I was crouching behind a bush and spying on Naruto, as usual. Suddenly, his head turned in my direction.
"Hinata!"
I shrieked, just a little bit, and fell over.
Naruto came over to the bush I had been hiding behind and looked right at me. Right at me.
"Did you think I wouldn't notice?" he asked, not smiling.
He noticed me? I looked down, trying to think of something intelligent to say.
"You... you're n-not smiling? I-I've never seen..."
He was startled for a moment, I could tell. I mentally kicked myself. Stupid!
"You're always there... hiding, spying on me..." he said.
He then pointed his finger at me. "Tell me!" he shouted, the way he always shouts.
I shrunk back, preparing my confessions of hidden love in my head. This was the moment of truth! It's now or never!
"Who sent you to spy on me?"
If this was anime, and if I hadn't already fallen over, I would have made a face-fault.
"I..." I stammered. It is very hard to stammer a single syllable, but I managed because of how stunned and nervous I was. Or maybe it was because I was speaking in Japanese, where 'I' is a few syllables long. Whatever.
"I won't allow you to hurt me or my friends!" he continued shouting.
He didn't even consider me as one of his friends? Well, I had always been too nervous to actually talk to him before, but still...
And then he stabbed me with a kunai, his face set fiercely. It pierced me to the heart. His expression, I mean, not the kunai, which actually hit my lung. He hates me!
"I... l-love... you..." I managed to cough out, with blood bubbling out of my mouth.
He hesitated for a moment, then his face became fierce again.
"You're lying!" he shouted. "I'm not stupid. We don't even know each other!"
Oh, the pain of heartbreak. And of being stabbed in a lung.
My vision started fading out on the image of Naruto holding another kunai...
"BELIEVE IT!"
Ow, my other lung. My vision finished fading out, and I guess I went unconscious.