[Naruto Fanfiction] [Lu Ning, No Preference] The Art of Gift-Giving

This was a New Year 2015 event fic for the Ning-Lu group. Everyone in the Ning-Lu fandom knows what happened before, so I won't bring it up. Instead, we launched an endless-sweets event where canon could go die. Rules: a fixed prompt (endless sweets) plus a random prompt (decided by drawing lots). Everyone would write under a secret identity, then try to guess each other's prompts. I drew prompt number 9: "You reach for the last piece of candy, only to discover it's just a wrapper." [I really went all out trying to turn this into a serious story.] I threw in "mutual secret crushes" and "messages that never get through" as red herrings. [No idea who submitted the angst prompt, but how naive! I just twisted it into a comedy for you. Hey!] Core theme: