Chapter 10 - The final piece
"Is that right?", Naruto asked, and started laughing. "Women are so troublesome", Shikamaru
said, and took a large bite of an delicious apple. Naruto stood up from the chair, and smiled
proudly. "Well, there's a reason for people to like me, after all I'm Uzumaki Naruto!" he said
with both hands resting behind his head. Proud like a king. Naruto left Shikamaru's house
after giving him the forehead protector back, and a strange feeling came across him. Naruto
started to think while he walked in a random direction.

He had never looked at Hinata that way before. It felt so unusual. He walked to Hinata's
house. He picked up the note and read one sentence over again. It said "I love you, Naruto-
kun.". Naruto had been thinking about the kiss they had by accident earlier... It wasn't like
the kiss he did with Sasuke as a little child when he got pushed... It wasn't like the kiss he
blew to the audience at the stadium after Neji's defeat... It was something new. And it felt
incredible when he thought about it. Could it be that he liked her without even knowing it?

He wrote a response in Hinata's note, folded it together and walked up to their door entrance.
He stretched out his arm to knock on their door, and made two knocks on it. Someone
closed in to the door. It opened up. And Naruto was staring at...

... Hinata's father. Her father made a deep sigh. Naruto felt that sigh was unpleasant, like
he knew about Naruto and didn't like what kind of person he was. Naruto suddenly felt like
aborting the whole thing, but still he couldn't stop. He asked if Hinata was at home, but got
the negative response. Naruto took a sigh, and turned around, before her father grabbed his
shoulder, asking what he wanted with her. Naruto simply said he had to talk to her. Hinata's
father knew he didnt have anything to do with the situation that obviously was going on, but
still he asked what Naruto was going to say to her...

Hinata had locked Naruto in her Buyakugan at a far-away distance that normally was
impossible even with Buyakugan, and she ran through Konoha. Even tho her breath was
struggling, she kept on running. Caughing, not far from breathing blood, she still didn't stop.
Naruto on the other hand, was talking with her father still, and responded to him: "I'm going
to tell her that I didn't love her the way she probably loves me... And... " Naruto stopped,
as the blushing took over. "And..." Hinata's father placed his hand before Naruto's mouth.
"Say no more... I can tell, the look in your eyes... It is the look of a man who is starting to
understand his heart... I will leave you two alone. I can feel she is closing in at this point.",
he said, and closed the door with a true smile of a proud father.

Then Hinata arrived, completely out of breath. She forced out some words asking if Naruto
has seen a note that belonged to her. Naruto responded that he had not seen the note, but
had found something else. Naruto smiled proudly while staring at her. Hinata didn't get it,
but she was so upset she didn't even blush in all the destructive emotions. She looked in
Naruto's eyes, looking for an answer, and Naruto's smile vanished. He looked down, and
gave her the note.

Hinata opened it up, and Naruto closed the distance between them, making Hinata finally
become shy again. She opened up the note, and Naruto moved even closer, like he was
going to whisper something to her. They wore so close to each other at that point, it wasn't
clear if it was a hug or not. This time it was easier for her, as she didn't see his face. Maybe
Naruto did that on purpose? Hinata knew he was capable of doing it. He wasn't the dumb kid
everybody thought he was...

Naruto slowly placed his arms around Hinata's body, real slow, like he was taming a wild
beast. It was the fear of failure. It struck them both. Hinata's heart started to beat faster
again. Naruto could tell. Their bodies stood real close, and finally, Naruto's hands contacted
Hinata's back. For the first time, he gave her a hug beyond friendship. Hinata returned the
favor, in an even slower movement speed than Naruto. Naruto closed his eyes.

She held her note behind Naruto's head, reading it. Searching every peak of a hint. And
then she spotted some text that was not written by her. It said... "Love you too, Hinata..."
Hinata suddenly took a hard breath, and was about to scream before she pushed Naruto
against her, stopping her own mouth with her hand whose holding Naruto's body close to
hers, now even tighter. It felt like her heart was about to jump out. Hinata was having
problems breathing, but it was happiness, not dispair nor was it sadness. Hinata also
closed her eyes, and moved her cheeks next to Naruto's. It was a dream... That became
reality. She could stand like this hugging him for all eternity, as long as he was hugging
her back, like he was doing.

Naruto then put a real light pressure on her shoulders, making some space between them,
but he slowed down before they made eye-contact. They wore back at the half-inch-
situation, and this time Naruto was taking the charge, as he was the one less blushing.
But Naruto couldn't brag, his heart had not made that hard impact for each beat never
before. Now Naruto's right eye could see Hinata's left eye. It was blurry, they wore
so close into each other. Now it was it for the ultimate challenge! Hinata was in a super
in-a-love state. She felt completely intoxicated by the crazy warm feelings. All she wanted
was to make love to Naruto. Right here, right now. Her heart went on even faster! Hinata
didnt just simply not breath, in fact she couldn't, due to the pressure. This was probably
the most heart-melting event that definitely caused the biggest impact on her whole life
history. They both closed their eyes. Their distance also closed in, they went closer,
and closer to each other, reaching the peak of nervousity for poth parts. And so their
lips made contact. Hinata made a inside-scream-sound of the long awated moment.
Naruto also for the very first time felt this feeling. It was heaven. He wanted this kiss to
last forever! They folded their arms tight around each other, holding hard like they never
ever would let go. The warm feeling ran through their veins. This started a long lasting
relationship of two perfect fitting individuals, as if they wore constructed for each other.

As the clouds danced across the beautiful sky, a person nearby closed his curtains in
the window, leaving him a proud smile of happiness marking how deep a kind father he is.
- The end.