[NaruHina] "Arigato"

Holding Hearts

It has been two prolonged and overwrought days since the defeat of Pain. Everyone in the village is offering a helping hand in the reconstruction of the Hidden Leaf. But, there are two souls who are lost with their feelings, concurrently, with each other...

---AUTHOR'S NOTES---

What's up? It's ya boy, Blakey! I'm here with another fan fiction of Naruto and Hinata.

Ever since the attack, I was always so confused as to, "WHY?!" Why didn't Naruto ever confront Hinata after she saved him and confessed her love for him?! WHY NARUTO!!! >:(

...Sorry. So, I've decided to solely write this fan fiction for those who have wondered the same.

Arigato for taking your time to read! Now let's get back to it!

---END OF AUTHOR'S NOTES---

It's 7:00 PM, that's the curfew for everyone to stop building and rest for the night. Some civilians are out in town to get dinner, others are staying at home. Naruto is very distant from everyone tonight. As he stands in the training field where he once became a team with Sasuke and Sakura, he casually rests his back on the middle log and slightly places his left foot on the stump behind him. Bewildered, he crosses his arms, looks up at the night sky and he notices a marble amongst the blanket of stars. "A full moon, huh? How fitting." He shrugs. He lets out an exasperating sigh and his thoughts recommence about Hinata saving his life. "Why did she save me..? Why would she do that for me..?" He says to himself. "Because, I love you, I always have" "Agh!" He surprises himself with a meaningful sentence she said that day before she gave her life, resulting to a jolt in his vocal cords, it feels like his throat is tensing up, like someone was strangling it, he gulps, he pauses and calls out her name humbly, "Hinata, I...".

10 MINUTES LATER

Naruto is wondering around the village looking for a certain someone, when all of a sudden he hears from a distance, "Hey, Naruto!" A loud, yet familiar voices rings a bell to his ears. "S-Sakura?" He gently speaks. "We've been looking all over for you, where have you been?" She said worryingly. Naruto replies with an obvious excuse, trying to think of words that aren't there, "I've... just been... needing some fresh air." He stutters. Sakura, feeling suspicious, she kindly offers an invitation, "Would you like to join Ino, Shikamaru, Chouji and I for ramen?" "Actually, I was looking for Hinata, have you seen her?" Naruto responds, wishing that she would give an answer of her whereabouts. "Oh, well the last time I saw her, she was heading towards the Hokage head monuments, she said she needed to be alone too..." A silence emits between them for a couple of seconds, as Naruto is now surprised, his feelings start to make sense. "It's not one-sided, she's feeling it too." He says to himself.

"Thanks Sakura." As he walks past her with his hands in his pockets, she looks towards him in the distance disturbingly, hoping he'll be okay. She then walks back in the direction she came from.

Long after Naruto reaches the top of the Hokage monuments, he hopes that she was still up here. He needs to talk her, he's had enough anticipation. Since everything that has happened these past two days, it's felt like a year of contemplation for him. When he's lost in his thoughts about that day of the fight, time feels ultimately slower, wondering what she is feeling and pondering for what to do next. After some restless minutes go by, he spots someone looking over a railing, getting a vista of the entire village. Skeptical if it was Hinata, he walks towards the figure. "Agh!" Shocked in what his eyes see, he slowly cringes his face in sadness.

"Hinata..." he whispers in concern.

She is crying.

As to why, Naruto knows not, but he decides to confront her with a little bit of hesitation. "H-Hinata." "GUH! N-NARUTO?!" As surprised as she was, she quickly rubs her eyes with her forearm to try and hide the wet tears that were streaming down her face, she then turned around in a flash. "What are you doing up here?" She mutters, as she tries to change the subject. Naruto beings to slowly walks towards her, every step that he takes, results in Hinata's heart to flutter twice as fast, her heart feels like it's beating out of her chest, trying to find it's way out. Her body felt so still, it was like she was frozen, frozen in love. She wanted to move, to say something, but her body disagreed, incapable of knowing what to do next, he stops a near metre away from her. Confidently, he says, "Meet me at the training field." Her eyebrows raised higher than they have ever been, while her mouth suddenly dropped. She is flabbergasted, whether it be romantically or curiously, maybe it's both. It was silent as they glared into each other's eyes, and for a single moment it felt almost as if the world had stopped. And in that moment, she saw what his eyes truly were, more than just the colour blue, no. They flow with the depth of universal love, casting off stardust as a diamond casts fire, and they smoulder like embers of a midnight fire in a desert night: glancing upwards, they reflect the heavens above. His sapphire-coloured eyes resembled the bottom of the ocean; mysterious and intriguing. They have a certain, undefinable sparkle to them. Alluring and sensual, with a touch of mischief.