It was late at night. The sky was clear and the full moon shone vibrantly, illuminating the stars and giving off a faint light over the village hidden in the leaves. All was silent in the village as everyone slept serenely. The only person not able to sleep was Hinata Hyuuga. She was outside her house in the meadow near her house sitting near the small koi pond in the center of the meadow. As the water rippled, it reflected the light of the moon onto Hinata's face. The reflected light showed that she was sad and troubled. She was thinking about her darling Naruto. She longed to be with him. How she wished to be able to admit to Naruto that she was in love with him. How she longed to be able to be in his arms; to be able to kiss him; to feel his hand through her raven hair; to lay in the same bed with him; or even to be with him forever as a married couple.

It wasn't long before Neji arrived. He had been out training with Tenten for half of the night and had just gotten home. He saw that Hinata was troubled. "What troubles you, Hinata?" he asked.

"It's nothing," Hinata replied

"No it's not," Neji retorted. "If it were nothing, you wouldn't be sitting near the koi pond with a look of discontentment on your face."

Hinata sat without a sound.

"What's wrong?" Neji asked again.

Hinata thought for a moment and then asked, "Neji, if you liked someone very dearly and you wanted to let that person know, how would you do it?"

"Why?" Neji asks, "Is there someone dear to you?"

Hinata sat there thinking about if she should tell Neji that she loved Naruto.

"You don't have to tell me," Neji stated. "Besides, one, it's none of my business, and two, I have a feeling that I really don't want to know anyway." As he made his way back into the house, he stopped and said to Hinata, "The way I see it, you should just let that person know your feelings for them."

"But, what if I'm too shy to tell them?" Hinata asked.

Neji sighed and walked back to where Hinata was sitting. "All you need to do is believe in yourself. Don't be shy to admit your feelings. The heart may be a delicate thing, but it is strong enough to heal after heartbreak if you believe that there is someone out there waiting for a shy little girl like you."

Hinata was confused at Neji's attitude right now. "Why are you telling me this? I thought you didn't want to help the main house."

Neji chuckled and said, "Just because I hate your father for killing mine doesn't mean I can't help out a relative." And with that, Neji made his way to bed.

Hinata thought for a second. "Maybe Neji is right. Maybe I am being too shy. Maybe if I tell Naruto how I fell, then maybe, just maybe, he'll see me for something other than a dark, quiet, timid girl. Maybe he'll look at me not as a shinobi, but as a woman." Hinata went to bed that night planning on how she would confront Naruto the next day.

How does she do it? Will she succeed? Will she choke? And what will Naruto say?

Sorry to tell you, but that's not till chapter two. Check regularly because it's comming soon.

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