After the 4th Great Ninja War, Sasuke Decided to quit on revenge and return to village to Naruto. Itachi is now relieved to see his brother finally developed a brain of his own hence takes some time to actually go one-on-one with Sasuke and catch up with the few select people he had came to know during his time before going back to his realm. Minato does the same with Naruto and his friends along with the others he had known. The Allied Military Force decided to rest and recover from injuries completely before leaving for respective nations.
Its evening time, Hidden Leaf, Hidden Stone, Hidden Sand, Hidden Cloud, and Hidden Mist Friends decided to arrange few entertainment and camp fire around night. Woods are collected to light up the fire. Here Hyuga Neji is not dead. Ino-Shika-Cho Trio (1) is still alive. Revived past Hokages are still are around and would be around throughout the story. All Bijju's are around except Yin part of Kurama, the nine-tailed fox and Gyuuki, the eight-tailed octopus as they reside inside their human hosts Naruto and Killer Bee respectively.
Light rays of morning sun congratulating everyone for their win. Everyone where dead tired but no one wanted to miss the morning sunrise that they knew will clam their tired mind. Light and cool breeze of the morning has become a lubbary for them to help them fall asleep and they where more than satisfied that the sacrifice of their friends didn't went in vain to give in their strongest urge.
Naruto had successfully convinced every Kages on Sasuke's Homecoming decision and helped him to regain his old position as a Genin of leaf village. Naruto, in order to help his best friend, has decided to take full responsibility of Sasuke's deeds stating that he will withdraw his name as a candidate of being Hokage , which was his one and only dream since childhood, if in upcoming future Sasuke been sensed to poses a foul temper towards any of his comrades. It's now been ordered that Sasuke will be on constant watch under Anbus once they get back to village but until then he is bound to obey all Kages and Naruto himself, since Naruto has taken his responsibility. Itachi was pleased to see the sense of responsibility that Naruto carries within him.
Tsunade was jumping out of happiness and was actually playing cards with her both Grandfather and Granduncle i.e. reanimated 1st Hokage and 2nd Hokage, and left every medical responsibility on her two very skilful apprentices Sakura and Shizune. Both 1st and 2nd Hokage was very impressed by both Sakura and Shizune who were examining and treating all the wounded. Naruto was taking a walk with his Father and 3rd Hokage and were talking about all the stuff they have missed. Sasuke too took a walk with his elder brother Itachi. Very much excited to be able to share happy moments again with his beloved brother, Sasuke showed his soft side again and was sharing his stories with Itachi and, out of character, both the brothers were laughing quite loud. Sakura and Naruto took a moment out of their chores just to capture every detail of this beautiful sight of two Uchiha Brothers sharing their life's bitter and sweet stories and having fun after So many years of bitterness between them, for them that was the most beautiful sight they could ever imagine to get to see.
Hinata followed Naruto's soft gaze and smiling face and found its reason. Hinata was very happy to watch Naruto safe and happy about everything. She was smiling with full heart knowing that Naruto not only manage to keep his promise to Sakura-chan also he gets to spend few memorable moments with his Father. She felt so pleased when she saw Uchiha Brothers having fun, like everyone in Leaf Village she too knew about Uchiha massacre but she never tried to understand it before she witnessed that Naruto is getting affected by it too. After so many years of chasing and admiring Naruto, she can now finally understand what exactly they all might be feeling at the moment. Thinking of which she suddenly remember about her family and her responsibility towards the clan members. She rushes over to see Neji and Others, well what she saw she couldn't help but to break into giggles and soft laugh, some of her clan members were snoring loud that you may regret not to bring ear plugs with you, then some were sitting and making jokes out of them and others were just relaxing. She went a bit worried when she couldn't trace Neji there, she quickly activated her Byakugan and found him helping others to build tents and guiding few of others making sure to provide a mild security around camp area. She sighs! She then went on a search for her teammates and rest of her friends and found them doing the same as Neji! She sighs again and smiled.
'My friends! Everyone is so hard working and always ready to help in spite of their own tiredness. Everyone is helping someone in some or other way during and after the war. So what I am doing here? Let's go, get back to work you silly girl!' Hinata thought to herself with a huge smile, she gave a cheerful jump, with her hands folded close to her chest. She turned around and bumped onto some spiky blond hair, ocean blue eyes and whiskers. 'Wait…Whiskers!? Oh no… Na- Naruto-Kun!' She blushed in tomato red, recognising the person she bumped onto. She soon realised she is standing too close to her lifelong crush and dream love, its making her hard to breath. She took few steps backwards and suddenly two warm palms cupped her shoulder edges;
"Hinata! Are you alright? Your face is all red again; do you have fever or something?"
" …"
"Ah! Let me feel your head! I can tell you have fever or not!"
Naruto placed his palm on Hinata's head and unfortunate or not, her face was heating tremendously. Her heart was beating like drumbeats of some crazy rock music and blood was rushing like an express mail. Naruto felt the heat rising and rising. He became very worried about her and a little terrified. His flash back of Hinata's confession during Pain's Invasion was the only thing that was coming in his mind. 'No! Not she too! I don't want to lose Hinata. Not at any cost. What could have happen to her? Why is so heated up all of a sudden? Is this because of any attacked by an enemy during the war that might have caused this fever or any sort of infection from wounds is spreading out? What if any slow killing poison? Or any jutsu which gotten activated with the war over in our favour. Oh no! Everyone might be in danger again! I must take her and inform to Granny Tsunade and Sakura-Chan to treat her.' Naruto thought with a terrified look on his face that was so intense, it made Hinata come out of her 'Fever' in a blink. Her blushing and shying vanished. She looked at Naruto in lot more concerned and worried look. 'What is horrifying Naruto-Kun so much?' She thought to herself and decided to ask, "Naruto-Kun? Are you alright? Why you r so scared?"
Hinata lifted her hand in an attempt to caress Naruto's cheek but was taken aback by surprise. Naruto took her hand, picked her up in bridal style and almost flied towards 5th Hokage, one of the three Legendary Senin and Best Medic Ninja known till now, Lady Tsunade.
" GRANNY! GRANNY! …(skid to stop)… Granny! Look, something happened to Hinata-Chan! I went to talk to her and then she jumped and bump onto me and then her face turned tomato red. I asked her what happened but she didn't give me any response and i was worried so i felt her head. It is so heated that she could bust out of that heat only. Look she is not even making any movements now."
Naruto's explanations made everyone worried and tensed, including all the Kages. Previously everyone's attention was on the couple since when Hinata was in her deep thoughts and Naruto was making his approach. Everyone was very interested to see Naruto approaching a girl. All Leaf shinobies and every friend of both Naruto and Hinata knew Hinata's crush on Naruto so few of them choose to bet on them. But all Fun-Filled atmospheres have now changed to a More fun-filled atmosphere.
"CLAM DOWN GAKI! Look around you. See what you have done!" Tsunade scolded playfully but with bright smile on her face. 'And why shouldn't I? The fun is getting started only. Tihihi'
Naruto looked around to see everyone doing their chores. He didn't miss to notice his friends from Leaf were laughing at him. He noticed 1st Hokage, Sakura and Shizune laughing and Tsunade and 2nd Hokage trying hard to look serious as the boy was very serious. Because of the card game both previous Hokage were informed to Naruto's antics and dumbness toward certain things. Realising everyone's reaction towards his seriousness he felt offended a little.
Hinata on her created, she too had realised what might have caused Naruto so worried and tensed. She smiled at his kindness. She was still tomato red as she was still being held by Naruto's strong arms in a beautiful bridal style. But she decided to go opposite her nature and try to speak to him. "Umm…Na- Naruto-Kun! I- I'm Ok. I don't have fe…" But her voice was so soft that it failed to reach Naruto's ear drums.
"You guys can laugh on me later. I'm seriously worried about her so please check her first." Naruto stated very calmly with an 'I'm not joking here' look on. This surprising to everyone themselves, made serious about it. Everyone instantly stopped laughing at him and looked at the girl in Naruto's arms.All the attention made Hinata blush furiously. She fought to herself not to faint again. She literally trained herself to keep herself steady around Naruto and to her credit its working efficiently for her up until now but with all those attention it was getting harder to keep it up. Fortunately for her, Naruto settled her down. Feeling the ground under her, she felt so relaxed that she forgot about the attention she was getting.
And just like that her blush vanishes by reflex, " Oh Kami! (Sighs) I wonder when i'll finally overcome my THIS weakness?... ... I wonder when i'll get used to of his presence around me… It's been 14 years or so,… still i couldn't master it. (She sighs deeply and closed her big lavender eyes) Oh, Naruto –Kun! I am never been in fever or something when i am around you. … It always been this stupid shyness of mine that i blush and faint every time you are close to me… Hm! oh wow, today i actually master 'Not to Faint' technique while i was in …'… while i was in Naruto-Kun's … arms! those were so … two strong and big arms.' .. (sighs blissfully) Big, Strong and Hard. Heaven, complete Heaven."
Hinata was blushing pink again and has a pleasant carefree look on her face. Naruto and others were listening to all her 'self confessing' whispers. And at last it was Naruto's turn to blush deep red when all others, which now included 3rd and 4th Hokage and Shikamaru, were watching Hinata and Her Naruto-Kun back and forth with huge smiles and smirk. Hinata's break in her 'self confession' and a dark pink blush on her face made Naruto skip a heartbeat but preferred to break this awkward silence with laughter.
Her eyes widened by sudden realisation, she looked up at the source of noise. Then she looked all around her just to see everyone smiling at her. Her eyes stopped at on Minato, Naruto's father, who was giving serious and little angry looks to both Hinata and Naruto. Unaware to her, he was trying hard to keep his own laugh.
"What have I done!" Hinata lowered her head in embarrassment.
Widely smiling at Hinata, he came close to her and balancing himself by his palms on knees, looked close in her lavender eyes with a foxy grin "Hinata! You gave me a perfect incident to tease you!" Trade mark Smile with one palm protecting the laughter. Uncomfortable with the closeness, she blushed again in deep shade of red and head-hit Naruto using her full source of chakra to make the hit's impact bigger. That hit caught Naruto off-guard and threw him one and half miles away from the, now surprised group. Everyone's jaw dropped to ground in comic way. That was totally unexpected from a shy girl. Not even Tsunade, Sakura and Shizune thought that someone who didn't knew Medic Nin Jutsu can also use chakra hits with that perfection.
Naruto, lying miles away with a comic cry baby face, was smiling as all the memories of his encounter with Hinata was flushing back in his mind. His first meet with her before they even joined the Academy, her cute boy-cut hair, her big-big lavender eyes, her small nose, her fiddling of fingers in nervousness (Naruto chuckled a little with that fiddling habit of hers that still persists). Then during Chunin exams, her offering a healing balm and the confidence and determination that was reflecting while facing her own cousin brother, one of the two strongest and popular rookies, was something he was now falling in love with. The memories of Chunin exams were farther followed by some other bitter memories. He was not regretting that his push made Hinata knock to the death's door that day but he was not happy for his stupidity too. He didn't understand then that he was not pushing Hinata, he was pushing a family rivalry there. (Naruto gotten up in sitting position and was looked at the ground for few minutes. He looked above to the now bright sky with slight hint of orange and red.) Naruto remember the day of Finals of Chunin Exam, when he was nervous about being on the 1st pair to fight when suddenly he saw Hinata training. He remembers, how she cheered him up without hiding the fact the Neji is indeed a strong opponent. A smile flushed back on his face with full force when the memory of his 'Dramatic Win' came to his mind! (Naruto slammed his head back to the ground. He thought of all the time Hinata blush for him, twiddled fingers when he was around, saved him… 'She tried to save me way before the academic days but i was so blind to notice that until now. To be accurate she successfully saved me 6 times now, starting from Chunin Exam Finals.' To add up senses, memories of Hinata's confession of her love for Naruto, during Pain's Invasion, came flying in his mind. 'Naruto sits up again and looked at the direction where he was moment before he got hit. He smiled to himself and decided that he have to protect this lady and try to cover up for all these years where she unconditionally loved him and he was a fool to not to notice her before.' He gets up and his way back to the camp.
Hey my dear readers. I know I am acting evil to Hinata by embarrassing her like that. But her blushes and reactions are too cut to just not do it to get more of it. I did a little on my story to make it little better. Hope you guys like what you reading coz it's my very first story. You might not believe guys but it's my 1st story in my life till now... so please send reviews for any other improvements or ideas you guys want me to do in it. Thanks for reading. And I promise I'll soon add new chapters to it.
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