Team 8/Heartwarming

""I just wanted to have lunch with my best friend.""
 * Kurenai telling Naruto in chapter 8 that his actions were well within his role on the team. She concludes that she's proud of Naruto--something to which Naruto doesn't know how to react.
 * Naruto's words to Hinata as she recovers from her injuries in the hospital.

"Naruto: I visited your cousin in the hospital after you nearly killed her. I saw her every day, and she never mentioned seeing a single member of her family when she was there. She really only asked for one thing from me when I visited her. Do you know what that was?
 * Naruto's answer to Neji's questions of why he spared his life when he obviously didn't want to all boils down to this: Because Hinata asked him to.

Neji:

Naruto: Your life."

"Jiraiya: Your sensei ; I doubt at this point you'd have been anything but a hindrance. Your job is to work your ass off and get good enough so that when you do get a chance, you can clean his fucking clock. Do you understand me?
 * "That's bullshit!" Hinata throws Naruto right out of his angst with those words, her faith in him really shining through to him in a true moment of need.
 * Shino gives us two moments. One is when he tears into his clan for their part in the many grievances befalling Naruto. The second is when his father, Shibi, backs him up.
 * A subtle one after the Chunin exam tournament duels. After Shino and Chouji fight, Shino is seen waiting for the next battle to start eating a bag of chips (which Chouji regularly uses to "help replenish his chakra").
 * Chapter 19: A deeply shaken Naruto's meeting with the Hokage. Naruto knew why the villagers hated him, but he only partially knew it was because of the Hokage's actions. Despite all that, the first thing he does is embrace the Hokage, and the old man realizes that Naruto has forgiven him.
 * Chapter 21: Naruto and Jiraya's father/son moment:

Naruto: (nodding) Does it ever get any easier?

Jiraiya: Not even a little...and if it ever does, then I don't want to know you. Understand?"


 * The funeral scene. Shino and Hinata comforting Naruto when he finally breaks down. Kakashi and Asuma's quiet restraint of Hiashi and leaving him with the knowledge that if he disrupts 's funeral to reprimand Hinata, he will be joining in the ground.