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Uzamaki Naruto felt himself slipping…farther and farther he plunged deeper into his mind and soul. He was 18 now, and a Jounin, but somehow, he was still not satisfied with his life. This hunger, this need that he had never felt before, was more painful than losing to Sasuke. He knew of only one thing that knew the answer…the very thing that made him unique…
He landed on the water softly and a pair of red eyes glared at him. "What do you want now Naruto?" Kyuubi asked anxiously. "Your not hurt nor in need of my chakra, so why do you dare to come before me?" "I need some help with something else." Naruto replied to his inner demon. "Something else? What more could you ask of me Naruto? I have given you power beyond most shinobi's wildest dreams, and yet you have the audacity to come before me for something else?!" The nine tailed fox demon said. "Geez, I just wanted to know something…" He said quietly. "Well stop your stammering and just tell me!!" The fox shouted. "Lately, I have been thinking about the girl I saw in front of the waterfall so long ago…Every time I do, my face turns red and my stomach feels light…sometimes, all I can think about is who she is and where could she be?" Naruto replied, slightly blushing. Kyuubi sighed. "You've grown up a lot Naruto, I will admit that, but love is not something I know much of…NOW BEGONE!"
Naruto awakened with a jolt, his stomach growling. "Damn it…why does it have to be 3 in the morning? Ichiraku's is closed this late." He climbed out of his bed and turned off his iHome, which he had received anonymously on his 18th birthday along with many other things he found on Valentines, Christmas, and on his 16th and 17th birthday. Naruto casually glanced over at the picture of Team 7, his memory's of the gifts gone, a more serious tone taking over. "Sasuke…Why did you do it?" Naruto mumbled while rubbing her thumb over Sakura's picture. "Why?"
Naruto flipped the light switch to his modest apartment and started to randomly clean up since he had nothing better to do. He sat down on his couch and sighed deeply. "This is a much different feeling of loneliness…it's like my heart isn't even in my chest." Naruto then turned to an unopened package on his coffee table. He knew what was in it, but he wasn't ready to accept it. He picked it up and sighed for the third time that night. He opened it and pulled out the necklace that belonged to Sakura. "Why did you take her you bastard?" He said angrily, clutching the necklace in his hand. Without Sakura, he felt hopeless; she was the one person he felt he could confide in. Kakashi? He was too busy reading a book. Jiraiya? Too busy looking at women and off on his little 'missions'. Tsunade? Last time he tried talking to her, she fell asleep on him.
Some time in the morning, he crept back into bed and slept until nine, when he rolled over to far and fell out of bed. He rubbed the swelling red mark on his forehead while flinching at each touch. "Hell of a way to start the morning." He mumbled, pushing himself up. He wandered over to the kitchen and managed to pour himself some cereal and ate it dry, not caring and not paying attention.
What Naruto didn't know that across Konaha, another person was awaking with the same feeling. Hyuuga Hinata was that other person. She stretched and groaned as she forced herself out of her futon. She looked out her window at the heads of the five Hokages and smiled. While she stared at them, she remembered a certain someone special to her wanted to one day be up on that mountain. She blushed slightly at the thought of Naruto as Hokage and her as his wife and every night they would… "GAH!" She mumbled, smacking her head slightly. "Damn perverted mind." She thought to herself.
After a long shower, she headed out to her favorite training grounds by a hidden waterfall behind the Hokage mountain. She stripped down to only her undergarments and walked onto the water. She then focused her chakra into her hands and slowly arced her body, arms, and legs in slow, graceful movements, to stretch the flow of her chakra.
Naruto jumped from tree to tree nearby where she was, with a towel in hand, he intended on relaxing at his favorite swimming hole to try to get rid of his worries…
Hinata sensed someone coming and quickly jumped behind the waterfall and watched as her lifelong crush landed on the bank and took off his shirt and pants and slid into the water. She turned a shade of crimson unknown to mankind. Part of her wanted to faint, but part of her wanted to watch. That part won out.
Naruto sighed and floated aimlessly in the deeper end of the water. He felt as if all the impurities of his mind were sinking to the bottom of the pond itself. "This is wonderful…" He mumbled to himself. Hinata blushed deeply as he suspended himself in the water. She began to think of what his body could do to her and perverted thoughts filled her head once again and she starting blushing more and more. "Naruto-kun…" She thought sadly.
Hinata silently slid down to sit on the rocks behind the waterfall, resting her legs in the water. She closed her eyes and silently felt as if she was with Naruto…
Naruto slowly felt himself floating towards the waterfall; he closed his eyes and passed under the stream of water and opened his eyes to see the Hinata, sound asleep. He stood up, careful not to disturb her and stared at her. Being in only her bra and underwear, Naruto got a pretty good look at the girl he often saw right through…
FlashBack!!
"Sakura-chan? Why did you ask me to come out here?" Naruto asked his pink haired teammate. Sakura smiled at him. "Someone really likes you Naruto and they are gonna tell you." She said. Hinata came out from behind the trees and ran over to him and hugged him, but he never took his eyes off Sakura. "So you do like me Sakura!" The slow and thick-headed shinobi said. Hinata felt her heart tear in two and vanished into the shadows. Sakura cracked her knuckles with the most demonic look Naruto had ever seen…
Naruto rubbed the scars along his chest from that beating. Sakura had literally turned trees into toothpicks using his body. "Now that I look at her, I know neither her nor Sakura could like me…their way out of my class…" He thought to himself sadly.
Hinata's Dream!
"Hinata-chan?" Naruto said, intertwining his fingers with hers. She blushed, knowing one of his flirts was coming to melt her more into his arms. "Why do you love me?" He asked seriously. She paused for a minute, but knew the answer for years. "At the Chuunin exams, I had no self confidence and felt like no one supported me. My cousin wanted me dead, my sister was a pain, and my father, don't even get me started on him. Even my own team had their doubts about me…but you, you were there to cheer me on. And even in my defeat, you swore that Neji would fall. And he did, even though you didn't become a Chuunin that year Naruto, you had made all the impact on me. I started to blossom, to train harder and push myself to the limit. I love you Naruto-kun because you make me complete. You give me the confidence and power to make all my worries go away. I don't need anyone or anything other than you." She said rather boldly with a slight blush. His lips instantly crashed onto hers and them as quickly as they came, they left. "Why did you stop Naruto-kun?" She asked painfully. "Why can't you tell me all that you just told me…?" He replied.
Hinata's pale white eyes opened to see a pair of deep blue eyes staring into hers. It took her only half a second to realize who's they were and she turned red. "N-N-Narut-t-to-kun…" She stammered out, barely holding onto her consciousness. "How long have you been here?" They both asked at the same time. Hinata blushed slightly. "I have been here for half an hour, how about you?" He asked. "About forty minutes here…" She said, closing her eyes to try and maintain her focus. There was a brief moment of silence between the two of them. "You look really beautiful today." Naruto said, daring to tread the line of being beaten as he was many times before. Hinata couldn't take it anymore; she fainted and slid into the water.
Naruto grabbed her and pulled her to the shore and checked her breathing. Both fortunately and unfortunately, she was breathing. She was fortunate to be breathing, but unfortunate that Naruto didn't need to perform C.P.R. on her, much to his disappointment.
He easily found her clothes and packed them into his bag and strapped it to his back, and then he picked her up gently in a bridal hold and took off through the trees towards his apartment…
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