'Hinata-chan...' he called out to her. It was too late for him. She was gone. He gave chase to her, the one he loved. It was futile, she had vanished.

'Naruto-kun, your mission isn't over' Said the woman with a pleased grin on her face.

'Screw the mission' Snapped Naruto. 'You just cost me the only true happiness I've have felt in my life'

'B-But Naruto-kun...' She said as she gazed sorrowfully at the attractive shinobi standing between the gates of Konoha.

'NO! Don't you get it I love Hinata' He yelled back to her.

By now a crowd was gathering at the gates, no one had seen Naruto like this for years. Since he defeated Pein he was always calm and collected, now he looked about ready to do an Itachi. The crowd started to separate as a familiar masked ninja strolled, Icha Icha Paradise in hand, towards our blonde hero. As he stopped before Naruto, he raised his head slightly so he could gaze over the top of his novel.

'Yo Naruto'

'Kakashi-sensei...' you could hear the pain in Naruto's voice as he looked down.

'You need to go find someone Naruto, trust me I'm good with the ladies' Kakashi said with a grin you could see through his mask.

'Your right' Naruto said as he raised his head. He started to form the hand signs and vanished in a poof of smoke.

'What, no goodbye' Kakashi asked the air as his head re-entered his book.

Moments later, the Kyuubi child appered outside the Hyuuga household. He ran in and across the courtyard towards the main door. As he out stretched his arm to slide the door back, it was thrown back and a fist landed firmly in his face. This sucker punch made Naruto stumble back, as he regained his footing he looked up to find an extremely angry looking byakugan user.

'You hurt Hinata' he yelled at the recovering Naruto.

'Neji I don't have time for this, is Hinata here' questioned a worried Naruto.

'No, now prepare to fight' He said raising his fists.

'Maybe another time'

With that Naruto leaped into the air and ran along the Hyuuga's roof and started leaping rooftop to rooftop looking for his love. Our Blond protagonist looked everywhere he could think of for her the ramen shack, his house, Ino's flower shop, the ninja academy, everywhere but to no avail. It had been over an hour since she ran from him. Against all his instincts he was about to give up as he returned home. No sooner had he hit his bed when an idea formed in his head. Acting on it without thinking he jumped out the window, the glass shattered around him as he didn't bother to open it, his mind was set on one thing.

She kept running. She moved around the village from place to place after all she was a jounin level ninja, if she didn't want to be found she wouldn't be found. There were a few close calls when Naruto leaped above her calling out to her. That hadn't happened for a while.

He's given up, did he really love me?

Sitting under a cherry blossom next to a lake on the out skirts of the village she started to weep harder. This was one of her favourite places, she loved to just sit and watch the world go by. The world seemed a cold harsh place now. The sky was starting to darken. As she sat under that cherry blossom hugging her knees Naruto Appeared. He was standing on one of the trees branches, upside down. His face was inches from Hinata's. He couldn't help remembering the time she head butted him as he hung from the hospital ceiling when he was younger.

'Found you Hinata-chan' he said grinning slightly.

Tears started to plummet down Hinata's soft cheeks. Naruto couldn't stop himself from remembering how her skin felt the night before. He was disturbed from his memories by the woman in them.

'N-Naruto-kun...how can I compare with her, she is everything I'm not' she asked not bothering to hold back the tears. She stood up and started to walk away. 'I can tell you want to be with her'. This comment through Naruto's concentration completely and gravity kicked in. He fell to the floor with a great thump. He stood up to find Hinata still walking away. How she was walking away from the love of her life she didn't know. Every step she took it felt like a kunai was being pushed further and further into her heart.

'Hinata-chan' he said in a remorseful tone as he fell to his knees. 'Please...'

She kept walking. To depressed to speak a single word.

'Hinata-chan!' he yelled as his voice started to give to the tears he was holding back. She kept walking, It was like she was being controlled and every time he spoke she felt as if the kunai in her heart was being twisted.

'HINATA-CHAN!' As he screamed the blackened sky was ripped asunder by a flash of lightning and a roar of thunder. She stopped as the thunder quietened, and turned to face him. What she saw she wasn't expecting or prepared for. Uzumaki Naruto, the Kyuubi child, strongest ninja in Konoha, her Naruto, was on his hands and knees. He was gripping the ground so tightly great chunks were being torn up. As he raised his head she was shocked further. His flaming Kyuubi eyes were welling with tears, a single trickle of blood ran down his chin and mixed with his tears as he bit his lip to help hold them back. Hinata froze in disbelief, earlier he was kissing someone else, now he was in this state. The mightiest shinobi in the hidden leaf village was on his knees.

'Hinata-chan' he said, his voice full of pain 'I don't want to live my life never to feel your soft skin against mine, never to feel the heat of your body'

She said nothing. He started to unsheathe his ninjatō. As he held his sword towards himself, blade tip to his stomach, he murmured 'goodbye...my love'