Holiday fic

AN: All-righty then, for those of you who have been hanging on my every word and update, (ha, like anyone would), I am very sorry that it has taken me this long to write a new update. I was considering putting one up on singles appreciation day but could not bring myself to due to personal issues. For those persons over seas who are not aware, (dude. All know just start fricking writing already), the forth of July is the date the US celebrates it's independence from Great Britten. (And the blasted colonials all get drunk and risk killing themselves) Would you kindly stop interrupting? (Fine. Fine. Just get one with it.) Anyway, this was partially inspired by Black Cat. I do not own either that anime/manga or naruto. I am just a poor starving artist who can't come up with his own characters yet because I'm still working on getting published. Enjoy and let me know what you think.

"Come on hime. You need to keep up or you'll get lost in this crowd."

"Naruto, you know I asked you not to call me that in public. It's embarrassing. And why are you in such a rush? We just got off the plane. We can take it easy and see the sites here in LA. There's no need to run about like there's an assassin on your tail or something."

The abnormally tall boy turned and a wide grin. "We have to make it to a certain place before nightfall. Besides, the real place to visit is down by the shore and Little Tokyo. Ichi Raku told me he has a brother who just moved here and opened up a ramin shop." At this, the blond's eyes glazed over and a bit of saliva started gathering at the corner of his mouth.

"How do you know so much about LA?" Hinata said trying to pull him form his ramin induced comma.

"Oh," He said pulling himself together. "I visited a cousin of mine last summer and she showed me all around."

"You didn't tell me you had relatives." Hinata said with a bit of a pout on her face.

Naruto laughed. "Ya, Uzumaki Enzeru is my mother's sister's daughter. Tsunade-baa cha was looking for someone to meet me when I got off the plain, you know, to make sure that I got though customs and wasn't arrested for some dumb reason." Here he rubbed the back of his head and Hinata gave a small smile. "And she happened to find that Enzeru was part of an organization that helped travelers from Japan when they came to the United States. When I came out of the terminal doors and I see this red blur coming right at me, I didn't know what to do. I had just spent the last couple of hours crammed into a seat in a high-Tec tin can and my first view of the United States is a crazy chick with flaming red hair running for me at full tilt." Naruto shakes his head and smiles. "It was only after I had been thoroughly hugged that she explained who she was. She offered me the couch at her place explaining that hotel prices were through the roof thanks to…the summer holidays being on." He had nearly slipped. Naruto looked over at Hinata to see if she had noticed. She didn't seem to much more puzzled than when he had started as she stared at all the people running about with flags bottles and other various party paraphernalia.

"Naruto why is every one…" Hinata started to ask but Naruto quickly cut her off.

"Look that's her house up at the top of this hill." He pointed to a dark blue two story house that looked a little out of place among its plain white neighbors.

"Good, I was starting to get worn out from all this walking. Isn't there a better way we could have gotten to her house?"

Naruto flushed slightly. "Ya, we could have taken a trolley but I wanted to spend more time with just you and me."

It was Hinata's turn to blush and she outdid her boyfriend since she had had so much more practice.

We Naruto knocked on the door a woman whom Hinata would have guessed was about 23 answered the door and greeted naruto with a hug and some English she could not understand. She then turned to Hinata and said in perfect Japanese, "Hey Hinata-neesan. How was your trip? Did this dumby behave himself?"

She was a bit stunned by the use of the family term but quelled her surprise and said "He was fine. The plane was a bit tiring but I will be fine. The walk to your beautiful house helped me stretch my legs."

Enzeru turned back towards her cousin and started what sounded like scolding but again she spoke in English so Hinata could not tell exactly what she said. Naruto answered in kind in a sheepish tone by the end of which Enzeru looked placated. She lead them into the kitchen and handed them a bowl of pop corn. "I'll join you guys in a minute. I'm just going to pull this other bag out." Naruto pulled Hinata over to the stairs.

"What was that about?" Hinata asked once they were out of ear-shot gesturing to the front door.

"She was pissed that I made you walk. Figured I was being a cheapskate."

"Oh." Hinata said. Then she asked. "What's with the popcorn? And why are we going upstairs?"

"You'll see in a bit. Come on; take a seat on the couch over here." He said sitting down on a large sectional facing a picture window overlooking the bay. The sun had been on the way down when they had arrived and now the final rays were sliding from the sky.

"This was worth the climb." Hinata said, snuggling closer into Naruto's warm shoulder.

"And it's about to get better." As if on cue, a huge boom went off followed by a flash and a scattering of sparks in the night sky.

"What the-"Hinata almost screamed.

"Happy forth of July Hinata-hime." Naruto said as he pulled his future wife into a warm kiss.

At that moment, Uzumaki Enzeru opened the door. Then, seeing what was going on, decided to go watch the show from downstairs. "Enjoy little cousin." She said with a smile and walked back down the stairs.