Title: Scowl
Rating: K
Summary: Haku is sad because he looks like a girl
Words: 458
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"Haku, are you alright?"
"No, papa, I'm not."
"Child, there is a foolish belief among children that adults can read minds. I shall put such a belief to rest and tell you that I cannot do such a thing."
"Your hair is long."
"That is something that I am well aware of but surely that is not causing you to pout at the mirror."
"I was glaring and no, it's not. It's just that… your hair looks the same as mine except yours has white in it. But I don't here nobody ever call you a girl or mistake you for a lady or anything girly! Boys and girls at my school keep calling me a girl and I'm not. I'm a boy!"
"There is very little reason to shout Haku and there was once a time—before I came to the Hidden Countries—when a group of boys made fun of my long hair."
"Someone actually made fun of you? Not to be mean papa but you're scary when you wanna be. Only people that don't know that are idiots… and Naruto but you know sometimes…"
"Naruto is not thoughtless, just painfully optimistic and naïve. Yes, there were those that sought fit to anger me. They often pranked me into skirts or other cruel things. Do you know how I repaid such buffoonery?"
"I hear some parents tell their kids to simply walk away and the bully will leave them be."
"Poppycock is what I call that nonsense. Oh no, I do not believe nor condone such foolish sentiments. In my school days, I simply hexed their faces off. There were times in which I was sent to the Headmaster's office after doing such horrendous things to the idiots."
"Wow… what did you do?"
"Various things that you do not need to know. However, you are not Magical and you cannot use chakra in this town."
"Oh yeah… so what can I do?"
"Haku, has anyone ever told you that 'sticks and stones' drivel?"
"Yeah…"
"Well that's also poppycock. Words are your best friend and if you hone them just right, you will break the strongest man down into dust. The bullies you face now do not have much brainpower so your insults must be short and to the point and it would not hurt to sneer."
"Gaara said that you made a rock cry one time by glaring at it and Zabuza was crying when he saw it the first time you two met."
"That is very much true on both accounts so now I shall teach you the 'Glare of Snape's Wrath'. A very silly girl gave it that name but we shall mold it into 'Glare of Snape's Wrath: Children edition'."
"Let's get started!"
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The End
So yes, that's how Haku learned how to sneer the way he does. Much better than Daichi