Hello my dearests! Sorry this took so long, but I have about five more right after this (All at once! Wooh!). I was going to release them all in one chapter, but then I figured "Nah."

Oh, and the next couple ones are going to Valentine's Day Fics like this one (Yes, well, who doesn't want Valentine's day on Easter?), and they were requested by BeInfinitexx who said that;

"You should do a story based on everyone's Valentines day"

and my sweet darling probably wanted them actually on Valentine's Day, but hey, I'm a rebel. I do what I want.

So here we go!

Naruto was as happy as he had ever been. He was finally being respected by the majority of the village that had once upon a time shunned him, he had finally gotten a better ranking (he hadn't even had to take the exam again since everyone had agreed he had more than proven himself in the war), and he was dating one of the most beautiful girls in all of Konoha.

No.

The most beautiful girl in all of the world.

So he was happy and he knew that there was absolutely nothing that could ruin it.

"Naruto!" Stopping, he grinned at the sight of his pink haired best friend running to him, on break from her work in her hospital if her uniform was anything to go by.

"Hey, Sakura-chan!" Naruto said happily, "Want to come with me to Ichiraku's?" Sakura sighed but saw that there wasn't any way for her to get him to not go, and she wanted to spend some time with him since there really hadn't been chances for her to do so recently.

"Really Naruto." She scolded even as she fell into step with him, "I hope you're taking Hinata out somewhere other than for ramen tomorrow."

Naruto blinked at her, puzzled, and sat down at a stool at the counter as he tried to remember if he and Hinata had a date set for the next day and if he had forgotten about it. It would have to be an important one too, if Sakura was specifically singling it out.

"Um... Sakura," He said after a few minutes of intense thinking, "I don't have a date with Hinata tomorrow."

Sakura blinked at him for a moment to try and figure out if he was joking or not, but when she saw that he was completely serious she gaped at him.

"Naruto," She managed past her shock, "Tomorrow is Valentine's day."

Naruto blinked at her. And then he blinked again. One more blink and then-

"WHAT?"

"You idiot!" Sakura yelled, hitting him, "How could you forget about Valentine's day? What do you think all of these pink heart decorations are for?" She asked, motioning around at the paper decorations Ayame had hung on the walls.

"I..." He looked around, shocked, not even sure that he had noticed the decorations before. "I don't know."

"Well, I can promise you that Hinata hasn't forgotten. I saw her looking for presents the other day." She declared as their meal was sat in front of them.

She started to eat but stopped after a few minutes when she realized that she couldn't hear the sound of Naruto's more than enthusiastic eating. Turning her head she saw that he was just staring at the bowl intently, his face scrunched up as he thought, and just as she was about to ask him what was wrong he jumped up, making his stool fall and forcing Sakura to grip the counter with a grip that cracked the wood so that she wouldn't fall.

"I've got to go!" Naruto declared, racing out of the restaurant before anyone could say anything.

Sakura and Ayame looked at each other before glancing down at the untouched bowl that sat at his spot, shocked.

"That's never happened before." The older girl managed before coming around to put the stool back to rights and take Naruto's bowl back to keep it warm since she figured that their most faithful customer would surely be back soon.

Sakura stared at the door for a few more minutes before a smile grew on her face. Naruto had left his ramen willingly -an event no one had thought would ever happen- and he had done it just for a certain white eyed girl.

She wondered at just how red Hinata would blush when she told her.

Naruto was sitting on top of the roof of some random building as he tried to figure out what the best thing would be to get Hinata for Valentine's Day, staring intently down at the market.

There were flowers, but he wasn't sure what her favorite was, and what if he was allergic to the ones he got her? And chocolate? He'd never seen her eat any, so what if she didn't like them? He didn't want to get her jewelry for pretty much the same reason, clothes were a no -especially since they would probably end up hidden beneath her jacket- and it wasn't like he knew much about the perfumes and stuff.

So what could he get her?

It wasn't like money was a problem since he'd had nothing to spend it on before and had only saved it, but how could people just decide on what to give? There were too many things that she could have wanted, but nothing that he knew she wanted. She never went to the windows of shops to gasp over the sparkly things and she didn't look through catalog and show him pictures of things she liked -both of which he was used to whenever Sakura wanted something.

She always just seemed happy to be with him and it was as if she really wanted nothing else.

Groaning, Naruto hung his head and wondered how he'd ever figure this out, and then he saw it, and he knew that it was absolutely perfect for her.

He jumped of of the building and right in front of the civilian couple, making them fall back and scream in shock.

"Hey," He said, pointing, "Where'd you get that?"

They both stared at him for a moment, gaping, before the boy began to sputter in shock and the girl looked up to try and see just where the obviously deranged blonde boy had fallen from.

Hinata walked dejectedly away from Naruto's apartment, sighing as she tried to figure out just where he was. It was Valentine's Day, the first one they would have as a couple, and she had really been hoping to spend it together with him. A part of her wanted to do something really special but she knew that it was more probable that they would just end up at Ichiraku's like always, and she supposed that it would all be fine so long as they got to spend the day together.

Slumping on a bench, Hinata fingered the happily wrapped box in her hand and figured that Naruto must have just forgotten about the day and that it would be best to just go home. But just as she had stood up strong arms wrapped around her from behind in a tight hug, lifting her up a few inches off of the ground.

"N-Naruto-kun!" She gasped as she blushed furiously, knowing instinctively who it was.

"Hey! I finally found you! Where've you been?" He asked as he sat her down, his words coming out in a nervous jumble.

"Ah, y-your apartment. I was l-looking for you." She said, hiding his present behind her back as she turned to face him, just as nervous.

After a few awkward moments of a conversation neither of them were paying any attention to Hinata finally held out her present to him, looking away and blushing as she stared intently down at the cracked concrete of the sidewalk.

"Ano, N-Naruto-kun, h-happy Valentine's D-Day." She managed, peeking through her bangs as Naruto eagerly ripped the wrapping paper off of the small box.

Pulling off the lid Naruto looked down at the thumbnail sized orb of swirling red and yellow and orange that was lightly speckled with purple and hung off of a simple black cord, and then he looked back up at Hinata.

"I-I remembered that y-your other necklace w-was destroyed s-so when I saw this and thought of you I-I..." Hinata led off, nervously playing with her fingers as she waited for him to tell her that he didn't like it. After all, what boy got a necklace on Valentine's Day?

"Hey, thanks!" Naruto said happily, slipping the cord over his head.

"Y-You like it?" Hinata asked hopefully, and Naruto grinned at her.

"Of course I like it. You gave it to me, didn't you?" Hinata smiled softly and nodded. "And hey, this is probably even better than my old one!" He assured her, completely ignoring the fact that his old necklace was worth more than two dozen men could make in their life times and that it had once belonged to the first Hokage. This necklace was from Hinata, and not only that it was his first present from her, which made it pretty much better than anything at that point.

"Ah! Here," Naruto said, picking up a shopping bag from where he had first sat it down to greet Hinata, "This is your present."

"Sorry I couldn't wrap it all fancy like you did for mine, but I don't really know how, and the place where I got it from had just finished with it so I wouldn't have had time even if I knew how to wrap presents." Naruto rambled a bit nervously as Hinata pulled the long velvet case out of the bag and untied the ribbon that kept it shut.

Taking a breath Hinata opened the case and gasped in shock, her white eyes growing wide. She hadn't known what it would be from the plain black bag or the case since it was too big to be jewelry, but this... she certainly hadn't expected this.

There was a pair of delicate hair combs with milky pearls inlaid in it, a long handled and thickly bristled brush with a swirling design centered around a singular pearl engraved onto the back, and a set of hair sticks with a pearl at the very end, all of it in what seemed to be silver.

It was breathtakingly beautiful and elegant and not something she would have ever expected Naruto to pick out, and even if every bit of it were fake it still looked like it cost a lot of money.

"N-Naruto..." Hinata started, and Naruto fidgeted in place a bit, wondering if and how he had messed up. "This... I-It's beautiful."

Naruto grinned, all hints of nervousness gone as he basked in his accomplishment. "That's great! You see, I saw this girl and she had one of those comby things in her hair and I thought that something like that would look great in your hair, so I went to the guy's shop and saw all of that other stuff and these, well they reminded me of your eyes so I knew I had to get them. And apparently you can put back your hair with the stick things, so you can use them during training that way you don't have to spend all that time untangling it and getting sticks and stuff out of it."

Hinata knew that she would never risk damaging them in training, but seeing the slightly hopeful look in his eyes Hinata pulled the front parts of her hair back and held then in place at the back of her head with a comb.

"Th-Thank you, N-Naruto-kun. I-It's beautiful." She said quietly, a blush growing on her face at just how big and happy his smile was.

"Yeah! The guy who ran the shop said that they were something like white gold, though I never knew that gold came in different colors, and that I was lucky to get them since they were the set he used to show every one his work and he usually took weeks, sometimes months to make them." Naruto said as they started to walk, not noticing when Hinata stopped to gape at him and stare at the case in her hands with wide and horrified eyes.

White gold? That meant that the pearls were probably real too, and if the man had been reluctant to sell them, especially with how long other people waited, that... that added up to a lot of money. More than she could imagine at the moment, and all of it spent on her.

Finally noticing that Hinata had lagged behind Naruto hurried back, wondering if anything was wrong, and judging by how pale she was and how big her eyes were he could guess that there was something bothering her.

"Hinata? Is everything okay?"

"N-Naruto," Hinata gasped, "J-Just how much did you spend on these?"

"Um..." Naruto thought about it for a moment before shrugging it off. "I don't know. Does it matter?"

"Yes!" Hinata practically shouted, "Th-this probably cost a l-lot of money!"

"So?"

"So I'm not worth all of that!I-I mean, just for a present..." She led off when Naruto held up a hand, his face scrunched up in thought.

"Did you like the present?" He asked, and she had to restrain herself from throwing her hands up in a very un-Hinata like action.

"Th-That isn't the point-"

"Did. You. Like. The. Present. Yes or no?"

"W-Well yes-"

"So then what's the big deal?" Naruto asked, shrugging as if the thought of all that money was nothing. "You like it, you're happy with it, I was happy buying it, so there's really nothing to be worried about."

"B-But I don't want you to th-think th-that I'll only be happy with expensive g-gifts." Hinata managed, wondering if that sounded as silly as she thought it did, and judging by the look Naruto gave her it did.

"So you only want me to buy you cheap gifts?" Naruto asked curiously, confused by how the whole conversation was going. He had always thought that girls liked presents.

"N-No. I-I just meant that..." Hinata sighed. "I-I don't know. Th-that I don't want you spending so much money on me?" She managed.

"Who else should I spend it on? I don't want anything for myself, and if I see something I think you'll like and want to buy it for you, why shouldn't I?"

"B-Because I-I don't want you to think that I-I expect it." Hinata said, wondering at how strange the whole thing was. Here she was with a boyfriend who wanted to buy her all kinds of expensive things without her asking -something that would have had a great majority of girls jealous- and she was trying to get him to stop.

"I know you don't expect it. You never ask me for anything. I want to do it, though. And it really isn't like money is a problem. I've never had anyone or anything to spend it on, so all of my mission pay is just sitting in the bank, and then there's the money that Jiraiya left me and also the inheritance from my parents." Naruto laughed and scratched the back of his head. "Hey, I'm actually kind of rich."

"N-Naruto..." Hinata started, wanting to tell him that the amount of money he had didn't matter to her but finding herself unable to do so when Naruto grabbed her hand and started to pull her along.

"Come on, let's go get something to eat! You can pick, Hina-chan." And Hinata sighed and followed him along, hoping that Naruto would at least think before getting her something so outrageously expensive again.

There you go my dear ones!

I don't really see Valentine's day as that big of a deal, but some people do and I think that Sakura would probably be one of them, and I also think that Naruto would want to be a part of it and do all that couple stuff, especially if he thought it would make Hinata happy.

See you soon!