It was sunset and Hinata was sitting on the rooftops looking out across the dirt road which led up to the village. Many thoughts often crossed her mind on days like this. She sighed softly and tucked back her lengthening hair which idly flapped in the wind.

Ever since they had started dating it had been harder to not feel lonely when he was away. To distract herself she thought of some of the fun and happy memories she had. This caused a subtle smile and her to shake her head slightly. All of her best memories were of Naruto.

"Maybe I'm…a bit… obsessive…?" she thought to herself. Well she had become less shy, especially around Naruto, but even still, her voice was almost always quiet and her eyes downcast when speaking to people. Even her own thoughts were a bit hesitant.

Just then she gasped slightly and quickly lifted her head. A huge smile sprung to her face and unmatched joy lit up her eyes. Within seconds she was bounding off towards the entrance to the village. All she could think of was that Naruto was back.

He was strolling up to the village with his hands behind his head in that signature idiotic expression on his face. The moment he saw Hinata standing by the gated entrance to the village he let out a joyful shout and ran over to her.

"Hinata, boy have I missed you." He said as he gave her a big hug.

"you've only been gone for a week." She softly stated lightly blushing.

"Yeah, but that was long enough." He separated their hug just enough to give her a long kiss.

She kissed him back, secretly happy that he had missed her so much.

When they separated, both were smiling.

"Hey lover boy," shouted Sakura, "you can catch-up with your girlfriend later, right now we need to give our report."

"you should have seen him." exclaimed Ino. "On the way back it was all we could do to keep him from running the whole way. I mean not that that's bad but we all kind of needed to stay together so we wouldn't get lost. I guess it is understandable, I would feel something like that if I was coming home after a long mission to my Shika." She said as she flung her arms around Shikamaru's neck a mischievous smile on her face.

"troublesome," sight Shikamaru softly.

"What did you call me?" shouted Ino, her smile all gone and fury written all over her face.

"this is such a drag" he said under his breath. His face was turned away from the fuming Ino.

" WHAAAA!" shouted Ino even louder. She now had Shikamaru by the collar. "Why you…I'm going to-"

But before she could finish her sentence Shikamaru leaned over and kissed her full on the lips.

Ino immediately went from fuming mad to relaxed.

As she came out of the kiss her eyes seemed sparkly and she dreamily sighed "Oh Shika"

He sighed and gave her a smile. "Time to give our reports."

"I love you so much!" exclaimed Ino grapping his arm tightly.

"We should get going." He said pointedly at Naruto with a very tired expression on his face.

"Looks like I got to go." said Naruto with Hinata still in his arms. "meet me at the usual place."

"Of course." she said and gave him a quick gentle kiss blushing profusely. "Come back quickly."

"You can count on it" he said with a mischievous smile.

"Come on Naruto."

"Coming, Coming," He bent down and gave Hinata one more quick kiss and started off after the others.

Hinata stood there for a moment before she headed off home. Tonight was going to be a night to remember.