"This is bothersome," Hinata thought as she told her father goodbye. The disapproving glances from the rest of her clan showed who agreed with her reason for leaving. Yes, she was leaving the festival in celebration of the village's founding early, but it was for a legitimate reason. She mostly trained at night, so her eyes were much more sensitive to light than the rest of her family's, and the fireworks hurt them. Leaving before the fireworks started and getting a good distance away would spare her most of the glare. Maybe she could go find out how well she trained in her kimono. That would work.

"This is crap," Naruto sighed to himself. "Whose stupid idea was it to celebrate the village's founding with fireworks? What good does it do?" Because of him containing the Kyuubi, he got certain "side effects" along with it, one of those being enhanced hearing. So the boom from the fireworks made his hearing go haywire. "This sucks," he muttered, angry that he had to leave early. Maybe he could go farther away and test his hearing against the fireworks at a training ground or something. Yeah, that could work.

Naruto was just getting to the ground when he realized someone else was there. It was Hinata. In a kimono. He never saw her in a kimono. She would always evade him when the village was having big ceremonies that forced her to be there with her clan. But she was there training in her kimono instead of being with her family.

"Hey Hinata."

She turned at the sound of her name being called, and when she realized who was calling it, she nearly broke her foot in mid-kick. Instead she broke the post. She winced as her foot came back down and checked the damage to it. Naruto was beside her in an instant. "It wasn't the smartest idea, training in a dress," he told her. She nodded numbly. On the inside she was hyperventilating. Although, she had figured out a while ago that if she didn't look at him, she could speak like a relatively normal person. The fireworks began to go off and at the first boom, she instinctively looked up and winced when the bright lights hit her eyes. She also made the mistake of letting her eyes stray to Naruto's face; a face that was studying her's.

The fireworks went off and the boom resounded loudly in Naruto's ears. He flinched but caught sight of Hinata's face as she glanced behind him. The fireworks lit up her usually blank eyes, and her midnight hair fell lightly around her face. He never realized she looked that amazing. He was entranced, and he did the only thing that came to mind. He kissed her.

Hinata did not understand what was going on. Naruto was just kissing her out of the blue, and she didn't understand why. Her first thought was that he might be drunk. But in this sudden... closeness, she couldn't smell any alcohol on his breath. She should have pushed him away and told him to explain himself. She should have pushed him away because in a few seconds her heart would be broken and her world would crash and burn, but she couldn't stop her hands from tangling themselves in his golden hair.

He had no idea what he was doing, none whatsoever. He should have just stopped and told her that he was an idiot. He should have just stopped and told her that he had feelings for Sakura, but he couldn't seem to stop. And when her soft hands reached up to tangle themselves in his hair, and his arms fell to rest on her waist he realized he wasn't going to stop and neither was she. And as their kiss deepened, neither minded the fireworks bursting in the distance at all.