Chapter Thirty Five

   "Valentine's Day is soon, what do you guys have in mind for gifts? I have no idea what to get Hinata." Naruto said to his friends as they sat in the cafeteria,"Same, what do you get a girl who has everything?" Shikamaru asked his friends, making them all nod in agreement, except for Sai. "I'm giving Ino a portrait I've been painting." Naruto sighed deeply, "Well some of us are artistically deficient." Sai shrugged his shoulders with nonchalance, "Well what are you guys good at?"

The question made them all ponder for a moment, and Sai chuckled. "Come on, you guys. There has to be something." Naruto sighed deeply, and dramatically said, "I'm literally not good at anything." Neji laughed, "Yeah dude, you did set the bar pretty high by proposing to her on her birthday. Nothings topping that." Sighing again he said, "No shit, Neji. She's literally spoiled, what can I possibly get her?" He shrugged his shoulders, "It won't be hard, she practically worships the ground you walk on. As for the rest of us normal people? I always ask Ino for gift ideas, she's good at those sort of things."

They all nodded in agreement, "I think I'll do the same. Gotta stay on my pedestal." Naruto joked, making them laugh a little. "What are you guys plans for next week?" He asked Kiba, Choji, and Lee, "I'm having dinner with my dad's coworkers daughter." Choji said, making all of their brows raise in surprise. Laughing at their expressions he explained, "Don't worry, she's hot." They all nodded, "Yeah, but dude....." Shikamaru started, making all of them grimace at what followed. "What?" Choji asked, putting his chips down, and looking at his friend with narrowed eyes.

"You're a slob." Sai said nonchalantly before anyone else could, making them all agree. "Yeah." All five of them agreed, making him roll his eyes. "It's never stopped the ladies before." He said while shrugging, and they laughed as they shook their heads. "We were all different before finding our girlfriends, but you know that in order to keep them we had to change, right?" Shikamru asked, "In what ways have you changed exactly?" Choji asked, bringing a blush to his friends face. "Well I've stopped smoking." He said with a shoulder shrug. "She got you to quit smoking? Wow. Temari must be something special."

  A smile he tried to hide came to his face, and they all playfully teased him. "Yeah, yeah whatever. Anyways, before her I was a nicotine addict. I'm not saying this girl is the love of your life, but don't be a slob." He sighed, "Well how?" Choji asked, making Naruto chime in. "Don't eat all of the food on the table, including hers of course." "Even if she offers it to you." Kiba warned, making them all nod in agreement. "Honestly only eat her food if she's feeding it to you." They all nodded in agreement, and Choji nodded in understanding. "You guys are being dramatic." Lee said while laughing.

"You've just got to woo her, Choji." He continued, making them all roll their eyes. "How did wooing go for you, Lee? Don't you remember your grand gesture for Sakura?" A deep blush came to his face, while the rest of them laughed at the memory, and Naruto asked with a chuckle, "Sakura?" He laughed while nodding, "You know what? I'm not even embarrassed. She's so beautiful, I had to make a move." Kiba shook his head at the thought, laughing a little before saying, "That was such a disaster."

"We've all had our fair share of embarrassing stories, don't worry about it dude." Naruto reassured, before taking a sip of his water. Their conversation was cut short as the girls they were discussing joined them, with the exception of Sakura and Temari. "Hello, Princess." Naruto said with a smile, before she kissed his forehead. "Hello, how was lunch?""It was fine. Did you guys actually eat this time?" He asked, and a blush came to her face, giving him his answer before she even parted her lips to answer. "You said you'd eat, Princess."

"No, I definitely wanted to, we just all got caught up in conversation, you know?" He nodded in understanding, while getting up from his seat so that she could sit. "Here, sit, have my Apple, and we can grab something after school? Before my fight." The loving gaze in her eyes brought a smile to his face as she nodded, before kissing his lips. "Okay." "How is she doing?" Naruto asked the girls, just as he saw Sasuke walk through the cafeteria doors. "Better. She was up and walking around when we got there, and she says she's starting rehab soon."

Naruto smiled, "Well that's good! I know Sasuke must be relived." He said just as he sat down. "About?" Sasuke asked, "Sakura being better." A small smile came to his face and he answered simply, "Yeah." Naruto chuckled a little at his response, before kissing his girlfriends forehead as he felt his phone ringing in his pocket. "I'm gonna take this. See you later, Princess."

With that, he was off towards the courtyard to answer the unknown number. The minute he answered, he was met with Danzo's stern tone. "Sorry to interrupt your school day, but I wanted to talk to you before your big fight tonight. We have a problem." Walking away from the mass of people at his school, Naruto asked in a hushed tone, "What is it, Sir?" "I have a lot of money on this fight tonight, as you know, and I need you to throw the fight."

Naruto's handsome face was expression less, though on the inside he was becoming more and more pissed off. "W-what? You couldn't of possibly bet that much on the other guy." He said with a groan, "Well when I initially placed the bet, I wasn't aware of your records. I'm sorry, Son, but he's a bulky guy, with years of experience." Naruto chuckled to keep from exploding, "You know what? I get what you're saying, and the last thing I want is for you to lose money, but I will think about it. Hiashi gives me a large cut of everything I earn, and if I throw the fight I'll be out of the entire tournament."

"This isn't something you should have to think about, Naruto. It's a dumb fight, and I'm asking you for a small favor. Has Hiashi become that important to you? Do you actually think he cares about you." That made Naruto roll his eyes, while hearing the bell ring, signaling that it was time for him to head to school. "I-I have to go, the bell just rang." Danzo chuckled crudely, "Just take what I said into consideration. You know I don't like to lose money, I'd hate for you to see that side of me, Son. Have a good day at school." With that he hung up the phone, and Naruto just sighed deeply, before stuffing his phone in his pocket, and heading towards his next class.

Just a few hours later, Naruto was expressing his troubles to his friends in his locker room. "He wants you to purposefully lose? You can't do that." Sakura said with a frown. "Well why are you even considering it?" Hinata asked him, making him sigh deeply. "He knows what'll happen if he doesn't listen to what Danzo says."

Sasuke answered on his behalf, "What could he do? You guys always said he treated you guys like his sons." Sakura asked, "That's because we did everything he wanted us to. He knows somethings up, Naruto. We haven't been to a meeting in weeks."

Sighing deeply again, Naruto just face palmed. "Someone just tell me what I should do. If I lose, I'll be out the tournament, and that's a lot of money, but if I win? I don't know what he'd do." Hinata nodded, and appeared calm although she was as decomposed as Naruto.

"Well he's here now, what if my Dad talks to him? I know they're not exactly friends, but he wouldn't knowingly let something happen to you, you know?"

He pulled her closer by her hand, and wrapped his arm around her waist. "I wish that would work, Princess, but I know Danzo, and it would just piss him off more. Him and your Dad have never liked each other, you know?"

She nodded, while placing her hand on his shoulder. "O-oh right. Okay, then what if we just take the loss, Babe? I don't want you getting hurt, you know? Money comes and goes." Naruto just shook his head, while subconsciously playing with the waistband of her skirt.

"Princess, we're getting married, and we're so scared of what your father will do that we won't even tell him." Though he was right, she wasn't sure what else to say. He was right, and they all knew it, but the last thing she wanted him to do was put his life on the line for the sake of her, again.

"Can you guys give us a quick second?" She asked their friends, making them nod before walking out of the room. Sasuke held the door open for Sakura, and the door closed behind them.

Placing her hand delicately on his handsome face, she offered him a smile. "I support whatever decision you make, but, Naruto? I don't want you to make this decision about us, because you're right, we are getting married. We'll be okay, no matter what happens, because we have each other. We don't need money, we'll figure it all out when the times comes."

Naruto nodded, although he thought the complete opposite. He recognized that since she was a person who grew up wealthy, and was always granted anything she wanted, she never really understood what it was like to be poor.

Naruto grew up an orphan, one so poor that he had to learn how to ration his small meals so that he wouldn't starve to death. Once he was able to start providing for himself, he didn't look back, and the last thing he wanted was to be unable to provide for his wife. Knowing exactly what he needed to do, he stood up from his barstool and kissed his fiancée passionately.

"I love you, Princess." He said, pulling away from her lips for a moment, making her smile cutely. "I love you, Naruto."

With her hands on either side of his face, she blushed as she asked, "You have a little while before your fight, right?" He looked behind her at the digital clock on the wooden table, "I do, actually."

Moving his hands to her waist, he used one arm to lift her up, and the other to clear the desk of the things that covered it, making her laugh cutely. Their lips wasted no time as they kissed each other, and their hands worked to pull off each other's clothes. "W-wait actually I think that I forgot to take my pill this morning."

Pausing for a moment, he tried to remember if she had, and he groaned when he knew that she hadn't. "Yeah, you had to rush because Hanabi woke up late."

She nodded, while biting her bottom lip, "B-but we could keep going if you want, you know? We'd just have to be super careful. Unless you have a condom?" Hinata asked, teasingly tracing the outline of his hardening rod with her index finger. A blush came to his handsome face, making her smile at his flustered face. "I-I don't, b-but yeah we definitely could."

With that, Hinata wasted no time in spitting on the palm of her hand, and stroking him with care. While he moaned in her ear, as his hands moved her skirt up, deciding not to waste time by pulling it off. Using his saliva as lubricant, he quickly spit on his hand, and gently started to finger her pulsing walls.

"Does this feel good?" He asked her, with his lips gently kissing her earlobe. "So good." She moaned, while feeling the familiar tingling sensation creep up her thighs. Her hand caressed him, until she felt some of his essence start to spurt onto her fingers.

"Mm, Naruto?" She said, making him look into her eyes, as she brought her white coated fingers to her parted lips, and licked his liquid off. "Princess?"

"Make love to me." She said with a smile, making him smile too, before gently grabbing the back of her neck, and kissing her lips, as she had an orgasm. Naruto sucked his fiancée's neck, leaving a reddening bruise as her lips filled his ears with moans from the pleasure his fingers brought her.

"Fuck, I missed the way you feel." He moaned, thrusting his hips toward hers, as his thumb gently circled the sensitive bud between her inner thighs, bringing her closer to the familiar feeling of a release.

A thin layer of perspiration covered her flawless skin, as Naruto continued to hit all of the right places. Her thighs quaked, and she got intense butterflies in the pit of her stomach from another approaching orgasm. Biting her bottom lip, she kissed his to keep from moaning too loud, while he released his semen.

"F-fuck, Princess." He moaned in between breathes, making her smile before kissing him passionately, still throbbing around his rod. When he pulled out, she pulled away as she realized what had just happened. "We forgot."

He grimaced, "I did. Shit, I'm sorry. I'll just get you the morning after pill, okay?" She nodded, "Okay. I'm sorry, I'm usually on top of my pill in the first place."

His thumb gently caressed her face as he looked into her beautiful eyes, "Don't apologize. Today was pretty hectic for the both of us. Thank you for the advice, it really helped." She smiled, and pecked his lips. "I'm glad I could help, Naruto."

Kissing his lips one more time, before they both got dressed again, and fixed their clothes. "You ripped my undies?" She asked, making him laugh a little. "Sorry." Hinata couldn't help but laugh while saying, "No you're not."

Their cute laughs filled the room as Naruto bent don't to start putting his things back on the desk, "Yeah, Princess. I'm not." Picking up the clock, he let out a small sigh, and tried to smile while saying, "Well it's almost that time."

  Smiling, she hopped off of the desk, and picked up his glove wrap from the floor. "Can I wrap your hands?" She asked, cutely tilting her head to the left while gazing into his eyes. "Sure, Princess."

Placing her hand on his shoulder, she made him sit in the chair from before, and took one of his hands. "Whatever you decide, I'll be proud of you, all of us will really. Then we can go home, and spend time with the kids, you know?"

Her saying that made him look up at her beautiful face with a smile on his face, realizing that he truly saw his entire future in front of him. His lingering gaze made her look up from his hand, and smile as she saw his infectious one.

"You saying that gives me deja vu." He admitted, while she took his other hand. "Maybe I'm foreshadowing." Hinata mumbled, not necessarily referring to the fact that they had just had unprotected sex. "Hopefully. I can't wait to make you my wife, then the mother of my children. You're gonna be a total milf, I can see it now." That made her burst out in laughter, "Naruto." He laughed too, placing his wrapped hand on her hip. "I'm serious, Princess!"

"I know you are, that's why it's so funny. But do they feel tight enough? Or too tight?" She asked while letting go of his hand. Flexing and relaxing his fingers he shook his head, "Just right. Thank you."

Hinata smiled just as a knock came to his door. "Of course. I'm guessing that's Sasuke and your trainer, so I'll see you out there, okay?" Naruto nodded and leaned up to kiss her lips one last time. "Okay. I love you." Kissing his lips, she playfully ruffled his unruly hair. "I love you too."

"Well you're here awfully early, Hiashi." Danzo said to the man, seeing him from the corner of his eye as he took his seat next to him. "Just thought I'd check out the competition. How about you? Naruto isn't up for another hour." He asked, while taking a cigar from his pocket, and politely offering him one.

"Thank you. We had the same idea actually. I had to make sure Naruto had a good chance of course." Hiashi nodded, "He definitely does. My sources tell me that you have a lot of money betting against him though, I wish you the best of luck with that."

Danzo chuckled lightly while exhaling smoke. "Your sources, eh? Are you keeping tabs on me, Hiashi?" He laughed a little too, "You know the answer to that already, don't you?"

His lavender eyes stayed on the fight happening below them, while Danzo watched him intently. "I do, and though I'd love to blame the sudden interest, on Naruto being involved with miss Hinata, I'd love for you to humor me on why. We've coexisted for years, I'd hate for there to be a problem now."

Though he wanted to roll his eyes at his coyness, Hiashi nodded while gently tapping the end of his cigar against his ashtray. "My interest in your business is solely based on my daughters involvement with Naruto. You claim that he's like a son to you, so I wonder why you allow for him to be roped into such dirty work? He's legally an adult now, so you know that if he's ever caught doing any of the things you oversee, he'll be facing serious time."

Danzo laughed to keep from getting obviously angry. "You truly have no idea what you're talking about, because if you did, you wouldn't question my loyalty to Naruto. So I'm going to give you the opportunity to apologize to me."

He shook his head at the stubborn man, and finally made eye contact with him. "He's a bright kid, and an important asset to my family, but you know that already. So give me a price." Hiashi stated simply, leaving a dumbfounded look on Danzo's face, like he expected.

"You're willing to offer me money for what exactly?" He asked, clearly interested in hearing an offer. "If I write you a check, I want you to cut ties with him. It's obvious that he's going to be around, and I don't want my daughter involved in any of it, so give me a number, Danzo."

As his smirk formed into a word, they were both interrupted by Hinata being let in the exclusive room, followed by her father's body guard. "Is everything okay, Sweetie?" He asked her as she nervously looked at her feet, trying to avoid Danzo's intense gaze.

"E-everything's fine. Can we talk somewhere privately, Dad?" Danzo watched the both of them walk away with a smirk on his face. He was surprised by Hiashi's generosity, although he simultaneously wondered what his ulterior motive was.

Once Hiashi returned the fight was starting, and their other acquaintances filled the area, waiting with anticipation. Out of the ten men, half of them placed bets in favor of Naruto winning the first few rounds, and making it to the next level of the tournament, while the other half bet that he'd win all of it.

As Naruto danced around the ring, dodging every hit his opponent threw, he was determined to stick to his plan. He knew that he was going to win, but as he relied on his defensive tactics, he was starting to have second thoughts.

Maybe Hinata was right? He asked himself, the question made him zone out for a moment, leaving him open as his opponent took advantage of it. "So I'm guessing he made his decision." Sakura said to Hinata, as all of them watched him get punched in the face. It made her grimace, "I-I guess so?"

  Sakura nodded, glancing at Sasuke while he watched the fight unfold. "Well at least we know he'll be safe. It was a good amount of money though, so I get why he was so hesitant."

"How much money is the prize anyways?" She asked as the referee interfered, and each of the fighters went back to their respective corners. "Fifty grand." Her eyebrows rose, "Really? That's crazy."

Sakura nodded in agreement, "Right? Like this isn't even professional boxing." They changed the topic as their friends migrated toward them. "What's going on with him? He's like barely trying." Neji pointed out making them all agree. "I-I don't know. Maybe this round will be different."

Hearing the bell ring, they all watched as Naruto came out of his corner a completely different person. "Oh?" Sakura said aloud, watching as Naruto wasted no time in attacking his opponent at full force.

"Yeah!" Konohamaru cheered alongside the crowd, while Hiashi watched from the gallery. He smirked at Danzo's face of pure shock. He had no doubt that Naruto would be winning the fight tonight, and as he sat there with his arms crossed against his chest, he wondered what Danzo had under his sleeve. Hinata had informed him of the threats, and the last thing he wanted was for Naruto to be injured before his next fight.

"Hell of a fight, wasn't it?" Hiashi said smugly, making the men around him roll their eyes. "Walk with me for a moment, Danzo, before we go congratulate our man of the hour." He said while leaving the room before arguing broke out.

"I was made aware of your proposition to Naruto, regarding whether or not he won this match. Now I understand that you've lost a lot of money tonight, but before you do anything rash, I thought I'd let you know that it would be in your best interest not to lay a hand on Naruto, and I don't mean that in a threatening manner, think of it as a business proposal. A verbal contract if you will."

His smile was sickly sweet as he spoke, before patting him on his back, and continuing his walk while Danzo halted. "You son of a bitch." He said, realizing that it was his plan all along.

Hiashi knew that if he lost so much money he'd be willing to do anything to get it back, regardless of legality. So he offered him an easy out, which he knew he would take eagerly. "Have a goodnight."