one_long_mission | [Open] Valentine's Day~

Ino had taken extreme care to tailor her gifts and had spent the last couple weeks getting everything she needed for today sorted out. Now it was just getting everything to everyone.

She'd already sent the poor flustered Godaime Itachi home with his bag of sweets and the basket with sours and tomatoes for Sasuke. There was also a pack of carefully stashed sharpened hairpins stashed for Tenten in the pile that she was sure the boys probably wouldn't notice right off.

She'd hunted down the two stray younger Neji's and left baskets of teas in their apartments, so they were taken care of. Sakura had gotten a nice batch of her favorite dessert tucked into her freezer while she was in her clinic too. Kakashi had a copy of one of Jiraiya's books left just inside his windowsill. It wasn't new, but it's what she had available and it wasn't the one he'd been carrying around.

There was a detour to drop off chocolates and a couple scrolls where she knew the rather put out Sannin and his newest housemate would find it near his cave. She just hoped the chocolate was well received by the teen.

And then there was Mikoto's house. Putting on her resolve face, she sealed pretty much everything into an assortment of ribbons and headed over. The youngest Sasuke had gotten half his Valentine's present already but that was fine, she still had his sour candies to give over, and she knew they'd likely be taken well.

The elder Itachi was getting a bag with at least two dozen sweets of non-repeated types. The littlest one was getting more. He was adorable. The middle boy Sasuke was getting the same as the youngest. The girl Sasukes were getting bittersweet chocolates.

Banking on the fact that most people seemed to like the same things as their male counterparts, Sakumo was getting some of the same fancy dessert as Sakura got. Lee got flowers. She'd actually found the guy lotuses so that's what he was getting. Neji elder was getting a tea mix she'd put together just for him. Hinata was getting cinnamon rolls.

All the Narutos were getting red bean candies. She hadn't missed how fond of the flavor the guy was when they were in academy together. Mikoto was harder, so she defaulted to straight chocolates and sours for the woman in case she didn't actually like sweets.

The little Tenten was getting chocolates herself, and Kabuto was getting some tiny vials of poison she was experimenting with.

All of this she checked over carefully to make complete sure she wasn't forgetting anything. Which reminded her of Fugaku having moved in... More sours into the ribbon seals for him, yes, and chocolates for Karin... Just to be on the safe side, more chocolate was stashed to cover any new people she hadn't spotted yet, and that was that.

Once that was settled, she headed out to make sure everyone got their Valentine's gifts.

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The youngest Sasuke was out, practicing his daily fire jutsu routine. After all, the only ways to increase his chakra pool was practice and... time. Really, he wasn't going to wait on the whole 'time/growing up' option, so he would do what he can by practicing.

He also finally had, by now, his own bottle of ointment and patches of gauze he could also practice applying on his own burns. He was about to try again, when he spotted one of the few familiar females he had seen here.
"Ino-neesan!" he could actually most likely be heard throughout a twenty-feet radius as he joyfully cried out her name and hurried over to her.

She blinked, then crouched down as the boy came barreling toward her. "Hey there Sas-kun. Been keeping busy?"

"Yea! My other me's showed me somethin really awesome, so I've been practicing whenever I can! M'gonna go over to the central place later and see if anyone's wantin to see me do some shinobi tricks!" after all, he had been tasked with finding as many prospective students as he could for classes! "Whatcha doin today, Ino-neesan?" he asked, rubbing one of the gauze patches.

"Me? I came to hand out Valentine presents!" She pulled out a ribbon and released the storage seal, catching the pack of sour candies that popped out. "For you."

The youth watched with wide eyes as something materialized from thin air. one day, he would be able to do that too!
"For me?" Immediately, he bounded to hug her with his tiny arms. "Thanks neesan!" That made it official! "You're the best neesan ever!"

She blinked, then laughed softly and hugged him back. "You didn't even see what it was!"

"It's a present, so I gotta say thanks first!" and hug her too. He did pull away some and twisted his head to look at the pack of... of.. "What is it, neesan?" he did have to stop hugging her to claim it, so he did.

She made an amused noise and drew it up to offer him. "Sours."

"Whoa!" he snatched it with both little hands and looked up to her with wide, dark eyes that shone like a miniature solar system. "Can I have some now? I promise I ate breakfast earlier!"

She laughed softly and nodded. "They're yours."

"Yaaaay!" he gave her a hug again, before hastily unwrapping the bag and chomping down on one.
That expression on his face? Yup, those things -were- sour. The real, good thing!

She laughed at the look and shook her head. "Good?"

He gave a series of nods, willing himself to chew. The whole thing was just exploding. It was really magnificent.

She just shook her head and petted his hair. "I'm glad!"

He hugged her again, shuddering as he gulped down the chewed thing. "Those are AWESOME!" he clamored. "Ino-neesan, thank you!"

"You're very welcome! I have more gifts though, so I'm heading inside, okay?"

"Hmhmm!" he let her go and waved goodbye energetically with a hand. "I'm gonna go off too! Got lotsa people to 'mpress!"

She grinned and nodded. "I'm sure you will Sas-kun!" With that, she spun to head inside.

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