Chapter 5...finally....I haven't got time to type it out lately....someone thought the person who paid for it was a cute guy trying to take Naruto away but....its not. I should have done that....hmm...oh and I think Kiba was in Hinata's team...if I'm wrong then I'm sorry cause I forgot...heh. Oh and I wrote about the soft side of Naruto in this chapter =D

Team 7 was, like always, waiting for Kakashi. Sakura was getting mad at him for always being late. When he finally appeared, he had the usually smile on his face.

"There's no mission today...except Naruto has to do something." Kakashi said thought nothing was wrong.

"Why me?" Naruto protested.

"Yeah! Why him? He's not important." Sakura said rather cruelly.

"It's nothing special. Naruto, go to Hinata's house. Something's wrong and it has something to do with you."

Everyone looked at Naruto confused. With a confused look on Naruto's face too, he went off to her house to find out for himself what was wrong. When he arrived, he saw Hinata's house for the first time. It was big compared to Sasuke's house. Te walls looked like new and it seemed like a good place to be.

Naruto knocked but there was no response. He turned the doorknob revealing that it wasn't locked. He stepped inside and saw her whole team there and sitting on the couch was no other than Hinata. Everyone looked up when Naruto walked in. The looked at him with a weird look as if he had done something wrong.

"Hinata told us you and Sasuke were holding hands the other day. If you did, could you of had don't it some other time?! You shattered her heart, not to mention her life with just that little moment you could have prevented. She took her own money and paid for your apartment and you go and do this to her?" Kiba was really mad now and it was his words that made Naruto feel guilty.

"Tell me Naruto," Hinata finally spoke. She was so quiet you could barely hear her voice. "Tell me...are you... are you really in love with Sasuke? I just want to know the truth."

"Look, I thought Sasuke paid for it which got us connected but I soon found out that I love him, more than anything in the world. I thank you for paying but that doesn't change true love and that's what I have for Sasuke. I'm sorry..." Naruto felt really bad for Hinata and didn't want to say anymore so he just walked out.

"I'm sorry Hinata...that's the way it has to be." Naruto said to himself as he walked through the door.

"They know huh?" Sasuke said after Naruto told him all about what happened.

"Yeah. It had to come out sometime anyways." Naruto responded. "Now I know who paid for my apartment...too bad it couldn't change anything." Naruto sighed and continued walking down the road. They walked passed a poster that had the headline 'The Great Hokage Tournament' and below it wrote 'Do you have what it takes to be Hokage?'

"I wonder if we can join."

Sasuke, knowing how badly Naruto wanted to be Hokage, decided to go check it out for Naruto's benefit. The registered each other and Naruto went all excited.

"I'm going to kick ass."

"If you can get passed me" Sasuke smiled.

"Want to go train?" Naruto wanted to get started right away so he dragged Sasuke to Kakashi's place. When he opened the door his hair was pretty messed up and his pants were out of place. Naruto and Sasuke was confused about this but decided not to notice.

"Can you train us for the tournament?" Naruto was anxious.

"Since when did you two hang out? Anyways...I'm busy so maybe next time.

Naruto and Sasuke thought it was just some teacher's stuff so they went off to train on their own.

The tournament soon came and all the teams were there. Naruto saw Hinata but she didn't even glance at him. Naruto looked around and saw Garaa competing as well. Naruto was wondering why he was here because it couldn't be for the title since he's not from the leaf village. He might have threatened his way in here for all Naruto knew. Naruto kept an eye on Garaa since he destroyed the leaf village the last time he was here. The Hokage arrived and announced the reason that there was this tournament. She explained that she was going somewhere for a month and needed someone strong enough to take care of the village. Some people looked scared of these words since they didn't know if the person who won could be trusted. Then the match was started. They picked random people for each match and Naruto looked scared to be the once to face against Garaa. Since he had no choice he went down to begin the match. The matched then started and Naruto jumped back in case Garaa tried something. Garaa then sent his sand after Garaa and Naruto jumped back, a thousand eyes following him. "Damn. He wants to finish me off fast" Naruto said under his breath. He did the Shadow Replication but it was only to be swallowed by the sand. While Naruto was busy trying to get away, Garaa sped forward and right when Naruto looked, he had his face on the ground but Garaa's punch. The crowd stared, seeing what was going to happen next. Since Naruto wasn't that fast, it was hard for him to get away from the sand. Then Garaa made his move. He broke out of the stadium and ran out, sending lots of shinobi's in. People were scared and ducked down. Tsunade-sama told all the Leaf shinobi to defend the innocent people. Sasuke jumped down to Naruto.

"Stay here Sasuke. I have to chase him. It's my battle and I have to win." Naruto said to Sasuke.

Sasuke nodded and jumped up to attack a shinobi that was coming straight for them. Naruto ran after Garaa into the deep forest, Garaa was up to something and he needed to find out what it was. Sasuke watched as the blond ran out of the hole Garaa made and wondered if he was going to be alright. Sasuke wasn't sure so, after he kicked the sand shinobi into the wall, he secretly followed his love.