Disclaimer: I own neither Naruto (nor Hinata) nor Skillet. Lyrics are adapted from Yours to Hold from their Comatose album.
I see you standing here, but you're so far away.
She can see that distant look in his eyes again. He's just standing there, gazing off into space, but she knows he's seeing his past, reliving the pain. He's a million miles away.
Starving for your attention but you don't even know my name.
Fix your gaze on me! she screams silently. I can help you! Let me know you! She's right in front of him; how can he not see her?
You're going through so much but I know that I could be the one to hold you.
Let me hold you; let me help you, she pleads in her mind.
Don't you know that I could be the one to hold you? I'm stretching but you're just out of reach.
She puts her arms out to take him into her embrace, but she can't reach him, not even when he's right there!
I see you walking by, your hair always hiding your face, and I wonder why you've been hurting.
Why won't you look me in the eye? She longs to reach out and brush those yellow locks out of his crystalline blue eyes and get him to look at her. But she doesn't, because when he's around, she can hardly breath or move, let alone touch him. He's in pain but she can't even move to help him.
I wish I had some way to say... every single day, I find it hard to say...
Why does her voice stop working when he's near her? Why won't her mouth open and spill out all those words she's been dying to say?
You will see someday that all along the way, I was yours to hold.
I could be the one who would hold you. Someday, you'll see me, she thinks when she sees that distant look. I could be the one who could help to ease the burden.
You should know that I'm ready when you're ready for me.
Will you ever be ready for me? she wonders. Can she be bold?
I'm waiting for the right time, waiting for the day I catch your eye.
I'll catch your eye one day, I swear it. A cut across her palm seals the oath in blood.
Catch your eye.
She's tired of the waiting game, but she isn't sure whether to slap him or kiss him. She can see him; he's sitting there again, staring blankly into his near-empty ramen bowl. It's now or never.
Catch your eye.
Her palm tingles - it's the one she bled to make her vow. She walks up to him.
Catch your eye.
She slaps him - not hard but enough to get him to look at her.
Catch your eye.
He looks at her, confused. This look gains more prevalence when Hinata leans forward and tentatively touches her lips to Naruto's.
Catch your eye.
"Looks like I finally caught your eye," she says, pulling back after a moment in which he begins to respond.
He finally realizes the truth. "All this time?"
"I knew someday, you'd see... I've been here, all along, just waiting. I was tired of waiting."
But she doesn't have to wait anymore, doesn't have to stretch to reach him anymore, doesn't have to keep silent anymore, because he's hers to hold now.
Catch your eye.
