This is my first attempt at a fanfic and i am a big fan of Naruto. ALL the rights related to Naruto and Naruto Shippuden belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

So i would like your like your opinion on my work and ANY suggestions that you may have for me.

This episode is a valentine's special. Though not much is done but a begining point in the relationship of Naruto and Hinata as well as some bromance between Naruto and Sasuke along with some training.

Flashbacks

Something Jutsu

'Thoughts'

"Speaking"

'BIJU/SUMMON THOUGHTS'

"BIJU/SUMMON SPEAKING"

Update 1: 3 Jun 2016

Grammatical corrections and some minor updates.

Chapter 2

Eventually it was evening, about 4. Naruto hastily made his way to the top of the Hokage mountain. Time seemed to fly by when he was getting late, the reason being the 'Hinata Incident', as he came to call it.

Sasuke, on the other hand, was planning to test the skills of this boy who seemed to be oddly familiar to him.

As a result, he was hiding, quiet skillfully, on the top of a tree that had just started to bloom flowers. So it was easy to hide there.

Still he worked out angles between the leaves and flowers in order to figure out from where can he look without being spotted.

The whole procedure took the better part of 30 minutes and involved several log pieces, flowers and leaves being cut and reshaped. He was concealed perfectly.

Half an hour later, he noticed Naruto running up to the place. And to his surprise, after a few seconds of bobbing his head left to right, Naruto gazed right at him.

"YO! Sasuke, what are you doing up there?".

"..."

"SASUKE! CAN YOU HEAR ME UP THERE?"

"..."

Sasuke was speechless. His tiresome attempts of hiding himself in a way that would take at least a sensor chunin to spot him went right down the drain as the blonde boy figured out his hiding place in an instant.

As Sasuke was coping with the fact that his friend was a sensor in his internal monologue, Naruto had climbed the said tree and was now sitting beside him.

"This place sucks. You can't see anything from here." Naruto complained.

Sasuke's entire body suffered goosebumps. He was frozen. No one had ever had a jump on him except for Shisui and Itachi, in his little life of 6 years anyways.

Slowly he regained his composure a little. "H-how?" Sasuke asked, his fright written in bold letters on his face.

"How what?" Naruto asked intelligently.

"How did you find me?" Sasuke asked a little boldly this time.

"Uhh... you said to visit here didn't you?" Naruto replied.

Sasuke didn't move a muscle in his body for the next few seconds.

"Ohh... that!... Well you see I had to search for my sister whenever we went out to play when we were little. She was always hyper-active and wandered off. Mom couldn't find her easily but I always did. She would say that it was a special link between twins... Yeah right. Like sensing someone in a marketplace of over half a thousand people, mindlessly shopping, was a link. I looked through some scrolls that I... 'borrowed' from our clan library and figured out that it was called sensory perception, present in all the people but some specialize in it. Those are called sensors, like me."

This little explanation was enough for the sharp minded Uchiha to grasp the basic idea what happened. "So you are a sensor" Sasuke said.

Naruto gazed back at him with a deadpan look,"... Yup... Soo... you were trying to test me weren't you?"

Sasuke looked sheepish and replied "Yes, I wanted to see what you were capable of."

"Oh... Ok." Naruto replied. Nothing more was said for a while.

"So-" "So-" They both spoke at the same time.

"You go first" Naruto said.

Sasuke looked to argue but quickly figured that it would be a waste of time to do so. "How was your day?" He asked.

Naruto looked thoughtful for a second then said "Good, nothing note wort- Wait! Wait! Wait! I almost forgot. Do you know the Hyuga clan's Heiress?"

Sasuke shook his head.

The blonde continued "Well I met her this morning. Her name's Hinata and she was being bullied by a few students from the academy, second or third years probably."

"So what did you do?" Sasuke asked.

"Well I obviously don't like bullies so I... uhh... took care of them." Naruto replied.

"How exactly did you do so? Sasuke asked, intrigued.

"Well… I'll tell you from the beginning. So I was going by the academy..."

And with that Naruto described the 'Hinata incident' in full detail to the Uchiha. He left nothing out due to the feeling of brotherhood that he felt around the boy. Which included the flashback, the timings and the exact hue of the shade of red that was present due to Hinata's blush.

Sasuke maintained different levels of expressions during the entire description. He was first proud, then awed, then a little jealous, and finally smirking with an occasional hint of evil chuckles.

The last part was during the aftermath of the one-sided pummeling that occurred when the blonde and his, now, admirer were exchanging greetings. Who knew that Sasuke uchiha was a love expert inside.

The chuckles were a direct result of his plan to talk Naruto into getting his teachers to train him as well, along with playing matchmaker with Naruto and Hinata. With the basic layout of his plan ready in his mind, he began its first steps.

"Ive got a proposal for you." Sasuke said. "Let's have a spar. If you beat me, then I'll tell you about that little situation that you had with Miss Hyuga earlier because you don't seem to grasp the concept here. Plus it will help us determine each other's weaknesses and strengths. So, how about it?"

Naruto seemed thoughtful for a second then replied "Sure. Let's have a spar. The offer seems decent enough, Also I've never fought someone of my level yet."

Sasuke smirked, Naruto rolled his fists, wind blew and their hair seemed to move with it. The grass moved and each changed their stance. In their heated stare-down, Sasuke blinked, Naruto blinked, the rabbit in the bushes blinked. The hypothetical leaf touched the ground and with a battle cry, they charged, with their fists clashing and repelling the other.

Naruto, as he had been taught by Kakashi, calmed his mind and focused on his opponent's stance trying to find out the weakness that lies in it. Sasuke, on the other hand, had the advantage of being used to intercepting each style and thus charged again.

They exchanged blows continuously. Naruto threw a punch at Sasuke's left rib-section which the said boy blocked with a left chop and proceeded to turn his body around Naruto and hit his head with his right elbow.

Naruto, however, saw this coming as soon as Sasuke began to turn. Naruto bowed while keeping a keeping a firm grip on the Uchiha's hand tried to throw him over corrected himself in mid-air and landed on his feet.

"You're good." Naruto complimented.

Sasuke responded "You're not bad yourself."

Enough was said and they charged again.

This continued for almost two hours.

But in the end this battle of taijutsu was won by Naruto due to the better conditioning of his body courtesy of the Green Beast.

Sasuke tired out and Naruto was still standing, ready for more. "Is that all that the great Sasuke Uchiha can do?" Naruto mock-asked.

Sasuke developed a tick mark on his head before he noticed Naruto's legs shaking a little. "You're not doing much better yourself are you?" Sasuke responded with a smirk, which was reciprocated by Naruto.

Soon they both started laughing and Naruto held his hand out to Sasuke. Sasuke took hold of it and stood-up. Then abruptly fell on their backs again. Just sitting there resting themselves for a little while before Sasuke decided to pay-up on his end of the deal. Not that he wouldn't have otherwise. But it was still something that he wanted to do.

"So Naruto... What do you know about 14th of feb or, as people call it, Valentine's Day?" And with that began Naruto's tutoring on the world of love and the significance of the 14th of feb, something that will severely help the Namikaze and the Hyuga clans in their future relationship.

The explanation took the better part of the hour but now Naruto was armed with the knowledge of Valentine's day and was determined to make Hinata his first one. Little did he know she might also be his only one.

"Wait a sec… I want something in return too." Sasuke spoke, breaking the flow of determination that was now present in the blond boy's head.

Naruto just cocked his head in return.

Taking the que, Sasuke said "I want you to train with me. Your teachers can help me too can't they? I want to be strong too."

"Is that it? I was planning to ask you to come train with me anyways. The way you fight is great. I could learn something from you.". That was something that Sasuke didn't expect. "Well, in that case, you can come train with me and Shisui too- whenever he is free of course." Sasuke said.

"I'll be there" Naruto replied without missing a beat. The idea of more training, by Shisui of teleportation no less, excited the young blonde.

"So, about that valentine's day thing. Do you know any doton users?" Asked Sasuke.

"Yup. Inu is one. Now that I think about it, he almost posseses all the affinities. Maybe not Wind..."

After noticing the questioning look on the face of the Uchiha, he continued "The one who overlooks my ninjutsu training and teaches me the so called 'finer aspects of a shinobi'. He's all weird and loony sometimes but he can also be a slave driver. Anyways, he is a doton user. So… what about him?".

Sasuke replied" Well that's good for you. But he can help you learn some earth manipulation so you can maybe create some benches for yourselves wherever you want and make any sort of clearing and design it to fit yourself. That all just depends on your creativity."

Naruto had a thoughtful look, then replied" Yup. Sounds great. I can create any sort of settings for our date, assuming she agrees to go on one with me." Naruto replied, suddenly looking comically depressed.

Sasuke just sighed. The Namikaze can be a ray of sunshine when happy and a sudden mood change can cause him to become its total reverse. So Sasuke began to cheer him up and give him more tips for the upcoming event.

Despite knowing each other for nothing more than a day, they became besties. Able to understand each other's feelings and provide comfort when needed. This was something more than friendship. This much was clear to them both. A bond forged not in this life, but somewhere in the past. True brothers, not in blood, but in bond.

After some more planning, they bid farewell and were on their way home.

THE NEXT DAY

Naruto had spent the better part of last night not practicing seals, but studying more of his 'borrowed' scrolls. This time on doton.

The number of scrolls was enormous, as expected of a clan library.

Minato and Kushina were the same and Naruko was still too immature to notice anything. So Naruto had no problems slipping in and out without catching any of his family's attention.

After breakfast, he and Sasuke had agreed to meet at the marketplace and find Kakashi.

The said person was out the village currently on a mission. So, the two searched for him for the most morning having little to no success.

Eventually Sasuke said" Dude, why can't we just ask your dad about his whereabouts. I mean I know about your condition but still you can always ask him. If not as a son, then as a citizen in need."

Naruto was conflicted. On one hand he didn't want to depend on his father, on the other, even his sensory skills were proving ineffective in searching for the said anbu.

Eventually, Naruto agreed, albeit with reluctance. So the duo made their way to the Hokage's office.

The receptionist gave them a once-over before politely bowing and informing them that the Hokage is free to meet them. After all, the heirs to two of the most prominent clans in Konoha do not come looking for the Hokage for a bit of chitchat. Even though they are just kids. Add to that the fact that one of them was the Hokage's son.

'Yup, definitely an important matter' Thought the receptionist.

The door to the Hokage's office opened and the duo walked in. "Welcome son and… Sasuke… was it? Fugaku's son. You two friends? Well, how can I help you?" Said Minato.

He was amused to see Naruto in his office, and he had a friend that Minato didn't know about. That was something that he was not expecting.

Sure Naruto had been spending a lot of time outside, training on his own, but he should have mentioned having a friend.

Minato bit down his curiosity for the moment and waited for an answer.

"Hi dad. Me and Sasuke just met the other day and were hoping that you would tell us where we could find Inu." Naruto replied.

Minato smiled and replied" Inu is currently on a mission outside the village. He won't be back for another week or so. Anything that I can help with?". Minato wasn't an idiot. He had a rough idea what his son did in his spare time and who was teaching him. Inu, however never took permission from him and he would never ask for one. It was the least that he could do for not being able to give Naruto extra time like he and Kushina gave to Naruko.

Minato noted that Naruto was a little agitated and Sasuke was also showing signs of the same. 'They are trying to hide their emotions? No, they can't possibly be doing that. Ninjas have problem doing that in front of me and these kids are managing to do so well. No, that can't be right. Must be my imagination. Yup, that's it.' Mused Minato.

"But you don't have that much time. It's in three days." Sasuke said, a little worried about his friend. "I will have to manage it. Thanks for your help dad. See ya." Naruto said. They both headed out with Naruto giving a wave and Sasuke bowing.

Minato was undoubtedly suspicious of them. Naruto was supposed to be his son. 'Surely he hasn't reached the age when he would start keeping secrets from him, had he?'

Well, Minato would have to see for himself what his son and his new friend were up to if they wouldn't tell him. At times like these he severely wished that the sandaime had allowed him to use his crystal ball. 'The old pervert uses it for nothing but peeking at women' fumed Minato. But it's no use doing that. Either he had to spy on them himself or he had to set an anbu to do so.

Then… he stopped himself.

"I'm blowing things way out of proportion. These are 6-year-old kids. What can they be doing to deserve a spy on their tails. Naruto's probably just a little distressed on not finding Kakashi." He convinced himself. But a shadow of a doubt was still present in the back of his mind.

OUTSIDE

"What do we do?" Nearly shouted Naruto, suddenly changing his behavior from calm to hyperventilating.

Sasuke face-palmed. The behavior of the blonde being the cause.

"Well, do you have any doton scrolls at home that you can 'borrow'." Asked Sasuke.

"Yup, I guess we will have to use them." Said Naruto with a sigh. He didn't like stealing, even if he kept them back later. It just felt… wrong.

But, the matter at hand was of grave importance. HIS VALENTINE, Hinata Hyuga.

Regardless of the fact that he had met her only once, he liked her.

That day Naruto sneaked out another one of the scrolls from the library and began training in it with Sasuke. The latter had better control but Naruto, despite not knowing, had a better affinity for doton. Hence he ended up learning basic earth manipulation in a day and learned a few jutsus as well. Sasuke on the other hand was desperate in trying to catch up with the manipulation.

This continued and by the end of the second day, Naruto had managed to do what he wanted for Hinata. The time had come to show the results of his training, because tomorrow was one of the most difficult days that he will see in his life. Valentine's day.

That morning, Sasuke woke-up to Naruto sitting on the window sill in his bedroom, knocking.

"Hey Sasuke. Wake-up you lazy ass! You've got to help me. I'm scared!" Cried Naruto.

Sasuke opened his window and spoke" What is it?".

"Well, today I had to do the thing and when I went to the Hyuga mansion, the guards spotted me and asked me to reveal myself-"

"Wait wait. Reveal yourself? What were you hiding or something?" Sasuke cut him off.

"Well… yeah. I was… uhh… kind of worried about her reaction so I hid in the branches and wore a cloak just in case." Replied Naruto, smiling sheepishly.

Sasuke shook his head. This blonde is a genius in terms of battle and he cannot even introduce himself to a clan's guards? Wow… Just… Plain… Wow.

"Give me a few minutes. I'll change and meet you outside. Today you're gonna hang out with her, me being your wingman." Sasuke said with an assuring smirk.

Naruto felt relieved. At least Sasuke would help him. Not like Naruto's mother who had spent the better part of the morning getting Naruko ready and teasing Naruto occasionally, by asking him who his valentine was as he was going out dressed, but didn't bother to help him.

Naruto had to evade her teasing and had to slip out of house. The morning was difficult.

Later Sasuke and Naruto were seen jumping rooftops, something they discovered that they each knew.

They were currently stalking a certain Hyuga who had come shopping along with her mother Hisa and her one-year-old sister Hanabi. They were accompanied by 2 bodyguards after the attempt to poison Hisa during her second labor. The culprit was a Hyuga elder who deemed her a burden to the clan head. The said elder had mysteriously disappeared with Hiashi stating that 'he was responsible for his own actions', nothing more.

Currently Naruto and Sasuke were perched on a rooftop and were waiting for an opportunity to get Hinata alone. Tired, beaten, and over-all just pretty much banged up as so far, all their attempts had failed.

EARLIER

Sasuke had made plans for getting Naruto and Hinata together.

The first: Hyuga Mansion, Direct approach

Sasuke took Naruto and went to the said place, rather boldly, and asked for audience with Hinata Hyuga. Quiet a courageous attempt, if the beads of sweat rolling off the faces of the duo was any indication. But unfortunately or fortunately, she had already gone out along with her sister and mother.

Her father exuded a rather strange and cold atmosphere and made a point to have them memorize the fact that the Hyuga had THE gentle fist which can be used to disable several parts of the human body. Permanently so. Also that Hinata was too young and that she was travelling with bodyguards adept in the gentle fist.

A bit too scary for the kids.

FAIL

Second attempt: Market place, Direct approach

After searching the market for about 15 minutes, the duo found Hinata and company courtesy of Naruto's sensory abilities.

Sasuke managed to convince Naruto to speak to Hinata directly. After several minutes and words of inspiration later, Naruto finally went to Hinata and walked up to her, standing inches apart from her face suddenly.

Before he could say anything, Hinata eep-ed and fell unconscious after turning beet red. Naruto just stood there bewildered.

Within a few seconds, the bodyguards had disabled Naruto and he was a mess on the ground. Hisa saw the whole thing and reprimanded her aids for attacking kids without complete consideration.

Sasuke arrived and apologized to Hisa and took Naruto away after his blocked tenketsus had been opened.

FAIL

Attempt 3: Market place, posing as a vendor selling apples

This time, Sasuke posed as a vendor using a henge and had successfully distracted Hisa and her aids from Hinata.

Said person was awarded with the sight of a bench in front of a small clearing along with several mystically beautiful designs on the ground. She found it extremely beautiful. But then she found a small scribble at the bottom saying 'Will you be my valentine?'.

This sight was a downer for her. She was reminded of the incident earlier with Naruto, how he wanted to talk to her but she fainted like an idiot. Now Naruto would find her weird and would never talk to her.

She left the place sobbing before Naruto had a chance.

FAIL

That process continued for the rest of the day. Naruto kept on trying to reach Hinata and Sasuke was trying his best to help him.

However,

After several hours and several failed tries later, the duo had given up. There was absolutely no way of reaching Hinata without having all your tenketsus closed or Hinata fainting.

Sasuke had an apologetic look on his face. "Look dude, for all it's worth, I'm sorry. I couldn't help you get your girl." He said.

"Why are you saying sorry? You tried your best in helping me. Maybe the problem is with me somewhere."

To console him, Sasuke had decided to drop Naruto off to his house.

When they reached there, Naruto bid farewell to him and opened the door. He half expected to hear his mother teasing him again, but none came. Instead, he found Hiashi, Hisa, little Hanabi and "HINATA?" Naruto exclaimed surprised.

The Hyuga family had decided to visit them on this particular night. What were the odds of that?

"My daughter wanted to apologize to you for the morning and insisted that she should come visit you to personally do so. So we decided to accompany her for tonight's dinner to your house, young Namikaze." Hiashi explained, breaking Naruto out of his stupor.

"Yes Naruto-kun. Hinata-chan here was sorry for behaving so inappropriately earlier today and wanted to say sorry" Kushina backed him.

"Why didn't you say that you had such a nice friend? Ehh nii-chan?" Naruko said playfully tugging on Hinata's hand. They had been playing for the last half an hour or so.

Hinata didn't pay much attention to others and just moved forward, with a blush on her face and handed Naruto his first ever valentine's day present. A small white plush rabbit to him, with the words 'Sorry' and 'Happy Valentine's day' stitched on its back.

Naruto had a small lump in his throat. He had thought that Hinata found him weird after today's events but… she liked him too. Sasuke was right.

Naruto couldn't help himself and let a tear fall discreetly and hugged her.

Poor Hinata was shocked. To the point where she blushed crimson and fainted along with a loud EEEEPP, something soon to be called her thing.

The crowd gathered, all laughed at Naruto's predicament who now had to hold her up.

Sasuke was just turning the corner when he heard Naruto's shout of "HINATA" and soon heard the following eep and laughter. Something told him that his friend was happy now. So he left, intent on hearing what transpired the next day.

The dinner was a talkative affair. Though no-one mentioned what transpired between Naruto and Hinata earlier, not taking into account the mischievous looks that Naruko was passing to her brother sitting beside Hinata.

After dinner, the Hyuga's left with goodbyes and Hinata with a shy "Bye Naruto-kun" along with a small blush and a smile.

Naruto replied with one of his own along with a similar goodbye. After that, Naruto left for his bedroom and was asleep in a few minutes.

Kushina observed what happened and talked to Minato about it when they went to sleep.

"So… our son has an admirer, does he now?" Kushina asked while her face was buried in Minato's shoulders.

"Yup, seems like it." Minato replied.

"I don't want him to be like you. You always had fangirls which always scared me, prevented me from approaching you and talking." Kushina said.

Minato smiled, reminiscing on the past memories.

"That Hinata is a nice girl. Once in the academy, she will have to face a horde of fangirls just to look at him. But… I'll be rooting for her." Kushina said.

Minato just Hmmed in response. That night, Kushina felt, for the first time, a little left out… when she realized that she didn't know much about her son. 'Whoops, a mistake I need to fix soon. But, I've got plenty of time.' Thought Kushina. Little did she know that her window had already reached the time of closing.

As Naruto had found friends that he could rely on when in need. He won't need much help now.

And cut

How was it?

The first spar between Naruto and Sasuke.

Naruto and Hinata's first valentine.

I hope you liked it and please dont forget to review.

Sorry for the delay but there was Valentine's day and I had a trip to a hill station, Shimla. If you guys ever come to India, I would recommend this place to be a must visit.

Anyways, Review response time

NaruHina Legends: Thanks and keep reading.

Serpiente Obsidiana: Your ideas are really helpfull. As I said, Hinata will have her moments but probably not before shippuden timeline. About Sakura, there will be fangirl bashing overall but Sakura will not be uselesss I assure you. Thanks for reviewing.

NemesisDrive: Thanks for the idea but I want the training with Hagoromo to take place during the timeskip in the canon but they will train together and get a shitload strong. Thanks for the review.

massone22: Glad you liked the idea.

frozem1: Thanks for the review and I'm really happy that you liked the chapter. PS Your translations were to-the-point.

timijaf: I'm glad that you liked the chapter. Bear with me a little longer, their powers will increase with time but the sage's powers will not be theirs before the shippuden timeline.

The Shy Lover: Thanks for the review. You guys make writing all the more fun.

Also few people have asked me not to pair naruhina. It's my personal favorite and I believe it has a lot of potential for humour as well as story progression as a whole. Added to the fact that it is a canon pairing. I might add additional pairs but those that do exist, will be mainly from the canon.

Next chapter will focus on the begining of Naruto and Sasuke's training.

Untill next time.