Chapter 2 ~The meeting~

(Written Naruko POV)

"Yeah - this is the day I'm finally going to pass that stupid test! Believe it!" She had been training for this so long, but she still had problems with the first and easiest jutsu ever: replacement jutsu. She had been so mad at herself for so long she didn't know for how long! She clenched her teeth together and went to the academy.

~At the academy~

"Next up is Uzumaki Naruko" Iruka said holding a list of names.

Her heart was beating so fast she couldn't hear the pause between the beats. She stepped forward and made the hand sign and focused her chakra and "POOOF!" a big carpet of smoke filled the room. Naruko felt so exited, she felt that she had made it through this time. As the smoke cleared Naruko felt hope and excitement, but Naruko's hope vanished from her eyes. She stood there looking sorrowful at the failed attempt of herself. Her world now crashed, everything was falling apart. Her classmates laughed so hard some of them fell on the floor and she saw Iruka through her teary eyes trying hard not to laugh. He of all people knew she hated it - and she ran off. Still hearing their laughter in her head and the awful things they said to her during that year at the academy: "You'll be stuck here forever looser!", "Just give up!", "Don't come here thinking you are something!", "Get away from me damn fox!"

Her mind was far away, not able to bear what they had said to her.' She had to get away as far and fast as possible'. Not knowing where she had went she suddenly found herself by a big waterfall. She hiked her sobs as she went closer to the flowing wall of water – and against all chances she saw a dark spot behind the waterfall, possibly an entrance to a cave of some sort… After some struggle in her mind, she finally came with the conclusion that she had nowhere else to go now, so she went in behind the waterfall. She sat there curled up to a wall with her knees up to her so she could hide her face in them. As she sat there sobbing she had her head filled with thoughts; 'What if I had a family, could my life be any different?', 'Maybe I just should… No', 'I'm always alone', 'I should just disappear, a way to never come back… Just di-' her thoughts was interrupted by a deep snarl from the other side of the cave.
She could see white teeth gritting together while the snarl grew on her fear. As she dared lift her head a bit more she crawled as far back into the rock wall as possible. Her heart froze as she saw two red eyes staring at hers giving her a death glare ready to rip out every bone she had in her body. Out of the shadows came a big black wolf and he was closing in on her as a pray. She couldn't move at all even thought she wanted to. Inside of her she screamed to herself 'Move, Move, MOVE he'll eat me! He'll kill me and nobody will ever find me, but I…' Slowly her mind froze too.

The gigantic wolf stopped only centimeters away from her. Only glaring and snarling as the wolf was slowly opening his mouth a fire caught her and she rose up quickly. The sudden movements made the wolf close his mouth and pull his head back a little. She then held up her right hand to the side and the left up close to her chest. Without knowing what she was doing she yelled at the wolf: "Go ahead and kill me, eat me and send me burning to HELL! I don't care what happens to me anymore, I've always been alone, no one to see me smile or even cry! Nobody gives a shit about me! When I die maybe I'll meet my parents and I can be happy! So don't just stand there and snarl, I'm already dead inside!" all that came from little Naruko's mouth her eyes teary and drops of salty water fell down on her cheeks over her whiskers and fell on the cold cave floor.

Inside of Naruko's head:
She really wanted to be friends with everybody at the academy, but nobody seemed to notice her so she did stupid pranks and everybody laughed at her. Well it was better than not being noticed at all she always said to herself. But deep inside her, she wanted normal friends. Like this pink haired girl named Sakura, she seemed to be a nice person, but she set her up and since then Naruko has thought she was a Bitch! And as the result of that everybody hated Naruko. Not even the hokage paid attention to her, he only gave her the money she needed to survive and pay for the apartment for the month, and that was the life she had. Nobody cared… And so no one would miss her…

She stood there silent and saw the wolf glared at her, still the same cold and mercy less eyes as before.

"Why don't you just kill me already?!" She yelled to the wolf, sobbing after the words and stopped sobbing as she saw the wolf come closer with and wide open mouth. She could see the sharp teeth and she closed her eyes waiting to be eaten by the beast.

As Naruko closed her eyes she could feel the wolf coming closer and closer. She then felt sharp teeth bite down in her shoulder, gently. Not daring to open her eyes in fear of the monster to kill her if he saw she was watching him biting her. The grip of her shoulder slowly eased and then a wet tongue started liking the place the wolf just had bitten. She the dared to open her eyes only to see onyx eyes stare at her before he started licking her cheeks clean for the tears. She then sobbed once more before hugging the wolf and started to cry again, this time not in despair, but relief.

She held on thigh to the wolf's neck and that was when she heard it - a calm voice inside her head;

'You don't have to cry anymore. A girl like you should know that, if it makes you stop crying I'll be here with you' the voice sounded of a boy not much older than herself

What was that? She swears the wolf didn't move a muscle except the calm breathing. She loosened her grip and stopped crying, only a few sobs here and there. She looked at the wolf in his onyx eyes and asked:

"Was…that…you?" she asked a bit hesitant with a wondering face blinking a few times in the progress.

'Yeah, but I don't speak like you do. I speak directly to your brain, don't worry it won't fry you or anything like that it's harmless' Naruko could've sworn she could see the wolf enjoy the insecure look on her face. But she decided just to ignore it.

"Will… will you be my friend?" she could see the wolf looked like a question sign "No just for-"

'Yeah, I'll be anything you want me to be and I'll protect you like a brother' he paused a little seeing a shy smile cross Naruko's face 'I know how it is to be alone and I don't want you to go through the same'

Naruko couldn't believe what she just had heard. The wolf actually wanted to be her friend and the other things he said flattered her and she felt like blushing. She smiled as his eyes looked at her and she felt a smile growing on her face. But when he said that he also had been alone, she felt sorry for him. She took a step closer to him, her hands reaching for each side of his big face looking in his deep eyes before she kissed his nose and said:

"If you promise never to leave me, then I promise to never leave you" she had never been happier and after her words she awaited a reply

'…I'll never leave you' the voice was calmer and his eyes looked softly at Naruko. He then licked her little face from her chin to her forehead. Naruko couldn't help laughing there wasn't a thing in the world which could ruin this day.

After a while the night had laid its dark carpet over the sky, and you could see stars from a little hole in the top of the cave just beside the running water. Naruko sat beside the wolf leaning her head onto him. She looked at the stars and the two of them enjoying each other's company. The silent was interrupted in her head;

'It's late… shouldn't you be on your way home now? It's dangerous during the night, what about the people worrying for you?' his voice sounded somewhat sad and gentle not to upset her or thinking that he wanted her to leave.
"I don't feel like going home tonight, and nobody will notice that I'm away ether way… can I just be her for the night? I got to go the academy around lunch-time so you don't have to stick with me all the day" she said in a somewhat sad voice not wanting the wolf to her sad complaints.

'Sure just stay, I don't mind. But what's wrong with the academy?' he turned his head to look at her with curious eyes.

"Well it's just that I can't do the replacement jutsu and because of that I'll have to be in the academy the rest of my life and never become a shinobi" she damned herself

'If you want to I'll help you'

"Really?! I can't wait when do we start? Right now?!" she was so exited she couldn't sit still and she stood up almost jumping in excitement.

'But it has to wait until tomorrow' he heard that Naruko going "Awwwww, why not now?", 'you'll need the energy for tomorrow, now sleep' half annoyed he sighted as Naruko sat down beside him having her arms crossed and puttering.

'You'll be cold and catch a cold or even freeze to death if you sit there'

"Then where shall I sit or lay?" she asked slightly shivering

'…' not wanting to answer her stupid question he lifted his upper body and used his right leg to pull Naruko half under him before lying down again, with her placed half under him and between his front legs so she had him as a carpet and pillow, his head lying lazily on the side of her.

"Good night" she said with a small blush on her face looking at him

'Night, dobe' and he closed his eyes apparently very tired after the day

"Shut up, teme" and she knocked her little fist in the side of his head and the only thing she heard was an 'hnn' . She smiled and with a small laugh she hugged his right leg which now was her pillow. Calm breathing was the only thing except from running water in the background which was heard inside the cave and the night was lighted up by stars and small stars falling over the dark blue and purple skies.

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Well please kick my lazy ass to make more chapters! I'm doing so much I can't do it all^^' But I know how the story is gonna be I just gotta write it from my summary in my docs on my Word... God why does everybody want a piece of me?

Make me want to write more chapters :D