A/n: Arigato for your reviews!!! I'm glad you liked the legend...o.0 wipes flooding tears 0.o Demo... I'm sorry because I can't reveal to you the pairings. Where would the thrill be if I do that ne? I hope you keep reading and reviewing this fic and also for my two other fics, "Flashbacks of an Unforgotten Promise"- for Sasu-Saku lovers and "Everybody grows up"- for people who just wants a good laugh and want their perverted minds to work. Arigato again Kyuubi-san... you have cured my ignorance...
Disclaimer: o.0 hypnotizes the owners of Naruto 0.o cough... Cough... Since the legal owners don't have the capacity to own Naruto, I therefore own it. Bwahahaha!!!
Chapter 3: Unknowing yet feeling
"They say that if you bring the person you are matched up by the stones to a bridge, you will be together forever."
"Hinata-chan!!!" Naruto screamed after her as he followed her trail. Hinata blushed.
"Ohayo Naruto-kun..." Hinata greeted when Naruto reached her.
Naruto peeked at her sides to look if someone was behind her, blinking for effect.
Hinata played with her fingers as she pondered on their distances. Never been so close... she thought, her inner voice freezing because of Naruto's presence, her head bowing down to hide her hot face.
Naruto smiled but it melted away as he noticed Hinata's shivering, who he found hugging herself.
Naruto went down a bit to meet her eyes, which were downcast as well as her head.
"Hinata-chan? What's wrong?" Naruto asked his eyes concerned.
Hinata smiled, tilting her head a bit to meet up with Naruto's face. "My hands are just cold." Hinata explained as she tucked her little fingers on her pocket, which didn't help at all.
Naruto's eyes shut themselves, his whiskers stressed then...
"Huh?" Hinata said as she felt her hand taken from her pocket into an unknowing boy's hand. Hinata blushed madly.
"You are cold Hinata-chan!" Naruto shrieked as he held her hands tighter, trying to warm it with his own.
Hinata heard her heartbeat beat harder at every second. She doesn't know whether she was blushing though half of her told her she was. Naruto- kun... From a Distance
Ino watched as the preceeding events came, envying Hinata, momentarily. Nobody has ever touched my hand like that... she thought to herself when suddenly she felt herself froze. Nani? She thought out loud, sweat falling her face.
"Ah... Gomen... I stepped at your shadow..." Shikamaru said as he yawned loudly while releasing his hold of Ino.
Ino sighed in relief. It was only you...
"What are you doing here anyway... Standing in the middle of the way?" Shikamaru asked as he tried to get through Ino, question marks appearing above his head when Ino didn't let him through.
"Baka! You'll spoil their moment!" Ino said as she pointed to where Hinata and Naruto was, with Hinata bushing when she found out they were being watched.
Ino nervously laughed as she pulled Shikamaru's hand out of nowhere, walking past Naruto and Hinata as they crossed the bridge. "You can continue what your doing now!!! I don't think anyone's looking"Ino laughed nervously, causing Hinata to blush more and Naruto to be quite confused. What is she talking about anyway?
Ino sighed as they strolled their way, stopping on the exact spot of their so-called Patience test, still holding into Shikamaru's hand. Ino released Shikamaru's hand with both of them blushing afterwards.
Ino scanned the place, still feeling the texture of Shikamaru's hand on her own. It was rough yet light. Ino mentally shook her head. Where is Sasuke-kun when you need him? She thought dumbly as she spotted a lone figure, sitting by a branch his hair moving with the wind. She blushed as she approached the tree, imaging herself sitting on the exact same tree with Sasuke-kun side by side. Ino blushed as she laughed heartily with no one but herself, hands on her cheeks, with a hearty heart background.
Shikamaru sweatdropped. He's never gonna understand girls... not that he was interested really... but he can rest assured that it's one thing a mind can overpower.
"INO-PIG! GET AWAY FROM THAT TREE!" Sakura shrieked as if reading Ino's mind plan.
Sasuke looked from above his position, muttering Baka silently as he watched the tension rise on the two girls.
Neji, who was above the next tree, leaned his back on the tree's bark. His face dead serious as usual as he took a glance of the last Uchicha member.
Sasuke replied with his own glare.
Neji took his eyes off the staring contest, watching Lee as he entered the picture together with Tenten as well as Shino and Kiba.
CREAK!
Everybody looked at the source of the noise, seeing Gai appear, his broad shoulders accentuated as he walked slowly to his students' view.
"Looks like everybody's here. Let us start then." Gai finished, smiling intently to Lee, who was way too close to Sakura.
A/n: This is primarily the introduction to the next chapter. I'm sorry if it's too plain... I just felt the urge to write it and POOF! It's there... Please review this chapter even though it's nothing but nonsense.