It was his sixteenth birthday and Naruto was walking home from his favorite Ramen Stand when his nose picked up a scent. It was absolutely delectable, it made drew him to it and made his groin tighten. He tried to ignore it, but the source was Hinata waiting on his doorstep for him.

"Ah, Naruto-kun, I... ah, I mean, Happy Birthday," she said nervously holding out a present for him.

His face lit up, "Really Hinata? A present for me? You're the best come in and I'll open it," he said forcing himself to ignore the smell that seemed to be emanating from her. He opened the door and let her inside, quickly throwing some clothes into his bedroom and shutting the door and sweeping some random scrolls and weapons into a random drawer out of sight. "Uh, I can make up some tea and ramen for you," he offered, unused to playing host but he had the idea that you had to feed guests.

Hinata just nodded taking a seat on the couch that he gestured to, while Naruto was busy in the kitchen. Hinata longed to tidy the place, it wasn't that bad, but it was obvious that the owner didn't clean all that often from the dust on the windows and unused bits of the room. It was just a minute or two before Naruto popped back into the room with a little tray with tea and ramen. "There, we can just give them a couple minutes to cook and we can eat, and in the meantime I can open your present," he said really excited for the present.

Hinata held it out to Naruto who gleefully took it and opened it up pulling the ribbon off and opening the box. Inside was a cake with orange icing saying Happy Birthday Naruto. "I, um, I baked it myself," Hinata admitted blushing.

"Wow, really Hinata? That's amazing, I've never had anyone cook anything for me before. You're the greatest," he exclaimed, giving her a quick hug which caused her scent to spike. Naruto backed away, grateful that he was sitting so his predicament wasn't apparent. "Uh, so, are you wearing a new perfume?" he asked.

Hinata made a confused face and tried to discretely smell herself. "Ah, no... I don't wear perfume..." she said confused, she couldn't smell anything.

"Oh... uh, sorry, you just smell really good," Naruto said not sure what was going on with himself. "Ah, maybe it's the cake, I'm sure it's delicious," he said with a big grin to change the conversation.

Hinata just smiled, "Um... perhaps the tea's ready, would you like me to pour?" she offered, and at Naruto's nod began pouring the tea for them. Naruto checked the instant ramen and set one in front of Hinata with chopsticks and then put one in front of himself.

"So, dig in," Naruto said doing so himself. Hinata followed suit, though a little more delicately. She smiled at Naruto involuntarily, some people did not appreciate Naruto's eating habits to say the least, but Hinata found them endearing, he threw himself into eating just as much as he threw himself into anything he ventured and she admired him for his spirit.

Naruto returned the smile, and thought Gosh, she's even cute when she's eating, as he watched her take little delicate bites, she could even eat ramen like a lady.

When they were done Naruto suggested they cut the cake and ran into the kitchen for plates and a knife. He held it out to Hinata, "Would you mind, I can be kind of messy with food and you'd do it so neatly," he said. Hinata blushed but took the knife and cut the cake, a little piece for herself and a big piece for Naruto. Naruto took one bite and declared it the best cake ever made. It did come out good, rich and moist, so it wasn't too far of a stretch for Naruto, but Hinata just blushed again and nodded her thanks.

Although Naruto was doing his very best to ignore it his erection was kind of getting well, painful. Hinata smelled REALLY good and he kept noticing all these little things about her that he hadn't seen before, like how you could see the rise and fall of her breasts even through her jacket, and he wanted to tuck her hair behind her ear so he could touch her face, and she had a little crumb of cake stuck to her bottom lip that he REALLY wanted to kiss away. He was beginning to think he was going crazy, and it was making him a little bit absentminded.

Hinata noticed that his attention seemed to be straying and she assumed it was away from herself. "Ah, I really should be going, I have to get home," she said making an excuse to leave, believing that Naruto wanted her to leave, when in reality he was trying to keep himself from dragging her to his bedroom.

"Oh, Hinata, that's too bad, um, maybe we could do this again? I could get the treats next time. There's a nice bakery and you could come over for tea and treats," he said, not really understanding why, just knowing that he wanted her to come back.

"Really?" Hinata blurted out, suprised. "Uh, I mean, sure," she said blushing, but excited that Naruto wanted to spend more time with her.

"Great, how about tomorrow, uh, you could come over in the evening, we could watch a movie or something?" he offered spontaniously.

Hinata's heart seemed to stop in her chest, that sounded suspiciously like a date, "Yes," she got out, before leaving and then bolting home to squeal in her pillow.

Naruto had an idiotic grin on his face. Then he looked down and frowned, he decided it would be a good idea to have a shower and "take care of himself" since it didn't seem to be going away.

When he was done his shower he came back out & looked around his apartment and frowned. He started picking things up and actually cleaned, he thought Hinata would like it neat and tidy, she just sort of gave off the vibe that she was a neat person. He was sure that her house would be much nicer than his. He was cleaning for about an hour when he heard someone at the door. He opened it up and Sakura was standing there. "Hey Naruto, a bunch of us are going to see a movie tomorrow night, did you want to come?" she asked.

"Sorry Sakura, I already have plans," he told her without remorse, "Maybe another time, sorry, but I have to get back to cleaning, I have company tomorrow," he said closing the door and returning to his work. Sakura blinked a few times in shock before turning to slowly walk away. By the time Naruto went to bed that night the house was spotless, it had never been that clean since it was built, he was also serious considering painting, but he didn't think the smell would go away before the next night so he put it off and finally fell exhausted into bed.