Flashback

"Here Hinata-chan"

A little boy with blond hair and whiskered birthmarks on his cheeks was sitting with the Hyuga heiress on the swings in the park waiting for their parents.

"W...What is it Naruto-kun?"

She shyly looked up from her lap and reddened her cheeks as she waited for Naruto's answer. He didn't know how to reply back for a second but that had never stopped the seven year old boy.

"Well it's for your hair, cause ya know you said you wanted to grow your hair out long and it could get in the way of ya know work and..."

Naruto's own cheeks were now tinged red as he ran out of things to say, but he still held the hair clip out to her. Hinata looked down at it and gasped. It was an oval shaped, white hair clip with sliver and lavender patterns going around the outside. On the inside of it there were small pearls making swirl patterns.

"N...Naruto-kun... It's beautiful. But far too much! I can't take it!"

"Hahaha...Hinata- chan it's not too much. I want you to have it cause......it will make you look even prettier then you already are."

Her cheeks and face blushed but her trembling hands went out to the clip and felt the pearls admiring its beauty.

"Thank you Naruto-kun"

He grinned wide but turned as he heard his mother and looked up to see his and Hinata's mother there waiting. He gripped his mother's hand but then ran back to Hinata and kissed her on her cheek.

"Sayonara Hinata-chan!"

His mother smiled wide and looked up to see a flustered Hinata and a smiling mother. Her mother lightly touched her and she stopped bowed and walked away, back to her home.

---A few Days Later---

"Hey Kaa-san can I go to Hinata-chan?"

"Ah Naruto there's something that I need to tell you about Hinata- chan and her family."

"Are they OK?"

He looked concerned as his mother replied "Well Naruto Hinata-chan and all her family have moved far, far away, which means you can no longer see her and we don't have a telephone number so you can't talk to her ever."

She tried to call him back as he ran out the house towards the Hyuga's but he barely caught her calling him back. He arrived there panting and out of breath, but he continued to run and shout about the household. He ran everywhere, even the bathrooms and bedrooms.

"Hinata-chan! Hello! Anyone?!"

He ran around in places he had already been, but he didn't care. He walked into the living area where a huge mirror stood on a wall. He looked up into the mirror at his reflection and imaging Hinata's there. His emotions ran wild and slammed his fist down on the mirror.

"ARGH!"

He crashed his fist into the mirror, and while some shards of the mirror were sticking out of his hand, he ignored the pain. He allowed the anger; confusion and sadness take over him and fell to the ground on his knees. He looked up at the broken mirror and let curiosity and confusion take a bigger hold on him. In the wall which the mirror hid, was a small square dent where a plain black box stood. He took the box and slowly opened it up. He gasped and dropped the box but still held the hair clip in his hands. The hair clip he gave Hinata. Despair overtook him as he looked at it feeling betrayed. Why? Why is it here? Did she leave it here? Why?

He looked around, stuffed the clip into the box and carried them back home not letting anyone see him.

---5 years later---

The 12 year old Naruto stood in his best tux, looking bored and uncomfortable, on the balcony. His parents were invited to this ball and dragged him along, but luckily all his friends' parents' did the same. Shikamaru and Chouji stood on the balcony tired and eating chips while Rock Lee, Ten Ten and Neji were talking about fighting moves and Rock Lee of course was talking about youth.

As for Naruto he was looking through the glass door that separated the ball room and the balcony at a small crowd gathering around a few people. They all looked extremely rich but their smiles looked insincere and greedy. When a few of them walked away to dance he could see exactly who was there.

He saw a pale boy with black hair standing proudly looking bored and arrogant and had a pink haired banshee clinging to his arm but it didn't look like he enjoyed it. She was dressed in bright pink and red clothes though it didn't look very nice. He shifted his eyes to a tall boy with Brown spiky hair and sunglasses covering his eyes. He was silent and looked like he really didn't want to be there. He was watching a boy with tattoos on his face talk to-

"Hinata!?"

His eyes widened as he looked on at his best friend. Her hair was now to her shoulders and she wore a bright blue dress that went just below mid-thigh, but it didn't look that nice on her. It looked too much. She also didn't blush but seemed to bask in the attention she was getting and her nose was tilted up towards the air as if she was looking down on the people around her. The boy was arrogantly talking and apparently trying to show off as he flexed his muscles.

She rolled her eyes and turned her head to face Naruto. She looked directly at him showing surprise, then true happiness then fake contempt. She looked away and had her back to him. This wasn't his Hinata. She had changed. And not for the better.

End Flashback

"Come on Naruto don't be late for school!"

"OK Kaa-san I'm coming"

He had forgiven Hinata back when he saw her friends and family. They were all so different to her that she probably grew up to suit them, but with him there she couldn't be herself, and he couldn't help her.

He put the hair clip he was fingering back into the black box and into his drawer, and then went out the door to school where life would start to get interesting again.