CHAPTER 2

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"So that's all that happened?" Tsunade asked curiously

"Hai" the five shinobi answered in sync.

"Very well, dismissed, this shall be announced to the village in two days, I suggest you five use that time to rest." Tsunade scanned each of their faces all of them had a somewhat look of depression on their face, but Naruto… his face was the saddest. In all her time of knowing him she had never seen him this way.

"Hai, arigatou Hokage-sama." Shikamaru stepped up saying.

The five shinobi then turned and walked out of the office, Tsunade staring at the back of Naruto's head the entire time. The five shinobi gathered at the hospital 30 minutes later. They all needed to be checked out before assuming active shinobi status.

"Are you all ready?" a nurse at the front desk asked

"Hai" Shikamaru said stepping up ahead of the group.

"Very well, all of you shall go to separate rooms. Going from last names to first: Nara, Shikamaru Room 10 ; Akimichi, Chouji Room 9; Inuzuka, Kiba Room 8 ; Hyuuga, Neji Room 8 ; Uzuamaki , Naruto room 7" The nurse said

The group slowly walked down the hallway one of them retreating to he confines of a hospital room, until finally Naruto was alone in the hallway, standing in front of his door. He reached for the doorknob when he winced in pain; his head began to pound, like someone was using his head as drums. Ignoring the throbbing pain he slowly opened the door, the room was almost empty except the bed and widow. He sat down on the bed and put his head into his hands. Almost immediately a doctor walked in and wheeled up a chair infront of Naruto, he opened a brown file in his hands with very little documents in it. Seeing how the Kyuubi was inside of him he barley needed to come here. The doctor quickly scanned down the page and then looked up to Naruto. Putting the portfolio down he looked up to Naruto.

"Feeling sick?" the doctor asked nicely

"just a headache" Naruto replied

"I see, well it shows me here you had suffered blood loss, but you took a blood pill ? correct?" The doctor asked getting down to business as he rolled over to a table and grabbed a small white bottle, he unscrewed the cap and put two small tablets into Naruto's hands.

"yea, I was hit with a large amount of chakra in the chest, it pierced through" Naruto said aimlessly, his eyes focused on the walls of the room. He didn't like doctors.

"alright, these tablets will ease your head ache, please remove your shirt and let me see the wound" the doctor said. Naruto did as he was told removing his black shirt, his ripped chest showed still a small remain of the wound. Kyuubi did a nice job, but their was still a scar.

"This was the wound? I'm guessing your special case was the only reason you survived.. well that's it you are cleared for active duty please…" The doctor was cut off, before he could blink he was pinned against the wall with Naruto's forearm pressing up against his throat choking him.

"SPECIAL CASE? WHY AM I A SPECIAL CASE?" Naruto screamed

The doctor began to cough, when the door to the room burst open Naruto's blood red eyes quickly whipped around to see the group; quickly they rushed in to pull him off the doctor. Before they entered Naruto moved his arm and backed off as the doctor dropped to the ground coughing up blood. He breathed deeply and closed his eyes as he slowly calmed himself down. After a minute or two he opened his eyes to a sky blue. Shikamaru and Neji looked at each other as Naruto grabbed his shirt and walked through the door putting it on. Kiba and Couji got up from helping the doctor as nurses rushed in, they looked over to Neji and Shikamaru.

"We need to report this" Shikamaru said

"Hai" they all said as they quickly ran off towards the hokage's office.

Atop the Hokage monument

Naruto's orange pants and blond hair whipped rapidly around in the wind, the hot sun beat down on his black shirt as Naruto stared out at Konoha. He sighed loudly and then quickly leaped to his feet looking behind him to see Hinata.

"Hinata-chan? What are you doing here?" Naruto asked curiously

"Konnichiha, Naruto-kun… I…I…I, thought you could need cheering up" Hinata finally spoke almost a full sentence to him without really stuttering. Her blue pants rippled in the wind and her grayish/whitish jacket stayed almost motionless.

"Thanks, come sit down Hinata" Naruto said,

"H...Hai" Hinata said and she began to slowly move forward still fiddling with her fingers.

Naruto noticed Hinata stared at the ground as if it was going to break away and swallow her into the dark abyss. He then noticed her face going red. 'If she didn't stutter so much, she'd be a really cool person, I mean she was very pretty…wait what?' Naruto snapped himself out of his thinking as he then noticed how far away she was sitting. Maybe a foot and a half divided them.

"I'm not going to bite Hinata" Naruto said gesturing the empty ground beside him.

"h..Hai" Hinata said slowly, she began to slowly shuffle her way over , now staring aimlessly down over the monument onto the ground. She didn't notice how close she was until she bumped into him, her face went beat red as she looked at Naruto.

"Sorry" she said

"For what?" Naruto laughed a little then looked at her with a big grin on his face, for some reason Hinata noticed it wasn't as welcoming as it once was before.

"Naruto-kun.. Are you ok?" you seem sad ever since you came back from your mission, and I heard what happened at the Hospital… well actually the whole hospital heard what happened. Do you want to talk?" Hinata was amazed herself, for some reason she seemed more able to talk to him, Naruto did so much for her that he would never know, and seeing his eyes like this made her want to help him. Her fears were nothing when it came to Naruto's well being.

"Hinata have you ever hurt the one you loved? On our mission.. I did something that will make the whole village even madder at me..I…I.. I killed…Uuchia Sasuke." Naruto slowly stumbled, trying to find the words to say. He was scared Hinata was going to begin to hate him now too.

"Na…Nani?" Hinata asked hesitantly, she didn't really care much for Sasuke, he was too full of himself, but Naruto just sounded so broken up.

"I knew you would be mad too" Naruto said slowly getting up to leave. Naruto began to slowly walk towards the stares.

Hinata shocked at what had just happened and what he just said, she quickly ran over and grabbed his hand spinning him around. Now realizing it was a bad idea as she blushed extremely. But she pushed past her fears, as she looked into Naruto's cold blue empty eyes.

"Naruto-kun, I'm not mad at you, You just sound so sad about this.. and I could never be mad at you , just remember you have your friends, you can never give up hope.. You never have before." Both Hinata and Naruto were amazed at what Hinata just said, she had never really said that much to him before.

"..Hinata-chan ..wait ..what did you mean, what did you mean you couldn't be mad at me? Why couldn't you?" Naruto said quickly changing the subject. Naruto stared down into Hinata's blank gray eyes.

"I..I..I….I .. Love You.. Naruto-kun" Hinata slowly stumbled. Naruto's eyes quickly drew some happiness back to him. Someone loved him, but what? He didn't even know it when Hinata drew closer and pressed her soft warm lips against his own. After a moment or two Hinata pulled back and then realized what she had just done. Her eyes grew wider as she stepped back and then quickly ran off down the stairs. Naruto plopped down onto his ass just staring blankly at the ground. He licked his lips tasting Hinata's lips on his own.

"I.. I think I love you too Hinata, I just never saw it before." Naruto quickly realized what he must do before it is announced to the village…Weather or not she hated him for it…she deserved to know…Sakura deserved to know. Quickly Naruto jumped to his feet and ran towards the edge of the mountain holding the Hokage's face's on it; taking a giant leap he flew through the air his clothes rapidly hitting against his flesh. Naruto flipped backwards before he landed gracefully on the roof of a house. He sped across the roof top leaping from this one to another, again he continued this leaping from rooftop to rooftop until he finally landed at his destination. He stopped on the rooftop of Sakura Haruno's house. His face lost all color as he noticed Shikamaru and the others standing there.

"What do you want?" Naruto asked harshly

"Neji and the others think it's a good idea to be here when you tell Sakura, seeing how its our fault as well. The teams at fault when a mission fails…not just one person" Shikamaru spoke sternly.

"…..Thanks" Naruto said after a minute or two

The five shinobi leaped down and landed in front of the door. Naruto knocked gently on the door as it opened Sakura's parents opened the door. The parents had a concerned look on their face when the saw the One chuunin and four gennin standing at the door.

"Is Sakura home?" Naruto asked kindly

"She's upstairs.. Do you want us to get .." the parents were cut off by Shikamaru stepping up.

"We will speak to her as long as you don't mind, we must tell her the results of the mission" the parents understood Shikamaru's sound of depression in his voice. They moved out of the door way and let the Shinobi walk in. They slowly made their way up the stairs and knocked at Sakura's door. Sakura opened the door and saw them, her face instantly pale.

"We need to talk to you" Shikamaru said gently as Sakura quickly backed up and let them enter her room. The group walked in Naruto in last avoiding Sakura's eyes staring at him, his head hung low as he leaned back against the wall. He couldn't believe he broke a promise to her….twice.

"Sakura, sit down" Sakura did as she was told without hesitation. Shikamaru sighed as he looked into Sakura's sad eyes. ' How troublesome' he thought.

"I'm afraid, our mission failed…" Sakura went whiter then a sheet the moment the words left Shikamaru's mouth.

"You mean.. he left.. he left to kill Itachi?" Sakura stumbled.

"No" Neji said blatantly.

"Sakura, he fought us in the forest, he chose to use his power to try and kill us all, the only one who stood up to him or was even able to fight him at that time was … Naruto. And Naruto was…" Shikamaru was cut off as Naruto pushed himself off the wall on which he was leaning on.

"Sakura…I fought him, and…I ..." a large shiver went through Naruto's body as he felt Sakura's gaze on him. He looked into her eyes. " I… killed him" Naruto couldn't believe he even said it as he then swallowed the lump in his throat.

Sakura's jaw dropped as he eyes slowly began to fill with tears. Slowly they ran down her face, Shikamaru continued his previous statement.

"Had Naruto not killed Sasuke he would have butchered us all, Hokage-sama will announce this to the village in two days. Sakura I'm sorry for your loss … we are sorry for your loss." Shikamaru stood straight until the rest of the group turned and began to slowly walk out the door; no one wanted to see Sakura like this. Naruto watched her now in full out tears, her eyes red and puffy as she started to breathe heavily. Naruto waited to be last out the door when on his way out all he heard was.

"I Hate You"