Preface
Hinata suddenly awoke to the sound of deep breathing, a heavy weight pressing down on her chest and something tugging on her hair. She froze with fear; not even daring to breathe. Where am I? She slowly peeled open one of her pale eyes. A tent? She carefully turned her head to see what the source of the breathing was. A puzzled look came over her face. Naruto-kun? Sure enough, the breathing was coming from a sleeping Naruto, who had one of his arms draped over her chest and the other wrapped around her neck, with his fingers tangled in her hair. She blushed when she realised that he was so close to her that she could feel his warm breath on her cheek. He sighed contentedly in his sleep. Hinata felt a smile creep across her face as all of the memories of the past three years came flooding back to her. She snuggled further into her sleeping bag, before starting to drift back off to sleep in Naruto's arms. Only one more day to go…
A/N: Yeah, yeah, I know this is really short, but I just decided I wanted a preface, and I just couldn't seem to write any more. *sadface* Never fear, the rest of the chapters will be much longer. Oh and while I'm here I thought I might explain all of the italics/bold/underline meanings before anyone gets confused:
italics: normal thought/author's note/flashback
bold: normal Kyuubi thought
italic bold underline: flashback Kyuubi thought
italic bold: flashback thought
normal text: normal speech or just the story
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Oh dear, my note is longer than the actual chapter. *cringe*
EDIT: I forgot to say, the summary sounds nothing like this, right? That's because I'm doing a 'Three Years Earlier' thing next chapter and the story is basically going to describe what happened in those three years right up until this point. Then there will be a sequel starting from here. (Oh yeah, I'm doing a sequel, bitchez) For anyone who figured that out *gives cookie*
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Masashi Kishimoto does, even though I wish I do. *sigh*