A/N: This is set sometime after chapter's 38 – 42, if my timeline is correct. If not I'll come back and fix it. [-Anbu]
This is Anbu's brother. she had me upload this and post it. she's on a small vacation thingy with her boyfwend (she says he's not but then porque why would he take her on a trip if not?). she's also much better, at least she says she is and looks okay, unlike before. hopefully she'll be back soon to update ch 38, she hasn't let me read it, i know, i sad too. i didn't read her note at the end of the special or bother to listend to her instructions, so hopefully did this right. so, here it is. - TAT
HK II: Valentines Day Special
A few days before Valentine's Day
- Hachimitsu Treats -
"Naruto! What are you doing?"
"Nooothing, I know how to do this, just you wait Jun-jiji!" Naruto yelled back.
"I'M JUN TO YOU!" Hachimitsu Jun yelled from his chair behind the Hachimitsu Treats counter.
Naruto had asked to use the Hachimitsu Treats kitchens and there were sooo many shiny tools to make Hachiko's favorite chocolates.
Naruto quickly tried mixing the cocoa powder with the power mixer but used full power to put instead of starting slow so it splattered all over his black shirt and on Toneri's light blue jeogori shirt and dark grey baji pants.
"I don't think you did this correctly." Toneri sweat dropped but as he tasted the chocolate on his eyes went wide."
"This taste good."
Toneri looked to Naruto who was dedicated to making his gift for Hachiko. Feeling confused about the holiday in general Toneri turned to Naruto.
"Why do girls give chocolates out on this day? I do not understand it so well." Toneri looked at Hachiko who smiled softly thinking of Naruto.
"It's just what people do here. Girl get really into it. On Valentine's Day, girls give chocolates to the boy they like and on White Day, the boy responds by giving their special girl a gift."
Toneri became more confused.
"So you are making chocolates for Hachiko because she is the boy in your relationship?"
Naruto quickly shook his head.
"Nooooo! I do things my way! That's my nindo ya know!" Naruto turned off the mixer so the chocolate was thick and doughy. He then got a spoonful and shaped the chocolate carefully into a naruto (fishcakes) shape.
"R-Right." Toneri sighed confused about the whole Valentine's ordeal.
"Ya know, one day a girl is going to give you chocolates and I'm gonna see you here making chocolates and you'll be begging me for my recipe."
- Shopping District -
"Hachi! Please. I really need help making chocolates. I've tried at least 5 different times and failed. Pleeeease." Sakura begged Hachiko who sighed as she looked at different fabrics. She was getting ready to make Naruto's gift for White Day.
"Remind me who they are for?" Hachiko teased and Sakura blushed.
"F-For,Um, Sasuke...and Toneri and Mitsubachi and Shisui and my Dad, and-" Sakura was interrupted as Ino ran into the store with Shikamaru and Choji at her heels.
"Hachiko! Just the person I was looking for!" Ino ran forward to Hachiko.
"I need your help to make chocolates... Please don't tell me you're already helping Sakura."
"Back off Pig! Hachiko is my best friend and she's helping me make chocolates so be gone!"
"As if Forehead! Hachiko and I are friends and she's going to help me make the best chocolates for Sasuke-kun!"
Hachiko unable to handle the argument between the two kunoichi sighed and looked at the shopkeeper.
"I'll take 200 yards of this orange fabric here, the dark gray fabric there."
The shopkeeper raised his eyebrow at her choices
"Those fabrics are expensive, they are microfiber and the color is-" Hachiko gave the shopkeeper a look.
"I know what they are and what they're for. I've been around fabrics all my life and taught to pick them out. Now will you sell them to me or do I have to go somewhere else to buy them?" The shopkeeper shook his head and quickly got what she wanted.
"Hachiko! You're not even listening on why you shouldn't help Ino-pig!" Pinkie interrupted Hachiko who looked at her with a small smile.
"I've decided to not help either. You both are going for the same person, helping one and not the other is unfair."
Ino was satisfied with the answer but Sakura was not and looked upset at Hachiko.
"But Hachiko!" The shopkeeper handed Hachkio a bag with the bundle the fabrics.
"Thank you sir." Turning to Pinkie, Hachiko sighed.
"Pinkie, no one likes a whiner and besides, I don't know how to make chocolates but I do know someone who does."
Immediately both Ino and Sakura leaned in to hear who.
-Naruto's Apartment-
After carefully drawing chibi Naruto's with Hachiko, he put in the chocolates he had made at the Hachimitsu Treat's kitchens. He had shocked Hachiko's grandpa with the chocolates and Toneri had seemed impressed.
After putting the chocolates some where safe, there was a loud knock on his door.
"NARUTOOO HELP MEEE!"
"DON'T LISTEN TO INO-PIG! HELP ME, YOUR TEAMMATE!"
Valentine's Day
-Uchiha District-
"Sasuke, you can't keep hiding inside all day." Shisui commented as she looked through various boxes that had already been dropped off at their door. So far, nothing poisonous but a few had sleeping agents, so those were casted off to be destroyed.
"I can! If I go out there, I'll be shoved boxes under my nose all day!" Sasuke peeked from underneath the kotatsu blanket.
"I'm staying out of sight where it's safe! Kakashi too is hiding out today! Even you're in doors and you're never indoors unless you have to." Sasuke accused Shisui who grinned.
"I'm waiting for the right sort of chocolates." Shisui heard a knock on the door and that sent Sasuke back to hiding.
"That must be a brave soul." Shisui commented as she stood up to answer the door. No one ever knocked, most just left their chocolates and ran off. Upon opening the door he immediately smiled and blushed a little.
Yui dressed in a red chima skirt with a black thin see through layer over it. Her shirt was a navy blue with white along the collar and a white belt around the middle. The tying ribbon a dark red. Her dark hair as always up but pulled to the left and with a red ribbon in her hair. In her delicate hands she held a red jubako (a three tiered bento box) with little gold bell designs.
"Happy Valentine's Day, Shisui-san." Yui held out the box and bowed a little, a small tint of red on her cheeks as she did so.
"Th-Thank you." Shisui took the box and moved to let her in.
"Please come in unless you have Hachiko to tend after." Yui shook her head.
"She gave me the day off, she's actually spending the day with Naruto-kun on top the Hokage Monument." She informed Shisui as she took off her shoes at the entrance before walking in. In a swoosh, Sasuke took off from his hiding place and out the door.
"Byeee Sasuke! Stick to the roofs to avoid your fangirls and fanboys~" Shisui teased as Sasuke screamed hopping on the rooftops.
"I don't have fanboys!"
-At Training Ground 7-
Sakura held a small squared box on her lap. She had gone to Naruto to make chocolates but upon having made them, as he helped both her and Ino... He had made a comment that now had her thinking and made her change up her gift for Sasuke earlier.
"Should I or should I just give up and try again next year... What if he doesn't like it?"
Sakura stressed thinking about what Naruto had said.
"Sasuke doesn't like sweets ya know. He hates them. Why do ya think he pushes them away? I think he has cavities and that's why he does it. Hmm, but ya know, he does like tomato's a lot."
Ino had dismissed Naruto's words but Sakura knew Naruto was the closest thing to a best friend for Sasuke, so she knew to value some of his words.
"Arrgh am I going crazy?!" She yelled.
"Talking to yourself sure is a sign of it, Pinkie." Sasuke's voice sounded so close to her ear and she froze up.
"What's that you got there?" Sasuke was right behind her and his hand reached out and grabbed the box from her hands before she could pull it away.
"Is this for me?" He asked as he eyed the blue bow on it and found the small note on it.
"N-No it's for-" Sakura blushed as he smirked at her.
"It says 'To: Sasuke', unless you know another Sasuke I don't know about." Sakura reached out to grab the box but he pulled it away quickly.
"I'm flattered my own teammate would make me a valentine's gift, but I thought you didn't like me anymore. I seem to recall," He dodged her again as she reached out to try and grab the box.
"You saying: 'I don't like you anymore.' Or something like that." Blushing heavily, Sakura turned away from him.
"I don't know why I bother when you're just going to tease me! Baka!" Taking off she headed back home thinking of making herself happy with some canned pudding.
Sasuke, raised an eyebrow at her reaction and shook his head. As he thought about the box of chocolates in his hand, he decided to at least taste them. Sakura wasn't so bad and even if he would never outloud admit he liked her, she had definitely become someone who's efforts he couldn't just push aside. Right now, those efforts were in chocolate form and he was going to taste them.
As he opened the box, he became still and blinked twice to make sure he wasn't seeing things. Inside were tomato slices, some sprinkled lightly in salt, a few doused in what smelled like lemon, and some without either.
He smiled softly and ate a salted one.
"I guess I'll have to get her something on White Day."
-Outside of Naruto's Apartment-
Hyūga Hinata struggled with herself. She knew Naruto was deeply into Hachimitsu but she still hadn't lost hope. Every year, she had given him chocolates. Not directly but she always left them outside his door.
When they were in the Academy, he had sometimes commented outloud that he had received chocolates but no one ever believed him. His words were kind as he praised his admirer for their chocolate making skills but then he'd ruin it by saying he'd love to meet his admirer so that he could learn how to make chocolates for his beloved Hachimitsu. It had irked Hinata to no end. Every year at the academy, she had heard it from him and this year, she wouldn't hear it however, she couldn't bring herself this year to stop making him chocolates.
"When will you look at me in the same way?"
Finally making up her mind, Hinata was going to set down the box but as she heard voices, she ran off to hide around the corner of the hall.
"Hachiii, don't bite me there!" Hinata's temper flared as she heard soft giggles.
"And I told you not to not to slip under my chima skirt to lift me up on your shoulders. As much as I like the run, It's inappropriate for you to slip under my skirt." Naruto's sheepish laugh confirmed to Hinata that Hachimitsu had been saying the truth and it hurt to hear them be so casual about such things.
"Ah but you're blushing and I didn't hear you complain when I touched your thighs." Unable to take it anymore Hinata stepped out of her hiding place and Naruto became silent but Hachimitsu stared her down.
"Hi Hinata. What bring you here?" He asked. Hinata eyed her rival and smiled softly at Naruto.
"I-I was bringing you some chocolates like I do e-every year. S-Seems you caught me this year." Seeing Hachimitsu clench her fist at her side gave Hinata some sort of satisfaction. Naruto seemed to light up unaware his girlfriend was upset but then he side hugged Hachimitsu and wrapped his arm around her waist.
"So it was you! I told Hachi-chan about the chocolates I get every year today and now the mystery is solved. Thank you for the chocolates Hinata-chan but... I can't-" before he could reject them Hinata shook her head.
"K-Keep them. They're meant to be friendly chocolates.." Hinata didn't have the heart to admit that his were special chocolates. She had devoted so much time to make his chocolates just right.
"I'm sorry I interrupted you and your g-girlfriend." Hinata bowed and apologized to Naruto. Hachimitsu seemed to have cooled down and she simply smiled but it was a small dim smile.
"Nah, it's okay, we were just going to end our date at my place." Hinata felt her heart break a little when she saw a small red mark peeking from underneath Naruto's long sleeved shirt collar and then on Hachimitsu, on her neck a soft pink mark was visible as she brushed her hair back.
"I-I have to go." Taking off, Hinata ran out of the apartment complex and into the street. Angry at herself, at Hachimitsu and at Naruto. Not seeing where she was going, she bumped into someone.
"I-I'm sorry." She lifted her head and her eyes went wide as she spotted the formal Hachimitsu styled men's hanbok on the blonde haired Mitsubachi. He smiled smoothly and shook his head. Behind him were what looked like the Hachimitsu Staff holding many chocolate boxes. It was evident Hachimitsu Mitsubachi had his own fanbase to rival that of Uchiha Sasuke's, however next to him was a shaggy white haired blind boy she had seen once or twice. She knew that he had been adopted into the Hachimitsu Clan and this had cause more of a rift between the Hachimitsu and Hyūga, aside for Hachimitsu Hachiko.
"It's quite alright Hinata-hime. Though you look a bit upset. Care to take a walk while we talk? This here is Toneri, my adoptive cousin."
Toneri smiled at Hinata and she found him peculiar as he knew where she was standing exactly. Toneri, was dressed in a white jeogori shirt with a dark green sash around his waist and dark grey pants. He seemed to easily adjust to being a Hachimitsu.
"Pleasure to meet you Hinata-hime."
Knowing she shouldn't but her curiosity over Toneri got the best of her and so, she agreed to walk with the two boys. Strangely enough, Toneri held out a small box to her filled with some chocolates that looked like naruto (fishcakes), it was ironic to her, she had just run from a Naruto and run into a chocolate shaped like his name.
"I made them with a good friend of mine who know's a fantastic recipe. I admit he helped me shape them, but I think I did a fair job at least it felt that way. They're quite delicious and my friend claimed they could bring a bit of happiness to the downhearted." Taking the small chocolate she popped it into her mouth and brightened up as it melted in her mouth.
"It's delicious." She praised Toneri who smiled softly.
"Hey now, don't steal all of Hinata-hime's attention." Mitsubachi pouted playfully.
"Come now Hinata-hime, Toneri and I were on our way for some tea."
Unaware, Hinata had tasted one of Naruto's chocolates that were shaped by Toneri's hands.
The Next Day
-Back at Naruto's Apartment-
Hachiko sat looking a bit disheveled, her chima skirt was rumpled and her hair a mess. Her father berated both her and Naruto. Naruto was heavily blushing and trying his hardest not to.
"You may not be a Hachimitsu anymore but that doesn't mean you can plan an impromptu sleepover and not tell Yui, myself or Shisui. Do you know how much trouble Sai got into because you drugged him with a chocolate!?"
Yawning Hachiko shrugged.
"He's a ninja, why didn't he looked underneath the underneath? I could've sworn he didn't even eat the chocolate. He's trained to detect sleeping agents."
"HACHIKO THAT'S NOT THE POINT." Kuroyama Duelo yelled loudly causing both Naruto and Hachiko to jolt up straight as it scared away their drowsyness.
"WHY ARE YOU FREAKING OUT, IT'S NOT LIKE I LOST MY VIRGINITY, I'M NOT EVEN OLD ENOUGH FOR THAT!" Hachiko's words made both Naruto and Duelo turn red.
"THAT'S IT. Hachiko, you're grounded, I'll be sure to infrom Sandaime and Yui. Naruto... You're not allowed to see Hachiko for a week. That's an order from a superior officer."
"WHAT?!" Both Naruto and Hachiko yelled. Both had forgotten Duelo, was a Jonin of Konoha.
"OH and don't think I didn't notice that red mark on your neck and your collar." Duelo pointed out the marks on Hachiko and Naruto and the two tweens became a blushing mess.
A/N: I wrote this ahead of time but like Tatsu mentioned, I'm on a mini holiday. I've been really sick and distracted but I'm getting back into it, piecing all I have and stitching it up to make a chapter. I'll be back in some days and I will get chapter 38 out for you all!
I noticed the links on the profile aren't working ~ I'm trying to get them fixed. I'll probably take down the music lists and just make the lists on my Deviant Art (look up: AnbuHimawari. DeviantArt. com), and on Youtube and then link them, for those of you that look forward to what music inspires certain parts of the story.
Those that follow me on Deviant Art, the Hachimitsu Family tree, I updated the description box with a link to an interactive family tree, so you can see how everyone is related, note it has spoilers!
Lovely O, has fantastic fanart, look her up on Deviant Art under criedout911. Her works is just sooo goood.
New readers, Hi! Thank you for liking, favoriting and reviewing. I get those alerts and it just motivates me to write.
All readers in general, thanks for favoriting reading, reviewing, pm-ing me, you're all so great. Really. EXCEPT FOR YOU REVIEWER ONI who I KNOW IS MAX, YOU'RE MEH and BOO TO YOU TO YOU MOFO.
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-Anbu