Naruto woke with a start after having a strange dream, no a weird nightmare really. He saw all of his friends having fun and the entire village peaceful, then a strange man showed up and single handedly killed all of them. When Naruto looked at the man he saw himself before he was attacked as well. He looked out his window and saw that it was a normal day with the sun shining bright and the town perfectly fine, "Just a dream." he assured himself. He quickly got dressed in his normal cloths and went to walk around town to ease his nerves more.

He walked up and down the streets some people avoiding him as usual, some smiling, and any others to busy to notice he was there. He walked around occasionally stopping to talk when he saw one of his friends till he saw Iruka-Sensei "Hey Naruto! Want to get some Ramen? I have the day off today and it sounds pretty good." Iruka asked, "Heck yeah!" Naruto responded more than happy. They went to their favorite ramen shop and talked while they ate. Iruka was once again surprised by the amount of Ramen Naruto could put away, and was yet again left with the bill.

Naruto continued to walk around some more through town, happier with his full stomach. He continued to walk around till he met Lee who looked as enthusiastic as ever and begged Naruto to fight him. Naruto didn't really want to but after a while Lee coaxed him into it so they left to a secluded place away from the village and fought each other. When the fighting was over it wound up a tie with both of them exhausted and panting on the ground, "Naruto-Kun how about we go the spa now with some of the others? It would help with our aching muscles and will relax or bodies!" Lee said, still as enthusiastic as ever, "Yeah. Bushy brows, that sounds like fun." Naruto said with a smile.

They went to the spa, Lee bringing all the others with them and they all had fun together talking. Naruto got a certain look to him and he left to try to peek on the girls next door to them, only to find that they were prepared and had set up a trap for him so that he wouldn't get in the room. Naruto was now hanging upside down by his legs as he held his towel on, to his luck Neji came and got him down under the conditions he didn't try that again. The remainder of the spa day remained peaceful, and after the guys all went to Naruto's house to play games together.

They first started with card games and had a time in a half playing till some how Akamaru won the game, everyone found that Kiba's dog winning the card game was very weird. Shikamaru and Choji soon left after that, having a mission the next day, and Shino left too so that he could take care of his bugs. This left Kiba, Akamaru, Neji, Lee, and Naruto left as they decided to continue hanging out together but they decided to play truth or dare now. They mostly played dares on one another the entire time only playing truth occasionally. Neji thought of something on his turn and became very serious "Naruto truth or dare?" Neji asked and to his delight Naruto answered truth "Do you have a crush on Hinata?" Neji asked Naruto. "No." Naruto said thinking for a second. They continued to play till everyone was about to pass out and went home leaving Naruto alone.

Naruto went to his room and thought about what Neji had asked more. He tried to push the thoughts out of his head so he could sleep, but the thought kept him up for hours till at about six in the morning he finally got to sleep. He didn't find any relief in his dream though either as he watched the town get destroyed again by himself, but getting a better look he saw that the eyes were red. Was it the nine tails? Naruto thought when he woke up. He then got up and had breakfast, but his thoughts went back to what Neji said again and he found himself unable to eat.

Unsatisfied Naruto went out of his house and left to a quiet spot where he could be alone for a while to think. He stayed up there for hours thinking, trying to figure out what he truly saw Hinata as. A friend, an ally, a weird girl, attractive. Whoa, where did that come from?! Naruto was really wrapped up in his thoughts as time continued on. He eventually gave up and left based on the fact that his stomach was making it even harder to think and went and ate some ramen.

When he finished his twelfth bowl he paid and left thoughts lingered back to their previous activity. He was so wrapped up in his thoughts he didn't watch where he was going and bumped into somebody. He and said person fell backwards and Naruto looked up to see he had in fact bumped it to the person he was thinking about. "S-sorry, I wasn't-Oh Naruto-Kun, sorry I wasn't looking where I was going and-" Hinata began blushing furiously and muttering as usual when she was around him. Naruto cut her off "No, it was my fault. I was not really paying attention and I bumped into you. Are you hurt?" Naruto asked standing up and offering her his hand to help her up. "No, I, uh, thank you." Hinata said blushing a deeper red as she took his hand. She was pulled to her feet however she began to hold her leg and fell forward catching Naruto's lips on the way. This caused Hinata to pass out on contact and Naruto to gain a small, but noticeable, blush.

When Naruto snapped out of his trance he put Hinata down on the ground and checked her leg, it turned out she had twisted it wrong. Naruto gently picked her up and took her to the hospital to have her leg taken care of. Sakura was there and helped Naruto take her to a room where she worked on Hinata's leg. "So what happened, and why are you blushing like that?" Sakura asked smiling at her team mate, "We bumped into each other and I guess she twisted it as she fell, we didn't notice anything was wrong until I helped her up. She grabbed her leg and fell forward and accidentally kissed me before she passed out. By the way Sakura-Chan, you may want to check to see if she has a fever or something her head was noticeably warm." Naruto said and began to leave "Naruto, she doesn't have a fever, she was just doing what you are now but bigger." Sakura told Naruto smiling kindly to him.

Naruto left after he felt his face heat up more, and his mind was yelling at him to get out of there. He went back home and his mind was going a million miles per-hour thinking again. He continued to think for a few hours as it began to grow dark and he found himself in the same boat as last night, even though he went to bed early not realizing. He later heard a knock on the door, answering it he found Sakura standing on the other side of it. "Oh, hey Sakura-San. What brings you here?" Naruto asked "Lady Tsunade want's to see all of us, she said it was urgent." Sakura said "All of us being?" Naruto asked his mind still half not paying attention "Team Kakashi, now hurry up!" Sakura yelled and grabbed his arm before dragging him away.