Naruto and Hinata didn't get much t

Naruto and Hinata didn't get much time to spent together since both were highly skilled jounin level ninja who often went on missions. But they never forgot to make time in their hectic schedules to meet up with each other and have at least one bowl of ramen or have a walk side by side, however brief it may be.

Today was one of those rare days that the two of them had the day off, together. It didn't happen often, but when it did happen, they spent a lot of time together to make up for the lost time.

It has been two years since the two started dating, but it was the first time he was in the village to celebrate his birthday with his girlfriend. Last year he had had to go on a mission that lasted quiet a while and missed his birthday completely. But this year, he had refused the mission that had come to him and instead decided to spend it with Hinata.

Usually his birthdays were spent alone. In his younger years, he spent his birthday alone because people had despised him. As he got older and the village and the people in it started to accept him, he missed his birthdays because he was too busy being a ninja to have a proper birthday. He has had a couple of birthday get together that his friends threw for him when all of them were together, but that hasn't happened in a while since everyone reached a high rank and went on long mission often.

May be the fact that he hasn't had a proper birthday in his entire life is the reason why he couldn't help but feel a little depressed when his birthday neared. From a young age all he wanted was to spend his birthday at home while his mother baked a cake for him and his father ran around town looking for the perfect gift for the perfect son. But that dream had never come true, but to the little orphan child in him that dream had never died, though the grown up Naruto knows the impossibility of that dream.

"What is it Naruto-kun? You look upset." he heard from beside him and his attention immediately went to his girlfriend.

They had decided to have a walk after lunch at Ichiraku's. After walking for about fifteen minutes, the two had sat down on a bench at a near by park. It was during that that Naruto's mind Wonder to impossible dreams of a seven year old who still lived inside him sometimes.

"Its nothing Hinata." he assured her with a grin turning to face her. "I just get a little depressed near my birthday. Noting too serious." he finished with the grin still in place.

"Why are you upset near your birthday? You should be happy because you get presents." she said with a smile.

"I never really got any presents now that I think about it. I spent it alone a lot." he said looking across him at the playground where kids of all ages played on the slide, the swings, the mary go round, on the see saw. He remembers sitting alone in every single one of those wishing there was someone else with him to play with.

"Naruto-kun..." he heard Hinata whisper and he turned his head towards her to see her lavender eyes looking at him with so much sadness and unshed tears. He quickly plastered on his usual grin in his face while he scratched the back of his neck.

"Don't be sad Hinata. I got used to it so its okay." he tried in an attempt to cheer her up. He couldn't stand seeing her eyes look like that.

"You shouldn't have had to get used to it." she said quietly looking away from his eyes, instead looking at the space on the bench between them. Then she suddenly raised her head and looked at him with bright eyes, though there was still a hint of sadness in them. "Naruto-kun, lets spend the whole day together tomorrow." she said looking at him expectantly her lavender eyes glowing with hope. "...And you could think the whole day about what you want as a birthday present and you can ask me for anything you want. I'll try my very best to get it for you." she said scooching a little to come closer to him on the bench. She looked so determined that he was speechless for a moment, staring at her with wide blue eyes.

He liked the idea of spending his whole birthday with her, that's why he had refused his mission after all. So he smiled at her before nodding his head to her offer.

"That sounds like fun." he told her and her eyes lost all its sadness to be replaced with a beautiful, happy and hopeful smile from her.

Later when he went home that day after dropping Hinata off at her house, Naruto thought about what he wanted as a birthday present because she threatened him to think about it seriously and no one believed him, but Hinata CAN get scary when she wants to and frankly he was scared. She had her sweet and cute side and usually that was the side that everyone got to see mostly, but she had her moments. To be completely frank though, he found that side of her to be sexy.

"Anything I wanted huh?" he wondered out loud, staring up at his ceiling as he lay on his bed with one hand behind his head and the other over his stomach.

Now that he thinks about it, he has everything. He is to be the official hokage in a few months, he has a wonderful girlfriend who loves him more than life itself and whom he loves more than he ever thought possible, he has friends and comrades who will not think twice about risking their lives to save his-not that he would ever let them- and he is acknowledged and praised by the very village and people who despised him as a kid and not to mention a job that pays him a shit load of money.

Yet even with all this he could feel it. He could feel that there was something missing.

He could feel it every night when he goes to sleep alone, he could feel it every morning when he wakes up alone on his bed, he could feel it as he had breakfast alone at a table meant for four people and he could feel it when he comes home from a long mission and says "I'm back" and he only receives silence as an answer and he could feel it when it's his birthday and no ones there to greet him happy birthday. It took him almost all night to figure out what that something was and after he figured it out, sleep was the last thing on his mind.

Though he must have fallen a sleep at some time during the night because he was completely out of it when he heard his name being called out. He knew it was Hinata, but he had no idea whether he was still dreaming- because he was having a rather steamy dream where she kept of screaming his name- or if she was actually somewhere close to him. He received his answer when he felt a gentle shake on his shoulder and slowly opened his blue eyes to be greeted with her smile.

"Happy birthday Naruto-kun." she said with a smile.

"Hmm." was the only thing that left his mouth in his tired state. He was still half a sleep and was only half sure that Hinata was in his apartment crouching on the ground in front of him.

"Wake up sleepy head. It's eleven o'clock." she said as she stood up and went to stand at the kitchen counter with her back to him. He stared at her back with half lidded eyes as she did what ever it was that she had been doing. Her long mid night hair that ran down her back was in a bun. She has abandoned her normal ninja attire and was instead wearing a knee length black pleated skirt and a cream coloured top with sleeves that ran off the shoulder slightly. An outfit, he remembers, he bought her recently.

He was on a mission when he saw the skirt and top and couldn't help think that Hinata would look super cute in it. He had bought it on impulse and later feared that the size may not be right. But it fit her perfectly and he was right...she does look cute in it.

"Hinata" he groaned her name lazily.

"Wash up Naruto-kun. I invited a couple of friends over. I hope you don't mind. Not too many, just Sakura-chan, Sasuke-kun, Ino-chan, Shikamaru-kun, Choji-kun and Tenten-chan. Everyone else was on missions." she said without turning to face him but still doing something at the counter.

"Hinata." he groaned again in a low voice, a little irritated. He's waiting for something and he had already decided unless he receives it he will not be getting out of bed. She turned to him with a perfectly trimmed raised eyebrow.

"You better wash up and brush your hair before Sasuke-kun gets here and sees it. He'll never stop making fun of it." she said with a sly smile, leaning her back on the counter. It is true. Because he has a tendency to move around a lot in his sleep, his hair gets a little...unorganized during the night. Every morning when he woke up his hair would look different. Sometimes it looked really good and he would just leave the house like that, but sometimes it got really creative.

He pouted at her, still unmoving from his position on the bed, sleeping on his stomach with one had somehow ending up off of the bed and simply hanging off the side. She let out a sigh, although her lips were already in an amused smile. She then walked over to his bed and crouched down in front of him. She shook her head with a smile and leaned closer to him and pecked his temple before running her hands in his blond hair to keep it out of his face.

"Happy? Now can you go wash up?" she asked as her slender fingers ran over his hair, making him want to fall back asleep.

"Can I get a kiss right here if I do it?"he asked sleepily, with a grin and pointing at his lips.

"I'll give you two." she said with a small blush, standing up from her crouched position and walking over to the counter again. With the promise of two of Hinata's soft kisses, Naruto walked to his bathroom.

Hinata shook her head and smiled in amusement at Naruto's childishness. He was twenty one years old and still as cute as ever. No one would think that Naruto was like this. Of course people knew he was cheerful, happy and childish at times. But this adorable side, the side of him that wouldn't get out of bed without a birthday kiss from her, is a side that is completely her's. A side that, he says, she had brought out from him.