Chapter 17

February 15th

Guess who didn't re-read chapter 15 before writing chapter 16 and completely forgot about the convo Naruto and Hinata were supposed to have. So a flashback will be marked.

Hinata sat hesitantly on the foot of her bed, twisting the sheets between her fingers. She had barely made it back to her room when she heard the telltale signs of her fathers footsteps down the hall, followed by a surprisingly soft knock at her door. Hinata stood, hands smoothing her shirt, her stomach uneasy. It couldn't be a good thing that he was back so soon.

"Hinata" her father spoke first, his eyes showing the kindness he had learned in the past years

"Father" she hesitated, stepping aside, pulling the chair from her desk for him to sit.

"You've disappointed me" he starts "I thought I had raised a smart, strong and for lack of a better word obedient daughter. I won't lie Hinata to you and I have" he pauses "struggled in our relationship but I thought more of you than to break my rules the second I'm not here to enforce them."

Hinata forces herself to look up, her matching eyes met his, swallowing trying, and failing, to keep her tears at bay.

"Now I won't say I don't remember, what it's like to be young and to finally have a moment of peace with our fellow nations. To want to cling to happiness. I'd be stupid not to notice the happiness that boys exudes to those around him, to not notice the change in my own daughters attitude in the past two months. You've become more confident, more spoken in council meetings, more dedicated to helping your sister and staying on top of your individual training." A smile plays on Hiashi's lips, as she brushes away a stray tear.

"Now while I am disappointed, I do understand. I understand your draw to him and your need to be around him." Pausing, reaching to briefly brush away the tears from his daughter's cheek. "Naruto and I had a talk, well I mostly talked, but we've reached an understanding. With that being said, all I ask of you is that you spend every night in this bed, no matter what time you make your way back into it, until your last name deems you no longer live in this home."

"Oh" Hinata breathed, releasing a breath she had not been aware she had been holding "what did you two discuses?"

"Hhhmm, I think I'll keep that between myself and Naruto." Hiashi stands, leaning to place a brief kiss on Hinata's forehead.

"Goodnight father"

Hinata notices a soft glow coming from the devices she normally forgets, outside of missions, on her desk. A new creation by a scientist, Katasuke Tono, to better help shinobi stay in contact with each other and get information faster. The messaging feature originally only used during missions before people started to realize how convenient it was for everyday life. Picking it up, Naruto's name blinks up at her.

'Shikamaru showed up about five minutes after your dad left, he thought you were here. They want us both in the Hokage's office tomorrow morning. Love you.'

Hinata smiles, sending back a quick message of her own, before falling into bed pulling the blanket around her shoulders. Thoughts racing through her head at what her father and Naruto could have possibly discussed, her mind going hazy thinking back to the conversation she and Naruto had had before bed that evening. Before he had woken her up by placing kisses down her neck.

Flashback - February 14th

"So the trees" Hinata giggles, tracking her fingers across Naruto's arm as she joins him on the couch.

"Yeah those damn trees" Naruto chuckles, his eyes meeting her, before they rake over her body. Hinata sat before him, clothed only in a pair of crimson colored underwear and one of his shirts. The gray material was hanging off her shoulder, pooling her her lap. She had showered after helping him move and rearrange his new furniture, surprising him when she had come downstairs in the outfit. She had simply shrugged and began shifting through the cabinets for their dinner.

Naruto moves his hand from hers, trailing up her thigh.

"Naruto!" Hinata says, a kindness in her voice as his fingers make contact with the edge of her underwear. "You" she shakes her head "are the absolute worst."

"I know you say that, but I kinda think you mean the opposite." Naruto says, smirking.

"Have the adult conversation you're so artfully avoiding with me and I might. You were the one that wanted to know what I meant by 'oh' earlier anyways" Hinata states as Naruto laughs at her bluntness.

"Fine, fine."

"I just wasn't expecting it. Not from you, well from a guy actually. I've had time, well years actually to think about what I would want if we ever had a relationship. I knew I wanted marriage. But to hear you say you want that, that you've thought about it, just kinda threw me through a loop."

"What do you mean? I know it's only been two months but you know me. You know how fast I make decisions. Was it a question about how I feel about you?" His eyebrows raise.

"No, no, of course not. I know you love me. It was more of an oh, won't people think we're crazy? I had so many questions of what people might think if we got married before even being together for a year."

"Like?" Naruto prompts

"Mostly if I'm, you know." Hinata's hands flutter across her stomach.

"Oh, yeah I mean probably." His voice softer than she's used to

"And I just, I just don't want people to think that. I don't want people to think we only got married because we had to."

"Well just give them a couple months after and they'll realize that they were wrong." He chuckles, the sound coming out nervous.

"What's wrong?" Hinata questions, her hand reaching towards his.

"Kids, ya know, well all of this. We are kinda crazy I guess but I love you and wouldn't want anything else. I want this. I want you here in my t-shirts, cooking dinners with you. Coming home to you after missions, you coming home to me. And I know that sounds like I just want a roommate but I don't want it to be anyone but you."

"You were right." She grins, pulling up onto her knees.

"About?"

"Me thinking the opposite about you." Leaning forward Hinata's lips meet his.

Naruto's arms wrap around her waist, his hands reaching behind planting each firmly on her ass. Her tongue tracing against his bottom lip, hands going to the back of his head pulling slightly at his hair. Naruto groans as she pulls away, lips glancing over his chin and down to the soft spot behind his ear.

"Now, love, are we done talking?" Hinata glances up at his words, eyes bright, a slight sheen of spit across her lips.

"What do you think?" She mummers, before reconnecting her lips with his tongue running against hers. "Aaaah" Hinata falters as Naruto suddenly stands, turning before placing her down onto the couch, kneeling in front of her.

"Ya know, this," he toys with the hem of his shirt, "has been driving me crazy. Watching it ride up just enough to show off these thighs."

"Naruto" Hinata whines as his lips make contact there, her voice hitching as his teeth gently nip at the exposed skin.

"You have absolutely no idea what you do to me Hina" words muttered against her "so fucking beautiful" Narutos fingers digging into the flesh of her thighs.

"Naruto" Hinata speaks again, his eyes rising to meet hers, head turned slightly to the side. Her knuckles brushing his cheek. "Love you."

"Me too" Naruto's voice once again muffled as he buries his face between her thighs. Hands gripping, pulling her across the couch cushion until her ass sat on the edge.

"Oooohh" the groan slipping from Hinata as Naruto tongue laps over her cloth covered lips.

"You smell so damn good." Naruto says with a fierceness in his voice, his fingers meeting the fabric at her hips, pinching it between his thumb and forefinger. The sound of it ripping fills the room.

"Naruto!" Hinata sits up suddenly at the sound "I could have just taken those off." Her face matching the color of the panties Naruto has tossed onto the floor

"Just lay back and enjoy this as much as I am" He says before licking a long strip, ending by wrapping his lips around her clit.

Fingers of one hand digging back into her legs, pulling them wider, while the other traveled up. One long finger tracing around her entrance, while his tongue did horribly wonderfully things to her above.

"Oh, gods, Naruto" Hinata's voice trails off at the feeling of his finger entering her. His mouth leaving her for a moment, glancing up, their eyes meet, Hinata's cheeks going red at the slight wetness on Narutos.

"You this wet just for me?" He asks with the same fierce tone as before

"Yes, gods, yes" Her head falling back against the couch as a second finger enters her, lips finding their way back around her clit.

Naruto moving fingers in and out, stopping to adjust the angle, curling his fingers up slightly.

"Oh fuck!" Hinata's breathless moans coming from above "please, that again."

Grinning against the bundle of nerves Naruto curls his fingers again and again against the soft spot he's found inside of her. Hinata a mess above him, her pussy becoming more wet by the second as her legs start to shake.

"Don't" her voice barely audible "Naruto, don't stop, right, oh god yes" her words gibberish.

"Fuck Hinata" Naruto's voice soft to her, with the soft buzzing between her ears.

"That was, gods, where did you read that one?" Hinata giggles, pulling on her boyfriend's hand dragging his body up to join her.

"Nowhere really, just did what made you the loudest."

"Mmmhhm, really the best, give me just a moment and I'll see how loud you can be." She looks up, eyes mischievous.

"Oh, well, um I'm kinda good, ya know." Naruto looks away from her

"What?"

"I couldn't really help it, your leg was rubbing at me there, ya know, and gods Hinata I'll have to figure out what I did again cause your pussy was just sucking my fingers in and all I could think of was what if it wasn't my fingers."

"Well I suppose we both need another shower, care to join me?"

End Flashback

February 16th

"Morning Hina." Naruto greets her, slinging an arm around her shoulder, pressing a kiss into her hair.

"Morning" She replies, walking in time with him up the steps

"We're in a bit of a hurry this morning if you two could save that for later." Shikamaru jogs past the couple and out of sight up the stairs.

"Fuck" Naruto mumbles almost under his breath "this can't be good."

"What?" Hinata questions, keeping pace with him up the stairs

"Kakashi-sensei mentioned something during the last meeting I was at about there being some small outlying villages causing some trouble, not wanting to sign treaties, ya know. Potential for them to get violent." Naruto finishes, pushing the door to the Hokages office open.

The other members of Hinata's team already standing around a table with Sakura and Sai.

"Perfect, we'll get started." Kakashi stands "we have two groups of lets call them reluctant citizens that need a light persuasion to speak about the treaties."

Kakashi steps from around his desk, motioning to the map tacked to the wall.

"Both missions are very similar. Locate the citizens and take them to there respective nation capitals"

"And why can't they just take care of this themselves?" Naruto asks, sounding annoyed.

"For once your question is valid." A smile could be seen even through the mask "both of these are from small, but resource rich nations. Team Seven you'll be going to assist the Land of Iron, as you know they don't have a large shinobi force. And Team Eight you'll be assisting on Genbu Island, it's right outside of the Land of Lightning. They're having trouble with a rebel force that has actually been intact since the third war. They were hit very hard in the fourth war and still haven't made it back to where they need to be shinobi wise."

"No." Naruto starts, realization comes across his face. "She can't, not that group."

"Naruto please." Kakashi starts

"What do you mean?" Hinata asks, realizing that he must be talking about her

"Naruto that hasn't been confirmed." Kakashi once against starts

"I don't fucking care. You said that group wanted anything they could get their hands on to overthrow the Cloud and they've already tried to kidnap her before."

"Can you please not talk about me like I'm not here?" Hinata asks

"What, oh sorry," Naruto glances at her

"Naruto I know." Hinata steps to his side "Ko was at that meeting too, they had guessed I would be sent on this with the need for stealth so I've been warned."

"I don't give a damn if they need stealth. Switch the teams, send us there and send Hinata to the Iron."

"Naruto, I fully believe that Hinata is not only capable of protecting herself but she'll have her teammates."

"No." The red flashing through Naruto's eyes. "She is not being sent to somewhere that has actively said they will kill for the Byakugan."

"I'm sorry, but you don't get to make that choice." Kakashi states, his voice absolute. "We've discussed the matter with Hinata's clan leader and he is okay with this mission so that is the end of this discussion Naruto."

"Hinata, you need to refuse this mission." He fully turns to her, forgetting the others in the room.

"Do you not think I am capable of this? Of protecting myself and my teammates?" Her voice harsh

"No, Hina, of course not. I just, I just can't send you somewhere that wants you dead."

"Do you note realize that every person that's left rebelling against the new treaties wants you dead?" Hinata's voice is growing louder. "Do you not know what I go through every time you're late coming home or you don't respond to messages on a mission? Do you really think I don't feel the same?" The couple fully ignoring those around them.

"Hinata it's different, I'm different." Naruto starts

"No! Don't start that with me. Everyone in this room know's you can die. Everyone has seen that very thing happen." Hinata visibly becomes aware of the six people watching them. "Can we talk about this later." She mumbles, mostly to the floor.

"I'm sorry, but that can't happen. I need each team to leave now." Kakashi states, a slight tone of sadness betraying in his strong voice.

"Fine." Naruot turns, grabbing Hinata's hand to his, trusting that Sakura has their mission scroll and making his way towards the village gate.

"I know she doesn't need this but, please take care of her." Naruto says to Kiba and Shino.

"Don't worry, we got her." Kiba grins, patting Akamaru on the back as Naruto turns.

"I love you." Naruto states simply, not bothering to lower his voice. "Please be careful, and I'll see you in two weeks okay."

"I love you too, and only if you promise to do the same."

"Always." Naruto gives a slight laugh, pulling Hinata to him and briefly pressing his lips to hers before waving at her teammates and disappearing from sight with his team.