Chapter 3

Naruto opened the door to his house and took off his shoes. "I'm home."

He felt much better after he had the day to come to grips with what he saw. He decided that no matter what he would take care of his sister. She was all that was left of his family, so for her sake he would just press on and be strong, just ignoring last night all together and acting like it never happened.

He opened the door to the laundry room, when he saw piles of folded clothes all around the room and his sister passed out in the middle of the floor with a slight snore.

Naruto smiled warmly and walked over to his sister, shaking her shoulder. "Hinata." No answer. "Hinaaaata."

Hinata's eyes fluttered open to see Naruto kneeling above her. She brought up a hand to rub her eyes. "Welcome back."

Naruto stood up. "What are you doing sleeping down there? You'll catch a cold."

Hinata yawned. "I fell asleep obviously. Never knew folding towels could be so labor intensive."

Naruto chuckled and looked around the room. "You were really busy today weren't you? There must be at least five loads worth of clothes here. What made you do this?"

Hinata yawned again and wiped a sleepy tear out of her eye. She pondered his question and shrugged. "I don't know. I guess I was just bored."

Naruto shook his head. "Well I hope this isn't the prelude to and apocalypse."

Hinata glared at her brother. "What does that mean?"

The blonde laughed and started putting the towels on their respective shelves. "Well, you're usually pretty lazy, but when you get fired up you really do work hard. I guess I'm just not used to seeing you do 'housewife stuff'."

Hinata pouted and looked down at the floor. "Don't put it like that…"

Naruto just laughed and continued stacking the linens. "As your brother I'm just happy to see you growing up is all."

The girls smiled. "I've made a decision." Naruto stopped what he was doing and shot his sister a confused look. "I'm going to start taking better care of you Naru… since were a family of just us two after all…"

Hinata then walked out of the room and retired for the night, leaving Naruto just standing there contemplating her words.