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I hope it isn't too annoying that I've become a bit inconsistant with my postings.
Anyway, here's the next chapter, enjoy.
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Chapter 21
Naruto and Shikamaru quickly went to where Hinata had fainted seconds ago.
"Neji, what happened?" Naruto asks.
"She fainted" Neji says.
Naruto looked at Hinata's face, and saw that it was really red. He made his way to pick her up, but Neji held out his arm, "What are you doing Naruto?"
"Going to pick her up so we can take her to the hospital, what does it look like?" Naruto says, annoyed.
"She's going to be fine, no need for that" Neji says.
"This isn't the first time that this has happened! First during yours and hers sparing break last week, then after the mission with team 8, then after she explained to me a bit about genjutsu yesterday, and now this. I swear she's sick or something" Naruto exclaims.
Shikamaru raises an eyebrow at this; since when has Naruto been so observant of Hinata?
Shikamaru had an idea of why Hinata fainted, and decided to spare her some embarrassment for later, "It's really hot Naruto, and what she's wearing is a bit too warm for the weather. She may just have overheated a bit. Let's just move her into the shade until she wakes up and get her some water ready."
Naruto nodded, moving to carry Hinata once again, and this time Neji didn't stop him.
Once they reached a shade under a tree, Naruto leaned back, still with Hinata in his arms.
"Naruto, you can place her down you know" Neji says.
Naruto was turning a bit red, but shook his head, "I tried, but she just won't let go" he pointed to where along the walk to the shade Hinata had wrapped her arms around his neck.
"Well I hope she doesn't freak out when she wakes up. I'm going to collect our things and get that water ready for her when she comes to" Shikamaru walked back towards the water, muttering 'troublesome' under his breath.
Naruto turned his head towards Neji, "where were you guys going?"
"To the hospital; Hinata-sama wanted to see Kurenai-sensei, and I wished to pay a visit to Lee" Neji answers.
"Were you guys coming from home?" Naruto asks.
"No, we had just dropped Hanabi-sama at the honorable grandsons house, and drank some lemonade with them for a bit, before heading towards the hospital" Neji says.
This surprised Naruto, "at Konohamaru's? I didn't know he knew Hinata's sister" although Naruto thinks he heard something about him knowing her yesterday.
"They do, and he had invited her to hang out with his friends at his house today. After me and Hinata-sama visited the hospital, we were going to go back to his home to pick her up" Neji says.
"Here are the bags; I'm going to head out now that you're done with training Naruto. Later" Shikamaru left.
"Thanks Shika" Naruto yelled out. He was grateful for the help, but a little annoyed he would leave before Hinata woke up.
"Training?" Neji asks.
"Yeah, I went to the hospital with Shikamaru and Choji to visit Lee since it started to get really hot out here, and then went to see Kurenai-sensei. We talked about genjustu and how to dispel them" Naruto explained.
"I never pegged you for genjutsu or any interest in it" Neji answered honestly.
"I'm not. Kurenai-sensei says I'm more of a ninjutsuist, but after what happened with chasing that missing-in, the one related to Orochimaru, I didn't want a repeat and asked on how to dispel it. I managed to practice on the lake, but since Kurenai-sensei is still in the hospital I can't get actual practice on dispelling one" Naruto says.
Neji nods his head in understanding, and they remain quiet. Both of them are just in their own thoughts, one pondering the situation on hand, and the other thinking of the conversation just said.
About half an hour or so, Naruto began to feeling a stirring in his arms.
Looking down, Hinata was starting to wake up.
'I hope a repeat from the mission last time doesn't happen again' was Naruto's thoughts before blue eyes met lavender ones.
Tsunade had just signed the form, accepting the mission to be completed, and then called for her anbu.
"Tsunade-sama" the anbu said, one knee on the ground, bowing.
"Please ask Nara Shikamaru, Huyga Hinata, and Uzumaki Naruto to report for a mission" Tsunade ordered.
"Hai" the anbu answered and shushined away.
The mission she was going to send them on was the mission about transporting some items to a farm, then guarding the farm until its build and complete; A C-rank mission, about two weeks long on average, and low C-rank at that.
'I think this will get Naruto distracted for a while until Jiarya returns; I just hope we get some good news out of him' Tsunade thought, rubbing her temples. That tea was somewhat soothing, but nothing would probably relax her like some Saki.
Hinata slowly opened her eyes, and when she did she lost herself in a sea of blue eyes. She felt warm and comfortable. So comfortable that she was slowly closing her eyes again.
"Hey, Hinata, do you want me to take you the hospital?" that voice she loved so much, lulling her to sleep…..
That voice!
"Eeep" she opened her eyes, wide, and got up too quickly, causing her forehead to clash with Naruto's.
"Gah" Naruto removed his hands from her, and began to rub the spot on his forehead while Hinata scrabbled off of him. This was starting to become a routine for them; the meeting up, then her either scrabbling away, or fainting then scrambling off of him.
"S-s-sorry N-Naruto-k-kun, h-h-ow long was I-I asl-leep for?" Hinata asked, her face turning red as a tomato.
"More than half an hour Hinata-sama; you went towards the lake, then fainted" Neji said. Hinata looked at him, turning redder that they had an audience.
"Gomen. I heard something and was curious on what was happening" Hinata said.
Neji was just amused by the whole thing; Naruto certainly kept things entertaining.
"Nah that's okay. I thought you may be sick, but Shikamaru said you were probably too overheated by the sun today. Here" Naruto said, offering her bottled water.
"Arigato" Hinata says, glad that he didn't know that it wasn't the sun that caused her to overheat.
"Shall we continue Hinata-sama?" Neji asks. Just as he asked that, an anbu appeared in front of them.
"Uzumaki Naruto, Huyga Hinata?" the anbu asks.
"Hai!" both of them respond.
"Your presence is requested by the hokage. You are to report to her immediately" after that, the anbu shushins away.
"I wonder what Tsunade-baa-chan wants. I guess we should go" Naruto says, getting up.
"May I make a suggestion Naruto?" Neji says.
"Sure" Naruto responds, unsure of why Neji looks so amused.
"May I suggest you get dressed. I'm sure the Hokage doesn't expect you to be too hot to not wear clothe" Neji says, making a wave of his hand to the clothe Naruto had shed so it wouldn't get wet.
Naruto looked at himself to see he was still in his boxers, and then looked at Neji and Hinata; Neji just kept on smirking, and Hinata kept on getting redder, avoiding his eyes.
"Hehe, good idea" Naruto quickly scrambles to put on his clothe.
Afterwards, the two bid farewell to Neji, with Hinata saying she'd see him at the hospital.
While on the way to the hokage tower, not only was Hinata still avoiding looking at Naruto, but Naruto had started to do the same once he realized that he had been holding Hinata bare chest. He could feel himself heating up that had nothing to do with the sun.
"I win" Udon says, placing his cards down.
"How do you always win?" Konohamaru moans, placing his cards down.
"Honestly, I was so close to" says Mogei, placing her cards down.
"What do you have Hanabi-san" Udon says.
"Umm…" Hanabi lowers her hand; there all aces.
"What!" Konohamaru comes closer.
"No way!" Mogei says dumfounded.
"There's no way it's your first time playing" Udon says, eyes wide.
'Why, did I do something wrong?" Hanabi asks.
"Nope, you just beat Udon; he never loses" Konohamaru says, grinning from ear to ear.
"Oh, okay" Hanabi smiles.
"Okay? Did you even know what you drew?" Udon asks.
"Not really…" Hanabi starts to feel nervous.
"Oh, don't worry about him, he'll get over it; it looks like you're the lucky player" Konohamaru says, still grinning.
"I'm what?" Hanabi asks, sounding confused.
"Lucky player, meaning you're very lucky when it comes to gambling. Naruto tends to be referred like that by Konohamaru as well" Mogei explains.
"Oh, but were just playing for fun right?" Hanabi asks.
"Yes, but if you ever choose to gamble when your older, you shouldn't have a problem" Konohamaru says.
Hanabi was still confused, but since it was for when she was older, she just left it alone.
Everyone was quiet for a couple of minutes, unsure of what to do. Since it was so hot outside, and no one brought any of their swim stuff, they were stuck indoors.
"I think I'm going to head out Konohamaru-kun; I sort of promised my parents that I'd help them with the chores today since their both going to be going on a mission later on tonight" Udon says.
"But it's been only two hours since you got here" Konohamaru whined.
"I think I'm going to head out as well Konohamaru-chan; I have to help my parents with dinner today since some of our cousins are coming over. I just wanted to come for a bit since we haven't been getting much chances to hangout this week" Mogei says, getting up to join Udon.
"Fine, can't help if you guys have other plans. Thanks for coming, maybe next time we'll go swimming" Konohamaru says, walking them towards the door.
"Bye Hanabi-san" Udon says.
"Take care" Mogei says.
The two leave, and Konohamaru closes the door.
"Well, that's a shame, but then again it is hot and it's kind of boring in here" Konohamaru says, sitting next to Hanabi.
"Don't they have plans?" Hanabi asks, clearly confused.
Shaking his head, Konohamaru answers, "No they don't, they just felt bored and when it gets quiet it sometimes becomes awkward. I don't blame them, we were supposed to go hang out outside, but it's just too hot. I won't blame you if you want to leave Hanabi-chan."
"I can't leave until Nee-sama, and Neji-ni-san comes back. Besides, I don't want to leave yet" Hanabi says.
Konohamaru looks up, and smiles at that, "okay, so what do you want to do?"
"How about training?" Hanabi asks.
"Training, like what? If it's Taijutsu I'd rather do it outside, and not on a hot day as today" Konohamaru says.
"Then, what about ninjutsu? I only know my clans taijutsu, so I have none" Hanabi says.
"I can teach you; watch this, Naruto-ni-san taught me it" Konohamaru stood up, and brought his hands together.
'I wonder what he's going to show me' Hanabi thought, leaning forward with excitement.
"Sexy no Jutsu!" Konohamaru yells out.
'Sexy no Jutsu?' There was white smoke, and then a nude female brunette appeared. Hanabi looked horror-struck.
"What you think? Isn't this a cool skill to have" Konohamaru said in a girly, sexy voice, only to be punched, and fly towards the wall.
"What the hell was that?! Pervert, how you can show that in front of a girl it's disrespectful" Hanabi was panting with anger, shaking her fists. When the henge vanished and Konohamaru got up, he looked angry at first, then scared, and started to run away.
"Get back here!" Hanabi yelled out. The chase began, Konohamaru yelling apologies, and Hanabi saying that he hasn't apologized properly yet.
Naruto and Hinata had just reached the front of the hokage tower when they saw Shikamaru coming towards them.
"Hey Shika, you got called to come to the tower as well?" Naruto asks.
"Yeah, troublesome, I had just returned back to the hospital when the anbu showed up. Any ideas what it's about?" Shikamaru asks, looking back and forth between the two; they seemed to be avoiding eye contact.
"No Shikamaru-kun, just asked to meet the Hokage" Hinata said, looking down.
Shikamaru could tell something was up between the two, but he let it go; whatever it was, it was there problem.
They opened the door, and met with the hokage looking at a scroll in front of her.
"So what do you need Tsunade-baa-chan?" Naruto asks, getting hit with the scroll she was reading.
"I've told you not to call me that!" Tsunade hissed out, before calming herself down.
Rubbing his head, Naruto picked up the scroll that she had thrown at him, "What's this?"
"That is a transport and guard mission Naruto. Tomorrow at 9, you're to report at the gates where you'll pick up supplies from the guards. The mission should be two weeks max, and Shikamaru is the captain of the mission. You're only to transport and guard until the people have used the equipment you're transporting to the farm. Any questions?" Tsunade asks.
"If it's only a transport mission, then why is it C-rank?" Shikamaru asks.
"It's in case some bandits choose to raid the place while their busy. The man is friendly, so he'll answer any other questions you may have" Tsunade says.
"But, what if Ero-senin returns?" Naruto asks.
"I have taken that into account, by the time the mission is done, he should be back. Don't worry Naruto, I won't let him leave until you return" Tsunade says softly.
With no one else to ask Tsunade dismisses them.
'Hopefully this can help him get out any frustrations, and keep him busy enough not to annoy me about more missions referring to Sasuke' Tsunade thought.
And there it is.
The idea for the mission comes from an idea that a story called 'Better left unsaid'
Its not going to be the same as what was written there, but that's where I got the idea from.
I hope this was amusing in some ways, I am going to be starting school again next week, so I might be slow with the posting for next week.
Cheers