Lovelyanime: Okay, here is the next chapter. I'm going back to school next week and I'm going to finish up my other stories. I hope this chapter is better than the last one. Of course some might hate it since it has Sakura…Who should dye as soon as the chapter is over…But come manga-ka won't kill her off like he did Asuma!…Err…Sorry Kishimoto-sama. I guess you don't have to kill her off…Could just send her to an coma and won't wake up until twenty years later and Naruto wouldn't be interested in her and he is married to Hina-chan.
Hinata: Ano…I-I think w-w should start th-the ch-chapter b-before the r-readers think you're c-crazy
Lovelyanime: (Laughs nervously) Sorry, kinda got out of crontal there for a second And uhh…Sorry to the Sakura fans, I didn't mean it…Well, some of it anyways.
Chapter 2- Poor Hinata
Hyuuga Hinata walked down the streets of Konoha, leaving the training grounds her team trained at. Even though it was almost getting late, the air was still hot so she held her jacket in her arms. It was in the middle of July after all, of course it was going to be hot. She was walking home, but was also taking a little detour to a curtain ramen stand.
'This is it. I'm finally going to do it.' She thought. She wanted to go to the ramen stand to tell a certain blonde something. She wasn't going to run away or faint this time, she was going to make sure of that. 'It's now or never.' She told herself.
She stopped when she saw the ramen shop. A blush came across her face as she gulped. There he was. Her crush, Naruto was sitting down, eating what may have been his fifteenth bowl of ramen. She needed to tell him how she felt about him. She was afraid, embarrassed, nervous, but what she wasn't was being brave. Thoughts of the boy she liked-no- loved turning her down kept going through her head. She used her imagination of what he would do and what would happen. She imagined him turning her down harshly, saying he would never like someone as weak as her.
'NO! Naruto-kun isn't like that. He would turn me down gently and never call me weak..' She told herself. Yet, the scene she thought might happen played over and over in her mind.
Hinata bit her lower lip, having second thoughts about just going straight home.
Home.
She wished she could call it that. But instead it was like to her prison. She hated that place so much. They treated her horribly because she was the weakest member of the clan. She over heard the elders talking about her once a while back, but they had nothing good to say about her. She wanted to leave that place but couldn't. If she tried they might put the Bird Seal on her or sentence her to death even. So she never tried to leave the Hyuugas.
Hinata's thoughts went back to her blonde crush. She would watch him everyday, watch him get stronger. He would try to get noticed by everybody while she just stood in the back where no one could see her. After all these years of watching she learned to love him. Yes, in the beginning she just liked him, but it turned into love over time.
'I have to do this.' She finally decided. She was going to tell him. She took shaky steps toward the ramen stand while her blush kept growing. She went in and sat next to Naruto. She placed her jacket in front of her on the counter.
Naruto was eating his ramen when he noticed the beautiful blue haired Hyuuga sat next to him. She didn't have her jacket on so it was a little hard not to look down from her face. He swallowed his food before saying hi.
"Oi Hinata-chan. What brings you here?" Naruto asked.
"N-Naruto-kun, I-I came to t-tell you something." She started to twiddled her fingers together. This was it. The moment she was waiting for.
Naruto stared at her questionably. "What is it?"
"I-it just…I've b-been w-watching you f-for a long time a-and…I w-wanted to tell you th-that…" She looked down at the floor. "I really like you Naruto-kun." She finally said without a stutter.
Naruto stared at Hinata. He wasn't sure what to say, what to do, what to think.
This is a bad idea.
Hinata squeezed her eyes shut. She was afraid more than ever before. She was even more frightened when she had faced Neji in the chunnin exams.
"Hinata…Gomen na sai demo…I'm not really looking for a girlfriend right now." Naruto looked back at his ramen bowl that was half empty. "Besides…I don't think it would be a good idea if we had feelings for each other."
Hinata felt her heart sink to the pit of her stomach, it had hurt when it sunk. When that pain left she felt so empty inside that hurt even worse. Her skin went paler than it usually was and it looked so unhealthy. She felt paralyzed, she couldn't move at all.
"Are you alright Hinata-chan?" Naruto asked when he looked back at her.
Hinata slowly nodded her head. "I-I'm fine." She lied. She wasn't fine, she was broken. She stood up from her seat. "I-I must go. It is getting late."
"I guess I'll see you later than?"
"Hai…" Hinata walked off with a broken heart.
'I knew this would happen. But I still did it.' She lifted her hands to her chest and over her heart. 'It hurts right here…It hurts so much.'
She felt like crying as tears formed in her eyes and her lower lip quivered, but she held it back. She rubbed her eyes and took deep breaths. She could do this, she could live through this. She knew she could.
She thought about going back and try again and talk to him some more, but couldn't. She knew she wasn't going to change his mind. He said he didn't want to have the same feelings for each other. She knew what he really meant. He meant that he didn't have feelings for her and he didn't want her to like him. This thought made more tears form in her eyes.
A warm breeze went by Hinata making her realize something. She looked down and noticed she didn't have her jacket. She slowly shifted her eyes to some passerby's. The men were giving her some perverted looks while some were stuffing tissues from their pockets up their noses to help stop the bleeding. The woman were whispering to one another, but Hinata couldn't hear them well. They were glaring at her since they were slightly jealous of her for her figure. But Hinata didn't know that. She thought they were disgusted that she was wearing tight clothes and showing off.
Hinata bit her lip as she stopped walking and went into an empty ally. 'I must've left it with Naruto-kun.' She panicked. She didn't want to go back. Her imagination picked up again as she thought of Naruto might say or do. He might think that she went back to beg him to love her and he'd get angry. He might say harsh things to her, something like 'You need to see the picture, I don't like you, in act I hate you'.
Hinata tried to tell herself that Naruto would never say he hated her since she was one of his precious people. He wouldn't be mad at her for going back there. If he did, she would tell him she forgot her jacket. Yet, her imagination kept going on and on of things she knew Naruto would never say or do.
'I have no choice.' She thought. 'I have to go get it before some drunk might attempt something.' She crossed her arms over her chest and looked out from the ally way. She then sucked in some air and ran to the ramen stand. She alomst passed some people on the way, but dodged them just in time.
She ran until she spotted her designation. She slowed down some and walked the rest of the way. Naruto was still there eating more ramen. She was about a couple feet away from the stand now when Sakura went inside. Hinata thought this was a good thing. She could distract Naruto while she gets her jacket and another thought told her something really bad was about to happen.
'Maybe I should wait until they're both gone.' She thought. She looked around and saw a telephone pole. She then hid behind it. She couldn't help but to think how cowardly she was acting. It wasn't a big deal so she should just go inside.
She thought about for a minute and decided to do so. She came out of her hiding space and was about to go in when she heard Sakura talk.
"…Should go out for a date with me. We can do tonight if you want?" Sakura smiled at Naruto.
Hinata's heart sunk and quickly went back to the telephone pole. Did Sakura just ask Naruto out? It couldn't be true. She probably heard her wrong and she was talking about Lee. But that couldn't be true since she would never pay any attention to him.
"What's wrong Naruto?" Hinata heard Sakura say. She didn't know it, but Naruto was outside looking around.
"I just…He stared at the telephone pole that Hinata was hiding behind. "I thought I saw something." He went back inside and sat in his seat.
Hinata sighed and stared at the ground sadly. 'Why? Why does this have to happen?' She bit her lower lip. She didn't want to, but listened to Naruto and Sakura's conversation.
"Anyway, do you want to or not?" Sakura asked.
"Well…I…" Naruto looked outside and back at Sakura. "Sure Sakura-chan…I would love to. Just let me finish the rest of my ramen." Naruto told her.
It's for the best.
Hinata eyes widened. 'Did he just… accept…Sakura? But he told me he didn't…' Hinata felt tears forming in her eyes again. 'He lied to me…I should've known. No matter what he will have feelings for Sakura. He would never want to go out with a weird freak like me!'
Hinata got out of her hiding space and was about to run when she saw Naruto and Sakura leaving. She quickly went back where she was before and hoped they didn't see her. After a minute she looked and saw them heading the other direction from her.
'Good. I can hurry up and get my coat.' Hinata went inside of the ramen stand. She went to where she was sitting to get her jacket. But the problem was it wasn't there. Hinata got confused and started to search on the ground incase it had fallen.
"Looking for this?" Came a voice.
Hinata looked back up to see a woman, a few years older than herself, smiling with Hinata's jacket in her hand.
"Oh…" Hinata reached for it and grabbed her coat. "Th-thank you for h-holding it." She stuttered.
"No problem. I didn't want anyone to take it so I was going to hold it for you until you came to pick it up." The woman extended her hand over the counter. "I'm Ayame."
"Hinata shyly shook the woman's hand. "N-nice t-to meet you. I-I'm Hinata."
They withdrew their hands "I don't think it was right for him to do that."
Hinata eyes widened. Was she watching what had happen when she talked to Naruto? And when he was talking to Sakura? Hinata eyes went back to regular size as she thought about what had just happened.
"I can take away his ramen from him for a week for doing that for you. He deserves it after what he did."
"No!" Hinata nearly yelled. She didn't want Naruto to not be able to have ramen because of her. "Ano…I-it's alright. H-he doesn't d-deserve t-to have his ramen tooken a-away. He h-had d-done n-nothing wrong."
Ayame stared at Hinata with sad eyes. She knew how it flet being rejected by a guy because they liked someone else. It had happened a lot to her and she knew how painful it could be. She wanted to cheer the poor Hyuuga up somehow. "How about I give you a free bowl of ramen."
"Hmm?…Th-that's okay. I a-am n-not r-really hungry."
"Then maybe you can come around at two o'clock one of these days?"
"Around two? Why at that time?"
"That's when Naruto isn't here. I know you probably wouldn't want to see him if you came by for your ramen."
"Th-thank you f-for t-telling me. I-I m-must go now." Hinata zipped up her jacket after putting it on. She waved at Ayame as she left.
When Hinata got home she went straight to her room. Didn't bother to say hi to her sister Hanabi when they passed each other in the hallway. She went over to her bad and layed down. After a minute to collect her thoughts of what happened she started to cry. She tried to shove her face into her pillow so no one would hear her.
After Hinata was done crying she fell into he deep sleep. She didn't want tomorrow to come. Who knows what would happen? She sure didn't want to know…
End of chapter
Ne, Ushi, Tora, U, Tatsu, Mi, Uma, Hitsuji, Saru, Tori, Inu, I
Lovelyanime: There you go. It was kind of hard for me to type this up since I didn't want Naruto to turn Hina-chan down but….Sniff…I had to for the story. I put in Hinata imagining things since I thought it would be a good idea. I usually do that when I like a guy(Not as mean like Hinata's though) I think what would happen if I asked him out and Think about what would happen if we do or not go out. (sigh) Anyway, enough of my babbling. So it can be quicker for Hinata to meet the people, there will be a little time skip in the next chapter. That will go the same with some of the other chapters coming up too.And Ikasury, yes, Hina-chan is U(rabbit).
Hinata: Pl-please review. LA-san hopes sh-she c-can g-get more r-reviews in this ch-chapters th-than the l-last. Sh-she also wishes f-for no f-flames pl-please.
