"Did… did that just really happen?" Naruto murmured to himself.
Naruto soon found himself wandering down the streets yet again. He looked up. A couple in the distance were at a shop window holding hands, one was a spiky haired brunette while the other, a blonde with multiple ponytails.
Temari and Shikamaru stood by a shop window, their fingers intertwined together. Shikamaru rolled his eyes and yawned, he just got out of his apartment and Temari has already found something! What the fuck? It must be a girl thing he thought... how troublesome...
Temari was normally a girl not to get overly excited about shops and girly stuff but something about the dress in front of her. She had to get it. Her eyes were glued to the glass staring at the short black and silver dress in front of her, if only Gaara had given her some more money...
Then she sensed someone from behind her. Temari peeled her eyes away from the dress and looked over her shoulder to see none other than the infamous Naruto Uzumaki. Her little brother's first and far most best friend.
Naruto rubbed the back of his neck guiltily when he saw that Temari noticed his staring. Shikamaru soon caught on and saw his friend from a distance, waving for him to join them.
"Hey! Naruto, whoa! I haven't seen you for ages! How did that mission go in Suna?" A small smile tugged on Shikamaru's thin lips. Soon they were engaged in conversation. Naruto jumped around the place, talked too loudly and did all sorts of hand gestures to try to explain his mission. Temari stifled a small chuckle when Naruto over exaggerated an especially 'important' part, causing him to, in return to, fall flat onto his arse. She didn't particularly like this blonde prankster but she went along with the conversation anyway as of such.
After a wholesome chat with the newly grouped couple, Naruto continued his dawdle along the streets of Kohona. Aimlessly pondering at the trinkets that the numerous stores offered. A small gasp from a further away distance caught his attention. Purple tinted dark tresses flicked from a thick gush of wind, it disappeared swiftly around the neighbouring corner. Soft, elegant footsteps followed, getting further away from the offending blonde ninja. Blue eyes widened as he realised what had happened and hurriedly followed.
Hinata ran along the zigzagged streets as fast as her small thongs allowed her. Halting when she saw the dark chocolate locks of her elder cousin in the distance, slowing her pace, she trotted over to him in an attempt to blend in with the crowds.
Naruto skidded along the jagged concrete ground. Sharply looking around in all directions didn't seem to allow him access to finding the girl that seemed to run so quickly away from him in the first place. What'd I do?
Hinata greeted Neji with a quick, but soft hello, making him jump slightly at the intrusion of his unexpected cousin.
"Hello Hinata, are you in need of anything?" Neji quietly replied, making the ebony haired girl blush at his politeness.
"O… oh, no, s… sorry I…. I was just passing by, and I s…saw you… so I thought I had better say hello and see how you w… were…" whimpered Hinata, murmuring behind her joined together pointer fingers, jabbing together with the rhythm of her voice.
"Well that is kind of you. I am okay… oh," he stopped, slightly arching his head to look over her shoulder, "It's…" squinting his eyes slightly to narrow out the individual from the crowd, "Naruto! Hey, why don't we invite him over for the celebration tonight?"
Hinata fainting from his suggestion, too much blood seeped into her head at the thought. "ahhhh…" she groaned softly.
"Hinata!"
A distinctly male call, that of the name of one he was specifically looking for, caught Naruto's attention swiftly. Immediately he sprinted through the crowds to in return see a scarlet cheeked girl fallen to the ground.
"Ah, what happened exactly?" he gruffly asked towards the stunned male cousin counterpart.
"She fainted…"
The blonde promptly picked up the girl bridal style into his arms and started to walk towards his apartment. "Aren't you coming Neji?" he softly smiled over his shoulder.
The brunette simply nodded with a set stern expression, that which followed the rough blonde in front of him as they begun their short walk to Naruto's cramped apartment.