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Hinata woke up to a very sunny, bright day. Just the way she liked it. Today, she would be training with Neji, the perfect weather for training. However, she didn't like training with Neji. Neji was very strict, serious, and didn't play around. She preferred Naruto in every way over Neji. Too bad I can't train with Naruto-kun... Hinata sadly thought.

She walked to the dojo, usually expecting the early-rising Neji. He was always on time, however, he was not there today. The dojo was extremely empty, vacant, and the usual training tools (boxes of shuuriken and kunai, etc.) were not there. It made the dojo seem even bigger than it actually was.

Hinata sighed, and decided to wait, being the very obedient, sudtle person she was. After about 10 minutes, she started to grow abnormally impatient. The thought of being able to train while actually enjoying it with Naruto gnawed at her stomache. Neji probably isn't going to show up until a while. He's never late unless he has a good reason. Maybe a mission...?

In the end, Hinata went to see Naruto.

Ringing the rectangular, yellow-neon, semi-broken buzzer at Naruto's apartment, she was hopeful that Naruto would be there. "BE THERE IN A SECOND!!" A scuffling noise could be heard on the other side of the door.

Then, swinging the door open with a very sleepy, somewhat agitated face was Naruto Uzumaki.

Author: BELIEVE IT, BITCHES!!! lol

Naruto was wearing a Christmas-looking red sock-thing on his head, in his frog-covered pajamas, and had a pair of pale yellow chopsticks clutched in his other hand. "Ahhh...?"

"O-oh. H-Hi, Naruto..." Hinata put her hands together in front of her, like she usually does in the anime. She raised on hand and shyly waved.

"Uhh..." Naruto grunted in response. "W-Wanna come on in?"

"I-If I'm not b-bothering you..." Hinata smiled shyly again. She had never been in Naruto's house before!

Author: I know. Hard to believe. I already figured in Naruto Shippuuden Hinata and Naruto would kick it and like, hit 3rd base at Naru's place, whatever the hell that (third base) is. Right? Surprise for me!

By this time Naruto had become more awake and didn't have as much of a sleepy appearance. "Oh, it's fine. C'mon in, Hinata-chan!"

"Th-th-thank you..." Hinata carefully stepped across the threshold-bump, like hell if she wanted to trip and look like a shithead!

Naruto sat down at the kitchen table, a cut of instant ramen and a quart of cow milk present. Hinata unsurely sat down at the table, she didn't want to stand -- that would make it only seem like she didn't know what she was doing even more probable.

While Naruto conspicuously slurped the noodles in a loud, messy fashion, he also chugged down the quart of the milk. Taking only quick intervals in between eating and drinking, Naruto inconspicuously manages to breath. Hinata watched him do this, making it seem like he was almost simultaneously eating and drinking at the same time.

She was so interested in Naruto eating that Naruto noticed and said, "Are you hungry? Do you want some ramen too, Hinata-chan?"

Hinata, being embarrassed (easily embarrassed) said, "N-n-no! Sorry!!!"

"No, it's okay. You don't have to apologize..." Naruto said. "Do you want some ramen, too?"

"O-oh! No, no it's okay... I don't want to trouble you..." Hinata replied.

Just then, in the midst of the tiny silence, there was a barely-audible growling noise. It was Hinata's stomache.

I skipped breakfast, like I usually do when I train with Neji! Crap... Hinata squeezed her eyes tight. "Sorry..." Her face flushed a light red. It was very embarrassing.

"A ha ha ha ha!" Naruto laughed out loud. "Hinata-chan! You're so cute! It's okay, I'll make some ramen right away!" Naruto got up and got a cup of instant ramen and started to prepare it.

After putting hot boiling water in the cup, put the flap back over it, and rested a pair of light yellow wooden chopsticks on it, he resumed eating. It was strange, but watching Naruto eat just brought a kind of whole-hearted and happiness to her. Weird!

Naruto set the cup of noodles carefully in front of Hinata when it was done and said, "How is it?" after Hinata gingerly took a sip of the soup and a taste of the noodles. "Good, hmm?"

"Yes..." Hinata smiled and blushed bright red. "Thank you, Naruto..."

Author's Note: She already had said "itadakimasen" or whatever, just to let you know.

"No problem, Hinata-chan!" Naruto smiled and by this time he had finished his ramen and his quart of white milk was empty. "It's okay, because you always care for me and are so nice to me! I need to repay it, ya know!" He smiled a wide smile like a cheshire-cat smile and scratched the back of his head and lightly laughed.

Hinata was extremely hungry, and trying to eat at a moderate pace so it didn't seem like she was some uncivilized monster, it was only making it harder. She wanted to literally slurp up the soup in a messy fashion, chomp down on the soft noodles and gulp them down. But, not with Naruto here!

Slowly, ever so slowly, Hinata started to speed-up the pace she was eating at. Still, it seemed pretty normal. Instead of using the large white spoon to scoop up the soup, she now held the bowl instead and was drinking the soup. When she put the bowl down, unbeknownst to her, there was a piece of squiggly ramen noodle on her left cheek.

Smilingly politely, she put the chopsticks and spoon in the bowl. She then crossed her hands and sighed, "Naruto-kun, that was absolutely delicious! It wasn't just good, it was the best ramen I had ever eaten before!"

"Not including Ichiraku Ramen, right?"

Hinata naturally laughed. "Maybe..."

Naruto then said, "H-Hinata... there's... a... noodle on your cheek."

It took a little bit for the words to get in her head and when she finally sorted-out what they meant, she freaked a little bit. "Where?!" Oh no! I'm looking so stupid in front of him... Hinata wanted to just die. Right then and there. Humiliated right in front of Naruto. Hinata prayed to God that Naruto wouldn't freak and say that she was disgusting or that she would see any sign of repulsiveness in his face's expression. Anyone hating her would be okay, but NOT Naruto, out of all the people.

"Right there." Naruto lifted his right hand and pointed at her face.

Hinata wiped her right cheek, and she looked at her hand. Nothing was there. She wiped her right cheek again, a little higher on the cheek, maybe it was a tiny noodle.

"No, Hinata-chan." Naruto pointed once again. "There." He seemed pretty calm.

Maybe Naruto isn't repulsed at all? I hope so...

Hinata frantically wiped her right and left cheek, and then she gave up. Naruto then got up and walked over to Hinata, leaned down, and picked off the noodle. It was on her right cheek, after all. How could she have missed that?

"Thanks..." Hinata shyly said. Am I supposed to say 'thank you?' Or am I supposed to say something else? Is this the correct reaction I'm giving Naruto?!

"It's okay, don't worry." Naruto reassured. "Happens to me ALL the time! Like, this one time..."

Soon after that somewhat funny experience Naruto described, Hinata told how she was wondering if Naruto would like to train with her.

"Of course, I'm free today!" Naruto replied, much to Hinata's happiness. "We have no missions today, so yeah."

As Hinata and Naruto were walking to the training grounds in the forest, they saw Sakura in the middle of Konoha's streets. She was standing there, looking as if she was waiting for someone.

Before Hinata knew it, Naruto was a firing missile heading toward Sakura at full speed. "HE-LLO SA-KU-RA-CHAN!!!" He threw himself at Sakura, and mid-air, Sakura threw a powerful, angry, dangerous punch, backfiring him into a tree.

"DAMMIT NARUTO!! STOP IT!" Sakura screamed back at him in a very, very manly voice.

About a second later, she whipped her head at Hinata and politely said, "Hello, Hinata-chan." She smiled. "How are you today?"

"Hi, Sakura-chan." Hinata waved shyly. "I'm fine. And you?"

Sakura's attitude turned sour again. "Fine. At least, before he came." Sakura's eyes shifted at the smoldering Naruto on the hard cement sidewalk.

"I see." Hinata was worried and inside she was seething with anger. How dare Sakura do that to Naruto!? He didn't even do anything yet? Argh! "Well, it seems as if you were waiting for someone when we were approaching you. Are you waiting for someone, Sakura-chan...?"

Sakura blushed-up. "Y-Yes... Actually, I'm waiting for Sasuke-kun... I want to train with him, today... if possible."

"Oh. Well, Naruto and I were just on our way to train together. Neji wasn't here today."

"I see." Sakura then abruptly turned away, and started to swing and sway, probably to keep her body busy while she waited for Sasuke.

Anger was in Hinata's bloodstreams now, for all we know. She was furious. She decided to slightly ruin Sakura's day, even though she usually tried to cheer people up. "You know, Sakura-chan... I don't think Sasuke's going to come today..." She tried to hint at it that she was being rude. "Maybe... maybe you should just give up and go home."

"What!?" Sakura wheeled toward Hinata. "I'm waiting for Sasuke, and that's final!" Sakura held her hand up, in a fist-shape, except she wasn't about to pound it into Hinata's face. It was a defense-gesture. "It's hard to believe, Hinata-chan... but are you... trying to discourage me???"

"N-no..." Hinata horribly lied. She was absolutely horrible at lying, she was always honest.

"Y-yes you are!" Sakura screamed. "I can't belive you! To think you were my friend..."

But you hit Naruto! Hinata screamed inside.

Just then a gray cloud of smoke popped outta no where and right then and there Sasuke was present. He was always in that cool gesture with his hands in his pockets and his body laid-back. "Yo."

Sakura quickly gave a death-glare to Hinata and turned away from her. "Sasuke-kun..." she trailed off. (Think of this as a backround sound in anime.)

Naruto was now up and ready, recuperating from that deathly punch. "Hey, Sasuke."

"Heh, Naruto." Sasuke relaxedly replied.

"What are you doing here?" Naruto inquired.

"Looking for you," Sasuke coolly replied. Sakura stared with a dreamy, faraway look in her apple-green orbs.

"Me? Why me?" Naruto asked, startled.

"Well," Sasuke started off lazily, "I want to train with you. It's been a while since a mission or two, and I want to see how strong you've gotten."

There was a silence.

"... In other words," Sasuke continued. "I want a battle. A fight with you."

Hinata knew about how Naruto was quite competitive with Sasuke, it was obvious by the ways him and Sasuke acted toward each other at times. Anyway, Naruto agreed. They headed toward the training grounds.

Hinata was walking next to Naruto, while Sakura every now and then glared at Hinata. It was hard to believe how sour and mean Sakura could get. Hinata thought she was the nicest person, but I guess she finally had shown her true colors. What a... Hinata shuddered angrily. Sasuke, however, was really relaxed and walked with a light swagger, he was quite confident he'd win the fight. Naruto was smiling cheekily, also very arrogant. This was HIS way of showing arrogance and light ignorance at the thought of fighting with Sasuke.

Starting from the right to left, it was Sasuke, Sakura, Naruto and Hinata. They were broken up into pairs, kind of. Naruto and Hinata as one, and Sakura and Sasuke as one, except Sasuke managed to keep a space so Sakura wouldn't get too close for his comfort.

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There ya go! Chapter 2! I'm not sure what to call this, and please review! Thank you! (Lol that rhymed.) I'm not sure when Chapter 3 will be out.