A/N: This is my first fanfic. Critics are welcome with constructive feedback.

Edit Note: Minor grammar updates have been made. If you're new to the story, welcome. If you're returning, feel free to reread, but nothing in the plot line has been changed.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Summary: Naruto finds Hinata is stalking him and with a kiss to haunt him, he leaves Konoha to train, though he's still dense. Hinata, waiting for Naruto to return, finds something she never expected. Naruhina, both are main characters, alternating each chapter.

Opportune Circumstance

Chapter 1: Discovery

It was another day, and like any other before it, Hinata silently stalks her prey. Being oblivious and comfortable in the village, his senses are not as keen as they would be out in the field, proof of his naivete. Still, she loved watching him. Just the way he runs with confidence and because he is so carefree. When the villagers would yell at him, sometimes obscenities, he would just keep on running as if nothing happened, though she knew he could hear them.

He would always start the day by running around the village. He would not run along the outside in laps like some of the ninjas did, but he would go through it looking at the shops and houses. Sometimes he would slow and jog in place if he noticed something new that was added recently, but he would run for an hour and a half each weekday, reserving the weekend for anything else he might have planned. Then he would go to the team seven training ground to continue his workout. First, he would start off with the wooden dummy posts to gain some focus and fine-tune his attack methods, then he would move on to make shadow clones and use combinations of taijutsu and ninjutsu and continue from there.

Today at the training grounds, he puts down a water bottle and towel and continues to start his workout, as usual, hitting the dummies with perfect accuracy. These models can easily be destroyed with chakra-enhanced punches or kicks, and although he has some working knowledge to enhance his attacks, Naruto hasn't trained to cause the craters that granny Tsunade can easily make. Still, he knows that by continuing to aim for the marked vitals, he can focus better on other things in combat with his clones. Beads of sweat form on his face and neck as he continues his workout; his shirt already wet from running. A while later, with various new indents in the thick wooden dummies and the pieces of what remained of the others, his hands form his signature technique, and he creates 20 more clones of himself. Laying down and hiding in the bushes, Hinata always found his workout attire, a plain white shirt with plain black shorts, grabbing her attention often since his forming muscles would show through as the clothes stuck to his skin as he radiated heat and sweat.

Panting after he takes out his lookalikes using only kunai and shuriken, again without chakra use, he takes a short break, his shirt heavy with sweat. He walks over to his water bottle and downs half of it and dries himself off with the towel before going back. This time he has his clones transform into forms of Itachi and Orochimaru, to keep his ninja goals firmly in mind. His face is full of determination as he attacks the smirking forms that surrounded him. Hinata smiles as she watches her crush fight on with the 'Itachi' and 'Orochimaru' copies with even more intensity than previous workouts.

Hinata was still paying close attention to the fight when a voice behind her causes her to blush a furious red, "You know, it would be better if you would've let me know you were going to watch me. I don't want a stray kunai to veer from its mark and hit someone I like."

"...someone... you l-like?" Hinata starts to turn around when he takes her hand, and her blush deepens, knowing how close he is to her. 'touching... my hand...' Hinata's brain unsuccessfully tries to form coherent thoughts.

"Come on, you can't dodge as easily in this brush, let's go over there." He points to a spot near his water bottle and towel where there's a tree providing some shade and gives her a reassuring tug as he begins to help her up. He is still radiating heat, and despite her efforts to get up, her legs will not obey.

Naruto looks back at her and tilts his head a little to the side in confusion. 'Those blue eyes... No! I will not faint... but those eyes are so endearing...' her eyes start to roll up, and she falls limp. He catches her before she collapses completely and carries her to the spot he indicated. He props her up, resting her back to the trunk of the tree. By this time, the clones had all dispersed. His original noticed her while sparring with his clones before taking his break, and he let another clone take his place in the melee with the various 'Orochimaru' and 'Itachi' forms while he snuck up behind her).

'Hmm, I wonder why she is here. She always has been kind of weird around me, and her face goes red a lot when I'm looking at her.' Naruto looks at the unconscious smile forming on her face. 'Man, she looks peaceful. I wonder what she's thinking about.' He sits down right next to her and looks into the sky as he continues his thoughts as she leans into him, apparently still unconscious, but her head lands on his shoulder softly. Her arms slowly reach for his closer arm as she begins to unconsciously cuddle with him. A little surprised at this Naruto looks back at her, but she seems to still be sleeping. Instead of startling and waking her up, he decides to settle to watch her sleep.

Dreaming a fantasy of being with Naruto, Hinata mumbles, "...my Naruto..." which he clearly hears. Confused, but now interested even more so to what she might be dreaming, he decides to stick around, putting his training and other plans on hold for a bit. Having no mission today after coming from the hospital, he was going to use today to simply train till he was worn out and then maybe pester Sakura for a bit before he was going to go train with Jiraiya. He was still shocked that his teacher was going to train with him privately for a few years. Finally, he might be able to learn something really cool, even better than Rasengan, but first, he would have to let people know he was going to be away for a bit. He did not like to have his friends worry about him.

Hinata began to awake with a blush on her face, elements of the dream still fresh in her mind, that is, until she realizes that Naruto's smell and warmth isn't her imagination... and the pillow she was cuddling with wasn't a pillow... it was his arm!

He watches as her eyes begin to flutter open and realizing her situation, she tenses up and starts to form an apology, withdrawing away from him. But he interrupts her, "You know, you had a pretty nice dream there," her blush deepens, "and I don't mind it that you cuddled with me." He smiles down at her, 'Wow! She definitely has cute eyes... she... she's more beautiful than Sakura! I wonder why I never noticed before. I suppose I haven't really looked at her this close before.'

Her eyes grow wider for a bit, and she closes them in joy while she squeezes his arm. 'He doesn't mind it... does that mean he likes me... that way?... no, he's just being kind like his normal self.' She looks up at him again, seeing him looking at her deeply as she begins to get lost in his own pair of blue eyes as her blush goes away. Her jaw hangs open just a little as she becomes mesmerized by his presence. Unconsciously, she clutches onto his arm, pulling him down a little, and in the process, he falls towards her and just before they fall down together, she arches her head up a little, half-aware that she pulled him down, and steals a kiss, her blush now back to its deep red again.

They collapse in a heap on the ground and being very surprised, Naruto blinks a few times before stating, "Well, that was unexpected."

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