Author's Note
Halla! I'm back and here with the new chapter. I feel like my story is progressing exactly the way I want it right now and I've only had to tweak it a little overall. Not much to say except that my chapter 7...it would have come up sooner but, you know this fanfic website is always having problems. Like literally every week but I appreciate the work the fanfic team is doing so far to try and fix them. Review, Fav, Follow, whatever you like just please, Enjoy!
My mother sneaks a peek at Furea and smiles before going back to picking at her food.
How did this happen?!
It turns out my mother and father coincidentally came home early from work, my father picking up my mother on the way. My mother, who is all-too-familiar with my habit of staying up on the roof for prolonged periods of time, went looking for me, and when she found me with Furea she immediately invited her to stay for dinner.
Now I'm sitting here, watching both my parents talk to Furea, fussing over her every move.
'I need to get out of here', is what I thought once we all sat down at the dinner table.
My mother especially has taken a liking to her, and she keeps looking over at her across the dinner table and smiling. And Furea is just eating it up.
"What was your name again, sweetie?" my mother asks Furea pleasantly.
"Oh, Furea Murasaki," Furea answers back in a sugar-coated voice, adding an innocent smile. "Once again, it's nice to meet you both!"
My mother and father laugh out loud. "The pleasure is all ours," my father says, and I roll my eyes. "Now, I understand that you and my son here just met?"
"Yeah," Furea says. "Actually, the way I met him was pretty odd. We were both late to class and ended up getting detention together, which is when we started talking." Interesting how she's left out the part where she stalked me before all this. How expected, I think sarcastically.
"Detention, hmm?" my mother repeats, narrowing her eyes at me.
Detention that she caused.
I snort. "Funny," I finally say. "I briefly remember you being the one who knocked me out in gym yesterday and almost broke my nose."
"You were the one who did that?" my father asks in disbelief. Something hits my leg hard under the table, and I look over to Furea. She eyes me with anger before looking back over to my parents, the sweet smile returning to her face.
"Yes," she confirms. "My apologies: it was a mistake. Your son came in front of me when I wasn't aware of it and accidentally got hit by my kick. I have no idea what he was thinking." She smirks.
What I was thinking?
You know what I'm thinking now?
That she can go fuck her -
My mother bursts out laughing and I blush in embarrassment. "Knocked out... by a girl?" she says in between laughs. "I could understand if it was a boy, but by a girl? That's just disappointing!"
I look down in shame and my father pats my back. "You should know by now how much your mother makes fun of us men if we show even a small sign of weakness... sorry, Menma," he whispers.
When my mother's laughter dies down, she catches her breath says, "Well, Furea, I congratulate you for that. Sometimes men need to be reminded that we're just as strong," She quickly glances over to my father. "In some cases, maybe even stronger."
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Strawberries (A Naruto Fanfic)
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