Naruto's Newly Found Love Chapter two

It has been a few days now since Hinata had departed, I felt a part of my soul disappear, I have been counting down the days until she returns to Konoha. My life has changed dramatically in the past few days thanks to her, everything I do now I have to take into consideration about how she'd feel about it. Nothing is about me anymore its all about her and will always keep that in mind no matter what happens, nothing can ruin what I have gained. Another day gone, I really cant wait for Hinata to return, I wish I could embrace her like she has always wanted me to but unfortunately she is away.

I sighed "I wonder how she is and what she is doing on her mission, I never got chance to ask what it was!"

Tsunade couldn't have sent her on too difficult a challenge, it wouldn't be fair on her, she is still coming out of her shell. I'm sure she will be fine but I can't help feeling like she is in some kind of trouble. I'll go check with Granny Tsunade tomorrow morning. For now I should train and practice my jutsu, off to the training field then… When I arrived at the training field I saw Kiba and Akumaru practicing their fang over fang.

I shouted to them "Hey, how's it going? I see you to are working hard then."

He shouted back at me while Akumaru barked, all I heard was "Yeah, cause we aren't slackers like you"

I then ran towards Kiba scrunching my fist up ready to hit him but how could I if I hit Kiba, Hinata may not forgive me since they were both on the same team with Shino. I unclenched my fist almost as I hit Kiba, he was so shocked to the speed that I had when running at him.

All he did was scream "STOP!"

I had even shocked myself I never knew I could move so quick and I haven't trained for a while since Hinata left, I shouldn't be that fast but I'm not complaining about it. At this point Kiba had retreated to train some more with Akumaru. I too started to train but my mind was pre-occupied and I just couldn't focus at all, so I went off to catch up with some old friends.

I remembered that Shikamaru had just returned from his mission, so I thought to myself, lets go see how he is and if he needed any help. It didn't take me long to find him he was in his usual spot lying down, staring up into the sky, daydreaming.

At the top of my lungs I shouted to him from across the rooftop "Shikamaru get up lazy, I'm coming over to you.

At this point I had to either jump a ten metre gap or I could walk up the wall of the other building. I jumped and cleared it by 3 metres I didn't expect this and neither did Shikamaru as I had landed right in front of him.

He sighed and said "What do you want this time Naruto?"

I replied to him "I was just checking up on you and coming to see if you needed any help."

Shikamaru yawned and then spoke more, saying "I do have a simple mission that is boring me. I need to go to Ichiraku's and get Hogake Tsunade her lunch, it's such a drag"

He then slouched back onto the ground, I sat beside him and we both just stared up, there was nothing of interest. I asked him if he wanted me to get the ramen for him, he wasn't bothered either way as long as Tsunade got her lunch. I was off in a cloud of smoke, Ichiraku's was on the other side of the village, jumping from rooftop to rooftop I decided to grab my own lunch as well. As I reached Ichiraku's, I was interrupted by Sakura, She yelled at me for several minutes.

Near the end of the rant all I heard was "You need to fulfil your responsibilities to the village, go see Tsunade and while you are at it, take her lunch as well."

I never liked it when Sakura got bossy even in team 7 but after she trained with Granny Tsunade, she had gotten even worse and she scared me more then ever, so I couldn't refuse. Grabbing Tsunade's lunch I eventually ran past Shikamaru to tell him I got her lunch for her. I had to hurry before she got angry, Tsunade is a lot worse than Sakura but I wouldn't mess with either to be honest.

I reached the Hogake mansion and all I heard was "WHERE IS SHIKAMARU? I want my lunch, it was a simple mission, especially for someone of his skill and talent!"

At that point I busted into the room awaiting Tsunade's rant to begin, fortunately she was more interested in her food then me.

I went to walk away as Tsunade asked me "Did you want something Naruto?"

I replied " No, its ok I'll come back when you are finished with your ramen, bye"

I then heard her bellow "GET BACK HERE, I HAVE A MISSION FOR YOU!"

I turned around to see her face grinning, she told me that I was going to go after Hinata's group as their support, she explained the Hinata had been injured whilst travelling to their destination and suffered from several injuries. My heart dropped and I couldn't breath properly, I wanted to rush to Hinata as fast as possible. I left the village after getting the details on my special mission as support for Hinata's group. With the speed that I now know I have I should make it their in half the time they did, it should have taken them around 1 day. The amount of different terrains that I had past was numerous, forests, lakes and even chasms, no-wonder they suffered injuries the chasms that we had to go through were treacherous. Rocks were hanging off different parts of cliffs and there were tight walks against the cliff face as well. I should never have let her leave, I can't let anything happen to her ever again.

I finally reached my destination, the Village Hidden in the Stars. I knew nothing about their mission all I knew was that I have to support them and get their mission complete and take them all back to Konoha as fast as possible. When I reached the house that Hinata, Ino and Sai were in, I leapt through the door to see Hinata stare right at me, a messenger bird had arrived an hour ago, letting them know I was on my way, Hinata had been waiting impatiently by the door for me, Ino and Sai bad told me that all she talked about whilst they had been of duty waiting for back-up was me. I felt so touched by that, I grabbed her by the hand, pulling her slowly towards me and kissed her. She blushed and went so red that Ino started to make fun of her.

I turned to Ino and said "At least she has someone to share her life with."

All she could say was "I'm sorry Hinata, I am happy for you two, everyone are."

Hinata replied "It's ok Ino, I don't mind you joking around, I know that you are only messing around."

After they had caught me up on details of their mission, which included Sumaru, whom we had met before, he was missing and disappeared several days before Hinata's group arrived. Me, Ino and Sai left Hinata at the house to recover, we asked some members of the village when they had last seen him, they said that he was near a chasm that no-one was supposed to approach. We started to look nearer to the chasm for him but there was no proof he was their, I thought that we should check the chasm itself just in case he had fallen, so I sent Sai to take a look.

After searching the chasm Sai returned and said "I'm not sure if it was him but I saw a boy in the far end of the cavern being attacked by a member of the hidden rain village."

I screamed at the top of my lungs "We have to save him, no matter what, even if it costs us our lives."

I had forgotten that I couldn't say things like this anymore because of Hinata, It wouldn't be fair if I endangered my life like this without thinking anything through. So I asked Sai to devise a plan since he was a former member of Root. He suggested that we have someone distract the ninja whilst the others get Sumaru out of the chasm. Sai offered to be the distraction as he could easily navigate through the place with his jutsu. Whilst Sai went off into the Air me and Ino had to rush across the top of the chasm and get into place so that the plan could succeed. We reached the far end and Sai was circling above us signalling that he was about to distract the rain village ninja. I rushed towards Sumaru whilst Ino covered me, just in case the ninja saw us helping him. We managed to get him to safety however the ninja had seen Ino, she thought on her feet and used her mind transfer jutsu so that me and the boy could get away. I never knew how brave my friends were until lately they had all given so much for me and for the missions that we have done. I was so worried about what would happen to Hinata if I died but at that point I couldn't not interfere, Ino couldn't defeat this guy by herself, so I ran in with a rasengan in my hand ready for him but he was so fast that I missed. I tried again and again but failed repeatedly, I thought to myself why don't I utilize the speed that I know have rather than focus on the power that rasengan has, so I ran towards him pretending to use my rasengan but actually going to punch him against the wall so that Sai could finish him off. He slammed against the wall and Sai was ready but this guy didn't give up, he kept dodging our attacks until finally, Ino caught him in her mind transfer jutsu again and I was ready with rasengan, I hit him in the stomach and he went flying off, fortunately we no longer needed to fight him, I had barely any chakra left after this, I used rasengan too many times.

We arrived back at the Village Hidden in the Stars and Hinata was waiting for us by the Sumaru's house. The village rejoiced as we returned to the village, everyone was so worried about him and they all would have missed him. We were asked to stay for a celebratory meal but we had to leave to get back to Konoha. We left on our journey back to the village...