Michi-chan: Ah the long awaited chapter 18 is finally up we should celebrate.
Sakura: *Shouts* Party at the end of the chapter everybody.
Naruto: Are we going to have ramen?
Michi-chan: Yes Naruto there will be ramen.
Naruto: Alright.
Hinata: *Quickly writes on her notebook* Will there be cinnamon rolls.
Michi-chan: Yes, yes there will be cinnamon rolls.
Sasuke: Hm you're having tomatoes as well?
Michi-chan: Tomatoes…ew yuck I hate those no they won't be there.
Ino and Sasuke hang their head as a large grey cloud appeared over them and open up a waterfall of water on them. The observers looked on with something akin to wonder as the water continue to fall with no stopped foreseen in the near future.
Michi-chan: *Adjust collar on shirt…clears throat* Okay then well I don't own Naruto if I did then well it wouldn't be nearly as good as it would…oh and the ninjas certainly wouldn't shout out their attacks…before they attack. Now that the annoying little disclaimer is done with lets start the chapter.
Chapter 18 Naruto's side of the story
I watch as her eyes closed and she fell backwards. Quickly I reached out and grabbed her arm. A little too forcedly seeing as she ended up on me. I fell backwards because of that and. I ended up against Sasuke making him spill his drink. He got mad at me and almost punched me until he saw the person lying up against me dead to the world. A smirk appeared on his face.
"If you had let her fall" he started, "You would have actually had a girl fall for you."
I blushed getting his double meaning. I heard laughter to see the others looking at me with amuse looks on their faces. A groan escaped my mouth and I shifted so she was in a more comfortable position. They just laughed some more. Hanabi gave Hinata a long and hard stare. After a while she got up from the table and walked out of the lunch room. Konohamaru got up as well. He grabbed Udon hand and pulled him away. Udon on his way out shouted if Moegi wanted to go with him. She shook her head, smiled, and said that she was going to hang out with the girl.
"Naruto come on you're going to carry her to the nurses office for us." Sakura said. Although she sounded serious she had a smirk on her face as well.
I can't wait until those two get together. Then I could make fun of them.
I did as Sakura said and picked Hinata up. Ino squealed when I did so and said something about bridle style. The walk to the nurse's office wasn't a hard one. Hinata was very light. Shizune the nurse looked surprised and quickly hid something inside the desk. She giggled nervously. I rolled my eyes.
"There's no need to hide it Shizune-chan we all know you're hiding sake from Tsunade." Sakura said.
I went over to the bed and laid Hinata on it. Then I pulled the cover on her to keep her warm. When that was done Sakura and Ino practically forced all the guys out of the office and told us to go do something productive. Konohamaru along with Hanabi and Udon showed up. Hanabi had this hard to read mask on her face and Konohamaru was smiling as if he just one a million bucks.
"Will she be okay?"
It was quiet, so much so that I didn't hear it. Following the sound of the voice my eyes landed on Hanabi. Hanabi looked as though she wanted to keep her emotionless mask up but her eyes held worry in them. By the sound of the gasps I wasn't the only one who saw that. Hanabi turned to look away from us. Her face was once again set in a unreadable mask. Out of all the people here Hanabi was the only one who had bluntly refused to tell anyone her story. She had said that she would go along with everything else but she will not tell anyone her story. She said she didn't have time to trade stories with people then walk out of the room. While it do take time for people to come around and tell there story Hanabi had been in here for three years and not once did she give an inkling onto what happened to her. Though she does seem to be getting better - even with skipping the accepting part - this was the first time anyone was able to see that she could show emotion. Most just thought that since Hanabi could crush someone without remorse that she could kill someone without remorse as well.
"I mean a person just doesn't faint like that right?" It seems as though she was able to get her emotion under control again. I was unable to hear any worry in her voice and it came out louder than her last question.
"Yes Hanabi, she will be okay. It seems Naruto here entered her comfort zone and she fainted because of that." Neji, her cousin, said.
Hanabi nodded her head and shot a glance at the door. Her face scrunched up. A few seconds later it relaxed and she turned around walking away from us. We all shared at look with Konohamaru who just shrugged his shoulder but promised us he'd find out what was wrong with her.
"So what do you guys want to do now?" I questioned turning to look away from the hallway Hanabi and Konohamaru walked down. Only Udon was looking at me. It seems Sasuke and Neji stalked off somewhere. Giving Udon a long stare I suddenly grinned.
"Want to play Ping-Pong?" He grinned back when pushing up his glasses.
"A round of table tennis does sound nice." I rolled my eyes.
"You could have just said yes you know." I told him as we started walking. Udon shot me a smirk.
"I know." Once again I rolled my eyes. We have another Shino in the making. Ping-Pong was alright but I lost. My thoughts kept traveling back to Hinata and how pale she looked when she fainted. Was she alright? What happened to make her faint? Was she sick or did I do that to her like Sasuke hinted? With my thoughts stuck on her there was no way I could keep track of the little Ping-Pong ball when Udon threw it over to me. Udon himself was probably aware of where my thoughts lied because soon after my third lost game he dragged me outside.
There was some shouting and laughing going on when the girls ran out of the building. Following them was Hinata. She showed them something on her notepad and they all started laughing. I wanted to go over there and talk to her…them but Udon was already dragging me over to the guys. They were hanging around the playground that was there for the little kids. Sasuke was sitting on the monkey bars, Shikamaru was laying down in the tunnel slide probably asleep. Konohamaru was still gone somewhere with Hanabi. Neji was leaning up against a pole and Lee was talking animatedly next to him. Choji was sitting on those black things that surrounded the woodchucks. Kiba was sitting on a platform with his hood up.
"Hey guys." I shouted at them. They all gave me some form of acknowledgement but other than that they stayed quiet. I needed some way to engaged them in a conversation or things were going to stay this quiet. First target Neji.
"Hey Neji your Hanabi's cousin. You have any ideas why she acted the way she did?" Neji turned away from the sky and looked at me.
"You do not entertain that same belief as that other guy do you? I have no control over Hanabi quit the contrary actually she tells me what to do and if she doesn't tell me anything there is nothing I can do to make her speak for she leads and I have to follow as the fates dictated it."
"Still" Kiba started, "It is strange to see her speak with emotion."
Lee pumped his fist into the air and screamed, "Hanabi is just tapping into her inner youth."
"It could be that she knew Hinata from somewhere or Hinata reminds her of someone."
Everyone turned to Shikamaru and stared at him as if he had suddenly decided he wanted to be a ballerina and tore off his clothes to show he was in a pink tutu. Shikamaru stared back with half lidded eyes as if we woke him up from a nap…that was probably the case.
"It is unlikely that Hanabi has met Hinata from somewhere as she spends most if not all of her free time in the main house." Neji answered.
"Then it must be that Hinata reminds Hanabi of someone." Shikamaru spoke with conviction as if that was the answer and any other possibilities were dead wrong.
"I do not see someone who Hinata would remind Hanabi of that would make her show a trace of emotions after years of showing none." Neji responded.
Shikamaru let out a large yawn and shrugged his shoulders, "There might just be someone you never know with Hanabi. Either way I don't see why we have to discuss it I'm sure her doctors already know right now and they are working with her."
Neji took a couple of steps towards Shikamaru a glare in his face, "While it doesn't pertain to you I am her cousin and must know why she has changed."
"Yet you aid yourself that if she doesn't want to tell you than she doesn't have to tell you." Sasuke finally entered the conversation.
"Hn. She will tell me about the sudden change in her." Neji spoke.
I shook my head, "She'll do whatever she wants to and you know that Neji. Now how about we play a game of basketball, I want another win against you guys."
Kiba hopped off the platform, "That was just a fluke there's no way you can win against us again."
I smirked at him, "Talk is cheap Kiba. Why don't you put your money where your mouth is?" Kiba smirked as well, "The loser pays the winner twenty bucks."
"I'm game. Just don't start crying when you're out twenty." Kiba retorted.
"Don't worry I won't. I'll be too busy rubbing the money I won in your face."
"Go Sasuke-kun put it in the hole."
That was Sakura voice. I turned to see the girls standing there and one Hinata Hyuuga was among them. The uncontrollable urge to go over there to talk to her came over me but I quickly squashed it, partially because I was in a middle of a game and partially because the ball was speeding towards me. Sasuke glared at me when I caught it.
"Look alive Naruto. I'm not about to lose because you can't keep your eyes in your head and your mind on the game."
I shrugged and started dribbling the ball towards the hoop. Shikamaru was in position stopping Choji from getting anywhere near me while Sasuke did the same to bloke Neji. I picked up the pace but had to come to a stop when Kiba jumped in front of me. I fake a left and started to go right but he was matching with every step I took. He reached for the ball but I started dribbling it between my legs to keep it out of his reach. Kami, can't he quit already. I once again faked left and started to go right. He matched my pace and started reaching for the ball. Seeing an opening I bounced the ball off his head and jumped to catch it. While in the air I shot the ball and it swished in the net.
"Oh Hinata did you see that Naruto just bounced the ball off Kiba's head then jumped over him to make the shot."
I smirked as Michi's comment to Hinata about the trick I did. The game was over with. I won and smirked at Kiba. He glared and mouthed later to me. I shrugged and made my way over to Hinata. A large smile dominated my face. I pulled her into my arms. I could of held on her forever when I felt a hard smack on the back of my head.
"Naruto let go of her you idiot."
I did as the pinked haired girl ask, albeit slowly, and turned to glare at the owner of said pink hair. Sakura glared back as her eyes seemed to ignite on fire. Being the closet to her me and Hinata took a couple of steps back away from the fire eye wielding woman.
"Sakura calm down."
"You're scaring poor Hinata-chan."
Ino and TenTen shouted at her. The Sakura in front of me did a total one eighty. The fire in her eyes disappeared and her hair settled down into the nice hair style it was in before she got angry and it became electrically charge with angry. How girls do that I don't know. Sakura turned to Hinata and Hinata flinched. Sakura tensed a little in her back.
"Sorry for scaring you Hinata-chan." She said while taking a couple of steps forward.
Hinata bent down and picked up her notepad all along shaking as if she just came out of seeing a scary movie and started writing.
"It's alright I wasn't all that scared." She wrote still shaking. I smiled at how she tried to put on a tough front. In front of me Sakura silently squealed and pounced on Hinata.
"Ne Hinata chan is so cute." Sakura shouted then pulled away from her a bit, "It's alright for me to call you Hinata-chan right?"
Hinata smiled gratefully at Sakura and nodded her head. I scratched the side of my face guiltily knowing I was one of the people who never asked or was going to ask to call her Hinata-chan. Sakura went back to hugging her as the others around us started laughing.
"If you keep hugging her like that Sakura she's going to faint again." Ino spoke walking closer to us.
"Naw I think that only works if it's a member of the opposite sex." Sakura replied.
The others looked to be deep in thought; even Hinata seemed to thing over Sakura words. As they reflected on Sakura words a thought came to mind. A thought that the devil on my shoulder agreed with full heartedly. A thought that the angel on my shoulder protested against with all its' might. I smiled slyly and agreed with the devil. The angel sighed knowing that it lost…it always lose.
"Is that so Sakura-chan." I spoke
I walked over to her and bent down so that I was eye level to her. She started turning her head to avoid me but I placed my hand softly on her cheek to keep her in place. She started blushing and I couldn't help but grin; she looks so cute with a blush brightening her face. Her eyes widen and the blush grew. I grinned more and went closer to her, never taking my eyes away from hers. I could feel her breath on me and knew she could feel my breath on her but still I wasn't as close as I liked to be. But then I doubt I would ever get to be as close to her as I wanted to be. I stopped just inches away from her lips. This was as close as I could get but still not where I really wanted to be.
"Hinata-chan" I started slowly in a whisper pausing to watch as her eyes close, "Is so cute."
I wasn't disappointed when her body fell against mine. I smirked as she lay still in my arms. Last time I was too shocked to noticed but now I could feel how light she was and how comfortable I felt with her in it. Too deep in thought nothing else mattered. Nothing that is until…
"Ouch Sakura did you have to hit me that hard." I shouted at my pink haired friend. She glared at me the fire back in her eyes and her hair once again doing that freaky electrifying defying gravity thing.
"You made her faint again. I should have hit you harder than that." I stopped massaging my head and looked at her with a smirk on my face.
"Well at least I can say that I had someone fall for me right Sasuke?"
"Dobe." Sasuke spoke the same time Sakura fist came down upon my head…and equally or more harder than the first time.
"Baka shut up and take Hinata-chan to the nurse's office." Sakura shouted, "Honestly the things I have to put up with."
On the outside I quickly carried Hinata in the bridal style that Ino was referring to, towards the nurses' office with wide eyes fearing the wrath of Sakura. On the inside, however, I couldn't help but let the devil in me out. Together we smirked as a replay of Hinata's response ran though my head. No matter how many times Hinata fell because of me I can honestly say – not vocally – that because of her I myself have fallen. Looking down at the blue haired girl in my arms I smiled.
Yes I have something for the little Yuuhi in my arms.
Bam!
"Ouch Sakura did you really have to hit me this time!"
"Ah yeah I did seeing as your moving slower than that turtle over there."
Funny I thought I was already in the building. Oh look there's that turtle Sakura was talking about. Man is it moving fast. I want that one right there when we do our yearly turtle races. On second thought a large bird just swooped down and carried it off. Damn and I was the only one without a turtle to begin with. Now I got to keep looking for one. I then felt my impending doom behind me.
"Naruto!" Sakura growled out. I took off into a run working my legs double and triple time to get away from the scary pinked haired girl with the flying hair. Seriously how do girls do that? And what was I thinking about before I got hit? Hm it was probably ramen…mostly likely ramen.
*Party music playing at higher than it should be volume8
Ino: *Yelling* This is a really great party even though there's no tomatoes here.
Sakura: *Shouting* What?
Ino: *Screaming*: I said that even without tomatoes this party is still pretty good.
Sakura: *Yelling*What? What did you say?
Ino: *Looks at Sakura as if she grew another head* Sakura the music isn't really that loud why are we shouting?
Sakura: *Shouting* I can't hear you what did you say?
Ino sighs and leave Sakura to her own devices. Sakura smiles as she watch Ino leave.
Tenten: That's cold Sakura.
Sakura:* Smirks* That's what the little piglet get.
Tenten shakes her head: Alright readers more on the party next chapter. Have a good morning, evening, or night. Now a word from the author.
Michi-chan: *Ignores music in the background blasting away* Sorry for the short chapter but i think this was the best place to end it...and then the ending got away from me and it ended up like this. I think i was reading something funny at the time so i just had to add something weird in there...then again it's Naruto we're talking about. Chapter 19 is already started on and should be finished soon. Your soon or my soon is just a question we should all forget about. Oh and look Hanabi-chan showed some emotions the little hyuuga is getting better...or was she already better? But if she was then why haven't she shown that side before? And what does all these questions about Hanabi have to do with anything? You shall all see next chapter.