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Recap

Aki slept with a few bandages like naruto. She kept sleeping unknown of what was happening. Then all of a sudden, her eyes twitched and slowly began to open.

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Aki's P.O.V.

Ahh, where am i? Ahh my head hurts. I scratched the side of my head and looked around. Am I in a tent? It looks like it and by the other sleeping bags, I guess I wasn't alone. What happen to me anyway? Oh! I remember now! My demon took over me and attacked strange ninjas and aunt lily.

Aunt Lily!

I gasped and put my hands over my mouth. Oh my god! I killed aunt lily! Oh no! My last family member I had is now dead. So now I'm all alone…wait a minute…I hear voices outside the tent. Slowly I got up and walked towards the tent door. I pushed it and then quickly shielded my eyes from the bright sun. When my eyes got use to it, I looked at my surrounding. I was in the forest still but that's not all I saw. There was a fire with the familiar ninjas who fought me, or more like my demon actually. They all stop talking and stared at me with wide eyes.

One ninja had blonde spiky hair with pretty ocean blue eyes. Another one had long indigo hair with pearl eyes. Her eyes are also pretty. The next one was very hot! He had brown hair and red marks on each of his cheek. His eyes were amazingly brown too. Next to him was the biggest dog I've ever seen! That is a dog, right? It had white fur and looked like someone could easily ride it. There was another animal. It was a wolf, I think. Its small with gray and white fur. Its so cute! But what shocked me the most was the woman that I haven't seen since I was little. The woman I thought I had killed. The woman I love very much.

Aunt Lily

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Normal P.O.V.

Everyone went still and said nothing. No one knew what to say or do. The silence was unbearable. Finally Lily decided to speak

"Aki? Your awake?" she said shocked. Aki was supposed to sleep for two more days Aki blinked once, twice.

"Aunt Lily?" aki said slowly. Lily gave her a warm smile.

"Good morning, Aki. I'm glad to see you wide awake. I thought you wouldn't wake up for awhile."

Aki looked at her for awhile and relized she wasn't dreaming and that her alive aunt was smiling at her. Tears flowed down her cheek. She ran right up to lily and hugged her very tightly, burying her face in lily's chest.

"Aunt Lily! Your alive! I'm so sorry I hurt you! I didn't mean too! Oh aunt lily!" aki said, crying even harder. Lily hugged her back, slowly soothing her hair down.

"Its okay, Aki. It was never your fault in the first place. It was that cursed demon fault, not yours." Lily said. Aki shook her head.

"No, it was my fault I wasn't strong enough to hold back the demon! If only I was stronger!"

"You are strong. You just have to believe in yourself." Aki just kept crying and lily kept soothing her. The others just watch the two, happy that everything is okay. Naruto, Hinata, and Kiba turned to face each other and smiled.

Mission Complete

…well almost…

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Afterwards

After Lily got Aki to calm down, they all sat around the fire and introduce themselves.

"Okay, so aki, I would like to introduce the ninjas who saved you." Lily said and pointed at hinata, "This is Hinata Hyuuga." Hinata smiled.

"Hello!" she said. Aki smiled back

"Hi!" Lily smiled at both of them and then pointed at kiba.

"This is Kiba and his dog Akamaru." Kiba smirked and waved and Akamaru barked a hello.

"Hey." He said. Aki blushed.

"H-hey." She stuttered. Akamaru rubbed himself against her.

"Hey to you too!" aki said, patting him on his head. The finally, lily pointed to the knuckle-headed ninja.

"And this is naruto, the one that was able to stop the demon inside you by putting that necklace around you neck." Aki looked down and saw the blue moon necklace. She looked back up at naruto, who was grinning at her.

'This is the guy who saved me from Houkou.' Aki thought and unconsciously touch the necklace. Lily notice.

"That necklace is supposed to hold back the demon's power especially on a blue moon." She said. Aki continued to stare at Naruto, who was still grinning still. Aki slowly smiled, got up and jumped naruto for a hug. Naruto was so taken by surprised that they both fell to the ground.

"Oh thank you so much for putting this necklace around my neck!" she said, "And thank you for putting my demon in its place! Even though you had to beat me up in the process." Naruto was speechless for two things. One, he didn't know what to say to that and two, there was a girl on top of him. He blushed. Aki sat up, still on top of him of course, and smiled softly at him.

"Thank you." Naruto smiled and so did everyone else. Aki looked at everyone.

"Thank you too, for everything." She said, "I know I hurt you badly, but I'm glad your all okay."

"It was no at all!" Naruto said, "No trouble at all!"

"Yeah! As long as we're still breathing, then theres no problems!" kiba said. Akamaru walked up to Aki and started to lick the side of her face.

"hehehe! That tickles! Hahaha! Quit it! Hahaha!" she said while laughing. Everyone smiled at the sight. Kiki pouted and jumped on top of aki.

"Hey, I want attention too!" she said and then started to lick the other side of aki's face. This caused everyone to laugh. They watched as the two animals licked aki's face while she laughed and petted their heads.

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After eating and talking, they took turns going to the waterfall and washing up. Girls first and then boys. But while the boys waited they also started to pack up and get ready to head back home.

With the Girls

Lily, Hinata, Aki and Kiki removed their dirty blood stained cloth and slowly got into the water.

"Brrrrrr! It freezing!" kiki said as her paws touched the water.

"Of course it is, kiki!" lily said as she was now splashing herself with water, "Waterfalls, rivers, and oceans are always cold."

"I don't like it…" kiki muttered. Hinata smiled at them and then looked at aki, who had her back facing them. Hinata swam up to her and tap her shoulder. Aki jumped and quickly turned around to face a pair of pearl like eyes.

"What's wrong, Aki?" hinata said, tilting her head to the side a bit.

"Uh nothing! Its just…" aki looked away to the side with a blush on her face.

"Just what?" hinata asked, confused as to why she looked away.

"Well…I'm just not use to bathing with other girls…you know…naked." Aki said, blushing harder. Hinata stared at her for a moment and then smiled softly.

"Its okay to be shy about this kind of thing. I used to be shy about a lot of things but I started to grow out of it." Hinata said. Aki slightly looked up and saw her smile. She smiled back and lifted her head up high.

"Okay! But first…" aki pulled her hands back and then pushed them forward, making a big wave of water that went all over hinata. Hinata was stunned at first but then snapped out of it and did the same thing to aki. Aki was prepared and was able to cover face. She splashed right back when she got the chance. Lily and Kiki looked over at them and then back at each other. They grinned evilly and went under water. While hinata and aki were splashing her, lily snuck up behind aki and kiki snuck up behind hinata. They made a even bigger wave and splashed hinata and aki with it. They screamed and looked behind them to see a laughing wolf and a purple hair woman. Hinata and Aki looked at each other and nodded their heads and splashed both of them. Now it was their turn to scream and for hinata and aki to laugh. Then before you know, they were splashing each other, laughing and smiling.

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With the Boys

Naruto, Kiba and Akamaru were slowly putting down the tent and putting out the fire. They could all hear the girls screaming and giggling at the waterfall.

"Sounds like their having fun." Kiba said, packing up one of the tents.

"Yeah, it sure does." Naruto agreed as he packed up the other tent. There was long silence until Naruto broke it.

"Hey Kiba, can I ask you something." Naruto asked. Kiba turned to look at him who had his back facing him.

"Yeah, what's up?" he said. Naruto paused for a second, debating if he should ask Kiba or not.

'Well they are teammates so…' Naruto thought. He sighed and turned to look at kiba, who was completely confused.

"Do you think that maybe….Hinata is…dating anyone now?" Naruto asked, looking away so he didn't have to look at him in the eye. Kiba looked at him like he had grown three heads.

"What makes you ask that?" kiba said, mega confused now. Naruto shook his head.

"Just wondering, you know. Since you two are teammates, I thought you would know something about, you know, her seeing someone." Kiba couldn't believe what he was hearing. Was naruto in love with hinata?

'By the blush on his face, I would have to say yes.' He thought and then smirked.

"No, I don't think she is seeing someone, well at least that I know." Kiba said and then heard a soft sigh, "But I know that she does have her eye out for someone every special." Naruto looked up at kiba, who was smirking.

"Well do you know who?" naruto asked, a little scared to know who it is.

"I don't know! You're just going to have to ask her yourself." Kiba said, "Why are you so curious all of a sudden?" Naruto blushed and looked away again.

"J-Just wondering that's all!" Naruto said, laughing nervously. Kiba knew something was up but decided not to push him. If Naruto wanted to tell him, he would listen. After awhile of silence, naruto spoke.

"How do you know when your love someone?" he asked out of the blue. Kiba, who had his backed turned to him, turned around with a confuse look on his face.

"Huh?" Naruto blushed.

"Well, when your around someone that you believe is very special to you and you feel weird inside, how can you tell if that's love or not?" he asked. Kiba kept staring at him and then looked up, thinking of a way to answer him.

"Heh, well I'm not sure myself. I've never been in love with someone so I don't know how your supposed to feel. But what I've heard so far is that when you love someone, you think about them all the time. No matter what, their always on your mind. You would feel all warm inside when your around them and an urge just to be near them or to hold them in you arms. Something like that." Kiba said, Naruto's eyes widened. Everything that kiba said was what he was feeling! So that would mean…

That he really was in love with Hinata

But the big question is does she feel the same way?

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Afterwards

Once everyone got clean and was able to wash their cloth, they all decided it was finally time to go back home.

"Hey, where are we going? You never told me where we were heading." Aki asked, very curious.

"Oh, we're heading toward Konoha." Naruto said, looking at aki and smiling. Aki's eyes grew big and she stopped walking. Everyone walked a little bit more and then turned around to see Aki standing there, her head down.

"Aki, whats wrong?" Lily asked, worried. Aki continued to stand there, not saying one word. Everyone looked at her, all worried. And then she spoke.

"No…" aki whispered. Lily looked at her, confused.

"What was that, sweetie?" she asked. Aki frowned at the ground and then looked up at everyone and glared at them.

"No! I refused to go back to that place!" she yelled and then ran away.

"Aki, wait!" lily shouted and ran after her. The others followed her. They couldn't let Aki get away when they just had her! If they don't get her back, then they would fail the mission! And they so did not want to face tsunade empty handed. Espeacily not after all they've been through.

They were going to get her back, even if it killed them.

Which it almost did.

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Ta da! Im done with another chapter! Kinda short but it will have to do for now! Hoped you liked it! Its getting good, isn't it? Even I cant wait for myself to finish this! Since I make this stuff up as I go along! Hehe!

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