PAIRINGS: I guess you could say the main pairing is Naruhina...

This is one of my first multi-chapter stories! Well, first one to start publishing. Be aware, it goes from a conversation to like a flashback in 3rd person, even though Hinata is retelling the story, so that means Naruto doesn't know the thoughts being told. The setting and time are when Naruto has been back from his 2 1/2 year training, so you won't be confused. Remember, I don't own Naruto. Enjoy!

Chapter One

"Naruto-kun..." Hinata mumbled. Naruto, hearing her, turned to see Hinata.

"Hinata? Hey Hinata!" Naruto greeted with a grin.

"H-Hello Naruto-kun." Hinata greeted back with a small smile.

"Ne, would you like to eat with me?" Naruto asked Hinata, gesturing to where he sat at the ramen stand.

"S-sure…" Hinata answered, delighted.

"Great! Come on! Jii-san! One pork ramen!" Naruto said cheeerfully, as he turned to order.

"H-hai, pork also please." Hinata added as she sat next to Naruto.

"Hai, coming up!" The man said as he set to work.

"Hinata, it's so good to be back in the village again!" Naruto commented, sounding relaxed.

"I'm glad too." Hinata said smiling. This time he understood her small comment.

"I knew you'd miss me, Hinata!" Naruto said happily.

"N-Naruto-kun…" Hinata mumbled, blushing.

"So have you been on any good missions, Hinata?" Naruto asked her, bringing up a new subject.

"Not really…" Hinata mumbled, looking down.

"I've been getting a lot of exciting missions! I love exciting missions the most." Naruto said.

"Ne…" Of course Hinata knew this already, but she was happy for him.

"Have you had any exciting missions you really liked, Hinata?" Naruto asked her. Hinata looked surprised at the question.

"Anou… Not really." Hinata thought for a moment, but couldn't think of anything.

"Jeez, it sounds all you do is boring escort missions! Like those are fun!" Naruto complained, remembering many of the missions he didn't like.

"Actually…" Hinata said, remembering something.

"Hm? What is it?" Naruto asked her, looking at her with a curious face.

"There was this ONE mission…" Hinata said, trying to remember all of the mission, as it was so long ago.

"Ne, really? What was it?" Naruto asked excited.

"Kiba-kun and I had to escort this boy…" Hinata started saying.

"NANI? How can an escort mission be the least fun?" Naruto asked at Hinata, looking a bit disappointed.

"Well, when the mission ended, it wasn't necessarily an escort mission anymore…" Hinata said, still trying to remember the whole thing.

"What do you mean?" Naruto asked, a little confused.

"Anou…" Hinata said hesitantly. Could she tell him about the mission?

"Maybe Kiba can tell me!" Naruto said, thinking Hinata couldn't remember the mission.

"Kiba-kun won't tell you. After that mission, he swore he would never breathe a word of it." Hinata informed Naruto.

"NANI?! Why not?" Naruto asked, a little shocked.

"He said something about not liking it…" Hinata mumbled, trying to remember it. Naruto made a face as she burst his bubble.

"Then you HAVE to tell me, Hinata!" Naruto pleaded.

"O-OK…" Hinata said a little surprised by Naruto's begging.

"When was it?" Naruto asked her, trying to start her off onto the story.

"It was a little while after you left almost 2 years ago…" While Hinata said this, she stopped smiling at the thought of the period when Naruto left.

"Ne, go on." Naruto said, intently listening to Hinata.

It was a silent day, as Hinata still thought of how Naruto left, and tried to push herself to get up from under the tree and train some more. She was alone at one of the training grounds. She had been training since 10 o' clock that morning. It was now almost 4 o' clock. She was still huffing and puffing, but told her self she would stop for today after once more. She pushed herself with her hands against the ground as she stood up. She straightened her back when she heard a voiced call out her name.

"Hey, Hinata!" She looked out over the training field to see Kiba and Akamaru running towards her. She could tell by his grin it was something interesting. In a few moments he was by her.

"Kiba-kun, Akamaru-kun." She greeted them. "What is it?"

"We finally have a mission!" Kiba informed her. Akamaru barked in joy. She smiled at finally having a mission. She hadn't been on a mission for more than a week. Kiba personally didn't like not having missions, although she enjoyed the time to train.

They soon began walking back onto the streets of Konoha, arriving at the Hokage mansion, and entered into the busy building. They reached the door to the 5th Hokage's office and knocked on the door.

"Come in." Tsunade's voice called out in a bored tone. They opened the door to her room and walked in to see many piles of paperwork. Tsunade was at her desk, signing a small pile, compared to the dozen others. She hated paperwork, so having a opportunity to not do it her delighted her.

"Ah, you two." She commented when she looked up to see who it was. They stood right in front of the desk and waited for her instructions on their new mission.

"Hyuuga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, I'm assigning you to a B-rank mission." She stated. They stood silently, waiting for what their mission was going to be.

"You two will be going on a B-rank escort mission." She started explaining to them. Kiba made a face.

"An escort mission? That's it?" He asked, a little annoyed. He was hoping for a more exciting mission. Tsunade looked at him and closed her eyes.

"I only have you two left as options, as everyone else is on missions." She explained. This made Hinata feel a little lonely, being the only one not on a mission. It was also true; all of their friends were out on missions, and Sakura was training.

"The escort is a boy about your age. He has a very important scroll that contains clan secrets from over 100 years This clan, although not as prestigious as the Hyuuga clan, is among the powerful in the Fire Country. Although the clan didn't fully trust having you two carry the scroll, they assigned him to keep hold of it." Tsunade explained as she gazed outside the window.

"Clans secrets from over 100 years…?" Hinata commented surprised.

"It's a small and powerful clan so it's very valuable." Shizune, who was standing right by Tsunade stated.

"You must escort him to a small village a few days away from here where the head of the clan will be waiting. Once he is given the scroll, you can come back to report." Tsunade told them. She didn't need to explain to them anymore, and sent them away.

"Be at the gate in an hour." She added to them as they went out of the hallway.

"Of course, an escort mission…" Kiba sighed as they walked down the curved walls. "But it's better than no mission at all I guess."

"Right." Hinata commented, giving a quick nod. Once they reached outside, they walked to separate paths back to get ready for the mission.

--END FLASHBACK--

"Thanks, Jii-san!" Naruto said happily as he looked at his bowl of ramen.

"Thank you." Hinata said kindly as she received hers.

"Enjoy!" He told them with his usual smile.

"Itadekimasu!" Naruto called out happily as he started on his hot ramen.

"Itadekimasu..." Hinata said more calm and quiet than Naruto.

"Hinata, you still haven't told anything exciting about it at all!" Naruto whined as he slurped his noodles.

"It's more at the end…" Hinata said, taking a few noodles to her mouth.

"Although I really want to hear the best part, I guess its nice hearing the beginning!" Naruto commented.

"There's always a beginning to tell a story." Hinata said smiling, confusing Naruto.

"Go on, Hinata!" Naruto encouraged Hinata after forgetting about the puzzling statement.

"OK." Hinata said smiling.

Hinata finished up her packing, and closed her backpack she used on missions this long. She placed the backpack on her back and walked out of the door to her room out the hallway. She began walking when she saw her father. She tried to not look as worried as she passed him. The two passed silently and kept walking along Hiashi stopped, and turned back to her.

"Do you have a mission?" He asked her in a stale voice. Hinata stopped, and placed her hands up close to her chin and stuttered out.

"H-hai! Yes sir!" She answered him.

"Well then…" He began saying as he turned forward, but didn't continue on. Hinata looked back to see his back, listening for the end of his sentence.

"… Do your best." He hesitated at first, but finally said it. Hinata gave a small, soft smile.

"Hai!" She nodded happily, and looked back to the front and continued walking. She arrived at the front door before the outside and sat down as she placed her shoes on. She stood back up again and walked out of the door.

She started walking down the dusty walk towards where the main gates stood tall. She soon could see figures standing at the gate as she arrived.

Kiba and Akamaru were already there, waiting for her. "Kiba-kun." She said.

"Now that you're here, we just have to wait for the guy we're suppose to escort." Kiba said, looking around. Hinata also looked out if there was any sign of him. A moment later, there came a voice from behind them. They turned to the voice.

"They sent some kids to protect me on such an important mission?" A rude voice from a boy commented, looking at Kiba with a slight smug face on.

"What was that?!" Kiba stared threateningly at him. "You're as young as us!" He commented after observing the boy. Hinata also noticed that the boy did look as young as them.

"So what?! I should at least get some trained ninja to protect me!" The boy said, rivaling Kiba's stare. Hinata watched for about a few moments at the two, and decided to speak up.

"A-Anou…" She began saying. The two stopped staring as the boy looked at her. The boy stared her with widened eyes like he didn't notice her until then, and in a second he was in front of Hinata, surprising her a little. He took her hand and-

"Naruto-kun!" Hinata said worried as Naruto began choking on his noodles. Just then, a set of rather big hands started hitting Naruto's back. Hinata looked to see Chouji, Shikamaru, and Ino behind them.

"He'll be okay." Shikamaru commented as he sat down next to Naruto. Chouji and Ino followed as they took a seat.

After Naruto had stopped coughing, he finally noticed the three sitting next to them.

"Chouji! Shikamaru! What are you doing here?" He asked.

"Just got back from a mission." Ino explained as Naruto turned to look at her next to Hinata.

"I'm hungry! One beef, please!" Chouji ordered. The man nodded and continued cooking.

"So what were you two talking about?" Shikamaru said after he ordered. He had that smile he would usually have.

"Hinata was telling me of an escort mission that was really exciting." Naruto explained.

"And why did you start choking?" Ino asked him curiously.

"I-uh, was just startled by something…" Naruto tried to explain, a little embarrassed.

"We heard the sentence and then you suddenly started choking." Shikamaru said in a teasing voice.

"Oh, Hinata! Continue on with the love story!" Ino said excitingly, stretching out the word 'love'. Hinata didn't understand what they were saying, but thought Ino must had meant the story.

"O-Ok…" she agreed.

He took her hand as in a formal matter as he introduced himself.

"I'm Shouun Yuki. Nice to meet you!" He said in a pleasant voice, smiling at Hinata's startled face.

"Anou…" Hinata said confused. Before she said anything else, Kiba cut in between them, making Yuki let go of Hinata's hand.

"Since you're here, let's go." He said, sounding a little threatening as he stared at eye level with Yuki. Hinata saw how both were almost the same height.

"Fine then." Yuki sighed, as he turned away towards the path out of Konoha.

They headed off and began walking on the dirt path. Kiba walked with Akamaru on his left with Yuki on his right. Hinata was on the other end. Although Kiba was still annoyed at their meeting back at the gate, he was calm now. With the alignment, Yuki was able to talk to Hinata. Yuki continued talking to Hinata, who thought she was obliged to answer, so she did.

"So what's your name?" He asked her, smiling at her.

"Anou... Hyuuga Hinata." Hinata answered at him.

"Then can I call you Hinata? You may call me Yuki." Yuki offered, putting on a formal face as if greeting someone important. Kiba made a face at the scene as Akamaru, feeling what Kiba was feeling, softly growled.

"Anou... Sure." Hinata answered, a little confused at how Yuki was acting. Yuki continued on making conversation with Hinata well into the evening when a while after it became dark, Kiba slowed his pace. Hinata noticed this, and looked at him, knowing he was going to say they should stop.

"Let's stop for the night." Kiba said, and looked over towards a field that was almost unseen by the path. "We can sleep out there for tonight."

"Right." Hinata said, as they walked out into the field. Kiba started setting up a tent as Hinata started making a small dinner. Yuki sat, looking bored. After they ate the meal Hinata cooked, Kiba finished the tent. They placed their sleeping bags inside and as it became very dark they fell asleep. Hinata was the first to sleep as she laid still, closest to the fabric opening of the tent. Then Yuki soon fell asleep next to her, while Kiba stayed up at the other end with Akamaru.

"Oy Naruto, what's wrong with you?" Chouji asked as he slurped down the noodles of his second bowl.

"That…" Naruto began to say, clenching his chopsticks. He made a disgusted face, obviously about the boy called Yuki, silently wishing he was there so he could kick his ass.

"Oy oy, no need to get angry, Naruto." Shikamaru said, reasoning with Naruto.

"Ah, how sweet, he sounds like a real gentlemen…" Ino said with a dreamy voice. Hinata understood what Ino was thinking, but thought she shouldn't try to correct her, so ignored it. But then she looked back at the tense Naruto.

"Naruto-kun… Should I stop telling the story?" She asked a little worried. Naruto looked at Hinata with a startled face, but quickly hid it with a smile.

"N-No Hinata! Please keep going!" He said slightly sweating. He didn't want to get Hinata get upset, especially when it was him who asked her to tell the story.

"Right…" Hinata said, trailing off. Soon the next day was coming into her mind.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed this first chapter! I've actually reread this and rewrote twice, but now I'm quite content on it. Although this is kind of long, the rest of the chapters probably won't be as long, but I don't know if that's bad or good, but I usually like long chapters. If you seriously want to read more, please leave reviews, it makes me happy (who doesn't like a happy author?) and it can motivate me to continued on (I could leave it for months before starting it again when not motivated) so PLEASE REVIEW. Thank you!

-kun: A honorific used usually for boys among family, friends, and other close people.
Anou...: "Um..."
Jii-san: Old man, although a little polite.
Ne: "Right? really?"
Itadekimasu: Said right before eating. "Time to eat!" Used for all levels of politeness.
Nani: "What?"
Oy: "Hey..."
Hai: "Yes, yes sir."