Hey.

Basically, new trailer for The Last. Filled with NH.

So I had to write a fic.

Enjoy

-o-

She ran through the woods as fast as she could. Her gasping breath visible because of the cold air. It was winter, and it was snowing. The trees in the forest were naked, they had no leaves, the only thing covering them was the white powder from the sky.

"Oi!" she heard in the distance.

He was closing in on her. She wasn't running fast enough. Her winter clothes were restraining her movements and her scarf almost covered her mouth. She would be caught. Her panting could be heard now, her soft desperate voice dispersed into the white forest.

No one would ever want to listen to such a voice.

She felt something hit her foot and she felt her face falling down to the snow. She had tripped on a tree root that protruded from the ground.

"Owww…" she grunted as she slowly got up. She rubbed her face to swat away the uncomfortable feeling of hitting the snow face first.

"Hey you!" the voice was clearer, which meant he was closer. She got up, preparing to run again, but she felt a pull on her scarf and couldn't move forward "You're not going anywhere."

She turned around, she saw a blond kid with goggles on his forehead. He was wearing a red scarf and an orange cape over his clothes.

"What are you running away for?" he said "Eh?"

She was surprised herself when she felt something warm falling down her cheeks. They were tears. She was crying.

"Why are you…?"

-o-

The sunset was turning everything orange and yellow. It was making its way through the village quickly. She looked around the small park, everyone had already left. She walked to the very end of the park, where a railing stopped her from sliding down the hill. From this spot, she could see most of the village. She rested her hands on the top bar of the railing and looked down at the village.

It looked so peaceful. Quiet and warm. It almost looked like the perfect place to live.

Almost.

The truth was that this peace wasn't for free. It had come at a very high price. And even though she could deal with that, the one thing she couldn't do was forget it. She looked in the direction of the graveyard. One of the people she cared for the most was there…

Her thoughts were interrupted as she heard a faint voice. A familiar voice. She turned around to see the blond man as he passed by the park. He seemed to be complaining about something… which wasn't that weird when she thought about it.

She thought he would just walk past the park, but for some reason he seemed to notice her and walked up to meet her.

"Yo! Hinata!" he said, with his trademark grin.

"Naruto-kun!" she replied.

"So, what are you doing here?" he asked.

"Nothing much, really…" she said "Just looking down on the village."

"Eh? That's kinda boring isn't it?" Naruto said.

"I thought so too." Hinata replied "But actually, I quite like it."

"Do you come here every day?"

"No. Just every once in a while." She said "And you? Why did you seem so… grumpy…?"

"EH? Me? Grumpy?"

She giggled.

"Ah, whatever…" Naruto said "I just went to Kakashi-sensei's office. I just can't believe he won't give me the seat of Hokage! I am way more powerful than him! Everyone knows that!"

"Oh, so that's what you've been complaining about for so long…" Hinata said "Maybe Kakashi-sensei thinks you're not ready yet."

"What? Come on. I'm totally ready!" Naruto said "I'm 19! Gaara's been Kazekage since he was 15!"

Hinata giggled again "That wasn't exactly what I meant."

"Then what do you mean?"

"You said it first, didn't you? To Konohamaru-kun." Hinata said "That there weren't shortcuts to becoming Hokage."

"Hmm… I did say that…"

"Being powerful isn't all there is to being Hokage. You know that, don't you?" Hinata said.

"Yes, of course I know that!" Naruto replied.

"Then it's just a matter of figuring out what Kakashi-sensei has that you don't." Hinata commented "And then working hard to achieve it. You didn't forget that, did you, Naruto-kun?"

Naruto looked at Hinata. She was smiling at him, almost as if taunting him "Of course I didn't. I'm not forgetful! Anyway… Let's find something else to talk about."

"Okay… What do you want to talk about?"

"You. Let's talk about you. I told you why I come to the Hokage's office every day." Naruto said "But you didn't tell me why you come sightseeing to this park."

-o-

"Oi! Why are you crying?" he asked.

"I…"

"You what?"

"I interrupted your training… I'm so sorry…!" she said in between sobs.

"Haah?" the boy sighed "Hey you… You don't need to apologize for that."

The girl didn't respond, she just kept trying to keep her crying in, which she was failing miserably at.

"HEY!" he yelled, scaring her "Stop crying! You look like-" he stopped, he didn't have any good punchlines for this.

But even scaring her didn't work. She kept crying.

He sighed again "Look, I'm sorry."

"Eh?" the tears stopped falling.

"I shouldn't have yelled at you the way I did. It's just that… my training is very important for me." He said "So I yelled without thinking when I realized there was someone nearby."

The girl started breathing sighs of relief. It looked like she was finally calming down.

"But you gotta have some nerve goddammit!" he said "You just ran off like I had just beaten you or something! Where is your self-esteem!"

-o-

"Sightseeing…? Well I guess you can call it that…" Hinata said, as she looked back down on the village "I come here to think."

"Think? About what?"

"Oh I don't know… Whatever goes in my mind, I guess." Hinata said.

"Ho… And what is going on your mind right now?" Naruto asked.

"Hmm? And why do you want to know?"

"Eh? Well, I…" Naruto turned his face away, almost as if embarrassed "I'm just curious I guess."

Hinata giggled again "Well… I was thinking about this." She waved her hand over the village "Look at how quiet and warm this place is. It's so peaceful right now."

"Of course it's peaceful, I made it that way!" Naruto said "I just wish Kakashi-sensei would realize that, hmph!"

"See, that's where you are wrong, Naruto-kun." Hinata said.

Naruto stopped for a minute. The way Hinata told him he was wrong. It was so gentle and soft… and yet it felt somewhat imposing. Hinata truly believed in what she was saying, and that showed. It was totally different from back when they were kids. Hinata almost never made her presence felt, yet today he saw her at the park even though he barely glanced it.

"You didn't bring peace alone." Hinata said "Everyone did. All of these people here. And all of the people in the other villages."

"You're right." Naruto said "I'd never thought about it that way."

"I think you're wrong there too." Hinata said "You certainly did think like that back then."

"Back then? Wait, you mean…" Naruto said "Neji?"

Hinata's look changed a bit. It had been gently cheerful until that point. But Naruto could notice the ping of sadness in her after he mentioned Neji…

"Yes…" Hinata nodded "But not just him. Over and over again, you mentioned your comrades…"

"Oh…"

"You see? So you are forgetful, aren't you?" Hinata giggled again.

"Oh, shut up." Naruto turned his face again. Something was wrong. He remembered Hinata being embarrassed whenever he talked to her. Now here she was completely fine, and the one who was feeling embarrassed was him. When had that happened?

Hinata continued giggling.

"Fine. I'm forgetful." Naruto said "But I'm not that forgetful."

"Hmm? What do you mean by that?"

"I remember it as if it was yesterday." Naruto said in defiance.

"It?" Hinata asked.

"Yes… I remember… it…" Naruto said "And that was… over two years ago…" his confident cheerful tone went away.

"Naruto-kun?" Hinata said "Is there something wrong?"

Naruto was clenching his fist, almost as if angry.

"Hey, Naruto-kun?"

"Hinata, I'm so sorry!" Naruto almost jumped out at her, surprising her. He grabbed both of her hands, almost as if begging her to stay there.

"What… what is this?" Hinata's face was starting to become red. She was blushing.

"You were so brave… You told me that…" Naruto said "And I didn't say anything to you… Nothing at all!"

"Wha- What are you talking about, Naruto-kun?"

"Two years!" Naruto continued "There's no excuse for that! You told me something so secretive about you…"

"Oh, so that's what this is…" Hinata said, calmly. She spoke so nonchalantly about it, even Naruto stopped in the middle of his rant.

"Eh?"

Hinata lowered Naruto's hands, but didn't let go of them.

"You're probably wondering if I still feel that way and, if I do, why do I feel that way about you…" Hinata said. Her voice was gentle, she didn't seem affected by the weight of what she was saying in the least. But she was blushing, even if slightly.

"Well… yes…" Naruto complied.

"Then where is your self-esteem?" Hinata asked.

"Eh?" he looked at her.

She smiled "Maybe this is what you need to do. What's great about you isn't just that you're powerful or that you're a hard worker who never gives up. Your greatest trait is how greatly you affect other people. Everyone in the world knows you now, and everyone is united. That's because of what you did. And that's what you need to remember."

Naruto continued looking at her.

"You talk about how important your friends are to you. But you are important to your friends too. You inspired them, you still do. Because of you, we are all better people. And it's because of that that I feel this way about you."

"Hinata…"

"So you don't have to worry about it." She closed in and kissed him on the cheek, before letting go of his hands.

The two looked at each other for a while, they were both blushing.

Hinata smiled "Think clearly about this…" she said, before looking back at the village and the sun behind it. It was almost completely set, the bath of orange sunlight would soon end "And now I need to go home."

"Sure…" Naruto said

"Goodbye, Naruto-kun."

"Bye, Hinata." Naruto replied.

She walked past him to leave the park and he continued looking at her, never letting her stray away from his gaze. It was strange… He had known all this time about her feelings for him, but not once had he considered his feelings for her. And even stranger, she still felt the same way about him. How did he feel about her? He was certainly feeling something he hadn't felt before…

She looked back one last time and the two exchanged smiles before she walked down the road, leaving his field of vision entirely.

-o-

That was it.

Tell me what you thought about it, leave a review!

Have an awesome day.