Hey guys. I know it's been a long and tumultuous ride, huh? I'm extremely apologetic that it took this long. We're down to three or so chapters of fluff. I hope you enjoy and please leave me some feedback and let me know what you think. Also, I told you I wasn't Naruto bashing. :P

One Month Later

"It's only been three weeks, dobe." Despite the statement, there was a smile on Sasuke's face.

"I don't care. Hiashi will tell Hinata today. I can't have any more of my friends trying to marry her, teme." Naruto's grin was firmly in place, as it had been since he started dating Hinata three weeks ago.

His once again easygoing nature was contagious and had a small smile constantly parting Sasuke's lips. His friend was finally happy. He finally had Sakura. Everything was working out for both of them at long last.

"She'll make you a good wife. And with those hips she'll give you strong sons." He held back the smirk as Naruto's eyes went wide.

"Why have you been paying so much attention to her hips?! And I don't care about having strong sons. I'll be happy if we have a whole brood of little Natas. If she even wants kids. If she even marries me." He groaned and jumped to his feet. "Why did I rush this?! What if she says nooooooo?!"

"Relax, dobe." Naruto stopped fretting and looked at his brother. "That woman worships the ground you walk on so, of course, she'll agree to marry you. Every male who has ever come across your Hinata has noticed her. She's an attractive woman. Also, I'm sure she feels the same way about a brood of little Narutos."

Sasuke rolled his eyes when the tension visibly left his brother's shoulders. What was he going to do with this idiot? When Naruto remained on his feet, Sasuke quirked an eyebrow at him.

"Alright. I have to go see Kakashi sensei." He looked very determined and didn't that confuse the hell of Sasuke.

"For what?" He did not miss the blush that crept to Naruto's cheeks. He understood without a response. Naruto was nervous about sex.

"It's personal..." He rubbed the back of his neck with his good hand.

"Well, you know, Sakura or Tsunade might be better if it's advice of a personal nature you're looking for." Sasuke pretended to stare off into the distance to let it click.

"Oh! You're right! Sakura is really smart! Thanks, Sasuke!" The last part was shouted over his shoulder as he ran away.

"Go learn how to love, Naruto." He whispered to himself as the wind whisked through the trees.

Later That Morning

"Lady Hinata-sama, your father has requested your presence in his office." Hinata nodded at the woman and scrunched up her face in confusion after she was gone.

What could her father possibly want? Her training was going well, Naruto was nothing but polite to him, and everything had been calm within the clan. What could have happened?

She donned a light jacket to fight off the morning chill and left her room. Again she wondered what her father could possibly want. As she wound through the corridors that led to her father's office, her mind wandered.

Naruto was absolutely amazing. Their first date hadn't even been Ichiraku's, which she insisted she was perfectly okay with. Instead, they went to the barbecue restaraunt Choji had opened the past summer. She'd never been and found that it was actually quite nice. Afterward, they'd gone to the fair and had a lovely time before he took her home, where they'd talked until the next morning.

Naruto had worn a pair of tight pants, which she blushed at the memory of, and a button up, form-fitting, dress shirt. The pants were black and the shirt was red with black trimmings. He looked incredibly handsome. Every female in the village was looking at him. He was only looking at her.

Those pants, though. She remembered falling behind, just a step, when he got really animated about something he saw at the fair so she could look at his muscled buttocks. She'd watched the way his muscles moved with every step he took. A near permanent blush planted itself on her cheeks.

When he'd noticed that she'd fallen behind he'd slow his pace. He took her hand in his with that grin on his face and led on. She'd place her hand on his arm and lean her head on his shoulder.

She was jarred out of her memories by the sound of her own knock on the door of her father's office. When he called for her to enter she slipped inside. With the door shut behind her, she clasped her hands behind her back waited. When her father turned around, she gasped.

Half of his face was swollen and bruised. There were still remnants of dried blood around a cut above his eye. He was leaning heavily on a cane on his right side. Strangest of all, he was grinning.

"Ah, my darling daughter, I've been waiting for you. Sit." He motioned to one of the chairs across the desk from his own.

"But father-" He wouldn't let her finish and pushed her down into the chair.

"Your future husband came by this morning." He gestured to his face with a grin.

"Naruto did this to you? Oh father I-" Future husband? "Wait. Are you saying what I think you're saying?"

"He passed the tests this morning." He was absolutely beaming with pride.

"So your face?" She'd never seen that after the tests before.

"I offended your honor and he hit me. Once." Savage pride.

"Oh. Oh! I am to be married?!" She felt like she was going to burst with joy.

"If you'll have him, my daughter. The choice is yours." She jumped across the desk and hugged him.

"I will go find him right now!" He laughed as she pulled away and called out what stopped her in her tracks at the door.

"Imagine, in just a short time, your sleepovers can be in your own house." She blushed from head to toe.

"Father, we-" He wouldn't let her finish yet another sentence.

"Yes, I know. It was innocent. Do you think I'd have let it continue otherwise? Now go. Seek out your fiance." He was smiling and she nodded before taking off. Her fiance.

A Very Short Time Later At A Very Amused Sakura's House

"Oh, come on Sakura. Don't talk like that." Naruto had been whining for a few minutes about her use of language.

"Naruto, all I said was nipple." She was thoroughly amused by the newfound shyness in her friend.

"Well don't say nipple." He spit the word out as if he could shy away from it.

"Oh kami. Just read Kakashi's books if you're going to be so sensitive." Naruto beamed at that.

"Oh, I can do that! And that would be so much easier than listening to you say words like-" Then it hit him.

The it being a lavender blur that came from the trees. It flew with such force that both it and Naruto tumbled and rolled for several meters. When they stopped rolling Naruto was laughing and Hinata, who had landed atop him, was beaming down at him. Sakura decided to leave them be.

"Remember what I said knucklehead." She went back into her house with a smile. All was right in her world.