A/N:
I'm sorry that they go from freshman to sophomore in such a short time, but I just wanted them to be older.

Chapter start:

-=Hinata POV=-
Time had passed since Naruto had tried to kiss me. At first it was awkward whenever we were alone in a room or something. But over the months, it got better. We're still friends, but not as close as before. My thoughts were that Naruto might have thought that I didn't want to kiss him, not that I wasn't ready.

Sometimes I wish I had the nerve to tell him that he assent the problem that the kiss didn't happen. Maybe he was feeling some kind of quilt? I had asked Sakura what she thought, but I couldn't get a word in, since she was screaming with excitement about Naruto wanting to kiss me. So we didn't really talk much the following months, but I was determined to change that, when summer break ended.

We had about a week left of summer vacation, and I was going to the beach with Sakura, Ino, Temari and TenTen. What i didn't know, was that they had a whole different plan in their head, than I had in mine.

The day started perfectly, I woke up, got dressed and ate breakfast with Neji and my father. Hanabi was still sleeping. Neji kept glaring at me, like he was trying to tell me something, but not knowing how. "Uhm, Neji? What is it?" He shook his head out of his gaze and looked at me. "Oh nothing Hinata. Just wanted to know if you had any plans today?" Of course I didn't believe him, but i went with it. "I'm going to the beach with the girls." I said as I stood up.

I walked out of the kitchen and up to my room. I packed all my beach-stuff and changed to a bikini that I hid under my clothes. My clothes were a lavender tank top, a white skirt and sandals. I left my hair loose, since we were going to bathe. Suddenly I heard a noise coming from my window, so of course I went over to check it out. I opened my window and looked out, there outside my window, on my roof stood a very familiar young man with blonde hair and blue eyes, smiling at me. "Na-Nar-Naruto?" I asked, the boy nodded and asked if he could come inside, I stepped aside, too stunned to say anything. He just stood there in my room and looked around, like I was the one that went into his room. Suddenly my voice came back. "What are you doing here?" His eyes went back to mine, and he took a deep breath. Suddenly it all just blurted out: "ImsorryIkissedyouIjustreallylikeyouandIdidntknowwhattodo." I just stared at him, "I'm sorry, but I didn't get any of that." Then I smiled and he took a deep breath again: "I'm really sorry I kissed you, I-I-I Just re-rea-really l-li-lik-like y-yo-you." Then he did something that was so un-Naruto-ish that I almost laughed, he blushed. A deep, red blush. I took a step forward and hugged him. "It's okay, I-I-I just...-" I was interrupted with Neji calling from downstairs. Naruto and I flew from each other. "Hinata! Sakura is here!" I turned towards the door, then I told Naruto that I would talk to him later, and afterwards I took my beach-bag and hurried downstairs.

"Hey Sakura, Ino, Temari, TenTen." I said as i hopped in Temari's car. She was already 16 and had her drivers license, so we rode in her car. "So Hinata are you going to tell us why Naruto just jumped out of your window? or do you want us to guess first?" Sakura said as we drove to the beach. I blushed, of course I blushed, so I couldn't lie my way out. "Uhm, he-he just w-wanted to, uhm, tell me t-that h-he wa-was sorry that he-he tri-tried to-to ki-kiss me..." I stutterd. "Well well well, someone's a little shy. Did anything 'happen'" Ino implied. Of course that made me blush even more. "No-no-no-no! He-he just s-said that h-he was sorry, a-and tha-that he li-likes m-me..." I said, while almost whispering the last part. "So something did happen!" Temari yelled. "Can we please stop talking about this, look at her, she's like a tomato. Let's just enjoy a nice day at the beach." TenTen said, trying to rescue me. I smiled at her, as to say 'thank you'.

When we arrived at the beach, there weren't a lot of people. I was happy about that, since I didn't like to show my body off. There were a few people though. Some girls lying in the sand, a family, some boys, our age, playing beach volley. We found a nice spot, where we put down our towels and took off our clothes, so we were standing in our bathing suits. My bikini was lavender with white flowers on it. Sakura's bikini were pink and matching with Ino's bikini except Ino's were purple. TenTen was wearing a white swimsuit and Temari were wearing a red bikini with white dots. We all laid down on our towels and talked for a bit.

Suddenly Temari wanted to go swimming, and we all joined her. I didn't know why she suddenly wanted to go swimming, but i would soon fin out. After we had splashed around in the warm summer water a couple of minutes, we saw someone familiar walk down the beach. Suddenly a few more joined that person. They looked out at the ocean, looked at us, and waved. I couldn't exactly who it was, so i said to the others that we should go in and check it out.

I walked out of the water and got some whistles from the boys playing beach volley. I blushed and heard a very familiar voice yelling: "Hey you guys! Don't whistle at her! Ya you heard me! You touch her and you're dead!" I looked around to find the owner of that familiar voice, when I saw a blond male holding up one of the boys that were whistling to me. "How dare you say that to her!?" The blond kept yelling. "Naruto enough, she's staring at you." Another boy came close to the blond boy. I blushed, Naruto really cared about me. Naruto let go of the boy and looked around. Suddenly he was staring at me. "Hey Hinata!" He yelled, while staring to wave. Sakura joined up with Sasuke, who was now part of the group. More familiar faces and voices joined up, and suddenly we were a big group. "Hey Shikamaru? Were's Choji and Kauri?" I asked, since I couldn't see them. "Well they both moved out of town and transferred school, I still think it's funny that they ended up on the same school." I nodded in agreement. "Then do you know where Tamaki, Lee and Shino are?" I asked again. He sighed, "Were have you been the whole summer? Oh right I know, you've been in your room crushing on Naruto. Ino told me, well anyways, Tamaki had to transfer school too, since her family moved away. Lee and Shino are still on vacation I think, but I heard something about them moving too." Wow, everyone was moving...

We kept talking and having a fun day at the beach. Some of us went home, until it was only me, Sakura, Teamri, Shikamru, Naruto and Sasuke left. Ino had gone home with Sai, I didn't know that they had something going on, but apparently I had been in my own mind the whole summer. Everyone else went home to them selves, well I didn't want to think of it, but I thought I saw TenTen and Neji walking off together, holding hands.

It was getting dark, and we decided to start a fire. While the boys were out getting wood, Sakura and Temari decided to convince them to playing Never Have I Ever, when they got back.

Chapter end.