"Both of you are being very childish!"

Naruto groaned, frustrated by his sister and his best friend's stubbornness. Although they sat next to each other, none were facing each other, therefore satisfying the 'so close yet so far apart' balanty. Kushina was tired of him, and Sasuke was tired of her, but neither took the notion to break up. Implying it, but not actually doing it.

"I have stuff to do, so peace."

"Kushina!"

"What?" She paused, hand on the door handle.

"Will you please talk to him?" An eye roll was his only response before she closed the door behind her.

"Are you being serious teme!"

"Hn."

"You've become much colder, snap some sense into yourself!"

"She was wrong Naruto, I'm not apologizing."

"Forgiveness doesn't require an apology dammit! And if she breaks up with you? What will you do then?"

"She can't."

"You know what, screw this."

Sasuke sat at their kitchen, waiting to drive them today. An eyebrow rose when a fully awake redhead walked in and opened the fridge. It's 6:30, what the fuck?

Not a word was exchanged between them. Silently watching her attack some cheese desperately trying to open the jar, he felt inclined to open it for her. Maybe she felt it too, since she put it back before he could offer help. She made some cornflakes and left.

"Do you know why she was awake so early?" Asked Naruto when the two drove to school.

"...why Naruto?"

"She couldn't sleep."

Lub dub. Lub dub. Lub dub.

"Although she doesn't say it much, she really loves you."

Lub dub Lub dub Lub dub Lub dub Lub dub.

"I'm not going to meddle anymore, it's your problem."

I sat alone, back to a wall, waiting to be called. My gear was all on except the mask which I left close by, and oh god was I nervous.

All reality hit me; I was about to go on against a three time champion in a few minutes and I've only been training for six months. Six damn months. What was Suigetsu thinking? What was I thinking?

My nerves were all over the place, and I needed someone to calm me, to reassure me, to tell me it wasn't so important if I won. And the most annoying thing other than feeling like complete shit? I wanted Sasuke here with me. That sensitive, idiotic duck butt of a jerk is the only one who can make me feel better.

Wait. Slow the fuck down. What the hell am I thinking? This isn't some annoying fairytale. Sasuke isn't going to come and calm me down, and I'm not going to win after that and we're not going to ride off in a weird ass carriage. I'm Uzumaki fucking Kushina and I shall kick ass out there! Not literally, cuz that's assault.

"Yeah!"

"Are you okay?"

"Oh good lord!"

Suigetsu sweat dropped, and I awkwardly put down my raised fist.

"Your up kid." And my confidence flew out the window.

I gulped, thanking god this required a mask, since I'm pretty sure I look like I've seen a ghost. My eyes were fixed on the girl, who was unfortunately much larger than me (or am I really tiny? No. Hell.) And woah was she intimidating. So many feelings I've never felt before were now completely visible.

And the battle began. I know very well that I was only on defence, but damn was she fast. I'm going to lose so bad, the shame!

My parents were there, Naruto was there, Hinata and Ino were cheering, Mikoto-san was there, and so was Sasuke. I could hear them all very well.

I pushed my sword faster and straight on went into offence, and maybe the girl (called Arashi, which literally meant storm. Yeesh.) wasn't expecting it, since she did something very wrong. I aimed at her torso, and in a split second knew I was going to land a hit, she pushed it away with her free hand. A whistle was blown and the referee called disqualification.

"And Uzumaki Kushina beats our three time champion! What stroke of luck!" The commentator boomed, and immediately a standing ovation commenced from Konaha's crowd.

I won! Disqualification, but I won! Yeah!

"Konaha takes home both trophies this year."

I stood near Suigetsu, pulling off my mask with a tired smile. I won! I still can't believe it! Ah! Tsunade gave us gold medals, and so many pictures were taken, I kept blinking afterwards.

Someone yelled behind me, and I turned around too late. Arashi, slammed a metal pipe onto my right upper arm with angry eyes. I refrained from crying then, only collapsed with a pained expression, and wasn't concentrating when a few grabbed her and proceeded to drag her away, or when Suigetsu fell to my side. Because she hit my head too before leaving, and everything went black from then.