Disclaimer: Still don't own Naruto.
-Last time-
'Please don't let it be- of course.' He winced. ''It had to be her.' He thought.
Hinata looked at the two boys in front of her, one looking at the ground and the other looking at her sadly. "What's going on Naruto?" She asked, not understanding what she had just seen.
'How can he be able to do that if he said he barely knew the basics?' Hinata thought, finding the situation confusing.
Naruto sighed before steeling his resolve. "Hinata… we need to talk." Naruto said, subtly pushing Shinwai in front of him. 'And I need a body shield.' Naruto thought, fearing Hinata's reaction to the news he was about to tell her.
-Hidden Base-
"What does the spy have to report? Kakuzu asked to the young Hyuuga girl in front of him.
"Neji has found that Naruto has a young boy with a bloodline limit, along with my older sister, living with him right now." Hanabi said, not making eye contact with her tormenter.
"Do you have anything else to report?" Kakuzu asked, wondering what his protégé had been doing, and why his reports were behind.
"Neji said that he was also talking to the heirs to the Nara and Akamichi clans." Hanabi stated.
Kakuzu's eyes narrowed as he processed this information. "You may go." He said coldly.
Hanabi raced out of the room, glad to be away from the immortal.
'What is that boy planning?' Kakuzu thought to himself, his eyes narrowing, mildly aggravated with his apprentice. "The boy was to send all allies here." Kakuzu stood and walked out of the room abruptly. 'I'll need him tailed from now on.' Kakuzu thought, a smirk forming on his face as he went through the complex, arriving at a small gravesite. Quickly running through handsigns, he slammed his hand into the ground. "HEART PUPPET JUTSU!" He shouted, pouring his chakra into the grave. Slowly, a black tendril sucked into the grave, requiring all of Kakuzu's focus. The tendril, embedded in the body beneath the surface, slowly pushed a heart into the dead man's body. Kakuzu fell back, drained of chakra from the jutsu, as a hand shot out from the ground, followed by an old man.
Kakuzu stood up, panting heavily as he smirked at the old man dressed in Samurai armor, who was attempting to fight off Kakuzu's influence over him. "It's no use Samurai." Kakuzu said smugly, watching the old man's will breaking. "You are to tail Naruto Uzumaki and assess whether or not he is a threat to our future assault on Konoha. If he is, you must eliminate him and his conspirators." Kakuzu said, before turning around and going back in, leaving the old Samurai to head off on his own.
-With Naruto-
Naruto and Shinwai carried a tied up, struggling Hinata into the house. Hinata tried screaming from behind her gag, but failed miserably to make a loud enough noise to garner attention. "Shinwai, get the door." Naruto said in a commanding voice. Shinwai dropped Hinata's legs and headed to the door, shutting and locking it before slapping a seal tag on it. Hinata took advantage of her feet being free of Shinwai's grasp and channeled chakra to her feet before slamming them into Naruto's… private parts.
Naruto's eyes bugged out of his head as he felt the full fury of the jyuuken. He fell to the ground, gasping for air before blacking out. "Nii-San!" Shinwai shouted, running over to check on Naruto. 'Wait, what happened to-' Shinwai's last thought was cut short as a jyuuken blow hit him in the forehead, knocking him out.
Naruto came to with a blinding headache, and a throbbing pain in his second head. "He tried to move his hands to block the light from the window, only to find that he couldn't move. He cracked his eyes open and craned his head and saw Shinwai beside him, unconscious and tied up, with a chakra tag of Naruto's own creation. 'Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.' Naruto thought, knowing he'd be tied up exactly as Shinwai was, except with more seal tags, making it virtually impossible to escape. Naruto looked down at the floor and saw all his plans strewn across the floor.
"Looks like I've got some explaining to do." Naruto said with a sarcastic smirk.
"I would appreciate that." The oddly cold voice of Hinata Hyuuga came from the doorway; she had just walked back into the room, her normally angelic features marred by an angry look. Naruto winced as he looked over at her, his eyes full of regret, and sorrow.
"Hey Hinata." He said; his normally loud voice hushed. 'Wow, real smooth Naruto.' He mentally kicked his own ass. Naruto looked at her from the corner of the wall he was leaned against with Shinwai. Hinata looked at him with a hint of disgust in her eyes.
"When you're ready to tell me what all of this is, or how to get out of this house, I'll bring you something to eat." Hinata said; her voice harsher than Naruto had ever heard it. She walked out of the room, slamming the door on her way out.
'Oh I fucked up big-time.' Naruto thought, knowing this was only the beginning of her anger towards him. 'I wonder how long I can hold out against her torturing me.' Naruto thought, blanching at his next thought. 'What if she decides to interrogate me while she's on her period?' Naruto started sweating bullets as he pushed off the wall and head butted Shinwai repeatedly, trying to wake up the boy.
"W-what is it?" Shinwai asked, still half asleep.
"Shinwai, get me these seal tags off of me now." Naruto hissed.
Shinwai tried to move his arms, finding them tied behind his back. "How?" He asked.
Naruto thought about that for a moment before an idea came to him. "Try biting them off." He whispered, praying to Jashin that Hinata wasn't standing outside of the door. Shinwai leaned over towards Naruto, grabbing the seal tag on his arm between his teeth. Jerking his head back, he ripped the tag off of Naruto's arm.
Naruto snapped the bindings on his arm and reached over to his other arm, ripping off the seal tag placed on his upper right arm. Reaching down, he took the two seal tag on his legs off, along with the three on his stomach. Naruto stood up and stretched quickly before reaching down and ripping the seal tag off of Shinwai's chest and snapping the wires that banded his little brothers arms together.
"Alright Shinwai, we have to restrain Hinata." Naruto whispered to his young student as he went and stood by the door.
Shinwai frowned as he looked at his Nii-san. "Why?" He asked, not totally understanding the situation as he looked at files on the ground, all of which were no big deal to him, seeing as he had already known what Naruto's plans were.
Naruto sweat dropped as he looked at his younger brother, utter disbelief on his face.
"Really Shinwai, you don't know why?" Naruto asked, looking at his little brother, disbelief visible on his face. Shinwai shook his head, a huge smile on his face.
"I don't have time for games Shinwai, just get on the other side of the door.' Naruto deadpanned, refusing to let Shinwai goad him.
'Nii-san's no fun.' Shinwai thought, sighing as he trudged towards the right side of the door, getting ready to jump Hinata if she came into the room.
-Hinata-
Hinata stood on the other side of the door, listening to their conversation, anger, sadness, and self loathing filled her. 'How could I fall for him pretending to care about me?' She thought to herself, tears of frustration running down her face. 'I should've known no one cared about me.' Her faced hardened as she turned the doorknob, ready to fight off the two boys. She swung the door open, slamming it into Naruto's face, breaking his nose and causing a few of his teeth to loosen.
-Naruto-
Naruto fell back, his nose gushing blood as Hinata came flying into the room, sending Shinwai flying into the wall with a well-placed jyuuken strike to the chest, knocking him out cold. Naruto jumped back as Hinata spun around the open door and attempted to slam her palm into his temple. "Calm down Hinata, we can talk about this." Naruto hastily put his hands up in a non-threatening gesture, hoping to placate Hinata's temper, even if just for a moment. Hinata threw her arm forward, hitting Naruto in his left arm. Naruto jumped away from the girl, clutching his now useless arm. Hinata came charging at Naruto, and as he flipped over her, he noticed something odd about her eyes.
'She's crying?' Naruto was bewildered. 'Why is she crying?' Naruto landed, ducking under another jyuuken strike as he attempted to figure out what could be wrong.
Rolling to the side, Naruto's face hardened, knowing what he had to do. He jumped out of the way of the next to jyuuken strikes, completely unfazed. Naruto sneered as he stood to his full height, ready to fight. "Is this the best you can do?" He asked mockingly, "How sad for the Hyuuga clan." He gave a cold, harsh laugh as he looked at her, readying himself for a fight.
'There, now that she's angrier, once she makes a mistake, I can capture her and tell her the truth.' Naruto thought, praising himself for his brilliance.
-Hinata-
Naruto rolled to the side, completely avoiding her jyuuken blows. Doubling her efforts, she ran at him as he came to a stop, determined to knock him out. 'I can do this!' She thought to herself, trying to stop the tears in her eyes from blocking her vision. She threw another jyuuken strike, but Naruto jumped out of the way, completely unfazed.
Naruto sneered as he stood to his full height, ready to fight. "Is this the best you can do?" He asked her mockingly, "How sad for the Hyuuga clan." He gave a cold, harsh laugh as he looked at her, readying himself for a fight.
Hinata heard Naruto criticize her, and the fight left her completely. Standing behind Naruto, Hinata imagined her Father, her cousin Neji, and her littler sister Hanabi, all mocking her alongside him. Hinata stopped fighting her tears and broke down, crumpling to a heap on the floor, sobbing. 'They were all right.' She thought to herself, unable to stop the sobs wracking her body. 'I'm useless.'
-Naruto-
Naruto was bewildered. He never expected Hinata to do what she was doing now in a fight. 'Could this be some kind of trap?' Completely unaware of what was wrong with Hinata.
"Hey Dumbass." A voice came from the back of Naruto's mind, trying to get his attention.
"What?" He asked, mildly annoyed that Kyuubi would aggravate him at a time like this.
"Try comforting her, Baka." The giant Kitsune coached from the back of Naruto's mind.
"Okay, okay. Jashin." Naruto thought. Naruto walked over to the crying girl and awkwardly knelt down, patting her on the back. "There there?" He said lamely, attempting to comfort her and keep a safe distance simultaneously.
Naruto sighed exasperatedly as Hinata shrank away from him, sobbing even harder. 'What in the name of Jashin could've happened that made her this much of an emotional wreck?' He thought, still unable to find a way to stop the girl in front of him from crying when a sudden idea came to him. 'I'M A GENIUS!' Naruto crowed inside of his mind. "Listen Hinata, if you don't stop crying, I'll have to end up sacrificing you to Jashin-Sama." He said cheerily, immediately knowing he'd said the wrong thing when Hinata looked up at him, horrified. "Uh… I mean… I love you?" Naruto looked at her sheepishly, trying to find some way to make up for his folly. Hinata looked at him, puzzled for a second.
Naruto looked back at her, sweating profusely, his face red with embarrassment. "I-I mean- I." Naruto stammered; trying to cover up his newest blunder before a well placed jyuuken strike hit him in the center of the chest, followed by another four to the stomach, two to the face, and one to the groin. Naruto groaned in pain, his eyes crossing before he fell forward, on top of Hinata, unconscious.
-Hinata-
Hinata eeped in surprise as Naruto's unconscious body fell on top of her, his face pressing against her breasts as she fell onto her back, his weight too much for her to hold.
Her face started turning redder and redder as Naruto unconsciously rubbed his face against her breast, mumbling lightly. Hinata took one last look at the boy resting his face in her cleavage before passing out.
-Shinwai-
Shinwai moaned weakly, sitting up and rubbing his jaw. "Nii-San, what hit me?" He whined, touching his bruised nose gingerly and wincing in pain as it throbbed. Looking around, he saw his Nii-San, unconscious on top of Hinata. Shinwai looked at the two, shocked. 'She must've been really strong to knock out Nii-San like that.' He thought, unable to believe that the girl he'd observed earlier in school, who he thought was meek and had low confidence in herself. 'What should I do now?' He thought; confused as to what to do now.
Shinwai looked out the one-way window, spotting Ichiraku's ramen stand, subconsciously licking his lips. Shinwai walked purposely over to Naruto's unconscious body, pulling his wallet out of his back pocket. Shinwai ran out of the house, Naruto's wallet in his hands. 'I'm gonna have so much fun!' He thought giddily, running to Ichiraku's.
-Naruto-
Naruto groaned weakly, shaking his head to try and dispel his headache. 'If I get hit with that damn jyuuken one more time, I'm going to kick someone's teeth in' Naruto thought angrily before opening his eyes, Hinata's face immediately coming into his sight.
Naruto blushed lightly, realizing his position, slowly getting up and away from the unconscious girl.
He got up, sitting on Hinata's side and looking down at her, a small, peaceful smile on his face. 'She is really beautiful though.' He thought to himself, slowly leaning over and kissing her forehead lovingly. Naruto's eyes opened wide in shock as he heard a cough. He leapt back, forcing himself into a defensive stance, only to see Shinwai standing in the doorway, a giant stick of cotton candy in one hand and Naruto's empty wallet in the other. "I miss something Nii-San?" Shinwai asked innocently.
Naruto coughed, trying to by some time to come up with an excuse.
"Need a moment?" The Kyuubi asked from within the seal. "Chew it over with Twix." The Kitsune smirked as his container raged against him. 'What in the name of Jashin is a Twix?' Naruto screamed at the giant Kitsune through the seal.
"Nii-San?" Shinwai asked curiously. "You okay?" He took a cautious step towards his older brother in all but blood.
Naruto shook his head. "Huh? Oh, I'm fine Shinwai, just arguing with the voices in my head" Naruto smiled sheepishly as Shinwai nodded, buying what his brother told him.
"So, why were you kissing Hinata-san?" Shinwai asked; a mischievous smile on his face.
"I was taking her temperature." Naruto lied feebly, trying to save face, sighing happily as Shinwai bought it.
"Okay." Shinwai said, walking out of the room, taking a big bite out of his cotton candy.
'Why on earth did I kiss her?' Naruto thought to himself, confused as to why he felt like he did for Hinata. It was a weird feeling, and he couldn't really pinpoint where it started, but every time he saw her, he felt it.
"It starts in your toes, makes you crinkle your nose, wherever goes, you always know, that she makes you smile-" Kyuubi sang before being interrupted by Naruto
'FOR THE LOVE OF JASHIN, SHUT UP!' He screamed at the Kyuubi, trying to suppress his blush. 'I'm trying to figure out what the hell I'm going to do about this!'
"Isn't it obvious boy?" Kyuubi smirked, baiting Naruto "What you need to know is that you and her ain't nothing but mammals so you need to do it like they do on the Discovery-"
'THAT IS ENOUGH!' Naruto screamed at the fox. 'I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU GET TV RECEPTION IN THEIR, OR YOUR CREEPY DISCOVERY CHANNEL, BUT I SWEAR TO JASHIN, ONE MORE SONG AND I WILL NOT REST UNTIL YOU LOSE YOUR TV RECEPTION!' Naruto screamed at Kyuubi.
"Jeeze… bitch." Kyuubi grumbled before shutting itself away, cutting off all communication with Naruto.
'Finally.' Naruto thought, relieved. 'Now what am I gonna go about Hinata-Hime?' Naruto contemplated, looking back at Hinata, a soft; lovingly look gracing his features, along with a slight blush. Naruto shook his head as he looked away from Hinata and over towards the door, spotting his wallet on the floor. 'That little, thieving brat.' Naruto thought, a small smirk on his face as he picked up his empty wallet.
Naruto sighed before putting his wallet into his back pocket. He walked back to Hinata, squatting down and sliding his arms under her and lifting her with a light grunt. Looking down at her, Naruto couldn't keep a small, dopey little grin off of his face.
'My little Tenshi.' Naruto thought before shaking his head again to clear his thoughts. 'Where in the name of Jashin did that come from?' Naruto put Hinata in her room, tucking her in and leaving the room, utterly confused as he shut and locked her door. 'Am I getting reverse Stockholm syndrome?' He thought to himself, not understanding why he was blushing every time he looked at her. 'I'll have to ask Kakuzu about it in one of my messages.' He dismissed his emotions quickly, before a horrified look took over his features. 'Oh My Jashin. THE REPORTS!' Naruto ran to his room, trying to think of everything he could throw into a few reports to get out to Hidan or Kakuzu. 'My ass is toast!'
A/N: Sometimes, your muse just hits you like a Dodge. Which is a hilarious way to get your muse back, I feel. Painful, but effective. Hopefully, I'll be updating again pretty soon. Until then, I don't own Twix, Bubbly by Colbie Caillat, or the Bad Touch by The Bloodhound Gang. Though my Ipod says differently.
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