Dedicated to SayuriDragonGuardian on deviant because she flattered me and she is good at giving compliments.^.^ so what if I'm easy to bribe get over it. :p

Oh yea this chap kinda OC sorry I know they are out of it but I tried a little and I'm super pissed at having no internet connection and tired cuz all the games for softball we been playin. You guys probably don't wanna hear…read my whining and excuses well to bad because you did already. MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!….so this is what happens when I have 3 bags of skittles and a monster and a lollipop- Why are you still reading my rant. I didn't write this chapter for nothing you know! : (…..mad face lol :3

Hope you like sayuri. XD

Disclaimer I do not own the characters but I kinda own their personalities I think.

Stars feel like knives,

They tell us why we're fighting.

Storm, wait outside.

Oh, love, hold us together.

Love, save the empty - Erin McCarley

I lead Naruto to my coach and I went to make some tea. I was thinking what Naruto could say, was it something so horrible I didn't want to be his friend again. 'No!' No matter what Naruto did I would still be his friend. Even if he had killed someone, I would still stand behind him because he would still be Naruto…right?

When your body breaks
Even the hummingbirds will feel the earthquake
You'll sing a song of your heart's complaint...
Sing it loud ,Sing it clear

I started looking for my phone. I had left it here before I went to hang out with Naruto. I found it on top of the fridge. "Hello?" "Hello Miss. Hyuuga?" I gasped 'oh my god' I had two job interviews today and I missed both. I was so wrapped up in hanging out with Naruto that I completely spaced out. I mumbled yes to confirm that they were speaking to the right person. "We understand that you had an appointment here at NICO at three but since you did not come we have already filled the position that you were trying to achieve. Here at NICO we value attendance not tardiness or absences." She hung up without so much as a Tata.

The other company hadn't even bothered to call back and I wasn't surprised. If I had reserved an appointment under my real name they would have accepted me the second they heard my last name and that is why I gave them a fake last name. So to them I was Hinata Sakurakouji. I wanted a real chance at a job instead of one being handed to me on a golden platter.

The hot water was boiling now I picked up the tea kettle and poured it into the cups then added these tea packets called 'Refreshing Raspberry'. I placed the drinks on a tray then carried them out to the living room. Naruto was just sitting there looking distressed and well worried. He was staring at my carpet, not noticing me till I placed the drink in front of him and only then did he look up at me and mumble a small thanks. Maybe it would've been better if I hadn't asked him about the note.

I sat next to him on the couch. Not close enough to invade his personal space but not far enough to say I don't want to sit by you. He took a sip of his tea then put it down on the coffee table. He looked at me. "Hinata what I'm about to tell you, you have to promise me you won't tell a soul and I don't even if it's your own mother you can not tell anyone." I tried not to flinch at the harshness of his tone but still I did a little. I didn't even mention to him that the fact my mother had passed away and even if I did tell her, she had no one to tell.

"I promise, Naruto-kun." He put his pinky out in front of me. "Pinky promise?" I giggled at his childish antics but still I wrapped my pinky around his. He was looking in my eyes probably to make sure I wasn't lying or that there was any doubt. When he couldn't find any he let my pinky go.

"Okay, well, how do I say this." He heaved out a large breath "Have you heard of a guy named Kyuubi?" I nodded my head. Kyuubi was a notorious villain it's said he could destroy an entire city in one night, and that he is hundreds of years old yet no one knows what he truly looks like. People say he was one of the main causes for the Russo-Japanese War back in 1904. Any one who is trained to fight by him is said to go insane from the stress of constantly using the style. "W-well he, um, and I have a past."

Naruto…involved with this criminal. It was impossible right. I blinked a couple times trying to make sure I heard him right. He was just joking with me right, but one look at his serious expression I was sure he wasn't lying. I could tell it was very hard for him to tell me this since he was stuttering a little. "What kind of past?" I was sure it was just something simple like Naruto ran into him and saw his face or something. "He took care of me a-and taught me h-how to fight." He was trained by the legendary yet notorious Kyuubi but not only that, Kyuubi was like his guardian.

"Hinata, you…well, you'll still treat me the same right, you won't be afraid of me or anything?" My eyes widened and my mouth opened a little. Would I treat him the same? Did I really have to ask myself of the course the answer would be… "You have no reason to worry Naruto-kun, you'll always be you no matter how you were raised." I said without a little bit of hesitation and smiled to reassure him.

He smiled back at me. Was it just me or were we getting closer? But did I care? No because I knew what would happen once we got close enough. Naruto leaned down and I started to close my eyes. Our lips were about an inch apart from each other when my phone went off. We jumped apart and both of us blushed. I stood up from the coach and answered the phone. "H-hello?"

"Hinata? Are you okay you should flustered?" Of course my father would choose this moment to call me. "I'm fine father, is there something you wished to talk to me about?" He started talking about how he wanted to know how my interviews went and I lied saying that they went bad. He continued talking about something. I was barely paying attention.

Daydreaming about what had happened well almost happened less than five minutes. "Um father I actually have company so if you don't mind."

"Of course not, Good-bye" I slide my phone shut and placed it on the counter. I walked back into the living room and explained to Naruto that my father called to check on me. Each of us avoiding the others gaze. "Naruto why did he take care of you?" He looked surprised before he scratched his cheek in a nervous manner.

"Well my mother, her name was Kushina, they say I have her personality and that she was beautiful with red hair and blue eyes, she died while giving birth to me. My father's name was Minato Namikaze, he died protecting me from Kyuubi." I gasped to be raised by the man who killed your own father must have been horrible. He must've had a pretty bad childhood too. Wait that name Minato I had heard it before.

"Naruto why did um Kyuubi want to kill you and your dad?"

"My dad was the…prime minister of Japan and in trade of his life he made Kyuubi promise never to kill me unless I am strong enough." His eyes were glistening with tears. My heart became swollen with the pain he must have had to go through. To never know ones parents.

He sighed deeply before continuing " He let me live, he never goes back on his promises, but once I turned eight I couldn't take it anymore. Him just torturing me, and the pressure his fighting style put on my child body was too much for me. I would've died so I left and searched for the people mentioned in my mother's journal she kept while pregnant with me. I guess she wanted me to have a place to go incase she died. So I went to find my godparents, Jiraiya and Tsunade. Apparently my father sent them a letter telling them I was safe and to not get involved and they listened." He looked very depressed probably thinking if those two had just ignored his father's wishes.

"It took me only a week before I found Tsunade and she introduced me to Jiraiya. And when I turned fourteen I moved here!" He finished with a smile though I knew there was no way it could be real. No one could go through that and not be sad.

I slide closer to Naruto and he looked at me a few tears escaping his eyes. I hugged him with all my might and felt him go stiff but then relax. "You can cry if you want Naruto." I felt his body shake a bit and he pulled me inn his lap, hugged me closer to him and just cried it wasn't loud but I could tell he was still crying because of the coldness on my shoulder. A few tears rolled down my face because people, I was close to, crying always made me cry and feel sad, but Naruto crying when he always seemed so sure of himself, brave and happy just made me feel horrible for bringing up the subject.

Naruto pulled back after about five minutes. "You probably think I'm a wimp for crying right, Hinata?" He tried to smile but it didn't come out right it was too forced. I shook my head surprised that he would think I would think he was a wimp. "Naruto-kun, you are the bravest person I know, and so what if you cried a little. Everyone needs to cry every once and a while. I'm really happy that you're comfortable with me enough that you're okay with crying in front of me." I smiled trying to make him know that I didn't think he was a wimp.

He just stared at me before he broke out into a sheepish grin. "He he. Hinata you know just what to say to make me feel better don't cha?" Naruto was always so optimistic. "Hinata you know it's not very far I tell you all about me but I get nothing' in return." I froze. If Naruto found out who I was would he still treat me the same? Probably not, but it wasn't fair for me to know his secret and him know nothing about me.

"What do you want to know Naruto-kun?" He looked thoughtful for a moment before he snapped his fingers figuring out what he wanted to know. "Tell me about your family." I was hoping he would want to ask something beside that. I sighed before I started.

"Well my father he was very nice to me before my mother passed away. After she passed he became hard and stoic. My mother was his light. I remember she was very pretty but had a bad sense of style." I giggled remembering my mother wearing a leopard print skirt and flower shirt. "After giving birth to Hanabi, my younger sister, my mother got sick. She had lost too much blood. She passed when Hanabi was three months. My father and sister are close as is my cousin Neji. They are all alike while I'm different. I'm too weak and nice." I said once again feeling those icy words, my father had spoken to me, pierce my veins. It had been hard for me but he was right. I would never be able to run the Hyuuga empire if I stayed the way I was now. I lowered my head hiding behind my bangs hoping Naruto wouldn't see the tears sneaking their way out of my eyes. What was wrong with me? I just kept crying today.

Naruto gently grabbed my chin making me look at him in the eyes. "Hinata so what if you're too nice, or kind. People are barely like now a days. You should be proud to be nice and as for being weak, so what? I mean all you got to do is prove to them your not weak anymore right?" Naruto's logic always made everything seem and sound so simple when in reality it was truly million steps away. He really did have his own way of thinking. It was so positive. No wonder I lov-. My eyes widened and I blushed as Naruto just looked at me in concern. I stood up. "I-I got to go to the b-bathroom." I basically ran from the room and into my bathroom making sure I locked the door.

Was I thinking what I think I was thinking? There was no way I could l-l-love him. I mean I've know him for like what four days? Hardly enough time to fall in love with someone. Right? I had heard of love at first sight but I just wasn't that kind of girl who believed a prince would sweep her off her feet and end all her problems. After all every choice comes with a price. I was just in the mood of things that's all. I wasn't in love with Naruto. Now don't get me wrong there is nothing wrong with him it's just that I felt like he was too good for me. It felt like we were total opposites. Were he was happy and bold I was quiet and shy. Like I was the moon and he was the sun. Never destined to be.

I splashed some water to cool myself off and then I returned to the living room, but with no Naruto around. I checked the kitchen, and my bedroom the only other places he could be. He was no where. Had he ditched me, gotten tired of me? I sat down on my bed trying to figure out what had I did or say that made him leave. Then I heard it. The sound of my door opening and closing. Was it a burglar? No they were making to much noise even if they were even a petty thief. Naruto appeared in my door frame a few seconds later.

"Whew thank god you haven't fainted yet." What was he talking about? I saw in his hand he hand a cold compress and a thermometer. He thought. I was. Sick. I mentally sweat dropped. "When I saw how flushed you were and then you ran to the bathroom, I finally put it together. Sorry it took me so long, but if you were suffering you could've told me and I would've left." He thought I was flushing not blushing. I wasn't the bit sick, and I wasn't going to let him forget the question I first asked him. He was trying to get me to lie back so I could get rest. "I'm not sick Naruto-kun!" He raised his eyebrow.

"It was just hot in the living room." I said lying. He looked at me skeptically before shrugging and laying in the bed, which only made me blush because in the process of crawling over my legs(since I was sitting up with my legs stretched in front of me.) his shirt had risen up a bit. I could see a few blond hair and I wanted to see were they led, despite the fact I knew where they would lead. Though my attention was brought back to his oblivious face. "Yo, Hinata you sure you're ok? You look even redder than you were in the living room." I muttered fine before I laid down next him. Was it me or did it seem that recently we spent a lot of time sleeping or just being in each other apartments. Though this was the first time he visited mine he acted as though he knew where everything was.

He threw the cold compass and thermometer on my dresser and stared at the ceiling. "Naruto you still haven't answered my question who are these people that hate you so much?" He continued to stare giving no indication that he had even heard me. I started staring too trying to figure out what was so interesting about my ceiling.

He finally tore his gaze away from the ceiling as did I and he said only one name. "Akatsuki." and from that name horror petrified me. I knew them. They were a gang full of dangerous and monstrous people that didn't care if they killed anyone as long as it helped them with their goal they were satisfied. "B-but why Naruto-kun? Naruto-kun?"

He was looking at me but at the same time not looking at me. "They want to get the Kyuubi and learn his techniques so they can take over the world." It all made sense now. They were trying to get to Kyuubi through Naruto and anyone connected to Naruto might now of Kyuubi's whereabouts. So these people warned me because they didn't want me to ever know about Kyuubi and his whereabouts. Naruto didn't look sad but depressed that he had told me something so secret. "I think its best if you stay away from me for a while Hinata." He told me with a sad smile.

He got up to leave but before he had a chance I got up and grabbed his shirt. He turned surprised that I had stopped him. I let go of his shirt as he sat down again waiting for my explanation. "Please don't go, I want you to stay." I said looking up at him with puppy dog eyes. I heard a crack of lighting outside which made me jump slightly. When had it started to rain again? The lights flickered on and off once.

"Do you mean that Hinata?" Then darkness. The lights had cut off. I could tell Naruto was still looking for an answer. I nodded though he couldn't see so I said my answer out loud. "Of course Naruto-Kun."

"Will your answer always be the same even if you knew I did something really bad in the past?" I could hear the tremor in his voice. With doubt laced in. "Forever." He grabbed me by the waist and pulled me down so we were lying down on the bed again. His scent was comforting. He smelt like a forest after a rain and a little bit of ramen mixed in. The good kind not cheap in a cup kind. We just laid there on my bed holding onto each other. At one point though he fell asleep with me in his arms and I soon followed.

I woke to the smell of bacon and eggs plus pancakes. I thought for a second I was at the compound and my maids were making breakfast but I quickly realized that I was at my apartment and someone was cooking for me. And not just any someone a blond someone. I crawled out of bed and saw Naruto there cooking bacon on the stove I personally have yet to use. I didn't remember buying bacon or eggs or well anything. I hadn't gotten a chance to go buy groceries. It smelled so delicious. I never thought Naruto would know how to cook. I set up the table with plates and a fork and knife since Naruto was making a western style breakfast. I plopped down on a chair at the table and just watched Naruto cook. He had already notice I was watching him so he made sure to do some fancy moves. Like flipping the pancake in the air and catching them. Throwing a egg behind his back and catching it with his hand in the front. I felt like newly weds like this which made me blush.

"Tada!" He placed a meat lovers omelets on my plate and by meat lovers I mean every type of meat he could think of bacon, ham, sausage, and pepperoni with a lot of cheese. It was so tasty. He also made some toast, bacon strips, and pancakes. It was almost too much for me to eat but Naruto ate everything I couldn't.

I only ate half the omelet and I ate most of the pancakes. It was a wonder as to how he was able to eat so much yet stay so thin, but I guess I was kind of the same way too. I always stayed thin. Fast metabolism I guess. "Hey Hinata where's your T.V?" He was looking around the living room for a secret room or something, thinking I was hiding my T.V. "I don't have one." His jaw fell open and he just looked at me in shock. "W-w-w-w-WHAT? How can you not have a TV? How do you live?" I only shrugged. He was seriously being overdramatic but it was still funny because of his expression.

"Hinata" He said sighing and shaking his head. "I don't want a TV Naruto-kun." He looked at me and just grinned. "You really are weird but then again I like people who are weird!" I could feel myself turn as red as a cherry. He basically said he liked me. His phone went off sending him a reminder and he said he had to go. Before he left he kissed my cheek. "Thanks for listening Hina-chan!" When he left I slide down onto the floor and put my hand on my cheek. "Wow."

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