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Hinata's eyes widened in shock as she realized what day it was. September 27th. Which meant that Naruto's birthday was in two weeks.

Naruto's 18th birthday.

She'd been lying in bed and was just about to fall asleep when the realization hit her. Her mind, however, was feeling too tired and lazy to come up with ideas as to what she and the others could do to celebrate it, so she decided to just sleep on it and wait until morning to discuss it with everyone.

The next morning, Hinata left to go to the training grounds to meet up with Sakura and Ino. The three kunoichi had no plans to train, though. The entire Konoha 12 had been promoted to Jōnin after the war, and since everything seemed to be fairly peaceful lately, there had been hardly any missions, so if they weren't training, they sat around with nothing to do.

Not that it was boring or anything. It was nice to have a break from missions, and to be able to relax properly. Being shinobi, they rarely got that opportunity.

Ino and Sakura arrived together, and sat with Hinata in the shade of a tree. They sat in comfortable silence for a while, before Sakura spoke.

"Lady Tsunade said I could have a break from the hospital," Sakura began, "she thinks I work too hard."

"You do," said Ino, "by the end of the day you're exhausted and you've used up almost all your chakra and then Naruto bugs Sasuke to walk you home to make sure you don't collapse." Ino said, rolling her eyes.

Sakura blushed slightly. She and Sasuke were still quite awkward around each other, never saying any more than they needed to. Sasuke's relationship with Sakura hadn't repaired itself automatically, like it had done with Naruto. It would take time, and a lot of work. Especially from Sasuke.

"Anyway," Sakura continued, "Lady Tsunade's been a lot busier than usual. Naruto's round at her office almost every day."

"Yeah." Hinata said, smiling. Everyone knew why Naruto was always with Tsunade these days. He was training to become the sixth Hokage. The position still wasn't secure, though, and there was a very big chance that it wouldn't happen, but as always, Naruto remained optimistic.

"It's his birthday in two weeks." Hinata suddenly blurted out.

"What?! In two weeks?" Ino shrieked.

"Wait... October 10th ... shit that is in two weeks!"

Hinata nodded. "And...err..."

"You want to have a party for him, right?" Ino asked, with a sly grin on her face.

Hinata blushed. Even when she wasn't using her clan's jutsu, Ino could read her too well.

"Well..." Sakura began, "he kinda deserves it, don't you think? I mean, I don't think he's ever had a proper birthday party."

"Don't you think he seems a bit old for – hold on, did you just say he's never had a birthday party?" Ino asked.

Sakura nodded. "We have celebrated his birthday. Team Seven, I mean – but he's never actually had a proper party, with all his friends there."

"Wow." Ino said.

Hinata felt a bit disheartened hearing that. Being the daughter of the head of the Hyūga clan, she'd always had lavish parties held at the Hyūga compound, with lots of guests there. But she hardly knew who any of them were. She suspected that they were just people from other clans who were there to speak to the head of the Hyūga clan, with no interest in his daughter. But, however unenjoyable her parties were, at least she'd had parties. The thought made Hinata frown.

"I guess he does kind of deserve it then..." Ino trailed off.

"What do you think we should do?" Sakura asked.

"Hmm... turning 18 is a milestone... coming-of-age kinda thing." Ino said. "But, he doesn't really seem like the kind of guy to have a posh, sophisticated party. He's a bit..."

"Childish," Sakura assured. "Childish is the word you're looking for." (Because god dammit, that guy had once managed to entertain himself for hours by pressing his face against the glass window of Tsunade's office and making faces while he was waiting for her to finish a meeting with those damn village elders).

"I think he needs the kind of party where he can be as childish as he wants. Something that he'll enjoy, where he won't have to pretend like he's someone he's not." said Hinata.

"What, you wanna go the whole hog and throw him a surprise party?" Ino asked, rolling her eyes.

"Piggy, are you serious?" Sakura asked.

"No, Forehead. Why?"

"Because that's actually a really good idea."

Naruto was standing outside Tsunade's office. He was there for his training (lecturing) and was waiting patiently (banging his head on the door) for whoever was talking to Tsunade to hurry the hell up so that they could talk (because he wanted to know for sure whether or not he was going to be Hokage, for goodness sake, and he sure as hell wasn't letting all his training go to waste.)

Hurry the hell up! Naruto thought.

The door suddenly opened, almost as though it had heard his thoughts, and Hinata stumbled out with Sakura behind her. Both kunoichi were red in the face and seemed to be in a hurry.

"Hey, Hinata!" Naruto said with a grin on his face.

"Naruto! W-what are you doing here?" she asked, and as soon as the question was out of her mouth she realised how bloody stupid that sounded, because why else would the self-proclaimed future Hokage be with the Hokage?

She silently cursed herself for stuttering as well. Even though it simply been because she was shocked, she didn't want to seem shy and awkward. It might give too much away. Plus, she wasn't that shy, awkward girl she used to be. She'd become much more confident, even around Naruto, but she still found it a little awkward talking to him after everything that had happened between them; the fight with Pein, her confession, and then the war.

"Ah, I'm here to train," he said, rubbing the back of his head, "what are you doing here?"

"We were, um, talking to Lady Tsunade-"

Sakura suddenly grabbed her arm and pulled.

"Come on, Hinata. Sorry, Naruto, we have to go!" she called as she dragged Hinata down the corridor.

Naruto stared after them. Weird, he thought to himself as he walked into Tsunade's office.

Hinata and Sakura stumbled into Hinata's room at the Hyūga compound. Sakura barely had time to turn around before she was tackled in a hug by the Hyūga heiress. Sakura started squealing and jumping up and down, and Hinata joined her.

"Ohmygosh, I can't believe it, I can't believe this is – that he's actually-"

"I know! Who would've thought that he... of all people... this is insane!"

The girls were in a complete state of shock and surprise, and a little bit of hysteria as well. They'd just got back from speaking with the Hokage and their run-in with Naruto, and after what Tsunade had told them, they had practically sprinted home to let out the excitement.

Hinata turned around and frantically ran her fingers through her dark hair.

"He's – he's... gonna be... Hokage..." she said faintly.

Sakura laughed lightly.

"It's official," she said, "it's really happening. He's going to be the sixth Hokage."

First chapter! But I feel like this came out weird :/ not quite how I imagined it. Everything seems a bit obvious. But anyway, the next couple of chapters will be much better than this one, so hopefully I haven't bored you with this one :s

But anyways, R&R, tell me what you think! :D