Happy? By: MyLastResort

Disclaimer: don't own, blah blah blah, you know the rest.

By The Way

Time seemed to stand still. Hinata held her breath. Naruto's eyes widened. Sasuke fell to the ground. After almost a minuet Hinata stepped out from behind the tree and shakily walked towards Naruto and the fallen Sasuke. Naruto noticed the girl walking towards them and he pointed a finger at Hinata then at Sasuke. "Y-you threw that?" he asked with fear and relief. Hinata slowly nodded. Naruto then went over to Sasuke and looked at him.

Luckily for Sasuke and Hinata, she had thrown the kunai with the rounded end first so unless she had hit him in the temple it could only knock him out cold. If Hinata had killed Sasuke then she would of undoubtedly been striped of her rank as a ninja and very possibly been banished from the village on the account of murdering a member of her own village. Naruto bent his knees so he was lower to the ground but still on his feet and felt Sasukes pulse in his wrist. "Good news and bad news. The good news is that he's alive, and the bad news is that he's alive. I'm guessing that he'll just wake up with the worst headache he's ever had in his life." Naruto said almost cheerfully. Hinata visibly relaxed. She had been so worried that she temporally forgot that she was standing right next to Naruto and that he was talking to her.

"What are we going to do about him thought." Naruto added as an after thought. Hinata said nothing and then Naruto brightened slightly, grinned, and said "I vote we just leave him here." "Naruto we couldn't do that." Hinata said in a concerned voice. "We need to bring him to a hospital and get him help." Naruto frowned and scratched the back of his head. "Ya but if we do then they're going to ask questions and I doubt they'll believe us if I say that the heir to the Uchia clan tried to rape me and you had to knock him out with a kunai to stop him. Also if we do that then he's going to find out that you did this to him and I don't think he'll be happy. Plus I don't even want to think about what all his fan girls would do to me if they found out! They would probably just blame me for everything and then kill me." By now Hinata was looking quite distressed. "W-well what are w-we going to do then?" she asked frantically. Naruto shut his eyes and scratched the back of his head again and thought. Despite the situation Hinata couldn't help but think about how cute Naruto looked when he did that. "Well if we have to do something we could at least drag him into town and leave him on a bench or something. Hopefully no one will see us and eventually someone will find him and get him some help. It's not like a beat up kid passed out on a bench isn't going to go unnoticed for long." Naruto finally said. Hinata still looked unconvinced so Naruto added, "I suppose we could stay out of sight and wait for someone to find him." Hinata nodded and mumbled out an okay. "Great. It's settled then." Naruto said cheerfully as he bent over picked up Hinata's kunai, handed it to her, then grabbed Sasuke by the ankle and started pulling him through the woods back towards the village. "N-Naruto you can't drag him like that!" Hinata said hurriedly. "I know, I was just going to for a minuet so he could look a little more beat up. Like this is looks like he's hurt and not just sleeping." Naruto answered with a wide grin on his face.

After Sasuke had been dragged long enough to get covered in dirt, and receive a small cut on his cheek from a pointy twig on the ground Naruto picked him up and carried him with his stomach on Naruto's shoulder and his head and feet on opposite sides of Naruto. They walked through the forest in an awkward silence. Hinata was busy pushing her two index fingers together as she thought to herself. Naruto was busy grumbling silently about how heavy Sasuke was.

After a few minuets of walking they grew close to the village but remained in the shadows of the trees as Hinata scanned the area to make sure there was no one around at the moment. When she was positive that there was no one there to catch them, Naruto walked out of the cover of the woods and slumped the unconscious ninja against the side of a building and quickly rushed back to the woods and hid.

It was only moment later when a middle aged man turned the corner and stopped and stared at the youth. He sprinted over and examined Sasuke before quickly running off. Shortly after that he reappeared with a man in a chunin uniform who examined Sasuke before carrying him off in the direction of the hospital.

Naruto breathed a sigh of relief. "Glad that's done." Hinata remained silent. She was sitting up against a tree with her knees pulled up against her chest with her face buried against them. "Hey Hinata, you've been really quiet through all of this. Is something wrong?" Naruto asked.

"What can I possibly say right now?" Hinata thought to herself. "I'm alone with Naruto and I can't think of anything to say. Well that's not entirely true. There are so many things I'd like to say but can't." "N-no nothings wrong." Hinata said quietly, answering Naruto's question. Naruto started looking around at nothing in particular, and was snapped back to attention by a question from Hinata. "N-Naruto, if you d-don't mind, could you tell me what happened with you and S-Sasuke?" Naruto frowned at the memory but told her nonetheless.

When he had finished talking, Hinata thought to herself about what Naruto had just said. "I'm happy for Naruto that he did so well in his fight. I'm also glad that Sakura doesn't have any special feeling for Naruto, but still… I feel sorry for Naruto. In the same day he finds out that both his teammates feel the exact opposite of how he wished they felt. Sasuke feels the way he wished Sakura felt and Sakura feels the way he had thought Sasuke felt. Just looking at him now makes me feel bad that I'm happy that Sakura doesn't like him how he wished she did. I feel so selfish." Hinata looked up when she heard Naruto calling her name. "Are you sure you're alright? You just zoned out for almost a minuet." he asked her with a trace of concern in his voice. Hinata's face turned scarlet as she mumbled out an apology. "I-I'm s-sorry Naruto." At this Naruto laughed. "What is there to be sorry for? It's not like zoning out is wrong or anything." he said when he had finished laughing. Hinata blushed even deeper and buried her face in between her knees again.

At that moment Naruto's stomach decided it wanted attention and food so it rumbled loudly. Naruto grinned awkwardly and scratched the back of his head. "In all that excitement I kinda forgot that I'm starving. Hinata, if you don't have anything else to do want to grab some ramen with me?" he asked with a sheepish grin on is face. A million questions rushed through Hinata's head at once. "Is he asking me out? What do I say? Am I blushing? Is it just me or is he blushing? Does he really want to go and eat with me?"

Hinata managed to mumble, "N-no I don't." Naruto looked dismayed and the grin immediately dropped. "Oh, okay then. I just thought I should ask." He said in a slightly depressed voice. "No! I didn't mean I don't want to!" Hinata said franticly as Naruto started to get up to leave. "I-I meant that I d-don't have anything else to do. And I would love to get some ramen with you N-Naruto." The smile immediately jumped back onto Naruto's face. "Great, let's go then!" He grabbed her hand and helped her to her feet, and started running without letting go of Hinata's hand. The pale eyed girl was now running along with Naruto thinking, "I can't believe he's actually holding my hand!"

Once again Hinata was snapped out of her daze by Naruto's voice. "By the way Hinata," he said. "Thanks."

YAY I'M DONE! Sorry to all you Sasuke fans for hurting him, and sorry to all you Sasuke haters for not hurting him enough. When chapter 3 was done I bet you all thought he'd be dead! Well there are 2 different ends on a kunai and I never said what end he got hit with well once again plezzzzzzzzzzzz comment! If you don't…. I'lll never write again! runs off dramatically