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A/N: Well, once again I was planning on waiting but once again didn't feel like it. Why? Well because of all the WONDERFUL mails you get after uploading a chapter about story alerts, favs and the few reviews. PLEASE review more:D

Now on with the story.

Chapter 3: Watching the stars and real training.

That night Hinata couldn't sleep, so she went for a walk instead. As usual when this happened she went to the top of the Hokage monument. It happened quite often too.

When she got to the monument however she saw that somebody was already there. The blonde boy was watching the stars. "Hello Hinata-chan" he said without turning around. He then turned his head looking smiling at her. "Why don't you come and sit" he said patting the ground beside him. She did as he suggested.

"Can't sleep?" he asked her. "No, looks like you can't either"

"Nope, it's rarely that I can"

"Same goes with me" she then said before they went quiet. It was a soothing and nice silence. Hinata was actually a little surprised about that, Naruto had always been the loudmouth that had a hard time with silence. Still yet here she was enjoying a silence together with him. Even more surprising was the fact that she was the first one to break it, eager to talk to her secret crush when she now got the opportunity.

"So, how was your three years abroad? I don't think I have asked yet" She asked him. In reality she wanted to ask about this afternoon, but she kept away from the subject.

"Tuff, then of course I got stronger by it, so I guess it was worth it" he answered her question with a smile.

"How was your three years then? Anything special that happened?" He then asked her.

"They were quite good, nothing special happened, nothing that you can't count in to a shinobi's life" She answered him, avoiding the fact that she had gotten on trial.

"Okay"

"By the way, how did you meet Rin-san?" She then asked him.

"Oh, that's a long story" Naruto said avoiding.

"Oh" Hinata said getting the hint. So they went quiet again and just sat watching out over the village (a/n they're sitting with their feet over the edge). Then suddenly Hinata laid down instead. Now with her gaze at the stars. Naruto looked over at the lying form off the girl. She looked so much at peace there beside him that it made him wish that it would happen again.

"I just love watching the stars, my mom used to take me doing it" Hinata then said to him. "She doesn't anymore?"

"No, she died giving birth to Hanabi-nee-chan" Hinata said with sorrow in her voice.

"I'm sorry"

"Don't be, it happened so long ago. Sure I still miss her, but not as much anymore"

"And as soon as I miss her I just need to watch the stars and it feels like she's here again" she then said a little more cheerful. "I usually don't think about the stars that much, I know they're beautiful, but I don't feel it. Then at night when I turn my head up towards them I just get lost right away. It's just too beautiful for one to understand" she said with a dreaming thing over her voice.

"Really, I never really thought about them" he answered her. "Then why don't you now?" she asked him motioning for him to lie down beside her. He did as she wished, they were now laying down on top of the Hokage monument watching the stars.

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Rin were standing in some bushes watching the couple. Just as them she had a hard time sleeping and decided to take a walk. In some way she had gotten to the top of the monument. There she found Hinata and Naruto sitting next to each other looking at the village. Then Hinata had lain down and they started to talk about the stars.

Rin especially looked at Naruto, she wondered if she had ever seen him this calm and this happy at the same time. She strongly doubted it; this girl really had some kind of spell over him. The worst part was that he probably wasn't aware of the fact that he had the same effect on Hinata as well. Maybe she should do something about that fact. Rin got a little smirk on her lips as she thought about it. That's when she saw that Naruto laid down beside the indigo haired girl. She didn't know what to do yet, so she just observed the two to get ideas for later.

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Naruto enjoyed Hinata's company. He didn't know exactly what it was, but she had some soothing effect on him. Like he didn't need to make her acknowledge him, like she already had all on her own. He looked over at her and got stuck in her eyes, even though she was looking up at the stars. Her eyes wasn't as white as the rest of the Hyuugas', they had a lavender tint over them that was just beautiful. She noticed him looking and turned her gaze towards him. Their eyes locked and none of them could look away.

Hinata didn't even blush because of the shock she got from it. Naruto then said something that even he didn't suspect he would. His thoughts right then.

"So, you lose yourself in the stars? Kind of like I do right now in your eyes?"

This shocked Hinata so much that she started to blush. Naruto got so shocked about what he said that he also blushed. After a while in this new embarrassed silence it got too much for Hinata and she fainted.

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Rin couldn't believe her ears. Did he just say what she thought he did? When she saw them lock in each others eyes she was to do something. Maybe enter his mind and make him think that what she said was his thoughts. She didn't however, she didn't have the time. He said something out loud before she even entered his mind. What a thing to say too. It even made the other girl faint. Then of course, not even Rin - who had spent the last year with Naruto - could even dream of him even thinking something like that. Therefore she could only imagine what a shock it should have been for the other girl.

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Naruto wasn't very surprised by Hinata's reaction; she had after all fainted around him earlier. So he saying something like that should make her faint. He was pleased that she did since that meant he didn't have to explain himself. At the same time he wasn't, since he also wanted to know now what she felt. His own words had made him realize that he did in fact, like the girl.

Well what other to do than take her home. So he picked her up bridal style and ran of towards the Hyuuga compound. When he got there he stopped on the rooftop and woke Hinata up. "Hinata, which window is your room?" he whispered to her, so they wouldn't get detected. That would be just nice; The Kyuubi container comes carrying an unconscious Hyuuga heiress. "What? My room? Ehh .. that one" she said pointing at one of the windows. Then she remembered what Naruto had said, and realized that he was carrying her. "Eeh.. you know you don't have to carry me any more" she said blushing a little. "Yeah I know that, but I kind of want do so" he answered he. This only made Hinata blush even more. Soon she would be able to rival a tomato when it came to being red. Naruto jumped to her window. It was open since that was the way she had gone out trough in first place. He put her down in her room and she turned to him. They were now standing watching each other in an awkward silence. "I.." they both said at the exact same time. To this both of them laughed nervously. "I really had a good time, but I'm sorry for what I said earlier. I really shouldn't have" Naruto then said before Hinata could speak. "Don't be! I'm actually glad that you did say it" Hinata said. This stunned Naruto a little bit. Did Hinata really said that she was glad he had said it? He then shocked both of them again by giving Hinata a quick kiss on the cheek before turning around and speeding away.

Hinata were standing holding her hand over the spot Naruto's lips had touched her. Now she really did out rival a tomato. Did Naruto just kiss her on the cheek. When she realized that he indeed had a big grin slowly spread across her face. Oh my god, Naruto-kun just kissed me on the cheek. Does that mean he likes me?

The next morning Naruto woke up to the sound of someone banging on the door.

"WAKE UP YOUR IMBECILE" could be heard from the other side of it. He got out of the bed yawning and went to open his door. On the other side an annoyed Rin was standing.

"Do you have any idea how long I stood there banging on the door?" she asked him irritated. "Sorry for not being a morning person" he said tiredly walking to his kitchen before her. "Well maybe if you actually slept at night instead of going on your damn walks it would be easier to get up in the morning" she said biting her tongue after wards, hoping that he wouldn't get that she had been spying the night before.

Naruto looked suspiciously at her, but she didn't show any signs of knowing of last night so he let it pass. "You know very well why I take those walks" he then said now sounding just as annoyed as her. He then took his now ready instant ramen and sat down at the table opposite from Rin.

"So are we training alone today or what?" she asked him.

"Yeah, I want to do some real training without risking anything" he said putting in a bite of ramen after. "I talked to Oba-chan, she will make sure nobody will train at training ground seven today. So no genin-team there now" He then added after a bite. To this a satisfied smile entered her face.

So when he finished his breakfast they went to training ground seven. Just as Naruto had said there was no one there this day. After warming up they decided to do some serious training.

Naruto put his hand up in his trade-mark seal and calmly said "Tajyuu Kage Bunshin no Jutsu". Immediately a couple of hundred of Narutos were made. They formed a huge circle with Rin in the middle of it. Now Rin threw up her large knife with her left hand. In the air she captured it with her right hand in eye-level. With her arm stretched out in front of her holding the large knife. What now happened would have stunned anybody who didn't expect it. Naruto did. The knife was immediately covered in her chakra, with her kekkei-genkei she stretched it out to a long sword. She now held a large chakra covered knife that looked like a blue sword. Since it was made of chakra nothing – except maybe something like Shino's bugs that ate chakra – could destroy it.

Now all the Narutos attacked her and she attacked back. Dodging and parrying all the attacks and at the same time hitting them with her sword. They all disappeared one after one. Soon there was only she and the real Naruto left, he still hadn't attacked her.

"Why did you put so little chakra in to them?" she asked him. "I wanted to save some to this" he answered her. "Now put away that sword so we can fight" he then said. She did as he said, and then the two charged each other.

They got in to a close combat. After a couple of minutes Rin kicked Naruto five meters away. As soon as he had stood up he saw the smirk on her lips. She showed him that she had trapped him with a chakra string around his ankle. He looked down at it and then looked up at her. He swallowed before she pulled the string. He went in to the air and passed her in to a tree. As he hit the tree however he disappeared. Fuck, a shadow clone.

She tried to detect his chakra but couldn't find it at first. Then after a while she felt something chakra like flicker about 50 meters away in the forest. She knew instantly that Naruto had made her feel him at purpose. It often happened, but it didn't stop her from going there.

On her way to where Naruto should have been however she was attacked. Naruto jumped out from behind a tree kicking Rin in to another one. She stood up looking at him. As she did she saw a smirk enter his face. She charged him with a kick towards his face, he ducked. When he stood up and turned around again he tried to hit her in the back, but she jumped up again before he could do so.

This way it continued with them dodging each others blows for at least 10 minutes. Until Naruto told Rin it was enough.

"I think we're both low enough on chakra to get on to the training" he told her.

"Okay, where are we doing it?" she asked him.

"The other side of this forest. It's a big field that doesn't belong to any training ground. We will be alone, and those who still can feel the chakra will know what's going on".

They then started to run trough the forest with Naruto in the lead. Because of the chakra they pumped to their feet they got trough it in just matter of seconds.

Once there they stood facing each other in the middle of the field. They started to focus chakra. Soon strange chakra engulfed them both.

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Meanwhile Kakashi and Iruka had just shared a passionate kiss in a dark alley. As Kakashi walked away - leaving Iruka behind so they wouldn't get detected - he suddenly felt a big evil chakra at the far end of the training grounds. No, it wasn't just one; it was two huge really evil chakras. What was that? Then he remembered that Tsunade had told him that Naruto were to train today, without interference. If it was Naruto however, then why were there two chakras?

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Hinata was training at the Hyuuga compound with Neji. They were training their Jyuuken, but without releasing any chakra into the other person.

As usual Neji had the upper-hand. How strong Hinata got he still yet would be the Hyuuga prodigy. This meant that as soon as they trained any Hyuuga technique he would be the stronger one. As they were training some other guys from the Branch family came watching them. Neji had at that point forced Hinata into a corner. He threw a punch at her face but stopped just centimeters away, it was merely to show that he had won. He then stepped back from Hinata with her standing still up against the wall.

As he did one of the other guys spoke up.

"Hey Neji, want to do some real training instead?"

"Thanks, but I am already training for real" he answered them monotonously.

"Really, she doesn't look like she can put up much force"

"That's alright Neji-niisan, go train with them. I need to do some other training anyway" Hinata then said making the other guys look at her for the first time.

"Gomenasai Hinata-sama we didn't see it was you!" they then said in unison with a slight hint of fear in their voices. They also bowed deeply to her as they spoke.

"That's alright; I actually like to hear what people really think of me. It feels much more honest. Not like, oh I don't know… maybe pretending to respect somebody" she said to them with a smile. She then walked past them and out of the compound without looking back at them or Neji.

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Tsunade looked up at the green eyed girl in front her. Did she just say she were to train with that boy Inuzuka Kiba again? The blonde woman thought.

"The hell you are Sakura! For once you are going to do some real training again. Together with me, you have been slacking of lately" she told the girl.

"But Shishou I have already decided with Kiba. He is waiting for me" the girl complained.

"I don't care about what you have told that boyfriend of yours, just cancel on him or something" she waved the girl's complaints of.

Tsunade told Shizune that she was taking the rest of the day of. They then walked out to cancel with Kiba and of course to do some real training.

A/N: Well, I guess the ending wasn't a cliffhanger, but it still contained one, hehe. So how many of you have figured out what's up with Rin now:P

Well well, til' next time PLEASE review:D hopefully, Ja Ne