This is a random drabble that came into my head as I was listening to some music, I hope you like it.
Friendship
Iruka turned from his many piles of unfinished marking to the doorway of the classroom
Iruka turned from his many piles of unfinished marking to the doorway of the classroom. A boy no older than 6 stood covered in mud and something else Iruka couldn't work out was grinning widely and lifted up Iruka's bag that had mysteriously gone this morning. The boy's blond hair had obviously been tugged at and ripped out with droplets of blood scattered over the spiky locks, a long jagged cut ran down over one of his whiskered cheeks and a few scratches covered the rest of his chubby face. As the child ran towards him with the dripping bag Iruka noticed a slight limp in his left leg when the boy jumped up onto his lap.
Naruto looked up at his teacher with adoring eyes and held up the bag underneath the Sensei's nose. Iruka stared down in confusion and opened his mouth to ask what had happened but was beaten to it by the excited boy who animatedly told the whole story.
"Iruka Sensei you'll never guess what happened, you know those boys who were hanging around this morning? Well I followed them after school today a and found them by the Raman place with your bag so I went up to them and demanded them to give your stuff back. It was hard but I got it!" He beamed happily and dumped the bag onto hip lap with a squelch.
Iruka looked at him in astonishment and stuttered with an open mouth, " Naruto, but those boys were at least twice your age and three times as bigger than you."
The blond boy grinned broadly and nodded, " Yep and I got the bag back for you!"
Iruka shook his head and smiled, "Naruto, come, lets go and get you cleaned up." The eager 6 year old jumped onto the floor and twisted around to pull Iruka to his feet, Iruka looked wistfully at the cup of tea sitting at his desk and followed Naruto out of the classroom towards his flat across the village.
They arrived in the building 5 minutes later where the older man told Naruto to sit down at the small round table in the middle of the slightly messy kitchen while he ran a bath in the room across the hall.
After Naruto had washed and dressed in a clean pair of clothes borrowed from Iruka, they sat together at the small table with a plates of steaming noodles sitting in front of them. Naruto had nearly eaten all of the serving he had been given so Iruka passed his uneaten meal over to the hungry child. He looked at the smiling boy and puzzled over something for a second.
"Why did you do it Naruto?" He asked the young child, "Why did you fight if you knew they were going to beat you?"
Naruto looked confused for a moment then brightened up, "'cause I knew that bag was yours and they were big bullies. Nobody insults my Sensei without having to go through me first, you're my bestest friend ever!"
Iruka looked down at the loving face looking up at him and smiled, "And you, mine."
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