A/N: naruto is not mine and pls review if you would

Chapter Two

The sun's rays shone brightly through the curtains of Uchiha Sasuke. His face cringed that the light and his face met with each other. One thing we all knew was that he hated mornings. And that was a fact. His eyes slowly opened and sat up gently. He mumbled to himself while he looked out the window. He saw some children playing out in the streets of Konoha. This brought memories back to him when he was a just a kid..

Flashback

Young little Sasuke was sitting by himself on the swings on the school playground. Everyone ignored him and no one wanted to play any games with him. He just sat on swings looking at his own two feet thinking, 'Why doesn't anybody want to play with me? Did I do something wrong?' He observed the school playground and saw his fellow classmates having a fun time with everyone else. In the pit of his stomach, he had a weird feeling he couldn't describe, a feeling that he wanted to belong and have what others had. This feeling was called loneliness and jealousy. He was lonely because no one wanted to keep him company and he was jealous because he wanted to be just like the other kids.

It was quiet for a while. All he could hear was the laughter of the other children and the teachers talking. Then, suddenly, he heard scratchy footsteps come up to him. He looked up to see a little pink haired girl smiling at him. She was wearing a white sun dress, with little daisy prints on the bottom, and yellow sandals. There was and awkward silence until she spoke up.

"Hi.", she said

"Um, hi...", Sasuke just stared at her intently. Why was she talking to him? Was she making fun of him in some unknown way? Or did she just want something from him? He had to ask.

"Is there something that you want?"

"Well, of course silly, I want to play a game with you.", Sasuke had finally gotten his wish. Somebody wanted to keep him company and be his friend. But was this really real? Or was this some joke his class mate was playing on him?

"Y-you really want to play with me?"

"Yeah...", Sasuke didn't believe what he was hearing.

"No, and it's not nice to joke around with things like that. It hurts their feelings.", he said firmly.

Sakura, just stunned with what she just heard, couldn't believe her ears. Why would she joke around with things like that. Like Sasuke said, it hurts other people's feelings.

"Why would you think I'm joking Sasuke? All I want to be is your friend. Please?", said Sakura.

Sasuke let out a slight gasp. How did she even know his name? He never met the girl, and this was the first time he ever seen her.

"How do you know my name? I mean, I don't even know yours...", he said dryly.

"Well, I know your name because I'm in one of your classes silly and my name is Haruno Sakura."

Sasuke didn't like the fact that she kept calling him silly. Nothing was silly about Uchiha Sasuke. Nothing.

"Well that's a dumb name, being named after a cherry blossom...", he said carelessly.

Sakura was getting upset. I mean, what the heck was this guy's problem? First he thought she was kidding about becoming her friend and now he thinks that she has a dumb name. That's great... Sasuke spoke again, "Finally, someone wants to be my friend and it has to be you, I think I'd rather be friends with Uzamaki Naruto..."

Now Sakura was getting really mad. Especially she was friends with Naruto in the first place...

"Look buddy, I don't know what you're problem is-", she was cut off by Sasuke.

"My problem is you, now please leave me alone...", he just turned his head in an opposite direction and looked at his feet.

Sakura was angered by Sasuke's responses and stormed off walking. Sadly, she couldn't help it and walked back toward Sasuke. She felt bad for him because no one wanted to be his friend. She could see why that he might be a little cold towards people. She walked up to him and sat on the swing next to him. Sasuke just looked up at Sakura and continued to ignore her. Even though Sasuke intentionally always ignored Sakura, Sakura never stopped caring for the lonely Uchiha.

End Flashback

Thinking of this, Sasuke still continued to look out his window. The wind was coming in, and the cold breeze wisped through his hair. He was glad Kakashi gave them the day off today. He wanted it all to himself.

Slowly getting out of bed, he headed towards his bathroom to wash up. He washed his face, brushed his teeth, and got dressed. He sighed to himself and gazed at his own reflection in the mirror. Disappointment ran through his mind. 'Why am I such a failure?', he thought, 'I can't even be placed on a decent team. No, I have to be stuck with a girl who likes to stalk me and an egotistic maniac who never shuts the hell up.' Sighing again, he went downstairs to eat some breakfast. He popped some bread into the toaster and poured himself a glass of orange juice. The toaster ticked and the toast popped out. He sat down at his table and began to eat. (Such a boring morning, I know...)

Somewhere, out there in Konoha, a very shy Hyuuga Hinata was standing in front of her mirror. She was practicing what to say to Naruto when she saw him today. Hinata had desperately wanted to go to the Fall Festival with Naruto, but was too shy to even ask him.

"Um, er, Naruto, I-I w-as wondering um...", she shook her head out of disbelief. How was she ever going to sum up the courage to ask Naruto? She decided to try practicing again.

"N-Naruto, the Fall Festival I-is coming up and I, um, wanted to ask y-you if you would wanted to go with me?", with just a few studders, she finally managed to get out what she wanted to say. Now all she had to do was ask Naruto and not her reflection in the mirror. She gulped and gathered up all of her strength and scurried out the door.

Hinata spotted Naruto eating ramen at Ichiraku's. She was still very nervous and stood behind a lamppost. Watching Naruto chow down on his second bowl of ramen, she was beginning to back off on her plan to ask Naruto. She just wasn't brave enough...

Just then, Hinata spotted Sakura walking up to her out of the corner of her eye.

"Good morning Hinata!", she cheerfully greeted.

"Oh, hello Sakura..."

"Hey Hinata, why are you standing behind a lamppost?" Hinata blushed profusely when Sakura had asked that question. She didn't want to let Sakura know that she liked Naruto and wanted to ask him to the festival, but she was her friend and couldn't keep secrets from her. That wasn't right.

As Hinata was trying to find an answer to Sakura's question, Sakura noticed Naruto eating ramen at Ichiraku's.

"Hinata,", Sakura spoke. The timid Hyuuga looked up at Sakura. "does you hiding behind a lamppost involve Naruto in any way?"

Hinata's cheeks were turning bright red. Sakura had guessed it. She liked Naruto.

"Um, maybe? I mean, yes...", she answered in almost a whisper.

"Hinata, you can tell me these things, you don't have to be embarrassed.", Hinata was glad that was Sakura's answer and nothing else.

"So, Miss Hyuuga? Why are you hiding from Naruto?", Sakura said with a very sly tone.

"Well, um, it's just that, I wanted to ask Naruto if he wanted to go with me to the Fall Festival next week."

"Aw! That's so cute Hinata!"

Hinata blushed even more.

"Hinata, don't be afraid to ask him. I'm very sure he'll say yes to you."

"Really?"

"Yeah, there's no way he can possibly say no to you. It's just a feeling that I have. Now get your Hyuuga butt up to Naruto and ask him."

Hinata jumped slightly from Sakura's orders. She gulped again and started taking little steps up to Naruto. Little by little, Hinata started shaking even more and more. What if she had a nervous breakdown or an anxiety attack in front of Naruto? Then he would never want to go anywhere with her, no longer the Fall Festival. But she still had to try.

Out of the corner of her eye, she could see Sakura behind the lamppost cheering her on. She just smiled and continued walking. After what seemed like forever, Hinata had finally made it up to Naruto. He had just finished what seemed like his fourth bowl of ramen and looked like he still wanted some more.

Hinata didn't say anything for awhile. She just stood next to Naruto quietly twiddling her fingers. Naruto had finally noticed her.

"Hinata!", he screamed

The poor Hyuuga was surprised by his unexpected yell and accidentally fell to the ground from shock. Naruto felt really bad of what he had just did and helped her up.

"I'm really sorry Hinata. How about I buy you some ramen to make it up to you?"

Hinata had just nodded her head and Naruto ordered two more bowls of ramen. It was quiet while they both waited for their food to come. Naruto was the first one to speak.

"Hey Hinata, do you have any training today?"

She just shook her head no and said, "Our sensei said we could have to day off today, but we have to train extra hard tomorrow."

"Well, seems like a fair deal to me." Hinata just nodded her head with agreement. Finally, the cook came with Naruto's and Hinata's bowls of ramen. Naruto just smacked his lips and began slurping the noodles.

Hinata giggled silently to herself while watching the hyper active ninja devour his ramen. She thought of how cute he was when he ate and looked like a little kid eating his candy, but instead ramen.

"Hey Hinata? Are you not hungry? You haven't even touched your ramen." Hinata looked down at her bowl. She wasn't that hungry but she didn't want to make Naruto feel bad. She quickly started slurping the noodles into her mouth. Naruto smiled. Hinata smiled too, while slurping up a noodle. She would give anything to see Naruto smile at her like that. So what if she gains a pound from eating extra breakfast? As long it made Naruto happy, she was happy.

After the two ninja were finished eating their ramen, they both got up and left the stand. Naruto let out a big yawn and stretched his arms in the air. Hinata giggled silently.

"Hm? Hinata what's so funny?" She abruptly stopped laughing and blushed a rosy shade of pink.

"Erm, nothing.."

"Well, it was fun having ramen with you Hinata, but I gotta get going." Naruto turned around the opposite direction and started walking away.

"N-Naruto, wait!" The fox boy stopped in his tracks and faced the shy girl. That was the loudest he'd ever heard Hinata scream.

"Yes, Hinata?"

"I-I, um, just, um...", she couldn't get the words to come out of her mouth.

"Did you want something, Hinata?"

"I-I just w-wanted to know if...", her sentence started to trail away.

"You just wanted to know what?"

"If um, you wanted to erm..."

"Hinata, you don't have to be too embarrassed or too shy to ask me anything. Just spit it out."

"I just wanted to know if you wanted to go with me to the Fall Festival!", she said it so fast that she practically screamed it by accident. She cupped her mouth quicky and started to blush like there was no tomorrow. Naruto just stared at her in amazement. Why was this a hard question to ask he thought? Unknowingly, Naruto had started to blush himself.

"Hinata, I-", he was caught off be Hinata.

"Naruto, I understand if you don't want to go with me. It's okay." She started to slowly walk away.

"Hinata wait!", she stopped in her tracks.

"I, um, erm...", Naruto had started to studder with his words now. "I would love to go with you to the Fall Festival." Hinata has started to smile shyly and blushed a shade of red.

"Um, Hinata?" She looked up at him.

"Do you want to hang out together for the rest of the day? You know, as just friends?"

'Just friends...',Hinata thought. She was highly disappointed by what Naruto had just said, but she was still glad he had invited her to hang out with him for the rest of the day. She said yes and they walked off together down the streets of Konoha.

Somewhere, behind a lamppost, Sakura was giggling to herself, and she was so proud of Hinata. She was so brave to go up to Naruto like that and ask him to the festival. Now only if she was lucky enough to go to the festival with the guy she dreamt of.