Ah, the 26th chapter. I'm really surprised this story made it this far. I was gonna originally end it when Sasuke left to go kill Itachi. The only difference in that chapter would be that the stump Hinata was one would have revealed, when she got up, her and Sasuke's name with a heat around it carved into the stump but the stump had a large crack going threw it. I thought that would be a nice ending, I hope the ending that I have planned will be as good.

Disclaimer- I don't own Naruto.

"Sasuke." "Go away." Kakashi sighed. "You're a grown man, act like one." Sasuke shook his head although from behind the sheet his former teacher couldn't see him. "It's not that bad." "Shut up." Kakashi was a patient person, this was a well known fact because most of the time he didn't care about what he was waiting for and it always gave him an opportunity to pull out his favorite book. This however, was not one of those times.

"At least give me back the jar." Sasuke, the great Uchiha avenger, was indeed hiding behind a sheet in the crawlspace of Kakashi's apartment with a pickle jar. "Never!" Sasuke yelled back, his voice filled with venom. (Sort of hard to act tough in his position though.)

The older ninja gave out a sigh. 'I'm getting too old for this. He's even worse then Naruto. I didn't even know that was possible.' "Would you give it back and come out if I told you Hinata was here?"

"No." Finally came his response after some careful thinking. Kakashi raised an eyebrow. He made the proper hand signs and created a Hinata clone. "She" looked at the masked ninja and the masked ninja nodded to "her".

"Sasuke? Why did you take Kakashi's pickle jar hostage?" "She" asked him in "her" cutest and most innocent voice. Sasuke hand automatically came out from behind the sheet, carrying a jar.

'Finally.' The masked ninja thought taking the jar and releasing his jutsu. "Sasuke, these are radishes." He twitched from behind his head-band. "You're Hinata impersonation wasn't that great. You don't get the pickles."

Little did both men know that the real Hinata had been knocking on the door, which had been left open, and finally decided to just come inside. "Hello Kakashi. Why are you talking to a sheet?" She asked taking a good look at the sheet. Trying to see if there was something she was missing.

"Hello Hinata." 'That's not gonna work. When is Kakashi just going to leave me alone?' Sasuke thought sticking a pickle into his mouth, still in pouting mode. (This for Sasuke is only to be done when no one can see him.)

"Why are you talking to the sheet?" She asked again, confusion evident in her voice. "I'm not. I'm taking to your husband who is sulking after having a little accident while taking a na-" "Okay you can have your damn pickle jar!" Sasuke yelled practically jumping out of the crawl space and onto Kakashi, shoving the jar in his face.

Of course the elder ninja had been prepared and took a picture of Sasuke, rushing out of said crawl space, with both pickle jar and sheet with him. 'And Kurenai said this camera wasn't going to get any black mail after the Sakura thing.' He thought to himself, gladly taking his jar and making his way to the kitchen.

"Sasuke, are you alright?" Hinata asked in concern, completely missing what Kakashi had said to get him to come out. He nodded, standing up quickly, trying to play it off like he hadn't just jumped out of a crawl space, covered with a sheet, with a pickle jar in hand.

She blushed after the long moment of silence where he was just watching her. 'He really is like Naruto's old puppy… Only Sasuke doesn't wag his tale when you pet him. I miss that dog…' Of course that dog had been run out of town by, the now very old, Akamaru. The dog couldn't stand any other animal getting more attention them himself. Kiba had spoiled him rotten. 'Oh, what is she thinking about? Dammit! She's probably thinking about what a loser the guy she married is.'

"Sasuke." "Go away." Kakashi sighed. "You're a grown man, act like one." The younger man just turned his head away with a frown. It had been at least a week since he had seen Aiden and Hizashi on the training field. He'd been doing what he was told to do, staying away. It killed him a little bit each day but he was doing what was asked of him. Or more like yelled really.

'This can't be healthy.' All Sasuke did all day long was mope around the apartment. It was getting on the masked ninja's nerves although he didn't show it. "I need groceries." Sasuke stared at his former teacher with a blank face.

It was true. There wasn't even a crumb of food in Kakashi's apartment. In his defense he was always going out on missions and when he wasn't he preferred to mooch off of Iruka and Kurenai instead of cook for himself.

Sasuke stomach growled, letting him know that if he didn't feed it soon there would be hell to pay. Kakashi handed him a scroll with a satisfied smirk on his face. "Think of it as a mission. You have 3 hours to collect all the items on the list."

Sasuke stormed off mumbling things that could not be deciphered by the human ear. When he got to the market place he opened the scroll for the first time. 'Chicken, cheese, ham, milk, sake, beer, rum, whiskey, orange juice,' He shook his head. 'Broccoli, bread, new Come Come Paradise book, pickles…' And the list read on and on.

Deciding it was better to just buy the stuff Sasuke set off to all the different stands in the market place. About two hours latter he was only half way through the list and running out of money, which he doubted Kakashi was going to pay him back.

Then he saw them. His family. All of them. Hinata was innocently enough picking out which peaches he wanted to buy while all of their sons surrounded her like body guards, intimidating anyone who would dare come near her.

But of course there was always the idiot who thought he could get away quick enough to actually try something with the Uchiha bride. A man, around his mid 40's tried to get near Hinata by pretending to be looking at the peaches as well. He tried to ignore the glares searing into both sides of his head. One side from the kiddies, the other from a partially hidden Sasuke.

Hinata looked up from the peaches for a brief moment and smiled politely to the man but then went right back to her peach picking duties. The man grinned, knowing very well what he was about to do. Taking the orange/ yellow fruit in his hand he brought it close to his face, as if inspecting it, then "accidentally" dropped it on the other side of the petite woman.

"Opps." He said, although it was hard to contain himself. "Don't worry, I'll get it." Hinata said with a smile, bending over to get the run away peach. The man grinned, liking the view he was getting but before he could really look a fist met his face and sent him flying into the lemon cart.

Hinata popped back up, fruit in hand and turned to give it to the man but he was gone. "Oh, never mind then." She said quietly to herself putting it back on the cart and paying for her own. Seito cracked his neck and then his knuckles while looking to the group of men that the pervert had come from.

Alas, determination was in the perverts eyes that day! As the group walked off to the next cart another man tried to approach. "Ryu, will you hold these please?" Hinata asked, handing her youngest son a rather large watermelon.

Ryu nodded, taking the watermelon. He swung his arms around so the man collided head first with the freakishly large fruit, automatically being knocked out. "Oh look, strawberries!" Hinata smiled like a child in the candy store. After all, strawberries were her favorite.

The man, already by the red fruit waggles his eye brows seeing Hinata. Hizashi pretended to yawn and sent the guy flying up into the air. This all continued for some time, Hinata never noticing what was going on around her.

Sasuke took in a breath of relief when he saw Taiki kick a man in the stomach, sending him and the two other men behind them crashing to the ground. 'Atta boy!' He gave a slight smile and turned away for a moment, only turn back and have a group of bruised and sore looking men in his face.

He recognized the men in the front to be the men who had tried to feel up his wife at the lemon stand. "Sasuke Uchiha we need your help!" The man exclaimed pointing, his finger not even a millimeter from the Uchiha's face.

"And why would I do a thing like that?" He asked angrily. These people had some nerve. They were lucky he didn't go psycho murderer on their asses; it did run in his blood after all.

"We are sure you saw what happened to us out there." The peach man said, causing the other men to shutter. "Your kids are getting out of control; you need to help us stop them!" Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "So you can have your perverted way with my wife?" His Sharingan activated causing all the men to take a large step back.

"You don't understand!" The man from the actually grocery store cried. "We've been the secret Hinata Huuyga, later Uchiha fan club for years now! Only we've always been a secret up until you left because we were afraid of Neji and your own wrath. When you left and Neji was on missions we thought we would finally be able to appreciate her like she was meant to be but those little… little… Monsters refuse to let us near her!"

A small, sly, smile appeared on Sasuke's face. "Let me show you the way that those 'little monsters' would treat perverts like you if I had been around to teach them." The men scattered. If it was one thing men who couldn't get a girl so resorted with being perverts knew h9ow to do, it was run.

Sasuke caught up with Mr. Lemon and Mr. Wind Chimes first and began giving them their punishment. "S-S-Sasuke! What are you doing? Get off of them!" It was Hinata. He looked up to see everyone their, starring at him with shock written all over everyone's face but Kakashi Jr's.

Not being able to explain this one, Sasuke just let go of the men, grabbed Kakashi senior's groceries, and ran away. "I think that we might be able to get along after all." Ryu told his twin. Taiki only nodded as he watched the two men scamper away.

"Hinata, I-" "It's okay." She cut him off, blushing after realizing she had just interrupted him. "Taiki explained to me what those men were up to. I just wanted to say thank you." He slowly nodded his head.

He wanted to hug her, kiss her. Do anything instead of just standing their. He had dreamed of her non-stop for the longest time and now that she was right there he couldn't do anything! 'I'm pathetic!' He mentally scolded himself.

She looked towards the door. "I guess I'll be leaving now." No, this wasn't right. Sasuke knew that he had to do something. He grabbed her hand. She looked up at him with surprise.

He didn't say a word but she could see his eyes pleading with her. "Take me back. I don't want to be alone anymore. I never want to leave your side ever again. I love you." She looked to the ground, not able to take it anymore.

"If…" She started to say something and his grip on her hand tightened slightly, just in case it was goodbye. "If I had been the one to leave you, would you ever forgive me?" He opened his mouth right away but the way she looked at him, it was saying, tell the truth.

"No." His answer was short and simple. Hinata nodded her head, feeling tears begin to form in her eyes. She turned to leave once more but he still had her hands, both of them now. He pulled her close to him, placing a kiss on her knuckles.

"If you were the one to leave, I would have died to the minuet you stepped out of the door." The greatest feeling of joy over-whelmed her and the tears fell but she was smiling. Sasuke lowered his head and gave her a loving kiss, the one he had been needing for over 13 years.

Kakashi leaned against the doorway and looked up from his book. A soft smile appeared on his face although through the mask you could barley tell the difference. "Apparently girls like guys who hide in crawl places with a blanket while keeping pickles hostage."

Yay, fluff. I'm very pleased with the out come of this chapter. It reminds me of how the beginning chapters were like which is what I was aiming for. Tell me what you think. The next chapter might be the last, or the one after that, it really depends. Please review.