Author's note:
Hello everyone! This is the first story I've actually published on , so please be nice to me. :3
Disclaimer:
I do not own Naruto.
Hinata woke up from her nightmare, with a jolt, staring up at her appartment's white painted ceiling with sweat running down her pale face due to her nightmare. 'Naruto... You've been gone for almost 3 years now...' she began thinking, tears starting to well up in her pale lavender eyes. She continued to stare up at the ceiling, tears now freely running from her eyes. The dark blue haired kunoichi pushed the covers off of her, sitting up on her bed, and then finially standing up and sighing to herself. She headed towards the bathroom, her feet making soft noises on the carpeted floor. 'Naruto, why do you have to be gone for so long? What am I going to do when he gets back?' she thought to herself. 'Maybe I could confess my love? No, I'd have no chance, he loves Sakura...' she continued thinking. The kunoichi got up off of the toilet, the pushed the flush, and then she pulled her lavender coloured pyjama bottoms back up. She then headed into the living room, so that she could look at the time '06:24, there's no point in going back to bed, so I might as well go and make myself some breakfast...' she though.
Tsunade, the fifth hokage had her head down, looking at a sheet of paper which was located on her desk, when a knock sounded at the door. "Come in!" she said, wondering what whoever that was wanted to say so early in the morning. The door opened, to reveal a ninja in the normal chunin outfit. "We just received the information that Naruto Uzumaki will be arriving back in Konoha within the next two days." He said. "Very well, thank you, you may leave." She replied, and after she did, the ninja disappeared from the room in a swirl of leaves. 'I wonder what he'll look like after all these years... And I wonder whether he's matured at all...' the hokage thought to herself.
Hinata walked into the kitchen, thinking about what she could possibly eat. 'I know, I could eat some instant ramen, since I don't have much else right now.' She though, walking up to one of the cupboards, and taking a cup of instant ramen from inside of it. She teared of the lid, and began to boil some water in her kettle. Once the instant ramen was done, she sat down at the table, taking the steaming hot ramen with her. Thoughts of Naruto once again entered her mind. She picked up the fork that she had on the table, and placed it in the ramen, slowly stirring it, while lost in her thoughts.
Two days later:
Hinata was walking along the streets of Konoha, the road she was walking on was covered in gravel and sand. There was a large amount of people around her, some were walking into shops, restaurants and their homes, while others were simply wandering along the street. Suddenly she spotted Rock Lee running towards her, waving at her, and calling her name as loud as he could, gathering a lot of attention in the process. As Lee finally reached Hinata, he tried to catch his breath. "Hinata..." Lee finally managed to say, still slightly out of breath. "Tsunade asked me to tell you that... Naruto has just arrived back here... in Konoha, he's at the main gates right now." he continued. Hinata's heart skipped a beat as she heard this. 'Naruto... he's finally home! What am I going to do when I see him?' wondered Hinata. "Well, I've got to go tell a few others aswell..." spoke Lee, and then ran off, after this, Hinata finally came to her senses, and began to move as quickly as she could towards the main gates of the village.
Naruto jumped on top of the nearby building, glad that he was finally back home, after almost three whole years. 'Nothing really seems to have changed' he though, smiling to himself, he couldn't wait to meet his precious people. The blonde looked around him, taking in everything he saw. 'After all these years, it seems refreshing to finally be back home...' thought Naruto. "Looks like someone's here to greet you, Naruto!" shouted Jiraiya, from down below him. "Huh?" Naruto said as he looked at Jiraiya questioningly, and then he immediately looked to where he was pointing. "Hinata?" Naruto shouted, seeing her running towards him, with her long silky dark blue hair trailing behind her head. He jumped off of the building that he was standing on, greeting Hinata, who was stood near Jiraiya, gasping for air, due to the quick speed that she had just ran at. "Hinata! I haven't seen you in ages!" said Naruto, giving her a wide smile. Hinata blushed. 'Wow, I've gotta admit, she looks really good!' Naruto thought to himself, as he looked over Hinata's amazing figure. Hinata blushed even more because of the attention that she was getting from the blonde.
Naruto finally noticed that he was staring at Hinata, and diverted his gaze from her, scratching the back of his head in awkwardness. And then, Naruto's stomach growled. "Hehe... Hey Hinata..." "Yes Naruto?" questioned Hinata. "Would you like to come to Ichiraku's with me and Jiraiya?" asked Naruto. "Erm... Yeah, of course, I would love to, Naruto..." said Hinata, blushing in the process. "Well, I've gotta be going now..." said Jiraiya. "What? Aren't you coming to eat with us?" asked Naruto. "Sorry, but I need to go and talk to Tsunade. See you later Naruto, and you too Hinata!" replied Jiraiya, and then he quickly went off, leaving Naruto and Hinata alone, with no chance to give any sort of reply. "A-Are we still going, Naruto?" said Hinata, really hoping that the answer would be yes. "Yes, of course, Hinata!" replied Naruto, giving her a bright smile.
Naruto and Hinata sat at the Ichiraku Ramen stand, waiting for their food in an awkward silence, until Naruto finally broke it "So, how are things going around here Hinata?" "Oh... nothing that special has happened to be honest." replied Hinata nervously, due to the fact that she was alone with Naruto. There was another period of awkward silence, but it didn't last long, as Hinata found the courage to speak again "What's happened with you while you were away, Naruto?" she asked. "Oh, I trained with Jiraiya and learned all sorts of cool jutsu!"said Naruto "And I can do two rasengans at the same time now! Without any shadow clones!" he continued bragging, and Hinata just continued listening, as he talked about all the things he had learned over the years that he was away.
'Does Naruto think of this as a date?' Hinata thought to herself 'Wait, of course he doesn't, he doesn't like me that way...' Hinata thought again. Naruto noticed that Hinata was staring ahead of her, with tears in her eyes, seemingly in a world of her own. "What's up Hinata?" he asked, with a worried look on her face, and when she didn't respond at all he spoke again "Hinata?" Hinata finally stopped daydreaming, and directed her gaze towards Naruto "Oh sorry... What is it?" she mumbled. "What's up Hinata?" repeated Naruto. "Oh, nothing... I was just thinking." replied Hinata "Oh... Ok" said Naruto, and didn't talk about it any longer, because he didn't want to upset her. After that, Hinata said that it was about time for her to leave, and Naruto ended up walking her to the Hyuga compound.
The next day, Naruto woke up to someone knocking on his apartment door, so he lazily got out of bed, walked over to the door, and then opened it, revealing Sasuke. "Hey, idiot." greeted Sasuke, grinning at Naruto. "Sasuke!" replied Naruto, totally ignoring the fact that he had just called him an idiot. "I haven't seen you in ages!" spoke Naruto once again, grinning from ear to ear. "Yeah, whatever... The hokage sent me to tell you to get to the hokage tower right now." replied Sausuke, with his normal bored expression on his face. And so, Naruto and Sasuke set off towards the hokage tower, jumping from rooftop to rooftop. Eventually, they both arrived in Tsunade's office. "Granny Tsunade!" shouted Naruto with joy. "Hello Naruto, glad to see that you are back." replied the hokage, smiling at the blonde ninja.
Author's Note:
Yup, Sasuke is still in the village in my story, I hope no-one minds. :P And I hope this doesn't turn out to be way too short...