-Front gates of konoha-
"Eli chan…whoever you are I'm coming" naruto thought. He wondered about this Eli girl who was she? Why was naruto dreaming of her?
"Naru chan pass the ball over here!" naruto remembered the dream, remembered that smile like he's seen it before.
"N-naruto kun is something wrong?" Hinata blushed as she struggled for her words.
"Yeah Hinata I'm fine…are you okay? Your face is red…are you sick?" naruto examined hinata's face up close which made her face blush harder.
"Yeah you look feverish" naruto touched her head, "Your face is warm too, are you sure you're okay." Naruto asked Hinata.
"Y-yeah I'm fine n-naruto kun" Hinata backed away still blushing hard.
"Okay…" naruto was reassured. "Wow she's weird." He thought.
"Okay now that naruto's done playing doctor let's get the mission going." Kiba looked at the map. "Land of roses huh? That is a pretty far distance, well at least we won't have a problem finding the girl, and she's not hard to miss." Kiba looked at her picture he started to blush, "Not at all."
"What's that supposed to mean huh?" naruto yanked the picture from his hand "Just because she looks different than us you think you have the right to say something like that!" Naruto growled and tried to regain his composure Kiba slowly backed up akamaru gave a concerned yelp. "Naruto…Are you sure you're okay? I'm sorry if I offended you I didn't mean it like that I really do apologize." Kiba put his hand on naruto's shoulder "Do you know this Eli girl naruto?" Kiba questioned calmly.
"I- I don't know." Naruto sighed "I've been having these dreams about her and I don't know why." Naruto dropped to the ground "These dreams always start out happy with me and her playing with a ball, a Frisbee or some kind of toy and then they suddenly become dark and twisted and always ends with her disappearing…And me just watching." Naruto pounded the ground with his fist tears were about to escape from his eyes before his teammates hugged him when that happened naruto knew that this journey would be okay he knew his friends would be there for him when they would finally meet this Eli character in person. "Don't worry naruto I've got your back man" Kiba patted naruto on the back and helped him up from the ground, "N-naruto I don't want to see you like that again so if you need someone to talk to I'm always here." Hinata blushed and smiled sweetly. "Thank you both." Naruto smiled and got some of his regular hyper activeness back in his voice "To the land of roses we go!" he yelled in excitement with his big goofy smile on his face. "Yahoo!" Kiba yelled with naruto in an equally excited tone. "Let's get going." Hinata said with a smile and followed her two teammates who were running and yelling way past the konoha borders.
