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Rice Pudding

Arroz Con Leche

Chapter: Seven-Siete-Nana

Grrrrroowwll!

Naruto placed his hands on his grumbling stomach. "Oh man, I guess I still want more food." Looking around his kitchen, the blonde teen couldn't find anything good to eat. Deciding to take a break from his search Naruto looked up at the clock. It's been three hours since Hinata left. He could sure go for some of her homemade ramen right now. Naruto's face lit up, remembering what Hinata had told him right before she left.

Naruto opened the door for Hinata. "Thank you again Hinata."

"No need to thank me Naruto-kun." Hinata stepped outside, "I also left you some leftover ramen in your fridge in case you get hungry again. Its in the blue container."

Rushing to his fridge, Naruto quickly located the blue container. He placed it in his microwave and soon he could smell the sweet aroma of homemade ramen. With drool coming out of his mouth, Naruto thanked Hinata once again in his head.

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"Oh that's a wonderful plan!" exclaimed Ino, with a starry look in her eyes. "I gotta admit, Forehead sure is smart."

Shikamaru's face went blank. 'she thinks it's good? What is it with girls?' shaking his head clear, Shikamaru turned his eyes to his best friend. "what do you think Choji?"

With chips in his mouth, Choji shrugged. Swallowing, he said, "Well Ino is into it and she knows about these things, so I guess it might work."

"I still think it wont work."

Ino, coming out of her daydream, glared at her lazy teammate. "Shikamaru you may be the smartest out of all of us, but trust me, Forehead's plan will work."

"whatever you say Ino. Well I told you your job in the plan, so make sure you do it."

Choji gave him a thumbs up, "Will do!"

Ino gave Shikamaru a wink, "I'll handle my part with ease."

Shikamaru gave his friends a wave goodbye. "Until later then. See ya."

Leaving his teammates, the lazy ninja looked up to the couds. 'I guess that went well, it's better that I didn't tell them about Hinata's engagement. Ino would have chewed me alive. Just thinking about it gives me the chills.' Clearing his head of Ino's angry image, Shikamaru headed toward the Hokage's.

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She couldn't reach him.

"Please! Please come back!"

No matter how fast Hinata willed her legs to run, he kept getting farther and farther. Her breathing was coming in short, she didn't know how long she could keep going before she passes out.

"Come back! I need you. I have to…..I have to catch up…"

Then he was gone, and she was all alone in the dark.

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Kaoru hated the whole thing. Hinata was not a thing to be given off, especially if it was into marriage. The heiress was too young for marriage, she was too young to take on the burdens of being a Queen, heck just the burden of being the Hyuuga heir was too much. Hinata hasn't even had her first boyfriend! How can Lord Hiashi even think about agreeing with the prince! Kaoru dipped a towel into a bowl of water, then placed the towel on Hinata's forehead. She had come in an hour earlier, giving Sakura a chance to eat and rest before coming back in to take care of Hinata.

"Please….."

Kaoru quickly turned her attention to the sleeping girl. "Lady Hinata?" looking at her closely, it looked as if she was in pain.

"come….back.."

"Lady Hinata, don't worry I'm here. It's just a nightmare, no one is leaving you." Kaoru was about to get up and call for Sakura, only to see that Hinata's face had gotten calmer. The old lady sighed in relief. "One way or another, I will do my best to help you Lady Hinata."

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How long has she been here? It's too dark, she cant tell if its been days or hours? It could have just been minutes.

She's weak. She couldn't catch up to him.

"Come back." Hinata whispered into the darkness. How many times has she called to him? Ten times? A hundred?

"There you are."

Hinata's eyes widened. He heard her, he came back for her!

"Naru-" she gasped. Facing the stranger, she saw right away that it wasn't who she was waiting for, almost as if instict was warning her. "W-who are y-you?"

"I'm hurt. You don't recognize me, darling?"

She took a step back, "G-get away. I don't know you."

"Now you really are trying to hurt me. Don't worry love, just come into my arms and all will be well. Trust me."

She felt something grab onto her arm, something so hot it burned her flesh and spread through her entire body, she let out a piercing scream.

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"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

The scream knocked Sakura right out of her chair, waking her up. Panicking, the medic ninja was at Hinata's side examining her with her eyes while at the same time trying to wake her up. "Hinata! Hinata! Come one! Wake up!"

Satisfied with seeing that there was nothing physically wrong with her friend, Sakura shook Hinata to see if it would wake her up. "HINATA WAKE UP!"

Finally, Hinata opened her eyes. Looking around wildly, she recognized her room and made eye contact with Sakura's green eyes, seeing the calmness in them, Hinata was able to calm down herself.

A sigh of relief escaped from Sakura, "It must have been some nightmare."

Hinata could only nod. Finally she found her voice, "Sakura-chan, what….happened?"

'Oh kami. I have to tell her.' Right when Sakura was going to answer, when Hinata spoke.

Seeing the expression on her face, Hinata knew her answer."It's all true, isn't it? The prince really asked for my hand. He wants to marry me and I don't have a choice." As much as Hinata wanted to cry, tears wouldn't fall, almost as if her insides were frozen. She raised her hand to her chest by where her heart was to see if it was still working, she swore it stopped beating.

Sakura noticed "does something hurt Hinata?"

"It feels as if my heart froze."

"Look Hinata, I'm sorry about everything, but you cant say you don't have a choice, you always have a choice and I swear I'm going to help you find a way to get out of the marriage."

"T-thank you." Hinata hugged Sakura, "Thank you for being a friend."

"Lady Hinata! You're finally awake."

Hinata turned to greet the old cook, "Hello Kaoru, Im sorry if I worried you."

Kaoru frowned, "It's not your fault, I swear if I was but 5 years younger I would have cooked that prince alive, your father and the hokage too!"

Sakura laughed at the old woman's comment. Hinata only blushed.

"Well enough about my evil plans, how about some breakfast?"

"WHAT?" Hinata screamed.

"You don't want breakfast?" asked Kaoru, "I know my cooking isn't what it used to be, but it's not that bad."

Hinata hurriedly jumped off the bed and started walking in circles. "H-how long have I been asleep?"

"The whole night" answered Sakura, "Hinata, whats the matter?"

Hinata was freaking out. Today she has her very first date with Naruto, but should she go? How will she be able to spend the day with him when there is no possible future for the both of them? She felt her legs go weak and started to fall to the floor, luckily Sakura grabbed her. "Hinata, whats wrong?"

"I have a date with Naruto-kun."

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Naruto was not happy. He couldn't remember where he left his last good pair of clean underwear. He frowned at the mess he made while in his search, now he had to clean again. Usually the blonde wouldn't care but since he might invite Hinata again he didn't want to risk the embarrasment, again.

After an hour of cleaning up, and still he still didn't find his underwear, he decided to take a shower. Reaching out to for a towel, getting ready to dry himself Naruto saw that instead of the towel he grabbed something else.

"There you are underwear!"

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"You're going."

"But-"

"She's right."

"How can I-"

"No excuses."

"You. Are. Going."

"And that's final." both Kaoru and Sakura said, arms crossed and determination in their eyes.

"I don't have a choice do I." a defeated Hinata said. They both shook their head "no".

"Ok hinata, what time is your date with Naruto?" Sakura asked, offering her hand to help Hinata, who was still on the floor, get up.

Hinata accepted her help, "Around noon."

"That's great. Enough time to get you all dolled up."

"I've taken enough of your time Sakura"

"Don't worry about it, Lady Tsunade asked me to stay with you to help you out and I am. The hokage's orders." The pink haired girl winked at her friend. "I'm gonna make sure Naruto faints when he see's you."

Hinata blushed and smiled at her friend.

"Well while you young girls get all dolled up, I'm going to make you some breakfast." Kaoru left the room smiling. 'I cant wait for her reaction.'

Sakura threw her fist in the air, "All right then hinata, lets get beautiful!"

"Hai"

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The sun made her hair look even more radiant, it made her look like an angel.

"Do I have something on me?" the young woman asked, wondering why her husband kept looking at her, she must have a leaf on her hair. Brushing her finders on her hair to get rid of any unwanted leaves, she hummed an old lullaby. She saw as her husband walked up to her and placed his hands on her stomach. In just 2 months they were going to have their first child.

"Our child just kicked me." he said, a smile on his face.

"She probably wants to impress you with her strenght."

Her husband raised an eyebrow, "she?"

"uh-huh. I know it's a girl." the young woman then frowned, "you don't mind if it's a girl do you?"

Her husband looked into her eyes and leaned in to kiss her. "I don't care, all that matters is that it's our child. She's ours."

The young woman cupped his face with her hands, "I Love You, Hiashi."

Hiashi knew he was awake, still he refused to open his eyes. If he kept them closed he might dream of her again. Realizing he wasn't going back to sleep he got out of bed and prepaired for training.

On his way to the trainig field he thought of passing by Hinata's room, but decided that if they had not come to get him then she must still be sleeping. Then he saw Kaoru walking his way.

"Lord Hiashi I have great news, Hinata woke up."

Hiashi's eyes widened, "Is she well?"

"Don't worry my lord, she's fine, a bit tired as you can imagine but physically she is fine."

"Thank you for telling me." 'physically she's fine, but how is she emotionally?' "I will be in the training area if you need me Kaoru."

"Would you like me to bring you breakfast?" Kaoru asked.

"No."

Kaoru bowed as Hiashi left once he was out of sight, Kaoru stuck out her tounge at him. "Hyuuga's." she muttered.

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Yahiko couldn't believe his luck, or lack of it. Right after they received the Hokage's letter the prince had gone off to "celebrate" as he called it, which Yahiko just knew he was going to have to clean up after his "celebration". To top it off he had to pack the prince's clothes for the trip to the leaf village. That was the only good thing about this whole thing, he was finally going to see the Hidden Leaf Village.

His whole life he's been stuck in the palace as a servant to the royal family, not that he minded or anything, he knew he was lucky to serve the prince, but he's never been to the hidden village before. Sure they went to different countries for business but for safety reasons they couldn't do much exploring. The leaf village was different though, there they would be free to explore, since mostly 90% of the people living there are shinobi serving the fire country, how could anyone attack the prince there?

"Come on you stupid thing ZIP!" Yahiko cursed. 'there are hundreds of guards and yet here I am, all alone, with only a few hours before we leave for the village. Oh yes I LOVE being a servant.'

Not being able to put up with it anymore, the young servant kicked the bag out of anger, resulting in it knocking into a table which had an expensive vase on it, and well you can just imagine what happened next.

Yahiko had a mini heart attack. 'oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap.' He worked quickly to get rid of any evidence of the vase.

'Please kami don't let anyone notice.'

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"First we have to figure out what you are going to wear, now let's see what you have." Sakura opened the doors to Hinata's closet, sort of expecting a lot of sweaters. What she saw instead surprised her. "Gosh Hinata, you have REALLY cute clothes, how come you never wear these?"

A puzzled Hinata joined Sakura at her closet. She kind of expected to hear Sakura sigh at the sights of her sweaters. She gasped when she saw what was inside her closet. "wha-what?" Instead of her usual baggy clothing, there was a lot of dresses and skirts and tight, fitting, shapely type of clothing. "I've never seen these clothes."

Sakura grabbed a dress out of the closet. "Try this one on Hinata, I have a feeling this will look great on you."

Hinata eyed the dress. It was a pretty dress, simple but it had a certain charm. She took the dress and went into her restroom to change.

"So where do you think you got all this clothes from?" she heard Sakura yell.

"I don't know," she yelled back.

"I have a feeling it was Kaoru." she heard Sakura say.

That was probably the truth, Kaoru would do something like this. If so, where did she get all these clothes from and where would she stash her comfy sweaters at?

Hinata opened the door to show Sakura the dress, she hoped it looked well on her.

Sakura heard the bathroom door open, she turned to look at Hinata and was shocked, in a good way though. "WOW Hinata, you look amazing! It fits you perfectly."

The dark haired girl went over to her mirror to look. She had to admit, she did look good. The dress was dark blue, and reached her mid-thigh. It hugged her perfectly in her chest and waist, but the hips down it was looser, still it showed off her shape. It was a simple dress, no fancy design to it, but she liked it better that way.

"It totally show's off your sexy curves. Naruto will not be albe to keep his eyes off you, heck even I cant stop staring." Sakura joked and smiled when she saw Hinata blush. "Is that the dress?"

Twirling, Hinata felt incredible in this dress, one last look in the mirror she made her decision. "Hai."

Sakura patted the empty chair next to her, "Now time for hair and make up."

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"If I was a flower growing wild and free all I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee and if I was a tree growing tall and green all I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves."

Kaoru chopped the carrots for the salad, singing her favorite song.

"I havent heard you sing that song in awhile Kaoru." said Hanabi, entering the kitchen.

Kaoru smiled at Hanabi. "would you like me to teach it to you?"

Hanabi excitedly nodded her head.

"All right let me just finish this salad, your father and Neji will be getting hungry soon."

Hanabi helped her set up the table, "and Hinata? Will she be eating?"

"She sure will, she's with Sakura for the moment but I have a feeling they'll be here soon. It's almost noon."

Hanabi stared at the silly smile Kaoru had on her, sometimes Hanabi wondered if old cook's age was finally getting to her. A few miutes later Hiashi and Neji arrived at the kitchen, hungry after their training.

"Is Hinata coming, Kaoru?" asked Neji.

"Come on Hinata, don't worry you look great!" they heard Sakura. The three Hyuuga's and Kaoru turned to the direction her voice came from.

"I don't know Sakura, don't you think it's too much?"

"No, No, No. Just trust me, ok?"

The four heard Hinata sigh in defeat. "Fine."

Kaoru tried her best to hold back her smile. She knew the surprise that was coming, it's all part of her brilliant plan.

"Let's go eat, I can smell Kaoru's cooking from here and I am starving." Sakura said entering the kitchen with Hinata right behind her.

When the other four saw her, their eyes widened. Seeing their reaction, Hinata blushed. "H-h-hello."

"Oh Lady Hinata, you look beautiful." Kaoru went over and hugged her. "are you wearing lipstick?"

"And mascara" Sakura added. "She didn't need much makeup, but it took her a while to master the art of putting on mascara. I swear hinata, you can dodge kunai's and shiruken's but you cant put on mascara."

"It feels weird." Hinata defended herself.

"You look nice Hinata." Hanabi said, "who's dress is that?"

"You're mothers." Hiashi answered.

"Mother's?" Hinata and Hanabi both said looking at their father. Neji, Kaoru and Sakura stayed quiet.

"That was the dress she wore when I first saw her and fell in love with her." Hiashi whispered. "it was her favorite."

Hinata touched her dress. 'Mother's dress. My mother wore this and it was her favorite.'

Hanabi went over to Hinata and also touched their mother's dress.

"You look great in it Hinata." Neji said. "Thank you, Neji." Hinata replied.

Hiashi stared at his eldest daughter, she looked beautiful in her mother's dress. "You look just like her."

Hinata heard what her father said, and tears welled up in her eyes.

"He's right" Kaoru said, "you look so much like her."

"Why are you wearing the dress for Hinata?" Hanabi asked.

That caught Hinata off guard. "W-well y-you s-see, I…I…"

"Hinata has a date." Kaoru answered for her. "with that blonde boy."

"NARUTO!" Neji and Hanabi yelled.

Seeing Hinata's blush getting deeper, Sakura decided to answer for her. "Yes with Naruto. He should be here any minute."

"WHAT?"

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He had on his clear underwear, and also took a bath, and his place was clean. Still, Naruto felt nervous. 'it's just Hinata, why am I nervous. Sure she is a great person and since I've got to know her better I like her more but that shouldn't make me nervous, should it?'

Deep in his toughts, Naruto didn't see the tree in front of him until it was too late. Rubbing his head, Naruto heard laughter above him.

"Next time watch where you're going, stupid." Kiba laughed. He hopped down from the tree to join Naruto, Akamaru landed beside him.

"Shut up dog boy." Naruto yelled.

"Touchy." Kiba then looked down to see Akamaru sniffing Naruto. "What's wrong boy?"

"H-hey, why is he sniffing me?" Naruto asked.

Kiba sniffed Naruto too, wondering what caught Akamaru's attention. "Hey stupid, why do you smell nice?"

Naruto sweat dropped. "It's called a shower. Normal people take one every day."

"Stupid! That's not what I meant, this time it seems you actually took your time. Your scent is fresher."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Kiba rolled his eyes. "Forget it. So where are you heading too?"

"To Hinata's." Naruto answered.

"W-what? Why?" Kiba sputtered out.

"We have a date today." Naruto looked up at the sun, "Sorry Kiba, I promised her that I'd be there at noon. See ya."

Kiba was too shocked to say anything, he just stood there watching Naruto head to Hinata's. "Did you hear that boy? We have to tell everyone."

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Hinata was still in the kitichen with everyone else when a maid came in. "Lady Hinata, Naruto is here."

"Good. He's on time." Sakura said.

"Wise choice." Neji mumbled.

Sakura and Neji headed off to meet Naruto. Kaoru made up an excuse and headed off somewhere else, leaving only Hanabi, Hinata and Hiashi.

"Y-you don't mind, do you father?" Hinata asked. She was afraid her father wouldn't let her go since the whole Fire Prince issue. She was still unsure if she should go, but she needed to see Naruto now more than ever. She needed him to make her happy.

Hiashi saw this. He saw the need in his daughter's eyes for the Uzumaki boy. How could he refuse his daughter? Naruto might be the only one to make her forget for awhile.

"You can go, but I would like to meet him first if you don't mind."

"No father, of course not." Hinata smiled up at him. In that moment, Hiashi saw his late wife. They both had the same bright smile, and if Naruto was the one who could bring out that smile in Hinata, then Hiashi knew that from this point on, the future was going to be full of challenges for the both of them. He just hoped they were both strong enough to endure it to the very end.

AN: Alien She here. Sorry about the wait my friends, that is why I made this chapter 15 pages long. That is how much I love you. Next chapter will be their first date (Yay!) and I'll try to bring back the prince. I still haven't come up with a name for the prince. Any suggestions? Hopefully by the next chapter he will arrive in Konoha.

I seriously don't want to make this story 20 chapters long, but I'm not going to rush it 'cause then it's just crap.

Please show me your love by reviewing. Also if you catch any mistakes can you please tell me, I sometimes miss some.

I hope everyone had a great New Year's and I wish you all a wonderful, amazing, wishes coming true 2011. Enjoy it because the world ends in 2012.

Just kidding.