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[Open] Momento Mori

She had noticed the villagers running around preparing things for the past few days. Every time she attempted to speak to one of them about what was going on, however, they seemed to be too busy to answer her questions. Finally, she'd braved asking Kakashi-sensei's landlady—the owner of the bookstore—and was informed about the festival to honour the dead.

Hinata had quite a few dead to honour, here or not, and she purchased her own candles and some ingredients to make dishes to put before the shrine. It would be awkward since she didn't have any photographs of her mother and putting one of her cousin would seem a bit morbid, but she hoped that they would appreciate the thought anyway.

That was what counted, right?

Perhaps she wasn't the only one of the shinobi intent on doing so as well.

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"I will try," she said happily. She'd never done a lot of cooking before she came to Michi no Sato, but she found that she enjoyed it when Naruto-kun seemed to enjoy eating what she made.

She took a tiny bite and chewed on the sweet. "No, they are slightly cold, but they are still good."

"Oh, well, they smell pretty good anyways~ gotta be cause they made em not so lon ago." he pondered. "You said it takes a day to make the paste though? How do these people manage to make so many of these cakes? Gotta be a lotta paste..."

She tested the sponginess of the treat. "I would say they were made within the last few days. I suppose they work in advance to have so many available for purchase during festivals."

"Hmm.. days huh? If they still taste as good as whatever I always buy, that means something even better exists? Whoa~" there was a pause. "Not sure anything can beat that red bean soup you made a while back~" but there was room to try and achieve such a feat.

"Well, I don't know what happened to the last batch that Kushina-san taught me to make. I will make sure that you get some next time."

She blushed at the compliment. "I'm glad that you enjoyed that."

[OOC: Not that he got her anything for White Day~!]

"It's way, way better than that stuff they sell too!" because stuff that's sold just... tastes good, but not extra-special awesome.

Well, not that Naruto was that great with holidays. It wasn't advertised big enough.

She just hummed affirmatively at his comments. Really, all of his compliments would go to her head if she let it. Sitting with him, talking and eating sweets during a festival? It was like a dream. She couldn't have asked for anything better.

Well, besides when he kissed her, but that wouldn't be appropriate in public. It could wait for when they were at home.

When they found a place to sit, Naruto finally took out a cake for himself to consume, never having let go of her hand on the way. "Wanna go try this goldfish-scooping thing after? You can take em home~"

She thought about it. Of course she'd seen the little booths offering passersby the opportunity to catch a goldfish to keep as a pet.

She'd never participated, nor had she ever had a pet.

"Yes, but I am unaware of the care a fish would require."

"Oh... uh.. I think you just feed em with flakes or somethin once a day or such.. Even I could do that~" yeah, and that means it really isn't that hard at all... right?

She smiled at him gently. "Then we should go?"

He finished his cake, closed the box balanced it upon a hand again, getting up. "Yup! Let's soo how this thing works~ ahaha." it would certainly be fun, to do something like this, with her.

She allowed him to lead the way. "After that, we can find the ingredients for the red bean cake." Not that it really took much.

"Yeah, that's gonna be awesome~" in fact everything about this day was awesome really.

Once they got to the goldfish-scooping stand, the game was easy to figure out. It wasa matter of catchinga fish with a small paper-covered spoon-like thing. The paper would quickly absorb water and give away, so it was a matter of quickness and some luck, but also genteleness since the flopping fish's weight would also make it give out even quicker.

She watched him successfully catch three goldfish in a short amount of time. She was actively looking forward to taking care of pets that Naruto-kun had gotten her.

After he had caught a few more, she could see that the stall keeper was upset. She knelt down beside her lover and whispered into his ear. "Perhaps we should move on. The owner appears to be unhappy."

He was only going to get one, really, but that was just too fun. He was showing little kids some trick to do it easier too, when Hinata whispered. "Oh? Aahha~ I lost track of things! Sorry!" he gave that goofy endearing smile and gave the man a wave. "Seeya later ossan!"

It was time to go and get stuff for those red bean cakes. "So, off to the markets before they close, and then home huh?" he claimed her hand aesily, fingers slipping into hers, still carrying the box of cakes they had left over.

She gave a tiny bow to the stall's owner before she and Naruto headed towards the shopping district. "Yes, but I think if you want them to be done correctly, I will have to start them in the morning."

"Oh. That's okay~ I mean, not doin em.. correctly.. means they wouldn't be as good as they could~" so he wasn't going to complain, ot at all!

She nodded while squeezing the hand he still held. As they walked out onto a deserted street, she quickly leaned over and kissed his cheek before looking down at the ground with a happy smile and a faint blush on her face.

He gave a light, pleased noise and bent slightly to nuzzle and just nip lightly at her neck. Too bad they still had some shopping left...

Her body warmed at the feeling of his teeth against her neck and she really wished that they were somewhere private. A quick look at his face told her that he felt the same way. It took everything she had not to melt at the dark, hungry look in his eyes.

She didn't remember purchasing the items that they needed for his red bean cakes. The only thing she could concentrate on was the feeling of his hand in hers and the weight of the bag with her fish and the needed items for them.

When they arrived back at their home, she couldn't decide if she wanted to go to a bedroom or take care of her purchases first.

"hmmm~ so, you said these couldn't be touched till tomorrow morning hm?" the blonde mused. "What ever could we do until then?"

Well, yeah, who was he kidding? "...my room or yours?"

She nodded, blushing at the implication of his words. "Mine is closer."

"Hm~ Yours it is then. We should probably get this stuff to the kitchen first though." and so, after their purchases were safely stored and the goldfish he'd caught left temporarily upon the table in a glassware bowl, he led himself and Hinata up the stairs, a light smile upon his lips. Today felt endless, but in a good way.

She followed him in a sort of daze as they put away the food and got the fish settled before going up to her room. However, when the door was closed, she looked over at him with a soft, heated expression as she slowly loosened the sash holding her kimono together.

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