They took separate showers, having to since they were so small or she was sure Naruto would have insisted considering how unsteady she had been on her feet, and as it was he stayed in the bathroom which made it harder to focus and harder to hide how much she hurt but she thought she did a good job in the end.
Neither bothered getting dressed after, though Hinata was cold she liked the way he looked at her body even if it made it hard to look at him still.
"You can have the futon, I can sleep on the floor." Naruto said as soon as she was out of the shower feeling freezing.
"Y-you're the M-master, you should- I-I was sleeping all day a-anyway."
He frowned but said "You seem pretty tired to me. If you feel tired I want you to kick me out and sleep."
"I-I couldn't, I- M-maybe we could f-fit on it together?" She asked doubting it.
He looked at the futon with such a comically skeptical look on his face that she couldn't help but giggle.
"Oh! I know!" His hands went into the familiar 'T' shape and he called out "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
Several clones immediately appeared in puffs of smoke and she nearly fainted- she was shocked how well she was doing with that to be honest. Getting handjobs and sex with clones, one's that popped and were replaced dozens of times in any session, tickling, food play (the things that boy did with ramen...) and more had toughened her up some, she thought, considering how often she'd fainted at first, having missed a great deal of it to her disappointment.
"Really boss?" One of them asked even as two of them carted out the futon before returning.
"Do you want her to sleep on the floor?" Naruto the original asked incredulously.
"Objection withdrawn." He said sadly, transforming into a bed frame.
A second transformed into a mattress which the three remaining Narutos to her shock moved onto the frame.
Another into a sheet. Two into pillows, another into a sheet and finally into a blanket going on top.
Hinata despite her progress at the idea of using transformed Naruto's as bed to blanket lost the battle fainted.
She woke up in bed, Naruto with a cold rag on her forehead shouted "Clone-Chan! What happened, I thought you were fine!" Between Naruto doting on her and being in a bed she dimly realized was made out of clones of him she nearly fainted again but struggled her best to remain conscious to try to explain.
"I-I.. I l-liked t-the i-idea bed too much Master.." She blushed brightly.
"Huh?" Naruto said sounding utterly confused.
"I... I-imagine they invented a ramen that tasted a hundred times b-better then you took that first bite, overwhelming but in a g-good way sort of."
"A bed made out of me is your Super Ramen?" He still sounded confused but Hinata noticed how casually he said Super Ramen practically able to feel the capital letters and wondered briefly how often he'd thought of such a thing with a giggle.
"Y-yes, I... I g-guess I'm different a-as a girl Master."
"Oh, that makes sense I guess." He said with a shrug. "You're sure you're okay?"
"Y-yes Master."
"Good enough for me."
Hinata felt paradoxically like she'd never get to sleep and as if she'd faint at any moment when Naruto climbed in bed awkwardly reaching out and when she didn't object cuddling with her using her breasts as a pillow.
She still managed, somehow.
Hinata woke up with their situations reversed, her head resting on his chest in a way that simply felt right.
Then he started squirming.
She blushed scarlet, quickly getting off him and he dashed to the bathroom, the sound of 'water' hitting water and the loud "Ahhh!" making her wonder just how long she'd been keeping him hostage making her feel sick.
Looking at the alarm clock she saw it was nearly 9AM and Naruto was going to be late and panicked for a moment before realizing it was Saturday. Then she realized just how sore she still was and panicked realizing it was Saturday.
Getting up she winced as the urge to pee made itself known. She sat on the toiet with a smile even as Naruto dashed away chanting "RamenRamenRamen!"
She sighed as she got off and finished her morning obligations, to her curiosity finding a new toothbrush in pink and orange evidently meant for her wondering where she got it.
Then she returned to the bedroom, the bed gone and in it's place an open wardrobe. She gasped as she saw the clothing, each and every thing in there looking like it came out out of a high end boutique even if not every piece was perfect or would fit right.
"Surprise!" Naruto shouted and she jumped a bit in fright.
"H-how?"
"Secret!" he said with a grin.
"Y-you shouldn't have- this must have cost a fortune.." With the shopkeepers overcharging him when they let him in their shops at all and the fact he didn't have nearly that much money she had no idea where they could have come from.
"Didn't cost a single yen." He said smugly.
Did he, no he wouldn't steal it would he? If he did steal it did she even care?
"T-thank you Master."
"Don't mention it." He said with a laugh scratching the back of his head.
She pulled on a pair of lacy panties finding them incredibly warm, or maybe that was just the rush of pleasure at the gift? She really should find some way to thank him and got an idea. Watching his reaction out of the corner of her eye as she held up various pieces of clothing she eventually ended up in fishnet stockings, a mini skirt, a tight blouse without bra and a pair of heels. She felt like a tramp but the way he stared at her body made it worth it.
"Wow, you look fantastic Clone-Chan. You know, if.. if you're going to be staying you should really have a name, is there any name you'd like?"
"I, um, maybe-" She couldn't use Hinata, he'd mentioned in passing yesterday how she was missing seeming sad about that to her surprise but she needed something she'd respond to...
"Hina?" She asked thinking it might work. Not too close but close enough that she'd respond to it.
"Hina, that's a nice name Hina-Chan." She blushed deeper.
"Oh, breakfast is ready! Come on before it's cold!" She barely managed to grab a person even a her hand was seized nearly dragging her to the kitchen where it the ramen was cold but reheated well enough even as she sat on the new padded, heated and gilded chair feeling like a slave-queen.
"So whatcha want to do today?" Naruto asked after his third bowl.
"Um, I thought I'd go to a store and buy some grocery's."
"Okay, I was thinking of training a bit, meet you here for lunch at noon?"
"Sure." Hina said with a smile.
"Alright, here's your key, Jii-Jii gave me an extra."
Key to Naruto' apartment? She held onto it as if it were the most important thing she'd ever been given, which was good because it was.
Hina formerly Hinata struggled with the groceries, so used to enhancing herself with chakra. She hated asking things from Naruto but wondered if she should ask him to look at her seal and maybe rework it to at least allow her chakra not caring if the rest of it remained really.
Thankfully nothing happened, she was still stronger than the average civilian from working out so much and her balance was perhaps the best of the recently graduated Genin, and she made it back to the apartment in one piece.
She felt guilty but bought some more feminine soaps and shampoos and ...products she thought with a blush, hoping Naruto would understand. She also picked up a couple cook books for them and while she was at it a meditation book for him it'd help him more than anything. In exchange she visited four grocery stores to hunt for the best bargains, feeling satisfied and a bit smug at her prowess at having saved more than enough to cover what she'd paid for in books and hygiene products.
She went to the bedroom quickly surprised to see the wardrobe gone but shrugging it off, maybe he'd only rented it from a kind shop owner that allowed her to choose an outfit to buy out of it? She'd heard of crazier things.
Hina looked at the sole clock in the home and saw it was only eleven. Part of her wanted to rest after a long day in heels, settling for sitting down for a few minutes after kicking them off scanning the cook books in more detail than in the store settling on a recipe that seemed simple enough and considering his love for Ramen thought he'd enjoy.
Getting up she looked but to her shock she couldn't find her shoes. She really had to clean the apartment... It was a bit .. It was an absolute sty she admitted. Naruto had many great qualities but cleaning wasn't one of them.
It was hard, particularly as she'd needed to hurry to get the bread made and baked in time but she managed just, setting the last thing to cooking as she heard the door open.
"Hina, I'm home." He said sounding confused.
"Something wrong Master?" she said surprised just how natural the word was for him.
"No, but something smells good, what is it?"
"Oh! It's bread a noodle kind of like ramen called Spaghetti in tomato sauce and balls of meat."
"How did you manage to make all that?" Oh, she realized why he was confused.
"I hope you don't mind but I got a couple cook books- they weren't too hard to follow but this was probably one of the easiest recipes."
"Ah! Er, not to be, um, I don't care but how much did you spend?" Instead of answering she handed him the remaining money and a few receipts which he read, knowing he'd be curious, knowing and wanting to protect him from it but more not wanting to lie more to him began rubbing his back. It didn't seem to help.
"They... They've been charging me four, five times as much... I..." He said in sudden comprehension tinged with anger and sadness.
"N-not that much, I hunted for deals to save money-" She winced as the pot boiled over.
"S-Sorry, I have to get that- um, it'll be ready in a minute." she said hesitant to leave him alone.
She quickly scrambled to get everything finished. Thankfully he hadn't ran off on her in depression or anger, just staring at the papers blankly.
Then perked up when he saw the plate of food suddenly covering them.
"This is hard to eat but good." He said, wondering why the noodles were so long evidently as he picked one all the way off his plate with the chop sticks.
"T-thanks." Hina blushed as he slurped up the noodles with a glee that she'd only seen him use on ramen and... and her she remembered, last night in the kitchen.
Again as she washed the dishes he came from behind her and insisted on helping she decided she'd leave dishes till later the next time and do them when he was gone not wanting him to trouble himself on her account.
"So um.. You liked being tied up?" He asked hesitantly, apparently washing dishes with an ulterior motive, not that she minded all that much.
"I- um... yes." It had been interesting and exciting at first... to be honest... then gone on for far too long and had been much too painful but... she would hardly tell him that.
"Would you mind if I, well, if we tried that again?"
"N-no, whatever you want Master, please never hold back on my account, never, please promise me."
His eyes widened in shock. "Why?"
How could she explain that she didn't want him turning insane from abusing clones? She'd tried convincing him before and it seemed to work but then this nervousness came up again and she had the feeling there were hundreds of things he wanted to try but was too afraid to.
"I- um, I'm you but your opposite in some ways?" she started, but he was clearly confused again.
"I mean, I love ramen-" Half because Naruto does she admitted to herself, "-but not enough for every meal." She held up a plate in demonstration. "I... I will do anything for you gleefully if only because you asked, it makes me happy to. Maybe it was the seal or the hit on the head but I now I don't care why, I like making you happy in anyway I can."
"You must have lost more memories than I thought... I-.. I don't like cup ramen that much." He admitted as if dropping the largest bombshell ever. "Ichiraku's is fantastic but cup ramen... that's just what I ate because it was all I could afford and it was good but.. I forgot to say, thanks for lunch it... thank you."
"Y-You're welcome." Naruto doesn't like Ramen? Is everything a lie?
"But if you learn how to make ramen even half as good as Ichiraku's I'll want that for every meal."
"Once a week." She said jokingly.
He gasped "Blasphemy, lunches only then?"
"4 meals a week and you'll promise me you'll never hold back on doing what you want to me." She wagered, wanting him healthy as well as happy.
"I... You should know first, I... I don't think you understand. I know that I'm a monster already-"
"You're not!"
"I am-"
"Not!"
Naruto looked flustered and couldn't help the sad smile on his face. "I am, can you please let me finish?"
Reluctantly she nodded but felt angry he thought such horrible things, the villagers filling his head with garbage.
"I don't understand how you... How could you forget... I'm- After I failed the genin exam Mizuki told me of a secret way to become a genin, and after I stole the Scroll of Seals Iruka came and berated me for it even though I'd learned a technique from it, then Mizuki showed up admitting it was a trick and... and he told me that I'm the Nine-Tailed-Fox right before attacking Iruka... I couldn't stop him in time, I thought he was dead and... I killed Mizuki, slowly, painfully, I.. I enjoyed it, I liked causing him pain, making him- and I've been doing the same thing to you!"
She trembled and he seemed to wilt.
"T-That's terrible. I... How can people be so cruel?" she said fury tinging her words making him flinch. "I-I'm sorry M-mizuki betrayed you, b-but you're not a monster!"
"What? But.. But I enjoyed it... and did you hear about that bit about the big fox that makes the whole village hate me is in my stomach? Even the Hokage and Iruka hate me I think... Iruka hasn't been the same since I killed his friend, and the Hokage... I want to be Hokage and... well, it's not a democracy. If he wanted to he could have helped me but he... He doesn't, didn't, won't-"
"I don't hate you!"
"Well yeah, you're a clone of me." She hesitated before deciding, anything to make him feel better even if it cost her everything "I'm not a clone."
"Uh-huh, right Cloney-Mc-Clone-Face. You don't have to lie to me to make me feel better."
"I'm not- I... I-" How do you tell someone that you were stalking them for months then pretended to be a clone of them?
"If you want to you can go, I'll understand-"
"I don't, I- Y-you didn't seem to remember me but y-you saved me from bullies, and ever since then I've... admired you, liked you- I saw you trying so hard, always getting back on your feet and those feeling only grew... I.. I- I couldn't bring myself to talk to you, to burden you someone so weak, someone whose clan would make things even worse for you, but when I saw... I- You and your clones doing things... I-I switched with one- s-so if for only one n-night I could be with y-you."
Naruto gaped.
"I'm sorry for-" Her arms were soon full of a sobbing Naruto
"So... where do we go from here?"
"I.. the same as it's been is f-fine, if you still want m-me around-"
"Of course I do Hina! Hey, what is your name anyway?"
"Hina." She said firmly.
"I know that's your name now but what was it before?"
She swallowed but she couldn't refuse him. "H-Hinata Hyuga"
"Huh, sounds familiar." He scratched his chin, "Oh hey, yeah you went missing a couple days ago and you used to be in my class didn't you Hina-Chan?"
"Y-yes but please- if... if you're going to t-turn me in please j-just give me a w-warning." After seeing Neji turn from happy to miserable to cold and angry in a single day she'd rather die than be sealed by her family.
"Huh? Why would I turn you in?"
"You- you aren't?"
"Of course not!"
Her smile felt like nothing could wipe it away.
"So, you really like being hurt?" He asked confused.
She retracted her previous thought. With all this honesty she wondered if she should just admit she didn't and that she'd been struggling to think of some way to explain how she knew about the shadow clone jutsu when he didn't despite having supposedly been a clone of him and hadn't been able to... Now, now it wasn't really a problem but if she told him the full truth he'd hold back on her anyway and he'd be less happy for it, and she doubted he'd enjoy hurting his clones when he got memories from them.. No, she couldn't tell him the truth when her end goal was his happiness.
"I- I like doing anything to make you happy, I still want that promise that you won't hold back on doing w-whatever you want to me."
"I don't get it, but fine. Four ramen a week- and I promise, hope you don't regret it."
"I won't." She said honestly.
"I think I'm starting to believe you." He said sounding puzzled "So um, are you willing to start now?"
"Anytime, anywhere, anything." Hina said with conviction.
"You promise you won't get mad or... or... leave?" He said the last word in such a small broken voice that she couldn't help but hug him as she said "Never."