The Child of Prophecy

└ C14 ┐

(A/N: Heyyo Snowflakes! It's been a long time again since my last update, ahaha~ *looks away* Anyway, online classes are abut to begin for me, so I decided to update right now while I have the chance! This is probably one lame chapter, compared to the other already-published ones. But I hope that you all would still like it. Enjoy!!! ^___^ )

└ People cry not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long. -Mirajane Strauss (Fairy Tail) ┐

"Woah, really? This place is so cool!"

Naruko gaped around her as she walked beside Hyuuga Hinata. Staring around them with obvious glint of awe shining upon her cerulean eyes. Occasionally, some older men and women would come across them, stop in their tracks to greet them with politeness, before moving along with whatever they ought to be doing. Just that was already enough for Naruko to learn about how respected a clan heiress is, moreso an heiress of a clan that's as high as the ranking of the Hyuuga.

"A-Arigato, Naruko-sama," Hinata replies, blushing shyly. The honourific made Naruko's ears perk up as she quickly turned to Hinata.

"Ne, Hinata-chan... I told you that you can just call me 'Naru' or 'Naruko', right?" The blonde pouts before she crosses her arms over her flat chest and huffs, "There's no need for formalities because we're friends, dattebayo!"

Hearing her words, Hinata's cheeks turn even redder than before as she felt ashamed, but also grateful for Naruko's "kindness."

"N–Naru-san, the d-dojo is this way..." Hinata says after a while as she leads the way. Naruko then sighs to herself --Seems like dropping formalities would be rather hard for the Hyuuga heiress, right now-- but nods her head in response to the other girl.

As they walk, Naruko couldn't help herself and kept on blabbering. It'd be a complete waste if she doesn't use the opportunity to make Hinata comfortable with her now. In her other life, Naruko may have acted like an idiot, but she was not stupid. Those are two different things, so to say. Before, even the usually-oblivious Naruko had noticed how awkward the Hyuuga heiress acted whenever Naruko was around. Of course, Naruko has also observed that Hinata was a shy girl and acts politely to everyoneelse as well, but within her heart, Naruko still hopes that Hinata doesn't secretly hate her or anything of the like.

"You're really awesome, y'know, Hinata-chan? I think it's so cool that you can compete with S'suke and Sakura-ch.." Naruko pauses, but Hinata didn't seem to notice how Naruko almost sounded like she was very familiar with Sakura, so she continued, "...With S'suke and H-Haruno-san."

This time, Hinata turns to her and smiles embarrassedly.

"A-Arigato, Naru-san," she mumbles before she returns her sight on the path they were walking, "I-I think Naru-san is amazing, too. There are times that y-you can fight equally with Uchiha-san. That's very rare in our class and it's amazing, I think."

Naruko then places her two arms behind her head, before she looks up to the ceiling with squinted eyes. Hinata glances at her curiously and figured that she was probably thinking about something important.

"..Yeah, that's pretty amazing too, huh," Naruko suddenly mutters in the midst of the silence, still staring up to the ceiling as they walked.

It has been four months since she had started studying in the Ninja Academy. Because of her deal with her parents, she had to attend the classes and not sneak out to prank around the village. Oh, what a pitiful state she has been in. From that day on, Iruka-sensei kept a close eye on her to make sure that she really won't sneak off... not that she would even dare to. Naruko had made a deal with both of her parents, she had promised to them, and she was a woman of her word. That was her Ninja way back then, and it still is. So in spite of her reluctance and boredom, she'll hold it all in for the sake of learning about her parents' techniques and spending more time with them (one of Naruko's motives for accepting the deal).