Warning: Sasuke will be OOC

The bleachers were packed with people and they all cheered as their Konoha Kyuubis came onto the field. But Hinata tried not to notice them. She kept her face focused ahead of her. To nervous to do anything else.

It wasn't her first game but it was her first game actually playing. Before she would sit on the bench praying that the current goalie didn't get hurt for her to go in. But now Coach Gai thought she was ready to take on the goal.

The team they were going up against today was the Suna Shakakus. Naruto told her that they weren't the best with offense but their defense was near perfect. This was somewhat a relief for Hinata because it meant less chance of them getting a goal.

"You ready Hinata?" Naruto asked.

Hinata just nodded.

"Its okay to be nervous. You just can't let it stop you. You have to push through it. Now come on. We have a game to win."

Hinata took one more deep breath before running onto the field and to the goal. Because she was goalie she wore a different color from the rest of the team. Today she had on hot pink with the Konoha symbol on her back. The others had on red.

The referee blew the whistle and the game began.

Suna got the ball first which sent a strike of fear through Hinata. But then Lee came in a stole the ball and Hinata let out a sigh of relief. Lee passed the ball to Naruto who quickly sent it to Sasuke. He went for an opening on the goalie, who was a pale guy with short red hair, but he easily blocked it.

Hinata was impressed. She had personally gone against Sasuke's kicks and they were not easy to block. Naruto was right about their defense being good.

The goalie sent the ball to his teammates and they ran towards Konoha's side. Hinata took a nervous gulp. They were so quick her back up didn't have time to come to her rescue. It was now up to her.

Trying to keep calm Hinata kept her eyes on the ball. Everything else disappeared and it was only her and her opponent.

They got closer and closer. They went to the right then to the left. It looked like he was going to shot for the left corner of the goal but Hinata's keen eyes caught the slight hesitation in his foot. That hesitation told her all she needed to know. The boy shot the ball and Hinata instinctively followed it to the right. When Hinata felt the ball in between her hands it felt like an all time high. She couldn't believe that she actually caught it. She had caught her first goal.

She could hear the people cheering. A huge grin came onto her face but she couldn't savor the moment for long. She quickly threw the ball towards one of the players and they all headed for Suna's side. Naruto lagged behind and gave Hinata a thumbs up before going to steal the ball from a boy who had weird purple markings on his face.

Naruto and Sasuke tried their best to get a goal but like Naruto had said their defense was near perfect and none of them could get the ball in. Hinata was watching the other goalie closely. She noticed that he was very calm almost without emotion. He was quick in his movements without much hesitation. But there was one small imperfection that Hinata caught onto. She needed to let the guys know if they wanted to win. She looked over at the timer and saw there was only a minute before the end of the first half. Soon came the buzzer and the players stopped and headed to their benches for a break.

Hinata grabbed a water and went and sat down for a breather. She had only one ball shot at her but it was still scary and took a lot out of her.

She felt a pat on her back.

"Way to go Hinata!" Naruto sat next to her and gulped down his water.

"Thank you. You are doing good."

Naruto wiped the water away. "No way. I'm doing awful. We just can't seem to get past Gaara's defense. I don't know how he does it. Its like he was a wall of sand blocking our way."

"I see. Actually I wanted to talk to you about that. I have been watching him and I noticed that he has a hesitation when he turns around. I think his weakest point is the back of his legs. Maybe if you go around to the right with the ball, keeping the attention on you, then sending it to Sasuke to shoot it behind him you might get lucky."

"You got all that from watching him."

Hinata nodded. "It's just an idea. You don't have to do it if you don't want to."

"Nah. I want to try it. We have nothing else to go on. Why don't you tell Sasuke. Here he comes now."

Hinata looked over and saw Sasuke. Even with them running back and forth on the field he looked cool and collected. It looked like he had something hiding behind his back.

"Hey Sasuke, Hinata wants to talk to you!" Naruto called out.

"Good because I wanted to talk to her as well." Sasuke looked down at Hinata who was now in front of him.

Hinata was about to ask what when she heard a loud "AWWWWW" coming from the crowd. She looked and saw them pointing to the scoreboard. She followed their pointing and was shocked by what she saw.

HINATA HYUGA,

WILL YOU GO TO HOMECOMING WITH ME?

LOVE SASUKE

Hinata felt like dying right then and there, but it got worse. She turned and saw Sasuke holding out flowers for her.

She didn't know what to do. She liked Sasuke but just as a friend. Naruto was really the one she loved. She glanced over at him and he seemed to have the same look of shock on his face.

"Well?"

Hinata wasn't sure what to say. No one had asked her yet but she was hoping Naruto would. But they had been friends for years and he had never asked her. But there was also Sakura. Hinata was worried that she might hurt her. Then she heard the crowd chanting. "SAY YES! SAY YES!"

"S-sure." Hinata took the flowers and the crowd cheered. Hinata stood up and gave Sasuke a hug while Naruto stood there still in absolute shock. He finally broke out of his trance and looked up and saw Sasuke smirking while he hugged Hinata. Naruto wanted to punch him square in the face.

They didn't see it but in the crowd a pair of teal eyes were sending daggers to the girl with the indigo hair and lavender eyes.

Soon the buzzer came signaling the end of halftime and the teams went back to the field.

Hinata set down the flowers and went to her spot at the goal. She looked over at her team and was upset by what she saw. Sasuke was walking onto the field like nothing had happened and Naruto was stomping behind him totally upset and totally not focused. Hinata didn't know what to do. For a moment she was happy that Naruto seemed so upset by Sasuke asking her out but that moment soon past when the buzzer came to start the game. Those two were the co-captains and if they weren't doing their best then nobody else would. She had to find a way to get their minds back on the game.

Because the guys were so distracted Suna easily stole the ball and was running straight at Hinata. She wasn't sure how to get everyone's attention back but she could think about that later. Right now she had a game to think about. Hinata followed the ball and when the player got closer enough he kicked the ball with all his might. Hinata was on the left side and he kicked it to the right. Hinata jumped through the air to block the ball. She felt the ball graze her fingers but she wasn't close enough to stop it. As she hit the ground she could hear the ball hitting the net.

The buzzer went off signaling a goal. Suna started to cheer. Hinata didn't move for a moment, to upset to move. She couldn't believe that she had let it slip. She was all worried about the others not being able to play and here she was letting the ball slip through. Slowly she got on her knees and when she tried to stand up but her face winced in pain and she fell back to the ground.

She felt a sharp pain in her ankle and couldn't stand up.

Naruto was so pissed about Sasuke asking Hinata out he did not notice Suna taking the ball and going all the way down the field. It was the buzzer that broke his trance.

"Did we make a goal?" Naruto asked.

"No you dobe, Suna did." Sasuke huffed.

"What? No way. Hinata is to good to…" But Naruto stopped mid sentence when he looked over at Hinata and saw her on the ground in pain holding her ankle. Without even thinking he ran over to her.

"Hinata are you alright?"

Hinata looked up and the blonde and smiled. "Y-yeah I'm fine." Hinata tried to get up but once she put weight on her left ankle she almost fell but Naruto was there to hold her up. "M-maybe not. I must have done something to my ankle."

"Here. I'll take you over to the bench."

Hinata was about to put her arm around him and hobble back but she let out a small eep in surprise when she felt her legs getting lifted off the ground. Naruto was carrying her back bridal style. She gave him a look of confusion.

"This way you don't chance of putting weight on the ankle." Naruto grinned.

Hinata instantly blushed. When Naruto put Hinata down on the bench she was swarmed by the guys.

Sasuke and Lee had come off the field to check on her. Also Kiba and Shino had come from the bleachers to make sure she was okay.

Sakura was watching the whole thing from the bleachers. It angered her to no end to see so many of the guys swarming around Hinata. "Ugh, what a little…"

"Sakura!" Ino interrupted. "I don't think its like that. Hinata looks like she's really hurt."

"Hmph. Whatever."

"Hinata, what's the matter?" Naruto frantically asked. "Do you need to go to the hospital?"

"I don't think so. I think its just sprained."

"Hinata's hurt! We're ruined!" Lee was running back and forth freaking out.

"Calm down Lee. We are not ruined. We are just behind by one point." Sasuke tried to calm down the energetic Gai look a-like. Sasuke bent down to be the same eye level as Hinata and gently grabbed her leg making Hinata blush and Naruto furious. "Does this hurt?" Sasuke put pressure on her ankle.

Hinata winced in pain. "Y-yes."

"I think you just need some ice and keep weight off of it for a day or two." Sasuke stood up.

"Thank you Sasuke."

"Sure thing," Sasuke looked at the rest of the team. "Now let's get back out there." Sasuke and the other guys ran off to the field but Naruto stayed behind.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Naruto asked.

Hinata nodded. "I'm fine but go out there and kick some butt for me."

Naruto grinned. "You got it."

And Naruto did just that. He and the rest of the team seem to have even more energy then the start of the game. They all wanted to win but now they had Hinata to play for. It meant a lot to her to know that they valued her as a member of the team. And Naruto told Sasuke about Hinata's idea. And they went with her plan of distracting Suna's goalie and going in behind him for the goal. The final score ended up being 3-2.

Konoha cheered in victory.

After shaking hands with the Suna players, the players and friends all agreed to a celebratory visit to Ichiraku's.

"We don't have to go if you don't want to Hinata." Naruto mentioned.

"It's okay. You go. I'll just go home."

"No way. There's no point in going then. Its not fun if you're not there." Hinata blushed at Naruto's comment. "How about I take you home and we can watch a movie or something?"

"S-sure. That sounds nice." Coach Gai had wrapped her ankle and given her ice and crutches. Hinata was going to stand up but once again let out an eep as she felt herself being lifted into the air. "W-what are you doing Naruto?"

Naruto was once again holding Hinata bridal style. "I don't think its safe for you to use those crutches, plus I like holding you like this." A comment that made both of them blush.

So what did you think? Again sorry about Sasuke's OOCness but it was needed for the rest of the story. And if you didn't catch it, the school's mascots are the tailed beast. I thought it was clever, hehe.

The next chapter is going to have a lot of NaruHina in it (YAY) so stay tune.