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Second Chances
BattleStations
Over Heard
It was about halfway through the next day when I rose up off that couch.
I didn't sleep a minute, just laid there the whole night remembering my father. His bright smile filled my thoughts and those stupid little pranks twitched a smile out of me. I got sprayed by our sink sprayer thing when he wrapped around a piece of electrical tape to hold down the handle. I was soaked and he laughed at his drenched glaring daughter.
My back cracked as I shuffled to the kitchen. Naruto would be showing up soon. I promised to make him lunch after he got back from his school place. While I slaved in the kitchen I heard the door open and recognized Naruto's hyper antics of slamming the door against the wall.
"Food ready!" he asked excited as I heard him slam the door shut too. My neighbors hate me for this.
"Just about." I replied vaguely as I turned off the stovetop and let his food sit. "What'd you do today?" I asked plopping down in the chair opposite of him. I only have two chairs actually.
"Ninja stuff…" he said finding the table a little too interesting. I figure "ninja stuff" is code for I fell asleep again. I just might have to accompany young Naruto to his class one day, only to keep him awake of course.
"Do I have to go to school with you to keep you awake?" I asked jokingly. He instantly perked up.
"Would you! That would be soo cool; no one else has someone go with them. Everyone shows up by themselves. I'll tell Iruka-sensei! He'd be happy to see you; you know he asked about you once." He added thoughtfully. Damn that kid could talk…. Wait…what's Iruka have to ask about me for? Wait wait….was Naruto taking me seriously here?
Before I knew it, Naruto had planned it out I was getting dragged to his school as soon as he could and I would learn "everything about ninjas like him and I wouldn't have to ask questions anymore", though I doubt I will ever run out of questions about this place.
"It'll be great! You can meet everyone at school and you can see Iruka-sensei again and…." He kept going on and on but I kind of spaced out staring at a fleck of food on the table. I have problems with spacing out. I do it too often.
Way too often in fact.
"Samma?" Naruto was all the sudden in my face waving his hand around. "Are you in there?" he asked seriously. I blinked a few times and shook my head to clear my thoughts. Yes, I space out way too much; I think I just lost ten minutes of my life. "I thought you fell asleep with your eyes open." Naruto told me ceasing the waving of the hands.
"I'm okay." I mumbled standing to stare at my chair; somehow I figure it was the chairs fault, yeah I'll say it was the chairs fault. "What were you saying?" I asked him blankly.
Naruto fell to the floor then stomped to his feet to glare at me.
"And people say I don't listen!" he complained glaring cutely at me, it made me smile to see him making the angry faces, but that caused him to let out a childish whine, which led me to laugh, the kids too cute to be taken seriously.
"Alright I'm changing then we're going out to your apartment to see how your fairing." I told him ruffling his hair on my way to my small room.
"No! Let's get something to eat first!" he yelled as I closed the door.
"You just ate!" I yelled toward the door to my room. I swear the kid doesn't have a stomach, just a bottomless pit.
"I could eat more." I heard him mumble. "What about you! You didn't eat!" he yelled triumphantly, he got me there.
"Fine! We'll get something to eat too." I told him sighing as I came out of my room.
"Yeah!" he exclaimed as we walked out the apartment door.
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His apartment was just as bad as when I first moved in with the kid. Gross.
As I managed a combination of throwing junk away and putting groceries in their places Naruto assembled his laundry, at least this time I would be modestly clothed.
"Where did you get so many clothes?" I asked as I carried the huge basket down to the apartment laundry room.
"There's a place where they give you clothes for free!" he told me excitedly. I guess that explains the odd colors. He seemed fond of orange.
The stairs creaked in protest as I descended with the basket roughly the same size as me. As we cleared the stairs I caught a conversation between two women.
"….and he lives in this apartment building!" a woman proclaimed angry.
"They should reveal information like that before you buy your apartment." The other woman replied pulling lightly colored clothes out of a dryer. "Probably bring the cost down, I can see why the land lord wouldn't want to tell people." she added.
The woman that spoke first froze at the sight of me and Naruto and nudged the woman fussing with the dryer. That's when I realized they were talking about Naruto, he noticed too as his face fell when I glanced at him.
"Hey." I said softly to Naruto as we stopped on the stairs. "You wanna finish cleaning the apartment while I do this?" I asked him making sure he kept his eyes on me. He nodded as his eyes watered and my heart went out to the kid. As he quickly scrambled up the wooden steps I turned my gaze to the two women. I gave them the dirtiest look I could at the moment then walked to the other side of the room and dumped Naruto's clothes on the concrete ground and glared at the machines, what did he ever do to them? I stood and faced the woman.
I slightly celebrated as one of the women shivered under my gaze.
"What has he ever done to you?" I asked. "He's only a little kid; he doesn't need people like you talking about him behind his back! Its bad enough he's by himself, people like you only make it worse!" I yelled slowly making my way toward them. As I yelled at them they hardened under my gaze and glared defiantly.
"Yes!" one woman yelled back. "It is his fault! If it wasn't for him, my husband would be alive! My family would be whole! The whole village would be better off without that monster! He killed too many! He killed the Hokage!" what was she talking about? "We're doing our laundry somewhere else!" she proclaimed pushing all of her clothes into a basket and storming out of the basement-like area with the other woman shuffling behind her.
I slowly made my way to the machines I left the clothes by and sat down on the dryer. He killed the Hokage? Was it the second one? Cause the Hokage I know is the third. But the Hokage now is so old. He's probably been the Hokage all of Naruto's life, and he's still alive! What were they talking about?
I dropped my head back and covered my eyes as a headache threatened to form. The woman claimed Naruto had killed her husband, and other people. But he's only seven! From what I form he's of the worst in his class too, he's not capable of multiple killings. He's too sweet.
But where did those women get their views from? How did they come up with that? This kind of thing doesn't form from air…..
I should get the laundry done.
So now she's a bit closer to finding things out...
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-BS
