Author's Note: Hey, readers! Firstly, I'd like to thank you personally with utmost gratitude for giving this piece a chance, despite that abomination of a summary. Okay, now to the bulk of this: first, please note that this work will be a compilation of oneshots, so there will be no continuing plot, and the scenes will vary from chapter to chapter; second, I write my oneshots with specific structure so that the read is bit more relaxed and casual, rather than strict and grammatical; last, if you have any comment/question/concern, please feel free to leave a review, or PM me as an alternative. With those pesky comments out of the way, please enjoy!

Ring! Ring! Ring!

The act of not crushing the clock required a majority of Naruto's mental strength. With gritted teeth, the blonde sat up, reached across his body and tried to press Snooze. Pressing the button would have been easy had his wife not reached over him and grabbed his wrist.

"No, Naru-kun. We need to get up this time. We need to help Lady Tsunade with her house and I think the Winter Festival needs volunteers for set-up," her sleepy voice called, betraying the fact that she still had both legs beneath the covers. Naruto lay back down facing his navy-haired wife as the alarm discontinued its screams, every bit as astounded by her beauty as he was the day that he realized he loved her. Holding his chin on his palm, he spoke with closed eyes,

"You see, you say that, but we don't need to get up. I mean, we could just-"

"No." Naruto pouted and partly opened his eyes to jokingly leer into her weary lilac gaze, slowly edging closer to her. The former Hyuuga slowly raised her back from the bed and stretched with a yawn, placing her hand atop her husband's as she leaned over and pressed her lips against his and caressing his toned chest with her opposite hand. Leaning his forehead against Hinata's, Naruto calmly told with widened cerulean eyes,

"If you want me to go to work, you better give me my shirt so I don't give any funny thoughts to the other girls around town." He cracked Hinata's favorite half-smile with his cocky statement, flexing his well-developed muscular build and hoping to win his wife's choice through a very unfair trick.

"Not a chance," she replied with a grin, "I'm far too cold." The Leaf's hero pointed to their room's sole window on the opposite wall, where one could witness late autumn's humid suns quickly morphing to early winter's biting cold, when mothers forbade their offspring from playing in the snow and the number one commodity changed to hot chocolate.

"If I'm going out there, this deal is not a choice, *hime," he chuckled, idly playing with her silky hair and nibbling lightly on her ear. The lavender-eyed goddess took two fistfuls of Naruto's loose black undershirt, lightly tugging at the collar to reveal a bit more chest so that the top half of her cups were quite visible.

"Are you a hundred percent sure of that, you big, strong man?" she laughed with a growing smile spreading across her face, tilting her head suggestively. Naruto raised his eyebrows and placed his hands on his wife's sides.

"Back to your old tricks, are you?" They both laughed at Hinata's childish attempt at persuasion. "I know you think I am still pretty childish, and in that you may be right, but I, ma'am, have something no one in the world can resist."

Giving in to Naruto's touch, Hinata reacquainted her back with their bed, her hands gently touching her husband's whisker-kissed face and her smile unable to leave her face.

"Would that happen to be your beautiful butt?" she giggled, using one hand to slap Naruto a bit below the belt through his pajama pants. Amused, Naruto lowered his head to the crook of his beloved's neck, laying small kisses on her collar bone whilst musing,

"Actually, it's a bit more handsy than that." Lightly biting her index finger, Hinata allowed a small moan to escape her velvet lips as Naruto pecked a trail to her navel, unable, and perhaps refusing, to hold back her giddiness. As his lips once again met her belly button, Naruto, with a quick jump, leapt back on top of her, snapping his hands to her sides and wasting no time in beginning to tickle her.

"Damn it, Naru-kun," Hinata coughed, desperately holding back laughter as she attempted to shove her lover off of her with her legs. Fighting against his wife's unexpectedly strong quads, Naruto held her legs apart with his elbows and continued his assault, listening to his wife scream with laughter as though she were his favorite song. Although the encounter only lasted about two and a half minutes, Hinata lay breathless for at least twice that amount of time, even after Naruto retracted his hands from her abdomen and lay back down beside her. There he quietly remained for about ten minutes with his wife's head lazily resting over his heart before she spoke once more,

"Okay, we can sleep in...again." Raising the fallen covers back over their bodies, Naruto placed a final kiss onto Hinata's small forehead. With a flick of his wrist, and a bit of Chakra, Naruto winded the curtains over the window, bathing the two in maroon light. With a final movement, Naruto flicked the power switch of the clock to OFF. Listening to the quiet breaths of his lady, his leader, his love, Naruto whispered to himself,

"Works every time."

*hime (HE-meh) = princess/beautiful woman