Another laid back, lazy day in Konoha left the pink haired Shinobi, Sakura wondering what to do. She had finished her daily duties that she had been given by Lady Tsunade as part of the training she had been enduring during the last year and a half. Now she had the rest of the day to herself to do whatever she wished. Sakura had left the Hokage's mansion and walked over to Ichiraku Ramen hoping to find someone she knew so she could talk for a bit.
All she could think about was how Sasuke had left the village for Orochimaru and betrayed both her and Naruto, who was currently training with Jiraiya in order to become strong enough to bring Sasuke back. Sakura had been doing the same under the teachings of Lady Tsunade. When she wasn't training, Sakura had taken to finding people to talk to just so all the feelings of anger toward Sasuke and the loneliness she felt by Naruto's absence. At first it hadn't helped much, but now after all this time it was starting to work.
She walked into Ichiraku, and just walking into the place brought back memories of Naruto stuffing his face with ramen. Normally she could find at least one person from one of the other teams but today was different. She sat down and ate a small bowl of ramen, waiting to see if someone would stop by, but by the time she had finished no one had. So she decided to finish her walk around Konoha, taking in the lazy afternoon. Soon enough she was distracted by her own thoughts. She was wondering who to go find to talk to.
Normally she would have talked to Ino, but after the whole incident with Ino and Ten Ten, she had found out that Ino was no longer out boy hunting but had turned her interests toward girls. Not that Sakura really objected to the idea of being with another girl, she just couldn't think of Ino that way, partly because she was her rival but also because she was a friend of hers. Ten Ten was out on a mission and Sakura really couldn't waste three whole days just to go to Sunagakure to talk with Temari, So that really only left her with one choice.
No sooner than she had come up with the idea to go find Hinata when she ran into someone. Apologizing to the person she ran into and silently cursing herself for not being more observant like a good kunoichi should be, Sakura gather herself together and stood up. She looked at who she had bumped into and was surprised to see Hinata standing there. Sakura spoke asking a question that she had no idea how it would be answered. "Hey Hinata how would you like to go for a walk with me? I know it sounds a bit odd but I just need someone to talk to." Hinata stood there and blushed. Sakura had no idea of the feelings the shy girl had towards her and probably would never have learned of them if not for today.
Hinata had thrown everyone quite a bit by making sure to hide her true feelings by making it look like she had had a crush on Naruto. It had worked for the longest time but Hinata's teacher, Yuhi Kurenai had found out and had made Hinata confess the whole thing. The whole reason she had picked out Naruto to be the decoy was that he was in the same squad as the one she truly had a crush on, the very same one who had just asked her to go on a walk with. Hinata fidgeted for a second and then nervously replied. "O-Okay, w-where did you want to go?"
"How does a walk in the Konoha forest sound?" Sakura replied. Hinata agreed with a simple nod. On the way there Sakura talked about how training was going and by the time they had reached the forest her conversation had slowly moved on to her feelings. Sakura spoke about how she felt about Sasuke abandoning her and Naruto as well as Konoha, how she felt unappreciated by Naruto. She dove further into her feelings and spoke even more about her inner feelings.
Hinata listened and felt that Sakura should know that at least someone loved her, even if that someone was someone she hadn't even suspected. Lost in thought as to how to breach that subject, something Kurenai had told her needed to be done carefully, Hinata simply followed Sakura's lead as they walked through the forest. It was only when they stopped in a clearing did she leave her reverie of thought.
Sakura stopped to ask Hinata a simple question, "So now that that is all out of my system what would you like to do now?" Sakura had simply expected the shy kunoichi to want only to walk back to her home. Hinata saw this as her chance to tell Sakura what had been on her mind. "I wouldn't mind going back to your place and talking about other things. I-I like being around you Sakura, all I really want is to spend more time with you. That is what I would like to do." Hinata blushed at the thoughts going through her head as she said that. She then gave Sakura a hug, Hinata didn't know why she had done that but it had felt like the right thing to do.
Sakura was a little surprised by how Hinata had responded. She thought to herself, "Is it possible that Hinata likes me? If she does it would have been for a while now for her to say something like that. Is the whole Naruto thing just a cover for her true feelings? Well only one real way to find out." As she was being hugged Sakura smiled at Hinata and then gave her a kiss. Sakura was surprised by the fact that she enjoyed the feeling she got when she had done that. She wondered if she would have done the same under different circumstances, and came to the conclusion that she would have done that anyway.
Hinata was only shocked for a moment as she was kissed and then she just enjoyed it, returning the kiss with a bit more passion. This was more than what she had hoped for when she had started this walk, and she couldn't have asked for more. Everything that day had just fallen into place like it was nothing more than fate itself guiding everything. To everyone but these two, it was just another lazy day in Konoha.
Soon enough the two were just plain making out, their tongues going back and forth like they were wrestling. Sakura couldn't believe how much pleasure this gave her and kept at it until she felt the need to ask a quick question. Breaking the kiss for the quickest of moments Sakura asked Hinata, "Wow you're a good kisser, how about we run as fast as we can to my place and continue this there? We can go as far as we want there, I don't know why but I want this to go much farther than it already has." Sakura wasn't sure why she had said that but what she did know was that now she wanted Hinata in every possible way.
Hinata Smiled and blushed at the same time before replying. "I was hoping that you would say that. We should hurry, I can't wait much longer. I feel the same way about this whole thing. I too want it to go farther than it has." Hinata kissed Sakura again and they both hurried off to Sakura's home.
(Author's note: It's been awhile since I last put something up here so hopefully fans of my other stuff will read this as well. This story has been kicking around my head for a while and I thought I would never get to writing it so hopefully you all enjoy this story. Please read and review.)
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