Naruto looked up at Dr. Fraiser with his best pitiful puppy dog eyes expression, and then glanced down at the heavy leather straps securing his arms and legs to the hospital bed. His ‘puppy-dog-eyes no jutsu’ worked on Shizune, so he was hopeful it would work on Dr. Fraiser, as well. Okay, it had only worked a couple of times on Shizune before she eventually became immune to the technique, but Dr. Fraiser had never seen it, so Naruto was optimistic. She started to reach toward him. Naruto perked up. This was it! She was going to release him!
Dr. Fraiser’s hand passed right over the buckle of the bindings securing his right arm and reached for something on the small wheeled table that was pulled across his bed. She picked up two of the English-Japanese flashcards off the table and showed them to Naruto, who read them aloud.
“No.”
“Way.”
Naruto pouted, sticking his bottom lip out in an exaggerated fashion. Dr. Fraiser smiled, turned, and walked away without another glance.
Meany! Now his nose was itching, too!
Naruto tried scratching it against his shoulder but couldn’t quite get the itch. Then his savior came to his rescue. A small dainty hand with wonderfully sharp fingernails reached out to scratch his nose.
“Ahhh! Higher. Higher. Now move a little to the left. Oh yeah! Right there! Yeeesss!” Naruto practically melted into the mattress as every muscle in his body appeared to go limp at the same time. He looked gratefully up at Hinata, who was sitting in the chair next to the bed, with a big goofy grin on his face. “Thanks! You now are my new favorite person in the whole world! No! Make that both worlds!”
Hinata laughed but shyly hide her smile behind her hand.
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