"Imagine there was no tomorrow

Imagine that I couldn't see your face.

There'd be no limit to my sorrow.

Cause there is nothing that can fill that space

I put it off for too long, I didn't say all that I had to say.

I wanna take the time to right the wrong before we get to that place.

I wanna tell you something,

Give you something,

Show you in so many ways.

Cause it will all mean nothing

If I don't say something before it all goes away.

Don't wanna wait to bring you flowers, waste another hour, let alone another day.

I'm gonna tell you something,

Show you something, won't wait till it's too late."- Alicia Keyes

I Need to tell You Something

She had watched him from afar, for so many years. Saw his strengths, his weaknesses. And each day she fell more and more in love with him because of them. People rejected him because of the monster inside of him, but if anything that made him more beautiful for her. To have such a monster inside of him, and told that he was meant for failure and destruction since he was born but he never let that stop him, not once, if anything it kept him wanting to be stronger. He wanted to prove that he could be better, unlike her. She was told she was a failure from birth also, but she let that rule her life. She believed it. She could always train as hard as she could but it never seemed good enough for anyone. Even her cousin Neji thought she was useless and that He should have been born in her position of higher rank in their family, not her, and she believed him also. Until there came a moment in where she stopped trying to prove herself to anyone, she accepted who she was. A failure, a good for nothing ninja that no matter what she did, she would never amount to anything, so why keep fighting?

But only He believed in her, in what she was capable of, Naruto. He was the only one cheering for her to win in her battle with Neji, if only he knew that that was the only thing that kept her going, kept her breathing. People say she almost died in that battle but she has always thought that was the moment she began to truly live. Something awoke in her, a reason to keep on training, a reason to keep on proving herself. It was him, His faith in her made her have faith in herself and she would prove to him that his faith was not in vain. She wasn't fighting for her family anymore, she was fighting for him.

The first day she began to train with this new goal in her life she vowed to herself she would one day return the favor, she would one day tell him and show him how much his faith in her helped her. Helped her overcome her fears and insecurities, helped her to keep on surpassing her limits, keep on living and to live with a purpose. She never knew when this day would come but she hoped that when it did she would have the courage to tell him all that she needed to say.

And then… the day came.

She couldn't really explain how she knew it was the moment, the moment that defined her since she made that vow. All she knew was that she felt it in her heart, beating inside her hard against her ribcage, her soul was screaming inside that today was that day. The day she would prove she was worthy of him and expose to him her heart. The heart he had stolen the moment he rescued her from the bullies that ambushed her long ago when she was a child.

"Hinata-sama!" She heard her bodyguard scream from behind, she knew he wouldn't be able to stop her he was too weak from the explosion Pain made to destroy Konoha. She ran as hard as she could to the middle of the battlefield; she took a leap and saw Naruto and Pain look back in surprise. She stretched her hand in front of her in fist and slammed hard against the ground. Each moment she felt braver than the last.

Her feet were firmly planted on the ground, even when Naruto kept complaining against what she was doing. No matter what he would say she was not going to move, she had found her place and it was there, between Naruto and whoever tried to take his life.

"HInata, don't put yourself in danger like this!" Naruto pleaded. Now was the moment. She was finally going to say what she needed to say, finally going to say out loud what she has kept hidden inside of her heart for so long. She has put it off for too long, she has never quite said all she had to say, now she was going to… She was not going to wait until she was too late.

"I'm here because I want to be. This time, I'm going to save you, Naruto." In her mind flashed the memory of her being pushed away from Naruto while he was hurt and on the ground. She wasn't strong enough back then, she was now. She was ready now.

"I was always crying and giving up before even trying. I made the wrong turns so many times… But you helped me find my way and take the correct path, Naruto. I always chased after to you, trying to catch up to you. I wanted to walk beside you all the time. You changed me, Naruto! Your smile is what saved me! That's why I'm not afraid to die… if it means I can protect you!" Hinata took a deep breath, here it comes. What she has waited so long to say. She took a deep breath, filling her lungs with all the love she had for Naruto. And she exhaled all the fear she felt before, what made her hesitate to tell him.

"Because… I love you, Naruto." The air filled with the love of her words, it made Naruto's breath catch and Pain's face flinch with disgust. Hinata positioned herself to fight, she told Naruto she loved him … now she was going to show him how much.

…

Her body crashed on the ground to what seemed to be the thousandth time. She felt her body ache in every limb and bone. Her face was running with blood down to her jaw and she was slowly losing consciousness. She could feel the black consuming her as her body started to give up and yet her heart kept beating. She wasn't going to give up like she always did. And like always Naruto broke through the black, as always the light that guides her back, as he always has done. He shouts out for her like he did at the Chounin Battle.

"Hinata! Hinata!...damn it… Hinata!" She slowly opened her eyes. She was going to finish this, if there ever was the slightest chance to save Naruto, she wasn't going to waste it. Hinata pulled herself, her body shaking everywhere, pleading with her to stop moving, to give up. She almost caved to the feeling but she kept going until she could stand. Hinata walked, her knees shaking, almost giving up on her. Her arm wrapped around her stomach where her ribs were, it seemed like they were broken. Everything logical told her to stop moving, but everything that was part of her soul, part of her heart, screamed to take a step further. She wasn't finished yet.

Hinata fell to the ground, all of her pushing was taking its toll on her body. She raised herself off the ground again until tears were forming at the edge of her eye, but she still wouldn't stop. She kept putting her feet in front of the other, different moments where Naruto didn't give up on her filling her mind and heart. No, she wouldn't stop. Not when he has had so much faith in her, in so many moments in her life.

"It's impossible to change yourself." Neji's words filled her mind.

"Sure she can! Don't go deciding what a person is like!" Naruto's voice filled every part of her mind and soul. She did change, she changed for him.

"Go, Hinata!"Naruto's voice echoed throughout her head, cheering her on, moving her forward, as he always did.

"I always thought you were so negative, hesitant and weird. But I kind of like people like you." His words put a smile on her face, that was the moment someone accepted her just the way she was, as she accepted him.

She fell once again, but this time her body refused to get back up. So she dragged, dragged her body until she could get to him. His every word of encouragement, his every word of acceptance, his every intense look that made her faint, moments he wrapped his arms around her when she fell. It filled her body with strength until she made it right in front of him. Hinata kneeled and put both her hands on the bars stuck in Naruto's hands.

"I don't understand? Why would someone weak like you try to resist? Why fight me? Knowing… that you'll die?" Pain asked, confusion and disgust in his voice. A sacrifice for love… it was worthless to him.

Hinata took one last breathe. She needed him to know. She needed him to realize just how much he helped her move on in life, how much she admired him, just how much she loved him. And most of all she needed him to know that what she said and did was something she would never regret and would do again and again and again. She hoped that with these simple words he would understand that she loved him unconditionally and she always has.

"I never go back on what I say…" With these first words Naruto raised his head, looking up at her, his baby blue eyes finally seeing her completely, there was no one there distracting him to what he needed to see all along… it was just him and her.

"Because that's my Ninja way." With these last words, she did a small smile. Hinata fulfilled what she needed to do. She proved what she needed to prove to him and said what needed to be said now… it's all up to him.

The last thing she saw was Naruto's baby blue eyes looking at her, then she felt her body lift off the ground as Pain's force raised her off the ground and then she felt her body break… then the blackness took over.

But she didn't care because she said what she wanted to say.

The End