Chapter 12

                                    

                                          
Winters in Konoha had always been terrible if you asked Naruto. Their country might be called the Land Of Fire but she thinks it should have been called the Land of Snow for how cold the country can get. The cold winds always nipped her even though Naruto made sure to wear a lot of layers like the Hokage suggested.
The only good thing about this Winter was that now Naruto had a nice apartment to keep her warm from the icy winter nights.
Everything on television was boring and Naruto had done all the housework needed for her apartment, so it make sense for her to go out into the forest just close to the outskirts of the village to play. She probably should have done the homework that Iruka-sensei gave them, but Naruto saw no point. The man doesn't actually care if she did her homework or not, so why do it?
Besides, the answers to the questions were easy and could be done in ten minutes. She would just have to make a double effort to make sure that 55% of the answers were wrong, or else Ami might just try to steal her homework again.
She probably should have tried to play with Sasuke but Naruto was still angry with her friend for not attempting to defend her from his crazed fangirl. I didn't think he would be so stupid in believing her! Naruto didn't believe that bullshit for one second. She knows from her playdates with Sasuke that his Daddy didn't like it when she got better scores than him.
She knows that he doesn't like her.
"Of all the people that our son can befriend, he chooses her?" She didn't mean to hear it but Naruto heard voices talking in one of the study. Well actually she did mean to hear it. She wanted to know where Itachi was, because Sasuke kept talking about him like he was some kind of God. "You put him up to it, didn't you Mikoto? You want our son to get together with the spawn of that devil."
"Don't you dare call her that! She is the child of my..."
Naruto doesn't know what happened after that because Itachi caught her. It had been the closest that Naruto has ever gotten to know who might be her parents, and Naruto doesn't even know what stops her from going to Mikoto and asking her about her parents. Mikoto likes her and Naruto thinks Mikoto might be the closest thing she can ever have to a mother.
It was just too bad that Sasuke doesn't like the idea of sharing his mother with her.
"S-Sorry!" Naruto blinks and stopped walking when she caught sight of her seniors cornering one of her classmates. It was the weird classmate. The one with the very pretty dark blue hair and pale lavender eyes, who always seemed to watch her and Sasuke.
Naruto only remembers her because she has the Byakugan.
Sasuke always tried to steer her away from that classmate, explaining to her that his clan really didn't like their classmate's clan. We are rivals. Naruto doesn't understand how they can be rivals when their classmate was scared and didn't pick fights with anyone. Their classmate just keeps to herself in the same way that Naruto and Sasuke kept to themselves.
She thinks their classmate can't ever be Sasuke's rival, because Sasuke would defend himself. Her classmate was quivering and scared out of her mind as those bullies kept taunting her.
It would never be right for her to stand there and not do anything right? Heroes were supposed to help people and Naruto likes the idea of becoming a hero to someone else. Maybe they could be friends, and Naruto likes the idea of having a friend that was a girl.
She wants a friendship like the one that Ino and Sakura has; she doubts Sasuke would allow her to decorate his hair with flowers. Not that Naruto wanted to do it but the idea was there.
"Quit it!" Naruto charged straight towards them. They stopped their taunts and slowly turned their heads at her. Their eyes widened at the sight of her but she focused her eyes on her shy classmate. They made her cry. Naruto doesn't like bullies and she hates them even more for making someone cry.