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"Even when go to bed early, you still look grumpy."
Naruto rubbed her eyes and let out a small yawn before darting her eyes to her boyfriend. Faint amusement shone through his heterochromia eyes and a tiny, faint smile played on his lips. The wideness of his eyes alongside the fact his hair didn't look one bit messed up made her sigh. She darted her eyes and felt her eyebrows twitch when she saw how Midoriya bounced in his spot.
"Only the devil likes waking up this early in the morning!" Naruto scowled and folded her arms against her chest as her blue eyes darted to the two boys in front of her. "I'm a normal human being unlike you and Midoriya!"
Shouto hummed and raised his eyebrow at her. Naruto only deepened her scowl and stared at the scenery right in front of her. The early morning sunlight tickled in, shining over his hair and making the boy look more angelic than ever. A few birds chirped in the background as if they had no concept of time. The other students looked just as exhausted as she felt if their yawns were of any indication.
"You do realize that you just called a quarter of the world population the devil?" Shouto tilted his head and almost had a smug look in his face. Naruto only eyed him while Bakugou swirled his head around to glare at them. Red eyes were coloured with exhaustion and her relative's hair looked even more like a mess, sticking out in all direction like a porcupine.
"I ain't changing mind cuz they are definitely not human for being so cheerful in the morning!" Naruto grumbled, folding her arms against her chest. Her eyes darted to her female classmates, who kept rubbing their eyes, before flickering to the boys. Most of them couldn't meet her eyes and their cheeks flushed a faint shade of red. "I can't even sleep properly cuz of the snoring."
The dual-toned boy bobbed his head and looked at her for the longest time. The only sound that could be heard were the yawns of the other students or the excited chatter of Midoriya to Iida. Naruto raised a single eyebrow. What was going through his mind? She didn't mind the lack of sleep because it didn't allow her to recall back to that day.
"You should tire yourself out so you don't notice it," he suggested. Blankness coated his eyes as he flickered his eyes from her to the other girls before looking back at her. He slid his hands back into the pocket of his gym outfit while Naruto decided to take it as an opportunity to lean closer to him.
She darted her eyes at her boyfriend and thought back to his words. There was a lot of logic in his words but a part of her felt the intense desire to tease the hell out of him. If she had to endure being woken up in the early morning then Naruto wanted to see the boy getting flustered. It would make her day and help her forget the fact Aizawa-sensei was evil for making them wake up before the sun rose.
"Do you wanna help me get tire out?" Naruto finally whispered into his ear. She took a step back and offered the boy an innocent look, waiting for the inevitable blush to come out. He was going to either question her about her meaning or give her other suggestions. If she was lucky then he would understand what she meant.
Mismatch eyes looked down at her with a careful look like he was actually considering her words. His eyes skimmed down from her hair to her eyes before landing on her lips. The slight heat in his eyes made her stomach squirmed and Naruto recalled the rather heated, possessive kiss he gave her. He isn't actually thinking about it? Naruto inspected him carefully.
Her stomach fluttered with nerves and her cheeks burned with embarrassment at the realization that he was actually considering it.
"Homeostasis, you know I don't actually mean…not now I mean…maybe…" The words jumbled out of her mouth as the whiskered teen tugged on the end of her ponytail. Shouto continued to maintain a blank expression, only raising a single eyebrow at her and the blonde tried to calm down her speeding heart, hoping to find the courage to explain things in a rational manner.
"I know," Naruto blinked and Shouto looked down at her. There was a slight teasing glint in his mismatch eyes and the whiskered teen only gawked at him as her mind shut down at his words. "It would be too soon for either of us."
Staring at those blue-grey eyes, the blonde felt her cheeks burned and her chest tightening up at his words. A little bubble of laugh wanted to jump out of her mouth but Naruto swallowed it down. She only waited for her brain to rewire itself and processed the full extent of what his words meant.
"If you knew what I meant," Naruto darted her eyes everywhere and looked away when Ashido stared at them with gleaming eyes. The blonde jerked her finger and the pink-skinned girl pouted. Once the blonde was certain the girl was not going to overhear them, she continued. "Then why aren't you—"
"If I keep quiet and actually pretend to considerate it then you would be the one to get flustered," he replied. No emotion or smile decorated his expression but there was a little gleam of amusement and teasing in his eyes. Naruto gawked at him as her cheeks burned a bright shade of red. The boy smiled slightly. "I like seeing you get flustered. You look prettier when your cheeks are red."
Naruto squeaked and covered her face with her hands while Shouto hummed, not looking at all wide-eyed at what he just told her. Where was the Shouto, who would get confused and flustered by her actions? How the hell did the tables quickly turned on her? This was a change in him that made her want to squirm because it meant…she was the prey for once.
Mineta twisted his head around and glared at Shouto. If kunais and shuriken could be shot from his eyes then it wouldn't surprise the girl if her boyfriend would be dead from the glare. Naruto narrowed her eyes at him while her boyfriend only raised an eyebrow at the grumpy short boy before them. After a couple of seconds, the little boy scowled and looked away from them.
"How the fuck can the two of you be so damn talkative this early in the morning?" Bakugou growled from right beside Shouto. He threw a glare at them, eyed her red cheeks before narrowing his eyes at Shouto.
Shouto only shrugged. "The same way you can growl this early in the morning."
The blonde snorted and covered her mouth to stop the laugh from escaping her throat before darting her eyes at the two boys. Her half-cousin glared at the mismatch-haired boy, lips curled into a vicious scowl while Shouto only stared blankly at him. Naruto shook her head and paused at the realization that several eyes were on them.
Aizawa cleared his throat, lips curled into a bored look while his black eyes shot warning looks at the three of them. The two boys only grunted while Naruto offered a sheepish smile to their teacher. A few of the students only eyed them with envy while a couple of students, like Uraraka, regarded the three of them like they were insane for being this loud in the morning.
"Good morning, everyone!" Aizawa barked. The students forced themselves to stand up properly and uttered their greeting back to their stern-faced teacher. He waited for a couple of seconds before continuing on. "Today, we will begin the training camp to increase your strength. The goal of this training camp is to increase everyone's strength and with that, for everyone to obtain their provisional license."
Naruto knitted her eyebrows together, leaned closer to Shouto and whispered. "What the hell is the provisional license?"
"It is a typical ID card that allows you to act as a hero without the instructions of a hero," her boyfriend replied. He offered her a barely visible smile and the whiskered teen relaxed her shoulders. The worry inside of her faded away like the fading darkness in the sky as mismatch eyes looked at her with understanding.
Aizawa cleared his throat and Naruto jerked her head at their teacher. Tired black eyes looked at her, glinting with slight irritation and the whiskered teen widened her eyes and offered him a pout, looking like an apologetic kitten. The man stared at her for a good thirty seconds before grunting and continuing on with his speech.
Behind her back, the blonde made a victory sign.
"This is to prepare all of you to face hostilities that are becoming more real by the minute, so proceed carefully," Aizawa said. He pulled out a familiar ball from his pocket and tossed the ball at her. Naruto raised her hand, caught the ball and knitted her eyebrows together. Their teacher sighed. "Naruto, try throwing that."
The blonde nodded and gestured for everyone to stand back from her. She rubbed the back of her arm and began channeling chakra into her arms. Last time they did this was when she had been a little bit rusty. My chakra control is better now, so I won't be putting too little chakra this time around. Aizawa regarded her.
"Last time you threw the ball, you went over 3 kilometers," Aizawa replied. Naruto nodded and scrunched her eyebrows together as she focused on the gauge in her mind. Find the perfect balance like how Jiraiya and Sakura taught me. "Let us see how much you have improved."
She could see the gauge in her mind as she channeled the chakra to the palm of her hand. It had been difficult to control her chakra as a child but the video games in the arcade helped her. If she just visualized her chakra like this then maybe she could channel enough chakra to throw it further than the distance before.
Dimly, Naruto could also hear the voices of her classmates.
"It has been an intense three months so I say Uzumaki will throw over 4 kilometers," Sero declared.
Almost there.
The moment she felt the perfect balance for the throw, Naruto flung the ball with all of her strength and the added chakra into the ball. Whispers broke out from behind her while Aizawa observed the phone in his hand. His black eyes revealed nothing, not allowing her to gauge whether or not her score surprised him.
In a faint distance, the ball crashed down to the ground and Naruto blinked when her teacher frowned. He darted his eyes from his phone and then to her before looking back at the phone. A couple of seconds passed before the man finally decided to hold out his phone for everyone to see the score.
"30 kilometers."
"That is way above what we expected!" Sero cried.
Naruto rubbed the back of her neck, moved her feet back and forth as Aizawa knitted his eyebrows together. No other sound erupted from the class and only the sound of the birds chirping their merry song filled the air. Sweat clung to everyone's skin as their teacher made no attempt to say anything.
After a couple of minutes, the man pulled out another ball and tossed it straight at Bakugou. The boy caught the ball, lips curled into a scowl while everyone else raised their eyebrows at their teacher.
"What Uzumaki did wasn't supposed to happen," Aizawa cleared his throat while everyone knitted their eyebrows at the comment. Naruto frowned and tilted her head as the man reset the meter in his device. "Bakugou will demonstrate what is actually supposed to happen after three months of training. He will also act as a comparison."
Bakugou twisted his lips into a scowl and dragged his feet towards her. Irritation colored his eyes as the older boy gently shoved her to the side. Kirishima and a couple of the boys frowned while the blonde sighed. He knows that it isn't a fair comparison. Shaking her head, the girl resumed back to her position beside Shouto.
The older boy slid his feet back, steadying his stance and sparks began to erupt from his hand. Smoke spluttered, sparks fizzed out between his fingers and the ball exploded from his hand like a cannon ball from a cannon. It launched through the air like a sky rocket and Naruto squinted her eyes to see what was about to happen.
"Drop dead!"
Naruto whistled as the ball sailed fast and far out of sight. Bakugou curled his lips into a scowl and threw a glance at Aizawa, who relaxed his shoulders and looked like the world returned back to its original order.
"709.6 meters," Aizawa held out the meter and looked at the boy. "Your previous score was 705.2."
The words hung in the air like a heavy blanket as everyone flickered their eyes between them. Confusion colored their eyes and almost everyone tilted their heads between them. Only the chirps of crickets filled the air while the members of Class A tried to wrap their head around the differences between them.
"It has been three months since you started school," Aizawa started calmly. His black eyes flickered from the scowling boy before fixating on the whiskered teen. "Through various experiences, all of you definitely have improved. For most of you, the improvement has been to a mental and technical level. As you can see from Bakugou, your Quirks themselves, have not improved that much."
Kirishima frowned. "Why did Uzumaki increase so much then?"
Everyone swirled their heads at the whiskered teen, who had the largest increase and the blonde rubbed the back of her neck. Heat flooded her face as several eyes looked at her like she was an alien from outer space. Her palms moistened as Aizawa rubbed his chin, black eyes not revealing any emotion to her.
"I suck when it comes to control," Naruto finally admitted. Several eyes widened and the blonde cleared her throat. "I was born with too much energy but the cost of me having so much energy, I don't have much control. When I threw the ball the first time…I tried not to use too much chakra but I ended up using too little."
Aizawa sighed.
"We will all agree that Uzumaki is an exception to what I just said."
Everyone nodded their heads in agreement.
"Uzumaki, we will need to figure out how to work on your Quirk with you."
Naruto blinked and tilted her head at Aizawa. Her teacher stood right in front of her with a clipboard at one hand as his black eyes focused on her. The other students stole a glance at her before making their way to their respective stations that have been assigned to them. The sun had only risen slightly, its rays striking in every direction looking almost like a scene from a painting.
"What do you mean?" The blonde plopped down on the ground and crossed her legs together as Aizawa regarded her with thoughtful eyes. She inhaled and exhaled, calming down her thumping heart before offering a frown at her teacher. The man only thinned his lips and looked down at his clipboard again.
"Your Quirk is…very unique with a unique drawback," Aizawa observed. Naruto nodded and the man continued to skim through the notes. "From the observation made during our lessons alongside the showing in the Sports Festival, we saw that you can use your Quirk to do a lot of things. However neither I nor any of the teachers can figure out what needs to be improved on."
Naruto nodded and rubbed her chin as black eyes shone with irritation. The birds chirped while the squirrels dashed down from the trees and straight towards the fallen nuts on the ground. It did not really surprise her and she knew what the man had planned on but she wanted to make clear of her drawback. She exhaled.
"I don't need to increase my chakra output," Naruto poked her tongue against her cheek and cracked her knuckle. "If I used up all of my chakra then I will literally die."
"You mentioned this as a drawback in your submission form," The black-haired man replied with a grimace. He scanned the file again before flickering his eyes at the surrounding students, who were already in position to begin her training. His eyes landed back at her, looking almost frustrated that he did not know what to help her with. Those eyes looked back down at the file like he was trying to figure out what would work.
Naruto stroke her chin as her stomach twisted with an unfamiliar emotion. Very few teachers actually went this far to try and figure out what to help her with. Kakashi handed her over to Ebisu because she needed to master her basics while he trained Sasuke. If my problem were my basics then why the hell didn't he correct me earlier? She grimaced.
"I have been working on my Quirk with my Guardian," the blonde admitted. The wind whistled and blew her ponytail back as Aizawa blinked at this piece of information. Her blue eyes focused on her teacher for a good couple of seconds before moving to Shouto. The younger boy peeled off his gym jacket and jumped into the barrel of water. The water splashed and crashed to the ground.
"You mean to tell me that the Erotic Writer knows how to train your Quirk?" Aizawa asked. Naruto blinked and twisted her head around to stare at the black-haired man, who rubbed his chin. His tone sounded like they were talking about the weather even though his black eyes widened like the whole idea was odd.
The blonde sighed. "Jiraiya and I have similar Quirks."
Aizawa nodded but the corner of his lips tugged down till it formed a frown. Not that the man ever smiled because the blonde rarely saw her teacher smile. He darted his eyes at the other students, lingering on Midoriya the most. The older boy kept moving his arms and legs in a crisscross direction, looking like one of those trainers in those home exercise videos that Jiraiya loved to watch.
"Then do you wish to continue with what he had been training with you?"
Frowning, Naruto knitted her eyebrows together and contemplated carefully. The Senjutsu portion of her training was nearly perfect except for the fact she couldn't fuse with Shima and Fukasaku because the Kyuubi made it difficult. She could try to overcome that problem and try to use shadow clones, but Jiraiya would be irritated with her if she tried to do it without either him or the Toads watching her.
If she did not want Jiraiya to threaten to stop her training then she better do the smart thing and worked on something else. I should work on the chakra chains. That was something she just learnt and it made her blood boil at the fact that it took her a whole month to learn how to make them.
"There is something else that I wanna work on," the blonde admitted, trying and failing not to wince. Her ears cried out in pain as Bakugou screamed from right behind her as explosions pierced through the air. Aizawa raised a single eyebrow, not looking one bit fazed by the sudden scream. "It is a rather new aspect of my Quirk."
The noise around her became muffled against her ears and Naruto fiddled with her hand. Her blue eyes could not meet the searching gaze of her teacher, not when her heart pounded like an angry gorilla in a cage or when her palms dripped with sweat. She inhaled, felt her ribs cracked with relief and then exhaled.
"A new aspect?"
Naruto nodded.
"I can make chains from my chakra," the blonde thinned her lips and looked down at her smoothed hands before looking back at the penetrating gaze of her teacher. "But it takes a very long time for me to form chains. I, uh, also can't really manipulate them very well since I actually have to hold them to manipulate it."
Her cheeks burned with shame and she looked away from her teacher's eyes. When it came to using chakra, it was like second nature for her. Just as easy as breathing but it was a whole different story with these chains. If she could make the chains then it should be easy for her to use in battle, but her training with Akira made it seem difficult.
Aizawa sighed and tapped his clipboard over her head. The blonde blinked and jerked her head up, eyebrows knitted up together as black eyes flashed with understanding and thoughtfulness. He darted his eyes to Sero. The older male groaned and huffed as tape snapped out of the elbows of his wrist. Black eyes then darted to Aoyama, who cried out as laser beams came out of his stomach.
After a couple of minutes, the man finally nodded his head.
"You will spend the next five days making those chains," Aizawa declared.
That's the only training I have to do? What about letting me try to manipulate it? The questions swam in her mind as her throat tried to spit out the questions but her legs wobbled as the man turned away from her. Everyone else looked like they had more difficult training, so why was he making her only do this.
"Why only formation?" Naruto asked, trying to hold back the nerves that threatened to come out of her mouth. "Shouldn't I be also working on how to manipulate it as well?"
The Underground Hero stroke his chin and knelt down till he was at eye level. A smile plastered on her face, stretched so wide that her cheeks begged for her not to smile. The older male only sighed and placed his hand on her hair, ruffling it slightly like he was trying to reassure a little kid. Her heart jumped a little with the strange gesture and the man looked at her carefully.
"I want you to be able to form those chains from muscle memory alone," Aizawa replied. Naruto blinked and raised an eyebrow as the man flickered his eyes to everyone else in the area. "The fact it takes time means you will waste time trying to summon it. That can affect your future missions."
The blonde bobbed her head. "Muscle memory?"
"The fact it takes a long time is because you haven't made a lot of attempts to make these chains," her teacher observed. Naruto knitted her eyebrows and tried to recall if there were some truth behind his words, before bobbing her head. "When you first started to summon your clones, did it take you a whole second to make them or a whole minute?"
Naruto rubbed the back of her neck, destroying the tension in her neck as she tried to recall the very first attempt of making clones. It hadn't been perfect. The first clone had been visually better than the clone she would make with the normal clone jutsu. But it hadn't been perfect. The second try had been better because she added just a little bit more chakra.
Oh.
"A few minutes."
Aizawa nodded.
"We will work on making those chains until it becomes like second nature for you," he declared, removing the clipboard from her head. Her head hissed with content at the heavy weight removed from her head and Naruto stared back at him. "Once you accomplish that then I will work with you on how to manipulate those chains."
That sounded reassuring if you asked her.
"You are taking a break, Naruto?"
Shouto stopped clapping the water barrel and pushed himself up as Naruto strolled right next to him. His breaths came out in rapid pants, like he ran a 100 meter dash when all he had been doing was making flames and ice. His arms screamed in agony, only singing in relief when the water attacked his nerves and his eyes rested on the smiling female in front of him.
Even though his girlfriend smiled, the tremble in her arms and the hair stuck on the sides of her face told him that girl was probably going to drop soon.
"It is draining my mental capacity to make the damn chains," the blonde slumped her shoulders and plopped herself down on the ground. She knitted her eyebrows together and after a couple of minutes, several chains erupted out from her hands. Shouto blinked and pushed himself up from the water barrel, mismatch eyes gleaming with curiosity at the glowing chains.
They were probably the size of the chains that anchored ship. The shimmery glow of the chains reminded him of the moon, a sharp contrast with the golden hair of his girlfriend who resembled the sunshine with her eyes and the sun. He wanted to inspect it but it would mean leaving the warmth of the water barrel.
"They are new," he commented.
Blue eyes gleamed with thoughtfulness and lifted the heavy chains with a grunt from her mouth. It must be heavier than it looks. The blonde dropped the chains, a heavy crash pierced through the air but none of their classmates turned around to look at them. Most of them looked like they either want to drop dead, vomit or just go back to bed.
"My mother's family are well-known for making them," the blonde explained. She lifted the chain again and dropped it on top of her lap before flickering her eyes back at him. "From what I heard from my great-great Aunt, my mother was really good with making these things. Her chains were very strong and heavy too."
He blinked and knitted his eyebrows together. "So is this considered a Quirk in your part of the world?"
"It is more complicated," Naruto hummed and rubbed her chin. "The fact that my chakra is dense and a lot makes it a Quirk while the way I make the chains can be done by anyone outside of the clan, if they knew the basics of how to do it. So it is a mix of both?"
It sounds really complicated to think about it. He rubbed his chin and winced at the ache from his shoulders. His left arm did not have any burnt scar on his arm but it did feel like it was on fire. His right arm shivered, crying out like there were little needles of ice poking inside of him. He exhaled and looked down at the barrel of water before looking back at the concern that sang out of Naruto's eyes.
"Aizawa is going to be pissed off if he sees that you are slacking off," Shouto pointed out. He relaxed his whole body down to the water barrel, groaning with relief as his shoulders praised him for his decision and then stared back at the blonde. His girlfriend stared at him, cheeks burning a slight shade of red and looked at his shoulders.
She looked almost like a cute little bunny, instead of being her usual mischievous little fox.
The blonde pouted and folded her arms against her ample chest. "He is going to be pissed off with the fact that you are spending more time talking to me than spending time on making ice and fire."
A little grunt escaped from his lips at the reminder and Shouto pushed his hair behind his forehead, allowing the cool, summer wind tickled his neck and shoulders. Naruto was right. If their homeroom teacher caught sight of the two of them talking, instead of doing their own training then he would give a very long lecture of what they were supposed to do.
He frowned and darted his eyes everywhere, only to blink at the lack appearance of Aizawa.
"Where is Aizawa-sensei?" He asked.
His girlfriend offered him a sly smile, looking very much like the mischievous fox with that smile, and his stomach churned with a flutter that a large bird would feel. Warmth washed over him like someone could liquified sunshine and dosh him with it. His throat tightened too and the boy rubbed the back of his neck.
The smile on Naruto's lips widened and Naruto finally answered. "He is giving a run-down of what Class B is going to expect in their training with Vlad King-Sensei."
Shouto blinked as Bakugou's screams filled the air between them. His mind went completely blank, processing what the whiskered teen had just informed him. His mind connected the dots of the timing of his girlfriend's arrival to his side with Aizawa disappearance before a little snort escaped his lips.
"The moment Aizawa walked away from keeping an eye on you, you decided to take advantage of his disappearance," he said. Naruto smiled even wider, looking pleased at her decision and the boy bobbed his head. "You decided on a smart strategy of when to take your breaks."
His girlfriend puffed her chest and grinned at him. The sparkle of joy in her blue eyes reminded him of the bright skies above him, looking so pretty that it was difficult for him to tear his eyes away from her. Her smile screamed with so much pride and joy that he wanted to praise her even more, except they would definitely get into trouble.
But the blonde deserved to be praised and complimented if you asked him. Nothing could ever fully describe how important she was to him or how amazing he thought she was.
"What are you trying to achieve by heating and cooling the water?" Naruto tilted her head, knitted her eyebrows together and Shouto knew if his girlfriend had a Quirk that made her have a tail then she would be wiggling it from her curiosity. She will probably look even more cute. His cheeks burned an even darker shade of red and he forced himself to look away from her.
Not the time for him to get distracted.
"I'm trying to get my body to get used to the freezing temperature," he answered. Shouto exhaled and subtly began to decrease the temperature, hoping the prickly coldness would be enough to stop his mind from wandering to dangerous territories. "And at the same time, I am trying to regulate the heat of my flames."
A small frown decorated his lips as he looked down at the water. You can't surpass All Might if you only use your right side. His father's words echoed in his ear, furious turquoise eyes played before his eyes and a bitter taste clung to his mouth. Bastard was right and if it wasn't for Naruto, Midoriya and even his own memory then he would struggle even more with this exercise.
"Y'know what is great about your training besides the fact you are going to be awesome and make fire and ice at the same time?" Shouto blinked and swirled his head at his girlfriend. The blonde tilted her head as a bright smile played on her lips as her blue eyes glinted with mischief. His throat dried up at the image and a part of him knew what was going to happen.
He knew the girl knew when he started to think back to Endeavour because that glint in her eyes was her tell-sign alongside the fact that Naruto had absolute faith he could master his Quirk.
The boy exhaled and raised an eyebrow at her. "What else is great?"
Mischief intensified in her eyes and the blonde clasped her hands behind her back, almost looking like an innocent school girl. Except she corrects smut in public. A tickle of blood escaped from his nose as his mind recalled the last sentence he read from that notebook that the girl carried with her.
"I can ogle your chest without shame," Naruto replied.
The smile on her lips intensified as her eyes moved down from his eyes to his chest. I like staring at your chest even more than Midoriya, Homeostasis. Her breathless, husky voice echoed in his ears and his lips grumbled about the kiss that he forced himself to end. He wanted to explore even more, especially when her eyes looked at him with such dazed expression. He wanted to be near her even more when he saw the affection in her eyes.
He darted his eyes at the grinning blonde, whose eyes gleamed with eagerness and mischief. She is trying to get me fluster by admitting that she likes looking at my chest. Shouto had two options. Either he could put a stop with it and pretend his heart did not race or he could be childish and returned the favor twice over.
It was rather clear to him of which option he would like especially when one of them promised flushed cheeks. I feel relax enough to try to show her that side. He didn't know much about expressing his emotions but Naruto wouldn't mind if he just went with his gut, would she? Have you ever told him how you feel? The same question should apply here.
Either way, he was going to find out Naruto's reaction.
"You shouldn't feel shame," Shouto schooled his expression into a blank one as Naruto blinked. His eyes lingered on the gym jacket that seemed to hug loosely on her chest before moving down to her baggy pants. The blonde gulped. "I do the same thing."
Naruto squeaked and flushed a light shade of pink, almost resembling a cherry blossom with her pink cheeks. She blinked and blinked, pinched herself in the arm as Shouto felt his lips twitched. I can see why Naruto liked to say all those things in the beginning. If his reactions had made her chest bubbled up with amusement then he could understand why she did such things.
But he was giving her a taste of her own medicine.
"D-Do you know what you just said?" The girl spluttered. She swirled her head left and right, almost resembling a cute, little otter with such actions while Shouto kept the innocent gleam in his eyes plastered. He tilted his head while Naruto relaxed, almost looking like a little animal who was unaware of the trap being said.
He hummed. "I do because I couldn't stop staring at the photo that Hadou sent me when you went dress shopping."
Naruto's cheeks burned an even brighter shade of red and Shouto felt his lips twitched when the blonde looked torn between smacking his mouth or willing to hear his thoughts on the photo. This is fun. He allowed a little smile graced on his lips and the boy pushed himself up from the water barrel, mismatch eyes focused on the girl.
"It took a lot of willpower for me not to go over there," he allowed his eyes to linger on her chest before looking up at the wide-eyes of Naruto. "That dress highlighted your figure and made me want to have a very cold shower. I think of that photo every time I take a shower. You looked so pretty in that dress."
The blonde squeaked even more and buried her face behind her hands, looking almost like an ostrich and Shouto felt his lips twitched. I wouldn't tell you this if you weren't trying to get me flustered again. He knitted his eyebrows together when the girl squirmed slightly, gulping down a lump and looked at him.
His throat tightened a little when he saw the little growing desire in her eyes.
"Homeostasis, we are in public," she finally muttered. Naruto's eyes wandered from his mismatch eyes to his chest before landing lower before looking back at his eyes. Embarrassment colored her features and Shouto wondered how he could bring out more of this flustered side of Naruto. He liked everything about her but this side felt incredibly special to him.
A part of him wanted to believe he had been the only one privy to this side of her. This side of Naruto makes her contradiction. His girlfriend had no problem correcting smut in public, never ever getting a nosebleed but the moment that he praised her or made any comments like this then she would get flustered like an innocent little girl.
His pants tightened and the boy tried to picture Natsuo in a ballerina outfit again. Not the best time for him to get heated. It was already bad enough he made both fire and ice after his girlfriend escaped from the walls of the hot spring.
Shaking his head, the boy scanned the area and noticed that none of their classmates noticed them. "None of our classmates or teachers noticed we are talking and they definitely cannot hear us. I can talk dirty and they wouldn't know."
The blonde blinked, tilted her head and then quickly shook her head like she wanted to forget the thought. Her blue eyes avoided looking at him and the girl turned her whole body away from him. Even though, her whole body was turned away, he could see the deep shade of red painted beautifully on her cheeks.
"Y-Y'know everyone thinks you are cinnamon roll that wouldn't say these kind of things," Naruto informed him. He blinked, opened his mouth to apologize but sow his mouth shut when he noticed the corner of her lip turned upwards. His shoulders relaxed as his dual-toned eyes focused on the girl. "No one will believe you can talk like this."
"I have a mouth too," Shouto reminded her as he looked at the bright blue sky before focusing his eyes on her. "I might not scream my emotions out like your cousin or be aggressive like him but I do have one. I just decide not to use my mouth all the time."
The words hung in the air and a part of him felt a sense of anxiety crept up in his stomach when Naruto twisted her head around to look at him. Her blue eyes twinkled with mischief. She is going to be finding ways of hearing that mouth. His palms moistened and a part of him really wanted to show her but they were in public as Naruto reminded them.
"Uzumaki! Todoroki! Back to work!" Aizawa barked at them. Naruto waved her hand at the teacher before offering him a smile. It might had been his imagination but it looked like his girlfriend was swaying her hips like a temptress, making him focus entirely on her bottom. A bottom that he had wanted to fondle it so badly after…
I need to make this water really cold if I want to continue on with training.
He didn't miss the little wink thrown by the whiskered teen and Shouto decided to decrease the temperature to a new extreme.
Author Note: Please do tell me of your thoughts on this chapter and what you think that could be improved on. Do you wish for the pace between Naruto and Shouto's relationship to slow down? Or do you like the current pace between their relationship?