Disclaimer: I don't own the characters. Masashi Kishomoto does. I only own the plot.

How could everything go so wrong in just two years? How could everything just become so… crap?! I never wanted it to become like this!

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My name is Naruto Uzumaki. I have 2 problems in my life: One, I am a Jinchūrikia container for the Nine Tailed Demons, so I am targeted by the Akatsuki (organization plotting to take over the world with my power). Secondly, I am totally, and completely, in love.

Her name is Hinata Hyuga. It's hard to explain her personality, even harder to explain why I love her, but I'll try. She's sort of like, the opposite of me. She's smart, talented, cute (completely adorable), quiet, and people actually like her.

I guess I'd better start at 'the beginning'. It was about 2 years ago. After Sasuke left (and after I got over the loss) I finally diverted my attention to socialising instead of training. I was really enjoying it, actually going out with Shikamaru and Kiba without getting there late from training; eating ramen SLOWLY because I had nothing better to do; and, surprisingly, go on dates. (Wink wink)

My first relationship wasn't all bad. It was a sort of 'warm up', since I was still getting used to the fact that girls can actually be 'more than friends'. Ino Yamanaka; she was a bit strange, pretty though. Not a very good personality though. Didn't take the relationship seriously as well…

"Hey Ino, wanna go out tonight? We can go get some ramen!!" I asked her, grinning and putting my thumbs up.

"Are you like, stupid, Naruto? I'm going out with Sakura and TenTen. Soz, hun" she replied back.

And eventually it fell apart.

My second relationship was a bit more serious than that. It was with TenTen this time. We had a fun time, since we both like training. Except she takes hers a bit too seriously…

"Come on Naru, let's training. I'm bored!" TenTen whined.

"We were just training10 minutes ago!" I argued.

"So, that never mattered to you before" the stubborn female replied.

"What the hell's that supposed to mean?" I yelled roughly.

"Tsk tsk, Naruto. I only find tough guys sexy" TenTen teased. There was a minute of silence, as I took this into consideration. 'So, she only likes guys because they're tough? And train a lot? Well, I've made up my mind of TenTen now' I thought. I quietly walked away from the girl.

"Hey, where the hell do you think you're going?" the girl roared.

"Away from you" was all that I said. Another minute of uneasy silence followed, only disrupted by the sound of slow and soft footsteps.

"You're such a bitch, Naruto" TenTen grumbled angrily.

"Look who's talking" I profusely replied, with a hint of sarcasm. At the sound of those words, TenTen could only 'hrmph' and walk away in the opposite direction.

"We are so over, Naruto!!!" TenTen suddenly cried from a distance.

"You think?" Naruto replied

That was a rather, awkward, breakup.

I guess those two relationships went a bit fast (neither made it past 2 months) but I didn't care, especially because of who I so carelessly asked out…

"RAMEN!!" I roared after a quick training session with, guess who, Hinata Hyuga. She smiled as we walked together. I didn't really get what she was smiling about. I think it was because we just finished training and she had that feeling of rushing adrenaline I was feeling too… was it really rushing adrenaline I was feeling? I couldn't think much, since my stomach started growling then.

"Hinata-chan, let's go! I'm starving!" I whined with a smile on my face. I grabbed hold of her hand, her warm hands, and pulled her to the Ramen Stand (I'm sorry, I forget the name of the store and the people's names). "A bowl of Shōyu Ramen please, ma'am" I asked rudely (yes, I know I was being rude).

"And what would your date like, Naruto?" the waitress asked (again, I am sorry I don't know the name). At the sound of the word 'date', Hinata immediately blushed (I am such an idiot for not noticing why)

"Hmm, Hinata, what would you like?" I asked her foolishly.

"Umm, N-Naruto-Kun, a-are we on a d-date?" she asked me back. I thought about this for a bit, and asked her back, "What's a date, Hinata?"

I guess I shouldn't have done that, because then she (anime) fell down at my lack of knowledge.

"Hinata, are you okay?" I asked worriedly. I then heard a cough behind me. "Oh, right. Umm, I guess she'll have the same as me then, thanks" and with that the lady walked to the back.

'Oh crap, she's gone and hit her head' I sighed in my head (Is that possible?!) and wrapped my arms around her. And with that, she woke up. And, surprisingly, fainted again after furiously blushing. 'Wow, what a strange girl' I thought to myself as I laid her on my lap (well, I couldn't possibly put her on another chair. She would have just fallen down again cough cough).

After the ramen came, instead of eating straight away, for some reason I decided to wait for Hinata to wake up. I thought to myself, 'Why's she always like this around me? Do I smell bad or something?' I hear a moan, and I look down to see Hinata waking up. I don't know why I said it, but I don't doubt saying any words I said that day.

"Hey, Hinata. Enjoying our date?"