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Chapter 1: Admittance

'There he is,' she thought, 'this is my chance!'

She walked up to him, blushing slightly and looking at the floor.

Nervously tapping her forefingers together, she stammers out a quiet "H-hello N-naruto."

"Huh? Oh, hey Hinata! Is something wrong, your face is all red," he exclaimed, leaning toward Hinata to look closer at her now red face.

"Uh..." She pauses, trying to remember why she was there. She looked down at the ground blushing even more as she remembered what she was about to say.

She finally manages to mumble, "I... I l-love you Naruto."

Not able to completely hear her, he straightens up and scratches the back of his head. 'She's a weird one,' he thinks.

He decided not to pester her seeing as how she fainted easily ('I wonder if she's sick?'), so he made up some lame excuse to get away. "I... I just remembered that I... have to... meet someone! Yeah! I have to meet... someone... somewhere...," his voice trailed off toward the end.

"Anyways, I have to go," he started running, yelling over his shoulder, "I'll see you around Hinata-chan!"

Naruto thought about what he thought Hinata had said on his way to meet the someone that didn't exist.

'I... I l-love you Naruto.' That had to be what she said. Right?

But how can she have feelings for him, doesn't she know he already had a girlfriend?

'Sakura!' Naruto's bogus excuse suddenly became a legitimate one when he remembered their date.

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Hinata stood slightly shocked where Naruto had left her. 'Did he hear me?' She wondered. She hoped he had. It had taken her a lot of courage to reveal her feelings to her, and even more to not faint. Her pale lavender eyes closed as tears started to form at the corner of her eyes.

'Did the man I love just deny me?' The tears started rolling down her cheeks as she ran home.