The SEAL'S Kiss

Silver's Author's Note: Thanks for the reviews. We've got some planning in this one and a pretty exotic glass of lemonade as well. Happy reading!

Chapter 18

Hours. It took hours to finally determine that it was all over and to get everyone who was injured medical care. Not to mention, it also took that long to ensure that those who were 'missing' had just run to safety and weren't actually attackers. At long last though, everything had settled down as much as it was going to and Hiashi sighs as he meets with Kakashi and Fugaku in his Oval Office to discuss what the fuck had just happened.

Security was supposed to be impregnable. Every single guest was supposed to be patted down, and only exceptions made for the attending SEALs, Kakashi, and the honor guard. There were measures in place to make sure that the food wasn't tampered with, unless it was by Sakura, and there was no way that any kind of aircraft should have been able to get anywhere near the White House without permission.

Which is why it baffled Fugaku as to how the assassins managed to get in a SECOND time There was only one explanation. Inside help. And there was one person, still missing, who stuck out as a huge red flag. "Hiashi, what reasons could you think of for Senator Shimura to want you dead?" It was an avenue that had to be explored, especially since Fugaku was all too aware that the people at the fateful dinner that began all of this were hardly considered friends of Danzo's. Even Onoki the stick in the mud didn't get along with the conniving senator.

He frowns at that. Truthfully, nothing stuck out. "I can't think of anything political. His politics are more conservative than mine, but it's not as though we are radically different in our views." Did he really think that Danzo was behind this. "And while he has never been particularly warm to most people, he's never been especially cold to me."

"Well, it's no secret that he and Itachi despise each other, and Neji, by extension." That was hardly a motive for murder, though. "If it's not political, and perhaps not entirely personal, there is still the power vacuum theory to entertain."

Kakashi raises an eyebrow. He knew what that meant. "You think that someone is trying to off a large number of powerful people in order to mount a coup?" Well, Danzo certainly seemed shifty enough to pull something like that. "Then I suppose that the first question is this. Logistically, is Danzo capable of it?"

"Danzo has a lot of power and a lot of money." Hiashi couldn't with any certainty say that he wasn't capable of it. "So I would say it's possible, but possible isn't proof." And considering what they were potentially accusing the man of, they would need proof.

"But possible is all it needs to be for there to be proof to find." Fugaku didn't like this, didn't like being so in the dark. "I will compile a new list of suspects and begin covert investigations into the senator. For now, I think that it would be wise for you and your family to either remain within the White House, or find a safe house to reside in and do your work from, while we investigate." It wasn't a permanent solution, but…it was all that Fugaku could suggest.

Hiashi felt like pointing out that if the State Dinner wasn't sacred, it didn't really matter where any of them went. "Very well." There was no safety anymore, but there was no need to cause a fight. when nothing productive would come of it.

Kakashi, on the other hand, thought that it was a good idea, but only if they picked a place that wouldn't be immediately expected, somewhere that had good protection, and somewhere that… "Quantico." Fugaku and Mikoto lived very close to the base, and their guest house was even closer. If they were surrounded by the military at all hours of the day, but in a place where that was completely natural…

"Yes…Quantico would be a good place. Still close to the capitol, so that you can continue working, fortified, but removed enough that it's not the first place that an assassin would go." If Danzo knew where the standard safe houses were, then a new one, or new two would be in order. "Your family may stay with ours, if you would prefer that to finding a new safe house."

"Very well." Hiashi sighs, feeling rather exhausted at all of the events that were going on. "We shall say with your family. Besides, I know such an action will please Hinata and Neji immensely."

Fugaku chuckles at the thought. "Yes, well, you and your wife and Hanabi may stay with Mikoto and I. I imagine that most of the children will be more than content living together." Well, assuming that Sasuke and Itachi's rivalry didn't destroy the house, and that Naruto and Sakura kept their antics to themselves. "I will have agents stationed about the area, and I'm certain that the Navy will be able to spare a few lookouts."

"I don't think that will be a problem." Kakashi could pull a few strings at Quantico, even if he was usually stationed across the country.

Hiashi nods at that. He was too tired to protest, even if he had wanted to. "Good. Make the arrangements." Which he didn't, but the man suddenly felt as though he was at least a hundred years old.

"Alright, then I will have Sasuke and the others take Hinata and Neji to the guest house. You may ride with your wife and youngest in my vehicle." After all, there was a reason that Fugaku drove a dark blue SUV with bulletproof, tinted windows. He had often found himself transporting rather precious cargo or passengers. And not just his family.

"Then I will head for the base." Kakashi had a few calls to make. "And I would like to borrow MTAC later." There were military personnel and federal agents that would be of invaluable help in finding evidence of just who was behind all of this. Even if his gut instinct pointed all fingers at the senator.

Fugaku nods. "Permission granted."

"Good." He sighs in relief. At least now, they had a plan. "Then that's precisely what we'll do then at least until we can catch this viper in the act."

Well, preferably before the act, but Fugaku wouldn't argue now. And, if need be, he knew what kind of order would need to be given, if the president and his family were to be kept safe. And he also knew just who would need to carry it out.

The new orders were surprising, but Sasuke wasn't going to complain about them. Well, not out loud. Normally, he would have been very happy about them, about having Hinata secretly stay with him at the guest house. But honestly, it was hard to focus on anything but the fact that people had died, again, from an attack that he hadn't been able to prevent.

Realistically, he knew that his job was solely to keep Hinata safe, and nothing else. And so far, Hinata was safe, not even a hair on her head had been harmed. But it could have been. And once again, there were people dead. It couldn't be allowed to continue.

Sasuke draws closed his curtains, hiding the four of them from the world. "Hinata will be safe here…" It was barely a whisper, there to reassure himself. They were surrounded by agents, by soldiers, and inhabited by SEALs. Nothing short of an invasion, or a nuclear bomb was going to get in here to hurt her. "While my father and Kakashi plot how to find out whether or not Danzo really is responsible, it's time that we came up with our own plan. And not one for defense, this time."

"Well that sounds like the smartest thing to do in this situation." Naruto sighs as he looks at Sai. "I'm sorry about your grandfather." He had been hoping that maybe the prick had decided not to be a prick, but it looked like luck wasn't on their side today.

Sai shakes his head and smiles at him. "We don't know that he was behind it for certain." He hoped that he wasn't, but the artist doubted it. "And Sasuke, don't beat yourself up over this. It isn't your fault and our charges are all safe."

"I know. They're safe." But he still felt like he was to blame for at least some of this. "I just feel like I shouldn't have let Hinata out in public at all with the way things are going." Obviously, it was just too dangerous for her to be out and about while the culprit was still on the loose.

"Sasuke, you can't just hide the woman away in a bunker." Naruto shakes his head. "And no, that was NOT a suggestion." He sighs and places his hand on the other man's shoulder in a gesture of comfort. "We'll figure this out."

"Yeah…" Though the bunker idea was sounding pretty good right about now. But Sasuke knew that there were more important things to discuss right now, like what their next move was going to be, and how Danzo, presumably, was keeping a secret group of assassins under wraps. They had seventeen unidentified bodies, all assassins. "Sai, you know that I don't want to ask this, but do you have any idea how, if Danzo is the culprit, he could hide a network of ghost assassins? And more importantly, why?"

Sai sighs at the question. "I know he's wealthy, highly intelligent, and he has a background with the military." He didn't like it, but it had to be said. "He offered me a security job."

"A security job?" Sakura frowns. Wait a minute… "Sai…what did your grandfather think when you joined the navy?" Maybe she was wrong, but something there just rang wrong to her. Like a string pulled too tight, or a key off pitch.

"Well he was disappointed." The artist tilts his head. "He wanted me to work for him, but he accepted it after a while."

"And then he just happened to offer you a 'security' job when you finally met again?" Sakura's instincts were going off, and not in a good way.

"You mean to say that you don't think it was really a job in security he was offering?" Sasuke watches as Sakura nods. But if that was what Sakura thought, then just what kind of job did she… "…Sai, could this job offer have been a cover?"

Naruto winces at that. He could see where this was going and judging by the look on Sai's face, so could the artist.

"I believe that's a possibility." Sai sighs at the question and grimaces. "A very strong one."

Fuck. That WASN'T what Sasuke wanted to hear. "Then I suppose that it's a good thing that we got our claws into you before he could." Otherwise it could be Sai lying on a slab in the morgue, instead of nameless bodies. Or worse, Sai could be one of those nameless bodies. Dead before they even got to know him. "Did he say anything suspicious at the dinner? Or when the two of you met at the restaurant?"

Sai frowns, obviously growing more disturbed by the minute. "He talked about roots a lot." Which now felt ominous. "Putting down roots and how roots held up the metaphorical tree."

"Roots…?" Sakura tilts her head. "Roots suck up nutrients from the soil, they're an underground network."

"An underground network…?" Sasuke closes his eyes, thinking hard. "Roots are dirty, but invisible. They're a crucial component of any tree. But they're dangerous too, because no one really pays them any attention until they trip over one."

"It's starting to sound like a really freaky metaphor." Naruto wraps his arm around Sai comfortingly. "Your grandpa might be the bad guy. Sorry to say,but it sounds like a pretty strong circumstantial case."

Sai nods his head. "Exactly." He bites his lower lip and leans into Naruto. "Which is why I'm loathed to mention it, but it's a possible lead."

Sasuke opens his eyes, taking in the sight of Naruto giving Sai some more physical comfort. "Well, until we have proof, all of this is conjecture anyway. It could be that all of this amounts to nothing, and that he's not the one behind the attacks. But if he is…" Well, Sasuke knew what he would do. With or without the order, if they were certain that it was Danzo, he would do everything he could to protect the people he loved. Even if that meant that the rifle in his closet would get some use for the first time in almost a year.

"If he is, I'll do what needs to be done." Sai nods at Sasuke. "No matter how ugly it gets."

"No." Sasuke shakes his head. "This isn't on you, Sai. WE will do what needs to be done. This is on all of us, and we will succeed or fail as a team." And he refused to let it be the latter."

Sakura rolls her eyes at their team leader. "In that case, practice what you preach and stop blaming yourself for every little thing that goes wrong. We succeed or fail as a team, right?"

Oh boy. That wouldn't end well. "Right." Naruto grins, trying to avoid a fight between Sasuke and Sakura. That never ended well.

Despite his insides twisting, Sasuke relents at the sight of Naruto's smile. "Right. We're all in this together." For better or for worse. And this was definitely not better.

A short while later, after the top secret meeting has concluded, Hinata sits behind Sasuke on his bed, massaging his shoulders. "I know it's hard, but there's a plan now." She smiles at him and kisses his ear. "So don't drive yourself crazy. That's my job."

Sasuke sighs, leaning back into her touch. "I know…I know…" That didn't make it any easier to sit idle, even for just a little while. "I'm just…restless, I guess." And worried out of his mind, but she didn't need to know that.

"I know." She nips his ear playfully and her hands slide underneath his shirt. "So am I, but tensing up isn't going to help."

Sasuke's lips twitch upwards as he feels her fingers exploring his skin, tilting his head slightly towards her mouth. "I know, but it's something of an ingrained reflex. I get restless easily unless I'm looking down the scope of a rifle."

She smiles at him and kisses him. "Well I can think of at least a few other times that you've been relaxed that didn't involve looking down the scope of a rifle." Well...they might have involved one, but not that kind.

He groans quietly in almost painful anticipation as he returns the kiss, heating it to his liking. "Well, it's a lot harder to relax by myself." And speaking of hard… He runs his fingers up and down her sides as he turns around, caressing her gently. "And I just want to make sure that you're safe."

"I know, but there's no place that I feel safer than with you." She smiles at him, enjoying the gentle caressing.

That did something to tickle Sasuke's pride. "Good." He kisses her again, wrapping his arms around her waist. "If I could keep you in here forever…I would."

Hinata smiles as she cuddles against him. "I'd like that." Well he was definitely more relaxed now, she notes, as she kisses him back.

Warning Lemon

Slipping his tongue into her mouth and mapping it out for a hundredth time, though he'd long since memorized everything, Sasuke slowly pushes Hinata down into the covers of his bed. He wasn't really big on open declarations of affection, but sometimes, she just coaxed it out of him. "I love you Hinata…" He presses another kiss to her lips. "So much that it scares me." He trails a line of kisses down her throat, slipping his own hands underneath her shirt.

She kisses back eagerly. "I love you too." Shivering slightly in anticipation when his hands reach under her shirt. She knew what usually followed that.

The fabric was gone in an instant, tossed haphazardly to the floor as Sasuke paused to admire the fact that she was wearing white for him today. Pure…lacy white that was as bright as freshly fallen snow. "You always dress up so nicely for me." He snaps open the clasp of the bra, mouth descending on the first pink nipple it revealed.

"And you always make it worth the effort." She sighs softly in pleasure, arching underneath him.

That didn't change the fact that one of these days, he was going to have her prancing around naked for him. And, of course, he would return the favor if that's what she wanted. "Now…why don't you tell me just what you want me to do to you today?" He liked teasing her, so much so that he slips a hand down between her legs, and under the lacy fabric, to press and rub at her moist core.

She blushes and moans at his words. "Everything." He knew exactly what she wanted, but still insisted on teasing her. Which was fine as long as he kept touching her with those powerful hands that drove her wild.

"Hm…alright." Then maybe he could get away with a few things today. After all, he'd had plenty of time to experiment in the past, and he knew what he liked to do to his lovers. But he would ease her into it. At least at first. "Let me know if there's anything that you don't like." He reaches for the bedside table, where he'd stashed some…things, in the hopes that… Well, it was time to see just how tolerant Hinata was of his eccentricities.

"A-Alright." She bites back a whimper when he pulls away from her to get well something. "What d-did you have in mind?" If it was fuzzy handcuffs, well she could work with that.

Smirking, Sasuke kisses her again as he draws out a long piece of silky black fabric. "You'll see." He chuckles at the joke as he presses a blindfold over her eyes, tying it behind her head. "Or, more accurately, you won't." No, every touch would be a surprise that she never saw coming.

Well that was a new game. "I've never used a blindfold this way before." She smiles at him. "But if I can't trust my bodyguard with one, then I guess I can't trust anyone."

He glides his tongue slowly along her ear as he reaches back into the drawer for a longer piece of fabric. "Well, then trust me when I say that this is the best way to use a blindfold." Sasuke knew how erotic it could be to be deprived of one of your senses, and for every touch to come as an absolute shock.

She giggles at the lick to her ear. "I trust you." Completely. She feels goosebumps form over her skin.

"Thank you." Sasuke kisses his way down her neck, reaching for her hands and reaching them above her head, wrapping a long silk ribbon around them, and attaching them to a concealed metal ring in his headboard as he makes a slight retreat, no longer touching any part of her body. "Now, I think you're still wearing a little too much."

"I think so too." She squirms and blushes, feeling herself restrained somehow.

"I'm glad that we agree." Sasuke strips off his shirt, tossing it away, before dropping his pants and boxers to the floor as he pads back across his bed. He dips his head down, grazing his teeth along the skin of her stomach, then undoing the button of her pants with his mouth, fingers hooking in the belt loops and pulling them off as his mouth works off the matching white lacy bottom.

"S-Sasuke!" Hinata writhes against the bed as she feels his mouth so close to that spot. "Y-You're teasing me." Making her ache for more of his touch.

"Yes, I'm glad that you noticed." He smirks, watching her writhing on his bed. It was the most beautiful sight he'd ever seen. He trails a light touch along her inner thighs, before his other hand makes a sudden move to pinch her nipples. "And the more I tease you, the wetter you'll be for me."

She moans at the sudden pinch, already feeling herself get wet. "Feels so good." It all felt so intense. Hinata wanted to touch him, but the restraints made that difficult.

"Patience, Hinata." Sasuke strokes her weeping folds with him fingers, slowly, ever so slowly shifting his position so that his head soon came to rest above her thighs, his already rock-hard arousal hanging just above her face. "We're just about to get to the fun part." His head drops between her thighs, tongue soon lapping at swelling, dripping, rosy flesh.

"S-Sasuke!" She half screams in pleasure. Hinata could feel his tongue teasing her to perfection as he always did, but this time she couldn't see him doing it as she writhes helplessly against him. Soon realizing what was by her head though as she shyly takes him into her mouth.

Sasuke twitches, resisting the urge to thrust down as he feels her warm mouth envelop him, groaning quietly into the folds as he closes his own eyes in pleasure. His hands run along her thighs, fingers stroking the soft skin, and pressing into her muscles as he spreads her legs a little wider

Hinata moans at that. Chanting his name reverently as she continues making love to him with her mouth.

Feeling himself getting close, but refusing to finish so soon, Sasuke painfully retracts his hips, taking only half a second before he misses her mouth on him. His mouth, though, continues to work against her, tongue plunging within her to touch places that others only wish they could, before retracting to curl around her swollen pearl, tugging it into his mouth and into a gentle vacuum of warm, wet pressure.

"Oh God!" Hinata moans as she came fast and hard. Almost drowning in the sea of pleasure.

Smirking, Sasuke pulls his mouth away, rolling over the sheets as he places himself between Hinata's legs, hefting her legs over his shoulders. "Yeah, yeah, I can hear you." He inserts his fingers, feeling the passage widen as he does so.

She blushes at the taunt and shivers when she feels Sasuke's fingers inside her. "I'm so going to get you back for this." Hinata could feel her entire body practically on fire with desire as she blushed a deep shade of red.

"And I look forward to it." He always looked forward to whatever plans Hinata tried to put into effect. They were either very amusing, naughty, or downright fun. With that in mind, he thrusts quickly inside her, burying himself deep within her and moving immediately as his hands reach down and go to work, massaging her breasts with the appropriate roughness.

"Ah!" She arches against him desperately, feeling him buried deep inside her. Making her moans. "I m-mean it!" It probably would have sounded more intimidating if she wasn't blindfolded, tied up, and currently well on her way to another orgasm.

"Y-yeah." Sasuke's thrusts increase in speed, in power, because after being brought so close to orgasm by her mouth, he wasn't going to last long. "Hinata!" His mouth closes over a patch of skin on her neck, sucking until he leaves a very dark bruise there as he empties himself within her.

Hinata pants and moans as she feels the now familiar sensation of her lover's desire being sated. "W-Wow." The bluenette pants as she tries to catch her breath.

Panting with the exertion, and more exhausted by the day's events, rather than a single round of sex, Sasuke disconnects them, before reaching up to untie Hinata's hands, and pull off the blindfold, revealing even more of her rosy cheeks. "So, how was that?" He'd enjoyed it, and it seemed like she had as well, but it was best to make sure.

End of Lemon

She snuggles against him. "Really good, but it always is when you touch me." Hinata flexes her arms. "And my arms feel a little bit fuzzy, but really good."

"Mhm, I know they feel fuzzy." He pulls the sheets over the two of them, holding her tightly in the warmth of the bed. "That's why I used the ribbon. It's strong, but gentle on the skin and blood vessels."

"So clever." She giggles. "It's like they were starting to fall asleep, but didn't quite do it."

"Practice makes perfect…" Sasuke felt unusually sleepy. Maybe he really had been under too much stress lately. "Maybe next time…I'll show you something even more kinky."

Hinata blinks at that. "You can get more...creative?" She wasn't sure whether to shiver with excitement or squeak.

Sasuke chuckles, opening one dark eye to stare at her with amusement. "You have no idea, Hinata. You really, really don't." And he was more than willing to show her, if she liked. After all,it could be quite a bit of fun.

She settles on both. Excited and squeaking. "Well I look forward to it." Hinata snuggles against him.

"And I look forward to you trying to get back at me." Because an erotic war with Hinata was much more appealing than waiting for his brother to do something stupid. Or embarrassing. But most likely both.

"There is no trying." She scoffs at the suggestion. "There will only be DOING."

Now THAT made his cock twitch in excitement." You're right." He kisses her heatedly, his grip on her tightening. "There will be lots of DOING." He could worry about the other stuff in the morning.