CHAPTER 3: THE PROPOSAL
The next morning, after his rather unpleasant sleep in the bush he tumbled over, causing him to wake up. "Oh man that was….yawn the worst sleep I ever had and to mention the way I slept" Naruto rubbed his head and felt a bump the size of a golf ball. "I wonder if Hinata is up yet" he walked up the steps and rang the door bell. "I'm….coming" said a soft voice inside. Hinata opened the door and gasped "oh Naruto what happened did you fall out of bed?" "Something like that" he said grunting and rubbing his eyes." "…..oh Naruto you forgot this last night in my room" Hinata pulls out his head band, Naruto eyes light up as he said "yes now I get to go home yeeeaaahh" Hinata looking confused said "what do you mean 'get to go home'" "well you see, I put my house key behind my headband for safe keeping…gasp, ahhh…..Hinata where's my key?" Hinata said "I don't know where it is, I didn't know you keep things behind your headband." By now Naruto was turning himself inside out seeing if he mistakenly put it inside his pockets "man why do I have so many pockets….none of them are holding anything other then lint". Hinata said as reassurance that he will get home "well lady Hokage holds a spare key for every one if you give her one that is a copy". Naruto shook his head in disagreement "no, I didn't feel like spending money for a second key to give to her". Hinata sighed and thought to herself "well I should have guessed knowing its Naruto".
A long hour later after retracing his steps and searching Hinata's room held no results. "Ahhh man now where am I going to sleep, this is turning into some vacation" Naruto shaking his head in disbelief. Then Hinata said partially "Naruto you can sleep…" she continued the sentence in her own mind "in my room if you want" but it turned out as "in Neji's room you want". Naruto then said in an ignorant way "Neji's room no way not for a million cups of Raman stomach rumbling ahhh man…..speaking of Raman I sure could use some right now"
Naruto said to Hinata with a smile on his face "hey, Hinata lets go to the Raman shop my treat". Hinata feeling not to hungry herself just agreed and went with him down the street to the Raman shop. When the two walked in they saw a familiar face then Naruto shouted "Hey Iruka sensei" Iruka looked up from his bowl of Raman to see his two former students walking over to him the he said "Na….Naruto well well what a pleasant surprise, how's Kakashi treating you?" Hinata then walks in behind Naruto and said "oh…hello Iruka sensei" Iruka said in a surprised voice "well if it isn't the beautiful kunoichi, Hinata, I hope Kurenai has not been to rough on you".
Naruto slammed his left hand down on the counter and said "the biggest bowl you got with all the mixings" the shop owner said "ok….what about your friend there, she want something?" she looked up and said "no thank you, I'm not that hungry". Iruka turned to face both of them and said "so anything happening over the summer?" Hinata fiddled with her fingers but said nothing, Naruto slammed his bowl down and sighed as he explained "well for starters, there's no missions, which I hate then I lost my only house key" Iruka said with astonishment "you don't like the fact that you have the summer off….WAIT WHAT you lost your only keys?" Naurto just knew that Iruka was going to give him a lecture on it later but said "yeah I put it behind my head band and Hinata gave it back but there was no key" Iruka was mad at him as he said "how can you be so careless as to lose your only key to your house?" Naruto got an idea and said "hey wait why can't I stay with you?" Iruka yelled at his remark "I have seen your house you have Raman cups and drink containers everywhere in your room, no way not at my house" Naruto sighed and said with a depressed look "ah man….Iruka you were my last hope….sigh well I'm not sleeping with Neji so maybe I will find a dog house or something". Hinata was furiously attacking her lower lip and then finally found the words she was looking for "Na….Naruto you could…..sleep in…swallow…my room if you want?" Naruto then said as if he were saved from death "re…really you don't mind?" Hinata then said "ye….yeah I don't mind" Naruto jumped up in the air as he said "yeah thank you so much Hinata" Naruto ran over to her then hugged her. Hinata was shocked by this sudden reaction from Naruto she blushed cherry red then fainted from the blood rushing to her face. Iruka got up and separated them and picked up Hinata and naurto's look of happiness turned into worry "wha…what happened why did she pass out?" Iruka looked at Naruto and smiled "don't worry about it it's nothing, it's getting late it's almost sunset lets get her back to her house.
When they got to the mansion they saw Neji on the couch watching T.V. he looked up and said "wha…..what happened to lady Hinata?" Neji's eyes started to glare at Naruto. "You had something to do with this, Naruto!" Iruka stepped in before a fight started "don't worry Neji Naruto did nothing to her, she just had a strange day" Neji said to Iruka "I think Hinata needs to sleep, can you take her upstairs to her room….?" Before Neji could finish Naruto said the rest "it's the one on the left 3 doors down" Neji laughed in a mocking way to Naruto.
Iruka gently laid Hinata on her bed and thought to himself "is Hinata ready for this yet….can she handle it….ha, what have I got to worry about, Neji will stop them if they try something" Iruka was walking out the door when a shine caught his eye. He walked over to a crack in the wooden floor and saw a silver key wedged in it. Iruka plucked the key out of the crack and said to himself "th….this is Naruto's key……so Hinata knew where it was the whole time." He thought about telling Naruto but then said to himself "no….I won't ruin their summer together" he put the key in his pocket "ill give it to Naruto before his next mission begins" Iruka walked out of Hinata's room and closed the door. Hinata opened her eyes once he left to release the byakugan from her eyes. She heard all of his thoughts and thought to herself "thank you Iruka sensei….thank you for understanding."
Iruka came down stairs to see Neji and Naruto glued to the T.V. Iruka said with concern "hey you two don't stay up all night watching T.V" the both of them did not hear a word he said and he sighed and walked over to see why they won't pay attention. "So what is on that's got you two in a trance huh?" they both said at the same time "Death Note". 20 minutes later Iruka got up and said "I have to get home I got someplace to be in the morning, so you two better take care of Hinata" with that he closed the door and Neji looked over at Naruto and said "I have to go to bed so I'm going up stairs don't eat every thing ok?" Naruto just said in an ignorant way "yeah yeah what ever".