*PAUSED*𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐂𝐄: Naruhina

𝟐𝟏. 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬

Three knocks hit against the apartment door that stated 16b.

Hinata opened it to see Toneri standing outside, her eyes zeroing to the black and blue surrounding his left eye. Then they dropped down seeing two phones in his hand.

"Hinata, I-" warmth invaded his body unexpectedly making him halt his words. Hinata threw her arms around Toneri's waist and hugged him. "Toneri, you don't know how grateful I am." She backed away and took his wrist in her dainty palm, "Please, come inside."

Naruto sat on the island high top chairs, giving Toneri a wave and a sad smile. Hinata ushered him to sit while she grabbed hydrogen peroxide, cloth and bandaids. "Hina it's okay, you don't have to."

She washed her hands and started to clean his wound. "Toneri, please after everything you've done for me today? This is the least I can do."

His head jerked when the peroxide hit his open wound but then he settled when Hinata cleaned it with water, patted it dry, and applied two thin bandages to his left brow bone and temple.

When that was over, the three of them sat in Hinata's kitchen and discussed everything that happened.

After Naruto beat Kabuto up, stole his laptop & other hard drives, somehow Kabuto still found a way to post. Instead of more pictures of Hinata and Naruto, he posted Toneri . Along side secretly recorded videos and audios.

Toneri learned the origin story of Naruto's history with Kabuto. Now that night at the pharma event from months ago, was revealed as one big ploy. He saw now he was just a pawn, and so was Hinata. However exposed all three of them were now, one thing was clear:

Hinata suffered the most.

It's always going to be worst for the ladies. Nudes of men circling the internet doesn't garner nearly as much engagement as nudes of women. To the hour- Hinata's birthday suit hasn't paraded the internet. But her in lingerie posing with and for her man has rapidly been making its way around the web.

As Hinata stared at her phone lying on her kitchen counter, she had the urge to set it on fire. Naruto and Toneri were going back and forth on what they should do with Kabuto now. Call the police? Look through his stuff and expose him? Hinata stood in between them, tuning them out.

What's done is done. There is no course of action that could reverse the damage caused. When something gets uploaded to the internet- it stays there, forever. Someone will always keep these photos no matter how hard they try to get them erased. Naruto already dm'd every account that posted what Kabuto sold. Naruto even paid some to delete it. All of their friends were actively reporting the accounts but to Hinata? It just wasn't worth it.

Once she heard Naruto mention how was going to call the publicist, Coffee, she joined the conversation. "There's nothing we can do."

Toneri and Naruto snapped their heads to her. Hinata's voice was low, weak. Her eyes still had bags from the crying she did, and they drooped as if she was going to pass out. It was a state Toneri had never seen her in. He was at a loss for words.

"Even if we got every account to delete their posts, people have probably taken screenshots. It's never going to be gone. We just have to live with it."

Naruto shook his head, "Baby we can still do something about this. I can-"

"No." She said it soft but with a little bass. "We can't." Hearing her tell him that there was nothing they could do, nothing he could do, only further angered his spirit. The guilt rising in Naruto was beginning to feel heavy. Especially because, Hinata was one hundred percent right.