Hey! Sorry about running late on this chapter! I forgot to put it up. Gomen. In this chapter, Naruto fianlly sees the secret Sakura and Sasuke have. They will be OOC. Enjoy!


After everyone's little performance, Naruto and Hinata were on their way to get some ramen.

"That was amazing Hinata! Have you acted before?"

"Well in a way yes, but not really." She replied looking away.

"But you knew the lines without a problem. You weren't even looking at the book!" he said, waving his hands in the air.

Hinata giggled, "I've read the book several times before. It's one of my favorite plays by Shakespeare."

"Ah, ok."

And they ended the conversation there. Once they were back on the streets, Hinata felt different. She looked at Naruto to see if he felt the same, but he looked fine. She relaxed a little, but still felt as though something might happen.

(Break a little way from Naruto and Hinata)

Sakura was walking down to the hospital to see how everything was going, when someone grabbed her arm. She was about to scream and punch whoever grabbed a hold of her when she noticed it was just Sasuke. She instantly relaxed.

"Don't scare me like that Sasuke-kun." She said taking in a deep breath.

"Just come here." He replied yanking between a building and the ramen house (for the love of whatever, I can't remember the name)

"What is it?"

"Have you noticed Naruto lately?"

"Huh?"

"He's with Hinata constantly now right?"

"Yea and?"

"Without him around, we may not have to keep hiding like this."

Sakura thought for a moment and a smile spread across her face, "You're so right. You're so smart Sasuke-kun and that's why I love you." After she finished, the two began kissing.

(A couple minutes before)

Hinata still had that feeling like something was going to happen. She had been glancing at Naruto every now and then, but he still seemed unfazed. Maybe she was just imagining things. She was about ready to give up on it when she saw Sakura being yanked behind the ramen house. She activated her Byakugan (sp?) without Naruto noticing and saw Sakura talking to Sasuke. She sighed with relief but gasped, despite her try not to, when she saw them kiss. She had known they were going out in secret, Sakura told her so, but for them not to tell their own team-mate before everyone else, that was a different story.

"Hinata, you okay?" Naruto asked, scaring her and causing her to look at him.

"W-what?"

"Are you okay? You looked like you just saw a gho-"

"Naruto-kun?"

He had suddenly stopped walking and looked dumbstruck. She looked to see and sure enough, he had caught Sakura and Sasuke. The two could only stare back at Naruto as he took off down the street to who knows where.

"Naruto!" Hinata yelled after him. She glanced back at the couple for a second then took off after the fox-boy.

(With Naruto)

Naruto slowly came to a stop just atop of the Hokage monument. There was a quiet little place up there that he had found just before leaving for his training. It was now late afternoon as Naruto settled down by a tree. It seemed like only awhile ago it was morning. (actually it was ;)

"I can't believe they didn't tell me." He said aloud.

"And it was wrong of them that they didn't." he turned to see Hinata walking towards him with her hands folded together in front of her, "And I'm sorry."

"Don't be, it wasn't your fault."

"But I knew."

"Don't worry about it."

"But everyone knew." She replied, her voice getting a little louder each time.

"It doesn't matter. I should have known when Sasuke turned down several fights."

"But . . ."

"Hinata. Its okay, I mean it sucks they didn't at least tell me, but I'm fine. I knew it was going to happen."

"I'm still sor-sorry."

Naruto looked up at her. She was defiantly fighting back tears and Naruto isn't good with crying woman. He immediately jumped up and took a hold of her shoulders. Her eyes snapped to his for a second then traveled back to the ground.

"D-don't cry! I-I don't know how to handle crying woman!"

Hinata looked back at him and tried not to giggle. But as she keep looking at him, it was getting harder and harder not to. It began as a snicker, then a giggle until she was full out laughing. Naruto stared at her like she came back from the dead. But soon, he too, joined her in the laughter. Their laughter died down a little afterwards and Hinata smiled.

"S-sorry"

"Don't apologize. You know . . . you have a beautiful smile."

i 'Oh crap, what did I just say?!' /i

i 'Did he . . . he did . . . he just . . .' /i

"T-thank you N-Naruto-kun." She replied blushing.

"You've been stuttering a lot lately and it's always around me. Why is that?"

"I . . . I don't know, just something about being around you, I guess." She wasn't quite ready to tell Naruto her secret, so she gave him the next best thing.

He looked at her. Did she know? If she didn't, would she catch on? He wanted to tell her, he trusted her with that secret, but he couldn't bear with Hinata hating him too. (Know what he's talking about?) When he didn't reply, she thought she had hurt him.

"I-It's not a bad feeling Naruto-kun! I just can't tell you, not right now at least."

After she had said that, he felt a bit better. But what couldn't she tell him? Aw, he'd figure it out later.

"Well that's good to hear." He said giving a bright smile and Hinata smiled back.

"Well?"

"Well what?"

"How bout that ramen? We never did get some."

"Oh yeah! What are we waiting for?! Let's go!" And with that Naruto grabbed a hold of her hand and ran off to the ramen house with her laughing along the way.

From the Hokage tower stood Tsunade herself, smiling.

"Everything's working better than expected. Maybe Naruto will finally have a date. Oh I can't wait to see that kiss!"


Uh-oh spagetti O's! What does Tsunade mean? I dont know, you'll have to wait cuz it aint in the next chapter either. hahaha.

Well anyways, please R&R!! Arigato!