The week went by fast and it was already Sunday. Hinata had spent Saturday at home. Naruto said he needed to spend time with his godfather Jiraiya.

Hinata had offered to go with him, but Naruto freaked out. Saying something about her new look giving "Pervy Sage" as Naruto liked to call him, a heart attack or even worse….an idea for a new book. So Saturday was spent working on her art and catching up on homework.

Not that Hinata minded. Last weekend was so busy that she had fallen behind.

Now it was Sunday and she was standing in the soccer field waiting for her coaches. She didn't tell Sasuke that she had invited Naruto to practice with them, nor did she tell Naruto that Sasuke was going to be here as well. She had tried to tell him, but he looked so excited about them spending time together, she was worried she was going to disappoint him.

"That's silly. Naruto and Sasuke are friends, and besides, why would he care if we were alone or not."

"Who are you talking to?"

Hinata spun around and saw Sasuke walking towards her with his bag and some cones.

Hinata blushed. She didn't realize that she was talking out loud. "Oh, no one. Just myself."

Sasuke shrugged and started to set up an exercise. Hinata sighed and sat down to do some stretches.

"Alright, you ready?" Sasuke asked.

Hinata nodded.

"Last week you worked on kicking in pretty much a straight line. Now I want you to kick the ball around the cones in a clover formation. Got it?"

"Yeah, I think so."

"Then go."

Hinata started to do her exercises. It was a lot harder than it sounded. She was either kicking the ball out of the clover or tripping on her feet. And Sasuke's intense gaze didn't help her either. It was like he was piercing her very soul.

Hinata stopped running to catch her breath. She was about to start again when she heard something.

"HINATA!"

She turned to see who was yelling out her name. She smiled when she saw orange coming her way. "Hi Naruto."

Naruto came to a sudden stop in front of her and leaned over to catch his breath. "Sorry….i'm….late…."

"It's okay. Sasuke has been helping me out."

Naruto shot up. "Sasuke?"

"Yeah." Hinata pointed over to where Sasuke was leaning against a goal post. "He coached me last Sunday and said he would do it every week. Hope you don't mind."

Actually Naruto minded a lot. He wanted to be the one that taught Hinata soccer. After all she was teaching him about art. But he wasn't going to say that out loud. "That's cool." Naruto walked over towards his friend. "Hey there Sasuke."

"Naruto."

Hinata watched as the two friends gave each other glares and decided to break it up. "So what's next?"

"We are going to work on you shooting. The ones that you did in gym class were pretty pathetic."

"Hey! Don't say that to Hinata." Naruto defended.

"It's okay Naruto. I know I need practice."

"You are going to shoot the ball into the goal as hard as you possibly can." Sasuke went to stand in the goal.

Hinata went to stand in front of the row of balls.

"You can do it Hinata." Naruto gave her a thumbs up.

Hinata smiled and than ran at the balls and kicked the first one. She thought she did well until she looked and saw that it simply roll and gently tap Sasuke's feet.

Hinata wanted a hole to appear under her at that very moment. She was pathetic.

"Don't worry about it. Try again." Naruto encouraged.

Hinata looked over to Sasuke and he nodded.

She was happy that they didn't make fun of her sad looking kick. This time she backed up a little and ran at the ball. This time the ball got some air but Sasuke blocked it without even moving.

"You need to stop being so gentle. Kick it with some anger." Sasuke ordered.

Hinata tried again. She took a deep breath. She tried to think of something that angered her but nothing came to mind. She just wasn't that type of girl. Instead Hinata thought about how much she wanted to impress Naruto.

She ran at the ball and kicked it with all her might. Naruto and her watched as the ball went flying through the air. For a second Hinata thought it would go in but than Sasuke quickly caught it.

Hinata let out a frustrated sigh.

"Next time try aiming for the ends of the net so the goalie has to run."

"Thanks Sasuke." Hinata gave him a smile. "How come you don't become goalie? You seem really good at it."

Sasuke shrugged. He was about to answer when he was suddenly hit straight in the face by a soccer ball. The force was so hard he fell backwards.

Hinata eyes widened. She didn't kick it so that would only mean….

Hinata looked and saw Naruto rolling on the ground laughing.

"Naruto." Hinata put her hands on her hips and tapped her foot.

He looked up and saw the pissed off look on Hinata's face. He gulped. That was not a look he was use to. "Y-yeah?"

"Why did you do that?"

"I don't know…cuz it was funny."

"You should go and apologize."

"You can't be serious?" But the look on Hinata's face told Naruto she was. "Fine, but only for you." Naruto slowly walked over to the goal.

Sasuke was sitting on the ground with a pissed off look on his face. "What the hell do you want now dobe?"
"Sorry." Naruto mumbled.

"What's that?" Sasuke smirked.

"I said I was SORRY!" Naruto grumbled.

"Whatever." Sasuke stood up. "It wasn't that good of a kick anyways."

"I'll show you a good kick."

"Both of you need to play nice." Hinata commanded.

Both the boys huffed but Hinata smiled. No wonder Sakura was teamed up with these two when they were freshman. She could only imagine the screaming she had to do to keep them from killing each other.

"Can we get back to practice?"

The boys nodded and went to work. The rest of the afternoon was spent on Hinata's blocking. Both Naruto and Sasuke kicked what felt like millions of balls at her and she had to block as many as possible.

When it was all over Hinata was bent over breathing heavily.

"That was awesome Hinata! You got almost all of them." Naruto patted her on the back.

"Not bad." Sasuke nodded in approval.

Hinata looked up at the two and smiled. "Thanks for the help."

"Anything for you Hinata." Naruto smiled. "But its getting late. I should get you home."

Hinata nodded in agreement. "Need help packing up Sasuke?"

"No. I'm fine." Sasuke went to start getting the balls together.

"Alright. See you tomorrow and thanks again."

"Come on Hinata." Naruto grabbed Hinata's hand and started dragging her to the parking lot. "My car is all fixed so now I can drive you home."

The two got into Naruto's car and headed for the Hyuga mansion.

"So how has it been with Sasuke?" Naruto asked.

"Oh well….um good I guess. He is actually starting to talk to me."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I think we are starting to become friends."

"That's nice." But from Naruto's tone, Hinata didn't really believe him. She thought that Naruto would be happy that she was becoming friends with his closet guy friend. That meant that they all could hang out together.

Soon the car pulled up to the mansion.

Hinata got out of the car. "Thanks for the ride."

"Sure thing. Now go get some rest. Tomorrow starts your first day of soccer practice with the team."

"Oh yeah. I forgot. I'm actually a little nervous."

"Don't be. Everyone is pretty cool and if anyone makes fun of you just let me know and I'll take care of them."

Hinata smiled. "Thanks Naruto. You're the best. Well good night."

"Night."

Hinata gave a final wave as she watched Naruto's car disappear wishing that he had stayed.

Now i have a few more foundation chapters to plant so just bare with me, the real fun will be coming up shortly