Hi I´m back! Sorry it took so long, I was on vacation with my friends so I couldn´t update. But I wrote new chapter for ya there :) Here it is…

Chapter five

Hinata fell asleep, but she woke up after a while. She couldn´t sleep. She got up and looked around the camp. Shikamaru was sleeping and Tenten too. Neji was lying next to Tenten, his arms wrapped around her waist carefully. Hinata smiled. She envied him sometimes. But in a good way. Naruto looked up at her.

"Hinata-chan? What are you doing? You should be asleep," he said.

"I´ll go for a walk," she replied and didn´t wait for his answer. She just turned her back to him and went to the forest.

Everyone says that Naruto is pretty dense, but even he could feel something was wrong with Hinata. She didn´t say his name and she even turned her back to him. She had never done that before. He decided to go after her and find out what´s going on.

Naruto searched the whole area but couldn´t find Hinata at all. Dammit, where did she go, he thought. Just when he was about to go back, he heard some sobs from the distance. He followed the noise and soon he found what he wanted to. Hinata was sitting on pretty high tree branch. That´s why Naruto didn´t see her before, he didn´t expect her to be that high. But there she was, crying.

Naruto thought:" Why is she crying? What happened? What should I do?" He started to panic. He was never in this kind of situation before. "Okay, calm down Naruto. What would Sakura do?" he said to himself. "She would try to comfort her somehow. Yosh, I can do it too!" was his last thought before he started to accumulate chakra into his feet. Then he started to climb the tree. He did it from the other side so Hinata couldn´t see him. He didn´t want her to run away when she saw him so he tried to climb the tree unnoticed. And he was successful. Just when he was about to speak to her, she turned her head to him. She shrieked a little and she lost her balance. She was going to fall and she knew it, but before she could two strong arm encircled her waist and pulled her up to Naruto´s chest. Hinata was blushing madly.

"N-Naruto-kun?" She tried to get up but his grip on her only tightened. He wasn´t going to let her go.

"Tell me why you were crying," he whispered softly in her ear. Hinata blushed even more, if it was humanly possible.

"I-it´s nothing, Naruto-kun. Y-you shouldn´t bother yourself with someone like me. I´m not worth it."

Naruto frowned. He was sure this was worth it.

"Hinata-chan, there´s no person in the world who´s not worth something. If you weren´t there today, I would be dead."

Hinata flinched at the memory. Suddenly, her tears began to flow again. Naruto started to panic again. He really didn´t know what to do. So he just acted like his instincts told him to. He embraced Hinata more tightly and asked he the same question again.

"Please tell me why you´re crying," he said. There was worry evident in his voice. "You know, you can trust me, Hinata-chan." Hinata knew it very well. She wanted to be alone before, but now, when Naruto was there, she was glad he came. She thought that maybe she will feel better if she tells him.

"O-okay, Naruto-kun. I-I just feel so bad. That ninja before…..I know it´s our job but I didn´t kill any person before..Well I did that time when we were twelve, but that was r-really different….He…j-just disappeared… but in this case, that person laid there in pool of blood…W-what if he had family and friends which are waiting for him?" She was totally broken. Naruto was stroking her hair absentmindedly. He was quiet for a while.

"You know, this really is our job. We have to fight for those we love. We have to protect good people. And these ninjas weren´t good at all. They killed a lot of innocent people and they had to be punished. Also, you didn´t have a chance. He would have killed me if you didn´t do what you did. I feel a little guilty that you´re sad now. You did it because of me. I´m sorry, Hinata-chan."

Hinata was startled. He felt guilty? There was no reason! She had to tell him that.

"Naruto-kun….it´s not your fault. It´s just me. I think I´m not suited to be a ninja after all," she said.

Naruto didn´t agree with her:" You´re wrong, Hinata-chan. You´re one of the strongest kunoichi I have ever met."

One simple tear escaped Hinata´s eye. But this time, it was tear of joy.

"Arigato, Naruto-kun….." With that she fell asleep in Naruto´s arms. Naruto cuddled her closer. He looked at her and smiled.

Naruto´s mind-

"She looks really pretty when she sleeps"

"Come on, kit, you like her don´t you?"

"Um…WHAT? Who are you anyway?"

"You don´t know? God, you´re really as dense as other people say. I´m Kyuubi."

"And what the hell are you doing in my mind?"

"Kit, you should already know that I´m part of you. I just came for a little talk."

"Little talk? What do you mean by that?"

"Okay it´s not a little talk. I came here to knock some sense into you. I can´t watch your stupid act anymore."

"Hey! I´m not stupid!"

"Oh yes you are. But I didn´t came here to tell you that. Let´s get back to the first subject. That girl."

"Hinata-chan? What about her? She´s my good friend."

"So you call her Hinata-chan? Looks like you did some progress at least. You really think you want her to be only your friend? She could be much more."

"What do you mean by only? I´m glad I have some friends at least. You know, thanks to you it´s little harder to befriend someone."

"Yeah I know, sorry about that. But don´t you want to have some girlfriend? You were running after that pinkie for so long…but now…nothing."

"You mean Sakura? Nah, I gave her up…I think I still like her, but more like sister."

"You did that right. But what about that girl that is sleeping on you currently? She is nice, beautiful and she has never smacked you on your head like that Sakura. I think she would be good mate."

"And you know what? I feel comfortable with her every time. She was always there for me…."

"You really like her kit! I knew it! I knew it!"

"I think I do….when you said it…but she surely doesn´t like me back."

"You don´t know that if you don´t ask. So ask her when she wakes up! Where´s your confidence? You just have to try it. I don´t want to waste my time anymore so I´ll go. But if you don´t try, I´ll hunt your dreams!"

With this Kyuubi disappeared.

"Looks like I don´t have a choice," thought Naruto.

TBC

I just had to do some Naruto-Kyuubi talk . I know Naruto acts so matured (even OOC) when he talks with Hinata but I needed him to be…

The good news is that this story is going to it´s ending. I think I´ll finish it in next chapter.

Until then have a nice day

Petrushkaa