Hinata looked around herself. Why was she still in Naruto's house? It was twelve at night. Then she remembered she lived by herself so she didn't in fact need to go home except of course she just needed to be home in time for her father and Neji to go training together. She looked around. Naruto was sleeping on the floor next to her. Boyfriend, she thought to herself. She couldn't believe it; the one person she'd wanted to like her ever since she'd been in the academy was finally admitting that he liked her too. It was just dizzying, and then he kissed her. Not that it was a serious kiss, but still he did kiss her. Just her Hinata only. She felt cold and inched towards Naruto and noticed his skin was warm. Then she realized he wasn't wearing a shirt. She could just see all of his perfectly shaped abs. (Go Naruto with all your sexiness!!!! Drive Hina crazy).
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"Hinata wake up your cell phone's ringing."

"Hmm." Hinata called from under the covers

"Hinata answer it." She lifted her head from the covers and picked up her cell.

"He-hello?" she said into the receiver

"Hinata, your suppose to be here by now." Her father said into the phone." Where ever you are now hurry up and get here. Understand?"

" Ye-yes father." she said as her dad hung up the phone.

"It was your father right?" Naruto whispered

"Y-yes it w-was." She said as she was heading to the bathroom.

Hinata is such a sweet girl Naruto thought to himself. I would like to get to know her more. I know what I should do... I'll ask her when she comes back from training. He exited the room with a smile on his face.

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Hinata arrived just before they left her. She briskly walked over to her father and apologized for being late. Her father accepted her apology and told her that it should never happen again. As they started to walk to the training grounds Neji stayed behind and walked the same pace as Hinata.

"Why were you late today?" He questioned her in a soft whisper

"I-it's none o-of y-your business." She said and at the same time blushing as she remembered Naruto

"Yes it is." He hissed, "Usually you would never be late and I know something is up or were you at Naruto's house?"
"I was not at his house!" she screamed. Neji and her father looked at her with there eyes widened with surprise. At that moment Hinata made a decision did she really want to be treated like just another unimportant weakling. No she didn't. It was stupid and she wanted a change. The first thing that had to go was the stuttering.

"Hinata!" Her father yelled," What happened to your stutter? And whose house did you go?"
There wasn't enough time to explain for they had already reached the training grounds. As Neji was training Hinata was pulled aside by her father.

"Hinata what happened?" he asked

"Fine I'll explain." she said as a sign of defeat. She told about Gaara and that's how she ended in the hospital. While she was staying at the hospital Gaara came again but, Naruto was there and beat him up badly. Then Naruto asked her if she wanted to go to the beach with him and she agreed. After the beach he confessed that he liked her and she liked him too. Then she stayed at his house and accidentally fell asleep and stayed too. The stuttering stopped because she was tried of people judging her, saying she was a very shy weak girl, and she wanted to stop that habit as well.
"Alright then but, it is not an excuse to be late." said her father. Still wondering what had suddenly come over his daughter. But he shrugged it off. Hinata was at least making her own decisions.
"I knew you were with Naruto." Neji said as he finished his training

"So, why do you care?" Hinata said wondering why Neji was acting that way.

"He's not the type of guy for you!" He screamed back at her.

Neji looked at her his eyes blazing. Taking her by surprise he tried to hit her but she blocked it almost instantly.

"Alright," Her father began to speak, "Hinata you can stay at Naruto's and Neji I know that you're worried about your cousin but, I'm sure Naruto will take care of her." That was that, so they walked back to the house and dismissed Hinata.

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Naruto sat on the bed Hinata slept in the night before. He did like her enough to protect and be there for her. Just as he was thinking about her she entered the room.

"Naruto, what was the thing you wanted to ask me?" she asked as he walked to her and felt her head.

"Hinata, are you sick?" he asked

"NO I am not sick."

"What happened to your stutter?"

"Well, I was getting fed up with people judging me when I talk. Right away they're like, this girl is as shy as hell and I'm not. I did this mostly to impress you."

"Well you did a good job." he whispered into her ear as he hugged her.

"T-thank you." She said with tears rolling down her cheeks.

"The question I wanted to ask you was do you want to go to the beach again but, just the two of us?"

"Sure a little bit of fun won't hurt for today would it?" Hinata answered

"Nope." Naruto answered as he strolled out the door

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Naruto and Hinata arrived at the beach. When Hinata took off her towel she was wearing a blue and white striped bikini. She didn't feel at all exposed like the trip they took to the beach. Naruto was wearing Hawaiian swimming trunks showing only his calves. From his stomach up was nothing well except his perfectly shaped abs and the seal he had since he was a baby. Which Hinata thought made him look slightly sexier.
"Holy shi-" He could not finish his sentence because he had a major nose-bleed at the sight of Hinata
" ..." Hinata was speechless even though she saw him before like this. It was still amazing. On top of that she blushed the reddest shade of red even past fan-fic. (maw hahahahah now this is a fan-fic record of blushing. No one can beat this... I'm sure.) Hinata sat in the sand waiting for Naruto to return for she did not know he had a nose bleed because of her. Well, at least it was peace and quiet which means time to think. Why did Naruto ask me to come to the beach with him? Hinata asked herself. Maybe to be his wife! Wait, that's way too early but, you never know.
Or maybe he wanted to makeo-... Her thoughts were interrupted by Naruto noiselessly walking over to her. He sat next to her.

"Do you want to walk around the beach?" He asked

"Sure" she said. He got up and gave her his hand. She hesitated but put her hand in his. They started to walk the beach hand in hand, looking away from each other blushing like crazy.
"So um wh-" she was interrupted when Naruto pulled her too close for comfort.
"Shhh." he whispered. As he said that he gently put his lips on hers. (Well at least they weren't cold because they both were penetrating body heat.) The kiss lasted more than a minute. Hinata stood there motionless while Naruto covered her face and neck with kisses. She pulled him away from her.

"What are you doing?!" she exclaimed

"I'm sorry. I- I just couldn't control myself. The thing is I find myself liking you more and more."
"Well, you didn't have to go that far." she said biting her lip and blushing

"You know you liked It." he murmured. She heard him

"Of course I did." she murmured back at him

"Then why did you back away from me?"

"I'll give you an example: There's a girl you like at the age of 13 and your 14. So you asked her out and she agreed. After the first date you ask her out again and once again she agrees. On the second date you start making out then it turns into sex. Then the next thing you know she's pregnant and I don't want that to happen to me. I'm just not ready for that if you're trying to do that to me." She said on

"Sorry Hinata but I didn't know it made you feel that way."

"You know that's what Gaara tried to do to me." Hinata said on the verge of crying. "If you were trying to protect me why would you do almost the same thing?"

"I couldn't stop." Naruto said

"Just...stop... I'll meet you back at home." Hinata said throwing on her sweater, grabbed her beach towel and walked in the direction of her new house. She'd recently moved into his apartment.
Naruto sat speechless.