The Twin Dragon Festival
I'm going to ease into the romance guys: this one is slightly fluffier though. - YMM
Hinata could feel the cold stone of the statue nearly freezing her hands off as she hid behind it. Today was the annual Twin Dragon Dance, and she wouldn't have come at all if it weren't for Lee.
Another day of training, and Hinata still wasn't strong enough. She sighed, "Lee, will I EVER become strong?"
"You already ARE strong Hinata." he replied cheerfully.
"No, I'm weak compared to others." she admitted gloomily.
"Then don't compare yourself to others." he suggested.
"How could I expect YOU to understand?" she said, "You're so strong, it's crazy."
"I cannot say I'm not flattered, Lady Hinata…but..." he continued reluctantly. "Last time I checked it doesn't do much for you. Sakura still prefers Saskue over me."
"You're kidding, right?" she asked.
"Well, why do YOU want to become stronger?" he asked, suddenly flustered.
"Well…" she started, "I want to become stronger so I can impre- um, Nevermind!"
Lee's eyebrows moved up and down, "Oh I see…you want to impress a boy with some of your fighting skills." he mused.
She could feel herself blushing profusely as he leaned in towards her. "Hey!" he said suddenly back to normal.
She was startled by such a loud "Hey!" so close to her face but was relieved to see that he was not all flirty anymore.
"Hinata!" he shouted.
"Lee," she flinched again, "Could you back away a little before screaming again?"
"Oh," he flushed and slipped back to about 2 feet away, "Sorry, I was just thinking that we should go to the Twin Dragon Dance!"
She began to braid a lock of her long indigo hair, thinking. "What do you mean?"
"Ya know, go to the Festival!" he daydreamed excitedly, "Goof off, have some tea, dance with someone!"
"I'm not a good dancer, and I'm not much of a people person…" she said suddenly looking for excuses.
"C'mon Hinata!" Lee pleaded, "It'll be fun!"
"'It'll be fun.'" She thought nervously, "Yeah Right."
She had been walking through the crowd and was getting knocked around. This is why she had been reluctant about coming. She sighed as she leaned against a cold hard statue of a general. When everybody approached the square for the main dancing event she finally felt it was okay to walk around. She came out of her hiding place, and bumped into a special blonde-headed boy. Naruto turned around and grinned widely. "Hey Hinata!" he greeted her cheerfully.
"H-H-hey N-Naruto…" she replied. "Darn, my stutter's back."
"Wow, fancy meeting you here! I thought you weren't the type to come to the festivals."
"I-I'm not…L-lee convinced m-me t-to come." she seemed to trip over each word.
"Well that's great! Hey you should come dance with somebody! It'll be real fun!" he said excitedly.
"I'm n-not much of a d-dancer…"
"Let's get someone to teach you then: hey Lee!" he yelled.
"Lee?" she thought to herself. She was frozen.
"Yeah?" Lee ran over. Obviously saddened to be beckoned away from his attempts to dance with Sakura.
"You wanna teach Hinata how to dance? I'm kinda busy."
"With what?" Lee raised an eyebrow.
"Well," he said blushing, "I was gonna ask Sakura to dance with me."
Lee immediately turned his head to Sakura, then to Hinata. He wanted so much to stop Naruto and ask Sakura himself: but he realized how much Hinata was hurt.
"Alright." He forced a smile.
He grabbed Hinata's hand in a soft grasp, placed his hand on her waist and grinned, "You do know a little about dancing, don't you?"
"A-a little…" Hinata said quietly.
"Cool! See you later guys!" Naruto yelled running off.
Hinata looked dismayed at Naruto's sudden leave, but she tore her gaze from the fleeing blonde to the boy in front of her.
"Thank you." Hinata smiled, "I know how much you like Sakura."
"I don't like Sakura. I love her." Lee corrected her quietly.
This was one of the reasons she thought Lee was strong: he pulled himself away from what he wanted to attend to others.
"So, are you going to teach me how dance?" she joked. She was expecting a "Yeah, um, I don't dance." and a run off from Lee. Instead she got, "Yupp."
She was surprised, blushing she stuttered, "U-um, I don't know if I-"
"Oh, you don't want to dance with me?" He asked.
"No, I-" she started.
"I'm not surprised, I haven't ever met a girl who would dance with me…"
"Lee. I'll dance with you." Hinata chuckled quietly, "I want to dance with you."
He looked up, pleasantly shocked. He wasn't moving, so Hinata took the first step.
"You know…" Lee said.
"Yeah?"
"Well…" Lee said, "I'm happy that I got that rash a few months ago. If I hadn't I wouldn't have met you."
Her cheeks flushed a deep pink at that line as she smiled. "Me too."
"Oh!" Lee said, breaking the silence seemed to be his habit. "Let's go see who the Hokage and his lover are this year!"
Hinata laughed, "Alright."
Lee still held Hinata's hand but ran through the crowd to the area right under the podium. They glanced up to see a beaming Naruto with a blushing Sakura. Maybe it was the peer pressure, maybe not, but what happened shocked everyone. A quick peck to the Naruto's cheek, and Naruto responded in a full on the mouth kiss to Sakura. She didn't reject it and the crowd cheered. Hinata's hand fell to her side and she took off in a fast sloppy run. She tripped over her feet as she tried to keep from crying.
"Wait, Hinata!" Lee ran behind her, as she made her way to the abandoned practice field.