A/N: Sorry guyz! Had it been that long? School really kept me hooked lately! A lot of activities came-up my way and so are the workloads! So as an apology, here is a long update! Enjoy!

I do NOT own Naruto!

"Odaijini Oneechama!!!" Hanabi shouted back as Hinata gave one last wave to her younger sister and dash towards the Konoha Main Gate.

An eye catching combination of yellow, orange, and a bit of black caught her attention as she neared the gates. Any guess of who that figure might be, grinning widely and waving like a fool towards her?

"Naruto-kun, konnichi-wa." She said as she catches her breath.

She started to look around and she immediately noticed that Naruto was there all alone. Where's Sakura-san and Sasuke? This question runs relentlessly through her brain. Didn't their little confrontation change his mind even for a bit?

Faith Hinata! Believe in him! She mentally scolded herself for doubting Sasuke.

"Naruto-kun, where's Sakura-san?" She asked to get her mind-off Sasuke for a bit, she can't stress herself over something that is not yet confirmed, that was something that she learned in one of these past years.

Naruto looked at her and thought wistfully, Sakura-san, ma can't be help with her upbringing, she was trained to be an heiress afterall…

He remembered some accounts where Hinata would call Sakura as Haruno-san, and Sakura would tell her no need to be so formal and that she can just call her Sakura, well at least she calls her Sakura-san now.

"Ah, Sakura-chan's still in the hospital. Her shift wouldn't be over until 12 but she'll be here any moment now." He said and as if in queue they heard Sakura's voice.

She is calling out to them and surely, when they turned their heads on her voice's direction she was there.

"Sorry if I made you wait a little." She said as she gave them both an apologetic smile.

Sakura noticed that it was only Hinata and Naruto. She wondered where Sasuke-kun might be and if he's not going.

Well, he did refused to go yesterday…She mentally sighed

"Sasuke-kun's not going, ne?" She more like stated than asked.

Both Sakura and Hinata's mood become somewhat gloomier. Naruto felt that as the lively shinobi he is, he should liven the mood more! That teme always makes his life harder than it's supposed to be!

"Ne, What do you say we bust outta here and get the fun started?!" He said in his most enthusiastic voice…

Both girls give him a little nod but still their faces remained unchanged. They started towards the gate, just when they were to set foot outside the Konoha gate they heard a familiar voice.

"Not so fast dobe." They all turned their heads toward that all so familiar impassive voice.

"WHAT WAS THAT SASUKE-TEME?!" Naruto asked as he run full speed towards Sasuke and grabbing him in the collar. Sasuke still looked like Sasuke, calm and impassive with the underlying confidence.

"I didn't know it was your thing to just leave someone behind… Usuratonkashi." He said coolly finishing with his trademark smirk.

"Umay wa yaro!!!" He screamed as he prepares to launch a damn hard punch to that pretty boy face of his.

He didn't even have a chance to do it, before he knew it he was flying outside the gate. Apparently, Sakura had thrown him like a rug doll with her monstrous strength.

"Sasuke-kun!" She chirped/ shrilled to him as she wrapped her arms to his left arm. "I knew it from the start that you're coming!!!"

Hinata slowly walked towards him and Sasuke fixed his gaze to her. He noticed that she's wearing a small smile that simply says, 'I'm glad you came…'

"Thank you for coming…" she said as she was only a foot away from him.

"Hey, until when you guys planning to stay there?! We don't have a whole day to spare!" Naruto screamed back to them when he finished fixing himself together.

"We're coming dobe. Ikuze." He said as he pulls his arm from Sakura.

They'd been running for six hours nonstop in ninja speed and it was already taking toll to her body. Heck, even Sakura who has an absolute control over her chakra is beginning to pant. Naruto, noticed this and he looked towards Sasuke, who's in the lead. He caught up beside him and he noticed that he wasn't even breathing hard yet, as for him he's not panting either, thanks to a certain demon fox and Sasuke, well, he's Sasuke. He remembered when Sakura said that Sasuke belonging in the Uchiha clan has a higher chi.

"Oi, Teme! How about we camp out already for the night?" He asked as Sasuke turned his head to him.

"What? Tired already dobe?" He asked coolly.

Yaro, this teme is unbelievable!

"That's not it! Let's stop already!" He bit back at him.

"No, not yet. After an hour maybe…" He said as he widened their gap.

"What do you mean MAYBE teme?!!! Arrgh!!! Insensitive fool never listens to me!!!" He shouted as he glared daggers on his back.

"Daijobou Naruto-kun… I know you're worrying for us, but we can still hold out in this phase for an hour." Hinata gave Naruto a small genuine smile, and Naruto, who was caught off guard that Hinata was already by his side just smiled in return.

"Ma, I guess it can't be helped." He said as he slowed in his phase and Hinata also slowed to check on Naruto. "Ano, Naruto what can't be helped?" she asked as they finally came to a stop.

"This!" He said as she felt her legs being lifted from the ground. "Na-na-Naruto-kun!" Hinata stumbled in her words and blushed as she noticed that Naruto's carrying her in piggy back. Naruto begin to catch-up with Sasuke and Sakura and with his stamina it was nothing, they were back in the middle of the group in 10 seconds or so.

"I'm okay Naruto-kun!!! I can still run! You'll tire faster if you carry me and run in this phase!" She reasoned to him.

"Nah, it's okay for me! Datte bayo! You don't weigh at all!" He said as he looked at her over his shoulders.

Hinata stopped to argue. She knew she can't change his mind when he had already set his mind. She didn't feel very uncomfortably at all, he had his backpack and somehow it provides a barrier so he wouldn't feel her ummm, breasts and she knew that Naruto wouldn't be the type to take advantage of this kind of situation.

Unbeknownst to them Sasuke was looking at them with his peripheral vision and he was…ummm… was he irritated or is there something more? He felt pretty irritated when he saw her rest her arms around his neck. He didn't know why but he was pissed.

Can't even hold out for another hour, huh? He thought darkly to himself.

"We'll camp out for the night." Sasuke said non-chalantly as he stopped and landed in the clearing.

"Finally!" Sakura said as she landed by his side

"Good. I thought your planning to have us to eat supper and sleep while running!" He said as he kneeled to let Hinata-off his back.

He stood-up again and for a while he and Sasuke just glared in silence with each other. The atmosphere was really getting tense and suffocating.

"Sasuke-kun, what do you say if we gather some firewoods and set-up tents for the night?" Sakura said, trying to break the tension.

"You set-up the tents dobe, you probably doesn't even know how to pick-up woods." He said coolly and before Naruto could do anything Sakura pulled on to Sasuke.

Hinata touched Naruto's left shoulder as they watched the disappearing form of Sasuke and Sakura towards the denser forest to gather some woods.

"Let's set-up the tents now, ne Naruto-kun?" She said trying to sound cheerful.

Naruto nod at her and they started to set-up the tents. Naruto made most of the job setting the two tents. Apparently they have 2 tents, Naruto had brought a tent big enough for two and so does Hinata. Naruto looked on his work.

"That's great! Ha! Let see if that teme knows how to gather woods!" He said triumphantly.

Bids of sweat had formed in his forehead, setting-up a tent doesn't just require strength, it also requires thinking and that made him sweat. Hinata noticed this. She reached for her handkerchief inside her pocket. She dabbed it lightly on his forehead.

"Sou des, you made a great job Naruto-kun." She said as she continues to dab on his forehead.

Naruto smiled at her and closed his eyes, feeling as she dabbed ever so lightly on his forehead. In a safe distance and covered even in the eyes of these two shinobi, is an unknown spectator. The spectator just so happen to have raven black hair, pale skin and the fiancé of one of the two shinobi. He slammed his fist but with control to a poor innocent tree, he doesn't want to give away that he's watching.

"Sasuke-kun! So there you are!" Sakura said as she reached behind him.

"Let's go…" He said as he walk to the direction where Sakura had came from.

"To where?" She asked quizzically.

"Where gathering more woods…" With that answer Sakura looked into his arms and her arms. They already had enough wood!

"But Sasuke-kun we---" she stopped in mid-sentence as Sasuke dropped the woods that he's holding.

"These woods had some water inside them, I'm sure there are some woods in the forest that had completely dried." He said as he turned his back at her and walked inside the forest.

Sakura sighed and followed him into the woods.

They were gathered together in their camp fire, eating or trying to eat their supper. Sasuke brought nothing, maybe he forgot but whatever the reason might be, they would never know. Hinata has packed supper that she made before leaving home. There was some tempura, onigiri, fried tofu and some dango for dessert. Naruto brought some ramen special cup which he immediately cooked by adding some hot water. Sakura also has packed supper, it consists of fruit salad, sashimi, and a pie.

They were currently sitting in a log. Naruto was sitting next to Hinata, Hinata sitting next to Sasuke and Sasuke sitting next to Sakura.

"You can have some of mine Sasuke-san." Hinata shyly said as she looked into his eyes.

Sasuke just stared back at her coldly, she immediately cast her eyes down. Naruto noticed Sasuke's coldness to Hinata, to say the least he was irritated in the way he's treating her.

"Ne Hina-chan! Can I have some of those?! Please they pretty look delicious!"

Hinata smiled at him and nodded her head.

"Yes , of course Naruto-kun."

"Don't mind that Sasuke-teme too much, he can live without eating anything for a whole year!" He said rather loudly as he took some tempura and an onigiri.

Sasuke eyed them sharply as Naruto begin eating some of Hinata's food, listening carefully with his every compliment. He was irritated of how she would blush in his every compliment. Sakura noticed Sasuke eyeing the two sharply.

"Sasuke-kun!" She said in a pitch voice to catch his attention, Sasuke turned his head towards her to see if there's something wrong.

"What---" He wasn't able to continue as Sakura place something inside his mouth. Food? It was food indeed. He was about to spit it out but he tasted something on it, so he chewed instead and swallowed. He looked over her packed supper, it was Tomato pie!

"If you don't like Hinata's supper you can have mine Sasuke-kun!" She said to him.

How could Sasuke decline? He was hungry and there it was Tomato pie! He loves tomato. He didn't say anything in return to say that he accepts the offer but he didn't snap at her either so she continued giving him some pie.

Hinat and Naruto saw the whole scenario. Sasuke was now looking toward Sakura but if he wasn't, he could have seen the sadness in her eyes as she wistfully took a breath like Naruto had seen.

"How about you tell me how you make this Dangos! There very good!!!" Naruto exclaimed.

Hinata begin to tell him how she makes them. Sasuke watches as she giggles at Naruto's expression. He swallowed the last piece of tomato pie and swat a little on Sakura's hand when she tried to give him some fruit salad. Feeling everyone's eyes on him, he casually stand-up and walk-off to the forest.

"Sasuke-san, where are you going?" She asked timidly.

Hearing her voice he stopped for a split second and started to walk-off again. She abruptly stood-up but felt Naruto's hand around her wrist.

"Let him go…" He said to her and she sit again.

It was already late at night but there was no trace of Sasuke since supper. Sakura is already asleep inside the girl's tent and Naruto's inside the boy's tent already, probably sleeping. Hinata was still outside sitting on the log feeding the fire more woods. A cup of hot chocolate was shoved in front of her face and felt a blanket draped on her. She looked up and saw Naruto. She gladly took the cup and sipped as Naruto sat beside her.

"I really can't understand him still…" She said as she sighed and looked thoughtfully on her cup. Naruto saw the sad look in her eyes.

"I want to give-up but I won't!" She said as she looked-up in the stars. "You know, when we were younger I really really like you a lot…" She said quietly as she turned towards him. "And just recently I still think I do but right know I don't know…" she said as she cast her eyes down. She heard him take a deep breath and hold on to his shoulder and tilted her chin, so that she's looking in his eyes. He was smiling, not the usual grin but a concerned and true smile.

"I also liked you Hinata. A whole lot but in a different light. I love you like brother would to his sister. I'm--" He was stopped by Hinata's index finger, laying gently on his lips.

"Shhhh. It's okay Naruto, now I know what I also feel…"

Naruto smiled at her and she rested her head on his shoulder as he placed an arm around her shoulders.

Sasuke narrowed dangerously his eyes on the scene before him, something inside of him told him to do something but he ignored it. He just walked inside the woods again hoping that when he returned he wouldn't see the same scene again.

Naruto had long since left her and slept due to her saying that she don't want to be bother and he should rest. She clenched tighter the blanket around her and that's when she heard some foot steps towards the bushes. She perked-up immediately. Sasuke.

"Sasuke-san, you---" she didn't finished due to his cold stare at her.

"Why are you still awake?" He asked rather harshly.

"I was waiting for you…" She said truthfully but maybe after everything he had seen all through this day he snapped back at her.

"Why were you waiting for me? I'm not a weakling like you, yourself are. Now, go to sleep." Hinata was a hurt not because he called her a weakling but because of how he disregard her worry for him. She was so worried for him! It's like he threw her concern and worry for him and stomp on it… It really hurt her…

Sasuke settled opposite of her in the fire as he leaned to a tree and closed his eyes. A few minutes passed and still she was there, walking slowly towards him and stopping a few feet from him and settled down.

"I told you to sleep already." He said impatiently without opening his eyes.

"I-I'll stay here with you…" She said quietly.

"Suit yourself, if you want to freeze to death then be my guest." He said finally opening his eyes and glaring at her.

She cast her eyes down and held on tighter on her blanket as she leaned on the tree behind her.

I really can't understand you but I really want to… Was her last thoughts as she sleep finally claimed her.

Sasuke noticed her sleeping. He walked towards her and sat beside her. She looked troubled even in her dreams and probably that's all thanks to him. He touched her cheek with his palm and she leaned closer. He almost smiled but he caught himself and begun to think about what eh felt today.

He was irritated, he was angry and he was annoyed whenever he saw how close she and Naruto is… Those three are symptoms of…Can it be that he Uchiha Sasuke is actually JEALOUS?!

NO!!! Bakana! He screamed in his mind as he retrieve his palm and abruptly stood-up.

He looked over his shoulders to see a sleeping Hinata. He convinced himself that he was mad because of her misconducts, a fiancée shouldn't be acting that way towards other men beside their fiance.

"I am a certainly not jealous…" he said with a frown while still looking at her sleeping form.

A/N: So what do you think? Getting interesting? Review people! A little spoiler for the next chappy, it would happen in Torch Island! That's all!!!

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