"Hya!" Naruto yelled as he charged Rock Lee, to which he replied with a quick jump and a kick in the back.
"Naruto, you seem disturbed today, what happened?" Lee had been puzzled ever since Naruto came to his house in the morning and begged him to train with him.
"Nothing, I just need to relief some stress." Naruto explained, and threw three kunais at Lee; Lee blocked all three of them and ran to attack Naruto.
"Leaf Whirl-!" Lee yelled as he jumped up to kick Naruto, but Naruto merely ducked and back flipped to kick him in the back. "Arg!"
"Huff, huff, its fun training with you!" Naruto told Lee, Lee smiled and looked over to Gai, who was walking to the clearing to start training Lee.
"Sorry Naruto, but Lee's with me today!" Gai told him proudly, Naruto nodded and left dissatisfied.
"You should be able to leave today Hinata." Sakura told Hinata as she examined the wound area, making sure it wasn't damaged in the healing.
"Good, uh...Did you by chance talk with Naruto at all?" Hinata asked Sakura timidly.
"Yesterday, why?" Sakura felt kind of bad, she wanted to tell her that Naruto was crying because he felt so bad for hurting her like that, and he'd probably kill himself if he knew that she loved him.
"Does he...hate me?" Hinata asked sadly, she felt like it was all her fault Naruto acted so sad on the way out yesterday.
"No! Of course not!" Sakura assured her, "But he's afraid you might hate him."
"Huh?" Hinata blushed, she knew why he might think that, but she didn't want to think about it.
"You should go talk to him, he's usually by Ichiraku Ramen, but he might be at his house." Sakura told her as she put Hinata's shirt back on and finished writing her inspection notes. "You're out of here."
"Thank you!" Hinata yelled as she dashed out of the door to her room, and out the front door.
"Hinata?" Ino said as she saw Hinata run out of the door. Hinata stopped and asked her if she had seen Naruto.
"No, well, I saw him training with Rock Lee a little bit ago, maybe you should use your Byakugan..." Ino suggested, Hinata smacked herself in the head for not doing that in the first place.
"Thanks," Hinata yelled as she activated her Byakugan and searched all over town for Naruto.
Meanwhile, Naruto was sitting on the head of the third Hokage, looking at all of Konoha as he played with his fingers.
"Well, she probably won't speak to me for a little bit." Naruto told himself, he wished he never had gone to see Shikamaru, Ino, and Chouji, then maybe he could have just come home and asked her on a date or something. "When Pervy Sage gets back, he'll know what to do... I hope." Naruto had always considered Jiraiya a master of women, as he always found a way to get one or more girls surrounding him (or did he pay them? Naruto never paid attention to that so he really didn't know).
"ARGG! This is so annoying! Why did I even want to see those three anyways!?" Naruto said, nearly falling off the Third's head as he started pulling his hair out.
"NARUTO!" Naruto heard as he looked out to see a worried Hinata, looking for him on the top of the Academy.
"Eh? She's looking for me...probably to give me a slap for being a monster..." Naruto considered maybe that was a little harsh to say about Hinata, but it seems to fit the motive of why anyone would look for him after all that.
"NARUTO! I'M SORRY!" Hinata yelled into the distance of the village, Naruto heard this and was surprised that she was saying she was sorry.
"UP HERE!" Naruto yelled at Hinata's back, Hinata then turned around and looked straight at the blond haired boy on top of the head of a Hokage. She then started running up the side of the mountain to join him.
"Naruto! I'm sorry I acted like that!" Hinata apologized to Naruto as she stood in front of him.
"It's ok, I'm used to it..." Naruto told her, he really meant it to be in a cheery voice, but it came out sad and depressed. "Do you want to go somewhere?" He asked her.
"What? You mean like a-a date?" Hinata stuttered, she was turning beat red as she tried to process what just happened.
"Yeah, like a date." Naruto told her, he was looking to the side at the sunset in the distance, he really didn't want to look Hinata in the eye, he thought he might cry if he did.
"YES! Of course!" Hinata told him excitedly, Naruto told her to be at his place at 7 (which gave her a little over an hour). And Hinata rushed off excitedly to get into some leisurely clothes, but what should she wear? The questions kept popping into her head as she ran home, so she decided to take a little detour to a certain girl's house.
"Of course I'll help!" Ino told Hinata as she rushed out of the family flower shop to Hinata's house to get some clothes.
"So, urm, what should I wear?" Hinata asked as she opened her closet to show a few jackets, training vests, and a dresser that contained her underwear and PJ's. Ino looked at Hinata in shock, and rustled through all her clothes to find a few dresses.
"Hmm, kimono's too dressy... skirt's too long... well, maybe not too long." Ino said as she pulled out a black skirt that went down past Hinata's knees when she put it against her legs.
"He might just take me for Ramen..." Hinata told Ino, Hinata wished that Naruto wouldn't do that, but just going on a date with him made up for it.
"Ok, so casual it is... HERE!" Ino yelled in triumph as she pulled out a pink, long sleeved shirt, it had a v-cut that exposed a little of her chest. "Eh...maybe not." Ino threw both the skirt and the shirt back into the closet.
"Well, you could talk with Naruto, the New Year's festival doesn't start until 10 (Hinata forgot that it was New Years Eve while she was in the Hospital). Then you could wear your kimono." Ino told her; she really had no good dressy clothes EXCEPT the kimono.
"Ok, thank you!" Hinata told her as she rushed back to tell Naruto.
"Yeah I know, you can wear your kimono to where we're going, I just wanted you here at 7 because all the restaurants in the village close at 9:30." Hinata smacked herself again for forgetting all the things that happened on New Years Eve. Hinata apologized and told him that she'd be back in 30 minutes.
When Hinata did get back, she was wearing a blue kimono with a green bamboo print all over it. Hinata blushed, as Naruto looked her over in his black and gray Hakama, he left his forehead protector inside, so his hair lay a little above his eyes.
"You look nice." Naruto complimented her with a smile.
"And so do you." Hinata said with a raging blush.
"Let's go get some sushi." Naruto surprised Hinata, she hadn't expected him to go anywhere but Ichiraku for dinner.
"Sure!" Hinata told him excitedly as he put his arm around hers and they started walking down the street.
"Itadakimasu." They both said as they started eating the fish products in the porcelain ship in front of them.
"Hmm... The crunchy roll's pretty good!" Naruto pointed out as he ate slowly. "Here try it!" He said putting his chopsticks out with a roll in-between them.
"Uh...ok." Hinata blushed as she stuck her head out and ate the roll at the end of the sticks. "Hmm...I love the eel sauce!"
"Compliment's of the gentleman over there, Naruto." Naruto looked to see that Kakashi was sitting at a table at the end of the room, waving to him. Kakashi had bought him and Hinata, a huge order of miso soup and dynamite rolls.
"Thank you," Naruto told the waiter and waved to Kakashi, Kakashi then perched his head on his hand and thought how lucky Naruto was to find a nice girl.
"Ohh, Naruto's found a nice girl it seems... well, I guess I could hold off on the training for another month..." Jiraiya said as he sat on the roof of a building across from the restaurant Naruto was eating at, he planned to start training Naruto on New Years Day, but he figured that a month or two wouldn't hurt over the 6 he'd been missing.