This is my first naruto fanfic. I just wanted to see how all the characters of naruto spent their valentines day! Hope u all enjoy it. =D

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto!

He didn't know how it happened or why it happened. He didn't even know when it happened. He just knew that it did happen. And he knew that it made his life even more troublesome than it already was. For a man who liked always to stay out of trouble and useless confusions, this was really not where he wanted this to come to. But now that it did happen, he had nothing to do but to embrace it. It wasn't an obligation. He wanted to embrace it. If he didn't at least give it a try he would live to regret it for the rest of his life. He quickly pulled on his sandals and went out of his house and on his way. Even for the smartest man of Konoha, which he was, what he was about to do would require more planning that even as S rank mission. And he had planned a lot of those.

How troublesome…..

'Ino!' Naruto greeted as he entered her shop. She was arranging some red roses in a vase and humming to herself. On hearing Naruto's greeting she turned to face him and smiled.

'Naruto,' she said. 'What brings you here? You hardly ever come to my store!'

'Eehh,' Naruto made a grudging sound, scratching the back of his head slightly embarrassed. 'I was just looking for some flowers.'

'You came to the right place then, Naruto but why flowers?' Ino asked, very astonished. She paused as Naruto looked sheepish. 'Naruto! You have a valentine?'

'Not yet, really, Ino,' Naruto said. 'I didn't ask her yet…'

'Who is it? Who is it?' Ino demanded. 'This is news for gossip alright!'

'Ino…,' Naruto turned red and scratched the back of his head. The sheepish grin was still on his face.

'Come on Naruto, tell me already!' Ino demanded. 'I really know whose favorite flower is what you know. That can help you make a good impression.'

'It's fine really Ino,' Naruto said. 'All in good time. All in good time.'

'Is is Sakura? It's Sakura, isn't it?' Ino wasn't letting it go all that easily.

Naruto shook his head. 'No, Ino, better luck next time. Now I would really like those flowers.'

Ino pouted disappointedly. 'Sure sure. What do you want?'

'Some fresh white lavender,' Naruto said with a soft smile.

It was Valentines Day and her day would go by like any other normal day. It always did. It wasn't like he was ever going to ask her out or anything. But she always hoped maybe, just maybe this valentine's day he would ask her out. She never had the courage to confront her own feelings to him given how intimidating he was. But she knew she was the only woman who knew him the most. She knew almost everything about him. Except know if he really liked her or not. Of course he liked her. But not in the same way she did. And she really, really wanted him to like her back the same way she liked him.

She had waited a lot of valentine's days. And she gave up hope this time. No more waiting. Waiting was always disappointing at the end of the day. If he would have said anything, he would've said so any day. But he didn't. It was time to get over him. She picked up her scrolls and put them on her back and walked out of her apartment. As she would have to spend the day like the rest, she could very well go and practice.

In the practice ground she could see Lee kicking into a tree truck practicing. Gai sensei was there beside him counting loudly the number of kicks Lee threw onto the tree truck. Same as ever those two. She sighed. And then Neiji was there too, sitting on a broken tree trunk that was lying on the ground. It could be Lee had already broken a tree in his previous attempts. Neiji, it seemed was taking a break. His face was expressionless, almost bored. Not like he changed. She sighed again and joined her team.

'Tenten!' Gai sensei shouted. 'See Lee has already broken a tree! I am so proud of him.'

'Gai sensei!' Lee said touched, tears in his eyes.

'There is always room for improvement, Lee!' Gai sensei said. 'You shall have to do it two times faster this time.'

'Yes, Gai sensei,' Lee said. 'I shall do it two, no four times faster this time!' With that he went back to kicking the humongous tree trunk.

'Tenten, why don't you get to a tree yourself?' Gai sensei said.

'No thank you, Gai sensei,' Tenten said quickly. 'I'll just do some target practice.'

'Uh, brilliant idea,' Gai sensei was as enthusiastic as ever. 'Neiji will help you.'

'It's okay, I can -,' Tenten was stopped short in her sentence. Neiji had already gotten up even before Gai sensei's suggestion, to help Tenten out with her practice.

'C'mon Gaara,' Kankuro and Temari pleaded. 'We're in Konoha on Valentine's. Let's go see the celebrations!'

Gaara gave no reply.

'You can't come every time you know,' Temari reasoned. 'You're Kazekage. You can't leave Sand all the time. And we all know Valentine's celebration at Sand sucks.'

Gaara raised an eyebrow.

'What?' Temari snapped. 'It's true.'

'Yeah Gaara, you won't be able to visit Konoha all the time,' Kankuro said. 'Let's go enjoy ourselves while we can.'

Gaara sighed. 'You two go ahead. I'll go out later.'

'He's impossible,' Temari told Kankuro. 'Let's go.'

'You'll regret it Gaara,' Kankuro said and got out with Temari.

Temari didn't know what she expecting today. But she did want something to happen alright. That is if the person she had in mind would man up and say something, which she sorta doubted would happen.

'We are thinking about someone now, are we?' Kankuro teased, knowing very well what Temari was thinking about.

'Shut up!' Temari snapped, hating herself for going red. All the shops in the streets were decorated in the valentine's color of red. Flowers were everywhere. Couples walked about the street hand in hand. There was music everywhere. And there was announcements going on about a valentine's festival at night along with beautiful fireworks.

'Konoha sure knows how to celebrate,' Temari commented.

'Uh-huh,' Kankuro agreed. 'So you going to the festival tonight?'

'Yeah, I guess,' Temari said.

'Even if someone doesn't ask you?' Kankuro teased.

'Trust me Kankuro, you say another word and you will be incapable of going to the festival tonight!' Temari warned. Kankuro just grinned.

'Why don't you waste your energy incapacitating him instead of me, given he doesn't ask you out,' Kankuro suggested. That was when he got the punch on his cheek.

'Temari!' Kankuro protested.

'Shut the hell up!' Temari exclaimed.

'Speak of the devil,' Kankuro said rubbing his cheek. 'Look who walks by?'

Temari's head snapped up to find none other than Shikamaru walking towards them. It seemed he had not noticed them yet. He seemed to be deep in thought about something and was hardly paying attention to whatever was taking place in the streets around him. Temari blushed despite herself and cursed under her breath for letting her emotions run ahead of her.

'I guess it's time for me to conveniently disappear now,' Kankuro said with a cheeky grin and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

'Kankuro!' Temari exclaimed. She couldn't believe he just left her like this.

But on the other hand Shikamaru was getting closer. And Temari found out that she could not move from the spot she was standing in. And finally Shikamaru noticed her. He stopped walking too. Not expecting to run into her just then he was completely taken aback and at a loss of what to say.

'What are you doing here?' Temari said, finally finding her voice.

'Walking is not illegal is it?' Shikamaru said in his bored drawl.

'Not like you to walk around watching valentine's celebrations really,' Temari said.

Shikamaru grimaced and then smiled. 'Not like you either.'

Temari blushed. Shikamaru noticed. He smiled. There was like this feeling in his stomach that he could not control on seeing her blush. It looked nice. It looked appropriate. He wanted to touch her cheeks where she had blushed. But he couldn't bring himself to do that. His plans of what to do were still at bay. He couldn't imagine how he was given the name of the best strategist of Konoha when he couldn't plan on how to ask out a girl. A girl, who, it seemed, liked him back too.

Troublesome…

'So now that you're here, why don't I show you around?' Shikamaru offered. 'I am usually your guide in Konoha.'

Temari smiled. 'Sure, I guess. Seeing as I have nothing else to do and Kankuro disappeared.' Lame, Shikamaru. But it's a start I guess.

'Do you have any plans today, Sasuke-kun?' Sakura asked Sasuke. He was sitting in a food stall eating his favorite omusubi with okaka. Sakura came and slid in the seat next to him.

'Hn,' Sasuke said, not really bothered.

'There's going to be a festival tonight,' Sakura said, not losing her enthusiasm at Sasuke's lack of enthusiasm.

'Hn,' Sasuke said. He was well aware of that fact.

'Are you planning on going?' Sakura kept on with the conversation.

Sasuke didn't reply.

'I'll take that as a no,' Sakura said. 'Would you like to go with me, Sasuke-kun?'

Sakura looked at Sasuke expectantly. She half expected that his answer was going to be a no. She was almost all the time rejected by Sasuke. So she didn't think this time would be any different either. But still she gave it a shot hoping that he might, just might say a yes. So when he heard Sasuke's answer she was very much surprised.

Sasuke got up from the seat without a word and made his way out of the stall without answering Sakura's question. Then just as he was about to go out, he addressed Sakura without turning back to look at her.

'If I don't have anything else to do,' he said and walked away.

Though there was no guarantee that Sasuke would be there with her at the festival, the fact that Sasuke had considered made Sakura's day.

Thank you for reading it. I'll write about the festival and what the guys actually do in the next chapter. So you all have to wait a bit. Hope you enjoyed it.

Please review. =D