CHAPTER 5
**DEMON COUPLE**
**DEMON COUPLE**
"I need to talk to Tamika in private for a minute before she leaves, we'll be back." Naruto informed, as everyone sat around Gaara, Sakura still healing his wounds.
Hinata nodded and jumped up, following Naruto deep into the woods.
"Hinata-chan…" Naruto was blushing. He needed to tell her before she left again but didn't know how.
"Yeah, Naruto-kun?" Hinata looked up to him a little curious.
Naruto smirked when he came up with an idea. He reached towards her and pulled her into his embrace, leaning down to whisper into her ear, "Love you too," before pressing his lips against hers.
Hinata was shocked, but kissed back anyway. Naruto wrapped his arms around her petite waist while Hinata reached up with her hands around his neck. Gently breaking the kiss, Naruto pressed his forehead against hers. "I don't want you to go. I want you to stay with me. I know it's selfish, but I want to be with you."
Hinata had tears running down her face. "But I can't! I'm not coming back! I'm a missing nin, remember?" Hinata cried into his chest.
Naruto patted her head gently, "Then I'm coming with you." He decided.
Hinata stopped sobbing in his chest. She was in shock, "But you have a home! You have friends! You can find someone better than me! I'm not going to let you make this mistake!" She cried, trying to convince him that he was making a bad decision.
"You had a home too! You still have friends in Konoha! And you left, now you're fine! Why can't I leave too?" He pretested desperately.
"You just can't! What about being Hokage? You can't give up your dream for me! My life is over in Konoha, you still have yours, you can grow up surrounded by your friends, your precious people, and you can become Hokage! Don't give it all up for me!" She cried, "I'm not worth it!"
He looked down to her in shock, "But you are worth it, you're worth all of this! To me, you're worth the world. Hinata-chan! I LOVE you! And now that I've found you, I'm not letting you go." He pulled her away from his chest so he could look her in the eyes.
Hinata felt like she was going to faint now. Her face was extremely red from al the blood rushing up there, "I love you too. But Naruto, you shouldn't do this. The life of a missing nin isn't what you want!"
"I want to be with you! Wherever you are! And if that means I have to be a missing nin, then so be it!" Naruto said stubbornly.
Hinata cried and buried her face into his toned chest, "I have never had anyone care about me that much. Naruto-kun, I can't let you come with me. You belong in Konoha where you can protect all your precious people."
"You are my most precious person Hinata! I don't know what I'd do without you! The last few months without you have been hard. You don't know how much I want to go over to the Hyuuga clan and kick their asses! I don't know what I'll do if I don't see you again." Naruto was crying now, embracing Hinata, holding her against him, not willing to let her go.
Hinata took in a deep shaky breath, "Okay. You got my note about Sasuke, right?" And with a nod from Naruto she continued, "In two weeks he'll be there. I will meet you there. In that time I really want you to think about your decision. Tell me in two weeks what you decide. I'll miss you." She took a few steps back, preparing to leave. "Love you."
Before she could run, a hand caught her by the wrist, spinning her around to face Naruto again.
Naruto reached with his other hand around his neck, pulling the necklace Tsunade gave him off of him. "Here. Something to remember me by. A promise that I'll see you again." He placed the necklace around her neck. "I'll miss you too. Be safe." He leaned down and his lips were against hers again, gently caressing each other.
Naruto wound his arms back around Hinata's waist, deepening the kiss and getting closer to her. Hinata's hands found their way to Naruto's head, massaging his hair with her fingers as Naruto licked the bottom of her lip asking for entrance.
She was about to accept his tongue when he pulled away for a second. Just long enough to call out to Roki, "Roki, if anyone tries to interrupt… Kill them." He said, before turning back to Hinata and found her lips against his again. She opened her mouth this time, allowing him access. His tongue roamed around her mouth, making her moan into his mouth in appreciation, her tongue dancing with his.
Finally they broke the kiss, both panting heavily but refusing to let each other go. "Two weeks." Hinata sighed unhappily.
Naruto nodded with his chin rested on her head, "I'll be there, don't worry. I'll miss you. Love you."
"Love you too… so much." Tightening her grip slightly she laughed humourlessly, "I can't believe that today has become my happiest and the saddest day of my life." She sighed when he nodded in agreement. "See you soon." She reluctantly left his embrace, and after one more gentle kiss on his lips, she disappeared into the forest.
**DEMON COUPLE**
Naruto walked back to the rest of the group after cleaning up a little bit so it hadn't looked like he had been crying.
"What the hell took you so long?" Sakura growled, "Your pet nearly ripped my head off when I went looking for you!"
Naruto had to hold back a chuckle and raised an eyebrow to his furry companion.
You said kill them… Roki reminded.
Naruto thought for a moment before replying, Good job. Thankful that no-one interrupted. He then turned back to Sakura, "You probably did something to piss him off. He doesn't like being called a pet either. I really don't think he likes you." Naruto bit back a smile before walking over to the suspicious Kakashi.
"What's going on, Naruto?" He asked when Naruto reached him, "Are you okay?"
"No. But I will be in two weeks." And the conversation ended, leaving Kakashi with tonnes more questions.
"Where's Tamika?" Sakura asked.
"She left already." Naruto sighed sadly.
Gaara just raised an eyebrow at Naruto wondering what he was thinking about.
"Come on, guys, we better get back to Suna." Kakashi said as the five ran back towards Suna.
**DEMON COUPLE**
"GAARA-KUN!" Matsuri's voice echoed throughout the desert as the retrieval team reached the gates of Suna.
Gaara looked up, and braced himself for impact as Matsuri came flying at him, latching herself onto his torso, burying her face into his chest with tears streaming out of her eyes.
"Don't do that to me ever again!" She cried, clutching him tighter, "You don't know how much you scared me! I was going to come after you!"
Gaara patted her hair affectionately, "Don't worry, I was taken care of, the team from Konoha and imouto saved me. Please don't worry about me."
"How can I not worry about you? I love you! And I can't help but worry! Just.. J-just promise it won't happen again, that no-one will take you away from me!" Matsuri pleaded, lifting her face from his chest and looking up into his eyes.
Gently, Gaara placed one hand on each of her cheeks, gently wiping her tears away with his thumbs, "I promise. We'll stay together. And I'll never leave you, okay?"
She smiled, wrapping her arms around his neck and pushing her lips to his, "Thank you," She mumbled breaking the kiss.
The rest of the group sighed at once, and realising that they were being ignored, Temari took charge, "Come on, I'll take you to your hotel where you can change." She said, giving one last small smile to the couple before leading the group away.
** DEMON COUPLE **
Everyone was seated at a huge restaurant, but there were only few in such a large place, the people consisted of Gaara, Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, Temari, Kankouro and Matsuri.
Kakashi was a little worried. Naruto had been acting strangely, so he sat next to him and decided to ask what was on his mind.
Naruto sighed at the question, "Trust me. A lot is on my mind at the moment."
"You want to talk about it?" Kakashi urged.
"Not really."
"It has something to do with 'Tamika' doesn't it? Or should I call her Hinata?" Kakashi smirked at Naruto's shocked expression.
"How did you know?"
Kakashi smirked, "She's in the bingo book. There aren't many people that walk around with giant wolves named Misaki, now are there?"
Naruto sighed, "Yeah. It's about her."
"Well, what's on your mind?"
Naruto sighed, "Kakashi. What would you do if you had the choice to stay in Konoha, but be away from the one you love, or leave Konoha and be with her?"
Kakashi thought about it, "Well, you need to consider how much you love her. How far you are willing to go for her, and how much she loves you. If Hinata asked you to make the choice, she obviously doesn't care for you enough."
Naruto shook his head, "No, that isn't it. She was trying to get me to stay. She reckons the life of a missing nin isn't what I want. She wants me to stay in Konoha and become Hokage. But she can't come back with me. I wanted to go with her, but she told me I have two weeks, she'll be there when we fight Sasuke and she said I need to think about it. So I can come up with a decision."
Kakashi nodded in thought, "Well, I think you should think about each scenario. Okay, Naruto. What would you do if you were left in Konoha, you had finally become the sixth hokage and everyone in Konoha acknowledges your skills? Your dream finally came true. But Hinata wasn't by your side. You couldn't see her. She was pretty much dead to you. Would you enjoy it?"
Naruto scrunched his face up in thought, "Sure, I would finally have achieved my dream, but it wouldn't feel right. I think I'd still feel alone. I'm not sure that is what I want. I want to become Hokage so I can protect my precious people, but if my most precious person isn't with me, is practically dead to me, I wouldn't be able to take it."
Kakashi smiled slightly at Naruto, "Well, then, what if you were a missing nin? You had many bounty hunters after you, and don't forget the Akatsuki. You wander around cities, sleeping wherever you can find, you no longer live in Konoha, you no longer thrive to protect your home, but you had the one you love by your side every step of the way."
Naruto was wracking his brain to what he thought of that, "I think… Urgh, man this is so confusing! I think I would be okay. I'd have to worry about numerous threats and people after me, and I wouldn't have a home, but Hinata would be with me and I wouldn't be alone. She'd help me fight the Akatsuki, run from our enemies and stuff. But I don't know if I can live on the run like that! She'd be in danger all the time! Argh! She already is in danger all the time! An I'll have no alliances with other cities, friends all but forgotten. Kakashi-sensei! Why does it have to be so hard?" He yelled, threatening to pull his hair out in the way he pushed his hands through it.
Kakashi sighed at his student, "I can't help you with this. This is your decision and your decision alone. You need to come up with an answer. And you will have to live with the consequences. Just think about it. Ask for advice, but not the answer from others. No-one will be in the same situation as you and all would act differently if in so. You need to find out what you would do, not what someone else would do. Think about every different circumstance, and how you would react to each one. Only then you will have an answer."
Naruto sighed, turning back to his food, he sat there eating in silence, thinking about all that Kakashi had said, but getting more and more confused after each thought. He sighed, standing up and preparing to leave to the hotel when he saw some fortune cookies sitting in a basket. He decided to see if the fortune cookie would help him in his serious problem, and walked up and broke a cookie in half before reading the note inside…
Some hard decisions you will have to make, but the true answer will be right in front of your eyes. Combine each of the paths you have decided to choose between and your answer will come.
All Naruto could do was raise an eyebrow at the writing on the cookie, completely and utterly confused. Sighing at the thought that the cookie was utterly useless and stuffed the paper in his pocket and ran towards his hotel room, just wanting a deep dreamless sleep.
**DEMON COUPLE**
"Gaara! Matsuri!" Naruto yelled as he ran up to the couple, who were, at that moment, sitting in a restaurant booth waiting to be served, "I need your help."
"We'll be happy to help!" Matsuri said enthusiastically with a smile.
"What's on your mind? Does it have something to do with a certain missing nin?" Gaara asked with a knowing smirk.
Naruto's eyes grew wide, "Why does everyone know that? Is it that obvious!"
"It's not obvious, but if you know all the details, it's easy to put together." Matsuri smiled reassuringly.
Naruto nodded, a small smile on his face and started explaining everything. He started from when Hinata confessed, then about his feelings for her, then everything that had happened after he returned from his three year training trip. And at last, the decision he has to make.
"Aw… Isn't that romantic?" Matsuri cooed after Naruto had finished his story.
"It's not romantic! I'm confused and I need help!" Naruto protested desperately.
Gaara looked up at Naruto, "We can't decide for you, Naruto. And Hinata won't mind whichever path you choose. Don't change your decision because of the thoughts of others. Just think what you want, not about us. Ignore others feelings when you choose what you will, choose what you think is best for you." Gaara advised.
Naruto sighed, "Yeah, Kakahsi-sensei said something similar. But it's not helping! I have two weeks to come up with a decision, and I'm completely lost!"
Matsuri smiled brightly, "Don't worry Uzumaki-san, you will have an answer soon enough."
"NARUTO! WE'RE LEAVING!" Sakura's voice shouted from the restaurant door, looking rather pissed off.
"Well, I'm out of here." Naruto sighed, saying a goodbye to his new friend and his brother, before disappearing out the door.
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END OF FIVE… sorry, but Naruto and Hinata will be back together again soon! Sorry, guys, but you'll just have to wait one or two more chapters! SORRY! AND I LOVE YOU ALL! XX TAZ :P