Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Hinata's Confession

Chapter Four: Chocolate Cake and Green Spandex

"So my idea didn't work, either…" Ino mumbled guiltily. "Sorry, Hinata."

"I-It's okay…"

"Be still!" Sakura said, bandaging up Hinata's nose.

"O-Ouch!"

"Oh, hey! Shikamaru, Chouji, you guys are late!" Ino waved.

"….troublesome woman…."

"…." (sound of munching chips)

"You guys!" Ino said. "Do you have any ideas of how Hinata can confess to Naruto?"

"….that's too troublesome to think about…"

"I know!" Chouji paused in his snacking. "She can bake him a cake! Everyone likes cakes! While you're at it, you can bake me one too! I like chocolate with chocolate frosting and chocolate sprinkles and chocolate filling and edible chocolate candles and chocolate…" He suddenly had a dreamy look in his eyes.

"That does it!" Sakura cried. "Everyone, it's off to the kitchen!"

"…troublesome…" Shikamaru murmered.

After around twelve hours of constant shoving and pushing and burning and scraping, Hinata arrived at Naruto's door holding a large vanilla cake with whipped cream and cooked ramen noodles strewn around the top. Unfortunately the Hyuuga kitchen had permanent damage that could probably not be fixed. Ino knocked on the door for her before darting away.

"Eeeeehhhhhhhhh…." Naruto opened the door and yawned sleepily. "Hinata? What are you doing here? Come on in. Wow, that's a large cake. Will it fit inside?"

"I-I think…"

SPLAT!

She tripped on the threshold of his apartment and the cake went SPLAT against Naruto. He lay on the ground, not able to move because of the huge cake and Hinata pinning him to the ground.

"He really ought to get that fixed, the idiot," Sasuke said.

"So Chouji's idea didn't work either," Kiba sighed.

"What about your cousin, Neji?" Ino asked.

"Oh, the genius when it comes to being romantic?" Sasuke asked sarcastically.

"It can't hurt," Sakura said.

"This is so troublesome," Shikamaru muttered.

"YOUTHFUL HINATA! What are you doing?" the prodigy asked as he opened his door.

"OHMYGOSH! Neji wears footsie pajamas! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH—"

Sasuke hit Sakura over the head with the hammer. "Wow, the effect has never lasted this long. I've got to talk to her mom about how much she drinks."

"SHE DRINKS?" Neji, Ino, Kiba, and the rest of the Hyuuga household asked.

Sasuke slapped his head. "I have to stop saying that."

"So you came to me, the youthful Neji, to see what she should do! I, and my best friend Lee, and Gai-sensei shall think about this!"

"Neji-san, are you feeling well?" Hinata asked timidly.

"You mean, is he well?" Sakura asked, edging away.

"You mean, is he Neji?" Sasuke took hold of Neji's face and sort of, well…pulled. And it came off. The rest of them screamed. Neji screamed. Youthfully. The person inside his closet screamed.

"LEE!" Gai burst out of the closet. "Lee, are you okay! Is your face hurt!"

"No, Gai-sensei! But we have been found out!"

"LEE!"

"GAI-SENSEI!"

"LEE!"

"GAI-SENSEI!"

"LEE!"

"Well, let's cut the chatter. Down to business!" Sakura pulled them both by their ears out of the sunset.

"Of course! Since we are here we shall help Hinata!" Lee sat down and out of nowhere, grabbed a green spandex. In Hinata's size.

"Yes! You should put on this spandex and run around Naruto's apartment!" Gai flashed his smile and did a thumbs-up.

"NO!" Kiba, Ino, Sakura, Sasuke, and the rest of the Hyuuga household shouted. Shikamaru and Chouji still sat back.

"I-well, okay…it might work…"

"Yeah, and the only cost is your pride," Sasuke said.

Naruto stepped outside of his apartment, savoring the new day. Then he saw a very strange sight. Hinata was running outside of his apartment, wearing green spandex and screaming as loudly as she could about "Youthfulness." He decided he hand't gotten enough sleep and went back inside.