One and Lonely

Weeks and months passed by and the students of Konoha High were progessing nicely in their ninja training and becoming stronger each day until they were finally upon the day before the graduation exam. Fiona and her friends Snow, Ino, Hinata and Sakura were studying for the exam practising their jutsu.

But Snow seemed nervous about the graduation. All her classmate's parents would see them get their headbands and nobody would be there to be proud of her.

Her parents had divorced when she was ten but they never visited her so she assumed they were dead but knew they stopped caring about her.

"Snow-san you okay?

You seem really sad like Karin was annoying you." Hinata asked softly.

"I'm okay Hinata, really!" Snow said faking a smile but Fiona could see through it and knew something was wrong but decided to wait until they were alone before she could ask.

Later they were in Fiona's room in her parent's castle when she heard Snow quietly sobbing.

"What's wrong Snowdrop?

Please tell me!" she said softly to her.

"It's..... about graduating." Snow began but Fiona didn't understand.

"What's so bad about graduating?" she asked her softly.

"B-Because everybody's parents will be there and my parents........ t-they divorced and have never visited me since I moved into my home on the forest. Karin will love this fact for sure.

I hid this from everybody, even the senseis." Snow told her sobbing softly. Fiona bent down beside her so they were at eye level. She felt sorry for her and was very angry that Snow's parents didn't care if she were alive or not.

"Snowdrop..... it doesn't matter if your parents aren't there.

You should be proud of yourself, you worked really hard to get to the graduation exam and I bet Karin will fail it. She hasn't even studyed or worked on one single jutsu all term. Besides you do have a family..... in me." Fiona reassured her. Snow's eyes went wide at that but smiled wiping away the tears that had filled them.

"T-Thanks Fi-FI I needed to hear that.

I'm glad you're my friend.

It doesn't matter what Karin thinks, she'll probably fail and have to repeat the class while we're in a man squad kicking butt!" Snow replied as Fiona laughed loudly at that.

Lillian sighed hearing that.

She and Harold hadn't told Fiona about being sent to a dragon guarded tower but would after tomorrow when she graduated. Harold too was feeling nervous about the next day. He loved her and didn't want to hurt her but this was what he was prepared to do to keep her safe.

"I hope she takes it well or I'm in trouble and I don't want Lillian to find out that I'm a frog prince in human clothing. She wouldn't react very well to that but she's my wife so she'd love me anyway even if she did know or find out, right?" he thought as he lay awake in bed that night beside his wife.

"Harold..... are you sure we're making the right choice by sending Fiona away to a dragon guarded tower?" Lillian asked him but he didn't answer but tried to sleep. The next morning during breakfast Fiona noticed her parents were very quiet and wondered what was wrong but was too nervous and excited about graduating that she didn't want to ask them but Snow noticed her friend was very quiet as they walked to school.

"Is something wrong?" she asked her.

"My parents have been acting weird and I'm worried." Fiona told her.

"Maybe they're worried about you but they're happy that you're graduating. I'm sure they'll be there later." Snow told her as they arrived at Konoha High. Shrek smiled seeing her with Snow and approached her.

"Hey Fiona.

I heard your class is having it's graduation exam today.

Good luck.

I know you can do it." he told her.

"Thanks I'll try." she replied as they saw Karin arrive at school. She looked sad.

"I wonder what's wrong with her?" Fiona asked but Snow understood. Karin may be mean but she was still a human being after all and needed help even if she tried to refuse.

"Why would you care?" Karin asked angrily as Fiona had asked what was wrong.

"Because you may be mean and a bully but you're still a human being and everybody hurts sometime." she told her but Karin saw Fiona and her friends go into the building.