Ok, some time has passed. About 3 years later…
Itachi's out on a mission. Mikoto's out on a mission. It's raining. And Faith is staring Sasuke down for the heck of it. Suddenly, she blurts out "neh, Sasuke, how come your dad doesn't like me?" The head of the family didn't actually dislike her or anything; he just ignored her, much like many others did, but it was kind of odd since the rest of the family seemed to take interest in the young girl and he could probably count the number of words he's said to her on one hand.
"…" Sasuke looses the staring contest, then snaps, "how should I know! He's not your dad. Besides…he doesn't pay any attention to me, either." The little boy was close to tears. Faith hit a soft spot, and for the longest time, they stood on opposite sides of the empty room, both looking for money on the floor or something.
Maybe she should've walked away from the tense situation. That might save them both a great deal of trouble, but she had to suggest, " why don't you make him pay attention. Ask him to teach you that fire blowing technique or something," and then she left him hanging and ran off to find more mischief with Naruto.
Unfortunatly, when Faith, soaking wet from running through the rainstorm, knocked on Naruto's door, she caught Naruto off-guard. The cheerful Hokage hopeful answered the door with dry eyes, but failed to wipe off his wet cheeks.
"Naruto, what's wrong?"
Her friend looked away, ashamed.
Faith carefully stepped inside and pulled the door closed as quietly as possible without taking her eyes off Naruto. For some reason, Naruto's unusual behavior didn't surprise her at all. She knew what it's like to cry behind a locked door. Somehow, it always seemed ok to let the tears fall when no one's looking. She slipped her arms around his trembling shoulders in an action too eloquent for an innocent nine year old, and began to sing…
He goes to school
with a bright smile
the teachers think
he's full of wile
but can they see
past the smiling face
why his happiness
is out of place
and they all say the past is forgotten and gone
but nobody will leave him alone
Why do they all like to dump their hate
On a boy who has a grudge with fate
let him look a little
closer to home
for someone he can
call his own
and when he sees
that she is right here
the skies will get
a little more clear
through the pain and the tears
he stays loyal this town that has made him an outcast
and when tomorrow comes light as can be
he will find that he has finally found a home
A.N. I actually wrote and recorded this song, you can hear it at myspace(dot)com(slash)20602683 . replace "(dot)" with "." and "(slash )" with "/". track, title is 'home'. The melody is based off of martina mcbride's concret angel, tweaked to fit my lyrics. The software I used speeded up the tempo when I exported as mp3, so sorry that it's so fast…
And sorry, that's it for today. Short, I know. Btw, REVIEW. I took off the ban on anonymous reviews. Actually, I didn't even know they were disabled till my friend told me today. Lol.
EDIT yeah...something's funny with the document. why doesn't it let me put urls?