Chapter 3: The Morning After

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Hinata glanced at the clock for what seemed like the hundredth, and it read 2:15 a.m. She sat hunched over Naruto's bed, her eyes closing every so often and then popping them back open again. She scanned her room over, and noticed many books lying all over the floor.

"He's really trying hard; it's too bad no one else sees that but me." She thought, reading some various titles of the books.

She placed her hand on his forehead, and began to brush the hair away from his face. She continued to do this for a while, until she drifted off to sleep.

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The next morning Naruto woke up, only to find Hinata sleeping with her head on the side of his bed, and sitting in his desk chair, he was a bit surprised but none the less, smiled at the gesture. He quietly crawled out of his bed, walked out of the room, and closed the door with a click.

A few minutes later Hinata woke up in a panic wondering where Naruto had gone, and smacked herself in the head for not staying awake. Just then Naruto walked in the room with a tray in his hands.

"Oh hey you're up!" He said cheerfully.

"O-oh, there you a-are, I-I was a-afraid y-you were g-gone." She replied, looking down at her feet.

"Here, I made you breakfast." He said, coming further into the room, and setting the tray on the bed.

She looked into the bowl that had been placed on the tray, and smiled.

"Ramen." She said.

"Sorry, I couldn't make you anything better, that's about all I know how to make." He replied with a goofy smile.

They sat in silence for a while as Hinata ate her ramen until Naruto decided to speak up. "Thanks for staying with me last night, Sasuke and Sakura usually just dump me here and leave."

"Oh, well, I j-just w-wanted t-to make sure y-you were o-ok." She told him, looking at her feet, and turning beat red.

"Well, I was supposed to go train with Sasuke today, but I can't really do that inside." Naruto said. Hinata looked confused for a second and then looked out the window, and noticed it was raining, pretty hard in fact.

Soon, she had finished her ramen and Naruto took it to the kitchen for her.

"W-well, I r-really s-should be g-going n-now." She told him.

"Yeah, and I've got to see what Sasuke wants to do today, since training is out of the question." He said. "Alright, well you just get your stuff and go, I'm going to Sasuke's. Just close the door behind you."

"O-ok." She replied.

Naruto then ran out the door, and ventured over to Sasuke's house.

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Once he had reached the house, he came through the front gate, and before he could knock on the door, he noticed Sasuke and Sakura sitting on his couch through the window.

"Hmm…what's going on I wonder." He said curiously, while looking through the window.

The two seemed to be talking, although he couldn't see Sakura's face (since her back was to him), he could just tell that she was aggravated and Sasuke was trying to talk her down. After a few minutes he had managed to calm her down, and they hugged.

"Man, you two are even more pathetic then I thought!" Naruto thought, laughing to himself.

But, what happened next would forever alter Naruto's feelings for Sakura, and their friendship. The two released a bit and kissed. Naruto was completely in shock, and that's when Sasuke quickly pushed Sakura off of him and ran for the door.

Sakura looked around, wondering what was going on, and Naruto realized that he'd been found out. He quickly bolted out of there, and leaped over the fence, all he could hear was a faint "Naruto!" coming from Sasuke. He didn't care, they lied to him, and so he ran back to his house with tears streaming down his face.

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Once he arrived, he saw Hinata just coming out of the doorway to go back home.

"Hinata!" He yelled at her.

She whipped around, "Naruto?" She said, looking very confused. He ran up the front steps, and threw his arms around her.

"W-what's going on?" She asked.

"S-Sasuke and Sakura, t-they…" He said, looking very weak and not being able to finish his sentence.

"T-they what?" She questioned back.

He looked her straight in the eye, and then completely blacked out, and fell to the floor.

"Naruto!" She yelled, but it was no use, he was unconscious.

End Chapter 3

Well, there you have it chapter three is complete! Sorry I haven't been able to update over the holidays, normally I would have, but this year we went to Grand Cayman and Cozumel on a cruise miles away from Florida. So, I apologize about that, and also for being stupid and not writing! Anyways, I hope everyone enjoyed this chapter, and had a happy holiday season! Once this one is finished I've got another idea for a Naruto fic, but more on that later. Well, see you guys later!

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