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

Chapter 60

Various newspaper were scattered around the table with the faces of the various missing children blasted for the whole world to see. On the top of the newspapers were various coffee cups alongside a piece of paper that was filled with lists of names. Naruto sipped her coffee, wrinkling her nose as the bitter taste of the coffee burned her throat, while Gaara and his siblings looked down at the list.

"Temari and Kankuro, did you find anything when you went to the scene?" Naruto leaned forward and stared at the two Suna shinobi. She nibbled her bottom lip and balled her hand into a tight fist when the older Suna shinobi glanced at each other.

Temari sighed and shook her head. "We found nothing."

Naruto slumped her shoulders and pressed her hands against her forehead, blue eyes closed tightly. Her throat burned like she swallowed one of Sasuke's fireballs and god did her throat hurt. This should never be a surprised but a part of her clung to the hope that they did have a clue. Something that could have given them a better clue on which village took the children.

The door to the café swung opened and the four teens swirled their heads around. Blue eyes widened when she caught sight of Todoroki walking into the café with an older white-haired boy walking with him. Todoroki blinked and knitted his eyebrows, mismatch eyes flashed with concern at the sight of her. Naruto inhaled and forced herself to smile at him, hoping and praying that he wouldn't question her.

Temari flushed a light shade of red at the sight of Todoroki, almost reminding Naruto of the time that the woman flushed a light shade of pink at the sight of Sasuke. Naruto pressed her lips together, eyebrows knitted and the blonde felt a strange swirl of emotions in her stomach. I really don't know what this feeling is. She rubbed her chin, tilted her head to the side and locked eyes on Todoroki.

This feeling will fade away.

It always did.

The white-haired boy stopped talking, knitted his eyebrow and grey eyes glinted with amusement at the sight of her. The older boy nudged Todoroki, whispered a few words and to Naruto's amusement, Todoroki looked away with a tiny frown playing on his lips. Gaara flickered his eyes from Todoroki to her, teal eyes flashing with curiosity.

"He is the boy from Friday, isn't he?" Gaara asked, flickering his eyes to Todoroki.

Naruto nodded. "Yeah, Todoroki."

"I remember him. He is the guy with the Ice and Fire Kekkei Genkei," Kankuro commented, snapping his fingers. He looked at the mismatch boy with a tilted head before flickering his eyes at her. She looked away from him and blinked when the white-haired boy wrapped his hand around Todoroki's hand, dragging him towards them. "That guy was really powerful."

Her friend looked almost pain to be dragged here as the white-haired boy smiled widely, looking almost like a cat that seemed ready to pounce on them. His grey eyes flashed with curiosity as it darted from her to Gaara while Todoroki just looked ready to yank his hand from his brother's hand. His mismatch eyes flashed apologetically at her, almost telling her that he had an idea that he shouldn't be near them right now.

She frowned and flickered her eyes to the newspaper scattered on the table. With a tight smile playing on her lips, Naruto shoved the newspaper and the notebook into her bag. If Todoroki saw the newspaper and notebooks then it would bring out a lot of questions. He might be terrible when it comes to social situations but Todoroki is smart. Too smart if you asked her.

"My baby brother told me a lot about you!" Naruto blinked when the white-haired boy flashed them a smile. He blinked and snapped his fingers as if he just realized that she didn't know him. "I'm Natsuo."