Naruto's Hero Academia

#15 'Never' Alone

Tsunade silently watched her son as he fumbled his backpack over his shoulder, his eyes seemed drained, devoid of most emotion while he stared at the mirror in his room, she had gone up to check on him and was silently staring at him with worry. Naruto's eyes roamed and met hers and gave her a confused look. "What is it." Tsunade blinked and she frowned deepened. "I'm worried about you, you seem down." Naruto rolled his eyes as he turned around and stared her down. "It's the same thing, different day." He strolled right past her making the woman sigh.

"What did he do then?" Naruto stopped in the middle of the stairs and looked up at his adopted mother with a glare. "Does it matter?" Tsunade scoffed as she walked after him when he continued his trek down the stairs. "Yes, it does matter, because if you are making Izuku out to be the bad guy then god forbid." Naruto laughed out bitterly. "Of course you're taking his side." Tsunade rolled her eyes at that. "It's called playing devil's advocate, I don't know what he did but I know he wouldn't do anything to harm you."

Naruto's eyes flashed red as he turned around and glared at her. "THEN WHY DID HE FORGIVE THAT BASTARD!" Tsunade stopped her steps and stared at the blood-red eyes in surprise. "HE DIDN'T DESERVE ANY FORGIVENESS FOR EVERYTHING HE DONE AND HE WENT BACK TO HIM!" Naruto took a shaky breath, he barely had taken one when he started yelling and now he was shaking. "I was the one... I-I was the one!" Tsunade took a step forward and slowly wrapped her arms around him gently. "You're talking about that Bakugo boy, aren't you..."

She had heard a lot from Izuku and Naruto about the blond explosive boy, even hearing how bad it got with Izuku and Katsuki to the point where Naruto, in his words 'wanted to rip his head off.' and she had to agree, he was defiantly not the most pleasant person on the planet... but he wasn't a villain... he wanted to be a hero... She had seen Izuku's sad eyes when he had told her how they used to be close... very close.

She had also heard Aizawa's distaste to the boy's attitude but it was shoved down by the fact the boy made excellent marks on all his tests and his drive to become a hero, even if it was a little unorthodox was something that would never break and would probably make him the number one if he goes at the pace he was heading.

"I d-don't un-understand..." the stutter made it a little hard to understand the blond. Pulling him away Tsunade looked him dead straight in the eyes and said words that made Naruto go blank... "Izuku is not Sasuke." Silently looking down at his hands at the name his mind went back to that time...

"Sasuke! You're eyes!" A young Naruto shouted in surprise as a young black-haired boy had been playing on top of a slide and fell down... Naruto had clambered after him and when the boy opened his eyes, they had morphed from being pure black to a red iris, and in that iris were three tomoes spinning slowly around his pupil. "They look so cool!" Sasuke blinked his eyes as he and Naruto went to the park bathroom where Sasuke got to look in the mirror to see the red eyes.

"Just like my brothers!" Sasuke had been much more monotone unless it was about his family, but this was the rare time Naruto got to see the boy smile so brightly. "Now we wait for yours!" Now we wait for yours... Now We wait for yours... Naruto flinched at the thought as Tsunade stared at him in the eyes. "Izuku is more like you and you know it... you were both quirkless and people are harsher than ever since quirks came around." Naruto closed his eyes out of spite as another memory came along...

"Momma... Does Sasuke hate me..." Red hair fell in front of Naruto's face as a gentle hand brushed against his head. "There are people who discriminate against people like us Naruto... young and old." Looking up his lips wobbled into a sad frown as tears flowed. "I don't want to be alone..." His mother had gently pressed her hand against his cheek and she smiled fondly. "Oh sweetie, you'll never be alone when I'm around. You also like your dad and Tsunade-san right?"