Happy? By My Last Resort

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She Loves Me Not

Two young ninjas were lying down on the grass side bye side. For one, it was a rather new experience, just relaxing and staring at the clouds as they went by. For the other, it was something he did regularly. The Nara was somewhat surprised when he was approached by the blond ninja and was even more surprised when he asked if he could join him, although it didn't show. He grunted in response to signal an okay and hoped that he would not regret it. Naruto then set himself down next to Shikamaru and stared at the clouds in silence. Shikamaru was also surprised at how quiet the normally hyper boy next to him was. Shikamaru was a genius, and knew that Naruto had not come just to stare at the blue and white sky above them. But for all his smarts, he was not a mind reader, but it did not take a mind reader or a genius for that manner, to see that something was on the mind of the orange clad youth next to him. So Shikamaru waited. After some time, Naruto spoke up.

"Hey Shikamaru…" Naruto started.

"There goes the silence." Shikamaru thought to himself. "Ya?"

"I was just wondering if I could talk to you about something."

"It's not like I can say no, can I?"

Naruto smiled. Shikamaru retained the same bored and slightly annoyed expression. "It's about Hinata." Naruto finally said.

Shikamaru had seen Naruto and Hinata together around the village several times in the past two weeks. He was starting to wonder if there was something going on between them. Naruto's last statement only enforced the idea.

To say that Shikamaru was rather lazy would be more then an understatement. The Nara would never go out of his way to do anything that would be to troublesome. He did not like to exert himself, and would much rather play a game of Go then train. Go did not involve running and jumping. He even found talking too much troublesome. He was now hoping with all his heart that Naruto would not try to get him to do anything that would make him get up. The lazy ninja sighed.

"What about Hinata?"

"Do you think she likes me? You know…" Naruto struggled to find the right words. "Not just likes me, but… you know, likes me…"

The Nara raised an eyebrow. "Does Hinata, possibly the shyest girl in history, who can't even hear the name Naruto directed towards her without blushing, like Naruto?" Shikamaru though to himself before responding, "You're an idiot."

"Hey, don't call me an idiot!" Naruto shouted. Shikamaru sighed. He really did not feel like exchanging names with boy next to him. Hinata's crush on Naruto was one of the most obvious in Kohana, second only to Sakura and Ino's crush on Sasuke, and Rock Lee's crush on Sakura, all of which you would have to be deaf, blind, and dumb to miss.

"Why do you want to know anyways?" questioned Shikamaru. Naruto frowned and closed his eyes. "Well, it's just that I've been spending a lot of time with her lately…" Naruto trailed off, and started to think to himself.

It had been two weeks since Naruto had first brought Hinata to the ramen stand and walked her home afterwards. Since then Naruto had spent even more time with Hinata.

Once when he had arrived at the Hyuga compound to see Hinata, Naruto was met by a very somber looking Neji. When he told him that he was here for Hinata, Neji kept on staring at him with his white eyes and asked, "What exactly do you want with Hinata?" in a rather threatening manner, that even Naruto couldn't miss. Despite that fact that Naruto had bested Neji in the chunin exams, it did not mean that he wasn't deathly afraid of the long haired boy. Naruto started to stammer out an explanation that would hopefully not get him killed, but was saved by the arrival of a second Hyuga. Hinata softly told her cousin that she had asked Naruto to meet her here so they could get some ramen together. The older genin did not change his expression, but did step down. Though he did still have an energy emanating from him that seemed to scream 'touch her and die'. Neji's reaction to Naruto's presence only made his fears of what Hinata's father would do if he discovered that his daughter was spending time in the company of the container of the nine tailed fox worse.

Later that same night, when he brought Hinata home, he had finally worked enough courage to kiss her. It wasn't a mouth to mouth kiss, just a simple kiss on the cheek. But to Naruto's surprise Hinata fainted. Naruto, being Naruto, did not realize that she had fainted and thought she was so tired she had fallen asleep. He was left with a sleeping (so he thought) Hyuga and was trying to figure out to do with her. Even Naruto had more sense then to walk into the mansion with Hinata over his shoulder and ask Neji where he could put her down. That would probably gain him the gift of being able to see exactly what his organs look like. So he propped her up against the house and ran to get some water to splash over her face. He returned moments later with a bucket he had 'borrowed' from someone's back yard and filled with water. He laid her on the ground and propped her head up with his hand and blushed slightly at the thought of someone catching them like this. He poured the water over her face and the result was almost immediate. Hinata sat up with water dripping from her face and hair. She looked rather confused so Naruto told her that she had fallen asleep after he had kissed her. Hinata turned bright red but also was relieved that he did not realize that she had fainted.

"Hinata, you might want to dry off." Naruto suggested. Hinata looked around to find something to use to do what Naruto suggested, but found nothing and did not want to use her jacket, so she did the only thing that came to mind. She shook her head almost violently, side to side, spraying Naruto with drops of water flung from her hair. Naruto laughed at this and laughed even more at the way she looked afterwards. Her hair was now rather stringy, held together by the water that remained, and was pressed down over her eyes, looking rather like a sheep dog. Also, one of the longer bangs she had was plastered cutely across her nose. Naruto tried to stop laughing but only laughed harder as Hinata blushed.

Afterwards,. When they had finally said goodbye to each other, he walked home and thought to himself. He enjoyed Hinata's company to much to try anything more then hug her or kiss her on the cheek; he thought he did not know Hinata well enough, and was afraid of doing something that might ruin their friendship. But Naruto was a teen and was caught in a whirlwind of his own hormones. He couldn't help but start to think of becoming something more then friends with the pale eyed girl.

Naruto's thoughts were snapped back to the present. Shikamaru seemed to have forgotten him, even thought they were less then three feet from each other, and was now either trying to sleep, or sleeping. Naruto sat up and stayed there with his legs crossed, for a minuet before getting to his feet and walking away without a word. Shikamaru opened one eye and watched Naruto's silent departure. He sighed.

"Women are so troublesome."

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"He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me. He loves me not."

Hinata Hyuga strolled down the endless rows of flowers, endless rows of red, blue, orange, the list went on. As she walked through the garden she paid almost no attention to the beauty around her. She was focused on the flower in her hand. It was a simple daisy; not comparable to the other flowers around her. The daisy was plain and simple next to the electric blue roses to her left, or the shockingly purple lotus flowers to her right. Sometimes she felt like a daisy; plain and overlooked; not as beautiful as the other girls around her. Hinata continued to pick the petals from the flower in her hand. And with each one was came a 'he loves me' or a 'he loves me not'. With each not, she felt her heart sink a little. Hinata was someone whose confidence was hard to build up but easy to destroy. She sighed heavily to herself as she said, "He loves me not." Hinata plucked the final petal form the daisy and let it go, watching as it spiraled down to her feet. She kept on walking until she found another daisy, somewhat out of place amongst all the bright, vibrant flowers. She placed her thumb and index finger gently over the stalk and pulled if from its resting place. She began again.

"He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me. He loves me not." White petals floated down and rested on the ground, following the girl's footsteps.

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Naruto stopped to stare. It just caught his attention. A strange thing really, now that he stopped and thought. It was a patch of daisies on the side of the road, in full bloom. They were trying their best to stand out; trying to be acknowledged, to be noticed. "Just like me." Naruto thought with a small smile. He picked one and looked at it as he walked. A rather plain flower in all things considered. But none the less Naruto liked it. It was not exotic. It was not out of the ordinary. It was not even peculiarly beautiful. But Naruto still liked it. He twirled the flower between his fingers and thought of pale eyes that you could easily get lost in. "No, she's not like a daisy at all. She's too pretty, not plain at all." Naruto looked down at the flower in his hand and spoke to it.

"You and me buddy, we're the same aren't we?" Naruto chuckled to himself at the thought of the daisy responding. He walked a little further in silence, oblivious to the world around him. Slowly, he plucked a petal from the flower and let it go, blowing away with the gentle wind.

"She loves me." Another petal was blown away. "She loves me not." A third. "She loves me." A fourth. "She loves me not." And so it went; until the air was scattered with white petals, and the boy who had scattered them was long gone.

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and there you have it. The 6th chapter of happy! Hope you like it! You know something? Well, when me writes, me listens to mah ipod and it's usually on shuffle. But when me was in the middle of this part with Hinata picking the petals and saying he loves me not me realized that me was listening to She loves me not by papa roach! Out of the 403 songs on mah ipod, that came on then… weird… but anyways, me hopes you liked it! Plez leave comments! . if you don't, me will cry and lock mahself in the basement. Oh, and to anyone out there who really like daisies and is over protective of them… sorry!