Hello everyone! It's been a while but now I'm back! Hopefully you haven't forgotten The Magic of Ramen yet. And once again the story will have a lot of fluff, just like the others.
I don't know how many celebrates this Holiday, Valborg, the last day of April but this is a very important day in Sweden, at least in my town. During the day it's a festival in the city and later, a dusk, everyone goes to a bonfire. Or just party all night, like the students (My hometown is a University-city and has a lot of student).
And I will call it Valborg, the Swedish name for it because the English name sounded wrong and Germanyish. But anyway; enjoy!
"Come on! We're going to miss it!" Hinata pulled Naruto by the arm. The blonde ninja sighed but allowed his girlfriend to drag him down the street.
"It's only a fire! What's so special about it?" He asked while they followed the mass.
"It's not about the fire, Naruto-kun, it's about the feeling."
"The feeling? Of standing by a fire? If you're cold I can turn up the heat in the apartment, no need to go to a stupid fire." Hinata rolled her eyes and decided not to answer. She had always liked this night, the last day of April. There were always things to see. When she was a child she and some other kids had gone to the river close to the fire. By the water edge they had found a horde frogs and toads. The girls had screamed and left while the boys had stayed and picked up the amphibians. Eventually they had started to chase the girls with the animals in their hands.
It had ended with the boys running from the girls because they had lost the frogs or toads.
"They serve food there sometimes." In the corner of her eye she saw how Naruto went from uninterested to paying attention.
"Food?"
"Sometimes. I had hot chocolate last time."
"Last time while you almost dated Kiba?" A part of their past that they never spoke much about. It had been during the time when Naruto and Hinata still were a bit unsure about the others feeling. During this time Kiba had started to approach Hinata only the girl didn't understand what he wanted. It was first when he tried to kiss her she understood what he wanted and what she wanted.
And Naruto had realized what he wanted when he had seen Kiba trying to kiss Hinata.
And Hinata had realized how fragile a male's ego was. And that guys had more hormones than girls no matter what anyone said. Both Kiba and Naruto had changed their mood faster than she could blink. Both went from confused to angry to arrogant to happy to confused again and so on. In the end Kiba had left defeated.
"I never dated Kiba." She protested.
"I know! I stopped it before it could be called dating." Hinata looked over her shoulder and laughed at the sight of her boyfriend. He look positively furious and it had been almost a year since that day.
"I didn't go with Kiba last year, I went with Sakura and Ino."
"And survived?" Despite that the fight about Saskue had ended the two girls still competed about and argued a lot.
"The key is to be quiet the most of the time." Naruto snorted.
They finally reached to bonfire, almost the entire village were there. The fire had already started and lightened up the field around it. Hinata found a big rock that she forced Naruto to climb up on. Reaching to top she sat down between his legs.
"This is all we're gonna do?" He asked while put his arms around her, pulling her close.
"Yep. We're going to sit here, watch that enormous fire, maybe catch that man over there that seem to be selling hot chocolate and enjoy the night." Her boyfriend huffed in her ear.
"We could have done that at home."
"Maybe... but then you wouldn't be able to gloat at Kiba." That was low and she knew it but she really wanted to see the bonfire and was ready to do what she needed to do in order to keep her boyfriend with her.
And it worked. Naruto looked to the side and saw Hinata's team-mate. The dog-boy glared at him, a glare Naruto answered with a smirk. The male ego was so easy to manipulate.
"Alright... this is nice." He admitted after a while.
"To rub this in Kiba's face or the bonfire?"
"Both." Hinata laughed. "We can totally do this again next year! Oh! And then we'll bring ramen."
"Naruto-kun! You can not eat ramen at a bonfire."
"Can too! You can always eat ramen! I'll show you!"
And he did the next year. And the year after that. In fact he showed her every year until she agreed that you could always eat ramen, no matter the occasion. And by the time she agreed Naruto had forgotten the reason why they had started the tradition.
Short again, I know and I apologise for it but right now I am in the final weeks of the school. In two weeks I'll graduate. So right now my life is party, party and fixing the last remaining assignments.
But I hope you like it.
Hej då
