Red thread of fate - (Love story Naruto Uzumaki)

Chapter 2

Since Ayumi started her new life, she has had little contact with anyone other than her brother and sister. They were the only ones she could trust and not be afraid of being betrayed or hurt. The memories of the past life, unfortunately, had not faded with the beginning of the new one and were still fresh, as were the wounds they had created on the heart.

However, it doesn't matter if you are human or evil. The feeling of loneliness will overtake you at one time or another, you will not even notice when it happens. The reason for this is the desire to communicate. Even though she had a brother and a sister, it didn't seem enough. I wanted to communicate with someone else. With so-called peers, though, she is much older than all of them combined. Yet time flows in a completely different way for Grimm creatures than it does for humans. Although she looks like a twelve-year-old girl and is the same age by human standards, Ayumi is older than all these children combined.

It was her curiosity, her life as a hermit, and her loneliness, or something else unknown to her, that made her go out of the woods from time to time and observe the lives of people. In particular, the children from the school standing next to the forest. She hadn't done this for a long time, and in that time, she had new faces. Like yesterday's blond boy with eyes the color of the sky, one of those who had been frightened by her forest friends. They're not grimms, but they're still nice and friendly guys who help her and her family live in the woods and don't need anything, even as hermits.

Even now, she watched the girl flaunting herself in front of the mirror. whose long hair, decorated with a red ribbon, resembled the color of cherry blossom petals. I think her name was the same. Her eyes were green as leaves on trees, and her skin was fair. She was smiling at herself in the school bathroom mirror, her hands pressed to her cheeks. Turning sideways to face her reflection, she ran her hands along her waist, resting her fingers on it. A short-sleeved red dress with a white circle on the back showed off her slender figure.

"She's beautiful," Ayumi Thought. She was sitting on the roof, head down, looking out of a small window that showed the women's bathroom and the pink-haired girl herself.

Suddenly Sakura dropped the soap on the floor and crouched down to pick it up. But then she noticed another one with big ears next to her shadow, and turned around in surprise.

Her eyes widened in shock. The green irises reflected a small red Fox face with purple eyes, the pupils of which were shaped like a cat's.

- "Oops. Noticed.»

Then the pink-haired girl jumped to her feet and took a couple of steps back, looking at her fearfully. She screamed and ran out of the toilet.

"What's she doing? If Ayumi were in human form right now, she would shrug her shoulders. "I think I'd better leave now, or her scream might attract the other children. I don't need any extra attention."

With that thought in mind, she lifted her head and jumped from the roof into the bushes, and ran along the forest path toward the house.

After climbing a tree in a few jumps, she turned over in the air, and fell on her back, going down the slope. Then its body lit up and grew in size, its paws lengthened and changed shape, becoming arms and legs, its fur disappeared, replaced by clothing, its ears turned into long scarlet hair, its muzzle became a human face. Only the eyes remained the same. A few seconds later, a human girl was riding down the slope, not an animal. The forest dwellers who witnessed such an unusual sight, in the face of squirrels sitting on a branch, silently followed her with surprised looks, moving away from her every second.

"Ouch!" was all she had time to think before crashing into a tree in her path.

She stopped, bumping her face against it, arms and legs outstretched at the sides of the trunk, then slowly slid down it, falling into a pile of leaves.