Naru: Misty Eyes (A Naruto Fanfic) [Complete]

Chapter Eleven: You're Not Weasel-nii

"Who're you?" Someone asked after Naru had wandered out of Hokage Tower. She had ended up at one of the training grounds, not totally sure which one, and just sat down.

"Who're you?" Naru asked in response. The person came closer, standing a few feet away.

"I asked first." They sounded like a boy, but Naru couldn't determine their age. Not a child exactly but not grown up either. Perhaps a teenager then?

"I suppose you did," Naru conceded. "I'm Naru Senshi."

"Senshi? I don't know any families here by that name."

"Still doesn't tell me who you are." Naru had taken the name the day Ryuu and Kohaku adopted her. She had no particular attachment to her former surname. It was just a name, a connection to people she never knew. Senshi tied her to her family, to her parents and her brother. She didn't bother explaining that to the other person though.

"Sasuke Uchiha," the other person said. "Now why don't you run along? The training ground is no place for children."

"Please. How old are you anyway?"

"... Twelve."

"Then you're the same age as me. Why don't you run along then?"

"Tch." 

That sound made Naru pause. It made Sasuke sound like someone else, someone she actually cared about. It was probably a coincidence, though. Plenty of people made that noise. She wrote it off. "Fine. Then you leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone. We both win."

"You're not from around here, are you?" The question caught her off guard a bit.

"Technically, yes and no."

"That doesn't make sense, dobe."

"I'm from here but haven't been here since I was, like, five," Naruto defended. Under her breath, she added, "Teme."

"Hn."

Naru slowly stood up, facing towards Sasuke. That sound was very distinctive. It wasn't as easily dismissed as his earlier 'tch' sound. There was only one person she'd heard previously make that particular sound. Weasel had been an Uchiha. "You're not Weasel-nii."

"What are you talking about, dobe?" Sasuke sounded slightly angry. If Weasel was a missing nin, and Naru was right about his being from Sasuke's family, she supposed that made sense. He was probably a sore subject, whatever his actual name.

"Nothing. You just reminded me of someone is all." Naru shrugged it off. Just then, she heard Kakashi calling her.

"Naru, come on! I have a busy day tomorrow, and we need to get going."

"Coming, Kakashi-san!" Naru called back. She started towards where his voice had been coming from only to yell over her shoulder towards Sasuke, "See ya... teme."