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"Uzumaki-san, are you dating Todoroki-san?"
Naruto blinked and jerked her head away from her glowing chains to focus her attention on Yaoyorozu. Black eyes flashed with curiosity as she picked up another chocolate ball from the huge bowl of sweets on the table. Sitting right beside the Vice President were piles and piles of Russian Dolls. I think they are called Matryoshka doll. That book she bought a couple of months ago talked about it a lot.
Not that it was actually important thing for her to consider since Yaoyorozu decided to talk to her about her love life and not about those cute dolls that she had been making since their training started.
"What makes you think we are dating?" Naruto asked, raising a single eyebrow. She grimaced when Bakugou howled again and the whiskered teen held herself back from throwing a glare at her cousin. Why must he always scream whenever he shoved his hand through that barrel of hot water? Bakugou knew there were people in this area who had sensitive hearing! Did he want her to go deaf?
She exhaled and glanced at her classmate, who took another bite of her chocolate ball. Her thin black eyebrows knitted together into one thin line like she was deeply contemplating on what made her think of what made her believe that there was a change. Knowing her classmate, Naruto knew that was going through the Vice-President mind.
Rubbing the back of her neck, Naruto looked up at the clear, blue sky as the girl took her time to think things through. It was not like she was going to deny the change of their relationship but it was interesting to hear what made Yaoyorozu realized the change.
"Your interaction with Todoroki-san is different from before," Yaoyorozu commented. The wind whistled as a pink glow erupted from her hand. Another Matryoshka doll jumped out from the palm of her hand and the black-haired girl looked back at her. "The two of you were always intimate but now it feels more like the intimacy of two lovers whenever the two of you are together."
Naruto choked and flushed a deep shade of red. L-Lovers? That was definitely not how she would describe their relationship now. Lovers implied they had done a lot more than kiss. She should correct her classmate on that aspect but there was another thing that could be pointed out to the girl.
It was not going to be a denial but she wanted to know how Yaoyorozu was going to refute her comment.
"You do know that you can have the aura of lovers and not be together right?" Naruto pointed out. The black-haired girl tilted her head and took another bite of her chocolate before looking out at the scene before them. Iida zoomed right past them while Ojiro smacked a hardened Kirishima with his large tail.
That's gotta hurt. Naruto winced as Kirishima flew straight over to the cliff. She did not need to channel the chakra to her ears to hear the distinct crack on the cliff or looked around to know that the boy left an imprint on the cliff. This was the same thing that happened yesterday and if Kirishima's Quirk had gotten stronger then the crack was probably going to be larger.
"You said yesterday that there was no need for you to confess your feelings to him," Yaoyorozu observed. The whiskered teen tore her eyes away from the cliff and focused her attention on the black-haired girl, who bounced in her seat. "That implies Todoroki-san knows your feelings towards him and if we combined with the intimacy between the two of you then it leads to the conclusion that the two of you are together."
Naruto quirked her lips into a smile and looked down at her chain. Nothing really escaped the Vice-President. The black-haired girl picked up the most subtle clue she had given the group of girls yesterday. Now that the girl figured out the truth, what should she do? Should she tell her how they ended up getting together? Should she spill every detail in her relationship now?
That would be showing trust but it didn't feel like she reached the stage where she could be fully opened with everyone. I only said Shouto because no one seemed ready to start the conversation. Naruto sighed. The silence between everyone as they thought of a boyfriend that they wanted had been so tense that she actually thought she was going to suffocate from it.
"Homeostasis and me are dating now," she admitted. She kept her tone soft and low as black eyes widened at the words spilling out of her mouth. Naruto blinked at the warm smile being directed at her from the Vice-President. Why was the girl happy to know about it? The news shouldn't make her smile like that. The blonde shook her head. "But don't tell anyone else about it! The whole thing is still new."
The older girl bobbed her head, not looking one bit upset at her request. Black eyes shone with understanding as if she could understand the need for privacy. Maybe her classmate could understand the need for privacy. Just like her, Yaoyorozu knew of their classmates rabid interest in anything that could be gossip worthy. Their classmates would attack her and Shouto like a pack of wolves once they knew the truth.
"Who else knows about your relationship?" Yaoyorozu asked, picking up another chocolate ball. Naruto frowned and rubbed her chin as her blue eyes darted to Shouto. Her boyfriend trembled like a leaf, hinting to her that the younger boy was probably now at his limit. He is probably going to take a break soon. She offered the boy a small wave before looking back at her friend.
Right, the girl wanted to know who else knew about their relationship.
The blonde knitted her eyebrows together. If she knew Shouto like she did then he probably already told his sister or his brother because he would want advice on dating. So that would make two people in this scenario. Jiraiya had no idea and the whiskered teen planned to keep it that way until maybe another three or four months.
Kenji knew but that was because Shouto informed him of their relationship. She doubt her distant relative was going to spill the beans to Jiraiya, not when the two men hadn't formally met.
"My distant relative knows about us and maybe Shouto's siblings," Naruto finally replied. She rubbed the back of her neck and closed her eyes for the longest time. "So you are probably the first one from our class to know about the change of status."
The black-haired girl smiled slightly, bobbed her head and then frowned. The blonde raised a single eyebrow when she saw how those black eyes widened as if she just realized something. She probably did realize something but what did the girl realize? Now that was another question entirely if you asked her.
"You didn't tell Gaara-san, did you?" Yaoyorozu pressed her lips into a frown and tilted her head to the side. The chocolate ball in her hand was left forgotten as the girl continued to stare at her with wide eyes. "I thought the two of you were quite close. Why didn't you tell him that you are now dating Todoroki-san?"
Naruto eyed the chocolate ball on the table and snatched it from the bowl before popping it in her mouth. Fireworks erupted in her mouth as the blonde looked up at the blue sky. Why haven't I told Gaara? That was a very good question. Their friendship had gotten deeper since his arrival here. He was no longer the kind of friend that she would rarely see or talked to, but the kind of friend that she felt at peace with spilling her secrets too.
It was a wonder on why she hadn't told him. But he has been busy with doing research on the countries here. That was one reason she didn't tell him. Then there was the fact he proposed to her. It might had been done to protect her but it still made confessing the change in her relationship awkward. Another thing that made her waver in telling him was the knowledge that he didn't think he deserved to fall in love.
She didn't want to throw her happiness at his face.
"I haven't found the right time to tell him," Naruto finally answered. The blonde sucked on her chocolate-coated finger before taking the tissue on the picnic table. She locked eyes with the clouds that strolled through the sky without a care in the world. "I know he wouldn't be surprise and I know he will be happy for me but the timing isn't perfect."
It wasn't a complete lie but it wasn't the complete truth either.
I know Gaara will be happy for me. She ran her hand through her hair and darted her eyes to Yaoyorozu, who picked up another sweet. Throughout their interactions, the red-haired boy made it clear to her that she deserved to be happy. He also probably hinted to her that Shouto had very strong feelings for her. It might not look like it when they first met but Gaara was very much capable of picking up people's feelings.
"No slacking off during training!" Naruto blinked and swirled her head to the cliff. Aizawa stood right in front of the cliff with his hands on his hips and black eyes scanning the student who remained below the cliff. "No matter what you are doing, you should be aware of where you come from."
Yaoyorozu swallowed her sweet while the whiskered teen looked out to the forest. You should be aware of where you come from. That was the first time Aizawa-sensei made that kind of comment towards them. Where she came from? Did he mean her place of birth? Or what caused her to come here? She wanted to ask him but it would bring too many questions.
Questions that might end up with her spiraling back to being that sad, very mistrustful girl again and Naruto didn't want that to happen again.
"Keep in mind why you are sweating and why we nagged you!" Aizawa barked. He focused his eyes on her and Yaoyorozu before fixating his eyes on Midoriya and Bakugou. "Don't forget where you started."
Don't forget where you started, huh? Naruto curled her lips into a bitter-sweet smile. The world around her faded, replaced with a playground filled with smiling kids as they grabbed the hands of their smiling parents as they walked away from her. She could see the cold eyes of the parents as they directed a cold glare at her.
In the distance, she saw Sasuke running straight to his mother and Mikoto beckoning her to follow them back to their warm house. That was probably where she started if Naruto thought about it. That was when she became Uzumaki Naruto. That was when the title of unwanted and monster faded from her dictionary.
Those days were never going to come back but one day she would make a new home. One day, she would save all the children who felt rejected by society like how Mikoto and the Third Hokage saved her.
"Uzumaki-san, are you okay?"
Just like that, the memory faded away like a ghost in the wind and was replaced with the concern black eyes of Yaoyorozu. Naruto stared at the girl for a moment. Are you okay? That was a loaded question to hear with that memory playing again right in front of her eyes. She wanted to say that she was okay but Naruto knew that in a week time that the grief would hit her in full force.
In a week time, she was going to be locked up in her room and tried to forget the fact that Mikoto Uchiha had been murdered by one of her children. In a week time, the voice was going to come back again to haunt her.
"I am going to be okay," Naruto declared with a forced smile playing on her lips. Yaoyorozu frowned and regarded her with wavering eyes like she could hear the falter in her voice. Maybe her friend could hear it. But if her classmate wanted to know why she was uncertain then she was not going to tell her.
She wasn't ready to talk about the kind woman who saw her as a child and not some kind of monster.
"Tonight, we are going to have a test of courage!" Pixie-Bob giggled from right across them. Naruto blinked and kept her expression completely blank as the blond-haired woman waved her paw at them. "You guys are going to be pitted against each other! After all what is the point of training hard if you can't play hard?"
Naruto pressed her lips into a thin line and rubbed her arms as a shiver of chill ran down her spine. A test of courage? Now that was a nightmare for her. Would it be a good idea for her to pretend to be sick? Nope. Everyone knew she didn't get sick. If she pretended to be sick then they would figure out the truth about her.
I just hope that they don't have anyone who can conjure up ghosts.
She did not want anyone to see her screaming for her life if a ghost actually appeared.
"I'm surprised Bakugou-kun is really good with that knife!"
Naruto tore her eyes away from the bundle of logs and fixated her eyes on the neatly sliced carrots on the cutting board as Uraraka gawked at the sliced carrots. It should make her eyes widened but she only quirked her lips into a smile. She could picture her cousin being goaded by her Aunt to do better than her and having the same determined eyes like right now.
Her cousin grinded his teeth and picked the knife again. He is going to yell again. That twitch on his shoulder told her that much alongside the clenched hands. Uraraka was probably used to it but just in case, Naruto would have a secret weapon prepared for the volcano that was Bakugou's temper. It was an easy solution.
"It's a fucking knife!" Bakugou twisted his whole body around and pointed the knife at them. "How the hell can you be so bad with using a knife?"
Naruto raised an eyebrow and eyed the sharp knife that gleamed with danger before eyeing the growling, ferocious dog that was Bakugou. If she had been anyone else, she probably would think he was furious but that little twitch in his mouth told her that he was embarrassed. This will make the teasing even more fun. She quirked her lips into a smile while Uraraka gulped, taking a step back.
"Don't be embarrassed, my cute cousin," Naruto grinned when Bakugou spluttered at her comment. His cheeks burned a furious shade of red while Uraraka gawked at her. "Girls find it sexy if a boy can cook for them. Now if you ever get a girlfriend, we all know what she will see in you, besides your body."
Uraraka covered her mouth but Naruto could still hear the distinct laugh from her mouth. The two girls exchanged glances before flickering their eyes at Setsuna, who was chopping up the meat, and then back to Bakugou. She didn't keep her admiration of Bakugou's body a secret yesterday. The whiskered teen shook her head and chuckled as she recalled how her friend described in detail of what she liked about Bakugou.
The girl did not even care of the fact that Bakugou was an explosive puppy, who didn't know how to express his feelings without screaming. She finds it funny and cute. Naruto sighed and looked back at her flushed cousin. Was it funny? She didn't know but then again Naruto found that Setsuna could be just a little bit odd and way too easy-going if you asked her.
"I'm not a male prostitute!" Naruto blinked and jerked her head at Bakugou. What the hell did he just say? She shifted the weight of the wood to one hand before digging her finger inside her ear. Why the hell did he say that? Not once did she imply that he was one but that comment could have easily been misinterpreted if she thought about it.
She glanced at Uraraka, who flushed a light shade of pink, while the other students turned their heads to look at them. I can't even blame them because of Bakugou. The blond-haired girl offered them a sheepish smile before throwing a glare at her scowling cousin. How the hell was she going to change the topic now? She pinched her nose and exhaled.
"I never implied you are one, Bakugou Katsuki!" Naruto hissed. "But if you yell like that then is there something that I don't know about? Because why the hell are you screaming like a guilty person?"
Bakugou clicked his tongue and grunted before throwing a glare at every student who looked their way. The students squeaked and twisted their bodies away from them, bodies trembling as they did so. Jeez, they act like Bakugou is some kind of monster who is going to gobble them up. They were a bunch of wusses if they were terrified from that glare.
She twisted her head back to stare at Bakugou, only to blink at the feeble glare thrown by Kirishima. It would probably be more effective if his eyes held a little bit more bark. The glare held no fire if you asked her. Then again, those dark circles in his eyes and the slight shifting in his movement told her that he was too exhausted to muster a proper glare.
"How the fuck are the two of you so energetic?" Kirishima whined, throwing his hand up in the air.
Bakugou grunted and Naruto hummed as she shifted the logs back to both of her hands. "It is a very simple explanation, Kirishima. We share the same grandmother so if you wanna blame anyone for our shared nature then blame her."
Her cousin snorted while Kirishima jerked his head. He forgot that Bakugou and me are half-cousins. It was rather easy to forget when neither of them made it a habit to air it out for everyone to hear. There was simply no point of airing it out if you asked her. The change in their relationship did not mean it would affect anyone.
Besides we are two different people. She shifted the weight of the logs to her left hand while her right hand snatched the juicy carrot sitting right beside Bakugou. Red eyes narrowed as the blonde took a bite of the carrot and pocketed the other juicy carrot. At this rate, dinner was not going to be ready until the sun fully set.
No way she could wait that long for food.
"Oi Whiskers, don't eat before dinner !" Bakugou screamed. Sparks flew from his hand as his red eyes glared at the carrot dangling from her mouth. Damn, he sounds like a nagging mother. The blonde took another bite and returned back to holding the bundle of woods with both hands as the boy continued to glare at the carrot at her.
Well she guessed that was his way of looking out for her.
"I love you too, Bakugou!"
The people around them choked at her comment while her cousin blinked at the comment directed at him. He stood frozen, almost like he didn't know how to process the words coming from her mouth, and the whiskered teen took this as an opportunity to dash away from the explosive boy. Right now he was frozen with shock but if she waited for another few minutes then he would snap out of it and he was going to say...
"I never fucking said I love you, Whiskers!"
The ground trembled as Bakugou's scream split the air in half. Naruto howled with laughter as her legs dragged her straight to the stove area, where Midoriya piled up the logs with faded green eyes. He must be really deep in thought if he didn't hear that loud scream of denial. She curled her lips into a frown and dropped the bundle of woods on the ground with a loud smash before kneeling down beside the boy.
Knitting her eyebrows together, Naruto waved her hand over the boy's eyes and clapped her hands together. Yup, he is definitely distracted if he can't notice a clap. She poked her tongue against her cheek and pulled out the carrot she just stole from the vegetable cutting station. It would be a terrible use of a vegetable if you asked her but desperate times called for desperate measures.
He will thank me later. Bobbing her head, Naruto dug the carrot against the boy's ribs. Her green-haired classmate yelped and rubbed his ribs before twisting his body around to meet her own blue eyes. The widened green eyes told her that he had no idea of why she did it and the fact he winced informed her that it probably hurt. Well that was good. Now he knew to pay attention to his surroundings.
"W-Why did you do that, Uzumaki?"
"I waved my hand, clapped my hand and you didn't snap out of it," she deadpanned. He blinked at her words and opened his mouth to utter the predictable apology but Naruto only waved him off. She handed him the carrot and the green-haired boy blinked. I guess I better explain why I'm giving a carrot. She sighed. "Take the carrot as my sign of apology for poking you with it."
"No, I should be the one apologizing," Midoriya muttered. He took the carrot and stared aimlessly at the pile of logs that sat right underneath the logs. Something must be bothering him again. He acted like this too when Shouto and her tried to engage him with a conversation. Naruto frowned and the boy exhaled. "I got lost in my thoughts again."
"I can see that," Naruto retorted. "What the hell are you thinking about this time, Midoriya?"
The boy frowned and looked at the stove with knitted eyebrows. He must be really thinking things through again. That was not a bad thing if she thought about it. The whole thinking before you talked was the one area she did terribly in. Until she came to Japan, she would spill her thoughts without a filter. Well not all my thoughts. The violent ones were locked away before they could ever come out.
Sakura would have cried or get irritated if she knew of the more aggressive opinions she had on her.
"Midoriya, why did you need to know if All Might was going to come or not?" Naruto blinked and jerked her head to stare at Shouto. Her boyfriend stood right behind them with a huge pot in his hands. His heterochromia eyes shone with curiosity as they fixated their attention on the green-haired boy sitting right beside her. "Did you need him for something?"
When did he ask about All Might? She tilted her head and locked eyes on her boyfriend. The mismatch-haired boy tore his eyes away from Midoriya and directed its intense gaze on her. I will tell you later when he asked about him. That was what his eyes told her and Naruto nodded. If they were going to talk about it later then there was no need to vocalize her question.
"Well I wanted to talk to him about the discussion we had yesterday," Midoriya admitted. His tone wavered as Naruto looked up at the evening sky. So he wants to talk about my perspective of things. Her tongue licked against her teeth as she locked eyes with the green-haired boy. Well it made sense to discuss with a hero but Aizawa-sensei was a pretty good hero to talk to if you asked her.
Then again, she might be bias because Aizawa carried a special place in her heart. He did tell me the words that I always wanted to hear from the Hokage. Maybe it was odd but the teacher was probably the hero that she liked the best. He might not look like it but the man was probably one of the most empathetic people she met.
It would have been nice to have a teacher like Aizawa in the Academy.
"You really worship the ground that All Might walk on," Naruto hummed. Midoriya blinked at her observation while Shouto regarded her with thoughtful eyes. The whiskered teen picked up one of her fallen logs and twirled it around the tip of her finger as her eyebrows knitted together. "What could you have asked him that you can't ask Aizawa-sensei? He is a hero too."
Midoriya stared at the logs. "Well All Might has been in the business longer then Aizawa-sensei, so he probably would know of how to start seeing things through other people's perspective. I mean there are certain things that you can picture but how do you talk to someone if you can't imagine the pain they went through?"
"If you can't be compassionate then don't say anything," Naruto retorted. Midoriya gawked at her, looking almost horrified at her comment, and the whiskered teen shrugged. What did he want her to say? That all he had to do was just imagine because that was not easy. If he could not try to picture the emotions running through a person then zip your mouth.
Shouto eyed her. "You would know that, wouldn't you?"
"You are getting more and more sarcastic with me these days, aren't you?" She retorted with a tiny smile playing on her lips. Midoriya blinked and darted his eyes between them. The disbelief in his eyes told her that Midoriya found something strange in their conversation. An innocent smile played on her lips as Shouto eyed her with amused eyes.
He finally snorted. "I learned from the best."
Midoriya kept swirling his head between the two of them like he was trying to figure a secret code between them. Naruto shrugged. There was no secret code between their banter. It isn't like we have something to hide from him. She glanced at Shouto and the boy tilted his head like he was trying to figure out what was going through his mind.
He probably was trying to understand the odd behaviour from Midoriya. Did we do something strange? That tilted head and the side glance directed at her told her that was the silent question her boyfriend asked her. Nothing really stood out in their behaviour. It was not like she called him any sugary nicknames or called him Homeostasis. They had been their normal selves except for the little retort from him but that was only because Shouto felt relax between the three of them.
The green haired boy finally shook his head and locked eyes with her. "I just don't know what to say to Kouta after hearing things from your perspective. I mean you can understand him but how can I understand him when both of my parents are alive? Neither of my parents are heroes too so how do I talk to him when I take these things into account?"
Shouto hummed and rubbed his chin. He is really thinking hard on how to answer his question. The little cute crease on the top of his forehead told her this much and the whiskered teen smiled. The younger boy really thought things through when Naruto considered things. I don't always do that when I think about it. The whole Overhaul thing had been done on the spur on the moment when she thought about it.
"I wouldn't butt my nose into it if I don't know what to say to them," Shouto replied. Thoughtfulness coloured his tone as his eyes fixated on the pile of woods before darting his eyes between them. "I think it will be annoying if I say I understand his pain or say I can't imagine it. That makes it seem like I'm trying to distance myself from them. I don't think you can change people with just words alone."
Naruto blinked. "What do you mean?"
"Well if I changed people with just words alone then these people must have had shallow motives," Shouto explained. The blonde rubbed her chin and bobbed her head while Midoriya looked at the logs with furrowed eyebrows. "I think you can change a person's motives with words and actions then it would be more impactful but that is my belief."
I never really thought about it in that way. That was the first thing that came to her mind when her boyfriend finished giving his opinion. If her words could easily change a person then they didn't really have any strong conviction in their actions. Naruto frowned and looked down at her hands. Then if she went with Shouto's thinking, she would have to do something powerful to change a person's mind.
It made so much sense when she thought about it because her words moved some people but…they didn't have strong motives from the beginning.
"You sure understand people, don't you Homeostasis?"
Her boyfriend really had a way of making people reconsider their actions when she thought about it, or maybe this aspect of Shouto really affected her.
"Aren't you glad that you two went with my plan?"
Naruto grinned and leaned against her left foot as Aizawa-sensei dragged away the sobbing supplementary students from the forest pathway. She should offer them a look of pity but well it was actually kind of enjoyable for her to see someone being dragged away from having fun for once. I should be sympathetic. But it was kind of hard to be sympathetic when she knew that could have been her if Midoriya and Bakugou didn't listen to her.
Midoriya bobbed his head and looked away from the crying teens, whose cries echoed in the wind. I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't feel too much sympathy for them. Their opponent had been All Might and that man was considered the strongest hero of all time. The fact they battled him and won meant something. It was something they could boast about if you asked her.
Bakugou grunted and looked at her as if she was a pain in the ass. He really doesn't want to admit that we would have failed if he didn't listen to me. That stubborn glint in his red eyes alongside the way he clicked his tongue told her this much. Well it didn't matter to her. No one could ever refute that it had been her brilliant plan that allowed them to pass their exams.
"Should you be gloating right now, Whiskers?" Bakugou grunted. His red eyes gleamed with amusement and Naruto felt a pool of dread creeping up at the gleam. She gulped and raised a single eyebrow at her cousin, who smirked. "You are about to get scared shitless, aren't you Whiskers?"
Asshole. The insult was on the tip of her tongue but Naruto swallowed it down and chose instead to glare at her cousin. Bastard couldn't let her bask in the knowledge that for the first time in her life, she was the reason they weren't like those poor supplementary kids. He wouldn't be Bakugou if he wasn't an ass. She scowled and folded her arms against her chest.
"I ain't scared of anything!" Naruto retorted. Bakugou's smirk widened and looked almost like the devil with that smirk. There is nothing he can say that can prove I'm a scaredy cat. Not once during their time in Middle School, did they do a haunted house theme. The two of them weren't even that close during Middle School except for the occasional project that they did.
Even then, neither of them went to each other's house and had a silent understanding that they did their work in the library.
"Really now?" Naruto raised a single eyebrow as Bakugou looked out to the dark, menacing forest before them and then stared right back at her. He bobbed his head and eyed her like he had her in a trap. "I remember hearing you whimper like a scaredy cat when one of those extras mentioned that their room was haunted by a ghost."
Midoriya blinked and swirled his head at her. Those green eyes grew ten times in size at the accusation thrown by Bakugou and the whiskered teen scowled at the boy. Any sane person would be terrified of the idea of ghosts. Until she met her grandmother, there was a tiny part of her that felt like she could still be the Kyuubi. The thought she could actually be a monster made her whole body tremble with fear.
The Kyuubi murdered so many people and there was no way those murdered people wouldn't haunt her for what the beast had done to them.
"I think you must have gone deaf, my dear, loving cousin." Naruto said sweetly. She clasped her hands together and offered him a honey, sweet smile, daring him to contradict her words. Midoriya choked at the endearment coming out of her mouth while Shouto looked at her like he thought she wanted a death wish.
Bakugou glowered. "Don't call me that!"
"Then what about cute cousin?" Naruto asked, smiling even wider. She clasped her hands behind her neck and held back a laugh as her cousin flushed a rather deep shade of red. It was so fun to tease someone again. It was even better when that person was someone like Bakugou, who had no way of expressing his feelings without shouting.
The boy clenched his jaws together and grunted. "I'm not cute! Don't ever call a guy cute!"
"What about Niisan?"
Bakugou spluttered at those words and looked like he wanted to murder her if that smoke coming out of his ear was of any indication. I must have taken things too far. That spark in his hands hinted he wanted to throttle her. She glanced at Midoriya, who looked at her like she was insane for trying to tease her cousin.
Shouto only snorted and eyed the frozen boy standing right beside her before looking back at her. You are going to continue until he breaks, aren't you? That question shone through his eyes and the whiskered teen vigorously bobbed her head. This was something you could easily do with family and well it had always been easy for her to tease Bakugou.
"You should just pick one of the nicknames," Shouto advised Bakugou. The explosive boy growled while the son of Endeavour looked at her like he knew exactly what her game was. He probably did have her game figured out. "If you keep telling her to stop then Naruto will find a nickname that makes you feel more embarrassed by the minute."
Naruto puffed her cheeks and wrapped her arm around her boyfriend. Shouto twisted his head around and looked down at her puffed cheeks. A little snort escaped from his lips, hinting to the blonde that the boy found it amusing that she was trying her hardest to be angry at his comment. But it is hard for me to be angry with him when he is so relax. The boy always had his guard up around people and now he was starting to loosen up.
This was probably the biggest change she had ever seen in him.
"Now you make it seem like I'm actually trying to be a little shit," Naruto said. A smile played on her lips as Bakugou and Midoriya exchanged glances with each other before swirling their heads at them. Red eyes demanded for her to spill what the hell was happening between her and Shouto but the blonde raised an eyebrow.
If he wanted her to admit anything then he better verbally asked her.
The mismatch-haired boy shrugged. "You said it, not me."
He is getting really comfortable around me. Naruto smiled and hugged him tighter before letting go of his hand. A couple of months ago, her boyfriend would never ever make a comment like that to her in public or private. Then again, he would never try to call her Princess or Pretty Girl when they became friends or even when she started to loosen up around him.
"Alright!" Naruto blinked and swirled her head away from Shouto to focus her eyes on Pixie-Bob. The heroine smiled widely at them as she waved her pawed hand for them to gather around her. The students did so and the hero continued on. "Class B will be the first class to do the scaring while Class A will leave in pairs every three minutes. There are tags with your names written on them in the middle of the route, so bring that along!"
Well as long as I have someone with me then I'm going to be fine. Naruto gulped and reached her hand out to grab hold of Shouto's hand. If there was one other person with her then it wouldn't be that bad. It was easier for her to pretend to be brave if she had someone by her side. It would be even better if it was Shouto. The younger boy was indifferent when it came to these things.
There was no way he would scream like a girl if something terrifying went his way.
"All of you will draw lots to decide who will be your partners," Pixie-Bob informed them. Naruto blinked and knitted her eyebrows together at this piece of information. So I have to pray to Kami that I get someone who won't scream loudly. Her ears might bleed if it was someone like Hagakure. The girl made it no secret that she hated horror movies.
Shaking her head, the blonde blinked when the blond-haired woman held out a couple of number strips in front of her. Please I get someone who doesn't scream! Shouto! Tokoyami! Hell even Bakugou! She took in another deep breath and picked up the number slip. If it was anyone else then she better prayed that none of the members of Class B could make some scary illusions.
She prayed to God that not one of them could conjure up ghosts or else she had a huge problem.
Taking a deep breath, Naruto looked down at the piece of paper and poked her tongue against her cheek. Three. That sounded like a better number than seven. Seven never brought her any good luck if she thought about it, but maybe three would be her lucky number this time. Yeah, nothing could go wrong if she thought about it in that way.
She knew that but dread crept up to her. Something did not feel right and she was not saying that, because of the whisper Kendou shared with Kodai. No, what worried her was the new chakra source that sat right on the edge of her circle of was not even Hibiki. The man stood right on the tree just behind Bakugou.
The chakra source wasn't Jiraiya even but someone else entirely. It felt familiar if you asked her but the whiskered teen didn't know where she sensed this chakra before. Maybe it was that Killer B? No, it didn't have the same vibe if you asked her. But where the hell did I sense it? She should know whose chakra signature that was but her mind went blank.
"I guess we are partners, Uzumaki!"
Naruto blinked and swirled her head away from the cliff before blinking at the sight of a Jirou. The shudders and trembles running down the purple-haired girl's back which told the whiskered teen that her classmate was terrified. I will have to be the brave one between us and make sure Jirou doesn't faint. She needed Jirou to confirm her suspicion before she ran off to Aizawa.
Nothing ever good came whenever she sensed an unfamiliar chakra presence.
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