The guardian chronicles : Nirvana (Todoroki Shoto x Uzumaki Naruto)

Chapter 4

"You know when most kids get their letters from their first choice, the last thing they plan to do is work their asses off."

Naruto put down the dirty plates and swirled her head at her boss. The woman held up the letter from Yuuei High with one hand while her other hand lay on her hips. A large frown played on her lips, her brown eyes looked at her with so much concern and confusion.

It almost touched her heart.

"Did you go through my stuff? Isn't this consider an invasion of privacy?" Naruto grumbled, dashing towards the young woman. Her white hands tried to reach up for the letter, only for the woman to stretch her hand even higher. Naruto raised her eyebrow at her boss, who knitted her eyebrows together and tilted her head.

"Why haven't you open it? I found it extremely weird that you haven't even talked about whether or not Yuuei High accepted you." Her boss darted her eyes to the customers behind the door. Their cheerful voices could even be heard from even behind the kitchen. "The kids coming in here are ether talking about their new high schools or about their colleges. They are not here working their asses off."

"They don't have to pay the bills and rent because they have parents." The smile on the woman's face faded at her words and Naruto took it as an opportunity to snatch her letter back. She stuffed the letter back into the backpack before twisting her body to snap at her boss for taking her things.

She froze at the sight in front of her.

The smile that always played on the woman's face didn't radiate with happiness like it always did. Sadness poured out of the smile as brown eyes locked onto her. Naruto's throat tightened at the sight of the moistness in the woman's eyes.

"I keep forgetting you aren't like the other kids that works for me or the customers that comes into this cafe," her boss admitted. "It always escapes my mind that you are struggling to get by with things. Most kids will complain about how they don't have parents but not once did you ever complain about it."

Naruto stared out at the window, lips pressed into a tight smile at the sight of the smiling parents with their kids. "I can't complain or miss something that I never had, can I?"

No one seemed to understand how much she missed her parents.

You didn't even know your parents.

The cruel words spoken by Sasuke echoed in her ear as it always did whenever she thought of the family that was so cruelly taken away from her. It was so stupid of her to believe he could understand some depth of her pain. So stupid of her to think that maybe he did give a shit about her.

She was thankful of one thing about Sasuke's cruel words: it taught her that even her own fellow orphans could turn against her.

"You didn't even have any foster parents?" Naruto kept quiet and this only fuelled her boss to fire more questions at her. "Didn't your parents have any relatives to take you in? Maybe friends? They couldn't possibly decide to just leave a child to fend for herself."

Naruto could only shrug and offer a smile to her distressed boss. What was there for her to say? She didn't know anything about her parents, not even what their names were. She did know from the whispers in the orphanage that she hadn't always been brought up there. The matron made it clear to her about how grateful she should be to her for letting her be raised with the other kids.

She didn't know what happened to the previous caretaker, but Naruto would like to think that maybe her previous caretaker was a kind old person like the Hokage had been to her.

But she doubted the previous caretaker had been kind to her, almost everyone in Konoha treated her with hate and rudeness. They only seemed to care for her whenever they wanted something from her. Like a fool, Naruto never even noticed it.