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I: Included

(A/N: By the way, this is when they were little. X3)

'We don't a girl with a big forehead on our team.'

That was how they had said it. How they had told her she couldn't play. How she was to ugly to play. How her forehead was to big and she might get them caught. That was how. In those cruel words.

She had ran after that. The 8 year old wondered if they wondered where she was at all.

Probably not.

Tears started to sting her eyes painfully. She sat down on the abandoned sidewalk and held her knees to her chest.

"I... I'm not... I'm n-not..." She couldn't finish the painful sentence in her mouth. For her throat was stinging from the welling tears in her eyes. She felt her nose run and wiped away the little leak with her sleeves. She was doing good. Being strong and holding back the tears. Just a runny nose, stinging throat, and burning, blurry eyes. But no crying.

'Your forehead is ridiculous!'

The sentence jumped in her mind again. The dam in her eyes broke and the tears spilt. She couldn't help it. The tears poured and she couldn't stop them now.

She could never stop them.

Meanwhile

'My mom said you were bad and not to play with you.'

The blond ran through the forest, holding in the painful tears that were threatening to break any moment. No. They couldn't. A strong shinobi never showed emotion. And only strong shinobi became Hokage's. So he had to be strong.

But darn ir they were stinging really bad.

Why was it so bad to play with him? He had never done anything so terrible. He had never killed anyone or stolen anything. He worked hard and yeah, he screwed up every once in awhile. But who didn't? Even the Uchiha genius messed up once. (And he should know, he mocked him for it.) So why was it so hard for them to let him play?

Why?

'Don't play with him.'

The tears broke through and fell, shattering as they hit the abandoned sidewalk.

Later

How long had it been? How long had she been crying? It was sunny when she ran from the other kids. Now the sun was setting. Her mom was worrying probably.

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He had been walking for awhile. Wiping away every tear that came down his face. He tried to stay calm. His hands stayed in his pockets - unless another tear needed to be rid of. He didn't need to worry about getting home. No one was worried.

He looked up when he heard sobbing. Like his own. He saw a not to far off figure. It was curled up into a ball. holding it's knees to it's chest and its head resting on its knee caps.

Ok, he needed to figure out whether this thing was a he or she already.

He wiped away the rest off the tears and fluid from his nose. He took in a deep breath and walked over to the thing. Which, by the way, had pink hair. Probably a girl then.

"Hey." He said kind of in a whisper. "You ok?"

The pink haired girl looked up to see blue eye gazing down at her. She quickly wiped away every leaking thing on her face and swallowed her spit.

"W-Who are... y-you?" She asked quietly.

"Naruto." The blond boy paused. "Uzumaki." He notice that the girl wasn't looking at his face, and making sure he couldn't she hers. "Who are you?" He asked rubbing an eye that felt dry from crying so much.

"S-Sakura." She paused and took in a stinging breath. "H-Haruno." She gazed at the tree beside her like it would fix all her problems in a minute. When really, she just didn't want the boy to see her forehead and laugh at her again.

"Hey." She suddenly notice him kneeling in front of her. She blushed and tried not to look at him. "Can you not stand me either?" He asked quietly.

Sakura froze. "W-What?" She asked.

"Well... It's just... no one likes me. Some can't stand to look at me." He sighed. "And your trying really hard to not look at me."

The girls eyes widened and she quickly faced him.

"I-It's not that!" She said, feeling the tears in her eyes. "I just don't want you to start laughing at my forehead!" She quickly realized what she said and dropped her head on her knees.

"Forehead?" The boy looked at her. "You get laughed at cause of your forehead?"

"Yeah." She said, her voice muffled by her pants.

Naruto stared at her carefully. Who made fun of a girl with a forehead? Didn't that just mean she had more brain then everyone else? But then again... it was probably the same kids who didn't include him in their play.

"You know," He started. "I get made fun of to."

Sakura lifted her eyes to meet his.

"No one ever... include sme in anything. They don't wanna play with a boy who doesn't have parents. So, they call me stupid and leave. To sit there. No one to include me." He looked at her with emotional eyes. "Is that how it it for you?" He asked.

Sakura looked at him thoughtfully. She nodded and rested her eyelids over her eyes.

"They say I'm ugly cause my forehead is so big. But then, when I tried putting bangs over them, they still continued to not include me. No one wants to include an ugly girl." She sighed.

Naruto felt tears in his eyes again. He felt so bad for the girl. And she was in no way ugly. She was very pretty. He scooted next to her and she blinked her eyes.

"Let's make a pact." He said. "We'll always include every person we meet. Until they end up being mean. Cause we don't want them to go through the same stuff we did." He held out his pinkie. "We want to be included, like everyone else."

Sakura stared at the boys pinkie. She had only just met him, and he was already being very nice to her. She took out her hand and wrapped her tiny pinkie around his.

"Ok. We'll include everyone we meet." She smiled.

Naruto smiled.

And the funny thing was, they both had already included some one, and didn't even know it.

The End


A/N:Yet again, another sad one. -Sigh- I think I'm having depression issues... I dunno. Anyways, this ones kinda sweet. I mean Naruto's all sad, so is Sakura... and then there all like "Include!" Lolx. Anyways, I hope you like this one. I tried to make it long again. But it is just suppose to be a drabble, so yeah.

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