Here is the next chapter.....  I......  umm..... I don't know what to say. How was your day?.... I have no idea what to say.

Naruto: Hey Adri why don't you do the disclaimer?

Me: Oh that's not a bad idea. How about you do it.

Naruto: Sure why not. *clears throat* AdriWaterGirl51 does not own 'Naruto' or the characters. We belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

Me: Yeah I don't own Naruto. He belongs to Hinata. *evil smirk*

Naruto: *blushes ten shades of red* I-I-I umm!

Me: Hahahaha!!! But I'm not wrong. Tell me I'm wrong.

Naruto: ..... *mumbles* she's right.

Me: See! Anyways let's get to the story shall we?
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Hinata's POV:
Location: Ino's living room

Ino had gotten out of the bathroom and greeted Sakura the same way she did me. We were about to head out until a thought had crossed my mind.

"Wait, you guys need to show me those papers", I say. "Oh that's right!", Sakura exclaims.

"Do you have it Sakura?", Ino asks Sakura and she replies by simply noding.

"Okay so Hinata", Ino says as she grabs her paper, "Sakura and I made a list of ships of friends of ours that are in the agency", she continues.

"I'll go first, so my ships are..." Sakura says and reads her list out loud.

Sakura's list:
Shikamaru-Temari
Sai-Ino
Neji-Tenten
Chouji-Karui
Kiba-Tamaki
Naruto-Sasuke (XD)
         OTP:
          Naruto-Hinata

"I don't even need to show you my list, we have the same ones", Ino says while I'm just sitting here with a face matching Sasuke's tomato lunch.

"So Hinata like my OTP?", Sakura asks me while looking at me with a cheeky smirk.

"I-I-I-I u-u-m!", I have no words! She is shipping me with the man I've been deeply in love with for most of my life! How does she expect me to speak?!

"My turn!", Ino says. Although hers wasn't that different from Sakura's.

Ino's list:
Neji x Tenten
Sasuke x Sakura
Shikamaru-Temari
Chouji x Karui
Kiba x Tamaki
Sasuke x Naruto (:P)
OTP:
      Naruto x Hinata

"................", I......... I have no words. But I'm pretty sure my face is about crimson right now.

"Okay, let's just head out.", Sakura says and I use this as an advantage to forget all that happened.

"Yes please! We don't want to end up leaving at midnight, hehe", I say and we all go to Ino's car. For the entire ride we made small talk and catching up. Ino Was driving us to the plaza since it's November and there are less Rinne Festival sales. Sakura can't look at much Rinne Festival sales areas without rambling l about how they start putting them out on November 1st when the Rinne Festival is in 20's of December. This is a night to have fun not to hear Sakura ramble.

[A/N:
The Rinne Festival is what they refer to as Christmas in Naruto. So I thought it would make sense if I call it the Rinne Festival and not Christmas. Watch 'The Last: Naruto the Movie' (MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE) since the Rinne Festival is the setting in time for the movie.]

When we arrived Ino immediately took us shopping. Ino was practically dragging us, especially me because I was a little slow, from store to store existing each one with at least three or four bags. Typical Ino.

Most of the clothes I bought were either long sleeved or baggy because I was the type of person who doesn't like to show much skin. Ino and Sakura were trying to convince me into buying this really short dress (it was black and white by the way). They told me to at least try it on but after I put it on and took a look in the mirror I came out wearing my original clothes. It kinda disappointed them but they knew it was probably both out of my style and not comfortable so they let it slide.

What Ino got were so many dresses and shoes and shirts and pants and... well you get it she bought a lot of clothes. Some a little out of my style but for Ino they looked gorgeous.

Sakura was kinda in between. She bought clothes that weren't so revealing but were also not that concealing. She was really good at choosing between outfits so I would normally go to her if I need an opinion on something.

After shopping we went to get some dinner at one of the restaurants here. After a while of searching we decided to enter a sushi and bar restaurant. We were lead to our table and they gave us the menu.

"Good evening ladies welcome to Mastugen my name is Midori and I will be your waitress for tonight", Midori told us. She had brown hair in a bun and green eyes, she appeared to be in her 20's. "Do you already have an order in mind?"

"Umm yes, I'll have kamameshi and Jasmine tea, please", Ino spoke while Midori was writing her order.

"I would like tokatsu and hojicha tea, that's it", Sakura said and it was written down.

"And you ma'am?" Midori asked me and I realized I was the last one left.

"Oh uh, I'll get zenzai soup and yamecha tea, thanks you very much", I say and after she writes them down she repeated to make sure it was all listed down.

"Will that be all ladies", Midori says and we all nod in response. She leaves us at the table and Sakura decides to bring up a topic I wanted to avoid all night.

"Hinata so what do you think of the OTP? You like it?", she asks me with a cheeky smile and she leans to her seat.

"Why would you ship that?!", I say in an annoying and begin for mercy tone. She look at me with an really? look and I keep myself quite waiting for my answer which Ino gladly gave me.

"Because we know you've loved him since even before the Academy. You were always watching him", she answers. It's true I have always loved and longed for him since we've met. How would I not? He reminded me of the sun it all started that one day....

~Flashback~
Third Person POV:

It was a cold snowy day and a 6 year old Hinata had decided to go on a stroll in the forest. She was able to go on her own without the assistance of her caretaker, Ko, so she was all on her own.

She decided to start running and she got distracted with a bird that was flying by that she didn't notice the three boys who were much taller than she was about to bump into but was quick enough to stop before she did.

"Oh s-sorry", but before she could go one of the boys asked "Hey is that a Hyuga?". Her clan was well known for them being a noble family and also their unique pupiless white lavender eyes, so she wasn't surprised that the kid recognized her.

"Oh yeah it is look at her eyes", the second boy said, Hinata was getting a little uncomfortable so she tried to leave but something that the third boy said stopped her right in her tracks.

"They look so creepy", the third boy said. She was struck by his sentence and offended by it. She new her eyes were unique but she never thought they were creepy. She really liked her eyes, especially the color.

"Hey wouldn't a monster have eyes like that? I bet she's actually some kind of creepy eyed monster!", the first boy said causing Hinata to tear up because of the insult. She hoped they would just leave her alone but she was wrong.

"Yeah a Hyuga Monster!", the second boy said and the group of boys begun to laugh. Hinata couldn't bear it, she let out the tears she had in her wet lavender eyes and put her face in her hands, knelt down and begun to cry hoping that the boys would stop.

Not far from where Hinata was being bullied there was a swing. And on that swing was a little boy about Hinata's age with blond spiky hair, three whisker marks on each of his cheeks, a red scarf around his neck, and ocean blue eyes.

The little boy began to hear laughter and a few cries that appeared to come from a little girl. He looked at the direction of those sounds and saw three boys towering over a little girl with short midnight blue hair who was knelt down and covered her face with both her hands. He figured the crying noises were emitted from that little girl.

For some it reason angered him that they were treating that little girl like that. He didn't even know her, but he knew he had to do something about it.

"Hey cut it out!", the little boy yelled at the three bullies as he got down from the swing he was on and ran to the scene almost slipping on the snow covered floor. Hinata heard a boyish voice yell and lifted her head to see what was going on.

"Look it's a shrimp!", the second boy said to the little blonde boy. "Who are you?", the first boy asked.

The blond boy stopped in front of the three bullies and answered their question, "I'm Naruto Uzumaki! Leave that girl alone!"

"And who's gonna stop us?!", the third boy said and the bullies turned their full attention to Naruto.

"Come on, what are you stupid?!", the first boy said. At this point Naruto had it. He was going to make a move.

"I'll show you guys! Hya!", Naruto exclaimed and tried to throw a punch at them but missed making the bullies laugh.

"Is that all you've got?!", the third boy exclaimed and threw a punch at Naruto's face and this time he didn't miss, and Naruto was knocked down on the ground.

"Man, I took him down with one punch!", the first boy said. They decided to mess around with him more so they took his scarf and began to play with it causing it to get torn up.

"You think you're so cool! Wearing this ugly red scarf!", the boys said while stepping on the scarf.

Hinata could only watch, she knew she didn't stand a chance and once the three bullies left she took the torn up scarf and knelt down next to the knocked out Naruto.

After about two minutes Naruto regained consciousness, "Hmph. Hey hold on this time I'll punch you super duper hard and I'll-...", he had stopped speaking when he figured out that the three bullies had left and he was alone with the midnight blue haired girl. He grunted and started rubbing his bruised cheek were he had been punched in and knelt down on the ground and Hinata followed his actions.

"Oh, are you okay?", Hinata asked him in a concerned and gentle tone. She was worried they had hurt him bad while he was standing up to the three bullies.

"Yeah it's nothing I'm used to it", Naruto answers back at her still rubbing his cheek. He had been ostracized by the villagers so he was used to the pain that he would get.

"Your scarf, those three boys they-", she was cut off by him waving his hand telling her that it was okay.

Hinata felt guilty for what happened to Naruto. She was thankful but she felt guilty and felt it was her fault he got in a fight and ended up hurt. "I'm really sorry", she apologized to Naruto and looked down at the torn up red scarf in her hands.

"Nah, forget it", he told her using a reassuring tone and gesture. He started getting up and was making his way to his house but was interrupted by Hinata who apparently wanted to say something more to him.

"Uh um", she tried to speak but of course was shy and thankfully was able to say something after that. Naruto hummed waiting for her to finish her sentence.

"I-... I just wanted to say thank you very much", she said politely while giving a grateful bow.

"Hehe, se ya!" Naruto said and ran out of the forest leaving Hinata in the snowy forest.

Hinata couldn't help but smile at him and held the scarfs closer to her and giggled. He hoped she would see him again.

And since that day she has always admired Naruto. As time passed that admiration grew into love. And that has never changed and it will never. Over time they grew and she and Naruto along with the rest of Konoha  11 became inseparable friends. They all then entered the agency. Working as comrades side by side to protect their hard won peace.

~Flashback End~

The food had arrived and they began to dig in their delicious food. All happy they could still have fun without having to worry about their heavy work.

After dinner they headed to Ino's house said their goodbyes and headed home.

By the time Hinata had gotten home it was 11:44 pm and Hanabi had already gotten home from her date with Konohamaru and was in her room sleeping.

Hinata went in her room after showering and put on her sleep wear. But before she went to lye down she looked in her closet for something that she had been keeping for many years.

"Found it", she said and took the torn up red scarf in her hands. A smile made its way to her lips and she remembered the face of the man she always loved.

"Naruto".

She put the scarf on her night desk next to her bed and laid down in her bed while looking at the scarf on her night desks and was drifted to the world of dreams.
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(A/N)
That was the it guys. I'm sort I updateda little late I was planning on updating yesterday but then I had to go to my brothers Boy Scout activity and after that I went to a concert WICH WAS AWESOME!!!!!! So I didn't have much time to write. But it's out now. You noticed that in the flashback I removed the lines were they said 'Hokage' or 'Jutsu' that's because:
A. Their is no concept of Shinobi for me to put 'Jutsu'.

B. Their is a 'Hokage' but it's in a secret
agency.

That is all and I look forward to seeing you in the next chapter.
  
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