Naruto has ended today. I applaud Kishimoto for bringing such a wonderful story to this world and kept at it for 15 years~!

This man DESERVES a break, don't you think?

I Do Not Own Naruto. (I don't have the best summary in the world, it's late, I wanted to post this. I'll make some changes later.)

Eh, Saturday mornings are the best. I don't need to wake up early to go the Academy, I can just stay in bed and snuggle into my pillows without a worry in world. And nothing, and I SAY NOTHING. Will ever make me get outta this comfy bed!

Creeaak.

"Katsuko, we're eating."

step, step, step...

Except for that.

Immediately, I threw the sheets off my body and hastily threw my legs over my bed. My feet landed on the wooden floor with a soft thud, I could feel the cold feeling from the floor through my socks. Ah, such a nice sensation!

Without wasting another second, I ran out of my room and into the kitchen. The moment I arrived, I let myself slide across the floor.

However, I lost balance and fell.

"Katsuko! What are you doing?!" My mother looked down at me like I was crazy.

"Sliding. What's for breakfast~?"

Enter Katsuko!

Katsuko Igarashi

Age 12, Academy Student

I ate the noodles my mother made slowly, savoring the taste of this amazing gift without rush. As I kept eating my food, I suddenly remembered something. I swallowed my food and waved my hand at my mother. Whose name by the way was Hoshiki Igarashi.

She gave me a look that said 'what?'.

"Next week, is the graduation test!"

"Then you better start practicing your jutsus then."

"Yeah, I know!" I gave her an exasperated sigh, for some reason, I always dislike it when my mother tells me stuff like that.

I finished the rest of my noodles and picked up my glass of mango juice. "Where's dad?"

"Out."

"Like always, every saturday." I rolled my eyes in annoyance.

My mother looked at me with a questioning look, "Weren't you going to go out today? With Shikamaru?"

"Shoot! You're right! And it's almost time!"

Katsuko looked at herself in the mirror to check her hair, only for a few seconds though. Unlike most girls her age, she didn't waste half an hour in front of the mirror trying to fix her hair. She looked at her clothing and flattened it out so that there were no wrinkles or anything. She was wearing your typical blue sandals, and some everyday clothes. Some black pants, a gray t-shirt and an azure long sleeved vest. Once she was sure she was ready, she raced down the stairs and bolted outside, into the streets of the Hidden Leaf Village. Normally, she would spend any free time at home and stay still like a lazy potato on the couch. But this time it was different, she wanted to do something more fun for a change since their graduation was next week. That would mean less time to hang with close friends and more hardcore training for being a ninja!

Speaking of friends, the friends she had closest to her were guys apparently. It was probably because of her different interests, other girls shopped for pretty clothes, she shopped for t-shirts and sweaters. They talked about boys they liked, she talked about the flaws of the person they liked. Katsuko honestly felt out of place, in that kind of crowd. Hinata and Ino were the girls she befriended more easily. But Hinata scored more points than Ino.

Ino told her a lot of times, if she wanted to fit in, she could change.

But, what would that do?

Aren't people supposed to accept you for WHO YOU ARE?

If they didn't, then that would probably mean they weren't meant to be friends with you.

So, as a result. She turned towards the guys, who accepted her for who she was. She befriended Shikamaru (who was lazy like her) which then made her befriend Choji and Naruto, and it just kept going. She honestly wouldn't care if most of her friends were guys, or how girls whispered behind her back saying she was a tomboy. Sure she suffered her share of loneliness.

But she didn't care.

As she speed walked in the streets, she took a sharp left turn around a corner.

Only to bump into two of her academy classmates.

"Hey! Be careful!"

"Hikaru, calm down. It was an accident."

Katsuko frowned, "Man, you can be such a prick sometimes."

"What was that?"

Before her stood two males. The person she addressed as prick was on the right, he had beige hair and light blues eyes, he was wearing a white and blue stripped t-shirt along with a short gray short sleeved vest. He wore long black pants and ended just above his ankles. The other boy on the left who seemed more kinder, had short brown hair with a pair of green eyes wore light brown pants that ended under his ankles. He was also wearing a white jacket on his gray shirt, colored green on the interior, with green stripes along the bottom and sleeve cuffs. He supported an apologetic look as Katsuko narrowed her eyes at the boy next to him.

"Wanna repeat what you said?" Hikaru, the beige haired boy dared.

"Hikaru, come on." Soramaru, the brown haired kid groaned.

Katsuko rolled her dark brown hues at him, "Well, it was nice seeing you prince charming. But I gots to hang with Shikamaru now! See ya, Hikaru, Sora!" And with that she sped off, with her black hair swishing back and forth behind her. The two males left behind merely stared at the dust she left behind her trail.

Hikaru rolled his eyes and simply continued walking. "Let's go Soramaru."

Soramaru smiled sheepishly.

I climbed up a huge flight of stairs, (I was already panting the moment I reached the twentieth step! Man am I out of shape!) I finally arrived at the top after some great deal of effort.

At the top, I found Shikamaru laying down under some shade while looking at the clouds. With a happy grin, I walked over to him and looked at him upside down.

"Hey there!"

"Eh, you finally made it. Took ya long enough." He let out a yawn.

"Hehe."

Writing some Fairy Tail is nice, but sometimes I get the urge to write something else once in a while~

(This story was planned the moment chapter 698 came out! :D)