Author Note: Disclaimer- I do not own Naruto, or any of the characters with-in this story other than Jynx, Hiroshi and Kouta.
-Chapter One-
Hinata Hyuuga was bored.
Exceedingly bored.
She had been waiting for her best friend for almost half an hour now, and she was beginning to get impatient.
"Jynx-chan… Where are you?" She whispered, pushing her index fingers together, a habit she had, had since childhood.
Just then, a short girl with long chestnut brown hair in an Alice came skating towards her.
"Sorry I'm late, Hinata-chan. Konohamaru wouldn't get out of bed this morning." The girl told her, flashing her a warming smile.
"That's okay, Jynx-chan. I understand. Are you ready to go?" Hinata asked her best friend as she watched her retract the roller skate wheels into her reinforced black boots.
"Uh-huh." Jynx nodded, straightening back up again.
"You know that Kouta-kun doesn't like you wearing those boots, don't you?" Hinata said meekly to her as Jynx flicked her emerald green eyes up to Hinata's pale lilac ones.
"Kouta doesn't like anything I do. So that's why I do it." She grinned, linking arms with Hinata as they walked into the main part of the village.
They were just passing Inoichi's flower shop when they heard the dulcet tones of a certain pink haired kunochi.
"HIROSHI! STOP PERVING ON ME YOU IDIOT!" Sakura yelled from the street corner.
Hinata and Jynx sighed in unison and ran gingerly to the end of the street.
"Hiroshi, what are you doing?" Jynx asked her team mate, raising an eyebrow at him.
"Oh, hi Jynx-chan! I was just errm… walking with Sakura here." The raven haired idiot muttered, scratching his head.
"Hiroshi, how dumb do you think I am?" Sakura growled at him. "I know very well that you were trying to pull up my skirt!"
Hiroshi almost got away with it, but unfortunately a tell-tale smirk flickered across his features and Sakura wasted no time in hitting him.
"Sorry Hiro, but you kind of deserved that…" Jynx told him as she helped him off the ground.
"Don't do that ever again, do you hear me?!" Sakura raged, storming off.
Hiroshi grinned cheekily at Jynx and Hinata, waved a heavily gloved hand at them, and ran off to be a pervert elsewhere.
"That boy is a danger to himself." Jynx sighed, shaking her head.
"If Sakura tells Kouta what Hiroshi did, he'll be in a lot of trouble later..." Hinata bit her lip, staring after the idiotic shinobi as he tried to lift the skirt of another girl, which earned him yet another punch.
"I wouldn't worry about him, Hinata. He can hold his own when it comes to Kouta, believe me." Jynx smiled, gently pulling Hinata down the street again.
"Shall we go to the Ichiraku Ramen Bar before training?" Jynx asked Hinata, glancing at the timid kunochi.
"Errm.. y-yes okay." Hinata nodded, walking slowly towards said ramen bar.
Sitting on a stool outside the ramen bar was none other than Naruto Uzumaki.
The second the blonde haired shinobi looked up at the two girls, Hinata promptly went beetroot and began fiddling with her index fingers again.
"Jynx-chan, Hinata! Come sit down!" Naruto grinned at the two girls as Jynx pulled Hinata forcefully towards the two vacant stools Naruto was pointing out to them.
"Hello Naruto-kun, how are you today?" Jynx asked him brightly, poking Hinata in the arm as Naruto looked hesitantly at her.
"Yeah I'm fine, ermm… Hinata? Are you okay? You look a little red…" Naruto said worriedly, leaning forwards to touch her forehead.
Knowing Hinata would faint if Naruto made contact with her head, Jynx pulled Hinata away slightly and smiled prettily at Naruto.
"I'm sure she's fine. Aren't you Hinata?" Jynx said, nudging Hinata with her elbow.
"Uhh heh… errm… Y-yes, yes I'm f-fine." Hinata managed to say.
Naruto nodded, still looking at her in a concerned way as he picked up his chopsticks and began to eat his ramen.
Jynx then ordered sweet and sour ramen with extra pineapple, and Hinata chose beef ramen.
As Hinata ate quietly, Jynx struggled to pick up the small pieces of pineapple in her bowl.
It was on her third attempt that someone came to her aid.
"Here. Let me." A deep, sultry voice said from behind her.
Jynx looked up to see her blonde team mate Kouta standing beside her.
He gently took her hand, guided the chopsticks to pick up the piece of pineapple, and placed it in her mouth.
Jynx chewed, still looking at Kouta as she swallowed.
"Thank you, Kouta-kun." She said, smiling at him.
"My pleasure." Kouta said back, with no hint of emotion on his face.
"Do you want me to order anything for you, Kouta-kun?" Jynx asked him.
"No. I'll just eat some of yours." He said, sitting down next to her and getting himself some chopsticks.
Jynx raised an eyebrow at him and rolled her eyes.
"Don't ask or anything, will you?" She said, eating some more of her ramen.
Hinata chewed slowly, watching Naruto out of the corner of her eye as he finished his second ramen bowl in as many minutes.
As he ordered another bowl, Hinata stared at him in wonder.
Noticing her attention, finally, Naruto looked back at her and said; "What?"
Hinata shook her head and blushed, looking down at the table.
"N-nothing, N-naruto-kun… Y-you just seem to have a h-healthy appetite." She said, giggling nervously.
"Oh right… yeah well, lots of energy helps me train." Naruto said, flashing her a grin. "And seeing as I'm going to become Hokage one day, I need to have lots of energy so I can make myself strong."
Naruto told her, putting up his thumb.
Hinata was just about to reply with; "Oh.. I see." When she was interrupted.
"Still chasing your pathetic dreams then." Gaara said behind them.
As Naruto turned to yell at him, Jynx stiffened in her seat.
Hinata blinked at her friend as Jynx slowly turned bright red and dropped her chopsticks.
"Oh right… It's you." Kouta said scathingly to Gaara as he glared at the sand ninja.
Ignoring Kouta, Gaara glanced first at Hinata, then at Jynx's ridged back.
"What's wrong with her?" He asked in a bored voice.
Jynx breathed in too quickly, and began choking on her ramen.
Hinata handed her a drink of water and she regained her composure.
Turning to face the sand ninja, Jynx blushed and looked at his feet.
"Err… H-hi Gaara-kun…" Jynx stammered, biting her lip.
Gaara just blinked at her and turned back to Naruto.
"Have any of you seen Temari? She was supposed to meet me here." He said, glancing down the street.
"No. I haven't." Naruto growled, still irritated at Gaara's comment about him becoming Hokage.
"If you do see her, tell her I'm looking for her." He told them, turning to walk back down the street.
"If we see her, we'll tell her nothing." Kouta said angrily, not used to being ignored.
"I-I'll tell her, Gaara-kun." Jynx called shyly after him.
Kouta rolled his eyes at his team mate, and shook his head.
"You're a world class idiot for liking that monster." He told her.
Jynx's eyes opened wide in shock as she shook her head desperately.
"I-I don't like Gaara-kun! No way!" She said, glancing nervously after the red haired ninja.
"Right. As if it isn't obvious enough." Kouta said in an irritated tone of voice, paying for Jynx's ramen and pulling her off her seat. "Come on. We need to go and train."
Jynx waved half-heartedly at Hinata and allowed herself to be dragged off by an angry Kouta.
"Guess it's just me and you, huh Hinata?" Naruto said, grinning at her.
"Errr… heh… R-right, N-naruto-kun." Hinata said, fidgeting with her fingers again.
Naruto shovelled food into his mouth and chewed noisily.
"Fing is, Gnara isunt eean at gnud a inja." Naruto said with his mouthful.
"Huh?" Hinata said quietly, trying to decode what the shinobi had just said.
Naruto swallowed, then glared at his chopsticks.
"I mean, he acts all amazing and calm, but I bet I could win against him in a fight." Naruto nodded, squashing his chopsticks against his palm as he squeezed his hand into a fist.
"I believe you c-could, Naruto-kun." Hinata smiled gingerly at the ninja as he grinned back at her.
"Of course I could! I just haven't had the chance yet! But I will, Hinata. I will beat him." Naruto said happily, stuffing more ramen into his mouth.
As Naruto finished his third bowl of ramen, he paid, waved at Hinata, and disappeared off down the street.
Hinata smiled down at the chopsticks Naruto had been using.
'He's so strong and determined… That's what I… like about him… Naruto-kun… He's so… amazing.' Hinata smiled to herself and traced the wooden pattern of the table with her fingertip.
"Hinata? Come on, we've been waiting for you for ages!" Hinata's team mate Kiba called to her as he approached with her other team mate Shino, and Kiba's dog Akamaru.
"Oh.. Hi Kiba-kun, Shino-kun. How are you both?" She said quietly to them as they waited for her to pay for her ramen.
"We're ready to train, aren't we Akamaru!" Kiba grinned enthusiastically, as Akamaru barked his response.
"Lets go. We've wasted enough time already." Shino said, walking past them both.
"Yeah Shino, I bet your bugs are getting really tired of waiting." Kiba snarled quietly at his retreating back as Hinata bit her lip.
"Y-you shouldn't say things like that, K-kiba-kun.. H-he is our team mate after all.." She told him.
"Yeah I know. He just makes me so damn annoyed." Kiba growled, storming off after the bug shinobi.
Hinata sighed and followed after her team, letting her mind drift away to thoughts of Naruto.
'I wish I could be as brave as Naruto-kun... At least... Maybe just one time... I want to show him how strong I can be... I want him to know h-how I feel...' Hinata thought sadly, trailing her feet as she walked. 'He'll never like me if I can't be... brave.. Not like Sakura-chan... Or even Jynx-chan... They are both very pretty and brave... I wish I could be more like they are... Maybe then Naruto could like me too.'
Hinata nodded, suddenly feeling a little more confident. 'Yes, thats what I shall do. I shall try and be more like Sakura-chan, and Jynx-chan. I will be strong and brave, and beautiful. I won't let you down, Naruto-kun. I won't.'
And so the sweet, innocent Shinobi ran off to catch up with her team mates, a new hope rising in her chest as she discovered a new way of making Naruto like her.
Whether it would work, only time could tell...
Author Note: So how did you like the first chapter of my story? :D It's the first Naru/Hina that I've done and I'd like you hear how you found it. I am aware that in Japanese, the names should have the surname first, then the given name, but I find it easier to write them in the English way, and I do appologise if some of you found that irritating. Let me know what you think of my OC's, and the plot. The new chapter will be up soon!