Chapter 3
"N-Naruto-kun?"
I couldn't believe that my very first crush was here. He never was on the rooftop, he was always with his friends at the cafeteria. Maybe he came for me? It felt like a dream come true! But wait… why was he here?
"Hey, euh… Hinata, right?", he panted. By the looks of it, it looked like he ran a marathon. With a blush on my cheeks I nodded. Naruto looked around and asked another question.
"Is Sakura-chan here?"
And that made me upset. My blush left my face as I bowed my head covering my eyes with my bangs so he couldn't see I was on the verge of crying.
He didn't come here for me as I hoped for. I slowly shook my head. "Good.", Naruto said making me surprised by the comment and sat next to me. He took a cigar and a lighter of his bag and lighted the cigar. It was very quiet and none of us spoke a word. Though I enjoyed the quietness, I do wanted to say something to him. We were alone and today was my only chance I couldn't let it slip away.
"U-uhm…", I began. "Why a-are you a-actually here?" 'What kind of question is that?', I mentally panicked. Naruto took the cigar from between his lips, exhaled the smoke and looked at me with no expression on his face. That's when I noticed how close we sat next to each other. Our shoulders almost touched each other.
"What? Don't you want me here?", Naruto smirked. "N-no! T-that's not w-what I meant…", I panicked, waiving my hands in front of me. I tried to explain the misunderstanding but my stutter made it only worse. I couldn't even make one word right. But then I heard him chuckle. "No, I was only kidding.", the blond inhaled the cigar and looked down to the ground with a smile.
"I get why you would wonder why I'm not with my friends…" He stopped talking for a second and turned his head toward me, his smile still on his face. "I came for you.", Naruto explained honestly. I looked at him with shock. 'H-he came… f-for me?', I thought. I couldn't believe this was actually happening. It felt like this was a dream I never wanted to wake up from.
I turned my head in front of me, breaking our eye-contact and looked to the ground with a soft blush and a shy smile on my face. "R-really?"
"Yeah, I want to know you better. We never talked to each other. You look like a nice girl, weird… but nice." The only thing that made me disappointed was the fact that Naruto still thinks of me as a weirdo. Even though he said he wanted to talk to me and complimented me, it still hurt my feeling.
Before I knew it, smoke flew to my face and came in my mouth making me cough badly. "I-I don't think y-you should s-smoke here, N-Naruto-kun.", I said pointing the cigar between the blonde's fingers. "Eh?" Naruto inhaled it and exhaled the dioxide, enjoying the taste. "Hehe, I always knew you were a goody-goody.", he chuckled, making me blush.
"M-me? A g-goody-goody?", I asked confused. "Is that w-what everyone c-calls me?", I wondered. Naruto laughed softly, making me more confused and a bit scared. "No, that's what I call you.", he replied. "You're one of the sweetest person I know. You're kind, you put other people before yourself and even if you did the slightest bad thing, you'll immediately feel guilty and do something about it.", Naruto explained, making my mouth fall open in shock. "That's what makes me like you.", he ended and I blushed deep red.
It was quiet again. I was thinking about the words I just heard and it made me realize that Naruto knew more about me then I did about him. The only thing I know is that he likes ramen a lot, that his favorite color is orange and the fact that he's madly in love with Sakura.
"Say, are you going to eat that? Cause I didn't bring any lunch from home." I looked at my lap and saw my lunch-box not even touched once. "W-we can eat it t-together if you want. I m-made a little too m-much and I-I don't think I c-can eat it a-all by myself." The ramen-lover tossed his cigar away and took the extra chopsticks I gave him. "Thanks Hinata. You're a lifesaver, I almost died.", he joked with his mouth full of my home-made food, sitting in front of me.
I smiled softly, not daring to make eye-contact and began to eat along. As we began to enjoy our lunch, we talked to know more about each other. Well… he did the most talk. I only listened.
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Me and Naruto walked in the hall heading to our next class. It was only 10 minutes before the bell rings but we wanted to be there early, knowing we don't have anything to do. I was really nervous, I walked for the first time next Naruto. Even though we aren't friends yet, it did feel nice to walk along with someone you consider as a friend. 'Are we actually friends?', I asked myself.
From the corner of my eye, I saw the ladies' bathroom. "U-um…" Naruto heard me and turned his head to me, his eyes focused on me waiting what I have to say. "I-I have to go the toilet.", I told him. "Yeah, sure. I'll wait here." I headed to the ladies' bathroom, pulled the door open and saw two girls in front of the sink, checking their make-up. It was Sakura and Ino.
They turned their heads to the door they heard being opened and saw me standing in front of it. They stared at me and shrugged their shoulders meaning they didn't care if I was here or not and were back doing their make-up. I already felt uncomfortable by their cold behavior towards me and went to the door of one of the toilets.
After doing my business, I went to the sink to wash my hands. Sakura and Ino were still here and I heard another girl entering the bathroom. I stood next to Ino as I put my bag on the floor and watched my hands with soap. I looked at my hands and saw fresh cuts on my both wrist. It gives me the shivers if I looked at them. I covered the cuts with my sleeves and continued washing my hands, ignoring the pain on my wounds by the warm water .But then I saw at the mirror the reflection of Ino with a bracelet hanging around her left wrist. It was a bracelet of flowers with diamonds on the middle of each flower. It looked very expensive.
Ino saw my gaze at her bracelet by the mirror and smirked. "Have you already seen my new bracelet, Sakura?", Ino asked to Sakura, not getting any answer of her as she put some more gloss on her lips. "My boyfriend, Sai, gave it to me as an expression of entire love. It was very expensive, he had to sell all his painting-collections so he could pay it.", Ino added more.
Hearing her words, I could sense she was trying to make me jealous, knowing I don't have a boyfriend whom can buy me presents. I slowly turned my sight to Ino and saw her smirking at me. I dried my hands and heard the same other girl coming closer to wash her hands too after using the toilet. "Hey Big-Forehead, look after my bracelet, would yaah? I'm going to use the toilet, I don't want to dirty it." Sakura didn't answer as she was too busy to put some mascara on her lashes.
Ino put the bracelet on the sink and headed to the door of one of the toilets. I looked at the jewelery on the sink and saw how it blinked. I couldn't keep my eyes from the bracelet.
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I exited the bathroom right before the other girl did and saw Naruto waiting patiently at me with his back against the wall and his hands in his pockets. "Done?", Naruto asked as I came closer and answered him with a small yes. I couldn't believe he actually still waited for me. Today was one of my best days ever. Naruto, talked to me, ate lunch with me, walked along with me and waited for me for using the bathroom. Can this day get any better?
"MY BRACELET!"
Ino burst the door of the bathroom open with her right foot and exited the restroom, Sakura right behind her. Ino looked around and her furious eyes met mine.
"YOU!", Ino pointed at me as I flinched of her outburst and looked at her confused. "You thief! You stole my bracelet!", Ino yelled. Everyone who heard her, glanced at me. Everyone's eyes were on me, Naruto included as I stood there in shock.
"Eeeh?!"
As you all know, I've still got exams and I did say that I would post another chapter after the exams. But I didn't actually care and I couldn't wait to post it so I just did. I appreciated your patience for this chapter so thank you very much. Hope you all want to keep reading.
OOC? Too short? Btw, Hinata is no emo.
Please do tell if I made any mistakes, so I can update it.
