Things began to have a pattern in them now, since that night. Naruto would wake up, change his sheets, meet up with the others, Sakura would bring them each one bag to drink from, they would talk for a short while then leave, then Naruto would meet up with Hinata and they would talk and some times kiss, then they would go home and sleep. Naruto began to enjoy this some what now because of the newly formed bond he now had with Hinata that he may have never had with her before. One night though they were sent on a mission, not the same one but also a high level one, and to them it was actually more easy with their enhanced senses, strength, and speed. They were able to finish the mission in that one night when it normal should have taken three days.

After awhile it was becoming obvious that people were beginning to get confused as to why they were always sleeping all day and how they had all gotten a power boost. They had no real way of changing their sleep schedule though, but they decided that next time they would have to force delays. Weeks went by and Naruto and Hinata, against the better judgment his friends gave him, started officially dating.

One day Naruto woke up to find Hinata in his room staring at him "Wah! Hinata, what are you doing?!" Naruto asked with a surprised voice. "Oh, um, we were summoned to go to see the Hokage. I think she has an important mission for us to compete." Hinata said blushing "Oh, you could have knocked you know?" Naruto said "I did but you didn't answer, and the door was unlocked so II just let myself in. Sorry!" she said truthfully "Oh, it is ok. Sorry I didn't answer." Naruto told her and yawned Hinata looked at him weird making him wonder what she was looking at, but didn't ask as they left.

Were those fangs? Why dose Naruto-Kun have fangs? Hinata wondered as they walked to their destination. When they arrived Kiba and Shino were both there waiting for them. "Now that everyone is here, I will now tell you why I have summoned you all here. There is recent information indicating the location of one of Orochimaru's hideouts, we need you to go there and see if the information we were given is true." Tsunade told them the rest of the discussion was short before they took off to complete the mission.

They all left and began heading off following Kiba and Shino who seemed to know were they were going, Naruto found a complication soon though. He began to feel weak and tired and he looked up to see that the sky was lighting up, signifying that the sun was soon to rise. "Hey guys I think we should make for came soon." Naruto said trying to sound calm so that the others would just think that he was thinking about them, "I would have figured that you would be the one to say we need to keep going so we can see if Sasuke was there. However you are right, we should rest up. We will need our strength tomorrow." Shino said and they quickly got a tent set up and they all went to sleep.

After a few hours they began to wake up, all except Naruto that is. "We should wake him up soon if he doesn't wake." Shino said after awhile. When Naruto didn't wake Kiba went over to him and tried to wake him up, he tried several things but nothing worked, so he put his head to his chest and listened for a beat. "His hearts not beating!" Kiba yelled "What!" Shino said as he came over with Hinata "His hearts not beating, is what I said!" Kiba repeated "Now that I see him he looks really pale!" Hinata said tears welling up in her eyes. They talked for hours trying to see if they could find what may have killed him till night fall came and Naruto woke up, which scared all of them.

After talking for awhile Naruto was able to convince all of them that he was fine and that perhaps Kiba was just having trouble hearing his heart beat. The only one to continue thinking about everything after that was Hinata who was trying to line things up in her head. Soon they made it to their destination but they found nothing at first, but with Naruto's enhanced senses that surpassed even Kiba's and Akamaru's they were able to find the entrance.

They traveled around looking around trying to scout the place out. After awhile they all split apart to scout out better, Naruto had other plans though he wanted to find Sasuke. After a shot period of time Naruto was able to find him in his room a sleep. "Who are you and why have you disturbed my slumber?" Sasuke asked without turning to face him "Come on Sasuke, come back." Naruto said "Naruto, how did you get here? No matter, I have told you I have my bond with you. Now I am going to kill you for disturbing my slumber just to try to bring me back to that worthless village." Sasuke said grabbing his sword and pointing it at Naruto. "Please Sasuke, you don't want to fight me. Please come home." Naruto said almost begging "And why would I not want to fight you? I'm not as weak as I once was." Sasuke said coming at him.

The fight was hardly that, mainly it was Sasuke swinging his sword or using ninjitsu or taijutsu and Naruto dodging his attacks. After awhile Sasuke got aggravated at him and put Naruto under a genjitsu making Naruto unable to figure out what to do really. He tried to release the jitsu but by the time he had Sasuke was slicing him in half. "Hmph. I told you I would kill you." Sasuke said and turned around to walk away "What are you talking about, I am still alive." Naruto said making Sasuke turn around "How are you going to fight when you are cut in half? You will die soon but I think I will merciful and end your suffering now." Sasuke said and ran over and cut off Naruto's head. Sasuke, feeling slightly sad that he had actually killed his closest friend, let a tear fall from his face before he turned around to walk away. "What was that? Were you crying because you thought you killed me?" Naruto said making Sasuke turn around shocked and in disbelief.

"How? I cut your head off?!" Sauske yelled confused "Yeah. This is why I told you not to fight me. I learned in a previous mission that even if I get seriously hurt I can't from it?" Naruto said then began to drag his head over to his body, where he then dragged his upper body to his lower. With his body back together he looked back at Sasuke who was calming down, "What happened to you to make you this way? Last time we fought you didn't heal this fast." Sasuke asked "Sorry, I am not suppose to tell anyone " Naruto said. They talked for a short while and Naruto and Sasuke fought again, this time Naruto fought back, till finally Sasuke passed out. Little did he know that Hinata had seen the whole thing, and was even more so confused.

She turned to walk away but just happened to bump into the worst possible person to see at the time, Orochimaru. "Well, looks like we have intruders. Might as well get rid of them myself since I'm already here." Orochimaru said and attacked her. Naruto heard Hinata scream but by the time he got there she was already terribly injured. Naruto was able to get her out of there before Orochimaru was able to hurt her any further, and was able to take her and Sasuke back to the others where they then made their way out of there yelling how Naruto was an idiot.

While the others took Sauske and Hinata to safety Naruto stayed behind and held Orochimaru at bay. Naruto began to lose control of his anger and he got all the way up to five tails, and not long after the fifth tail came out Orochimaru retreated for the time being. It took him awhile but Naruto was able to eventually calm back down till he was normal. When he was he went and followed the smell of Hinata's blood and quickly caught up with the others. "Your still alive?" Shino said surprised "I won the bet!" Kiba said with a wide smile "How's Hinata?" Naruto asked and instantly Kiba's smile vanished "She's not looking to good. It is unlikely she will last till we get back to the leaf village." Shino said. Naruto looked over at Hinata and something clicked in him and he knew even if he went as fast as he could, which was more then twice as fast as the others, he wouldn't make it to the village before she died. They traveled for a few hours before they broke to make camp to rest, Naruto forced himself to stay awake longer till he knew the others were asleep. "Hinata, I can't bear to be without you. I just can't. I'm sorry, this is going to hurt a little and it is going to change your life quite a bit when you wake up." Naruto told her quietly as to not wake the others. He then bent over her and bared his fangs out and sunk them into her neck, the sweet nocturne that was her blood filled his mouth quickly making it hard for him to stop. After a few small swallows he forced himself to let go and went to sleep praying that she would live.