Heyo guys! So this little thing here is "Me and my buddies vandalized your backyard trampling your mini garden in the process. Now I feel really shitty cause you're really upset about this. Look I'll help fix it okay just stop with the sad faces." but with a slight twist to it. Also I believe this will be my last one of the good kid/troublemaker AU as I plan to make this an actual story! A story of Naruto and Hinata's high school years together and if it gets a good reaction I'll write a short sequel of them in college when it's all done since I really like this story. There might be a few typos since school's hit overdrive recently and I haven't had the time to write much or do much, I'll fix them with the upload of chapter four. It also may seem a little rushed nearing the end but I'll fix it as well later. Anyways...

Enjoy!

It was odd.

No it wasn't quite that, odd was an understatement when it came to those two. They were totally the opposite from one another and not in the "opposites attract" sort of way.

They certainly grabbed the attention of those around school, while the two didn't have classes together during passing periods Naruto could be seen trying his best to get Hinata to crack a smile and laugh which was followed by a rather cheeky smile of his own. Hinata on the other hand was usually gentle with Naruto a put him at ease most times, when they were out in the patio Naruto would usually fall asleep on Hinata's laps while she read a book.

The two seemed to be an item but whenever the subject was brought up they became bashful and denied it immediately with a slight curiosity in their minds. The question lingering on their tongue but never leaving it.

"Why? Do they think about me that way?"

Today was one of their usual days, as Naruto resting his head on Hinata's laps and stared up at her. She was reading a book as usual and her eyes didn't even drift to meet his. A part of him was slightly annoyed by that, granted Naruto was the type of person that always wanted acknowledgment and became rather restless without it; probably the reasoning for his antics. A part of the blonde wanted to take the book from her hands and push it down so she would pay attention to him but there were two issues there.

One, he really didn't know what he would say or even what he would use as an excuse to pull the book away, he just wanted her to look at him but that wasn't a good enough excuse and it would be an awkward sort of request. Two, she looked so interested in it too, and in the end her satisfaction and happiness was more important than his need for attention.

So he instead opted to lie there and ponder about their friendship.

Ever since the incident in which he had defended Hinata's honor (which he still hadn't told her about) and the bit of it that took the form of knocking her out they had become close friends. Rather close actually. He knew he didn't need to knock her out to want to become closer to her but he was slightly grateful for it. It handed him a reason to want to be closer to her and that reason came with fretting over her and wanting to make it up to her. Her response as to how he could make it up make made his heart stop.

She had stood there slightly rigid and almost reluctant, he had cursed himself for it all as he stared at the eyepatch she had over her face in which she was obviously insecure about. She probably wants nothing to do with you anymore, those things she said earlier was because she wasn't thinking straight from that punch. The male was about to excuse himself and explain how sorry he was one last time before he regrettable walked out of her life despite the fact she would somehow always be apart of his as a thought. He didn't know what it was about her but he couldn't shake it, and he was gradually becoming okay with it. "You can make it up to m-me by u-us spending more t-time t-together." Her voice was a shy stutter and he wanted to hug her by refused to overstep his boundaries, only promising her his time.

Naruto's time was almost all the time, he was seen hanging out with her often ever since everything happened and it made those who knew of what happened mouth's gap open in shock.

Whenever they were alone Naruto hesitantly asked to see her black eye, when she asked why he explained that he didn't want her to hide it from him while he also wanted to remember how reckless he had been as well as wanted to care for her and make it up to her. Hinata seemed unwilling for quite some time so Naruto dropped him happily. It wasn't until a few days after the request she had answered it by removing the eye patch. Her pale skin was horribly disturbed by an ugly brownish purple spot taking over her right eye. The boy gently reached for it only to have her wince back at his touch which made him feel all the more guilty. It had been the afternoon that day and he held her for so long upon seeing it the girl was as red as a ripe tomato as she remained still; afraid that if she moved their embrace would end.

So here he was staring up at her as she read recalling their time of growing closer to one another. Hinata was honestly one of his best friends at this point. She still had a bruised eye only it was more so at the bottom of her eye and simply made her look like she hadn't gotten enough sleep.

"Hey, Hinata."

She 'hmm'ed at this without raising her eyes to look at him which only gave birth to the reaction of him pulling at the bottom of her blouse like a toddler who was begging their mother for a toy. She finally looked down at that and held a small smile upon her face.

"Yes, Naruto-kun?"

"I was thinking…"

"Anything in particular or simply in general?"

"Well I was thinking that maybe I could invite you over sometime and we could watch a movie, we could invite friends too! Like a movie night! It'll be fun."

The smile in which graced the young woman's features made Naruto pause in awe for a moment before lightly gulping. Damn what was that feeling. She seemed to ponder this for a moment as she put a bookmark to hold her place in the book she closed. "Perhaps." Murmured the brunette which made Naruto pout. "It's not because I don't want to," she quickly reassured him, "it's because there's something I want to show you first. Just us."

This new discovery inside the mind of Hinata Hyuga made him curious and his eyes brightened like a toddler whose mother finally gave in to letting him have the toy. "Really?" The question made the girl nod with an amused smile. "Am i the only one who's seen it yet?" He asked curiously. "Of course, it's my secret place." That statement was all the blonde needed to jump up and then offer his hand to the brunette. "Then come on! What are we waiting for?" Laughing at his response to the whole ordeal, Hinata grabbed the boy's hand and allowed him to help her up as she began to lead the way to their destination.

With passing time they came to the forest on the outskirts of town and while they entered it they only seemed to be going deeper and deeper as if following an invisible path that only Hinata knew of. "You're not bringing me here to murder me right? Actually now that I think of it it'll be the perfect murder. Don't have any family, slightly shady friends, no one would really miss me." Naruto teased as he crossed his arms behind his head while following the small girl. Blue eyes curiously taking in the scenery. Hinata stopped dead and Naruto panicked for a moment as the girl whirled around. "Naruto-kun, if anything happened to you I would miss you. I would miss you very much." She stated it with such certainty that young man blinked a few times at that statement in shock before slowly nodding. With that she turned and continued.

It didn't take them long until they finally came upon a field, a field of flowers more specifically except they were organized in such a way nature itself couldn't have done it. The flowered with complimentary colors were grown close together and strategically thought out combinations of flowers were kept close together as well. It was simply beautiful.

"Wow."

At his lack of words Hinata turned to him and happily smiled. "Do you like it? You know when I was little, you see my family doesn't care much for things of beauty or color. We're a very private and dule family per say. I wanted color in my life so whenever I was given the chance I'd ask Ino for seeds since her family runs a flower shop and I found this empty field in the forest and I thought it was the perfect place for a garden. I come here in my spare time to care for it, I've wanted to show it to you for a while now." Turning to the other beside her expectantly she blinked a few times as all her could do was step forward and observe every section of this makeshift garden with intent interest.

"Do I like it?" He repeated, as if he was asking himself that question. "Hinata, I love it, it's so beautiful." Turning around and giving her a cheeky smile she blushed and walked over to him, telling him about the flowers and why she arranged them the way she had. Little did the two know that a few pairs of eyes were watching them with contempt mixed with a mischievous glint.

Kiba walked with his hands in his hoodie pocket and an obvious scowl on his face. Him and the gang having followed Naruto and Hinata upon Kiba's forceful request the sight before him made him want to scream and the four left before the brunette could actually do anything. "You know he hasn't even given us a second glance since that Hyuga girl came into his life. Also who becomes best friends with the person who decked them in the face?! It's stupid if you ask me, maybe she's just using him, I don't know how but I think she is, and then he's gonna come back to us sulking and depressed and it's going to be a pain in the ass." Kiba growled in obvious contempt for the dark haired girl.

"I just think she's using him, stringing him along until he's string wears so thin she has no use for him anymore. I mean he's buying her shit. Last time I even talked to him he was in a rush because he said she wanted cinnamon rolls." Shikamaru paused for a minute at that, he had been there that day. "To be more specific his words were that he knew she wanted them and insisted, she didn't command him to." Rebutting in defence of Naruto's newfound crush, that he idly wondered if the blonde was aware of, he earned another growl from Kiba.

Shino finally spoke up in the madness of their arguments of whether or not to leave this be. "I believe this will end in disaster. Why? Naruto is an orphan with not much going for him and the Hyuga comes from a rich family and is used to a life of luxury. Currently such a thing doesn't bother them for they're young and worrying about such things is useless now. As time goes on Hinata will realize Naruto can't give her the luxury in which she wants and will move on to perhaps eventually be married into another aristocratic family." Kiba perked up at this and looked to Shikamaru with a wide smirk and a gleam in his eyes that said 'told you so.'

Shikamaru sighed putting his hands behind his head, he wasn't gonna win this now. While he could have fended off Kiba, Shino joining the argument and taking Kiba's side was a different story. Shino used logic and it was hard to argue with that, Shikamaru believing all would end well was out of hope for his friend, not rationality. Looking to Choji for back up who seemed to be pondering things himself, Shikamaru got nothing, Choji seemed more intent on what Kiba and Shino were saying and with a sigh Shikamaru knew it was over for him.

"Fine." The lazy male reluctantly stated in a snappish tone. "If you want to help him and avoid his heartbreak you'll have to formulate a plan." It was almost in an instant that he regretted saying that as Kiba's hand came to his jaw to scratch it while a devious glint caught in his eyes. "Already got one." The boy with the pineapple styled ponytail visibly tensed but brought himself to ask the question either way. "What is it?"

There was a long silence as Kiba crossed his arms with a smug smile while everyone stared at him with pairs of eyes that were a mixture of curiosity and horror.

"We're gonna frame Naruto."

Naruto was out with his friends at his favorite ramen shop, taking a long sip of his drink after finishing his fifth bowl of ramen, usually he would keep himself to two and rarely three due to trying to save money but this was Kiba's personal treat. The brown haired boy have approached Naruto a while ago and persuading him to come along despite Naruto's protests that there 'had to be a catch' which Kiba assured him there wasn't.

Kiba was gradually coming to regret his decision as Naruto finished his fifth bowl while Choji was on his second and the other guys were barely finishing their first. With a face of discontent he wondered how in the hell Naruto ate that much and stayed as fit as he was. Maybe a hell of a metabolism ran in the family.

Naruto was wearing his signature hoodie as the cold weather came around. It was a light one in which was a bright orange that would have been an eyesore on anyone but Naruto, somehow he made it work. Kiba knew he had another one, which made him feel less bad for what he was about to do. Reaching over abruptly to try and grab his glass of soda that was on the side of him Naruto sat he hit the glass roughly with the back of his hand. Hearing a gasp from Naruto and a rough shove on his shoulder he smirked.

"Shit Naruto, I'm sorry man!" Kiba stood up trying to help his friend handing him napkins as Shikamaru stared on with a disapproving look. Naruto took off his hoodie before the soda could soak through to his plain black shirt which matched his black sweats that had an orange stripe going down them quite nicely. "Hey maybe this is payback for eating five bowls." Shikamaru muttered obviously wanted Kiba in some deep shit as Naruto looked at him with angry realization in his blue eyes. Kiba had to act fast.

"Listen man, at least let me take it home and go through the trouble of washing it for you." Offered the brunette as Naruto relaxed and handed it over to Kiba. "I'm gonna go home and take a shower, my arms feel stick." Muttered the blonde before gently slapping an arm on Kiba's shoulder and thanking him for the meal before waving a goodbye to the others. Kiba watched him go with a look of accomplishment in his eyes before looking back at his friends and smirking. "See? Told you all this would work itself out." Shikamaru stood up and began to ready himself to leave. "I'm not gonna be apart of this." Standing up he walked to stand in front of his messy haired brunette friend with an almost challenging posture. "When this shit hits the fan and he's moping around about it I'm gonna be the one to clean it up, I'm not gonna tell him what you did though oh no, he's dense but he's not stupid and he'll know you're the one who had that hoodie and when he comes to kick your ass I'm gonna have the pleasure of knowing I had nothing to do with this because fucking up a friend's chances with a girl you know he likes even if he himself doesn't realize it isn't just a drag; it's a dick move Kiba."

With that Shikamaru grabbed his coat and left shortly after Kiba. "Huh, he left money for the meal." Choji mumbled clearly trying to lighten the mood as Kiba seemed to be steaming. Sitting down he gripped Naruto's hoodie in his hand with a certain contempt that Shino was vaguely aware of but didn't mention when they left and Kiba went to carry out the plan he had created; not being bothered by the fact that Choji and Shino seemed to want nothing to do with it after Shikamaru's speech.

Hinata was devastated, there hadn't been a single flower or blooming bud left untouched and the area in which she had cultivated a small community of flora had been reduced to smashed flowers and scattered petals. That wasn't the worst part of it though, the worst part was finding his hoodie. For whatever reason Hinata had taken it home with her and now laid on her bed curled into a fetal position holding the hoodie whose scent was so comforting but reminded her painfully that betrayal came from those who had once been comforting.

Neji came into her room with a tray of two cups of tea, setting one beside Hinata's dresser by her bed for her to reach before pulling out the chair at her desk while he made that his personal resting area for the time being. Opening his mouth to speak Hinata stopped him. "Please don't say I told you so." Her hair shaped her face gracefully and loose strands clung to her tear stained cheeks desperately. If it wasn't for the situation before him Neji would have thought her an angel. "I simply never had faith in him, that's all." Neji muttered lowly recalling having known of the boy due to his reputation at the school but didn't think him this low. Not allowing Hinata to know of that he stood up after a long silence only disturbed by the sound of him swallowing his tea and moved to his cousin. Wiping her hair from her face, slightly revolted by its dampness. Leaving her tea with her he left the room and allowed her to be with herself.

Eventually he called a good friend of his who had also been on of his childhood friends, TenTen, and asked her to come over for moral support. She was here for about an hour cooing and humming tunes for Hinata like she was a child to comfort her before calmly telling Neji it would simply be better to leave Hinata be for now. Her coco eyes had given him a knowing and sympathetic look before kissing his cheek in a friendly manner and leaving. Despite her bold and at times brash personality Neji had to admit TenTen along with Hinata were two of the kindest people he knew and while Hinata was always kind TenTen was kind when it mattered which seemed to add a certain degree of importance to it. Raising his palm to his cheek he held it there, thinking as if TenTen and Hinata represented the whole population of females and their caring personality were all females were; innocent. He knew at that moment that betraying the trust of of any girl with an inch of kindness in her hurt was a one way ticket to hell and he wondered how Naruto Uzumaki had done it without a seemingly care in the world.

Naruto wasn't surprised when Neji seemed like a guard when Hinata walked into the school for the first time after the weekend, he wasn't surprised when Neji practically shoved him back and told him not to speak to him or his cousin; to say he was surprised was a huge understatement. Naruto was in a state of shock.

What broke his heart was when he was pleading with Hinata for some explanation and she didn't even look at him, simply walked forward to Sakura and Ino who were looking at him as if looks could kill along with the mildly interested pair of eyes that belonged to Sasuke and Sai. With hardened blue eyes he looked into the equally hardened grey eyes of Neji and the two initiated a stare off. "Are you hard of hearing? I've told you to get out of here over three times already! We Hinata should have never associated herself with your kind." At that the blonde immediately flinched, so that's what this was about. Naruto wasn't good enough for Hinata, and from the looks of it apparently Hinata agreed. Sighing heavily Naruto brushed off his shoulders as if dusting off dirt, it felt appropriate since in their eyes he was dirt. "I heard you the first time I just thought," his trail of thought hesitated before looking to Hinata one last time, "I thought wrong." Turning around and walking off with as much dignity as he could with an uncaring posture and hands in his pockets.

Upon walking up to his gang of friends Shikamaru almost had an understanding look appear on his usually indifferent face. "Turns out I'm not good enough to be seen with the school's princess anymore. I should have figured it'd happen sooner than later." The blonde's shoulders dropped before Kiba came around and slung an arm around his shoulders. "Meh, who needs a spoiled princess anyway, honestly dude she was just using you as some little personal guard or charity case." His statement received a couple of glares but Naruto's shoulders only slumped knowing his friend had a loud and blunt mouth. "Whatever, I think I'm going home for the rest of the day, I'm not in the mood for school." It was with that statement Kiba looked like he finally realized what he did as his friend walked to the exit of the school.

It was about two weeks of not seeing Naruto that Shikamaru decided to text him.

Shikamaru: Hey dude, you missing so much school is troublesome.

Naruto: like I care

Shikamaru: I wouldn't be texting you if someone didn't care :/

The blonde didn't reply after that which only caused the dark haired boy to run a few fingers through his hair in utter annoyance before the bell rang and he walked out of class to greet Kiba by grabbing him by his collar. "Fix it." Kiba's eyes took a moment to process what he said but when they did it was recognition before it vanished. "I don't know what you're talking about." Stated Kiba before turning his face, Shikamaru simply pinched the bridge of his nose. "I'm not in the mood to make this more of a drag than it is, listen just fix this and make it better before I tell Naruto about your little stunt and let him come to school to kick your ass himself." At that Kiba seemed to stiffen a little before chuckling. "He'll hate you too if you tell him. You could have stopped it and told him at the beginning." Shikamaru shrugged. "I can live with that, he'll probably forgive me eventually, not you though." Check mate, Kiba made a move to remove his hand before heading in the direction of that patio, where the preps had lunch. "Fine." The brunette called over his shoulder when Shikamaru looked at him dumbfounded.

Kiba stopped a good distance away from them, sighing heavily as he mentally prepared himself for what he was about to do. He watched them for a long moment though, dark eyes watching them with something akin to interest. Sasuke was reading a book while Sakura leaned against him, seemingly ranting about something that annoyed him evidently. Sai was sketching the leaves of the trees that gave them shade while Ino looked on in awe, complimenting him every time his pencil made some sort of stroke against paper, but he didn't seem to be bothered by it. Hinata sat with her cousin and seemed to be utterly tired as her cousin casted a few worried glances her way as he ate his sandwich. There were two new faces with them, a girl with two buns on her head and an odd looking male with a bowl cut, they sat closest to Neji and Hinata as the bun haired girl rubbed her back and the bowl cut guy seemed to try to be saying something inspirational. As Kiba got closer he began to make out words.

"Hinata-chan, every devastated flower comes back ever the more stronger and beautiful, just as you will. The flames of youth will once again burn in you! Only brighter and hotter this time!" Kiba cringed as Neji seemed to throw him a look before asking the boy, who he learned was named Rock Lee, if such words were really appropriate. Lee went on to say that's how he got the girl, TenTen, to brighten up. TenTen seemed appalled by this and merely snapped at him that pretending she felt better was the only way to get him off her back. Before their bickering got worse Hinata looked up at the male that approached them and all of them simultaneously looked up to stare at him. Silence was the only thing heard for a moment before Neji spoke. "Can we help you?" Kiba gulped. "I was wondering if I could speak to Hinata? It's kind of important see we have a class together and were paired up for a project, just wanna run some ideas by her." As he made up the story he looked pleadingly to Hinata before she seemed to understand what he was getting out. "Now really isn't a good ti-" "It's fine Neji-niisan, I promise this won't take long." Getting up Hinata followed the boy a good distance away from them.

"Listen I'm not gonna waste your time I'm just gonna tell you what happened. Naruto is a friend of mine and when you two started hanging out more I got pissed and I admit a little jealous so I purposely came up with a plan to sabotage him and that meant making it look like he did something to purposely hurt you. So I sort of borrowed his hoodie and messed up your forest garden on purpose and left his hoodie there to make it look like he did it and then I just watched it all come falling apart just, give him a chance because he's a mess right now. I honestly tried to mess up your friendship with each other and I take the blame and Naruto doesn't know what he did wrong just, honestly I don't know where this is going anymore but I guess what I should say is I'm sorry."

Most of his words came out frantically and quickly trying to get it all out before she turned and walked away after knowing his purpose talking to her but she simply stood there politely listening to him rant before nodding once she was sure he finished. "Okay." He looked astonished. "Okay? That's it?" The dark haired girl nodded once again. "It's a lot to process but once I do I'll, talk to him. I won't say anything about you either just pass it off as a misunderstanding." Hell she wasn't even mad which made Kiba ever the more shocked, he would have expected her to yell or be angry and immediately threaten to tell Naruto but all she did was say okay and let it go. Even promised to keep this between them and make something up. "I get where you're coming from." He looked up at that. "Everyone thinks I'm some spoiled and stuck up princess, I'm not, I wasn't using Naruto or anything. I understand if you thought us to forget of our union better than attempting to keep it, even my cousin thinks him out of my life makes it better than way but," she trailed off and her next statement came out as a whisper that forced him to lean towards her, "I don't want to forget about keeping him in my life, as a friend or anything else he makes me happy and I think that's good enough." She smiled up at him before turning around and retreating back to her friends leaving Kiba to stand there like an idiot for a few moments. Hell I am an idiot to think they were bad for each other. Shaking his head at himself he turned around and began to make his way back to where his next class would be held.

Naruto lied in his bedroom late into the night simply staring at his ceiling. Had he done something wrong? Something that proved he wasn't worth Hinata's time, that had to be it he couldn't think of anything else. He should have known he's screw up eventually, as his thoughts began to become more self-deprecating the familiar ring of his phone and the light coming from his dresser made him turn around to look it over. His eyes widened at the name that appeared on the screen, given the fact it was about to be 2 in the morning on a school night and also that he had texted this exact person numerous times only to be left on read until he came to the conclusion they blocked him.

Hinata: Naruto-kun, are you awake?

Naruto: Yeah of course, why are u still up?

Hinata: Couldn't sleep.

Naruto: Oh…

Naruto: …

Naruto: Listen, I'm really sorry about whatever I did to upset u.

Hinata: You didn't do anything, it was a misunderstanding. I'm sorry for not coming to you about it.

Naruto: I'm just glad ur talking to me again.

Hinata: I'm glad you're not mad at me.

Naruto: I never could be.

After an awkward silence as he watched the bubble to indicate that Hinata was typing reappear and disappear again he smiled gently and figured she simply couldn't think of anything to say. He didn't blame her, he surprised himself with that last statement. After a few minute he decided to take matters into his own hands.

Naruto: Wanna ditch school and get some lunch tomorrow?

Hinata: I'd like that.

Naruto: Sound's like a plan then :P

Hinata: Yeah, I'm going to go to sleep now though, goodnight.

Naruto: Night, sleep well.