Clarity
Theme: Perfect Blue
Title: Flower Crown
Pairing: Ino-Hinata
Warning: Some OOC-ness, shoujo-ai, romantic fluff.
Requested by: Randomly Yours
Thoughtlessly her fingers ruffled short vibrant blades of viridian plucking the occasional wild-child of a flower. This one was a bleeding red, causing the blond to flinch before tossing it aside.
Red was an all too common color. As a Jounin Ino often found herself wearing it in spatters so no…red just wouldn't do.
Besides red would clash with a pale complexion and dark indigo hair.
Tilting her head to the right, vision surrounded by the green of grass and the dotted color from flowers Ino thoughtfully eyed a yellow buttercup. Yellow would make a wonderful contrast to the hair, but Hinata just didn't strike her as a person who could pull of 'sunny' colors never mind that her name meant as much.
Orange? Like that rather exotic sunflower at the edge of the meadow that was straining and turning to the bright sunlight?
She made a face. Heavens no! Orange was a taboo color. Too loud of a color for someone so quiet. Too much like a certain loud, fellow blond, whom Ino always suspected that Hinata was still sneaking glances at; despite the fact that the other girl swore utter and complete loyalty.
Sitting up Ino frowned to herself. All of this time on her hands and here she was 'wasting' it on being nit-picky about flowers, colors, and so many different aspects of the quiet, shy, enigma.
She moved to walk away to do something more productive, like shopping, catching up on the local gossip, heck anything by laying about and being like a certain teammate of hers.
However in the corner of her eye Ino finally saw what she had unknowingly been looking for all along.
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Small fingers gingerly touched on the sudden weight, though light as it was, that was placed atop her head.
"Okay, now you can open your eyes now," the female voice behind her whispered.
Slowly lavender eyes opened as Hinata found herself staring at her reflection. Pale eyes tinted with a hint of lavender, light complexion, dark hair and now a crown of delicate light blue flowers.
"Do you like it?" the blond behind her asked, her reflected expression torn between girlish pride at constructing a perfect flower crown and the undertones of adolescent uncertainty.
Her fingers touched on the flowers again, the fragrant delicate petals.
The girl in front of the mirror smile and nodded.
"It's beautiful," Hinata replied honestly before turning around to face Ino, bowing a little, "Thank you Ino-chan."
Ino smiled in response just before swooping in to catch her girlfriend unaware by brushing her strawberry tasting lip-glossed lips over Hinata's unadorned petal pink mouth.
Surprised for a moment, and a slightly breathless the Hyuuga backed into the vanity with a small 'bump'; but recovering from the collision quickly slender arms wound loosely around the blonde's graceful neck.
Hinata never did get the chance to tell Ino just why she liked the flower crown.
She loved it because the blue flowers looked so much like the eyes of her lover's.
However Ino did know one thing about the gift that Hinata might have been unaware of: only another girl could fully appreciate the simple majesty of a flower crown.
Just like Ino was proud to be the only one who could fully appricate Hinata's simple beauty.
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Notes: I am back in all my romantic luv-fluff-sappiness glory! I hope that this piece wasn't too candy coated though…I had a hard time writing this because there honestly isn't enough shoujo-ai in Naruto fan fiction and even less Hinata shoujo-ai pairings so I have no experience writing a Naruto shoujo-ai romantic one-shot.