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Recap:

Hinata stayed with him till night. Hiashi also visited and allowed his daughter to stay with the Hokage, Hiashi was pleased with the sight and not that Hinata knew that Hiashi was on the verge of approving the two of them.

Hinata stayed with him but she couldn't sleep, she simply watched him sleep. She sat down on the chair, placed her head on the bed next to Naruto's pillow and closed her eyes. She was still awake though, she wouldn't let sleep overcome her so easily.

2in the morning and that's when he woke up.

"Hina-chan?"

(2 in the morning/ in the hospital)

His head throbbed and he could remember vague memories before he passed out, but he settled that aside. Naruto opened his eyes and looked around the room. He tried to stand but he felt pressure on his chest.

"That dream?" Naruto blushed and coughed a bit. "Are you alright Hina-chan? Was that dream real?"

The pressure on his chest was heavy, he yawned and rubbed his eyes. He took another look so his eyes could adjust in the dark. He blinked a few times and his eyes regained it's vision.

He could see a figure hunched at the side of his bed. The person had long dark hair, her right arm rested on Naruto's chest and her left arm hanging limp at the side, her eyes were tightly shut.

Naruto suddenly recognized the person, it was Hinata. She was the one sitting next to him asleep, slightly whispering something about her dreams.

"She didn't leave my side, all this time she stayed with me." Naruto smiled at her. He noticed that she was in a pretty bad position, she's going to get stiff with her body hunched like that.

"It's..." He looked at the time, oh he thanked that there was a full moon lighting up part of the room including the clock hanging near the door. "What? It's 2 in the morning? Perfect, glad I woke up..."

He threw the covers off of him, gently settled aside Hinata's right arm, then slowly stood up clutching his head. It still throbbed and it took him some time for it to settle down. He stood up and quietly made his way towards her. She was sleeping soundly, her hair covered part of her face and Naruto just couldn't resist.

She was glowing in the moonlight, he caress her cheeks as she shivered slightly at the touch. Naruto chuckled, he could see something was different about her. He couldn't walk away, he couldn't resist her.

He leaned forward and touched her hair and sniffed it, it smelled of Lavender and he loved it. He tugged the hair away from her face as it revealed a beautiful sleeping woman underneath.

"I do hope your father agrees with us being together." Naruto whispered and sadly looked at her. "I don't know what I'll do if he doesn't agree, I really want... to be... with you."

His head was bent down, he really loved her. Something in his head agreed with him. He heard a noise, he grabbed his head and closed his eyes. He could see darkness, but he could feel something there.

"Don't worry kit." Kyuubi spoke in the dark. Naruto opened his eyes, he didn't go to his mind scape. He smiled, at least he was still with Hinata.

"Why shouldn't I worry Kyuubi?" Naruto's thought's lingered in these questions.

"You are the Hokage kit, the savior of Konoha and the elemental countries. Who wouldn't agree to marry you? Heck, you could be one of the most powerful human being in this entire earth."

"Heh... quit it with the sweet talk." Naruto chuckled then touched Hinata's cheeks. "But... thanks for that comment. Still, it's not because of power. I don't want Hina-chan to love me because of my status as a ninja. I know that Hina-chan loves me for me..."

"Kit, not everything is what you think." Naruto flinched at what the Kyuubi said. "Are you really sure about this woman? Do you really want to make her your mate?"

"I love her." Naruto sighed.

"Don't you think you'll just end up hurting her?"

"True. Still, Madara is out there. I don't want her to be in danger because of me. It's like... history tends to repeat itself. It's no wonder the Yondaime kept his marriage a secret, so that Mom wouldn't get hurt. And now look at me now..."

"You'll think of something Kit!" Kyuubi laughed. "Now, is she really your woman?"

"Oh shut up!" Naruto chuckled, Hinata whispered Naruto's name. "I really wish Hiashi-sama would agree."

'Kit, of course he'll agree. You've matured a lot since you were just a brat!"

"ha. ha. ha. Really funny Kyuubi." Naruto sighed and stared at Hinata's sleeping face. He touched her cheeks again, he just couldn't resist fondling with her. "Can you leave me alone with her?"

"Whatever kit. Like I want to know what you're gonna do to her." Kyuubi hissed and his voice was slowly disappearing out of Naruto's mind."Don't do something stupid... that you'll regret later... on."

"I won't Kyuubi, I wont."

He looked at Hinata smiling at him or just plainly smiling, fast asleep, dreaming about something. He caress her cheeks again, this time she registered to it.

"Na.. ru... to...-kun." Hinata whispered. "Please...b-be.. a-alri... ght."

"I'm here, go back to sleep." Naruto pecked her on the cheeks. "Shh... sleep tight."

"Mmm... kay... " He heard her whisper to him, he chuckled.

He couldn't resist her, he just couldn't. Everything about her screamed take me. Everything about her made Naruto lose sight of everything around him, and just think about her and only her. He just wanted her to be with him.

He can't resist.

He leaned forward tugged the hair from her face away and kissed her cheeks, then made it down to her lips and gave it a peck, it trailed down to her neck, giving her soft kisses. She giggled at the touch, but he didn't stop from there.

He went up to her ear then nibbled it a bit. He could see her blushing. He grabbed her hair and dug his face in it smelling the sweet lavender scent. He kissed her again a little rough this time on her neck and then grabbed her wrists and held it there.

He lifted her up to him so their faces could meet, he grabbed her waist and and leaned forward to give her another kiss. (A/N: she was still seated.)

He fondled with her lips, but then again something stopped him. He breathed hard and gently placed her back in her position and backed away from her. He could see her breathing hard but glad she was still asleep.

He backed away with his left hand touching his right arm. It's like guilt settled inside him, regret started to rise. It felt like he was seeing something entirely different. A life without her, and a life without peace. He breathed hard, what was he going to do to Hinata a while ago.

He was going to take advantage of her while she was asleep?

That wasn't him, what was happening to him? It was understandable that he loved her but to do something without permission, wasn't him. Heck, he doesn't even know if that needed permission! He just loved her too much!

It wasn't justified, or was it?

For Naruto? I don't know, neither did he. She turned red but smiled all the same, that dream she was having could be real. Naruto chuckled but stopped what he was doing, it wasn't right. He didn't want to hurt her, besides, taking advantage of someone you love isn't right.

"Damn it. Why is it so hard?"

He sighed, he walked back to her, he hesitated in touching her again but she needed to get out of the position she was in. It was too uncomfortable.

He gently picked her up bridal style and and placed her on the bed. He took the covers and placed it on her, he sat at the chair Hinata once sat on. He waited, he looked at her and he just couldn't resist. He loved her too much.

He bit his lips.

He crossed his arms, placed it on the bed then placed his head on top of it. He closed his eyes and whispered a cry for help. Something he never really does.

"What am I suppose to do now?" Naruto yelled inside his mind.

He suddenly appeared in a giant room filled with water. An opened gate from top to bottom, and a giant oranged furred creature inside the opened gate. Naruto crossed his arms and made his way towards the Kyuubi. Kyuubi bent down and grinned at him revealing giant fangs waiting to rip him to shreds.

Naruto stopped, he was in his mind scape. He looked around, he was starting to feel a bit edgy for some reasons unknown to him.

"Back so soon Kit?" Kyuubi laughed but Naruto didn't budge. "What are you doing here? I thought you wanted to be alone with you mate?"

"I do but..." Naruto looked down. "I don't want her to wake up. And there is something else that's been lingering in my mind for a while now."

"Kit I assure you she's a great woman." Kyuubi smiled sincerely this time.

"How would you know? You've never met her face to face. You don't know what I feel when I'm around her, it's just confusing me right now that I can actually be with her."

"Kit, I've known her because of what I see through your eyes. She's a great person. She was the one that loved you even before you were known as a hero. She saved you when no one else took the courage to do. She fought for you till this day, why are you hesitant?"

"Because this isn't right." Naruto bit his lips, not wanting to break up with her. "I love her but I don't want her to be in danger knowing Madara is still alive. There's part of me that want's her selfishly but another part wanting her to be safe."

"Kit you love her, that's it." Who knew Kyuubi could give an advice? "Listen, that's what falling in love is about. You make decisions that will change you and others lives, fate can't choose which it wants to help."

"Yeah, fate can't help now. I don't want her to get hurt because of me. She's been through enough as it is, I don't even know if what I was doing to her a while ago was right."

"Life can't be what everyone expects them to be, you humans are all the same. If you love her set her free but that's stupid! If you love her, keep her with you, that way you can protect her whenever you can and she will still be by your side."

"That is true." Naruto rubbed his right shoulder. "I hope you know what your saying Kyuubi, I really need help right now. I don't want to lose her just yet."

"I know she's going to be perfect for you." The Kyuubi took him out of his thoughts.

"Perfect for me?" Naruto's eye twitched, and he frowned at the Kyuubi. "What makes you say that?"

"She saved you the trouble of an argument between your friends. While you were asleep that is." Kyuubi stood up and turned around and started scratching the walls for his own pleasure. "She managed to stop the argument, I helped by waking you up but that turned into a mistake."

"What do you mean?" Naruto felt a sharp pain at the back of his head. He clutched it tightly and fell to his knees, he suddenly remembered something. "It was her that was shouting wasn't it?"

"BINGO!" The Kyuubi's voice rang in his head. It echoed and kept on going, Naruto had to clamp his ears shut until it subsided into silence. Naruto stood up trying to balance himself.

"The pink haired Medic Nin entered without knocking and had an argument with the Uchiha brat. Nobody was happy about it and everyone was shouting at the top of their lungs. I had to do something to clear out the noise and it worked."

"Expelling chakra into my ears blocking my hearing instead of enhancing them?" Naruto yawned. "Is that it? You were the one that did that, right?"

"How'd you know kit?" Naruto gave him an 'isn't it obvious' look. Kyuubi frowned at him. "I miss the bratty you Kit, I don't get the fun I used to by being the only one that's smart in this retched place! You wised up over the years."

"Pfft... course I'd know." Naruto scoffed. "I have to know because I'm the Hokage. I have to know every little detail but what you did just wasn't what I expected, now what happened after that? Did Sakura-chan kill Sasuke?"

"You don't look like your worried." Naruto shot him a glare. "The kunoichi just shouted at him, tired to hit a few times from what I heard but your mate stopped them. She herself started shouting at the two, I wanted to see how well she's doing so I woke you up so both of us could see what she's made of without her stuttering all the time."

"So she didn't stutter?" Naruto was impressed and he grinned.

"No, she didn't. She stood up for you, I have to tell you the words that Haruno and Uchiha said were awful and some of their sentences involved you, I guess your mate just couldn't take it anymore and had to shout."

"Alright, I remember waking up and seeing Hinata slam her hands together but that's it." Naruto rubbed the side of his head. "I know she must have done some kind of genjutsu on me because..."

Naruto blushed, he could recall a few things that were in that genjutsu but he'd rather not say it aloud. It was him to know and for Kyuubi to find out, he was glad the Kyuubi didn't know about the genjutsu and only he was affected.

"I don't see the need to be all jumpy with the genjutsu." Kyuubi grinned and started wagging all 9 of it's tail around, must be to keep himself from getting bored. Kyuubi started chasing it's tail, although childish, Naruto didn't care, neither did Kyuubi.

"She called it Maiden's fury."

"I helped her master that Genjutsu!" Naruto blushed. "Who would've thought it would actually work? I mean, we've never put it to the test before, and I guess... I was the first to experience it before hand."

"Ah, Maiden's fury, It's a genjutsu that shows how a person could be tough and it's not something you can underestimate. I don't know what you saw in that genjutsu but I take it that you liked it." Kyuubi sent out a grin and went back to chasing his tails.

Naruto blushed furiously and had chills going down his spine with what the Kyuubi said to him, he almost looked like a tomato now.

"It's a woman's genjutsu, a lot of people mastered it but the numbers dwindled down during the war, I take it a number of 5 or more know it. The genjutsu is suppose to show a different side of the person, something nobody has seen before and the target is the only one to know about it."

"And I was a... " Naruto swallowed hard. "target?"

"Sort of." Kyuubi bent down and had them face to face, or face to nose.

"I should have been careful." Naruto blushed again, that memory kept popping out of nowhere in his mind.

"You see, it can be used as a killing jutsu and a friendly one. That Hinata girl used a friendly one on you, because she didn't want to kill you of course. It reacts to danger, you on the other hand are no threat to the girl which is why the genjutsu you saw wasn't out to kill you but if you were a threat, you would have seen something you liked but end up getting killed by it. You get it?"

"I'm not an idiot." Naruto gritted his teeth and crossed his arms. "I'm not that idiot I used to be. I know what that genjutsu does, and I happen to have a lot of knowledge about other stuffs."

"If you know so much, why did you get caught?" Oh, you've done it now Kyuubi, asking the obvious with Naruto. "You're just like that perverted sensei of yours."

A vein popped out of Naruto's head. Like, this means war kind to the Kyuubi. Kyuubi didn't mind, he loved teasing especially if it was him that's doing it. Not a very good sign in Naruto's part.

"Of course I got caught because I just woke up you stupid fox!" Naruto grumbled. "Hina-chan caught me in surprise and like I would know how to react to it."

"Yeah, you don't but your hormones do." Kyuubi joked. "Let's drop this conversation were having, it's going nowhere right now."

Naruto nodded.

He seriously did 'NOT' want to talk about what Hinata's genjutsu did to him to the Kyuubi, he'd be seriously scarred for the rest of his life without knowing the end of it. The conversation was taken down a few minutes later of constant teasing coming from the Kyuubi.

Naruto didn't mind though but it was still irritating.

"Guess that dream remained to be a dream after all." Naruto sadly sighed. "Guess it wasn't what I thought it would be..." Naruto thought about it to himself. "It wasn't real, but it felt like it. I wish it was though, that would be nice."

"Kit, that dream genjutsu of yours, whatever it may be, can happen if you choose her to be yours." Kyuubi was right, but something was pulling Naruto away from the decision, he was afraid of something. "Something's bothering you, my animal instincts could tell."

"Yeah something is bothering me and it's not something I'd like to talk about with you." Naruto bowed his head. "Hey, I'll be leaving you to get some rest at least. I think our conversation has gone long enough."

"Fine, sleep well Kit." Kyuubi curled himself with his tail. "Try to think about it before you get irrational!"

"Yeah, will do."

Naruto said as he turned away from the Kyuubi. The light in the cage started to dim and as Naruto opened his eyes, he was back in the hospital room. He smiled when he saw Hinata was still asleep. He rubbed his eyes and turned to the clock, it was 2:30.

He yawned, 30 minutes in his mind and still nothing was resolved. He grabbed his head and buried it in his hands. Damn, he felt like crying. Men don't cry, right? Well if you were him, you'd cry. He hated having to think of something and not have it in the end.

Soft sobs came out of his mouth. He wished she wouldn't hear it but that wish never came true. Hinata moved and blinked, Naruto didn't notice her wake up. She gently took the covers off her and sit up straight. She placed a hand on his shoulders and Naruto flinched.

He raised his head to reveal tears rolling down his face. Hinata wondered what she was doing in Naruto's bed and what the hell was Naruto crying on about.

"What's wrong Naruto-kun?" Hinata whispered as Naruto stood up. She let her feet dangle on the edge of the bed while she sat there looking at him standing in front of her, to be honest she felt scared.

"Naruto-kun?" That's when he grabbed her and hugged her tightly. He buried his head on her neck and kept on crying, tears kept falling and Hinata couldn't help but hug him all the same.

She could feel the pain in him, but what was causing it. How come he woke up in the middle of the night? How come she was sleeping on his bed?

"Naruto-kun, tell me what's wrong?" Hinata firmly but gently spoke to him.

"I don't want to lose you." He muttered as he kept crying.

"I'm not going away, Naruto-kun." Hinata smiled. "I will always be here for you."

"But I was never there when you needed me." Naruto countered. "I never noticed you liked me until you told me, I was so dense but now that I know I can't help but worry I might do something I'd regret. That I might do something horrible to you!"

"You're not that kind of person." Hinata pulled away from the hug and stood up. "You are my Naruto-kun, you will always be him no matter what. And I will love you for who you are."

"But..." Hinata placed a finger on her lips.

"You're thinking you might end up like your parents... aren't you?" Hinata sadly spoke, she knew about Naruto's parents, everyone knew. "Naruto-kun, nothing like that will happen."

"But... if we do end up together... you'll get hurt because of me and I..."

"I'm stronger than you think Naruto-kun." Hinata hugged him and he returned the favor by hugging her too. He placed his head gently on top of hers cause he was taller. "I will always love you, I know you will protect me and I will protect you too. So please stop thinking something bad will happen to us."

"I know but... I could sense it!" Naruto stiffened. "I can sense fear and mistrust and..."

"Please don't do this Naruto-kun!" Hinata wanted to cry to but she needed to be strong. "Nothing will happen to us, even if we were attacked with us being together nobody can stop us. Please, I've waited so long."

"I'm sorry." Naruto muttered. "I never meant for you to know about what I was thinking, I was just afraid that If I slipped up you wouldn't want to be with me and that... if you got hurt you'll blame me and..."

"You s-should have trusted me more..." Hinata broke from the hug and kissed him. He kissed back, Naruto felt it all coming to him, she really did love him. She broke from the kiss, Naruto wanted more. He licked his lips and stared into her eyes.

"I will never blame you for anything, I will always stand by what I say, that..."

Naruto chuckled and wiped the tears off his eyes. "Is our ninja way? Right?"

"Exactly." Hinata giggled.

"Guess I got carried away." Naruto sat down and Hinata sat beside him, both holding each others hands. "I should have thought about it more. I'm sorry."

"Don't be." Hinata smiled. "Now, how did I end up on the bed? I was sure you were the one that was hospitalized not me?"

"Aha...ha..ha! Long story..." Naruto rubbed the back of his head.

"I have time.."

Hinata wrapped her arms around his neck and dove right into another kiss. Naruto fell back and Hinata was on top of him kissing him on the lips. He returned it happily knowing she would be there until the end and nothing was going to break them apart. Naruto wrapped his arms around Hinata's waist and time went by like nothing in the world could stop.

"I... Love.. you." Hinata said between every kiss.

"I.. love you... too." Naruto grinned and kissed her back.

OMG, NARUHINA! I loved this chapter.. at least it centers them. I will update soon again. I didn't give much thought into the ending of this chapter because I was rushed so yeah... thank you for reading... please if you have time please review.

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