Hinata: How come Naruto has been narrating for the past chapter and a half…I thought I was your favorite.

Me: Hinata you are but I needed to freshen things up and the only way to do that was change perspectives.

Hinata: *pouts* that's not far.

Me: I know but I'll make it up to you…this chapter you can narrate.

Hinata: Yay!! ^.^

Okay someone sent in this review to me: The story is going really good, but what I don't get is if Naruto didn't think that he was flirting with Hinata then why did he feel compelled to let her know that he didn't love his girlfriend and that he may not even like her.

Answer is: Naruto didn't want Hinata to keep avoiding him so he thought if he said he didn't love her she would stop but then Hinata asked if he liked her and he does like her or else he wouldn't go out with her but if he said no it would create a whole bunch of new problems. But he isn't sure he still likes miyuki as much as he did when they start going out that's why he hesitated.

Everyday
With every worthless word we get more far away
The distance between us makes it so hard to stay
But nothing lasts forever, but be honest babe
It hurts but it may be the only way – Maroon 5

It was a beautiful bright day. With few clouds and an extravagant blue sky. A peaceful day one could call it. Two people, a child and a man, sat observing the peacefulness of the garden in front of them

"Tell me again why you can't just destroy the fox." Asked a curious blue eyed blond seven year old. The man, Tetsuya, with green eyes and black long hair just sighed at the child's question. The child, Naruto, had asked this question about once a week.

"Because the evil spirits need to be destroyed. If they aren't they might kill your loved ones." Tetsuya had used a different approach this time. Instead of just giving the facts he was trying to get the child to worry about protecting his friends.

The Blond child just gave a melancholic face. "I don't have any loved ones." He said bitterly. For a young child he had already experienced many depressing and heart wrenching things that took away some of his childish innocence.

Tetsuya tried to make light of the conversation since he could tell that it was going down a very blue road. "What are you saying, Naruto? Of course you have loved ones…everyone here cares for you." Again the small child gave a sad expression.

"They have to care for me." He waited for Tetsuya, his master and guardian to deny the statement. Tetsuya knew that what the child had said was true. These people feared Naruto because of how fast he had learned the Ja-shika style (a/n totally just made that word up lol) and because he was so young they feared him.

None of them knew how hard he trained to get that good and yet he still made mistakes. Small ones but if he were to fight a spirit that mistake would cost him his life…not that he was allowed to fight outside the dojo. However because they were all part of the same organization and because of the deal Tetsuya had made, with the prime minister, they would have to risk their lives to protect this little blond boy.

"I'm going to practice my calligraphy." Naruto stood and left leaving Tetsuya alone to wonder if he had made the right decision to take guardianship of this child. Naruto had not gone to the calligraphy room but instead went to his room. He went towards the corner where his chest laid. It was an old thing. Had belonged to his father. Naruto used it to keep his important things in it.

The only way to open it was to use a key. He kept the key around his neck using a silver chain. He took the chain off and put the key into the lock and turned. The lock made a dull clicking noise, he opened the trunk. Inside were his most precious items. Pictures of his parents. His mother's locket. The wallet his father gave him when he was a child. It still looked brand new since it hadn't been used ever before.

Naruto had named it Gama-chan. Then the most precious thing was his mother's journal. He had read it front to back multiple times but he had never gotten tired of looking at his mother's handwriting.

His birthday was in three days and he had decided he would go find these people his mother wrote about. He would leave a week after his eighth birthday. Some people would consider him too young to travel alone but they didn't know the things he had done and the things he had seen.

He was in some ways more mentally mature than some teenagers and in other ways completely naïve. He had also been pick pocketing some of the students of Tetsuya's. So he had saved enough money to leave this place.

He had made this decision because it was getting harder for him to awake once he was asleep almost like a coma. His body felt sluggish and painful once he awoke almost as if it was trying to stay asleep forever. Sometimes when he would be walking after training he wouldn't be able to see. He could only see black so he would sit down cross his legs and pretend to mediating.

He would keep his eyes closed until he saw the red tint of the sun from behind his eye lids. On rainy days he would just pray that when he opened his eyes he could see again.

He was a child that wanted a long peaceful and fun life so it was only natural that he would run away from the thing that would take that away.

It had been five years since he had seen this place let alone walked into it. Not much had changed from what he had remembered. When people that he remembered from his childhood saw him they bowed just as they had when he was a child.

Back then it had made him feel nervous having all those adults show him so much respect but now it gave him a feeling of pride.

Even though he hadn't been to the dojo in such a long time he still occasionally practiced the Ja-shika style. Only to ensure himself that he wouldn't get rusty.

He walked to the back room and opened the door without knocking. He saw the same man that had raised him strapped to the floor by paper seals. Same long black hair, same green eyes. When he heard someone enter he looked up as far as the seals would let him. "…is that you Naruto? Wow, how long has it been? Four, Five years?" Naruto said nothing just sat down on the floor.

"I would hug you to welcome you back but as you can see I'm a little tied up at the moment." Tetsuya laughed at his own joke and Naruto stayed silent. When Tetsuya's laughing ended Naruto started talking. "The seal is slipping, right?" He didn't give Tetsuya a chance to respond because he already knew the answer.

The twenty disembodied figures found in Hiroshima were proof enough. "Why don't just teach me how to repair the seal?" It felt foreign to him to talk about the seal after so many years of ignoring the truth.

Tetsuya laughed again but this laugh sent shivers down his spine. It was maniacal and deranged. "You really think you a mere seal can keep me under control?" The real Kyuubi had taken over. He was even more freighting when he spoke. It was as if the devil himself were speaking. Tetsuya's once green eyes now had a red ring around them.

Naruto had to stop himself from running. But doing so would only amuse Kyuubi. "I would say its doing a pretty good job now and its been doing a pretty good job for the past seven hundred years." Naruto said challenging him. Kyuubi snarled and Naruto just smirked. He knew he was pushing it because if truly angered, Kyuubi could break these seals.

Tetsuya finally gained control of his own body again. "Whoa! That really tires an old man out…what's with the long face? …Oh you want your answer right? Alright well the only way you could repair my seal is if you had the Kyuubi sealed in you before, and well that means Goya-san was the only person who fix my seal." Tetsuya sighed deeply before looking Naruto in the eyes for the first time that cold day. Tetsuya wasn't really that old he was only thirty-two. "Naruto, I really hate to say this but basically…Japan is doomed."

His face was a filled with misery at the thought that Japan would be destroyed and it would be his fault. "Tetsuya who is normally suppose to get the seal?" Naruto asked carefully. "My heir but as you know my wife died before she had a chance to have a child and I don't want any other woman besides her."

"What if…I become your heir? I mean I'm basically your son. You raised me and you taught me the Ja-shika. Everything you did for me is the same you would've done for your heir, right? So why not give me the seal?" Naruto knew he would regret offering this when he barely knew anything about it, but he couldn't just let Japan be destroyed.

"Naruto, do you have any idea what your offering? You will suffer and-" Naruto interrupted him before he got a chance to rant. "Does that mean you'll let me do this?" He wasn't excited about the idea but at the very least he could feel like a hero. Tetsuya sighed before nodding. "Might as well…Go get someone to remove these seals so we can get started." Naruto stood up and left to go get someone.

The process of transferring Kyuubi from Tetsuya to Naruto was a tiring and grueling one. Painful too. Naruto felt as though each of his molecules where being ripped apart from his very being and then put back in place. It took four days for the process to finish. By that time Naruto was ready to collapse so he did right into Tetsuya's arms.

He passed out but not before he heard Tetsuya whisper into his ear "I'm proud of you." If he hadn't been so tired he would've gave Tetsuya that boyish grin that he was well known for.

He had awakened days later or was it months. He hadn't been sure but he knew where he was, his old room. It was kept just as he left it. Looking at it how it been kept the same, in hopes that he would return, had put a damper on Naruto's spirit.

Tetsuya was like his father but he hadn't been in his right mind. It was acceptable that Naruto run away. He was only protecting himself, but maybe that was a bit too selfish.

He hadn't moved he just laid there with his eyes open, taking in his surroundings. It even smelled the same as he left it. "Ah so the little prince is awake." came a voice from the doorway. Naruto craned his head to see but it hurt to move too much. Naruto made a face of annoyance.

"Little prince? Couldn't you come up with something better, Tetsuya? And how come you can move while I'm on the floor in pain." Tetsuya walked in the room. He was glad that Naruto still was himself. Tetsuya just sat next to Naruto and began peeling an apple. "Because I wasn't the one who had a thousand year old demon put in me." Tetsuya said smiling.

The two talked about what had happened in their lives during the past five years. Then they got to the serious matter of Naruto's new job. He would have to patrol the city and kill any evil spirits as soon as possible and then report to Tetsuya when he was done with the job.

"Uzumaki-kun." I shook his shoulder. He was in a deep sleep. I had just woken up. I had grabbed my uniform from out of Naruto's bathroom; since I left it there, and took off the clothes I borrowed from Naruto and put my uniform on. We had a half day today at school but I was stuck after school cleaning the art room.

"Uzumaki-kun." I said shaking him harder. He had to get up and soon. School started in fifty minutes and I'm pretty sure Naruto would like to take a shower before school started. He groaned and his eyes opened a crack.

"Huh? Hina-chan what are you-" I cut him off smiling. "Uzumaki-kun I would appreciate if you would refrain from saying my name so casually." I said as sweet as possible. I had decided when I had woken up in his arms that we would have to stop this sleeping that close to one another or rather sleeping in each others apartment. Especially when he had a girlfriend.

I so did not want to become the other woman. After dreaming about Kei I remembered why I was here. I was suppose to be suffering not having the time of my life and having an almost fling. I would discipline myself better. It was my own fault that I was here in Tokyo because I had trusted the wrong guy.

I had heard rumors about Kei being involved with bad people but when he confessed to me he was so sweet and kind. I gladly overlooked the rumors. Of course dating him I had lost some friends but I was happy that my boyfriend was so sweet to me and he protected me.

That was all in the past though. I would serve my time in Tokyo and hopefully get accepted back into the Hyuuga household as the heir. "Hina-chan what are you talking about?" His eyebrows scrunched up in a really cute way. Oh man this was not going to work. I think it was already too late to forget about him. But I could try.

"Uzumaki-kun please call me either Hinata-san or Hyuuga-san but I must say I would prefer you to call me the latter." He just stared up at me. I kind of felt bad for suddenly telling him this but I had to or else I would hurt Kimura-san and I had already hurt and disappointed a lot of people already.

"Are…are you serious? Hina-cha-" I gave him a sharp look. "Hyuuga…I actually prefer Hinata-san…but what's this about? I thought you liked that nickname." He looked confused. It felt strange for him to address me with a –san. I longed almost to hear him say my nickname. "I do. But you have a girlfriend and I don't want her to feel offended by you addressing me so informally. This is what she wants." I said in an organized voice.

It was better that way. Even if it hurt I could deal with it. It wasn't like I thought he would suddenly dump his girlfriend for me. She was cute and spunky while I was plain and shy. Maybe I would date someone else and forget about him. "What about what you want?" He stared deep into my eyes and I stared right back just as concentrated.

His eyes were beautiful. Big and blue. A bright blue not a depressing washed out color but bright and vivid. "It doesn't matter what I want because I'm not your girlfriend. Anyways school is in forty-five minutes. You should get ready. I'm going ahead." I turned around to leave.

"Wait Hina-chan!" He said grabbing my hand. I snatched it away from him and looked at him from over my shoulder. He looked like a lost puppy. "I don't think you should touch me so casually anymore, Uzumki-kun." Even I could feel the venom on my words. I turned and walked out his door.

I guess the door could be like a symbol for me walking out of his life for good, but that would be too cliché. I headed towards the stairs and started walking down them. I heard no pursuit behind me and I guess that made me sadder.

This was the end of our messed up relationship. I sneered because really this was a sad ending. Weren't girls that were nice and sweet suppose to get the guy and end up happily ever after? Maybe I needed to get more in touch with reality.

I was about two blocks away from the apartment complex now. Now that I thought about it maybe it should stay like this. If I stayed away from him I would stop getting those notes and I wouldn't have to worry about sleeping at home.

"Hinata!" I turned at the sound of my name and smiled. Brown hair and sharp brown eyes came running towards me. He stopped right in front of me smiling. "Hey Kiba-kun." He finally looked at me. And his eyes widened. My eyes were a bit red from crying myself to sleep last night. "Hinata what happened?" I gave him a sad smile.

"Nothing, Uzumaki-kun and I just had a talk." Kiba glared but not at me but at what I had told him. I think I heard him growl a bit. "And it ended up with you in tears?" I nodded unable to speak. He sighed and calmed down a bit.

"How bout I talk to him for you?" He said with a sad look. That was weird, but I just smiled. "No thanks. We came to a decision." We started walking. A few cars passed us occasionally. I had taken a different route from what we took yesterday so I wouldn't bump into him. "Oh and what was that?" Kiba asked me.

When I looked closer at him. Kiba was pretty handsome. Not like Sasuke, no not even close but he had a certain boyish charm. Not as boyish as Naruto but somewhere in the middle. I had never noticed him before. "We decided to distance ourselves from one another." Instead of 'we' it was more like me.

I think Kiba looked a little pleased about this. "That's too bad but you gotta do what you think is best, right." He said finally smiling, I smiled back. "Right!" I could see the school approaching. We had spent the last few minutes talking about what had been going on in our lives since we got separated.

We walked into the school gates and just as I was about to leave to join Sakura and Ino, Kiba stopped me. "Hinata, um I was wondering if, you know, you wanted to get something to eat after school…like a…date?" He said with a faint blush on his face. I glanced behind him and saw Naruto standing there. I'm pretty sure he had heard Kiba. Our eyes meet.

Kiba hadn't seen Naruto yet so I pulled my gaze away and looked up at Kiba smiling. "I would love to, Kiba-kun." He smiled out of pure happiness. Maybe he could make me forget about Naruto. I know Kiba would do his best to make me happy. But if only he understood. I was already too deep in to be happy with anyone else.

"Great! Then I'll meet you at your locker after school." He walked away smiling. I really hated how this school was making us go through this trial. Lockers…what was the point of them? They were difficult to open and I couldn't get most of my things in there.

I had art as my first period so did Naruto and Kimura-san. Oh and the teacher was a pervert. I had heard a rumor from Ino that he was actually a renowned author of a series of adult novels called Icha Icha Paradise. Another rumor that followed that one was that Naruto ghost-wrote one of the books. Strange rumors that could be true.

School passed in a breeze. I was barely aware of the time passing. Thoughts and daydreams just kept passing through my mind. Thoughts being my time with Naruto and daydreams of what my future could've been with Naruto.

Before I knew it school was over. I had forgotten this morning, when I agreed to go on a date with Kiba, that I had to clean the art room. I was standing in front of his locker waiting for him.

The hallways were flooded with people leaving. However the hallway was filled with the same colors. No one really stood out when you have a school uniform. Everything was Navy blue and white. Occasionally a girl would try to stand out by adding some accessories but eventually had to take them off.

I heard a loud voice laughing and saying something that made the others around him laugh too. I turned and saw Kiba. When he saw me he turned to his friends and said something and then half jogged to me. "Am I late? I know I told you I would meet you at your locker but I guess I was taking a while to pick you up, right? I'm sorry." He went up to his locker and opened it. He started shuffling the things in his bag into his locker.

"Um, Kiba-kun I can't go out with you today." As soon as I said this his once happy face fell. I felt guilty for accepting to go out with him then telling him that I can't. "But its only because of that fight I got in. So for the rest of this week I'm stuck cleaning the art room." I explained as quickly as possible.

His face lit back up. "So that means when your punishment is done we can go on a date?" He asked. He was like a little puppy getting so excited over the smallest things. I nodded at him and gave a small smile.

"Okay then." He said before he leaned in and gave me a kiss on the cheek. We both simultaneously blushed. 'Well I guess I'll see you later." He said backing away. "Yea, see you later."

He turned around and began walking toward the exit and I turned the opposite direction and headed towards the art room.

Now don't hate me for putting in this KibaHina shipping it was necessary. I know I always say things are necessary but this one really is. In the long term it will pay off. Anyways this chap I hope it clears up all and I mean all misunderstandings. If not just message me and I'll try to clear it up.

p.s the poll is still open but I just wanted to upload a chapter so I did.