Chapter 3

Naruto was walking down the street making a mental list of what he was going to pack, Ramen and more Ramen, clothes. Kunais, shrunken, Ramen . . . and so on. He walked into his small 2 room flat a bedroom and a kitchen the room had an en suit. He looked into his cupboard and picked out about 5 Ramen packets and placed them in his bag, he took out a water bottle and placed it next to the sink they wouldn't be eating till they go to towns but some nights they may have to camp out so he moved into his bedroom and packed all the rest of the necessary equipment.

He had almost finished packing when he noticed the picture of him Sasuke, Sakura and Kakashi, so long ago before everything he smiled faintly and placed it down on his bed side cabinet remembering at the last minute to grab his hat for sleeping in.

(you all know the one the blue one with the eyes and the teeth).

He left everything where it was and left he was going to go tell Sasuke and Sakura that he now had a mission, not with them.

He was walking down the street and noticed the wall had a part that was going on at a different angle frowning he walked over, he herd the expectant snigger.

"KONOHAMARU" Naruto shouted pouncing on the young nins hiding place

"Ah once again you my rival has found out my carefully conceived hiding place" Naruto stood looking at Konohamaru in shock.

"ehhh" he shouted.

"what are you on about".

"KAGEBUNSHIN NO JUTSU" Konohamaru shouted a shadow clone appeared standing beside him

"sexy no jutsu" two semi naked girls appeared in front of Naruto

"heh, is that the best you can do" he said with a smirk on his face, Konohamaru transformed back to normal with a from on his face, then smirked and readied himself to try again

"sexy no jutsu" he said again this time Naruto almost feinted there standing in front of him was an almost naked Hinata and Sakura with little white fluffy clouds swirling around them protecting their goodies, he couldn't look away, his eyes were transfixed.

"NARUTO" a loud angry feminine voice sounded behind him, Naruto was startled out of his revere and looked towards the now advancing Sakura

"neh Sakura-Chan its not what it looks like" she didn't stop her advance and pounded on Naruto he went flying and landed in a wall about 200 metres away

"itei" came the feeble voice as he pulled himself out of the ground then Sakura glared towards Konohamaru who looked worried

"shit sexy no jutsu" he said for the final time Sakura stopped in her tracks eyes bulging out of her head face as red as well a red balloon Sasuke was standing there with only a whips of the cloud that the girls had, had looking at Sakura calling her name she walked back quickly she herd a loud laugh from behind her as Naruto was standing there pointing at her laughing.

"see you do like the sexy no jutsu"

Naruto backed up quickly holding his hands in front of his head in surrender she was more angry at being caught in such a simple jutsu she punched him in the head and continued walking growling to herself, Naruto caught up still holding his head if it wasn't for the healing powers of the Kyuubi he would probably be unconscious.

"Sakura-Chan, where are you going"

"to Sasuke's" she replied they walked in silence Naruto holding his hands behind his head a huge grin on his face, Sakura just smirked at him she knew all about what had happened between him and Hinata although she wasn't about to tell Naruto she knew was she.

They reached the house around 15 minutes later, Sakura walked up the steps knocked once looked around uncertainly and walked In, Naruto just followed her still smiling inanely, Sasuke poked his head out of the kitchen and walked back in after seeing who it was Naruto came out of his revere and smiled at him

"neh Sasuke you know Sakura got tricked by sexy no ju . . . ITEI" Sakura had placed another punch in the head.

"Sasuke-BAKA" why did you let her hit me he glared at Sasuke,

"anyway im here because I have a new mission" Sasuke looked up questioningly after being back in Konoha for only this long was Tsunade going to give him a mission, he looked at Sakura for conformation she shook her head and went to sit down at the table behind him,

"is Sakura going with you" Naruto shook his head

"its Hinata Neiji and Kakashi, I hope he is not late" he laughed but stopped when nobody laughed with him

"so how long is this mission for" Sasuke asked Sakura answered before Naruto could

"two to three weeks" Sasuke looked angry why did Naruto have a mission what did Naruto do to get a mission like this wasn't he supposed to be here looking after me he thought, why.

"So your leaving without a second thought are you not even going to think about what we think and why isn't Sakura even in your team she is part of the original team 7 she should at least go"

"It was all up to Baa-Chan" Naruto replied angrily he though Sasuke would be happy for him getting a new mission but he didn't seem like it.

"So your just going to accept whatever Tsunade has to say is you?"

"I am this time" Naruto said with a smile, he wanted to explain about Hinata but couldn't to him it felt complicated, Sakura was just sitting there worried over their fight but happy for Naruto besides she knew the specifics of the mission it was also important to Naruto because this was near the town where Jirya was killed but Kakashi would tell them in the briefing on the way to the village near rain.

Sasuke hmphed and turned away

"Sasuke-baka" Naruto said making Sasuke glare at him he stopped as soon as he saw the carefree look on Naruto's's face he couldn't stay angry for long besides now he would get some alone time with Sakura.

(omg what did he actually just think that, im still waiting for some lemon man)

They all sat around for the afternoon not doing much, just sitting there more Naruto talking and Sakura punching him till Naruto decided it was time to go home because he had to wake up early for the mission tomorrow. He got home about 5 minutes after he left (because of all the roof hopping) and went to bed in a minor panic because he couldn't find his nightcap he managed to tidy before he left because he couldn't find it then he clicked and went over and fetched it out of his bag.

Hinata was the first one at the gates of Konoha that morning anxious to head out on the mission she still blushed when she remembered Tsunade giving her a lecture on how to "behave" on this mission, especially her interaction with Naruto, not going to be that hard she thought because he would be to busy anyway and Neiji would be there to keep her away from him or him away from her.

Her face shone a deep red when she remembered Tsunade's last words

"Hinata" she said as she was about to open the door, Hinata turned around and saw the look on Tsunade's face blanching slightly

"if something does end up happening with you and Naruto, give it your all"

This had shocked her into practical silence you could hear her stuttering her nod as she walked out. Now here she was waiting for him to arrive hoping that he would before Neiji.

What you wish for hardly ever comes true but this time it did, Naruto walked towards her extremely early considering she had come 3 hours early so as to escape Neiji and had only been there for about 30 minutes and everyone knew that Kakashi would be late again with some HORRIBLE excuse but he was there he was.

He blushed when he saw her imagining the naked form of Hinata the sexy jutsu that Konohamaru had preformed on him, Hinata seeing this blushed as well and refused to look up, he walked over to her and stood there in an awkward silence he reached out and touched her hand she gasped and flinched hoping Neiji wouldn't come she relaxed and opened her hand as he slipped a not inside and then clasped her hand in his, he leaned forward and whispered in her ear

"read this when you get the chance I passed Neiji on the way here" he clasped her hand firmly before walking out of the gate to sit on the seat. Neiji turned up about 3 seconds later not having noticed a thing and went over and stood by Hinata he had come to accept her for who she was not what family branch she represented and didn't want to see her hurt and she knew how much this mission could cost her if Naruto didn't play his cards right, he didn't notice Hinata pocketing the note Naruto had handed her.

Kakashi finally arrived about 1 hour late

"you see I was trying to help and old lady cross the road and then I uh decided to walk her home"

"LIAR" Naruto shouted at him. Kakashi shrugged and set them up in formation Neiji and Naruto up front and Hinata and Kakashi at the back, they would follow this formation till they stopped for a break. This made no time for Naruto and Hinata to talk, this made Naruto angry and Hinata was sad, on the break Hinata took a moment alone to as she said relieve herself and read the note from Naruto, it said

Dear Hinata

Tonight we will stop at a small town where there is only one hotel, Jirya Ero Senin and I visited it once, meet me after Kakashi and Neiji go to sleep in the hot pools just for a swim (I promised Tsunade)

Naruto

Hinata thought about this letter the whole way to the town but decided for it as they were checking in to the hotel she gave Naruto a small nod that was almost unnoticeable.

They had their dinner of Naruto's usual Ramen some sushi and other yummy foods and went to bed they were all tired after the distance they had traveled Naruto had to bunk with Neiji and was very careful to make a shadow clone before he went.

Naruto's shadow clones have no difference in them all have the same amount of chakara and well all it had to do was sleep and walked out of the room pretending to go toilet and sent the clone back in got into his togs and walked around to the hot pools.

She was waiting already and by the looks of things she was about to go back to bed she smiled and blushed as Naruto walked in, Naruto beamed at her and chuckled holding his hands behind his head again, as he stepped into the pool Hinata disrobed he almost drowned she was wearing a 2 piece swim suit a bikini that suited her he could see the curves of her body and the shape of her muscles he reached out and helped her in he wasn't sure if it was the heat of the water of if it was he blushing again.

They swam over to the seats on the other side not talking then Naruto started to talk about his missions and what he had done while he was away because he hadn't had time to tell her yet he then asked

"what did you do while I was away" she didn't know what to say she couldn't answer she couldn't get over the fact that Naruto was actually talking to her in a actual conversation and asking her how she was and what she did

"Hoy Hinata" a voice called faintly as she feinted he laughed and held her above the water she quickly woke up and nervously blushed

"Naruto-kun arigato" she said looking downcast stupid stupid stupid she berated herself why did she always have to feint she plucked up the courage and looked at him and told her what she did all the training and hard work she did she didn't mention it was all for him though in the fight against Neiji he had giving her more hope then she had every dreamed and showed he actually cared for and acknowledged her.

She had not moved from where he was propping her up after she feinted in fact they seemed to be getting closer with every word they spoke they were laughing and having fun and for once in her life Hinata didn't feint at it. She leaned forward and initiated the kiss this time which shocked her allot more then It did Naruto.

He slowly moved his arms around her body and held him close she could fell him pulling her tighter as they continued to kiss her arms were around his neck, he pulled of and started kissing the side of her neck she moved it to the side so he could go further down she could feel how excited this was getting him and moved to accommodate him she blushed and he blushed back and they kissed again. She smiled down at him and (total clicheé) they got lost in each others eyes,

"neh Hinata" Naruto said

"hai" she said planting a kiss on his lips again

" we should just get a room together I don't think Kakashi would tell Tsunade especially since we can get back in on time I always sleep in" she looked uncertain but agreed and they walked of to her room together, Kakashi was just across the hall, they lay down on the bed Hinata snuggled in Naruto's arms she had never felt so good in her entire life.