"You should smile more often Hinata, you look even better when you smile"

Hinata's blush was so deep, that you might have thought the sun was rising again.

Hinata was trying to keep from fainting again when, thankfully, the door opened and Tsunade and Shizune came walking in.

Tsunade couldn't help but smile when she walked in the door. First off Naruto was indeed awake, and secondly, it appeared that he had caught Hinata napping. Her face was glowing like the sunrise, but she hadn't had the presence of mind to lift her head off of naruto's arms yet.

"Good morning Naruto-chan"

"TSUNADE-BABA! How are you!"

Tsunade's left eyes twiched, slowly she counted to ten. And then…

"Naruto" said tsunade in a voice that could only mean pain. "How many times Have I asked you not to call me that?"

Naruto may act a bit slow on the uptake, but in reality he was in fact quite intellegent.

Aww shit! Now I've gone and pissed her off. Come on Naruto buddy, THINK! … GOT IT!

Quickly Naruto put on his 'thinking face' everybody knows what I'm talking about. The one he throws up as a front when he pretends to ponder a situation.

"OK Tsunade-baba, if you don't like your current nickname…. How bout I call you Tsunade-ni-chan?"

Tsunade Seemed to continue swelling with anger…

Never a dull moment, eh kit?

Well, it was worth a shot

Suddenly Tsunade burst out laughing.

"So I'm your sister now?" she asked chuckeling "ni-chan…. Yes, I could live with that. Alright kid, time to throw off the blankets."

" ?!? um tsunade… I'm not wearing much at the moment."

"I know Naruto, I had to cut off your shirt to get at the wound in your stomach, I want to see how it's healing."

Hinata had quitely retreated when it looked like Tsunade was going to blow up at Naruto-kun. Had anyone been paying attention, they would have noticed that her face was slowly heating up again.

"Whatever you say Tsunade-ni-chan."

With that Naruto sat up in bed, the blankets fell to his waist, exposing a suprisingly muscled and athletic frame. Naruto may have been young, but he had lived a hard life, no-one would admit it out loud, but as the three girls stared at him the same thought occurred to them all.

DAMN! He's got the body of a greek God!

Tsunade recovered first, it wasn't the first time she had seen it. She had operated on him after all. It was just that he WAS quite well toned. After a few moments of checking to be certain that the bandages were still all clean tsunade continued.

"Alright, would you please attempt some range of motion exercises for me Naruto?"

Naruto raised his arms above his head, and swung them in a slow circle. Then he stopped.

"Tsunade-ba…errrrr ni-chan"

"Yes Naruto?"

"um, is it safe for me to stand up?"

"why do you ask?"

"well, you see, I've been laying down for about what? Two weeks now? I'd like to streach a bit"

"well, alright, but take it easy."

Naruto hesitated however.

"whats the problem naruto?"

Naruto had felt Shizune's gaze by now, like I said he wasn't as stupid as he acted. He probably would have felt Hinata's as well, but when he started streaching, she had dropped her eyes to attend to a minor nosebleed that had somehow sprung up.

"um… shizune, would you be terribly offended if I asked you to leave the room?"

Shizune suddenly realized she had been staring like some lovesick schoolgirl. Tsunade had a vaguly amused look on her face.

"errm no problem Naruto-kun…. um I'll just wait outside the door." With those words and a last quick glance, Shizune slipped outide the room.

With that Naruto jumped down off the bed and streached his arms straight above his head. A short time later He heard a sigh and the sound of something hitting the floor behind him.

For Hyuuga Hinata it had been a rough day. Not the bad kind of rough, but just taxing. First she had woken up to find Naruto staring at her, then he called someone an angel just before telling her that he thought she was cute. Thankfully Tsunade had interupted before she fainted. Unfortunatly Naruto provoked her, so Hinata had been forced to move away in case the situation became dangerous. Then Naruto defused the problem. Shortly thereafter Tsunade had begun checking Naruto's wounds only to reveal that Naruto looked like silk covered steel. She had only been able to see him from the waist up, and that was probably the only thing that had saved her from another overload. She had quickly closed her eyes and attempted to deal with the nosebleed that had developed. Thankfully everybody had left now. Hinata was pretty sure anyway. She had vaugly heard voices and then heard a door close. With a small sigh Hinata opened her eyes… The only thought that she managed before the comforting darkness enveloped her was… Boxers! Black Boxers!

Hehehehe another chapter done. I hope you all like it. I know that it's a bit short, even for me, but tomarrow's should be longer... I think. Today has been very tiring for some reason.

OK! On to the responses.

Hisoka316: don't you think that Shizune has traveled with Tsunade enough to drop the –sama suffix? I guess that was my view.

Dragon Man 180: If Naruto wasn't in an ICU she probably would. Come to think of it Tsunade probably would to. You've got to remember that Kyuubi isn't healing him anymore.

Khooletz: they're supposed to, and Thank you.

TimeShifter: Thanks for the corrections. Also I have found a saying to be true, it goes
"There have been meetings of only a moment that left impressions that lasted a lifetime"
As far as I can tell it's entirly true… keep that in mind ;-)

To everyone else who responded: Thank you very much.

Keep up the reviews.

Manatheron