The next morning Yure awakened ironically to birds singing and the sun shining through her window. She stirred under the covers then sat up to yawn, rubbing her eyes. She got out of bed and walked to the bathroom. She felt like hell. She examined herself in the mirror and not at all to her surprise she looked like hell too. Her face and eyes were red and puffy from crying. Her long hair was a tangled mess. She leaned over the small green sink and splashed cool water onto her face. She looked in the mirror once more and and noticed a long scratch across her face complete with a smear of dried blood. She figured her mother had scratched her with her nail, but she was too busy crying to notice.

Yure turned on some music and undressed quietly so she could get a long hot shower. Luckily her mother was now at work or she most likely would have gotten beaten for that too. She stood in the shower trying her hardest not to remember the night before. But no matter how hard she tried she couldn't get the images out of her mind. Naruto's sweet face as he kissed her good night, her mother's furious face when she caught her coming in the window, her hand coming at her faster than she had a chance to stable herself. She let out a sigh and turned off the water. Yure stepped out of the shower onto the bath rug and wrapped a fuzzy blue towel around herself. She walked back into her room after brushing her teeth to find none other than Naruto sitting on her bed.

Yure gasped and shut the door to the hallway quickly behind her, while pulling the towel tighter around herself. "Naruto!!! What are you doing here!? How did you get in??" she whispered in a panic.

Naruto ignored her questions and stood up to walk towards her, a frown on his innocent face. He reached his hand up slowly and gently to her cheek wound. He sounded concerned when he asked, "What happened to your cheek Yure?"

Yure turned to face away from the boy as two teardrops fell to the ground, and her shoulders began trembling. Naruto rested his hands on her shoulders and turned her around to face him. He wrapped his arms around her and held silently for a moment. After a minute he put his arms down and held her hands as he said softly, "Yure, you need to tell me. Please."

Yure looked back at his gorgeous blue eyes that she treasured so much before replying, "Last night, after we said good night, my mom and I got in a fight... That's all," she said it all while staring at the ground, still silently sobbing.

Naruto didn't say anything. He just wrapped his arms around the fragile girl, and she just stood there, holding up her towel and crying on his shoulder. Yure felt safe in his arms. She wanted him to keep holding her. To protect her.

"Does this happen a lot Yure?" he asked her. She nodded. "Well you can't just let this keep happening." he said to Yure, still hold her close. Just then Yure heard the front door open.

"Oh no!! Naruto you have got to get out FAST!!! She's home!" Yure whispered frantically, "We'll talk later! Meet me in the same spot in the forest later around five this evening!! I promise I'll be there!"

Naruto nodded in agreement, quickly kissed her, jumped out the window and sprinted off.

"Yure??" Akira called out as she began to open Yure's bedroom door. Yure ran to slam it shut on her.

"Dont' you ever knock?! I'm getting dressed in here, damn!!" she yelled at her mother.

"Oh," Akira said sounding apologetic, "Well I brought home lunch."

"Okay mom thanks bye!!" Yure replied, eager for her mom to go away. She heard footsteps going back down the hallway away from her door. She slid down the door and sat on the floor with her head on her knees.

"What am I going to do???" Yure asked herself out loud.

Hey everyone! Sorry so long since I've written :[ I get really busy sometimes. But lucky for you guys I have been depressed lately and when I'm depressed I like to write!! Haha. Well please leave feedback!!! I could really use some encouragement and ideas!!! By the way, check me out on deviant art!! My name on ther is AnnahTheExplorer