With tragedy comes love
By
Naruto4life
Hinata walked slowly by the Raman stand admiring a certain blonde threw the curtains. She had been walking by that same Ramen stand for about 30 minutes without getting the courage to actually go in yet.
She was walking by it again for the billionth time when she bumped in to someone, which sent her stumbling back. "Oh Sorry" She said regaining her balance. "It's nothing, Are you finally going to go in the Ramen bar? Rather then walk by it six times."
Hinata looked up to see none other they Sakura smiling at her. "Oh it's okay, I-I rather not" Hinata said while looked up at the stand to see Naruto still sitting there. "Come on, my treat! Plus Naruto is there" Sakura said as she winked. Hinata felt a plus creep across her cheeks.
Before Hinata could protest Sakura grabbed her hand and dragged behind the curtains of the famous Raman bar. Sakura took the end seat and pulled Hinata next to her. Which left her two seats from Naruto.
Hinata took a small glance a Naruto. There were many empty ramen bowls in front of her and he was quickly shoving some more noodles in his mouth. Hinata gave a quiet giggle.
"Hinata!" Hinata turned around to see Sakura looking at her. "Yes?" Sakura gave a sign. "What kind of Ramen do you want to eat?" Hinata looked up at the waitress. "Pork flavored please" The waitress nodded and got to work.
"So Sakura how is it with Tsunade-sama?" Hinata asked politely. "Nothing out of the ordinary" Sakura said reaching for the chop sticks. "I see" Hinata nodded also grabbing some chop sticks. "Hinata, I know why you were walking by the here so often this week" Hinata looked up and could feel another blush spread across her cheeks.
"You do?" Sakura smiled. "It's because you want to ask Naruto to the upcoming dance" Hinata averted her gaze to the table where she laid her chop sticks. "Maybe…" She whispered. Sakura gave a small laugh.
"Hi Sakura-chan!" Hinata snapped her head up and whirled it around to see Naruto coming toward them. Oh no! Hinata felt her face get hot one more time! Maybe today just wasn't her day.
"Oh Hi Hinata! I didn't see you there" Hinata gave a small nod and put on her best I'm-trying-to-not-look-nervous smile on.
Sakura could have slapped that kid if only he knew what torture he was giving to poor Hinata, but she restrained herself. "Hi Naruto" Naruto put on one of his fox like grins.
Then the waitress passed Hinata and Sakura the ramen they had ordered. The two girls broke there chop sticks and took a bite of there noodles. "So how are you guys doing?" Naruto asked sitting next to Hinata. Which Hinata just continued looking at her noodles turning a bright red.
"Fine" Sakura answered. Then Naruto looked at Hinata who was concentrating on her noodles to help her not turn red, this was not working. "Hinata, you're looking kind of red. Are you okay?" Sakura went to her friend's defense. "Its okay, Naruto. She's just getting hot in that jacket; it is a very warm day out" Naruto looked at Hinata again.
"Isn't that right Hinata?" Sakura said staring at her noodle concentrating friend. "Huh? I-I m-mean yes" Naruto shrugged his shoulder. "Well I have to go see Tsunade-Sama!" He said running through the stand's curtains.
Hinata let out a sign of relief. She just hoped Naruto didn't think she was stupid. "Thanks" Hinata whispered to Sakura. Sakura smiled and finished eating her ramen.
"So Sakura-chan, who are you going to ask to the dance?" Sakura gulped down some noodles and smiled.
"I would ask Sasuke, but since me and Ino just became friends again. I don't want to start up old arguments. I was going to ask Lee-san, but he is out on a mission. So whoever asks, that's who I'll go with. If they no one asks me, I'll go by my self." Hinata nodded.
Both girls finished there noodles and walked down the street. "Hey look Hinata" Sakura whispered. Hinata looked up to see what she was talking about. Under a tree was a sleeping Sasuke. Then Sasuke's eyes snapped open and reveled his red sharigan eyes.
Sakura giggled and pushed Hinata along. Sasuke seemed very scary at this point. Hinata quickly shrugged it off and walked by Sakura once again. "Want to go see if ten-ten got a date yet?" Sakura asked. "Sure"
So both girls went to Team Gai's training grounds, where they were sure ten-ten would be training with none other then Neji Hyuuga. So they entered the grounds and yes ten-ten was there training with hinata's cousin.
"Hi ten-ten" Sakura yelled running up to the girl. Neji rolled his eyes and went over to sit at the stump of a tree. Ten-ten giggled as sakura stood in front of her. Hinata quickly caught up and stood at ten-ten's side. "So how's it been?" Ten-ten asked.
"Nothing really, I just saw Hinata pacing in front of the Ramen place where you know who was at" Ten-ten giggled again. Hinata just crossed her arms. "Its okay, Hinata. You'll ask him when you're ready" Ten-ten said putting a reassuring hand on her shoulder.
"Thanks, but have you found a date yet?" Ten-ten glance over at Neji. He was sleeping under a tree. "Go get him ten-ten" Sakura said cheerfully. Ten-ten looked at Hinata. "Well okay" ten-ten walked over Neji. She took a look back at her friends. They were nodding for her to continue.
Ten-ten tapped him on the shoulder. Neji opened his eyes. "What? are they gone?" ten-ten crossed her arms. "Oh guess not" He said looking back at Sakura and Hinata. Hinata gave a wave. Neji Signed and leaned his head back. cousins…
"Well Neji I just wanted to ask if you would like to go to the dance in tomorrow?" Neji stood up and looked back at Sakura and Hinata. "I bet they told you to do that" Ten-ten signed. "Neji, who cares? Will you go with me? Please?" Ten-ten used her charming smile and folded hands to convince him.
Neji was mentally smiling with pleasure at how cute ten-ten looked like that, but he would never say that out loud. "Yeah sure" Ten-ten's smiles got even bigger. "Really?" Neji nodded. Ten-ten suddenly wrapped her arms around him giving him a tight squeeze before she ran off with her friends again. A small tint of red graced neji's cheeks, which doesn't usually happen.
So the girls were walking down the street kiba, shino, Akmaru spotted them. "Hi Hinata" Kiba said coming over. Hinata smiled. "Me, Shino, and Akmaru were wondering if you wanted to go feed the fish down at the pond. Since you usually do that anyway" Kiba said. Akmaru gave a small bark.
"Oh sure! Sakura, ten-ten I'll catch up with you later" The girls smiled and said goodbye. Hinata followed her team mates down to the small pond where she always fed the fish. "here you go" Shino pulled out a bag of bread crumbs and handed them to Hinata.
"Thank you!" She took the crumbs and handed some to shino and kiba. She grabbed a little bit and threw it into the water. She watched the small fish come up and nibble at it. "So how have you guys been?" She asked her friends. "Bored…" Kiba said as he gave a little pat to Akmaru.
"Well that dance is coming up…" hinata's words trailed off as she watched the fishes play. "Oh yeah, I'm going with Ino. She just came up and asked me. I was all like aren't you going to ask Sasuke. She was like 'I don't want to ruin me and Sakura's friendship' so I just said yes" Kiba said throwing more bread crumbs.
"Sakura said that's why she didn't want to ask Sasuke. Hey isn't Shikamaru going with Ino?" Hinata asked. This wasn't like her gossip but she was curious. "Oh Shikamaru is going with that girl from sand. The one with the creepy brothers and big fan"
Hinata nodded her head. That was understandable. "What about you, Hinata?" Kiba asked looking up from his dog. "Oh Sakura-san is going to help me find one" Kiba nodded. "Hey what about you, Shino?" Hinata said looking at her other team mate who was silently dropping bread crumbs into the water.
"I got assigned on a mission that day" Shino said as he dropped the rest of the bread crumb in the pond and leaned against a near by tree. "So does lee-san" Hinata said as she finished her bread crumbs too. She crumbled the bag and pushed it in her pocket.
"Well I guess that means I'm the only one in team eight who has got a date" Kiba said standing up with his dog on his head. "Except Kurenai, I think she's going with Asuma" Kiba looked at Hinata. "I guess your right, Hinata" Kiba sat down on the grass. "Hey shino what's you mission?" Kiba asked as Akamaru ran around.
"Guarding a man to another village, I'll be when the party ends" Then a small bug rested on Shino's shoulder. Then bug flew away and Shino stood up straight. "That was my dad, I have to go help out at the house"
"bye Shino" The two said waving him goodbye. "Hey Kiba, I feel bad Shino has to go on a mission the night of the dance" Kiba looked at the ground. "Me to, but there's really nothing we can do. It's not a big thing, don't worry about it" Hinata reached down and picked up the small white dog that was circling around her ankles.
"Maybe after the dance we can wait for him at the gates and so we can tell him how everything went" Akmaru gave a small bark in her arms. "Okay sure" The two started walking back to the main street of the village.
"Well I'll see you later Hinata" Kiba said as he ran further down the street. "Bye!" She yelled waving. Hinata saw Temari and Shikamaru pass her. She turned around just to make sure it was them. It was, Kiba was right. Hinata shrugged her shoulders and walked down the street.
She decided to look at all the things the carts were selling. Some cute little trinkets were on one cart. She stopped to take a look. They were pretty, but she just wanted to look at them. Then Hinata went to do some grocery shopping on her way home.
She got home and put the groceries away. It was getting late and she had to find a date to the dance. So she started running toward the ramen stand, hoping to have enough courage this time.
She saw Naruto and took a seat next to him which already got her impersonating a tomato. "Oh Hi Hinata!" Hinata smiled. She was actually going to do it! Ask Naruto out on a date she was so happy!
Hinata opened her mouth to say something but Naruto cut in front of her. "I got a date to the dance!" Hinata instantly closed her mouth. Maybe she wasn't going to do it. "Sakura finally said yes, she seemed a bit worried though" Hinata could still feel her cheeks go red but she tried not to show it.
"Oh that's nice, Naruto" Hinata tried to hide her disappointment. How could Sakura do this? "So Hinata, Do you have a date for the dance?" Hinata felt her face get more red. "Um…" She didn't want to no, and make Naruto feel bad for her. She was also a little mad at Sakura. She looked around for an answer.
She saw Sasuke walk by the Ramen shop, Naruto's Rival and Sakura's crush. "um…yes I'm going with Sasuke" She saw naruto's mouth drop. "I never thought heartless jerk like him would say yes" Hinata laughed nervously. "Um, yeah. I have to go" She walked out of the stand trying to find Sauske who had just passed by.
She saw him walked down the road and she ran up to him. "Sasuke-san!" Sasuke turned around. "Hn?" Hinata finally caught up to him. If Sakura was going to take her crush, she was going to try to take hers. It did feel kind of wrong, but she did feel kind of hurt.
"Sasuke-san, can I ask you a question?" Sasuke looked a bit confused. "Will you go to the dance with me?" Sauske frowned. not again!
"no" He said flatly.
This time it was hinata's turn to frown. "Please!" Sasuke raised an eyebrow. "Go ask Naruto" He said because even he knew that this Hyuuga had a crush on his teammate. Hinata felt her face grow hot again.
"Well h-he's going w-with… S-sakura-san" Sasuke kind of expected Sakura to say yes, since she didn't want to ask him because it might endanger her friendship with Ino, he would have no any way.
"Then ask someone else" Hinata knew that the only one left was Choji. He was a nice guy and everything, but she just told Naruto she was going with Sasuke. "Please, will you go with me Sasuke-san" Sasuke had never seen a Hyuuga beg before, it was entertaining.
"Why?" Hinata just felt that stupid blush grow. "Because" this wasn't going anywhere. "Because why?" Hinata folded her arms behind her back. "I already told Naruto I was going with you" Hinata whispered to the ground.
"That's stupid, why did you do that?" Sasuke said in an annoyed tone. "Because I wanted to make Sakura jealous" Hinata whispered again still not looking up. "You suppose to be the nice one out of the rookie nine"
Hinata tried to hide the blush on her cheeks by looking down, it wasn't working. "So please Sasuke?" She said finally looking up at him with the best puppy dogs she could pull. "Fine whatever, but I'm not wearing a tuxs" Hinata gave a big smiled.
Without thinking she wrapped her arms around Sasuke, She quickly realized her arms when she realized what she just did. "Okay don't hug me again" Hinata nodded. "See you tomorrow" She said running off to her house.
She was very excited about tomorrow!