Ethereal Dusk
Author’s Note: My first fanfiction in years! It sounds a bit like of a prose but I hope you guys like it.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto nor Hinata nor anyone from the Narutoverse. Kishimoto-sensei owns them and this is purely for entertainment purposes only.
Ethereal Dusk
A Naruhina fanfiction
It was one of those rare times that Konohagakure actually have peace. There was no one trying to destroy them, no one trying to invade them and no one trying to steal something from them. It is indeed a time of peace, hence the brave shinobis from our epic story were granted a much needed break. Most of them cheered loudly (the one most loud being the blonde, whiskered man) and there were others who just silently nodded at the great news.
It was the last day of the week since the declaration of their break and the day was just about to end. The sun was just dipping west, well behind the mountain ranges giving them a soft ethereal glow of red and orange with the sky slowly showing visible tinges of the midnight blue that it has to become.
Underneath this vast greatness, we find a boy of about sixteen, with a tall and muscular build, walking not so quietly and muttering things under his breath. His cerulean blue eyes drawn together and his forehead furrowed. Basing from the guy’s face, one could tell that he was frustrated about something.
“I am so bored! Isn’t there anything better to do now?” we heard him say, as he kicked a pebble to the ground.
“Sakura is out with her girl bonding thing and Sai is currently obsessing the library. Shikamaru would probably be asleep and Chouji and Kiba are helping their parents. There is no way I’m going to go Lee’s right now as I don’t want to suffer another of his “youthful” tirades and Neji would probably be with Tenten right now. So that only leaves Shino behind….”
Silence passed and leaves were blown.
“But he’s way too creepy even for me!”
The blonde sighed and put his hands inside his pocket. He continues hi silent trek amongst the trees of Konohagakure, not really paying attention to where he was until he heard a swish of a sound. It sounded more of a sigh than the gentle calling of the breeze, so he looked around trying to catch a glimpse of the sound maker and was mildly shocked and pleased at what he had seen.
With graceful movements, like a lion to its prey, he moved swiftly about until he was above the perpetrator. Seeing as to that his prey was very concentrated, not even noticing his presence above, he chose the most effective “method of gaining attention” from his mind, granted the current situation.
He jumped down onto the lowest branch of the tree without his prey noticing and hung up his knees on the branch, turning upside down, right in front of the person underneath it.
“Yo Hinata!” he exclaimed, his face showing the cheerfulness and brightness it all contained.
The poor girl, startle out of her wits, looked at him wide-eyed and let out a shriek.
“N-naruto-kun?!” that was all she could say, before she started to sway. Her body kicking up her sympathetic nerve system and made her hyperventilate into oblivion.
Worried for what happened to her, he dropped to the ground and rushed to her side. He noted that her face was an unhealthy color red, bordering on what could be called Scarlet Red. Afraid that she might have been sick from the start, he checked her stats but found naught. Puzzled to what have caused her fainting spell, he scratched his head and stared at the raven haired lass.
Suddenly a voice from long ago popped into his head,
“Why do you always faint whenever you see Naruto?!” it said.
And for the love of all things sacred, he could not decipher what Kiba had meant.
He shook his head, clearing it of its thoughts, deciding that that would have to wait. Looking back down at his fainted companion at a close distance, he found out some things that he wouldn’t have lest the predicament had not occurred.
“She has long eyelashes, like those of a doll and her skin is so smooth, not a single blemish on her face. And she has cute little lips. I wonder it those are as soft as it looks like to kiss….. WHOA! Backtrack, Rewind and STOP! What the hell was I thinking?!”
Two pink spots formed on his whiskered mark cheeks, and he had back pedaled so fast, he found himself sitting on the grass. But while it was grass, there was also something else, so he shifted his weight and caught a hold of it.
It was a notebook, from what he could see, with fancy markings on its covering. Inkling told him not to open it, for it’s quite obvious that it belongs to the fair maiden right beside him.
“But this is the chance that you can get to know why she always faint and why she is always red.” His inner voice said, with the Kyuubi piping in his agreement.
And so we all know that curiosity killed the cat, or in this case, the fox, as he opted to side with his mischievous self and opened the forbidden notebook.
“When it comes to the subject of “You”, all realities seem to fly out the window in no less than 10 second flat. Common sense just always disappears when the subject is about you. It is so confusing, and it’s a guaranteed way to make me lose my mind, stammer or sometimes, even faint. You have that power over me that only you can control. Sometimes I am scared to think that you can manipulate me so very easily. With one command, you can have me obeying your every whim. Its just absurd thinking about it, but then I guess I am ok with that, so long as it is you because I really, really, really like you, Naruto-kun, even more so than my own being.”
His jaw dropped after reading, and if ever there was mosquito around, it surely would have found its way in without anyone guiding. He stared at the notebook wide-eyed, not believing what it just said, but re-reading it a couple of times confirmed that it indeed was real. His face resembled that of a very ripe tomato and his mouth was now forming a thin line upwards before exploding into a full-blown grin.
“She likes… me” he said, softly, dazed from the information he just found. He looked at the still sleeping maiden and repeated what he said louder this time. Then he stood up and did a very happy jig and shouted in the night, “She likes me!”
He then went back to the side of the sleeping heiress and shook her awake, not wanting him to be the only one doing a happy jig.
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Author’s Note: Whee! First chapter done. The next one would elaborate more on Hinata-chan’s side. Make this little author happy by clicking that green button below. Thanks!