Coming of age: The beginning

A small glimpse of Lemillion

"Hey I've been meaning to ask you, but when we first met you called me sunshine as soon as I opened the door. How did you know it was me? How did you even know what I looked like?"

"I have a pic of you. Got it from Mr. Aizawa when I was told about having to take you to the school. And I gotta say, I thought it was pretty gosh darn cute! "

Shika giggled at the text. She and Mirio had been texting on and off everyday since she'd given him her number. However, they hadn't seen each other since. She was fine with that though. There was no rush since they attended the same school.

She's a first year and he's a second year so obviously they wouldn't see each other all that often during school hours, but the school was only so big. They were bound to run into each other eventually. Maybe during lunch?

Plus he's friends with Hadou, and they'd promised to hang out sometime. She was sure he and Tamaki would tag along too.

Shika rolled over in her bed to lie on her stomach and began tapping away again in reply to Mirio.

"I see, but hey you'd better not be over there doing lewd things with my pic! Lol"

"Mwahahaha! Like I'd tell you if I did. "

"Ewww! Mirio-kun! Gross! You really don't, do you?"

"Wouldn't you like to know..."

"Well then, moving on lol! Anyway guess I'll head to bed. Goodnight Mirio-kun ttyl"

"Goodnight Sunshine"

With that, Shika turned off her phone and placed it on her nightstand. It was actually pretty nice chatting with Mirio, she thought as she got up to turn off her bedroom light.

He was really nice and they'd grown a bit close over the past week. Though he did flirt a bit, but it wasn't uncomfortable and she found his corny jokes pretty cute.

She was getting used to being called 'Sunshine' as well, and calling him by his first name was becoming easier with each message they exchanged. Needless to say, he'd helped the week fly by and before either of them realized, it was already Sunday night.

Her heart pounded at the thought. Tomorrow would be her first day as a freshman in high school- her first day at UA. She was both nervous and excited. What would it be like? Would she get along with her classmates? Would she make any new friends?

That last question sent her eyes wandering over to the photos of her friends back home. She couldn't really see their faces clearly in the darkness of the room, but she'd looked at their pictures so many times that she already had them memorized.

Unsurprisingly, all of her friends in Konoha were also Shikamaru's friends. He'd been the one to introduce them, but they were all really good to her despite that. And they never seemed to mind her being a little younger than them either.

Even after her breakup with Shikamaru, none of their friends treated her differently. She'd been blessed to have had such great friends like them over the years. That's why guilt was eating away at her; she hadn't contacted any of them since the second day she arrived in Musutafu.

With that realization in mind, she made a mental note to call them all tomorrow after school. That way they'd have lots to talk about.

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Shika wasn't sure just when she'd fallen asleep last night, but what she was sure of was the fact that she hadn't had nearly enough. Her mind raced a thousand miles a minute the night before worrying about how things would go today, so she hadn't really been able to sleep.