Chapter 4: Going Rogue?
Naruto was sitting at Ichiraku's Ramen shop waiting for Teuchi to give him his favorite bowl of Miso Ramen. Naruto could smell the noodles cooking and he couldn't help but start drooling.
Hinata(who was currently stalking Naruto) silently giggled as Naruto continued to drool all over the counter top. It wasn't very attractive to her, but it was pretty funny. Although as she giggled she accidentally started giggling too loud and Naruto heard her.
Naruto turned his head to the direction the sound came from but he didn't see anything. Naruto knew he had heard something so he decided to get up and see what it was.
Naruto walked over to the other side of the wall to try and figure out what had made that noise. To his surprise he found Hinata standing against the wall with her hands pressed over her mouth and her eyes were closed tightly.
Naruto being his mischievous self quickly got a really good idea and spawned a shadow clone.
After several moments of silence Hinata finally decided to open her eyes. She then very carefully looked back around the corner to see Naruto sitting back on his stool waiting for his Ramen like he was doing earlier.
What she didn't know was that Naruto was actually standing behind her and what she was looking at was actually a shadow clone.
After a moment or two Naruto leaned in close to Hinata's ear and whispered into it.
"Whatcha lookin at?" Naruto whispered to her as the shadow clone disappeared in a cloud of smoke.
Hinata instantly recognized the voice and her face grew a very bright red color. How is she suppose to respond to him now? He just caught her staring at him!
"Oh no! Naruto just caught me! What am I going to do? If I tell him I was staring he will think I'm a creeper! If I don't say anything then he will think I'm a weird creeper! I don't know what to do!" Hinata kept screaming at herself before her brain finally over loaded and she unfortunately passed out.
Naruto watched as Hinata started falling towards the ground with seemingly no intent on catching herself. Naruto quickly realized that she had fainted and he tried to catch her before she hit the ground.
Naruto succeeded in catching her but he accidently pulled up her jacket revealing her stomach.
Naruto was still standing behind her though so he thankfully didn't see her injury.
Naruto quickly pulled her jacket back down and carried her over to a stool closest to the wall in Ichiraku's. He then sat her down on it with her leaning against the wall so she wouldn't fall on to the floor.
Naruto then sat down close to her so he could keep an eye on her. At this time Teuchi came with a full bowl of Miso Ramen.
"Here you go Naruto. Enjoy!" Teuchi said as he handed Naruto the bowl of Ramen with a smile on his face.
Naruto took the bowl and started eating the Ramen that filled the inside of it.
Teuchi waited there for Naruto to finish as he knew it wouldn't take long for him to do so. But as Teuchi waited he noticed the unconscious girl lying against the wall.
"Hey Naruto what's wrong with her?" Teuchi asked as he pointed at the unconscious girl.
Naruto looked up at Teuchi with noodles hanging out of his mouth. He then looked over at Hinata and then looked back at Teuchi. Naruto slurped the noodles down his throat so he could speak.
"I don't know. I think I scared her too badly and she fainted." Naruto said as he scratched his head then continued to eat.
Teuchi then noticed something strange about the girl.
"Umm, Naruto, why is her stomach bleeding?" Teuchi asked sounding very concerned.
Naruto's head quickly shot up and looked over at Hinata. Naruto's eyes immediately locked onto Hinata's stomach. Sure enough, Hinata's jacket seemed to be turning a dark red color and blood was dripping off the stool and onto the floor.
Naruto's heart dropped as he saw this and he instantly lost his appetite. Naruto leaned over and gently lifted Hinata's jacket up just far enough so he could see where the blood was coming from.
Naruto's eyes widened as he saw a big cut in her stomach.
*FLASHBACK*
Naruto instantly remembered. After seeing Hinata's wound he instantly remembered everything that had happened to him, he also remembered everything that she had done for him.
Naruto remembered the man that tortured him. He remembered all of the pain the man brought him. He remembered how all of that pain seemed to vanish once he saw Hinata trying to help him. He remembered all the anger he felt towards the man after he hurt Hinata.
Naruto started crying.
"Hey, Naruto are you okay?" Teuchi asked.
Naruto didn't answer. He just kept crying and crying.
Thankfully Hinata started to wake up but she was confused to see Naruto crying.
Without a second thought she spoke.
"N-Naruto are you okay?" Hinata asked as she noticed her jacket was pulled up and she was bleeding again.
"I-I remember." Naruto said in a sad voice.
Hinata was still confused but she had a feeling she knew what he was talking about.
"W-What do y-you remember?" She asked him.
Naruto replied by quickly wrapping his arms around her and hugging her tightly.
"I remember how you put yourself in danger in order to save me. T-Thank you. T-Thank you sooo much for saving me Hinata!" Naruto continued to thank her for doing what she did as he started to cry harder and harder each time he thanked her. He also squeezed her tighter each time as well.
Hinata was blushing at how hard Naruto was squeezing her. Her shoulder was getting soaking wet from Naruto's tears also.
Hinata hugged Naruto back. She felt like she was going to cry too. She didn't like seeing Naruto like this. She was glad he was thankful but seeing Naruto break down like this scared her a little.
Then all of the sudden Naruto let go of Hinata and stood up. Naruto then laid some money down on the counter and started walking away.
"N-Naruto w-where are you g-going?" Hinata asked.
Naruto slowly turned back around and looked right into Hinata's eyes.
"His eyes! They've changed color again! They're red! The whiskers on his face are thicker now too! But what is making that happen? Is he mad at something? Or someone?" Hinata asked herself.
Naruto then started walking back towards Hinata. Hinata didn't really feel scared but she was worried that maybe he was mad at her for some reason.
Once Naruto was close enough to her that he could touch her he reached his hand out. Hinata flinched a little proving that she really was at least a little scared of Naruto at this point.
Naruto drew his hand back and then slowly reached back out to her to show that he wasn't going to hurt her. He then placed his hand on Hinata's wound.
Hinata winced a little as he did this. Naruto then made a red Chakra like substance engulf his hand.
Naruto then threw his hand over Hinata's mouth to muffle the scream that was to be followed by him doing that. Naruto knew better than anyone that his Chakra hurt when ever it touched an open wound.
What Hinata was feeling right now was what he felt every time he this angry.
Hinata was really confused now.
"W-Why did he just hurt me?" Hinata asked herself as Naruto moved his hand away from her stomach to reveal that her wound was completely gone. Not even a scar was left of the cut on her abdomen.
"Y-You healed me? How did you just do that? Naruto that's incredible!" Hinata said in amazement.
Naruto didn't do or say anything back to her. He just turned around and started walking away again.
As Naruto was walking away he noticed that all the villagers seemed to be staring at him. He stopped walking and let them stare for a moment.
As it turns out the villagers had been watching ever since Naruto started crying in the first place.
After a few moments one of the villagers started clapping. Then another. Then another.
Before Naruto could even blink the whole array of villagers that were watching him started clapping and cheering for him.
If this was any other time Naruto would have been so happy he wouldn't have known what to do with himself. But unfortunately the villagers clapping and cheering only started to make him angrier for the moment.
Naruto lifted his hands up to his head and started untying his headband.
Hinata watched as he did this and she knew what he was about to do, and her heart skipped a beat.
Naruto held out the hand that held his headband and opened it, letting the headband fall to the ground.
Hinata reached her arm out to Naruto as the headband fell to the ground but once the headband touched the ground Naruto seemingly vanished without a trace.
The villagers were confused, Hinata was confused, Teuchi was confused, everyone was confused.
"Where did Naruto go?" That was the question everyone started asking.
"Is he coming back?" They asked.
"He left his headband. That means he's a Rogue Ninja!" Someone said. After Hinata heard the man say this her heart seemed to hurt all over.
She silently walked over and picked Naruto's headband up and started crying.
"Did I do something wrong? Is he mad at me? Can I fix it?" Hinata kept asking herself these questions as she looked at Naruto's headband in her hand.
Naruto was jumping across tree branches at an alarmingly fast rate. Naruto's head was full of things that were making him angry.
"God! Tsunade pisses me off! She is always so fixated on herself and she has no regard for other people's feelings!" Naruto said to himself as he pushed off of a branch too hard and broke it off of the tree completely.
Naruto stopped on another branch and locked back at the branch he just broke.
"Good job Naruto. Why don't you just give the Anbu a map so they can track you down even easier?" Naruto asked himself rhetorically.
Naruto decided to take a second and chill out on the branch for moment so he didn't break anything else and leave an easy trail for the Anbu to follow.
He knew the Anbu was going to find him eventually and bring him back to the village but he definitely wasn't going to make it easy for them.
Naruto sat down on the tree branch and laid his back against the trunk of the tree so he could relax and chill out for a moment. Although it didn't really work as Tsunade kept flooding his head and he kept getting angrier.
Then out of nowhere Hinata popped into his head and he instantly seemed to calm down for some reason. When he thought of Hinata a feeling popped up in his stomach that he had never really felt before.
The red in Naruto's eyes faded away after a few moments and Naruto could finally think clearly.
As Naruto continued to think of Hinata he kept coming to the conclusion that maybe he should have brought her with him.
"No, she wouldn't have wanted to come with me. I mean, why would she?" Naruto asked himself as he yawned while laying against the tree trunk.
"Besides, I'm going to have to go back to the village eventually. It is my home after all. I just want Tsunade to apologize to me, then I'll come back." Naruto slowly started to fall asleep on the branch he was sitting on.
Chapter 4: End
So I don't know what you will think of this chapter. To be honest I've been making this stuff up as I go since chapter 2, but hey I plan on making romantic things start happening in like 2 more chapters so that's good. Most of you who left a Review on the last chapter seemed to want Naruto to leave the village so there you go.
Unfortunately my Internet may get turned off because I can't pay it. I Think I've got 4 days of Internet left at max. So if I randomly stop uploading chapter for more than 2 days just know that my Internet is off and that is why. :'(
So hopefully you enjoyed this chapter none the less. I know it's a lot shorter than the others but honestly I think it's better to have shorter chapters because it's easier to write and takes less time to read but whatever.
Thanks to everyone who has been leaving Reviews, I promise I have read all of them so far. Also thanks to everyone for 1,000 Story views! That's incredible! Thank you all so much!
