.. oh hell you know what I mean." I laughed. "Yes I do and I would be honored to go to lunch with you." Wonderful, let's go." He took a hold of my han...d as we walked down the mall and it was as naturally as if he were my father or my lover. We went into a Red Rooster and were shown to a table right away. There weren't many customers mostly because it was almost three and we were between the lunch and dinner crowds. We both ordered a glass of wine and sat there chatting like old friends. His name. W-when did you come?" "I just saw you and sat down next to you because I wanted to talk with you a bit." "I-is that so? W-what do you want to talk about?" "Let's go for a walk; we can chat while walking." She nods, and they both get up and go for a walk."So, what are your plans for today Hinata?" Naruto asks her, as he takes the lead about where they are heading to, without Hinata noticing it. "N-n-nothing, really. I only have some team training later." "I see..." He answers as they continue. Seeing her tears for the first time did more to shock me back into a semblance of awareness than the influx of oxygen into my starved tissues. Painfully I rolled into a sitting position and pulled her to me, the first time I'd ever actually initiated any kind of physical contact between us.She clung to me and sobbed, and even though I hadn't really done anything on purpose I felt like a heel. This strong girl was crying because of me. I glanced over her head and saw Mr. Langston looking very. “You hadn’t been gone a week before Father started up,” Ayesha told Monty. “He began cursing and ranting how we’d usurped his authority in his own home and he wasn’t going to stand for it. That was about it for two days, then he showed up with five men he’d hired – to protect him – he said.” He forbade us to leave our house and told us that his men had authority to stop us any way they needed.”“All that was before he started drinking, and bad things got worse,” AlvaBeth filled in. “Then he came.