Hello! Welcome to my first chapter. This is my first story, so flames are okay with me. Please review when you finish! XD

~StormWolf

Chapter 1

NejiTen, NaruHina, SasuSaku, KibaIno, ShikaTema

Tenten, Naruto, Hinata

Tenten frowned and reached for another arrow from her quiver. Her arm muscles quivered as she aimed her shot carefully at the center of the target and fired the arrow. It spilt the previous arrow straight in the center. (They were all bull's eye.) Smirking, Tenten decided to challenge herself by shooting two at once. One of the arrows made the bull's eye but not exactly center, and the other one landed on the outmost ring.

"Dang!" She exclaimed, silently cursing.

"I… I think th… that was f… fine." A voice stammered from behind her. Tenten spun around, finding herself looking at a blushing Hinata.

"Hinata! She scared the crap out of me! Where did you come from?" Tenten mockingly glared at Hinata.

"I… I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to scare you!" Hinata gasped.

Tenten rolled her eyes. "I was joking. No wonder you get picked on so often. Heck, I was just kidding!"

Hinata blushed and muttered something. "… ramen… fire…"

"What? Speak up, my youthful child!" Tenten said in an imitation of Gai-Sensai. Hinata, however, didn't get the joke.

"N… Naruto wanted me to cook ramen for him, and he tried to help and part of the kitchen is on fire!" Hinata said in a louder voice.

Tenten immediately burst into laughter. "He (laugh) what? You mean (laugh) he set his house (laugh) on fire? Oh wait, why was he asking you to cook ramen for him? Are you guys dating or something?"

Hinata turned even redder. "No! We were just… Oh, just drop it! Naruto might get hurt now while we are talking!"

Tenten rolled her eyes, but allowed Hinata to drag her to Naruto's house. Once she was there, she ran in and looked at a laughing Naruto.

"Hinata! (laugh) You actually (giggle) fell for (laugh) it! I was (giggle) kidding! And (laugh) there wasn't any (giggle) fire in the (snort) first place!" Naruto burst out.

Tenten began to join in the laughing, and Hinata gave Naruto a small half-smile. Of course, Tenten thought, she can never glare at her precious Naruto, much less hurt him.

Tenten rolled her eyes at Hinata and said to Naruto. "As your punishment for torturing poor little Hinata, you have to let us eat half your ramen that she so kindly cooked for us. Got it?"

Naruto's eyes widened to the size of a dinner plate. "What? But… But its mine!"

"Why? Hinata was the one who used her own money and bought it AND cooked it, so that should make it hers, right Hinata?"

Hinata's cheeks had a slight tint of crimson. "No… It's okay! Y… you guys can eat it!"

"See? Hinata agrees with me, so that means that it should be MINE!" Naruto growled at the same time as his stomach growled, which sent Tenten into a fit of laughter.

Finally, when Tenten recovered, she informed Naruto with a smirk on her face, "Yeah, but Hinata said that WE could eat it, but no only YOU!"

Naruto pouted. "Hinata! Please!"

Hinata was now as dark as a red tomato. "N… Naruto k-kun! It- it's also for T-Tenten. Y-you can share it!"

Naruto gave her a small glare that Hinata shrank back in. Tenten, on the other hand, was clapping. "You see, Naruto? I told you Hinata agreed! Now, give me half!"

A now grumpy Naruto passed Tenten a bowl of ramen, but not before shooting her and Hinata another death glare. Hinata looked like she was about to cry.

"Naruto-kun, I can get you another one! Please!" She cried out.

Naruto gave her another glare and turned away. Hinata gasped. Suddenly, Tenten and Naruto began to have another laughing seizure.

"Hinata! I was joking!" Naruto gasped between his laughing.

"Hinata! You fell for that! It was so (laugh) obvious!" Tenten giggled.

Hinata turned a shade darker (if that was possible) in her cheeks. "G… guys! That wasn't very nice!"

Naruto walked up to Hinata and gave her a bear hug. "There you go. I am deeply sorry that I hurt your feelings." His eyes said differently; he was barely keeping from laughing.

Hinata's face was literally on fire.

Hey, Hinata! He's holding you!

Y-you shut up, inner! He's only h-holding me because he's sorry!

You and Naruto, sitting on a tree. K-I-S-S-I-

B-be quiet!

Ooooh! You're stuttering! You only stutter when you are nervous! Someone's in love!

Mind your own business! And… is it really that obvious that I l… like him?

Yup! Don't hide from your precious inner, okay Hinata?

Just b- be quiet!

"Hinata! Are you okay?" Naruto shouted while shaking her.

Hinata nodded and looked away. "Oh! Y-yes I am!"

Tenten had an evil smile on her face that Hinata didn't quite like. "Well, it's nice to see you two lovebirds making up and getting all moony and lovey dovey, but I really have to be going. Kiba is going to be worried where I am…"

Hinata's lightish face began to return as she nodded again and stammered, "S- should I escort y-you there?"

Tenten rolled her eyes while smirking. "It's okay, I can leave you two lovebirds here while I go home. Wait, are you guys going to kiss?"

Hinata's face started turning red again. "T-tenten kun! It's not like that!"

Naruto shouted at the same time, "YOU SHUT UP TENTEN!"

Tenten smirked again but turned around, humming 'Here comes the bride.'

Naruto glared at her before turning back to Hinata. "Well, now that she's gone, I get all the ramen!" More gently, he added, "Don't worry, I'll give some to you, I'm not that greedy."

Immediately, Hinata shook her head. "No, don't, Naruto. I'll make my own when I go back home. It's really okay, keep it!" Suddenly, Hinata noticed how hasty she sounded, and she was horribly aware how dumb she must have sounded. "T-that is, er…"

She broke off into an awkward silence and just stared at Naruto. Luckily, Naruto was a bit of a "slow person," and he didn't notice. "Okay, I'm not going to protest!"

Naruto began to slurp frantically at the ramen, sucking in all the vegetables with the meat. Mmm, the taste of it all! Right then, he was a little aware of how Hinata was staring at him, and it began to make him a little uncomfortable. Slowing down his pace, he also saw that Hinata was looking faintly amused and a little nervous. Naruto also became aware that he should have insisted upon giving Hinata more of the ramen; it was more gentlemen like. In a very businesslike tone, he asked her, "Lady Hinata Hyuuga of the great Hyuuga clan, are you absolutely positive that you do not want any ramen?"

Hinata shook her head. "Wha- Of course I'm sure! A-and you don't have to call me Lady Hinata Hyuuga of the great Hyuuga clan, just H-hinata is fine." She said, blushing a little.

Naruto shrugged. "Okay."

Hinata watched him in fascination as he slurped down two bowls in thirty seconds straight. Smacking his lips, got up and stretched. "That was really good, Hinata. You should cook for me more often."

And before Hinata knew what was happening, Naruto's lips gently brushed the side of her cheek before it was gone, and Naruto was clambering up the stairs, burping. When he reached the top, he turned around and called to her, "Thanks for the meal. Do you need a ride home?"

Hinata shook her head, still dazed. "N… no Naruto-kun. I can walk home myself, p-please don't worry!"

Naruto burped again and shrugged his head. "Whatever you say. When you leave, can you lock the door? The keys are under the door mat." Then he turned around again and walked through the door to his bedroom and closed it.

Hinata stared after him, one hand on her furiously blushing cheek where Naruto had kissed her. She stumbled over her feet to the door and locked it like he asked her too.

Hey outer! Good job, he kissed you!

And for once, Hinata agreed with her inner.

Yay, I got the first chapter in! Please review! :D
~StormWolf