Happy NaruHina month! This is my first time participating and while I'm sure I will not be able to post every day, I will do my best.

I'm not really sure what kind of length to expect out of all of these. I think it'll just depend on the prompt and how much time I have, but I hope you enjoy what I can get out!

Warning: I'm current with all but the movie and I have seen enough spoilers for it to have an idea of what happens so I may at some point in one of these stories have a spoiler or something.

Anyway, enjoy!

Day One: Sunshine

When she was younger, she had thought her name to be a cruel trick of fate. Hyuga. Towards the Sun. Hinata. Sunny place.

Hearing such a name, anyone who was not acquainted with her would have assumed she was a bright, warm person. A small, quiet girl who often shrunk in on herself when spoken to was definitely the opposite of what came to mind when picturing someone with her name.

It didn't help that she resembled night itself. With hair the color of midnight framing two pale eyes that shone like the Moon, she was essentially the human incarnation of the nighttime. In fact, she was often told by her girl friends that night was when she looked best. Apparently, lighting was very important for appearance and while some people looked best in candlelight (TenTen) and some people looked best at dusk (Ino), Hinata looked positively ethereal in the light of the moon.

One day, however, Hinata picked up a book on basic astronomy while bored and suddenly her seemingly oxymoronic life made sense. It turns out, moonlight is actually sunlight reflecting off of the Moon. Meaning, the Moon shines thanks to the Sun. And Hinata had definitely found her Sun.

Uzumaki Naruto.

If Hinata was the human incarnation of night, then Naruto was the human incarnation of day. His eyes were blue as a cloudless summer sky and his unruly hair actually shone like gold in the sunlight. He was friendly and warm, and Hinata was in awe. He was strong and determined and she saw so much in him that she desired to reflect.

And so, Hinata worked hard. She trained and faced her weakness head on. She learned to get back up instead of staying down and pretty soon, she too began to shine.

Hyuga Hinata's life soon began to reflect her name. She worked hard to move towards her own Sun. To be by Naruto's side was her dream and that dream was something she was determined to fulfill. And after many hardships, many fights, and even some heartbreaking sacrifices, she found her sunny place.

Even decades into their relationship, Hinata would sometimes thank Naruto for helping her. He would shake his head in bewilderment, telling her that she was strong, that she had always been strong. They hardly talked to each other as children and if anything, he remembered her quiet encouragement and felt the need to thank her.

And she appreciated his faith in her. She appreciated the fact that even now, even after they had shared so many of their secrets and insecurities with one another, that he still considered her strong. She was his rock, his happiness and someone who had given him the family he had always dreamed off.

But to her, he would always be her sunshine. He would always be the inspiration that had saved her, that had given her light in a dark time and helped her become the person she was always meant to be.

And together, they shone brighter than anything.

I looked up the meaning of her name on Google and went with the definition I saw most often. I don't actually know Japanese so sorry if there are any inconsistencies.