I already have some rectangle and square molds at home. These heart ones are nice though. Not that I have a reason for them, Naruto-kun wouldn't be expecting chocolates from me. Hinata thought, looking over the supplies that had been added to the store with Valentine's Day only being a week away
"You know, Naruto wouldn't say no if you wanted to give him candy." The smirk could be heard in Sakura's voice before Hinata had a chance to turn around to see her standing behind her.
"Oh!" Hinata, was shocked, her cheeks turning a light pink. "I was thinking about making something different this year for Kiba and Shino." She scoots away from the heart-shaped molds hoping to make it seem that she had been looking at the basic shapes.
"We're friends, you know that right, Hinata?" Sakura questions, raising her eyebrows. "You can talk to me about these sorts of things and honestly I'm sure everyone except Naruto has realized how you feel."
"What do you mean?"
"Hinata." Sakura tries her best not to sound like she's scolding the girl.
"I just don't want him to think I'm weird for making him candy, or think I expect anything from him on White Day." Hinata finally replies, her voice low as she looks down at her hands.
"You know as well as I do he's far too dense to think anything like that unless you wrapped the box in the paper saying, 'I love you Naruto, please defile me here and now' I doubt he'd read too much into it."
"De-de-defile?" Hinata studders, her cheeks going from pink to red.
"Okay, so we'll work on that." Sakura muses almost talking to herself. "Just buy the damn hearts and make him some special candy and make Sai something normal and give it to them together. Now let's go figure out what you'll say, we need to get a handle on this whole you being shy around him, okay?" Sakura scoops up the molds and all but drags Hinata to the register and out of the store.
February 13th
"Hinata-Neechan!" Partially skips into the kitchen. "Give me candy pleeeeease they smell so good." Her younger sister shoots a smile in her direction.
"Sure, there's a pile of ones that didn't work out over there." Hinata points to a small stack of hearts, some misshapen, while some had filling oozing out of them.
"Oh, thanks! You're rejected ones."
"Hush Hanabi, they'll taste just the same."
"So, hearts this year?" The younger girl picks through the rejects. "Don't Kiba and Shino normally just get normal shapes." A sly smile appears on Hanabi's lips as she pieces together what her sister is doing. "These are for him! Oh, please please please tell me you're finally making chocolates for Naruto-senpai?"
"Get!" Hinata swats her sister with a towel, the back of her neck heating up. "Go pester someone else and I'll bring you more rejects later." Finally looking up, meeting her sister's eyes, a soft smile covering her face.
February 14th
"Oy! Hinata" Kiba waves his arm beckoning her over.
"Thanks for saving me a seat guys!" Hinata pulls out her chair, sorting through the packages in her hands.
"You made a few more this year?" Shino questions, noting the two extra packages in her hand.
"Yeah and that one looks nicer than ours." Kiba looks down at his package wrapped in simple red paper, his name scrawled in Hinata's elegant script on the top. The package he mentioned was slightly larger, wrapped in a light purple cloth tied neatly with a small card.
"Oh, well, I, um, ran into Sakura-chan when I was buying some new candy molds and I decided to make a few more this year." Her eyes dance around the restaurant, looking for the server hoping to take the attention away from her.
"Well, Shino, why don't we see who these new men in Hinata's life are, shall we?" Kibas hands are too quick for Hinata, he grabs the packages from her.
"Let's see this one that looks like ours is for Sai, weird but typical Hinata giving something to the guy who will probably get nothing. Now let's see about this fancy one, I mean I have a guess." Kiba looks up winking at Hinata as he flips open the card, seeing the name he had expected written inside. While he wasn't shocked to see who the package was for, he was shocked to see that Hinata had written a little note. Nothing romantic per se, just a short sentence wishing the recipient a happy Valentine's Day.
"Naruto, well he's leaving for a mission right about now you better go catch him." Kiba tosses them back at Hinata, as she rushes out the door apologizing to the server as she goes.
"Naruto-Kun, Sai!" Hinata stops at the village gates.
"Hey Hinata, did we forget something?" Naruto asks, looking at Sai and Sakura, confusion covering his face.
"No, um well." Hinata starts
Don't stutter, Sakura and I talked about this, and everything will be fine. Hinata reassures herself.
"I wanted to do something nice for all my friends seeing as it's Valentine's Day, and well I made Sai, and well you some chocolate."
"Candy!" Naruto exclaims. "Hinata you are the best." His excited smile covers his face as he takes a step toward her. "Thank you!" Accepting both packages.
"Come on Naruto." Sai starts. "Thank you, Hinata." The quiet man bows his head in her direction.
"Hey, yours is nicer than mine," Sai states looking from his gift to Narutos as the trio makes their way down the road.
"Well, I guess Hinata must just like me more." Naruto jokes, sticking the card in his pocket.
Sakura turns, giving Hinata a knowing smile over her shoulder.