The cold morning awoke Hinata, she glanced around her surroundings. She was still at the cave, Kisame was still passed out and Itachi had apparently fallen asleep lying beside her. He still had his arms wrapped around her. She shivered and nuzzled up against him. "You cold?" Itachi said as he opened his eyes and glanced down at her. She blushed and nodded a bit; he slightly smirked and held her closer. She could hear his soft heart beat and his chest moving slowly up and down from his breathing. She smiled and wrapped her arms around him. She felt happy and content, not like those other times with Naruto where she felt desperate and embarrassed. She nodded off back to sleep; Itachi lay there looking at her. He brought a hand to her cheek and brushed the hair from it. "Still is hard to believe that I Itachi Uchiha would fall in love..." he had mumbled as he kissed Hinata on the forehead. He quietly let go of Hinata and got up, she shivered a bit from the heat going away. Itachi looked down at her with a bit of a smile; he unbuttoned his jacket and draped it over her. He then went to a nearby river that Kisame had informed him about. He cupped his hands in the cold water and splashed his face. He sat down looking at the water 'why did I fall for her? I mean it doesn't make sense...ever since the day I saw her I haven't been able to shake her from my mind' Itachi thought as he grabbed some more water and splashed his face. 'Why in the world our leader wanted us to go back to the village is beyond me...but there she was at the training grounds ...and was crying. Yet for some reason it just made me want to hold her, I am still wondering what sicko would make such a beautiful girl cry?' Itachi had gotten up and wiped his face contemplating on what their next move would be.
He suddenly sensed 10 ninja's heading their way and fast, he quickly headed back to the cave and lightly shook Hinata "we have to go" he said as he pulled her on his back. He went over and kicked Kisame; Kisame had woken up with a jolt and looked to his partner with a bit of a glare. That's when he sensed the ninja's as well, "we have to get moving before they catch us" Itachi had said as he jumped on to a nearby tree. Kisame nodded and kicked a few of the things they used last night into the woods in case they came that way. He then jumped up onto a nearby tree branch and they both sprinted away. Hinata was in a slight daze; she looked around and noticed how close she was to somebody. She looked up to see Itachi and blushed "there are some ninja's looking for you" Itachi had said to her as he kept glancing around. Kisame had managed to pull up to Itachi; he looked to him then Hinata then back to Itachi. "Uh...is there something going on here?" Kisame had managed to say after looking at the two for a bit. "I'll explain it later" Itachi said as he kept looking forward and then picked up the pace. Kisame simply looked at him and laughed a bit he started to high tail it too.
Shikamaru had awoken from his restless night; he knew there would be trouble brewing for him that day. He and Naruto would be receiving a punishment from Tsunade but he knew his was going to be worse than Naruto's. He looked to the window and sighed "this is going to be such a troublesome day" he mumbled to himself as he got out of bed and over to his dresser. Naruto was in ramen dream land when he heard pounding at his door. He squinted from the sunlight shining in through his window and looked over towards the door. The pounding did not cease, he grumbled and walked over to the door "yeah, yeah I'm coming" he had yelled as he reached the door. When he opened it he was surprised to see it was Sakura. "Sa-Sakura? What are you doing here?" Naruto said as he rubbed his eyes. "Come on! Tsunade doesn't have all day" she said to him with her arms crossed. His jaw had dropped when he heard their punishment. "A-Are you serious!" Naruto said as he picked up his jaw from the floor. Tsunade had nodded and glanced over to Shikamaru who wasn't in the least bit surprised. "You two will be doing hard labor till Hinata gets back, your breaks will be 5 minutes no more than that, and if I hear one complaint I won't hesitate to hurt you." Tsunade said as she got up from her desk and stared at the window. "Any questions?" she said as she glanced back over to the two boys. They shook their heads and Tsunade waved them off. She sat back behind her desk and sighed "I just hope they find that poor girl...who knows what might happen to her..."