"How can i tell you?"

A HinaNaru (also a SasuSaku, ShikaIno) pairing!

Authors notes: gasp... lotsa reviews!!! (faints) I dont believe so many people read this... (smacks herself on the head)... am I awake?

Hana : of course youre awake! youre typing this right now... Izumi : You have serious problems girl... what's up?

I dunno... Schools gettin me dizzy... stressful and fun... that's what school is.

Kana : Im sooo tried...

Same here... okay, so here goes... chapter 16!

Tenma : 'and I dont get paid for this... this stinks'

(whacks him on the head with a mallet) anyway, this is PURE NARUHINA MUSHYNESS... diabetics are not advised to read this... its too sweet! (I hope)

Izumi : (hugs a gaara plushie) now... comeon... read... please? and also sorry for the horrable delay...

Disclaimer : Of course, the naruto series is not mine... if it was... hinata would appear more frequently and theyed get engaged in the series (you gotta love both of em) well... Naruto, Hinata-san, Ino, Sakura, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Kakashi and some other minor/major characters are NOT mine i tell you!!! (but i wish they were... TT)

How can I tell you? - Chapter 16
Why I loved someone like you...
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there was absolutely something wrong. One of group was in Orochimaru's power... She had been tranced. She was In front of a mirror.... gazing at it...

"I..." A girl said as she touched the cold glass.

"i..m ... yours..."

There was surely something wrong with Hinata that night... Surely, The Choker Tenma gave her was some sort of brainwashing device...

"Tenma..." she whispered as she laid her head on the mirror...

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Naruto felt something bad was going to happen that night... something bad, and usually, his intuitions were right... It just had to be something about Hinata. So he rushed to her room, and saw Ino and Temari along the way.

"Hey! you two, have you seen Hinata?" Naruto asked his two female comrades.

Ino thought for a while...

"try her room... She hasnt left there since lunch... I wonder what's wrong with her?"

Temari had her suspicions, but she shrugged it away, thinking it was one of the side-effects of Kana's plan to change time.

"I dunno... you should go see her Naruto..." Temari said to the worried jonin.

Naruto said something like a 'later' and ran towards Hinata's room, it wasnt far. But the locked door gave him quite a problem... how the hell can he go in?

"Damn... cant come in..." He said, knocking on the door, "hey... Hinata... are you in there?"

There was no answer.

"Hinata?"

"Hinata?!"

He knocked on the door like crazy, he felt like he was going to worry to death...

"Hinata... open this door! please!?"

There was still no answer... Naruto was getting irritated...So he tried slamming the door open... It did open after a while of body slams. (and no... it wasnt damaged...cool huh?)

"Hinata! are you okay in there?"

Hinata turned away from the mirror and looked coldly at Naruto, This wasnt the Hinata Naruto knew...

"Hinata? what's wrong? if its about the door then-"

Hinata glared at naruto.

"leave..."

"but hinata! I-"

"LEAVE!"

Sasuke could overhear them from his room, which was next to Hinata's. So he went to take a short look.

"What's wrong dobe?"

Naruto turned to Sasuke, looking dead worried.

"Hinata's not herself...! what am I going to do?"

"I dunno... what did YOU do?"

Naruto shrugged.

"All I did was slam the door open, I was worried! I keep having this scary feeling!"

Sasuke raised an eyebrow... and looked at Hinata. Naruto was right, she did have a scary aura around her now... it wasnt hinata that was infront of them... it felt like someone else taking the form of hinata...

"hnn... Hinata? this isnt the Hinata I know..."

"Shut up...! Just leave!" Hinata shouted at the two jonins, throwing a chair at them... luckily, both of them dodged it.

"Why!? Tell me!" Naruto said, grasping hinata by her arms.

"Just leave me alone... " but the last word pirced Naruto's heart more than anything, "...dobe..."

Naruto just froze in surprise... He couldnt believe Hinata, of all people, could say that word to him. Sure he heard it thousands of times from sasuke, neji, and some other people, but the point that It was Hinata that said it... it felt like a kunai stabbed him on the back so many times... It hurt him a lot more than any pain-measuring word he knew could describe.

Sasuke looked at Hinata and back at Naruto again... he was still mentally frozen stiff. He couldnt even bother to blink!

"Naruto... This isnt Hinata..."

Tears started to fall from Naruto's eyes...

"Hinata...! Listen to me!" He said shaking Hinata, who was still in the trance.

Hinata didnt answer, she was stiff as a board and silent as the wind.

"I...I... I love you! Please... come back! This isnt you!"

"Please... Hinata... Listen to me..."

Hinata seemed like she really was into a deep trance. It was clear to sasuke who did this, Orochimaru's heir.... obviously, There was supposed to be something she wears that lets Hinata get this deep in a trance... Then he saw the spiral choker she was wearing, It was flashing black to red and back again... that was it!

"Naruto! She's under Orochimaru's control! she cant hear you with that trance she's in!"

Naruto looked at sasuke.

"Huh?!"

"Gah! Just destroy that Choker!" he shouted out to naruto.

Naruto did what he was told to...however, Hinata had activated her byakugan and pushed Naruto onto the wall using her gentle fist. It didnt damage naruto badly though. Sasuke had to intervene... He activated his Sharingan and Used the Chidori against her, unfortunately, he forgot that any form of mind-control that came from Orochimaru gave the person in a trance a burst of power, so he came flying across the room to the hallway.

Naruto looked at the seemingly 'cold' Hinata.

"Hi...na...ta...." he whispered as he stood up, " Im... not going... to give... up... until you... come back..."

Hinata gave a cold smirk.

"go ahead and try!"

Naruto lunged for the choker, but the moment he was almost near her, Hinata used some basic taijutsu to slam Him on the nearby cabinet... and also, making the box (where the naruto doll was kept) fall open to the ground. When Hinata saw it... Everything came back to her like a flash...

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"yea... were here to make sure you and naruto dont make out again..."

"We were not making out!" Hinata and Naruto said together, then they looked at each other and looked at the ground blushing a deep red.

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"er... Wanna share my ramen?"

"I... I..."

"No need for your "I"'s... here, have some!"

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"wh-where are you going?" Hinata asked in her shy tone as usual while she looked away.

"...out... A special woman like you needs privacy..."

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"you really, obviously youre thinking of naruto again are you?"

Hinata shook her head.

"no! I-I wasnt thinking of him!"


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"DAAAAMN YOUUU! How dare you touch Hinata? You want a fight?! I'll give it to ya!..."

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"Naruto... are you ok?"

Hinata was getting worried.

"are you sure?"

Naruto gulped.

"I-I'm sure hinata... dont worry! just continue eating... so if you'll excuse me... i'll go away for a while to watch you- i mean I'll go away to keep a lookout... yea! that's it! so... er... see ya..."

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"Dammit... but NO WAY! Shikamaru... pack our bags... I don't care if I never become Hokage mister... but I swear... I'LL NEVER LET HINATA DIE LIKE THAT!"

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Naruto kissed her cheek and said... "were friends again... right?"

[You were always there...]

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"YOU CAN DO IT HINATA!!!! KICK NEJI'S ASS!!" (during her 1st chuunin exam)

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"No matter what happens... Im still here for ya! now, go pass that exam!"

"GOOOO HINATA!!!!!!"

(during her 2nd chuunin exam)

[you were always there... supporting me...]

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[I always loved you because you were my inspiration... your courage... your determination... It made me think I could do anything...]

"I always keep my word! that's my ninja way!" (is this right? if not... live with it... sweatdrop...)

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[even if I lost the second time on the chuunin exams two years ago, you were the one who returned the hope I had lost...]

"Hinata!"

Hinata looks at naruto, her eyes still red after crying on her loss.

"Y-yes n-naruto?"

"come with me!" Naruto said as he took hinata's hand and led the way to tsunade's house.

Hinata blushed furiously, feeling the warmth of His palms.

"Huh?!"


"Im goin to reffer you to Tsunade! if you cant become a chuunin, then you can become something better!"

"w-what do you mean?"

Naruto shrugged...Hinata had no Idea he was going to refer her as a medic. He saw Her treat his wounds like a professional when he came back from dragging Sasuke home (the doctors were too busy taking care of the plentiful shinobi injured during the time...). In thanks, he thought he would refer her to Tsunade in return...

"gah... just come! hurry! Obasan cant wait forever can she?"

[that's why I loved you...]

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Hinata seemed to lunge at Naruto, he thought it would be the end of him... to die on the hand of the one he loved... HOWEVER.... that wasnt it... She hugged him for a moment, and lost conciousness. The choker had already crumbled for no good reason... Hinata didnt know what the hell she did... that's for sure... Naruto smiled at Hinata, and caressed her hair. He was too afraid to do so when she was awake... he'd never know how the rich hyuuga heir WOULD react to A poor jackass like him touching her precious navy blue hair. He stood up and carried Hinata to her bed.

Sasuke was already behind him, tapping his foot on the floor. Obviously, he did take a bad blow from hinata's taijutsu, but he recovered quickly.

"so... I was right all along... you did LOVE her..."

Naruto laid hinata on her bed and looked at sasuke with a raised eyebrow,

"and so?"

"nothin wrong with that dobe... anyway, Im goin to bed...again." Sasuke joked as he patted Naruto hard on the back and headded for his room, thankful that Naruto and Hinata's 'short' quarrel was over...

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Ino and Temari ran from their room, finding sasuke walking towards his room from Hinata's room.

"hey! Sasuke-kun... is there anything wrong? what's the noise? did I miss anything?"

Sasuke eyed the blonde girls and walked away,

"nothing... and if I might say so... youre getting more annoying everytime I see you..."

Temari raised an eyebrow.

"heh... and like I think youre gettin softer everytime you think of that Haruno girl..."

"shutup..." sasuke blurted out before he slammed the door to his room.

Both of the girls laughed and went back to their rooms. They think i'd be best to just ignore it... maybe Hinata got clumsy and dropped something from above right? itd be no problem...

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"goodnight hinata..." Naruto said as he tucked Hinata properly on her bed and kissed her forehead.

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YATA! Chapter 16 all done... what did you think? hahahah.. Im obviously a sucker for Happy endings as well... but Kana's story had to be done as something sad for the story to become MORE interesting... How cool would it be to travel in time anyway? (smiles) anyway, thanks to all who reviewed and also thanks for helping me make 84 reviews! cant wait for my 100th...!

Keep em goin guys!!!! XD