Hyuga Festival: The Forest of Pink Blossoms!

Written by Rouge Ninja Sasuke

Naruto Owned by Masashi Kishimoto

Hanabi skipped down the hall of the Hyuga household, carrying a sack full of small scrolls. These were invitations, to the Hyuga Festival. Huh? What is the Hyuga Festival?

Well, I guess that does need some explanation. The Hyuga Festival, is a celebration held in the early summer, every five years. It is celebrated in a special location within the Leaf Country, normally off-limits. Except to the Hyuga leaders, or elders.

The location is known as, The Forest of Pink Blossoms. Why? Because the white trees have no leaves at all, just pink blossoms. They are weird blossoms, as they never turn into fruit of any kind.

It is held here because that is where the Hyuga clan originated.

Halfway down the hall she tripped, dropping the scrolls all over the floor. Hinata opened her door, wondering about the noise.

"Let me help you" said Hinata bending down, starting to pick up the scrolls. She glanced at a scroll, it said Naruto Uzumaki on the flap. She looked to see if her sister was looking, then tried to stuff it her pocket.

But Hanabi noticed, "What are you doing with that one?" she asked. "Nothing, I… just didn't think this person will come…" Hinata said, sadly. Hanabi seized the scroll, putting it in the sack.

"You should try anyway, you never know" she said, smiling. Hinata reached to grap it back, then retracted slowly. "Your right.." she muttered almost to herself, filled with slight hope.

Hanabi carried onward, Hinata returned to her room, thinking of what she'd do if he did come.

Naruto lay asleep, his arm hanging over the edge of the bed. He was up training with Jiraiya all last night.

(Dreams are in Italic)

He stand observing the construction of his face into the rock monument of Hokage.

"It's perfect! Just as a always thought it'd be!" he said, with pride. He looked down at the Ninja Academy. "I remember when I went there, ah memories!"

There was a knock at the door.

Suddenly the face crumbled down in a rock slide. "No, No, No!" shouted Naruto, shocked like never before.

There were more knocks at the door.

Then all the faces crumbled down the ground crushing many villagers and buildings. "How could this happen!?!" shouted Naruto, confused and angry.

There were many loud bangs at the door.

Then in a short earth quake of terror the whole village cumbled and fell to the ground. "NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! I'm the worst Hokage ever to live!" screamed Naruto punching himself while crying.

The door burst open in a outrage of impaitence. "NARUTO!!!" shouted Konohamaru, jumping up and down.

Naruto woke up with a shock, "Phew, it was just a dream…" he muttered to himself. He then noticed Konohamaru, steaming off by the door.

"Hey, Konohamaru, what's up?" Naruto said unaware of Konohamaru's attempts to enter the room.

Konohamaru shook off the anger, and handed Naruto a small scroll. "Your mail!" he said, as Naruto started to open the scroll.

"Oh, yeah right!" Naruto said, and began to read the message.

It read:

Dear, Naruto Uzumaki

You are invited to the Hyuga Festival, your inn reservations have been arranged. Please be at The Forest of Pink Blossoms, tomorrow afternoon.

The traditional party will be allowing each person to bring a date of sorts. This is not required.

The Map is on the back of this scroll. We hope you will participate in our celebration!

Authorized by

Hiashi Hyuga

Invite Requested by

Hinata and Neji Hyuga

"A date of sorts? Who wrote this?" Naruto asked, blindly. Konohamaru shrugged. "Are you going too?" asked Konohamaru, eagerly. "You got invited?" replied Naruto, questioningly.

"Of course, I'm the third Hokage's grandson! Plus I'm friends with Habini!" answered Konohamaru, with pride.

"I'll go, I wonder if they have ceremonial ramen?" Naruto asked, eagerly. "I can't remember…I haven't gone since I was two years old" Konohamaru admitted.

Naruto slurped down the broth of his eighth bowl of ramen. "Hit me, again!" he called out to the chef in the back. He held up a thumbs up from inside the door.

Naruto looked around the bar, he saw Chouji muching on the fifth of about four-teen trays. "Heh, No surprise there!" he said to himself.

He saw Hinata at the end of the bar stool area, slowly eating something resembling a fried fish sandwhich. He hopped downa stool at a time down next to her.

She was about to take a bite with her eyes closed. "Hinata?" he asked her. Her eye opened faster than lightning, she jumped dropping her sandwhich back on her tray, and nearly spilled her drink.

"Oh, Hello Naruto" she said quietly, blushing. There was a moment a silence, then "So, about this festival…" he started. This immediately caught her attention.

If she had pupils, they'd be completely focused on Naruto. "I was wondering, would you like to go with me?" he finished, and crossed his fingers behind his back.

If he asked Sakura, he knew what would happen.

(Visualizations are in Italic)

Her eyes turned flaming red. "HELL NO!!!" she shouted, and punched him in the face. He flew all the way out of the village.

Hinata stared at him for a moment to re-collect what had just happened. 'Naruto asked me?' she thought to herself.

She smiled, trying to act as casual as possible. "Of course!" she said, as happy as Naruto had ever seen her. "Great!" Naruto said, uncrossing his fingers.

He ran back home to prepare for the week long festival.

He started throwing this and that into the backpack. "I can't believe I actually got a date!" Naruto said to himself. "It's probably hot there, so I don't need this jacket!" he said putting the orange jacket in the overly messy closet. "This black T-shirt does fine!" he said, and continued to pack.

"Come to think of it, the invite said there was a party, so I need something to dance in… hmm…" he said and began to think.

He snapped his fingers, "I know!" he said to himself. He dug around in his closet, for a few minutes.

"ah-ha!" he proclaimed, pulling out a black tuxedo, with red lining, and stripes. "I wonder why I've never wore this before?" he asked himself, trying it on.

He looked in the mirror that hadn't been used in ages. He did some poses, then packed it in with the rest of the things.

"I really hope they have ceremonial ramen!" he said, zipping up the overstuffed backpack. "Maybe I'll ask Hinata tomorrow!" he said to himself, making a mental note of that.

With that, he placed the overstuffed backpack in the corner, and glanced at the clock. 8:40 PM.

He missed dinner! But right now, he was too excited to eat. So he lay on his bed, closed his eyes and within ten minutes he was asleep.

A dark and shady figure entered Naruto's room. Scaning it for safety purposes, he continued to Naruto's bed where Naruto lay fast asleep.

"So, this boy is going to the festival with the eldest daughter of the Hyuga clan eh?" the figure said to itself, it's voice sounded rough, scratchy and male.

"Well, I'll just see what he knows then…" ot said, sound more and more omnious. He preformed hand signs; Tiger and Snake and Ox then finally Dog, placing a hand on Naruto's forehead. He whispered "Mind Tap Jutsu!".

The figure saw images of almost every suffient encounter with Hinata that Naruto had ever had.

When he was finished, he said "Damn, he dosen't know much of the Hyuga Clan at all!". But he said it a little too loudly.

Naruto opened his eyes, looked around the room, nothing unusual. He closed his eye and went back to sleep.

Meanwhile: atop his roof, the figure disapeared into nothing.

Author's Notes

Well, this chapter is pretty short in comparison to what I plan to write. But I really wanted to get the first chapter up tonight. And I have been writing since 9:00 PM and It's now 2:00 AM.

Tell me what you though of my first chapter. Just to tell you not all chapters will be like this: most will be missions and other various things. This is kind of like a special episode.

The Hyuga Festival will be 4-6 parts long, I'm not really sure yet.

Next Part will be up 80 likely tomorrow, 20 likely the day after (If so, it'll be about 1:00 AM.)