CHAPTER 16

I GOT CHAPTER SIXTEEN FOR YOU, YOU BETTER LOVE ME... but don't blame me for the spelling mistakes, my word is still stuffed up, and i wrote all this on WordPad, which doesn't help you fix youre mistakes... but enjoy anyways XD xx Taz

** DEMON COUPLE **

Last time:

"Oh, and you'll be happy to know that our Sasuke has found himself a girlfriend. Well, neither of them will admit it, but I can tell that they both like each other. Her name is Sahana, and I know you'd approve of her. She is very nice, and I know you'd be here annoying the hell out of them if you could. She's the daughter of Takisho though, and none of us trusted her at first, but we trust her now, and know that she is on our side. She wants her father stopped, and I can't help but feel a connection with her, because both of us have grown up with abusive fathers. It kind of sucks though, seeing those two together. It just makes me miss you even more." Roki let out another whine and licked her on the cheek. "Yeah, I love you too. I know there are so many things that you want to tell me, but you can't and I know you'll ace that training. Good luck, and I love you. I'm going to go see what the love birds have found out." Hinata stood up and left the room.

** DEMON COUPLE **

At the end of the month… (9 months into their trip..)

Hinata was casually walking around town, leaving Sasuke and Sahana to research the seven deadly sins for a while by themselves. She couldn't help it, seeing those two together, even if they didn't realise they liked each other… it was just hard on her. Letting out a big sigh, her thoughts drifted to Naruto. She missed him so much, and it had only been about fourweeks before he'd left.

The sound of yelling snapped her out of her thoughts, and she turned around towards the noise, where three middle-aged men were yelling at a young boy, who only looked to be around thirteen years old.

"Who the hell do you think you are? This has got nothing to do with you, brat! So stay out of it!" The tallest of the men, with long brown hair was yelling at the kid, and with Hinata's eyes, she noticed him clench his fist together as it hang beside him.

Hinata couldn't bear the thought of the boy getting hurt, so she ran over to the group as he began to swing, effortlessly grabbing his punch with one hand and glaring down the men, "What do you think you're doing trying to lay a hand on a child!"

The men's eyes widened at how fast this lady was, and the fact that she was a female and still able to block his punch like it was nothing. But putting that thought away, the leader of the group pulled his fist out of Hinata's and gave her a lecherous smile, "You're cute. What's your name sweetheart?"

Hinata took a deep breath to calm herself a look of disgust in her eyes and was about to retort when someone bet her to it, "That is no way to treat a lady!" The young boy yelled at him, making the guy glower harshly at him.

Hinata smiled at the small brunette, "Thank you." She said before turning back to the other guys, "Now I think you should apologise to this young man."

The guy smirked, "And what would I get out of it?" He slowly stepped closer to Hinata, a seductive smile on his face.

Hinata took a step back uncomfortably, but the heard a new voice, "Well, you wouldn't get your ass kicked for one." Hinata let out a huge sigh in relief because she knew that voice. "I happened to promise a guy that I'd look after his girl, and I would be happy to kick your ass for even talking to my imouto like that. But even then, you should be glad I'm the one here, not a certain somebody else I know."

"Hey Sasuke-nii." Hinata smiled as the large man stepped back with a 'hmmph'.

"I see you've already caused some trouble." He let out a sigh, before turning to the man, "You better get lost right now, or you are going to get your ass kicked." He placed a hand on the hilt of his sword for affect, and Hinata smiled and added chakra to her gloves and clenched her fists, making her blades appear.

The men quickly disappeared after that, and Sasuke let out a long sigh, "He's going to kick my ass for not beating the shit out of that guy."

"Sasuke?" The voice of the young boy was shocked as he walked up to the seventeen-year old.

Sasuke looked over to the kid, finally remembering why he looked so familiar, "Inari? You've grown a lot. Still causing trouble I see."

"You know each other?" Hinata was confused.

Sasuke nodded at his sister, "Yeah, you know that story Naruto was bragging about, the one with Zabuza and Haku which was majorly over exaggerated?" After a nod from Hinata he continued, "This is Inari, he lived in the house that we stayed in."

Hinata nodded again, before turning to Inari, "Nice to meet you Inari, I'm Hinata."

Inari smiled widely, "Hello Hinata-chan. Is Naruto-nii and Sakura-chan with you guys too?"

"Sakura isn't. But Naruto is… Kinda." Hinata tried to explain, before turning to Sasuke, "Can we summon him?"

Sasuke sighed, but he knew his sister was missing Naruto, so he let out a whistle, and Roki came running, "Hey, Inari, is it okay if we summon him at your house, I'm sure Naruto would like to see you guys again."

Inari wasn't quite sure why they had to summon him, but nodded enthusiastically anyway and lead the way to his house.

** DEMON COUPLE **

"Kaa-san!Jii-san!" Inari yelled as they walked through the front door, "We have guests!"

A tall brunette walked into the room first, immediately recognising Sasuke, "Wow, you've grown into a handsome man, Sasuke. Is this your girlfriend? She's really pretty. Wow. I'm Tsunami."

Sasuke let out a laugh, "No, she's not my girlfriend, more like a non-blood-related sister. You probably wouldn't believe it, but this is Naruto-dobe's girl, Hinata."

At that moment an old man walked into the room, and his eyes widened in shock at what Sasuke had said, "You mean that idiot got himself a girl like that?"

Hinata blushed, "Excuse me, but it's not very polite to talk to someone like that, especially if she's in the room and I would appreciate it if you didn't call my boyfriend an idiot."

Both Tsunami and the old man's eyes widened at that, "Wow, she's polite too. Well, I'm Tazuna. Nice to meet you, Hinata-san."

She let out a priceless smile, "Likewise, Tazuna-san." Before pulling the scroll out of Roki's back, "Do you have any place where we could summon Naruto-kun? I know he would like to see you again, but he's training at the moment."

Inari grinned, "We have room in the backyard."

** DEMON COUPLE **

Sasuke turned to Roki as Hinata laid the scroll out on the grass open, "Now, warn the Dobe that we have guests, okay? Because knowing him he'll latch right onto Hinata." After a nod from Roki, he gestured Hinata to perform the summoning.

Removing her left glove with her teeth, she bit her thumb and did a few hand signs, so she wouldn't be sent to the mountain; only Naruto would be sent here and slammed her fist onto the paper, backing away as a poof of smoke appeared.

Strong arms suddenly wrapped around Hinata, glomping her silently before letting out a loud, "I missed you!" happy to have Hinata in his arms again after so long.

Hinata let out a laugh, "Not fair, I wanted to be the one to glomp you." She pouted.

In return, Naruto just hugged her tighter, so happy to see her again so soon, "I was told we have guests…?"

Sasuke let out a sigh, "Yes, and the whole reason I told Roki to tell you was so you wouldn't embarrass yourself and my little sister by doing this…"

"But we haven't seen each other in FOREVER!" He then noticed the three other people who were standing there, watching him intently and with shocked expressions on their faces.

"Inari?... Tazuna?...Tsunami?" Naruto said, still holding onto Hinata and staring at the other three people. "I haven't seen you guys in AGES!" He grinned at them.

"Well his attitude hasn't changed." Tazuna laughed.

"Not one bit." Tsunami agreed as Naruto hugged the life out of Inari.

Naruto turned to Sasuke, "I heard you got yourself a girlfriend…?" he wiggled his eyebrows. And Sasuke immediately turned to Hinatawho was suddenly looking innocently away.

"Her name's Sahana." Hinata stuck her tongue out at Sasuke playfully, earning a chuckle from the guy.

"Okay." Sasuke gave up, "I might like her… a little bit."

"Woo! Little Sasuke's growing up." Naruto grinned, "Good job Hina-chan!" The couple high-fived.

"I knew it!" She laughed as Naruto just glomped her again.

"So how have you been! You had haveto have done something awesome!" Inari asked excitedly.

Naruto laughed, "I am awesome. Of course I've done tonnes of awesome things!" He bragged, "Have you heard about me on TV? We are awesome."

"You mean, the group of three. That's you guys?" Tsunami was the one who said that, "Wow. I heard Naruto Uzumaki, but would never have believed it would actually be you! Wow. You guys killed Orochimaru!"

"Yeah, so I guess all our training has paid off." Naruto grinned.

"I don't know why everyone keeps saying it was all of us. Because I didn't kill Orochimaru, it was you two. I really shouldn't be getting all this credit, I only took out Kabuto." Hinata sighed.

"But you kicked his ass." Naruto reminded her.

"Naruto-kun. I was in hospital for days after that." She rolled her eyes, she really wasn't that awesome.

"But that's only because he messed up your seal."

"Yeah, and because of it, I'm a Hanyou. And I shouldn't have let him catch me off guard." Hinata continued to protest.

Sasuke put a hand on her shoulder, "Imouto. The only reason he even lived that long is because he was using your feelings against you. You're too kind-hearted to kill someone who saved your life when you were a genin."

"He saved your life? When?" Naruto asked, curious and confused.

"After my match with Neji. I would've died that day if it wasn't for him." Hinata sighed, trying not to let the guilt get to her.

"You wouldn't have died." Naruto told her seriously, "I would've made sure of that."

Sasuke smiled, "I told you. Naruto would've probably done something stupid and reckless and saved your life in the most unbelievable way possible."

Hinata nodded, "Alright."

Naruto suddenly remembered something, "Hey, I wanna meet Sasuke's girlfriend." And the trio (and dog) walked off towards the library after saying goodbye to Tazuna, Inari and Tsunami and agreeing to eat with them that night.

"Wait." Hinata quickly turned back to Tazuna and his family, "Is it okay if we bring one more person for dinner?" She asked politely.

"Of course." Tsunami smiled, she really enjoyed talking to the polite girl, since there really weren't many that young around.

"Thank you." Hinata bowed before turning to Sasuke, "Your girlfriend going to have dinner with us."

** DEMON COUPLE **

"Hana-chan." Sasuke called out as he saw the familiar blond woman looking through books.

"Yes?" She did a complete 180 until she was facing the group, "Oh, hey guys. Do you have any more information?"

Hinata shook her head, "No, sorry. We came here because Naruto wanted to meet you."

"Oh, so you must be Naruto." She smiled at the blond male, "I'm Sahana, but please, call me Hana. I've heard a lot about you."

Naruto grinned, "I've heard much about you too, Hana-san. It's nice to meet you."

Hana smiled, "Likewise. Now is there anything you guys want?"

Naruto and Hinata shared a look, "Well, not at the moment, but we are heading to a friend's place for dinner and Sasuke was wondering if you wanted to join us." Naruto grinned, even though it wasn't Sasuke's idea, it did make the girl blush.

"I would love to." She glanced at Sasuke for a second, who was – surprisingly – blushing too, but it wasn't very noticeable.

"So, have you found any more information on the sins?" Sasuke asked, a little uncomfortable with the past topic.

She smiled widely at that, "Yes. I've figured out that my father and his mutants are outside the village in an abandoned wooden lodge. When do you think we should attack?"

Hinata answered that, "As soon as Naruto completes his sage training."

Naruto nodded in agreement, "Yeah, that sounds like a good idea, and while I'm doing that, Hina-chan and Teme can train you."

Sasuke rolled his eyes at the nickname, "That sounds like a good idea, then we'll finally take on the seven deadly sins."

"How about I leave again tomorrow? I need to get this training done, and then I'll be like unstoppable. Oh, and Roki's been telling me that we're going to merge soon." Naruto added as an afterthought.

"When? And will you be out for days like Hinata?" Sasuke asked.

"No, it'll be different since it won't be forced to happen. I'll be knocked out for about a day, but I'm sure the toads will look after me. But Roki will disappear, so before I leave I need to make a copy of the scroll to take with me so I can summon myself here, and you can also summon me if its urgent." Naruto smiled.

"That's the smartest thing that I've ever heard you say." Sasuke was bewildered.

"Hey, I say tonnes of smart stuff." Naruto protested.

"Come on,let's get to Tazuna's place." Hinata sighed, and lead the four to Tazuna's house.

** DEMON COUPLE **

END OF CHAPTER 16

Please ignore the mistakes again... i know, it's kind of sucky... but its hard with wordpad... i miss microsoft word 2010... lol, dad's working on it... and i'm getting there... tell me what you think, and we'll have some more Sasu/Hana in future... please, tell me what you think of the coupling... xx Taz :P

thankyou alll XD