Chapter 3 - Training
Hinata and Naruto is now staring. Naruto asks her if something's wrong, and she freezes up.
Naruto is strongly confused. Then she finally overpower her frozen state and lays the picture
on the table between them. And starts to say something, really slowly... "um... ... ... You..
You l-lost .. .. this p-picture l-last night... A-and... ... um... ... um... I w-wonder.. .. ..if.. ...
...you... ... ... ..are.. i-in... ...uh ... in... .. i-in... ..."... This time Naruto starts to blush. He looks
down for a bit, finally saying something: "You... you think I... Love Sakura, don't you...?"
They both stayed silent for a long moment, not knowing what to say. Hinata wanted to start
crying, as she has never felt this heartbroken before. She didn't knew it. She had to hold back
her tears, but one escaped. She bends her head further downwards to try to hide her sadness.
Then, all of a sudden, Naruto jumps up from the couch, super-charged with energy with a big
smile on his face!! He pics up the picture and tells Hinata he wants to show her how much he
loves Sakura these days. He walks outside, and Hinata follows, and she didn't really seem
happy. Maybe he was going to reveal more secret relics dedicated to his secret love-target?
Or maybe they wore already in a relationship? Hinata didn't want to follow, but Naruto grabbed
her hand, laughing for himself. They walked to a open grass field, at Lee's usual training spot.
Naruto said: "Now I'll show you how much I love Sakura!! You won't believe how deeply I want
her to marry me!! ... Kage-bunshin no jutsu!!".
Two Shadow Clones appeared. One held the picture on a straight arm forward, and Naruto and
the other clone walked to opposite distances. Then Naruto and the Replication yelled out:
"RASENGAN!!" and started to run towards each other, targeting the picture of Sakura. And
they reached the picture, smashing one Rasengan from the front and another from the back,
thrusting the picture and shredded it to pieces, followed by a massive explotion ripping half
the grass-field apart. Naruto got tossed in the air, laughing, and landed hard on his side in the
field. Hinata runned towards him and asked him if he was alright. Naruto responded he wanted
to do that for a long time while laughing...
(or maybe Naruto just wanted to show-off his Duplicate version of Rasengan?)
"Excuse me!", Might Guy said, and appeared on the half-destroyed field. "What have you done
to the Valley of the Green Beast!?" He started crying, mumbling about Lee's training and
something about youth, and Naruto snuck away, pulling Hinata with him.
Sitting in the grass further away behind a tree, Naruto seeses Hinata's left eye just felled a tear.
He asks her about it, but she smiles, looking happy. She says she just got something stuck in
her eye. Naruto smiles, and says he knows the feeling. "it's annoying isn't it".
Later that day, they left each other, and Naruto took a walk and bumps into Sasuke. "Evening,
moron.", Sasuke said while looking away. "Why you..." Naruto said, building up his anger, but
get disrupted by Sakura, creating some distance between them. "C'mon Sasuke, let's go on
a date!! Leave Naruto, let's have some privacy3" Sakura said. Naruto smiled, and felt glad
to not being that keen on her anymore. This was one of his first times not being jealous.
Naruto then took a walk to his usual training spot, to once again train abit stronger. After all,
he wanted to surpass Sasuke and become the future Hokage!! It was an open field pretty
similar to Lee's favorite training spot. Naruto makes the Kage Bunshin seal with both hands
as usual, and tries to remember the feeling, then takes one hand away, still holding the feeling,
with Chakra molded. He concentrates real hard, and then executes the technique, disappointing
himself by creating a broken Naruto-copy laying on the ground helplessly. It then exploded by
itself, all out of nowhere!
But yes, Naruto is approaching his own brand new technique. He wanted so badly to master
the technique. And he wanted even more to develop his own technique, even tho this was not
really a "new" technique... What if he could use the Mass version of it, with both hands forming
a seal each, maybe he could double the numbers or something? Naruto wanted to find out,
but he needed more training. He trained for several hours straight that day, and finally took a
break when the evening came by again.
Out of breath, he walks home abit later than usual, spotting someone behind a tree outside
his house. He ignores it, he has seen a hiding person there previously too. He walks inside,
locks the door, and goes straight to bed, calling it the day.