When the bell rang Naruto went to his locker to grab his books. As he was heading to the parking lot he had a huge grin on his face as he was looking forward to hanging out with Hinata. They haven't been able to hang out for a week. But as Naruto opened the door to the outside, his grin fell. Hinata was sitting on the hood of her car. But that wasn't what upset Naruto. It was the fact that around her was a group of guys.

To someone who didn't really know Hinata, she looked right at home talking to all those guys. But Naruto did know her, better then anyone else, and he could tell she was uncomfortable. The way Hinata would blush at the comments and the way that she would hold her arms, Naruto knew she wasn't totally comfortable with all the attention.

"Even with the new look there is still some of the old Hinata in there."

Naruto decided to walk over and save his best friend.

"Hey Hinata, I'm here!"

Hinata looked over and saw Naruto walking over, waving. She smiled and waved back. "Ready to go Naruto?"

"You bet."

Hinata turned her attention to the boys. "Sorry guys. I have to go now, but I will see you all tomorrow."

A large "AW" came from the boys as they walked away.

Hinata let out a small sigh of relief. It was going to take some time to get use to all the male attention. Hinata opened the door to her silver convertible, while Naruto just jumped in.

"Thanks for the ride Hinata."

"No problem. Ready to go to my house?"

"Totally, and maybe afterwards we can go to Ichiraku's for dinner."

Hearing the suggestion, Hinata started to blush. "Is Naruto asking me out on a date?"

"Sss..sure that sounds nice."

"Awesome. We might even run into the rest of the group while we are there."

Hinata's head suddenly dropped. "So its not a date."

"Hinata are you okay?"

Hinata looked up quickly and concentrated on driving. "Oh yeah I'm fine." The rest of the drive Hinata listened to Naruto talk about soccer and the upcoming season. She would chime in every so often to let him know she was listening. But soon they drove up to the gated Hyuga mansion.

"Wow, no matter how often I come here. I'm still shocked out how big it is."

"I know. It's way to much, but father says we have to keep up appearances. The main reason he gave me such a nice car."

"Well come on, I really want to see your paintings." Naruto had already jumped out of the car and was now at the door. Hinata got out, grabbed her bag, and followed. She unlocked the door and let Naruto in and led him up to her room.

Hinata's room was considerably large. It had white furniture, carpet, and a white canopy bed. The bed had a lavender colored blanket. Her walls were painted a plum color. And in one corner of the room was her easel and paints.

Her bathroom was nothing like her bedroom. While her bedroom was quiet and serene, her bathroom was loud and cheerful. It had a bright orange shower curtain and orange and blue towels hanging on the rack.

"Wow Hinata, I see you redid your bathroom. I really like it."

"Thanks."

"So let's look at your paintings. I have a lot of catching up to do."

"Um…okay. How about I just show you the work from this summer."

"Okay sounds good. Where are they?"

Hinata pointed over to the large pile in the corner."

Naruto sweat dropped when he saw the pile. "This is all from summer?"

"A….yeah. If it's to much then you don't have to…."

"No way. I said I was going to look at your paintings and that's what I'm going to do." Naruto walked over to the paintings.

The first one Naruto picked up was a picture of what looked like a horse and person sleeping under a tree.

"Wow this is really good, the horse looks totally awesome."

"Actually Naruto, that's a dog."

"Oh, heh sorry." Naruto rubbed the back of his head nervously. "I'm not very good with art."

"It's okay. If you take a closer look you might recognize the subjects."

Naruto did as he was told and looked more closely. He noticed that the 'dog' was white with brown ears and was really big, so big that a person could ride on its back. It was sleeping under the shade of a big oak tree. The person had his head resting on the dog, like he was a large pillow. He was wearing an all black outfit. He had brown shaggy hair and red triangles under his eyes, He seemed to be….

"Wait, red triangles…."

"HOLY CRAP! This is Kiba and Akamaru!"

Hinata let out a little giggle. "Yeah that's them."

"This is amazing Hinata! It looks just like them."

"Thank you. We were all hanging out one time in the park and I saw those two resting under a tree. It looked so sweet that I decided to paint it."

"What does Kiba think of it?"

"Actually…." Hinata started her nervous habit of pressing her fingers together. When she realized she was doing it, she stopped herself. "I never have showed them."

"WHAT! Why not?"

"Because what if they didn't like it?"

"Are you kidding? Kiba would LOVE this painting."

"How would you know that?"

"Because it's really good and it had Akamaru in it. And you know he loves anything that has to do with his dog."

Hinata couldn't help but laugh. What Naruto said was true. Kiba really did love anything that was about Akamaru. "I guess I could show him, but I'm not showing anyone else their portraits."

"Wait…are you telling me that there are more of our group?"

"Yeah, I have painted everyone at least once."

Naruto immediately handed Hinata the Kiba painting and went to check out the other works.

As he went through the canvases, he saw that Hinata wasn't kidding.

There was a painting of Shino, squatting down by a plant and examining a butterfly. Another one of Kiba, this time with him chasing Akamaru in a field of flowers. Then there was Shikamaru, lying on a grassy hill looking at clouds. Chouji, grilling meat on a BBQ at some restaurant. Ino, placing flowers in a vase at her family's store. Tenten, looking at a sword from her weapon collection. Lee, running on the track. Neji, sitting in the grass meditating. Sai, reading a book with some art supplies scattered around him. Sasuke, walking down an empty hallway. And even Sakura, standing in an orchard of cherry blossom trees.

All of them looked amazing and fit each and everyone's personality, but someone was missing.

"Hey, where am I?"

"Oh well I just finished one of you. It's sitting next to my easel. Hinata walked over and grabbed the canvas and then handed it to Naruto. "I'm sorry if you don't like it."

As Naruto looked at the drawing he couldn't help but put on one of his signature grins.

The painting was of him playing soccer about to score a goal.

"Seriously Hinata, how could you think I wouldn't like this. It's the best painting I have ever seen."

"Thank you Naruto. I'm glad you like it. But actually I have some more of you."

"Really?" Naruto couldn't help but sound surprise. He never would think anyone would be interested in drawing him.

"Yeah, just give me a second."

Hinata walked into one of her closets. One she used for her clothes and the other one she used for her art. She came out with a small box. "These are all paintings with you in mind.

Now Naruto was really surprised. There had to be at least five or six paintings in the box. "These are all of me?"

"Kind of."

Naruto walked over and went through the paintings.

The first one was a picture of him eating a bowl of ramen. Another was a picture of him sleeping in the grass after a hard soccer practice. There was one of him laughing at something. A picture of him with Sakura and Sasuke with their guidance teacher, Kakashi. Then there was one of him and his godfather, Jiraya, sharing a popsicle while sitting on a bench. But his favorite one was the very last one, it was a portrait of his parents. (Just so you guys know, his parents are alive in this story).

"These are truly amazing Hinata. You are such a great artist."

"Thank you."

"NOW HOW COME YOU HAVEN'T SHOWN THESE TO ANYONE!"

Hinata was shocked by Naruto's outburst. Although she knows she shouldn't be, after all….this was Naruto. "Like I said before, what if they didn't like the paintings."

"They would be truly crazy not to like them. And if they say anything bad, I'll make sure to set them straight."

Hinata let out a sigh. She knew that Naruto was not going to give up on trying to convince her.

When Sasuke had left the beginning of 9th grade to go looking for his missing brother, it was Naruto who convinced him to finally come back. It took him two years to convince Sasuke but he finally did and Sasuke was back with the group in 11th grade.

"Alright, I will show everyone when I get the chance."

"SWEET! Now come on. Seeing that painting of me eating ramen has suddenly made me hungry." Naruto grabbed Hinata's hand and dragged her to the car.

YAY! Another chapter done and in just a couple of days from the last one. Now I tried my best to think of good paintings of the characters but some of them are not as good as the others (like Neji and Lee). So if you have an idea tell me and I will change it.

Thanks