For Reader: Really short. Not Ino but Hinata.
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Hinata watches as Kiba elbows Shikako making humor of the situation. Shikako shots back a snarky comment that makes her teammate laugh. She wishes she could laugh. Hinata takes a look at Naruto again, who is yelling while the Toad Sanin makes him blush about something. The man looks like a lecher, she thinks. Shikako respects him though, and that makes her suspect he is not the man he seems at first glance.
Naruto is leaving the village for three years. She's never had the guts to speak to him about her feelings. It seems everyone knows but him. He is amazing but clueless, she knows her poker face is horrible. He might come back someone changed, he might fall in love, he might not like her when she returns. She shakes the thought off. Naruto was sweet, he wasn't that type of person. After all, he had defended her in the chunin exams without even knowing her much and she never seen him be cruel.
She looks to Shikako again who laughs surprisingly loud at something Shino says. She doesn't know when Shikako changed into this type of person. She had been like her in the academy, but also so unlike her. Just as shy, but with more friends than fingers in a hand. She doesn't know how Shikako, who hid behind her twin, had the courage to be-friend Sakura and Ino. And after that, she hid behind them too.
Later, Shikako had told them neither of them was weak, and she couldn't help but believe it. She had grown, she just hadn't noticed. When Shikako asked if she wanted to go with her to give Naruto her present she didn't even ask how Shikako knew. She gathered get courage and got it out. She'd do this, and maybe one day she would have the courage to confess her feelings.
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Named so because Hinata's range grows this big later.
Recs to keep you from going crazy:
NARUTO FICS
How to fine Form 39-B by Thehoyden: The first time Iruka met Hatake Kakashi, he was still on some pretty good painkillers.
In bond and blod by Thehoyden: "I want to make Naruto my heir" Kakashi said bluntly
Quicksilver by Halefyre: Kakashi doesn't know what to think, doesn't like how the stranger tracks his movements and looks oddly wistful when he whips out his book to deflect conversation.
B99 and Marvel. So seriously. This crossover works like magic. Too bad it's the only one. Its genius. Read it.
You can hear it in the silence by Waldorph: When CAPTAIN AMERICA walks into the precinct, Jake staples his finger and goesnt realize it for like, six hours. He can only be happy that Scully and Hitchcock leave every day they can at 4:48 PM. So that they couldn't bring shame upon the family.
