Forbidden Chapter 6, a naruto fanfic

My readers.

I was inspired. By a song (as I often am). And this happened. If you're curious, the song was 'The Edge of Tonight' by All Time Low. Not that it really matters (good song though), but the result was this chapter. Gets a bit steamy. What can I say? I was feeling steamy.

Really, enjoy guys. Getting closer to the action.

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CHAPTER SIX.

FORBIDDEN.

LAST TIME:

Pulling back, he looked me in the eye, "You're not alone. You have me. You'll always have me. No one will ever indecently touch you ever again. I swear to god next time I'll intervene. I'll kill him if I have to, and keep your identity a secret. Trust me, I'll protect you." I had no words, so I simply nodded, but Naruto continued, "I mean it, Hinata. Even after the war. I want to be by your side." He pulled away from me. "Just keep in in mind." He smiled, gently.

"Go, on. You have the rest of the day off. Have a bath. Rest. And get that confidence back. I'm protecting you."

It was weird, but I didn't feel I needed a bath anymore.

I'd never been cleaner.

FORBIDDEN.

Still, I went to the river, not wanting to head back to the other soldiers with red eyes from crying. I relaxed in the water for a while, and tried not to think about Danzo at all. I needed to pretend he didn't bother me. I passed the test, right? I didn't react to his assault, so he thinks I'm a man. I just have to keep it up.

Besides, he wouldn't be stupid enough to grab me again.

I just needed to concentrate on training. And not worry about this ever again.

After a while, I got out of the river, only to find that I'd been in there a bit longer than I had expected. If my pruny fingers weren't much of a clue, Neji waiting for me outside my tent had alerted me to the news.

It seems training had already finished.

"Hello, Cousin."

Neji was silent, which wasn't unusual for him, but the way he was studying me was new. He was trying to figure me out, or maybe where I went today, I wasn't sure. But I didn't interrupt, as he didn't reply to my greeting he was so deep in thought, so I let his mind wander for the moment.

"The Captain found out about your true identity."

He didn't ask it as a question, but the way he spoke was as if this were the first time he thought of such a thing to be true. However, as the words left his mouth, there was an aura of certainty to it, as if coming up with the idea alone cementified it as the truth.

"He's very subtle about it, but he holds a certain liking to you, it seems. No one else would notice, and I didn't until I saw your altercation with Danzo today, but our Captain holds you in high regard. As a female, I might add." Neji hit me with so much information at once that I was gobsmacked at his words. Also the fact that they were all true. (Hopefully). "Care to add anything to the conversation, Cousin?"

"I… Uh.." I stuttered for a moment, trying to put enough words together to make sense, "How do you know?"

"My question is," Neji raised an eyebrow at me, "Why didn't you tell me?"

I looked towards the ground, fisting my hands in my shirt uncomfortably. "Because I didn't want him to get into trouble for not executing me?" Despite the fact that it was the truth, my nervous demeanour made the statement come out as a question.

Neji seemed to accept that quite easily, besides, I felt the same way for him. I didn't want anyone else to get into trouble if my true identity become revealed to the camp. He nodded. "I wouldn't have realised, had I not seen Danzo accost you today." Neji's look of severity concluded how unhappy he was about that altercation also, "And our dear Naruto's reaction. He was fuming up until the point he separated us all, and went off into the woods – alone – with you."

I blushed. "Okay," I nodded, "Yes, he found out." I didn't tell Neji how exactly Naruto found out, feeling as though Neji would not be happy about that reveal. "But he's trying to look out for me. He gave me the rest of the day off today, so I could-"

"Accept the fact that you were just accosted by the ambassador of Konoha in an attempt for him to find out your identity."

I shuddered at Neji's words, but nodded. "But he doesn't know! I didn't react to him, so Danzo has no proof."

"He's suspicious though." Neji muttered, "I've seen him watching you these past couple days. He was suspicious, because of how often he seemed to catch you ogling our captain."

I gasped, but then again. I shouldn't have been surprised. How often did I find myself ogling our captain on a daily basis? Dammit Hinata, I muttered to myself, You really do need to learn to control yourself.

"But," Neji continued, "Hopefully he has now convinced himself that it was simply admiration. Or," Neji laughed, "You're gay."

I gasped again, my face bright red in embarrassment. "Neji!" I admonished.

"What?" He laughed. "it's the truth."

I sulked. I guess it was in the genes of a cousin to tease me, however. But now that I knew why Danzo was so suspicious of me, I could hopefully change his mind. Convince him it was all a part of his imagination. "Thank you, Neji."

"That's okay, cousin. Take care of yourself." He took a step outside my tent, before peaking back in. "It seems you have another visitor." He winked at me, before disappearing. I only faintly heard him say, "Captain," in a greeting as he returned to his own tent.

"So, you know Neji?" Naruto mused as he stepped into my tent, "Hyuuga. Of course."

"Cousins." I supplied.

Naruto nodded, "That's good." He smiled, before turning back to me, "How're you feeling?"

"I'm feeling much better," I nodded back to him, grateful, "Thank you." I turned, so I was facing him, and slid towards the back of the tent so he'd have more room to enter.

He smiled gratefully at me, and stepped further inside, his eyes following my form quietly. I blushed. The feel of his eyes on me was always terribly distracting, even when I was supposed to be training with the other soldiers. No matter what, actually, he was always incredibly distracting. For me, anyway. You'd only have to ask Neji to find out.

"How the hell do you hide those?" He asked, the words coming out in a breath as if it were a thought not meant to be spoken aloud.

I blinked, and looked down, realising I hadn't wrapped my chest after getting out of the river, and blushed. Looking up, Naruto was blushing too, as if just realising what he had said, and I giggled to myself at his expression. "It's not easy." I admitted.

He seemed to smile at my modesty, and took a seat next to me on my mat. He shook his head, as if to clear it, before turning back to me. "I came… to check on you. How are you? Really?" He asked, sincerity dripping from his tone.

I took a deep breath. "Better." I let out a small smile. "I really am feeling better."

"So… Neji knows I know?" Naruto looked at me, and the edge of the tent where Neji left moments before. "He's okay with me? Here, I mean." He asked, nervously.

I perked an eyebrow at him. Was he looking for acceptance from my cousin? I smiled. "He only found out about it today. He saw the way you reacted to… Danzo." I coughed over his name, refusing to ruin the mood. "And he's fine. He knows that I've been-" I cut myself off eyes wide. I was just about to tell him about my crush.

"You've been what?" Naruto asked, confused.

I blushed, "Don't worry about it. He's okay with you." I smiled.

"That's good. I don't want him to try to hurt me. I'm not going to get you executed." He looked me in the eyes, "I promise. I only want the best for you."

I wanted to kiss him again. Badly. His gentle words drifted throughout my tent, but all I saw were his tempting lips caressing his words, blazing eyes watching me critically and his hands, curling around themselves on his lap.

I took a long breath. "Naruto.." I exhaled.

He blinked, several long, dense blinks, voice cutting off completely, as his eyes caught mine, voice caught in his throat. "Hi-Hi… Hinata?"

I knew my face was probably red, but I refused to let that stop me. Taking his large hand gently in mine, I curled my fingers around him, looking up into his pristine-blue eyes. "I just… I want to… would you…" I stuttered over my sentences, eyes dripping between his own and his lips, trying to convey my message across. Kiss me again.

"Naruto."

Saying his name seemed to get the point across, because one second I was staring up at him breathlessly, and the next his lips were possessively on mine. Hands embedded themselves in the nape of my neck, curling at where the skin met hair, and he pulled my mouth to his wordlessly. A stray thumb crept repetitively across the line of my jaw as his lips pried my own open, deepening the kiss and tempting me into movement.

My nose brushed against the side of his, and I let his tongue slide into my mouth, gently sucking it in as my one of my hands tangled into his hair, the other gripping the muscles of his upper back, pressing it as close to me as could possibly allow. I felt him grin into the kiss as he felt my chest push up against his own tightly, mumbling something between passionate kisses about being able to hide my breasts at all. I giggled gently, leaning backward and pulling him backward on top of me, but he was having none of it. Pulling me close, he spun us around, and leaned back so I was laying on his torso, our chests still pressed against each other, and my head hovering gently over his own.

With a gently nudge, he pulled me away from him gently. "I was supposed to be asking how you were doing." He mumbled through heavy breaths, eyes now dark with desire that had me caught and unwilling to move.

I smiled gently, rubbing my nose against his, "I'm feeling better every second." I whispered against his lips, eyes stuck within his brilliant blue.

"I love you."

We whispered at once, and eyes widened in shock. I hadn't even prepared to say anything, but the feelings that ran through me fell so deep I couldn't hold myself back. The passion he held towards me brought out my basic emotions, and I had no will to hold back from him. I smiled, lips pressing against his gently, "I love you." I repeated, giggling to myself.

His replying grin was so incredibly sexy I wanted to kiss him again. "Hinata." He whispered, hands massaging through my hair as he looked up at me. "Oh, I love you. I don't know if it's too soon to say this, but I love you. Your strength. Your drive. Your will. Your beauty. I'm so glad you walked into my camp." He nipped at the corner of my jaw. "It's selfish but I don't care. I'm so glad you're here."

I laughed happily. "You can be as selfish as you want – when it comes to me." I looked deep into his eyes meaningfully. "I'm yours."

He grinned. "Good." He whispered. "Can I stay?"

My eyes widened, as I looked at him, unsure.

"Just.. sleep." He whispered, holding me tightly in order to persuade. It was working. "I just want to lay here, with you." He kissed me, slowly, passionately. "Kiss you." He breathed. "Bask in your glory." I was convinced.

FORBIDDEN.

Towards the end of the week, Naruto seemed to be a bigger slave driver than he had these past four and a half months.

After the other night, I thought he'd be a little more gentle towards me, but I couldn't help but grin at his attitude. Naruto was definitely an unpredictable one. Besides, he knew I could handle the pressure of this training.

"Is that all you got?" Naruto yelled from the front of the line. "You guys should easily be able to run faster than this! Pick it up, ladies!"

I let out a quiet chuckle, and pumped legs faster, trying to ignore the weights holding me back as we ran through the forest, warming up for the day.

This made me think of that first day of training, where we ran 15 k with pales of water on our shoulders, all tired and collapsing on the end of the run, as if it were the hardest thing we'd ever had to do. And it had been. Up until that point, running those fifteen kilometres was considered insane. But we did it, and now, I glanced through the forest, trying to pinpoint exactly how far we'd gone, we were probably just over half way through the same run, weights on our legs and arms, pales of water still on our shoulders, sprinting through the forest we were only breaking a sweat.

But I guess it's due to these reasons Naruto liked to push us further.

"Seriously? You can't go any faster than this?" Naruto yelled back at us. "If we don't make it those last seven kilometres in ten minutes we're doing it again!"

It's a wonder you'd ever consider our Captain to be gentle.

FORBIDDEN.

As the day went on, the Captain continued to hassle us to no end, anything that was considered less than perfect had to be repeated. At one point I got exceedingly distracted by our Captain's golden skin – he took his shirt off again, which is never good for my focus – and he made me complete a hundred push-ups, and then re-start the exercise.

He wasn't a lover today.

He was ruthless.

A warrior.

A leader.

Which, was probably sexier. And more distracting.

Surprisingly, as I reached the campsite, my body didn't collapse on the ground from abuse. I was actually feeling strong and rather stable – despite my heavy breathing and sweat-covered body.

It was almost as if we were only half way through our training for the day.

Glancing around to my comrades, I noted they seemed much the same as I, and felt a rush of pride flow through my body. How strong have we all become without noticing? I wondered to myself, shocked at the strength and cohesiveness we all seemed to radiate, as if we were a single unit, made of the strongest of steels, unbreakable.

I'd never felt so alive.

And by the grins on my comrade's faces, it appeared they were not unfamiliar to what I was feeling.

"Alright, team." Naruto's 'Captain' persona swept through the group, his voice strong and clear, causing us all to straighten our backs and stand at attention without second thought. We automatically reacted to our captain when he was in this mode – as if we knew automatically when he was acting as our captain, or as a comrade, and acted accordingly. "Good work today. You've come further than even I could've imagined – especially considering how poor your form was when you stepped into this camp."

I couldn't help it – I laughed in delight. And looking so the side, I wasn't the only one. Sure, we were in poor form in the beginning, we accepted that. But in his words was also a compliment, and I thought to myself once again, how strong have we all become without noticing?

"We have been training day in and day out for five months now, and I am proud to say to you all that your training is now complete." He grinned at us, pacing through the group proudly. "You all have 'man'ed up in more ways than I would've thought possible," I sensed a joke directed at me with that sentiment, and couldn't hold back a grin, "And I can honestly say that we are strong."

"However," A serious tone fell back into Naruto's voice, and we all waited silently for the shoe to fall. "This was probably the easy part, men." He gravely stared at us all, "In three days, we will be heading to war. But I know for a fact, that I have prepared you all enough to be able to fight for this country. Fight confidently. And make us and this whole country proud that we are from Konoha!"

We cheered at his words, no doubt it wasn't only me who felt ready to step beside him into battle.

"But tonight!" Naruto smiled again, "Should be a night of celebration. So, my team, let's celebrate our strength, and our lives tonight! It took me a while, but I managed to convince the cooks to buy out a liquor store, and create a feast for us, so enjoy yourselves men! Get going."

No one needed much encouragement.

And despite the fact that everyone needed a shower – seriously – they all ran toward our cafeteria area, thinking of nothing but alcohol. I lagged behind, waiting for the crew to slow, and wondered if it was best if I could sneak a bath while everyone was distracted.

"Go." I looked up to see Naruto smiling at me, as if knowing what I was thinking. "I can smell you from here." He blocked his nose jokingly, and I punched him in the arm for that comment. Even after all my training, I had nothing on Naruto.

He brushed the punch off, but smiled at me, "You've gotten as strong as any man here," He noted with a smile, and I realised that our whole team still had nothing on Naruto.

"It's all because of you." I praised him with a smile.

Naruto looked at me, surprised, then shook his head. "No. You did all the work, I just yelled at you from a distance."

I didn't believe that in the slightest, but let it slide. "Thank you, anyway, Captain." I smiled at him, "For what you've done for me, especially this past month."

Naruto blushed, rubbing the back of his head with a smile, "Don't worry about it," He brushed the compliment off, "And go. Bathe. I'll keep an eye out from here, and stop anyone from heading in that direction. You need to have fun tonight too, so take your time. Then feel free to join the team, it seems everyone's in a good mood today."

FORBIDDEN.

Oh, I love me some sexual tension.

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