My Heart's Lavender Eyes
"Normal speech"
'Thought'
Kyuubi
Other enormous beings
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"Disclaimer"
I do not own Naruto or any affiliation there being, I am doing this fanfic because I enjoy making this story, not for profit (which I do not get by the way)
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Chapter 13:
A Short Funeral
"Kit..."
"Hey kit..."
"Wha...Owww...My head..." said Naruto as he stood up.
"What happened?" asked Naruto as he looked around.
He easily recognized where he was, he was in the depths of his mind where the Kyuubi was held.
He turned to see the Kyuubi looking at him passively through his sealed cage.
"Kyuubi?! What's going on, and what am I doing here?" asked Naruto, a little peeved that he had ben dragged into the depths of his mind at such a time.
"I was kind of busy..." said Naruto angrily.
All Naruto could remember was that he had formed the Rasengan and then released it, and all he remembered from then on was blank.
"You almost died there kit..." said the Kyuubi as he licked his paw.
"Almost died? I'm not dead?!" asked Naruto incredulously as he stared at the Kyuubi.
"No...You're not dead, but you had such a rapid chakra depletion, that I was forced to use my chakra to put you into a hibernative state so that you would survive." said the Kyuubi as he examined his nails as though he didn't care.
"Hibernative? You mean like a bear?" asked Naruto, confused.
Kyuubi then rolled his eyes.
"(sigh) Yes Naruto, kind of like that." said Kyuubi as he rested his head on the ground.
"Well...if I am still alive, then why am I in this place?" said Naruto angrily.
"Because I want to tell you to be more careful with your chakra, you could have used even a small fraction of mine, and you would have been fine." said the Kyuubi as he went to stand up.
But when he stood up, he hit his head on the ceiling with a resounding thud.
"Owwie." said the Kyuubi scratching his head.
Naruto chuckled a bit, but stopped when he spoke again.
"About 12 hours have passed in the human world." said the Kyuubi as he moved to the back of his cage.
"Assuming that you will heed my warnings about your chakra, I want you to keep the time in mind when you return to consciousness." said the Kyuubi as he laid down comfortably in the back.
Naruto stood there for a second, then nodded his head as he turned around to leave.
"You had better hurry, your friends worry for your safety." said Kyuubi as he blended in with the background.
"My friends...Hinata..." said Naruto as he stared wonderingly at the melting reality that was his subconscious.
Everything suddenly melded to blackness.
Naruto felt as though he were laying down, but didn't know hat had happened.
Naruto wondered where he went, until he realized that he was looking at the inside of his eyelids.
'Oh...Duh...' thought Naruto stupidly as he opened his eyes.
He got up and found that his chest hurt alot.
"Ouch..." said Naruto as he formed a few handsigns.
"Regen no jutsu" said Naruto as his hand blazed with chakra.
'Hmmm... after twelve hours I seem to have regained about half of my chakra.' thought Naruto as he healed the spiral burn mark on his chest. He took off the bits of shirt that were left over from the blast, and looked around for his bag.
'Where is the stupid thing?' thought Naruto as he looked around.
He finally looked behind him to find Sakura who had his bag laid next to her.
'(soft gasp) Sakura!' thought Naruto as he moved over to her.
She was still unconscious and it looked as though she collapsed from exhaustion.
'Hmmm...she should be fine in a few hours' thought Naruto as he sat down in relief.
'She must have carried me quite a ways...' thought Naruto as he looked at how far they had gone down his tunnel.
Naruto then took out an extra black and orange shirt that he had packed before, and quickly put it on.
'I wonder where everybody is?' thought Naruto as he searched his pockets for his CBU.
'Oh yeah, I entrusted Hinata with that.' thought Naruto as he looked around for the Hyuuga girl.
He suddenly got sad when he thought of her. The last time he saw her, she was crying and begging him not to perform his Rasengan blast thingy.
'Hinata...' thought Naruto as he looked around for her.
'I'm such an idiot! I probably worried her sick...' thought Naruto as he hit himself in the head.
He got up to look around some more, but when he did, he heard some voices.
He turned around to see that the entire group was huddled in a circle behind him, and they were all fussing over something laying in the middle.
'Hmph...They don't look too worried about me...' thought Naruto as he walked over to them.
'They just look sad...' thought Naruto worriedly as he walked up behind Kakashi.
"Kurenai, take Hinata over to the cave wall where she can sit upright." said Kakashi as he pointed to the farthest cave wall.
Kurenai nodded and picked up what was in the middle of the group.
It was Hinata, she had her eyes shut tight, and tears were still coming out as she was carried away by Kurenai, with Kakashi and Gai walking at her side.
'Oh god! What did I do?! She looks like a wreck!' thought Naruto as he went to go over to her, but he stopped when he heard a voice from beside him.
"Naruto's death must have been harder on her than the rest of us" said Shino as he looked over to Kiba and Lee as they all faced away from him.
"Yeah, she had the biggest crush on the guy..." said Kiba as he stared at the floor sadly.
"Now that he is dead...I'm not sure that she will ever be the same..." said Lee as they all walked away from him and over to Hinata.
'Dead?! I'm not dead! When did I die?!' thought Naruto as he watched everyone walk away from him, and over to Hinata to comfort her.
'Wait...Hinata...had a crush on me?!' thought Naruto confused.
'ON ME?!' thought Naruto incredulously as he scratched his head.
Then he thought back to all of the times when Hinata had been around him. She was always blushing, but now he realized that she was blushing BECAUSE OF HIM, and not because she always blushed. She was always nervous and stuttered alot as well, and now it was as clear as the group of ninja walking away from him that she liked him.
'Oh my god!...I've been so blind...What she was trying to tell me...back at the hot springs...' thought Naruto as he hit himself in the head again.
'She likes me...' thought Naruto.
'SHE LIKES ME!! YES!!' thought Naruto joyously as he jumped up and down.
'Wait what?!...I...I'm happy that she likes me?...Wait...' thought Naruto as he racked his brain for the emotion that kept tearing at his heart when he tried to ignore Hinata.
'So...maybe it's love that I'm feeling...' thought Naruto incredulously as he held his heart.
He slightly chuckled in spite of himself and was suddenly very happy, and felt alot better than he ever had before.
"I'm...I'm in love..." said Naruto softly to himself as he smiled broader than ever.
"I...I have to tell her." said Naruto as he walked over to everyone. As he was walking over to them, he stopped short and thought to himself.
'Wait! how am I going to do this?' thought Naruto as he stopped behind Kakashi again and thought about it for a second.
'I can't just tell her, that would be stupid, I...I have to tell her exactly how I feel.' thought Naruto bravely.
He took a step forward, then in mid-step, quickly turned around.
'Oh god I can't do it!' thought Naruto as he held onto his head.
'I just do it later! Yeah that's it! But right now, I have to apologize to her that I made her worry.' affirmed Naruto as he turned back around and stepped a bit closer.
Naruto was about to talk to Hinata from behind Kakashi, but thought that it would be a little awkward.
'Oh yeah, everybody still thinks I'm dead...' thought Naruto as he looked around at everyone.
He saw that Kakashi was extremely sad, and that he had been crying before, in fact it looked as though everybody had cried.
'They...They all missed me?' thought Naruto as he smiled a bit to himself.
'I can't believe they all missed me so much...' thought Naruto as he started to cry as well.
Then Naruto got a good look at Hinata.
'Oh god...' thought Naruto in shock.
Before when Naruto saw her, she was farther away, and didn't look nearly as bad as she did now.
Hinata was curled up against the wall sitting upright. She was hanging onto her knees and was crying her eyes out.
She was sobbing uncontrollably and looked like she was having trouble breathing because of her crying.
Everyone was still trying to calm her down, but she just ignored them and kept saying "Naruto...Naruto..." over and over as though the words she was saying were all she had left of him.
'Wow...' thought Naruto as he closed his eyes. He couldn't believe her state, but found it more believable when he thought of Hinata dying.
'I would probably be the same way if she died.' thought Naruto sadly as he walked past Kakashi.
"Excuse me" said Naruto as he slightly pushed him aside.
He walked past everyone, ignoring thier astonished faces, until he got up to Hinata, he then stopped to stand in front of her, and began to apologize.
"Hinata...I'm sorry...for making you worry like that." said Naruto sadly as he kneeled down next to her.
Hinata slowly raised her head and opened her eyes to see the "late man of her dreams" standing before her.
"Na...Na-Naruto?!"choked Hinata as she stared at the possible mirage in front of her.
She rubbed the tears from her eyes to look again.
"I m-must be d-d-dreaming..." choked Hinata again as she looked into his face.
"You not dreaming, this is real..." said Naruto moving in closer to her so that his face was close to hers.
"And so is this..." whispered Naruto as he kissed her gently on the lips.
She jumped in suprise, and then closed her eyes in what was either pure shock, relief, or maybe even ecstasy. Naruto slowly opened his eyes to see that Hinata had fainted in mid-kiss.
Naruto laughed a bit to himself and gently put her down against the wall.
'I...I kissed Hinata...' thought Naruto as he felt his heart jump in joy.
After that kiss, he felt great, he felt as though a huge burden had been lifted from him.
Naruto sighed happily as he looked at Hinata.
'I'll have to take her out on a bunch of dates when we get back...' thought Naruto happily as he smiled at the thought of the two of them together.
'But the hardest part will be talking to Hinata about our relationship.' thought Naruto as he held onto his heart.
'Heh...That's going to be stressful...' thought Naruto as he turned to talk to everyone else.
But when he turned, all he saw were many open mouthes and wide-eyes.
Everyone was there. Staring at the living breathing Naruto.
They all looked too stunned to say anything.
Naruto smiled and walked past them, pushing Kakashi out of the way again.
"Excuse me" said Naruto as he smiled at his nonchalant-ness.
As everyone stared as he went over to the other side of the cave and opened his bag to get the map of the Land of the Rice Patties.
Naruto quickly pinned it to the floor with 4 kunai, and gave it a look.
He blankly stared at it for a momnet, and then had a wild realization.
"Oh my god! Hey guys! I think were directly underneath the Village Hidden in the Sou..." said Naruto, but he was cut off by a rush of white hair...and possibly porn.
"Naruto! Your alive! Thank god!" screamed Kakashi as he hugged Naruto and swung him back and forth. Suddenly Kakashi realized what he was doing and quickly put him down.
"I mean uh...(Ahem)"said Kakashi as he backed away from Naruto a bit.
"Almost lost my cool there..." muttered Kakashi as he smiled at Naruto.
Naruto smiled in return, but didn't get much time to say anything back, because relieved crowd of Ninja flew towards him.
"Ah! wait no!" said Naruto as he held up his hands in defense.
They all flew in and hugged him, giving him words of relief and happiness.
"We thought you were dead!" said Kurenai as she put her hands on his shoulder's.
Kurenai was knocked over and out of the way by Kiba as he put Naruto in a headlock.
"Nah! Naruto's too damn stubborn to die!" said Kiba as he let him go, but was flung to the other side of the room and into the wall by an angry Kakashi, who then helped up the pushed-over Kurenai.
"Naruto! I am so glad that you are alive and well!" said Lee enthusiastically as Gai smiled and nodded in agreement.
"Yes, without you, this mission would be rather boring." said Shino mildly.
"You're one to talk!" shouted Kiba, who was still smashed into the wall the other side of the room.
Shino gave him an irritated look, then returned to look at Naruto and gave him what almost looked like a smile.
Neji and TenTen walked up to him and TenTen smiled and punched him on the shoulder kiddingly.
"Ahh!!" screamed Naruto as he fell to his knees.
"I almost die, and this is the treatment I get from you!?" exclaimed Naruto as he winced on the ground.
"Ah! sorry! I didn't mean to!" apologized TenTen as she went to help him.
Naruto suddenly and very quickly stood up before she got to him.
"Ha! just kidding!" said Naruto as he laughed at her gullibility.
TenTen was going to punch him on the head for that, but didn't have the heart after his first death, and didn't want to risk another.
She just smiled and stepped back to stand close to Neji, who blushed a bit, then smiled at Naruto and nodded.
"Ha! You guys finally got together!" exclaimed Naruto as he pointed at the couple.
"About time!" said Naruto smiling.
Neji's eye twitched a bit then he sighed.
"Jeez, was I the only one who didn't know about this?" asked Neji to himself while putting his hand on his forehead.
TenTen smiled and hugged Neji so that they were closer, and she gave Naruto a look which said "Were glad you're back."
Naruto smiled in return, and looked past Kakashi and Kurenai who were kissing, to see...
"Wait What!?" exclaimed Naruto as he looked at the two.
They broke apart and blushed, but still stayed close to each other.
"Alright Kakashi!! You finally rangled yourself a gal!" said Naruto happily as he slugged him in the shoulder.
"I could say the same for you." said Kakashi pointing at Hinata who was still laying unconscious against the wall.
Naruto blushed, and to Kakashi's suprise, instead of arguing, nodded.
'So, he doesn't deny his feelings anymore...' thought Kakashi happily.
'He's really growing up...' thought Kakashi, remembering all of the times they had together.
Kakashi was so relieved that Naruto was back, and he had always thought that Naruto was kind of like a son to him...Which would make Iruka, being Naruto's father-figure of sorts, kind of like his brother...or something.
Kakashi sighed and decided that he would consider his family status with Naruto later.
Naruto smiled at the sudden self-confusion of Kakashi as he walked past him to Hinata.
He smiled at her beautiful form leaning peacefully against the wall. Her eyes were still puffed up from all of the crying she did, and from all of the stress she endured. He figured that she deserved some sleep.
He moved up to her small body and picked her up from underneath her arms and moved himself behind her.
As he leaned himself against the wall, he put Hinata's butt in between his legs, and leaned her back against his torso so that she would be comfortable.
When he got her into place, he leaned his head against hers, and prepared to take a nap with her, but didn't get far, because he was interupted by the voices of 9 ninja.
"Aaaawwwwwwww!!" said everyone mockingly as Kurenai even took a picture.
Naruto opened his eyes and gave them all a look of annoyance, but decided to ignore them as he snuggled up even closer to Hinata and wrapped his arms around her waist.
He went to close his eyes to get some sleep, but to his suprise when he got closer to Hinata, she snuggled back in return by quickly flipping over and hugging him, while curling up her legs around him. Naruto blushed as she did this, and blushed even more when she brought her face up to his and snuggled her cheek into his, and sighed happily.
"Hi...Hinata?..." gasped Naruto as he blushed furiously.
He got no response from her since she was out cold from the stress of Naruto dying. But he wasn't sure that stress was the overall cause of her unconsciousness. It could have been the sudden relief she got from Naruto being alive, or the shock from Naruto kissing her.
He smiled at Hinata as she continued to sub-consciously nuzzle against his face. He loved the feel of her skin, it was so soft, and so...perfect.
He had never noticed this before, but Hinata seemed to have perfect skin. He loved the feel of her on him, and the feeling of her cuddled up with him.
He felt so happy being with her, and being close to her. He just felt like seeing her happy, and kissing her for no reason aside from making themselves even more happy.
When he thought about it, all of the times she was near him, and she was unconscious or sleeping, she was always "touchy feely." Naruto blushed remembering what Hinata did in the trees...and in the clearing...and in the cave...
'I have to remember to wear a belt when I sleep near her' thought Naruto as he blushed from the thought of Hinata's sleeping habits. As he was thinking about his, he felt himself getting aroused.
'Oh crap! not now!' thought Naruto as he tried to resist it.
But as hard as he tried, he couldn't get the thought of Hinata being "touchy feely" out of his head.
Naruto blushed as the bulge in his pants grew larger and felt it push up against Hinata's stomach.
Naruto was sure that she could feel it, even if she was unconscious.
Naruto leaned his head away from hers to get a look at her face, what he saw suprised him.
She suddenly had a sort of naughty smirk, as her face flushed and she hugged him even tighter.
"Oh Naruto..." whispered Hinata sexily as she leaned in licked him.
Naruto's face flushed and he got even more aroused.
"Hi...Hi...Hinata?!" stuttered Naruto as he felt himself get completely red.
He looked around at everybody to see they were all red in the faceas well, because they were there to witness the whole thing.
"I'm uh...(ahem) gonna go and...well...yeah." muttered Kiba and he turned away and walked further down the tunnel towards where everybody's stuff was piled.
Shino and Kurenai followed him, and Lee followed Shino, because he thought that his bugs were interesting.
After they left, the rest of them that were there just stood there awkwardly.
Gai said something about following Lee to make sure that he didn't eaten alive by fire ants.
(It could happen.) And left quickly down the tunnel to join Lee.
Neji and Tenten both stood there staring at Hinata.
Neji was about to say something about Hyuuga decency, but was pulled away by TenTen.
"But...but..." complained Neji as he was dragged away.
"Come on Neji, we can go over to a more secluded area, and do that too if you wanted us to." said TenTen while blushing.
Neji stopped talking and stopped resisting, as he was walked to their group.
The only ones that were left were Kakashi and a still unconscious Sakura. Kakashi smiled and walked up to the two.
"You know, we all expect you to tell us what happened in the cave, but we'll let you two take a nap first." said Kakashi as he walked over to pick up Sakura.
As he was walking towards everyone, he turned back and winked at Naruto then walked over to the group and began to talk to them.
Naruto couldn't tell what they were talking about so quietly, but he got an idea when Kiba suddenly jumped up from the group and said "Hinata and Naruto sitting in a tree, F-U-C-K..."(CLANG!) Kurenai had stormed over and hit him with a frying pan.
Naruto face flushed and he gave Kiba an angry look and wanted to go over and hit him, but Kurenai already did that for him.
"Ow! Waddya do that for?!" asked Kiba while he scratched his head.
"If you don't know why, then you deserve it" said Kakashi as he took out some firewood.
"Yeah but...Why did she have to do it with a frying pan?!" excalimed Kiba as he continued to tend to his head.
Kakashi took the firewood and threw it into the air. He took out a Kunai and began to slice up the wood. They landed onto the ground in neat piles of small thin 2 X 4's. Kakashi picked up a few and quickly tied them together with some twine and made a foldable chairs that could fold up and fit in a backpack easily. He made a circle of them so that everyone could talk to each other, and Naruto was amazed at how fast he made the chairs.
'How didn't he get splinters?' thought Naruto as he watched the perfecty splinterless Kakashi flirt with Kurenai.
Seeing them together reminded him of his and Hinata's relationship.
"(sigh)" Naruto "relaxed" himself, and looked upon her delicate beautiful face.
'I still need to tell her how I feel, but I hope she at least got an idea of how I feel from the kiss I gave her.' thought Naruto as he snuggled with Hinata.
When he snuggled with her, she snuggled in return by gently rubbing her face against his again. This was the most comfortable he had ever been, and he felt himself blush as he held her close.
He loved this moment, and hoped that it would never end, but being the most comfortable he has ever been, didn't help to keep him awake. When he was with Hinata he felt as though he were at peace with everything and everyone, especially her, and this combined with his love for her, forced him into a content sleep.
Back over at the circle, everyone sat in thier chairs watching them, and while they slept, Kurenai took more pictures with her camera.
"These are going to be great pictures, I'm glad I got this camera in time for the trip." said Kurenai as she turned it off so that it would save energy.
"Wait a minute!" exclaimed Kiba as he quickly stood up.
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end of chapter.
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