Late one night, in the home of one Kishimoto Misashi something was afoul of the normal everyday life he had come to expect in the nice and stable reality that he had grown up in. Two female shadows stole through the stillness, leaving the sleeping creator none the wiser to their presence. Carefully one grabbed a package set to be mailed out in the morning, while the other kept a protective overwatch.

After obtaining the package, the pair stole away into the night, arriving on a rooftop where several other shadows joined them, and a flash of light later left nothing of their passing save a few leaves blown away by the wind.

Hinata was the first to react when they materialized in their realm, turning to look at Tenten clutching the new issue of the manga in her arms. "W...we s...shouldn't do this..."

Before Tenten could reassure the shy heiress, Sakura and Ino flanked the poor girl and slung an arm over either of her shoulders. The pink haired apprentice to the Hokage spoke up first. "Look Hinata, we all know that Naruto isn't coming back for another couple years, we just want to ensure that everything is going to flow smoothly, and then we'll return the package. Simple as that."

"After all," Ino continued while whispering conspiratorially to Hinata, "he's supposed to have you confessing your love to Naruto... don't you want to make sure that you get your guy?"

Hinata eeped and blushed, poking her fingers together as she mumbled softly. "S...still... w...we sshouldn't do this.... i...if w...we get ccaught..."

"We were assigned a C-rank mission to obtain civilian documents important to Konoha's future..." Tenten stated calmly as she opened the package, revealing paged of manuscript, written up, corrected by editors, approved, and waiting to be drawn into a manga. Their manga.

Hinata broke away from the two girls holding her and snatched up the manuscript and envelope carefully, tucking the papers away smoothly before clutching it tightly to her chest. "No... we shouldn't... I... I... let me think on it tonight... we exist outside his time flow right? So one night won't endanger the mission..."

"No..." Tenten stated calmly, silencing the other two with a glance, "No it wouldn't... in fact up until Naruto's return wouldn't affect Kishimoto's timeline..."

"T...Then can I take this for one night? Hold onto it, to decide if I can allow us to... to write our own future..." Hinata asked nervously looking down. If she was pushed, she wouldn't fight her friends, but it would seem that such matters wouldn't come to a head this day.

"Sure, we can wait," Tenten answered kindly before hugging the shy girl, "And if you don't want to do it... we'll return it without even looking at it. How's that?"

Hinata's eyes widened briefly as she hugged the older girl back, slowly she broke the hug and bowed, before disappearing from the roof they were on. Moments after she left, Ino and Sakura were on Tenten, demanding to know why she was letting Hinata get away with the manuscript they had gone through so much to get.

Tenten chuckled softly as she looked away towards the Hyuuga grounds, silencing the protests of the younger girls. A couple minutes of silence later, Tenten merely stated, "Because she is going to one who could convince her far faster then we could..."

Indeed, Hinata went to seek the counsel of the one who would convince her to do what was 'right'. Deep in a secret chamber under her room, in a lead lined section of the area, where even the greatest Byakugan couldn't penetrate was an area that Hinata had set up as a comfort area of sorts. Various romance novels about blonde hair, blue eyed men seducing shy heiresses and princesses lined the walls, interspersed with several dozen pictures of Naruto that she had taken while the blonde was unawares. Her personal favorite was one she had snapped off while he was soaking in the hot springs just before he left on his training trip with Jiraiya, nothing was definite in the picture, but if one looked close enough, they could see the outline of a rather healthy reminder that Naruto was a male hovering just beneath the waterline.

All of these distractions were ignored in favor of the one she had come to see. Sitting in the deepest and most secure corner, on a pile of old orange jumpsuits and fox printed underwear was a rather simple tanned felt doll with spun gold hair, blue button eyes, and six whisker stitches. A tiny headband adorned the head of the plush doll as it ruled from on top its throne of purloined clothing.

Setting the package containing the manuscript in front of the doll, she set up her offering of ramen. "Oh Naru-kun... what should I do?" Hinata pleaded with the plush doll passionately, "We used that forbidden Fourth-wall no Jutsu, and stole this manuscript of the chronicles of our life. Unlike most however, this is of what will be, as we stole it from the man that writes our story. The others want to look at it, and correct the story to serve our needs..."

Hinata paused and looked at the doll, as though listening to some divine voice that only she could hear. After a moment she blushed and looked down, fidgeting with her fingers. "No Naru-kun... I hadn't looked at it yet... but if I was to steal his love Sakura from him... he would be upset..." Hinata broke off, biting her lip as though being scolded, "Y...Yes Naru-sama... you're right... I could save him a lot of heartache..."

Hinata's hands twitched to snatch up the manuscript, before she cringed back from the doll. "NO! No Naru-sama, I wasn't going to be selfish... Naruto-kun's happiness comes first... Yes Naru-kun... I will..." Hinata murmured softly, before a heavy blush crept over her cheeks. "You... you wa...want me to carry you in my coat... but someone might hurt you..."

"T...True... if I put you there, they couldn't..." Hinata answered with a heavy blush. "Yes... after I read the manuscript, then I'll take you for a walk... Enjoy your ramen Naru-kun!" Hinata pranced out of the shrine to Naruto, with the manuscript in hand, never once noticing the ramen was already gone.