As she stroked her dark, long hair with her left hand, Hinata gazed out of her large window at the rising sun. The horrid, heartrending images were vivid in her mind from yesterday. Naruto's sleek, beautiful face and his desirable lips pressing upon Sakura's, accepting Naruto's force upon her. Just the thought brought a tear running down her face. Her eyes were sore, an obvious sign she was sobbing hard the night before. It all started with a gathering, Hinata and her friends.

At the field with three fat wooden poles, where Naruto used to secretly train and where Hinata and Naruto once had a joyous moment, right before Naruto's chuunin exams, was where Tenten, Neji, Lee, Kiba, Naruto, Shino, Sakura(sadly), Ino, Shikamaru, and Chouji all met. (Sasuke didn't come because he was stricken with an "illness," as he said to Sakura and Naruto, to inform the rest of the gang. But I expect Sasuke to be lying to escape their foolishness.) At the sight of their meeting, they were all to have a small party. Naruto had sneaked in some sake, stolen from Jiraiya's secret stash. Lee and Kiba were assigned the party needs(food, drinks), and Team 10 brought in extra things, such as dining chairs from their house.

"It's good to have fun like this, seeing as we all never really did," a smiling Kiba contentedly said. Everyone agreed, and Hinata glanced at Naruto, who was staring at a tree towards his left. Curious, Hinata stepped towards Naruto to see what he was looking at, what aroused his interest from the tree. And then Hinata realized it as she saw a pink-haired girl leaning against a dark tree, staring at the ground and looking utterly sad.

It was then when Naruto approached Sakura, just as Hinata was ten inches within Naruto's radius, and said to her:

"Sakura, why aren't you having fun like everyone else? The songs are good, the food's delicious–"

"–Naruto, tell me how I can have fun knowing Sasuke's really sick? I mean…what if it's serious? I c-came to the p-p-party instead of being there for S-Sasuke like I sh-should've been!" Now Sakura was crying. Naruto kneeled down next to Sakura and stroked her hair gently saying softly, "Don't worry, Sasuke can hand himself. He's handled himself since he was an orphaned child."

"I know, but," Sakura was now trying to pull herself together, "I just always want to be there for him…."

Naruto wiped Sakura's eyes and she found it odd that she didn't push his hand away, yet instead welcomed the gesture.

Hinata found her skin crawling as she witnessed Naruto's hand brushing Sakura's face. But she found her skin crawling even more uncomfortably as Naruto stood up and helped Sakura clamber up from the ground and both of them walking deeper into the woods. Hinata felt a jolt of jealousy that started her going towards them. They finally stopped near a lake that Hinata would never suspect was there. It was beautiful and moonlit. She hid behind a well-concealing tree and peered out.

"Naruto…" Sakura began, facing him with a smile. "You're a really great friend….But I still want to follow Sasuke."

"That's okay," he responded so softly it sounded like a whisper. "You can go, if you want. I won't stop you. I know Sasuke would be happy to see you."

Sakura looked a bit surprised at all the things Naruto said. She'd expect him to be jealous, to refuse to let her go with the excuse, "You should have fun." Sakura felt a magnetic pull to Naruto, and he felt the same.

As Hinata almost screamed but stopping herself immediately, Naruto had kissed Sakura, full in the mouth, and Sakura closed her eyes and kissed back.

Hinata felt as though a kunai had slashed at her neck. She could hardly breathe. She felt as though betrayed. Immediately burning tears poured from her eyes, and Hinata didn't hesitate to pull herself away from the disgusting scene, running away as quickly as possible and back to the party center. Hinata ran, sobbing out loud, and Kiba turned. "Wait, Hinata!" Shino also was disturbed by this. Kiba and Shino both ran after their comrade into the woods where she plunged back into.

"What's going on?" asked a frightened Tenten.

"I don't––hey! Where's Shikamaru?" Ino yelled looking around.

They were all so disturbed by Shikamaru's disappearance and Team 8 sprinting away, one of them sobbing, that they did not notice the lights had gone out, until five seconds on unending questions lead Neji to yell louder than anybody, "HEY! Where are the freakin' lights?" When everyone finally noticed, they panicked.

Little did they know, Shikamaru had disappeared after Hinata too, but took out the lights first because Shikamaru's and Hinata's friendship wasn't really known. And Shikamaru hated questions.

Shikamaru, Kiba, and Shino sprinted, branch after branch, trying to catch the afflicted Hinata.

"HINATA!" Kiba yelled.

"Hinata–please–stop," Shino panted between breaths.

Shikamaru was closest to Hinata, and understanding it was obvious the girl wasn't about to stop, Shikamaru dived down from a branch and tackled Hinata to the ground hard.

"SHIKAMARU!" Hinata yelled, still crying hard. "GET–OFF–ME–!" Hinata could hardly breathe. Finally she just laid they and sobbed, Kiba and Shino approaching slowly. Shikamaru, sensing when Hinata was done trying to struggle and run, lifted himself up from the girl and helped prop her up.

When Hinata's crying got softer, Shikamaru asked, "What's wrong?" When she didn't answer, he asked again.

"Naruto…Sakura…lake…ASSHOLE!" Hinata launched into sobbing hard again, Shikamaru putting his arm around her shoulder.

"I'll wait," he said in a friendly tone.

Hinata wiped away her tears after a couple minutes and took in a deep breath. She wasn't looking forward to the explanation, but she must. "I…followed Naruto…and Sakura…into the woods…near a lake…"

"Yes?" Shikamaru said, a little impatient, but not too impatient for his friend.

"They–kissed–!" Hinata looked up straight ahead of her, eyes wide open, afraid what she said was a reality. But it was, so she was tempted to cry a little more, but remembered a reason why Shikamaru was Hinata's friend was because she wasn't like most girls, not too troublesome, not one typical to cry, very tough, and, Shikamaru had said it fondly, though, reminded him of a boy. They had been best friends for quite a while.

"Oh, God," Shikamaru said, full of sorrow for Hinata for he knew Hinata was madly in love with Naruto. Kiba and Shino, however, were confused. They didn't know.

"So what?" Kiba snorted. "I'm actually kind of glad." Kiba had a bit of a crush on Hinata, and was jealous of the attention Naruto got from her, but still not realizing it was because Hinata loved Naruto.

Shikamaru shot a nasty look at Kiba. He turned back to Hinata and said, "Don't worry. I'm sure you'll be very pleased after you see what I'll do to Naruto."