7 Chapter - 7

Naruto had a hard time keeping the smile off of his face as he walked through the village. Ino had left late the previous night after they had explored each other thoroughly. He had missed her warmth as he slept that night, but she had needed to get home since her parents may begin to worry. He had stopped by the flowershop to make sure everything was alright and that her parents weren't upset. Luckily, the life of a shinobi meant they could often be called away and without time to let loved ones know. So therefore her parents hadn't been too worried. The smile was a result of the blowjob that Ino had given him before he left the store.

But a thought that did cause the smile to falter was the question of why him. As in why did Kanji give the Temptation Touch jutsu to him? He hadn't thought too much about the man's motives at first, but it had become more prevalent lately in his mind, especially since having only had the jutsu for a few days Naruto was dreaming so ambitiously while the other man was simply using it to charm rich women. He wondered what the man's ulterior motives were. He supposed a part of the reason that he had begun to worry about it was the man didn't seem to have a problem with destroying bonds between people. Such as the governor and his wife, at first he had assumed that the governor may have deserved it, but now wasn't too sure.

Before he could come to a conclusion he saw the girl he was searching for, so put it out of his mind. Ino had been rather positive that Hinata would easily fall prey to his jutsu. However, it quickly became apparent that Ino didn't take one thing into account.

"Hey Hinata," Naruto shouted causing the Hyuuga Heiress to spin quickly a hand moving up to her chest in surprise.

"N-na-Naruto," she said her face changing from the pale white to red as he jogged closer. "How-how-how…" was as far as she got in welcoming him back before she fainted. Luckily for her, Naruto caught her half expecting such an outcome. He smiled down at the now sleeping girl since he now knew that she was like this because of the strength of the feelings that she possessed for him.

He was half tempted to use the jutsu on her while she slept, but felt that would cross a line. Being only a step away from molesting her as she slept, therefore he began to carry her towards the Hyuuga compound. He was almost to the gate when he heard, "What are you doing with the Lady Hinata?"

Turning towards the voice, he said, "Trying to get her home safely Neji."

"I'll take it from here," Neji said, prompting Naruto to shrug and hand over the out cold Hyuuga princess.

"Welcome back," Neji said welcoming, "I'm sure it's a sentiment that Hinata would wish to convey as well were she obviously capable of it. Thanks for watching out for her. I should see her home."

Naruto nodded thinking, "I wonder if you would thank me if you knew what I want to do with her. But I doubt it."

Taking off with a wave he returned to his apartment. Entering it he walked to his chair but stopped seeing the pad that Ino was working on day before. Under the "Need,' category he added a line of question marks. He was still staring at it when Ino came in after closing up her family's shop.

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The Kyuubi was plotting behind the bars of its cage, all the day before the sensations had returned and it began seeing images. Flashes to go along with what it was feeling and they all seemed to center around its current container. Generally its life within the seal was void of anything leaving it trapped with its own endless rage, which was why it could influence the boy when he was angry. But these sensations were strange and foreign to the might chakra beast. The only thing it had ever experienced like it was generally the pain of being attacked by a powerful jutsu. Yet the sensations it had experienced seemed to be the complete opposite of pain.

Wanting to experience more, it focused on some of the images it had seen, and briefly wondered why it was seeing its container as the Kyuubi figured if the sensations were tied to what the boy was doing it would be seeing things from his perspective. But instead it was seeing the boy minus his clothes as it moved almost like it was atop whatever was staring at him. But the sensations it felt, the Kyuubi was almost positive were due to what the boy was doing.

Tired of its sensationless existence, the Kyuubi decided to wait and see if it happened again before acting. It needed more information before it could judge what was happening and before trying to make it so that it happened again.

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Ino returned to Naruto's apartment, seeing him alone in his chair and staring at the pad, she was rather surprised. Commenting on it she said, "I half expected you to be inches deep into Hinata when I came over."

Naruto looked up and smiled at her comment but said, "Unfortunately, she is still prone to fainting around me."

"That's why you bring her here so when she wakes up…"

"And have the Hyuuga begin searching frantically for her when she doesn't turn up where she is supposed to," Naruto said, "No thanks, I don't think I want that kind of attention."

Ino climbed into his lap after shrugging at his comment. Looking at the pad of names she asked, "What do those question marks mean?"

"I was thinking that I'm going to need an agent to move about outside the village to gather information for me," Naruto said, "Somebody that can identify possible targets of interest for me."

"Yeah, so I take it the problem is you don't know who would fit the bill huh?"

"Precisely, it needs to be a kunoichi naturally, but one that nobody would miss as she could be at it for years and I don't want missions she needs to perform distracting her from my goals. Got anyone in mind?"

Ino thought for a moment but said, "Sorry, the only women that fit that bill are missing-nin and I'm not familiar with too many of those."

"Unfortunately neither am I and the few I did meet tend to be scum or have hearts of gold but end up dead. Any way keep your eyes and ears open for me will you?"

"You know I will," Ino said giving him a deep kiss, but before it got to far she moved his hands off of her saying, "Sorry, I have hours at the hospital."

Indicating his erection he said, "You're just going to leave me like this?"

"Consider it your punishment for failing to seduce Hinata," Ino said flashing her smile, before heading towards the door.

Left alone Naruto said, "Well that certainly sucks," but was twice as determined to succeed in his quest the next day.

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Naruto was determined not to fail today, and he had hit upon the perfect plan. He quickly found his target leaving the training field. It appeared to him that Kurenai was feeling a little under the weather so called off their training. He wondered if it was due to her relationship with Asuma, but didn't linger on the thought since his target was walking away by herself.

Watching Hinata, he noticed that her head was down and she was rather down in the dumps as well. He guessed that it may be related to him, since he could easily imagine that she was kicking herself for what she thought was a blown opportunity to talk to him.

Getting ahead of her, he ducked into an alley and put his plan in motion. When Hinata passed the alley he called out in Kiba's voice, "Hey Hinata." The Hyuuga turned towards the sound, but unlike when he called out to her the day before it was more relaxed as was here response, "Hello Kiba, where's Akamaru."

"Oh…he's at the vet's, needs his shots and all that," Naruto said henged as Kiba.

"Don't you usually stay with him?" Hinata asked tilting her head a little.

"Um…he needs to stay overnight…" Naruto said his excuse sounding rather lame to his ears. Before she could inquiry more he changed the subject saying, "By the way, why do you seem so down? It's not because of Kurenai-sensei calling training off is it?"

"No…" Hinata said, "I-I ran into Naruto yesterday."

"Really that's cool, I bet he's gotten way stronger," Naruto said not above tooting his own horn.

Hinata seemed to get even more depressed before saying, "I wouldn't know…I didn't even really get to say hello before I fainted on him. He probably thinks I'm weird."

Naruto wanted to refute what she said, but considering that was exactly what he thought till Ino told him the reason behind her fainting and blushing didn't think he could deny it convincingly so kept quiet. "Well there's always tomorrow right," Naruto said.

"I suppose," Hinata said while wondering why Kiba was being so supportive today, "but I'll probably make a fool of myself next time as well."

"Hey now, if you spend so much time worrying about it like that it might become a self-fulfilling prophesy," Naruto said.

Grabbing her hand he began pulling her down the street prompting the girl to ask, "Where are you taking me?"

"We're going to have fun and make you forget all about your troubles," Naruto said pulling her towards the market district.