A/N: This is a side story of mine ... it's quite long but i decided to start posting it here too. I don't own Naruto / it's characters / it's scenere / or it's story but i will follow it slightly ... not gonna spoil anything but when the crossover comes i don't own none of that either. enjoy

"Not this dream again," mumbled a blonde boy as he turned over in his sleep. This dream has been shown to this boy repeatedly for the past week now and he has wondered what it meant. Whenever he asked an adult they would just tell him to beat it and if he persisted then they resorted to throwing things at him. The boy got up out of bed because he could not get back to sleep. He thought about the dream he had had and thought that he would ask Iruka-sensei about it in school that morning.

He began to undress revealing a well-toned body. He was slightly muscular which showed that he worked out. This boy had wild and unruly blond hair and great blue eyes that showed complete innocence towards what he really was. The only two things that were unusual about him were the whisker marks on his face and the strange seal on his navel. Whenever he asked somebody about them they gave him the same reaction that he got when he asked about his dreams.

The boy stepped into his shower and turned on the water. The shower felt refreshing to the boy as he began to lather shampoo in his hair. Soon after he rinsed his hair free of the shampoo and began to wash the rest of his body. He took his time with this because of the fact that nobody else would need the shower anytime soon. For you see this thirteen-year-old boy has been living alone ever since he can remember. He was told that he had no relatives and the adults forbade their children to be his friend. He grew up sad and lonely and no child in the village knew why. Every time a child got close to the boy in any way an adult would drag that child away from him. The boy turned off the shower and got out to dry himself off. He then went to the toilet to relieve himself and left the bathroom soon after. He got dressed and headed over to his kitchen. The boy grabbed a cup of instant ramen out of his cupboard and began to make his breakfast. While the water was heating up he noticed a sign that he had made that hung over his bed. The sign read, "Ganbatte ne Uzumaki Naruto," in Japanese kanji. Do your best Uzumaki Naruto, the boy thought. There were many times when he wished that somebody would say that to him. Although he wished this it never came to pass. All the adults hated him except for some of the shinobi and a few of the civilians. A lot of the kids hated him even though nobody ever told the children why they should hate Naruto.

Naruto poured the now boiling water into his instant ramen cup and took out a pair of chopsticks. As soon as the ramen was ready Naruto began to eat it making as much noise as possible. The silence that consumed most of Naruto's life was deafening to him. As soon as he was finished he went to the bathroom to brush his teeth and then he got ready for school. Naruto knew that school did not start for another two hours but he had to get out of his apartment to listen to anything that might take his mind off of the silence. As soon as he opened his door he was greeted by the sounds of the birds that greeted the day.

Naruto liked the sounds that the morning sun always brought. Birds would be chirping and people would start their day. Naruto walked down to the base level of the apartment building and made his way to a secluded area of an abandoned park in the village. He lay down in the grass as he let the cool morning air blow over his face. With the tall grass that grew around him no one could see him unless they were standing right over him. Suddenly Naruto heard some noises that were unfamiliar to him. To Naruto any unfamiliar thing meant danger most of the time. Naruto continued to lie down and listened with all his might as he tried to determine what was making that noise. After a few moments Naruto recognized the sound and found out that it sounded like someone running through the grass. Just then Naruto heard a thump as something landed near him. He could hear soft breathing coming from his right. Naruto peered over the grass and saw a girl lying in the grass a foot away from him. Her eyes were closed so she did not notice Naruto looking at her. Naruto quickly hid as the girl began to open her eyes.

"That was fun," she whispered to the sky.

Naruto could tell by the color of the sky that he still had an hour and a half until school started. Naruto sighed a little too loud because the girl heard him.

"Wh-Who's there…?" asked the girl as she sat up. She looked to her left and right and did not notice Naruto. Instead of continuing hiding Naruto decided to make his presence known. Naruto got up and brushed the grass off of his orange and blue jacket and also brushed the grass off of his orange pants. He kicked the dirt out of his sandal-shoes and sat down.

"Sorry I didn't mean to startle you," said Naruto as the girl saw him with her pearl white eyes that had no pupils. Suddenly the girls white face went as red as a beet and she passed out.

Naruto quickly rushed over to the girl and caught her before her head hit the ground. He took off his jacket revealing a white T-shirt with the hidden leaf symbol on it. He placed the jacket on the ground and clumsily made it into a pillow like object with one hand. Naruto then placed the girl's head onto his jacket. Naruto looked the girl over to make sure nothing else was wrong and saw that she was wearing that gray jacket, black pants, and sandal-shoes that she always wears. Naruto brushed the girl's black hair from her face and waited for her to wake up. The girl, known as Hyuuga Hinata, always acted weird when she saw Naruto but this was the first time she fainted when around him. Naruto noticed that Hinata was starting to wake up after about an hour of waiting.

"Daijoubuga Hinata?" asked Naruto as she sat up.

"Daijoubu," she said while trying to take in what had happened. Hinata looked to her left and saw Naruto there without his jacket on. She looked down where she had been laying and saw his jacket.

"N-Naruto-kun what happened?" asked Hinata.

"Well I guess I surprised you when I got up and you fainted," replied Naruto as he scratched the back of his head. "I waited for you to wake up because I was worried that something might have happened to you if were alone like that … and the fact that if somebody saw me leave you like that they would get the wrong idea."

"W-What do you mean?" Hinata asked hesitantly.

"In case you haven't noticed, not many people like me," said Naruto as he turned his head toward the sky. "Going by what happened I'm guessing that you don't like me either," he said as he got up and left.

Hinata watched him as he left for the park. Her face was still red from when she fainted earlier. Naruto did not know this but there was one person in the village that actually liked him enough to want to be around him. That person was now watching Naruto as he left the park. Hinata's face returned to its normal pale white hue. Her eyes drooped as she thought how Naruto must feel every day with everyone hating him like that.

"I wish I was brave enough to tell him how I feel," said Hinata through a sigh as she calmed her self down. She looked around and noticed that Naruto had left his jacket behind. Hinata picked it up and brushed the grass and dirt off of it and quickly folded it as tenderly as possible. She got up with the jacket in her hands and ran after Naruto.

Naruto had just left the park when he realized he was missing his jacket.

"Nani what happened to my jacket?" Naruto asked himself as he started to paw at his upper body. "Oh no I left it back with Hinata," he said as he sighed and continued to walk to the academy, "oh well I'll just have to make another," he said while shrugging.

"You m-made this?" asked Hinata as she finally caught up with Naruto.

"Oh Hinata, did you get my jacket for me?" asked Naruto clearly not believing what he was seeing.

"Hai, Naruto-kun," she said as she handed him the jacket.

When Naruto smiled at Hinata she blushed and looked away.

"Hey Hinata, your face is all red do you have a fever?" asked Naruto as he placed his hand on her forehead. Hinata made a small sound that sounded like a squeak and batted Naruto's hand away.

"Sorry … I-I didn't m-mean to do that," said Hinata stuttering madly as her face got even redder.

"No, I shouldn't have startled you like that," said Naruto as he rubbed his nose. "Do you want to walk to class together?" asked Naruto as he thrust his thumb over his shoulder in the general direction of the academy.

Is this really happening? Hinata thought this is the best day ever. "Hai," said Hinata as she nodded and they both started to head to the academy together. Naruto had put his jacket on and placed his hands in his pockets. Naruto didn't like the silence so he tried to start a conversation.

"Um … how is school for you?" asked Naruto. Man that was a dumb question Naruto thought we're in the same class. I know about as much as she does about school.

Oh my god he is actually talking to me Hinata thought, as her face became a little red. "Um … s-school is fine, w-what about you Naruto-kun?" Hinata asked.

"Bah … I'm not that good at the stuff that's being taught right now," Naruto said as he scratched the back of his head.

"Do you mean the Bunshin no Jutsu and the Henge no Jutsu?" asked Hinata.

"No, no, no. Not the Henge no Jutsu just the Bunshin no Jutsu," said Naruto as he shook his head, "I just can't get the clone to come out right."

"What's wrong with it?" Hinata asked as her face returned to its normal color now that she was a little bit more comfortable with the conversation that was going on. Even though she became a little more comfortable with Naruto around she could still not muster the courage needed to tell him how she felt.