With You in the Future

Secret Santa 2020 (Part 1)

Option 2: Naruto and Hinata's first Christmas together as a couple

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Written for @quirrrky - NaruHina Secret Santa 2020

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It's the sounds of someone getting dressed that gradually pulled Hinata out of her dreamland. She fought against her awake for a while, but the noise of a bag hitting the floor and a swear won the battle.

Defeated, her eyelids slowly fluttered open, realising the weight of his arms around her waist was missing. Her lavender irises still clouded by sleepiness took in the sight of the familiar walls when she turned around in the bed.

Then, instead of finding Santa Claus, she saw her boyfriend's figure bending over to pick up the bag that had slid off his hands.

She didn't precisely know what time it was, but at the sight of the very shy rays of sun penetrating their bedroom, she understood it was too early for him to be up during a day off.

"Naaarutooo-kuuuun."

"Shit," he breathed while zipping up his jacket. "I'm sorry, Hinata. I didn't mean to wake you up."

It was still strange for him to be quiet in his flat on purpose.

Naruto had always been loud to fill the silence ruling over him with an iron grip, but now that Hinata had moved in with him, he tried to control the volume of his voice or his steps when moments like this one were favourable for calm.

Apparently, he still had progress to make since his girlfriend rolled on his side of the bed, wrapping herself in the orange sheets, but still holding her hand out for him.

"Come back..."

She heard him walk to her before sitting on the bed.

Their fingers met, slid on each other's skin, fanning this feeling of well-known warmth with which she had fallen asleep last night.

Hinata was about to snuggle against him, but her cheek brushed against the rough fabric of his mission gear.

She frowned and felt with her hand the rest of his body until provoking a chuckle from Naruto. He took her hand, lifting it to his lips and leaving feather-like kisses on each of her knuckles.

"Something came up at work. I have to go."

Somewhere in the back of her mind, she recalled hearing a knock on their door. She thought she had imagined it. She wished she had.

She knew there was never truly days off for ninja, even less so for the highly expected Hokage's successor, but for once, Hinata would've liked to keep him all for herself.

"Buuuuut-"

"You should go back to sleep," His voice was soft, the smell of his shampoo embedded into the sheets comforting, the caress of his hand in her hair pleasant, the heat from his body intoxicating; everything felt so right that Hinata's eyelids grew heavier and heavier. "I won't be long."

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It was already two in afternoon when Naruto opened his front door and quickly closed it behind him to prevent the cold air of December from invading his flat.

He rubbed his palms while removing his shoes without undoing them. To quickly reach his kotatsu, he carelessly let them fall on the floor, but leaving them like that in his way made him stumble as he moved to unwrap his scarf.