Disclaimer:

I do NOT own any of the characters written here. They are own by their respective owners. Nuff' said.

Warning:

This is rated M for a reason (blood, gore, extreme violence, language, and possible adult themes/lemons, etc.) Some of the characters will be a little OC.

Now on with the second chapter.

The Black Leaves

Chapter 27

Now, any normal person would think that after completing an impossible written test, traversing through a deadly forest filled with Kami-knows-what and fighting for your life against a deadly opponent; Naruto would want to rest and relax.

And any normal person would be right. Instead of heading right to the nearest training ground to test out his extra arms; since he never got the chance to during the second part of the exam, Venom was able to convince his host otherwise.

While running to his house to get a quick shower, Naruto had passed the village's hotspring/open air bath and the combined scent and sounds of the many women behind the wooden fence was driving Venom into a massively perverted fit. So, he was able to convince his host into taking a much-needed break inside the female infested hotsprings. Naruto was even able to scare out a discount since he had yet to hide his extra arms.

So, Naruto walked into the male changing room, changed out of his clothes, put on a towel and headed into the empty male side of the hotsprings. He walked over to the edge and started to talk to his parasite. 'Hey, Venom? We're kind of weak against hot stuff right?'

'Yes, why do you ask?'

'If that is so, then why the Hell are we going to go into a pool of steaming water?'

'Is the water boiling? Are any bubbles forming?'

'Well no, bu-'

'Then shut the Hell up and get in the damn water!'

Venom roared at his host. This was probably going to be his one and only chance to see such a large group of naked, non-infected, human women in one location.

Not wanting to increase his slowly developing headache, Naruto wisely stepped into the hot water. Instead of the extreme pain he was expecting, Naruto just felt the muscle relaxing heat like any normal human would. So, Naruto removed his towel and settled down into the water and allowed his back set of arms to rest on the warm rocks that surrounded the body of water.

Naruto gave a massive sigh of relief as the hot water started to work out any muscle kinks that Venom was too lazy to fix. The blond kid was almost about to go to sleep from how good it felt, only the light chatter of a large group of women on the other side of the wooden fence kept that from he doubted that he would get any sleep after hearing the group of women let out over-joyed squeals, Naruto decided to swim about the large body of water aimlessly before settling into a spot that was further away from the loud women.

After having relaxed for a little over an hour, Naruto was about to get out when he felt an all too familiar chill run up his spine. He slowly turned his head towards the dressing room and saw a very happy Payback crouching on the roof and glaring at the naked Naruto with a lust filled gleam. A series of clicks and purrs excaped her fang-filled mouth.

Naruto's face grew a dark shade of red as his parasite; and thus he himself, understood what she was saying in their own species method of communication. She was basically saying, "Fuck me now!"

Payback leapt to the rocky floor below and slowly crawled towards her prey on all fours; her lust filled glare increasing in intensity. Naruto turned around and made to escape from the female symbiote, but said female symbiote shot her fingers out at the boy and wrapped him up tightly before slowly pulling him to her.

Payback sat down into the hotspring and settled herself down before forcing Naruto between her spread legs and pressing her massive breasts against the back of his neck and head. Her fingers returned to normal as her hands snaked across Naruto's chest. She continued to make the symbiotic mating call as she ran her hands over almost every inch of bare skin. Her breasts were also busy, licking Naruto's back affectionately.

"You did very well in your match, our Lord,"

She whispered as she let her hands run themselves up his second pair of arms before she moved them so that they sat comfortably over her shoulders. "We were very impressed at how well you were able to control such young appendages." Her mouth curved upward into a perverse smile. "We're going to give you a little reward for passing the second part of the exams." Payback allowed her tongue to lick Naruto's cheek and then force itself into his young mouth before wrapping around his own tongue.

Naruto tried to shout in surprise, but Payback turned his head to the right, where it met the woman's human mouth. Naruto's eye widened as his lips clashed with her's. His tongue was pulled into her mouth as Payback hungrily kissed the blond. As much as this shocked and terrified the Uzumaki, he could not deny that kissing Payback felt really good.

Payback kept Naruto's lips on her's for a good amount of time before slowly pulling away. She saw the slightly dazed look on the boy's face and gave a soft giggle before forcing Naruto's head in-between her large breasts. It only took Naruto a few seconds to snap out of his daze and start thrashing about in an effort to escape from the lovely pillows of flesh.

After having her fun with Naruto's thrashing about, Payback released her grip on him and allowed him to back away a bit to catch his breath. When Naruto had finally regulated his breathing he looked over at Payback, who had returned to her full symbiotic form, and saw an expecting look etched across her blue-ish face.

"Um, well. Thanks?" Naruto said. "We can't say that we didn't really like that reward." He blushed hard. Payback gave the boy a soft giggle before once again shooting him a lust filled glare. Before he could ask the symbiote what the look was for, he was hoisted out of the water and was set down on the edge closest to Payback.

"You did not honestly think that a simple kiss was your

real reward, now did you?" Payback asked as she forced open Naruto's legs. She looked down and let her already massive smile grew even more. "Look who has come out to say 'Hi'." She chuckled.

Naruto's face became redder then it had ever been before as Payback lowered her head down to his erect member. It was impossible for him not to get an erection when looking at the sexy symbiote since both he and Venom found her very, very attractive. He would probably be more concerned if he did not get a hard-on from being near the alien seductress.

Naruto made an attempt to cover his manhood, only to have Payback tightly grab his wrists and pull them away. Before he could actually protest, Payback's long tongue flicked against the head of his cock. Naruto held back the slight groan of pleasure he felt as Payback flicked the tip again.

Said symbiote continued to flick Naruto's hard member until a small amount of pre-cum leaked out of the tip. Payback smiled before licking up the fluid. "Yummy!"

Naruto looked down in fear as Payback slowly parted her dripping-with-drool, fang-filled mouth. He tried to stop her by forcing her head away, but found that she was not moving no matter how much force he put into trying to remove her. His muscles tightened when he felt Payback's warm saliva drip onto his cock and a pair of soft lips wrap around his shaft.

Naruto tossed his head back and let a low groan escape through his tightly clenched teeth. He had never felt anything this good. Instead of trying to force away Payback's head, now Naruto was trying to keep it in place. Naruto risked a look down and saw Samus' human mouth, directly behind her fanged set, wrapped around his member while licking it furiously.

It was when Samus started to put more of Naruto's cock into her nice hot mouth and give a very hard suck, did said boy give a sudden thrust. The woman smiled around the meat in her mouth before slowly pulling away from the delicious stick. She relished in the rather loud whimper Naruto let out when only the head remained in her mouth. She quickly that whimper into a groan when her head shot down and every inch of his cock was swallowed into her warm cavern.

"Shit!" Naruto nearly shouted as he unleashed his load. He held down Payback's head as his cock unleashed spurt after spurt of his warm cum down the symbiote's throat. After several seconds, the spurting cum decreased in amount and force before stopping completely. His hands slowly slid off Payback's head while she just as slowly pulled her head away from softening member.

Samus allowed her symbiotic fangs to cover her human mouth once again before licking her chops and purring, "Delicious!" She looked at the panting and red faced Naruto, "You can't be tired already our love. We're still hungry for more!" About halfway through the blowjob, Payback slowly receded away so that Samus could enjoy all of the sexual contact personally. Besides, it wasn't like it would be the last time she would get the chance to do perverted things to Lord Venom.

But before Payback could continue to reward Venom's host, Naruto returned to his senses and noticed that the almost constant chatter on the other side of the wooden fence has stopped. He stopped every single one of his bodily movements and focused all of his energy into his hearing. Naruto even grabbed Payback firmly to send her the hint to be quiet.

Naruto felt that at least a dozen eyes were focused on him and Payback. After waiting for about three whole minutes and not hearing a thing, Naruto simply assumed that the women had left and that he was just being a little paranoid. But the instant he released a sigh of relief, Naruto heard a woman's voice from the other side say, "Do you think they'll go all the way?"

Naruto's whole body became a bright scarlet as he turned his head to see several eyes staring back at him through holes in the wood that were obviously left there by perverted men. He proceeded launched his self into the changing room. He quickly put on his clothes and bolted out of the facility as fast as his legs could take him.

If Naruto had paused for just a moment he would have noticed that one of the pairs of eyes staring at him where a brilliant blue and belonged to certain blond girl.

After her tie with her best friend Sakura, Yamanaka Ino was in 'super bitch' mode. After her embarrassing performance against her best friend, Ino was more than willing to relief all of her pent up anger. What made her mood that much worse, was when she had told her parents of her humiliating defeat all they had told her was to train harder and try again the next time the exams came around. Ino knew that all that was utter bull shit.

So, after beating her poor pillow until it was nothing but an empty sac, Ino had calmed down just enough to decide that she needed a much better way to release all of her anger. So, she reached into her savings and decided to head over to the Konoha hotsprings in a desperate hope that the soothing hot water would calm her down enough to not sock her lazy sensei in the jaw.

When she arrived, Ino had secretly hoped that it would have been empty and that she would get the chance to truly 'relax'. Unfortunately, since most of the women of the village had heard of the large number of important, single, and rich, political individuals that had arrived for the chunin exams, the female side of the hotspring was filled with women. So much for the quiet stress relief.

All Ino could do was grumble in irritation and head over to the one empty spot right near the divider. She tried her hardest to ignore the gossiping women. Now, Ino loved her share of gossip a little more than other girls did her age; Hell, she enjoyed it more than most lonely house wives, but Ino had her limits and the large group of squackers was quickly reaching it.

Ino was just barely containing her frustration and was about to leave when she heard a sound from the male side. It sounded kind of like a moan of some kind. "Did anybody hear that?" One of the older women asked loudly. Nobody seemed to give the woman any attention and continued with whatever they were doing.

"I did," A slightly younger girl spoke up. "It sounded like some sort of moan of pleasure." Suddenly, the girl's eyes lit up and went all creepy sparkle like. "Maybe there is a young couple on the other side expressing their love for each other in a secret meeting. You know, 'cuz they are from two families that hate each other and would never allow a union between the two."

Ino could not help the deadpan look that struck her face. Not even a gossip hound like herself would believe a story that overused. Fortunately, most of the other women in the bath agreed; that is, until a much louder groan reached their ears.

In one massive wave, every women pressed themselves against the wooden fence and tried to either find a small hole to peek through or press their ear against the wood in an effort to hear every detail. Ino was pinned up against the fence by the mob of women and had no possible way of getting out. Seeing that, Ino gave a heavy sigh of defeat before turning around and looking through a peephole.

Ino's eyes widened to the size of saucers and her jaw hit the floor. What she was seeing could not be true. Naruto getting a blowjob by some blond girl that looked to be in her twenties and had a bust the would make a decent portion of the village's female population jealous.

It was at that exact moment when every single woman in that hotspring made an unspoken vow: to tell every person they came across until the information had spread like wildfire. Some of the women were already rushing to leave so that they could do just that. Those that remained did so either because they were interested in finding out who the blond woman was, were impressed by the slightly above average size of Naruto's penis, or were getting a little hot and bothered by the erotic scene.

The blond Yamanaka was staying for a little bit of all three. She watched the erotic scene until both Naruto and the unknown woman had left the hotspring before getting out herself, getting dressed and aimlessly wander around the village, deep in thought.

Now, Ino would not really call herself Naruto's 'friend'; more like comrade-in-arms. And, she was the self-proclaimed 'Gossip Queen of Konohagakure", but to tell people about Naruto's private life, that might be going a little too far.

'But this is such juicy info. I can't just

not tell somebody about this!' She thought to herself. She quickly turned her aimless wondering into a quest to find someone that would not blab about Naruto's perverted actions with another blond. Since, Kami knows, Ino could not be trusted with any kind of secret! Not really a good thing for a ninja.

Not finding anyone she could trust to not speak; Ino sudden had the intelligent idea of confronting the four-armed Uzumaki with what she had seen. Now, Ino just needed to find out where said boy lived. So, now Ino was searching for anybody that would have a clue where Naruto might live. The problem with this? The only people that Ino could think of that might have a clue to Naruto's home were his teammates and his sensei.

She had no clue where Kakashi lived or what he did in his spare time for that matter. Sasuke was in the hospital due to the weird tattoos that had appeared on him during his fight and Sakura was probably complaining to her parents about her loss/tie.

After about two hours of endless searching, Ino was about to give up when she heard the name Uzumaki spoken by two people talking in an open-air bar. By their slurred speech, Ino could deduce that they had been drinking quit a bit.

"H-hey, bud," One of the drunkards said to his pal. "Do ya' know w-where Kino went?"

The other drunken guy blinked at his friend a few times before breaking out into a giant smile. "Hahaha," He laughed loudly. "Kino'sh gone an' wen' ta' go kill that Uzumaki brat. He shaid he wash gonna' get bein' a hero fer' it, hahaha."

Both men started to laugh stupidly until the one that had originally spoken stopped. "Where da' Hell does dat monshter live?" His friend looked at him like as if he was an idiot before giving him some slurred directions on where Naruto resided.

Ino quickly ran to where Naruto lived with an intent look on her face. She wanted to confront him on what had happened in the hotspring but also help him should this Kino guy be a serious threat. It was not very likely that he would be if he was a civilian; but if the guy turned out to be fellow ninja, then a real problem would develop.

As the female ninja started traversing through the slummish part of Konohagakure, she took note of the bad conditions that most of the buildings were in. She did not hesitate though and continued onward until she saw the ratty, run-down apartment building that Naruto lived in.

Now, what caught Ino's attention was not the decrepit condition of the apartment building, but the male ninja wearing a chunin combat vest and brandishing a freshly sharpened kantana. The man was staring intently at one of the doors on the top floor and appeared to be a little unsure about what he was planning to do.

As she approached, Ino saw the man take a big breath before releasing it. The ninja then looked up at the door and shouted loudly enough for Ino and the few people below in the streets to hear. "Your life ends here demon! I, Kino, will be the one to end your wretched life and bring true peace to this village!"

The man was about to kick open the door when said door violently swung open and the man was suddenly yanked into the apartment. It had happened so fast that Ino could not see what had pulled the man in. So, Ino dashed up to the apartment door and as calmly as possible, knocked on said wooden door.

"Just a minute," She heard Naruto's voice call from within the apartment. Ino did not have to wait long before the door swung open to reveal Naruto wearing a black and white variation of his usually orange outfit. "Huh? Hi, Ino?" Naruto said with a confused look on his face. He knew that his fellow blond was not what you would call his 'friend', so seeing her at his doorstep was a bit surprising.

"Hello Naruto, I have something I want to talk to you about." Ino said while giving Naruto a hard look. She saw Naruto's eyes widen just a small tag; no individual without proper ninja training would have noticed it, but Ino sure did.

Naruto and Ino gave each other similar hard looks before Naruto stepped to the side. "Please, come in Ino-chan." The Yamanaka gave a short bow before entering the apartment before Naruto closed the door. "What is it that you wanted to talk about?"

"Well, it's actually two things," Ino responded while slowly scanning her eyes over every detail of the apartment that she could see. She spun around to look directly at Naruto before speaking again. "One: Who was that woman that was with you at the open-air hotspring, and two: What happened to that chunin that was just standing in front of your door just a few moments ago?"

Naruto's demeanor suddenly took a more serious look. "You saw her? You saw everything?"

Ino could not prevent the blush that had appeared on her face. She slowly nodded her head.

"Then I am very sorry to do this to you Ino-chan." Naruto said solemnly. Ino looked at him in confusion before a web of black tentacles wrapped around her waist, limps and mouth. Her eyes widened instantly and gotten to grow larger as she saw countless other black tentacles slowly reach and crawl across the walls, floor and ceiling of Naruto's apartment.

"After all, we did think that you were pretty cute." Naruto spoke grimly as several tentacles slowly sprouted out of his chest and slowly moved towards Ino, who continued to try and plea through the tentacle around her mouth. "We don't really want to have to do this, but we also can't risk you telling anyone about what we are." His tentacles slowly split into several eyeless jaws as they slowly approached the captive blond.

One of the jaw-ed tentacles was about to close down on Ino's throat when a voice from the bedroom caused Naruto to stop in the attempted murder. He and the female blond turned to see Empress in her full symbiotic form slowly saunter out of the bedroom without her robe on.

"We would appreciate it if you would not kill her right away, Lord Venom."

Empress spoke calmly as she approached the bound human female. Empress raised a clawed hand up and firmly grasped Ino's chin before forcibly moving it side to side; all the while looking at the human as if she was checking out the finer details of a half-price dress. Empress' two antennas slowly swung around until the very tips just barely touched Ino's forehead.

"She is one of those that can enter another's mind, correct?"

She asked Naruto without looking away from the girl.

"Yes, Lady Empress. Ino-chan here is from the Yamanaka clan. They excel in pretty much any and every field that involves the human psychi. From what I know, the clan is relatively small with Ino-chan's father being the current leader. They own a great flowershop that sells some of the best plants you could ever find." Naruto ended in a sort of half paying attention manner.

"Hmm, interesting."

Empress said more to herself then anyone else. She took note of the scent of fear reeking off of Ino along with her whimpers of terror and her tears as well. She looked deeply into the blonde's terror filled eyes searching for something that neither of the two blondes had a clue of.

After a few moments of silence, Empress spoke up. "Your name is Ino?" She said directly at the blond. All Ino could do was give a shacking nod after Empress had removed her hand from the girl's face. Empress turned her head so that she could see Naruto, "Lord Venom, would you kindly bring us the jar with the orange-red symbiote?"

Naruto nodded before dashing into his bedroom and quickly returning with said jar. Ino watched in fear as Naruto handed the female monster the jar, who proceeded to hold the glass container in front of the girl. Empress gazed through the jar and looked directly into Ino's blue eyes before chuckling, "We think that Ino is such an unattractive name for such an adorable child," Empress gently set the jar down in between two of the many black tentacles that covered Naruto's apartment floor before slowly unscrewing the top off the jar. "We think that you will find the name Sister oh so much more attractive."

The orange-red blob slowly forced its way out of the top of the jar and slowly crawled towards Ino. The young girl was now trying to scream as loudly as possible while fighting against her bonds. But it was no use as the blob slowly traveled up the tentacle holding her left leg and made contact with her ninja class sandal. The second that the slow moving mass touched Ino's smooth skin, it's movements increased dramatically. The mass started to spread across her body from her foot up to her leg.

While Ino was being slowly bonded to a symbiote, Naruto looked over to his matriarch. "Lady Empress, if I may ask, why are you giving Ino-chan a symbiote?" He asked.

"Call it an experiment, Lord Venom. We want to see how Ino's abilities will effect a symbiote. Even if her mental techniques are not limited by blood, her chakra has become specifically tuned to the use of those techniques. Therefore, she might as well have a blood line since Sister will absorb all of the girl's chakra."

Empress explained without taking her eyes off Ino and Sister.

As the symbiote crawled along Ino's body, it began to change her. Her feet had changed into singular claws with a sharp slate of bone protruding from the bottom. This made her feet look similar to a pair of ice skates. Her legs became covered in bony ridges with a wicked looking, upward facing spike on each of her knees. Her waist slimmed down a bit while her chest cavity became completely exposed through her skin. Her arms became covered in the same bony ridges as her legs, ending at her wrists. On the back of each of her wrists, Sister grew a very long, very thing and very sharp retractable spike. Naruto thought that the spines look way too similar to a doctor's medical syringe. Ino's hair was turned from platinum blond to a fiery orange and wrapped itself around her head, completely hiding all of her head except for her right eye. Said eye grew until it took up most of the right side of her head before it became completely circular and totally white.

Finally, after Sister had completely possessed the young Yamanaka, her body became completely limp.

Empress looked over at Naruto once again, "Would you kindly let Sister go?" She asked in a sweet tone. Naruto gave a nod before commanding his home to let the symbiote go. He had expected her body to just fall to the floor; instead she landed rather gracefully on her hands and knees before slowly standing on her skate-like feet. She turned her helmet-like head towards her leader and gave a low, echoing groan. While Naruto had no clue as to what the groan meant, Empress gave a pleased smile before speaking up again. "Ah, it is such a grand thing when a forced bonding goes well." She sighed in a too-pleased tone. Sister gave another low groan as a response.

Just then, the rest of the symbiotes came waltzing in along with Baby riding atop her mamma's head, sans the unnamed symbiotes that had accompanied Empress to the tower in the Forest of Death. Payback and Revenge gave respectful bows to their leader and gave nods of acknowledgment to Sister.

"It is a pleasure to see you again, Lord Venom."

Revenge's monotone voice reached Naruto's ear. "We do hope that you are doing well and that you are eating a much healthier diet then when we had first met." Naruto gave her a smile and make a remark about his still unhealthy eating habits, but the symbiotic queen interrupted him.

"Lord Venom."

Empress addressed Naruto, "Would you please come with us? We have much to discuss plus a meeting with this villages council." Surprised, but not about to refuse his Queen, Naruto allowed Empress to return to her naked human form. He had the decency to blush and avert his eyes while the nude Empress put on her hooded robe. Before the two left for their destination, Naruto thought it a good idea to hide his extra arms by criss-crossing them against his back. Naruto had to admit, have double-jointed arms was pretty neat; it was just an added bonus that they replaced any need for a sword of any kind.

Just before the two left the small apartment, Naruto caught a glimpse of Samus whispering something to Sister while having a very mischievous gleam in her eye. Naruto could already tell that he was not going to like it when he returned home. He closed his door behind him after he and Annette had left the apartment and he silently followed close behind her as she lead him to their destination.

"The big daddies and the other symbiote guards left when they saw that they were not needed any longer," Annette said as she walked. Remembering how Annette had entered the tower earlier brought a question to Naruto's young mind.

"Um, Lady Empress why did you have so many guards with you when your arrived this time instead of just Payback and Revenge?" He asked.

Annette turned her head so that she could see Naruto before giving the boy a smile. "We like to make big entrances." She replied simply. Naruto gave his leader a deadpanned look before shaking his at Annette's simple-minded antic. He would have expected that sort of response from Samus, not the blond leader.

The two eventually arrived at the Hokage's tower and made their way past the receptionist and directly towards the council meeting room. "Would you kindly wait out here for just a moment Lord Venom?" Annette asked. Naruto did as was commanded and waited just outside the door after the woman walked in and closed the door. Naruto tried to listen in on the conversation happening on the other side of the door, but the sound proof walls prevented even the smallest sound to be heard. So all Naruto could do was wait patiently.

After only a few minutes of waiting, the door swung open and Naruto heard the Hokage's voice call him inside. Naruto did as he was told and saw that the only people in the large council meeting room was Annette, the Hokage and the other two oldest people of the council. Naruto had no clue what their names' were and personally could not care less. There was also another old man with long, spiky white hair wearing a red sage-style outfit with a large scroll strapped to his back. The old man was leaning casually against the wall.

The Konohagakure elders looked down at the boy before looking back at the symbiote leader. "You sure you want someone like him to be the full time ambassador?" The aged woman nearly screamed at both her old teammate and Annette.

Sarutobi just gave a shrug. "I don't see why you're getting so worked up Koharu-san. I think young Uzumaki-kun here would make an excellent ambassador of Konoha with Lady Empress's village." He said with a smirk.

"We have already had a talk with our village's elders and they think that it would be a grand idea to have Naruto-kun here represent our two homes." Annette said softly.

Koharu then turned to the old white-haired guy. "Jiraiya-sama please say something!" She then looked at her other aged teammate "Homura-kun! Please speak up if you have anything to say!"

Said old man simply replied with a, "I trust in Jiraiya-sama's decision making. My answer will be the same as his." Now all eyes were on the aged sage.

Jiraiya calmly looked at the boy for a few moments before lazily getting off the wall and casually walking over to Naruto. Jiraiya looked down at Naruto; Naruto looked up at Jiraiya.

The old sage knelt down until he was at eye level with Naruto and firmly grasped the boy's shoulders. "You are going into uncharted territory, son." He said with the most stern, serious face Naruto had ever seen on a person. "We want you to come back safe and sound with a lot of information about our ally's home village. It would also benefit us greatly if you get several nude pictures of the village women and include in your report on the breast sizes of the women." His face never changed from its serious look.

The three other old council members could only sweatdrop at the sage's perverted antic while Naruto tried to slowly back away from the creepy pervert. Annette gave an amused giggle, "Have no worries Jiraiya-sama. We doubt that Naruto-kun will have any problem getting the attention of our village's women." She then bent down and wrapped the boy in a giant hug. "Who could resist a cute face like this?" She suddenly gushed.

Naruto's face turned a slight red before he quickly turned and left the room without saying a single word. The sounds of the Hokage chuckling followed his leave. Feeling that he was no longer needed at the Hokage Tower, Naruto decided to head over to the hospital to check on Hinata and see how she was feeling.

It took Naruto a little while to sneak past all of the hospital's personnel since most of them still did not like the blonde kid that much. He was able to find Hinata's room by her scent that he had memorized to heart since being around her so much as little kids.

He snuck into the unlocked room and saw Hinata sitting up in her bed with a thick purple and pink book in hand. She was so into the book that she failed to notice Naruto sneaking closer and closer to her; a large grin plastered on his face. He slowly approached until he was directly beside her and just as slowly placed his head on the very edge of Hinata's shoulder and just continued to smile largely. His smile probably would have been wiped clean off his face if he actually took a look at what the book was about.

Instead, Naruto blow a small stream of out of his mouth and onto Hinata's ear. This caused the girl to turn her head to face Naruto, who was still smiling largely. She blinked once, twice, thrice before letting out a surprised squeak and nearly falling out of the hospital bed. Naruto laughed his ass off. Hinata's frightened expression turned into a semi-mad pout when she saw it was only Naruto.

Naruto's laughter slowly died down but he could not help the small chuckle he released when he saw Hinata's mad face. "I'm happy to see that your awake Hinata-chan. Are you feeling any better?" Naruto asked with a mirthful smile.

Hinata's mad face was quickly exchanged with a small smile. "Yes, Naruto-kun. My chest still hurts a bit every now and then, but the doctors were able to stop the bleeding and fix up most of my blocked chakra-points." Naruto smiled at the news. "But I'm going to be staying here for most of the month since I still have damage to my heart and some of my vital chakra-points are not working exactly as they should be."

Naruto's smile slowly faded away and turned into a growling snarl. 'It's all Neji's fault that Hinata-chan is in so much pain. It's his fault that Hinata-chan has no confidence. It is all Neji's fault. And we will make him pay!'