A virus and hope

Memories

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"Can you please tell me why you crashed into me doing 50 miles an hour?" Yuna asked, actually helping me up not to pound me back into the ground. I gasped and started to frantically look around.

"Naruto?" Yuna asked. I punched the ground in frustration.

"Damn it! It got away!" I yelled. She furrowed her brown eyebrows at me and cocked her head to the side.

"What got away?" Sasuke answered before me.

"The virus." Yuna's lush forest green eyes went wide and she frantically looked around the area.

"The virus went through here!?" I nodded at her. She must have not seen it, I suppose I shocked her saying that.

"Don't worry though, it's not here anymore and I would totally have protected you if it attacked!" I pointed at myself with my thumb. She let out a light hearted giggle, I looked down so she couldn't see my heated face.

"Um, Naruto?" Yuna asked nervously. I looked up.

"Yeah?" I cocked my head to the side as well and waited of her to speak.

"Do you, and the other ninja, want to spend tomorrow with me and Asami?" I stared at her, not knowing what to say. I think Sakura tried to bring me back into the world of reality but my mind was stuck on what she just said. Where had I heard that line before? I know someone has already said that to me but where? When!?

'Do you want to spend tomorrow with me?'

That line spoken in a little girls voice. A little girl said that to me a long time ago.

"Naruto!" Sakura yelled at me from the right. I snapped out of my day dream and began to stutter a bit.

"I-um-uh-don't-uh-" I had no idea what to say. Sakura put her slender hand over my mouth.

"Sorry, Yuna, as much as we would love to spend our time with a thief but we have a meeting to go to. With a boy called Simon." She said sweetly, does she even know how rude that is? Yuna looked down, disappointed.

"Oh, okay." She said quietly, suddenly finding her feet the most interesting thing in the world. Wait, her feet, they were bare! And covered in mud and cuts, so are her legs. Oh no! Damn my curiosity!

"Hey, where do you live exactly?" I asked. She looked up to me with shining eyes, a smile returning to her face. Wow, she has a pretty smile....wait, a WHAT?! Do not be thinking like that Uzumaki! Keep your head down.

"I live in the forest! All around you! The trees are my bed and the bushes are my cushions, the sky is the ceiling and the earth in the carpet." I gasped as I looked around, only now seeing how beautiful the wood is. Sounds came from each direction and no two trees were the same. the grass was a green as mint and the bark trees were as brown as Yuna's hair, like chocolate. Yuna continued.

"The shore at the bottom of the cliff is my playground and the cliff at the top of the shore is my window. That or it's where I met Asami for the first time." I gasped even louder and spun around to look at Asami, who under so many eyes started blushing.

"Really, you two first met at the cliffs?" Sasuke asked, with only half enthusiasm I might add. Asami looked at him. Making him in turn flush.

"Yes, that is where our friendship first bloomed. Like a flower at spring." She spoke softly, pulling out the words just enough to make it seem graceful. I think there may be something going on between them, I thought to myself.

"So, will I see you again?" Yuna asked as we were about to depart into the wood village again, this time WITHOUT the help of the brunette prankster. I thought about it a little.

"You can count on it! I'll come and visit you the day after tomorrow 'Kay?!" I shouted with excitement. She cheered and fist pumped the air.

"Boosh! I shall be waiting for you, knuckle head!" I gave her a quick wave before jumping into the large hole in the ground, leaving the two wood villagers up on the surface.

I watched as Naruto gave Yuna a quick wave and jumping in the entrance. I turned to her and rested a hand on her tanned shoulder.

"'S okay Asami, I don't mind them." She whispered quietly as her once joy filled face drooped into despair. I hugged her tightly.

"Yuna, you are my best and only friend and I will protect you with my life. They will never find out who you are." I reassured her. She pushed me away slowly and shook her head, smiling ever so sadly.

"The correct term is they will never find out WHAT I am..." Her figure split a little and glowed a blue in the centre. She took a step back and prepared herself to run off into her refuge.

"Take care Asami. Good night and stars guide you to sleep." She said before disappearing entirely.

That night, when I it back to the dormitory I had to share, I dreamed off the first time I saw Yuna. we were just little children back then...

'I walked along the outskirts of the forest, picking up grass pieces with a stick. I had to be extra careful, mummy said there was a monster out here and if I saw it I had to go home. I reached a rocky place that had a steep drop. There was something out by the edge. I couldn't see it so I crept closer, clutching the stick to me like it were my sword, and dropping low so I couldn't be seen.

It was a girl, like me, with brown knotty hair and stitched up clothes. Her toes were right over the edge. She was pretty, but mummy said I was also pretty, I wonder which is prettier? I had no time for such questions because I noticed something odd. My mummy told me that every person on earth had a sparkle in their eyes but she had no such sparkle. Her eyes were as blank as a piece of paper, block green. She started singing to herself.

"From the brook

Down the hill.

I wait for her

Quiet and still."

The tune was so sad that I started to tear up. The sad little girl continued.

"And when she comes

From deep where she stays

I play with her

For days and days."

I come out off my spot and walked towards her, When I was right behind her I gave her a hug. The girl instantly tensed up and stopped any noise coming out from her mouth. I buried my teary face into her wood brown messy hair.

"Why do you sing a tune so sad? Singing is supposed to be happy." I chocked out. The girl didn't speak but she loosened up a bit.

"The lyrics are for friends but you sing it like you have none." This time the girl spoke.

"That's because I don't have any friends." She stated plainly. I turned her around and stared into her dull eyes.

"Well I want to change that! I can be your friend!" I shouted at her determined. She looked confused at me.

"Do you mean that?" I nodded at her. She gave me a tiny, wisp of a smile and a little light came into her eyes. I grinned at her and took a step back to give her some personal space.

"What's your name then?" I asked her. She shrugged

"don't have one." She said. I puzzled over this, drumming my fingers over my lips. I had an idea

"Okay! Then I'll call you Yuna! I think it's a pretty name!" She nodded and tilted her head a little.

"What's your name then?" I took her hand and lead her away from the cliff edge.

"Asami! Asami Sonozaki!" '