After making joinin, Uzumaki Naruto decided to take it to the next level.
Applying for the AMBU, he decides to take another step forward in becoming Hokage.
That day, he was sitting in his room reading the application, when he heard a knock on the door. It was sakura.
"hey Naruto! How are you? Umm, i was thinking if you would like to join me to lunch?" said sakura with her face as red as a tomato. Naruto didn't believe his eyes. He thought he was just day dreaming. He blinked twice realizing that it wasn't really Sakura standing at his door step, it was Huuga Hinata.
Her lavender eyes looking at him full of hope that he accepts her request. Realizing what he saw and heard, Naruto quickly snapped out of his day dream and said, "hey Hinata, im great come in don't just stand there"
Hinata was shocked that he invited her inside, she didn't know whether that was a yes or a no for her answer. Her dark blue hair hanging loosely on her shoulders and back. Naruto never noticed how pretty hinata was, he never really noticed how calming and pleasant her face and eyes were.
Living alone, Naruto never knew how to serve people properly when they visit him at home. he decides to serve out some chips and candy he had.
Shyly Hinata asked him if she was interrupting him in anything. "uh, umm, na Naruto, am am I interrupting you? I mean if you are busy you don't have to join me. Its its okay" said hinata playing with her two fingers as always when she was shy. "what are you kidding? No im totally free today, its my pleasure, I would love to join you, im just a little surprised you asked . you know with how shay you are and everything." Said Naruto rubbing the back of his head and flashing a huge smile at hinata.
Later that day, knowing how Naruto loved ramen, hinata and Naruto headed out to ラーメン一楽, Rāmen Ichiraku shop. "hey Naruto, bringing a date along with you today?" said Ayame, making Hinata go flashing red and Naruto a bit shy too.
As they ate their ramen, Naruto couldn't stop noticing Hinata's beauty. "uhh Naruto, why are you staring at me like that? Uh you're making me feel uncomfortable." Naruto couldn't resist as he said, "Hinata you're so beautiful, how come I never noticed how breathtaking your eyes are" her eye grew wide and her cheeks went from pink to cherry red. Hinata quickly bowed her head down to hide her shyness. "Say, would you like to take a walk at the park after lunch?" with Naruto saying that Hinata quickly nodded as a sign of approval.
"Thanks Ayame for the great ramen, I will sure treat Hinata once more here" said Naruto with a wide smile on his face. They went to the park, it was full of children playing around and running here and there, with all that chaos, Hinata and Naruto couldn't hear each other. Naruto suggested that they go to a more quite place, a lake in Konohagakure. On their way there, Sakura and Ino saw them pass by but didn't have the courage to bother them knowing how much Hinata loved Naruto since the first day she saw him, they didn't want to ruin any chances of them being together. "Hey Ino, could it be that Naruto and HInata are finally going out together, the poor thing, she loved him since the academy and he never noticed her." "Sakura, everybody knows that Naruto always had a crush on you but you never gave him a chance, I guess he finally got over you. I mean it will be amazing if he and Hinata were going out together, she's a very beautiful, strong and elegant woman from a fine family. Naruto is lucky to have such beauty madly and hopelessly in love with him"
When they reached the lake, Naruto splashed a bit of water on Hinata, they started playing with water till all of their clothes got wet. "we should probably make a fire and ger warm before we get sick" said Hinata in her low and shy voice as ever. "Right, I get started with that, you just set there and relax Hinata" The sun was almost going down and they were sitting around the fire, a cold breeze passed by making Hinata shiver in her seat. "Hinata, if you are cold, you can come near me. I'm pretty warm because of the nine tails, I don't get too cold" "uhh umm I umm well, if you insist." She sat right beside him feeling his warmth, she thought, "oh Naruto I never knew that you were so warm, I wish you would hold me like this whenever Im cold" Her face went super red as her thought went through her mind.
Naruto's thoughts:
I can't believe I never noticed Hinata. Man, what is this feeling, I feel like I don't want to leave her side ever again. She's cold as ice. I better lace my shoulder on her. But then again what f she snaps like Sakura and hit me in the face. That's going to ruin everything. I don't want her to think that I'm a pervert.
End
They sat there in silence, until Hinata sensed another chakra close by. She told Naruto and he went off to check who is there. "stay here Hinata and take care of yourself, I'll go and see who is there and I'll come back to protect you, I promise,"
Hearing those words from him, Hinata almost fainted. She couldn't believe that she was out on a date with Naruto after all these years of waiting. Yet again she thought to herself thst it wasn't officially a date as they didn't mention anything about that. It was only spending some free time together.
The other chakra Hinata sensed belonged to and AMBU ninja that was on duty. He sensed their chakra and decided to check who was there at that time.
It was pitch black when Naruto came back to Hinata. They decided to go back to the village. "Hinata, its getting late and I don't want you to get hurt, let me walk you home"
For the rest of the night, Naruto couldn't stop thinking about Hinata.
Naruto's thoughts:
I really had fun today, I might just ask her out again, but, what if Neji disapproves, I mean that guy is creepy. He doesn't allow anyone to come close to Hinata. Im going to talk this out with Sakura. Yeah she might help.
End.
The next day, Naruto went to talk to sakura about yesterday. She was surprised and also very happy for Hinata and Naruto. "Naruto, if you really like her then ask her out, get to know her better. HInata is a wonderful girl."
Naruto thank sakura for her advice, after that he went to the AMBU to submit his papers, knowing how powerful Naruto is, they accepted him that very moment. They gave him his AMBU accessories and an orange fox mask.
On his way home, he noticed HInata on the streets. He went rushing towards her. "Hinata wait! Hold on!"
"hey Naruto, uuh umm hi, how are you?" said Hinata, shy as ever. "Hinata I made it into AMBU, ill be collecting my first mission tomorrow! This is amazing! Hey, care to join me to dinner tonight? Come on with me to my apartment ill leave my stuff their, get changed and go out"
"uhh umm ya yeah sure! I would love that! And Naruto.. congrats" she hugged him and quickly realized what she did, she escaped his chest and her face went as red as blood.
Celebrating his new position, Naruto took Hinata to a fancy sushi bar, where they drank sake and ate fancy sushi which he enjoyed but not as much as he enjoyed his bowl of Ichiraku ramen. They talked the whole night, Naruto cracking jokes and making hinata laugh so hard that her stomach hurt. It was getting late around 2 am when he noticed the time. Time passed quickly. Naruto caught Hinata day dreaming and staring at him giving him a cute and innocent smile admiring his sky blue eyes and his blond locks that took her breathe away. "its getting late and I better take you home before your father and Neji go out looking for you and I end up digging my own grave" said Naruto with a bit of sarcasm. Hinata snapped out of it when she heard his voice which was like melody to her and his voice was the thing that she longed to hear. "hai, we better hurry up. You should get home too, you have a mission tomorrow as well" said hinata.
Naruto dropped her home and he headed to his own. Later that night Naruto was so tired that he didn't even change his clothes directly fell on his bed and slept like a child.