Crystal: Well this is a story about… what else? NaruxHina of course! Beware I will make Sasuke life miserable… lol Not really I DO like Sasuke, yet I like it went he's annoyed. P.s. Who doesn't? Anyway, this came to me when I was watching the Chunnin exam episode where Hinata thought some pretty wonderful things about Naruto yet she didn't say it… I was highly disappointed again. So, I decided to make my take of things if Hinata accidently said it out loud.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto!
Sumarry: In the Chunnin exam Hinata Hyuuga accidently talked out loud her thoughts on Naruto instead of just thinking it while he was fighting her teammate Kiba. Hinata didn't know that this little outburst would change the course of destiny and her life forever. NaruxHina
Chunnin Confection
Chapter 1: Did I say that out load?
Silence. Everybody was dumbstruck by the words that Hinata Hyuuga said about the blonde-haired ninja, mostly because it was said with a loving voice that clearly shown a lot of admiration, and most surprising it was said to the village more hated shinobi, Uzumaki Naruto. The blonde in question was staring at the young heiress with wonder at the words she said; even Kiba has stopped fighting to stare at Hinata with a shock looked. Hinata stared at all them in confection wondering why was everybody looking at her so strangely, yet before she could turned around and asked her sensei why was everybody looking at her like that Naruto gave her a warmth, brilliant and true smile that made her blushed darkly.
"Arigato, Hinata-chan!" Naruto yelled at her grateful to know that someone believed he could beat all odds that were against him.
Hinata just bowed her head as she wonder why Naruto was thanking her, she discretely turned her eyes to her sensei that was now standing by her side with her lips to her ear so only she would hear what she said. 'You said some really…Encouraging things about him! I think something's that you didn't mean to say out loud' Her sensei whisper and Hinata turned even more nervous, yet to her relief the fight has started again. Hinata hope that everybody has already forgotten what she unintentionally said.
She should have known she was never lucky…
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Five minutes later~~~~~~~~~~~
Kiba was out for the count and Naruto was declared the winner of the fight, much to everybody surprise except Hinata of course, and went over to the stairs. As he was climbing her saw Hinata glanced at him with a smiled on her face and a blushed on her cheek, he smiled brightly back at her and quickly made his way towards her. When he finally reached her, she quickly put out something and handing it to him to take as she played with her fingers. Naruto confused stared at the small bottle that she had in her hand and scratch the back of his head nervously unsure in what she wanted him to do or what was she was holding.
"Ne, Hinata-chan, what is it?" Naruto asked confused.
"I-It's m-medicine f-for y-your wounds N-Naruto-kun." Hinata said with her head bowed as she still presented the medicine to Naruto, hoping he will accept and not think she was being weird like he probably thought after her outburst. However, Naruto surprised her by gently taking the medicine from her hands and pulled her into a warm hug. Hinata willed herself not to faint, and hesitantly wraps her arms around him too, much to Naruto's delight and surprise. Naruto was about to pulled away from her, yet he felt her gently gripped him from behind and preventing him from breaking the embraced. Naruto was confused as the girl's action, but he felt nice as they continue to embrace so he let it go. They finally did let go when they heard small cough from Kureine.
"Naruto, congratulations on winning, it was an interesting match." She said trying not to notice Hinata's disappointed look at end of the hug.
"It was nothing! Besides I couldn't fail when someone put their faith in me! Right, Hinata-chan?" Naruto said smiling at the young girl.
"H-Hai, N-Naruto-kun! I-I know y-you w-will be able t-to defeat all your opponents!:" Hinata said blushing.
"You really believe I can beat all my opponents in the test? Wow, Hinata-chan, thank you! I'm sure you will do great in your match too! Believe it!" Naruto said cheerfully at the young girl while he put her arm around her in a side hug.
"T-Thank y-you, N-Naruto-kun! I-I will try my best!" Hinata said as she melted slightly towards his body, Naruto just beamed in response and kept his armed around her, yet he was forced to leave because his sensei seemed to want to talk to him and Sakura seemed to be giving him a weird look. So, he said his goodbyes and left to be with his team with a big grin still in place.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~After a few minutes~~~~~~~~~~~
Naruto gripped the medicine bottle in his hands tightly, wanting nothing more than to punch Neji's face in for telling those things to Hinata. Finally he screamed at him and cheered for Hinata to beat him, he hated that the guy made her feel on worthy or inferior, he was her damned cousin! Kakashi had to grabbed him several time when he wanted to jump into the battle when Hinata got hurt, he saw blood and with one last strike Hinata went down. Yet she got up and said a few truthful words to Neji, he lost it and went to strike the girl even when the match was called, to everyone surprise Naruto manage to escaped kakashi's grip and stood protectively infront of Hinata while Guy sensei grabbed Neji and stopped him from moving.
Everybody was worried when the young girl collapse, Naruto being the closes to her quickly went and put her head on his lap looking at her with worried blue eyes. Hinata looked at him and smiled, "N-N-Naruto-k-kun," She said softly as she began to close her eyes, Hinata sensei quickly went over and glared at Neji witch he notice and gave a smirk. To Hinata sensei horror she noticed that Hinata was worse than she thought as she desperately called for the medics. Naruto held her as the opened her jacket to check her wounds and notice she went to a cardiac arrest and was in critical condition, Naruto swore that his heart stop beating too. Naruto let her go and it was the most painful thing he ever done, he felt worried and watch in distress as they took Hinata away to save her life.
After she was gone Naruto looked over the smirking Neji and felt something that he never felt before… Hatred. Naruto wanted to kill the bastard! He deserved to have a painful death because of what he did to Hinata, he clench his fists and charge towards Neji planning to at least beat him up only to be stop by Lee. The boy began to talk about the exams and that he will be disqualified for attacking a fellow shinobo outside of battle and some other shit that he really didn't care about it. The exams be damned! He wanted to hurt the bastard that hurt Hinata, he wanted to make him suffer and inflict pain on him. Still he tried to control himself as he remembered Hinata, he would try to get the medic or someone to tell him how was she, she was more important than revenge when she pulled thru, because she will indeed pulled thru he will kick Neji ass all the way to next week and back. Naruto looked down and the blood that was from Hinata and grab a fitful of it, showing it to Neji with a fierce looked of hatred in his eyes.
"I will defeat you in battle in for Hinata-chan! You will regret everything you did to her, that's a promise, believe it!" Naruto said in barely contain fury that made everyone looked at him in worry.
The room was silence as Naruto without a second word turned around and walked away…
~~~~~~~~~~~~A few minutes later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Naruto, you baka, get back here!" Sakura yelled in frustration at being ignore by Naruto when she wants to talk, she has been chasing after him since he walked away from the exams.
"WHAT?!"Naruto yelled when he finally stop and face her.
"You idiot! What the heck is wrong with you?! I now that seeing Hinata hurt like that affected you, yet you must stay calm!"Sakura said as she wave her fist.
"You want me to stay calm after that bastard may have killed Hinata-chan?! Are you crazy, or are you just that stupid?" Naruto asked coldly.
"Oh, I'm stupid? I'm not the one that felt to notice her affections for me; her behavior was a clear sign that she liked you! Heck everyone in the whole damn village knew! Even after she practically spell it out to you in the chunnin exams I still think you have no Idea how much she loves you!" Sakura yelled and then shut her mouth in horror that she actually told him about Hinata's feeling without her consent.
"S-She l-loves me?"Naruto asked in shock, yet when Sakura looked away he started to think about all the times she fainted or blushed when he was around, or how she would give him a bento for lunch when he forgot to bring food. 'She really does love me, and everybody knew and didn't bother to tell me' Naruto thought to himself.
"I got to go, Sakura. Tell Kakashi sensei I won't be training today." Naruto said without emotions as he began walk again towards the destination of the hospital.
Sakura shiver at Naruto tone of voice and the lack of 'chan' in her name. She wonders if maybe it was for the best that Naruto finally knew about the heiress love for him, she hopes it was for his sake and hers. 'Ugh! Sometimes you really need to control your temper around the baka! Cha!'Inner Sakura said as she wave a fist as the real Sakura sigh and nodded her head in agreement.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~At the hospital~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Uzumaki Naruto was now sitting at Hinata's room, he was holding her hand gently, and looking at her sleep peacefully. It has only been a few hours since the medic stabilize her and she wasn't supposed to have visitor because she was still in delicate health, yet Naruto wasn't about to be denied. He pleaded and threatens the medic and nurses alike. So, he was her first visitor and he wasn't about to leave her side until she opened her eyes and tell him she's alright herself. 'Hinata-chan, please upon your eyes, let me see them.' Naruto thought willing the heiress to wake-up, he still felt petrified that she was going to get worse and leave him.
As in feeling his distress Hinata weakly open her eyes, she felt horrible and her throat was dried, yet the moment she saw Naruto's blue eyes she rapidly turned red. Naruto smiled in relief and gave her a foxy grin. Hinata shyly looked-up towards Naruto and was slightly embarrass with her performance in the fight and her being a failure.
"Hinata-chan, you're alright! I'm so glad you're ok, Dattebayo!" Naruto said warmly.
"N-Naruto-kun, I-I'm sorry." Hinata said softly.
"You're sorry? What for?" Naruto asked confused.
"I-I-I lost the match." She stated with shame as she looked at her lap.
"You did lose the match, Hinata-chan. But it's nothing to be ashamed about! That bastard is going to pay for what he did to you, Hinata-chan, I promise!" Naruto said sincerely.
"A-Ano, N-Naruto-kun, i-it's alright N-Neji-neesan didn't m-mean it." Hinata said still looking away from her. Naruto gently grabbed Hinata's chin and forced her to looked him in the eyes, and when she did she saw a lot of emotions: fear, disbelief, concern, anger and some other emotion that she couldn't identify.
"Hinata-chan, he tried to kill you! Of course the bastard meant it! He can't get away with hurting you; I won't let him get away with it! H-He almost took you away from me, Hinata-chan, so don't you ever dare call him your brother infront of me again or imply that is alright for people to hurt you! Your one of my precious people, if someone wants to hurt you they will have to go thru me to do it, brother, cousin, friend or enemy I don't care I will kick all their asses to next week for it" Naruto said hotly.
"N-N-Naruto-kun, I-I-Thank you." Hinata said gently with a small smile towards the blonde.
"Don't worry about it, Hinata-chan! I'm going to protect you from now on, so go to sleep you must be still tired. I will stay here and watch over you! Believe it!" Naruto said gently with a foxy grin.
"A-A-Ano, N-Naruto-kun, will y-you like t-to sleep in the b-bed with m-me?" Hinata asked blushing hotly.
"Are you sure that's ok, Hinata-chan?" Naruto asked slightly nervous with the way his stomach tighten strangely at her request.
"O-Of course, N-Naruto-kun! I-If you want to that is." Hinata said softly.
"H-Hai, Hinata-chan, that would be nice." Naruto said as he gently move the covers and lay in the bed next to her, Hinata blushed and turned away to hide her face, yet Naruto wasn't having none of it this time and pull her towards him and gently wrap his arms around her in an embrace. Hinata smiled more and shyly put her head in his chest, letting Naruto's heartbeat lured her to sleep while Naruto stayed and watch over her. He gently stroke her hair and looked at her, she was sleeping with a smile on her face, a smile that Naruto would fight tooth and nail to help maintain on her face, a smile that brought his stomach to feel strange and a smile that made him feel at peace.
"Hinata-chan, what's wrong with me? Why do you make me feel funny? It's so strange and its scares me, yet at the same time it's bring me peace and excitement. Maybe I'm the one who fail to notice what I almost lost today; I won't let anybody hurt you again." Naruto said quietly at the sleeping beauty next to him as tighten his grip on her and put his head on top of hers.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~The next day~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The nurses in the hospital went to check-up on the young heiress only to see that she was with that… boy. The boy arms was wrapped around her protectively and he had a peaceful smile on his face as his head was buried on top of Hinata's hair while the girl in question was snuggling more towards his body and she frown sleepily when she notice the rays of lights hitting her face. Hinata in hopes of sleeping a bit more tried to hide her head a bit more as she snuggle into her 'pillow' she sigh contently and then proceeded to wraps her legs around the comfy 'pillow'. The nurses were horrified of the scene and were debating if they should wake them up or not.
Naruto hearing the hushed tones of the nurses open his eyes a bit and turned his head a little to glared at them sleepily. The nurses froze remembering this was the kid that had threaten them with a painful beating if they didn't let him stay, they gave him a nervous smile and decided to flee from the room in panic, Naruto smiled pleased and got his head back to his original position. He blushed when he notice that Hinata's legs were wrap around his body and he tried to gently get them off, yet it only made Hinata frowned in her sleep as she tighten her grip on her legs. He stopped moving trying to not wake her up, he was terrified of what she would do if did and saw them like this.
"Naruto-kun," Hinata said dreamily in her sleep.
Naruto blushed darker then Hinata ever had in her life, he felt a strange emotion at his stomach and he was sure his heart was about to leap out of his chest. Hinata began to squirm trying to get into a more comfy position, and Naruto breath hitch. Naruto bite-down hard on his bottom lip, hard enough to draw blood, and his grippe tighter trying to stop her from squirming. "Hinata-chan,"Naruto said loudly hoping that it would wake her so she would stop moving, he needed her to stop moving, his body seemed to be getting way to happy with the situation.
Hinata hearing Naruto's voice she slowly opened her eyes and was quite confused as she stared at her crush eyes. She continue to stare and was greatly more confused to see he was blushing and his eyes held: relief with… disappointment? Hinata then looked down and saw that her legs and arms were wrapped around him, and she quickly let go with a small 'eep' and almost felt out of bed if it wasn't for Naruto grabbing her before she did. She was blushing as well as Naruto, they would not meet each other gaze, yet Naruto not being the one for awkward silences quickly spoke-up.
"Are you ok, Hinata-chan?"Naruto asked nervously.
"H-H-Hai, N-Naruto-kun."Hinata answered without looking at him.
"Hinata-chan, will you please look at me?" Naruto asked softly and Hinata did as he requested looking at him nervously.
"I want to know if… I want to know if what Sakura said was true… do you really… I mean do you L-L- care for me, Hinata-chan?"Naruto asked gently trying not to frighten Hinata into fainting.
"I-I-I'm sorry, N-N-Naruto-kun! I-I-I didn't mean to! I-It just happen, I fell for you when I was a little girl, I-I-I really do l-love you, Naruto-kun! P-please don't leave! I-I'm just happy were f-f-friends really!"Hinata said quietly as she pleaded with Naruto not to leave her, her eyes welled-up with tears.
"Hey, Hey, Hinata-chan, don't cry! Please just don't cry. I-I'm not leaving you. I can't say I feel the same right not, yet I do know I care for you and maybe with time I would be able to love you. I want to give you a chance, Hinata-chan. Will you be my girlfriend?"Naruto asked gently as he wipe away her tears.
"I-I-I N-Naruto-kun, d-do you really mean it?"Hinata asked trying to see if this was what Naruto really wanted.
"Of course I mean it, Hinata-chan, dattebayo!"Naruto said giving her a foxy grin.
The only response he got was Hinata throwing herself at him and knocking them both out of bed… Naruto smiled… this was a new beginning for an old story.
