The characters will probably be a little bit OOC in this story but I'll try to stick to the canon personalities as much as I can.
There will be no character bashing in this story, if you want that kind of thing you'll have to go elsewhere.
"Normal talking"
'Thinking/Thoughts'
If there's any flashbacks
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of its characters that privilege belongs to the genius Masashi Kishimoto.
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Chapter One: Breaking the news
Usually this is how a story starts, with the main character popping up and acclaiming his main characterness (A.N. not a real word, I know) but that's not how this one goes, no, we'll be starting this story with a girl named Hinata Hyuuga.
Hinata was a painfully shy girl; she had been for as long as anyone could remember. Normally, she would sit in the back of the classroom or stand at the back of a crowd and twiddle her fingers with a – seemingly permanent – blush painted across her pale cheeks. She hated unnecessary attention in any way or form and would normally avoid drawing it onto herself. But today wasn't a normal day, so naturally this isn't what she was doing.
"Go on Hinata, you can do this" a dark eyed boy with short black hair cooed at her in an encouraging voice, but somehow it still managed to sound belittling.
For a second she actually allowed a scowl to flicker across her face before she remember just where she was and her large white eyes shyly glanced at the pale boys face to see if he'd notice. She silently sighed in relief when she saw that the smile was still stuck to his lips. Then again, even if he had seen it, the smile would still be there anyway. It seemed like it was an impossibility to upset the teen that sat in front of her. Once it came on nothing could make that fake little smile waver.
With a large inhale of air Hinata squared her shoulders and started to march across the linoleum floor with a determined expression on her face. If anyone else had been paying the normally quiet girl any attention they would have noticed the gradual drooping of her shoulders and the slowly decreasing confidence in her steps. By the time she had reached her destination she was hunched in on herself trying to look as small as possible with a blush slowly turning her face red. So here she stood fiddling with her fingers and blushing from embarrassment as the most popular group in the school continued to talk among themselves and she went completely unnoticed; again.
"Eh, Hinata, why are you over here?"
The painfully loud (it was to her anyway) voice inquired with a hint of curiosity laced into it. With a startled little hitch in her breath Hinata raised her eyes to the bright green ones of Sakura Haruno. The bubblegum pink hair spilled over a delicate shoulder as the heart shaped face tilted to one side with a questioning look playing across it. The blond that she'd been talking 'cougharguingcough' with swiveled her pastel blue eyes around to give her a speculating once over. The look on her face was a tad bit too sour for Hinata's comfort; she obviously didn't like to be interrupted.
Shyly Hinata allowed herself a few seconds to take in everyone at the table. There was a redhead, 'Gaara' her memory supplied, who wasn't showing interest of any kind in why she was there and just stared out one of the large windows blankly, with cold jade green eyes. There was a boy with shaggy brown hair and a feral look about him that was (in a way he must of thought inconspicuous) feeding a small white puppy that he had hidden in his large hooded jacket, that was Kiba Inuzuka. Sitting at the very corner seat of the long table was Uchiha Sasuke. He was the number one most popular guy in their year level and heartthrob of practically every female on the entire campus. With satiny, naturally styled ebony hair, eyes like deep pools of liquid black fire and sharply contrasting flawless pale skin, it wouldn't be surprising if there were even some guys chasing after him. Those intense eyes were currently observing the surroundings with a casual boredom and she was glad he hadn't looked at her; she had way too much attention as it was and he was intimidating. The only person that wasn't making her more nervous at the moment (besides Sakura) was a petite brunette with her hair pulled back into two buns. Her dark brown eyes were kind and she even gave her a little encouraging smile when their eyes met for a second. That was Tenten, she was a nice girl, as Hinata had concluded after the few brief chats they'd had. Though she did seem to have a bit too much of a passion for weaponry, to be frank it was a little… worrying.
It was then that the brunette noticed the eyes that were so like her own staring at her from the farthest end of the table and she almost choked on her own air.
'Neji-nissan oh god why does he have to look at me like that'.
The expression on the elder Hyuuga's face was openly judging and the disapproval was glaringly obvious.
"Ah… eh… I w was I mean… I had to… uh eh I had to tell you something S Sakura-san uh I mean… Sakura" The pale eyed girl managed to stutter out as she stood a small distance from the table which now had (almost) every pair of eyes trained on her bright red face.
With so much unwanted attention focused on her, poor little Hinata had to try very hard to not run away like she normally did. In her mind there was a grand total of two ways in which she could escape this horrible situation 1. She could stutter out a quiet excuse and an apology before turning around and (briskly) shuffle back to the safety of her own table or 2. She could let all of the blood rush to her head and faint.
Usually she would go for number one seeing as option number two would just be plain embarrassing, but at the moment she was on a mission and couldn't afford to back out now.
Her gaze cautiously slid back to the other end of the cafeteria where Sai sat staring at her. With a quick movement he flashed a thumbs-up and her face reddened even more before she turned her eyes back to the task at hand.
It was a good thing that Sakura was as observant as she was because - seeing the extremely embarrassed expression on her friend's face - she took pity on the shy little Hinata and rescued her from her self induced state of mortification.
"Okay then, why don't we go for a quick walk and you can tell me about it" Sakura offered with a smile on her face.
She watched Hinata relax enough to nod her head once in a sign of confirmation before turning and quickly walking a few feet away. With an apology and a small smile Sakura excused herself from the table and the pinkett (A.N. another none existent word) went to follow the dark haired girl away from the crowded cafeteria.
As soon as they had gotten out of everyone else's sight the Hyuuga slowly came to a stop and let out the breath she was unconsciously holding in. Pale eyes flickered to her friend's face taking in the slightly worried expression; she quickly reassured the other teen.
"It's okay Sakura, you don't h have to w worry, everything's fine with me" Hinata soothed her and allowed the previous excitement she was feeling to well up inside of her again.
With an uncharacteristically large smile spreading across her face she turned to her friend and let the three words slip from her mouth, wanting to see the same feelings of happiness and excitement she had on the others face.
"Naruto's coming here"
. . . . . .
"What!?"
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Well, it's very short, but that's the first chapter of my story.
I'm only testing myself to see if I'm any good and this is the very first fanfic I've ever been brave enough to put out there so please go easy with the flames.
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