Chapter Five: WHUUUUUUUAAAT

The gang had been beaten senseless with the boring stick and even what Shikamaru was doing (sleeping…did you expect him to river dance) seemed interesting. Ino and Sakura were trying to come up with an idea. They had gone to the beach everyday so it wasn't anything special. They were both fighting over who had the better idea of a fun beach game to play and Keiji decided that he'd had enough of it.

"Shut up both of you," he shouted. "You're giving me more acid reflex disease than my damn breakfast."

"It's nearly noon," said Ino

"Did I ask for the time? I could have sworn you just assumed that I didn't know the time. Breakfast for me is when I freakin' feel like it. If you two are really bored then why don't you go into town and shop?"

"I thought the only city near here was 50 miles away," said Sakura.

"We're near the beach, why the hell would there be no town near a place begging for prime real estate. You can see the town out of the window, did you both eat a bowl of retarded for breakfast. Where the hell is the sake?"

Ino looked at Sakura and the two made plans for the gang to go out into the village. These plans, unfortunately, called for Keiji to chaperone the trip. Luck was on the two kunoichi's side as Anko also wanted to go. She used the ultimate topic to get him to agree, shopping for sexy outfits. This got his to almost everything. It worked better than her fists did.

Naruto and Hinata walked into shop after shop, just looking for gifts for each other. They walked down an alley to find Anko walking Keiji. The two were laughing and kissing each other as they walked into a place that looked like a hotel, but was called The One Night Stand. Naruto knew what type of hotel it was and could tell Hinata knew to by the way she was blushing. Naruto then decided that it was time to take a step forward in their relationship. He dragged a reluctant Hinata to the hotel of erotic desire.

"Naruto, I don't think I'm ready," said Hinata.

"Don't worry, Hinata," said Naruto."We're only going to spy on the two and take a picture of them in more intimate positions."

Hinata sighed as Naruto pulled out the camera and said, "Don't you think they'd kill us if they found out."

"Don't worry; I'll hold them off while you run."

"But what about you?"

"The only thing I care about is you being safe, Hinata," said Naruto putting his arms around her as he rested his chin on her head. She smelled nice, a lot like angels would smell like. He felt safe in this warmth that was her love for him. It made the sun seem as cold as a winter night and the only warmth that could sustain his life was hers.

"Naruto-kun," said Hinata. Her words were like a redeeming light that brought him back from the pain. The sirens song may have been better, but it would have never captured his heart like the sound of her spoken words.

A minute later, the two walked up to a room where they think they had heard Anko moaning. They went onto the fire escape to get outside the window of the room where they were positive Anko and Keiji were in bed together in. They peeked into the window to see Anko on top of Keiji, rubbing on his naked chest. Naruto had felt disappointed that they had missed the show. Then Anko looked at Keiji with serious eye.

"Why did Tsunade let you bring all of us here," asked Anko. "It wasn't just to rain Naruto because then you could of done it without everyone else. What's your main reason for being here?"

"I'm now a suna ninja," said Keiji. "Before I was once a Konoha ninja, I had learned from all sorts of teachers and one of them was yours, Orochimaru. I was part of an experiment myself in which I had to give up my right arm so I could take on another one developed from the tissue of dead wolfs. I complied and was made even stronger, but I didn't know at the time what he would do with my arm. Orochimaru used my right arm to transform a drop out from the ninja academy named Kuwabarra, into me. It worked perfectly except that the clone was psychotic, killing people for fun. He's now been working for a man named Shishiwaka, someone who we know used to finance the Akatsuki. I was sent in by Lord Gaara to locate Kuwabarra and take him out using any means necessary.

"I happened to be asking Tsunade-sama for a chance to bring you along for the vacation training, but she wouldn't allow me to do it without doing her a favor. Luck would have it that what she had in mind was the exact same thing I was ordered to do. I then asked for others to come along, people who Naruto would be familiar with and people who would be useful to my plans. I got it all, they don't call her the legendary sucker for nothing. So are we clear on our objectives Naruto. I know you and Hinata are hiding on the fire escape to try and take pictures of us doing it, you pathetic loser."

Anko saw a surprised Naruto and Hinata appear outside the window. Naruto looked horrified at Anko, whom he fully expected to come at him with a katana or a pair of kunai. Naruto apologized to both Keiji and Anko before he picked up Hinata and jumped off the fire escape.

"There he goes, the troublemaker," said Anko sighing. Then realization hit her like a brick. "You knew they were out there the whole time and you just let them watch me do all that stuff to you."

"They missed out on our warm up and besides I needed Naruto to know our true mission."

"What do you mean by warm up," asked Anko, a devilish smile crossing her face.

"We have about an hour before we have to catch up with them and beat the shit out of Naruto. I wonder what we should do to pass the time. Any suggestions, I 'm open to most."

Naruto noticed Gaara sitting at a restaurant talking to a cute girl with long flowing blue hair. They were chatting when Naruto and Hinata approached.

"Well here's the escape artist," said Naruto. He found that Gaara and everyone else for that matter, had cease to be amazed at how much Naruto had turned his volume down. He was still loud, but not most of the time.

"Don't blame me if you can't use your special vanishing jutsu like me," said Gaara. "I mean that should be second nature to you."

"I could of tripped Sasuke and ran while he got beat up," said Naruto. "I didn't because the only thing that was going through my mind was that certain death was coming for me and if I slowed even the slightest bit, then I would be killed. But anyway, that's all water under the bridge. Who is this friend of yours?"

"This is one of my subordinates, Yukimra Rukia, a talented weapons specialst," said Gaara. "She's not like Tenten who carries those scrolls with weapons in them. She decides what weapons should be recommended for what missions so we have weapons to be issued when needed."

"You two seem to be friendly," said Hinata. "Have you two been going out on dates?"

"We see each other now and then, but we've only just become close," said Rukia. "I used to be scared of Gaara, but then when he took over as Kazekage, I got to know him better."

"I know what you mean," said Naruto. "When I first met him, Gaara scared the shit out of me, especially his fight against Rock Lee. But then I realized that he and I were the same. We grew up in the same neighborhood, the same house, but I left that place, he stayed in it. He just needed someone to help him move away from that place."

It was at that time that Keiji and Anko arrived with the secret intent to beat the fuck out of Naruto. Naruto was, of course, oblivious to the dangers that walked towards him. Keiji greeted Gaara with a "Lord Gaara" and gave Rukia a formal greeting. Naruto brought the two new comers up to speed on what had been going on before they showed up.

"Hey Naruto can I talk to you about the private mission," asked Keiji.

"Sure," was the reply.

As Naruto and Keiji left to go to some dark abandoned alley, Gaara pieced together the missing bits of info. How I lost to a dobe like him I'll never know, thought Gaara. Hinata gave a worried look, but was somewhat relieved to find that Anko hadn't followed. It might be something else, like an actual discussion.

"He's going to beat the shit out of Naruto right," said Gaara. His suspicions were confirmed by a nod from Anko."What a baka."

After being beaten to a bloody pulp and being revived by his girlfriend, Naruto searched through various shops for something for Hinata. He found a person who made special kimonos for customers so he asked the tailor to make a kimono with a waterfall in the pale moonlight painting. The tailor told him to wait for two days. Naruto was certain that Hinata would like it seeing as how they both enjoyed looking at the moonlight and she loved waterfalls. He had asked her to wait outside while he ordered the surprise present. When he walked out he found her nowhere in sight. Panic reached up into his mind flooding his consciousness with images of men doing unspeakable acts of rape to her. A man in a business suit with black gloves on walked towards Naruto.

"If you value the girl's life then follow me," said the man in a cold tone of voice. Naruto knew he had no choice, but to follow the man. He lead him into a construction site (very original) filled with ninja's dressed in forest camouflage. Another man was standing there with slicked back black hair and a conservative black tuxedo. This was obviously Shishiwaka.

"You my boy, will be the bargaining chip we'll need against Keiji," said the man. "I'm Shishiwaka, but you can call me boss. If you want to make a profit out of this then cooperate, but keep in mind that if you don't your girl dies."

Naruto knew exactly what to do and how to do it. He moved quickly to the holding Hinata and slipped a kunai into the guy's chest. After grabbing Hinata he held her behind him while he fended off the attackers. Naruto moved faster than all of the ninja's combined, making this even easier. He then used a demonic jutsu to disappear in burst of flames with Hinata. He wound up behind Shishiwaka and without hesitation, Naruto knocked Shishiwaka out. The other ninja still moved towards even if their employer wasn't conscious or was in enemy hands.

"I guess he wasn't the big fish," said a voice. Naruto turned to see Keiji and Gaara standing on a beam while looking down on Naruto. "I guess Kuwabara is the root ofall this."

Gaara used sand coffin on half of the ninjas while Naruto pounded the rest into submission. It was question time and Shishiwaka had to answer for his mistakes. Naruto didn't care about that now, the only thing on his mind was focusing on was calming Hinata down. Ibiki would get the answers, but now Naruto wanted only to be with her.

Hinata had stopped shaking when they were in bed, but now Naruto was worried about Hinata's safety. Had he just exposed his most precious person to danger? Her eyes were open and looking into his eye and by extension his soul. He reached down and kissed her passionately, his tongue exploring the inner mysteries of her mouth. Lust was now driving the night, but would this intimate act bring them closer?