Research, research, and more research. Naruto thought, flipping aimlessly through the text before him. I've done nothing but study for the past month. Slamming the book shut, a gruff noise came from the pink-haired girl beside him.
"Sorry," Naruto mumbles, "Sakura I'm bored, we've been nowhere but this library, and with Kakashi-sensei and reading these damn books for over a month." Sighing, he lays his head down on the table.
"Well," Sakura pauses, placing her finger, marking her spot in the medical text before her "you have a lot to catch up on, with leaving for those years to train and then the war you've fallen behind." Smiling up at him, he chuckles recognizing her words.
"I slacked off through school and still made it, I don't see why this can't be the same." Naruto tilts his chair back, resting his feet across the table.
"Being Hokage is a little different, dummy, you have to do more than just punch people."
"Aaahh come on Sakura, ya know, is that all I'm good at." Naruto turns, his sentences trailing at the sight of who's walking towards their table.
Hinata. Naruto feels his mouth go dry, he shakes his head. It's just Hinata.
"Come to join our party?" Sakura questions, motioning to the growing stack of books before them.
"Oh, no." Hinata mumbles, glancing at the pair and then back at the stacks.
"Why, we're having a good time." Naruto laughs. "Sakura here is obsessed with some new medical book, but not enough to not take a break and insult my intelligence, ya know." He smiles up at her, his grin widening as her cheeks turn pink.
He's sweet, as always...I mean I guess I could stay. I do just need to read the book, but I'm not sure how much I'd remember with him here. Hinata turns, running her finger along the spines of the books on the shelf.
"I would, but I need to bring this book back to Kiba and Shino. We have a mission tomorrow regarding some ancient text."
"Really!" Naruto exclaims, his tone jealous. "I'd kill for a mission." Sighing, Naruto looks up, noticing how Hinata's shirt had raised, exposing a strip of pale skin and the curve of her hip.
His eyes trail down her back, across the exposed skin before landing on her ass. Naruto tilts his head to the side, watching the way Hinata stretched onto her tiptoes to reach the book on the shelf above her head. I bet her skin is soft, it looks like it would be soft. Naruto bites his bottom lip. Her hip would fit in my hand I bet…like her shoulder did at the festival. A small cough interrupted his thoughts, looking up to see Sakura giving him a pointed smirk just as Hinata turns around.
"I better get this to Kiba, he's a slow reader!" Hinata smiles, her eyes meeting Narutos. "Maybe next time?" She questions.
"Yeah, next time." Naruto mummers, his eyes trailing down her legs as she leaves, the silences broken by Sakura's stifled laughs.
"Oh, shut up."
I wanted something to show Naruto developing feelings and we all know where those normally start for a teenage boy.