A new day arrived, and Naruto was walking towards the school with a sleepy expression.
He was greeted with the same old fear as yesterday, students moved away from him as he walked down the halls.
He soon however encountered his new friend, Komi.
"good morning komi." Naruto waved to his friend while he covered his yawn.
Komi body stiffed for a few moments before she relaxed upon seeing it was Naruto and waved back at him.
"Ready for school today?" Naruto asked while he walked next to Komi.
Her response to his question was for her body to immediately shake and she began to stutter.
"I guess not, I see." Naruto sighed heavily as his hand went through his hair, it seems Komi was still nervous about going to school.
"Have you at least practiced the greetings I gave you?" Naruto questioned her with some expectation in his eyes.
After their time at the restaurant, Naruto had given Komi a few flashcards that had different greeting on it.
He wanted her to be more used to saying these words and be comfortable enough to say them to other people.
Progress must start from somewhere and this looked to be the best spot to start for Komi.
Komi body escaped her shaken state and perk up upon his words, she raised her finger and looked at him with puffed up chest.
"Oh, one. That's a good start." Naruto praised her as he rubbed her head in acknowledgment.
"Can you say to me?" Naruto asked, he wanted to see if Komi had made any progress with speak with people.
It had seemed Naruto words had shaken Komi as she froze on the spot and held her shirt tight in her fist.
"You don't have to if it makes you uncomfortable, Komi." Naruto stated as he tried to comfort the girl, but Komi simply shook her head.
"You want to do it?" Naruto asked with surprise eyes, Komi nodded her head at his question.
Naruto smiled softly and stood where he was while waiting there for Komi to greet him.
Komi took a deep breath before she opens her mouth.
"…Gooooooodddd….mmmooooorrrrniiiinnngg…" Komi nervously said before she fell down, having lost the strength she had after speaking.
Naruto could safely catch her before she fell on the ground. He pulled her up and brought her back to her feet.
"You did good there, Komi." Naruto complimented as he patted Komi on the back.
"Just a little more practice, okay." Naruto said with his finger squishing together.
Komi nodded rapidly, pumped that she was able to accomplish that.
"We should be heading to class now." Naruto started since it was almost time for homeroom to start.
Both friends walked towards their class and sat down, though Naruto was constantly looking around the classroom once he stepped in.
He was searching to see if anyone in the classroom was suitable to become Komi Friend.
"Hey, Yamai!" A girl hollered at the trendy girl as she and another girl group talked about gossip.
"Which chick do you think is hot…" a random asked the wannabe ninja.
Naruto kept looking around the classroom until the homeroom teacher came into class.
Lunch came just around the corner; every student had already brought out their lunch, but they were too scared to start eating.
The reason for this was the grim and gloomy aura around the 'red devil'. No one knew what was wrong with him, but they were all too scared to do anything.
'Everyone here is a bad choice for Komi…' Naruto thought deeply as he analyzed everyone in the classroom.
The boys were clearly out since they were all weirdly obsessed with her and treated her more like a divine being than a person.
That trendy girl was also out, he just had a bad feeling about her. He doesn't know why yet but he is going to trust his instincts.
In fact, most of the girl were also out since they had the same problem as the males.
That only leaves a few people, and all of them seemed socially awkward from what he could tell.
This is bad, since Komi can't make friend with them since she was also social awkward. Adding two negatives does not make a positive.
That only leaves one choice left on the table. He didn't want to resort to this but desperate times calls for desperate measures.
Naruto got up from his table and walked towards a desk, Komi followed along with him.
"Hey najimi." Naruto greeted his childhood friend.
This was the option least wanted to use. Don't get it wrong, he loves najimi and believe she an amazing friend.
There just one flaw that make her the worst option for Komi, and that was her time management.
As said before, najimi is friend with almost everyone in the school. It's also because of this that najimi tries to spend as much time with everyone as she can.
This leads her to try and have as many memorable experiences as possible with them with the small amount of time she has with them.
This is not really a friendship Naruto want for Komi; he wants a strong and pro-longed friendship for Komi.
If growing a friendship was like growing a flower, then growing a friendship with Komi is like growing a one in the barren dessert.
One would need a lot of time, care, and patience to see it bloom. All of which najimi cannot provide to Komi.
"Sup, Naruto. Need anything buddy?" The lavender haired girl said with coy smirk as she leaned back on her chair.
"Oh, and Komi with you?" Najimi noted as she stared Naruto back, finding Komi standing behind him.
"Komi. This is my childhood friend, najimi." Naruto presented his friend towards Komi before she turned around.
"Najimi, this is Komi. She wants to be…" Naruto tried to say before he felt a tug in his shirt.
He turned around Confusedly at Komi, wondering why Komi had stopped him.
"Need something, Komi?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.
The girl let go of his shirt and pointed to her herself.
"You want to say it?" Naruto looked surprised at Komi actions, his eyes soon softened and he step aside for Komi.
"Then be my guest." Naruto waved for the girl to go, while najimi just watched confusedly at the two.
Komi stepped towards and stood in front of najimi, she opened her mouth but nothing came out of it.
Her silence was so long that the classroom became empty once she finally spoke.
"…ple…plepleplepleplepleple…" Komi stuttered as her body shook along with it.
"Come one Komi. You can do it." Naruto cheered her on in the sideline.
"W-WHAWHAWHA-WHAT?!" Najimi frighteningly screamed as she clutches onto Naruto shirt.
Komi could say it and soon cover her face in embarrassment.
"Hey, it's fine. You tried your best." Naruto walked over and comforted the girl.
Komi came out of her cover and looked at Naruto with teary eyes.
"You did good." Naruto patted her head, trying to make Komi feel better about herself.
Komi accepted the head pat; it felt nice and warm.
'What the hell?!' Najimi stared bewilderedly at the strange yet warm image before her.
"Can anyone explain to me what going on?!" Najimi cried out in confusion, wanting answers for whatever was going on.
Both Komi and Naruto were surprised at her outburst, they looked at each before Naruto walked over to najimi.
"Komi here wants to be your friend." Naruto answered her confusion while Komi nervously waved at najimi.
"Seriously?!" Najimi glanced between the two of them in shock.
"Yeah, this should be easy for you." Naruto smirked at the lavender-haired girl.
Najimi looked away from Naruto and didn't answer him for a while.
"…I don't think I can be friend with Komi, I'm sorry." Najimi stated with drops of sweat coming down her face.
Naruto looked shocked at najimi words before he turned around to see Komi reaction.
Komi brain shut down the moment najimi said those words and now she was immobilized like a machine.
Naruto stared at her for a moment before he leaned in close to najimi.
"Why not?" Naruto asked with a wrinkled face, finding najimi words very weird.
She had always tried to be friend with everyone she meets, even if she only Mets that person one time.
"It just…me and Komi are just not compatible." Najimi clutched on to her arm as she said this.
Naruto raised his eyebrow at her, he looked at her for a moment before he turned back to Komi.
"You two…have some history?" Naruto inquired with some suspicion, sensing some sort of connection between the two.
Najimi nodded to Naruto question while rubbing her cheeks awkwardly.
Naruto stared at her for a moment before he sighed. "Come one let go outside for a moment."
Najimi followed Naruto along as they walked outside the classroom.
"So…you want to tell me?" Naruto said as he leaned into the wall and his arms closed.
"…I meet Komi in second grade. I tried to be friends with her, but nothing worked at all. She was like a stone figure." Najimi started her story before she turned to look at Komi.
"She was the only person that I could never befriend." Najimi smile dropped as she continued on with her story.
"You could already guess how bad I took her response." Najimi said as she locked her hand behind her back and turned towards Naruto.
"How long was it?" Naruto asked with an extreme blank face.
"About a week, I think." Najimi answered with a sad smile on her face.
"…I almost went back to that place, y'know." Najimi added as she tucked her hair back into her ear.
"Were they not there?" Naruto fist clenched in frustration as he said this.
"You guess." Najimi said as she looked away from Naruto gaze.
"…so, it was the same as back then for you?" Naruto asked with a frown forming on his face.
"Yep, my parents were just as busy as back then." Najimi chuckled a little, though her eyes grew a little dull as she spoke.
"Has it grown better at all?" Naruto asked while he narrowed his eyes on najimi.
"…nope." Najimi shook her head with a saddened expression on her face.
Naruto stared at her silently before he turned around to look at Komi.
"…you know, you and Komi have a lot more in common than you would believe." Naruto words ranged into najimi ears and caused her to look at him confusedly.
"If you're talking about popularity, then no duh." Najimi said while laying her head on her palm.
"No, she is the same as you." Naruto stated while glaring down at najimi with absolute seriousness in his eyes.
Najimi looked confused for a moment before something clicked within her mind, she got up from her spot and looked at Komi with widened eyes.
"You got to be kidding me, but she like the most popular girl in school." Najimi said with bewilderment in her voice.
"You shouldn't judge a person by how she appears, najimi." Naruto said as he lightly bonked najimi on the head.
"Like I said, always look underneath the underneath." Naruto said with sagely tone with his voice.
"And like I always say, I don't understand." Najimi poured while she rubbed her head.
"You're a smart girl, najimi. I think you understand." Naruto chuckled a little as he looked at the girl.
"Flatter won't get you nowhere, you sly fox." Najimi said while she held onto her blushing cheeks and swayed around.
Naruto rolled his eyes at the girl's reaction before he gazed at her with serious eyes. "I think you should try to befriend Komi again."
Najimi awoke from her embarrassed state and looked at Naruto with surprise and a bit of fear.
"I don't think that's a good idea." Najimi said while sneaking a small peak at Komi before she shivered up.
"Don't tell me the great najimi is scared." Naruto covered his mouth as he laughed at her mocking.
"Hey! I'm not scared, I'm just uhhh…" najimi cried out before she began to think of a reason but came up with nothing.
"Okay, I am a little scared of Komi." Najimi said while rubbing her index finger together.
"Don't worry, you're going to be fine." Naruto comforted her while rubbing her head.
"…You know, you seem to be siding with Komi a lot." Najimi stated as she looked at Naruto though his arm.
"No, I'm not. I just want Komi to have friends." Naruto denied najimi accusation while he looked at Komi.
"Yeah, but you seem to be protecting her a lot." Najimi commented, having seen the protective aura that Naruto had around her.
"Well, of course. I'm worried that Komi desire for friend might cause her to join the wrong group." Naruto stated as he looked intense at the girl.
"That why I'm choosing the best person I know to be her friend." Naruto smiled as he patted najimi on the back.
"Thanks for the compliment." Najimi said while looking at Naruto with gentle and soft eyes.
"Alright, I'll give it a second try." Najimi said with a smile, feeling more confident in her chance of befriending Komi.
"But under one condition." Najimi raised her finger up toward Naruto.
"I want you to stay as close to us as possible." Najimi pointed to Naruto, she wanted a safe measure to Lean onto while speaking to Komi.
"Alright, now go talk to her." Naruto pushed najimi back into the classroom, but the girl did not want to go in.
"Can I just do it while walking home with her." Najimi suggested while drops of sweat fell from her face.
"…still a little scared?" Naruto commented, to which najimi nodded to.
"Fine, but you better promise to do it." Naruto let go of najimi and spoke seriously to her.
"Don't worry, I'll keep my promise." Naomi gave thumbs-up to Naruto, reassuring that she will keep her promise.
"Good." Naruto stated before he walked back into the classroom and told Komi about her afterschool appointment with najimi.
"Well, then…" najimi cleared her throat as she gazed at Komi, both were now outside the school by themselves.
"Let go home…Komi." Najimi said before she stared at Komi to see if she had a reaction.
Though both bodies soon shook and trembled. Both for distinct reasons of course.
'…this is so weird…' Naruto commented as he hid himself, he was currently following the girls just like najimi asked him to.
He sweat dropped at the awkward conversation between the two, najimi tried to start a conversation but Komi was just too nervous to say anything.
Naruto phone buzzed in his pocket, Naruto locked it up and saw a text message from najimi.
Naruto just sighed and rubbed his head as he read the message, najimi said that she gave up.
Naruto was about to text back to najimi and try to encourage to try against until he heard someone raining past him with a shout.
"NAJIMIIII!" A giant bulky delinquent shouted as he raced towards najimi, a skinny delinquent followed behind him.
"Found you, najimi!" The bulky student smiled as he stared down at the aid girl.
"Hm?" Najimi hummed as she thought of who these guys were u Tim it finally clicked.
"Hey, Maa-Kun and shii-Chan. What's up?" Najimi said she pointed a finger gun at them.
"You moved without telling us?!" The bulky delinquent said with his hands clashed together.
"Maa-kun was so lonely without you!" The skinny student with buck teeth said.
"So, is there anything you guys need?" Najimi asked while twirling her hair.
"There is." The delinquent placed his hand on his chest as he took a deep breath.
"Once you left, I felt empty inside and realized just how much I treasure my time with you…" he said with a deep blush croaking into his face.
"So, please najimi. Be my girlfriend!" The bulky man said with a deep bow and an outstretched hand.
"Impossible, I'm a guy." Najimi rejected the dude with a single moment of thought.
Komi jumped in surprised at najimi response, confused written all over her face as she tried to process why najimi called herself a guy.
'This girl…' Naruto rubbed his forehead as he listens to their conversation.
"Najimi…" the delinquent threw away his shirt for some reason as walked toward najimi.
"I already made up my mind! To protect this warm feeling in my heart!" He shouted while grabbing hold of najimi hands.
"Hey, let go!" Najimi winced as she felt the pain coming through her hand.
"Najimi, you can't…" the bulky delinquent tried to speak before a chill went down his spine.
A cold and heavy pressure soon erupted onto the delinquents and caused them to be frozen in state, the only one unaffected were Komi and najimi.
Maa-kun mind ran wild with the constant thoughts of danger that was going approach him until he felt a painful grip on his shoulder.
He turned around to see the towering man behind him, his face dripping with sweat as he glanced into the shadowy face of the man.
"W-who ar-are you…" the delinquent asked with trembling body.
"Boss, that's the red devil!" His friend shouted in fear as he pointed at Naruto.
"The red devil!?" The bulky delinquent body trembled as he looked at Naruto face.
As a delinquent, he knows very much about the red devil. That guys the nightmare of all delinquents out there.
It said that the red devil once destroyed a gang of 50 delinquents overnight.
He began to stutter in his words as he tried to apologize to the man.
Naruto just stared at before he leaned his face close to the man ear. "Leave."
The two delinquents did have to be told twice before they ran off into the streets.
"You girls alright?" Naruto questioned them with concern as he scanned to see if they were injured anywhere.
"Yeah, I'm alright." Najimi said as she dusted herself off.
Naruto looked at her with concern before he felt a tug in his shirt, he turned around to see that Komi was the one doing it.
"Need anything Komi?" Naruto asked his friend with a raised eyebrow.
Komi nodded and brought out a key from her palm, it seems that one of the delinquents had dropped their keys by accident.
"Is that maa-kun house keys?" Najimi looked at the familiar keys in Komi palm.
Komi nodded and both look towards Naruto in what to do next.
"Let give it to the police." Naruto stated, not wanting to meet up with that delinquent again.
"That seems like a good plan." Najimi nodded with Naruto plan, she also didn't want to see the delinquent for a while.
"We can go to the police near the corner story, we can probably get some food there." Najimi rubbed her stomach as she spoke, feeling a little big hungry.
"That alright with me, how about you Komi?" Naruto turned to his quiet friend, looking to see if she was okay with that.
Komi nodded since she wouldn't mind some food.
Soon, all three of the students walked towards the police station.
"Alright, I'm going to go give this to the police. You guys can go pick out the snack you want." Naruto stated before he walked away from the girls.
The two of them stayed there in silence, both scared of talking to the other.
They both walked into the store, wanting to get away from the awkward silence. Najimi walked towards the chips section while Komi head towards the ice cream station.
Komi walked around, looking for the ice cream she wanted until she stopped to look at one, it was cat-shaped chocolate ice cream.
"You want that ice cream?" Najimi pointed to the ice cream that Komi was looking at while holding a bag of chips.
Komi nodded while looking at najimi, she opened the freezer and took out the ice cream. Komi looked at it with sparkles in her eyes.
"Isn't that a bit childish though?" Najimi connect with a snarky tone, finding Komi option a bit on the childish side.
Komi body trembled at najimi words; her eyes fell onto the ice cream with teary eyes before she reluctantly tried to place the treat back.
"Wait, I'm sorry! I didn't mean it like that!" Najimi cried out with distress, feeling guilty about her words.
Komi looked back at najimi while wiping away her tears, looking towards najimi with confused eyes.
"I was just joking; your choice is fine." Najimi nervously said she tried to wave off her previous words.
Komi perked up najimi words as she looked at her treat with cat-like eyes before she turned over to najimi.
"Come on, let get something for naru." Najimi pointed to the chips corner, wanting to end her embarrassment now.
Komi nodded to najimi statement and went with her as they looked around to find the best chips for Naruto.
They finally decided on BBQ chips and bought their food.
They waited outside the store for Naruto while eating their respective treats, the whiskered man finally came out after a few minutes and met up with the girls.
"Was everything okay?" Naruto asked with worry in his voice, scared that something might have happened while he was gone.
"Yeah, everything was fine." Najimi reassured the man white Komi nodding along with her.
"That good." Naruto tensed shoulder relaxed as he sighed a breath of relief upon their answer.
"…so, you guys want to do anything?" Naruto asked, slight bored and wanting something to do.
"There is an arcade right around the corner." Najimi pointed to a street corner, having been to that arcade before.
"You guys want to go?" Najimi looked towards the two for answers, Naruto just shrugged his shoulder while Komi look absolutely ecstatic.
She had never been to an arcade before and now would be her very first experience with it.
The three walked towards the arcade and went inside.
Once they first got into the arcade, Komi looked around curiously at all the games around her.
"Wow, Komi. You sure are excited." Najimi commented at she looked at the enthusiastic performance Komi had on.
"Have you never been to an arcade before?" Najimi asked jokingly, thinking that her question was kind of stupid.
Komi however took najimi question serious and shook her head, telling the truth to najimi.
The lavender-haired girl was taken back by Komi answer and nervously rubbed the back of her head.
"Come on, Komi. Let me show you some of the games." Naruto said, wanting to end the awkwardness between Komi and najimi.
Naruto took Komi and toured her around the arcade, naming however just stood there in silence.
Unknown thoughts raced through her mind as she looked intensely at Komi, a glint of compassion and empathy flashed through her eyes.
Komi looked through all the games with great interest until she found the game she was most interested in, the crane game.
"You want to play this?" Naruto pointed to the game, finding that Komi had sparkle in his eyes.
Komi nodded and pointed to the small black keychain in the machine.
"Okay, I'll go get some change." Naruto pointed to the counter, wanting to go change his money.
Naruto walked over before he saw someonewalking with him.
"You need some money?" Naruto asked, thinking that najimi wanted some money to play the games.
"No, I just wanted to talk." Najimi stated while moving her body to walk next to Naruto.
Najimi stayed quiet for a moment before she turned her head towards Naruto with a usual blank face.
"y'know, I thought you were lying to me at the beginning." Najimi said with a slight for a on her face.
Naruto stared at her for a while before najimi turned her head towards Komi, Naruto expression relaxed and understood what she meant.
"But more time I spend with her, the more I feel that she just like me." Najimi looked at Komi with softened eyes.
"A lonely person wanting some friends." Najimi laughed heartily, but her eyes dulled as she spoke.
Naruto didn't say much and just nodded to her comment with a blank expression, knowing the true najimi under all that mask.
He is the only person that utterly understands najimi among her millions of friends.
He knows that behind her enthusiastic and joyful demeanor, is a sad lonely child wanting to grab hold of everyone's attention.
Najimi had always been lonely in her early years, both her parents not having a lot of time for her.
Their constant work made it impossible for a nurturing home-life and her constant moving had created little time for her to make real friends.
This created an isolated and lonely environment for the young najimi, this is exactly why najimi tried to become friends with everyone.
Najimi has created different masks for every occasion, wanting to fit everywhere with everyone.
She did make a lot of friends this way, but they only cared about the mask and not the person behind it.
Najimi was used to this type of life, only wanting to be loved by the people and did not care if people didn't get to know her.
This, however, changed once she met Naruto, he didn't care about najimi mask and was the only one of her friends that tried to get to know the person behind the mask.
Naruto had forever become najimi best friend and her one true friend ever since, holding the top spot in najimi heart.
"…So, what are you going to do now?" Naruto turned his head to look at najimi with fierce intensity.
"I'm going to help her." Najimi stated with a heartfelt smile as she sways her arms behind her back.
Naruto smiled broadly as he placed his hand over her head, wanting to pat it.
"You're a good girl." Naruto said before he lowered his head to kiss najimi forehead.
Najimi face flustered as she registered what had just happened, she was about to question Naruto about his actions but found that she was already at the counter.
"That sly fox." Najimi pouted her mouth while rubbing her forehead, feeling very embarrassed by Naruto actions.
Soon, she shook her body to wash away her embarrassment and ran towards Komi.
"Hey Komi." Najimi waved towards Komi with newly found enthusiasm, wanting to reintroduce herself to Komi.
Komi was shocked at the strange emotional turmoil's seen by najimi, but she still waved back najimi.
"Hey look, I'm sorry about what I said in the morning." Najimi nervously rubbed her head, finding her previous words quite offensive.
"If you don't mind, I would like to start things over." Najimi raised her hand nervously towards Komi, hoping that the quiet girl takes her offer.
Komi looked at najimi hands with complex emotions, but after a while she also raised hand and shook najimi lifted hand.
"That good." Najimi felt relieved after Komi accepted her offer.
"Well then, how about we truly introduce each other." Najimi stated while smiling bright at Komi.
"Hello there. I'm najimi Osana, everyone childhood friend!" Najimi winked at Komi while her finger formed a v shape over her eyes.
"I'm Komi should, once to meet you." The girl held out her notebook which caused the childhood friend to look surprised.
"You use a notebook?" Najimi pointed to the notebook with surprise written all over her face.
"Please don't judge me." Komi hid herself behind the notebook with fierce blush.
"It fine, I think it kind of unique." Najimi nervously chuckled as she tried to comfort the girl.
"Thank you." Komi smiled as she lifted herself out of the cover.
"No prob." Najimi gave a gave thumbs-up towards Komi with a cheesy smile.
"I see you two are getting along well." Naruto chuckled as he came across the warm sight of the two friends.
"Well, if isn't the sky fox himself." Najimi pouted at Naruto as she kicked him in the leg.
"Hey stop that." Naruto ordered the girl; he wasn't hurt by her kick, but it was incredibly annoying.
"Hump!" Najimi huffed as she looked away from Naruto before she grabbed the cup of coins that Naruto had in him.
"Come in Komi, let go play some games without this guy!" Najimi stated as she grabbed hold of Komi and walked away from Naruto.
Naruto shook his head helplessly as he watched them move away from him.
Naruto sighed before he took a seat down somewhere he could safely watch them.
Najimi was a pro at almost every game in the arcade, having come here very often with her friends.
Komi was less…experienced, making a lot of mistakes then and there but was able to get the hand of it pretty fast.
And like that, the day began to pass by. Najimi and Komi had finished playing every game but one.
"This is the last game, Komi. You ready?" Najimi upbeat voice stated while she pointed to the crane game.
Komi nodded rapidly with an enthusiastic expression; this was the game was most looking forwards to.
"This will be the day I finally defeat you." Najimi sharp eyes glared at the crane game.
She had played this game before with some friends, but she would lose every time she played it.
She had lost a lot of money, time, and patience because of this game. Now, she was going to get her revenge.
"Let's do this!" Najimi shouted as both her and Komi stared at the game with extreme fire within their eyes.
Naruto stood behind them with a deadpan expression and a twitching eyebrow. 'They sure are enthusiastic…"
Najimi inserted her coin and focused all her power on the game, she locked onto the purple cat keychain since she thought it was cute.
She looked expectedly as the crane came down to the actual spot of the keychain before her expression hit rock bottom after the keychain slipped through the claws
"AGAIN!" Najimi fierce voice screamed as she once again inserted a coin, but the result stayed the same.
"Again!"
"Again!"
"Again"
"Again…"
"…"
Najimi finally game up after her 15 rounds. She knelt down next to the crane game with depression reflecting all over her face.
"Avenge me, Komi!" Najimi turned her head around towards Komi, having streams of tears falling down her face.
She may have lost the game, but there was still hope in Komi.
The quiet girl was a little shaken by najimi shout before she shook it off and stared intensely back at najimi.
"You can count on me!" Komi answered with a notebook in one hand and clenched fist in the other, a fire of determination burned within her eye.
Komi walked up to the crane game with clenched fist filled with resolve, she was going to beat this game no matter what.
Komi knelt down on the ground with her head looking straight up, her look blank like the void itself.
She had just lost 20 rounds to the game and had made no progress in getting the black cat keychain she wanted.
Komi was on the verge of tears before she felt a warm and comforting hand placed on her shoulder, she turned around and saw najimi looking down on her with soothing eyes.
"It okay, I understand." A warm feeling entered Komi heart upon those words.
The two girls stared at each with compassionate eyes before they hugged each other.
Tears swelled within their eyes as they the warm connection of failure between the two.
Naruto just…stared blank at them. Unsure of how to process such a…ridiculous image.
"These drama queens…" Naruto sighed as he whispered his complaint, he took the last three coins in the cup and went to play the crane game.
On the side, the girl finally finished their hug and stared at each other with comforting expression.
"You did your best out there, Komi." Najimi stated while she swiped away the lone tear coming down her eye.
Komi sniffed while wiping away her tears as well, she nodded to najimi words with a sad smile.
"We can do it next time; we just need practice." Najimi clenched her fist, unwilling to allow such a disgrace to live on.
Komi nodded to najimi statement, she was going to get that keychain soon or later.
"Stop being so dramatic." The two girls turned to look to see who said those disrespectful words to them.
Their eyes narrowed when they saw Naruto standing in front of them with his hand held out.
They looked down to see that three cat keychains were within his palm, both eyes widened upon seeing it.
"How?!" Najimi astonished voice roared as she looked between the keychains and Naruto, Komi looked just as shock as najimi was.
"The game was pretty easy." Naruto stated as she pointed back to the game, it wasn't as difficult as they made it out to be.
"B-but me and Komi couldn't even get it after doing a dozen tries?!" Najimi stated white her arms spread apart.
"That just means you guys suck at the game." Naruto covers his mouth with his free hand to suppress his laughter.
Komi and najimi grew tick marks on their forehead, enraged by his comment about their skill.
It may be true, but they weren't going to allow him to disrespect them like that. So, they did the only logical thing they could do.
They started to beat Naruto up.
Najimi went his legs, constantly kicking them with puff-up face. Komi attacked his chest with her fist, banging it like a drum.
Naruto stood there like a statue, taking all their hits like it had no effect on him.
Finally, they got tired and stopped their attack.
"You guys want these now?" Naruto handed the keychains over to the girl with a playful smirk on his face.
The girls didn't have the man the satisfaction of seeing their depressed face and took their favorite keychain with their head down.
Naruto rolled his eyes at their childish display before he took the orange cat keychain and placed it onto his phone.
"This looks pretty nice." Naruto commented while examining his new phone accessory.
"Yeah it does, too bad you got the worst color." Najimi said with a playful glint shined through her eye.
"What that supposed to mean?" Naruto turned his head slowly towards najimi with a frown.
"It nothing…" najimi placed her back and twirled around before she added on. "It just that…lavender is the best color."
"Well, that were you're wrong…orange is the best color." Naruto stated with absolute pride and certainty within your voice.
Najimi shook her finger in front of Naruto, disagreeing with Naruto statement. "Lavender is the best, and do you know why…"
"Why?" Naruto narrowed his eyes towards najimi, waiting to see just what kind of ridiculous reason najimi was going to come up with.
"Because it the color of everyone childhood friend." Najimi waved her hair in front of Naruto with a smug grin.
"More like everyone nuisance." Naruto retorted with a slight grin on his face.
"Hey?! Everyone loves me." Najimi placed her hand on her puffed-up chest as she said this.
"More like they tolerate you, you're like a rodent." Naruto said while flicking najimi forehead.
"How the hell am I a rodent?!" Najimi shouted back to Naruto as she tried to scratch him with her claws.
"Well. You're short, annoying, and always bring trouble to everyone." Naruto began to list off the three that first came to his mind about najimi.
"You bastard!" Najimi launched herself at Naruto with a fierce expression, but she could even Naruto as he kept dodging her.
Komi looked towards the two bickering childhood friend with a doe eye before a small chuckle came out of her mouth.
She pulled a notebook from her bag; she opened it up to the first page.
She wrote najimi name right below Naruto name, she smiled before she placed the notebook back into her bag.
Komi soon looked at the keychain in her hands, she didn't know what to do with this since she didn't have a phone.
The only reason she wanted it was because it looked cute.
Maybe she should ask her parents to get a phone, she does have friends now.
Komi smiled before she walked towards the two childhood friend in order to stop their fighting.