"As promised", said Naruto, proudly presenting his colorfully decorated dinner table, "today begins Hinata Month! Take a seat" he quickly moved to the table and pulled the chair for her. Hinata sat down looking a little uncomfortable.
"Are you really going to call it that, Naruto-kun?", asked Hinata. She had insisted that it was fine, that he didn't need go through the trouble, but Naruto had insisted on making this January "a super-special month" for her (he even swore it on his ninja way), and he looked so excited about it, that Hinata decided to just go with flow. Also, it was Naruto's way of expressing how much he loved her, so it made her happy too.
"Of course! Didn't I say this month was all about you!", said Naruto, who was now in the kitchen wearing an apron with a frog on it, "'Hinata month', has a nice ring to it'. I was thinking of making posters about and pasting them all around Konoha so everyone knows about it!" He then laughed and smiled the smile that Hinata had always found so charming. And Hinata, despite her best attempt to remain serious, found herself laughing along with him.
It was a cold night in Konoha. Life in the village was beginning to go back to normal, but the effects of the New Year's party were still present: some citizens could be seen avoiding the sunlight and staggering as they walked; and, if only faintly, you could still smell the smell of fireworks in the air. The town was still resting, happy and ready to face another year.
"A good night to have a good meal", thought Naruto, satisfied. After much deliberation with himself he chose that cooking her a delicious meal would be a good way to start making it up to her. She had cooked for him plenty of times after all. So he spent an entire week practicing learning how to cook (shadow clone jutsu came very handy for this kind of situation) and had decently mastered a few dishes.
Later, after burning his hands several times and almost burning down his apartment, Naruto was done cooking. Hinata offered her help various times –particularly when something Naruto was cooking seemed like it was going to explode–, but Naruto had refused gently, but firmly; while trying to make sure the food didn't fly out of the pans.
As chaotic as the process was, the result wasn't bad at all. "Here, have a bite: Say 'ahhh'", said Naruto picking up a steamy broccoli from the plate, blew on it and looked at Hinata with his mouth open. Hinata thought he looked quite funny and started thinking how much it would've embarrassed her if this were happening 3 years ago. Things were definitely different between them now, since –much to Hinata's surprise and joy–, Naruto confessed to her and asked her to be his girlfri…
Suddenly she felt something soft against her lips and that brought her back to the present. At first she thought that maybe Naruto had shoved the broccoli into her mouth while she was distracted, but then she saw Naruto's face, eyes closed, close to hers and finally realized he was kissing her. The surprise of the sudden kiss made her almost fall off her chair.
"Ah! I'm sorry, Hinata, it's just that you looked so cute all distracted like and I couldn't resist", said Naruto, looking very much not sorry. "So, how is it?"
Hinata tried to respond, but something in her mouth didn't let her. Just as she thought, Naruto had indeed put the broccoli in her mouth. "It's good, Naruto-kun". It really was. Despite the mess in the kitchen, the food was good.
"The food or the kiss?", asked Naruto playfully.
"Both…", responded shyly, although now it was more force of habit and because Naruto loved it than actual shyness. It had its effect because Naruto blushed lightly.
"Well, more of that after dinner. First you gotta taste this!", said Naruto, went back to the kitchen and came back with two trays –not surprisingly one of them had two bowls of ramen on it– and put on the table. Then he sighed and said "hope you really really like it because I spent all my savings to make this dinner".
"What?! Really?! You really didn't have to, Naruto-kun", she thought it was cute that he made her dinner, but this made her feel guilty.
"Don't take it seriously, Hinata, I was just kidding", said Naruto laughing. "So eat up!".
And Hinata ate so much she fell asleep shortly after, so unfortunately for Naruto there was no kissing after dinner. Naruto half-regretted having made so much food. But it had been a fun night and as Naruto stared at Hinata's sleeping he was thinking up what he could do next. Hinata Month was only beginning, after all.