The God trapped in me

You sighed as you pulled down the toilet seat of your toilet sitting on it in exhaustion. Dropping your bag of toiletries on the ground of your bathroom, you rubbed your hand down your face, today’s activities with iruka and Naruto completely drained you. Having just come back, everything was still in its bags and you weren’t in the mood to take all of it out and put it away, so it was all left either in the kitchen or your room. 

You looked towards the shower, one right now would be amazing, to get all the grim off and relax before going to bed to get a goods night’s sleep for school tomorrow.

 God…just the thought of it stressed you out. So many new people and a completely unknown subject that use to be fiction but now was reality.

Grabbing the bag off the ground you got up and started taking all the contents out, setting them down in their respected spots; toothbrush and toothpaste on the sink as well as deodorant and soaps on the edge of your bath shower. Turning on the water you put your hand under the faucet to make sure the temperature of water was good, once it got to your desired heat, you pulled the diverter. The pipes groaned as the water stopped coming out of the tub faucet before pouring out of the shower head, quickly backing up you pulled the cheap shower curtain that luckily for you had come with the apartment and started undressing.
 

Throwing the dirty clothes on the ground you stared at yourself in the mirror, you looked the same but still different in way. Your skin was smoother than before and your body almost looked more refined, at first glance you had thought you had no stretchmark’s or cellulite anymore but they were still there just faded in a way, same goes for the pores on your face. It was weird. It would take you a while to get use to your new look. The only thing that wasn’t smooth, or rather faded, was the long scar on your stomach, now that you had the chance to look at it clearly, it looked pretty badass. It was kind of ugly though, due to the scared skin being sunk in and pink, it was still sensitive to the touch, your stomach jittering as you dragged your fingers lightly on it.

Sighing you took one look at yourself before slowly going in the shower, you groaned letting the hot water cascade down your head to your body, enveloping you in a warm relaxing blanket that helped remove the soreness in your muscles. After a moment of basking under the hot water you grabbed the washcloth and soap, The smell of lilacs evaded your nose as you scrubbed your skin raw, wanting to make sure all the grim was off your skin. 

After deciding that your skin was clean you put the washcloth down to dry and grabbed the shampoo, squeezing the bottle. Letting a generous amount fall unto your hand you put back the bottle and started thoroughly scrubbing at your scalp before rinsing it off, you did this once or twice, giving yourself a chance to think about everything. About how you were gonna survive this place, what team you might end up and who your sensei might be. The question that really bugged you though was how you were gonna catch up to everyone, that was really what was bothering you, maybe you could ask some of your classmates, when you became friends with them.

Washing out the shampoo you started to apply a generous amount of conditioner to the tips of your hair, as you did you wondered if your snakes were okay, they hadn’t popped up even when you had gotten home.

As though they had only been summoned by your thoughts, your hair started to change between your fingers before forming into your snakes, who blinked cutesy as water droplets dripped down their faces. 

“hey, I was wondering where you guys were, you didn’t come out when I came home.”, you asked not even bothered that they were seeing you naked, they were snakes they also definitely didn’t care.

A couple softly hissed at you as if trying to answer (to bad you cant understand) before looking at their scales as if trying to understand why they felt so weirdly heavy and thick. You watched curiously, as they all one by one positioned themselves under the water wanting to remove whatever was coating their scales. Oh that’s right you had put conditioner on your hair, 

“sorry it’s conditioner.”, you apologized rinsing the conditioner off your own hands, “maybe I shouldn’t put conditioner on my hair”, well that was money wasted.

Nonetheless you tried to help by rubbing your hands on them to help with removing the conditioner.

Finishing up your shower you turned the water off, stepping out of the shower, you snakes shook themselves riding themselves of water as you reached to grab your towel to also dry yourself. 

Only to realize you hadn’t bought a damn towel. 

“God damn it!”
…

You looked at the ceiling as you laid on your bed in a fresh pair of underwear, feeling discouraged after the whole no toilet ordeal. You ended up having to dry yourself with toilet paper! It was the most humiliating thing ever! Not only that but you didn't have a hair dryer so you couldn't dry the only real hair you have! Your wispy bangs! Without your blow dryer or rollers you had to use socks to keep them rolled throughout the night, it was so annoying!

Curse this apartment!

Your snakes were sprawled on the bed as well surrounding you doing nothing, some seemed to almost be talking amongst each other, probably about the paper toilet thing, which they had fun watching you do. You swore they were laughing at you. 

Curse them as well!

Glancing to the side, your makeshift rollers falling with, your eyes wandered before landing on your new cute dragon plush that was sat down not too far. Smiling at the memory of Naruto shyly giving it to you before you went into your apartments, you reached and grasped its plush body.

“y/n-chan”, he had said as soon as Iruka disappeared down the hall, “ya know when I was gone in the furniture store.”

“ I thought you said you were in the store the whole time.”, you had been quick to tease.

“yeahhhh well I wasn’t I was actually buying-“, reaching into his jacket he had begun digging around looking for something, you had watched curiously wondering what he had, “this-”, finally grabbing what he wanted he pulled his hand out revealing a cute green dragon, “for you.”, he had stuck it towards you looking to the side as he blushed.

You had gasped when you saw it recognizing it immediately as the plush you had ogled before deciding that in the end you needed the money for other things.

“oh my God, Naruto thank you so much, he’s adorable.”, you wholeheartedly accepted, thanking him.

He’s such a sweet heart, giving you this, spending money on you and only after having met you a couple hours ago.
 

Laying it down on your chest as you admired the work, the stitching was amazing and he was stuffed in a way that his legs were limp and could move around. The fur was extremely soft as it laid on your skin the heart shaped spike on the tail just about tickling your scarred stomach. 

Petting his head softly you fidgeted with the tiny horns. In the corner of you eye you spotted a snake at the plush, smiling you reached out to it to pet only for it to dart away as soon as it noticed your hand. You paused, how strange…you hadn’t noticed some of them were skittish. 

Oh well. You left it alone too tired with too much on your mind and started to crawl further up your bed. Brushing you snakes out of the way  you let your head fall on the pillow as you shuffled into a comfy position, laying on your side you hugged the dragon to your chest. You think you’ll name this guy miso, it didn’t make any sense but you liked it, you thought it was cute.

Pulling the covers over your body  you looked at the clock on the side of your bed, you had been quite happy when you noticed there had been an alarm clock already placed on the window sill meaning you wouldn’t have to buy one and wouldn’t be late for school. 10:37 pm is what it read and school was suppose to start at 9:20 am. Naruto had suggested you to should eat breakfast together tomorrow morning for your first day of school which meant that you’d have to get up a little early, around 7:30 maybe. It would give you 30 minutes to get ready if not more, 30 minutes to eat and enough time to walk to school. 

Perfect, everything was set for the morning. Relaxing into your bed you felt as some of your snakes settled down around you some laying down near your head, some on your body while some you felt on the side of the bed next to you. Content with knowing they wouldn’t leave for the night you smiled, feeling less lonely,

“goodnight”

You heard the soft murmur of hisses as some came to nuzzle your face as you settled down for the night. It took quite a while for you to truly start to fall asleep as you mind kept racing and going over very possible situation that could happen tomorrow at the academy. You were almost too excited to go to bed but tried to force it to make morning come by quicker, at one point you did finally end up falling asleep.
 

Your sleep peaceful as your dreams ran wild. You dreamt of long awaited reunion with family and homes and a forest full of mythical life. The weirdest thing being that none of the families or homes were human but were actually dragons. How odd it was, almost as if it came straight from the wings of fire books. Your dreams lasted long into the night before they were suddenly interrupted by a loud blaring that made your eyes snap open and shoot upright in your bed, knowing what that noise meant.
 It was time to get ready for your first day at the academy! 

“Todays the day!”

Already feeling awake and energetic, a smile already stretched across your face, you threw off the covers, setting miso beside you and swung your feet off the bed. A shiver went up your spine as you set your feet on the floor

“Oh my god that’s cold!”, you shrieked, rubbing the goosebumps that appeared on your arms you got up making your way towards the bathroom a pep in your step, you felt some of your snakes slide off your shoulders as some started to rouse while some just stayed asleep laying limply on your back. You stretched as you walked through the doorway haphazardly hitting the light switch, it took a couple times before you actually got it. Flinching slightly at the light you rubbed your eyes and went to the sink, swiping your toothbrush off the white porcelain. Slapping a glob of toothpaste you were quick to get to work on your teeth as you stared at your face in the mirror, you were still slightly sore from just waking up but nothing a bit of cold water couldn’t fix.

 
Spitting out the paste you turned on the water flushing it away. Cupping your hands you gathered water in them and quickly splashed it onto your face washing away the rest of your tiredness. More of your snakes seemed to rouse awake, moving around as you prepared for your day. You don’t think you really need to brush your hair, so you skipped that and picked your deodorant applying a good amount to your underarms. As you went to leave the bathroom to get dressed you realized that you had almost forgotten to take out the socks in your bangs. Quickly taking them out you let the hair bounce a little as it settled on your cheeks and forehead.

Huh, it actually worked. They didn't look half bad. Taking one last look at yourself in the mirror, you tweaked your wispy bangs making sure they looked good before leaving to get dressed, making sure to bring your hair socks with you. Dumping the socks on the floor, promising you'd clean them up later, you went to your bag of clothes which you had dropped on the floor yesterday. Picking it up you dumped all its contents on your bed.

What to wear, what to wear? You looked at your clothes, maybe a pair of shorts would be good, it wasn’t too cold outside. Picking up a black pair of tight shorts you threw them to the side on the edge and began searching for a shirt, you decided to go simple and just wear the black sleeveless tight top that came with it. Throwing it with the shorts, you looked through the clothes some more looking for the cute jacket you had bought. Finally finding it, you grabbed it pulling it away from the pile, you held it out in front of you, it was a sort off short kimono jacket, it was a wonderful color of lavender, your favourite color. Grabbing the belt that came with it, you dumped it next to your outfit, putting your hands on your hips. You looked at your snakes,

“what do you guys think? Will I fit it with the style of Konoha.”, they nodded along hissing approvingly. Good, the shopkeeper had said that this was the sort of stuff kids your age wore, so it should be fine.

Putting the whole thing on, you quickly walked towards your bathroom to get a look in the mirror. You looked pretty good. Your snakes seemed to think so as well as some admired you in the mirror.

Although you felt as if something was missing. Touching the space between your collarbones, you realized. The necklace your grandmother gave you.

It was a necklace with exactly 7 freshwater pearls on them. They were all equally spaced out from each other. It was beautiful, you only took it off when you went to bed and in water as to not break it. Which would explain why you didn't have it, you had taken it off before....well, before you got transported here. Atleast thats what you think. Your head seemed to start hurting as you thought about the time before you woke up here. Whatever, it didn't matter anyway. You'd have time later to think about your lost necklace.

You quickly nodded in the mirror, smiling as some of them nodded, seeming to encourage you as well, before you walked out, ready to go eat breakfast with Naruto. Making your way to the door, you quickly put on your sandals, which you learned were actually called tabi.

Opening the door you paused realizing your snakes were still there, looking at them you felt bad having to tell them to go away but you didn’t want anyone to see you and cause big fuss over them.

“um, I’m gonna be going to Narutos, so you guys are gonna have to ya know….”, you were pleased to see some seemed to understand as they melted back into hair, but slightly discouraged when you saw some were just staring cluelessly at you. You were about to try and explain, but suddenly, one snake came up to them and hissed loudly. They all jumped, staring at the snake before hissing back and turning into hair. Looking at the snake, it seemed it had explained what you wanted. Some of them seem so smart, while some less, it was funny. They all seemed to be different. You pet its chin and thanked it. It nodded to you before disappearing as well, the strands falling on your finger. 

Now knowing that they were all hidden you put your hand down and finally stepped out of the door, closing it you made sure you had everything before locking it and making your way to Naruto door. Your footsteps echoed in the halls as you walked, stopping in front of Naruto’s door you hesitated to knock on it. What if he was still sleeping? You’d feel bad accidently waking him up. 
 

Plucking up the courage you lifted your fist and knocked firmly on the green door, you just told yourself that he was gonna have to wake up anyway. Shuffling you could be heard as what you thought was Naruto started to come towards the door. Waiting patiently you heard the lock of door click before the door was pushed open to reveal a tired, droopy eyed Naruto still in his pj’s. How cute, you couldn’t help but laugh at his state, he had that cute animal tuque as well. He groaned looking at you before his eyes suddenly snapped open, surprised that you were here,

“y/n what are you doing, its not time for school yet?”, he questioned seeming to have forgotten what you were both suppose to do this morning. Funny since he was the one that suggested it.

“Breakfast, remember?”, you reminded him.

“Ahh!”, he fussed, “That’s right-um- wait a second!”, he hurried off, you stayed at the doorway, feeling awkward at the thought of just walking in. Suddenly his head popped back in the doorway, “You can come in!”, he said before disappearing once again into his apartment.

You laughed and stepped in, looking around as you removed your sandals you realized that he was right, yesterday, his apartment was exactly the same as yours. Although it was a little bit messier than yours that’s for sure. Ramen cups were strewn around on the kitchen table and there were a couple milk cartons. Turning towards Naruto's room you saw him struggling to put his shirt on, laughing softly you turned back to his kitchen and grabbed all the cups and cartons into your hands. Searching for the garbage you dumped everything in it once you spotted it beside the kitchen counter. There that’s much better, much more clean.

Naruto suddenly burst into the kitchen finally dressed and paused when he saw you had cleaned up the trash on his table. Smiling you leaned against the kitchen counter, watching as he turned to you giving a look over. You frowned at the look. Was he looking at your outfit? Did it look bad? You thought it looked quite nice.

“What do you think, is it bad?”, you asked as you looked down at yourself.
 

Naruto quickly shook his head, “ No! I think you look great y/n-chan!”, he smiled a small blush dusting his cheeks.

“You sure?”, you looked at him unsure.

“yeah!”

Your smile returned as you thanked him, you hoped he was telling the truth, he didn’t seem like the type to lie anyway. You hoped everyone else thought that too.

The moment was interrupted though as Narutos stomach growled loudly, he chuckled awkwardly as you giggled softly,

“how about that breakfast?”

“heck yeah! I was thinking ramen! That’s what I eat every morning!”
Every morning. Jeez.

 He walked past you crouching down to the cupboard located next to your legs, he pulled it open looking inside with pursed lips trying to think which flavor would be good, “what flavor would you like, I have chicken, beef and….”, he paused digging deeper before finally finding what he was looking for with a small aha. Pulling out a cup of ramen he showed it to you, “ this special ramen that’s really rare, I was keeping for special occasions.”, the words limited edition were written in gold on the cup with the image of a person eating the noodles under it.

Looking over at the cup you smiled gratefully at him, it seemed pretty good but you didn’t want to steal one of his limited edition cups, “are you sure, I don’t wanna steal one of them when you could eat, I’m sure you’ve been saving those for a while now.”

“As I said before, they’re for special occasions and today is definitely a special occasion! It’s your first day at the academy!”

Grinning wildly at his words you shook in excitement, “ I know! I’m so excited! How do you think it’s gonna be?”, gasping suddenly you thought of something, “wait do you think everybody will like me? What if they don’t?!”, you asked suddenly turning horrified at the thought. Imagine it! Everyone thinking your stupid or annoying or maybe even mean! Ohhh you couldn’t bear it.

“How could they not like you, your so nice y/n-chan!”, he said as if it was the most obvious thing.

Looking at him worriedly you asked, “ are you sure?”

“yeah I’m sure!”

It eased your worries slightly as you nodded, if he says so, “ alright, I believe you.”

There was a pause before Naruto, from his crouched position, held up two ramen cups, the special ramens, shaking them slightly, “ sooo, special ramen?”, he asked grinning, hoping you’d say yes.

You hummed thinking for a moment before smiling down at him, if it made him happy, “yeah why not I could go for some special ramen as you call it”

“yeahah!”

You smiled at his celebration, only Naruto could be this excited about ramen. He closed the cupboard and started getting to work, well work, it honestly just consisted of boiling the water and pouring it in the cup and waiting.

“this is the worst part.”, he grumbled as he frowned at the cup hoping for the noodles to heat up quicker.

“Be patient.”, you playfully scold, “only a couple more minutes”

He moaned miserably as he put his head down om the table, chuckling at his antics finding him unbelievable you opened your ramen cup, the divine smell evading your nose as you swirled your fork around in the broth, checking if the noodles were ready. Fortunately, it seemed like they were as they unstuck from one another and mixed around,
“ I think it’s ready.”, you announce.

Naruto was quick to lift his head and open the lid of his cup, taking a big whiff of the food he licked his lips in hunger, cheering.
“Finally! This smells so good.”, he quickly stabbed his fork into the ramen quickly mixing the noodles around before pulling out a whole bunch of them with his fork, you doing the same.

You both blew softly on them not wanting to burn your tongues, “to a good first day at the academy! “, you toasted lifting your fork of food slightly.
Naruto smiled as he did the same, “ to a good first day at the academy!”

You both bite down on your noodles slurping them up loudly. Humming, you put your hand to your mouth in disbelief. The taste was amazing! It was rich and the noodles were perfect. For a it just being a ramen cup this was good.

“this stuffs good!”, you declared to Naruto after you both swallow your bites.
“yeah this stuff is good, no wonder it was limited edition! It’s not as good as Ichiraku though that’s for sure.”, he agreed avidly.

You both talked about the day ahead as you chowed down on the deliciously simple ramen Naruto had readied for you both. You were happy that Naruto considered your first day special enough to eat his limited edition ramen, it made you feel important.

After you both finally finished, cleaning up you started to get ready to go to school. As you put on your shoes you glanced outside, realizing that you didn’t know the time you decided to ask not wanting to be late,
“hey Naruto what time is it?”

“umm, it’s…9:00”, he yelled from his room, he was adjusting his goggles on his forehead making sure they looked good.

You gasped. How had time passed so fast without you knowing?!

“9:00!! Naruto were gonna be late!”, you anxiously exclaimed. Being late was your worst nightmare! You quickly went into his room and started rushing him, pushing him towards the door. You could not be late to your first day at school. It would make a horrible first impression and then Iruka might even think you don’t really want to be a ninja.

“cmon Naruto, I can’t be late!”

“hey-wait-y/n stopped.”, he swatted at you as you nagged him to go quicker when putting his shoes instead of the absolute snail pace he was going at the moment  “we won’t be late, I promise!”

“go Naruto!”, quickly opening the door you pushed him out, he yelped as he almost lost balance. You closed the door before quickly making your way down the hall to the stairs leading down the apartment.

“Y/n-chann! Wait! I have to lock the apartment!”, Naruto yelled after you as made your way down.

“quickly!”, you hurriedly called back, “I’ll wait at the door!”

True to your word you waited at the door of the apartment building, your heart racing at the thought of late, chewing on your lips you glanced at the stairs waiting for Naruto to pop up. When he did you ripped the door open as you held it open for him,

“cmon, cmon!”, you pushed. Why was he so slow!Ugh you should just grab him and start running!

“y/n, don’t worry”, he started stopping just at the door.
 

No! Why is he stopping! 

“we’ll just jump on top of the buildings that’s one of the fastest ways.”
Jumping?! You don’t know how to jump as high as them, let alone jump roof to roof! What were you gonna do!

“Naruto I don’t know how to jump as high as you guys, and I’ve never jumped roofs!”, you desperately explained, hoping he’d understand and start running.

He looked at you weirdly not really getting it, “ you just use your chakra y/n-chan. Ya know-“, he lifted his foot showing you the bottom of his tabi, “ pushing the chakra from your feet to shoot up high.”

Ugh couldn't he just understand!

You were starting to get desperate as you let of go of the door to instead grip his shoulders, “Naruto”, you tried to say calmly, “ back at my home we didn’t learn about chakra, no body knew how to use it, it’s almost like it didn’t exist.”, you hoped that would be a good enough explanation because that’s truly all you could safely say.
 
It seemed to finally get through his head as he grabbed his face in horror, “ahhh, you can’t actually be serious, you know nothing about chakra?! Now we’re definitely gonna be late”, groaning he seemed to try and think of a solution, “wait- maybe I can carry you on my back to school.”
 

You thought about his suggestion, could he really be able to hold your weight? 

“I dont think your be strong enough Naruto.” You state.

He pouted at your words, “ I can carry you just fine, I’m strong!”

You looked at him incredulously, you weren’t over weight but you weren’t skinny either and considering you were a foot taller you weren’t too confident about him carrying you.

He noticed the skeptical look you gave him, why couldn’t you just believe him, he could tell you were getting stressed by the minute and was just trying to give you a solution. Spinning around he turned his back to you and stuck out his arms towards you. He wanted you to get on his back.

Flushing slightly red you hesitated, you weren’t big on people carrying you.

“Cmon just get on or else we’ll be late!”, he ordered tired of your unwillingness to go along with his plan.

“But-“, you retaliated before sighing, giving up. This almost seemed like the only way. Practically dragging your feet you made your way over to Naruto, who was still crouched waiting for you. Once he saw you were making your way towards him, he smirked triumphantly.

You glare at him, “ Stop smirking or else I’ll change my mind”, you threatened. Wasn’t much of a threat but whatever, it seemed to do the job as he forced his smirk down giggling softly.

Shaking your head you put your hands on his back, you felt him tense under your palms. God this was awkward. You didn’t even have to jump or anything to actually get on his back, your hips reached his waist when you were only standing. Before completely putting your weight on him you peaked past his shoulders, worry was evident on your features, “ are you sure  about this I might be to heavy.”

“Don’t worry y/n-chan”, he reassured.

“OK.. “, you leaned slightly on him and blushed when you felt him grab under your thighs. You shrieked when you felt him pull your legs out from under you, causing you to grip his shoulders and lean completely against his back. He grunted as he adjusted you on his back.

“I’m not too heavy am I?”, you cringed at how your body practically engulfed his.

“nope! I’m strong!”

Well that’s good, he didn’t even sound like he was pushing that much, guess he was pretty strong. You couldn’t even begin to imagine how stupid you guys probably looked at the moment.

“alight let’s go!”, he bolted to apartment building door practically slamming it open before running out into the street earning a couple of weird stares. He stopped, looking at the roof a before turning to you, “ ready?!”
Ready? For what? To jump?! 

“Wha wait naruto-“, you didn’t even get to answer before Naruto suddenly jumped into the air. You breath caught in your throat as the feeling of weightlessness suddenly came over you, wrapping your arms around Naruto neck you shrieked as you made your decent down to the roof. 

Noo this was gonna mess your bangs so bad! And after having to wear those socks all night! Ugh!

You felt Naruto lurched forward as he landed harshly on the orange rough. You braved a look under you and whimpered when you felt Naruto’s feet slip, quickly shutting your eyes and shoving your face into the back of Naruto’s neck. What a horrible moment to look, it had almost seemed like you were gonna fall. God this was so scary!

“its alright y/n-chan.”, he turned to look at you on his shoulder, adjusting you on his back, “open your eyes it’ll be really cool, we won’t fall, I promise. Believe it!”, he pushed himself off the roof jumping onto another one, this time not pausing before hopping to another roof.

After a couple seconds of getting use to the feeling of weightlessness you decided to brave another look, peaking your eyes open. The sight that greeted you was…amazing. Scary but amazing nonetheless. You marveled at the beautiful view you would get of the village every time Naruto jumped high, the sun kissed the roofs of the houses as people walked about on the streets starting their day. How beautiful.

“I told you it would be amazing”, he shouted over the wind that whistled in your ears as he looked over his shoulder at your astonished face., “ and we won’t be late. Look!”, he was right, you could see the academy roofs only a couple houses away.

You kicked your feet excitedly, ignoring that familiar feeling of anxiety pooling in your stomach. Not today anxiety! You were ready to meet new people and become a great ninja.

Hugging Naruto you laughed freely, “ Naruto you’re the best! This was the best idea ever!”, you weren’t lying, you did find him amazing, this was the coolest thing you’ve ever done in your whole life. It was the most freeing. Feeling your hair whipping behind you, your heart racing and the sun on your face. You felt like you were flying.

Naruto glanced at you, your eyes were closed as you relished in the feeling of being free. He wondered if you truly meant what you had just said. That he was the best did you really think that? nobody thought that. Except maybe Iruka, but whatever! You were the first girl to think that.

He smiled at you sheepishly as he laughed along with you, “heck yeah! I am the best!”

“Woooohhhhhwhoooo.”

Sadly though nothing last forever as both you and Naruto arrived at academy. You were almost disappointed to get off him, meaning the end of your freeing joy ride. That disappointment, though it was quickly changed as you realized you were at the academy. 

This was actually happening. You stood in front of the academy staring at it as it set in that all this was truly happening. 

Your old life was being left behind and you were slowly walking into your new one.
 

It was making you kinda emotional. You could feel the familiar burn in the back of your eyes.

“Y/n-chan?”, Naruto asked

Blinking back the forming tears away you turned to him, “yes?”

His eyes analyzed your face, noticing your misty eyes, “are you alright?”

He’s worried, you noticed. Your eyes widened for a fraction of a second before you sniffed smiling at him reassuringly, “yeah I’m just…”, glancing at the academy and the kids entering it, your heart skipped a beat, “this is new and a little scary, ya know.”

“yeah I get it”, he nodded , “but hey! I’ll be there with you so it won’t be that bad! Right?”, he had a big grin on his face as he tried to encourage you.

You stared at him for a moment. He really was Naruto; the bright, smiling and caring character in the anime series, Naruto.
This was real, this was your life now.
Smiling at him you sniffed, wiping away the wetness in your eyes and with it the doubt in your mind,
“Right!”