Guardian Mates

A/N- Here is chapter nine, enjoy it. I would like to say thank you to my beta reader IcySapphire15 for doing chapters 1 to 9 and will continued on doing the rest of this story. Thank you!

Beta says, "Always, always."

Chapter Nine: Waking Up: Part 4

...Hinata...

Hinata woke up hearing scribbles. She looked to her side to see the same blond haired male from before with a sketch pad within his hands. He was holding on a pencil and doodling. Her mind went back to what had happened. She felt mad at him and scared to be with him, so she slowly stood up from the bed until the male spoke, "Don't fear me, I won't hurt you."

"Why I should?" Hinata asked as him, she mind smiled at herself for not stuttering.

"Please," Naruto pleaded with her.

Hinata stated, "So why am I here?"

"My name is Naruto. I'm from an old and ancient clan of water guardians. You might have heard legends about us. When an water guardian turns eighteen, he needs to mate within six months or he would die. I'm seventeen now but my eighteen birthday is in eleven weeks. Usually the guardian has dreams about his mate when he hit fourteen, so he can start courting her." Naruto told Hinata.

"You are a water guardian from the legends? Then I'm your mate?" Hinata asked, as she feeling very uncomfortable now.

"Yes, and you are my mate or will hopefully be my mate,." Naruto replied.

"No, you kidnapped me on the way to school. Second where is Sakura? I need to get to her now," Hinata commanded him. "She must be so frightened now."

"Sorry, about kidnapping you, Sakura is with her to be soon-to-be mate; Sasuke; and he won't hurt her. Tell me what happened to Sakura to make you so protected protective over of her?" Naruto questioned as he looked at her.

"Why would you like to know?" Hinata questioned him with untrusting shining pale white eyes.

"To help my friend, Sasuke." Naruto answered.

"No. That isn't a good reason for me to tell you." Hinata told him.

"Please." Naruto pleaded with her.

Hinata looked at him and sighed, at this "Listen and no loud interruptions."

"I have been friends with Sakura since grade 2. Ino and Tenten have been with Sakura since grade 1 and grade 3. It was when Sakura was in grade 9 when she meet this "great guy" she told us about him. So she dated that man..." Hinata whispered out to him with tears coming into her eyes. Hinata was trying not to cry but her tears had another plans.

Naruto stated, "That is okay."

"His name was Sai. She dated him for just about six months, when she started to change. She was always on time but she wasn't, she came late limping or flinching when hugs were given. That was when we understood what was going on. She was getting physically abused. Sakura was never a clumsy person in her life, so when the bruises came on her, we tried to talk to her about this," Hinata whispered at him. "Sakura turned against us about nine months into the dating him."

"She turned against you? How?" Naruto asked. while his mind was right about this situation, that pink haired girl was hurt.

"She stopped talking to us, hanging out with us., She changed her cell phone and home phone numbers. Sai was controlling her, what friends she could have or couldn't have. Something must have happened, because Sakura started to talk with us again and do things with us again. When Ino asked, she told us "Sai was gone." But what she didn't know was he had his friends looking over her." Hinata recalled with tears coming down her face fully now.

Naruto stood up and sat down beside Hinata and as he placed his arms around her stomach and brought her to him. He gave her a hugs as a signal to continue with her story. His heart was going out to Sakura.

"He came back, and beat her up again more times. Then, she started to fight back when he told her that he hurt her mother. Sakura's mother is in the hospital in a coma, she has been in coma since Sakura was seven. Sai is older by lots. I believe he was ten years old than Sakura. When Sakura heard that, she used her training of karate long ago from Karate." Hinata stated." Don't ask me, why she didn't fight back," Hinata told him as she sighed within his arms.

Hinata took all this in and looked at Naruto to continue.

"Well, Sai wasn't happy about this. He knocked her out and he kept placed her in his room. No, he didn't rape her. He just starved her for two weeks and all, he beat her up, and he also had one of his friends that was a doctor and a gang member helping him out. He did artificially inseminationed to her. Sakura lost the baby after Sai almost killed her." Hinata uttered out to him with tears within her eyes.

Naruto's eyes widen at this, he growled under his breath. "Then what happened? Where was her father?"

"Sakura's father is a very rich business man and he lets her do things on her own. He didn't even know what was happening until we I told him over the phone. Well, he got a restraining order against him, but that didn't work. Sai went after Sakura again, but this time Sakura had all the help she needed. This was about seven months later- she got the help from her friends and family, including the professional help. She was attacked again very badly, but never did Sai rape her." Hinata whispered out.

"Sakura killed him. It was self defense. And she got away with it a since many others came up to the court and told them about their stories," Hinata continued. as she had tears coming out from her eyes. "She was finally free from him; I don't want her to feel like that never again. I was very depressed and was almost willing to cut myself too like she did." Hinata softly said.

Naruto growled, at this and told her "Never think like that again."

Hinata looked up at him and smiled. "But now you know how I feel about my best friend; Sakura, I won't let that male named Sasuke hurt her."

"Sasuke would never warm or hurt his mate or soon-to-be mate. It would kill him, literally," ' Naruto stated to her. "Like it would kill me and the rest of us.,"

Hinata yawned and rubbed her eyes as she looked at the blond male again. He was cute and kind but Hinata really don't know him and all this information was making her dizzy with it. Sure she knew about the guardians as her family was a clan that had the ability to become one of them. Hinata thought about at it until her felt herself getting hungry and then heard her stomach growling for some food.

"You hungry?" Naruto asked.

"Hai, I'm hungry," Hinata told him shyly.

"Come with me." Naruto replied as he let her waist go. All this time he still was holding he around her waist.

They got up and walked towards the door, when Hinata remembered something. "Naruto, you said you only have eleven weeks to live, right?"

"Yup! Hai that I did," Naruto told her.

"Then you better court me fast, so you don't die, "Hinata said while she blushed at him.

Naruto smiled at her," Hai I will properly court you, but first let's get something to eat. What would you like?"

"Anything," Hinata answered him.

Naruto nodded his head at that and smiled at her. He held out his hand for her to take. Hinata placed her hand within his as they walked out of the room. Hinata looked at the more or less to see three another rooms, each with an odd item near them. One door had a small flaming candle. She turned to the last door on her right side to see a living tree, next to that was a door with, curiously, nothing. While the one she came out of had a bowl of water sitting next to the door.

Naruto looked at his to be mate and smiled at her. He could tell she was looking at the items near their doors.

"They're there to open the doors. Each of us is a guardians. I'm a water guardian. The one with Sakura is Sasuke, he is a fire guardian. Ino is with Shikamaru, he is the earth guardian and Tenten is with Neji, he is an air guardian,." Naruto told her.

Hinata nodded her head at him and followed him more down the stairs, noticing while she looked at some old items alone they way.

A/N- Here is this the chapter, I hope you like it all again. Last time hearing the story is with Sakura and Sasuke. I need eight reviews of the next chapter to be up. Bye.