Hello everyone :D
I admit this one gave some pause when I read the word... hope it's okay ^^
Ja ne,
Temari 88
- (December 13th) Sear -
In his eighteen years of life, he had felt a large variety of emotions. Some had been positive, others had been negative; some had made him cry, others smile; some he had understood and others he hadn't - not right away, it had taken time. He had suffered a lot during a stage of his life when normally you shouldn't have to—childhood. That had been a rather dark, gloomy period of his existence... he could remember the few (very few) moments of true happiness he had felt back then: the first time Hokage-jiji had given him a present (a frog-shaped pouch for his money, which he named Gama-chan), the first time he had walked into Ichiraku Ramen (it had been an accident, he hadn't been paying attention to his surroundings) and nobody had chased him away, that time when Iruka-sensei had paid for his ramen and, lastly, when Iruka-sensei had given him his hitai-ate after he had beaten up Mizuki. Other than those times, real happiness was something Naruto had not experienced often, even after he made a lot of friends. —Thinking back on those times, he realizes nothing compared to the searing, intense happiness he felt inside him when he heard Gaara tell him he loved him.