|✔|Konoha Academy's Betrayal |Sakura x Kiba|

39.) Motherly Love

Exams were....horrible, that is the only way I could describe them. I don't know that I was thinking when I took the entrance exam for the academy but I regret it now. How am I supposed to pass even my first year is beyond me, I just don't think it's possible.

I sigh loudly from under my arm as I lay on the living room couch. "Naruto dear is something wrong?" I hear my mother ask from the door way.

I sigh again. "What gave you that idea?" I mumble into my arm. I know that my mom will want to know why I am in such a depressed state, but I don't know if I want to tell her the whole long story or why everything is so messed up right now.

My mother enters the living room and sits on the coffee table in front of the couch. "You have been dragging your feet for the past two months. I think it's time you told us what is going on." She says in her kind motherly voice.

I uncover my face and stare up at the ceiling. "It's a long story." I say quietly. When did all of this start anyway? Was it really when Sasuke and Sakura broke up, or was it when Sasuke decided to cheat on her? Sasuke...we haven't spoken really since I accidentally told him I was in love with Sakura. I guess I don't blame him, that's something a best friend isn't supposed to do.

"How about you start at the beginning?" My mother's soothing voice snaps me from my thoughts.

I sigh. "Well I guess it started when Sasuke and Sakura broke up and Sakura went into a depression where she wouldn't speak to anyone. Then Inuzuka stepped in and she started to feel better which made me angry that he could help her and I couldn't." I confess slowly as I replay what has happened the last four months.

My mother nods. "Then you got into that fight with the boy?" She questions, trying to help me along.

I nod. "Yea, I did something stupid though. I was so angry at Inuzuka and then Sakura, and when Sasuke broke up the fight I was furious with him. We got into an argument and I accidentally confessed I was in love with Sakura..." I trail off, covering my face with my arm. "And he hasn't spoken to me since."

"You know what I think Naruto, I think that Sasuke isn't upset with you. I think maybe he is giving you space to sort your thoughts out." My mother offers kindly.

I sit up and face her, a skeptical look playing on my face. "Why do you think that?" I ask.

My mother smiles at me. "If you truly love someone you wouldn't be swayed by another. You would only have them in your thoughts and you wouldn't want any other."

My eyes widen in realization. "How do you know he cheated on her?" I ask. How does my mother know about that, I haven't said anything to her about it?

My mother stands and smiles another warm smile at me. "You're a loud boy Naruto, you remind me of myself when I was younger." She replies with a wink before leaving the living room.

I sit on the couch and stare at the T.V. my mother's words rattling around in my head. Could she really know how Sasuke feels? I'm his best friend and I never have any idea what is going on in his head. Her words make me think that maybe everything will be okay. I desperately want things to go back to normal but I know it will never happen.

Each day I see that Inuzuka and Sakura are getting closer and each day I get angrier that there is nothing that I can do to stop it. It's not that Sakura won't talk to me, she tires almost every day, I tune her out because her words only hurt me more. Maybe Sasuke is right to leave me alone, I hate just about everything around me, I have had the urge to fight Inuzuka again and even Sasuke for being selfish.

I lay back down on the couch and hide my face again. Talking to my mother was useless, if anything I am more confused and angry than I was before. Why couldn't high school go as awesome as I thought it would go? I wish that the school year would be over already.