Author's Note: FINALLY! I have been waiting so long to write this chapter! It feels so good to finally get this out of my system. Please R&R.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, and I think we all know that by now.

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Chapter 6: The Nightmare

Kabuto's POV

Something wasn't right. He could feel it. Kabuto sat up in bed, simply listening. Then he heard it. A soft sobbing noise. He rolled over, and saw that it was Hinata. She was sitting on the end of her matteress, in a ball, crying her heart out.

"Hey." She jumped. "G-gomen K-Kabuto. I-I d-didn't m-m-mean t-to w-wake y-you." Hinata hiccuped. "No, no, that's alright. What's wrong?"

"I-I had a n-n-nightmare." Hinata gasped. Kabuto beconed, and Hinata came over, and sat next to him. As she burried her head in his shoulder, Kabuto stroked her hair thinking, 'Good, she's getting more comfortable with me.'

Kabuto just let her cry for a while, holding her tightly around her shoulders. "Do you want to talk about it?" He asked after a while. She nodded, but remained silent.

"What was the nightmare about?"

"M-my family." She whispered.

"What happened?"

"My f-f-father."

"Is that why you ran away?"

"P-partially."

They stayed silent. Then, Hinata started crying again. "Th-thank y-you." She whispered, but Kabuto still caught it.

"What for? You don't want to thank me, I'm a bad person." Kabuto said. He was confused. He had kidnapped her, locked her in a closet, and kept her away from her family. WHY WAS SHE THANKING HIM?!

"N-no, y-y-you a-aren't. Y-you wouldn't have d-done it n-normally." Kabuto was dumbfounded. Hinata was absolutaly right. "But still, why thank me?"

"B-because, y-you h-have been k-kinder to me than a-any one I h-have e-ever m-met. I-including m-my family." She said. Kabuto could tell that sleep was over taking her, because her eyes were slowly closing. He picked her up, and rocked her to sleep. An hour later he was still rocking her. A while ago, she had clutched at his shirt, and she wouldn't let go. So he just kept rocking. And thinking.

She had said to him that he was kinder to her than any one she had ever met, including her family. That didn't seem right to him. His family had hated him, but he did have friends. But it seemed slightly sick to have a man you had never met, and a kidnapper at that, be kinder to you than your own family.

Kabuto decided then and there that he would never let anything bad ever happen to Hinata. He could tell that her past was the reason she was so miserable. So in order to make up for it, he decided to make her future perfect. And suddenly, he knew why he was so protective about her. He knew why he couldn't take his eyes off her.

Kabuto lay Hinata down on his bed, and pulled up the covers, tight around her body. She looked peaceful, snuggled beneath the sheets. Kabuto couldn't help it. He leaned next to her ear, and whispered, "Goodnight my little Hina-hime." Then he kissed her, lightly, on her forehead.

As Kabuto lay on the blowup mattress, drifting off to sleep, he gazed over at Hinata, sleeping peacfully, unaware of what he had done. As his eyelids became heavier, and heavier, Kabuto thought back, and a slow smile spread across his face. Not a smirk, but a true smile of pure bliss. He knew why he felt the way he did around Hinata. It was because he loved her.

Yes, Yakusi Kabuto was in love with Hyuuga Hinata.

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Author's Note: YES! Finally. I hope you can see why I wanted to write this chapter so badly. Did you like it? Did you think it was corney? R&R to let me know!