Just stories I came up with

Naruto x WOF pt. 6

Chapter 6

The girl climbed out of the river from where she had spent the night, the dawn air cold and uninviting as the girl shivered. She thought about going back to the 'warm' lake and falling back asleep, but that would only make it harder to get out without being seen. So as the village slowly woke up—and her clothes took their time drying—she wandered Konoha, finding what was equivalent to a copper coin in their currency and examining it.

It was a coin with something in Japanese written on it. Pulling out dried jerky from her bag, she nibbled on it. Pocketing the coin and looking at the shops. Guessing to the best of her ability, the girl assumed that the shop to her left was a convenience store by the varied products she could see through the windows. The store on her right she guessed as a hairstyling shop based on the picture on the sign. Walking further under the fully risen sun, Elora saw someone unlocking large double doors revealing books and scrolls piled on even more books and a few scrolls.

'That's a library!' Doing all she could to not squeal, the girl held her breath, and checking that her cloak was fully dry, she walked away. What did you think? She was going to just walk in? Heck no! Who knows how Konoha worked with their library system? No way she was just going to walk into a random library, at least until she was sure she was allowed to. Just as she turned to walk away, she heard something. Footsteps—how had she missed them? She smelled a familiar scent, one of someone who had interrogated her.

"Not you again." Sasuke groaned, tilting his head back to show his annoyance to the sky. Glad to know the annoyance was mutual. "What are you doing here?"

"Is that library a..." Elora frowned, searching for the words. Shame she didn't know the word for public. "Is that library... for everyone?"

Sasuke furrowed his brow. "Yes. Can't you read? It's on the sign." Sasuke stared at Elora. Elora blinked at him innocently through the shadow covering her eyes. A moment of silence stretched between the two.

"You can't read, can you?"

"Sort of."

Sasuke didn't care to point out how that didn't make sense. "Fine, but don't bother me." Sasuke slouched into the building, the cloaked girl following timidly. Stopping at the children's section, he grabbed a book. Shoving it in the girl's arms, he shoved her in the direction of a table and disappeared into another aisle.

Presumably.

Probably.

Elora sat at the table and opened the book. It had a lot of pictures and few characters, none of which she understood. The girl looked for any familiar characters from when she began learning Japanese in the height of her weeb phase. The cloaked girl stared at the parchment until the characters started dancing. Elora put her head down.

The cloaked figure shook her head to get whoever was shaking her to stop, "Stop it." She growled from underneath her hood.

"Are you awake now? It's dangerous to fall asleep in a public place." As it turned out, luck had turned against the girl once again as Sakumo Hatake stood next to her smiling. He pointed at the book under her arm. "Do you need help?"

Deciding to swallow any pride she had, she nodded. 'I do need the help. Wait, again! Oh, come on! Can I please get a break!?' Sakumo sat down across from the girl.

"Can I see the book?" Sukomo asked, motioning to the thin picture book. He looked down at the cover and chuckled slightly. "What's your name?"

"Elora," she answered. The name slipped from her tongue easily, but it was odd to have to say it often. Before she'd come back to her home—her old room flashed before her, and she blinked it away—she'd only told a few her actual name, even the Nightwings—using aliases most of the time. It felt wrong to use her name in Phrryia.

Sukomo glanced up at her, and Elora gazed at him lazily. Sukomo's eyes narrowed almost imperceptibly. "Nice name."

"Thanks." Elora nodded slightly.

"Do you know how to read at all?" Sukomo asked.

"Well, I mean," Elora paused. She didn't know the word for dialects or languages, if the Narutoverse even had a word for that. "Sort of." She settled on.

Sukomo flipped the book over, so it was facing Elora. Pointing to the characters in the book, Sukomo started explaining the basics. "These are characters, in Hiragana. There are three alphabets with writing: Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Most children's books are in Hiragana, so that's where you're going to start. This character means... yu." He continued explaining to Elora the basics until the early afternoon. Until she could read some characters and a few words in Hiragana. Sasuke popped up now and again but disappeared quickly each time.

"I think I need to go now." Sukomo said after Elora read her first sentence by herself. "It was fun to teach you! Come by the library whenever you have the chance; either I'm here or my son is. We'll help teach you."

"Thank you for teach me." Elora nodded. Sukomo chuckled lightly.

"Of course. Goodbye then." And Sukomo left.

"You left me." Elora stated. 'Ew, I sound like a pick-me girl.' Elora wrinkled her nose before staring at the Uchiha. "Apologize."

"No." Sasuke seemed to glide out the library doors.

Elora huffed but left it alone, turning back into the library and sitting at the table to write down the characters she'd learned and their sounds in English before moving on to writing words. She sat down, resting for a bit with her eyes closed while sensing the chakra around her. She'd need to get good at that. Putting her leather-bound book back and looking for the manga section. The hooded girl looked at the pictures; the art styles were pretty, but nothing she wanted in her art currently. She put the book back and left.

The girl let her feet lead her wherever, not processing anything, and was surprised when she found herself near a park. The same kid she'd helped the other day was playing there, and she couldn't sense Tide anywhere. A small mercy, she wasn't quite ready to reveal herself yet.

The hooded girl turned from the kids before one of them screamed. Elora turned and ran to the kids. One of them was hitting another kid with fists, the sounds managing to reach her where she stood. Elora ran to the kids, grabbing the kid's wrist and prying him off the other. She dropped him on the ground and glanced at both kids' questions popping up one after another. The moms arrived.

"Have Ezekiel apologize!" The mom of the child that was getting hit yelled at another. A brunette tugged the marked kid away from the yelling match before staring at her, eyes wide. Elora met her eyes and glanced in the direction of the kid who had started hitting the other. The brunette's eyes squinted before widening when she looked at the cloaked girl for confirmation the girl was gone. It was funny; she swore she should know who the girl is. But for now it's time to calm the mothers down.

Elora jumped through the trees, wincing as a branch got stuck in her hair. In her hair. Why did that feel like it mattered– fudge. The girl stopped so suddenly she face-planted out of the tree. In. Her. Hair. Her. Silver. Freaking. Hatake. Hair. Her. Markings. In. Plain. View.

Her.

Most.

Recognizable.

Features.

She groaned as she felt chakra approach. Still lying on the grassy floor, she heard a small 'Elora.' She screamed internally. 'How did he show up this fast?' She wondered in the split second it took her to sit up.

"Heh heh. Hi?" Elora managed to say before she was crushed in a hug.

Almost literally.