Sorry it took so long, spring break + birthday = lots of booze and little writing.
So yea, my apologies and I'll continue to update as often as possible.
Chapter 4: Seven Whole Minutes
Hinata and Naruto walked up the stairs to one of the empty guest rooms in Ino's vast beach house.
Both were incredibly nervous, and didn't know what to say, so they stayed silent.
Naruto opened the door to the room and held it open for Hinata. She walked in and whispered "T-Thank you." Scared to break the silence.
Naruto just smiled in response. He didn't want to make her uncomfortable by saying the wrong thing, so he didn't say anything at all.
He closed the door behind them and they stood in the large guest room, with a large bed with a two seat couch in the middle of the room, facing the large flat screen T.V. on the wall.
Naruto looked around the room, "damn…" he knew Ino was wealthy, but not like this.
Hinata stood in front of Naruto, unsure of what to do. Naruto stopped looking around the room and noticed that she was nervous. Is she scared of me? No, baka, then why would she have talked to you on the bus, and come in the room in the first place. Stop thinking and do something.
Naruto snapped out of his thoughts, "Um, should we sit down?" he asked.
"U-Um, sure." She sat down on the couch and folded her hands in her lap. Naruto sat down slowly next to her, afraid that if he moved to suddenly she would think he was trying something… to say that thought had crossed his mind would be an understatement.
Even though since the moment he stepped into the room with her, he thought about making a move, for one of the only times in his life it wasn't about hooking up with a cute chick. He thought about caressing her and softly kissing her. He thought about them making love. He thought about the two of them cuddling all night, feeling each others' heartbeats and steady rising and falling of each others' chests as they're limbs tangled together in an embrace that neither of them would ever want to let go of… But who am I kidding. She would never feel that way about me.
Hinata noticed that Naruto was deep in thought and debated on disturbing him or not. She waited for about a minute, and then lightly tapped him on the shoulder. "N-Naruto-kun? Are y-you alright?" she left her hand on his shoulder.
Naruto snapped out of his thoughts and looked at the beautiful pale skinned girl sitting next to him. He looked at her, "I'm fine, why?"
"I-I thought y-you, had s-something on your mind, s-so I… u-uh…" She stammered out, looking for the right words for the sentence. Naruto slowly smiled, "You care about me?" he half stated, half asked as he turned towards her.
She blushed and looked away, that was as much as an answer as he needed. "No one has ever really cared about me before… Sasuke has, and he's the best friend I could ask for… but not in the way that… I think I care for you."
By the way he said it and the way he looks at her, Hinata knows he's not lying. She feels his hand gently caress her chin and she allows him to move her face so that they are staring into each other's eyes. She finds herself swallowed by his seas of baby blue. Naruto looked into her white eyes that seemed to be looking into his soul and setting it ablaze. They moved their heads slowly closer to each other. They were totally locked into each others' gaze, not noticing anything around them.
Their lips met for a second. "Whoa!" they heard a shocked chorus of their friends as they pulled apart from each other. Hinata was prominently blushing and Naruto wanted to hold her and protect her from their stares, he wanted to be the only opinion that mattered to her, but he knew it would make it worse if he did that. Instead he stood up slowly, dug his hands in his pockets, slumped his head, and walked out of the room and down the stairs. The guys followed him out.
"I-I feel woozy…" Hinata said as she fainted on the couch.
Ino grinned, knowing that this would be an interesting weekend.
Again sorry for the wait.
And if it got lazy towards the end, sorry for that too but ive been drunk the whole weekend, and I have a killer headache.
Tell me what you think.. maybe you'll cheer me up.