Reviving Hatake

Summary: Young, fragile, and confused, Hinata finds herself arranged to marry not a Hyuga but a certain Hatake.
Author: BubbleWarrior32
Pairing: Kakashi H. X Hinata H.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. (Even if I want to)

Chapter Four: Naruto's Arrival

The sun was not as gentle to her as it should be. Hinata's eyebrows twitched as she snuggled closer to her warmth giver and faced her back on the window.
"Good morning princess" A low baritone voice greeted and a slender arm snaked on her naked top, pulling her closer in a tighter embrace. "Hmm" She mumbled half-asleep, leaning closer to his bare chest.

"Good morning princess" He greeted again, kissing her eyes gently and resting his chin on the top of her head. kami, he was waiting too long for this. Waking up in the morning with a woman by his side who won't get up right after she awakes. Waking up with a woman who he will grow old sleeping beside with, a woman who will bring him honor with his name, bearing him his sons...reviving his clan.

Then it hit her.
She was being too comfortable with him than she planned to. It was only her small hands that separated their bare chests and a beige colored blanket to cover their bodies. Her eyes looked around the room, it wasn't hers. Of course it wouldn't be her's. Theirs.

"Go-Go-Good morning" She greeted, stuttering in the act. Hinata hid her burning face on her hands, closer to his chest.

"Planning to stay here in the bed hmmm?" Kakashi asked, moving his fingers in circular motions on her waist, tickling her in the act. After a moment of soft giggles and chuckles, her smaller hands caught his as she squeezed it gently in warning.

"It's m-monday, everybody hates monday" She says looking up to him with a smile and looked down again to cover her chest from his sight. "Then what are we gonna do if we stay in the bed all day long?" His husky voice bounced on the walls of the room, echoing in her ears as she knew what he meant. his lips were now nibbling her ear lobes. Sure, it was such a good morning.

"K-K-Ka-kakashi-sensei..don't you have other things to do?" She asked, looking at him with sleepy eyes that were to drop anytime soon,
"What did I tell you about calling me sensei, Hinata-sama?" He asked, locking his lips on hers, biting her lower lip as he teased her.

"S-Sorry, Ka-Kakashi" She said, smiling at him. His hands found her under the blanket and entwined it together, "Unfortunately, as much as I want to stay here in the be with you, I can't. I have to meet the Hokage in a little while, but how about we have breakfast together?"

"Hmm, how a-about lunch?" She asked, now resting her head on his chest, slightly hugging his waist.
"I think the Hokage can wait" He mumbled and hugged her small frame closer, caressing her long locks silently now drifting off to sleep, again.

It has been three days since the date...and three days has he been postponed due to some unavoidable circumstances. He has come back from the month mission added three days..

No, he already has. And that what matters most. And he's now tipsy of all the drinks around him. There was Sakura beside him, patting his back from all the sobs he had already cried.
He was curious. WHY?

It was the question behind his head. Everyone knew why. Of course it was to revive the dying name of his beloved sensei. His sensei...
But it was not at all clear for him. How could it be? Why should it be?
Months ago she just saved him from Pain, telling him how he changed her and that she loved him but it was all clouded after that. They didn't get to see each other after that...because after that all he heard was Hinata is getting married.

To his sensei.

No, she's already married.

He didn't know why he was crying, he was tired. He sure was.
There were people dying in front of him during his month long mission, and once he comes back...he was back to reality. And it knocked him out. The muscle pains, he just ignored but he didn't know why. Why his heart is hurting now.
The pink haired girl comforted him, for once she was not nagging about he should be happy instead of sad. For once, she understands his pain. His grief.

He was tired. She was tired.

Too tired.

"Where is she?" He asked, his cheeks dirty of the stains his tears left him. Sakura let out a loud sigh. The night was getting no shorter. The moon outside was not getting any birghter as the clouds covered it for everyone to see..

They were supposed to eat ramen and not talk about things like this. Things about her...

"She's getting here soon, Ino called her to inform you came back" Sakura said gently, her voice low and her eyes focused on the man eyes red from crying.
he was a good man, but one who was confused.
A man who didn't know his true feelings. He didn't know why but it hurts so much. Maybe because he was not able to tell her how he really felt. That he didn't give any response. that he was not sure why. and what he's feeling.

A woman in her white jacket and plain black pants panted upon entering the ramen shop. The two looked at her, with her face beamed up in a smile, her chest panting, she was sweating...She came just as soon she heard.
he was still important for her.
he was her sun once...but only a moon covered in clouds now...

Kakashi is nowt her sun, her universe...her world, her life.

"I'll leave you two alone" Sakura whispered as Hinata walked slowly to the man wearing his usual white shirt and baggy bottoms.

It was not like how he planned it to be. First, once he hands the report to the Hokage, he'd drown himself with ramen, then go home for a hot shower and again, drown himself with his bed...but it didn't turn out as it should be.
After handing the report, he begins to hear the news, then a cold shower, then nothing in his stomach but sake.

"H-hinata-c*han" He managed to say between hiccups.
it has been his first time drinking, and it was because of a woman. A woman indeed.

"N-Naruto-kun, stop drinking" She says, getting the shot glasses in front of him and dragging him gently and slowly to a cleaner table.
"Why? Why are you doing this to me...Hinata-chan? -san? W-H-ha-how do I call you now? You married my sensei, ah...Sensei's wife?" He asks, mocking her before getting another shot glass from the adjacent table and drunk himself out.

"S-I-I said stop, Naruto" She said, holding his shoulders, facing him straight to her. Looking at his blue eyes, locking her eyes on his.

She only came to greet Naruto, and she sees this. Why has he been drinking? She wanted to ask.

"I-I thought I taught you enough, to be who you are. To stand for what you believe in. To be who you want to be. To love who you want to * love...To give what your heart can give...To love, stand up for...be with...to me" He mumbled low enough for her to hear. His head hanging on her shoulders.

He wanted to hug her so badly, be with her...right now, maybe until tomorrow...until the rest of his days.
Mentally, he wanted to burn in hell for telling her how he feels...specially now, now that she's married. Naruto chuckled, he was stupid, right. But he was damn sure he knew that she knew all the wanted was him, not his sensei. How did Kakashi get in the way anyway?

"Why didn't I tell this to you when ...you were free?"

Hinata's fat tears rolled on her cheeks as she distanced herself from Naruto and sighed heavily. Her chest rising up and down, her throat burning from trying to constrain her tears back in place.

Even maybe if he told it to her sooner, the marriage would still be pursued, even with or without his blessing. Even with or without him knowing.

"I-Thank you, Naruto. But I am happy with Kakashi-sensei. Maybe things do happen for their own reasons. Maybe...maybe-" His larger hands grabbed hers and pulled her closer, catching her off-guard, pulling her in a kiss. His warm lips crashed onto her trembling and cold ones. He has never felt this happy even as a child. He never felt so bad in breaking rules, except now.

Her hands struggled from his cold until she finally breaks his kiss and pushed him from her.

"N-Naruto!" She pushed him, still gentle with her left hand with her right ones on her lips. Her breathing was heavy, he kissed her. But she was already married. He loved her, but she was already taken.

They wanted each other, but not on the right times.

he wanted to slap himself, wanting to rip his head off. He was not planning to do that, not even wanting to...maybe he wanted to but, not in such manner.
he was afraid, not because his sensei might literally rip his mouth off from his face and poke his eyes off from their sockets. no, he was not afraid of Kakashi, he was afraid of Hinata.

She might forever slip from his hold.

Sakura bashed in as Hinata stood up and gave Sakura a sly look before running back to her house.

Hinata didn't know what happened, why it happened...the streets felt as if it has been extending and that the lighters seemed dimmer in some moments. All she wanted was to run back into their house, back in to their room and be craddled back in his arms, but this kept on happening and she didn't know why.

Quickly, Hinata opened the door, closing it behind her swiftly and surely. She didn't know why she had to, but it felt as if she needs to.

Hinata slowly sat behind the door, leaning her back on it as she started to bite her lower lip, trying to conceal her crying. She did not understand why it was happening so quickly. Why her? Why did she even go to greet him?

If only she knew.

her gaze found Kakashi's coat on the couch, surely he got home sooner than she expected him to be. Sooner than the usual.

"Hinata?" A voice came from the room asked, Kakashi. She felt the guilt flowing through her veins as she stood, straight to the comfort room and opened the faucet to wash her face.
"I am back, I'll just take a shower" She managed to say without stuttering now making it more obvious to Kakashi that something was wrong.
She wanted to scream aloud, why was she crying? It was not as if she did anything wrong, it was not like as if she wanted the kiss...not as if she wanted more.

She didn't want to cry, cry for what?

The shower was not helping her from stopping her crying until the door opens, revealing Kakashi with his back leaning on the door now shut behind him. He was there, watching her cry until she comes nearer him and hugs him tight. her face was helpless. She was confused with herself.

Naruto was her past, he should be her past, it was not the man she was in a tight embrace that she submitted herself to.

He inhaled her dripping wet hair as it smelled like newly bloomed jasmine, her soft shoulders inviting him to rest his nose to..
"What happened?" He asked, resting his chin on her shoulders as she tightened her hold on him

it has only been three days, yet trials come and pass them by. yet this happens to them.

"So-I'm s-sorry, I* I didn't want it- I, Im so sorry. I-" She didn't know what first to say. She felt guilt as she look at his eyes, it couldn't calm her even, not until he kisses her, pulling his mask down on his neck and savored her lips like he's been wanting to..for the whole day. He's been waiting to come home for this but finds her crying, instead of her cooking dinner.

He wiped it all away, he wiped away the disgust she felt for herself when Naruto kissed her.

"He...he said I should-I- Im sorry"

He pulled her in a tight embrace and sighed, feeling her racing heart beat beneath his sleveless top. "Tell me everything when you're ready then" He says, kissing her already red eyes and then her lips

Her arms snaked his neck as his arms didn't leave her waist, pulling her closer in a rougher kiss.

"Naruto, he kissed me...he confessed to me and I felt guilty because I'm married to you and yet I had let him kiss me and I'm sorry...If I only knew I wouldn't have dared come, I..God, I don't know what's happening" She cried in guilt, in disgust on what she has done

She sure found his eyes changed emotions, his arms tensed, and his breathing uneven.
"I, I, I am sorry if I felt guilty, I don't know why, K-Ka-Kakashi, I-"

His lips found hers again, claiming his price, claiming his wife back to reality. Kakashi's kiss was rough, biting her lower lip as he begged for entrance...
"I'm you husband and you are my wife, nothing comes in between us" He whispers before locking his lips again with hers, not letting go. Not letting go.

Hinata opens her eyes gently, hoping the sun wouldn't attack her eyes like it does everytime she awakes. To her gladness, the curtains remained close but her bed empty. She clutched the blanket nearer to her bare chest and looked at the long stemmed red rose on the table next to the bed with a note...

Good morning, am off to report to the Hokage. Let's eat dinner together? -Kakashi

Her cheeks reddened as she flips the note and sees another writing, stop crying now, everything's ok. no harms done

Maybe he's more mature than she thought he was. maybe, everything has its own reasons.
Hinata smiled, her day now better. He knows better. Now all she had to worry is what happens when he meets Naruto. She sighed, maybe again, it's none of her business.

END OF CHAPTER

author's note: PLEASE READ MY NOTE. I know, Hinata was a bit out of character but I was hoping it did well for my upcoming 'twist' and yeah, please do review your thoughts and make this lonely author a bit happy with your comments. love you guys. :