Authors Note: This is my first fanfic, and as such is no doubt riddled with mistakes grammatically and vocabulary. I would appreciate it if you have any corrections to make in grammatical and word usage leave them in the comments, NO references as to how I write the story please. I do not own the naruto franchise or story line. :'( sniff (if any of you could leave me some info about Japanese honorifics/terms it would be appreciated.)
Chapter 1
As he gazed up at the stars, he thought of many things, the exams, Saskue, Orochimaru. Then she came up, every now and then he would be with his thoughts and they would all turn to her. She had mainly kept contact between them at a minimum; she was shy, cute, and determined. These characteristics made her a good friend but why did he keep thinking about her? As the sun set Naruto Uzumaki turned his thoughts to Hinata Hyuuga.
Naruto woke up the next day feeling none to exceptional, and promptly began the ritual of heating up the ready-made ramen packets, the only food in his meager apartment. As he walked out the door he caught only a small glimpse of a dark-haired figure before whoever it was collided with him knocking him to the ground. He opened his eyes to find Hinatas pained face a few inches from his. "Naruto-kun are you all right?" exclaimed Hinata, Naruto noticed she was blushing furiously. "Hai" he said "no harm done, where are you going in such a hurry Hinata?" "I just wanted to see if you wanted to practice with me before we take the Jonin exams." "Oh, sure. I'm always up for a challenge." He said. "Ano, thank you." As Hinata spoke those words, her face turned a near scarlet shade of red. "Are you okay Hinata you look pretty red." he asked her. "No I'm fine." She said.
They made their way towards one of the many fenced in rooftops that were scattered throughout Konoha. "I'm not going to hold back on you, no matter what so you better take me seriously." Naruto said. "Okay, then I wont hold back either." Said Hinata. As she hyper-activated her Byakugan she began thinking to herself. "You fool, you saw how Neji did against him, your just going to lose and make a fool of yourself." She thought "Then he wont give you any thought at all." Naruto performed the shadow clone jutsu he was swiftly becoming famous for and created a ring around Hinata. He came at her all at once attacking from multiple directions, when he noticed her. She moved like a delicate blade of grass blowing in the wind. He knew right then, why he thought of her at night, why he couldn't get her out of his mind, he was in love. It was then that he realized that while he was captivated by her she had taken out all of his clones and was aiming a punch at him. It made contact with his stomach. He tasted blood on his mouth, as he fell he saw a horrified look on Hinatas face. As she caught him and spouted numerous apologies, he smiled, "Your fine just get granny Tsunade." He promptly blacked out.
He woke up wearing the all too familiar hospital robes, as he took in his surroundings he noticed a distraught looking Hinata and a rather stressed Tsunade bending over him. "He's fine for the last time." Said Tsunade "He just needs rest for a week or so. Now I suggest you tell his squad the story, they don't even know he's here yet for heavens sake." "Yes Hokage-sama." Replied Hinata. She ran out of the room, blushing furiously when she realized Naruto had seen her. "Hey granny-Tsunade, what happened?" after a quick crack on the head Tsunade answered "You've been in here about 3 hours. Hinata apparently damaged many of your organs but they're healing fast so you should be fine physically, however she did manage to strike a chakra point and whatever she did to it I've been unable to heal. However, Hinata told me that it was loosening and healing by itself, so you should be fine in a week." "Great" said Naruto as he made to get out of bed. Tsunade pushed him back down "However, I know how you are so I can predict you'd probably strain it before it's healed so I'm confining you to bed rest for a week, then we'll check on you." Naruto sat down and pouted "But what if I'm needed on some important mission? What about the village, you said you needed all the ninja ready for duty." "The injured ones don't count." She left a very unhappy Naruto as she closed the door. When Naruto looked back on that week it was a very dull and unhappy memory. Yet he was glad of the time to get his thoughts together. He put together all he knew about Hinata and reasons why he kept on thinking of her. Yet try as he might he couldn't think of a single thing. All of his friends visited him but he noticed something different about Hinata, she would always stand at the back of the group as quiet as he had ever seen her. Whenever he spoke to her she always looked at her feet and quietly responded. All the other ninja shared a knowing look with each other but Naruto always seemed to be out of it. On the last day of the week he asked Hinata to stay behind, "Yes Naruto?" she asked. She seemed even more embarrassed now than ever, "Why are you so shy around me?" he asked. Hinata looked the slightest bit surprised, she steeled herself "Isn't it obvious?" "Not to me." He said. Hinata looked like she was about to cry, what she did next was the one thing that she had never dreamed she'd be able to do. She grabbed the front Naruto's shirt and pulled her face into it. She was crying, "How thick can you get?" she sobbed into his chest "I love you; I have had a crush on you since the first day of the academy! And you're telling me you haven't noticed in all this time?" Naruto paused, as he gazed down at the Inky blue hair he saw it all clearly, it explained all that he had noticed about Hinata, it also she liked him and it appeared now that he was noticing her, his thinking about her, it all clicked. She liked him and he was beginning to return that feeling. He paused, and put a hand on her back, "I love you too." He said. At this she stopped crying, his words slowly being processed in her mind. "You…love me?" she said. "With all my heart." He said. He was finally making sense of his feelings, this was what he had felt all this time, silent but still there, his feelings were making them selves known. As he held Hinata in an embrace, he looked up at the sky and wondered what the future would hold for them.
Authors Note: well waddaya think? Good? Bad? Leave me comments I am working on the next chapter right now. I note that this is short, but I promise to make the next one longer.