Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Cliche Guide to a Classic Romance ❯ Moonlit Walk Part 3 - Holding Hands ( Chapter 6 )

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Step 4- Moonlit Walk Part 3: Holding hands

It had only taken them few minutes to find each other with plenty of help from Akamaru’s nose and Hinata’s byakugan.

Sakura and Kiba had watched on the side lines as Naruto congratulated Hinata on her victory, a small blush making itself known on his own face. The shy girl rambled on trying to be modest while she twisted her hands together and blushed as well.

Shino looked over at Kiba who caught the look slung an arm around the Aburame, grinning in amusement. “The world’s officially coming to an end, Armageddon is here Shino” He laughed out making the other boy give him a questioning from underneath his glasses. This caused Kiba to laugh even more. “I’ll explain later.”
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The sun had disappeared and the group rejoiced for about an hour before it got a little too chilly out. This time it was Naruto Kiba and Shino who were thankful that they had not chosen to were cooler clothes.

Desert day’s were scorching. They all knew that but, The nights?

“It’s freezing out here.” Sakura said hugging herself as she shivered.

“Um Shino, Maybe we should . . . set up camp. It’s getting . . . it’s getting really could and it’s only going to get colder.” Hinata suggested hugging herself, shivering as well.

Shino stopped at hearing his teammates request and looked back at everyone, seeing them either worn out or freezing death, The bug user nodded. There wasn’t any point in moving if his team was going to pass out.

Everyone set up their things and settled down in their tents, Sakura and Hinata taking one tent, Kiba, Shino and Naruto taking the second.

“Good night Hinata!” Naruto shouted loudly before laying his head on his pillow.

“Naruto! Were not miles away you know, she can hear you just fine with your normal voice!” Sakura scolded the blonde from inside her and Hinata’s tent.

“Good night, Naruto.” Hinata added shyly before she laid down as well pulling the blanket up to her chin.

Kiba smirked at Shino who finally caught onto Kiba’s earlier statement about An Armageddon. “I see”

Kiba grinned and turned to Naruto who was laying there still awake. “What? No ‘good night Kiba or Shino’?” He teased as he plopped down onto his pillow.

“I never tell Sakura good night. She yells at me.”

Shino turned his back to the other two, pulled off his glasses and laid down. “I can see why.” He said more to himself then the other and Naruto glared at the back of his head.

Huffing the blonde turned over on his side and forced himself to ignore both Kiba and Shino as he attempted to fall asleep.
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Hinata looked over at the other female who slept soundly threw all the noise coming from the other tent, which mainly consisted of Naruto snoring and talking out random things in his sleep. Hinata rolled on her back and stared at the top of the tent.

She looked over to the other side of her where the boy’s tent was. The tent was so close could hear every movement, every snore, she could even hear they’re shallow breathing if she listened hard enough. Every time Naruto snored too loud, Kiba would wake up and hit him telling him to shut up.

“Dammit Naruto, you snore like that one more time I’m going to suffocate you!” Kiba hissed trying not to wake anyone else up.

Naruto grumbled, some insult that wasn’t heard clearly due to his low half asleep mumbles, before he turned over and, slowly the snoring started up again. However, this time it was more soft and calming then before.

Hinata giggled imagining the scene the brunette boy practically growling at the blonde haired boy who completely ignored him and turned over to get back to his dream.

Smiling tiredly the girl turned over again, this time facing the other tent closing her eyes and falling asleep to the gentle snoring.

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It was completely dark when she awoke to the deafening silence. She yawned and sat up, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

It was way too quiet.

She looked over at Sakura who was still sound asleep before she looked over at the other side where the other tent was located. All she heard was steady breathing and the rustle of someone’s blanket as they turned over. Something was missing.

It took her a few minutes to figure out what it was. The light snoring and sleeping murmurs where missing. Naruto wasn’t there. Where would he go, though?

Hinata sat up fully, trying to listen closely to see if maybe she could hear the others foot steps or something that would tell her that he was nearby. Maybe he just had to use the bathroom but nothing ever came. So she waited a while and, still nothing.

Hinata tossed the blankets of her and stood up a little hunched over since the tent wasn’t all that tall. She slowly unzipped the front of the tent being sure not to wake up Sakura, before she stepped out silently and snuck past the tents having to shush Akamaru who’s head peeked out of the tent to see what was going on.

The girl search the area for the blond boy, and after getting lost four times and two encounters with the desert wild life she found the bond relaxing by an oasis that wasn’t too far away from the camp.

The water hole was big and had a few desert plants around it, and a couple wild animals were drinking from it, but they didn’t seem to be bothering Naruto in the slightest and in return he wasn’t bothering them.

“Naruto?”

Naruto sat up quickly hearing the timid question of his name. He snapped his head toward the girl and gave a nervous grin. “Hey Hinata, I thought everyone was asleep.”

Hinata blinked at the boy before shyly making her way over to him. “What are . . . Um that is, Why are you so far away from camp, Naruto?”

Naruto let himself fall back on the sand looking up at the half-formed moon. “I woke up and couldn’t get back to sleep I guess. “ He shrugged and glanced over at the pale eyed girl. “I could ask you the same thing, though, huh?”

Hinata nodded and sat down next to him, blushing. “I well . . . I woke up and well you weren’t there. I thought that maybe you went to the bathroom but you didn’t come back for a while. So I thought I should come look for you.”

Naruto kept looking at the girl. How did she know he was gone in the first place? Did he make that much noise when he left? No she said woke up after he left. “Hinata? How did you know I left?”

Hinata looked surprised at the question and her blush increased till she hit a dangerous shade of red, which made the blond sit up quickly and look at her.

He sat there wondering why she looked embarrassed and could only think of one question to ask. “Were you spying on us?!” He asked a little bit more accusing then he meant to and watched as the girl blanched.

“N-no! I-I wasn’t . . . I wouldn’t!” she said defensively putting her hand in front of her like it would help. She bit the inside of her lip trying to calm her self down and then returned to blushing dangerously again.

This left the blond really confused and a bit afraid that the girl would pass out from all the blood rushing into her head.

Watching her wring her hands together, he sat there trying to read what the girl was up to. He tried to relax himself, forcing himself to remember the girl was not planning his horrible deranged death. He heard Hinata gulp loudly before speaking.

“Well you see you . . . You snore and well. . .you were snoring pretty softly and I um . . . ” The girl paused gulping again and appeared to be getting really fidgety. “Well I fell asleep . . . and when I woke up I couldn’t hear it anymore, so. . . . ”

Wait what the hell was she talking about? Snoring or Sleeping? ‘Holy crap, this is confusing!’

“Um Naruto are you ok?” Hinata asked worriedly, seeing Naruto spacing out.

Naruto nodded his head not wanting to upset the Hyuuga girl any further, mainly because if she blushed any harder she would most definitely pass out. “Yeah I’m fine I was just . . . Um thinking about something Sakura said earlier!”

Hinata brought her knees to her chest placing her arm on top of them and resting her head on her arms. “. . . Oh . . . what did she say?” She asked curiously.

Naruto gave Hinata a grin and chuckled. “Oh nothing really just the usual. ‘Naruto, blah blah, or I’ll kill you.” Naruto laughed, leaving out certain parts of that particular conversation.


Hinata looked away from the blonde and back at the oasis, the animals having left a while ago. She could tell something was on his mind, Just by the way talked. It was off, a little calmer then usual. His laugh was a little forced too.

She heard movement of sandals shifting the sand around and looked of to see Naruto standing with his hand extended out waiting for her to take it. “Come on, Let’s go explore!” He exclaimed childishly grabbing her hand and basically yanking Hinata to her feet.

Hinata giggled as the blonde drug her through the desert Pointing at practically everything making some comment about everything he saw.

Soon the girl had found herself standing behind him while he knelt down to poke at whatever unlucky creature had walked in his path. She smiled down looking at the poor thing over Naruto’s shoulder, who was pulling at its tail trying to figure out what it was. Then, Naruto suddenly stopped.

He turned his head to look at her, seeing her smile he smiled to and stood up. “Um Hinata?” He started cautiously, pulling turning his head away from her braking the little eye contact they had.

She slightly titled her head, patiently waiting for the blond to finish.

“Well you see. When uh two weeks ago when we had lunch . . . I was thinking about it a lot and . . . ” Naruto tried to keep himself from getting too nervous but, how could he not be? He was still doubting what Sakura had told him, after all no one else ever seemed interested in him, So why would a girl of higher status be interested in him. Besides How the hell did you ask questions like these anyway!

“. . .Na-?”

“Well I just wanted . . . you to know that I enjoyed your company too!” He said quickly before turning around and giving a forced laugh. Secretly hitting his head against the inner walls of his head. Maybe Kiba was right. Maybe he was simple.

“. . .Oh . . . I’m glad.” She stated quietly her face lighting up at the somewhat compliment.

He turned back to face her once again. His mouth opened and closed at least seven times before he decided on what to say “We should get back to camp before the others notice where gone, they’ll probably flip out or something.” He said finally.

Hinata Nodded. “Yes . . . They’d be worried. We’ve been gone for nearly two hours I think.”


Naruto blinked in surprise. Had they really been gone that long, It didn’t feel like it. Then again he wasn’t really paying attention to time. He was more focused on his surroundings and listening to the laughter of the shy girl. She seemed to be having fun following him around and watching him rant about everything he saw.


Come to think of it she had even seemed worried when she found him, and when they met back up after the attack. She was worried then to even though she was in worse condition. Maybe Sakura and Kiba were right about the girl liking him.

The blond nervously stepped closer to the girl and reached out for the girls hand apprehensively, fearing whatever negative reaction she might have. All the insults he ever had directed at him rushed threw his head and he almost backed down. He had held her hand before and she never said anything so why was it so different now?

Mentally yelling at him self for being a coward he quickly threw his hand out leaving no time to back down and grabbed a hold of her hand. There was a long pause as the blonde waited for the girl to pull her hand away from him and yell at him for it, but nothing ever came. He looked up at the girl slowly.

She was redder then he had ever seen her, she looked completely shocked, but she made no move to take her hand back.

Hinata didn’t know what was more confusing, the dramatic hesitation before he grabbed her hand or the determined look on his face when his hand shot out and grabbed onto hers tightly. It made her feel like blushing and she knew for a fact that she was. It felling that she knew all too well, but this time her face felt hotter then it ever had before. She couldn’t help but grip onto the blond hand.

Naruto smiled feeling relieved. He wasn’t particularly smart in this area, but he was almost positive that her response was a good one. “Come on Hinata, we should get back before the sun comes up!”

“R-Right.” was here meek reply as Naruto gently pulled her in a random direction.

“Uh, Hey Hinata?” Naruto asked as he stopped walking, looking around confused. “Which ways camp?” He asked looking down at her giving her a guilty look while using his free hand to scratch his head.

The girl was silent before she giggled and pulled him in the right direction never bothering to pull her hand away from his as they walked back to camp enjoying the landscape as the moon lit up the sandy terrain.