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She stood shell-shocked as she stared at the man before her, "N-na-naruto". Only he could manage to make her revert back to stuttering. "It was you all along?" it seemed unbelievable
"Yes". The young man replied apologetically, whilst staring intently at the floor unable to meet her gaze, guilty at being caught or guilty for having kept it a secret she wasn't sure.
"Since the bar" she asked again sceptically.
Naruto nodded "I had pakkun deliver it for me."
"Does Kakashi know?" Surely he did it was the man's summon.
"No sensei doesn't know, I made Pakkun, keep it a secret, I wasn't suppose to know about you."
The only reason Pakkun agreed to keep it a secret was that, the small pug had concluded it ultimately wouldn't harm his master.
However Hinata was still trying to decipher his rather vague words baffled in particular by what he meant by, 'wasn't suppose to know about her.' "What do you mean?" she asked.
Seeing the confusion on her face Naruto felt it was his obligation that he tell her everything, and clear things up. " We need to talk." He said gravely however before he could utter another word, he suddenly snapped his head up and became alert as if something had caught his attention, shifting his eyes from left to right he said again cautiously "but not here."
Heading to the window he motioned for her to follow, pushing the glass pane outwards as far as it would go. He picked her up, in one swift leap he was out of the window and on to the ledge of the roof, and in another he was on the ground.
He didn't put her down however, the young ninja wasn't even winded as if he hadn't exerted any effort at all, he carried on bounding down the street, only placing her on her feet when they were out of view of the hokage tower.
A stern thoughtful expression had crossed his face, about to ask him where they were going Naruto cut her off. "You know what you need?" But before she could answer he cheerfully added "Ramen." The blonde man enthusiastically announced
"Huh?" was all Hinata could let out, completely bewildered.
"I bet you haven't had any in ages, you'd be surprised how much you miss it." A big wide grin spread across his tanned face as he automatically turned a corner.
Seeing the stand up a head Hinata dubiously replied, "I don't think any one misses as much as you do."
Letting out a deep chuckle " you probably right."
Not bothering to ask what she wanted, he ordered for both of them and took a seat on the corner.
The austere expression returned to his face, "I need you to fill me in, tell me every thing, before I can answer your questions."
So Hinata did just that starting from the moment when she was first captured by the mist, to Sasuke saving her. To the moment when she killed the rain nin in his hideout, which snapped her out of her stupor, and was the defining moment when she finally decided to leave him.
Returning back to the leaf, being put under Kakashi custody, being sent out on a mission to capture Sasuke.
Eventually finding herself living quite happily with Sasuke again, Until Kakashi came to find her while working at the bar. Kakashi keeping her confined, the days she spent barricaded in the warehouse with him.
She even confessed her decision to leave Konoha, being chased down by root, Sasuke saving her once again. All the months she had been on the run, all up until the point he himself had found her hiding in the dark room at the monastery.
It was odd reliving every thing she had gone through, she had been interrogated before but never had she actually sat down and spoke to someone. Not just recounting the hard cold facts but acknowledged all that had happened.
It was cathartic like some dark cloud that had been hovering around her dissipate, by simply talking to some one.
It was him, it was Naruto the boy she had admired and looked up to for so long, had grown into a man. And when he listen to you, and told you everything would be ok, you believed him.
It was only a week ago, she couldn't bear to be in sight of him. She didn't want him to see her not like this. However it was actually refreshing being in his company in a familiar environment. It felt like she had come home.
Naruto sat there in silence as he tried to take in the account of this once classmate's life of the last two years. "I hadn't known." He finally came out with after comprehending all that she had said. "And, the child" he motion to her a stomach. "Is Sasuke's"? He said astounded.
Hinata simply nodded.
He let out a long breath and raked his had through his hair, leaning back on the stool. "I'll tell you what I know."
"I found out about you by accident" he admitted, "when I over heard a conversation between Kakashi sensei and old lady Tsunade. I confronted them about it, Kakashi told me you had managed to escape from the enemy nin but you had gone rouge. He was going to personally track you down because he thought the was a chance of getting you to return, instead of sending out hunter nin."
"I was following mission orders." Hinata bitterly protested. The mission brief she had been given was to lure Sasuke out. How she was supposed to do that she had no idea, but it had worked, he did turn up for her.
And if he was to come out of hiding, she was to stick with him. Granted she hadn't attacked Sasuke or tried to capture him, but had they really expect her to, and successfully if that?
She was a complete mess back then. Angered by the lies told about her to cover for konoha bad decisions.
Naruto nodded sympathetically and carried on "Kakashi sensei wouldn't let me go with him. So I wrote you that letter trying to convey my feelings," he sheepishly scratched his head his face a little red, remembering how intense it was. "In hopes it would convince you to come back to Konoha however I was too much of a coward to sign it."
Hinata thought back to the first letter she received
I would stop you from feeling rejected whenever some one leaves; I would ease the pressure of your heart, every time you think the worlds left you behind.
I'd let you take out that bitter resentment, and disappointment you have for the way your life has turn out.
And I would fill in that hollowness you feel afterwards.
I can't promise that I will heal you, because I am still as much of a jerk as I ever was.
Your life will still have its troubled moments ahead, but no one lives a life with out a little drama. I know you probably snorted at that comment, but I believe those who know the true irony of life can understand it, if just a little.
"When Kakashi sensei had come back with out you, he was outraged Konoha hadn't sent out backup, and wanted to go after you straight away." He paused and looked up and thanked the shopkeeper as bowls of ramen were placed in front of them.
However for once he didn't touch the food and carried on explaining. "But he had officially been named Hokakge he had to stay in the village and certify his new regime, it would look politically weak if he were to be absent so soon."
"I begged him to send me out to find you, he wouldn't allow it." Raising his voice and dropping it as if he was disappointed all over again "Telling me that your betrayal needed to be kept a secret other wise you would be in danger, if the others found out that you where still alive. They would demand a hunter nin should be sent after you."
Hinata pondered on it for a moment, she supposed Kakashi was right because she had in fact betrayed konoha at that point, anyway.
"I tried to convince him there where those who could be trusted but kakashi refused saying it had to be him because". He hesitated and drew back a little, he had been leaning in, closer inch by inch as he was talking but now he found it difficult to meet her gaze " because, while he was with you the two of you had fallen in love, and had decided to get married. That you two we're even expecting a child. However on your way back to the village a hunter nin had attacked you and the two of you became separated."
"Did you really believe him." the young woman asked wondering if others had accepted the lie so easily.
" I was skeptical at first but when we were finally able to track you down and found you so heavily pregnant I thought it must be true. I mean why would sensei lie." Naruto tried to justify him self.
" But before we found you, when sensei got back to the village, shortly after the official Hokakge ceremony, Kakashi started to try and take political control of root, trying to oust Danzo."
Hinata leaned back on her stool she hadn't known Kakashi had gone that far as to openly challenge Danzo. Is that why he tried so desperately to try and force her into a relationship, when root was spying on them?
To perhaps warn them all off, by declaring her his property. Was he trying to protect her from root all along?
Noting Hinata's expression, she seemed to be in some sort of internal conflict; he allowed her a minute or two to gain her composure.
Taking a sip of his water he continued on to explain to her.
"However Danzo, managed to over rule Kakashi by using his absence from the village, when he had been named as a candidate for `Hokage as and excuse. Claiming Kakashi was unfit to be Hokage and would clearly benefit the village more if he was still on active service. Most agreed losing Kakashi as a field nin was a blow, and would be a liability to the village."
"Danzo took over power, and one of the first things he did was send out root nin to eliminate you. Kakashi declared it to be unacceptable that they were going to attack his wife and child and talked the elders in to giving him approval to send out a team to find you before Danzo's men did".
Naruto's mood darkened a little more as he went on to say.
"But something we hadn't anticipated happened, we found out Danzo himself had gone after you. At the time I just couldn't understand his obsession with you, for him to go even that far."
Fully mulling it over Naruto admitted "But now I understand it all makes sense now, this would explain why years of avoiding us, Sasuke would become involved with a Konoha matter."
At the mention of Sasuke name Hinata heartbeat doubled. "What did he do" she asked tense.
"He fought Danzo", Naruto paused looking, away from her finding it difficult to control his own emotion's, "It was reported, they both killed each other in battle." His voice cracking a little.
Hinata gasped, her hand, which was clamped to the edge of the counter automatically tightening. That's why he had been absent the night of the explosion, he was fighting Danzo. But had he really died, it couldn't be true "why would he go so far." She let out in a dazed whisper
"Sasuke had been after Danzo a long time now. He took his vengeance."
She remembered meeting Danzo when she was first interrogated, and how intensely focused on Sasuke he had been. "What had Danzo, done to him."
Naruto held up his hand halting her thoughts from going any further. " I'll explain that in full later, there are things about Sasuke you need to know." He figured she deserved to know, she was after all carrying the very last Uchiha.
Naruto abruptly reached down behind his stool and pulled up a small dog by the scruff of his neck. " You, why didn't you tell me we where guarding Hinata from Sasuke." He boomed in his most authorative voice.
The little pug quipped " I am kakashi's summon not yours."
"Who did you think you, where guarding me from." Hinata asked taking the small dog, and placing him on her lap.
" Some very pissed off root members." Naruto answered directing his attention back to the dog. " Is kakashi making you keep tabs on Hinata."
"What do you think."? Pakkun replied drily, as he scoffed down a piece of meat Hinata had given him from her bowl of ramen.
"tsch, that means I am going to have to kidnap you for a while." The little pugs eyes grew wide as Naruto bit his thumb and brought out a summon of his own.
Grabbing the small dog again he hovered him above the large frogs open mouth.
"Wait, wait all I am doing is staying close to Hinata, to make sure she doesn't get hurt." The dog was frantically trying to bite Naruto's hand " Hey I delivered that letter for you and kept it a secret from Kakashi, you owe me."
"huh I suppose I do." Naruto responded. Letting Pakkun fall back in to Hinata's lap. The large frog vanishing in a puff of smoke. " Fine I won't feed you to a frog."
Pakkun sighing in relief
"But I still expect you to disappear, go tell Kakashi, his wife s spending the day with me." He announced with a rebellious grin.
AN: also some of you guys may not have noticed but i put links of picture i've drawn of Hinata and Kakashi from this fanfiction on my profile page. I hope you check them out