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Chapter 36: A mission.

Hinata woke up, still before Naruto. She looked at the time. It was seven they would be a little late. Hinata pushed against Naruto a little. "Naruto-kun, it's time to get up. You have that mission today."

"Screw the mission" Naruto said as he slowly woke up.

"I know you don't want to go but you have to. I don't want Tsunade to hurt you."

Naruto sighed, "You're right, what time is it."

"Seven."

"We have about 45 minutes then?"

"Yeah, let's get you some breakfast." Hinata said poking his stomach. "I bet you're hungry" Hinata smiled.

"Yeah." Naruto replied.

"What do you want then?"

"I don't care."

"Okay, how about some scrambled eggs for energy and some bacon?"

"Sure."

"Okay, well I get that started."

"I want to help." Naruto said sitting up.

"Okay, well come on lets get started. You have a big day."

Hinata and Naruto walked into the kitchen and started to make breakfast.

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Hinata poured the eggs on Naruto's plate and set 3 slices of bacon on the side. Naruto smiled and started wolfing down the eggs. "Hinata, you cook amazingly. I love your cooking." Naruto said, with a mouthful of bacon and eggs. Hinata was the best cook he knew.

"Thanks" Hinata said as Naruto finished the last of his plate. "Are you still hungry?" Hinata asked, as she held out another plate of bacon and eggs.

Naruto nodded as Hinata switched out his plates. Naruto started wolfing down his next plate of eggs and bacon. Naruto happily enjoyed his breakfast. Hinata watched, she was going to be so lonely when he left. During her thinking Naruto had already finished he stood up and wrapped his arms around her. "Hinata, I love you." Naruto said, and then kissed her neck.

"Naruto-kun" She gasped. Naruto slowly kissed his way up her neck to her mouth. Naruto kissed her passionately he didn't want to leave; he loved Hinata more than anything else. He would never want to leave her. But he also didn't want to have Tsunade beat the crap out of him. "Naruto-kun, you have to get going"

"I can be a little late." Naruto said as he picked her up in his arms and walked into his room. He laid her on his bed. He crawled on top of her, he kissed her neck and across her shoulders.

"Naruto-kun" she said. He looked up at her soft beautiful eyes. He started to kiss down her chest. Hinata put her hands under his chin and brought him to her face.

"Sorry, it's hard to control sometimes." Naruto said. Hinata smiled and brought his face toward hers. She kissed him passionately. She didn't want him to leave, and if he had to leave she wanted to go with him, she would follow him to the ends of the earth. Naruto would do the same. Hinata knew if she went Tsunade would be furious.

"Naruto-kun" She said.

"I love it when you say my name like that." Naruto said as he went in for another kiss. Hinata had started calling him 'Naruto-kun' again after he said he liked hearing her say that. Hinata knew he had to go, but she didn't want to, she wanted him to stay here and be with her. "Naruto-kun, you should go, I don't want Tsunade to hurt you." It took all she had to do that.

"I know." Naruto said.

"Come on, let's go."

They got up and walked out the front door.

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They got the office and walked in, to see Shikamaru and Temari standing by the hokage's desk.

"Naruto you cut it close, I was about one minute away from coming to find and beat you." Tsunade shouted. Naruto looked at her and found a new square object on Tsunade's desk. Sure enough it was the picture of him and Hinata kissing from last night.

"Yeah, yeah" Naruto replied, still angry he had to do this stupid mission. He liked missions but without Hinata, it wasn't the same.

"Hey Naruto, cute picture" Temari said pointing to it. Hinata blushed a little.

"I know! Isnt it adorable!" Tsunade squealed. She calmed herself. "Alright, now for your mission." Tsunade started. "Your mission is a simple assassination mission. There is one called Zan, we are not sure if that is his real name but that s what he goes by. He has stolen scrolls from both the sand and leaf. These scrolls contain some important information on both villages. You are to kill the one called Zan and retrieve the scrolls." Tsunade handed them a scroll with the information they had gathered. "We suspect you can find him in the rain village."

"Alright, we will get right on it Tsunade-sama" Shikamaru replied.

"Yeah, let's get this done quickly so I can get back here." Naruto added.

"Right, well, get going." Tsunade said.

"Yeah, come on you two lets get this mission over with." Naruto said walking out of the door.

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The group walked to the gates of the village. "Hinata-chan, I'm going to miss you. I love you" Naruto said as he kissed Hinata.

"Naruto-kun, I'm going to miss you too. I love you" Hinata said as a tear spilled over the pools of lavender, which were her eyes. "Naruto-kun, I'll be right here waiting when you get back" Another tear spilled over her eyes. Naruto leaned forward and kissed her tears away.

"Hinata, don't cry. You look more beautiful when you're happy. You look beautiful now too. But I like you smile better than your tears." Naruto said as he kissed her. Hinata put her hands behind his head, pulling him into a deep kiss. She was going to make this last. She didn't want Naruto to leave. She wanted to keep him right here. But he was a ninja and that's what ninja's do. She kissed him for what seemed like an eternity. She just held him there pressed against her.

"Naruto, come on, I thought you wanted to get this over with." Shikamaru called.

Naruto finally receded from the kiss, he stared at Hinata's eyes as another tear came and welled up in her eyes. "I love you Naruto, with all my heart."

"And I love you Hinata, with all my heart..." Naruto replied. He held his hand to her face and wiped away the last tear with his thumb.

Hinata sniffled a little as the three left the village. She watched as Naruto left, she hated to see it. She felt her heart pulling at her a little. She wanted to go, but she couldn't. What would she do now? She was going to be lonely at his house. Naruto turned and waved. "I love you Hinata!" He shouted as he walked out of sight. She waved back. She couldn't say anything. She saw Naruto disappear and she walked away from the gates of the village back toward Naruto's house.

She strolled down the street staring at the ground.

"Hinata!" Someone called from behind her. She turned around to see Kiba running after her, with a rather large Akamaru trailing after him. "Hey" Kiba said as he approached her. "Where is Naruto?" Kiba asked, he noticed she had tear stains down her eyes. "Did Naruto break up with you?" Kiba asked partially hoping so, trying to hide his excitement.

"No, but he left on a mission today."

"Oh, well. If you're lonely I can try to take his place." Kiba said sliding his arm around Hinata's shoulders.

"Um, No thank you Kiba." She replied.

"Okay, if you change you mind, come find me" Kiba said, he mentally swore. "Well I have to go get some training in I'll see you later." Kiba said as he turned to run off to the training grounds, growling under his breath.

Hinata nodded and continued her walk to Naruto's house. As she closed in to the house some one else called out to her. "Hinata!" Gee, was everyone out looking for her today? She turned to see Sakura and Ino running toward her. She was glad it was her friends though. "Hinata, Tsunade told me about Naruto's mission. We didn't want you to be lonely so we thought we would just have a girls' night out."

"Um, okay" Hinata had already went back to he shy mask, she had started beginning all her statements with 'Um' she wondered how long it would be before she went back to twiddling her index fingers.

"Yeah, we can have lots of fun."

"Yeah"

"Hey, you know what I just thought of?" Sakura interjected.

"What?" Ino responded.

"Hinata will be sleeping all alone again." Sakura laughed "What will you do, with no one to 'snuggle' with."

Hinata realized what she meant by 'snuggle 'after a little bit of thinking. She was thrown off by it because Sakura was laughing. She didn't find anything funny about being close to someone. Hinata twiddled her fingers. 'Darn it' she thought. Naruto wasn't even gone for 10 minutes and she already reverted to her old habits. She stopped herself. She had to be confident for Naruto. "No, we don't do that" Hinata said with confidence. "We are going to wait. We both agreed"

"Told you forehead girl" Ino commented.

"Shut it Ino pig!" Sakura yelled.

"Just come get me when it's time." Hinata said. She didn't want to listen to these two argue about nothing right now.

"I can do that." Sakura said.

"What if I want to do that forehead?" Ino shouted.

"You can't!"

Hinata sighed and walked back to the house. She heard Sakura's voice trailing off "yeah well what about this pig…." Hinata got back to the house and walked in, it was lonely without Naruto.

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Naruto looked back; he saw nothing but trees as he dashed through the forest at high speeds. He was going to do this mission as fast as he could.

"Hey Naruto, you want to slow down a little?" Shikamaru called.

"No way, let's get this over with!" Naruto called back as he accelerated further ahead.

"He is already troublesome." Shikamaru complained.

"Well he wants to get back to see his girlfriend." Temari added.

"I know but if he isn't going to listen, that means I have to keep up with him." Shikamaru complained.

"Well maybe you're moving to slow." Temari teased.

"Great, now you're both going to be troublesome." Shikamaru wined.

"Hey hurry up guys!" Naruto called.

"Great" Shikamaru sighed.

"We can get there in twenty minutes or so if we keep going at this pace."

"Yeah, or we could be there in thirty minutes or so if you slow down." Shikamaru called.

"Well let's go for twenty." Naruto said speeding up once again.

"Oh man this is such a drag." Shikamaru complained once again.

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Naruto finally stopped; he landed on ground near the rain village. "Yes… were here." He panted.

"See you wouldn't be so tired if you would have slowed down." Shikamaru said as he approached.

"I'm not tired, let's get going. I have to get back and see Hinata." Naruto replied.

"Aw, how sweet." Temari said as she closed in on the location.

"Naruto as much as you hate waiting right now, that's what you're going to have to do, You need to find a place to spend the night while we look for information on this Zan guy."

"What! Why cant we go in here and demand that someone tells us where Zan is then go kick his"

"Naruto! As much as you would like to do that, that would endanger our mission and you might not go back to see Hinata alive." Shikamaru interrupted "We need to surprise him so he is caught off guard then we can successfully kill him without drawing to much unneeded attention."

"Fine, I'll find the stinking hotel, but you better get this information fast." Naruto said as he walked off. He grumbled incoherent profanities about how this was a waste of time and how bad he wanted to get back and see Hinata.

"Are you trying to tick him off?" Temari asked.

"A little, it serves him right for making me run so fast."

Temari smacked him over the head. "Come on, he just wants to get back to see his girlfriend."

"Ow, troublesome girl." Shikamaru complained.

"What did you say I was?" Temari said smacking him over the head again. She started to beat him a little bit, asking new questions every time she hit him. "Why don't you care for me like Naruto does for Hinata?" Temari finished.

"This is more troublesome than I thought." Rubbing his head.

"Yeah, yeah, well let's get that information before Naruto goes Kyyubi on us or the village to get this mission over with."

"Okay" Shikamaru said as they headed into the village and searched for clues on the one called Zan.

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Naruto walked down the street still muttering about the stupid mission. Though his thoughts went from mainly thinking about the stupid mission to about how he couldn't wait to see everything about Hinata. He though about her long silky soft hair, her beautiful face and amazing body, her perfect smile, her perfection, he lovely soft eyes. He continued down the street before stumbling upon a hotel. It had vacancy and a nice small waterfall out front.

He decided this place would be good he rented a room and unpacked his stuff. He walked out to the street to find Shikamaru and Temari to tell them where the hotel was.

He walked along the streets when he finally found Shikamaru and Temari. "Hey I found the hotel."

"Good, we found out about this Zan person. He is in that house" Shikamaru said pointing to a rather run down house just outside the residential area. "He will be there tonight, that's when we will strike."

"Tonight? Really?"

"Yup" Temari replied.

"Alright! That's what I'm talking about! We can get this mission done with and be home by tomorrow!" Naruto shouted.

"Shut it Naruto, this is an assassination remember? You can't yell that." Shikamaru snapped.

"Oh right sorry" Naruto said.

"Idiot" Temari replied as she smacked him over the head with her fan.

"Ouch" Naruto moaned while he rubbed his head. Temari was going to beat him like Sakura did.

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Temari and Shikamaru walked into the room and looked around. Naruto followed them in. "There are only two beds, so you two are going to have to sleep together. Which probably isn't too different huh?" Naruto chuckled.

"Uh, it is a little." Temari replied.

"What, really… don't you two sleep together almost all the time?"

"No, sometimes we do, but not all the time…" Temari blushed a little.

"Really?"

"Yes really you idiot, why would you expect us to?"

"Well you guys have been dating longer than Hinata and I and we sleep together all the time." Naruto replied. Naruto quickly thought over what he said. He mentally swore, he had just taped raw meat to himself in a pit of hungry tigers. He really needed to think about what he said before he said it.

"Really?" Temari said with a smirk. "So you two really have done It, and a lot it sounds like."

"No!" Naruto shouted. "We have not and we won't until we are married!" Naruto was so tired of this.

"Okay, okay I was just kidding." Temari replied. "So anyway we can sleep together. Isn't that right honey?" Temari said as she turned to Shikamaru. She noticed he had left the spot he was standing in and was laying on the bed and had his eyes closed. "Shikamaru!"

"What?"

"Oh never mind, lets get some sleep." Temari grumbled.

Naruto dove into bed and closed his eyes. Temari crawled in next to Shikamaru. "Good night you two." Naruto said.

"Good night Naruto" Temari responded. And Naruto went to sleep.