A/N: I would like to thank everyone that added this story to their favourite and follows as well as everyone that reviewed the last chapter.

Why doesn't Sakura-chan like me?

Naruto knew it was wrong for her to transform herself into Sasuke. It was immature and childish but she really wanted to know if she did something wrong to make her female teammate not like her. As soon as Iruka-sensei declared that they were teammates, Sakura-chan just looked so annoyed and frustrated. She wanted to know if maybe she was wrong and Sakura-chan might accept her.

It was the main reason she tied Sasuke up and decided to find Sakura. It didn't surprise her to see Sakura-chan sitting by herself in the bench. Sakura-chan hasn't had any friends since Ino and her stopped being friends. She heard rumours that it was because of Sasuke. Naruto could never understand how you can stop being friends with someone, because you liked the same guy.

Weirdo. Naruto forced herself to make the same stupid expression as the boys in those romantic movies that Hinata-chan likes to watch. Sakura flushed a light shade of red and begins to look away from her. I thought you would jump on the chance since Sasuke is looking at you like this. Shouldn't Sakura-chan approach her? She didn't understand why Sakura avoided Sasuke's eyes.

Naruto mentally shook her head and began to approach Sakura. What should I say to her? Wait, Sakura-chan doesn't like her forehead…everyone used to bully her about her forehead. Right, she would compliment her forehead and that would fool Sakura-chan into thinking that she was Sasuke.

"You have a charmingly wide forehead." Naruto cringed at her words but she thinks that is what Sakura-chan wanted to hear. Just like Sakura was so self-conscious about her forehead, she was a little bit self-conscious of the whisker marks that decorated her cheeks.

"What!" Naruto wondered if the jig was up and if she needed to stop speaking, because Sakura seemed surprise. Think of another cheesy line. Sakura was kind of predictable when it comes to what she wanted to hear. A lot of the girls were, if someone took the time to pay attention to them.

"It makes me want to kiss it." Sasuke was going to kill her once he found out about the things that she was saying to Sakura. Naruto actually wanted to puke but she didn't know what else to say to her teammate. She didn't know how to cheer her up…and maybe Naruto was also being a little bit petty. If Sakura ever found out that it was her then she would pummel her for this.

Sakura flushed a bright shade of red and Naruto really had to wonder how her teammate could fall for such cheesy words. The lines spoken by her weren't lines that Sasuke would say. Anyone who knew the bastard would know this. Sasuke wasn't sweet. He was cold and aloof.

A complete and utter bastard.

Naruto took a deep breath and take a seat beside her teammate. It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the clouds were drifting and the birds sang their usual song. This day should be happy for Naruto because today was the day that she became a genin.

She was happy because Naruto had her former friend by her side, but she had the girl that always got annoyed whenever she tried to invite her out. Hinata kept telling her that she was doing it the wrong time, but Naruto always think that maybe her teammate would cheer up after a rejection if they ate together.

"I have got a question to ask you, Sakura." Naruto leaned her upper body forward and crossed her arms. She kept her eyes fixated on the trees. "What do you think of Naruto?"

Naruto wanted to understand what was it about her that annoyed her teammate. Was it the way her voice was loud? Why didn't she acknowledge her? What was she doing wrong? Naruto thought they could be friends because they were both outcasts. Naruto had been the outcast in school because of her pranks and grades, while Sakura had been excluded because of her forehead. Sakura didn't have any friends and Naruto thinks that she must be lonely without Ino.

Naruto knew she would be lonely without Hinata-chan.

"She knows I likes you and she always purposely tries to get in the way," Naruto blinked and knitted her eyebrows. What had she done to interfere? All she ever did was ask her to come out with her. "She enjoys making me feel bad. Naruto…she doesn't understand one single thing about me."

Naruto frowned and knitted her eyebrows. What did she mean by that? What had she done to make her teammate feel bad? All she ever did was asked her to have lunch, granted after Sasuke rejects her…but how could that make her feel bad? There was nothing wrong about asking someone to have lunch. Naruto did the same thing with Hinata-chan and her friend doesn't mind.

"She is just annoying."

Annoying, huh? Naruto felt her heart break slightly at the comment. Did it really annoy her to have her come and have lunch with Hinata and her? She doesn't even know why it hurts. Naruto had long accepted that her teammate would always reject her requests, but there was always that thought that maybe it would be different.

That maybe Sakura would acknowledge her and treat her in a similar way that she treated Sasuke.

"All I really want is for you to accept me, Sasuke. That's all."

Naruto stared at her teammate and felt weirded out when her teammate came close to her with a strange face that made her want to hurl. I understand the desire to be acknowledged but…I ain't doing this shit. It was a terrible idea to transform into Sasuke, especially since it looked like she might get another unwanted peck on the lips.

So she made an excuse about needing to go to the toilet and thinks that her heart ached when her teammate claimed about her not understanding her…

Because Sakura-chan doesn't understand me at all.

Naruto would probably understand her teammate better if Sakura-chan had just accepted her invites and allowed her and Hinata-chan to get to know her.

Maybe Sakura-chan would come to accept her.

It would only be nearly a year later when Naruto came to understand about who mattered the most to two-thirds of her team.

"Your presentation was awesome, Uzumaki and Todoroki!"

Both Todoroki and Naruto blinked when Jirou and Kaminari turned around from their seats. The presentation was done with Aizawa putting the piles of peer-assessment papers on top of his table. The other students were busy chatting to each other, waiting for Present Mic to come and start their English class.

What do they gain from telling me this? Naruto knew their presentation had been one of the better ones with them even getting some form of praise from Aizawa-sensei. Despite his lazy appearance, there was no denying that the man was hard to please.

"Thank you." Naruto finally said, flashing them a smile. She flickered her eyes to Todoroki, waiting for him to make some comment to their classmate. He didn't say anything, just nodding his head and she found her eyebrows twitching slightly. It always annoyed her whenever someone didn't try to answer.

Todoroki raised his eyebrow in confusion and Naruto made a speaking motion with her hands.

The boy blinked. "Thank you."

"I really liked the funny anecdote," Kaminari flashed a smile and Naruto knew from the clients that worked in the café that was his attempt of a flirty smile. I can make a better one. She sighed. "I really hate history but I didn't fall asleep for once in history class!"

Jirou nodded and Naruto felt her lips almost twitched into a smile at the comment. If she never had Todoroki constantly poking her in his house then Naruto would have fallen asleep in their research. It surprised her how he managed to focus on both their research and making sure she stayed on track with their project.

"You guys got the most boring topic," Jirou pointed out to them. "And yet you guys managed to keep everyone awake…but your explanation on the evidence were really weird."

Naruto shrugged her shoulder. She knew comparing the evidence to a café situation was not one that should have been done, but it made sense in her mind. Some people would say to explain it in a normal way but what was normal? If it works then it works.

"It explained the evidence well."

Naruto blinked and swirled her head at her classmate. Todoroki stared at the blackboard, before stealing a glance at her. Why would he say that? What did he gain from praising her explanation? She nibbled her bottom lip and felt her head throbbing. Was he saying this because she talked down on his father yesterday?

Because Naruto didn't want any gratitude from him.

"So who came up with the explanation?" Kaminari asked. He darted his eyes between them and Naruto wondered why he kept glancing at the two of them.

"Uzumaki." Todoroki answered immediately.

Why would he tell them that it had been my explanation? Why didn't he try to steal the credit? Naruto felt her throat tightened and her brain scrambled to understand what he would gain from telling everyone that it had been her explanation. Nothing came to her mind, which frustrated her because there was always something that someone could gain.

She stared at her two classmates and waited for them to say something. Jirou would probably tell Todoroki not to lie because that was what most girls do whenever a good-looking boy spoke the truth. It wouldn't even surprise her if her classmate had a crush on the boy. Guys like Todorok was always well-liked by both genders.

"How did you come up with the explanation that makes it relate to a café?" Jirou asked.

Naruto just blinked and blinked as her brain processed what was happening right now. Surprise should have been their response, denial too but they seemed to be accepting to the answer that Todoroki gave. No one really seemed to have much faith in her abilities. Hinata had been different and Sasuke too.

But this was the first time that she didn't have to yell at someone and prove to them that she was just as smart as them.

"Dunno," Naruto finally answered. "It makes the most sense in my head."

Her classmates accepted her answer, smiling and praising her again for her explanation, but all Naruto could do was focus all of her attention on her mismatch classmate. He glanced at her, not saying a single word to her and all Naruto could think was…

Why?

Todoroki was supposed to be arrogant and act like a little bit of an asshole. He should not be the one telling people that the explanation had been hers. The boy should have been silent, refusing to interact with people and brooding like there was no tomorrow. Why did he do this? What on Earth changed for him to suddenly act like this?

When their classmates finally turned away from them, Naruto leaned towards Todoroki. The heat of his left side made her relax, almost reminding her of the warm summers that she longed again. Why is he hot from this side? Naruto didn't really know much about his Quirk.

She didn't pay much attention to it, but Naruto knew he could make ice on one side of his body. Naruto didn't know what he could do with the other side but it must have to do something with heat, because his left side reminded her of a heater.

"Why did you tell them that?" Naruto asked.

Todoroki knitted his eyebrow. "Because it was the truth."

Because it was the truth.

Naruto locked her eyes onto her classmate's eyes and searched for any signs that he might be toying with her. There was no arrogance in his eyes. No desire to taunt her with the knowledge that people trusted his words. The only emotion displayed in his mismatch eyes was just plain confusion and curiosity. Her throat burned but Naruto didn't want to overthink things.

Todoroki was just saying these things because she talked back to his father.

Shouto took a bite of his soba noodles and stared at Uzumaki. The blond-haired girl had been acting strange ever since he explained his reasoning of why he gave her the credit for the explanation. Didn't friends do these kind of things? To give them credit when they deserved it? Shouto really didn't know what to do with the whole friend thing.

He knew Uzumaki didn't consider him as a friend, but Shouto did want to get to know his classmate.

Shouto never really had a friend before, not when his father made it clear that he should focus more on his training. So it puzzled him of what to talk with Uzumaki. Personal topics were things Uzumaki liked to avoid, so he needed to bring up a topic that she felt comfortable with.

"Did you get home safely?"

Uzumaki blinked and raised her eyebrow at him. When Shouto repeated the question in his head, he realized just how stupid the question was. If Uzumaki never reached home safely then she wouldn't have been able to do the presentation. She would not even be sitting across him.

He waited for her to make her usual retort.

"Yes, Todoroki." Uzumaki finally replied. The surprise and confusion in her eyes didn't fade, instead they were now mixture with mistrust. Had it been wrong of him to ask that question? The question sounded right in his head.

What do I have to do to get her to trust me more? Shouto tilted his head and observed his friend, who decided to return back to her meal. The whisker-like marks on her cheeks had some soup dribbling down and to his surprise, the marks on her cheeks didn't twitch. So those whisker marks on her cheeks really were not actual whiskers? Were they birthmarks? Or were they scars?

"They are birthmarks," Uzumaki answered. Shouto blinked and his friend gave him a very tight smile. "You asked the question out loud."

Oh.

Shouto observed his classmate, noticing the way her right hand itched to touch her cheek.

"They don't have anything to do with your Quirk?"

Uzumaki stiffened and scowled. "They are just there to show how different I am from the rest of the world."

A week ago his classmate would have avoided answering questions like this, so Shouto could accept the fact that his friend avoided answering anything to do with her Quirk. The fact her tone was laced with annoyance told him that Uzumaki never liked talking about her birthmarks. He could understand if her whisker marks was like his right side.

But Shouto think that her whisker marks suited her. Uzumaki looked nice and her whisker marks kind of adds to her beauty.

His classmate spat out her noodles, cheeks flushed red and jerked her head at him. Shouto knitted his eyebrows. Did she eat her ramen too fast? He noticed how his friend had a terrible habit of eating her ramen too quickly.

"Are you okay?" Shouto asked.

His friend nodded. "Yeah. I think my ears are playing tricks on me."

Shouto frowned and Uzumaki opened her mouth to say something, only to close it when four people took a seat on their table. Blinking, he swirled his head as two girls and two boys automatically took a seat right beside them. The girls taking their place on either side of Uzumaki and the two boys taking a seat beside him.

What was happening?

"Uzumaki, I didn't know that you were friends with Endeavour's kid!" Shouto felt his body stiffened at the mention of his father and his eyebrows twitched. Uzumaki flickered her eyes at him, lips pressed into a large smile before she lightly kicked him in the legs.

He blinked.

Don't think of that bastard. Shouto thought that those were the words that Uzumaki was silently telling him. He pressed his lips into a thin line, slowly nodded his head and observed the other teens by his side. The indigo-haired boy seemed to have his eyes fixated on his friend while his blond-haired friend kept glancing between them.

"Does Uzumaki talk to you?" Shouto blinked when the periwrinkle-haired girl turned her attention onto him. A bright, bubbly smile played on her lips while the orange-haired girl looked at him with curiosity. "Because Itsuka-chan and I have been trying really hard to get her to talk to us. Ooh, how did you get the burnt mark…"

Crazed grey eyes flashed before his eyes and Shouto felt his breath hitched.

Crash. Shouto blinked when the carton of milk that Uzumaki had been drinking, crashed to the ground.

"Sorry, I'm a bit clumsy today." Uzumaki lied with a smile playing on her lips. She flickered her eyes at him, blue eyes searching his own as if to confirm that he was okay. Uzumaki did it on purpose. Why did she do it? She didn't know the story behind his scar. No one knew the story behind it, except his family. The media had spurn a story about him losing control of his Quirk.

"It is okay, Uzumaki!" The orange-haired girl stood up from her seat and helped Uzumaki with cleaning up the spilled milk. Shouto did not miss the way that the periwrinkle-haired girl kept flickering her eyes from him to Uzumaki.

"So Uzumaki, what is your favourite class?" the orange-haired girl asked as they grabbed the tissues from the tray. Green eyes stared at his friend with so much curiosity and hope that Shouto wondered if there was a story behind that expression. He glanced at the other three teens, silently hoping that one of them would explain everything.

"Itsuka-chan has been really struggling to get Uzumaki-san to answer her questions." The periwrinkled-girl explained, puffing her cheeks. "I really wanna know why she avoids talking to the both of us, but has no problem with talking to Miro."

The four of them glanced down at Uzumaki and the orange-haired girl. His friend flickered her eyes at him, her lips wobbled and Shouto think that his classmate was debating about what to do. He waited for her to make her decision.

"Foundational Hero Studies," Uzumaki finally answered with a sigh.

The blond-haired boy perked up at Uzumaki's words and asked, "Is it because of All Might? It is great that we have the number one Hero teaching us."

Uzumaki didn't say anything, only shaking her head at the boy and eyes focused on the milk-spilled floor. She doesn't actually care about heroes. Shouto knew his classmate hadn't been awed when All Might appeared in their first lesson. Maybe the reason Uzumaki liked that particular class was because she could move around.

After a couple of days as Uzumaki's seat partner, Shouto noticed that Uzumaki had a habit of fidgeting in class. When they were preparing their project, his friend could not stop moving around. If she did sit still, the girl nearly fell asleep from just how boring their topic had been.

In the Foundational Hero Studies, Uzumaki could move around.

Uzumaki resumed back to her seat and Shouto didn't miss the way her blue eyes refused to look at the indigo-haired boy. Hurt bleed through her eyes whenever the blond-haired boy forced Uzumaki to acknowledge the boy right beside him.

He wonder if there was a story behind it.

(In an undisclosed location)

"I got some info on the girl."

Hari leaned against his foot and flickered his eyes to his subordinate. It had been just three day since he sent out all of the underling to find all information on the girl that took Eri away. The fact that it had been three days since he ordered them to find the girl or get any information on the girl. How hard could it be for them to get some information? Or bring her?

The more information they got, the more he could work with.

"Uzumaki Naruto," the subordinate informed him. He took out a different photo and Hari raised an eyebrow at the sight of the smile plastered on the girl's face. "A civilian living in Uzumaki's apartment block gave me a lot of information about the girl. He says the girl is an orphan who lives alone in an apartment. She likes to keep to herself but the guy says he hasn't seen Eri with her."

Any information was better than nothing.

"Did he give you her address?"

His subordinate fished out a piece of paper from his pockets and handed it to him. "He gave me the address but the girls works till night so we only have two options of when to attack her."

If we wanted to get a lot of attention then I would suggest he attacks her when she was on her job. Hari pressed his lips into a thin line and looked down at the address, before flickering his eyes to the particular subordinate right in front of him. The man right in front of him had a wonderful Quirk that could fulfil their needs.

"What do you plan to do?"

Hari raised his eyebrow. "You are going to break into Uzumaki's apartment and you are going to knock her out with your Quirk. You take her to the compound where Kai will question her about the whereabouts of Eri."

If Hari had some form of morals, he would probably feel some pity for Uzumaki. Kai was not going to go easy on her for her actions and frankly he hoped that the girl paid for her actions.

A/N: Please review and tell me what you think about the chapter. Is there anything that could be improved?