"Kiya, Sophie is here!" Tia called up the stairs and I sighed.
Kiya Laurent
Age: 16
Race: African American
Gender: Female
Height: 5'2"
Eye Color: Amethyst
Hair Color: Black
Appearance: Always wears dark blue jeans and tank tops with jackets over them. Her hair is in the African style micro-braids that go down to lower back so she doesn't have to deal with the curls. Looks like the singer Brandy Human.
Personality: She is obsessed with the NarutoVerse. Outgoing, smart. Her mother thinks she has a few good friends when they only show up because their parents work for Tia Laurent. She is actually alone most of the time except for when her 'friends make an appearance.
Extra: Kiya doesn't get along with her mother since she is her step-mother. Her father died several years ago.
Tia Laurent (Kiya's Mother)
Age: 32
Race: African American
Gender: Female
Height: 5'5"
Eye Color: chocolate brown
Hair Color: black
Appearance: always in colored suits with pencil skirts and black heels. Her hair is chemically straightened and usually pulled back into buns.
Personality: She is easy going but is strict when it comes to business. She owns several restaurants and always is working to make them better.
I logged off my computer and got up and finished getting dressed. I pulled on a dark red jacket that had the Land of Wind symbol on the back in white over my black tank top and pulled on a pair of black converse. I braided my already braided hair over my shoulder and then grabbed my black shoulder bag and walked downstairs. I saw Sophie smiling at the door and I wanted to punch her but smiled back. Mom wouldn't have been happy if I acted mean or that I hated the girl at the door.
Sophie Leishman
Age: 18
Race: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Height: 5'7"
Eye Color: Green
Hair Color: light brown
Appearance: Hair permed to look like African American curly hair. She always is wearing eye shadow. Short mini-skirts and shirts that are too tight for her large chest and slim body.
Personality: pretends to be nice to Kiya when around her mother but as soon as they are out of the way, she ignores Kiya for her own group of friends.
"Have a good day at school today. Sophie, will you becoming over today?"
"Sorry Miss Laurent, but Jayden and I have plans for tonight," Sophie smiled sadly. "Kiya, we're going to be late. The bus driver won't wait for us anymore."
"Right, see ya mom," I called then ran after Sophie down the street. We got onto the bus right before the driver was about to close the door and we sat down in the back.
"You're mom is so clueless. Why haven't we told her?" Sophie snapped as she pulled out her phone.
"Because otherwise our allowances would be cut and we'd have to find a job," I spoke as if it was obvious.
"Not like you care. All you care about is your Japanese cartoons," she snorted. "Why haven't you gotten over this anime fetish of yours yet?"
"What if I don't want to give up on my fetish as you put it?" I laughed as I pulled out my iPod. "It would be fun to live there. I mean how many black people do you know are actually in the anime?"
"Like three?" Sophie answered annoyed.
"Exactly and they are all in the cloud village but they're not black. They're just really tan. There are no actual blacks. Wonder how they would react if it was all real?"
"They'd lock you up for your stupid obsession. You have several forehead protectors of Naruto as well as the Akatsuki cloak. They'd think your some crazy assassin."
"Maybe their racist too," I mused.
"You're abnormal. How would we survive in the future?"
"Tie her up to her bed," A male voice replied then Jayden came to the back and sat next to Sophie.
Jayden Brown
Age: 18
Race: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Height: 5'11"
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Sandy Blonde
Appearance: his hair goes into his eyes and he wears graphic design shirts and baggy torn blue jeans. Has on fingerless gloves to protect his hands when he's boarding so he doesn't scuff up his hands.
Personality: Jayden is dating Sophie and listens to her most of the time. He skates a lot as well as DJ for parties for his friends. Has his own business in DJing.
"That's not nice Jayden," I pouted. I could act like they were my friends for a few more minutes.
"Kiya, you are a senior in high school and already accepted to Julliard in the fall and your obsessed about something that isn't real. You need help," Jayden frowned.
"At least I have a future," I snorted. "you refuse to even apply for college just because you have your DJing business. How fun it would be right now to be able to control shadows or sand. I could shut you both…"
"Shut it Kiya. No one gives a rat's ass about you. You are just some crazy girl who should be in a physc ward," Jayden snapped and my smile fell. He smirked at me and I sighed as I pulled up my hood and put in my headphones.
'is this how Naruto felt when he was shunned as a kid? To have people look down on him as if he shouldn't even be alive? Mom doesn't even realize why I'm always crying at night. She just thinks it's because I haven't gotten over dad's death since I didn't cry at his funeral. I have people who put up with me just like Naruto but they never really acknowledged me. I wish that I could live in the NarutoVerse instead of this reality. It's not worth it,' I thought sadly as the bus stopped in front of the school.
I sat in my seat until Sophie and Jayden had passed me before I got up and I was the last one off, just like every other day. I walked inside to my locker and pulled out my history textbook then walked down the hall, past all the students who were talking to themselves. I knew that they would be talking about me. I was the only black student in this school everyone else was full blooded American Caucasians.
I entered my class room and set my books down on the desk and jumped up to sit in the window seal and looked out. I was on the second floor, facing the orchards in Illinois. I sighed as I turned off my iPod and pulled the headphones out and slid it into my jacket pocket as I looked outside to the groups of students talking and laughing before the school started.
When the bell rang, I got down from the window and sat down as students started to come into the classroom. Each one of them glared at me as they entered and I kept my emotions locked away and looked at them blankly. Each day it was a test to see if they could get me to make some kind of face or to try and get me to snap so I would get expelled. I had already been suspended several times for hitting students. Mom thought it was due to fathers death as well. She blamed all my problems on him.
"Students, take your seats and let's start class," Mrs. Nelson spoke calmly as she came in. She ignored me like when Iruka had first been assigned as Naruto's homeroom teacher.
(A/N: You can find this in the episodes that is during the Pein Arc, episodes 173-179 I think. I'm not positive that's completely correct. Iruka's past memories are shown in there somewhere.)
School was finally out and I slid my headphones in and turned on my music as I slid all my books into my locker and pulled up my hood. Months ago, I would have tried to talk to the other students but when I had been threatened and hurt, I gave up.
-Four Months ago-
"Hey Sophie," Kiya called as school got out. Sophie was on the football field talking with the cheerleaders and the football jocks.
"Go away Laurent," Sophie snapped and turned her back on her.
"But Sophie, aren't you coming…?"
"She said get lost, brat, so beat it!" Kyle Holland, football quarter back snapped as he came over and shoved Kiya back a few feet.
"Sophie…?"
"I won't tell you again, black girl," Kyle snapped and pulled a knife out of his boot and pressed it to her neck as he pinned her to the side of the bleachers. "You stay away from us. From everyone otherwise, mommy will have to plan another funeral. We don't need your kind here, learn when you are not wanted."
"But…"
Kyle dragged the knife across her shoulder, down her arm and then pushed her towards the school.
"Get lost nigger!" everyone yelled.
I sighed as I walked out of the school building and walked down the street to the local park where no one would care if I went. I usually hid in the trees anyway until nightfall and walked home in the dark, glad my skin could conceal me from those who wanted to hurt or kill me.
"Kiya!" I turned and saw a black Chrysler pull up to the curb. The window was rolled down and I saw Tia in the drivers seat. "Come on Kiya get into the car. I need help at the office today."
"There she is!"
I looked up and saw several of the perfect grade students point at me then started walking towards me. I sighed and slid into the seat and Tia drove off, oblivious to what could have happened.
A/N: For future references, if i add any personally made characters i'll do the little character scripts like i did for Kiya, Tia, Sophie, and Jayden. All other characters, I do not personally own. That goes to the writer of Naruto.
Also I have nothing against African Americans! I'm not racist. I have several friends who are black as well as my baby sister that my mom adopted. I am glad we don't live in the times where racism was a major Problem. I know it's still an issue but not as bad as in 1900s when there was segregation.
Peace! Until the next chapter