DISCLAIMER: I do not own "Naruto" and am in no way associated with it's writers or producers.
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After looking at the clock, Naruto immediately jumped out of the bed, suddenly wide awake.
"Oh man! Oh man! Oh man Oh man! Oh man!" Naruto panicked, as he frantically began looking around for his shoes and headband.
Naruto had promised Hinata last night they would meet again at the top of the Hokage faces mountain at eleven in the morning, which was ten minutes from now. Naruto freaked out waking up, fearing he couldn't get up their in time. Especially after the lovely romantic night they had together after finally confessing and letting out their love for each other. Naruto defiantly didn't wanna miss out seeing Hinata now.
Naruto dashed hoping out the door, trying to run and get his shoes on at the same time.
"Oh man! I'm not gonna make it." he said. "How could I have been so stupid?!"
Naruto was running as fast as he possibly could thru the leaf village, finally putting his headband on while running to look casual. Breathing hard and heavily, Naruto ran, turning corners very sharp, trying to dodge the other people and not run into them.
He came around a wooden fence and found Kakashi sensei, walking and reading one of his books. He quickly looked up in shock to see Naruto running towards.
"What the…?" Kakashi said.
Naruto saw him and freaked to. Unable to dodge Kakashi, Naruto thought quickly and baseball slid underneath Kakashi to avoid crashing into him. Just as quick, he was back up and running.
"Sorry Kakashi sensei!" Naruto turned and yelled back. He kept running.
Kakashi just stared, dumbfounded and baffled at Naruto running.
"Well, that was odd." Kakashi said to himself, then turned back. "Meh, what else is new?"
Meanwhile, still running frantically thru the city, Naruto looked up at clock on one of the buildings.
--10:53 a.m.
"Oh crap" he thought outloud. "I not gonna make it in time. It takes me at least another ten minutes to get from where I am now to up that mountain"
His breathing grew heavier and heavier. Naruto tried to pace himself, but he was too worried about what would happen if Hinata showed up, waiting for Naruto and he didn't come in time.
Eventually he turned down another street running. Out of the corner of his eye, Naruto could see Sakura sitting at some table eating food at a café. He didn't have time to notice or think of it and just kept staring down the road.
Upon hearing him running though, Sakura suddenly turned around and saw Naruto.
At last, she thought. Sakura quickly got up and turned to him.
"Hey, Naruto!" Sakura yelled and waved with a smile. "Naruto, I need to…."
"Hi Sakura! Sorry! No time!" Naruto quickly yelled running right past her.
"Wh…..wha…..what?" Sakura said in confusion.
Sakura looked at Naruto, baffled and puzzled as he ran. "Naruto wait!"
Sakura yelled and started running after him.
"Naruto! Slow down!" she yelled.
"I can't Sakura, I don't have time!" Naruto yelled looking back to her while running.
"What do you mean you don't have time?" she yelled back. "I need to talk to you!"
"Okay then, talk to me." He said still running. "We can run and talk at the same time Sakura."
"What?" Sakura was getting irritated. "No we can't! This is too important!"
Sakura finally ran ahead of Naruto and jumped in his way, holding her arms out. Realizing it, Naruto suddenly screeched to a halt leaving skid marks in the ground. He was breathing and panting hard.
"What Sakura?!" Naruto yelled having finally stopped.
"Naruto, I don't know what your hurry is" Sakura told him worried. "But I just needed to tell you right now…….. that I'm sorry. I'm so sorry for what hap…."
"Okay, thanks, I forgive you! Gotta go!" Naruto tried to yell quickly and run again.
But Sakura ran in his way again.
"Naruto, wait!" she told him. "Why can't you just stay and listen to me for two seconds?!"
He realized she had a rather sad expression on her face.
"Sakura, I'd love to stay here and talk this over, but I don't have that kind of time right now." Naruto tried to say. "I really don't!"
"What do you mean?" Sakura said. "I'm trying to apologize to you. What are you in such a rush for anyway?"
"I told you Sakura, I forgive you" Naruto said. "I know what happened between us yesterday was rough, but it's over, and now I got meet Hinata at the Hokage mountain in five minutes."
"Well then can't…….wait,….. what?"
Sakura's face suddenly stood still. "Hinata?"
"Yeah" Naruto said. "I promised her I'd meet her on top the mountain at eleven o'clock in the morning so we could hang out. I don't wanna be late."
"You….. your going to meet… Hinata?" Sakura said still completely shocked.
"Yes." Naruto said. "Now I gotta go." He quickly went past Sakura running again. "Don't worry I forgive you Sakura. We can talk more later!" Naruto yelled back one last time.
He finally left out of sight. But Sakura just stood there, looking at the ground jaw-dropped, eyes wide open and clutching her dress in disbelief.
Naruto just ran on, too worried about being late to wanna think about Sakura. He didn't wanna blow her off like that, but he thought he had nothing to lose. As far as Naruto was concerned, Sakura didn't care much about his relationships with other comrades, much less about if he would ever date one of them.
While running, Naruto noticed another clock.
--10:58 a.m.
"Oh crap!" Naruto yelled. "I'll never make it now! Darn, that conversation with Sakura took up too much time!" Still running Naruto began putting his fingers together. "I only have one chance now if I'm gonna make up there in time! Alright! Come on you stupid fox!"
With that, Naruto's body began turning orange and red. The red chakra of the 9-Tailed Fox had been released, granting its speed to Naruto.
"Don't worry Hinata." Naruto yelled with a smile. "Here I come!"
Now, Naruto was zooming thru the village faster. Flying past everyone like a Nascar. In a matter of seconds, Naruto finally made all the way thru the village, then jumped up the mountain wall, focusing the chakra to his feet to run up the mountain with ease.
Finally Naruto came shooting up the mountain top in the air and landed on the cliff. The red chakra disappeared. It was eleven o'clock. Probably just a minute past maybe.
Naruto fell to his knees in order to catch all his breath. That's when he began looking around the cliff top…… looking around the trees, or the nearby edges, to see if Hinata was here.
"Hinata?" Naruto called out.
No one answered.
He got back up and began walking around the trees to look for her. "Hinata?" he called again. "I made it finally!" he yelled. Still no one answered.
As Naruto kept walking though, his body began to wobble back and forth. His vision got real blurry. Naruto finally realized what a mistake he made. He pushed himself too hard just to show up here on time. He must've ran to fast, he thought. He didn't get as much sleep as his body wanted, and it was still tired from getting up early.
Finally Naruto collapsed on his back to the ground.
"Man, what was I thinking?" Naruto mumbled to himself.
He was real tired and dizzy. He looked up at the trees and almost saw double and saw them spinning.
"Great" Naruto talked to himself. "I went through all that, just so I could get to see Hinata one more time. And now she's not even here. She probably showed up somewhere waiting for me, then left cause I didn't get here in time."
Naruto's mind drifted away though. Feeling very drowsy. He began having daydreams and flashback about Hinata.
He dreamed of last night: The amazing time they had together. That first romantic kiss in the moonlight. How they slept together under the tree, kissing and making out and squeezing each other oh so tightly. He pictured Hinata in a dream standing over a giant waterfall with the cool wind blowing thru her hair and her clothes. Then turning around to see Naruto and smile lovely at him, waiting for him to come to her.
Eventually, Naruto starting hearing voices calling out to him….. or rather "a" voice.
"Naruto…….are you alright……Naruto?"
Naruto suddelnly woke back up and found Hinata looming over him.
"Naruto?" Hinata asked worried. "What happened?"
Naruto looked up at her surprised, and smiled, relived she was finally here. "Nothing Hinata. I guess I got tired and dosed off."
Feeling greatly relived he was fine, and just as happen to see him to, Hinata smiled and laid down on top him. "Oh Naruto! I'm so happy to see you again." Hinata cried. She quickly pulled Naruto to her and started kissing him. Taken by surprise once again, Naruto quickly gave in to her and kissed back, as they wrapped their arms and legs around each other and begin hugging and making out like they hadn't seen each other in a long time.
Later on, Hinata and Naruto were cuddled up, sitting side by side holding each another sitting under antoher tree in the middle of the woods.
"So you slept in to Hinata?" Naruto asked.
"Yes" Hinata smiled. "I mean we were up so late last night, once I got home I was so tired, and just thinking all about, I collapsed in the bed the moment I walked in."
Naruto blushed and smiled to her. "Really? I guess then we weren't alone. I did the exact same thing." Naruto giggled.
"I was so worried about getting here" Hinata spoke. "I mean I knew I would be a couple minutes late, but I didn't want you getting worried or feeling rushed. That's why I almost freaked out when I saw you collapsed on the ground."
Naruto sighed. "Yeah. I guess I overreacted. I didn't realize we'd both be sleeping in so late."
But Hinata just giggled. "It's okay now though, Naruto." She turned to him. "I wouldn't miss this for the world, just being here with you."
"Ahhh, come 'er you!" Naruto laughed and pulled Hinata into him. Hinata was taken by surprise when Naruto started scratching her head and tickling her back. Naruto wrapped his legs around Hinata's as so not to escape. Not knowing how to react, Hinata just giggled and laughed while Naruto played with her. Eventually Hinata began tickling Naruto back around his sides. Laughing out loud, Naruto and Hinata rolled all over the ground playing with and tickling each other. Finally they wore themselves out. Naruto was now laying ontop of Hinata this time in the fresh green grass when their eyes meet again. Taken over by the moment they kissed each other again for a good few minutes.
Back at the village, Sakura was seen walking slowly thru the city streets. Her hands were in her pocket. Her head stayed down.
Ever since running into Naruto, her mind had been warped.
"I don't believe it" she whispered to herself. "Naruto was in such a hurry this morning…….. for Hinata?"
Sakura knew right away something was defiantly up with Naruto. She'd never seen anyone in such a hurry for anything, not since that time Sasuke ran into her looking for Itachi long ago.
She realized if he was in such a hurry to see Hinata for something that wasn't critical or life-threatening, then it must be something else.
"Why Naruto?" Sakura kept talking to herself. "Why would Hinata be so much more important to you than listening to me? You know how sorry I am and how much that means to you……… right?"
Just then Sakura noticed a random couple walk past her: a husband and a wife doing some shopping and holding hands. That's when it finally dawned on her:
She had always sort of noticed how much attention Hinata would pay to Naruto at the ninja academy (seeing how she was the only girl who did back then). Sakura had always heard about Hinata possibly following Naruto around a lot, and Naruto didn't mind. She remembered how determined Naruto was to avenge Hinata's lose to Neji in the Chunin exam fight. And Naruto and Hinata finally had some missions together……… it must have finally happened. Naruto and Hinata finally came out and fell in love!
"Wow" Sakura said to herself. "I don't believe it." She turned and looked up at the Hokage mountain where the two said they were.
"I guess Naruto finally found a girl to make him happy. And get him off my back." Sakura said and tried to smile.
But despite it, Sakura turned and walked down an alley. She kept trying to smile for Naruto. Smile that she was happy he was in love………. Sakura's smile quickly vanished into thin air. She collapsed to her knees and clutched her forehead. Her eyes wide open got real itchy.
"What…… what's...happening to me?!" Sakura shook and got real twitchy.
Back on the mountain though,
Hinata and Naruto were spending the entire afternoon hanging out with each other. They trained with each other; they practiced tree climbing together, racing each other up to the top of trees just for fun; practicing throwing weapons at targets.
"You see, check this out." Naruto was telling Hinata.
Naruto, along with one of his shadow clones stood in front of Hinata in the middle of a field. The two began putting their hands together and moving them around fast to form the rasengan.
Once Naruto had it, he held the spinning bright blue ball up to show Hinata.
"We call it the 'Rasengan'." Naruto said.
Hinata looked at it with a smile. "That's amazing. It's beautiful to."
"Thanks" Naruto smiled. "But remember: it may look cool and beautiful to the eyes, but it's still a dangerous and extremely powerful weapon, not to be taken lightly."
"I know" Hinata said. "But that still doesn't mean you can't appreciate how cool it looks."
They were showing each other their new techniques they'd learn. Although Hinata had already seen Naruto's rasengan before during the mission, she loved just getting tot see it, as did Naruto loved watching her 8 trigrams.
Mainly they just wanted to spend time together, doing anything thing they could. They played games and had laughs by hanging upside down from branches. They laid down in the grass looking up at the clouds to see things. And whenever they got tired and wanted a break, they'd just pick a spot to lie down and cuddle. Naruto helped Hinata overcome a lot of her shyness around him. She wasn't afraid at all to express how much she loved him, verbally and physically.
Eventually they decided to leave the forest on top the mountain and head back to the village.
They weren't ready just yet to let anyone know they had fallen in love and were together, so they walked separately through the village, acting as normal and friendly as they always do.
They met back up one more time that day, just to watch the sunset together, sitting ontop of a building.
"You know Hinata" Naruto said with the sun in his eyes. "I'd say this is the beginning of a great relationship.
Hinata blushed and smiled. "I know Naruto" she whispered. "You think we'll be okay?"
"Hmm" Naruto said. "What do you mean?"
"I mean" Hinata said. "You don't think anyone will disprove of our relationship; you know like my father, or my cousin Neji, or any of our teammates….."
Naruto just looked at her. "Me? I'm not really worried. I doubt anyone will even notice or care for that matter. And if they do, they'll just be happy for us!"
Hinata's smile came back. "You….. you really think so?"
"Of course Hinata." Naruto just wrapped his arm around Hinata again. "And like you said, we shouldn't worry about that. I just wanna enjoy this time right now. Together."
"Yeah. Me to." Hinata whispered. She finally relaxed and leaned over on Naruto again. They were both just so in love to think about anything else, glaring into the bright warm sunset.
The sun finally set all the way, leaving behind an emourmous orange then pink-redish glow.
Down below, a dark shadow had been looking up at Naruto and Hinata. It turned and slowly disappeared.
TO BE CONTINUED