Konoha High School - The Year We Met

by stimemia

NOT THE GREATEST BOOK Hinata is about to start her first year in high school. It's a new school, and who knows? Maybe she will find some amazing friends. Hinata is usually the shy type of girl, but her father hopes, that enrolling her in a public high school, instead of having her home schooled, will help with her shyness.

6. Chapter 5 - Getting Ready

Chapter start:

-=Hinata POV=-
When I woke up Saturday morning, I rushed up to finish the scarf. I hadn't been told by Sakura which gift I should give him, so I decided to give him both.
I made breakfast as I kept knitting. I wanted Narutos scarf to be long. At least about 1,5 meters.

Around noon I was done with my scarf. So I wrapped his gift. The scarf with the surprise bracelet wrapped inside it, and wrapping paper around it all. When I was all done and eating lunch with my father, Neji and Hanabi, someone knocked on our front door. "I got it father." I said as I walked to the door. I opened it, and Sakura stood smiling widely. "So?" She asked. I was confused. "So what?" I asked. She smiled and said: "Have you wrapped your gift? We're going to Naruto's house at 5. I'll be here with the girls at 2. We have to look hot for the boys, and you my friend, have to look hot for our special birthday boy." She winked and stormed off. I blushed. Does that mean he likes me? Or that I should make him like me?

I know Sakura and Naruto had been best friends since kindergarten, and that it hadn't been more than a strong friendship, and that Sakura have the hots for Sasuke, but I couldn't help but be a little jealous about it. I knew Naruto always had come to Sakura for help, but I wanted that to be me. Of course I'm only 14, and have about 4 years left of High School, so I had plenty of time to get close to Naruto. Tonight was about celebrating his 15th birthday.

I looked at my watch. It was 12, I still had a lot of time before I had to be home. I called Sakura to see if sh wanted to go shopping for a new dress I could wear, she would love to.

We met at the mall at 12:30 and started looking right away. We looked at a lot of dresses, but I never really found the right one. I wouldn't have a dress that was too fancy, but it shouldn't be too showing either, I didn't want it to be too expensive either. I was hard finding the perfect birthday dress. Not to formal, but still not to casual.

"Ugh! I give up! It's impossible." I complained as Sakura and I sat down on a bench for a minute. The time was 1:30, we had to go home soon. Just when we were about to leave, I saw it. The perfect dress. "Sakura? I think I found it." I said. She looked over in the direction I pointed and gasped. "Yes, that is the dress Hinata. Come on you have to try it on." We hurried down to the store and I tried on the dress. It was like it was made for me, and only me. It was a strapless summer dress. It was white, with some lavender flowers at the bottom of it, and it went to my mid thighs. It was something I could wear casually, but it was also formal enough for some events. "I think we found the one, Hinata." She said. I smiled.

I bought the dress and we hurried home to get ready. Ino, TenTen and Temari knocked on my front door, the minute Sakura and I had stepped in. "Wow, call that perfect timing." She laughed as I opened the door.

"Hey girl! Ready to meet your lover-boy?" Ino laughed as she stepped in the door. I blushed, like a deep red blush. "Ahh, she really is in love. Look at her blush!" That of course made me blush even more. "Okay, let's tease Hinata when we're at the party, let's just focus on getting ready. It's 2:13, and we have exactly 2 hours and 47 minutes. But it takes about 15 minutes to go from Hinatas house to Narutos, so we only have 2 hours and 32 minutes. Let's get started people!" Temari exclaimed with a lot of excitement. I smiled.

We used about 2 hours to get ready, when the time was about 4:15 we were all done. "Wow, we do look fabulous." Sakura praised. "Okay, now time to plan a strategy, we have to get Hinata and Naruto together." I shook my head. "I appreciate this guys, but in not ready yet. Can we wait with this one a bit?" I asked, they all nodded and moved on. "Okay, so we have a few couples to set up: Sakura and Sasuke, Ino and Sai, TenTen and Neji and Shikamaru and me. That is what you guys want, right?" Temari asked. "Well I don't think Neji likes me, so can we wait with mine until I figure it out?" TenTen asked. Sakura then said: "well why doesn't Hinata talk Neji into saying it? Then we'll start that mission when we know how he feel." She looked at me, "sure, I'll figure it out." TenTen smiled. "Okay." Temari said. "We can't set up 3 couples in one night. We have to choose one."

After a big discussion, we ended with Ino and Sai. I thought they looked cute together, so I was happy to help them. The plan was the following:

We had to convince the boys to play 'Truth or Dare', then we would ask Sai if he liked Ino. Then we would ask Ino if she likes Sai, but first after he had answered, so she wouldn't be embarrassed.
After some time we would play '7 Minutes in Heaven.' Here we could set up all the couples, and so we would. Except with Ino and Sai, we would lock the door to the tiny closet they were in, and give them about '30 Minutes in Heaven'

Ino was happy to finally get together with Sai, even though I thought it was kinda early. They had only know each other for about 3 months, and they hadn't talked that much, and they were only 15 years old. I had always been a little skeptical about that, but little did I know, was that I would change my opinion at the end of the night.

Chapter end.