Hey, sorry for not uploading my second chapter after you all gave me the reviews, school started here in Malaysia so I had to prepare my school stuff and tuition plans- yes, I take tuition. And I give you the second chapter. One question though, do you want Gaara and Ino to be together faster or do you want Sasuke and Sakura to go first? ANSWER ME! Well, I think that is it...THANKS FOR THE REVIEW ALL OF YOU! I appreciate it!. Enjoy the second chapter but it may not be as good as the first chapter.
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Chapter 2: Blushes…
Naruto opened his eyes and saw Hinata, with her eyes close, lying below him. Their lips pressed against each other. Then time took its course as Hinata opened her pupil-less eyes and looked at Naruto's blue ones. Nothing seemed to matter at the moment; it was just them before…
"Oh my god…" Sasuke breathed, looking at the pair with widened eyes at the other end of the staircase. "Ooh, Neji's not going to like this…" After hearing Neji's name being mentioned, Naruto immediately push himself off of Hinata and turned red.
"S-Sorry…I uh…the staircase…moved- I fell…" Naruto went on stumbling on his words as the others in front of them stared at them with their mouths opened.
"You know, I would kill you for kissing my cousin but seeing like this…I guess it's worth it…" Neji started chuckling. "Good for you cousin," He laughed even more with Tenten and the other girls giggling after them.
"N-Neji-n-niisan!" Hinata's cheek turned red like a bloody tomato beside Naruto, hands twisting on her ninja outfit.
"Let's just forget this happened and move on okay?!" Naruto, still blushing, ran through the crowd and followed Professor McGonagall to Gryffindor's dormitory to find people still awake and laughing all around but went silence at once when McGonagall cleared her throat.
"Now, as Professor Dumbledore had said, these guests will be staying here throughout the Tournament. I hope you will, as students of Gryffindor, treat them with great hospitality. Potter, Weasley, Granger. You three will help them with whatever they need. If there isn't anything else, I'll be going now. You should all take a good night's rest. Classes start tomorrow morning." She took one glance at her house before leaving the common room.
"Hey, I guess you're going to be stuck with us for the rest of the year," Harry said, smiling at them with Ron and Hermione behind him.
"I guess so," Naruto chuckled, shaking hands with the boy who lived. "So where's our home for the mean time?" Harry smiled at him and led them to their 'home'-for-the-mean-time.
Walking up the boys' dormitory stairs, they went higher and they found a few rooms prepared for them with tags on their doors and notes saying whom will be sleeping with whom. "Um, so I guess, Naruto will be sleeping with the boys except Shikamaru and the girls will be sleeping in the other except Temari," Harry narrowed his eyes as he read the notes that were on their doors. "Shikamaru and Temari will be sleeping together in the third room," He smiled, happy to have finished dealing with this matter but soon that smile faltered. "Wait, together?!"
"Yeah, we'll be sleeping together. We just got married before we were chosen to come to this Tournament." Temari grinned and latched her arms onto Shikamaru's.
"Whoa, you guys are married?" Ron asked, "Bloody hell, you guys are just 17 years old!"
"Yeah, well, getting married at young age is very normal in Japan, as long as the opposite loves the other one, right?" No point arguing her age, Temari turned to smile at Shikamaru just to find him sleeping on his feet again and so she did the only solution: kick his legs. "Right?!" She growled at the lazy ass.
"Yeah, yeah," He put his hands up surrendering to his wife who definitely is a replica of his mother (is every Nara destined to have wives like them?), "Geez, troublesome woman, can't you give me some sleep?"
The gang just shook their heads at their lazy friend and mentally pitied Temari for having a husband like him.
"Well, thanks. We'll be resting now, see you in the morning." Naruto greeted the trio good night before going into his own room with Neji, Gaara, Kankuro, Sasuke, Kiba, Chouji, Lee and Shino following him in, getting in their respective beds. Naruto and Gaara slept in the middle for safety measures while Sasuke and Neji slept on the left side of Naruto's beds while Kiba and Shino slept on Sasuke's left and Chouji and Lee slept on Neji's right. Kankuro just took his space beside his brother.
"Good night, everyone," Naruto moaned a good night before stumbling himself into darkness.
(A/N: If you're wondering why Gaara was able, well- to me- it's because Shukaku's gone and he took the liberty of training himself to sleep- don't ask me how, maybe he counted sheep to sleep- Ha!)
Before it was six in the morning, Naruto was already up without the others awake. Gaara actually found a way to allow him to sleep at night ever since Shukaku was removed from him. Naruto slowly trudge down the steps to Gryffindors common room before…
"N-Naruto-kun!" Hinata gasped softly.
"Oh, Hinata-chan, I didn't know you wake up that early in the morning." He smiled before making his way beside her on the couch. "What are you doing?"
"No, I just can't sleep and I usually wake up this early in the morning. What are you doing so early in the morning?" Hinata, since long lost her stutter thanks to her friends, asked the blond back.
"Oh, I can't sleep though I'm dead tired." He yawned, leaning further into the couch. Hinata slowly imitated him and moved closer to him. "Want to sleep too?"
"I'll give it a try." She whispered, laying her head on his shoulder. "You're so warm, Naruto-kun."
"You're warm too," He blushed saying that and turned to look at her white eyes. "Y-You're really b-beautiful…" He trailed off staring at her even more before leaning closer to her and her closer to him and then their lips meet. Imagine the background with fireworks and sparks. *Sigh* so romantic.
"Night, Hina." He whispered, hugging her around the waist, pulling her closer to him and they both fell asleep on the couch in each others' arms. Sweet. (smirk)
"You know, we should take a picture. This is so going to my blackmail list," a certain female blonde said, giggling.
"Nah, I say we take a picture then show it to the whole village. Their Hokage is going to married within a few months!" another certain pink-haired kunoichi said with pride in her voice while the rest of the group around the two couples on the couch laughed.
"Say, did anyone of you bring a camera?" ANOTHER brunette kunoichi giggled. The boys chuckled. "Quick, Naruto's coming to,"
"Um, one of our Gryffindor boys always bring a camera around, wait, there he is. Colin!" Harry told them unsure whether he should join the fun too or not.
"Yes, Harry?" Colin Creevey smiled showing his white teeth to everyone with a camera in his hands.
"We, uh, need to borrow that camera of yours for a little while, you wouldn't mind would you?" Harry asked him. Within a flash, the camera was in Ino's hands with her taking a gazillion pictures of the two people on the couch sleeping so close together.
"Oh, shit. He's awake already." They quickly gave orders to Colin, wanting the photos they just took by today and push the boy away as if nothing happen. Soon, Naruto twitched his eyes and raised his hands to rub it, shielding his eyes from the sudden brightness.
"You people should learn to shut up when ones sleeping and yes, that's an order from the Hokage," He muttered sleepily then turned slightly to hug Hinata closer, "Hmm…"
"Okay, that's enough and I couldn't care less if you're the Hokage or not, that's my cousin you're hugging in your sleep, now let go," Neji started to fear for his cousin and pry Naruto's hands away from his cousin's waist.
Naruto stretched and yawned looking at everyone, "What are you guys doing here anyway?"
"Oh, we just came down and saw these two little birdies sleeping together rather in their own nest. Hm, how do you explain that?" Sakura looked at him as if waiting for him to answer her question.
"Well, um…I woke up kinda early this morning and found Hinata here awake too so um, we just got tired and um, fell asleep on the couch." Everyone except Neji who was starting to feel a little uncomfortable with his cousin who was too close with the blond, laughed out loud. Naruto blushed a little before nudging Hinata who was sleeping beside him, hands around his waist.
"Yeah, right," Kiba scoffed before laughing off with Kankuro again.
"Hm…" Hinata woke up seeing everyone looking at her, eyes showing a hint of evilness, "W-What's going on, Naruto-kun?" She looked at her friends who were giggling at her.
"Um, they caught us sleeping together," He whispered awkwardly, Hinata's cheeks started to blush and almost immediately she started scrambling out of the couch. "Oh yeah, we have to go change, you guys wait for a little while," He nervously laugh before being dragged off by Hinata whose blush had spread throughout the whole face already.
"You know I feel kind of uncomfortable with those two together," Neji frowned and everyone immediately stopped laughing, all looking at him with an 'Are-you-kidding-me?' look.
"Are you freaking kidding me?" Kiba looked at him ridiculously. Then they started to laugh again. "Hinata has been chasing him ever since we started Academy together!" Shino let out a little chuckle at that, remembering how the shy princess would blush till she faints upon seeing that knucklehead.
"Our little Hinata is growing up…" Ino sadly shook her head, just only to burst out laughing again.
"Okay, this is starting scare me. Usually you guys won't exactly laugh at the same time, fight yes but laugh no, isn't it scaring you Hina-chan?" Naruto descended the stairs with Hinata beside him.
"What's scary is seeing you being all mushy-mushy with a girl!" Kiba exclaimed, pointing his index finger at the couple.
"Come on, dobe, you're delaying everyone, even Potter and his friends!" Sasuke interrupted, still chuckling at him and the indigo girl beside him.
"Shut up, teme," Naruto mumbled at his teammate. "It's not my fault that I woke up late, even if I did, isn't your job to wake me up to first thing in the morning?" He pushed in a little Hokage tone inside his words.
"Don't you know how to wake up on your own dobe?" Sasuke looked at him with a skeptical look.
"Teme!"
"Dobe!"
"Bastard!"
"Dead last!"
"Who are you to call me dead last?!" Naruto retort at the Uchiha, walking out of the common room with Sasuke beside him.
"The leader of the Uchiha Clan, duh," Sasuke smirked as they continued to argue all the way to the Great Hall.
"Are they always like this?" Harry asked the pink girl beside him with Ron and Hermione on his right. Sakura giggled and turned to look at him.
"Always but this is what pulls them close together. Oh you wouldn't understand- it's a long story." Sakura went back looking at the two fighting like little kids still in their Academy days.
"We've got time," Harry turned his head to glance at Ron and Hermione who nodded their heads in agreement, wanting Sakura to tell the tale between them.
"Okay, but I'm not going to tell you the full version. Sasuke was born- you could say a pureblood- and he was a happy kid who has everything every kid could ever want. He also had an older brother who loved him so much but until one night, every moment held dear to Sasuke about his brother vanished. His brother murdered his whole clan within one night, singling Sasuke out. Yes, it's sad but Naruto's worst. He had never ever seen his parents before, how they look, what their names were. Not to mention people cursed the dirt he walked on and tried to kill him saying that he was cursed and all.
"His past was terribly covered in the shadows. No friends, no love. Until he met me and Sasuke, he was never happier. He may look dense and all but on the inside, he was so happy that on one would understand even if he told them- to have someone who finally accepted him. But Sasuke had been going on about revenge for years and finally he gave up learning things in school and escaped to find power to have his revenge. Oh, that night totally broke my heart.
"I cried and begged Naruto to bring him back but in the end, Naruto was sent to the hospital for immediate surgery. Thanks to our principal, Tsunade, he was saved. We swore that once we had news of Sasuke, we would go after him and bring him home but it was all without vain. Until three years ago, he came back. He didn't get to avenge his family but to Naruto and my eyes, we knew he had found the light and came back to us, came back to where he belong.
"But that was of course thanks to Naruto. You guys don't know this but there's this special charisma of his that could change ones point of view and make them see their inner light. If it weren't for him and his darn promises I would still be a girl who wouldn't know how move on and grow up. Most of the people here whom support him are mainly thanks to him," Sakura turned to look at Harry once more, a bright, genuine smile on her face.
" Yeah, people like me," a voice said, appearing beside Sakura. "Don't forget me, Hyuuga Neji, the protégé of the Hyuuga Clan beaten and awaken by the number one knucklehead boy. Until today, I could not have thanked him enough. If it wasn't for Naruto, I may be back at home, without friends, without my cousin to look after, a family I could finally have- but if he ever hurts Hinata I'll claw his eyes out of his sockets," Neji growled.
"Wow, he sounds like a hero," Harry looked at Naruto who was smiling with Sasuke now, if one hadn't seen their looks, they may have mistaken them to be brothers.
"He is," another voice crept up behind them. "Don't forget me too. Remember that head butt he gave me?" Sakura giggled.
"Yes, I was the victim. Of course I remember. How can I forget?" She smiled at him.
"Naruto is a one of a kind. But still he's quite dramatic at times." The lot laughed.
"It seems that there are more behind to all this that you say," Hermione said, "I mean, look at the lot of you. He must have used something to convince all of you since his past was so tragic."
"No, he didn't convince us. He showed it to us- he proved it to us with his determination that once he has the power to right the wrongs, he will right the wrongs for us. That's what I like about him. He has the determination to do anything just to help his precious ones." Neji took his chance to reply and looked at the Uchiha who had his arms around the blonde's shoulder and Naruto's around Sasuke's.
"Nice story," Harry commented, thoughts of the great blonde took him off guard at first but now he had a little admiration for him. "Ah, we're here."
"Great, breakfast." Ron drooled.
"God, do you ever stop eating?" Hermione looked at him ridiculously.
"No…Do you ever stop reading?" Ron's retort and the whole Konoha's laughter shut Hermione up.
"Oh shut up you," She glared at him before proceeding inside the hall with the whole Konoha gang behind her.
Okay! Second chappie done! On to the third, though you have to wait, ideas are not coming through my head right now, because all I'm thinking is vampires and I'm reading vampires and am writing vampires...*hiss* Ja ne, mina! R&R. I want more...hehe...everyone wants more, r-right? Hehe, don't beat me up now. (backing up)
Signing out, Uchiha Shiyo
