Legend:
Italic-Letter/P.O.V
Bold-Date of Letter Entry/Future World
"•"-Detail in the Letter
"∆"-Important Detail in the Letter
After we graduated from highschool, which was 8 years ago, the five of us met up again to dig up our time capsule.
"Ah it is here!" Ino whooped, her eyes twinkling in excitement. "Let's see, this is mine, Sakura's, Kiba's, Sasuke's and Hinata's." with each name, she handed each envelope to the person called.
We wrote letters to our selves 10 years in the future and buried them near the lone tree behind the main building.
Hinata opened her envelope and her eyes scanned through the letter she wrote 10 years in the past. The letter was yellow-ish due to it being kept under the ground for 10 years.
To my future self,
How are you? What have you done? My dream is that when I'm 25, I'll be married to a wonderful guy and have a baby. I also want to work in a daycare center. How did I do?
Oh...so this is what I wrote. I hadn't remember a single thing I wrote. When I read it, it all came back to me.
"That's right, I wanted to work in a daycare." Hinata smiled, her eyes twinkling in nostalgia.
"Let me see!" Ino snatched Hinata's letter from her and cackled at what the lavender haired girl wrote. "The "'married' and 'a baby' is right on. But not the 'wonderful guy' part."
"Excuse you! I am wonderful!" Kiba humphed and as usual, his favorite way of showing his anger, ran his hand down Ino's face.
"Stop that." Hinata sighed, splitting the bickering two apart from each other. "What did you write, honey?"
"To be a famous soccer player and married to an actress." Kiba responsed with a grin, his behavior changing completely. "Everybody else?"
"Marry Sasuke-kun and live happily ever after." Sakura proudly exhibited her letter to everyone with a peace sign made by her hand. "It all became true."
"Mine's become a super famous model." Ino smiled smugly and flipped her long ponytailed hair to the side. "Not yet famous but will be soon."
"Mine's become a basketball player, famous or not or become a basetball coach." Sasuke gazed blankly at his letter. "I only became a coach."
"Alriight." Kiba stretched his arms out wide. "What else is inside this empty time capsule? A group picture of us and Naruto's letter as well as a strange girl's picture."
"That's me! The future worldwide model star you're insulting!" Ino yelled in anger. "Anyways let's read Naruto's letter! I bet he won't get mad if we read it."
"Who else will? We'll give it to him later." Kiba opened the envelope and pulled out a yellow-ish paper out from the soiled envelope. "With a good voice-" Kiba cleared his throat. "-to the people in the future, are you well?"
All went silent at this and continue to listen to Kiba who was done clearing his throat and ready to read the letter in a humourless manner.
"To Kiba, you were so tall and good at soccer. I admired you." Kiba read out, the letter gripped securely by his firm hands.
"You're making that up! Stop it!" Ino walloped Kiba's back repeatedly with a boisterous laughter.
"No I am not!" Kiba said with an earnest voice, inching away from her to dodge another wallop from the energetic blonde. "Look!" Kiba demonstrated the letter in front of Ino's face.
"It is..." Ino mumbled in disbelief, her eyes wide in shock.
I was pretty happy when you approached me on the first day of school, offering to walk home with you guys. I was happy I accepted the offer because I met you guys. I knew I should have joined soccer club.
To Sakura, you're always scary when you get angry but it's always for Hinata and Ino, right? There was one time when you got super angry for Hinata and I thought that was pretty cool. Your diner was the best! Thank you for you and your parents for treating me like a son and a brother.
To Sasuke, you always looked serious but the actual truth was that you are really full of humour. During breaks you always teach me the 'Laughing Rules'-"what the?!"
"He always asked me to teach it to him."
-but I didn't really get it-
"He didn't?"
-though it always made me laugh no matter how many times I hear it. I also love the place where we always hangout-
"Where is that?! Why did you take Naruto with you there-wherever it was-when you didn't take me?!" Sakura clutched Sasuke's collar and jounced him.
"I-It was the ramen place near the m-mall!" Sasuke stuttered in horror and braced himself for the upcoming punch which never arrived. "Huh-? Wha?"
-it has the best ramen and I also love Teuchi and Ayame! They're the best diner owners like the Harunos! Say hi to them for me when you next come there!
To Ino, you were always so happy and bright. When I'm depressed, I always picture you joking and I will always feel better. And when you always asked me which is better for you, it all fits you perfectly. Don't you agree with me superstar model?
To Hinata, you were so modest and always thought of others before yourself. When everybody was happy, you looked the happiest. The cookies you girls made, yours was the best. After that day, I loved your cooking.
I knew that 10 years in the future, you all will still be together, laughing happily. I'm sorry if I'm not there with you guys anymore but do know this, I enjoyed and cherished every moment I had with you guys. I just had to follow mom and repent for my sins so I went to the other side early.
Love, Uzumaki Naruto.
"That's all?" Sasuke spoke, which was rare. "Are you sure? What about his predictions for his self?"
"Why...?" Sakura dug her nails deep to her palm. "We...we said it will be our own dreams. Why did he create a letter for each of us?!"
Silence met Sakura's outburst as each one of them closed their eyes and let their tears fall to the dry ground.
The winter the day Naruto died we kept asing "Why?" repeatedly.
"He planned it. He wants to die in order to rest peacefully. He knew that he wouldn't have a future." Sasuke wiped his tears away with the use of his arm.
"No...I refuse to believe it! It was an accident!" Kiba choked hard between his sobs. "RIGHT NARUTO?! IT WAS AN ACCIDENT RIGHT!" Kiba roared to the blue sky.
To 16 year old self,
Trust me. Naruto will be saved. Just watch him closey and don't let him be by himself. His wishes for our futures turned out different. We don't smile and laugh together anymore. So, we decided to celebrate Naruto's birthday that we couldn't. This time, WE WILL SAVE NARUTO.
May 1
•After a week, Naruto quits soccer club. Make sure he rejoins the club.
∆Even if he's being unreasonable, make him join. I'm sure he wants to.
"Good morning!" Kiba greeted the class after he opened the door with Naruto under his arms.
'He'll join the club! I'll make sure of it!' Hinata nodded her head with a half fist pump while looking at Naruto, determination visible in her lavender eyes.
"Listen guys!" Kiba announced happily. "Naruto joined the soccer club as a permanent member! Do you guys know how happy I am?!"
"That's good!" Hinata smiled happily as Kiba raised his hand for a high-five which Hinata gave. 'Wait...what?"
"Really? Not a temporary member anymore?" Sakura looked up from her phone and looked at the blonde.
"Well I planned to do it for a week only but Kiba kept asking and it was too annoying so..." Naruto giggled while rubbing the back of his neck.
"I know, annoying guys are awful." Ino nodded her head in understanding as Kiba ran his hand down Ino's face as usual.
'The future chaged already?' Hinata blinked her eyes, still not regirstering what happened. 'All inside of the letter happened and it wasn't wrong, I think...'
Naruto sat down beside Hinata and looked at the bewildered woman. "Tomorrow there's morning practice and um...I'm counting on you to wake me up."
Hinata turned her head to look at Naruto with wide eyes. "Y-Yes! Definitely!" Hinata giggled with a cute blush dusting her cheeks.
'I was really shocked. The future changed already. Does that mean...Naruto-kun is safe?' Hinata smiled at the thought but immediately dismissed it. 'No, the letter's still here so...'
A textbook met Hinata's head as the girl winced in surprise. She looked up and saw Naruto grinning at her.
"Are you thinking about something?"
Hinata jumped backwards and blinked her lavender eyes. "Hm? Ah, y-yeah. I am thinking about something..."
"Well, if you need an ear you know who to call...oh, and look forward or you might bump into something." Naruto adviced with a wicked grin. Unknowingly, he bumped into someone and he immediately faced front, his back facing Hinata, and bowed his head.
Hinata giggled at this as what he said earlier rang in her ears. He told her to be careful not to bump into anyone or anything but he himself bump into someone. That's pretty ironic.
"Ah, hey." a pretty girl with long silver hime hair and same lavender eyes as Hinata, smiled prettily at Naruto. "It's okay Naruto."
"Uh, hello..." Naruto smiled nervously, rubbing the back of his head. "Nice to see you here."
The girl continue to smile prettily, "Hey, I'm sorry but I must keep going. See you later!" and ran ahead, waving her hand in goodbye.
"Do you know her Hinata?" Naruto asked when the girl was out of ear shot. "I mean, she was always at the soccer club watching our practices."
"O-Oh...she's Shion-san...she's pretty popular due to her looks as you can see." Hinata giggled nervously. 'Shion-san seems like she's interested in Naruto-kun...she even calls him without horonifics.'
May 2
•Before holidays, we had a half-day
•During break before dismissal, Shion-san confessed to Naruto
•They started going out after that
Hinata sadly looked at the letter, slightly crumpling the edge. Her eyes dropped at the last detail. Before she could even have any more depression, she remembered about waking up Naruto and immediately dialled his number.
After he picked the call up, Hinata swallowed down her nervousness. "H-Hello? Naruto-kun i-it's time to wake up!"
No answer was heard.
"Naruto-kun?"
"...Morning..." Naruto answered over the line groggily. "Hey...thanks for waking me up. Um, if you can come to school...early...can you watch the soccer club's morning practice?"
Hinata blushed at the offer. She shyly nodded her head but realized that they were talking on their phones so she accepted the offer shyly and instinctly told him that she nodded her head, not realizing that they were talking on phones.
"Haha, you're really stupid...I look forward in seeing you at the benches..."
After their gym class, with the remaining time, it became a play/free time. Hinata volunteered in carrying the balls back to the faculty room as the others continued to play. She crouched down and carried the box full of balls. As she was walking down the corridor, she was stopped by a figure next to her.
"Is it heavy?"
Hinata looked up and saw it was Sasuke. "Oh, Sasuke-kun." Sasuke stretched out his arms wide, asking for the box of balls. Hinata hesitatingly placed it over his arms.
"Why? Are you perhaps expecting thst I was Naruto?" Sasuke smirked as the two continue to walk down the corridor. "I'm sorry that I'm not Naruto."
"N-No! I-I was actually relieved that you came to h-help me." Hinata stuttered, blushing a dark shade of red. Hinata sensed Sasuke preparing for a new tease but stopped in doing so.
"Guy-sensei is looking for you Sasuke."
The two raven haired students looked back and saw Naruto smiling at them with a hand placed on his side. Sasuke humphed and gave the box to Hinata before taking off towards the gym again.
"Give it to me Hinata." Naruto asked, more like, demanded. "There we go." Naruto adjusted his arms under the box to hold it more securely and walked beside Hinata.
"S-So um, why was Sasuke-kun called for?" Hinata asked Naruto, hoping to break the awkward, deafening silence between them.
"Ah that, I lied." Naruto straightforwardly said. "I just want him to go back to the gym."
"W-Why?" Hinata blushed at his answer earlier and was currently looking down shyly. "Why did you lie to your bestfriend?"
"I don't know why, but when I see him with you...or anyone for that matter, I just feel annoyed." Naruto answered, not realizing what he just honestly blurted out.
Hinata blushed, ten shades darker than red. 'Ah, I remembered the letter suddenly.' Hinata frowned, her happiness erased from her heart and instead was replaced by sadness. 'Will they actually go out...? Shion-san and Naruto-kun...?'
"Say Hinata..." Naruto trailed off and started walking ahead of Hinata. "Are you interested in someone?"
"H-Huh?!" Hinata's skin jumped at his sudden question. "None...how about you?" Hinata leaned forward, hoping to see even a bit of Naruto's reaction. "Is there someone you're interested in? Like...Shion-san, for example."
"Hm..." Naruto pondered while looking up. "I like her face I guess...but overall, I'm not interested in her."
"Ah...is that true?" Hinata giggled nervously. 'Now I really want a plastic surgery!'
Afer the two arrived at the faculty and returned the box of balls, the bell rang and they went to the classroom for the last period, not really a period but the break before their half-day dismissal.
They arrived at their classroom which was rowdy even with only few students due to the others still playing since there was nothing to do before dismissal. The two noticed that their friends who was just at the gym a while ago was suddenly in the classroom.
"Ah, Naruto!" Kiba grinned, ushering for the blonde to come closer. "Buy us some drinks!"
"Mine's colaaa!" answered Sasuke nonchalantly, busy in playing some games on his cellphone.
"Huh?! Wait! I didn't even agree!" Naruto spoke fast, hoping for them to stop giving their orders. "I won't buy you guys drinks!"
"Milk tea for me!" Sakura waved her hand from the rail of the window, sitting beside the curtain.
"Ugh, whatever, you guys are unstoppable. I'll just write it down sheesh." Naruto grabbed the nearest notepad/paper and ballpen he could see and wrote their orders down.
"Mine's green tea. It helps for my diet." Ino placed her arm on Naruto's shoulder. "Forget their orders but not mine okay, pretty boy?" Ino teasingly slided her finger down Naruto's chin to his collarbone before sitting down and reading a fashion magazine.
"Coffee milk for me." Kiba laughed at Naruto jotting down their orders. "I'm sure you won't forget a single order that way. You're actually pretty reliable."
Naruto didn't look up and ignored Kiba's comment. "Hinata, you?" Naruto slightly glanced at the now sitted shy girl beside him. "What do you want?"
"Erm...I'm fine..." Hinata smiled shyly and tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. "Thank you for asking."
"Eeeh. You're not thirsty after gym? That's a lie." Naruto humphed and gazed intensely at Hinata. "Come on, don't you tell me anything's fine either or I'll give you a coffee milk with red beans in it."
"Uh, such drink exists?" Hinata chuckled at that. "That's actually disgusting now that I imagined it..."
"You two are so cute together that it's giving me diabetes." Sasuke sighed bitterly. "Get a room please. Naruto you're such a caring boyfriend."
"Whatever!" Naruto straightened his back and before exiting said, "I'll get you orange juice Hinata and I'll kill you when I get back Sasuke!"
"O-Okay! Thank you very much!" Hinata replied loudly, cupping her hands over her mouth for the furthering Naruto to hear it.
After a few minutes, the 4 went towards the window and all sat at the rail like Sakura watching Naruto adorably trying hard to not let a single drink fall from his arms. Kiba opened the window and shouted,
"You okay with carrying all of that?!" Kiba teased the poor blonde and laughed at Naruto's misery.
"Nah! I dropped the coke and coffee milk!" Naruto looked up with an agitating smile.
"Hey!" Kiba and Sasuke jinxed in anger.
Naruto laughed and was supposed to continue running back to the classroom when he was stopped by a girl.
"Ah, he got caught." Sakura said with a chuckle. "He's getting popular lately, huh? Making Shion, the most popular girl of our batch confess to him."
"Ah she's really confessing? I can't see well due to the tree covering their heads." Sasuke squinted his eyes. "I don't even know what's so beautiful in this 'Shion' girl."
"Yeah, because all you can see in your eyes is Sakura." Ino rolled her eyes at Sasuke's nonchalant nod and Sakura's blush.
Hinata continue to watch the scene with a heavy heart. 'I am not happy at all...I wonder why? I should be happy for Naruto-kun.'
Hinata strangely dozed off for the few minutes that Shion 'confessed' to Naruto and when she came back to her senses, Naruto was already entering the room with a poker face.
Kiba and Ino immediately stood up from the rail and rushed to him slapping his back and congratulating him.
"Huh? What? What's happening? Why are you congratulating me? We're not even dating yet. Coffee milk for you, green tea for you. Sasuke here's your spilled coke and Sakura's milk tea. Hinata, your orange juice." Naruto handed the drinks to the names he called.
"Um...thank you." Hinata smiled and accepted the juice. "Here's my payment for the orange juice." Hinata stretched out her closed fist forward, towards Naruto.
Naruto pushed it back and pierced the straw in his drink and sipped it. He seperated his lips from the straw and looked at the girl. "It's on me since you always make me lunch."
The bell rang and the few students that were inside the room buzzed in confusion as their homeroom teacher entered the room and greted the class which they did the same.
"Don't worry y'all. You'll still be having your half-day dismissal. I'm just making some announcements. It's better that you guys write it down." Kakashi cleared his throat and looked at the paper in his hand, walked forward and wrote it down on the board.
"Ah, I forgot my case." Naruto whispered lowly but Hinata heard it. "Ugh, Sabaku-san you have a pencil and eraser?"
"I do, but I don't have any extras." the red haired answered, looking up to the board and down to his notebook, copying down what Kakashi was writing.
"Naruto-kun, I have some extra pencil and eraser." Hinata stretched out her palm with a mechanical pencil and a small eraser towards Naruto.
Naruto took it with a grin and lip-mouthed the words "I'll return it to you after this." to which Hinata smiled shyly at.
•I lent Naruto my pencil and eraser.
∆After Naruto returned those, look at the eraser wrapper and be honest with your feelings.
After the announces were made, the dismissal bell rang and all students whooped in joy. Naruto returned Hinata's things with a grin.
"Let's go Naruto!" Kiba swung his arm over the blonde's shoulder. "We'll go practice! You, Sasuke? Wanna watch?"
"Nah. My brother gave me some errands to run." Sasuke raised his arm in goodbye without looking back at them and exited the room.
"Hinata we have cleaning duty!" Sakura hugged Hinata's waist. "Ino and I got the entance way while you got the locker area."
"Ah, really?" Hinata stood up from her seat and hid the eraser in her pencil case, not noticing Naruto's frown as she did that.
Hinata arrived at the entrance of Class 2-6 room and catched her breath. She opened the door and took her eraser, pulling a piece of paper from her eraser wrapper.
Coke
Milk tea
Green tea
Coffee milk
Orange juice
Mango juice
'Huh? Isn't this the list of the drinks earlier?' Hinata sweatdropped. 'So there wasn't anything important in here after all.'
Hinata was supposed to hide her eraser again and fix her things when she felt a piece of paper behind the list. She pulled it and placed it on top of the list for her to read.
You think it's okay for me to go out with Shion?
Hinata's heart dropped at this and looked around the room frantically and saw Naruto's bag on top of his desk and felt relieved. She ripped a piece of paper from her notebook and wrote something on it, immediately running outside in a hurry.
She arrived in front of Naruto's shoe locker and placed the piece of paper inside on top of his shoes which Hinata noticed was his indoor ones. That means that he's outside right now.
Hinata rushed back to the room soaked in her own sweat and panting hard. She opened the door and was surprised to see Sakura staring out the window, silently squealing.
"Sakura? When did you came back? Where's Ino?"
Sakura turned her head, "That bitch ditched me. Anyways, never mind that look at this!" ushering her hand as Hinata came closer and looked out the window as well. "They've been talking for a while now."
After a while, Shion faced back and run away. Looking closer, she was smiling happily with a blush. Sakura opened the window and took a deep breath before shouting,
"Naruto! What did you say?!"
Naruto looked up at them and placed his arms over his head making a circle, which means that he and Shion are now officially dating.
Sakura squealed and congratulated Naruto. Hinata frowned and faced back, running outside of the room. She ignored Sakura's surprised and worried calls for her. Hinata continued running and accidentally bumped into someone.
"S-Sorry!" Hinata apologized, bowing her head. Before she could run again, this person gripped her wrist which refrained her from escaping.
"What happened? Obviously, you're not okay." this person said, which was Kiba's worried voice. "I saw earlier that Naruto agreed to date Shion as I was passing by. You...like him, right?"
Hinata looked up at Kiba with teary eyes and rushed forward, hugging the bigger man sadly and crying. The boy returned the hug and ran his hand on the girl's back up and down in a comforting manner.
Naruto returned inside the main building and went to his shoe locker. Noticing a folded piece of paper, he took it and read it. With big letters, the word "No" was written.
Wednesday, May 2
Before holidays, Shion confessed to Naruto and they started dating afterwards. I walked home alone, declining our maid's offer for dinner as soon as I got home and walked up straight to my bedroom. I locked my door and sat on my bed. I took out a beverage I bought on the way home and sipped it until it was empty, not noticing my tears trailing down my cheeks. The taste was sweet-sour, a sad and painful taste.
Woah! Can you guys believe this?! This chapter is 3k+ words! OMFG, I'm so happy! I hope you enjoyed this chapter and as usual, before I posted chapter 3, I already finished this. And as you noticed, I always update on Saturdays (GMT+8) except when I get sick though or it's my exam week.
Preview:
"Why didn't you wake me up today?"
"Hinata! I want to talk to you!"
"You jerk!"
"Don't run away Hinata."
"You're right Sasuke-kun, thank you."
"You'll be doing what?!"
"You told me not to and I...have someone I notice more than her."