He is less then successful

Naruto spent a good hour roaming the village in an useless attempt to find the red-haired sound kunoichi. Naruto couldn't believe he hadn't decided to make a meeting spot for them so he didn't have to waste his time doing this the last time they had bumped into each other. "It was hard enough finding them in the first place! Now I can't even find a trace of them again!", Naruto yelled in aggravation from his place on one of the many rooftops of the village.

Taking in a deep breath to calm himself Naruto thought to himself ' Okay... Tayuya is in the finals, that means she is going to be there tomorrow. I can explain it all to her when I see her then. Besides, I have a ton of other things to do today.'. Naruto nodded as he thought it over.

Naruto instead decided to spend his time doing something more productive. Besides having his meeting later with Temari, he also wanted to check up on Hinata. He was a bit curious as to how well his girlfried was dealing with being taken in by his sensei. So Naruto once again began the trek to his teachers apartment yet again. But before reaching her house, Naruto saw a shop and with a grin made a quick stop and bought something for his recovering girlfriend and then quickly ran the last few blocks to the home.

Landing in front of the door, Naruto gave a short knock and waited a moment as he heard movement inside. The door opened to reveal Hinata, who was visibly surprised to see him standing there. "Naruto-kun? What are you doing here?", Hinata asked as he grinned. "Well, I wanted to see how you were doing, and... well...", Naruto said before trailing off. Then, he pulled his present from around his back and showed Hinata the still hot cinnamon rolls. "I got you your favorite snack, too.", he grinned.

Hinata blushed at her boyfriends gesture as she smiled. "Naruto-kun... thank you.", she said before realizing he was still outside. "Oh! I'm sorry! Please come in, Naruto-kun!", Hinata said as she opened the door further, allowing him inside before she shut the door behind him.

Shortly there after, Naruto and Hinata were sitting on the sofa in the living room, eating the snack Naruto had bought her. "So Hinata-chan, how has it been with Kurenai-sensei?", Naruto asked as she stopped nibbling on her roll. "It's been good, Naruto-kun. Kurenai-sensei has been very nice to me since she took me in.", Hinata answered quietly as she smiled a bit.

"Speaking of which, where is she?", Naruto asked, looking around the apartment as Hinata sighed. "She had to go get some food for tonights dinner and my medicine. She will be back in a little bit. She has been making sure I take my pills regularly, that I sleep well and that I eat as much as I can.", Hinata said. "Wow, she's really taking this whole adopting thing seriously.", Naruto muttered as Hinata nodded.

"When I woke up, she was there and told me how she decided to adopt me, I was surprised, of course.", Hinata admitted shyly. "But I used to be taken to the academy by her when I was younger, so I already knew her somewhat.", Hinata admitted, surprising Naruto. He hadn't known that before. So Kurenai-sensei had been around Hinata a lot before this?

"So you're not sad or anything?", Naruto asked as she shook her head a bit. "I was Naruto-kun, but it wasn't for what my father did. I was sad because I lost, Naruto-kun. I didn't win like Ino-san or Sakura-san did.", Hinata said, making Naruto look at her. "Hinata-chan, that's no reason to be sad! I mean, Tenten-chan lost her match, too!", Naruto said as he grabbed her hands in his, making the surprised Hyuuga girl look at him with a fresh blush on her cheeks.

"Besides Hinata-chan, you did great! Against your own cousin when you weren't trying to hurt him and giving it your all, you were amazing!", Naruto grinned as she turned to look away, the smile on her face telling Naruto his coaching was working. "Naruto-kun.", Hinata whispered in embaressed happiness before he leaned over and kissed her cheek, making the blush explode over Hinata's face.

Hinata shook off the shock before smiling again. "Naruto-kun, it's like I said. I'm not sad anymore, I still have my team and Kurenai-sensei, I have Ino-san and Sakura-san, Tenten-san...", Hinata said before leaning in close. "But most importantly, I have you, Naruto-kun, and now I don't have to worry about what the Hyuuga clan thinks... I can just be with you.", Hinata said happily before they kissed each other on the lips in a moment of private romance.

Or it would have been had a voice not called out. "Ah, to be in love and carefree...'that's the spirit of youth', as Gai would say.", Kurenai sighed dramatically, getting Hinata to "Eep!!!", out of surprise as she jumped away from Naruto. "Kurenai-sensei, that wasn't nice!", Naruto said with narrowed eyes, although his teacher could hear the mirth in his tone. "Well, I don't need you two getting frisky on my living room sofa.", Kurenai replied as she carried the bags in her hands into the kitchen.

'Yeah, since we already did that, Sensei.', Naruto thought to himself as he smiled to himself at the memory of one of his previous rewards for diligent work. "Well Hinata-chan, I think I better get going. I have another thing I need to take care of today before the day is through.", Naruto said, smiling to his girlfriend as she nodded. "Uum... Naruto-kun?", Hinata said getting his attention again as he stood up to leave.

"Um... before the exams start tomarrow... you want to meet at Ichiraku... you know... to talk?", Hinata asked, making Naruo grin as he nodded. "Sure Hinata-chan, I would love to meet you there. I was going to anyway.", Naruto smiled as she nodded. "Okay... tomorrow then.", Hinata said happily before he walked out the door of his senseis apartment.

"Now then...", Naruto thought to himself. "I took care of Kin-chan and Hinata-chan, that just leaves Temari-chan.", Naruto said with a nod to his game plan as he started walking towards the dango shop they had been to a month ago.