Chapter 16

Gaara flipped her over happily nestling himself into the vee of Hinata's thighs holding her arms above head. It was tempting to focus on his pleasure… but, giving her pleasure was satisfactory enough, at least for now.

He loosened his hold on her wrists grabbing a fist full of her nightgown pulling it over her head looking down at her naked figure in the moonlight. He wished there was more light so he could see the exact shade of her nipples… but from memory he knew they were a pleasing pale pink

Gaara held himself back from the urge to devour her, it's been a while after all... he didn't want to scare her off so soon, so he focused his time on teasing her breasts with light licks, kisses and nibbles until she was quivering beneath. He used his hands to hold her breasts firmly in place so he could take turns sucking her nipples until tremors were running through her body as she grinded her hips against his hip bones. That was all it took for her to shatter with a scream within seconds.

Before she recovered he continued to move down her body trailing kisses to her hips where he spread her labia apart slowly licking her. He looked up at her as he used his thumb to move the flesh a bit so he could get to her clit more strategically and she trembled watching him with glazed eyes as he moved his tongue in and out of her rhythmically. Soon she was moving her hips in tempo to his rhythm and all it took was a few more licks along with suction before she was coming apart in his arms again.

Gaara moved his body up to rest his head on the pillow wiping his chin as he tucked Hinata into his chest as tremors ran through her body. Pretty soon she was asleep. She fit perfectly against him just as he remembered and he too fell asleep with his face nuzzled into her neck almost in a state of disbelief that she was actually here with him again and that this wasn't a dream.

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Kage Tower - Library - The Next Day

Hinata who was usually an early bird, slept late the next day and woke up in an empty room at 9 AM. There had been a note by the bedside table from Gaara wishing her a good morning and he'd mentioned that his day again was full of meetings but he would see her later today.

After having a light breakfast Hinata headed over to the Kage tower hoping to read up on the last war. During her past research she had focused so heavily on the Akatsuki as well as Madara and Zetsu that she hadn't even had a chance to look into what she had done during the war.

Hinata was happily reading a large book when her name being called out snapped her out of her daze.

"Hinata" Saromi was calling out as the girl entered the library.

The Huyga guiltily snapped the book shut but didn't have time to stash it away before the blonde got to her.

"What are you looking at?" Saromi asked her new friend curiously, grabbing the book from Hinata and flipping to where it was last opened. "Ohhhh the fourth shinobi war huh?"

"I… was just trying to fill some of the blanks in my memory," Hinata sighed.

"Oh yeah… that was a really rough time... I was still a rookie in the mailroom but we were all called into active duty in whatever capacity we could." her face darkened a bit as she was reliving some memories, but within seconds her bright smile was back in place. "What were you trying to find?"

"I was trying to get some memories of the role I played during the war… I don't suppose you know, do you?"

"Oh…yes" Saromi thought back, "you were assigned as part of the close range battle squad I think. We talked about this back in the day" the girl said by way of explanation. "You… um... you fought really close to Naruto-sama so I wanted to hear as much about it as I could" Saromi blushed and Hinata smiled fondly at the girl. Naruto really had quite the fan club now.

"A-and, the K-Kazekage-sama?"

"Oh" this time Saromi put her shoulders back proudly, "he was leading the fourth squad which was a long range battalion and he was also the commander of the entire allied shinobi forces! Were you trying to find out your man's past achievements?" she winked, nudging Hinata conspiratorially.

Hinata laughed as Saromi continued to tease her and she was suddenly reminded of Kankuro. Those two were very similar…

"In all seriousness Hinata-chan," Saromi continued, "it's no joke to be a Kage at such a young age and also to lead the army for the Fourth Shinobi War. Kazekage-sama is…. Impressive to say the least."

"Yes, I know." Hinata smiled, taking the book back from the blonde.

She was really quite proud of Gaara. Reading the history books to imagine Gaara standing side by side going up against Madara is something she could scarcely believe and if these books were right he had been one of the driving forces to get the Kage's to work together. He was a very special person and she was lucky to be married to him. Wait, were they married? She scrunched her face in confusion thinking about their ring exchange in the green house yesterday.

"Were you looking for me, Saromi-chan?" Hinata snapped out of her daydreams.

"Nope. I just came to grab a book, I will leave you to read." Saromi winked and turned to go but paused at Hinata's voice again.

"Saromi-san…." Hinata blushed a bit a little uncomfortable at what she was about to ask the girl, "Would you mind if I set you up on a date sometime?"

"Me?" Saromi's eyebrows rose to her forehead.

"Are you dating someone right now?"

"Umm… no. Who did you have in mind?"

"Oh… Kankuro-kun…" Hinata smiled a bit nervously, "I couldn't help but think that you two would get along really well…" Kankuro had been in a really bad mood this morning because his date last night had tanked as he'd described it, and she knew over the years Kankuro had done his best to find a partner but it hasn't been successful.

"Kankuro-san?" Saromi suddenly quieted down with a blush in an uncharacteristically shy way.

"Would you mind?" Hinata asked gently, not wanting to pressure the girl.

"Um… yes…I would like that very much actually" she mumbled looking down at her toes and Hinata could hardly believe this.

Had Saromi had a crush on Kankuro all along?

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An hour later - The Kage Office

Hinata had been advised by Gaara that if she ever needed to get in touch with him all she had to do was ask Nobu and he would make sure Gaara was notified immediately. She didn't think that missing her husband/fiance/boyfriend was a good enough reason to go ask Nobu to ask Gaara to come see her, so she merely walked up to her partner's office to see if it might be free for her to loiter around at.

"Hinata-sama" Nobu bowed to her and she blinked.

"Nobu-san… why are you bowing to me," Hinata smiled, bowing back at the man. "I thought we were friends."

"Hinata-sama, you are the Kazekage's …." Nobu's face deepened to a maroon color and Hinata felt herself flushing as well.

"She's my wife Nobu" Gaara came around the corner at that opportune time and Nobu bent over backwards apologizing to them.

Hinata's smile reached her ears as she spotted Gaara and she waved away Nobu's apologies asking him to speak to her comfortably before running after Gaara into the office, closing the door behind her.

"I brought you lunch" Hinata smiled, holding up the bento box she had brought and Gaara looked up from where he was going through some documents on his desk.

"Just a second I need to mark these numbers down before I forget" he replied making some adjustments on the reports.

Hinata nodded and walked over to the couch unpacking the food and laying out the utensils she had bought on the coffee table.

"I kept my lunch hour free today" he replied to her after a few minutes. "Are we eating lunch here?"

"Yes" she nodded, patting the couch and Gaara sat beside her pulling her close to him as she started to unpack the food she had brought along.

"You technically lied to Nobu," Hinata chided Gaara.

"Hmm?" he murmured with his eyes closed.

"We aren't married"

"What?" he snapped his eyes open suddenly. "Yes we are… we exchanged rings yesterday."

"Aren't those engagement rings?"

"No… those were wedding rings we had picked out."

"Does this mean we aren't having a wedding?" Hinata pouted.

"Of course we will, whenever you want" he kissed her cheek before reaching down for the plate of sushi.

"So when you called me your wife that was a technicality right?"

"Well…. I do have the paperwork to register our marriage with me. So we can do that whenever you want."

"Oh" Hinata thoughtfully dipped a shrimp tempura into her dipping sauce. "Actually… there are a few things in Konoha I still need to take care of."

Gaara nodded, still eating, asking her to continue.

"Well… I didn't technically resign as Hokage-sama's secret-"

"I have a resignation letter here for you ready as well" Gaara replied.

And Hinata took a sharp breath turning to her husband. "Were you always this….?" She struggled to find the word. Was it meddlesome, hard handed, strategic….prepared?

"Well you certainly can't continue to be his secretary and be married to me, so it was a logical thing to do" he replied sheepishly after a few seconds noticing her expression.

"Okay…" Hinata acquiesced, "Hanabi is getting married soon… I should go help her prepare for the wedding and I was hoping you could also come to Konoha to attend the wedding"

Gaara nodded at her after momentarily hesitating when she said she had to leave to help Hanabi prepare.

"I will send some Anbu with you" He said in a voice that left no room for negotiations.

"Anbu?"

"Yes… as my wife you are entitled to Suna's protection when traveling. Plus that Zensu thing is still around, I wouldn't feel at ease otherwise."

"...Okay" she agreed, taking a sip of water.

She'd led such an unstructured life after losing her memory that this was all suddenly very different for her. It wasn't unpleasant… but it would take some getting used to.

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Kage Mansion

Hinata was taking a bath later in the day in the master bathroom when Gaara walked in on her.

She froze while sponging herself and he comically stumbled over his own feet as he noticed her naked.

She hadn't gotten used to being around him naked yet, and suddenly felt very vulnerable being the only person naked.

"W-what are you doing here?" she asked, crossing her arms over her breasts and he quickly recovered, arching a very blonde eyebrow at her.

"A bubble bath? Without me?"

"I-I…" she blushed her brain short circuiting despite her bolder attitude the last few days in teasing him.

"Relax Hinata, I'm joking" he smiled walking over to the sink to wash his hands while continuing to look at her in the bathroom mirror.

Hinata felt her entire body blush at his attention. It was still broad daylight!

"I was testing a new sand mixture for construction with our Minister of Development and thought to come wash up and change quickly," he answered her earlier question. "You wouldn't mind if I join you right?" he asked a bit teasingly before starting to take his clothes off.

Hinata watched with wide eyes as he unbuttoned his fitted Kage robes revealing the pants and shirt he had on underneath. Just as the robe hit the floor he took his t-shirt off showing a perfectly chiseled chest. His arms as she'd remembered were surprisingly muscular and his chest and abdomen were well defined. A perfect 6 pack sat on his abs moving down to a vee at his waist. Hinata closed her eyes as he unbuckled his pants… It was only when she heard him walking forward that she opened her eyes to look at his strong legs and beautiful body as he lowered himself to the tub sitting across from her.

"Hi" he smiled at her, noticing her blush and all she could do was smile nervously back at him, clutching her sponge closer. "Are you scared of me?" he asked a few seconds later observing her body language.

She hesitated for the barest second before answering him back so he used his sand to lift her from the water and bring her to sit in front of him leaning her against his torso.

"There. That's not so bad is it?" he asked as he took the sponge from her hands and started soaping her arms, followed by her collar bone, neck, and then back. He was massaging her making her so relaxed that she almost didn't notice when the sponge dipped to her breasts, circling and washing them before dipping further down her flat stomach.

His movement got slower as he moved to breath the scent at her neck lightly nibbling on her ear making her grow weak at the knees and even wetter than she already was.

"Gaara" she asked with a bit of uncertainty as he started to deposit kisses along her neck, tweaking and pulling at her nipples making her rub her thighs together.

"Yes?" he asked silkily as he started to move one hand down to between her legs where he efficiently used two fingers to spread her lips apart and his middle finger to tease her below.

"Oh.." she gasped with wide eyes as his finger sank into her. She adjusted experimentally to the intrusion.

"God… Hinata you are so tight" Gaara whispered after a few minutes and now she noticed that his breath was starting to get shallow.

He tightened his arm across her diaphragm and moved to kiss her neck just as he started to pump his finger in and out of her while teasing her clit. Her hips started to lift off the tub as she felt her orgasm building but he used his arm to keep her braced to him while he continued to tease and drive her to the edge.

"Gaara" she gasped so close but unable to reach it. "Stop…" she dug her nails into his forearm and he stopped almost questioningly kissing her neck softly.

After regaining her breath Hinata turned to find Gaara's mouth fusing their lips together kissing him deeply. She twisted her body around and sat astride him moving her hands to his hair as they explored each other's mouths... the heat escalating to unimaginable heights.

"God" Gaara muttered as they broke apart to breathe and Hinata reached below, grasping him by her hands as she adjusted him to her entrance and jerked her hips down, sliding him into her within seconds.

Gaara hadn't been expecting that so he turned to stone as she situated him fully inside of her, a strangled gasp coming from his lips as his arms turned to steel around her, his torso bowing down at the sensations. Those were the only reactions she had the presence of mind to register as she herself started to come down from the shock of the sensation of overfullness and pain.

"Hianta…" he said through clenched teeth as she took a deep breath inadvertently tightening herself on him. "A man likes to be prepared for that kind of thing".

She rocked herself experimentally and his hands clenched at her hips stopping her.

"Be still for a minute" he threw his head back with eyes closed, "or this is going to be remarkably brief"

She paused as instructed. It was… uncomfortable. In her dreams she'd never felt this way, in her dreams he'd always gilded into her effortlessly.

"You've gotten tighter because of how long it's been" he said in a thick voice reading her thoughts. "It will get better" he promised, moving forward to take one of her rigid nipples into his mouth while he slowly used his hands to urge her hips up and down, building momentum.

Before long she started to feel herself getting wetter, especially as he sucked on her nipples as fire streaked down her thighs making her desperately grind herself more determinately on him chasing that feeling she knew was coming. But it wasn't until Gaara moved back and hugged her closer to him with her nipples pressing against his chest with his arm grasping the back of her neck that she felt herself go over the edge and shatter.

She screamed against him as the orgasm took her by surprise and the sensations wrecking through her body were unlike anything she'd been able to recall. She muffled her face against his neck as the orgasm seemed to go on forever and he grasped her butt moving in and out of her at a faster pace until he too came apart with a swear.

The two collapsed against each other in a pile of sweat.

"Another shower?" Gaara muttered eventually as she looked up at him drowsily. "A real one, I promise. I have to head out again soon" he kissed her cheek before he got out of the tub gently helping her as well before they headed into the standing shower.

and for the life of Hinata... she couldn't stop smiling.

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2 weeks later - Konohagakure

"No those are too pink" Hanabi muttered looking at the flower arrangements her wedding designer was suggesting for her table centers.

Hinata looked down at her sister, "Err how about we do a mix of white and green?" she asked Hanabi, "and maybe we can throw in some peach too?"

Her sister looked up and then nodded after a few seconds so Hinata and the wedding designer got to work rearranging the flowers.

Hianta had gotten back to Konoha a few days ago. She missed Gaara desperately, but it was good she had come to help because Hanabi seemed to have just given up on wedding planning.

"It's too mundane" she explained to Hinata when she asked her sister why no decisions have been made about anything important yet. "What do we still have left to do Nata?" Hanabi sighed

"We still have to decide on table linen, napkins, china and the menu itself for the meal. Where is your fiance? Have you asked him to be a part of this at all?"

"Konohamaru?" Hanabi laughed, "yeah no chance, he's tailing Naruto around talking about some sort of apprenticeship program the two are starting… I don't know, but if I don't even want to do this, WHY would I drag him into this."

"Well who knows maybe he would be more interested than you in all this" Hinata too sighed, losing some patience.

"Nata don't be angry at me" the younger girl suddenly pouted accurately reading Hinata's expression. "I love you and I trust your judgment. You can handle all this right? I have so much clan business still to attend to."

And just like that Hanabi was gone in a blur of dust.

After a few seconds of shock and blinking Hinata turned to the wedding designer with a polite smile on her face hoping the woman wouldn't judge the Hyuga clan based on what she was witnessing.

After a long day of errands Hinata finally reached the Hyuga mansion again just in time for dinner.

The unusual amount of chatter coming from the dining room made Hinata curious as she was getting closer and closer. Upon entering she saw a red head seated at the head of the table!

"Gaara" she said, a bit surprised and the man who'd been murmuring quietly to the people around him looked up at her with a smile.

After a long dinner where the clan spent most of their time manipulating the Kazekage's time Hinata finally managed to manure him into her childhood bedroom for some privacy.

"Sooo this is your room huh?" Gaara asked, looking around at the white and purple room.

"Gaara what are you doing here?" she asked cutting to the chase. She had missed him a lot and it was so good to see him, but he wasn't supposed to be here.

"I got a bit antsy waiting for you so I came early for the wedding" He smiled down at her.

"But there is still a week to go until the wedding!"

"Well I can stick around here and help you…" he murmured, rubbing her cheek thoughtfully.

"What about running Suna?"

"Kankuro again," he smirked.

"You know at this rate, they are going to make Kankuro the Kazekage."

At that Gaara was silent for a bit and then he bent down giving her a quick kiss before shocking her by asking, "Would that be so bad?"

That rendered Hinata speechless.

"Anyway, how is wedding planning going?" Gaara continued when Hinata stood there looking like a statue.

And that was all the invitation she needed to vent to him about everything she'd been running around doing.

"Did we even start our own wedding planning back then?" she asked once she stopped with the complaints.

"Mmm… yes we did" Gaara grabbed her around the waist dragging her onto his lap. He was seated on the bed. "We had a venue picked, we had the colors, invitation, first dance song… flowers, all the decoration stuff… We were going to have our wedding very soon after the mission you were on …"

"Oh," she said somberly. "That reminds me, before I leave again I still have to sell my apartment."

"I know. I found a buyer"

"You did?!" she turned to him with a look of surprise.

"Yes I hired a Konoha real estate agent."

"Oh…" she murmured. Maybe it was because he was the Kazekage but his efficiency really was astounding. He seemed to anticipate her needs as well as everyone else's before they could even articulate them.

"You will have the final say of course. We can go see the offers whenever you have free time. For the next week, I am a free man at your disposal" Gaara murmured into her neck pulling her in for a kiss and Hinata couldn't decide whether she should be ecstatic or nervous.

"You should be happy" Gaara guessed her thoughts again, "It's not everyone who gets to have the undivided attention of the Kazekage ... forever."

"Yes" Hinata rolled her eyes, "That is exactly what I'm worried about" she teased her husband pushing him onto the bed.

She was coming to learn that Gaara was an extremely assertive and dominant person, but... what she was also coming to learn is that she found that incredibly sexy…

"Gaara, did you ever tell me about how you led the shinobi forces during the fourth war?"

"Hmmm" Gaara asked, distracted as she ran her fingers through his torso un buttoning his shirt.

"Tell me how you did that" her eyes glinted as she took off his belt buckle, "...in DETAIL" she whispered bending down as Gaara gulped.

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The end - epilogue to come