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

Chapter 15

(Three years ago)

Is anyone going to help untie me?

It was a question that haunted Naruto after Kakashi and her teammates left her tied up to the tree post. She doesn't know how long she has been tied up, but it must have been long enough for her nose to start to itch and for her to feel the rumbles of her stomach.

She was now beginning to regret the stupid prank that she pulled in her third year of the Academy. Mizuki had been so furious with her prank, sending her out of the class and telling her that she wasn't allowed to enter the classroom for the whole day. Maybe if she hadn't clowned around then she would not be in this stupid mess. She would have escaped and be back in that cold apartment of hers.

Naruto inhaled deeply and wiggled her body around, trying so hard to loosen the binds that enclosed her to the tree post. This is a hell lot more harder than just having my hands tied up. She could feel the ropes itching her, stopping her from breathing properly. The whole wiggling thing was just making the whole thing worse.

Why did they forget about me? If this was a joke then it stopped being funny a couple of hours ago.

Kakashi-sensei preached to her about how she went after him by herself, never asking Sakura or Sasuke for help, but could he blame her? He was just showing her that none of them would try to save her. Teammates required trust. Naruto used to trust Sasuke but then he became a bastard. A bigger bastard and Naruto doesn't like bastard.

You don't like how everyone fawns over him even more. Naruto furiously shook her head at the voice that whispered those traitorous thoughts. Why would she dislike it? She just thinks it was just stupid that everyone likes him so much when he couldn't even give them a smile. It might even annoy her how much the teachers praised Sasuke, even though Naruto knows she could be just as good as him.

Blue eyes grew large when she saw the familiar duck-ass hairstyle of her former friend. His black eyes held almost little to no emotions, but Naruto knows the bastard like the back of her hand. He found it funny that she struggled to get herself out of this mess, while he had no problem of getting out of the ropes that she bound him with.

"You can't get yourself out, can you idiot?" Naruto wanted to give him the middle finger at the smugness in his voice. But her body was tied up and she could barely her hands upwards. It was actually quite terrible when she couldn't do all the usual hand gestures to him.

So she settled with a scowl and yelled. "I am not an idiot!"

Naruto wonders why he keeps saying those words to her. He knows she wasn't an idiot like everyone thought she was. The pranks she made and the questions she did choose to answer correctly showcased it, but Sasuke was a bastard that doesn't want to admit that she was better than him. He didn't even think of the possibility that she could catch up to him.

"There is a simple jutsu that allows you to escape, even a baby can do it." When Naruto looks back, she thinks that the bastard was so damn lucky that she was tied up because she would have murdered him for that remark. Arrogant asshole. It escaped her mind about how the two of them used to be so close, used to consider each other as their best friends.

Naruto didn't even know what they were now.

She still doesn't even know when she turned fifteen.

"I don't need your damn help, Bastard!" Naruto kicked the back of the tree post while Sasuke raised his eyebrow, not looking one bit impressed about her behavior. Good because she didn't want to impress him. People who wanted to impress the bastard were fangirls, and Naruto was anything but a fangirl.

She had her pride, god damn it.

"How long have you been to stuck to that tree post?" Sasuke asked. His voice didn't carry any hints of arrogance but Naruto knew he was smug about it. The bastard had always taken pride whenever she needed his help. It had been his habit since they were kids. A habit that Naruto hated because she didn't need his help.