She was rethinking all that had happened the day he died when she remembered what Naruto had told her…Lavender ribbon.
(Flashback)(A week before Naruto left with Jiraiya)
(Walkway that wraps around lake and training grounds)
"H…hi…Na…naruto-kun." Hinata stuttered. Naruto waved her over and Hinata all to quickly ran over and stood as close as possible to him without bumping.
Naruto, being his usual dense self, didn't notice…until that is that he looked over to start conversation and her hand brushed his.
Acting on impulse Naruto grabbed her hand liking the feeling, he didn't want to let go.
Hinata was surprised by this action but didn't pull away. 'He's holding MY hand!!! HE'S holding MY hand!!!' she thought to herself but then Naruto let go of her hand and ran away.
Hinata stared after him and wondered why he had given her false hopes, it wasn't like him.
Hinata just stared off in the direction of where he went when she looked out to the lake she saw him.
He was running on water after something reaching into the air…that's why he ran off.
Hinata giggled at how clumsy he was while running in the water reaching for whatever he was chasing…it was cute.
Curiosity finally got the best of her and she had to know what was so important that he ran away from her for.
She activated her Byakugan and gasped as it was her mother's old lavender ribbon. She reached for her hair knowing that she would find it missing but had to know.
She felt her hair and it was down.
Her eyes started to well up as she knew that he ran away FROM her, FOR her.
Another ten minutes went by and it only felt like seconds to her while she thought of how Naruto was doing something kind foe her.
"Got it!" Naruto yelled from behind her pulling her from her thoughts.
She just turned around and stared at him with confusion.
"The ribbon, silly." Naruto said as he handed her the ribbon.
She looked down at t in her hand and started to cry and hugged Naruto.
"Thank you, Thank you!" She yelled into his chest.
"Is it important?" Naruto asked
'He didn't even know it was important to me and he ran to get it' she hugged him tighter and nodded.
By now Naruto was hugging her back, liking having someone in his arms…He never wanted to let go.
"It was my mother's." Hinata stated
"Oh," Naruto said while realizing Hinata's mother was dead by the way she said it.
Hinata pulled away just enough so she could look into his eyes.
"I want you to have it" Hinata stated.
"No..I couldn't."
Hinata put a finger over his lips blushing that she touched his lips.
"No ifs, ands, or buts." she said with authority.
"But…" Naruto started but Hinata just put her finger on his lips, again, so he couldn't talk.
"Okay but on one circumstance…" Naruto started to drag her across town and refused to tell her the circumstance until he got there.
After about fifteen minutes they finally arrived at Naruto's apartment and before she could ask what he was doing he dragged her in, brought her into his bedroom and sat her on his bed. Hinata blushed a thoughts that were running through her head.
Naruto showed her a bunch of hand signs and gave her a scroll. She did the hand signs and it ended being a storage scroll that contained a black metal box.
He nodded for her to open it.
She did as she was asked and looked confused as she saw a small burnt picture of Naruto when he was young, some money, another picture but this time one of all of his friends and a few scattered things.
"Wha..What is this?" Hinata asked.
Naruto smirked and put the ribbon carefully into the box.
"Its my 'Box 'o' precious stuff'
Hinata sniffled as she saw herself in one of the extra pictures. She gave at Naruto a confused look.
"IN case you ever want your picture back." Naruto said almost reading her mind. Naruto took the box put it back in the scroll and hid the scroll in a loose floor board.
(end flash back)
Hinata jumped up and started running towards Naruto's old apartment.
She arrived to see that the building was on fire!!
She ran through Firenin and ran head first into the flame to get to Naruto's room.
She jumped into the room forever grateful that the area with the scroll wasn't on fire. She ripped up the floor borads, grabbed the scroll and turned to run but saw that the flames now covered her way out so she searched the room and saw a window.
Without hesitation she jumped out of the window and ran towards her room to see what was inside the box now…