"I like him ...well ... I think I do ...
He's really nice ... I think ...
I ... I haven't actually spoken to him much
I can't speak to him much ... what if he doesn't like it?
What if he doesn't like me?"
Hinata Hyuuga stood with her back to a wall. Just around the corner was the Ramen shop where Naruto sat, eating his favourite food, completely oblivious to the girl watching him just a short distance away, watching him ... thinking about him.
"I'm going to talk to him! I can do it ... I know I can ..."
Hinata turned the corner to go to him ... but as soon as her eyes landed on him, she started to panic and leapt back behind the wall.
"what if he doesn't want to talk to me? What if he doesn't like me?"
she peeped around the corner. He still sat there eating his Ramen.
"He hasn't noticed me ... he doesn't want to look at me"
Hinata kept going through things in her mind. What if he knew she was there, and just chose to ignore her. She couldn't let herself think that.
"If only I could tell him what I felt ... tell him what he means to me ... but how can I? If I cant even go up to him I cant tell him what I feel ... he may not even understand anyway ... he never understands even though everyone else does"
she kept looking at him secretly from behind her wall. She wanted to tell him, but she hadn't got the courage ... and what if he didn't feel the same? She longed to let him know ... longed for him to feel the same way and for them to be together. She wanted it more than anything else ... but she couldn't do it. She just didn't have the strength.
She sighed
"What chance do I have? He has so much strength ... he has the nine-tailed Kyuubi inside him ... he has power and courage and nothing ever gets to him ... maybe ... maybe he'll never see ... Maybe ...
... He'll never notice me ..."
she wiped a tear away from her eye.
"I love you ... Naruto-kun"
And she walked away quickly down the street.
Naruto turned around, noticing something out of the corner of his eye
"... Hinata?"