Naruto awoke with a yawn the next morning after a nice long good night's sleep. He moved sluggishly towards his closet, but soon jolted completely awake. "Hinata!" he realized out loud. He quickly got dressed and replaced the genjutsu before running out to where he placed Hinata the night before.
"That looks very uncomfortable," the fox said.
"Hinata must've fainted again in the night I guess." Hinata had her legs on the floor but her back on the cushions and head at a 90 degree angle propped up on the back. Naruto noticed the note in her hand and sighed. 'Probably fainted after realizing where she was,' Naruto thought and let out a small chuckle.
Naruto calmly picked her up and placed her back on the couch in a more comfortable position, before going to the kitchen to make something for breakfast. He smiled as he realized how he could wake Hinata up.
About an hour later Naruto was waving a pan of freshly baked cinnamon rolls under Hinata's nose. Within seconds Hinata was up and looked as though she would start drooling any second. She then realized she was still in Naruto's apartment and began to blush. "Here's breakfast!" Naruto said cheerily.
"T-th-thank you" she stammered. 'Stay calm, stay calm... remember what happened yesterday... he said he... he loved...' at that thought she blushed more, averting her eyes from Naruto's. 'The more outgoing me... the true me?' By this time Naruto had opened Hinata's hand to place a cinnamon bun on her palm. Hinata realized this and began to eat.
"You don't need to be embarrassed around me! I mean, come on!" Hinata looked up at his grinning face. Hinata smiled a little she couldn't resist poking fun at him.
"Course, this is coming from the guy who picks his nose in public..." she trailed off, turning a darker red, realizing he had heard her say it.
Naruto just laughed. "Exactly!" She smiled at knowing he wasn't insulted. "You just need more confidence. How 'bout we train together today? Hmm?" Naruto asked, offering Hinata another cinnamon roll.
"Umm... I-I'd like that," she stammered.
"Well, little outbursts of confidence is better than no confidence, right?" the Kyuubi said, snickering a little."Heh heh... Nose picker..."
'Shouldn't be talking, butt licker...' the fox twitched.
"OH ONE TIME! Besides... I ALREADY TOLD YOU I WAS CLEANING MYSELF!" Kyuubi growled.
'Sure you were...'
After they were done eating Naruto went to the kitchen to clean up, leaving Hinata to wander the apartment aimlessly. After about five minutes she found something she thought interesting. Naruto's calendar. Looking it over her eyes soon went wide. She only had enough time to move away just as Naruto came out.
"Ready?" he asked. She nodded and followed him out the door and down the stairs. "What about your sensei? Won't he be wondering where you are?" Hinata asked as they began to leave the property.
"Nah, he'll probably end up three hours late as usual. What about yours?"
"W-we had a day off today," she replied.
"Ok then, so how about we jog a bit?" Naruto said.
"Um, ok..."
And so they began to run around the border of Konoha. However, little did they know that they would soon meet something so terrorizing...so terrifying... something so grotesque... so annoying... so disturbing near the west Konoha gates...
"LEE!"
"GAI SENSEI!"
"LEE!"
"GAI SENSEI!"
