Okk Here, have some major NaruHina :] You know you love it. Aww so cute aren't they?
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"Hey Hina-chan, can I tell you something? I've been meaning to for a while now, i mean Sakura and Kakashi already know, and i've decided that those close to me should know what they are associating themselves with when it comes to me."
She could see the nervousness in Naruto's eyes and decided to make whatever it was he had to tell her easier on him.
"S-sure Naruto-kun"
Naruto patted the edge of his bed as he pushed himself in to a sitting position against the headboard of the bed. Hinata willed down her blush to keep it from becoming too obvious from both sitting on Naruto's bed, and that he had said she was close to him, close enough to tell her something that was obviously deeply important to him. She made her way over the edge of his bed and sat down hesitantly, peering in to the eyes of the person her heart would never give up on, those oceans of blue never ceased to capture her attention no matter the situation.
"Well, uh-"
Naruto scratched the back of his head, trying to figure out the best way to start the conversation he hadn't thought this far in to it. Hinata just waited patiently for him, she knew It must be something big to cause him to be this nervous in turn she was getting nervous herself, what could it be that was so important for him to tell her?
"You know the story of Kyuubi, right?"
Hinata nodded, not knowing quite where he was going with the conversation. Naruto sighed; he really should have thought this through more.
"Well The fourth didn't actually kill it, they just taught us that in academy as to not scare us."
Hinata nodded again slowly, they had been taught a lie in the academy?
"The Kyuubi was too powerful to be killed, so they sealed it."
Hinata still couldn't see what he was getting at and the confusion on her face made that obvious to Naruto too.
"W-what do you mean, Naruto-kun?"
"I mean, they sealed the Kyuubi because they couldn't kill it. The fourth was forced to seal it inside a new born child."
Hinata gasped; how they could do that to a child she did not know. But it made sense, the child's chakra paths wouldn't have been formed fully yet - so it wouldn't have caused them pain as it would have, had they sealed it inside an adult.
"Hinata, you know when my birthday is right?"
Of course she knew, it was October 10th, the same day as the Kyuubi had attacked, her eyes glistened from tears as she pieced it all together in her head; Naruto had been the child that had had the Kyuubi sealed inside them? She quickly realised that the Kyuubi was the reason Naruto was treated so badly by some of the villagers and even some of the shinobi in the village.
"Heh, guess you figured it by the look on your face."
Though sounding a little downtrodden Naruto chuckled while scratching the back of his head, he didn't know what to do damnit he should have thought this out more thoroughly.
"I-I understand if you hate me like some of the villagers, but I just want you to know that I'm me, and not the Kyuubi."
Naruto was shocked when he felt a pair of small arms wrap themselves around his neck, and a head rested on his shoulder; he could feel her tears on his skin.
"I-I know your not the K-Kyuubi, you keep everyone safe from it. You are yourself, Naruto-kun"
Naruto let out a breath that he didn't even know he was holding, he returned the hug as he awkwardly put his arms around Hinata's lower back. Hinata couldn't believe that she hadn't fainted yet, and she was glad she was in Naruto's arms! She could barely believe it.
"Thank you Hina-chan, you don't know how much that means to me."
He was so relieved; his stomach was doing back flips just by having her in such a close proximity. As they pulled back awkwardly from the long hug, Naruto decided he could now tell her his other secret, one that nobody else knew about, one that he had figured out during his training.
As Hinata stood up from his bed he decided to make his move, slipping his legs off of the edge of the bed and standing up, he looked in to her lavender eyes.
"There's something else that I need to tell you, uh can we go on the balcony? It's kinda hot in here Heh"
It was warm in the room, but that hug had got both of them so flushed that they were radiating their own heat as if they were radiators. Hinata nodded, relieved that he hadn't said anything about her major blush.
Naruto opened the door to the balcony, it wasn't too big, but also wasn't exactly small. The balcony had an amazing view of the forestry behind the small town, and also a perfect place to see the stars from. Hinata gasped at the beauty of the site and all but ran towards the railing, looking out at the stars she felt content. Meanwhile Naruto was just behind her, marvelling at the way the moonlight extenuated Hinata's natural beauty that he had fallen for. Yep, he admitted it to himself; He had fallen for the shy Hyuuga heiress. Now all he had to do was tell her, he knew he'd probably get rejected but it just felt right he couldn't keep it bottled up any longer.
Naruto came up to the edge of the balcony and rested his folded arms on the railing; he leant forwards and looked up towards the night sky.
"Hinata-chan."
His deep voice broke Hinata from her reverie, she turned her head so she could see his handsome face. Naruto noticed movement in the corner of his eye and turned to face Hinata, leaning on one arm against the railing. He leant forward a fraction so he could see her face more clearly, and prepared himself mentally for what he was about to tell her.
She loved the way he said her name with that low but soft voice of his, as he inched closer and readied himself to speak Hinata gained control over her blush and listened intently.
"I- Uh."
She could tell this was obviously something hard for him to say, so she decided to stay silent and let him speak without any interruptions. Taking a deep breath he continued.
"Well, while I was away training I Y'know thought of home a lot. And well, uh certain people like my friends and that."
She had no idea where this was going, was this still about the Kyuubi did he want help telling them as well?
"I-uh starting thinking about how I saw everyone, like Kiba and Shikamaru are like my annoying brothers, ne?"
Hinata nodded understandingly; though Shikamaru always called Naruto "Troublesome" she knew he was a very close friend of the blonde. Kiba and Naruto were very alike calling each other names but not meaning them, they were a lot like siblings.
"And, well when I thought about you I dunno, I just couldn't see where you fitted in like the rest did"
Hinata's eyes widened, did he not see her as a close enough friend? No, that couldn't be it she had heard him clearly in the forest:
Flashback
He braced himself for the landing, knocking Hinata over who had tried to catch him to no avail since her hands were still tied. Knowing what was coming Naruto pushed Hinata to the group and covered as much of her body with his as he could. Meanwhile Sakura and the other conscious shinobi we're sending their own arsenal of weapons, in hope of deflecting them from the two downed shinobi. Naruto locked eyes with a shocked Hinata just as the remaining weapons hit him, imbedding themselves in his shoulders, lowed back and the back of his legs.
Hinata saw Naruto's face contort with pain and glanced past his shoulder, she gasped when she realised that he had taken the brunt of the attack; with only a few stray shuriken and kunai slicing some of her skin open around her shoulders and legs.
Tears formed in the corners of her eyes as Naruto's breathing grew deeper, she knew the weapons probably didn't hit any major arteries but with the loss of blood and lack of chakra, it was amazing his was still conscious enough to try and grin at her.
"'Cough' don't worry Hina-chan, I wont let my precious people 'cough' get hurt."
End flashback
So if she was a precious person to him, why wasn't she a friend? Naruto broke her from her thoughts as he continued with his explanation.
"And then I thought of Sakura-chan, obviousl-"
Hinata couldn't bare it, she knew he had had a crush on the pink hair shinobi, but why was he telling her this? She didn't think she could help him if he decided to pursue Sakura, she doubted that her heart could take it.
"N-Naruto, I-I know you had a c-crush on Sakura-chan, b-but I don't think I c-can help you I-if that's what you w-want me to do."
Hinata looked away from his gaze blinking back tears that threatened to fall, she could stand them being together, after all she wanted to see Naruto happy and for him to get recognition at last. But she doubted she would be able to actually help her love get with another person, she just couldn't.
Hinata snapped her gaze back up to Naruto's face when she heard him chuckling with his hand behind his head.
"Hinata-chan, I think of Sakura-chan as my little sister, besides there's only one man for her, and that's Sasuke."
Hinata digested this, so he didn't want help in getting Sakura to go out with him or anything like that? Then what? She couldn't see where this conversation was going.
"Hinata-chan you and I both know that was just a crush, and a stupid one at that. I realised that she was like my sister even before I left with Jiraiya."
He let his foxy-grin shrink in to one of his true smiles that Hinata adored so much, it was now or never he had her full attention and he was going to use that to his advantage.
"Once I had gone through every one else, I got to you, Hinata-chan."
Hinata perked up at hearing her name, what did he think of her?
"I remembered all the times you helped me, like before the chunin exams and my fight with Neji."
Hinata let a faint smile grace her lips, it had taken a lot of courage for her to say those things to Naruto especially to his face, and she was surprised she had managed it without fainting.
"All the time while I was training with Ero-sennin, he would always tell me that I'd have to get stronger to protect my special people, and I knew that but he still used it as a means of getting me to push past my limits."
Hinata knew that Naruto would do anything for his friends and precious people, Jiraiya had obviously used that to his advantage in training him.
"For the first few weeks he had used Sakura-chan against me, saying that I wouldn't be strong enough to protect her and stuff like that. Of course that drove me to train harder, but Ero-sennin wanted more."
Hinata nodded, it seemed like a hurtful way to train somebody, but it was obviously effective, especially for Naruto, seeing as he would do anything before he was anybody get hurt let alone one of his friends.
"He wanted more, so he used Sasuke against me. Saying that I wouldn't be strong enough to bring him back; and that it would be my fault."
He sighed, he remembered getting so mad that he almost let Kyuubi out, but with his training he had managed to calm down enough to carry on training without damaging the surrounding towns. Noticing that Hinata was waiting patiently for him to continue, he did so.
"Even then, Ero-sennin seemed to think I had more, so he starting going through my friends; seeing who drew out more of the protectiveness in me apparently."
Hinata stayed silent listening intently waiting for him to continue, while Naruto took a deep breath before continuing, trying to calm his nerves.
"Then, he used you against me. Saying stuff like how I wouldn't be able to protect you from those damn cloud shinobi that wanted the Byakugan so much. He told me that they almost succeeded once that's when I kinda blew up. I got in such a state that i actually hurt Jiraiya to the extent that even Jiraiya was scared, he told me after i woke up having not remembered anything, what i had done. I was so angry and ashamed at myself, that i had got so wound up i hurt someone so close to me so severely. But when i thought back to it, if it had been someone i didn''t know threatening you.. i'd probably willingly do it again, as a last ditch option, i don't like using the furball's chakra, ever."
Hinata gasped, she didn't want everyone to think they had to protect her, she also didn't like people knowing that the attempted kidnapping was an almost success and how she couldn't have stopped it. Even though she was only 5 the Hyuuga's seemed to think she could have at least made noise to alert the guards and not just stay asleep as she was carried away from the estate. She was brought out of her daze as Naruto continued to speak, having noticed her gasp.
"But anyway, I told him that you didn't need protecting, and that you were strong. But I dunno, something inside me just made me work harder so you wouldn't need to fight 'cus I would be able to protect you, without using the kyuubi. And i did, he never used you in an attempt to get me riled up again, he didn't have to. That day was always stuck somewhere in the back of my mind, and i used that to push myself in training."
Hinata's eyes widened, he thought she was strong? He knew he didn't have to protect her but, he wanted to? Hinata couldn't take it and did the Hinata-like thing to do in a situation like this, she fainted.
Naruto laughed to himself, he was surprised that she had lasted this long in to the conversation with him without fainting. He knew it would happen before he got to tell her, but he'd just have to tell her when she woke up. He sighed and picked Hinata up bridal style, carrying her to the bed he had earlier vacated. Placing her down gently, he sat up against the wall and began to wait patiently, yes, patiently shocking for Naruto; but looking down at the beautiful girl sleeping with a red hue upon her face, he knew it was worth the wait.
Sorry.. she just had to faint at some point. :] There's plenty of action in a few chapters time don't worry, but there's still a bit of fluff to come hehe :)
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Marie x
