Someday Love Will Find You

Ch. 21 "Emotion Roller Coaster."

I don't own Naruto, but I wish I did.

A/N: I apologize for not updating so soon, but I had a family problem to attend to concerning the earthquake.

That, and I had lost my USB that had all my stories, sooo I had to do this chapter from scratch.

Because of that, I cut the last story in half.

I can't really recall the rest of the story, so you have to make do with this one for the time being as I finish it up.

"Hey." Naruto gave a small wave. "Nice flight, huh?"

Right behind him stood Sakura, Shikamaru and Sasuke.

Sakura whacked him on the back of his head. "Now's not the time for nonsense. We came here for something."

"This is so troublesome!" Shikamaru rubbed the sleep from his eyes as he opened his mouth wide for a yawn.

"Hey." Neji gathered their luggage from the floor. "What are you guys—?"

"Well," Sakura smiled broadly. "I planned this. We were supposed to be here as of yesterday, but they ran out of seats for last night's flight."

"How did you know I was—?" Hinata gaped at Naruto, still debating inside of her if he were actually in front of him or she's dozing off during the plane flight.

That would explain the shortness of the ride.

"Sasuke told us and Sakura made me." Naruto caught her staring at him and grinned. But now that I know why she made me, I'm glad that she did. But man, my wallet is now flat. Oh well. It was worth it.

"Oh." Hinata brooded. Sakura made him. He didn't want to come.

"You don't seem excited." Sakura's smile fell.

"No, I am." Hinata forced a smile on when everyone just stared at her. "Really, I'm glad to see you guys."

"Then what's bothering you?" Naruto placed a hand on her shoulder.

"Don't." Hinata shrugged his touch.

"Don't what?" Naruto gave a nervous chuckle. "Touch you?"

Hinata failed to respond.

Everyone sensed the mood and stood there, awkwardly watching and waited on how the scene in front of them would unfold.

"Hinata?" Naruto knitted his eyebrows together.

"Naruto-kun," Hinata glanced away from his intent blue eyes. "I know you did this for Sakura's sake. You do everything with her in mind. So I'm sorry for making you waste your time and money."

Sakura noticed that there were no honorifics after her name and felt a bit angered.

"Hinata, what do you—?" Naruto began to scowl.

"Naruto." Sakura caught his eye and gave a sad nod.

At last, Naruto realized, his eyes growing a bit wide.

Inside he began to feel the fury bubbling up inside of him.

"What about the day before you left?" Naruto furrowed his brows even more. "Explain to me that."

"I'm the rebound, right?" Hinata peeked at his face, only to look away again. He's angry? "Because you're still not over her. I know you didn't mean it."

"Hinata, it's not like that." Sakura heavily sighed. "Please, you have to understand that—."

"It's okay, I understand." Hinata smiled half-heartedly at Sakura, still refusing to face Naruto. "I do appreciate that you guys came and said your farewells—."

"After everything that we have been through!" Naruto grabbed a hold of Hinata by the arms and made her face him. "It hurts me that you think I'm not over her."

Hiashi and Neji flinched at the boy's actions.

You haven't been through anything, dobe. Sasuke snorted, crossing his arms. Well, this is interesting. I wonder how the dobe will get her in the end. Though, I kind of hope that he doesn't.

"Well," Hinata declined to stare him straight, eye to eye. "You can't really blame me."

"I know." Naruto let go of her. "And I'm sorry. But I did not do this for her."

Hinata glanced at the ground.

"You have to see, that I did this for me." Naruto gave his signature smile. "For you."

"Why?" Hinata took a step back from his touch. Unable to come up with anything else to say, she repeated herself. "Why?"

"If you had left, I don't think I had a reason to be there anymore." Naruto looked at the floor, his cheeks a bit pink. "I should've told you this a long time ago, but I had a lot of things on my mind, and well, I just want to say, I love you, Hinata."

"Naruto you—!" Neji's gaze flickered from Naruto to Hinata's father, fearing how Hiashi would react to the confession.

"I know, I know, Neji. But I really do love her." Naruto spun around to face Hiashi. "She's the kindest person I have ever met; to the point where her kindness surpasses the limit of what one person may have."

Neji stopped in his tracks of getting ready to drag Naruto back on to the plane.

He recalled the last conversation he had with Tenten. It was just after they had eavesdropped on the two.

"That idiot." Neji cursed under his breath. "'Love her,' my foot!"

"He gets restless when she leaves for a while. He gets jealous when she's talking to another boy. If that's not love, then what is it, Neji?" Tenten pouted. 'At least unlike you, he's trying.'

"Foolishness, Tenten." With that, Neji ran after his cousin, just before Sasuke had told the group.

Neji heard his uncle make a sound. It sounded like a grunt of disappointment.

Being kind was always one thing that made Hinata seem weak. Neji felt the forgotten anger bubble up once again in his chest.

"Do you know why I fell in love with you?"

"Huh?" Naruto stared at Hinata with her head down, whose face unseen from behind her bangs.

"It's because you were always kind to others even when they insulted you to the point where it's unforgiveable." Hinata said in one breath. "You would struggle to get better and prove them wrong. And when you did, you did not throw it back to their face."

"Hinata—."

"At first, I hated you for that, because you had a strong will." Hinata twiddled with her index fingers. "But as we grew, I found myself attracted to you and eventually fell in love. You're way of living became contagious, and there is something about you that changes the way people are. I know you did change me."

"Hinata, you're wrong when you said that you liked me because I was kind. You're the kind one here, not me." Naruto turned his attention back to the girl. "I can only make people laugh, not win their hearts. So I find it incredible that you love me."

"You like Sakura-chan, I know it Naruto-kun, so please don't lie to yourself." Hinata vehemently said the words.

"What is she doing?" Sakura was ready to punch down a wall. Really? Come on now!

To Sasuke, it seemed as if all she was doing was pushing him away because of the fear of being hurt. Because of all the years she had been hurting.

To Neji, it was just his cousin being stubborn and dense just as Naruto had, no, will always be.

To Sakura, it was another misunderstanding and she cursed at Naruto and herself inwardly. If only he didn't like me to begin with! If only I was sexier for Sasuke to notice me so that Naruto would've given up on me!

To Naruto, it was just Hinata not liking him anymore because of him rejecting her.

She moved on. A voice inside of him sneered. There's a limit on being dense, you know? And you are way past that point. Forget about it and go back to Konoha.

But he was not ready to give up yet.

"You have a great personality." Naruto continued on with his (second) confession. "Your love for me amazes me because even though I just noticed you now, you have always loved me, even when I was running after someone else. You tolerated me and endured."

"But Sakura-san—." Hinata shook her head, willing her tears to stay in her eyes. Not wanting them to fall. This is not happening. It's all a dream.

Even though she told herself that, she knew that it wasn't true.

"I've lost my heart to someone else. I found my happiness." Naruto smiled softly and took her hands in his. "And that's you Hinata. All I want is to draw myself closer to you. There is no denying this feeling any longer."

"Naruto-kun—!" Hinata's eyes grew wide and tried to jerk away from his hold.

"Hinata, I was so scared of these feelings for you that I did everything I could. I was confused and tried to push them away." Naruto tightened his grip, refusing to let go of her hands. "But I couldn't stop destiny."

"Not another pick-up line! That Naruto!" A familiar voice spoke and a few grumbles of agreement came afterwards.

"Ino-san?" Hinata's ears perked, turning towards the sound.

Ino was there carrying a small bag, grinning like an idiot who won the lottery.

"Hey, Hinata. I hope you don't mind that we all came here to bring you back." Ino walked over to Hinata and gave her a hug. She looked at Hiashi for a bit, as if giving her proposition.

"'All,' you don't mean?" Hinata was glad for the distraction. If Ino hadn't stepped in, her eyes would've turned into a waterfall.

"Yep. All of us!" Another familiar voice yelled.

In the terminal was the rest of the gang. Temari, Tenten, Kiba, Chouji, Sai, Rock Lee, Shino, Gaara, and even Kankuro were all standing there, with smug smiles planted on their faces.

"You guys!" Hinata felt her heart skip a bit. For a moment she had forgotten all about being in Europe and away from Konoha.

For a moment.

"Tenten!" Neji was as shocked as Hinata was.

Tenten merely winked at him, her smile growing.

Oh? Hiashi had a small unnoticeable smile on as he watched his nephew's reaction.

Hanabi felt like she was going to be sick. I will never understand what it is to like someone. It's repulsive!

"And, FYI, Sakura, I planned this with you." Ino shook her head disapprovingly. "In fact I was the one who came up with it. You weren't the mastermind behind this!"

Sakura's cheeks turned a bit crimson as she looked away from Ino's fierce gaze as she squirmed. "Ah, did I say that? Ha, ha, ha."

Sorry to leave you guys here!

And I know it was a bad chapter for a really long wait!

I'll update the end as soon as I can!

Dx

So sorry~!