Hinata watched Naruto leave until she could no longer see him then with a deep sigh she unlocked the door and went inside to her house.

To call it a house was a under statement. It was more of a mansion. The Hyuga family was one of the most powerful family's in the town of Konoha and Hinata just so happen to be one. She was actually the heiress to the family business that is if her father sees her fit to take over. And at this moment in time, it did not look like he will. He saw his eldest daughter as weak and to kind to take over the business and he was thinking of giving it over to Hinata's younger sister, Hanabi. To be honest, Hinata wasn't to sure she wanted to take over. Ever since her mother past away, Hinata has found just peace and enjoyment in her artwork that she was thinking of making it her future. But only Naruto knew about it, if she told her father, he would probably call her a disgrace and kick her out.

Hinata walked through the mansion and quickly let her father know she was home then she went up to her room. She went to her bathroom and turned on the shower. Hinata took a good look in the mirror and what she saw was upsetting.

The reflection showed a petite girl with almost sickly pale skin and scraggily indigo colored hair that at the moment was up in a messy bun with strands falling out. Her thick-rimmed glasses covered up her odd looking pupil-less lavender colored eyes. Today she was wearing boyish sneakers, ill fitted jeans with paint stains on them, and her signature lavender oversize jacket. In other words….she was a complete nerd.

And she wasn't over exaggerating, everyone at school knew her as the nerdy artsy girl. She didn't blame them, She did love her art class and she always got good grades in her classes without having to study much. And as long as Hinata was being honest with herself she might as well admit that she didn't really have many close friends, besides Naruto and a few others. Most of the people at Ichiraku's were more of Naruto's friends then hers.

Naruto was always to the one to invite her out to hang, no one else usually did. He was truly a good friend. She couldn't believe that it has been almost thirteen years since they met.

Flashback…..about thirteen years ago

School had just finished and everyone was getting picked up by their parents, Hinata was waiting outside the building for her mother. Like always her mother was late, usually because she was caught up in some meeting.

Little Hinata let out a sigh. She wasn't mad at her mom. She knew that she loved her very much. She was just busy.

Hinata looked up when she heard someone else let out a sigh. Sitting on a swing on a tree across the lot was a little boy. Hinata slowly walked over and saw that the boy was about the same age as her. He had spiky blonde hair and looked very sad.

"Ex….excuse me." The boy looked up at Hinata. She saw that he had been crying. "Ar…are yyyyyou o…kkkay?"

The boy wiped away his tears and gave her a smile, but she knew that is was fake. "Yeah I'm fine."

"Alright." Hinata was about to walk away but was stopped.

"Hey what's your name?" The boy asked.

"Hinata Hyuga."

"Hi Hinata, I'm Naruto Uzumaki. Would you like to be my friend?"

Hinata smiled. She didn't have any friends in class. "Sure."

"Great, why don't we play a game?"

"Okay, what game?"

"Well….." Naruto had a suspicious grin on his face. "TAG YOU'RE IT!" Naruto then ran off.

"Not far." Hinata laughed and chased after her new friend.

A little while later a black limousine showed up in the school's parking lot. Hinata stopped running. Naruto noticed and walked over to her. "Hey is everything okay?"

"Yeah, I just have to go now, my mom is here."

"Oh alright. Well I guess I will see you tomorrow." Naruto gave her a smile.

"Okay!" Hinata walked over to where she saw her mom standing. "Hey mom."

"Hello my little angel. I'm sorry I am so late."

"It's okay, I actually made a friend. We played tag while I waited." Hinata said with a huge smile.

"Was that who I saw you talking to?"

"Yes, his name is Naruto."

"Well, would Naruto like to go home and eat dinner with us, your father will be at work late with a meeting?"

Hinata gave her a huge smile. "Really?" Her mom nodded. "I'll go ask him." Hinata ran towards where Naruto was walking away. "NARUTO!"

Naruto turned around hearing his name. "What's the matter Hinata? Is something wrong?"

"No, I wwwwwas just wwwwondering if you wwwwould like to eat dddddiiiiner with my mother and I?"

Naruto gave her a huge grin. "Sure that sounds awesome."

End of Flashback

Since then Hinata and Naruto have been best of friends. Later on Hinata learned that the reason Naruto was crying was because no one wanted to be his friend. She had made him feel better and he helped her finally get rid of her stuttering. They were as close as friends could get.

What Naruto didn't know was that Hinata wanted to be more then friends for a very long time. She has had a crush on Naruto since middle school, but he didn't even know. And here it was the final year of high school and they lives would soon change forever and he didn't know how she felt.

But this year was going to be different. This year things were going to change. This year Naruto was going to finally notice her.