Right Off The Bat (NaruHina)

31 - Summer

It was already summer.

Naruto envisioned his summer to be the best one yet, considering he met Hinata.

He had lots of plan in store for the two of them, but it seemed like it won't be happening anytime soon.

With a heavy sigh, Naruto stood outside of the gate of the Hyūga Mansion. The lights were off and it seemed that only the security system was active.

Even Hinata's room seemed cold and empty.

He turned around and sat on the pavement sidewalk, then his phone buzzed.

He opened it and saw a notification. Well, three of them.

Two were just some invites he didn't care about. But the other one was;

"HINATA HYŪGA OF THE WORLD RENOWNED HYŪGA COMPANIES DEBUTS IN HER ACTING CAREER AS TOPH BEIFONG IN THE SEQUEL OF THE AVATAR LIVE ACTION : WILL THIS REDEEM THE NAME OF THE LIVE ACTION?"

That's right... Hinata's now pursuing acting.

It was the biggest buzz. News spread that she's doing her own stunts and acing even the voice of her role.

And with the small roles and cameos she's been doing all over the Japanese TV Shows, as an enemy ninja, as a one-episode character, and even one of the rarely shown super-heroes in this one show, she was showing a promising future.

Naruto's pretty sure she'll be voice acting over big anime characters soon in both Japanese and her flawless English accent.

Naruto watched all her episodes and interviews. Even read all the magazines Hinata showed up on lately, well, only the ones she was on.

It was the only thing he could think of that he'd be able to know what's happening in her life. Everytime he hits up her phone, her bodyguard or her manager would refuse anyone to talk to her since she's busy and she'll only talk business on the phone until her career is solid.

It's almost as if she was out of reach now.

Her life sure was turning for the better.

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Hinata spat out dirt from her mouth, "Alright! That's it for today! See you all tomorrow for the next scene!"

She sighed, her role sure was a tough nut to act. She didn't realize she'd be eating dirt if she messed up.

As she walked back to her dressing room with her guards, she opened her phone and looked at her social media.

She then typed in one name.

Naruto Uzumaki

Her lips curved into a smile as she saw his latest posts.

He sure did look happy.

"NEXT UP IS NATIONAL TEAM BELIEVE IT!!!"

He was smiling so brightly with his coach. She giggled, seeing that she's not the only one covered in dirt and mud.

Naruto impressed the school and immediately became a scholar. He sure was a young sensation sure to go down in baseball history.

It was hard getting to him, too. She'd always try to catch him online, but it seems like he's always training or busy.

She can't even use her phone for personal life now, at least, her old number is now her business number. None of her friends even knew her new number now.

And with her schedule, it's like she always travel all around Japan just to finish her job everyday.

She didn't expect her summer to turn out like this.

The movie company offered them an awfully large amount of money hard to deny just for her to act, and for a person like her with no acting experience? Hiashi and her cousins insisted she goes.

And she realized that acting was her calling, turns out she was a natural. Maybe it was because of her modelling, or maybe it was because she always tried to act different ways to impress her friends.

But when she's around her real friends, it didn't seem like she has to put up a mask at all. Neji. Kiba. Shino.

Especially Naruto.

He's always able to see right through her, and something about him makes her feel the need to show him the real her. And she's happy that he likes her the way she is.

Sitting in front of her dresser, she looked at her homescreen.

How she wishes to see him again. Or just hear him again.

But with their busy schedules, it almost seemed impossible.