Aiko (Naruto/Boruto Fanfic)

Chapter 5 Aiko

The match had to be interrupted for a while. Medic-ninjas took Shiori back to the hospital. I couldn't do anything but whatch them carry away Shiori's half dead body. After they carried her away, I realized Shiori's tantō sword was stuck on the floor in front of me, and the holster wish they dropped while carrying away Shiori, was closely beside the blade.

I stood up slowly, grabbed the tantō sword and examined it. I realized that there was a seal on the hilt. 

"Shiori.. you saved me again..." I thought about when Shiori saved me the first time.

My long hair was stuck under a giant boulder so I couldn't move. The reason why I ended up in that situation was because Hitoshi had transformed himself in to an animal, a bird. Little Aiko wanted to chase that bird and ended up in the deepest part of the mountain, a dead end. Hitoshi then transformed back to human and made the boulders fall down on me, I barely made it but one boulder caught my hair. The trio, Shiori, Talia and Hitoshi stood there and laughed at me and then they left me.

I screamed for hours for help but no one came for me. I cried because I was afraid that no one would come and find me. When the night came, Shiori came back and she held a kunai. I started to cry even more as I thought she would hurt me. As she got closer I screamed even more.

She said "I'm so sorry.." and cut my hair so I was free. I felt how short my hair was. Before I could thank Shiori, she had disappeared.

"She was a bit stupid to appear in front like that" I heard Omi say. I looked up to her with hatred in my eyes.

"She was already injured, and now she even made it worse for herself. What an idiot"

"Don't you dare... Call her idiot.." My voice was shaky but I could still make out words.

"Why? What she did was very stupid"

"Shut up!" I yelled.

"It's not stupid to protect a friend! Someone who would ignore their friend is an idiot!" Omi looked shocked at me, but I could see a faint smile on her lips.

After the medic-nin and the Jōnin commanders cleaned up, then it was back to action. Me and Omi stood again in the same position as all the other ones before starting a battle.

"We're sorry for the interruption! We will now continue the battle!" I held the tantō sword tightly as I stared at Omi, what she had done was unforgivable!

"And begin!" I dashed to her without hesitation, trying to cut her but she dodged it by bending backwards because I cut sideways. She kicked my arm so I dropped the tantō sword. Omi tried to kick me in the belly but I blocked it. I knew she always tried to hit the upper body area.

It was still a hard kick so it made me move backwards. She took the tantō from the floor and made a coral knife with her other hand. I was in a huge disadvantage.

She ran towards me but I threw shurikens at her so she had to block them, it gave me time to dash towards her without her noticing, so I kicked her on the side so she lost the grip of the tantō sword so I took it back. As I got a firm grip on the weapon, I tried cut her on the side but she blocked me with her coral knife.

"Why is she important to you? Your other "friends" says that you're wasting time on a hopeless person" I got more pissed that she tried to be Mr. Know it all.

"My real friends, they respect my decision to "waste" my time on Shiori. The others are jealous strangers that doesn't understand my reasons!" I could hear faint gasps from the shinobis from my village.

"And why she is important is my reason alone and no one is allowed to tell me what's worth and what's not, because to me, it's worth caring for her!" I pushed myself forward on our semi fencing so Omi had to withdraw and back away from me.