Naruto: The Uchiha Prodigy by Rifat

Chapter 10: Life With A New Resolve

Naruto's House, Uchiha Clan Compound, Konohagakure no Sato.

The morning was perfect.

For some reason, the night had become much more colder. This made the warm and fuzzy sanctuary of the bed feel all the more welcoming. Slowly blue eyes opened up. The sheets of the bed were comforting and blissful. The sun's rays had finally managed to break in through the window and paint the room with it's own choice of color, albeit they were still a bit faint. Naruto Uchiha felt that the entire world was finally paying him back for the things that were taken from him.

His blue eyes had finally regained their original shine back. A bright and electric color that radiated a certain kindness, a trait he had nearly abandoned a few months ago. However, all of that had changed now. He was wearing a simple, short sleeved blue t-shirt and black pants. These were the same clothes that he had worn last night after he went out to see Kasumi, who was still distraught. He was idly wondering if it was all a dream. All the events that happened yesterday. Not to mention, last night.

'Did it really happen? Did I finally tell Kasumi how I feel? Did we truly kiss?'

All those thoughts were washed away as he felt something against his body. He thought it was his pillow that had been dragged towards his frame, but he was wrong in every sense of the word. Looking down a bit, he was greeted with a sight that he had longed for. A sight so rare and precious to him, that not even his mother's Tsukuyomi could ever show him.

A familiar mop of blonde hair was seen resting near the crook of his neck. He felt the sweet smell of strawberry coming into his nose, and Naruto assumed that the fragrance must've come from the person who was fitted against his body. Two slender arms had been wrapped around Naruto's waist. One of his arms had been wrapped around her waist and the other was at the back of her head, slowly caressing it. He could feel her body leaned up against his, and down below he felt his groin becoming more impatient. But Naruto would control his own fleshly desires. At his feet he felt some tickling sensations. This was strange for him, as he never remembered being ticklish. But now, he could feel the soft toes of the girl making circles around his leg. He smiled and kissed her forehead.

Then Kasumi Uzumaki awoke. Her deep violet eyes looked up to meet twin blue orbs, which to her seemed brighter than ever. She was lost in them, they seemed like a vast ocean that held so much warmth in them. She then looked down below and saw that she was still wearing clothes from last night. Her black shirt and red pants were still there, despite her initial thoughts that something else had gone down. However, even before that she knew that Naruto would never do such a thing. Not without her consent anyway. Looking away from his eyes she focused on his face. She was loving the gentle way he was currently caressing her hair. She was also smiling. She was idly pondering how her life had changed in the last two months.

Normally one would be crazy if a simple relationship between two teens went from being friends to sharing the same bed. That would be the reasonable conclusion one could come to in a normal world. Alas, therein lies the problem. This was not a normal world. This was a world, where the strong live and the weak perish. Only winners, weaklings generally have no place where nearly everyone is the human medium of proficient killing. These two teens were different even in this world. One had never known love in any sort of way in her life, the other had lost everything he had. Both of them had found solace in each other. A solace that evolved into comfort. The comfort later became a thread tied them together. They were each other's lifelines at the moment.

"Ohayo... Sumi chan." Naruto said as softly as he could, the smile was there as it had been since he looked down at her resting form.

"Ohayo... Naru kun." Kasumi replied. Like our raven haired protagonist, she too had wondered whether it was all a dream. Whether all this happening right now is still a dream that she is stuck in. All the thoughts that she housed in her mind was cast away as she felt a pair of lips slowly pressing themselves on top of hers.