A/N: I was drinking a cappuccino from Starbucks and decided to write a quick, prompted one-shot!

It's not very good... but whatever. CAFFEINE RUSH. PLEASE PARDON ALL ERRORS AND MiSTAKES.

Disclaimer: Naruto belongs to its rightful owners, etc etc.

Chapter 10: Starbucks, LB

The streets were all but empty, save for a few shoppers hurrying from one store to the next, arms bundled full of shopping bags and gifts.

Hinata felt very alone indeed.

Or she would have, if it wasn't for a familiar face bounding towards her.

"Hina-chan! You're back!"

"N-Naruto-kun," she half-whispered, half-stammered.

"Did'ya have fun on your mission? Oh boy, how was Suna? Is Gaara okay, or are the Kazekage duties tying him down?" Naruto laughed, imagining his crimson-haired friend bogged down by piles of paperwork. It was all too easy to picture; heck, you could stroll into the Hokage's office any day and see Tsunade dozing off at her desk, mounds of incomplete papers and reports strewn around.

"It was very fun, Naruto-kun." And it really was, but there was no place like home. Home was where the heart was-and where Naruto was. "Why are the streets so...empty?"

"Everyone's asleep."

"At one in the afternoon?" Hinata stared incredulously at the cleared streets. A plastic bag drifted around before being carried off by a stray breeze.

Naruto looked confused. "Well, yeah."

"H-How..." She'd only been gone for half a month! How could so drastic a change happen in two weeks? It was this question that she now asked the blonde boy.

He just grinned. "Hina-chan... you've never been to a Starbucks, have ya?"

Her puzzled expression belayed her thoughts.

"Then let's go get you some caffeine! Quick!" He made a move to run off, but Hinata didn't follow.

"Caffeine? Isn't that a...drug?"

Naruto just stared at her like she'd grown an extra head. "Hina-chan... just... just come with me."

And this time, she followed.

-oOoOo-

Hinata stumbled forward, a grande cup in hand. It had been called a mocha or cappuccino or something foreign and peculiar, but she didn't mind.

It was great.

She was at the top of the world. It was as if her chakra had doubled, and then tripled, and then quadrupled- THAT kind of feeling. She just wanted to hug someone.

"See, isn't it great?" Naruto was nursing a cup of his own as he amusedly watched Hinata blink dizzily.

"Hai," she agreed.

"Woah there," Naruto caught her by the waist, just as she pitched backwards violently. Her drink sloshed in its container, but mercifully didn't spill. "Careful, Hina-chan."

Hinata was already lost. All she saw was a blond-haired knight with brilliant cerulean eyes smiling down at her as he rescued her from a coffee-colored dragon.

"Thank youu, Sir K-Knight," she slurred.

"Hina-chan..."

What does Sir Knight want now... Oh, right, a kiss. The knight always gets rewarded with a kiss in the end, that's how Cinderella works, right? Or maybe it was Sleeping Beauty...dragons...mochappuccino... What was that? oh, right, a kiss.

"Okay...Sir Knight," she mumbled. "If you say so."

"Hina-chan?"

"Right...kiss..."

And kiss she did.

-oOoOo-

She found him the next day at the training grounds.

"Naruto-kun?"

He jumped, caught unaware. "Y-Yes, Hina-chan?" Was it just her, or did he look nervous? Yep, he definitely looked nervous. And flushed, too...she hoped he wasn't catching a fever.

"I had the weirdest dream, about a Sir Knight and a 'mochappuccino' or something strange, and a dragon. And you were in it, too."

"Is that so?" He muttered, turning a shade of scarlet that Hinata had previously thought no man could turn before. Even she had never achieved that shade of embarrassment.

"Hey, Naruto-kun..."

"Yeah?"

"Can you take me to Starbucks?"

A/N: It was horrible, but I'm currently high on coffee and pizza and jolly ranchers, and decided you guys need an update. Sorry for the sloppiness, I'll try to do a REAL update soon. D:

Thanks!

~HauntedMoonlight~