A note before the story: "bla" Conversation

"bla" Thoughts

One Sided Love?

Chapter 1

Naruto awakened by the sound of footprints coming from outside of his window. He looked at his clock and noticed it was only 4 a.m.

"Why do Rock Lee and Gai Sensei always have to be up so early?" He asked himself sleepily

Finally deciding there was no point in trying to get back to sleep, he went in to the kitchen to see what he had to eat. There he found the hokage Tsunade staring straight at him.

"Ack, granny Tsunade what are you doing here?" Naruto said in a half sleeping yell.

"Well obviously you must have forgotten what you were supposed to be doing today, Naruto." Tsunade said looking quite agitated.

It was then that Naruto remembered what he should have been doing.

"Was that today?" He asked, yet anyone could tell by the way his face was, that he allready knew.

"Of course it was today, you were supposed to be getting out of your bed and getting ready for your long mission."

"But why is it that all the gennins from the fire and sand country have to go on a two persons mission for roughly five years." Naruto asked completely uninterested.

"It is because of the new dangers, we need our ninjas and those of our allies to be in top condtion, for I fear there will be another war coming." She said clearly getting angry with Naruto's stubbornness.

With that Naruto and Tsunade left to go to the acadamy grounds where they would find out exactly who their partners would be.

"Ok, all of you line up please." Said Iruka "Ok because all of you are finally here I see we can get started, when I call your name please come and stand beside me." "Inuzuka Kiba."

"Hai!" Was the only thing anyone had heard as everyone saw Kiba and akamaru walk up to the front and stood on the left of Iruka.

"And your partner will be...Aburame Shino."

"Hai." And he too walked up to Iruka and stood on his right side.

"Good, and your guide will be, Asunas."

"It is great to be able to finally get this thing started." Stated Asunas.

"OK, let's go, what do you think akamaru?" "Woof" Was the only thing the dog had said.

And with that, the three of them had left to get there briefing from Tsunade.

As the teams were getting made, Naruto had the feeling he was being watched, he looked to his left quickly, his eyes met that of hinata's and he could see her blush and quickly look away.

"Why does she always blush when people look her way, and why doesn't anyone else say anything about it, or am I the only one who notices it?"

"And for the 8th team, Uzumaki Naruto and Hyuuga Hinata, please step forward." Came the voice of Iruka.

"Hai." They both said at nearly the same time, which had caused Hinata to blush a little more.

"Ok, and your guide will be, Hiroshi Kouken."

A reasonably tall man walked up to the two gennins, he smiled and said "Heya, my name as you heard is Hiroshi Kouken, just call me Kouken and not Kouken-sensei please."

"H-Hai" Hinata had managed to say.

"Yeah whatever." Was all that came out of Naruto, who was clearly not impressed at ther guide.

Kouken studied them both carefully, and with a wave of his hand and a word of goodbye, the three of them were off.

"Hey, Kouken!" Naruto called after their guide. He seemed to be going the wrong way. "Kouken, don't we need to get going to the hokages manor?"

"Ah yes, sorry for me not telling you two, but we won't be stopping by the manor, we are to leave immediately. We were just given a high ranking A mission."

"B-b-but." stammered Hinata. "Don't w-we at least g-get to say goodbye t-to our family?"

"Oh yes, I had completly forgot about that too. I am sorry but you will not have the chance, no one else may know that we are going on this mission, not even family." Kouken stated with a calm yet serious voice.

"B-but, I can't just leave, my f-father will get mad a-at me." She was clearly having trouble talking at the moment.

With a wave of his hand they all came to a halt in front of the main gate. There he gave the two gennins a chance to get there breath, but was surprised to see that Naruto didn't seem to be having any breathing trouble at all.

"So this is the stamina that Tsunade was talking about, this child doesn't even seem the slightest bit tired even though we just ran through the entire town."

It was at that time when he looked at Hinata who was now sitting on a bench near the gate, he noticed how she kept eyeing Naruto, but everytime he looked her way she seemed to blush and quickly the other away.

"Oh no, what have we here, this can't be good. She is in love with him, why didn't they see this earlier and make sure they were on seperate teams? Well there was no chance in going back now, we are already missing important time." "Well are you both ready to go?"

"Of course we are, I don't know why you needed to stop, we were just getting started!"

"N-Naruto-kun." Hinata whispered under her breath.

"Well then let us go, but before we head out I need to set some rules. One, always listen to me I am your superior and two always follow rule number one." "Now are we ready to go."

"I already said we were ready!" "sheesh." Naruto muttered under his breath

And with that the three of them left Konoha not knowing what they needed to do, or where they were going, nobody except for Kouken of course.

They had been traveling for quite awhile and it was getting dark. "We will camp here for the night, in the morning we will travel further. Naruto, will you be so kind as to getting us some fire wood?"

"Hai." And off went Naruto.

Not too long after he was gone Kouken had tried to start a conversation with his quiet subordinate.

"Hinata, what is it exactly that makes your clan so special?" After he asked the question he noticed how stupid it was, he of course already knew all about the Hyuuga.

"H-huh, you mean you don't know, but you are a jounin."

"Yes I know, but I mean, well never mind, hey do you think that you can get me the tea leaves out of my bag? It is right beside you."

"Hai." And off she was rummaging through his bag and found the tea. "Here you are sensei."

"Ah thank you Hinata, and just a quick question, what kind of person is Naruto?"

She seemed to panick just a little under the skin. "He couldn't know that I like Naruto-kun, could he?" "Well most people find him a loud mouth, he is always pulling pranks and because of that the other gennins find him annoying." She replied as casually as she could.

"Yes but we are not with the other gennins, are we? No, I would like to hear what you think of him." He said that with an emphasis on the word you.

This time she really did blush, but before she had the chance to answer the uncomfterable question, Naruto came running towards them with an arm load of logs and twigs, and to top it all off seemed to have a very large grin plastered on his face.

"Hey Kouken, Hinata I got us the firewood!" And just as he said this he tripped on a loose rock tossing all of the logs and twigs into the air. "AHHHHHH!" He screamed as he fell, he hit the ground with a thud

Before anybody realized what had happened Kouken had stood up, went through a series of seals and yelled "Uddo Teishi No-Jutsu (Wood Suspension No-Jutsu)." And with that he simply picked the wood right out of the air.

"Woah! You have to teach me that sensei!"

"I am affraid that i cannot teach this Jutsu to you anytime soon, it is simply to hard for you."

"Nani! But why, I can do it just teach me."

"Naruto what did I say!" Kouken was now looking Naruto right in the eye and Naruto could swear that he saw a flame in his sensei's eye.

"Sorry." Was all that came out of Naruto's mouth, which anyone could tell was now pouting.

"Naruto-kun" Hinata whispered under her breath trying to get the courage to comfort him, although she doesn't even know why he is pouting, all Kouken said was it was too early. Instead she offered to make some tea.

After the tea was done and they had all had some and something to eat, Kouken decided it was time for them to head to sleep.

Naruto awakened a sound coming from a bit aways in the trees, he decided to go and investigate. When he got to where the sounds where coming from he was amazed to see Hinata training. "I always thought of you a little wierd, but I guess you are more like me than I thought. Maybe I should go over and ask her if she wants some help with training? Nah I really just want to sit here and watch her graceful movements. Nani! What am I thinking?" It was then that he heard a sound come from behind him.

"What are you doing out here Naruto?" Came the voice of his guide.

"I heard sounds coming from this way, so I decided to check it out." Naruto stated calmly.

"So you didn't come out here just to see Hinata training?" He said this with a slight emphasis on the word Hinata.

"Of course not, why would I do that?"

Studying Naruto, Kouken thought he noticed something in Naruto's eyes, but before he was sureof it, it was gone. "I thought it was bad enough that one liked the other, but it turns out that the other one doesn't know if he likes her or not, This could be a problem, I need to get them to reveal there feelings and I need to do it fast, we can't have this mission messing up because they are unsure of anything. Hah! I got it, I will talk with Naruto about this, a nice man talk to get him on the right track, not actually saying anything though."

"W-who is out there?" Came Hinata's soft voice.

"It's just us." Came Koukens voice. "We were wondering where you had gone." He said as he stepped into the clearing. "You shouldn't wander too far off on your own, these parts aren't safe for a young gennin."

"Hey! Hinata can take care of her self!" Came Naruto's loud voice. "At least I think she can, I know she is strong, but does she realize it?" Looking at her, he noticed that she most likely didn't believe him.

"T-thank you Naruto-kun, b-but sensei is right, I shouldn't have wandered off." As she said this she looked at Naruto, but looked away quickly because she noticed herself blush.

Well This is the end of chapter one, I hope I did it ok. I would love to hear any reactions you have, so please post any reviews, and for all those who are looking to become one, I need a beta tester to make sure that my stories sound good to other people as well, My e-mail is also open, so please e-mail me if you want to become my beta tester, or if you have and tips to make my next chapter any better.