Entry for DateMe (July)

Title: Celebration
Disclaimer: Characters (and song) don't belong to me. I can only dream.
Rating: K+ just to be safe. I think.
Warning: First fic, un-beta'd and whatnot. Would really like some help…
Word Count: 1109
Summary: Fireworks are always best watched with someone else. Funfunfun.

"But I won't hesitate no more,

no more, it cannot wait

I'm yours"

"I'm Yours" – Jason Mraz

The sky was still tinged with the last rays of the sun, with streaks of orange and purple mingling. Faint sounds of laughter and conversation drifted through the air, momentarily louder as the door opened and closed, revealing a girl in a red yukata.

She looked around, once, twice, to make sure no one had noticed her departure. With a relieved sigh, she settled down on the porch leading to the garden, unpinning her hair and letting it hang loose. Pearl-gray eyes closed in momentary rest; she relaxed to the sounds of the water running nearby.

"Hinata?" Startled to hear a male voice so close to her, she opened here eyes and stared into clear blue eyes.

Rearranging her face so that her surprise didn't show as clearly, she tilted her head back to see the person better. Blond hair, blue eyes, tall, well-built (she would not go farther than that), wearing a dark blue yukata. Only one person could fit that description.

"Naruto-kun?" she asked, wondering what he was doing at the flower garden in the Hyuuga compound. "Are you here for the party?" She didn't think that he would come so soon after he had just come back, but it was a party for all chuunin and above…

"Well, I didn't really want to come, but since apparently everyone else is in there… why aren't you in there?" he replied, raising his eyebrows.

"Er…" Hinata blushed and looked down again, thinking how nice it was that he was in a yukata (really, dark colors looked much nicer on him than orange, although that was…an interesting color scheme, to say the least). "It was getting hot in there, and well, it was kind of boring… Plus, there wasn't going to be any fireworks."

He looked at her, wondering whether fireworks were that important to her.

Feeling the weight of his stare on her, she started to blush and fell into her old habit of poking her fingers together. Trying to cover up her nervousness, she began to speak quickly, "A-ah, well, we – that is, Neji and Hanabi and I would always watch the fireworks and w-well, they were scheduled to be today, but w-we were supposed to be inside the r-room and s-so I don't think that t-they could come o-out, but I thought that the fireworks were going to start soon and –––" abruptly, she clasped her hands to her mouth, realizing that she was rambling, and blushed even harder when Naruto started to laugh.

"Was that why? Oh, well, then, that's easily fixed. Come with me." And without preamble, he took her hand in his and began to insistently pull her towards the gate. "Come on! You said that you wanted to see the fireworks, right? Well, there's this tree that's got the perfect view…"

But Hinata zoned out after that, almost shuffling behind him automatically while she smiled at his enthusiasm for all things, even for something like fireworks. And then her attention focused on the fact that he was holding her hand. Holding her hand! As if it was perfectly ordinary to do something so intimate so easily.

She was so busy thinking about the fact that even their fingers were intertwined that she missed it when he looked back at her, wondering why she was so quiet. He started to ask her if something was wrong when he saw the way her eyes were half-closed in contentment and her lips were turned upwards at the end. He wondered absently whether she smiled like that all the time, and almost felt a surge of resentment towards Neji for being able to see her more than he did. (Which was not true in fact, she had almost become his shadow after he returned, and had he ever turned around, he would have seen the same smile more often than not.)

"N-Naruto-kun?"

"Hmmm?" Startled, he turned around and she bumped into him, almost knocking him over by their combined momentum. He automatically reached out and caught her arm as she wobbled back and forth, and then she was steady.

"Ah, thank –––" Once again, her reply died in her mouth as she realized how close she was to him, and how intently he was staring at her. She thought that she would faint again by being this close to him, with his breath mingling with hers, and holding her on both sides.

He leaned an inch closer, and pressed his lips softly against hers. The kiss deepened and she leaned forward to put her hands in his hair. Neither noticed when the fireworks were lit, only wondering at the sensation of another's lips and how it felt oh-so-good. When they pulled back (almost reluctantly), Naruto was scratching his head and stammering "Oh, sorry so much! That was well, um, an –––" but was cut off again by another kiss.

"Haha, t-that felt good," was her response while she waited for him to say something. As the seconds ticked by, she grew more and more nervous, wondering oh-my-god what had she done, and so pointed at the sky, "Oh look! F-fireworks! I always wonder what th-they're celebrating…" She wondered why he hadn't spoken (in the back of her mind the voice whispered that it was because she had kissed him and he probably was wondering why the 'shy, quiet weird person' had done that).

Finally trusting himself to look at her, he said "Well, they must be celebrating for us then, right?" and oh-so-casually put his arm around her shoulder. He felt relieved when she leaned into him, relaxing, and then both watched the rest of the fireworks.

Author's note: help! Help! I am so confuzzled! I don't even know if a kiss would make the rating would go up, if it does, can someone help me with that too? First fic ever, would like some helpful pointers or anything you see fit to give me : (Reviews are good too…)