Springtime in konoha
ch 2
by: sir brinkley of eastlake
A.N. chapter two is here and I finally figured out what to have Hinata and Naruto do, also you may want to keep track of all the other characters too. I tried to make this one longer and a bit more romantic. being a man of little words, let the story continue. and again, excuse my spelling.
Naruto and Hinata were walking down the street by the river watching the leaves float down the water, they were trying their best to make idle chat but they couldn't find anything to talk about. A cold breeze blew by, Naruto shivered and was about to curse the wind until he noticed Hinata hudled up to him for warmth. Naruto began to blush as she hooked her arm around his. they walked for a while longer until Hinata broke the silence, "I know, lets get some lunch, I-I havn't eaten yet today."
Naruto quivered as he remembered his empty wallet, he was about to tell her to get her own lunch, but something was stopping him, he just couldn't bring himself to tell her no. "Is something wrong, Naruto?"
"Its... its nothing,..., I have an idea, how about a special treat, what do you say Hinata." Naruto had a half baked plan that he hoped would work with all his might.
"That sounds great," Hinata said with a giggle, "what is it."
"Thats a suprise, just follow me."
Back at the hidden leaf training grounds Neji was sparing with TenTen. They were in a rather heated battle, TenTen could tell Neji was annoyed by her presence but she didn't care, she was hoping she would grow on him. they took a break to get something to drink and while they were sitting there a dead silence arose over the clearing. TenTen was looking at Neji and smiling, he was looking away but she knew he could see her, she was glad he let her train with him but she knew he was getting more and more agitated as the time past.
"Neji, how about we do something else. You want to get something to eat?"
"I don't eat during training, if you want something to eat you can leave."
"FINE I WILL!" TenTen stomped off, feeling very rejected. She wasn't very hungry anymore and was feeling a sadness creep up on her. She began to wonder what Lee was up to.
Lee was running his last round for the morning, his cart had only a bag of books in it to be dropped of at the bookstore. When he got there he noticed Sakura was working there, he was delighted to see her.
"Good day to you Sakura, I must say you look wonderful today. I have the delivery of books."
"Oh, hey Lee. You can put the books in the back."
Lee felt a little awkward that she didn't return his greeting. when he got back from the back room he went to talk to Sakura again.
"Hey Sakura, i was about to get some lunch, pleas allow me to get you some too."
"Oh, no thanks Lee, I'll get it myself."
Lee felt the dark cloud of misery creeping up on him, he was going to try one last time.
"Please Sakura, why will you noy date me? Do i smell foul, am i unatractive, what is it!?"
"Look Lee, theres nothing wrong with you its just, well... its..."
"Its sasuke isn't it. Hes been gone for such a long time now, if he realy cared about you he would be here now."
"I'm sorry Lee, maybe some other time, not now okay."
Lee skulked out of the store, the ground shaking with each step. He grabbed his cart and ran back to the delivery yard, shredding up the road as he went. His anger had subsided as he walked down the street, he was very depressed and staring down at the ground. He wasn't looking where he was going and he bumped shoulders with someone.
"I am sorry if I caused you any trouble... TenTen, I thought you were training with Neji?"
"Not anymore, Neji is a jerk, I wish he could be more like you... say, Lee you want to go do something, maybe get lunch."
"I would very much enjoy that, then lets go!"
They took each others hand and walked.
"Naruto? A-are we lost?"
"No no, its nothing like that, I uh, oh wait there it is."
Naruto spotted a small blossom off in the distance, he remembered a grove of trees that bore lots of fruit in the early spring, he just hoped it wasn't too early. As they aproached the grove they could smell the perfume of many flowers. When they arived the grove was covered in all sorts of buds and blossoms, the air was thick in in the nectar like scent.
"Oh, Naruto, this is wonderful, thank you for taking me here." she said as she grabbed handfulls of flowers for her collection. Naruto looked franticly for the fruit he remembred growing here. He searched for nearly 20 minutes, he was glad Hinata was busy picking flowers, he didn't want her to get impatient, for some reason he felt himself wanting more and more to make her happy, he couldn't describe it.
"Ah, I found it, YES!"
"What is
it Naruto?"
"Lunch!" he held out an armsfull of
bright pink fruit, still small and unripe, but Hinata didn't care,
they enjoyed them for several hours till the poor little bush had no
more in it. Then Hinata got an idea, "Hey Naruto, I have an
idea."
"What is it Hinata?" he said with a mouthfull of food.
"Here, just follow me, its a suprise." she grabbed his arm and dragged him along out of the forest.
"WHOA, hey, where are we going." Naruto said struggling to keep up.
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so, there goes another chapter, i feel this getting out of my system now so this story may only be a few more chapters (unless i get lots of reviews of course), and i have a big suprise for the next chapter. i hope i didn't mention food and eating too much, i wrote this while hungry, i did i word count, i mentioned food, lunch, and eat a lot. so you ramance fiends you, until the next chapter.
