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After the incident that caused yet again Naruto and Hinata to be too close to another a silence began to spread. It wasn't a bad one, or a good one, it just was a silence that hung between them and wouldn't vanish no matter what.
Naruto and Hinata tried to have a little small-talk to see if it went away, it didn't. They tried to see if it backed away if they held an eye contact with each other, but they didn't dare to hold it longer than seconds and when they removed it the silence was still there. Hell, Naruto even tried to sing one of his favorite songs to see if the singing scared it away, yet again...it didn't.
Naruto Uzumaki wasn't a person to give up, he never ever gave up on things but in this case he did. No matter what he tried or how much he tried it the silence still hung around them, to be frank it annoyed him.
'Everything was so nice between us. . . But now it's just plain awkward, I don't like it.' He silently stated when he caught a glimpse on his blushing teammate.
Ever since the accident her face had been red, as red as the freshest tomato on sale in the busy markets. Naruto wondered surprised why she didn't faint with all the masses of blood swimming in her face, coloring that amusing shade.
'She looks so cute...' Wait a minute, why did he just think that!? Ever since the incident he'd thought so. Every time he thought about her the little word came passing by... cute…
He got chills down his back, he hadn't thought about her that way before so why did he now all of a sudden?
Sure, she wasn't bad-looking. The short glances of her face seconds before she hides it from his view, reasons still unknown to him, has shown him that plenty of times. But cute, he didn't use that word on girls often, they were more nice or in Sakura's case, extremely violent. He began to shudder of the thousands of times she had shown him that and therefore turned his attention to a calmer, quiet girl who was one of his favorites. You guessed right, Hinata Hyuuga.
He watched her at the side of his eye, noticing how her vase of purple-colored hair swung from side to side with the movements of them jumping through the forest. Even though her skin was as pale as the snow the sun made her look healthy and. . . hot.
'She's so cute...' he thought yet again, blushing when he met her white emerald eyes.
Meeting his gaze she quickly turned her view to the other direction, still far too shy to get caught in his blue-filled sight.
She just couldn't forget it, how every single touch he made felt when he tried to figure out if she was hurt in any place or not, how his finger lingered longer than he needed to in those special places.
How his hot breath tickled her and how his chest rose and fell when he shakily inhaled and exhaled.
Hinata let out a dreamily sigh of her imagination and turned her attention up to the sky that slowly changed to a darker shade of blue.
Letting yet again her mind drift into the accident her heart skipped a beat when she was awfully close to a tree-trunk, she snapped out of the river of thoughts and scolded herself of her own stupidity.
Even though she truly wanted to because of what happened last time, she knew crashing into a tree-trunk wasn't the best idea. Her relationship with Naruto was just a thin thread at the moment and it only needed a miss-use of words to break it. She didn't want it to happen and thereby kept her mouth shut.
The boy and girl jumped past huge trees while the sky got darker and darker as time passed by. They hadn't uttered a word to each other; neither of them brave enough to break the silence that sneaked between them and that only got heavier and heavier as seconds came and went.
The sun was behind enormous dark clouds when Naruto opened his mouth. He had to clear his throat because he hadn't used it in many hours.
"Hinata. . . are you tired?"
"Um... a little," she answered. "A-are you?"
"A little..."
The silence came again, right after their weird little talk.
They didn't look at each other, just jumped past trees side by side.
Around the silent boy and girl, it slowly got darker and darker. The wind got stronger and Hinata could see animals running to places to be safe for the upcoming storm.
The clouds were dark-grey and they grew over the hour ago heavenly blue sky. Soon light rain came falling down and Naruto said it was enough for the day.
The little team discovered a cave, thanks to Hinata's Byakugan, and they hurriedly got inside from the rain that fell faster down around them.
The boy and the girl's eyes met but a sudden grumble from someone's stomach made them laugh nervously and look away.
"...I'm hungry..." he stated touching his belly, something that made Hinata laugh a bit more freely.
"Me too..." she said biting her lower lip.
They began looking for dry twigs to use for fire, and after minutes looking both up and down they found some.
Hinata quickly started to make hot, vegetable soup that soon lightened up and made a lovely aroma around the dark cave. The little team sighed delighted and closed their eyes for a little silence that came passing by, only getting shaded by the grumble of a known blonde boy's stomach.
After the eating that Naruto said grinning that was almost as good as ramen (there Hinata blushed as mad), they began to go to sleep. The Hyuuga made a shadow clone who disappeared out from the cave and in to the deep forest around them.
Naruto turned his back to her when Hinata changed her regular outfit to a nightwear, and only turned when the Hyuuga-girl lay in her sleeping-bag and said he could.
The blonde boy wordlessly took his sweater off and jumped inside his sleeping-bag.
It wasn't any light in the cave; the fire was dead, and so late at night it was awfully dark outside and inside.
The rain still fell, heavier than only seconds ago, and the boy and girl could hear the sound of thunder come closer to where they were.
Hinata shoved a hand down her backpack that lay beside her, blindly looking for her little Naruto-doll. She didn't find it.
Maybe I'm looking in Naruto-kun's bag?
She thought, even though she knew she wasn't. His bag was on the other side of the cave, two and a half meter from her.
But where is it then?
She decided to check the backpack again, but was panicking when she didn't find it.
"Na-Naruto-kun..." she whispered and looked at his dark form. She could barely detect him from the darkness.
"Yes...?" was his sleepy reply.
"...I can't s-sleep..."
A silence went, "Are you afraid of the thunder?"
"N-no, it's not t-that..." she looked down and began poking her fingers.
"What's the matter then?" He asked, blinking his eyes in an attempt to be more awake.
"Um..." the Hyuuga thought how to formulate it before she just jumped on it: "I lost my d-doll."
She blamed herself for even bother Naruto with it since he now probably thought she was childish.
Some minutes came and went where it was as silent as the cold grave. Hinata still looked at the ground, ashamed this time while the blonde boy froze in his actions.
He was fully awake now, and his brain went round and round in circles, trying to figure out what to say.
Naruto couldn't believe she had lost her doll. He had seen her sleeping there she had held it so tight he was surprised it wasn't destroyed yet. It looked quite old; he knew she really cared about it when she had kept it so long.
Jealousy began to form inside him when he remembered when she told him that it was a doll of a boy she cared deep for. A boy she wanted. A boy she loved...
"Do you want me to look for it?" he heard himself ask and it surprised her a bit, he knew thanks to her quick reply.
"No! The w-weather is awful. I don't want y-you to look f-for it..." a silence went before she said quietly: "…and I t-think it f-fell out when I c-crashed earlier..."
A tiny blush colored his cheeks when he remembered what had happened just some hours ago, how close they where to…you know…doing couple-like things…
"So what are you going to do?"
"...C-can I sleep n-next to y-you..?"
Silence until Naruto managed to utter: "S...sure!"
"R-really?" yet again he surprised her.
"Really, you need to sleep to... come here..."
He helped her move her sleeping bag next to his, blushing a bit as he did so. Both of them lay down, closing their eyes waiting for the sleep to come. It didn't.
"Na…Naruto-kun, I can't s-sleep…"
"Me neither," was his confused reply.
They looked up at the stone-roof above sheltering them for the strong storm outside. The boy and girl didn't lay tense; both relaxed, waiting for the sleep that never came.
"Hinata, are you asleep?"
"No..."
"I think I'm too awake to sleep..." he mumbled and scratched his head.
"I'm so s-sorry for w-waking you up-"
"Hey-hey, its okay..."he suited her. "You couldn't sleep, you shouldn't be sorry. Think about being up all night and then start moving early in the morning, it would be like hell so it's a good thing you told me..." he whispered, brushing her arm slightly up and down in comfort.
Hinata didn't know why, but his soft movements made her brain a blur of pure nothingness. Her eyelids got heavy, and soon they were close. Her breathing got slower and slower; seconds later she danced in dreamland.
Naruto watched the dark-haired girl soon drifting into sleep.
'Wow, she must have been sleepy...' he thought brushing her arm up and down. He didn't know why he did it; it just felt...oh, what the word...natural at that time and space.
'Maybe...' he thought looking at the moving hand, 'maybe I have a magic hand!'
Yes, it had to be it, it must be it! He smiled thinking about all the times things just had to be explained by it.
'Well...I brushed my finger on Hinata's bruise -after the little accident- which she had on her forehead and her headache disappeared...and... Yes, my hand made her sleep just now! But...it's just two; it would be more convincing to others if it was three...' He sighed while he scratched his head for one more moment there his hands had made it better...
In his deep thoughts, Naruto hardly sensed that Hinata took his hand in hers, moving her body slightly closer to his, in her slumber, of course.
'Hmm... In what moment did I use my hand to ma-'
His thought-stream vanished when he saw it. Her hand planted in his.
'Oh yeah, my magic hand made hers move closer to mine! I knew I had it, I just knew I had a magic hand!'
He danced a little dance to celebrate the discovery, before he looked at his current teammate. He stared at her, taking in her beautiful features, how her chest rose and fell when she breathed, how her hair lay tangled around her and how the peaceful expression of hers made his heart skip a beat.
During his little 'watch' his eyes got heavier due to tiredness and in the end he closed them, falling right into his own, weird dreamland.
XXX
Hinata opened her eyes after one of her best nights of sleep, feeling wide awake and energetic. Smiling, she got up in a sitting-position, looking around the cave, questioning her surroundings before realization hit her a second later.
A warm hand puzzled her since it was cold air inside the cave so early in the morning. She curiously looked down at it, a blush coloring her cheeks when she saw why.
They were holding hands; she was holding hands with a sleeping Naruto! She looked down at him, a small smile forming her lips when she heard him snore ever so slightly.
After a while of staring at him she got chills down her back due to the cold air, she got up and quickly changed her clothes to her normal one, made a face when she smelled something. It stank of sweat and other things she didn't want to think about at that moment.
She understood it was time to take a shower.
When her shadow-clone disappeared in the well-known white smoke she got information of a waterfall some miles to the west. After taking a quick glance on Naruto, there she saw him sleep soundly with his mouth widely open, she knew she could hurry to the waterfall, take a quick shower and come back before he woke up.
Knowing this, she sent the sleeping blonde a last look before jumping into the woods on the west-side, to the waiting waterfall.
While she jumped, the air got warmer, the animals began to wake up and the insects started to make their familiar noises.
Hinata smiled and looked around; saw how the moving sun made it lighter in the forest. How the birds flew, hunting for food and how the old leaves swirled around before landing at the green grass that still were wet after the raining the previous night.
It was a peaceful morning, and Hinata relaxed smiling brightly, watching the world awake around her.
Using her Byakugan one more time she figured out what direction she had to take but was luckily close by.
~XXX~
A loud grumble could be heard inside a quiet cave, then nothing.
A grumble number two came close behind, and yet nothing happened.
But then it came again, louder than before, and a blonde boy woke up with a cry.
"Okay, okay! I'm awake, don't be mad Iruka-sensei..." he said half-sleepily, waving his hands up in the air. He waited to hear his sensei demanding him to go to the Academy but... it didn't come.
He blinked and sat up in a sitting position, taking in his surroundings.
It was dark, pitch-black and ice-cold. Naruto realized he wasn't home in his apartment, he was in a cave. A freaking cold cave he shivered in… it was cold after all.
'Where am I?' he thought taking in everything he saw, 'have someone putted a lame prank on me in my sleep, someone in my class? It has to be Kiba…'
He scratched his head, and finally after some good seconds he remembered where he was and why he was here.
'I'm on a mission, that's it! I'm supposed to follow the Akatsuki to their hideouts. Kurenai-sensei split us into two small groups. I'm with...uh...Hinata!'
He looked around his surroundings one more time, trying to see his teammate or just a little glimpse of her purple hair. He didn't see anything that was related to her... only her sleeping bag that lay next to him, with no sleeping Hinata inside.
'Where is she?' he looked around one last time before deciding its time to get up. He did so and changed into a new pair of clothes since the first pair smelled like... he didn't really want to tell.
When he was done he looked around his surroundings for maybe the sixth time this morning, but yet his teammate was nowhere in sight.
A murderous grumble made him jump; he looked around to see where it had come from.
'Maybe it's a bear, a huge bear that slept inside this cold cave last night when we got here and therefore didn't see?'
He thought and carefully scanned the things around him looking for fur he guessed the bear had.
Grumble number two came and he understood it came from himself, his stomach to be more exact.
'That's why I woke up? …Because I was hungry?' He shook his head, but the sound came again and he could feel how empty his stomach was.
'Damn...I'm hungry...'
He walked to his backpack, where he knew he had a bit food left, and found something edible. He ate it, sighing in delight for the taste that filled his mouth. He even closed his eyes for showing how much he enjoyed it.
Some footsteps outside could be heard coming closer and closer to where he was, quickly Naruto opened his eyes and looked at the cave opening, his body in a defensive stand.
His eyes widened when a person stopped at the cave entrance, the sunlight behind made him see her perfectly.
Hinata stood there with wet, curly dark-blue hair that attached itself to her, her clothes was clean and Naruto understood that she had changed it. The pale skin to her dark, messy hair made him gasp when he saw how beautiful she was, like a wild goddess.
He stood there dumbfounded, a pink blush arise on his cheeks when their eyes met.
"Na...Naruto-kun..." she felt slightly uncomfortable under his gaze, she looked at the ground while she poked her fingers together.
"..Uh..." The blonde boy tried to figure out what to say, staring at her like that made him feel like an idiot.
"..Are you hungry..?"
"..Yes…"
She walked and gratefully took the food he offered before sitting down beside him.
The breakfast was in silence, a silence both of them had begun to know since their little mission started just some days ago. They didn't bother make it go away since they knew their tries would be in vain.
Instead they ignored it as much as they could, both taking interest in the food they had in their hands.
When the eating was done they begun packing their things and then they started moving.
~XXX~
Naruto didn't know why his heart was beating so fast, why it made such a huge beating noise he was sure Hinata heard as well.
His hands got sweaty all the time, and even though he dried it away on his clothes it got back as warm and sweaty as it was some minutes later.
He didn't know why his body was like it was, or how he could make them be normal.
The only thing he knew was how long it had been like this, or... how long it had been more remarkable than it was before.
His heart and hands had become far out from his control when he had seen her after the shower, at the moment he stared at her and made her become uneasy, and that was over three hours ago!
And if that wasn't enough, he had begun being nervous around her. He had begun thinking before he spoke and he'd never done that before! People knew him from speaking straight forward, and now he thought before uttering a single word. Something was extremely wrong with him, that he was very sure of.
'You're in love!' his head sing-sang for an answer.
'Hell no, I can't be!' He argued back.
'Don't be stupid, you know you are.'
'How could you know, you're inside me!'
'Well, du-uh. That's why, moron.'
'What did you just call me?'
xxxXxxx
Hinata didn't know what was wrong with Naruto, he had done weird things she hadn't seen him do before.
He had an annoyed face and it looked like he was in a kind of fight with someone, someone she couldn't see. His hands were tightly clenched together and he would sometimes look straight at her face with a searching mine on his beautiful features.
She could see he didn't find what he searched for because he would have a relieved face when he looked away, his shoulders relaxed, but after some minutes he would again be tense, look at her and then relax with a sigh... and the cycle would continue.
Hinata did also notice that he would take his hands to his clothes and do some moves that reminded her of drying something off. And that he used to do it the moment before being tense and look at her.
She had never seen anybody do those things before, in that order and then do it later just the same.
She began to worry for him, but she was afraid he would be upset if she asked him.
In the end her worry got the best of her, she looked at him for a while biting her lower lip: "...Naruto-kun, are y-you alright?"
He literally jumped two meters up in the sky before relaxing. But a more serious face came claiming his features.
"I'm...fine," she knew he didn't sound like it. He sounded rather angry... even gloomy.
"...o-okay..."
Nothing else got said between the two in their sixteen's, not a single word. They moved in a fast pace, but slow enough to see minor cuts on the tree-trunks from the other little group, Kurenai, Akamaru and Kiba.
They had agreed to have markings in the trees to let Hinata and Naruto know where to go. Low and small enough to let other people believe it was made of an animal.
"You have to look for it all the time. Who knows when we switch directions?" Kurenai had told them warningly when she showed them the marking, two minor cuts near each other.
XXX
The blonde boy and blue-haired girl hadn't eaten a proper meal in hours, only slight dry sandwiches they had left in their backpacks.
None of them dared ending the silence, Naruto was yet stressed and thought about his strange feelings while Hinata was afraid he would get even more moody.
Around them the world began to sleep. It came remarkable darker and the wind colder. Birds and animals went to their homes and began to sleep; bats and owls began their usual night hunt while insects like flies and spiders quickly went to hide not wanting to be food for these hungry animals who hunted untill the sun arise the next morning.
It came much, much quieter to put it differently. The bird chirps disappeared while it came fewer and fewer sounds from animals. It got so quiet that Hinata winced every time a twig snatched or wings sounded up in the air.
She didn't like the darkness; she didn't like to be jumping past threes at nightfall in a mission. Her senses were in high alert and every single breath, snatch or something else she heard made her jump.
She could handle when she was in a team with many people, there she felt safe because she knew they could protect her, but know when it only where her and Naruto, he she also had to protect, made her become extra on guard for hidden dangers and threats. She had to admit that she had begun being a bit paranoid as well.
"Maybe it's enough for today?" Naruto asked after seeing her exhausted look.
He knew he had pressed her too much, he felt bad forgetting she hadn't as much Chakra as he had. He cursed himself under a quick breath before looking at his teammate who looked surprised if not a bit relieved for what he just said. "A-are you sure?" She asked him, "We d-don't need to s-stop now…"
"I think it's for the best", he said meeting her eyes in a moment that felt like eternity; "we have moved nonstop for hours."
When he saw how relieved she looked, releasing a breath he hadn't noticed she held he blamed himself for being so oblivious for her sake.
They stopped where they stood; taking in the surroundings they could possible see with the weak light coming from the moon that only a while ago came into their view.
Deciding for a little place that perfectly laid cornered by huge scary-looking trees that hid well for unwelcome visitors they camped up their tent.
Naruto quickly went looking for dry twigs they could use for fire, not telling her the real reason was because he needed alone-time trying figuring out why he acted so strange earlier, leaving a certain Hyuuga puzzled alone fetching up things she where going to use for cooking the meal they sorely hungered for.
She knew something was up with him, that something again occupied his train of thoughts in a matter that made him become uneasy and rather… jumpy. But, she didn't know what. She didn't know what he thought, what filling his mind in a way that made him so unlikely himself. A bad feeling begun to grow inside her though, a feeling that told her she had something to do with it.
~XXX~
"Fuck this shit!" Naruto cursed breaking the twig he held in his hands in two. His breathing was uneven and his mind drifted into yet again seeing his blue-haired teammate.
She stands there, surrounded by freshly colored grass that smells wet and… healthy? Either way, he likes it. She smiles and waves at him, showing such a beautiful smile that is making him become frozen, breathless for bloody many minutes. When he gets control over his body she stands right in front of him, saying something he cannot hear. Then she moves her upper body closer to him, her arms lazily around his neck. Her head comes closer to him, so much closer, even closer than closer. . .
"Come on!" He yelled angrily, breaking the stick in even smaller parts. In blind, boiling red rage he kicks his foot roughly against a tree-trunk, yelping there after in pain when he retreats it. He dropped his sticks, taking his hands fast to his hurting toes trying to lessen the pain.
'Okay, that wasn't one of my best ideas…' he thought, shaking his head while jumping on one foot, obviously because the other one was hurting so much that he didn't dare try use it in any way.
While he jumped on the not-hurting foot he tried to calm down his boiling temper, thinking about the delicious ramen he was going to eat when they got back to Konoha.
'Yummy…' he thought trying not to drool of what he imagined in his mind, 'something else that's yummy is how good-looking Hinata looks when she smile-'
He stopped, didn't want to end that sentence that made him blush slightly in imagination.
His eyes twitched for a second before calming down, not wanting to hurt another body-part.
He swallowed when a little flash of her filled his mind yet again. He really needed to control himself before he lost it!
Taking a few breaths he released his fingers from the toes that had stopped throbbing. He took the foot carefully down to the ground, sighing in relief when it didn't sting in pain anymore.
Reminding himself that Hinata would be worried if he didn't come back soon he looked at the sticks on the grass that where in much worse shape than him.
He told himself it would be wise if he found more they could use to the fire before he came back.
~XoX~
"Hinata, you must be one of the best cooks in the Fire-country."
Hinata blushed for maybe the thirtieth time this night, happy but embarrassed of his many compliments.
They had just finished their meal, both filled with delicious food the blond couldn't shut his mouth about.
"Don't be embarrassed, I really enjoyed eating it. It was absolutely perfect!"
Again she blushed and Naruto let out a low sigh of her shyness. It annoyed him sometimes but he had to say… she really looked cute blushing as she did.
As Naruto was entangled about her beauty and how cute she looked blushing, Hinata was trying very much not to faint.
She had never had so much attention on her; she didn't know how to react to it. Especially when he looked at her in that rather… intimate way!
Her blush got stronger and she began poking her fingers together not daring stare at him again. She inwardly wondered why he looked at her in that way though.
After minutes with poking fingers Hinata dared looking up just to see he wasn't there. She looked around terrified he had been kidnapped or even worse… got sick of her and simply have walked away. She knew some people thought her poking her fingers were extremely annoying.
When she heard footsteps from her right she sighed relieved. She had gotten a glimpse of a recognizable spiky blonde hair.
"Maybe it's time to go to bed?"
"..Yeah…" she stood up and blushed when she saw how he looked at her. Analyzing her with his gaze, but deep into his eyes she could see longing. . ., clean hunger.
She swallowed while she tried to take control over her rabid beating heart, she was sure he could hear it as well as loud as she could.
"…"
Naruto stared at her, saw how she tried to hide the blush that colored her cheeks in that unnatural shade, it amused him none the less.
The fire was slowly dying, and soon they couldn't see a thing. It was like a dark kind of dice came and made it hard to see. Around them the air got colder and the forest got quieter as the night-hunters flew to another place.
It was a magical night, a magical and beautiful night.
"N-Naruto-kun, I can't s-see a t-thing…" and the truth was, she couldn't.
"…Let me guide you then." he said, his voice a bit thick. "Let me hear your voice and I will find you."
"O-okay..." she swallowed a bit, biting her lips while she fixated her gaze to where she knew he stood.
"Um…N-Naruto-kun, w-what should I s-say?"
"Anything, the only thing I need to hear is your voice."
"Okay…" she said, biting her lips yet again. She felt stupid, useless when she thought that he looked for her. She was a Shinobi; she should do things on her own and not count on someone else every single time she was in trouble.
Deciding on that she took some small steps to the area she had heard his voice.
"Hinata, you must say something. I can't find you if you don't."
The blonde boy said, his voice wavering slightly. He took some steps to the place he had heard her last time, unbeknown that she took some steps towards him.
"Bam!"
Their bodies collided, both fell to the ground with a loud 'ouch!'.
"…N-Naruto-kun?"
"…Hinata?"
They let out a sigh of relief before Naruto asked a bit concerned, "are you okay?"
"Y-yeah. . ., are y-you?"
"Yeah… but, why didn't you say anything? I was worried."
"I'm so s-sorry..."
"It's okay" he sighed, scratching his head."… But how did we crash? The steps I made were far too small to come to the place you were in."
She twitched on her spot on the ground before saying a bit ashamed. "I w-walked to you... I f-felt bad just s-standing there..."
"Oh..." he said thinking a bit before he said reassuring.
"It's okay. I like to help people."
When she didn't say anything back he stretched a hand towards her in attempt to pat her shoulder in comfort. It didn't happen; instead he touched her cheek in a gentle manner.
"…" her cheeks got redder than the reddest red. She was glad he couldn't see her, because if he did he would see how the love to him was glowing from her eyes. She was sure her eyes shined like a star.
-:-XoX-:-
The first thing they had done, after getting over the shock and surprise that he had touched her cheek, was to get inside the tent and search around for their flashlights.
They felt stupid not using them in the first place.
With his flashlight on Naruto went out from the tent, letting Hinata change her outfit in privacy.
When she was done he came inside again, jumping out of his clothes and flew inside his sleeping-bag, not sending her a single glance in the process.
He turned his back to her before going to sleep, trying to lessen the pink blush that colored his cheeks like a street light at night.
Hinata was also in her sleeping-bag, lying there with her face pointed to him… or the back of him. She looked at him, tried to figure out why he seemed so angry all of a sudden.
When he had left the tent for her to change clothes he had looked rather emotionless, like he thought extremely hard on something. But, when he came back one minute later he seemed so angry, like he was fuming over something. He didn't look at her the short time he needed to get out of his orange sweater and pants before getting into his sleeping-bag, not even once!
He held his hands over both his cheeks in a way that made her think he hid something for her. His pace was faster than it usually was, it made her suspect even more that something was wrong with him.
Back to present she could hear his breath. Slow and with some small grunts here and there. She had to smile a bit, before her gaze ended on the light source to his right. His flashlight, he had thrown it somewhere when he came inside the tent but the light was still on and he hadn't bothered shutting it.
She sighed, it only made her worry more for the sake of him. Something really was wrong with him, she was sure of it.
After a moment with thinking of possibilities why he had acted the way he did she got out from the sleeping-bag, walking to the flashlight to turn it off.
Her steps were silent, not wanting to wake the blonde up from his deep slumber.
She crouch herself into a sitting position and were about to turn it of when a sound to her left made her freeze and turn her head fearfully to the place she had heard the sound.
It was Naruto; he had changed his body position till he lay on his back, his face upwards.
Hinata let out a relieved sigh before she noticed something. The light from the flashlight made his face look gorgeous!
The light made his features look like a god's, handsome and cute at the same time. His blonde hair looked spikier than ever and the yellow light made her see every single strain of hair. He had his mouth a bit open and she could see how pretty his teeth looked. She stared at him, hypnotized of his beauty.
And it was that beauty that made her look at his cheeks, they looked so damn soft! She felt dragged to it, the cheek closest to her. She moved her head slowly closer to his, her breath becoming heavier the closer she got to his sleeping face.
It was that look in his sleep, that look that made her want to kiss him. Kiss his cheek.
Stop, don't do it! Her negative thoughts yelled, there it came to life after being 'dead' for quite some time. Hinata had wondered where it had been, but she wasn't exactly glad it came back. It will just make things even worse between you two.
Come on; don't listen to this party-killer. Just do it already, you have longed for it a very long time!
And there's the positive one, Hinata had to let out a deep sigh. But she was still unsure for what to choose. Did she dare to kiss him? Or should she back down and pretend she never ever had thought it?
Besides he's soundly asleep, it wouldn't be any consequences later.
Hinata, after hearing those words made a decision, she did it. She kissed him on the cheek. Just a peck, a short peck on the cheek but it was long enough for Hinata to must forcefully push herself away or she would have kissed him even more.
Her eyes looked his face over one last time before standing up, but two clear-blue eyes that met hers made her squeak out loud with a flushed face.
He was awake; her dear and deeply loved Naruto-kun was awake! He looked at her with a shocked expression on his face, and with pink cheeks that soon matched hers.
"Did you…. Did you just kiss me? O-on the cheek?"
Hinata, that knew that it was stupid lying since A; she wasn't good at it and B; he had possibly seen her do it, nodded slightly. She didn't dare looking at him; her face was directed at the ground while she poked her fingers together, she nervously waited for how he's going to react
"…why?"
The question startled her; she looked up with wide eyes but looked down when she met his for a split second that seemed like a lifetime.
She didn't know what to reply, her heart was beating faster and faster while her head spanned around in attempt to figure something out to say.
In the mean while, Naruto waited patiently for her to say something, anything. He really wanted to figure out why she kissed him on the cheek.
He had been asleep, asleep a long time. But he was a light-sleeper, believe it or not! He had heard her walk slowly to where he 'slept' soundly, quiet not to wake him up. He was curious about what she was doing, but he didn't want to open his eyes.
His body got tense when he heard her come closer to where he laid, he heard fabric come closer to him and in just some few seconds he had felt something wet on his cheek. He wasn't a genius but he knew perfectly well that it was her lips he had felt. Her big, soft, sensual lips…
"…I-I w-wanted to..."
He looked at her completely speechless. She wanted to!?
She wanted to kiss him on the cheek?
He saw her face flush more and that her poking got more and more fast.
"I-I like y-you…"
Again she left him speechless. She liked him, she really liked him!?
A strange feeling began to spread around him. He was happy; he was happy, glad that she liked him. Because in this very trip he had begun having feelings towards her, a flushing feeling that only got stronger and stronger as time between them got spent.
Hinata finally said it, she finally confessed to him. Her childhood love, the love that only grew stronger as years passed. Inside herself she felt relieved, relieved that she had let it out after years of complete silence. But she was also scared, scared that he didn't like her back. That he would straight on say 'no', that he would say it and then pretend it never happened…Or that he ignore her all the time, that their weak friendship would vanish as quick as air.
She stiffened when she saw he got up from the sleeping-bag, his face towards her.
She didn't dare to look up when he walked to her, didn't want to see his face when he told her off.
She definitely didn't think he would take his fingers to her jaw, tilting her head upwards till their eyes met.
They stared at each other in a time that felt like eternity. No one said a thing, both holding their breaths; it only made her more nervous to his upcoming refusal.
Why would someone like him like someone like her, right?
The next thing he did was unexpected for both sides. He bent his head down, slowly till they were in eye-level; he let out a shaky breath before he moved his lips to hers.
Hinata's eyes widened when their lips connected, gentle and soft but tempting at the same time. Her heart skipped some beats and she shivered of the new experience he showed her.
They tested each others mouth, careful at first but when the other one didn't back away or do anything to tell they didn't like it, they got more confident and explored much more, playing with each others tongue that let out a sigh in pleasure.
After minutes in heavenly heaven they couldn't breathe; it was like a heavy lid hovered over them and stopped the lungs from taking in the life-needing oxygen every living creäture needed to survive.
They went away from each others arms, both wanting to take in as much air as they could in a short moment of time. Hot-flushed and with small smiles they met each other gaze, holding it there while they read each pair of eyes that clearly said one thing, want.
With a roughly beating heart they embraced once again and a powerful explosion of mixed feelings flew out from within them after being locked far too long for their own liking. An electricity of growing passion flew out with a force that made the two teenagers do something about it. Soon the connection with the kiss wasn't enough, Naruto took one of his hands up to her hair and began exploring the purple colored sea with a hand so gentle it made the both of them sigh in delight.
Naruto wasn't the only one that wanted to touch; Hinata found herself moving one of her hands up his well-formed and built chest till it settled on his cheek, massaging the warm skin with her fingertips.
Their breaths got heavier and soon were they breathing at the same pace, looking deeply into each other with a glint in their eyes.
Still weren't they satisfied with the touch, they hungered for more, so much more than they already had between their grasp.
Naruto took both of his hands down her nice back until it stopped right under her butt; he used his arms to push her very body up from the ground.
'Hinata likes it..,' he thought surprised when she wrapped her legs around his waist and took her arms lazily around his neck.
Naruto, while holding her that way spanned around some times, getting a scared squeak back. He snickered into her lips, and the thing he did back was to play with her tongue a lot more, so much more.
Hinata never thought in her entire life that this moment where going to happen, that she would touch her childhood crush's lips with her own.
It was like a new world, a brand new world she wanted to figure more about together with him, Naruto Uzumaki.
She smiled into his glorious lips, playing with his yellow jungle of hair with one hand while she had the other one around his neck to keep her from falling if he loosened the grip he had.
Naruto never believed she liked him. That quiet adorable Hinata Hyuuga had any interest in him. She did, right?
She did have an interest if she gladly kissed him like the goddess she was.
'How can this girl like me?' he questioned himself after another daze of pure passion, he never expected her to have this good experience with lip locking.
He wasn't as smart as Shikamaru or could never be compared to Sasuke's beauty if he believed what fan girls told him.
'So why did she like me so much?' he pondered but after feeling how well she suited in his arms and how she giggled happily into his mouth Naruto decided to let it go and enjoy their time together instead.
Around them the low sounds of footsteps were unheard by their moans and pleasurable sighs, only when a twig snapped to their left did they realize someone was coming to them.
As fast as lightning they jumped from each others embrace, and standing back to back they got into their usual fighting stands, both with quick breaths that had nothing to do with fighting.
Millions of thoughts and scenarios of who it was and what will happen next swum around their head when they heard the footsteps only come closer and closer to them.
They gulped when the steps stopped right outside the tent, right outside the very opening. Thanks to the flashlights that still were on after their little moment together, they could see some dark shadows that unfortunately were too blurry to see who it was, less being a boy or a girl.
Naruto and Hinata met each others eyes for a moment, holding it there while they saw what kind of state the other one was in.
Billions of thoughts swirled around their head when they let go, taking their attention to the danger outside.
Two of the questions they asked themselves were; who could the strangers be? Are them a threat to us?
Cliffhanger! Who do you think it is? What do you think of this chapter?
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