Hello readers and welcome to the next chapter of this story. Now I hope all of you are still sort of enjoying this…or at least a few of you. Course, I am not sure just how many people like it seeing as just a little while ago I got a PM about someone offering to be my beta. Now in itself that is all good even though I really kind of want to try and go over my own chapters slowly to see how much of a 'fix' I can make it (the whole trying to become a better writer thing). The thing is that they asked me because my story was "hard to read"….now personally, while I am well aware of the fact that my writing is far from perfect I still think it is good enough that most people can read and understand it. Apparently though this isn't the case or maybe that is just to make it get to a level where more ocd people can read it. Really I have no clue. So, honestly are my stories really that bad?...meh I will get depressed about it later.

Oh, and if the person that PMed me reads this I would like you to know this isn't to "shun" you in any way. It is me honestly questioning just how bad my writing really is.

Anyways enough of this how about we get this story under way….though just because I haven't said it in a while; I do not own Naruto.

Chapter 41

_Hinata; on her way home_

After waking up and dealing with a giggling Haku she quickly decided that it was time to leave. So, she quickly said goodbye and began to walk home…that was until she remembered that not only was wearing day old clothes but she also hadn't taken a bath after her…activity…made her sweat. Needless to say after this she got self-conscious and quickly jumped to the nearest roof and sped towards her clan compound as fast as humanly possible. She then quickly entered the building and got ready for a long bath while trying to avoid as many people as she could. Till finally she was happily relaxing in their large bath feeling a lot cleaner than she did just a bit before.

"Ah this feels sooo good." Hinata thinks happily as her muscle soreness mostly disappeared thanks to the magic of the warm water. Due to this wonderful feeling Hinata had no desire to leave the bath anytime soon. Though after a while she finally heard the door open up and saw her younger sister walk in. "Hello Hanabi." Hinata called out happily to her sister who seemed surprised.

"Hello Onee-san" Hanabi responded before calmly entering the large bath tub as well (Just picture it as a large oriental bathroom with a bath being maybe half or so of what the hot springs is….or just imagine whatever you want it to be) "So, Onee-san you seem to be in a really good mood right now." She noticed.

"Am I?" Hinata asks confused getting a small nod in return.

"Hai, usually you are shy even around us but right now it would seem like you aren't shy at all. Not to mention that you seem to be practically glowing right now for some reason." Hanabi explained not noticing her sisters face turn bright red as she tried to figure out why she had this 'glow'

"I-I-It's true!?" She thought embarrassed as she remembered how she heard that a girl gained a 'glowing aura' after having sex. Due to being caught with this made her blush nearly enough that her face could give off its own light. "W-well I have no idea w-what could have cause that." She lied while stuttering making Hanabi look at her clearly not believing her.

"So you are sure that you haven't done anything different that made you change so drastically?" she asked.

"N-n-no" Hinata quickly told her nervously as Hanabi stared at her.

"….fine" Hanabi mumbled knowing she wouldn't get any more information out of her sister.

"Anyways how have you been lately?" Hinata asked partially trying to get the conversation away from herself.

"I have been pretty good. Father says that my skills are improving at a very fast rate and I have also found out that one of the people I have been looking into is finally back in the village." She told her calmly.

"Huh you have been looking into someone?"

"Hai, I have been trying to figure out why you changed so suddenly after a certain time…after all you all of a sudden put even more focus in your training instead of shying away after the harsh words of the elders." Hanabi explained.

"You have been paying that much attention to me?" Hinata asked surprised seeing as her sister used to basically ignore her until she began to get recognition from the clan. Even though Hanabi never was mean to her like some of the main branch was she still didn't seem to try and help her nay either.

"…I have always payed attention to you onee-chan." Hanabi told her with a slight blush showing her embarrassment. "I just tried to stay away from you more seeing as the elders always seemed to be even worse to you when I was around. So, I just wanted to help you out." Hanabi explained with the small blush never leaving her face. Course after hearing this Hinata couldn't help but be touched by the fact that her sister actually cared for her. In fact the idea that her sister didn't actually seem to basically hate her made Hinata even happier than she already was.

"Ok this really has been the best two days of my life!" Hinata thought with a mental smile.

"So, now that you know….who has made you change so much?" Hanabi asks her sister who quickly began to blush again.

"W-well you see I have this…friend that has always seemed to be so much stronger than me. So, to be able to stand by his side I wanted to catch up to him and for that I started to train as hard as I possibly could." Hinata explained not wanting her sister to know that she has already been in a 'long' relationship with this man already.

"Huh..so you just met this guy about three years ago?"

"Ye…No, I knew him for a while" Hinata began to lie but quickly decided not to seeing as she was terrible at doing so. In fact it seemed that pretty much anyone she tried to lie about always failed.

"Then why did it take so long? I mean it seemed that you only went full force only recently."

"W-well I just finally made a decision I g-guess." Hinata told her not wanting to say that she only really went all out when Naruto went to train. After all if she didn't she would have been FAR from his level seeing as he was being trained by a sannin.

"…ok then." Hanabi finally said before letting herself relax in the water in peace for a while. She left it at this even though she knew there was more to learn; after all she didn't want to risk having to deal with her sister fainting in the water. So, both of them sat calmly in the warm water for about fifteen minutes before Hinata decided to talk some more.

"So, who have you been 'looking into' anyways?"

"Naruto Uzumaki" Hanabi told her calmly ignoring the surprised look her sister gave her.

"Why Naruto-kun in specific?"

"You only started to change when I noticed him spending more time around you." Hanabi admitted.

"Or it could have been that I decided to work hard so I could stand with my teammates." Hinata suggested.

"Maybe…but I would rather your interest in Uzumaki-san be the cause because I have no desire to see either one of your teammates join our clan." Hanabi told her firmly.

"What are you saying?"

"I am saying that even to me it is clear that you having a love interest would be the only reason that you would work so hard to become stronger. After all the romance books say that shinobi are more likely to fall in love with a girl that is close to their own skill level." Hanabi explained causing Hinata to blush for seemingly the hundredth time this bath.

"H-hanabi!" Hinata called out.

"What he is a good choice at least. The last member of a well-known clan that is powerful enough to stake his claim in this world. Not to mention he does look quite attractive." Hanabi explained with a small blush on her face.

"…do you have a crush on Naruto-kun?" Hinata asks actually surprised seeing as her sister never showed interest in ANY male.

"N-no as if I could ever get a crush on someone so unpredictable." Hanabi denied.

"But you just said he was good for me."

"Y-yea he may be good for you but that doesn't mean I have to like the blond even if he has cute whiskers." Hanabi told her then blushed realizing her slip up.

"Cute whiskers huh?"

"S-shut up. I don't like the blond and that is final!" Hanabi told her angrily before getting out of the water and putting her towel back on. "Now if you excuse me I have some things to do." Hanabi told her with the blush never leaving her face much to the amusement of Hinata.

"I know I should be a bit annoyed that yet another girl is showing interest in my boyfriend but for some reason I don't mind the idea that she joins his harem…after all she is of age..so as long as I get my Naru-kun time I suppose I will let her join. At least then I will be able to know that she is with a good guy. Though I really do need to talk to Naruto about this soon; he just attracts way too many girls...anyways who would have guessed that my sister could have moments where she would act like THAT." Hinata thought giggling for the last part. Still after soaking for only a few minutes longer she too got out of the bath and went to enjoy more of what currently was her beset day ever.

So just to let you all know that with my amazon prime/twitch subscription thing I got a free month of runescape membership (yes I know that very few people play this anymore but meh wanted to just for memories). Anyways just to let you know my name there is Superclaus14 (so original I know) so if anyone is playing it then feel free to friend me or something. While I won't talk all the time I would try and talk to people a bit as well. Though I will only be playing it for a month probably (unless I get some more time for free somehow). After this month is up I will try and give out what I had seeing as I won't use it and would prefer it be to people who actually have been with my stories for a while. Anyways just letting you all know….do with this information as you wish.

Just to let people know from here on out Hanabi will be a pretty nice girl. While she will keep her basically 'neutralness' that the clan basically seems to train each member to have. So basically she has a cover of being the 'stuck up' clan mode to a sort of sweet girl as her actual personality. She also really does care about her own sister seeing as even if they are taught to hate each other I still can't imagine that sisters would never even wonder what their sister is like (though I am no phycologist). So Hanabi who was simply focused on more as a child than her older sister would of course think about her sister (unless it is necessary for plot like my first story). So, yes Hanabi will be a decent bit OC but I will still try and keep her having a bit of the 'normal' Hanabi even though she is basically a clean board for whatever personality I want (even though I want to keep it sort of close to what a young adult would act…though a decent bit sweeter….though I have no experience as a girl so this is basically just me testing my luck on a personality dart board. Which is why to start off I will say that I plan on at least not having her originally not being able to tell she fell in love with Naruto having experienced only family love.

Now on a personal note I am thinking that I might push back my schedule to have a chapter out possibly every three weeks or so. Because to be honest I just feel like I try and burn through these chapters out because to be quite honest I am still busy as all hell. I mean I am still trying to figure out how to deal with being in the 'real world' so maybe when I get my bearings and smooth out my weeks I may go back. Now I am only considering this right now but if you see it start to happen don't worry like I said before I really don't plan on leaving stories unfinished so it doesn't mean I am quitting….mainly I just am gonna use some of my time trying to figure out how to set up my financial stuff as it changes seemingly constantly and hopefully being able to actually simply relax for a good while so I don't burn myself completely out….though to be honest not sure why I am saying this. 9 times out of 10 people won't read this and probably 10 out of 10 of those people don't care too much at all.

P.S. I am going to try my hardest to NOT have these stupidly long ANs at the beginning and the end for a while…the one on Hanabi was just needed for the story. Ja Ne.