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Chapter 4: Unspoken Feelings

The knocks at Naruto's door became louder. "Open the door, quick!" The blond walked over to the door with a puzzled look on his face. He peaked through the eye hole to see Konohamaru pound on the door with a frightened look on his face. The little boy's head would look frantically around every couple seconds as if on the lookout for someone.

"Konohamaru, how do you know where I live?" Naruto shouted through the door.

"Just let me in, it's an emergency!" Konohamaru beat harder on the door to add emphasis.

"Yeah but it's very important that we focus on the whole 'how you know where I live' issue." Naruto retorted back. He always liked teasing the younger boy.

"Just let me in ok, she's gone CRAZY!" Konohamaru was shouting like no tomorrow. "Hurry, hurry! She'll be here any minute!" His voice was getting even more panicky.

"It was Sakura-chan wasn't it? She hates me," the blond responded, still teasing the child although it hurt Naruto realizing what he said was true.

"NARUTO!" That was the final scream before Naruto gave in; he swung open the door to let the boy in. Konohamaru flew face first onto the floor in front of him. Quickly turning to the blond, he shouted again, "Quick, shut it and lock it!"

Naruto did as he was told. After connecting the final locks, he turned to the boy with his arms crossed and glared at him suspiciously. Konohamaru was still on the floor breathing heavily. "You mind telling me what is going on?"

The boy looked back at Naruto and gave a sheepish grin. It was similar to Naruto's famous bright smile, only smaller and the boy had a tooth missing. "Well, you see, I was practicing the 'Oiroke no Jutsu' with Udon, and Moegi showed up without warning and she went crazy! I managed to get away, but poor Udon."

Naruto raised an eyebrow, "That's it?" He paused for a moment to think. "I must see it! If it was enough to make her mad then you must be improving, right?" His eyes beamed with excitement as he pumped his fists in the air.

Konohamaru got up off the ground and into a ready position. "Right boss, here I go. Oiroke no Jutsu." A cloud of smoke surrounded the boy as he transformed into one of the most beautiful girls Naruto had ever seen. The girl twirled around and winked at Naruto suggestively. However, the blond still stood there as if nothing had even happened. Disappointed with the results, another cloud of smoke surrounded the girl but this time revealed Konohamaru. "I see you're unphased by my technique," the boy replied while sulking.

Naruto squinted his eyes and brought a hand up to his chin to evaluate the boy's performance. "Well it was alright, I'd give you a six out of ten. You could use some work in the bam, boom, bam department." The younger boy looked confused. "You know, give it some more oomph."

"Ah, you know where to point out my flaws. Nothing less than expected from my rival!" Konohamaru spirit was rejuvenated up after learning his mistake. Suddenly, a faint buzzing sound caught him by surprise. He started to wander over towards Naruto's bedroom. "Hey boss, what's that noise?"

The blond's eyes shot open once he recognized the sound from earlier that morning. "Aww crap, I left the computer on!" Quickly, he ran past Konohamaru knocking the boy off balance. "I really need to learn to shut this thing off."

"Woah." It was Konohamaru's turn to become surprised. "You finally got a computer?!" The boy followed Naruto's example and ran into his bedroom. He made his way over to the computer and started eyeing it up and down. "Hey don't shut it off, I wanna try it!"

Naruto turned around in his computer chair. "Now why would I let you try the computer? You will probably end up breaking it. It's older than you, ya know?" He gave a sheepish grin waiting for the younger boy's response.

Konohamaru thought about the situation for a second. He snickered to himself when an idea came to his mind. "If I break your computer…I won't bug you for a week and I'll clean your bedroom." He nodded his head to agree with his own statement.

The older boy thought about the proposition. Well the room does need to be cleaned, and he's just a kid. What's the worst that could happen? "Alright Konohamaru, you're on." Getting up from the chair, Naruto ushered the boy to sit down.

They boy's eyes lit up as Naruto agreed to his offer. He jumped up onto the chair and spun it around once to test it out. As the boy came to a stop, he flexed his fingers and cracked his knuckles in anticipation. "Alright time to see who is on KIM."

Naruto watched the boy's hands as he started to type on the computer. So that's how people type fast. He started to walk out of the room to get a drink of water. "Do whatever you want, just don't make me look like an idiot."

"Whatever, I have my own screen name you know," Konohamaru retorted, never looking away from the computer screen.

The blond stopped walking half way to the kitchen, an idea had come to his mind. I could use Konohamaru's screen name to play some pranks on the people in the chat, then I could figure out who some of the people are. Brilliant! A smile grew on his face as he rushed back into his room. He leaned on the chair as his azure eyes quickly looked over the other boy's shoulders "Hey Kono, you should check out to see what's happening in the genin chat."

The younger boy spun his chair causing Naruto to lose his balance. Konohamaru eyed the blond suspiciously, "What for?"

"You'll pay for that." Naruto stood up rubbing the part of his head that hit the floor, "I just plan on having some fun with the people in there, ok?" He gave a chuckle along with a scheming grin.

Konohamaru nodded in agreement with his own smile. He spun the chair around and started to click away.


Hinata's heart began to sink. When she first joined the genin chat, she only paid a little attention to what was going on. She wanted to get her application filled out for Naruto's sake. However, now she was fully engrossed in the conversation trying to read all that was happening. She wasn't sure how it started, but for some reason today had been turned into "let's all rant about Naruto" day.

Hinata reached over to her bed and grabbed her pillow. Her eyes began to tear up and it was soon going to be Sakura's turn. Hinata was going to need all the help she could get.


flower_power: then there was this one time, he came to the flower shop

Cherry_Blossom: What happened?

flower_power: he farted by a bunch of flowers, to say the least, they all died

Top_Dog: haha priceless

Cherry_Blossom: Wow, haha.

10-10-220: rofl

Hinata crushed her pillow by burrowing her head into it. With all her might, she fought to hold back the tears that were coming. "It's not fair, how can they say such awful things about him."

Top_Dog: Bugsy, has Naruto ever done anything to you?

Dont_bug_me: I'd rather not partake in this conversation and must you call me Bugsy?

Top_Dog: hey you picked the name, just tell us if he has ever done anything to make you mad

flower_power: comon Shino, spill!

Dont_bug_me: Well, he did step on one of my bugs once.

Cherry_Blossom: I think he was doing us a favor.

flower_power: gonna have to agree with forehead here

-Dont_bug_me- has left the chat.

Cherry_Blossom: Is he alright?

Top_Dog: he'll get over it

With her head still crushed against the pillow, Hinata looked over at her window to notice the light drizzle of rain change into a downpour. It caused her heart to ache. If it's raining this heavy, Naruto might come home from training earlier. She was snapped out of her thoughts when she heard the noise of someone joining the chat channel. Hinata feared for the worst, but gave a sigh of relief when she read who logged on.

-hokages_heir- has joined the chat.

hokages_heir: hey all, what's new?

Cherry_Blossom: What do you want Konohamaru?

flower_power: you know this chat is for genin!

hokages_heir: whatever, I'm going to be the next Hokage so I can do what I want!

Top_Dog: AH that reminds me, I have another story to tell about him.

Cherry_Blossom: Is it a good one? Cause the last one was kind of lame.

flower_power: yeah enough of the dog peeing stories, even if it deals with that baka

10-10-220: yeah I'd rather not go through one of those again

Top_Dog: no this one is about when he tried to transform into the Hokage for a class test

Cherry_Blossom: Oh, I think I remember this one.

flower_power: spit it out, I don't remember!

10-10-220: srsly, tell what happened!

Top_Dog: he was in front of class and Iruka-sensei told him to transform into the Hokage, so he did but when the cloud of smoke came up, the face was completely messed up and the class burst out laughing at him!

Naruto's eyes opened wide as he started to recognize the story. Are they talking about me? Naruto began to think about the same event that happened roughly a year ago trying to match it with the claim that Top Dog had made.

hokages_heir: that's insulting my grandpa!

Cherry_Blossom: Go away Kono.

flower_power: just ignore him, but I can't believe he messed that up!

10-10-220: that's great!

Cherry_Blossom: That's not all, Iruka-sensei yelled at him for a couple minutes, then afterwards he told him to do it again, he transformed again but the face was still messed up!

10-10-220: how can you mess up the Hokage's face?!

flower_power: you mean he can't transform correctly??

hokages_heir: who are we making fun of?

Top_Dog: not one bit! the whole class was in stitches. can you believe it? he was in the academy for three years and he couldn't transform properly!

It is me. Naruto tilted his head down to stare at the floor. His fists tightened as he remembered that day perfectly. The blond had tried to make a perfect transformation but he could never get the face right. No matter how hard he tried, it would always be messed up. He could remember the laughter of his classmates so well, it hurt just to think about it.

hokages_heir: heeelllooo?

10-10-220: rotflol, it doesn't get any better than that

hokages_heir: stop ignoring me!

Cherry_Blossom: After that, he went on one of his little rants about becoming Hokage.

flower_power: I can't believe I missed that! It would have been awesome to see, but man is he annoying

hokages_heir: who's annoying?

Top_Dog: you, but not as annoying as me right?

Cherry_Blossom: You're a close second.

Top_Dog: aww


"Man, they are really ripping into this guy," Konohamaru stated completely oblivious to Naruto's emotions. The boy began to type again but was interrupted by Naruto. "Hey wait, put me down!"

Naruto was holding the boy by the back of his shirt. "Sorry but you can't see this, it's the genin chat after all." He made his way out of his room towards the front door with Konohamaru kicking along the way.

"Wait, what are you doing?" The boy paused for a second until he saw Naruto reach for the door handle. "Don't throw me out, the rain is pouring out there! Not to mention that Moegi is still after me!"

"Sorry, I've got other things I need to worry about at the moment." After opening the door, he tossed Konohamaru out into the rain. He quickly shut the door before the boy could make it back in.

Konohamaru's tiny fists slammed against the door a couple times. "C'mon, this isn't fair! I didn't break the computer!" Naruto turned around and ignored the pounds on the door as he made his way into the bedroom. The slamming stopped after a few seconds and another voice could be heard.

"Ha, I knew you would be here Konohamaru!" A little girl's voice was heard behind the door, Naruto safely assumed it was Moegi.

"Oh kami, RUN!" The boy shouted as he darted down the walk way. All Naruto could hear was the loud sound of footsteps along with muffled shouts.

The blond chuckled to himself, "At least I'm not the only one with girl problems." Naruto did feel sorry for tossing Konohamaru out like that, but there were more important things that had to be done. Making his way back into his room, he closed the door so there wouldn't be any other interruptions. He wiggled around on the chair, attempting to find a comfortable position, but failed.

His eyes skimmed over the chat to see what he missed in the short time span. Is this what they all really think about me? He finally made it to the end of the chat and looked over the current subject. A puzzled look came over his face. The person named Cherry Blossom had started her rant about Naruto.


Cherry_Blossom: He was pathetic! All he did was attack Kakashi-sensei head on instead of using what we learned in the academy.

Attack Kakashi-sensei? How does she know that? I've only done that in training.

Top_Dog: what an idiot

10-10-220: everyone knows you should plan a sneak attack first

flower_power: such a baka

Cherry_Blossom: Then he was caught in an obvious trap that our teacher set up, and he tried to steal some food half-way through the test because he couldn't get the bells himself.

The bell exercise? How could she know about that…unless.

Top_Dog: man I hope I get to fight him in the Chunin exam, he sounds like such a push over.

Cherry_Blossom: Oh, I'm not done yet. You should have seen him cower in front of one of the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist on our trip to the Land of Waves.

You'd tremble too if you had that giant sword swung at you.

flower_power: I remember you telling me that. Something like he was shaking in his own sandals

Cherry_Blossom: Exactly, not to mention he tried to have a competition with Sasuke with everything they did.

flower_power: the nerve!

The teme deserved it.

Top_Dog: I still don't get what you girls see in him

10-10-220: me either

flower_power: he's kami on earth! enough said :O

Top_Dog: w/e

Cherry_Blossom: And he practically got Sasuke killed in the fight with Haku.

flower_power: no way, I'm gonna punch his lights out when I see him again

If she knows who Haku is, then it defiantly must be her. Naruto's heart began to sink as reality set in. He didn't want to believe it was her but all the signs were pointing in that direction. He had to know the truth. His fingers began to type the question that he hoped she wouldn't answer.

hokages_heir: Sakura?

Cherry_Blossom: What the hell do you want?

He could tell by the way she typed that it was her.

hokages_heir: nothing…

Cherry_Blossom: Good, does anyone have any other stories to tell?

Naruto couldn't take it anymore and slammed his fist on the desk. It hurt him to hear what others thought of him behind his back. He had spent his whole life trying to be acknowledged by the people he thought were his friends and yet they were so quick to turn on him when he wasn't around.

He moved the mouse over the exit button but cringed after hearing another chime from someone's entry. His eyes glanced over to see what the person typed, hoping that it wouldn't cause him anymore pain then he was already in.

Unknown_Heiress: You people are horrible!

Hinata had finally gained the courage to type even though her hands trembled with every keystroke. Her mind had raced through many possibilities until it came to one conclusion. "Change for Naruto," she muttered. If she truly wanted to change, then she would have to make some sort of stand, especially if it was to defend Naruto.

Top_Dog: woah when did you get here?

10-10-220: she's been here the whole time you idiot.

Her mind didn't like where this was going, but her heart pressed on. "You can do this, you can do this." She chanted to motivate herself. It was defiantly easier for Hinata to type her thoughts out instead of confronting her friends directly.

Unknown_Heiress: All you ever do is point out the mistakes he makes, can't you see how much it hurts him when you all laugh at him!

flower_power: but his mistakes are hilarious

Cherry_Blossom: Exactly, and he's annoying.

Unknown_Heiress: Remember when the two of you dressed up and wore makeup in order to impress Sasuke?

Naruto couldn't believe it. Even after all the teasing and making fun of him behind his back, Unknown Heiress was there to fight for him. He hadn't even noticed that she was in the chat channel.

Cherry_Blossom: Don't bring that up.

flower_power: you promised you would never talk about that!

10-10-220: oh you better finish this story

Top_Dog: it was great, Iruka-sensei asked them if the circus was in town, the whole class roared with laughter, even Sasuke

10-10-220: rotfl

Hinata's hands were on a roll continuously typing remarks as they came. She had crossed the line with Sakura and Ino and she knew she would pay for it later, but defending Naruto was more important. Change for me, his words rung through her mind as she typed.

Unknown_Heiress: Don't think you're out of it yet Kiba-kun, remember when you first brought Akamaru to school?

Top_Dog: yeah about that…

flower_power: the poor thing ran through the whole school jumping on people and terrorizing the teachers, whoever thought a little dog could do so much damage.

10-10-220: hah that's great

Unknown_Heiress: I'm not going to even start with you 10 10.

10-10-220: phew

Cherry_Blossom: What's the point of this? If you're trying to make me like him, it's not working.

Hinata bit her bottom lip as she thought about what to put next. Why can't they see him like I can? There has to be some way that I can get through to Sakura.

Unknown_Heiress: I'm not asking you to like him, I'm asking you to respect him. I'm sure if you took the time to consider his feelings, maybe you would be able to get along with him.

Cherry_Blossom: Sorry, not going to happen.

Unknown_Heiress: You're so stubborn! You're supposed to be his teammate and support him when he needs it!

Cherry_Blossom: Whatever, you seem like you are doing a good job at it. Besides, it's not like he is seeing this conversation anyways.

Naruto was in awe with everything that was happening in front of him. Watching the fight between Sakura and Unknown Heiress had brought so many different kinds of emotion into play. He had to escape somehow.

-hokages_heir- has left the chat.

flower_power: Now that I think about it, how did Konohamaru know your name Sakura?

Cherry_Blossom: I don't know.

Top_Dog: well he is friends with Naruto

flower_power: you don't think he was …

10-10-220: omk, this is turning into a frickin soap opera

Cherry_Blossom: Oh shit.


At first, Hinata's hands were trembling because of all the typing she had done. She had a hard time controlling herself as she breathed with a quickened pace. It took every amount of courage she had along with Naruto's motivational words in order to stand up for what she believed.

But now, violet eyes were wide in shock and her hands were shaking uncontrollably. She took deep breaths to calm herself as her brain began to think about what Ino had said. "D-did he r-really hear everything t-they s-said," she started to stutter her thoughts out loud.

"Did he hear what?" Hinata snapped from her thoughts and turned around to meet the other voice. Hanabi was sitting on Hinata's bed staring at her with a curious look.

"N-nothing, I got to g-go s-somewhere," the older sister stuttered out. She got up from the desk and threw the moist pillow onto the bed. Forgetting to grab her jacket, she ran out the room.

"Wait Hinata, the rain is pouring outside!" Hinata was gone before she could hear her sister's words. With a sigh, Hanabi waltzed over to the computer. While thinking to herself, a smile came onto the little girl's face as she began to read what was on the computer screen. "Well she left the computer on, so it is fair game."


Naruto was feeling a mix of emotions right now. One of the best days in his life quickly turned out to be one of the worst. He knew that he wasn't everyone's favorite person, but now knowing that they talked about him like that behind his back was just nerve wracking.

Then there was Unknown Heiress. The girl that he had just met yesterday was fighting for his sake. It puzzled him why she would defend him when everyone else hated him even though she explained her reasons yesterday. The weird warm feeling that he had felt earlier that morning had come over him again. All the emotions at once were too much for the blond to handle.

He shut off his computer and walked out of his room. Once again, he tilted his head towards the ground but this time he brought his right arm to his face. He took one sniff through his nose and wiped away the tears that started to form. The attempt proved to be in vain as he could feel the next set of tears start to well up in his eyes. Not knowing where to go, he burst out of his apartment and slammed his door shut. He ran where ever his feet would carry him through the cold pouring rain.


A/N: Fixed minor details, and also added a poll in my profile about what you think of this story so far. Check it out.

Chapter 4 is a go. I tried to make Hinata as passively aggressive (lol?) as I could so sorry if she's a little OOC. Thanks for everyone's support so far. Reviews would be sweet they help improve the story!

Until next time,

-Bench