NaruHina-First date.

This is my first ever story on this sight, so please be kind.

Disclaimer:

I do not own any of these characters, the awseome Masashi Kishimoto does, the plot however is mine so please do not steal. I dont know how this all works but please review and i have 5 more chapters ready to upload.

HINATA!'

'n-nane?' Hinata stuttered turning around and seeing Naruto running across the grass towards her.

'Hey Hinata Chan, um I was wandering if you wanted to go to Ichiraku's now and get something to eat?' Naruto blurted out brightly.

'Um, um... '

Hinata blushed furiously and tried to look anywhere but at Naruto. Was he really asking her out? She wandered her head spinning. For ages she had admired Naruto from, afar, but recently they had been getting closer due to the chunnin exam and then the events that had followed. And now finally her dream was coming true. Naruto-kun was asking her on a date! So why couldn't she just say yes.

'Ano, ano'

she repeated nervously, playing subconsciously with her thumb and forefinger.

'It's okay if you don't want to'

Naruto murmured trying not to look disappointed, he turned away so she couldn't see his large blue eyes fill with the feeling.

'N-NO!'

Hinata called out before she could stop herself.

Surprised Naruto turned back to face her.

'Nane?' he asked curiously.

'Um if it's okay Naruto Kun, I would very much like to go to Ichiraku's with you.' Hinata blurted out blushing an even deeper shade of red.

'Oh of course it'd be okay Hinata Chan, why would I have asked you if it wasn't?' Naruto grinned and scratched the back of his head awkwardly. 'Well come on then' he beamed and grabbed her wrist dragging her after him.

'N-Naruto kun' Hinata whispered smiling softly.
Outside the sun was shining and the birds tweeted happily from their perches in the trees. A gentle breeze picked up and tousled Hinata's hair. It was summer and she was sitting at Ichiraku's with Naruto. She felt like she was floating on a cloud of happiness and nothing could bring her down. The day was so perfect. She paused and listened for a while to the crickets chirping their merry music. Content to just sit their, basking in the suns warm glow and Naruto's company. Eventually Naruto spoke, breaking the silence between them.

Naruto

'So Hinata' he began, looking into her soft lilac eyes he felt a surge of emotion. She was so sweet and beautiful, he wandered why he had never noticed her properly before.

Probably because I was so caught up in my stupid pursuit of Sakura he thought bitterly. But recently he had really started to notice her, ever since her match with Neji in the chunnin exams preliminary stage. It had taken a while, but instead of seeing her as a weird shy girl, he had started to see her as Hinata, a girl with much insecurity but a girl who was willing to fight to change herself to become a better person and to overcome those insecurities.

So that now he saw her in a different light. As a strong, wise person, and also a beautiful one. For a long time he had been looking but not really seeing. But once he had begun to look properly he hadn't been able to help but notice her large soft eyes, which were such an enchanting colour and could be so innocent and sometimes so fierce. Or her pretty purple hair and innocent round face. Before he had been doubtful of her shyness but now it only enforced something within him that he hadn't known he possessed, something that made him want to reach out and pull her into a hug and kiss those sweet lips a thousand times, simply because when she acted shy he wanted to bring out that sexy fierceness within her. The longer he looked into her eyes, the more he thought those kind of things, until it became so much that in fear of his sanity he had to look away.
Surprised Hinata watched Naruto, he seemed to be in deep thought and she waited patiently for him to finish the sentence he had started. For a long time his eyes stayed locked with hers, and for the first time ever she resisted the urge to look away. For an age they stayed like that until, to her surprise, he looked away. Naruto, she thought in shock, since when did you become embarrassed when looking at me? She felt her face heat up at the thought that Naruto was embarrassed by her, but ignoring it she built up the courage to speak.

'Go on Naruto kun' she urged, pleased that she had not stuttered.
Naruto took a deep breath and looked back up into her eyes. For a while he was stuck but then his tongue found the words he had been searching for,

' Hinata I like you' he blushed but continued,

'I like you a lot, for ages I have been watching you and seeing you in a new light, I admire your courage and think that you are truly strong Hinata.'

He grinned awkwardly and scratched the back of his head.

'Like what you said to me just before my match with Neji in the chunnin exams, I think that is what you are. But it's not just that Hinata'

he swallowed. He had never been very good with words.

'I think that, I think that, I think that you Hinata are beautiful inside and out.' He finished and took a deep breath watching her anxiously to see her reaction.

Hinata

Hinata was stunned. All she could do was gape. Had Naruto really just said those things to her? Her brain was working over time to take in everything that had just happened. 'N-n-n' she tried, but try as she might; she had completely forgotten how to speak.

'Hinata?'

Naruto asked anxiously. Had he been to full on, maybe he should have been gentler. He silently cursed his foolish mouth.

'Hinata, it's fine, I understand'

he tried to reassure her,

'it was to soon, I'm sorry.'

No, Hinata mentally cried. He was getting the wrong impression. Taking a huge breath to calm herself she forced her brain to work. Slowly she managed to form the words on her tongue.
'N-no Naruto kun, it, it's not that. I was just shocked, that's all, I, I didn't expect you to say that. Because, because it's what I've been w-wanting for ages now. I never thought you would f-feel the same w-way about me. That's all.'

She took yet another deep breath, desperately trying to still her pounding heart. She had finished. Blushing about five hundred shades of red she looked away and pointedly at the grass. For a short while, although it felt like an age, their was an awkward silence between them. Until Naruto broke it with a happy laugh.

'So we like each other?' He grinned, 'that's great!' Hinata nodded shyly and smiled softly to herself.
Just then their order arrived and they munched happily through it. When they were finished Naruto took Hinata's hand and led her to the park, where they sat down on a bench.

'Thank you for a great date Naruto kun' Hinata blushed and smiled taking his hand in hers again.
'You liked it!'

Naruto beamed, so he had picked right then. In his mind Ichiraku's was a great place to go for any occasion.
Hinata chuckled and got up to go.

'Wait!' Naruto got up to and stood in front of her. 'I, um, wanted to give you this' he murmered blushing and quickly giving her a little brightly coloured parcel, wrapped in a purple bow.
'N-Naruto?' Hinata whispered, but he was already turning away. Suddenly he stopped and turned around again. 'Oh yeah, and this' he scratched his head nervously and came back over. Leaning in quickly he kissed her cheek softly and then darted away. Without waiting to see her reaction, he disappeared into the distance.
Slowly Hinata touched her cheek, feeling the spot where Naruto had kissed her, there was a tingling feeling left from where his lips had brushed her skin. Looking down at the parcel in her hands she unwrapped it. In it was a beautiful necklace. On a delicate silver chain hung a small amethyst, about the size of tear drop, and engraved into its back where the initials H & N. Smiling Hinata fastened it around her neck, and gazed at the spot Naruto had been moments before. She would treasure this necklace forever.