A/N- Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I was focusing a little more on my other stories. Well here is the sixth chapter. Enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own naruto.

Chapter 6: Of jutsu's and dates.

Hinata woke up early the next morning. She could barely get any sleep last night because she was so excited. She was going out on a date with Naruto-kun today! And better yet, she found out they were destined to be together. In fact pretty much everyone knew they would hook up sooner or later. She was just happy it was sooner instead of later. After Neji's little talk with Naruto, which she made mental note to find out about later, word had spread like wild fire. Sakura, Ino and TenTen were coming over to help her with her wardrobe. Sakura and Ino were coming over because of their great fashion sense, and TenTen was coming over to make sure that Ino and Sakura didn't make her wear anything to revealing. Makeup was another prospect. She had always worn little to no makeup; maybe makeup would be a good thing. Hinata was relieved that she didn't have to plan it all by herself.She pulled back her covers and got out of bed, already missing the warmth of the sheets. Hugging herself she went about to do her normal morning activities.

At team Gai's training grounds Neji and TenTen were having a fierce battle. After a series of hand seals, TenTen leapt into the air and yelled "Double dragon scroll!" Two dragons made out of smoke rose from the scrolls, encircling TenTen. TenTen began to unleash a flurry of weapons on Neji at backbreaking speed. With TenTens perfect aim, the weapons became even more deadly. Neji could see that the tips of some of the kunai were laced with poison. As the weapons got closer, Neji began to expel chakra from his body. "Kaiten!" Neji yelled as he began to spin. The weapons bounced back and flew towards TenTen.

"I'm not done yet!" TenTen yelled. She leapt into the air doing a series of acrobatic twist and turns before coming to a stop. The weapons began to lift themselves from the floor and head straight towards Neji. 'Good thing he forgot about my chakra strings' thought Tenten. She thought Neji was going to use kaiten, but he did something a little different. Neji jump started from the ground into the air and pushed off a wall made out of chakra. He was heading towards her headfirst. In mid-air he began to twirl and expel chakra at a near unreachable speed. It looked like a human sized bullet heading towards her. TenTen had no choice but to back flip out of the way which temporarily rendered her weapons useless. TenTen landed on the floor roughly, but by the time she was ready to get up again, Neji was already behind her. Two fingers were positioned by her neck, ready to close her chakra hole.

"Alright Neji I give." TenTen said tiredly, slumping down to the ground. "Whew!" she said feeling the cold ground beneath her. "Where the hell did you learn that technique?"

Neji smirked "It's called the chakra bullet. The user creates a thin wall of chakra in the air and then bounces off of it. You can imagine how much chakra control is needed for this technique. As you twirl you expel chakra. Although this move has a lot of flaws, it is very powerful. You shouldn't use it if you don't have the Byakugan though."

"Oh and why's that" TenTen scrunched up her face. She was sure that this was another technique that Neji was trying to weasel out of teaching her.

"Without the Byakugan you could not precisely place the right amount of chakra into each body part. If you screwed up you could end up overwhelming one of your lungs with chakra causing it to explode. Also if you were sparring and decided to use this move, you could use too much chakra and accidentally kill the person."

TenTen was shocked. This was the most Neji had spoken all year. Furthermore she no longer wanted to learn that technique. It would probably put to much stress on her body. She had never concentrated so much chakra into one part of her body before and the guilt of killing one of her friends would eat her alive. Ever since their meeting with Hitome their normal eight hour training program was now fifteen hours. Although she had to say the new training regiment was really improving her reflexes and speed.

"TenTen breaks over." Neji's monotonous voice echoed over the training field.

"Neji we just sat down couldn't we stop for five more minutes?"

"TenTen, in order to defeat Orochimaru we must be at our prime."

"But Neji!" TenTen whined

Neji said nothing as he assumed his jyuuken stance. "If you do not come to me then I will come to you." Neji said Byakugan flaring.

TenTen smirked and took out her scrolls, brown eyes glistening. "Fine. I always did like a man who took charge." TenTen said hurling various weapons at him. Through the weapons TenTen failed to see the light blush that had worked its way onto Neji's cheeks.

Meanwhile at a training field not far away, a lazy shinobi was trying to drown out the voice of a certain blond.

"SHIKAMARU!" Ino yelled "ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME?"

"Troublesome." Shikamaru drawled, eyes pointed to the sky.

"DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME TROUBLESOME!" Ino screamed "I WILL NOT HAVE SOME LAZY ASS EXCUSE FOR A HUSBAND SITTING AROUND ALL DAY WATCHING CLOUDS!"

Shikamaru sighed. "Kuso, all I wanted was two get married to a plain girl and have two plain children, one boy and one girl. Instead I'm a genius who is about to get married to a loud mouthed girl who doesn't give me any space."

Kiba happened to be walking by as Shikamaru finished talking. He snickered and whispered to Ackamaru "Lovers spat". Unfortunately he didn't say it low enough as both Ino and Shikamaru heard him. They promptly turned a deep shade of red and turned away from each other.

It was around six o clock when Hinata finally stopped training. She wanted to be as prepared as she could for her upcoming battle, but she also didn't want to miss her date with Naruto-kun. TenTen, Ino and Sakura were already waiting for her when she got home.

"TenTen-nee, you made it." Hinata said running up to TenTen.

"Yeah." TenTen said rubbing the sweat off her brow "Do you know how hard it was to get Neji to let me off our fifteen hour schedule? This means that tomorrow, training will probably last an extra two hours." TenTen said with a grimace.

"I'm sorry TenTen-nee" Hinata said not looking TenTen in the eye. "If I had known, I would have never asked you to come."

"Don't be" TenTen said reassuringly "Just make sure that you have a good time on your date with Naruto. That's compensation enough."

Hinata smiled "Hia"

"What are we waiting for" Ino said smirking "Mission make Hinata hot is a go!" She marched into the house. Everyone followed in after her. Everyone that is, but Hinata. She stood there contemplating whether she should just give up on the whole dating thing. She would have likely stood out there all day if Sakura and TenTen hadn't come back out and dragged her inside.

Naruto had just returned home and was smoothing out the wrinkles of his black informal kimono. If it was up to him he would have worn his regular orange jumpsuit, but Ino had insisted that he wear a kimono. Okay, so she kind of threatened him. Ino could be really scary when she wanted to be. The only exception she had made was letting him wear his black shinobi sandals. He glanced at the clock before pulling on his kimono and brushing his hair.

Ino, TenTen and Sakura waited outside for Naruto, while Hinata put on the finishing touches to her ensemble. When he finally arrived they couldn't help the small blush that crept up onto their faces. His black Kimono was very form fitting and it showed off the muscles he had gained from years of training. His usually unruly hair was tamed and shiny. Sakura looked him over one more time before turning her attention to the ground. He looked, dare she say it, hot. Amazing what a brush and a new outfit could do. If Sakura wasn't so in love with Sasuke, she might have actually flirted with Naruto.

"So is Hinata-chan ready?" Naruto said grinning. A bouquet of red roses was held loosely in his hand. Shikamaru had told him that girls liked that sort of thing, so when he passed the Yamanaka flower shop he thought it would be a good idea.

"I'm right here" Hinata said stepping from behind Ino and Sakura. His jaw dropped when he saw her. She was wearing a strapless white tank top with a white skirt that ended two inches above her knees. Her long hair was curled and held back by a light blue flower. She had on regular shinobi sandals only they were white. She didn't wear much makeup settling for some lip gloss and mascara. Naruto nervously walked up to her suddenly feeling like he should have brought her a more expensive gift.

"These are for you." Naruto said handing her the bouquet of roses. A nervous grin was imprinted on his face.

"Arigato." Hinata said quietly, a light blush staining her cheeks.

"I'll put those in some water" TenTen said taking the bouquet of roses from Hinata. She was happy to give Hinata some alone time and maybe she wanted to bother a certain Hyuuga.

"You two better get going" Ino said with a mischievous glint in her eye. "Don't do anything I wouldn't do."

"In that case the world is your oyster." Sakura mumbled

"Are you trying to imply something forehead-girl!" Ino yelled, glaring at Sakura.

"What do you think I'm trying to imply, Ino-pig?" Sakura said returning the same heated glare. In no time there was fire burning in there eyes. The two continued to throw insults at each other while Naruto and Hinata sweatdropped in the background. 'And they are supposed to be best friends?' Naruto thought.

Suddenly Ino stopped yelling at Sakura and turned to Naruto. "And you!" Ino said pointing a finger at Naruto "What are you still doing HERE! You two should have left by now!

"Yeah, Naruto" Sakura said agreeing with her friend "Some boyfriend you'll turn out to be!

"Come on, Hinata-chan" Naruto said grabbing her hand, totally unaware of the growing blush on her face. "Let's get out of here, before they start yelling at me again."

Once they were a safe distance from Ino and Sakura, Naruto let out a sigh. "You know if Sakura-chan wasn't so obsessed with Sasuke-teme, I would think she had a thing for Ino. Hinata suppressed a shiver, Ino and Sakura together…she shook her head. The thought was inconceivable.

"So Hinata-chan, where do you want to eat? I was thinking about Ichiraku Ramen but I understand if you want to eat somewhere else…"

Hinata shook her head, unconsciously grabbing Naruto's arm. "No Naruto-kun, Ichiraku Ramen is fine."

Naruto blushed slightly before relaxing into Hinata's hold. He wondered if married life would be like this, because if it was he definitely wanted to be married.

Neji sat in his room, having kicked TenTen out of it. For some reason that girl loved bothering him. Out of habit or amusement he didn't know. One thing he did know was that Naruto had better be taking care of his cousin, because if he didn't there would be one less blond kid in the world. Neji growled, seemingly glaring into nothingness. Naruto and his cousin had better get home soon.

Naruto shivered even though it was fairly warm inside the ramen shop. He felt like someone's eyes were glaring holes into the back of his skull. For a moment milky white eyes had flashed into his heads. He hastily looked from left to right. Neji's eyes couldn't look this far could they? He probably couldn't, but the young ninja had no doubt that he had tried. He and Hinata were having a really good time. He was surprised at how easy it was to talk to her. He was also surprised that it wasn't just a one sided conversation. He found that Hinata was a very interesting person once you really got to know her.

After finishing their ramen, they decided to walk around a bit, since both of them weren't ready to go home yet. Hand in hand they wondered around konoha until they stumbled upon the old tire swing in front of the academy. There was a little boy swinging on it, tears streaming down his face. Memories of times gone by flashed before Naruto's eyes. He walked over to the little boy and began to push him. The boy looked up surprised. Naruto looked at him with sad eyes; he had once sat on that very swing and contemplated the reason for his existence. He smiled a little when he heard soft giggles coming from the kid. It started out as a soft giggle then quickly escalated into full blown laughter as Naruto pushed him higher. Naruto was glad that he had made the little boy happy. He knew what it felt like to be lonely and he didn't want anyone else to feel that way.

Hinata stood off to the side watching Naruto push the little boy on the swing. She smiled when the little boy yelled out "higher mister! Higher!" This was one of the things she loved about Naruto. He was so kind to everyone and many times she wondered if his heart would become too big for his body. He was also everything she was aspiring to be, determined and confident though brash at times. She hoped that one day she would accomplish her dream just as she knew that one day he would accomplish his.

She snapped out of her thoughts when the sound of creaking metal stopped. She saw Naruto walking up to her, grinning and scratching the back of his head.

"Sorry Hinata-chan. I kind of zoned out for a second when I saw someone on the old tire swing. Hope you don't mind." He said nervously.

Hinata smiled "Not at all Naruto-kun"

"Hey! I know a way to make it up to you! You'll love it!"

Before she could protest his hand was already on hers, leading them to some unknown location. They soon found themselves walking through the forest. "Come on Hinata-chan! It's this way!" Hinata dutifully followed Naruto up the small hill. Although she was calm on the inside, she was jumping for joy on the inside. She was really happy that Naruto wanted to spend more time with her. Hinata walked through the last of the bush and realized that she was standing on a cliff. To her right were the faces of the four great Hokages, Tsunade not having time to add her own face on. Hinata turned her gaze upwards and was left speechless by the majestic scene before her. The sky was littered with hundreds of stars, each glittering brightly.

"Do you like it Hinata-chan?"

"It's beautiful, Naruto-kun."

"As a kid I use to come up here all the time. It was my secrets place that no one, not even the villagers knew about."

"Naruto-kun does that mean I am the first person you have ever taken up here?"

Naruto nodded entranced by the sky. Hinata could have swooned. These last few days had been the happiest days of her entire life. If she wasn't in heaven she was damn near close to it.

Naruto looked at the time, it was nearing eleven o'clock. He had promised Neji that he would get her home before twelve. Though Hinata told him that she didn't need him to walk her home, he insisted. It was just too late at night for a young girl to be off alone. On the way back, Naruto could sense something was a miss. They were being followed. From the way Hinata clenched her fingers he could tell that she had noticed it too. She quietly activated her Byakugan.

"Naruto-kun" she whispered "We're surrounded."

"How many?" he asked pulling out his kunai.

"Four to your left, and nine to your right."

Naruto grinned. "We can handle these losers no problem. Ready?" he asked, already twisting his fingers into a set of familiar hand seals.

"Ready." She said, confidence shining in her eyes. Hinata felt a new source of power build up inside of her. She couldn't lose in front of Naruto; she wouldn't lose in front of Naruto. Naruto twisted around and yelled "Kage Bushin no jutsu!" Next to Naruto appeared five clones. Hinata ripped off her skirt revealing white shorts, a kunai pouch attached to her thigh.

Realizing their cover had been blown, the enemy nins jumped out of the trees surrounding Naruto and Hinata. The clones quickly ran to the nearest ninja and engaged a taijitsu fight with them. One clone stayed back and helped Naruto form the Resagen. Hinata, slightly annoyed that the ninja's had been ignoring her, pulled out the flower that was holding her hair back. Attached to the flower was a poison senbon which she quickly thrusted into an enemy Nin's neck. His eyes rolled back into his head before he slumped to the ground. The only thing that showed their surprise was the widening of their eyes. Still they were only surprised for a second because in no time two ninja's were attacking her. Slipping into her families proclaimed fighting style; she began delivering chakra filled palms to the enemy Nin's hearts. At first they had laughed at her when she slapped her palm onto one of their comrade's chest, but the laughter quickly stopped when their teammate began to cough up disturbing amounts of blood and clutch his stomach in pain. Hinata found it odd that they were so ill advised to her style of fighting. Usually when someone ambushes a target, they know their targets fighting style and bloodline limits.

After Naruto had finished off the last of the enemy ninjas, they began digging through the enemy ninja's pockets to see if they could find out why they were ambushed. After looking through pocket after pocket they finally found a clue. Naruto pulled out the piece of paper and scrunched his eyebrows in confusion. He read it aloud so Hinata could here.

"WE ARE COMING."

"What's do you think it means, Naruto-kun?"

"I don't know. Something's just not right here. Hinata, when you send a group of ninja's to take down a powerful target don't you usually send strong ninja's? Also they didn't even attempt to hide their chakra signatures from us."

"Yes, I found that odd to. These ninja's were at chunin level at most and they knew nothing of our fighting styles or my bloodline limit."

"Yeah, I don't think they were here to capture us at all, much less kill us. The problem is we still don't know what there intentions were." He said thoughtfully, his eyes serious. All those games of GO with Shikamaru were really improving his thinking speed.

"Come on Hinata-chan, we have to go tell Tsunade-baachan about this. After that I'll take you home."

Hinata nodded. She still felt uneasy about the whole situation. She had to thank TenTen though for convincing her to wear all those weapons and a pair of shorts. With the war coming and Orochimaru coming after them TenTen thought it was better to be prepared. Ino and Sakura gave in when TenTen told them that she knew how to hide weapons in places no one would see. Naruto and she took to the trees, jumping from branch to branch. The windflew through her black tresses, making them fly around her face.She just hoped Neji and her father weren't too worried about her.

A gray haired man walked through the blood stained hallways of the underground mansion, the screams of prisoner's echoing down the dark corridors. He stopped at a large brown door, and after a series of one handed seals he entered through it.

"Kabuto" A snake like voice slithered out "Have you sent the message?"

Kabuto took off the mask and knelt on one knee. "Hai, Orochimaru-sama. It went just as we planed. Naruto-kun was very surprised by the ninja's we sent to ambush him."

"Ku, Ku, Ku" he laughed, his longtonguelicking blood off a kunai "Soon Kyuubi-brat, soon you will meet your end."

"Yes" A man said stepping out of the shadows "We will get him and the hyuuga girl. If hitome-chan thought she could evade me by going to the past then she was thoroughly mistaken."

Outside the trees began to shake and the sky began to blacken as if dreading the upcoming fight between good and evil. The second great shinobi war would be upon Konoha soon.

A/N- Sorry for the late update, promise the next chapter will come sooner. Hope you liked this chapter. I gave a little info on how Orochimaru is doing. I'm going to include some Sasuke/Sakura in the next chapter for all you Sasuke/ Sakura fanatics. Sorry I couldn't tell you who the man in the shadows was, though some of you probably figured it out. It would just ruin my whole plot if I did that. Don't kill me! (Hides behind a wall, looking out for reviewers with juicy tomatoes) Until next time.