Uzumaki Naruto Chronicles Rewrite
Chapter 104
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"I do Naruto. I won't leave." Hinata told him, finally beginning to realize what her being gone had really done to him. How bad he had hurt.
"Say it Hina. Tell me you promise." Naruto breathed to her.
Hinata nodded, "I-I promise Naru, it will be okay, I'm not leaving anytime soon."
Naruto nodded and leaned down a little farther, leaning in to kiss her, Hinata realized what he was doing and turned her head to the side, allowing him to kiss her cheek, she kissed his cheek as well before whispering, "I'm sorry Naru…I-I'm not ready for that right now." She stayed there for a moment, her lips on his cheek, before she moved away, she looked away from him and sighed, "Naru, I'm so sorry."
"Hina, please no, I'm sorry, that was too soon, I shouldn't have pushed it, I went too far, I'm sorry." Naruto told her, worried.
"it's okay Naru, I love you." Hinata told him.
"I love you too Hina." Naruto told her.
"I need to go train now Naru." Hinata told him, obviously still sad about what had just happened.
"Please don't go Hina." Naruto asked her.
Hinata sighed, "Naru, I don't want to fall further behind. I'm not leaving because I'm upset. I just really want to train…I can't sit still right now. I don't want to think."
"Fine, in that case, help me up, I'm coming with you. I am your sensei after all." Naruto told her grinning.
"Naru, you really shouldn't be out of bed." Hinata told him.
Naruto shook his head, "I don't really care, either you help me there or I will get there on my own. So, what will it be Hina?"
"I could knock you out and make you stay in bed." Hinata told him, tilting her head as she mustered up an attitude, he really didn't need to be out of bed at the moment.
"You are welcome to try. However, I would be very hurt." Naruto joked with her.
Hinata sighed, "Fine, come on." She lifted him up and helped him to the training room closest to his room. She sat him down against the wall and went about her training as he rooted for her, and played with a rasengan in his hand. Working on putting wind chakra into it. He was having no luck however.
"Naru, what are you doing?" Hinata asked.
"I'm trying to infuse wind chakra into my rasengan, hopefully it will create an intensely powerful jutsu." Naruto told her, "But I'm not doing a good job of it."
Hinata sighed, "Can't you just rest Naru?"
He shook his head and went about his own training.
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A few days later Naruto was in bed, still recovering, he was waiting as Hinata showered after training, he had asked if he could join her but she had just blushed and told him no. Not that he actually could get into the shower, standing was still hard for him. He sighed, Hinata had been really upset that first night back in the house, she still hadn't said anything about it. She had been doting on him hand and foot, being incredible. He also wouldn't ask her what had happened, he knew when she wanted to talk to him about it she would. She was fine whenever she was busy, but at night he could see how sad she truly was.
At night when they laid in bed together the sadness would hit her, she would cry quietly as soon as she thought he was asleep, whatever had happened had deeply affected her. He had no idea what it was however. His ears suddenly perked up as he heard her crying in the shower. He sighed as his heart broke for her as he listened to his beloved cry. He sighed, over the last couple days he had kissed her cheek multiple times and she had kissed his, she wouldn't do anything more however and he was alright with it, he just wished he could comfort her properly. He couldn't though if he didn't know what was afflicting her. He wished he knew. He thought about getting up and trying to see what he could hear from the shower, but he didn't want to lose her trust…or at least what little trust she had in him. He sighed again. This sucked.
Naruto waited as he heard the shower turn off, she was drying off and putting clothes on. Finally, she walked out and he could tell her eyes were slightly puffy, "Hina, come here."
She nodded and walked to him, laying in a cuddle with him as she cried into his shoulder quietly, "It's okay Hina. I love you. Everything will be okay Hina."
Hinata shook her head, not moving from his embrace however, "No it won't" Hinata's muffled voice came back.
Naruto held her tight, "Yes it will Hina. I don't know what's wrong but it will be okay."
Hinata sighed, she leaned her head up and kissed his cheek, "I love you Naruto."
"I love you too Hina." He told her. They stayed cuddled up for a while until Naruto moved her, "Hey Hina, are you hungry?"
Hinata nodded, "Kinda." Came her muffled voice from his shoulder.
Naruto laughed as he kissed her head, "Hina, can we have food."
"Five more minute of this please." Her muffled voice replied, she was obviously comfortable.
Five minutes later and she rolled off of him, "Thank you Naru. You are too good to me, how about some ramen for lunch?"
Naruto nodded vigorously, "Yes please!"
She nodded, but he could tell she was still sad, he needed to cheer her up, "Hey Hina, after lunch, maybe you can give me a sponge bath?"
Hinata blushed as she thought of Naruto naked and her bathing him. The thought of her gripping his strong muscles and washing him making her blush very deep. Suddenly they heard the door open, and Hinata immediately knew that Kakashi was here to update them. "Oh, there's Kakashi," Hinata grinned, "Maybe he could give you the sponge bath, I'll ask him."
"Wait! No... That won't be necessary, I'm really fine now that I think about it Hina." Naruto told her.
Hinata laughed joyously as Naruto harrumphed and pouted for a moment before Kakashi walked into the room, "Naruto, what's the word?"
"Nothin Kakashi, just trying to recover, it's going really slow, being injured is boring." Naruto told him.
"Well you are lucky, anyone else would be dead. Sorry I haven't seen you yet since you woke up. Tsunade sent me as the escort for Kiba to make absolutely certain that he made it to Hozuki Castle." Kakashi told him, "You weren't supposed to even be awake until tomorrow."
"It's okay Kakashi. I don't mind, you left me in great hands. I haven't really asked yet, but did everyone make it back from that mission? Tenzo and Yugao are okay, right?" Naruto asked. He hadn't wanted to discuss it with Hinata, but he needed to know if he had saved everyone.
Kakashi sighed, "We lost one man while we were saving you Naruto. Hayate, he took a hit in order to stop Yugao from being killed. Yugao is taking it rather hard. I saw her before I came here, she is in pretty bad shape."
Naruto looked down, "I know Hayate was a friend of yours kakashi, and Yugao was in love with him, I'm so sorry Kakashi."
Kakashi shook his head, "You saved Yugao, Tenzo, Gai, and myself from certain death. You did well son I'm proud of you. The only reason Hayate died was because Kiba hurt you, you could have won that fight, but Kiba ruined everything. He betrayed us all."
"No, you're wrong, I couldn't have beaten him. I was just too slow. I wasn't fast enough to hit him. I got in a few strikes but he shrugged them off. He was too good." Naruto told him seriously.
Kakashi sighed, "You still could have flashed out. Don't blame yourself for Hayate Naruto. He liked you, Yugao and Tenzo want to see you by the way. Can I bring them by tomorrow?"
Naruto nodded, steeling himself, surely Yugao blamed him for Hayate's demise. She would be so upset with him, after everything that she had done for him, he wasn't able to save them and get out himself."
"Naruto, she doesn't blame you." Kakashi told his son, he knew that Naruto was thinking it. Kakashi grinned at Naruto, he had grown into such a strong ninja, and an even better man, "Naruto, your father would have been proud of you. Minato would have been so proud of who you have become."
"Minato may have been my birth father, but you are my father Kakashi." Naruto told him.
Kakashi smiled his eye smile at Naruto, "Thank you Naruto, that means a lot to me. More than you know."
Naruto nodded, "Kakashi, good news, I'm ready to unseal Anko. Get that ring cleaned, as soon as I'm better, we will need to go outside the village, we will need me, you, Kimimaro, Hinata, and Anko. I would like to have Jiraiya as well, but seeing as he is out looking for mom, well I would prefer him to keep looking for her and not going to bring him back to the village."
Kakashi nodded, Hinata gasped, "Naru! I thought you weren't going to let me go."
"I saw you come to save me, I saw how you handled yourself, you are strong enough to be there Hinata. I'm sorry I ever doubted you in the first place. It was wrong of me, I shouldn't doubt my own student." Naruto told her.
Hinata smiled a real smile at him, truly happy, she tackled Naruto onto the bed and hugged him, forgetting he was injured.
"Oooooooow." Naruto groaned out as Hinata's eyes widened, realizing she had just tackled a very injured Naruto.
She sat up eyes wide, "Naruto I'm so sorry!"
Naruto just weakly held a hand up with his thumb up, "Worth it."
Kakashi just sat there laughing heartily as he stood, "Naruto I need to get going to tell Anko, I haven't seen her in a while."
Naruto nodded and waved him off as he walked out the door, as soon as Kakashi was out the door, Naruto reached up and pulled Hinata back down on top of him, holding her tight in a cuddle as he grinned at her, they were nose to nose laying side by side, looking into each other's eyes.
Hinata smiled at him, he was too good for her, "Naru, I love you so much."
Naruto's hand found its way to Hinata's cheek brushing it, "I love you too Hinata."
Hinata looked deep into his eyes losing herself in them, "Naru…I…" Hinata didn't say anything else, but leaned in and gave Naruto a quick kiss on the lips, before she blushed, rolling out of bed and walking out the door as Naruto lay there stunned.
Naruto reached up his fingers brushing his lips, the feeling of her soft lips still on his. He was stunned as he exploded with happiness Hinata had kissed him, sure it was just a peck, but it was something he had been craving for over 2 years. Since his sixteenth birthday. He sighed. He loved her so much.
Naruto was so lost in his thoughts Hinata had enough time to walk downstairs, sporting a huge blush the entire way and cooked herself and Naruto large bowls of ramen. She carried them back up the stairs and walked into the room, she looked at Naruto seeing he hadn't moved and didn't notice her walk in, his pointer and middle fingers were touching his lips where she had kissed him, she slowly and quietly backed out of the room, listening to his mutterings. He was so happy about receiving a kiss from her that he was still mumbling about it.
Hinata felt her heart bursting with joy at the thought of that. She smiled a big smile and walked in, she felt so much better now, "Naru, ramen is done!"
Naruto perked up immediately as she sat the bowls down on a bedside table before helping him sit up properly. Naruto was blushing still as he smiled big the whole time they ate. Neither ninja saying a word about the kiss.
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