Ok, sorry it took me so long to update, I know I said Wednesday. And thank you to all the people who keep reading this story, and give me criticism and tips! It's what keeps me writing. And for the record, I love criticism, but not the kind where people are just telling me my characters are OOC, and nothing else. Special thanks to HTM for the review! And like I said in the last chapter, plan on this one being OOC too. Sorry to those of you who don't like it, but it's how I wrote it! Now, on with

I ran around, looking for Hinata. She wasn't where she was when I left. I searched everywhere. Finally, I reached the last possible place, a tea house. It was small, but cozy inside. There she was. Hinata was sitting at a small table, the only one in the tea house. Kaisho wasn't with her. I walked up to her.

"Hi Hinata."

"O-oh hi Naruto. Do you feel better?" The whole time she talked, she looked down.

"Yes. Listen, I remember what happened in the battle with Pein." When I said that, she looked up, when pale, then blushed and looked down.

"O-oh. Y-you remember what I said." She said, still looking down. I reached out to her chin, and lifted her head up so she was actually looking me in the eye. For a second we made eye contact, but then she looked away.

"I-I'm sorry." A single tear silently slipped down her cheek as she turned away.

"Hinata, don't leave." She turned around and looked at me.

"Ever since we were little, I've admired you. You've been my hero. I wanted to be just like you. But then I would give up before I even tried. But you never gave up. I loved you for that." She said that with such confidence, it was almost as if a different person had said it. I walked up to her, and stood in the way of the door so she couldn't leave.

"Naruto…" But she couldn't finish her sentence. I stopped her. Without even thinking, as if another person had been controlling me, I kissed her. It just felt…right. She was obviously surprised, but she kissed me back. I broke away, and she ran.

I went back to my tent, where no one could bother me. When I got there, I sat on my bed and just started thinking. What just happened? Did I just kiss Hinata? What was I thinking! Crap, I have to go find Hinata. But I stayed inside my tent. It went on like that for a half hour, until Sakura came in.

"Naruto?" She startled me so bad, I jumped.

"Sorry, did I scare you?" She said, smirking. "I just wanted to see where you were."

"Oh. Well, I've been here."

"Ok. Do you need anything? The doctors want me to make sure you're alright."

"Yeah, I'm fine." I couldn't tell anyone about Hinata

"Ok." Sakura turned to walk out the door.

"Wait." But I had to tell someone. I'm very bad at keeping secrets.

"What is it Naruto?"

"Um…"

"What's up?"

"I kissed Hinata." I said really fast, as fast as I possibly could.

"What!?" She immediately started acting…girly.

"Ok, tell me all about it! What was it like? Was it magical? Was it-"

"Stop!" I instantly felt bad about shouting at Sakura.

"Sorry for yelling, but no. Well, I don't know." She waited patiently for me to continue.

"Well, it just felt…right. And as if it wasn't even me controlling myself. I kissed her without even thinking about it or-" I looked up, and Sakura was smiling at me like a maniac.

"What?" I asked, defensively

"Little Naruto has a crush!" She started taunting me about it, acting like a little kid. Which was unusual, because I was usually the one acting like that.

"Shhhh! Not everyone in the whole village needs to know!" I whisper-yelled at her

"Fine. But seriously, this is big!"

"I know. But please, don't tell anyone."

"Okay, okay. I won't tell anyone." She turned to walk out the door, and then turned her head to look over her shoulder.

"But keep me posted!" She said, as she walked out of the tent.

I stayed in my own tent for the rest of the night, contemplating what to do tomorrow. I would have to confront Hinata at some point, so why not tomorrow? I decided that I would just go up and talk to her. I played out our conversation in my head as I slowly fell asleep.

When I woke up in the morning, I showered and got dressed in a plain shirt and pants, rather than my normal black and orange tracksuit. I also left my forehead protector at home, and brushed my hair nicely. When I went outside, I tried to just walk around mindlessly, but I always ended up looking around for Hinata. I wandered from place to place, trying to get my mind off of her. But when I walked into a little shop, I saw her. I started to back out of the shop, but then she saw me. Her eyes widened, and then she looked down. I figured I couldn't just leave now, so I slipped into the seat across from her.

"Hey." Gosh, that sounded stupid

"H-hi" She said, still looking down.

"I'm sorry about yesterday. Actually, I'm not sorry. Everything that happened…I don't regret it. I just hope that we are still friends."

"Y-yeah. I don't regret anything either. And of course we're still friends, Naruto." She said, smiling as she finished her sentence. As she said that sentence, her confidence came, and she stopped stuttering. I smiled back, and we walked out of the shop together.

When we walked out of the shop, Kaisho was standing there. He had been waiting outside the whole time.

"Hinata! There you are, I've been looking for you. Do you want to-" He then saw me, and stopped midsentence.

"Kaisho, I'm sorry, but whatever we had is over. Maybe we can just be friends?"

"Oh, sure. Of course. Well, bye Hinata." He walked off in the direction I had wandered here.

"So, should we continue with the list of jobs from the head builder? We still haven't completed those." I said, hoping that we could finish the jobs together.

"Sure. Which one were we on?"

"Um, carrying 110 planks from site 17 to 33. We just have to head this way for a bit to reach site 17."

"Ok. Let's head out." She smiled, and I smiled back to her. Then we both took off running in the direction of site 17.

AN: Ok, I hate to say it, but this is the end of this story! Don't worry though, I plan on making a sequel about Naruto and Hinata, but it'll be more of just short stories rather than one that actually has something like a plot. I'll probably start the sequel fairly soon, so stay on the lookout! :D