Aiko (Naruto/Boruto Fanfic)

Chapter 6 Shiori

A week had passed since arriving at the orphanage. I hadn't completely healed yet but my legs was a lot better so I could walk, but in a slow pace.

"Shiori! You got a lunchbox again!" Gina came in with the same lunchbox that I've been receiving since I started to live in that shelter.

I thanked her and took the lunchbox. It contained rice with chicken curry. I had pondered a bit who would possibly waste money and time to give me food. It wasn't Hitoshi because he doesn't know how to cook, Talia knows basic cooking but I knew she didn't make delicious food like the one I received, Aki doesn't even have time to cook because of his work, Michi has no skills in cooking either. I really couldn't figure out who it could be.

"Can I have some?" I never shared the food I got, but since I got to know little Gina, I changed my mind.

Gina was a very young child, she was new to the orphanage when I arrived back from the exam and the hospital moved me back to my old "home"

Gina was confused why an older girl was laying injured in the other bed on the other side of the room. She was very shy. Gina could barely look at me if I looked back or caught her staring. It didn't take too long for her to start approaching me. It started with that she shared candy with me,. Every time she got the chance, she would give me candy. I didn't want to be rude towards the kid so I accepted her candies. I think that made her more confident to talk to me. It ended up that she liked my company, she even moved to my bed if she got a nightmare.

We finished eating the food and I threw the lunchbox in to the trash can.

I laid down on the bed again, not knowing what to do. I couldn't really escape the orphanage just yet. I could go outside but didn't really had a reason because I would end up returning to the building anyways. I couldn't really hang out with the others at the orphanage, some of them saw me as a traitor for leaving them. It was safer to stay in the room, even if it was boring.

I looked at the small drawing pad that Gina had given me a couple of days ago. I already had drawn on every page in it. She claimed that she couldn't find anymore drawing pads for us so she had started to draw small random doodles on our room's wall. When the midwife saw the doodles, they immediately scolded Gina for ruining the walls, she then came to cry in my shoulder after they were done scolding her.

"Shiori, can we go to the park?" I didn't understand why she wanted me to follow her to the park all of a sudden. I didn't really play with her anyways, I was just a boring person watching over her.

I slowly sat up on the bed and then proceeded to follow her.

"I'm taking Gina to the park"

"Alright. When it's seven o'clock, then you have to back!"

"Sure" the midwife just sighed and let us go.

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People still looked weirdly at me when I had made it to the park with Gina. It was still some bloodstain on the bandage but it was much worse before.

Gina was making sand castle at the sand box while I sat and relax on a bench near by.

"Look at my castle, Shiori!" She had made the small castle of the form of a sand bucket, she also had used small rocks as a decoration for her sand castle. I told her it was very pretty and she gave me a bright smile.

"Hey! Who said you could build castle on our territory?"  two other kids that were bigger than Gina, approached her and started mocking her. They even destroyed her castle by stomping it!

"We gonna show you what happens when you build castle without asking us!" I tried to step in but my pain hindered me from doing any quick movement, luckily, someone stepped in for me.