Naruto & Hinata – The First Kiss
(disclaimer; I do not own the Naruto-universe, the characters or the laws invented for the original series, nor will I ever claim that I do.)
A/N: This is basically a remake of my earliest work, called Hinata's Wish. I wrote the original about six years prior to this one, and reading it again recently I found so many things I wanted to change. Seeing I'm Norwegian, my English language at the time was anything but impressive. When I read it, it felt childish, immature, cheesy, weird, and packed with spelling errors. Here I give you the reworked version, and I really declared my fullest attention of making this as romantic and touching as I possibly could, as I'm a big fan of the Naru-Hina pairing... So... I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Chapter 1 – Hinata's feelings
Meet Hyuuga Hinata, a very shy girl that went in the same academy class as Uzumaki Naruto, her one and only big crush. She has always been heavily in love with this boy at the same age, always admiring him from the shadows, yet too shy and low on self-esteem to make her first approach...
Somewhere back in time...
Hinata was in her bed, it was a cold night outside. It was freezing in the winter cold, and all she could see through the window was the twilight, and a slight shine from the moon.
But falling asleep this particular night was hard...
This day she learned something about Naruto; he was in love with Haruno Sakura. She had always had this suspicion, but she heard some of the other girls in class discussing love and the "ranks" of various boys in class. Everyone knew Naruto liked Sakura, the way he always proclaimed his love to her...
He always tried to get her to a date, and to sit next to her and he always chose her first, when it came to co-operation tasks handed out by the teacher. But he haven't seen Hinata yet... She had hardly had any conversation with Naruto, she felt like a ghost to him.
Knowing the one you love, has their attention on someone else is hard to stomach. She felt that it was impossible now. Not just hard anymore... But she couldn't let him go. It hurt...
Her blanket was cold... She was freezing. Oh, how she wished for him to like her back. How she longed for his love... She tried imagining him laying next to her in that very bed, she tried making a vision in her mind of how warm it would have been... And just by that single thought, she was back in her love-state.
She smiled, although still tear-soaked of her partially broken heart. It helped for just a little bit to think positive, which she always did. She tried comforting herself, thinking that maybe someday, maybe he would come to realize that Sakura was unable to like him back? After all, she liked someone else, too, and felt Naruto was a nuisance.
By closing her eyes, she entered a world of eternal hope... She imagined herself on a field of grass, standing there with Naruto alone, no-one nearby. There, she declared her love and confessed her feelings. And of course, he would become happy and throw his arms around her.
She smiled through the shivering, and slowly drifted into deeper dreams...
Some time later...
Hinata's pulse was raging... She wrote a letter to Naruto, for the first time. In the name of her sister; Ikurata, she told Naruto about Hinata's being in love with him. She didn't write it too long or too complex, she just informed him of her likings, and would slip it to his mailbox later on.
Sadly, she would never see Naruto react in any way during the classes...
As if he never read the letters, or never cared about her emotions...
She felt like her emotions were bleeding! However, if there was just a single, teeny tiny hope in the future, she would not give up yet. Not until Naruto himself explained to her that it could never be anything going on between them. Then, and only then would she do her best to let him go...