Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Cliche Guide to a Classic Romance ❯ Dinner with Family Pt 2: What He's Like ( Chapter 11 )
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By: IdleFlame 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 04.29.2008 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 432 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 04.29.2008 | Pages: 3 | Words: 3.5K | Visits: 432 | Status: Work In Progress
step 8 part 2: What He's like
The Hyuuga house was mostly packed with women who were either overly dressed with expensive Kimono’s and dress and where covered head to toe in jewelry. Some women had put aside being over dressed and decided to be slightly underdressed with slitted, low-cut dresses and short skirts. Some of the more decent women wore normal outfits with simple and less blinding jewelry.
The men were a whole different story. Being less inclined to show off their wealth by wearing expensive treasure that weighed twenty pounds stuck with wearing business like suites or like the head of the Hyuuga family, wore more traditional clothes and talked about their financial well being.
Naruto stood fro once quietly Next to Hinata, who was talking to a girl who was only slightly older then her. The girl obviously belonged to one of the more extravagant couple at the party. How could one tell? Well the abnormally large diamonds around her neck for one. Then her earing that looked like they would tear her ears if she moved too much. Here purple dress was low cut and had diamonds on the edges, clearly to gain attention.
“So Hinata I take it this is your date? Not much to look at his he?” she said observing the blonde. “Why would you even ask him out?”
“H-He’s a gre-”
The older girl cut Hinata off with an arrogant laugh and waved a hand in a dismissing the her response. “Forget it sweety, why don’t you come with me and get acquainted with the rest of us, I’m sure your . . . boyfriend wouldn’t mind. Would you boy?”
Naruto wanted desperately to tell the girl off but kept his mouth shut and glared at her instead. She didn’t have any rights to address him the way she did. Besides the girl was obviously enjoyed making Hinata blush, For a completely different reason then his own, sure but that was still something only he could do.
She whispered a couple of words about things that the blonde probably wouldn’t have understood any way and took Hinata’s hand and pulled her away from him. He watched slightly dumbfounded as Hinata looked back once gave him a timid little smile of comfort before being dragged into the main room.
Sighing he looked around at all the people in the room and suddenly remembered why he was sticking so close to Hinata. There were so many people and the rooms that weren’t locked were nearly packed parents and their kids.
The adults were talking about politics and money or their family’s future and the teenagers were talking about what family they wanted to marry into. The only people in the whole place that seemed normal were the children who were running threw crowed room in some form of tag.
It was through his clever observations of what was normal and what was not normal that the blonde who was famous for his pranks and rash behavior that Naruto had found himself entertaining the youngest crowd of the party.
The children seemed to take a liking to Naruto and listened in awe at the stories he told from his mission. He told them of missions from when he was still a genin all the way till his recent one to Sand, leaving out a few details of course. He even told them about his days in the academy when he would skip class and prank innocent villagers. Though after he told them he had a feeling he would someday regret.
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Hinata peeked out the doorway to try and find Naruto. The girl that had dragged her away from him was starting to make her less and less willing to talk to her. She had know the girl from child hood. The girl’s name was, Minna. Although Hinata couldn’t say she hated the girl, she wasn’t too fond of her. Every time they were together she would always talk down to her and insult her in someway, wether it be her, herself, her clothes, her way of talking or her family. This time she chose not to only target her but Naruto too.
All the girls had been talking about was him. So far she had gone over his ‘shabby’ appearance, his ‘horrible personality and his ‘nonexistent’ manners. Then, when she found out that Naruto wasn’t part of any well known family, she had put him down completely telling Hinata that she had been wasting her time with that ‘common trash’ and how should go for someone who had something to offer.
“Well, I’ll let you think about your situation for a while, I should be with my date, Did I tell you he’s an Anbu member?” The girl whispered in a hushed tone making sure no one else could hear smiling happily. “We planned to get married in just a few months.”
“Th-that’s wonderful, Minna. I’m . . . happy for you.” The Hyuuga heiress said politely, not bothering to tell the girl that she knew she was lying.
“When Do You and that boy plan on marrying?”
Hinata felt her face, for the first time in a good few hours, heat up. “Oh! Well . . . we just started dating recently . . . s-so . . . ”
“Oh, I see. Do you think it will last?” Minna watched as the girl looked at her questioningly. “I’m just asking, but I mean with your lack of self confidence and nervous stuttering . . . Not to mention your indefinite blushes. Don’t you know men like girls who are confident with themselves and aren’t afraid to show off a little?”
“Naruto likes me fine. He was the one who asked me out.” Hinata stated a little upset. She knew what Minna was doing and it wasn’t going to work this time. She wasn’t going to be bullied by her peers. Not while Naruto was there watching.
Minna gave the girl a surprised look. It wasn’t that Hinata was rude about it, She kept her polite tone and meek posture, but the way she looked at her . . . It was obvious now that the small girl had a spine.
Brushing off her shock she gave the girl a small smirk and sighed, “If that’s the case, then, Good luck.”
“Same to you, Minna.” She said bowing and walking off to find Naruto.
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“Hinata!” The blonde jumped up from the floor startling the kids in his excitement. “You were in there forever!” He exaggerated, as he looked around room for the red-haired girl. “Where’s your . . . friend?” He asked, not sure of how to label the snobby girl from earlier.
The girl heard his hesitation and giggled “Her Name is Minna, She’s with her fiancé in the other room.” Her facial expression stayed the same but her voice sounded relieved.
Naruto nodded and looked around cautiously before nodding toward a nearly empty spot in the room.
Hinata caught on quickly and followed him. She had almost forgotten they were on a mission.
“Where’s Neji?” He asked getting serious.
“I haven’t seen him f-for a while. He’s probably with father . . . Have you noticed anything, Naruto?” She asked him, looking around making it look like she was merely observing guests.
The blonde shook his head negatively and leaned against the wall. “No, but remember, Tsunade said they could be anyone and any rank. So we have to be careful.”
“Right, I’ll go find Neji and father.” she said before once again walking away and leaving Naruto behind. She just wished that they could have had a normal date. One without any distraction, one where she wouldn’t get nervous or blush too much and maybe not be spied on by their friends. Sighing she walked out of the room to find her family.
Naruto frowned watching her leave. He felt a little angry by this whole thing. First time they went out together back in Sand, both of them had been really nervous and it had been a little awkward and whenever they hung out at least one person was spying on them. He knew Hinata was thinking the same thing. He could tell by the apologetic looks she kept throwing him all day and the small habit that she had of tapping her fingers together slightly faster then normal out of frustration.
He himself was angered at the sudden mission. He had planned on coming to the party, spending time with Hinata and to avoid any difficult questions that people had for him. However now he had to find a couple of people who were trying to steal vital information of the Hyuuga clan and the Leaf village all together.
In other words there was no relaxing like he had originally plan nor was there and free time to spend with Hinata so they could bond. It was just the guests, and them as ninja doing their job.
Maybe this was why Ninja were all ways reluctant to get involved in relationships. There was never enough free time for a couple to spend together. Well not in a relaxing way anyway. One was most likely to be gone when the other was home and then they always had to worry about the other who was risking the life.
‘A ninja’s love life sucks . . . ’ Naruto thought bitterly as he started walking around the house for anything out of the ordinary.
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It had been about two hours since Hinata had gone off to search for Neji. Every half hour or so either Neji or Hinata would find him and fill him in on small things they noticed but nothing that would clue them in on who was a spy.
The whole thing was getting irritating. Not to mention those kids who had tried to use his own pranks against him. First it was the eraser gag. Like he didn’t think that a door that was only slightly cracked open was suspicious especially when there were about five kids keeping a close eye on him and laughing as he got closer to the door.
Then there was the paint fiasco that the kids had so graciously held in Neji’s room. He knew what was waiting but he couldn’t resist the small little trail of paint that lead to the room. He had opened to the door barely missing a second eraser. And he had no time when the kids started throwing small handfuls of paint at him. He could barely contain his own laughter when he threw a smoke bomb down, jumped onto the ceiling and got each little brat in the head with there own gooey mixture.
Needless to say the parents of the children where not happy. Neji was only content for the time being because he hadn’t seen his room. He had heard though and he had to take a small little retreat to the back yard to assure him self it wasn’t as bad as it sounded.
No, it wasn’t. It was worse. He just didn’t know it yet.
Naruto was pulled out of his thoughts when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He slowly looked back to see a tall dark haired man that he had never seen before in his life.
“I’m I correct in assuming, you are Naruto?”
His voice was calm and gentle, yet had this arrogant spiteful undertone. Naruto didn’t like it. “Yeah.”
The man removed his hand and smirked. “Don’t you mean ‘Yes, sir’?”
The blonde looked at the man. He didn’t look that much older then him, maybe four years at the most. Naruto turned around completely, arms placed lazily on his hips. “Do you want something?”
“You’re such a rude boy”
“You’re not much older then I am, and until your hair starts greying I’m not calling ‘sir’” He said getting a little edging. This guy just didn’t sit right with him.
The man seemed to get angry at this and he moved his glass fluidly causing the liquid inside to create a whirlpool. “No wonder the leaf needs this meeting, their subordinates are so hostile not to mention the lack manners.” He sneered at him the MAN purple eyes filled with spite.
“Really and what rank are you? A Genin or academy student?”
“You little brat I’m an Anbu captain!” He shouted, not paying attention to how high his voice was or the people giving him sideways glances of annoyance.
Naruto blinked a few times before he started laughing. “Yeah and I’m Hokage!” He laughed out getting ready to turn back around before a fist caught his eye and he immediately flung his hand out to grab it. “Don’t even try it. ‘Brat’” He mocked throwing the guys fist back at him.
The unknown male glared at him and threw another punch catching the blond of guard, smirking he took a step back. It was a mistake on his part as Naruto recovered quickly and retaliated with a swift kick to the males stomach. He tried to counter with his own kick but his foot was caught and he was flung carelessly back onto the hardwood floor. The infested room soon became one filled with shrieks and startled gasps as the fight progressed.
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It hadn’t taken long before Neji, Hinata and her father to enter the room and pull the two apart. It also hadn’t taken long before a forced apology became another instigator for another fight.
About two knocked over tables, a couple broken frames, numerous spills and a few small bruises on Naruto later that Hinata thought it would be best to take Naruto out back away from the crowd.
“Oh man. This is a nightmare! Your dad’s gonna kill me! It’s not even my fault that guy started it! He swung first! ” The blonde shouted before he took a large breath of the fresh air.
The girl next to him looked down wringing her hands together. “ I’m sorry Naruto. It’s my fault . . . I didn’t think . . . M-Maybe I should have asked Kiba or Shino . . . ”
“What? No way! Kiba’s way too obnoxious and no ones going to like Shino, He’s too stuck up! I was definitely the best choice.” He yelled quickly putting his hands behind his head in a superior manner. However it didn’t take long before his hands fell back to his sides and he sighed. “Really Hinata I’m fine, It’s just that all this political stuff and I don’t know anything about it. Then those people keep targeting me and I seriously hate that guy!”
“Naruto . . . Y-you shouldn’t . . . s-say things like that . . . ”
The blonde looked at her from the corner of his eyes. How was it that she could be so forgiving? Even to that girl who had been so nasty toward her earlier. And it wasn’t just them. When they were younger Sakura and Ino and sometimes even tenten would tease her about one thing or another and she would forgive them just like that. Then there was Neji, who had practically tried to kill her and treated her like dirt, but all was forgiven. She had never blamed anyone for their cruelness toward her. She always had an excuse for them. For Sakura and Ino it had been ‘there just trying to help me get stronger’. He never understood that one. The reason for Tenten was that she was only teasing and didn’t mean any harm, and for Neji it was his childhood and how he grew up.
Sighing he put his arms around her pulling her close to him. Even though she hid her face from view he knew she was blushing. He gave a soft smile and rested his head on her shoulder. “You know sometimes I worry about.”
She looked up at him questioningly. “W-what d-do . . . What do you mean?”
Naruto went to speak but paused quickly shutting his mouth and shaking his head. “It’s nothing.” It probably best that she didn’t know. She had changed her self in the past to impress him and an unforgiving Hinata, wasn’t his Hinata.
Hinata pulled back a little and looked down to the ground. “Oh . . . Um Naruto?”
“Yeah?”
“I. . .I, um, I-it’s just that, you see I-“
“Hinata, your father wants us all inside were about to dismiss everyone . . . That means you too, Naruto.”He said turning around giving the blonde boy a stern look before he could even have second thoughts about running.
Naruto reluctantly followed behind Hinata and Neji. He hadn’t liked welcoming the people into the house and he certainly wouldn’t like seeing them off.
It only took a minute or two to reach the front door, Hinata and Neji stood in front of Hinata’s father and Naruto. Mainly because the bitter blond was trying to hide from the guests who probably weren’t at all too forgiving about the fight he had gotten into.
He followed the instructions that Neji and Hinata had told him earlier about saying good bye. Smile, shaking hands, bow formally, throw in a compliment here and there and say your fare wells. Too bad He couldn’t even smile with that girl from earlier came waltzing up to them in all her superior glory. The man standing next to her who was trying to rush her along, cleared his throat in irritation. Naruto recognized him as the man he had fought earlier.
Minna shook hands with Hinata and her family, purposely skipping his. “Well it was nice seeing you again Hinata, I hope your father’s arrangements go as planned. And Good luck with your . . . boyfriend.” She said bitterly, glaring at Naruto.
He happily grinned back. “Yeah, And good luck with yours!” He said trying to hold back his laughter, causing the tall girl to get offended, all her fiancé could do was advert his eyes in the opposite direction.
“Hmph. I don’t need luck!”
“You never do when it comes to money.” Naruto whispered under his breath”
“What did you just say.”
The girl nearly was starting to get mad Naruto knew it, and if it wasn’t for Hinata giving him worried glances, he would have kept yapping. “Just talking to myself, that’s all.” He said smiling again.
“That better be all . . . ” she drawled out taking a deep breath and turning back to the other girl. “Well Hinata, I hope you’re happy with this boy. It wouldn’t due to have your heart broken by his kind.”
Hinata looked at the girl and took Naruto’s hand, smiling. “Don’t worry about me Minna . . . N-Naruto’s not that type of person.”
The girl scoffed “What type of person is he then, huh?”
Hinata, blushed and looked to the ground “Well um . . . He’s l-loyal, kind . . . and h-he’s brave and strong . . . He’s the type of person who anyone can trust, and I’d do so with my life . . . Naruto will always stay by my side. I hope your fiancé will be the same.”
Minna remained quiet for a minute looking back and forth between the two. Finally she shook her head and shrugged. “That would be nice if he was that type of person, but from what I’ve seen today, I doubt it. Good luck, You’ll need it.” She said quickly and dragged her fiancé out the door not even saying good bye.
Naruto Looked down at Hinata, His own blushing face matching the small girls. He couldn't help but feel a bit ecstatic over how the girl spoke of him. It made him feel like some kind of hero.
Hinata smiled to herself and watched as Minna walked away. It felt good to finally have something that the girl couldn’t verbally ruin. Minna might have more money then the Hyuuga clan soon, but that was okay with, she had something better.
She had Naruto.
The Hyuuga house was mostly packed with women who were either overly dressed with expensive Kimono’s and dress and where covered head to toe in jewelry. Some women had put aside being over dressed and decided to be slightly underdressed with slitted, low-cut dresses and short skirts. Some of the more decent women wore normal outfits with simple and less blinding jewelry.
The men were a whole different story. Being less inclined to show off their wealth by wearing expensive treasure that weighed twenty pounds stuck with wearing business like suites or like the head of the Hyuuga family, wore more traditional clothes and talked about their financial well being.
Naruto stood fro once quietly Next to Hinata, who was talking to a girl who was only slightly older then her. The girl obviously belonged to one of the more extravagant couple at the party. How could one tell? Well the abnormally large diamonds around her neck for one. Then her earing that looked like they would tear her ears if she moved too much. Here purple dress was low cut and had diamonds on the edges, clearly to gain attention.
“So Hinata I take it this is your date? Not much to look at his he?” she said observing the blonde. “Why would you even ask him out?”
“H-He’s a gre-”
The older girl cut Hinata off with an arrogant laugh and waved a hand in a dismissing the her response. “Forget it sweety, why don’t you come with me and get acquainted with the rest of us, I’m sure your . . . boyfriend wouldn’t mind. Would you boy?”
Naruto wanted desperately to tell the girl off but kept his mouth shut and glared at her instead. She didn’t have any rights to address him the way she did. Besides the girl was obviously enjoyed making Hinata blush, For a completely different reason then his own, sure but that was still something only he could do.
She whispered a couple of words about things that the blonde probably wouldn’t have understood any way and took Hinata’s hand and pulled her away from him. He watched slightly dumbfounded as Hinata looked back once gave him a timid little smile of comfort before being dragged into the main room.
Sighing he looked around at all the people in the room and suddenly remembered why he was sticking so close to Hinata. There were so many people and the rooms that weren’t locked were nearly packed parents and their kids.
The adults were talking about politics and money or their family’s future and the teenagers were talking about what family they wanted to marry into. The only people in the whole place that seemed normal were the children who were running threw crowed room in some form of tag.
It was through his clever observations of what was normal and what was not normal that the blonde who was famous for his pranks and rash behavior that Naruto had found himself entertaining the youngest crowd of the party.
The children seemed to take a liking to Naruto and listened in awe at the stories he told from his mission. He told them of missions from when he was still a genin all the way till his recent one to Sand, leaving out a few details of course. He even told them about his days in the academy when he would skip class and prank innocent villagers. Though after he told them he had a feeling he would someday regret.
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Hinata peeked out the doorway to try and find Naruto. The girl that had dragged her away from him was starting to make her less and less willing to talk to her. She had know the girl from child hood. The girl’s name was, Minna. Although Hinata couldn’t say she hated the girl, she wasn’t too fond of her. Every time they were together she would always talk down to her and insult her in someway, wether it be her, herself, her clothes, her way of talking or her family. This time she chose not to only target her but Naruto too.
All the girls had been talking about was him. So far she had gone over his ‘shabby’ appearance, his ‘horrible personality and his ‘nonexistent’ manners. Then, when she found out that Naruto wasn’t part of any well known family, she had put him down completely telling Hinata that she had been wasting her time with that ‘common trash’ and how should go for someone who had something to offer.
“Well, I’ll let you think about your situation for a while, I should be with my date, Did I tell you he’s an Anbu member?” The girl whispered in a hushed tone making sure no one else could hear smiling happily. “We planned to get married in just a few months.”
“Th-that’s wonderful, Minna. I’m . . . happy for you.” The Hyuuga heiress said politely, not bothering to tell the girl that she knew she was lying.
“When Do You and that boy plan on marrying?”
Hinata felt her face, for the first time in a good few hours, heat up. “Oh! Well . . . we just started dating recently . . . s-so . . . ”
“Oh, I see. Do you think it will last?” Minna watched as the girl looked at her questioningly. “I’m just asking, but I mean with your lack of self confidence and nervous stuttering . . . Not to mention your indefinite blushes. Don’t you know men like girls who are confident with themselves and aren’t afraid to show off a little?”
“Naruto likes me fine. He was the one who asked me out.” Hinata stated a little upset. She knew what Minna was doing and it wasn’t going to work this time. She wasn’t going to be bullied by her peers. Not while Naruto was there watching.
Minna gave the girl a surprised look. It wasn’t that Hinata was rude about it, She kept her polite tone and meek posture, but the way she looked at her . . . It was obvious now that the small girl had a spine.
Brushing off her shock she gave the girl a small smirk and sighed, “If that’s the case, then, Good luck.”
“Same to you, Minna.” She said bowing and walking off to find Naruto.
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“Hinata!” The blonde jumped up from the floor startling the kids in his excitement. “You were in there forever!” He exaggerated, as he looked around room for the red-haired girl. “Where’s your . . . friend?” He asked, not sure of how to label the snobby girl from earlier.
The girl heard his hesitation and giggled “Her Name is Minna, She’s with her fiancé in the other room.” Her facial expression stayed the same but her voice sounded relieved.
Naruto nodded and looked around cautiously before nodding toward a nearly empty spot in the room.
Hinata caught on quickly and followed him. She had almost forgotten they were on a mission.
“Where’s Neji?” He asked getting serious.
“I haven’t seen him f-for a while. He’s probably with father . . . Have you noticed anything, Naruto?” She asked him, looking around making it look like she was merely observing guests.
The blonde shook his head negatively and leaned against the wall. “No, but remember, Tsunade said they could be anyone and any rank. So we have to be careful.”
“Right, I’ll go find Neji and father.” she said before once again walking away and leaving Naruto behind. She just wished that they could have had a normal date. One without any distraction, one where she wouldn’t get nervous or blush too much and maybe not be spied on by their friends. Sighing she walked out of the room to find her family.
Naruto frowned watching her leave. He felt a little angry by this whole thing. First time they went out together back in Sand, both of them had been really nervous and it had been a little awkward and whenever they hung out at least one person was spying on them. He knew Hinata was thinking the same thing. He could tell by the apologetic looks she kept throwing him all day and the small habit that she had of tapping her fingers together slightly faster then normal out of frustration.
He himself was angered at the sudden mission. He had planned on coming to the party, spending time with Hinata and to avoid any difficult questions that people had for him. However now he had to find a couple of people who were trying to steal vital information of the Hyuuga clan and the Leaf village all together.
In other words there was no relaxing like he had originally plan nor was there and free time to spend with Hinata so they could bond. It was just the guests, and them as ninja doing their job.
Maybe this was why Ninja were all ways reluctant to get involved in relationships. There was never enough free time for a couple to spend together. Well not in a relaxing way anyway. One was most likely to be gone when the other was home and then they always had to worry about the other who was risking the life.
‘A ninja’s love life sucks . . . ’ Naruto thought bitterly as he started walking around the house for anything out of the ordinary.
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It had been about two hours since Hinata had gone off to search for Neji. Every half hour or so either Neji or Hinata would find him and fill him in on small things they noticed but nothing that would clue them in on who was a spy.
The whole thing was getting irritating. Not to mention those kids who had tried to use his own pranks against him. First it was the eraser gag. Like he didn’t think that a door that was only slightly cracked open was suspicious especially when there were about five kids keeping a close eye on him and laughing as he got closer to the door.
Then there was the paint fiasco that the kids had so graciously held in Neji’s room. He knew what was waiting but he couldn’t resist the small little trail of paint that lead to the room. He had opened to the door barely missing a second eraser. And he had no time when the kids started throwing small handfuls of paint at him. He could barely contain his own laughter when he threw a smoke bomb down, jumped onto the ceiling and got each little brat in the head with there own gooey mixture.
Needless to say the parents of the children where not happy. Neji was only content for the time being because he hadn’t seen his room. He had heard though and he had to take a small little retreat to the back yard to assure him self it wasn’t as bad as it sounded.
No, it wasn’t. It was worse. He just didn’t know it yet.
Naruto was pulled out of his thoughts when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He slowly looked back to see a tall dark haired man that he had never seen before in his life.
“I’m I correct in assuming, you are Naruto?”
His voice was calm and gentle, yet had this arrogant spiteful undertone. Naruto didn’t like it. “Yeah.”
The man removed his hand and smirked. “Don’t you mean ‘Yes, sir’?”
The blonde looked at the man. He didn’t look that much older then him, maybe four years at the most. Naruto turned around completely, arms placed lazily on his hips. “Do you want something?”
“You’re such a rude boy”
“You’re not much older then I am, and until your hair starts greying I’m not calling ‘sir’” He said getting a little edging. This guy just didn’t sit right with him.
The man seemed to get angry at this and he moved his glass fluidly causing the liquid inside to create a whirlpool. “No wonder the leaf needs this meeting, their subordinates are so hostile not to mention the lack manners.” He sneered at him the MAN purple eyes filled with spite.
“Really and what rank are you? A Genin or academy student?”
“You little brat I’m an Anbu captain!” He shouted, not paying attention to how high his voice was or the people giving him sideways glances of annoyance.
Naruto blinked a few times before he started laughing. “Yeah and I’m Hokage!” He laughed out getting ready to turn back around before a fist caught his eye and he immediately flung his hand out to grab it. “Don’t even try it. ‘Brat’” He mocked throwing the guys fist back at him.
The unknown male glared at him and threw another punch catching the blond of guard, smirking he took a step back. It was a mistake on his part as Naruto recovered quickly and retaliated with a swift kick to the males stomach. He tried to counter with his own kick but his foot was caught and he was flung carelessly back onto the hardwood floor. The infested room soon became one filled with shrieks and startled gasps as the fight progressed.
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It hadn’t taken long before Neji, Hinata and her father to enter the room and pull the two apart. It also hadn’t taken long before a forced apology became another instigator for another fight.
About two knocked over tables, a couple broken frames, numerous spills and a few small bruises on Naruto later that Hinata thought it would be best to take Naruto out back away from the crowd.
“Oh man. This is a nightmare! Your dad’s gonna kill me! It’s not even my fault that guy started it! He swung first! ” The blonde shouted before he took a large breath of the fresh air.
The girl next to him looked down wringing her hands together. “ I’m sorry Naruto. It’s my fault . . . I didn’t think . . . M-Maybe I should have asked Kiba or Shino . . . ”
“What? No way! Kiba’s way too obnoxious and no ones going to like Shino, He’s too stuck up! I was definitely the best choice.” He yelled quickly putting his hands behind his head in a superior manner. However it didn’t take long before his hands fell back to his sides and he sighed. “Really Hinata I’m fine, It’s just that all this political stuff and I don’t know anything about it. Then those people keep targeting me and I seriously hate that guy!”
“Naruto . . . Y-you shouldn’t . . . s-say things like that . . . ”
The blonde looked at her from the corner of his eyes. How was it that she could be so forgiving? Even to that girl who had been so nasty toward her earlier. And it wasn’t just them. When they were younger Sakura and Ino and sometimes even tenten would tease her about one thing or another and she would forgive them just like that. Then there was Neji, who had practically tried to kill her and treated her like dirt, but all was forgiven. She had never blamed anyone for their cruelness toward her. She always had an excuse for them. For Sakura and Ino it had been ‘there just trying to help me get stronger’. He never understood that one. The reason for Tenten was that she was only teasing and didn’t mean any harm, and for Neji it was his childhood and how he grew up.
Sighing he put his arms around her pulling her close to him. Even though she hid her face from view he knew she was blushing. He gave a soft smile and rested his head on her shoulder. “You know sometimes I worry about.”
She looked up at him questioningly. “W-what d-do . . . What do you mean?”
Naruto went to speak but paused quickly shutting his mouth and shaking his head. “It’s nothing.” It probably best that she didn’t know. She had changed her self in the past to impress him and an unforgiving Hinata, wasn’t his Hinata.
Hinata pulled back a little and looked down to the ground. “Oh . . . Um Naruto?”
“Yeah?”
“I. . .I, um, I-it’s just that, you see I-“
“Hinata, your father wants us all inside were about to dismiss everyone . . . That means you too, Naruto.”He said turning around giving the blonde boy a stern look before he could even have second thoughts about running.
Naruto reluctantly followed behind Hinata and Neji. He hadn’t liked welcoming the people into the house and he certainly wouldn’t like seeing them off.
It only took a minute or two to reach the front door, Hinata and Neji stood in front of Hinata’s father and Naruto. Mainly because the bitter blond was trying to hide from the guests who probably weren’t at all too forgiving about the fight he had gotten into.
He followed the instructions that Neji and Hinata had told him earlier about saying good bye. Smile, shaking hands, bow formally, throw in a compliment here and there and say your fare wells. Too bad He couldn’t even smile with that girl from earlier came waltzing up to them in all her superior glory. The man standing next to her who was trying to rush her along, cleared his throat in irritation. Naruto recognized him as the man he had fought earlier.
Minna shook hands with Hinata and her family, purposely skipping his. “Well it was nice seeing you again Hinata, I hope your father’s arrangements go as planned. And Good luck with your . . . boyfriend.” She said bitterly, glaring at Naruto.
He happily grinned back. “Yeah, And good luck with yours!” He said trying to hold back his laughter, causing the tall girl to get offended, all her fiancé could do was advert his eyes in the opposite direction.
“Hmph. I don’t need luck!”
“You never do when it comes to money.” Naruto whispered under his breath”
“What did you just say.”
The girl nearly was starting to get mad Naruto knew it, and if it wasn’t for Hinata giving him worried glances, he would have kept yapping. “Just talking to myself, that’s all.” He said smiling again.
“That better be all . . . ” she drawled out taking a deep breath and turning back to the other girl. “Well Hinata, I hope you’re happy with this boy. It wouldn’t due to have your heart broken by his kind.”
Hinata looked at the girl and took Naruto’s hand, smiling. “Don’t worry about me Minna . . . N-Naruto’s not that type of person.”
The girl scoffed “What type of person is he then, huh?”
Hinata, blushed and looked to the ground “Well um . . . He’s l-loyal, kind . . . and h-he’s brave and strong . . . He’s the type of person who anyone can trust, and I’d do so with my life . . . Naruto will always stay by my side. I hope your fiancé will be the same.”
Minna remained quiet for a minute looking back and forth between the two. Finally she shook her head and shrugged. “That would be nice if he was that type of person, but from what I’ve seen today, I doubt it. Good luck, You’ll need it.” She said quickly and dragged her fiancé out the door not even saying good bye.
Naruto Looked down at Hinata, His own blushing face matching the small girls. He couldn't help but feel a bit ecstatic over how the girl spoke of him. It made him feel like some kind of hero.
Hinata smiled to herself and watched as Minna walked away. It felt good to finally have something that the girl couldn’t verbally ruin. Minna might have more money then the Hyuuga clan soon, but that was okay with, she had something better.
She had Naruto.