an Angel and that your mother was an Archangel? Hinata, I don't want to call you a liar but I gave your mother more than just one physical and never did I notice anything similar to your current position."

"I am not sure why that is but my guess would be that as an Archangel she had the ability to fully change her body to look human. Also there might be a chance that the seal the bastard had placed on me and Hanabi had also been placed on my mother. Until today all my physicals were also 'purely human'."

Tsunade nodded her head in thought, "That would be an option.... unlikely but it's the only explanation we have at the moment. But now the question would be where was the seal? No seal is completely invisible on the bearer. Also if Hanabi indeed is also... an angel....."

Silence filled the room for a few minutes before Tsunade turned to Naruto, "All the angel talk aside: Naruto, how do you plan to explain that suddenly you have SIX tails?"

Casting a glance over his shoulder Naruto gave a shrug, "I don't know and in all honesty: I don't care. No matter WHAT I say people will still think that I am Kyuubi's incarnation; why go through the trouble of coming up with a story that no one will believe anyway?

"True," muttered Tsunade. After a few moments she turned towards Akuma, "By the way, your house has finished construction. The electronic and water installation are also finished. The only things left are decorations, furniture and a fence or something around the grounds. Here are the keys, the deed and the rest of the paperwork; Congratulation Akuma."

The Adept gave a smile as he took the items from Tsunade, "Thank you. Sakura-chan, you up for some shopping today?" "Do you have to ask," said the girl excitedly. Akuma turned towards Hinata and Naruto. "You two game as well? After all, you got your own wing and you should furnish it yourselves. And half the cost is on me."

"How the hell have you that much cash," asked Naruto and the others looked equally curious. The adept gave them a small smile, "Well, raw jewels still fetch a very good price on the market. During my travels I found more than just a few, thanks to my Venus Psynergy." He reached into his tools pouch and pulled a small bag from it and spilling some of its contents on the desk. Several walnut sized, rough gems rolled onto the desk.

The size made Tsunade's eyes go wide. "HOLY FUCK!" Akuma could only chuckle as he pocketed the gems again, "As you can see cash will not be a question anytime soon."

He turned to his team mates and friends, "Come on, let's gather Hanabi from the Sarutobi compound and then head out to check the new house before we hit the shops." Sakura and Hinata smiled widely before they each grabbed an arm and dragged Akuma out of the office. Naruto shook his head with a chuckle, waving goodbye to Tsunade before leaving the office as well.

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The group of five was making their way up to the Hokage Monument. Hanabi had begged to be carried by her sister, staring at the wings in awe all the time and reaching out to touch them. Hinata couldn't help but smile at her, hoping Hanabi would be able to break the seal on her without having to die.

During their walk, they had gotten more than just curious and shocked looks. Many women muttered amongst each other that Hinata had become an angel and claimed that she had come down to purify the Demon. Children had tailed them in curiosity, wondering if the angel would play with them but were too shy to approach her with the demon brat around her.

"I wonder what the place will look like," wondered Naruto out loud, never having seen the blue print. Akuma only gave a slight chuckle, "Won't be too bad. The plans are simple; I don't really like the pompous stuff the noble and rich people seem to favor."

They rounded the edge of the woods and came to the entrance to the new Ryoushi compound. Before them lay a medium clearing, green and well kept grass with a single gravel path that lead up to the house. The house itself was indeed kept normal: a typical two story building, the brown color making it blend with the woods around it. The house had a reversed U-shape, the two wings of the building running parallel to the path leading up to the door.

Large ceiling to floor windows were placed in the walls every three meters, white and blue curtains blocking the few inside. The four walked up to the door, taking what they could see so far. Akuma opened the double door and the group walked inside, finding themselves in a large entrance room that covered the ground and first floor. To the left and right were two doors on each side while directly ahead was a large stairway that split halfway up and lead to the first floor of each of the wings of the house.

"Naruto, Hinata: the right wing is yours to do with as you like. They are four smaller rooms on the first floor, a master bedroom as well as three bath rooms, two of the first floor and one on the ground floor. The ground floor has a kitchen in the far back while the ground floor of the wing is a large room that could dub as a living room as well as a smaller one that could be pretty much anything you want. Connecting the two wings is a large dinning room; it's pretty much just behind the staircase. The layout of the left wings is pretty much a mirror image. Behind the house should be an open area that we could use as we please: training ground, a garden or whatever we should think of."

Akuma took Hanabi from Hinata's arms, the little girl not really happy about it until he sat her down on his shoulders. The girl smiled as she grabbed onto his long hair to keep herself steady and she got a not so pleased grunt from her brother because of it. "Let's check out the rooms; they are all still in basic white paint so you better know if you want to paint the walls before moving in any furniture."

"Let's meet back down here in...... say, one hour," suggested Hinata and the other nodded and the two couples split up as they walked up the stairs.

Sakura, Hanabi and Akuma rounded the corner from the stairs and were faced with a long hallway, running down the whole length of the building. The first room on the right was probably a bedroom, five by five meters in size. It had a small balcony outside that faced towards the northwest.

Down the hall they had three more such rooms, another on the right and two on the left while the ones on the left had no balcony. Next came the two bathrooms, one on each side. The bathrooms were fitted with only the basics, toilet, two sinks, a shower and a bathtub.

At the end of the hallway was the master bedroom, easily fifteen on fifteen meters in size with a balcony was running around the whole outside walls. In the far right corner from the door was a spiral staircase that lead down into the room below. The three stepped outside on the balcony, taking in the nice view they had. Far down they could see the edges of Konoha while the rest felt like untouched nature around them.

Sakura couldn't help but lean against Akuma sighing softly. "You like," asked the Adept in a slightly frightened voice. Sakura gave him a thoughtful look, "Hm..... I don't know..... it's so far away from the shops..... it will take most likely at least a half hour to get up here......"

Akuma's face fell, feeling crushed. He had really tried to work something out that would appeal to Sakura but it seemed like he fucked up. "I see......"

Sakura was laughing on the inside, barely able to keep a straight face when she saw the crushed look on her boyfriends face. But then she couldn't hold it anymore and a giggle escaped her lips.

Akuma was swift to catch it and a small growl escaped him, "Darn you little minx." Sakura broke into laughter and was soon joined by Hanabi, "You should have seen your face Akuma-kun," laughed Sakura, smiling up to him in a most innocent way. Akuma felt his displeasure melt away at the look, he just couldn't stay mad at her about something like this.

The trio went back inside and down the spiral staircase. The found themselves in a room roughly the same size as the master bedroom, a small door in the left hand wall leading outside. Taking the double doors into the living room they came into a large stretched room. So far there was only a three-person couch and two armchairs at the fer left corner. Deciding to check the kitchen they walked through the single door on the opposite wall and into the kitchen. A large kitchen isle stood in the middle of the white tiled room, the cupboards circling around the wall. Right hand there was the door leading into the last room: the joined dinning room.

The trio walked inside at nearly the same time that Naruto and Hinata walked inside. They five shortly looked at each other before they couldn't help but chuckle at the coincidence. This was the only room that was furnished: a large oval table stood in the middle of the room, easily able to provide space for up to 20 people at once. The walls were painted in a soft blue, dark blue and white curtains hanging before the windows. A very large pair of double doors lead outside and to the large backyard. The quintet walked outside together and Hinata's eyes lid up.

The place was perfect for a really nice flower garden, maybe a koi bond down the way. Over there on the right was a half shadowed area, perfect for growing some of her medical herbs. And that sunny path over there would be perfect for roses.......

A light giggle broke Hinata from her daydream and she looked up at Hanabi. "Are you already planning a new flower garden nee-chan?" Hinata couldn't help the slight blush rising to her cheeks while her sister had a good laugh at her expense. Sakura and Akuma also chuckled slightly while Naruto simply wrapped two of his tails around her as he gave her a small kiss on the cheek.

"So you two, the place to your liking," asked Akuma as they all moved back inside. "You kidding? The place is awesome," said Naruto with his patented foxy grin.

"Come on you two, time's wasting. Let's start planning this already; I have a few ideas and I want to visit at least three of the shops I have in mind today," said Sakura enthusiastically with a dangerous glint appeared in her eyes.

Akuma gulped as the five sat around the thin corner of the table; he could already feel his wallet loose a lot of weight.

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Translation

Katon: Tenpi – Fire Style: Sunlight - in single bright but harmless flash emits from the users body, having the same effects as looking straight into the sun for several minutes.

Shugo Hakke Rokujuuyonshou - Guardian Eight Divination Signs, Sixty-Four Palms of the Hand - people who followed the anime should know what this is but for the rest: it is Hinata's self-created variant of the Kaiten. Pure and sharp strings of chakra are expelled from her palms that she moves with high speed to create a dome like net around herself to protect herself from physical attack (and in theory from Jutsu as well

Shinsei: Tenshi Umou no Kouu – Divinity: Rain of Angel Feathers - Hinata levitates high into the air, her wings slowly 'loosing' a great many feathers that float around her. when she decides that she has enough the feathers are converted into pure Shinsei Elemental Chakra and rain down on the target area. depending on how much Chakra she uses for the attack two things can happen: 1) the number of feathers and hence beams of Chakra increase, convering a wider area or 2) infusing each feather with more Chakra and thuse increasing the destructive power each beam has upon impact. (Note: Hinata's winds don't actually 'loose' any feathers as they are instantly recovered after the Jutsu has ended.)

Koishii - Beloved

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Well, i dare say that was a worthy chapter for the two years mark.

it seems like Team 11 is full of surprises: a half Demon, a hald Dragon and now an Angel; wonder if Sakura is the only one normal...... nah, normal is over-rated. *smirks*

anyway, i hope the chapter was to your liking. next time will be a small timeskip to the third round ( i want to get this over with asap, thus i am skipping the two months training chapter i had planned).

until the next time.

- Nelo Akuma