Tomorrow

Summary: No longer a one shot. A multi chapter story where Kakashi and Hinata find themselves underestimating their enemy and falling prey to a little trick he plays on them. The trick come with consequences and feelings that neither are really sure they want to explore.

Disclaimer: Kishimoto is my surrogate father so I mean, that pretty much means that I own Naruto right? Right?! *cries in a corner* No, I do not own Naruto.

Also: I re-uploaded this chapter with just a couple of corrections. I didn't change much at all so don't worry if you think you missed out on something...chances are, you didn't .

Chapter Four: Advent

The morning brought progress.

The Copy-Nin woke up refreshed and ready to face the day after his short sleep and ruffled his hair into some semblance of normalcy as he rose to his feet.

The sun had just appeared over the horizon and was streaking the ground as it dodged branches, leaves and animals to make a myriad of shifting patterns along the forest floor. Pulling on his shoes and his fingerless gloves, Kakashi couldn't help but contemplate on the confusion that was Hyuuga Hinata. Once again he completely missed the beauty of the moment because of the dark haired woman sleeping on her side on the other side of the camp.

The Konoha shinobi tried to distract himself by eating his food and packing his things simultaneously but he still caught himself watching her while she slept. He silently chastised himself and turned his back on her in defiance to his own thoughts and was in the middle of deciding whether to wake her up or let her sleep when he heard her shifting about, slowly awakening.

Turning back to face her now open eyes, the Jounin hesitantly bid her good morning. Hinata blinked a few times, a little disoriented and he felt something in his stomach shift unpleasantly when he thought that they were back to the oppressive silence that had reigned between them for the last few days.

Should he be that surprised though? After, not only what had happened that night but, what had happened last night as well, who could blame her for being pissed off at him.

He almost started to apologise for breaking the silence but then a small, and barely there, smile spread across her lips as she returned his greeting. He was silent as he watched her get up and stretch as she rustled through her ration pack, bringing out her canteen and a small piece of meat.

"Good morning Hatake-san"

Thank Kami for small mercies; she was still talking to him.

After her bed roll was stashed away in her pack, Kakashi helped put the bag on her back and smiled at her as she turned to thank him but he didn't notice that he had inadvertently pushed the zipper down from the smallest pouch in the front of her bag where the vial was stashed, containing the drug that Kakashi had ingested.

"So I assume that we're headed for home now?"

The Copy-Nin was about to answer her, when she turned around to face him, with a nod or a hand gesture just from habit but quickly caught himself and hastily answered her. There was no way he was ruining the mood she was in by reverting back to old tendencies.

"Yeah," He paused, glancing around him, checking to see if they'd left anything behind, "Time to go home Hinata-san."

He smiled and quickly jumped up to the nearest branch and continued on his way back to Konoha when he heard her behind him. They were almost home, almost away from this horrible mission, almost away from each other.

For some reason, that didn't sound as good as it should have.

~~~*~~~

The full two hours that they had been charging for home Hinata had thought to interrupt her teammate twelve times now to fully explain and understand what had happened and what both felt but she could never quite get up the nerve. Firstly, because she wasn't sure of her own feelings, secondly, because she wasn't sure she wanted to hear his thoughts and lastly, she was, honestly, too scared to stop him.

He seemed so determined to get back home and that left her feeling a little empty.

The Hokage tower was coming up in their line of vision and the Hyuuga knew that it was now or never. She was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't see it coming when Kakashi suddenly stopped, dropping down to the ground almost making her lose him. After she had steadied herself behind him, Hinata's hand was halfway to one of her kunai's, eyes wide searching for the threat when Kakashi turned around nonchalantly, running a hand through his silver hair.

"We have a guest Hinata-san"

The Hyuuga heiress didn't even have a moment to collect her thoughts when she was bombarded by a big white ball of fur attached to a wet snout. The familiarity of it was the only thing saving it from having a kunai embedded into his stomach.

"Akamaru!" She squealed, half in surprise and half in joy that the awkwardness between herself and her teammate was somewhat disseminated by the big dog and his friend and owner.

"Oi! Akamaru!" Shouted a familiar and welcome voice, "Don't terrorise poor Hinata."

"It's ok Kiba-kun," she managed to say between the licks that her extra teammate bestowed upon her, "He just missed me."

She carefully but forcefully pushed the huge dog down off of her not noticing the vial drop from her open pouch.

"We're just going home Kiba-kun, where are you headed too?"

The young Inuzaka grinned widely at the Hyuuga, "Me and Akamaru are off for a solo mission. Can't say much but I'll only be off for a day."

Hinata watched as Kiba's expression turned from one of joy at seeing her to a more serious one when he turned from her to look curiously at Kakashi.

'Oh please Kami, please, don't notice anything.'

Kiba scratched his tattooed cheek and nodded to Kakashi lightly, "Hatake-san, I hope you had a successful mission."

The Jounin was about to open his mouth when the young shinobi turned excitedly back to his teammate, completely throwing any reply Kakashi might have given into the air, "What are you doing tomorrow Hinata? We could have lunch and maybe meet up with Shino when he gets back."

The pale-eyed woman put her hand to her neck, making sure that the bandage was covering the mark and looked quickly to Kakashi and saw his mouth twitch in annoyance at being so casually forgotten. His eyes met hers and she felt herself waiting for...what? Permission?

Turning away from him swiftly, she couldn't control the blush that seemed to frame her face so brightly before she quickly replied to Kiba who, by now, was looking at her curiously as well.

"H-hai," she stuttered out, closing her eyes and forcing herself to calm down, trying not to focus on the two set of eyes regarding her. One, suspiciously and the other, she was sure, with annoyance, "I would like that Kiba-kun, I'll meet you at our training ground.

"Well," spoke Kakashi, obviously trying to salvage the situation and interrupting Kiba from asking anymore questions, "We should keep going." He gestured to the young heiress, trying to meet her eyes but failing as she stared resolutely at her feet, "We need to meet with Tsunade."

Kiba nodded, still glancing at his teammate, rubbing Akamaru's ears while he did, "Sure, I'll see you tomorrow Hinata." The Inuzaka walked up to her and sniffed her neck as he gave her a brief hug. Hinata grimaced and pleaded with every deity she had ever known that Kakashi's scent would be gone from her. Her tattooed friend smiled slyly at her, "And you really need a shower Hinata, you smell too much like Hatake-san." He paused, enjoying the blush starting to race along her cheeks, "What did you do, sleep in the same bed or something?"

He didn't even get a reply before he heard a small cry and could only watch as she jumped up into the branches and made her way back home at a frantic pace. Turning back to Kakashi, who was regarding him very carefully, he shrugged, "Was it something I said?"

The Copy-Nin smiled at him before lifting his hand in the air in farewell and followed behind the Hyuuga leaving the young nin standing on the forest floor looking after them with strange expression on his face. Hearing the soft footfalls fade away the tattooed boy turned to look at his dog but was distracted by a shiny object that Akamaru had started to sniff at.

Whipping it up, Kiba turned the vial around in his hands and thought about going after the two shinobi that had just left but thought better of it. Putting it into his own bag, he thought about giving it back to the Hyuuga when he saw her tomorrow. If it was that big of a deal he was sure that Hinata would have secured it better in her own pack.

Turning to face north-west, the Inuzaka signalled to his dog and leapt back into the trees to complete his mission as quickly as he could so he could head back home all the faster.

~~~*~~~

Hinata couldn't stop running.

She was sure that Kiba didn't know, he wouldn't have been so carefree if he had really known how accurate his statement was but the thought that he might have known was enough to make her run. If she had known that she would meet up with him in the forest then she would have been sure to scrub herself clean of Kakashi's scent. She had underestimated her old teammate's sense of smell and she felt that she was going to pay for it when he got back from his mission.

Slowing down, the Hyuuga heiress could hear the Jounin coming up from behind and decided to wait for him, her mini meltdown receding at the thought of almost being home.

The silver haired ninja stopped right behind her and grabbed the wide eyed woman's arm, turning her around to meet him face on.

"Before we go any further Hinata-san, I think we need to sort out some things."

Hinata simply stared at the Konoha nin. She had no idea what to say, he wanted to talk about it now? He obviously wanted to get their story straight but she just wanted to get home after her run in with Kiba. Her feelings were completely jumbled and she needed to sort out her own thoughts before they discussed anything. If she had to think about it now she wasn't sure how she would deal with it.

And those damn words he had spoken to her before came back to her again.

I would never never...

The Hyuuga shook her head, trying to get the words, and the hurtful emotions they brought up, out of her head.

"No Hatake-san, there's no need. After we've told Tsunade it would be best if we just forget this ever happened."

Her voice was cold and distant so she tried to make it better by smiling at him, trying to cover what she thought was obvious distress at the thought of forgetting everything, with a fake smile. She thought she saw a flicker of hurt in his face but managed to convince herself that she was imagining things.

She half wanted him to realise that she was putting on a facade for him but, unfortunately, Kakashi was fooled.

"Yes," He replied, dropping her arm, "You're right."

He went to jump onto the next branch but turned his head to look over his shoulder at his teammate, his eye crinkling, signalling his compliance, "We should be home soon and then we can put this all behind us."

The pale eyed heiress nodded but she needn't have bothered. The Jounin was already on his way back and Hinata was left feeling stupid and tired. She looked to the Hokage Tower and felt her spirits lift a small bit. She was almost home, almost away from all of this crap. The sooner they got home, the sooner they could continue on and hopefully put this all behind them somehow.

~~~*~~~

The masked ninja couldn't help but breathe out in relief at the sight of the huge gates, open and welcoming as he and his teammate jumped down from the trees.

Walking swiftly to the entrance to his village and striding ahead of the young woman, Kakashi stopped in his tracks when he was loudly called over by the gate's guards. Turning around to see where the Hyuuga was, mainly to make sure that she was coming over as well, the Jounin watched as she walked through the gates and caught his gaze. He couldn't move for a moment, struck by an odd thought.

What was going to happen after this?

It was obvious to him that what had happened that night was not going to be forgotten. If anything, the memories that were going to plague them were going to make interaction awkward and he knew that every time he saw her, this feeling wasn't going to lessen, but then again, maybe it wasn't him. The jealously he had felt when Kiba had hugged Hinata and when she had called him 'Kiba-kun' was completely uncharacteristic of him.

Maybe, hopefully, it was something else that was making him feel like this.

"Oi, Kakashi-san, what's the hold up?" Kotetsu's voice broke through his thoughts and the ninja ducked his head as he noticed Hinata's blush and averted eyes because of his continued gaze. Feeling foolish he tried to save his reputation by quickly signing the forms that Izumo passed him with a sly grin and a raised eyebrow.

After Hinata had done the same, trying to dodge the devious smiles that both guards gave her, they bid them farewell and continued on to see Tsunade, leaving Kotetsu and Izumo placing bets on what their relationship actually was.

Kakashi cursed them under his breath as he heard their voices thanks to his heightened sense of hearing as he and his partner jumped up to the nearest building.

"Ok," Kotetsu started, leaning back on his chair, "I think they slept together."

"No way," Izumo seemed affronted, "Did you happen to see who Hatake's teammate was?" His waved his arm in the air before hitting the table, "Hyuuga Hinata Kotestsu, Hyuuga Hinata. Not even Kakashi could get someone like her," He paused, trying to come up with his bet, "I bet you that Kakashi tried something and she refused."

"You're on," A smug Kotetsu replied, "And the winner gets a month off chores."

"Done," Izumo said, also quite smugly, "Be prepared for a month of hard work my friend."

The Jounin was extremely relieved when they finally got far enough where he couldn't hear their bets and bickering. He groaned and hit his head with his hand when he realised that tomorrow he was going to get hounded by the two, there were going to be awkward questions and they were probably going to force him to explain his relationship with the Hyuuga, which he would of course deny.

Back in the forest she had made it more than clear what she thought about what had happened and he wasn't masochistic enough to believe that there was a chance when she thought so little of it. But then again, what did he really want? To say that he wanted a chance with her meant that he had feelings for her and he wasn't ready to spend too much time on those kind of thoughts right now.

As he thought of her, he covertly looked from the corner of his eye to see if she had heard any of the conversation between the two gate guards.

Thankfully, it didn't look like she did.

Turning his eyes back to their destination, Kakashi tried to block out his troubling thoughts and jumped to the open window in the Hokage's office. His silent partner hesitated for a moment. She'd obviously only entered the office via the front door before now. The Copy-Nin sat on the ledge and waited for her to jump up to him before he made their presence known to their Hokage, though she would have known the moment they entered the village.

It was close to midday so Tsunade was enjoying her hourly dose of sake.

Papers were placed in two separate piles, one entitled 'in' and the other, 'out'. The 'in' pile was significantly larger than the other but the Hokage didn't seem to mind as she leaned back in her chair and placed her legs on her desk, almost toppling the papers over.

"Well are you going to just stand there or are you going to come in?"

Kakashi smiled as his teammate quickly scuttled off the window ledge next to him and positioned herself in front of the blonde sannin. He merely took his time as he came to stand next to her, watching the elder nin's eyes carefully scrutinise the two of them.

"I hear that congratulations are in order," Her voice rang clear and loudly, not yet taken by the alcohol in her lap, as she briefly picked up a piece of paper, scanning it quickly before pushing it to the 'out' pile, "Aburame will be arriving tomorrow afternoon or the day after with our prisoner. Hopefully, Ibiki will be able to get something out of him about this supposed terrorist plot."

She cradled her half empty bottle of sake in her lap as she took in both shinobi shrewdly, "I have no other jobs for you two so if there is nothing else I'll get back to my paperwork."

Both of their eyes landed on the bottle and fought the urge to roll their eyes.

Hinata was the first to speak up, "Actually Hokage-sama."

Tsunade actually did roll her eyes as she cut off the Hyuuga, "It's Tsunade to you Hinata-san, for Kami's sake, how long do I have to know you before you use my name?"

The Hyuuga blushed and ducked her head, "Hai Tsunade-sama."

Tsunade waved her hand, "I guess that'll do," Picking her legs up off the desk and turning herself to face them both, she sighed as she took in Hinata's tense body language, "What is it Hinata-san?"

"Well, you see, ano," Hinata clenched her fists by her side and raised her eyes to her Hokage's, "Hatake-san ingested a drug, we're," Turning slightly to Kakashi, the pale eyed girl hesitated, "We're not sure exactly what it was but I need you to ah-," Hinata broke off, unsure of how to ask what she needed to.

Tsunade straightened up in her chair, her hands clasped in front of her on her desk, "I think you need to start from the beginning Hinata-san, so I can understand what you're saying."

So she did, with Kakashi intersecting his thoughts and telling the blonde woman what only he knew with his flippant attitude.

When everything was told, Tsunade picked up her forgotten bottle, put it to her lips and didn't put it down till every last drop had been drunk. Hinata jumped as the Hokage slammed down the bottle on her desk and waited for her to say something, anything.

"Do you have the vial here?"

"Hai," Hinata perked up and Kakashi knew that she was happy to finally have broken the silence.

The silver haired man watched curiously as the Hyuuga rummaged around in her pack, her body tensing suddenly, "It's not here," She whipped up her head to stare at him, her voice panicking slightly, "Hatake-san, it's not here."

Tsunade waved her arm, "Nothing we can do about it now, unless you know where it went?"

Hinata shook her head, dropping her gaze to the floor. The Jounin lifted his hand to comfort her but thought better of it and put his arm back to his side escaping notice from the young woman but not from Tsunade.

Turning her attention away from the actions of the confused Jounin, the Hokage turned all attention to the miserable looking heiress.

"Is there something else Hinata-san," the woman raised an eyebrow, "Besides what you've already told me?"

Hinata nodded.

"You want me to check you don't you?"

Kakashi had no idea what she was talking about, check out what? He looked over to Hinata and she looked down again with a grim look, nodding silently. He was about to ask till the shy Hyuuga walked over to where Tsunade was sitting.

Kakashi turned his head when their Hokage lifted Hinata's shirt, which called forth a quick cry of objection till she was shushed by the older woman, and tried to imagine what could be happening because it was him who had the drug in his system, not her. Unless...

"It's all clear Hinata-san," Kakashi turned back around as he heard movement and watched as Tsunade pulled down Hinata's shirt, covering her up, and stared hard at both of the women. The next words shocked him, "You're not pregnant."

"What?"

He couldn't help but let the word escape his mouth but as soon as it did two heads shot up to look at him. Hinata looked back at the ground while Tsunade glared at him. Kakashi cringed at that look.

"Don't tell me you never once thought that she might be pregnant?"

The Jounin gulped, why had it never crossed his mind? His eyes went to the young woman who kept staring at the ground as if asking that it would swallow her up and he couldn't help but stare at her stomach. How would he feel if that stomach was rounded out with a new life created by just the two of them? Could he be a father? He looked at the young woman, really looked at her and saw a thousand different emotions flutter past. What if she wanted it? What if she was happy that she wasn't pregnant?

This revelation evoked all sorts of different sensations and his mind seemed to be in a daze.

She could have been pregnant. Pregnant with his child.

The Copy-Nin staggered back and landed in a chair with a thump. He put his head in one of his hands and started to berate himself for not thinking about any consequences apart from the ones that would directly affect him. Looking up from his slumped position in the chair, Kakashi's eyes landed on the Hyuuga woman again. He hated the fact that he had not once thought about what was affecting her. Angry with himself and full of regret about what he had inadvertently put her through, Kakashi spoke up, "I'm sorry Hinata," He croaked out, "So sorry."

Instead of the anger filled eyes he thought would fill his vision, all he saw was a blur of indigo coloured hair before he was enveloped in a hug. This was unexpected.

Not sure of where to put his arms, he simply sat there while the young woman hugged him. He wasn't sure what brought it on but he didn't want to disturb her, this was the most contact he'd ever received from her since that night and he didn't plan on ruining it now. Well he didn't until she spoke, "It's ok Kakashi, you just didn't understand."

She had spoken his name without honorific.

His whole body tensed and he almost pushed her off of him. Emotions were raging inside of the Jounin's mind and body and he wasn't sure why. With the sound of his name spoken from her lips came a whole barrage of thoughts, wishes, desires and actions that made him want to leave her presence as soon as possible or take her.

Not aware of the distraught Hyuuga, wide eyed and standing in a corner as far away from him as possible, Kakashi looked straight at Tsunade, "It's still in me," He managed to say, his mask drawing tighter around him, constricting his breathing. His eyes turned frantic to his Hokage as she got up and walked over to him, placing a hand on his chest which emitted a small green glow.

After the glow had faded, Tsunade put her hand on her chin, regarding him before speaking, "Why do you think that you still have it Kakashi-san?"

"Because," He didn't know why she wasn't acting quicker, granted the emotions and feeling weren't quite as intense as last time but he'd been feeling like this ever since that night, he needed her to heal him now, "I'm not entirely in control of my actions."

"Care to explain?"

Kami damn it! Why wasn't she healing him?

"Ever since that," He paused, gritting his teeth, "night, I've had thoughts and feeling towards her that normally I wouldn't necessarily have."

Tsunade simply nodded and waved for him to continue.

"It's not nearly as bad as what I was feeling that night but my mask gets constricting, my stomach doubles up and I can't seem to form intelligent thought."

The Jounin swore he could see a faint glimmer of a smile but he merely wrote it off, she couldn't be enjoying this emotional pain he was in, she was a doctor first and foremost, she should be worried about him. She was obviously just trying to diagnose the problem.

Yes, that was it; she couldn't possibly be laughing at him.

"Kakashi-san, Hinata-san," she reached out for the young Hyuuga and started to push them out the door, "It was a pleasure to see you again, I don't have any missions for you at the moment so-."

"Wait a second," sputtered the Jounin, "What about the drug? Aren't you going to heal me?"

Tsunade pushed them both out of the door and looked at Kakashi from the doorway, "I can't heal what's afflicting you Kakashi-san."

The silver haired ninja stared at his leader, "What do you mean?"

Tsunade started to close the door and gave a feral smile as she spoke her last words.

"There is absolutely no remnant of the drug left in your body."

Kakashi stood in the hallway, shell shocked. If that was true then that meant that...

Looking over to his teammate he almost couldn't believe it. Not because he didn't like her, more because he shouldn't. There was no possible way that anything between them could work out, between her family and his aversion to anything too emotional, a relationship seemed doomed. Her eyes showed so many unasked questions and he wasn't sure how to answer them. In fact he knew that he didn't want to answer them, at least not now, not here, and so he did the only thing that his body could do, he fled.

AN: Don't run Kakashi! Awww...well at least he knows for certain now yeah? I apologise for the lateness of this chapter, my aunt recently passed away and my Mum has needed me and I had to go interstate for the funeral so yeah, I'm ok it's just I couldn't write while I was gone.

Hopefully you like this chapter, things are starting to move along, don't you worry. I have huge assignments due this week and next week so my next chapter will be up after them. I wil endeavour to not make you wait as long for it as this one!

Yours,

Jaggarte x