Last week I went to Dublin for a few days to see MUSE play live, so therefore I had nothing much written come the weekend, so to make up for that I've treated you to a nice long one this week, so enjoy!
Behind Enemy lines
Hinata walked down the hill to training ground thirteen and took up her usual seat on the rock. After a few minutes Aiko appeared, her hair black today, coming from the direction of the lake, as usual she did a little extra training before meeting the rest of them. The girl had ditched her usual jacket and instead wore the chuunin flank jacket, it left her arms bare and the vambrace visible. Hinata couldn't help but wonder if it wasn't for her influence would the girl even use them.
"Morning sensei" the girl smiled and settled down in her usual spot next to the rock to wait for the other two.
The others appeared soon enough.
"We've got six months to get ready for the next exams!" Shin proclaimed, "and we're not gonna fail this time right sensei?" he was fired up.
"Something wrong sensei?" Megumi asked when Hinata didn't crack her usual smile at Shin's antics, she seemed distracted.
"Yeah, come here I have something to tell the three of you." Shin stopped punching midair and came closer to the rock.
"What's wrong?" Aiko asked. Hinata slid off the rock and brushed herself off.
"Tsunade wants me to go on an A-class mission with nee-chan," she lied, "so I'll have to go for a while."
"How long this time?" Shin asked, in the past year or so Hinata had gone on A missions before, they usually lasted between a few days or a week, during that time they where stuck with a chuunin sub, they hated it.
"I don't know"
"What do you mean you don't know?" Shin shouted.
"You're too loud Shin, it means I don't know how long I'll be needed on this mission." Hinata replied with finality in her tone.
"Who will be supervising us this time?" Megumi asked, she had made enemies of most of their subs. Hinata scratched the back of her head.
"I know you're not gonna like this…" she said to Megumi, "But it's Tsunade-sama's orders and you are not to make trouble." Hinata was still annoyed at Megumi for her stunt in Suna.
"So who is it sensei?" Aiko queried. Hinata looked at her with her usual soft gaze. "ME!?" Hinata nodded. "But, but I'm just…. I can't!"
"Aiko claim down." Hinata said quietly the girl fiddled with the zip of her chuunin jacket, Shin pointed dumbly with his mouth hanging open and the vein on Megumi's forehead looked fit to pop. "During missions you will get a higher rank to led you, Aiko all you need to do is sort out training sessions, and you've helped me do that enough times to do it yourself. Shin close your mouth and Meg…" Hinata said nothing but gave her a warning glare.
"But why Aiko?" Megumi asked anyway.
"Look, it's either Aiko part time or Neji full time." Hinata said shortly. Megumi quickly reconsidered.
"Ok Aiko it is."
"Wanna give it a try then?" Hinata asked Aiko.
"You really think I should?" Hinata nodded,
"If you weren't ready you wouldn't have this," Hinata plucked at her flank jacket. "Tsunade-sama thinks you can handle it, and so do I." Hinata said with a wink. Aiko smiled.
"I'll try sensei!"
"Good, now I have to get moving so I'll leave these two to you." Hinata said to the chuunin.
"Right!"
"Megumi a word." Hinata beckoned the girl over to one side. "You make any trouble at all and you will be going right back to the academy, you hear me?"
"Yes sensei…" Megumi muttered. Hinata seen the red heads eyes fall to the ground and knew she felt guilty, Hinata's softer side nudged her to say something.
"Look Meg, Aiko isn't used to being the leader, normally she looked to you for that, so I want you to help her become one."
"What?" Megumi looked up confused.
"To her you where always stronger and more confident, she followed your lead during missions and in training, granted it usually got her into trouble but that's why I need you to help her now okay?"
"She looked up to me?"
"Yes, you are stronger than her, that much was proved in the finals… look to cut it short I need you to keep an eye on Aiko and help your friend when she needs it okay? Don't make this hard for her."
"Hai!" Megumi gave a rare smile. She liked the idea that she was stronger than a chuunin.
"If you three work together there's no reason you won't pass the next exams." Hinata rose her voice back to normal levels so the other two could hear her too.
"YEAH!!" Shouted Shin. With the volatile situation defused Hinata left the genin and Aiko to their own devices, glad that her bluff about Neji taking over wasn't called.
So one down, one to go. She spent the rest of the morning looking for Naruto, checking his favourite training spot near the water fall, the ramen stand, his flat and even his little hide away on top of the kage heads.
"Where is he" she sighed to herself and sat on a bench in the park. It was now moving on to one in the afternoon and Hinata was running out of time, Takara had made her pack her bags that morning to leave that night, the waiting around was making the older woman anxious, she was constantly running her finger across her scar. Takara's nervousness seemed to transfer on to Hinata as well.
"Damnit Naruto where are you?" she asked the empty air, she had an idea. Hinata summoned Ryuu, the little dragon scratched and yawned, seemingly just awake.
"What?" the sleepy dragon snapped.
"I need you to find Naruto for me." Hinata told him.
"That's it?" the dragon looked around at the peaceful park.
"Yes, tell him to meet me at the ramen stand, its important"
"What's in it for me?"
"Ryuu, I don't have time for this."
"Well you woke me!" when the dragon was cranky he done nothing without getting something out of it.
"Alright, I'll get you a bowl of ramen when you bring him" Hinata caved it was too important to argue with the dragon.
"Done!" he agreed and flew off to find the blond. Hinata made her way to the ramen stand to wait.
"Gimme a Miso pork!" the little dragon demanded.
"Alright! You will regret this later Ryuu." Hinata hissed.
"Did I miss something?" Naruto asked rubbing his head, Ryuu had got his attention in the usual way, by crashing into his head.
"Nevermind…" Hinata said as the dragon stuck his head in the bowl.
"So you where looking for me?" Naruto brightened up as both he and Hinata got their orders.
"Yeah…" Hinata prodded her food with the chop sticks.
"What's wrong?"
"Tsunade wants me and nee-chan to go to Suna and help set up intelligence networks, looks like I might be leaving for a while?"
"Serious?"
"Yeah…"
"How long's a while?"
"I dunno." Hinata sighed and poked at the noodles.
"Well when do you leave?"
"Nee-chan wants to leave tonight"
"Damn…"
"I know… I was only told about this last night too," Hinata told him.
"It seems someone is determined to keep us apart" Naruto said.
"That's awfully deep of you"
"Well think about it, its either me and ero-sennin or you and Onee-san away from the village."
"It's because of the sound threat." Hinata lent on her hand, she avoided his gaze by watching the dragon lean into the bowl.
"Well maybe this mission you and Onee-san are going on will change that."
"Huh?" Hinata looked at him with a shocked expression.
"Heehee, I know when you lie to me." Hinata blushed as Naruto grinned.
"So where are you really going?"
"I can't say Naruto…"
"Aw come on you can tell me."
"No I can't, its an ANBU mission and its S-class, I shouldn't even have told you that, listen just keep it to yourself." Naruto dropped it because it was starting to annoy her.
"Okay then, but while you're in 'Suna' will you be able to keep in touch?" Naruto asked.
"I'll try." she promised.
"Ready to go?" Takara asked.
"Yeah." The two woman where leaving under cover of darkness, leaving their Leaf flank jackets and shinobi uniforms behind they where on their own once they left the village. They hoisted their bags onto their shoulders and darted out of the shadow of the gates. They avoided the road and travelled in the shadow of the trees to avoid being traced back to the village. Their destination was Rice. Every scrap of ANBU intelligence, both from Leaf and Sand had been reviewed and pointed to the Sound Village being in Rice, but every attempt to find it so far had failed. Takara and Hinata's mission was to scour the Rice countryside, locating all Rice strongholds, forts, bases and camps, removing them when possible or sending locations and numbers to Tsunade to co-ordinate a full strike, their ultimate goal was to find the village. They ran on for the remainder of the night and most of the next day stopping only to eat before setting off again. Once they neared the border they avoided the leaf border guard station and patrols, they crossed the border with out being challenged. With their equipment salvaged from sound shinobi, there was nothing on them to hint at the fact that they where nothing more than simple travellers loyal to the Sound.
From the night they left the village Takara and Hinata had dropped off the radar, communication with the Leaf was to be minimal to avoid raising suspicions against them and this was killing Tsunade. She was worried about them constantly, and was always watching the skies for that telltale flash of blue and gold, but for over two weeks the dragon never came.
"How many?"
"Eight"
"Are they alert?"
"No."
"I can only see six, where are the other two?"
"Near the fire, it's heat would hide them from your eyes."
"Alright, its only a checkpoint, we can take this out and cover it up without much attention being drawn to ourselves." Takara said to Hinata. They where both laying on their stomachs under a thick bush, its large leaves and the fading light shielded them from the view of the sentries.
"We'll go from the overhanging trees onto the tent, slip in there and take out the four guys sleeping, then we'll take out the other four. Two each."
"Sounds good nee-chan. Lets wait until it gets a bit darker."
"Good call."
They used the time to watch the patrol patterns of the four sentries, and come up with a plan to get them. Once it was dark enough they crawled backwards out from under the bush and circled the camp staying well out of hearing distance of the sentries they climbed a tree and slowly made their way towards the camp. Both women where dressed in full black body suits including masks with only a narrow eye slit. The suits where tight fitting material to avoid getting caught on branches or other obstacles, the thick material kept body heat in, and could absorb the force of a basic tai-jutsu attack and the density of the material protected them from slash attacks. Developed for the ANBU for assassinations they where perfect for this use, although practical, Takara found them far too similar to Gai's spandex suit for her liking until Hinata pointed out, it was not spandex. Once over the camp they dropped lightly and silently onto the heavy material of the tent. Hinata's Byakugan told them that four sound where asleep inside and the tent flap was closed meaning once inside they where hidden from view. Hinata kept a close eye on the only sentry that could see them if he looked up while Takara used a razor sharp kunai to slice a hole in the tent. Once the slit was large enough Takara dropped inside closely followed by Hinata. Inside they moved from bed to bed and swiftly killed the sleeping sound.
Outside the tent two sentries where walking around the perimeter of their camp with their eyes mostly on the surrounding woods and road, another one was standing directly outside the tent flap and the last one was warming his hands on the fire, pike leaning on his shoulder.
Once the two patrolling the edge where out of view Hinata opened the tent flap as quietly as she could, exposing the back of the guard, Takara crept up behind him and nodded to Hinata, she held the material in place with her foot and got ready, at the same moment Takara covered his mouth and grabbed one of his arms, Hinata grabbed his legs and the other arm and they both pulled him into the tent, Hinata removed her foot and the tent flap fell back into place. The mans neck was snapped, bringing the death toll in the tent to five. Hinata checked the area again, the three remaining sound had no idea of their presence. Takara lifted up the material at the back of the tent and Hinata dropped to the ground and rolled outside, once out she held the material up for Takara. They hid in the shadow the tent cast in the firelight and waited for the first sentry to walk around behind the tent out of view of the others. Once he was in the right place Hinata sprinted towards him, his attention was on the woods and he didn't notice Hinata coming for him, she jumped and kicked him in the face, both knocking him out and forcing him to fall into the undergrowth. Once he hit the ground she finished it with a kunai to the neck, then she pulled this body further into the shadows to hide it from view, then she waited. Once the other sentry got to the same point Takara took him out in the same manner as Hinata.
"Seven down," Takara started,
"One to go" Hinata finished. They walked back into camp staying in the last guard's blind spot by staying behind the tent. Before they got there the man noticed that the other men weren't walking around the edge of the camp anymore, he looked around and saw the man at the tent entrance was gone too. He held his pike out in from of himself and looked around again, then he saw the two outlines in the shadow of the tent. Since they had been spotted Hinata and Takara didn't try to hide themselves anymore and stepped out of the shadows, brandishing their kunai they advanced on him. He took a step back to brace himself but he forgot about the fire, his foot crunched right into the hot embers. While he was distracted with putting out the fire on his trousers Takara threw a kunai, getting him in the head.
"And that makes eight."
They dismantled the camp and weighed down the bodies before dumping them in a lake nearby, along with anything they couldn't use from the camp, it was imperative that they left no trace of the attack. Once that was done they crept back into the village where they had been staying. The two of them had been here for the past week, it was a trading village so it was a great place to pick up information. They sneaked back into the guest house and took showers to get the smell of blood off themselves and the sheath suits.
"So what will we do today?" Hinata asked drying herself off.
"We'll hang around the market again and see what gossip we can get. So far it hasn't lead us wrong." Takara replied, stashing the stealth suits into a hidden pocket in her pack.
"Alright" they got a few hours sleep before heading out dressed in plain clothes, a morning spent in the market place turned up nothing new, so they stopped for lunch at a stall.
As they ate they watched a few sound shinobi talking nearby, mostly joking with each other they seemed to be on day leave. Takara whispered to Hinata that they would keep an eye on them and try find out where they were based. One of the sound wasn't really listening to his friends and looked about, he spotted the two woman at the stall and nudged the man next to him. Hinata nudged Takara under the table, to draw her attention to the fact that they were seen. Takara watched the sound carefully, they were now talking to each other and casting glances in their direction. Finally one of them broke off from his friends and sundered over he leant on the counter next to Takara.
"Hey there, why don't you let me pay for that." he offered with a casual point to the sushi in front of her and a smile.
"Oh, and what would you be looking for in return?" Takara said sweetly.
"I dunno, maybe you and me could head off to that little bar down the street, maybe get to know each other a little better over drinks." the man lowered himself into the chair next to Takara.
"Maybe, but as you can see I'm not alone and I wouldn't want to make my little sister the third wheel." this usually worked in getting rid of the flirters.
"Little sis huh?" he leant forward to look around Takara. "Well I'm not alone either, perhaps one of my friends could occupy your sister while we talk." he beckoned over the other two sound who where waiting nearby, when they came over they younger one leant on the bar next to Hinata with a grin while the other stood behind.
"Well sis, what do you think?" Takara asked.
"I dunno nee-chan, could be fun but…" Hinata answered and ran her hand through her hair,
"But what?" the younger man next to her pressed.
"I look a mess," she chuckled, "Why don't we go clean ourselves up first" she added a girlish giggle.
"Sounds good to me," Takara answered then turned to the first man, "Tell you what, us girls will go make ourselves pretty, we'll meet you in that little bar you mentioned in an hour," Takara said suggestively, Hinata added another giggle.
"Hee hee, sounds good we'll be waiting." he tossed down the money for the women's meal and tapped his comrades on the shoulders to get them to move off. They laughed to themselves as they walked towards the bar. Once they left Takara's sweet smile instantly disappeared along with Hinata's.
"Creeps" the younger girl muttered.
"Least we got a free lunch. Come on lets get outta here before they catch on that we're not coming."
"Right"
"It's time we moved on anyway, if we keep hanging around we'll get noticed."
"Got ya." they walked out from under the stalls roof, further down the street the younger sound was waiting out side the bar, Hinata waved to him with a fake smile. He grinned and disappeared into the bar, and the two women headed off to the guest house.
"Why is it we have to deal with men more than sound?" Hinata asked once they got to their room.
"It seems that two women travelling alone is not as inconspicuous as it used to be. Then again, last time you where just a kid and weren't the one drawing attention."
"Huh?" Hinata wasn't sure whether or not she had just been insulted.
"Well last time at a glance anyone would have thought you where my daughter," Hinata blushed at that statement, " and few men would come near a single mum. This time around you're a grown woman, and a pretty one at that, so we are getting a lot more unwanted attention." Takara explained.
"oh"
"This has made things harder, eventually I'm gonna snap." Takara muttered hoisting her pack.
"Same here…" Hinata replied as they left the room
"You know, it's probably time we sent a message back to home" Hinata said to Takara while the other woman settled the bill.
"Your right. We'll sort that out later on" Takara told her. They took the long way out of the village to avoid the little bar where the three sound men would be waiting for them and started to head west. They had already been to most of the small towns near the Fire/Rice border and had removed a few minor threats and Takara had a list of Sound bases to send to Tsunade.
They walked on for the rest of the day and as the sun began to set they left the road and found a safe place to camp under a large sandstone rock formation. It shielded them from the wind that was starting to pick up. Hinata gathered wood and started a fire so she could make them something to eat, while she was busy with that, Takara wrote a report up for Tsunade and prepared the notes on the bases they found.
"There, done." Takara placed the scroll into a tube and sealed it with a jutsu she had been taught by Tsunade.
"You gonna call Ryuu now or wait until after you eat?" Hinata asked as she stirred the pot.
"I'll wait until afterward, it would be better if he travelled in the dark."
"Good point." Hinata spooned the food into two bowls and handed one over to her, "Careful its hot."
"She says after she gives it to me" Takara hissed setting the hot bowl on the grass.
"Sorry." Hinata grinned, she was wearing gloves, Takara wasn't.
They ate their food and waited for night fall. once it was dark enough Takara summoned the little blue dragon.
"I need you to take this to Tsuande-sama as quickly as you can Ryuu" Takara handed him the sealed scroll, he gripped it in his front claws.
"Looks important" he commented.
"It is" Takara said sternly.
"Hey Ryu, you think you could take this for me too?" Hinata piped and handed over another smaller scroll.
"who for?" the dragon asked taking the message.
"Well… Naruto…" she said blushing. Takara smiled. "What?" Hinata said sounding defensive.
"Nothing, I was just going to ask him to take this as well." Takara held up a folded piece of paper tightly bound with string.
"To who?" Ryuu asked taking the final message.
"It's for… Gai…" it was Takara's turn to blush.
"I guess we're both missing them." Hinata muttered leaning on her hand, Ryuu giggled at the two of them and quickly departed before Takara reached for him. Both women where a little upset now after thinking of the boyfriends left behind, so they turned in not long afterwards.
"Thanks Shiori," the brunette just handed over a cup of tea to the hokage. The girl collected the plates from Tsunade's dinner and left. The hokage hadn't left her office in a few days, and her two assistants where pretty sure she wasn't sleeping either. Tsunade stared at the page in front of her, the words where not registering in her mind.
'thud'
The sudden noise jerked the woman from her day dream, looking to her window she was almost glad to see the spider web crack spreading across her window. Rushing over she opened the window roughly, breaking it completely. Brushing off the glass she reached out and scooped up the dazed dragon.
"You really need to learn to avoid closed windows." she said jokingly to Ryuu.
The dragon said nothing, just rubbed his head and grumbled. Tsunade read the sealed scroll first, taking note of the sound bases and other information Takara had sent.
"What's these?" Tsunade lifted the other two notes.
"Not for you!" Ryuu snapped them back.
"Who are they for?" she asked, pretty sure she knew the answer.
"Gai and Naruto." the dragon replied and pulled the notes out of reach .
"I knew it" Tsunade grinned, the dragon recovered from the concussion and was soon on his way again to deliver the other two letters.
Tsunade watched him disappear into the night, then she looked back at the letter Takara sent. It seemed they were having trouble staying below the radar. Eventually Takara would snap and probably kill or maim a womaniser, and that may attract a little attention. Perhaps the women would need a little back up after all.
A few days later Takara and Hinata where still on the road, it was dusk and the sky was darkening. They had just set up camp next to a water fall and where taking time to soak their feet in the cool water, they had been walking all day.
"How far are we from the next town?" Hinata asked. Takara reach behind herself to fetch the map from her bag.
"Lets see…. Looks to be about another day and a half, if we hurry, but there's no reason too." Hinata chuckled.
'thud'
Ryuu once again failed in his landing, smacking Hinata on the back of the head and propelled her into the water. She spluttered in shock and treaded water whilst glaring at Takara who was on her back laughing at the scene.
"I hate you" Hinata muttered and swam to shore. Takara helped her out of the water whilst still laughing.
"Sorry it was funny." Takara shrugged. Hinata uttered curses under her breath as she when to get dried and changed.
"What have you got for me Ryuu?" Takara now turned her attention to the dragon who was hiding out of reach of Hinata.
"Here, should I leave?"
"Yes and quickly before she gets a hold of you." Takara answered taking the tube from the dragon. With his duty done Ryuu quickly disappeared. Takara popped open the tube and dumped out three notes, one from Gai, which she quickly tucked into her pocket, for her eyes only, one from Tsunade and,
"Here's one for you, from Naruto." Takara tossed the letter over to a slightly damp Hinata.
"thanks."
Takara unsealed the scroll sent by Tsunade and scanned through it. Strike teams where being assembled to take out the bases she had highlighted, and Tsunade was worried about the two of them drawing attention to themselves.
"What does she mean 'drawing attention'?" Hinata asked she was reading over Takara's shoulder.
"It means two pretty women can't stay as low profile as we thought, so looks like Tsunade is sending some one else up to join us, a family unit draws much less attention." Takara explained after reading the rest of the letter.
"A family unit?" Hinata asked sounded sceptical.
"Yeah… Tsunade's sending an other leaf to pose as my 'husband'" Takara rolled her eyes, this may not end well.
"What about me?" Hinata asked.
"Guess you get to pose as the daughter" Takara grinned as Hinata blushed again. "Okay, Tsunade has arranged for them to meet up with us a days walked outside this town." Takara pointed to the map.
"Isn't that where we where headed?"
"No, this is where we where headed, this one is further to the south. Its still the same distance though."
"This isn't going to be pretty is it?" Hinata asked.
"Nope…" Hinata left to change her clothes and Takara leant her chin on her hands, "I hope it's Gai…"
"They're late…"
"You said that yesterday." Hinata intoned to the impatient woman. They where meant to meet their back up the day before but so far there was no sign of him. Takara had decided to give him time to arrive.
"Then he's later." Takara kicked at a stone, she didn't like the idea of pretending to be married to a man she probably didn't know, it almost felt like a betrayal of Gai's trust.
"You have got to relax, it took us longer than we thought to get over the border remember." Hinata said.
"I guess…" Takara stopped pacing and sat on a boulder, they where a mile away from the road under a cliff, it was used as a common landmark for the leaf ANBU forces, and gave them a decent degree of privacy. Hinata was stretched out on her back watching a stream of water trickle down the moss covered cliff face. The little trickle drippled down the mossy cliff and into a fresh water pool.
"Wanna go for a swim?" Hinata suggested trying to take the womans mind off the lateness of their back up.
"I don't think so…"Takara said from her rocky seat.
"Okay…" Hinata shrugged, she got into her purple tankini and dove into the pool, she paddled about for a few minutes before Takara broke and joined the girl, the cool water was a pleasant respite from the days heat. Takara sat in the shallow end in her crimson bikini soaking in the sun, that was until Hinata splashed her, tearing the woman out of her dozing.
"Hey!" Takara shouted, she splashed back but Hinata jumped back out of range and stuck out her tongue. Takara got up coming after her. "Come here!" Takara called playfully and started after Hinata. In the splash war Takara thought she heard something. She held up her hand to stop Hinata, the younger girl stopped and listened, she thought she heard a rustle too.
"You think…?" Hinata said quietly.
"Let's see" Takara disappeared, she reappeared behind the bushes to Hinata's right. The girl could see the prominent vein on Takara's forehead from where she was. Takara gave a choice boot to the rear end of a peaking tom, the man was propelled through the bushes and into the pool.
"EEK!" Hinata dove out of the pool and wrapped herself in her long travelling cloak, she then tossed Takara hers. Both now covered they advanced on the pool with death glares.
"You again!" Takara bellowed in a rage at the white haired man sitting in the water.
"ano… hi?" Jiraiya chanced and held up his hand in greeting.
"Come here!" Takara waded into the water and pulled him to his feet.
"Sorry won't help here will it?" Jiraiya asked, Takara however was set in her course of action, keeping a grip on his shoulders she thrust her knee upwards.
"Next time I remove it!" she hissed into his ear and then let him fall to his knees with a silent scream.
While Takara was decreasing the likelihood of Jiraiya ever having children Hinata thought she heard another rustle in the bushes, she went to check it out.
"You tried to warn us didn't you?" she asked looking at Naruto, who was bound and gagged to a tree. Hinata freed the boy and removed the gag. "So are you just in the area or are you here for a reason?" she asked, her fingers crossed, hoping he was the back up.
"Tsunade sent up here to back up another team that was undercover, she didn't say who, but I'm happy enough with the result" he grinned.
"Me too" Hinata hugged him.
"Hey, your wet…" he recoiled with a chuckle.
"Oh, sorry, I'll go get dried."
Naruto was left to guard the twitching Jiraiya while the women went and got changed. Once dry and dressed they returned to the men.
"So what brings you here?" Takara shot at the older man.
"Tsunade sent us to back up another team. She told us about your mission but not who we where meeting." Jiriaya explained
"Apparently…" Takara glared at him. "Then why were you sneaking through the bushes?"
"I wasn't sure weather it was our team or an enemy." He shrugged to try make his lie more convincing.
"Then why did you tie up the boy?"
"He was making too much noise" Which was true.
"Yeah sure…well one more incident like this… Hey where are those two?" Takara looked up from her scolding and saw that Hinata and Naruto where no longer in the clearing.
"She'll be chewing him out for another while" Hinata explained to the edgy Naruto.
"You sure?"
"Yup, don't worry about it" Hinata grinned at him. "Missed you" she muttered and gave him the over due hug. He wrapped his arms around her too and pulled her in closer.
"You still a little cold from the water." he commented.
"You can warm me up then" she tucked her arms into his jacket to absorb some of his warmth.
"I thought this mission was gonna be boring but I guess now it might be a bit fun." he said and nuzzled into Hinata's hair. She giggled and tilted her head up to kiss him.
"Ahem…" they both looked over to a disapproving Takara.
"Damit…" Hinata uttered.
"What's going on here then?" Takara asked with a stern glare at Naruto. He let go of Hinata and took a step back before looking at the ground. He glanced up and could see the disappointment in Hinata's eyes. He was missing her back in the village now that he got a chance to be with her something was stopping him. He looked back over to Takara she was standing there with crossed arms, completing the protective mother image.
"Onee-san…"
"Hmm?"
"Leave us alone…"
"What?"
"I said leave us alone, look I love Hinata and she loves me, I wouldn't dream of hurting her," He stepped over beside her and took her hand again. "So why don't you back off and let us be!"
"Back off?" Takara stalked closer and glared at him, but Naruto stood his ground, now it sunk in how bad of an idea it was to annoy Takara. He gulped as she stopped in front of him. "You really mean that?" she asked lowly as she leant in over him.
"He does!" Hinata piped because it looked like the poor boy was unable to respond. Takara gave Hinata a quick glance then returned her gaze to Naruto, he bore a stubborn, yet scared, expression.
"Alright" Takara tone changed instantly and she stood up again. "If you've finally decided to stand up to me then I have no problems." Takara shrugged.
"What!?"
"I was waiting for him to fight for it so to speak." Takara said with an evil smirk.
"This was a… you mean all that hostility it was a test?" Hinata said.
"Yup, well if he wasn't willing to stand up for your relationship then he wasn't good enough for you, because you wouldn't shut up about it." Takara grinned.
"Nee-chan!" Hinata scolded.
"Don't even start you know I'm right!" Takara ducked the swipe.
"So really, we're okay now." Naruto need to clarify this.
"Yup" Takara walked away leaving the two of them alone.
"Sometimes I don't really understand her…" Hinata muttered.
"Aw well, least I get to do this now." He tilted her chin up and planted a kiss on her lips. This mission wasn't going to be so bad after all.
End chapter 33
Hope you enjoyed that folks but for now… um… er… im too tired to come up with a joke this week…. Sorry.
Hows that any different from any other week
Takara shut up…