A/N: Yay! Tenth Chapter! Let's celebrate everyone xD No, but really, I can't thank you all enough for your support; I wouldn't have made it here without you :'} Thanks a lot guys :)

I don't own Naruto or any of its characters except Amaya.

Hinata sighed as she looked outside the window at the now rainy and cloudy day. Both cheerleading practice and football practice had been canceled because of the rain and thunder. Hinata really wanted to get to the office in order to borrow an umbrella from the school. If you didn't return it, you'd pay a fine and wouldn't be allowed to bring another one. For those who were unlucky and didn't get one would have to go out in the rain. Not only that, she was dead nervous about going to Naruto's house. She had no idea what to expect, and had never helped anyone study, much less the boy she loved. Naruto had already given her the directions to his house so that wasn't a problem. She sighed as the rain outside poured. Her life was so confusing sometimes. Or quite possibly all the time.

A ball was thrown at her which missed.

"Look alive Hinata!" Kiba yelled. He had purposely missed.

Hinata switched her attention to her final class, P.E. She wasn't very good at dodgeball, so she was hit quite often, and had only hit another person once throughout the class.

"Alright, that's it for today, tomorrow we're doing soccer, so go get dressed school is almost over!" Coach Gai said as Hinata gingerly ran to the locker room.

XxXxXxXxXxX

Naruto looked out through the window. It was his last class, history. He wasn't exactly too bad at it, so he usually didn't worry much about it.

"Uzumaki, pay attention." Anko barked. All teachers now called Naruto by his first name except Anko, but he wasn't about to argue with her. She was quite the strict teacher.

"Yes m'aam…" Naruto muttered.

However his thoughts were elsewhere. They were mostly on his test corrections, and getting past science. But then again, he was going to have major help with that, and he smiled a little, happy that he had a huge chance of passing the test now. Maybe he had misjudged Hinata, he had thought that she was kind of shy and somewhat awkward, but she had just proven to him that she was a really sweet person.

"She's super nice to offer something like that." Naruto thought. "I'm pretty sure she has better things to do than help me with a test, and nevertheless she wanted to help me."

Suddenly his thoughts were interrupted.

"Alright, get everything packed up you'll be leaving in five minutes." Anko said as kids stuffed books into their bags.

Naruto sighed and did the same. Suddenly, the bell rang. Kids chattered excitedly that another hard day of work was finally over as Naruto ran through the halls towards the office.

XxXxXxXxXxX

Hinata got out of the locker room with her uniform on. She was walking towards the office when Kiba suddenly stepped in front of her.

"Hey Hinata, there aren't any more umbrella's at the office." Kiba said, panting.

Hinata sighed. She'd have to walk in the rain to Naruto's house.

"…But I got one right here! So if you want I can walk you home." Kiba said, regaining his posture.

Hinata smiled slightly. "Thanks Kiba, but I'm going over to Naruto's house today."

Kiba looked up at her, surprised. "Really? What for?"

"I…I'm going to help him with some studying."

"Oooh." Kiba said, bumping his elbow on Hinata's arm suggestively. "So you two are finally together huh?"

Hinata suddenly blushed ten different shades of red. "W-What? N-No, I'm only helping him with studies." She said.

Kiba shrugged before bidding her goodbye and walking off. Kiba was a great friend, but once something got into his head neither Hinata nor Shino could change his point of view. She walked towards the school's front door and sighed as she saw kids running in the rain, the water drops staining their white uniforms. She opened the door and prepared for that annoying feeling of water trickling down your body but instead found that something was shielding her from it.

"Hey Hinata-chan!" Naruto exclaimed as he held an umbrella above both of them.

Hinata blushed incredibly as she looked up at Naruto who was flashing a big smile.

"Since both of our afterschool activities were canceled, I'll show you to my house personally." Naruto said.

"Y-You m-mean like t-together?" She squeaked.

"Uh, yeah…" Naruto said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, which it probably was.

Hinata blushed and looked at the floor as the two walked side by side towards Naruto's house. The sound of the rain pounding on the umbrella filled the air, but Hinata's thoughts were elsewhere.

"Hinata, what are you doing, he's only being friendly, don't get the wrong idea." Hinata thought.

But Hinata wished with all her being that it weren't like that at all. She wished that this walk was the production of romance. But unfortunately it wasn't.

As the two rounded around a corner, a car drove close to them and sped over a puddle of water that made a wave that splashed on the two of them. Hinata yelled as the two got soaked in water as the car only drove away, but instead of being annoyed Naruto only laughed at Hinata's expression to the point where he was kneeling over in his stomach in laughter. Hinata looked at Naruto, wondering how he could be laughing when the two were soaked down to their skin.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Naruto said in between each laugh as he noticed Hinata looking at him.

Hinata didn't have spare clothes, and she didn't have time to go back to her house in order to get extra clothes, so she'd have to spend the day in wet clothes now. Speaking of which, she had already called her dad to tell her she'd be spending a few hours at Naruto's house, and although her father had been incredibly strict against it, after reassuring him that it was only for studying purposes he had finally let her, however, she was pretty sure that when she would get back home she was in for a scolding.

Finally Naruto stopped laughing.

"Ok, Ok!" He said gasping for air as the rain fell on the two of them since he had lowered the umbrella when he started laughing. "I-I think I'm alright now…"

But Naruto was wrong because once more he burst into laughter, and this time Hinata couldn't help but laugh herself. She smiled when the two finally stopped laughing in order to catch air.

"Alright, no more!" Naruto said, chuckling a little but not laughing like he had been. "We've….We've gotta get going." He said, finally stopping completely as he coughed a little. "Or we'll get a cold."

Hinata nodded as she put her hand on her mouth, trying to suppress her laughs. Naruto only smiled as he shrunk the umbrella, seeing no use to in anymore.

"The loft is over there, you see it?" Naruto said, pointing at a building not too far away from them.

"Y-Yeah…" Hinata said, nodding.

"I bet you can't get there before me." Naruto said with a smirk.

Hinata looked at him, trying to see where he was going with this. Although Naruto was unpredictable, he had to be the funnest person she knew besides Kiba.

"Let's do a little race, I win, you treat me to ramen, you win…." Naruto said, thinking what Hinata would want.

Hinata blushed. There was one thing she'd like if she won… No, no, no, never!

"I know!" Naruto said. Hinata could have sworn she had seen a light bulb turn on top of his head. "I have to wear my clothes wet in my house and I can't change until you leave. Then we'll be even since you don't have spare clothes."

Hinata nodded. It seemed fair enough.

"On my count..."

"Three…"

"Two…"

"One, GO!" Naruto said as the two sped off towards the loft.

"Free ramen, here I come!" Naruto said as he quickly gained distance away from her.

But suddenly Hinata picked up speed and before long the two were running side by side, both trying to get in front of the other. Hinata finally succeeded in getting in front of him and blocked him from getting in front of her.

"No!" Naruto thought. He kind of wanted that ramen, he was hungry.

And finally the two got to the loft, with Hinata victorious. The two coughed and gasped for air as Naruto laughed once more, although he really didn't feel like wearing his damp clothes inside his own home.

"Fine…" Naruto said. "Y-You win, a deal's a deal." Naruto finished, gasping.

Hinata looked at the concrete floor and gave a small smile in triumph. Naruto only looked at her for a second before opening the door and walking up the stairs, the two soaking wet.

"Uzumaki, what have I said about coming it wet?" The loft owner barked.

"Uh, sorry Mr. Danzo. I'll be careful next time." Naruto said. It seemed Danzo had eyes at the back of his head.

"There won't be a next time." Danzo gruffly said before continuing to do what he had been initially doing.

Naruto sighed in relief that he had only gotten a scolding. That probably meant Danzo was in a good mood.

"You should be glad that he didn't tell you anything; he's pretty strict with new people entering the loft." Naruto said looking at Hinata.

She only nodded as the two continued their way up. He was on the second floor, so they didn't really bother taking the elevator. When they finally got to the door, Naruto slowly opened it and gulped a little.

Hinata looked straight ahead only to see an apartment that seemed a tornado had ravaged it.

"Uh…" Was all Naruto said. "Yeah…"

Naruto led her towards his table where he thought would be better to study at. Hinata sat down before Naruto cried out a little.

"Wait!" He exclaimed. "Oh crud!" He said.

He slowly dug into his wet pocket and took out a piece of paper that was folded up and slightly wet. It was his test. He sighed in relief as he touched it, noticing it wasn't really wet.

"Alright, ok, I'm saved!" He said, unfolding his test.

He put it on the table before walking towards one of his cabinets.

"Hey Hinata, I'm really hungry so I'm going to have some cup ramen, you want any?" He asked, digging and taking out a cup of ramen that was sealed.

"N-No thanks." She said

He looked at her, not believing she wasn't hungry.

"Want some cookies or something?" Naruto asked as he stuck the ramen into the microwave.

Hinata had to admit she was somewhat hungry. She finally gave in and nodded as Naruto smirked and tossed her a small package that contained six Oreo's. She opened them as Naruto sat down next to her, waiting for his ramen to get ready.

"Alright where do we start?" Naruto said as Hinata finished looking over his test. He had already gotten his science book and had opened it to the respective pages.

"Um… I guess here…" She said suggestively, pointing at a section of the page.

Naruto nodded as Hinata explained everything, making him easily understand.

"It really isn't that hard! Or maybe it's because Hinata is a great teacher." He thought, half-way done with his corrections.

Hinata suddenly got up to throw away her wrapper as Naruto dug into his noodles. It wasn't as good as Ichiraku's but it beat nothing.

As Hinata opened the trash can she noticed a small book with an orange cover.

"Uh, Naruto-kun, t-there's a b-book in here." She said taking out a small book out from the trash can.

"Eh, Hinata wait!" Naruto said, standing up as Hinata read the title.

"Come come paradise?" Hinata read aloud, confused before looking at Naruto. "Naruto-kun, y-you… Y-You read p-porn?"

"N-No Hinata, don't get the wrong idea! It's all Pervy Sage's fault!" Naruto exclaimed.

"P-Pervy sage?" Hinata asked. This was all really confusing.

"Y-Yeah!"

Flashback:

"Hey, Ero-sennin, you were supposed to meet me at Ichiraku's today!" Naruto exclaimed, pointing at him.

"Shut up Naruto, I'm doing research!" Jiraiya whispered forcefully, looking at some girls bathing through the bushes.

"Research my ass, all you're doing is acting all pervy and looking at girls!" He yelled once more. The girls that were bathing, hearing Naruto's retort, yelled as they ran off.

"Naruto, what have you done?" Jiraiya said. "Come back!" He yelled at the girls

He turned around and glared evilly at Naruto, however he was not intimidated.

"Anyways, I already ate but I need to be smarter!" Naruto complained.

Jiraiya looked at him, suddenly interested before smiling and throwing him a small book with an orange cover. Naruto caught it and was about to open it before being interrupted.

"Don't read it now! Read it later, it's better like that." Jiraiya said with a smirk.

Naruto only looked at him confused before walking home, completely oblivious about the book's main topic.

Flashback end

"I swear I didn't know what it was about!" Naruto said.

Hinata looked at him, seeing honesty in his eyes.

"I mean, I only read like 15 pages before throwing that book away, even from the beginning the whole thing is just about s-" He said before being interrupted by the ringing of his house phone.

"You can put that back in the trash!" He yelled as he hurried to pick up the phone.

Hinata looked at it once more before putting it back where it originally was and sat back down, playing with her fingers. Naruto was such a nice guy, no wonder Hinata had fallen for him. Suddenly Naruto came back with a small grin on his face as he sat back down.

"Alright, what's next?" He said.

"Um… This over h-here…" Hinata softly said.

"Alright! We're almost done!" He said pumping his fist in the air in celebration. The sun was already setting and the rain had settled to a soft drizzle.

After another half-hour Naruto finally finished.

He sighed in relief, feeling pretty confident about his corrections as the two stood up, Naruto ready to put away his things while Hinata got ready to leave.

Hinata bid goodbye as she walked out, her cheeks maintaining a rosy color. But before she could walk out the door Naruto interrupted her.

"Uh, hey you know the way out right?" Naruto asked.

Hinata only looked back and nodded.

"Ok, alright… Well anyways, thanks, I really appreciated your help; I don't think I would have been able to finish this without your brain." Naruto said, scratching his head and smiling. Hinata blushed at the compliment; no one really complimented her much. "You know, you're not like people say, people say you're shy, quite, and hesitant, even I thought that. But I think I kind of like people like you." He finished as Hinata stood in shock, surprised.

"He likes… People like me?" She squeaked in her mind. It was almost too good to be true. She knew he was only being nice, but still, it made her heart stop.

She only nodded once more as she walked out, happier than she had been in a long time. Today had to be one of the best days of her life.

A/N: Haha, you're right if you remembered the "I like people like you" from the original Naruto before the Chunnin exams against Neji :D I hope you liked this chapter and please review! Oh and I have made myself a goal, and my goal is to have 50 reviews before the story ends (I'm not telling you to, I'm just saying it's what I'd like to accomplish) but one way or the other, thanks so much for the support guys.