It was a satuurday evening, and the uzamazi girls where making their way to 'Yamanaka Flowers', a well know flower shop owned by the owned by the Yamanaka clan. the chime of the door opening was heard as they opened the door revealing the cashier counter straight ahead, and also, a 9 year old boy who just finished wrapping up the flowers for one of his customers.
"Look mommy! It's brother Inojin, Hes the one who called me sensai " himawari excitedly said to her mother, making the pale boy smile at her childish behaviour.
"I see" she spoke softly to her daughter as she made her way to the counter.
"hello Inojin-kun it's nice to see you, I hardly see u here, are you helping out" asked Hinata
Before inojin could answer.. "Himawari!" a voice called out and suddenly Ino came into view, running and enveloped Himawari in a massive hug rubbing her cheek against the like girls baby face.
"It's nice to see you Ino" smiled Hinata
After a good 3 mins cuddle Ino finally straighted up and walked behind the counter to stand next to her son.
" hey Hinata, you here for the sunflowers?"
Hinata replied "Yes, It's Saturday so.-"
" -we're going to give them to uncle Neji " spoke Himawari cheerfully, cutting off her mother by accident, with innocent intensions.
Ino smiled holding her face with her right hand " Inojin be a dear and get the sunflowers from the back please"
"On it"
He walked out of the counter and made his way to the door next to it to retreat the flowers.
In the meantime Hinata decided to start a conversation,"Inojin helping out I see"
"Yup! He usually doesn't work in the evenings since he's got training but … Sensai Moegi changed it up to training in mornings instead, so inojin will be helping out everyday on evenings only"
While they talked Himawari was smelling all the flowers which Ino noticed
"You know Himawari, Inojin's the one responsible for the sunflowers"
"He grows them himself" little Himawari spoke with sparkly eyes.
"Yup, waters them, plants them, the whole ShaBang"
And just like that Inojin appeared from the door and placed the flowers on the counter, he then made his way inside with scissors in his hand.
"Would you like them wrapped?" He asked
"Yes please" answered Hinata before continuing her conversation with Ino
Inojin redid his ponytail before he began to snip and wrap the flowers up
"aunt Ino said you take care of the sunflowers" said Himawari as she tried to climb the counter in order to get a better view at what he was doing.
"Yeah.. they my favourite flower" he answered, his eyes still focused on the task at hand
" their my favourite too! And mamas and uncle Neji!" she said
"Looks like we all got good taste" he spoke with a small chuckle as he snipped some ribbon and tied it around the wrapping
Once he was done, he walked out of the counter and squated to Himawaris eye level and handed the bouquet
Himawari held it giving it a small sniff, she then had a sudden idea. She looked back up at Inojin before placing her index finger to her chin as if thinking deeply "hmmm…"
"What is it Himawari" he asked
"Sunflowers are your favourite flowers right"
"That's right"
"I'm a sunflower"
Inojin laughed "yeah your name means sunflower as well"
"Sooo.. that means you like me too"
Inojin was taken back not expecting little Himawari to say such a thing.
He eyed her, she was giggling and smiling she was just being a kid, he shook his head 'she's trying to be clever' he thought
" we'll i guess your right, I do like sunflowers and you are a sunflower" he said mimicking her actions and placed his index finger on his chin
" It only makes sense that I'd like you as well" he said, looking back at her giggling face, he gave her a pat on her head 'so cute' he thought
The Uzumaki girls finally said their goodbyes and thanked for the flowers before leaving the flower shop with the flowers in Himawari's hands.
" it was nice meeting Inojin-kun right" said Hinata as she held her daughters hand leading them to her uncles grave.
Himawari nodded with a big smile.
A few mins passed and she looked down at the bouquet in her hands and she recalled the coversation and the pat on her head. For some reason her tummy felt warm and so did her face, not in an uncomfortable way, just.. warm, fuzzy you could say.
".. I can't wait to give uncle Neji the flowers" she said smiling.
