The next morning, Hinata awoke to the smell of bacon. When she finally opened her eyes Naruto was leaning over her placing a tray of waffles, bacon and eggs before her. Also on the tray was single red rose in a vase.

He saw her when she started to stir and turned to her with a smile, "Good Morning. Did you sleep well?" Naruto asked, while he placed her pillows upward for a comfy backrest as she sat up to eat.

She nodded with a smile, "Hm, did you? I didn't kick you roll over you with this slightly larger belly." She joked. He chuckled and shook his head.

After the blonde made sure his lovely wife was situated and comfortable, he went back to the table to grab his tray, which had the same things as Hinata's minus the rose. Naruto carried it back to the bed and got comfortable. There they spent an hour over breakfast and small talk.

"Lets go to the hot spring right after breakfast, I'm still a little sticky from those chocolate strawberry and these waffles." Hinata suggested. Naruto agreed, so after breakfast they cleaned up and headed out to the spring.

When they got there it was packed, but luckily the small one meant for approximately five people was open. They took it, since it was either that or be separated. However, they found this to be much more relaxing. The two of them sat across from each other, and as Hinata talked Naruto saw she had placed her feet beside him so the could rest.

He smiled and placed her feet in his lap and started to rub one. Hinata on the other hand started to blush, but this wasn't her ordinary light pink blush, no, this blush was crimson. "Naruto, what are you doing?" she softly spoke.

"Well, I figured since you are carrying the weight of two your feet must be killing you." Her husband observed as he continued to massage her foot. She placed her finger near her mouth while she continued to blush and smiled a little.

But soon her smile turned into a look of concern and she started to watch herself push her fingers together. "N-Naruto…" she began to stutter, "W-why did you marry me?"

He dropped her foot in the water with a huge splash, as did his jaw. 'Why are you asking this now? Shouldn't you have asked this a litter sooner?'

"N-Naruto?" She shyly called out, just hardly letting the words slip through her lips.

He closed his mouth and a smirk appeared across his face. He glided across the water to sit next to Hinata. Then he threw his arm over her shoulders and stared up into the sky. " Seems I'm not the only one that likes to ruin romantic moments." He chuckled. However, she became redder and quickly looked from his face to her fingers. " But before I answer your question, may I ask one of my own?"
She nodded and he continued, "Why are you asking me this now? We've been together for fourteen months as a couple. Was it too soon to ask you to marry me that night in the cave? I mean I would…" She pressed her finger to his lips before he could continue any further.

She dropped her head, "Its just…"she sighed, "I felt like ever since that night in the woods, I've been pushing this on you. That I made you feel obligated to me for some reason. But when we returned, you still stuck by me. Even after Sasuke told Sakura
About his relationship with Hanabi, you didn't chase after her. That was your perfect opportunity to get the girl of your dreams." He looked down from the sky to her depressed pale face and smiled.

"What are you talking about?" He said as he stroked her cheek. She pushed her hand against his. "I'm with my dream girl right now." Hinata looked up with a shocked expression and the light pink blush on her face. Naruto leaned in and kissed his lovely young wife of six months. She, however, was still stunned. "Its like you said, people change, right? What you thought would solve all you problems might actually be the cause of them. What you've dreamed of all your life could turn out to be a nightmare. And the girl you once thought of as dark and timid could actually be the most cheerful and misunderstood one of them all."

"Um… N-Naruto I'm not sure that's the best way to look at it…"

"Huh? Why not?"

"Well, cause then its like 'abandon all hope, your future is doomed.' How about something like 'don't judge a book by its cover.' Hmm… even that seems a bit harsh"

Naruto shrunk his body under water till all you could see was his nose and eyes. "Hinata, why do you have such a pessimistic vantage point? You should take some of my optimism, after all I've got plenty." He chuckled. This didn't go over so well in her mind.

"See what I mean, I don't really see the good in anything but you. Not even in our relationship." She mimicked Naruto's action by sinking into the spring.

"You know, I wonder if this is part of the emotional ups and downs of your pregnancy and not you talking…" He glanced over at her. This made a light bulb pop into her head and a smile appear on her face.

"You know, maybe your right,"

'That's all it took' Naruto thought as he heard Hinata going on about it.

"…And green bean aliens attack the world."

"Yeah, see." Naruto pretended to be listening.

Hinata, having just said the most ridiculous thing she could think of at the time and him not catching it, smacked him across the back of the head. "You weren't even listen." She sighed, "I give up, this is hopeless, I'm going back to the hotel room" As soon as she got up she felt a slight ping in her stomach. She grabbed her belly and started to laugh.

"What? What's so funny?" Naruto stared at her confused.

"I think the baby just kicked me, like he was mad we were fighting. And it's his first time too." She continued to giggle.

Naruto's eyes widened, "Really, I want to feel him kick." And from that point on, after they got dress of course, until the baby kicked Naruto never took his hand off of Hinata's stomach.

"Isn't it amazing?" Naruto randomly said.

Hinata, being totally unaware of what he was talking about, and the fact that the boy still had yet to kick his dad, asked "What? What's amazing?"

"How our kids always seem to make us stop fighting." They chuckled together. "Emi's done it up until now. But I guess her baby brother realizes she isn't here to cry, so he kicks you to get our attention, almost like "You two fighting is silly, I'm trying to get some sleep" or you know whatever babies do in there." Just then, about two hours of lunch and walking on the boardwalk, cotton candy in hand, the baby kicked his daddy.

Naruto jumped back, dropping the cotton candy as ants swarmed to it. "WOW!"

Hinata giggled and nodded her head, "I know right, at first it scared me too. When I first felt Kisho kick Ino I reacted just like that. But I got used to it after a while, now I think it tickles a little." She smiled. Naruto couldn't help but join her, he wrapped his arm around her shoulder and went into a little shop to buy a blanket.

They laid it on the beach and had two of the attendants (as part of their package from Neji and Tenten stated 'one free beach side dinner') to bring them their dinner as they watched the sun set. Even though there was a table set up for them, they decided to eat on the blanket.

On a chilly evening such as this, the attendants also gave them each a thermos of whatever they would like. Hinata decided on hot chocolate, so Naruto thought he would enjoy some as well.

As they watch the sun set, Naruto thought about when/why he did decide to make Hinata his wife. Apart from the fact that she was really dazzling, he remembered something else.

"Hinata,"

"Yes?"

"I know why I wanted to marry you. Ever since I realized that Sakura wasn't going to care for anyone but the pretty boys, I made up my mind to find someone who accepted me when no one else would. When I was a part of team seven, even though we were rivals, Sasuke acknowledge I had strength and potential. He feared I would pass him one day, so he trained just as hard as I did. When he left, it was like a little part of me went with him. The part where I felt someone understood what I was going through. Sakura tried the best she could, but she wanted Sasuke to come back and be hers more then anything. The day before you told me you liked me, Sakura and I went to search for him as far as the Hokage would allow. I knew she still liked him and she would never lose that part of herself. I felt like garbage. We went back to Konoha only to find I had been assigned a mission with you and Kiba. I was glad to get away from my team for a while and concentrate on a real mission like regular ninjas, like team 8, did. But then, when I couldn't even get food for our team, I felt even more depressed, like nothing I have ever done or ever will do is right. But then, just to take my mind off of those thoughts, I asked you the only question I could think of at the time. Your whole face was red and wouldn't look me in the eye. If you would have answered 'Yes Naruto you make me sick' or something along those lines, that would have just about completed my horrible week."

He smiled as he looked out over the sea to the setting sun. "But you didn't, and for the first time in a while I felt appreciated, and yet confused. How could an heiress look up to a poor, lowly, demon child like me? All the words I could make out that came from inside your heart made me realize that it doesn't matter. Who a person is or where they come from, as long as they feel like they have a purpose, and someone to support them in times of need. Someone who cares enough to make themselves available to talk and listen to the craziest things, especially from me." Hinata giggled, and Naruto chuckled at how cute she was.

"Well, you might say some crazy things sometimes, but you've always inspired me to be the best I can be, to never give up. Having been rejected by my own father after joining team 8, for a while I felt as if I was useless. The only thing that I felt I could do was to tell them the direction of the enemy and let them take care of the rest. With Kiba's sense of smell and Shino's bugs scattered everywhere, sometimes they even beat me to it. When I saw you, day after day, when classes were over and the children were with their families eating dinner or playing around, you were training. The parents wouldn't let you around their kids, and the boys and girls were afraid you had some kind of disease. Even though you failed the exams to graduate quite a few times as well, you were determined, and never gave up. Now, you have a family, and are a good father to Emi, even though she isn't technically ours, you never once have made that apparent. We even had Ino fooled up to the day before the wedding."

"Really?" Hinata nodded with a giggle as he continued, "Well, I guess that's Ino for you, if someone doesn't tell her she'll never figure it out." He sniggered.

"But I'm glad that you are proud of your family, and am also glad that you gave me the opportunity to stay by your side till death to us part, which won't be for a long time from now mind you. But still, I am going to be there the day you become Hokage and the day you first see your beautiful baby boy. I'll be with you through good and bad. When you come back from your mission, whether you failed it or passed, we can just celebrate the fact you came home alive." Hinata snuggled closer to her husband.

"You know something Hinata?"

"Hmm?" She mumbled her hands like ice against his arms.

"Sometimes I think we have too many romantic moments that end in…" But when he looked down she was asleep against his chest. He wrapped his jacket around her shivering body and kissed her forehead. "I love you," He whispered as the last trace of the sun sank into the ocean.