Naruto Kurenai Drabbles Etc
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Drabble 14
June 11th was a sort of special day. It was Kurenai's birthday, and though she didn't enjoy being reminded she was getting older, she didn't complain about it either. She actually liked to celebrate the day of her birth, usually with Anko, Iruka, and Ebisu whom she had been childhood friends with, and understood on a level perhaps nobody else could. In recent years Naruto had joined in on the celebration, as had Gai, and several of Naruto's former classmates.
Each year they ate obscene amounts of dango (courtesy of Anko) and other food, drank, danced, laughed, and presented the crimson-eyed brunette with one gift each, or, in the case of couples, one gift per pair. Naruto hated buying gifts, he liked giving them, but finding just the right thing was hard!
He'd gotten her flowers the year previous, and she already had a teddy bear, and a fluffy five month old blue eyed hell beast of a kitten who was only nice to those it deemed worthy (note his former sensei was not one of those people). She didn't particularly like to wear jewelry, but he figured that had more to do with her occupation than with any personal preference. Having things dangling from your neck, wrist, or ears could be dangerous in a combat situation; it gave the opponent something to grab on to.
There was absolutely no way he was offering to make the cake, as he was certain the oven in their cozy little apartment hated him. It had exploded his attempt at making her breakfast in bed after all. He'd leave the baking to Ino, who was surprisingly adept at it, perhaps from years of hanging around Chouji's house with Shikamaru, and their fathers.
Why did buying gifts always have to be so difficult?
Maybe this year he'd give her something later… once everyone else had gone home.
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