Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, or any of its characters. I've been forgetting to write this.

Happy Birthday

Today was without a doubt the best day of Naruto's life since his parents had died. It seemed like everything was just going his way. His first class, Chemistry had been fun. They had burned different chemicals to see what color the flame would be, and no one lit him on fire! Sakura and Ino even talked to him about the compounds and why they burned the colors that they did. In foods they were allowed to cook anything they wanted with the ingredients that were in the refrigerator. Naruto had made chicken stir-fry with vegetables! Now he had lunch for the day, actually maybe even a couple of days depending on how he rationed it! Not only that but Ino and Sakura had spent the time making a poor but heartfelt vanilla cake with chocolate icing. Naruto had tried to eat it in the classroom but they had smacked his hand playfully and told him to wait until lunch. Once they had split up to go to their separate PE classes Naruto had been worried that his good luck was about to end but he was wrong. Since the girl's gym was still under repair they all ended up in the boys gym playing doge ball. Naruto loved doge ball, even though people tried to pelt him with balls. But this time it was a little different. Every time someone on the other team said something mean and tried to hit him in the face Ino would hit them in the back of the head with a ball and say 'Ooops I didn't see your fat, dumb head there, my bad.' Then she would smile sweetly. Every time she did it, it had made him laugh making his teammates look at him strangely but he didn't care. He was finally happy. When the game was finally over Naruto was headed over to the changing rooms then he head Sakura yell his name. "Hey, Naruto!" He turned to look at her, "Come sit by us at lunch, ya?"

He smiled back at her, "Of course!" he trotted over to the changing room. He was so elated, that even though the room was full of his classmates he started changing. He tuned out the whispers pulling off his gym clothes and throwing on his normal ones.

"You seem very happy today Naruto!" Naruto looked over to see Lee standing next to him.

"Of course I am," The blond smiled brightly causing hearts to skip beats and stomachs to flip, "I mean today is my birthday and it's the best birthday ever!" Naruto laughed and grabbed his backpack.

"Oh ho! Your parents must have gotten you something very special indeed!" Lee slapped his back but that isn't what made him falter in his steps.

'Does no one knows I am an orphan?' The thought shocked him. He thought it was what made everyone mean to him in the first place. Because he was different, because he had no real family. "No, I mean," Naruto, laughed his mask pulled over his confusion quickly and blurted out "I don't have any parents." Everyone in the room stopped talking then. The silence was thick and buzzed in his ears, seconds passed like minutes and no one said a word. Laughing nervously Naruto began to back out of the room, "He he, guess I'll see some of you guys at lunch." And with that he turned and ran from the room.

The purple haired boy from the day before broke the silence, "He's lying, I saw his parents pick him up last month."

Gaara rolled his eyes. Another boy exclaimed, "Those obviously weren't his real parents, I mean think about it they both have black hair and Naruto's hair is blond." Sasuke scoffed at how dense the other people in his school were.

"Well then why have we never heard about it before?"

"When have any of us bothered to talk to Naruto about anything." This time it was Gaara who had spoken up. After that no one spoke, everyone just finished getting dressed and left in silence until only Sasuke was left sitting on the bench. He grabbed his bag and headed out the door determined to find someone who knew about Naruto's past.


Naruto had grabbed his food and had just walked into the lunchroom when he heard two distinct voices call his name. He saw Sakura and Ino standing next to a table in the corner waving their hands above their head like crazy. Naruto laughed a little and walked over to them. "Ready for your birthday cake?" Ino asked as they all took a seat at the table. Naruto looked at the cake, it was the same as it was in class. Lopsided with the icing spread unevenly over the entire thing, but Naruto couldn't be happier.

"Of course!" Naruto nodded vigorously while Sakura cut them all a piece of cake with a plastic knife. Once they all had apiece they dug in, I mean it's a birthday. You always have cake first on your birthday. The cake was dry and fell apart when they tried to eat it but to Naruto it was the best cake ever. He smiled brilliantly, his eyes dancing.

"Thank you for making this the best birthday ever!" Sakura and Ino smiled lightly.

"It was the least we could do for being as terrible as we were to you before." Sakura shrugged.

"Ya." Ino looked down fidgeting with her hands.

Naruto smiled softly, "Well, if it makes you feel any better I wont be telling you all of my secrets anytime soon." Ino and Sakura rolled their eyes as he chuckled softly.

"Well you better tell us i-" Sakura's sentence was cut off by yelling out in the hallway.

"YOU CANNOT KEEP HIM FROM ME! HE IS MY FAMILY NOT YOURS AND IF I WISH TO SEE HIM THEN I SHALL!" The door to the lunchroom burst open slamming against the wall. The noise silenced everyone in the room. Two women walked in, the first had long fire red hair that reached midway down her back with its soft waves. She looked to be from a rich family. She wore a dark green sweater dress that reaches halfway down her thighs with a brown and gold belt at the waist. Her dark brown leather stiletto boots came up to her knees, her hair and necklace barely moved as she strode purposefully into the room, a pink ting of anger marring her delicate cheeks. Naruto was so transfixed on her he never noticed his social worker running in behind her the same pink anger flush across her face. Behind them followed the principal and a few teachers. The short black bob of the social worker fanned around her face as she turned to yell at the principal behind her. Naruto took no notice; he heard nothing but the sound of his blood rushing through his ears. The tips of his fingers tingled, his heart beating erratically in his chest. She looks just like….. Onee-chan….

"Onee-chan…." He had only whispered the word but Sakura and Ino had heard it. He stood suddenly he chair clattering to the floor causing everyone to turn and look at him. Stormy grey eyes locked onto him and softened, the anger that once marred the woman's face gone in a second replaced by a small smile.

"Naruto," she took two steps toward him before stopping her hands clenching the necklace that had been resting on her chest. Tears welled up in her eyes as she stared at him. The people in the lunchroom had begun whispering franticly trying to figure out who the woman was and how she knew Naruto. They stared at each other for only a few more seconds but it seemed like an eternity.

"Mira?" Naruto questioned taking a small step forward. She nodded quickly her tears beginning to spill from her eyes. Mira opened her mouth to say something, anything to her brother when he came crashing into her, knocking them both into the ground. She smiled down at him as he buried his head into her. "You came back…. You came back…" He just kept repeating it over and over. He held her tightly as if he expected it to be a dream and for her to just disappear.

She ran her hand through his golden locks, "I promised didn't I?"

A/N: Hey everyone, sorry this took so long to update. Thank you everyone for your support and reviews 3 I am hopping to find a beta reader soon since I type quickly and have a hard time noticing some small spelling mistakes I make. I know they are supposed to be there so when I re-read my head fills it in and I will not notice it unless I wait about a month and re-read through it.

So really what I'm saying is that if any of you would like to be my beta reader I would gladly appreciate it. Like lots and lots. Also with a beta reader I'm almost positive that I would update more since someone would be kind of on my ass about the next chapter hahaha. Anyway Hopefully I will be ably to update again in the next week or two. I'm trying to give myself deadlines for each chapter so I will update more frequently… -_- lets see how it works out!