Finally done with this chapter! I was on and off working on this and I couldn't decide how to end it haha.
The following morning, Hinata woke up with a start, not remembering going to bed the night before. She shrugged it off. She did remember sitting with Naruto by the campfire and she could feel her face getting red as she smiled at the memory. She stretched and went outside to feel the fresh morning air on her face and a thick fog had covered the surrounding area, making it look eerie. She heard a rustle from one of the boys tents and out popped Choji, Naruto, and Neji. Neji looked over and saw his cousin and greeted her with a hello.
"Hi Neji," She greeted back warmly.
Naruto glanced up and looked at Hinata and saw her bed head hair an gave a small smirk. Hinata blushed pink and noticed her hair. She immediately dashed back in the tent to straighten her hair and make it presentable. She could hear Neji say to Naruto "Wow, you didn't even have to say anything and she runs away from you."
Naruto make a snarky remark in response. Hinata giggled silently in her tent at their conversation. She appeared moments later with her hair straightened and she headed toward the fire pit to start a fire for breakfast. Naruto looked at her trying to start a fire and went to stand on the opposite side of the pit so she doesn't get a spooked by his presence. He crouches down and looks her in the face and says "Morning Hinata."
Hinata looked up briefly so he doesn't see her red face and quietly says 'morning' back.
"Do you need any help?" He asked.
"I t-think w-we might n-need more f-f-firewood." She managed to stutter.
Naruto nodded and he went to collect more wood so they all could eat. He started picking up wood and couldn't help himself as he looked back as she was getting up and went back into the tent to what he thought was to wake up the others. He felt his mind being pulled in as the Kyuubi apparently wanted something from him. He stood in some water and saw the Kyuubi behind the seal glaring at him with a smirk on his face.
"Do you like her kid?"
"Psssh no, why do you ask?" Naruto looked offended.
"Because you keep staring at her and your actions have changed slightly around her."
Naruto glanced to the side and grumbled "stupid annoying fox."
"I HEARD THAT YOU LITTLE BRAT!" He growled.
"Well you should stop butting into my feelings." Naruto retorted.
"So you DO like her?"
"I don't know what I feel at the moment. She is a nice person and I want to be closer friends with her."
"Why don't you just ask her out? Its obvious to everyone else that she likes you." Naruto snapped his head towards the menacing fox, his eyes wide with astonishment and confusion.
"Why didn't anyone tell me? I didn't think she liked me at all, I thought she was a shy person in general." The Kyuubi sighed, annoyed with Naruto.
"Neji was right...you really suck with romantic gestures."
Before Naruto could say anything else, the conversation ended leaving him with a frown on his face. The breeze on his face snapped him back to reality and continued collecting sticks. He heard a loud popping sound of a twig some ways off, then he heard another coming closer each time. Naruto put his senses on high alert and put down the sticks in his hand to make a hand sign to produce a clone of himself. He saw movement behind a tree and he started producing his rasengan and his clone disappeared when he made it. He saw something move in front of the tree and he started rushing toward it full speed and shouted "RASEN-" The shape became Shino. Shino moved last minute out of the way of Narutos attack. Naruto crashed onto the ground, face first, his rasengan making a whole in the ground.
Naruto sprung up and shouted "Shino!"
"Wow, first I wasn't invited and now I am being attacked. What's next?" He replied glumly.
Naruto laughed and put his hand behind his head and said guiltily "Sorry about that Shino. I'll lead you to the camp."
He gathered up his wood and Shino followed him to the camp. By then everyone was up and talking to one another. Everyone turned and looked and shouted Shino's name, welcoming him to put his stuff in one of the tents.
Shino, still stuck on not being invited in the first place said "Why wasn't I invited?" Heads turned to Sakura waiting for her to respond.
"Well last time I checked you were on a mission, I couldn't get a hold of you so quickly." She finally said.
"No one told you when I was coming back?"
"No."
Shino put his head down in sorrow, feeling left out once again.
"But your here now, so lets enjoy now that we are all here." She said to try and cheer him up.
He slowly nodded and set up his stuff in with Sai, lee, and Shikamaru. A half hour later, they were all eating and finishing their breakfast meal. Silence hung around in the air till lee decided to pipe up and say "Who wants to train with me?!" Everyone sighed as they didn't feel like training at the moment. Sai chimed in "I've got nothing better to do." He replied with a smug grin and joined lee to go train with him.
Sakura jolted up with a smile and said "We can always go swimming."
That got everyone's attention. They nodded with enthusiasm and each went back to their tents to change into their suits.
*Girls tent*
Hinata changed into her swimsuit, hoping it would flattering on her and in front of all the boys, especially Naruto. She heard Tenten squeal with joy as she put hers on.
"I can't wait to show off my suit to Neji." She blushed red as she said it, then turned even redder as she realized she said it out loud. The girls started to laugh at Tentens embarrassing moment.
"Tenten you really like Neji don't you?" Sakura asked.
Tenten stuck out her tongue in response then retorted, "Well Hinata likes Naruto." This made Hinata turn her back while her face turned pink in the process. They all started laughing again as Hinata blushed then turned silent as they got ready.
The girls came out with some clothes covering up their suits and the boys as well. Sakura led them towards the beach, the smell of fresh water coming off the wind make everyone giddy with excitement. When they reached the sandy shore, the water was glistening from the bright sun, the other side of the lake was visible and some birds were flying over the water looking for some visible fish. Hinata dropped her towel on the sand, taking in the view of the beach.
"Sakura this is beautiful." Ino said excitedly.
Sakura smiled in response and dropped her stuff on the sand too. The boys piled their stuff in a corner and ran towards the water. Choji jumped and did a huge cannonball causing a big wave to appear. That made everyone laugh and the girls joined the boys in the water. Hinata walked cautiously into the water, hugging her breasts, feeling self conscious of herself.
Sakura looked at her and said "Hinata you don't have to hide them. We are all in bikinis and shorts here."
Hinata with a pink face complied and sunk lower to where the water hid them. She looked to see if Naruto was looking and noticed that he wasn't and was glad since she didn't like exposing herself much. She say him laughing with everyone else and that made her smile unknowingly and she looked away so she'd stop looking like a creeper looking at him. Naruto was busy laughing but out of the corner of his eye he saw Hinata come into the water with her bikini on. She didn't look that bad either he had noticed. He decided to leave the conversation he was having and swim slowly over to Hinata. He saw that she immediately took notice of him and turned a pinkish color, which he thought was kind of cute, even if she did that all the time. 'Maybe she did like me?' He thought to himself. He heard the Kyuubi inside him snicker and Naruto rolled his eyes mentally. Hinata, seeing that Naruto was coming closer and closer, began to hug her breasts again and she felt her face getting hot, even in the refreshing cold water.
"Hey Hinata," Naruto said with a small grin.
"N-Naruto-kun..." Was all she could whisper out.
"So I was wondering, if you wanted to come join in with some of us guys other there." Naruto asked, and put his hand behind his head and ruffled it a bit.
"Suureee we would all love to," Ino chimed in to their conversation with a smile. That made the rest of the girls become interested as well.
"Even Hinata is willing to join." Sakura inputted seeing, Hinatas stricken face. Hinatas eyes got wide at the thought. She began to imagine different scenarios with Naruto and that made her heart race from the thought at being around him, especially in her swimsuit. She didn't know if her heart could take it. She felt her face become beet red and she began to feel light headed. Suddenly she couldn't see what was in front of her face, she felt her head hit cold water and hear mumbling voices that became unclear. 'Why do I always have to do this?' She thought. 'I promised to get better with being around him, but it seems to only get worse. I wish, I wish...' She couldn't finish her thought till she passed out completely.
