Disclaimer! I don't own Naruto at all. I don't even own Sailor Moon and that's saying something. No it doesn't say that I'm gay...Jeez jerks! Anyway have fun and give your props to the main man Kishimoto! Big ups!
Chapter 1: Naruto Returns!
A certain pink-haired girl waited by the village gates. She wore her trademark red shirt with black stiletto boots and black short-shorts to match. She had on black biker gloves and her old Leaf headband was tied around her right arm. Sakura wrapped her arm around her long time boyfriend, Sasuke Uchiha's arm. Sasuke wore a white samurai robe and black pants to match. He had a katana strapped to his waist. The Uchiha symbol was on the back of his robe and his new headband was tied around his waist like a belt. The wind blew their hair as leaves went everywhere. They both stared off into the distance and saw a figure with long white hair.
Sakura pointed. "There's Jirayia! But where's Naruto?" Sasuke and Sakura had confused looks on their faces.
A 18 year old young man wrapped his arms and hugged his old teammates from behind and used his hand to block the sun as he looked off into the distance. "Yeah I don't see him either. Where is that knucklehead?"
Sasuke and Sakura fell down from shock as they stared at the blonde spiky haired individual wearing a long black headband. He laughed till it hurt. "Oh man! You guys should have seen the looks on your faces!" Sakura and Sasuke looked up and down at the young man standing 6' 1" with a half black half neo-orange jumpsuit outfit on. Sasuke smirked but Sakura wasn't so happy herself. She punched Naruto in the head. "You idiot! The first five seconds you are here and already I want to punch your face in!"
Naruto stood up and rubbed his head. "I see Sakura hasn't changed one bit. Still every bit as violent as she was six years ago." Sakura and Sasuke stood at amazement. He snuck by them so quickly and he lowered his chakra level so he couldn't be spotted. Naruto had gotten better like he said. Sasuke smirked. "I see you are still the same dimwit we all know and love."
Naruto smiled a big grin. "Well and I see you have gotten stronger as well Sasuke." Naruto held out his hand to greet his old friend. Sasuke shook it with a tight grip. They both looked into each other's eyes. Their rivalry was still strong. "You know Naruto...six years ago we never had a real winner. How about we have a match to see who's better for old times sake?"
Naruto smirked. How could he say no? He didn't. Sakura said it for him with a punch upside both of their heads. "Sasuke! Naruto! It's been ten minutes and already you are starting with this whole rivalry thing! Can't we hang out together? It's Naruto's first day back."
Naruto and Sasuke rubbed their heads. Naruto laughed. "Sure Sakura. Where do you want to hang out?"
Sakura smiled. "At the place where we first became Genin. The training grounds!" Sakura ran off in the direction of the training grounds and Naruto and Sasuke followed. They jumped from building to building until they reach a large field with three large pieces of wood in the middle. "We are here!"
Naruto landed in the grassy field as Sakura ran around him and covered his eyes. "We have a surprise for you Naruto! Are you ready for it?" Naruto smiled. He loved surprises. "Of course Sakura! What is it!" Sakura let go of Naruto's eyes.
Naruto looked at all of his old friends holding a large banner saying "Welcome back Naruto!" Naruto felt a warm feeling in his heart. "Aww geez guys you didn't have to do this for me!" Naruto really did want a party though.
A blonde haired 18 year old girl with the same flip of hair over her face. She wore a sleeveless purple shirt. She had fishnet sleeves and fishnet stockings and wore a purple skirt. If she bent over far enough you could totally see what color thong she was wearing. Ino hugged Naruto and smiled. "Welcome back Naruto! And look at you! You've grown alot!" Naruto blushed a light pink. "Uhh...Thanks Ino." Ino flashed a diamond ring in Naruto's face. "Lookie here! I got married!" Ino giggled. Naruto's jaw dropped. "Married to who!" Ino ran and pulled a tall figure in a forest green trench coat. "Meet my husband..." Ino flipped the hood off of his head revealing a black spiky haired indivdual with dark shades. "Shino!" Naruto's jaw dropped even further. "Shino! You married Shino!" Ino ran and pulled a tall chubby young man from the crowd. He wore a red long sleeved shirt with the Akimichi symbol on the front and red pants. He had armor platings on his shoulders, arms, thighs and shins. His brown hair had grew all the way back to his middle of his back and used his red headband to tie it down.
Ino held out his left hand revealing a ring as well. "Look! Even Choji got married!" Naruto just couldn't believe his eyes. First Ino and Shino hooked up together now Choji is hitched up as well. "With who!" Ino giggled as she spoke for Choji who was eating barbecue chips as always. "To a girl from the Village hidden in the clouds, She's a royal heir to her clan. Choji, Shikamaru and I were on a mission to protect her from a band of tyrannical rebels and what can i say? They clicked together. Don't worry you will meet her later." Ino couldn't stop giggling.
A black haired young man in a black long sleeved shirt with his old Chunin vest over it came and pulled Ino away. "Ok jeez Ino. What a drag!"
Naruto smiled. "I recognize that voice anywhere. Shikamaru!" Shikamaru held up his hand to signal that he was right. He was still pulling a frantic giggling Ino away. Suddenly a large dog jumped and landed on Naruto and started licking him. "Hey! It's Akamaru!" Akamaru panted and licked Naruto's face. Naruto laughed. "I missed you too boy." Suddenly a whistle was heard as Akamaru stopped licking Naruto and ran to a young man's side. He had brown spiky hair and wore a black hoodie with a black headband around his forehead. He walked up and picked Naruto up. "Hey remember me kid?"
Naruto smiled and shook his hand. "How could I forget you? Kiba!" Kiba smiled.
"Hey what about me?" Said a figure wearing a long white robe with black pants leaning up against a wood post smirking with his same old headband wrapped around his head. His lavender eyes looked at Naruto.
"Neji!"
"Don't forget me either." Said a young man wearing the same green training outfit as a kid but with a Chunin vest on just like his sensei crouching ontop the post Neji was leaning on. His headband still around his waist with his giant eyebrows.
"Bushy brows!"
"And me." Said a girl wearing a white shirt and red pants and had two large puffs in her hair.
Naruto smiled. "Of course I couldn't forget...ummm...uhhh..." Tenten quickly got annoyed as a vein appeared in her head. "It's Tenten!" Naruto was struck with inspiration. "Yeah Tenten!"
Kiba looked around and tried to find someone. Naruto looked at Kiba. "What's wrong Kiba?"
"It's Hinata. She's not here yet."
Naruto got a devilish look in his eye. "Oh i see. Is she your girlfriend huh Kiba?"
Kiba had a shocked expression on his face. "You couldn't be more wrong! Man it is true what they say about blondes! I'm glad I'm a brunette." Naruto had a confused look on his face. "Then what?" Kiba looked to his left. "To think out of everyone here would be the first one to see you but I guess not." Naruto was even more confused but paid it no attention. He started to scan the area for Hinata and something move behind the tree over to the right. Naruto pointed to it. "Hey look over there!" Naruto dashed over to the tree. "Is that you Hinata?"
A gasp was heard. A young girl stepped out of the shadows of the tree and stood in front of Naruto. She wore a half lavender half white jacket and had her headband on her neck as always. She wore a hood to cover her face. "Y..yes it's me Naruto." Hinata tried to fight the butterflies in her stomach. She was still madly in love with him.
Naruto put his hands by his waist and tried to look inside the hood. "Come on now Hinata. I can't speak to a friend if she's covering her face up with a hood." Naruto tried to reassure Hinata. He took off her hood revealing a small timid face with longer locks on both sides of her head covering her ears. Her purple hair was longer down to the shoulders where it used to come up to the back of her neck. "There we go! You look great! Now who would want to hide that?" Naruto tilted his neck and smiled. Hinata looked away and blushed red.
Naruto put his hands on the back of his head and looked at Sakura. "Well that's everybody! Now what?"
Kiba chuckled. "What do you mean now what? Now we party!" Kiba ran to get a stereo from behind the wood post and put in a cd. "It's my personal favorite dance cd!" Kiba pressed play and music boomed out of it. Everyone began to dance.
Everyone was having a great time until Naruto noticed Hinata wasn't dancing. Naruto ran and grabbed Hinata. "Come on Hinata, let's party!" Hinata looked at Naruto's smiling face and smiled too. She started dancing as well. Naruto noticed that she was a pretty good dancer. Now everyone was having a great time as they danced the day away. Then as the moonlight shone on them suddenly a slow song started playing on Kiba's cd.
Everyone looked at Kiba. Kiba held his hands up. "Hey! I like the song! Don't judge me!" Most of the gang cleared out and watched Sasuke and Sakura dance together. So did Neji and Tenten. And so did Ino and Shino.
Naruto looked at the only girl left as her lavender eyes shone in the moonlight. Naruto walked up beside her and felt a feeling in his gut to ask her to dance. Naruto was kinda shy to ask her but she was a great dancer. Finally Naruto spoke up. "So...do you want to dance?"
Hinata almost fell over. Did Naruto just ask her to a dance? And to a slow song? It was a dream come true! Hinata was stuttering so bad. "Uhh...su..sure...Naruto-kun."
Naruto smiled. "Great!" Naruto grabbed her hand and ran to the middle of the dancing couples. He held her waist as she did the same thing to him. Suddenly Sakura saw the two and quietly signaled the others to look as well. Naruto and Hinata blushed a reddish tint but kept dancing to the song. Smiles came across everyone else's faces. "So Hinata...when did you learn how to dance?" Naruto looked into her beautiful eyes.
"Well...I kinda picked it up in my spare time...i guess." Hinata looked into Naruto's sky blue eyes. She blushed even harder, Naruto was touching her. She wanted to kiss him so bad, but didn't want to overstep her boundaries.
"Well you are pretty good at it. You impressed me." Naruto smiled.
"Thanks...Naruto...you are not bad yourself." Hinata managed a small smile.
"Well I'm not as good as you. I think you could be a ballerina if you tried hard enough."
Hinata's heart fluttered. Naruto was showering her with compliments. There was even a moment where she thought he was flirting with her.
The music stopped but the two kept talking to each other. Sakura walked up and tapped Naruto on the shoulder. "Uhhh...the music's off you two."
They quickly let go of each other and blushed tomato red.
"Awww they looked so cute together!" Ino held on to Shino tight. Naruto and Hinata blushed over their entire faces. "Look at them blushing! I'm overflowing with the fuzzies!"
Sakura raised her eyebrow. "The fuzzies, Ino?"
Ino smiled. "Yeah the warm fuzzy feeling in your heart when you are in love! I bet those two feel it two!"
Hinata turned away from Naruto and twiddled her fingers. Naruto rubbed his neck trying not to look suspicious. He did have some feelings for her but he never thought of it until now. Both were still kinda blushing.
"Ok that's enough Ino. You're embarassing them." Sakura said.
"Ok ok" Ino yawned. "I'm tired. Take me home, my big strong man." She kissed Shino passionately as he picked her up and carried her off into the lit up village. "Goodnight everyone especially you two lovebirds!" Ino yelled off in the distance.
Sakura walked up to Naruto. "Don't mind Ino. She just being herself."
"Nah...it's ok. I'm fine." Naruto said with a fake smile but made sneaky glances at Hinata.
"Well ok if you say so. Anyway we were all planning to go camping for a week starting this weekend. Do you want to go Naruto?" Sakura asked. "Even Temari and Gaara are going with us?"
"Gaara?" Naruto thought. "How is Gaara now anyway?"
Sakura smirked. "Didn't you hear he's the Seventh Kazekage?"
Deep shock ran across Naruto's face. "The Kazekage! Gaara is the Kazekage!" Naruto clenched his fist. "I guess he achieved his dream when i am yet a Chunin." Naruto frowned.
Hinata turned around. "Don't be s..sad...Naruto-kun...I'm sure you will...become Hokage soon enough." Hinata managed a smile.
Naruto smiled at her. She always had his back. "Thanks Hinata..." Naruto got the butterflies again. "...So it's pretty dark out..." Naruto rubbed his head. "...Do you want me to walk you home?..." A shocked expression appeared on Hinata's face. "Or not...I'm cool with that as well."
Hinata smiled at Naruto. "Sur...sure Naruto-kun I would like that."
Naruto blushed a pink tint. "Ok..." He got lost looking into her eyes until Sakura waved her hand in his face. "What!"
Sakura sulked. "You didn't give me an answer, you knucklehead!"
"Oh! uhhh...sure! Sure I'll go camping with you guys this Saturday."
Sakura jumped up in joy. "Yay! Now everyone will be going now! Meet us at the Village gates packed and ready to go ok?" Sakura ran to Sasuke's side. "See ya later you two!" They dashed off.
Left all alone since everyone else had left a long time ago, Naruto and Hinata began to walk to Hinata's house. They talked on and on about their adventures the past six years. They really connected with each other and Naruto noticed that Hinata wasn't as shy when you got to know her. He liked the way she would listen to everything he said. She seemed so interested in his stories and always came up with one of her own. What was this feeling he felt? He couldn't be falling in love with this girl. Not with his secret still kept from everyone. If she found out, how could she love him back? He was a monster, a demon in sheep's clothing and demons weren't meant to be loved. They were hated, ugly, soulless creatures who tormented those who ever got close enough. Naruto didn't want Hinata to see who he really was. Naruto frowned. Hinata noticed his unhappy look.
"What's the matter?"
"Huh?" Naruto looked at her. "Oh it's nothing really. You have really changed since last I saw you Hinata. You seem more confident than before."
"Well I think that I am. I made Chunin after you left."
"Awesome! I knew you had it in you!"
They arrived at Hinata's doorstep. "All thanks to you."
"Me? I didn't really do anything."
"Oh yes you did. You gave me courage and kept pushing me to be better. You were there for me so many times. Because of you I began to believe in myself like you believed in me." Hinata tilted her head and smiled.
Naruto blushed. "Well...Your welcome. I guess I never realized it before. I'm a big influence on everyone aren't I?" Naruto started to get a big ego but Hinata only giggled at it.
"I want to be as strong as you Naruto."
"Nah...I want to be like you..a Chunin."
"Don't worry you'll get there after all while. The Chunin exams are next month after all."
"Thanks...you are pretty nice to me Hinata." Naruto looked at the house. "Well I guess this is where it ends...thanks for dancing with me. I would've looked real stupid dancing by myself."
They both looked into each other's eyes and closed them as they leaned in to kiss each other but the door swung open as Hinata's little sister, Hanabi interrupted them just as they were about to kiss. "Ahem! Hinata you're late! Dad's going to kill you if he finds out if you are past your curfew!" Hinata and Naruto turned away. Hanabi looked at Naruto with a raised eyebrow. "Who's this? Your boyfriend?"
Hinata and Naruto gulped at that comment. Hinata turned around and shook her hands in disapproval sweating bullets. "No Hanabi what are you talking about what gave you that idea I have no idea what you are talking about!" Hinata was speaking so fast pushing her 14 year old sister back into the house. She turned around in the doorway. "I guess I'll see you this Saturday...Naruto-kun. Goodnight."
Naruto grinned. "Goodnight Hinata..."
Hinata closed the door and laid against it and cursed at her bad luck. She wanted to finally kiss Naruto but she would have to wait till the camping trip this Saturday. Naruto slowly walked home to his old home thinking. "What was I thinking? I almost kissed her. I never got that far with a girl before...but...no! no! this can't be happening! Maybe it is? Argh!!! I'm so confused! These feelings. I thought they were for Sakura but look at how that turned out! I'm so mixed up with feelings inside! Hinata is so cool once you get passed her shell or haven't I noticed that before? Gahhh!! No I haven't! Man! look at me! I'm a wreck!...ok ok calm down Naruto-kun I mean Naruto! You just need to rest your mind. You had a long day. You got caught up in the moment. It was just raging hormones. Right! hormones from puberty! Perfect Explanation!" Naruto's heart raced. He entered his old apartment and laid down on his old couch. "Ahhh home sweet home!" Naruto stood up and ran to his shower. He took a shower and laid in his bed in a white shirt and black and red boxers and thought everything out. Obviously she liked him. "Damn! Why didn't I see that sooner!" Naruto grabbed his head. Naruto put his pillow over his head and screamed. He couldn't stop thinking about her. "Naruto...just get some sleep." Naruto looked at his alarm clock. "It's 2 in the morning. Get some sleep. You have a camping trip to prepare for this weekend. That's your next priority."
Naruto looked out his window and looked at the moon. It was shining brillantly tonight. Hinata in her purple nightgown laid in her bed and looked at the moon as well. Both smiled and went to sleep dreaming of dances with each other under the moonlight.
