Chaotic Dynamics: Chapter 2

Naruto shielded his eyes from the bright sun shining directly overhead. He started chuckling, leading to full out laughter while remembering the last memory.

"10 seconds, new world record!" He shouted while still lying on the ground laughing up a storm. "Damn that felt so good." He laughed while remembering telling off Sakura.

He didn't know why he was so pissed at Sasuke from a different reality that he had to rip into his good friend like that, but he felt a large weight lift from him, bringing up his spirits along with it, although he could have done without the hard fists of the pink haired kunoichi. He then noticed that he was sitting on concrete and didn't quite know where he was. He attempted to stand up and much too easily lost his balance and started falling forward.

"You moron!" Sakura shouted while running out from nowhere and catching him before falling to the ground. "How many times have I told you not to try standing up without your crutches!?"

"Huh?"

"Don't 'huh' me dummy." She angrily shoved a set of crutches into his hands. Wondering what they were for, he finally noticed that there was no feeling in his left foot. Looking down he then realized that most of his leg was missing, greatly surprising him.

'What the Fuck?' He awkwardly hobbled a bit on the crutches until he figured out the correct motions to move relatively freely.

"Now go home, I'll be off in about 15 minutes; see you then." She stood on the tips of her toes and kissed his cheek before running off through the nearby door.

"What the hell?" He asked the air around him while rubbing his cheek. Looking around again, he noticed he was atop the roof of the Hospital. The village below was like it was before the Pain destruction, so it was likely it was never destroyed in this timeline. He hobbled down the stairs from the roof and out the front of the hospital without really knowing where 'home' was. It wasn't all that important to him to figure everything out since it was only temporary before it changed again. There was no way he'd stay in a place with a missing leg. With this information, he decided to check out the changes in this village and blow off some steam.

As he moved along he started noticing glares and hushed comments while making his way through the streets. It was quite unnerving to him as he remembered the same thing when he was younger. He was hoping it was just about the missing leg, but even then he didn't like their actions. Just as he passed a burly looking villager, he felt one of his crutches suddenly fall out from underneath him, causing him to land face first.

"Watch where you're falling demon scum." Taunted the man with a smirk. Naruto turned to the man, returning the smirk until his eyes turned red and fangs jutted out from his lips.

"Wanna try again motherfucker?" He roared out is a frightening voice, causing the villagers to panic.

"It's loose, it finally loose!"

"We're all going to die! The Kyuubi is here!"

"Some help us." The villagers scampered in various directions, arms flailing, voices screaming. The jinchurki threw back his head and laughed manically while hobbling back down the street.

"Serves them right…" he chuckled while turning a corner where there were a group of 5 masked ninja standing in his path. "Really?" He asked in disbelief while staring at them.

"Uzumaki Naruto; for revealing the Kyuubi within the walls of Konoha, you are hereby placed under arrest to await trial." Spoke the lead Anbu.

"Am I getting punked? Because you guys can go fuck yourselves." The blonde turned around and started hobbling in the opposite direction when he was grabbed by one of the Anbu.

"You will be coming with us." The ninja ensured.

"I will still kick your ass with one leg." Naruto promised while smacking the Anbu's hand away with the crutch. With a motion of his hand the other four started their attack. He was having difficulty fending off their attacks while keeping his balance with the crutches.

"Jūho Sōshiken!" Naruto looked over his shoulder and saw a familiar body come flying onto the battle. Four of the five Anbu were sent flying backwards as the bright blue chakra short circuited their bodies. The fifth was dispatched with a crutch to the stomach resulting in that particular one rolling on the ground.

"Thanks Hinata, that helped a lot." He started hobbling towards her when she started talking with her back to him so he couldn't see her conflicting emotions on her face.

"Please don't thank me, I know it wasn't your fault, but it was still you who killed most of our friends two years ago when the kyuubi rampaged. If you were anyone else, I'd kill you myself but my heart would allow it. No matter the case, I still can't let you get hurt. So, please, just go."

"Hinata?" He reached out to touch her when she slapped his hand away. In that moment he saw a pained look on her face and a trail of wetness down her cheeks originating from her eyes. His heart sank; he had never really seen her so saddened and heart broken, except maybe for the moment he told her he didn't have an answer for her confession, which was now weighing on his already conflicted heart.

"GO NARUTO!"

'This is really starting to piss me off; I just want to go home.' He thought before appearing within the white room again.

He never really got to figure out why he was missing a leg in that time, but logic dictates that it was done on purpose to prevent him from being a ninja. Even though he could reason that, he still didn't know what the deal with Sakura was, but he decided that he didn't care and wanted to move on. He reached out and activated the next moment in time.

He opened his eyes and immediately a frown spread across his face. He was standing in a sunken portion of earth looking up at the ludicrously dressed Sasuke. Sakura and Sai were to his right and Yamato was to his left; all were eyeing the renegade Uchiha. Naruto gritted his teeth; there were few moments in his life when he was angrier with himself than this.

"I chose to spare your life at nothing more than a whim of mine." In a swift movement, the dark haired shinobi appeared in front of Naruto, placing his hand on his shoulder. The leaf ninja were surprised at the quickness of his movements and had troubles trying to figure what to do next since Sasuke was on a whole different level.

"Come to think of it…" Sasuke started while reaching behind him to the hilt of his sword. "Isn't becoming Hokage one of your dreams? If you have the time to chase me around, wouldn't have been better to use that time and train. That's why this time you are going to lose your life all at another whim of mine." Sasuke drew his blade fully from its sheath, slowly turning it to face Naruto.

"Like I could ever become Hokage if I can't even save a friend." Sasuke's blade started launching forward towards the blonde's side. In a moment of agility, Sai took hold of Sasuke's wrist, stopping the sword attack.

"You choice of Defense… Quite correct." Sasuke assured the pale faced ninja.

"Sai…" Naruto whispered. "You, with Sakura and Yamato, distract him for 30 seconds. I'm taking him back this time." Naruto grabbed Sasuke's arm and flipped over it to gain leverage to reduce his movement, allowing Sai the chance to jump back to Sakura. Yamato attacked just as Sasuke's body shrieked and crackled with chakra. The blonde ninja cringed while he waited for his perfect chance.

"Chidori Nagashi." Naruto flew to the ground at the mercy of the lightning based attack, landing flat on his face and remained motionless. Sakura ran at Sasuke but was stopped for a moment by Sai.

"Sakura-san, Naruto-kun has a plan. We need to buy him about 30 seconds." She nodded in understanding and ran after Sasuke again. He lifted up his sword while activating the Sharingan, drawing the attention of the jonin Yamato. He jumped in front of Sakura, guarding against the sword with a kunai, only to be surprised when the chakra infused blade sliced through the throwing weapon.

"Your choice of defense… was a mistake" Sasuke taunted while jamming the sword forward into the jonin's shoulder.

"Yamato-sensei!" Sakura shouted while running ahead, cocking back her chakra filled fist.

Right as she moved to punch Sasuke, the Uchiha turned to her with a smirk. Dislodging the sword from Yamato's arm, he slashed it towards Sakura in an attempt to strike her down. The pink haired girl noticed that his movement was just a fraction faster than her reaction time and knew at that moment that she wouldn't be able to block the attack, nor avoid it. She glanced to her right to see the sword effortlessly pass through one of Sai's ink animals, not even slowing the blade down. She felt pressure on her right side where the blade was headed. Glancing down she saw a black sleeve and a hand wrapped around the blade, keeping the edge from cutting into her. Looking up, she noticed the orange hue of his eyelids and the strange horizontal slit of his pupils.

"Naruto?" Sakura was extremely surprised, but that was nothing compared to the look from Sasuke's disposition.

"How?" He asked as he tried pulling back his sword. "Kusanagi cannot be guarded against."

"How, you ask? Looks like it is time for you to go back to academy…" Naruto held the blade tightly with his left hand and slammed his right palm onto the Habaki. With a ferocious yell, he cleanly sliced through the blade with wind chakra. He held the broken blade up in the air and then tossed it to the side like a piece of junk.

"If you thought I just sat around like a kid, then you're full of it. You're not even a challenge without Susanoo." Sasuke was taken aback at the jab to a rarely known Uchiha technique. The fact that he knew of the technique was as much of a mystery as the technique he was now seeing Naruto enveloped in.

"Sasuke-kun, it is time to go." Ordered the new arrival of Orochimaru and Kabuto.

"I'm not done here yet." Sasuke retorted, throwing the hilt of his blade in their direction

"Damn straight you snake bastard." Naruto glanced at Sasuke and smirked. "Give me a minute to get rid of our distraction." Naruto held up his signature sign resulting in the appearance of multiple shadow clones, all with a rasengan in hand. They all jumped to the air in the direction of Orochimaru. The snake sannin and his loyal subject prepared for the attack when even they were surprised as the rasengans started growing in size past the limits of single person's entire chakra reserves.

"Senpō: Chō Ōdama Rasen Tarengan" The massive barrage started pummeling the unsuspecting twosome. Orochimaru grabbed Kabuto with a snake summoned from his sleeve and pulled the medic nin into the path of the attacks as a shield. With each blast Kabuto screamed as his body was mangled, bit by bit, despite him focusing all his chakra to repair it. Right as the last one hit, Orochimaru tossed the remainder of Kabuto's carcass to the side while the dust was starting to slow down in an attempt to settle.

"Senpō: Chō Ōdama Rasengan!" The swirling dust moved out of the path of the new chakra ball while it made perfect contact with the sannin's body, ripping at the aged man's hijacked body. Orochimaru was having difficulty holding back the giant ball, despite throwing everything he had at it when he notice a screeching whistling noise coming from behind him.

"Fūton: Rasenshuriken." Orochimaru had no choice but to let the attack hit him and hope for the best. Had he moved a single inch the Odama Rasengan would have shredded him. Unfortunately for him, the second attack was beyond any s class ninjutsu he had ever experienced. The spiraling chakra tails expanded and soon enveloped Orochimaru's entire body. Once the sphere dissipated, there was a large crater in the ground and falling pieces of the sannin.

"If only I had control of Kyuubi at this time, this would be even more of a cinch." Naruto stretched out his arms and cracked his neck to loosen up his limbs.

"Alright, let's get to the main event." He announced while walking towards where Sasuke was standing, still a bit in awe. He saw everything with his Sharingan, but unlike normal jutsu, all of those attacks were out of his reach; he didn't even have half of the chakra needed for even one of the attacks.

"Just what… What are you?" Sasuke asked

"Uzumaki Naruto, the next Hokage!" Sasuke scoffed and shook his head.

"You'll never change."

"So are you going to fight, or just stand there?" Sasuke smirked, then looked to all four members while they prepared for battle. He knew Naruto was going to be a major handful, but add Sakura, Sai and Yamato, his chances changed from slim to none. Even worse was that there wasn't going to be any backup coming for him, we was alone.

"You see Sasuke, you tried running to Orochimaru because you thought he'd help you destroy Itachi when what you should have been doing all along is train with your team so you can defeat him and still remain human. As you are now you'll never be able to restore the Uchiha clan like you wanted. Come back with us." Naruto's Speech fell on deaf ears as he knew it would, but he had to try.

"You're still a loser." Sasuke held his arm out, focusing on creating the chidori. He was soon shrouded in a billow of smoke from a group of disguised clones and felt hands and wood from the forgotten jonin encircling his wrists. Before he could react, Sakura smacked him on the back of his neck, knocking him out completely.

"Promise completed Naruto." Sakura mentioned while smiling. She looked down at Sasuke and grinned even wider "We did it; Hell Yeah!" She then grabbed Naruto in a large bear hug.

"Sakura… chan… can't… breathe… er… …" She looked down and saw a non-sage mode Naruto being crushed to unconsciousness in her chakra infused grip. His body flopped around lifelessly, causing her to stop.

"Oops, sorry." She apologized to this unconscious body while she dropped him unceremoniously on the ground.

"What a time for my senjutsu to wear off." Naruto thought when he gained consciousness in what should be the present time and got to his feet to look around.

He knew he was indeed back in his present time as he could feel the kyuubi's chakra freely moving inside him from when he took control of its chakra. To his sudden horror, he noticed the village set out in front of him was desolate. Even the buildings looked like they had been neglected and were unkempt. Ivy and vines had crawled up the buildings and even managed to grow across the hokage monument, hiding most of the faces.

"This may be the strangest reality yet." He commented while jumping from the roof to the street below. The whole village had an eerie feeling, the air was stagnant, and there weren't any sounds of birds chirping or animal movement of any kind. He already knew that this existence wasn't for him either, but his curiosity got the best of him and he wanted to explore since it wasn't often that you got to explore an alternate Konoha..

"At a time like this, I could handle having the byakugan." That comment brought his thoughts towards the vision of Hinata crying as he walked away from her, after she expressed her desire to act on her earlier confession. The memory quickly jumped to the back of his mind when he heard a rustling movement behind him. He quickly pulled a kunai from his pouch and held it defensively in front of his chest.

"Is someone there?" He called out. Cautiously looking around, he couldn't detect any more movement or presence in the area. Stowing away his blade he ventured further into the city. Remembering most of the landmarks, he made his way to his favorite part of town.

"Hey old man!" He shouted while stepping into the small shop. It wasn't surprising when there was no answer. The shop was abandoned, dishes and pots where smashed and strewn about like the shop was rummaged through. Feeling a little depressed, he continued on to the Hokage tower in hopes of finding something that explained what happened in a file or the like. As he started nearing the tower, he felt someone following him again. Trying to glance over his shoulder, he still couldn't find the source of his unrest.

"This place is really creeping me out." The Hokage residence was finally coming into view, thanks to the massive size of the primary building. As he got closer, he noticed smoke was rising up from the structure. He hastened his steps and hurried to the Hokage tower. As he approached, he noticed the large wooden gates were closed and were littered with gashes and stuck shuriken and kunai embedded in the surface.

"Oi, anyone there?" Naruto shouted. Instantly three trained ninja jumped around him, two grabbing his arms and the third landing in front with a katana drawn.

"What the hell is this?" The blonde demanded.

"We're the ones asking questions." Ordered the ninja in front. "Who are you?"

"Hmmm, you can call me 'Super Ramen Man'!" He chuckled out, unable to keep a straight face.

"A wise ass, eh…" The man brought the blade closer to Naruto's neck in emphasis of his seriousness. "Who do you work for?"

"Stu…"

"Stu? Who is that?"

"You know… Stu… Stu Pididiot."

"Fuck you! Throw him in with the black widow." The two started dragging Naruto inside the gates. His joking demeanor quickly faded at the foreboding name they used.

"Oi… Hey! Where are you taking me; who is this black widow?"

"Don't worry about that. She has killed every one who has touched her, no matter their strength… Good luck." The two laughed as they tossed the blonde downward into a deep cavern hollowed out beneath the ground. He landed at the bottom with a thud.

"Man that hurts." He stood up, rubbing his back side from the fall when he heard raspy breathing slowly moving closer; the closer it moved the scarier it became. It was much too dark in the cavern to see the source of the breathing, and the smell of that cavewas too horrible to think straight. He started to hear quickening footsteps increasingly getting faster until it was an all-out run.

"Hey, hold on, wait…" Still without the ability to see, he couldn't dodge the oncoming strike to his chest. He fell on his back, coughing and writing in pain. He tried gasping for breath while his assailant started going through his pouches. He felt the rummaging and got a firm hold on their wrist. With a sudden blast of kyuubi chakra, he sucked in a large amount of air and continued coughing until his breathing stabilized.

"I'm saved." He gasped while still breathing deeply. He felt the wrist in his hand start wiggling to get free. "Hey, why did you attack me?" He asked while tightening his grip on the small wrist.

"Hungry." Spoke a small and shaky voice.

"Well next time say something, don't just attack." He reached into his pouch and pulled out a small bag of beef jerky and placed a piece in the small hand. "Now when I let go, don't attack me ok?"

"Kay." This time it was quite clear that it was a female's voice which corresponds with what the ninja above were saying. He slowly released her wrist and the moment he did, it was gone in a flash. He was then surprised as he felt someone sit down next to him and started leaning on him.

"More, Naruto-kun." He jumped when his name was called out and was quite confused. He couldn't place the raspy voice which bothered him even more.

"How do you know who I am?" He asked

"You still have that phrase that comes out when you talk, and I just looked you with my byakugan."

"Hinata?" It caught him off guard. He never really thought that she'd be there, but it was starting to become more obvious that she was almost everywhere he went in the recent course of events. He gave the whole package of food to her followed by a strange happy squeak as she rummaged in the bag.

"What happened here?"

"Sasuke." She muttered through muffled sounds of her moth being full. "He led practically the entire village to attack Itachi. I don't know how, but everyone followed him. It was almost like they were hypnotized. Only my clan was unaffected. After all the ninja didn't come back for three months the villagers and the rest of my clan left to live in other towns since the money dried up."

"If they all left, how did you end up here?"

"I stayed."

"Why?" He didn't understand why someone would let their family go and opt to live on their own; he had always wanted the opposite.

"I was waiting for… someone."

"Why?"

"Because… I knew you'd come back." Naruto just shook his head and soon found the white walls appearing around him. He was actually happy to see the room and activated the icon above him. He realized he didn't really like the depressing feeling he got in that last existence.

"This next one… I'm sure of it." He spoke out loud in an attempt to convince himself that he'd find a good reality to return to.

Despite his hope for a good outcome this next time around; that idea faded fast when his body was filled with a horrendous pain. He felt a sharp sting jolt up his body when he attempted to move again and knew it wasn't some after effect. He knew this was not a good sign. Reluctantly he opened his eyes right as he saw Hinata land in front of him.

"Not this one, anything but this." He mumbled to himself as he remembered the event clearly.

"Hinata! Go away! You can't handle him!" He shouted loudly to her. This was something he never wanted to relive again.

"I know… I'm just being selfish." She replied. Everything was happening just like before, but there had to be something that he could do. He watched and cringed as she continually took the hits from Pain's attacks. When she landed next to him and attacked the rods sticking from his body, he decided it was now or never.

"Hinata! If you don't go now I'll… I'll hate you forever!" After he said that, the young Hyuuga just looked at him with a calming smile.

"That's fine… I'll still protect you because I'll love you forever." Her body flung into the air from Pain's jutsu.

"HINATA!" He tried to reach out to her but still couldn't move from the poles in his body. She landed with a horrible thud and there was nothing he could do to stop Pain's attack from piercing through her body. He couldn't believe that he was forced to watch the event a second time, but at least he knew that she'd eventually be fine. He remained in control of his body, not giving into anger because of his knowledge of the events. Unfortunately, this event changed. The blonde's eyes widened when he saw Pain throw back another arm with a second pole in hand.

"NO!" He begged while she was skewered with five more poles through the chest. That was impossible to live through and his rage finally pushed him over the edge and he blacked out when the kyuubi took over.

He opened his eyes in the present time and already had troubles seeing with blurry vision. He glanced to his right and realized he was standing in the cemetery with the Ninja memorial off to the distance in front of him. He looked down at the bundle of small white flowers he held in his hand, then to the stone at his feet and read the writing:

Hyyuga Hinata

We'll love you forever

He choked back his tears from the strange loss he felt. This whole series of events were wearing on him and he just concentrated on trying to push them all away.

Naruto sat in the white room once more, blinking in surprise at how quickly it appeared. He patiently waited for the icon to appear, but there was nothing; the room remained blank. He concentrated, trying to force the world to bend to his will. He was frantic and desperate to change the last outcome, it couldn't end like that. When he opened his eyes, he saw the dark room where Kurama lived and the tall red bars of his cage.

"Why can't I go back?" He asked the giant fox in a panic.

"Because it is done, there are no more memories to experience."

"But I can't leave things like this. I have to go back!"

"I told you it would end this way, why do you need to go back?"

"Because I need my friends, I can't have them dying. And I need…"

"Naruto… you are still a moron." Kurama interrupted.

"What do you know you stupid fox?"

"You didn't do all this for your friends; you did everything for just one of them. The one that was most important to you."

"Yeah? And which one was that?"

"That is why you are still a moron…" Kurama saw the look on the blonde's face and shook his large head. "Get out of here and see what I'm talking about."

Naruto left his inner consciousness and found himself sitting atop a large tree branch. There wasn't even a cemetery in sight. He looked out at the sky and noticed the sun still had an hour or so before setting. Wondering what was going on, he jumped down and started walking towards the gates of Konoha that he saw rising above the trees.

'Something feels different' He thought while stepping through the gates. The road looked strange only in the fact that it was too perfect. The buildings were exactly where they were supposed to be, even the Hokage Monument was correct. It seemed weird because it was the same, perfectly the same. All the past realities he experienced had something off with it. He couldn't understand it while he walked by a training ground and saw a young girl in the distance. Instinctively he walked towards her while her features became more prominent. Long dark hair and pale complexion told him exactly who it was. Tears were still silently falling from her face when she looked up at him when he got near.

"Naruto-kun…" She wiped frantically at her cheeks and tried to smile at him.

"Hinata…" He then noticed that this was exactly how he left her in his original timeline.

'Kurama, what is this?' Naruto heard laughing from the great fox within, further confusing him.

"You could never figure out your feelings, so I took the liberty of helping you. There was no time travel, no alternate universe, it all happened within a single second. I set up all the scenarios to show you what your subconscious was trying to tell you all along."

'Which was?'

"Listen to your feelings you dolt, open your eyes to what is before you, literally. What did you feel at that cabin with that girl, what have you always desired? Who can give you those? Who was the only person you thought about while experiencing your past and the altered present? I made those realities show you who you desired to see most."

'You mean Hinata?' He thought back to all the past events he experienced and even the alternate outcomes and it started to dawn on him. 'I… I… I think I get it now…'

"Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked while waving a hand in front of his face.

"Oh, sorry" He replied while nervously smiling. "Uh… would you like to get some ramen with me?" Her face lit up with a bright smile, reminding him of all those smiles he witnessed in alternate existences.

"Sure." She didn't know what to think about the sudden offer, but had always dreamed of spending more time with him. It cheered her up immensely from the sorrow she had earlier.

Silence followed them through the streets of Konoha until they reached Ichiraku's Ramen. Naruto reached out and pulled back the flap allowing Hinata to duck in first with him following.

"Welcome, welcome…" Greeted the ever cheery voice of the shop owner, Teuchi.

"Hey old man!" Naruto greeted like usual with a large grin, very happy to see him just like he remembered. Hinata just smiled and bowed her head in greeting before taking the set next to the wall. He sat next to her and proceeded to order his meal, then turned to the girl with him.

"What do you want Hinata? It's on me." Teuchi's eyes opened wide and looked at the pair in surprise since Naruto never paid for anyone voluntarily.

"Um… one of whatever he's having." See finally requested.

She stared at the table in front of her. Her mind was racing as she attempted to figure out if she should say something or remain silent. Before she had an answer, a steaming bowl was placed in front of her, breaking her from her thoughts. A few minutes into their quiet meal, Naruto had finished his third bowl when he turned to Hinata, who was only half way through hers and broke the uncomfortable silence.

"About what we talked about… I have an answer for you." She turned he head quickly in response, not even paying attention to her eating. He chuckled when he saw her face. "You have a little… on your chin." She quickly hid her face and wiped away at her chin.

"Did I get it?" She asked while looking back at him for his inspection.

"Hmm…" He leaned in closer and looked closely at her face causing her to blush. He then looked to her small lips, glistening with ramen broth. "I think there's still a little…" Hinata's eyes went wide when she felt the warm slightly rough lips contacting hers. She soon closed her eyes and focused on the soothing feeling until they separated after a few seconds. Hinata looked into his blue eyes with a dreamy glazed over look. She was so happy that she could barely even make her mind process what had happened.

"I'll have another!" Naruto shouted to Teuchi with the happiest look on his whiskered face. The shouting brought Hinata back to her senses. She looked down at her ramen and then back at Naruto.

"Was… was that your answer?" She asked with a heavy blush gracing her face.

"Yep, I was never really one for words." She nodded happily and couldn't finish eating with the butterflies in her stomach, so she pushed the bowl in front of him.

"You can finish mine." He smiled happily and pulled her into a one armed hug.

"That makes it even easier to say that I love you Hinata!" She started feeling dizzy after hearing him reveal this news to her. Luckily she managed to not pass out and revel in the joy as her heart jumped uncontrollably. Before she could even realize the passage of time, she was mindlessly walking out of Ichiraku's with Naruto.

"Hey, Hinata?" She finally focused her attention to the blonde waving his hand in front of her.

"Sorry, Naruto-kun… What is it?"

"I was wondering if I could walk you home; or not, if your dad might not like it. Can't go pissing him off so early you know." Hinata stopped walking, causing her partner to stop as well. He turned and started staring at her pondering face.

"Umm…" She started before a quiet squeak erupted from her when she noticed his intense look. "Half way." Naruto smiled and swung his arm around the girl, bringing her closer to his side.

"Are you sure you're ok with… er… going out with me, you know, like a couple?" She was looking at the ground when the question came. She looked up and had the most cheerful, sweet smile gracing her lips.

"Yes." She said clearly with a nod for emphasis.

"Good. It has been quite the experience to come to understand what I feel for you… thanks to Kurama." The pair walked in silence until they could just barely see the gate to the Hyuuga manor.

"Well…" Hinata started, not really wanting to let him go for fear of it being all a dream.

"Well, I guess I'll see you later." Naruto waved and started walking away, but stopped and ran back in front of her. "Just one more for the road…" She looked puzzled until she felt his warm breath glide across her lips before making contact. He gently held her neck and shoulder while kissing her soft lips more aggressively than before. When he finally broke it off, she looked to be in a world of her own.

"See ya." He whispered to her dreamy face and took off into Konoha. Hinata was mindlessly walking towards her home. She just stepped into the door when she ran her fingers along her lips and promptly turned bright red. She barely made it to her room when she fell forward onto her bed and passed out.

That's the end... of the first part... NEXT!