Okay this is the last chapter. I hope you like it. By the way, this story is about 26 pages long and the first one I've ever finished. Go me! Remember to review

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Legend

See last chapter, it's exactly the same and I'm not doing it again

T H E F I N A L C H A P T E R a.k.a My Dream come true? I hope so

3rd chapter, The Final Chapter aka My Dream Come True?


"Man," Naruto said holding his stomach. "I should've eaten breakfast first. I didn't even see Hinata either."

Naruto sat down on the conviently placed stump. "Where's Hinata's training ground? Eh, I'll just look around for- Why do I keep talking to myself? Seriously!"

Slightly irritated, Naruto went to find Hinata.

Something-something minutes late

Hinata wiped the sweat off her brow. 'Good. That was better,' thought Hinata. Unlike Naruto, she did not talk aloud, but in her head.

Naruto walking nearby had heard her training and came over because... hmm, well let's see... Could it perhaps be because, he was looking for her? No, no. It couldn't be something that obvious.

"Oi! Hinata!"

"Kiba-kun?" Hinata said out of force of habit.

"Hi, Hinata. Did you just call me Kiba?"

"Umm... n-no. O-ohayo." A small blush came across Hinata's cheeks.

"Aa. Good morning. What were you doing? Training?"

Hinata nodded. "Are you doing anything?"

"Yeah, I was just looking for someone."

"Who?"

"You." Naruto admitted.

"M-me?" Hinata blushed again.

"Yes, you." Suddenly Naruto laughed. Hinata was puzzeled.

"Naruto-kun, why are you laughing?" she asked timidly.

"Oh, sorry. I just remembered something from my dream last night," Naruto explained.

"Oh," said Hinata. She was itching to ask what it was. If Naruto were anything like Kiba, which he was, he would probably tell her anyway. Or ask if she did, and whether or not she wanted to hear it he would tell her.

"Do you want to hear about it? I guess you probably won't but..." Naruto trailed off not looking at her.

"Oh, no! I-I want t-to hear about it." Hinata was a bit surprised by what Naruto had said.

"Great," Naruto said smiling widely. "Well you and I were in on top of a hill and- Hey, we're on a hill now... it's the same hill. Uh, anyway, you and I were on top of this hill and I had just said something that made you embarrased. Then we had the same conversation that we just had except that I was the one who said 'me' and you were the one saying 'you'."

Hinata blushed 20 shades of red. "I-I," she stuttered. "W-what did you say that embarrased me?" 'Aside from what you said just now... I was in a dream of Naruto-kun's?'

"I said- actually, you don't want to hear about it, do you?"

"I-I... I do," Hinata said quietly.

"Well I'll tell you about it later. If you're lucky," Naruto said.

"More like if you're lucky and you don't lose what you have left of your nerve."

"Shut it!"

Hinata nodded shyly.

"It's a beautiful day, isn't it?" Naruto wanted to try the line he had used in the dream.

"Yes, it is," Hinata agreed.

"It... It makes me think you," Naruto said urging himself to add 'it's so beautiful'. 'Say 'it's so beautiful. Come on say 'It makes me think of you it's so beautiuful'! Say it, damn it!'

"It-it-it does?" Hinata now blushed twenty-six shades of red. "W... why's t-that?" She started to prod her fingers together and she wasn't looking directly at Naruto anymore.

'She's so cute when she does that...' Naruto thought swallowing hard. Hinata wasn't the only with a blush anymore. "B-because... Because it's so sunny! And you're name! It means 'in the sun'! Which is what we are and-and... yeah. Yeah, beautiful sunny day. Like you." Naruto realized what he had just said then added. "Like your name! Like your name! Andyoutooit'slikeyoutoo."

Hinata didn't quite catch that last sentence, but she had heard the rest clearly.

"Smooth, kit. Very smooth. Could not have done better myself, I mean it."

"I told you to shut it!"

"Th-th-... A-arigato. Naruto-kun..." Hinata's ever recurring blush had returned. She continued poking her fingers together.

"Since it's such a bea- nice day, do you want to have a spar?" Naruto asked.

"Um... o-okay. Sure." Hinata smiled at him.

Her smile warmed Naruto. He gave her his trademark grin. "Alright then. Right here, right now?" In response, Hinata got into the juuken (gentle fist) fighting pose, rather shocked that she was going to spar with Naruto and that he was the one who had asked. "Great." said Naruto. "Ready? Fight!"

"Byakugan!"

"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Ten Naruto clones appeared. 'Okay, I'm definetely going to use the 'jutsu' I did in my dream.' Two of the clones charged at Hinata. She hit them and they disappeared on contact.

'They shouldn't have disappeared that quickly,' Hinata thought suspicously. Naruto threw a fuuma shuriken at her.

Hinata didn't jump over it, but on it. She knew it was either Naruto or one of the clones. "Nice balance, smart move," the weapon said turning into Naruto. Being lower, Naruto (or one of his clones) planted his feet on the ground and swung her over to the one who had thrown him. Not being needed, he dispelled himself.

Hinata didn't hesitate and tucked into a ball. She kicked Naruto (or one of his clones) when she had gotten close enough. Naruto rubbed the shoulder that she kicked. "Great move but you won't be able to escape but ultimate technique! Get her!"

This time she destroyed three of the clones that went for her, but the same number managed to get a hold of her. She struggled against their grips. The real Naruto ran at her.

"Here it is! Tickle no Jutsu!"

Surprise but what Naruto said, Hinata immdiately stopped struggling. Naruto launched on her, knocking the three clones away in the process. They disappeared when they hit the ground. The tenth clone had long since ditched the battle and was taking a nap in a shady area.

Hinata was laughing too hard to be at all embarrassed. "Stop! Stop!" she shrieked trying to push Naruto away as he tickled her on the ground, both of them laughing.

"There's only one way to stop this jutsu!" Naruto proclaimed thoroughly enjoying himself.

"Th-that's it!" Hinata exclaimed. Like in Naruto's dream, she started tickling him and they both started to roll down the hill.

They were both laughing hard as they rolled down the hill clinging onto each other. Hugging, one might say. When they stopped rolling, Naruto said, once he had stopped laughing so much, "Hey look at that. I got you pinned."

Noticing the position they were in, Hinata flipped Naruto over but not for the same reason as the Hinata in his dream. She had done out of embarrassment. But she wasn't so embarrassed that she couldn't say anything, surprising as that is. The laughing seemed to make her temporarily more bold.

Once on top she said, "Now I have-" Naruto flipped them over and their arms brushed against the tree that really was there.

"You pinned," Naruto finished for her grinning widely. Then they both noticed how awkward of a position they were in. They both blushed but neither made a move.

Grrrr...

Naruto rolled off Hinata as his stomach growled. She sat up, the blush still on her face. Her stomach was also growling.

Naruto laughed a bit sheepishly. "Heh, heh. I guess we're both pretty hungry. Have you eaten breakfast yet?" Naruto asked standing up. Hinata shook her head as Naruto extended his hand out to her. "Then why don't we go to Ichiraku's for some ramen? I'll even pay for you if you want," Naruto said as he pulled her up.

"You... you mean like a- like a d-date?" Hinata stuttered. They were still holding hands.

"Well... You can call if that if you want..."

'Feh. I knew the kit would wimp out. He can't even admit that-'

"Because that's what I'll be calling it." Naruto finished.

'I stand corrected. Who knew the brat could actually be tactful? Even if it is dumb luck, I'm surprised he would say that.'

Hinata's face glowed pink. She just barely managed to nod. How she hadn't fainted yet she wasn't really sure but what she did know was that she shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. Or whatever that expression is. I don't really get it myself, but she must.

"Great! Let's go!" Naruto said enthusiastically. He started to run to said ramen stand pulling Hinata with him. You haven't already forgotten that they were still holding hands, have you? In about twelve minutes they reached Ichiraku's. They walked in under the flaps, Naruto still holding onto Hinata's hand. He let go of it as they sat down.

"I'll have a beef ramen, a miso, and a pork. Hinata, what do you want?" said Naruto.

"I'll have a miso ramen, please." Hinata said quietly.

"Coming right up," said Teuchi.

"Hey, Hinata. I still haven't told you about my dream, have I?" Naruto asked out of the blue.

"N-no. Not yet," Hinata said staring at her fingers. She was doing her nervous habit of playing (prodding/poking/twiddling/etc.) with her fingers and she was blushing.

"Okay. I'll it to you in a second but first I want to tell you something else." Hinata looked up from her fingers moving her gaze to Naruto's face.

Naruto grinned. "I've always thought the way you play with your fingers like that is cute. And when you blush, that makes you look cuter too." Saying this made Hinata blush more. "But I've always wondered why you do that. Why do you anyway?"

Hinata's eyes grew wide and she looked away from Naruto willing herself not to pass out. "Ummm... um...uh, well that is... I...I-" Naruto looked at her confused. "I... I'll tell you a-after you t-tell me about your dr-dream."

"Aw. Your craftier then you seem." Naruto smiled at her warmly. "Okay, fine. I'll tell you about my dream first." Naruto slammed his hand onto the counter surprising Hinata and pointed his finger at her. "But after that, you gotta tell me why you're always playing with your fingers and stuff around me. Deal?"

Ayame and Teuchi rolled their eyes at Naruto's ignorance. Both had been eavesdropping on the conversation.

Hinata nodded. "D-d...Deal!" Honestly, she was hoping his dream would be a long so he would forget. But if it wasn't, she decided she would tell Naruto anyway. She'd been keeping this a secret for too long and she wanted to get it off of her chest. She would probably pass out or tell him so quietly he didn't hear her resulting in her losing her nerve but she was going to do it.

The two eavesdroppers were surprised that Hinata agreed to this. Not only that but she sounded confident about it.

"Awesome," said Naruto. "Hey, old man! Our ramen ready yet?"

Teuchi grabbed one of Naruto's bowls and Hinata's. "Yep. Here you go." He grabbed Naruto's other two bowls and put them next to the first. Naruto and Hinata both said "Itadakimasu' before contining the conversation.

Naruto took two slurps of his beef ramen. "All right. I'll tell you about the dream now," he said. So he told her. He told her about he had woken up as the fox. He told her that it had looked gloomy when he did. He told her about the sakura petals. He told about Uchiha with the stick up his ass. He told her of how it became sunny. He told her that the day he reminded him of someone, but he couldn't think of who. He told her about seeing the pearls but not knowing what they were at first so he had called them shiny 'its'.

He told her about the staring contest he had apparntly had with Fang that impaired his vision which made her laugh. He told her about finding out that the lavendar pearls were pearls and that they reminded of the same person of the before. He described the pearls as beautiful and said that they looked her eyes. He told her that celebrated figuring out that the person he was thinking of was a girl when he had already known that and that he felt quite stupid afterwards. That made her laugh too. He told her every little detail of the dream that he could remember.

"... And then I saw a lilac petal float by and it made me think of how the girl's skin was..." Naruto trailed off.

"Please don't stop. I want to hear the end," Hinata pleaded though she couldn't help but feel a twinge of jealousy when he had mentioned the girl. She was sure it wasn't her even if he had said that this was a date. He was probably just being nice since she had asked.

"Yeah but, it gets kind of embarrassing after this..." Naruto said.

"Please?"

Naruto took one look at her face and sighed. "Okay. I'll tell you the rest. Lilac petal made me think that she- and her skin I guess- was soft. And delicate. Not to mention pretty. I figure her hair would be like that too... since it's certainly beautiful. Then I wondered what a lilac petal was doing there since there was only sakura as far as I could see."

Hinata laughed once more. Her laugh made Naruto smile. "The girl I was thinking of was... Hinata. It was you I was thinking about."

Hinata gasped. "You... you're kidding. Right?"

Naruto shook his head. His eyes were closed and he was smiling. "No, Hinata. I'm not. I also thought that you were like a flower, soft, delicate and beautilful, that like your cooking, you're sweet and that... that you smelled nice."

Hinata was looking down at the floor. She wasn't saying anything and she wasn't moving. Naruto gave an audible sigh.

"You want me to stop. Don't you?" he asked beginning to regret that he had even told her in the first place. Why would someone like her, love someone like himself? This was what he was afraid of and the reason he didn't tell Hinata sooner.

"No..." Hinata said quietly.

"I understand if you do. I mean why would-"

"Naruto-kun," Hinata said cutting him off. "I want you to finish. Please."

Naruto looked her in the eyes and could tell she was being genuinely honest. He nodded his head. He started telling her about the dream again. Again he didn't leave out a single detail. Hinata didn't laugh again while he was telling it, but she did smile once or twice.

"... and then I said 'because it is a date. We ran over here after that and we both ordered miso ramen. After we got it I said to you 'hey, Hinata-chan' while I was slurping up some noodles. You started to say 'yes Naruto-kun' but I cut you off..."

"How?" Hinata asked.

"With a kiss." Hinata's eyes grew wide. "On the lips," Naruto finished. Her eyes grew wider.

Hinata said nothing and just stared at her ramen that she had barely touched.

"Hinata," Naruto said looking at his ramen as well. He'd eaten half of a bowl, but that was it. "I... I think that I love you." He looked at her and saw a tear falling from her eye. "Hinata.You're crying! Why?" he asked.

'This must be a dream...' Hinata thought. 'There's no way this could be real...'

"Because..." Hinata said. "Because I'm so happy." Naruto was about to interrupt her but she continued. "Naruto-kun, I've had the biggest crush on you ever since the academy. I love you. This must be the happiest moment of my life... but it couldn't possibly be real... this is just a dream. Like all the others. A dream I don't ever want to wake up from..."

The two were completely in their own world now. They weren't even aware of Teuchi or Ayame, even in the slightest. Another tear fell from Hinata's eye.

Naruto pinched Hinata hard on her forearm. She brought her hand to it reflexively. "Hinata," Naruto said standing up from his stool. "This isn't a dream. What I just got through telling you is a dream." He grabbed her hands and brought her up. He wiped a tear away from her eye. He whispered into her ear, "This is for real. And I love you... Hinata-chan."

Hinata looked straight into Naruto's eyes. And then they kissed.

THE END