Chapter 2 - Focus
Hinata keeps the picture to try to sort out the weird discovery and continues her walk while,
as always, whispering a good night while facing Naruto's bedroom. Poor Hinata always seemed
a little depressed, it is always so hard to her reaching Naruto the way she want.
The next day Naruto woke up, exploding with energy. He does an amazingly nice stretch,
shaking every muscle in the good feeling of a long night's sleep. He smiles. He creates a
Shadow Replication and sends it to his mailbox outside to check his mail while he walks
to the kitchen to make himself some breakfast. His Replication checks his mailbox and it
only contains a single letter. As always, it says it's from Kebuto Company. The Replication
does not open it, but moves it to another box full of sealed letters contain spam from the
same company. The Replication seeses Hinata approaching, and dispells itself so that
Naruto would notice once the Replication vanishes and the memory got transfered.
Hinata walked by to give Naruto his broken picture back (and of course to just see him).
Hinata approaches his door, and starts to blush. She's thinking of wether she should knock
hard or light, repeatedly or a single knock, and so on, hesitating as always. Naruto knows
she's there and opens up the door, with his bedclothes on. Naruto's hair is rather spiky,
but he look energetic. Naruto smiles and streches his arms behind his head like he always
do, and apologizing for the other day. Hinata tries to say something, when Naruto invite her
in. "M-maybe I should... Go... Back... N-naruto-k-kun.. I think y-you just... woke... up..."
Naruto grabs her arm impatient as always and leads her inside to sit on his couch.
"No problem, Hinata! You don't need to be so shy with me, you know!" Naruto said. Hinata,
AGAIN, starts to blush, and folds her hands together as her nervousity takes over. Naruto
turns on the TV while a Replication makes breakfast for him. Hinata wanted to join Naruto
on the couch, but once she sat down, the large pillow covering the deep hole fell down, and
Hinata fell too and being upside down, a note fell out of her jacket pocket. Hinata would have
been hurt if it wasn't for Naruto's quick reaction. He grabbed her hand and lifted her up, smiling
for the hole in the ground. He explains it, and Hinata laughs outloud.
Naruto made some room for Hinata on the couch, and they sat real tight side by side.
Was that Hinata's first time laughing loudly without blushing? Hinata thinks it over, and simply
assumes there's something about Naruto that made her relax. The crush, maybe? A good sign
though, Hinata didn't really want to be so shy... Getting his breakfast served, Naruto get once
again depressed as his Replication still hasn't mastered how to create a perfect ramen like
Ichiraku's. (Ichiraku is the name of the ramen-master-guy, right?)
Naruto serves a bawl to Hinata aswell, but she declines it. Naruto asks her if she has had
her meal yet. She stutters a low "y...yes.." but her stomach rumbles, and her face gets red
like a tomato! Naruto insists, and she finally accept it, and they start to eat. On the TV a
film was airing. A romance-comedy. Both Naruto and Hinata stays silent, watching the movie
while eating up. Then the movie came across a somehow embarissing scene for Hinata's point
of view, as the characters starts to make out, as the movie's main point. Naruto stays calm,
but Hinata sloooowly turns her head aside to see Naruto without him noticing. She probably
wanted to imagine them doing it, and Hinata smiles of the thought and get red. (again)
Naruto notices her staring at him and looks back.