The Silent Prodigy of The Leaf

Unexpected Discoveries

The morning sun shined brightly through the window, waking me up in the process. When I woke up, I saw Fu walking around my bookshelves, viewing each of them with curiosity in her eyes. I wanted to ask her if she likes reading, but I was still tired from the ordeal yesterday after fighting her, and there were lots of questions I still needed to ask her. My face was still face-planted into my book, and I knew I needed to get up to go to the academy to be assigned to my new team, but I just wanted to stay in a rest today. Even thoughts were rushing into my head, well, mainly from Kurama and Sukuna. They were talking to me about something about there being a tailed beast in Fu and told me to be careful as we wouldn't know when she would go on a rampage again. I wanted to give a response, but I was too tired to. The multiple blasts of tailed beast bombs she blasted at me didn't damage the aftershock, and the impacts hurt me a lot all over, causing my whole body externally and internally to ache. With my bones and muscles now aching even more. If I didn't use my Lucifer Armory at that moment right now, I would be dead. For a small person, she sure is strong, no, she is beyond strong. She was a straight-up menace. I wouldn't have been able to defeat her in all honesty if she was at full power and it was obvious to me she had been fighting for who knows how long with the amount of dead bodies and skeletons that lay in the cave. It could've been days if not weeks. She sure is a menace. A menace, but in truth, just a child trying her best to live and find joy.

While I was thinking to myself, she suddenly spoke, "You sure have lots of books for a kid. You must be pretty lonely and have lots of time on your hands to have collected this much stuff."

I told her but now my face was no longer planted into the book I turned my face towards her while it was still on the book and replied, "I didn't collect all of them those are all my parent's stuff, and my clan's information and some I collected on my own. Also yes for your information I am very lonely."

She said with a tone trying to comfort me knowing I was trying to hide something behind my words, "I was pretty lonely too growing up and I had so much time to myself that I didn't know what to do with all that free time."

Still in the same position, I asked, "I see. Well then, what did you do with your free time?"

She said with a forced smile, "I did nothing. I just lived in silence."

"Well, want to do something later today then?" I asked as I sat up on the chair.

"Like what?" she asked me with curiosity in her eyes once again.

"I don't know. All I ever did was read, write, and study in my free time." I said.

She giggled a bit and told me, "You are more lonely than I am."

I asked her what she meant by me being more lonely than her.

This time, her face turned towards me away from the books, and said, "You couldn't bear the silence and the darkness in the silence."

She was right. I couldn't live in silence. The silence was what was killing me, just like how the noises glares, and words from the outside were killing me. I was tormented by both worlds. That I wished I was dead or at the very least never existed. She started to notice my radiant blue eyes darkening. She didn't say anything. She just kept looking at me. Not in a judgemental way but more in a way of I understand you, but I don't know what to say or how to say it sort of way. I stood up and told her I was going to be late and headed off to the Ninja Academy to be assigned to my new team as my clone did pass the exams with no issue.

Once I got there, I was told by Iruka-Sensei that I would not wait in class like everyone else but was told to go directly to the Hokage as he had something else planned for me. When I got to his office, he told me to make myself comfortable, so I did.