Butterfly Child

Chapter 16: Still Waters

5-21-20 This is an old ass A/N I had from like...ages back on FF.net, but I'm keeping it around in case anyone gets any ideas of making the same mistake as that anon.

A/N You can skip this beginning A/N. If not, read on.

I apologize for the sudden A/N at the start of the chapter, but I need to make something clear right now. About a week back or so, I got an anonymous reviewer who was quite rude and said they were amazed I haven't been kicked out of any of my university classes for some of the stupid shit I said...oh, and I got called Tourette's girl...and Chōko was called whiny (I have ALREADY established that, so whatever).

Moving on, I'm gonna say it right now. I have ADHD. Akimichi Chōko has ADHD. We both have ADHD. The subtype of ADHD we both have is the Combined hyperactive-impulsive and inattentive. I do NOT have Tourette's, nor does Chōko. Now Tourette's may be common in the ADHD population, but I can guarantee that I do NOT have it. Trust me, I would know, because I have been having to deal with getting information on it for the past two years so I could hand it over to my university's Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD). ADHD isn't a learning disability, but it DOES follow the requirements that qualified me for getting extra time on exams, recording lectures, and having a note-taker.

Now I'm wondering why someone would mistake me for a person with Tourette's and, as far as I know, I think I've been stereotyped because of one little symptom that comes from my ADHD...the impulsivity part of it, that is.

Some of the symptoms for an individual with impulsivity are, as followed:

1. Be very impatient

2. Blurt out inappropriate comments, show their emotions without restraint, and act without regard for consequences

3. Have difficulty waiting for things they want or waiting their turns in games

4. Often interrupt conversations or others' activities

Note the symptoms that are bold... Tourette's syndrome deals with involuntary facial, motor, and verbal tics. ADHD is not that...I hope everyone understands. I just...had to do this.

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The last few months of classes, both regular and kunoichi, weren't too noteworthy. Most of it was just review—kunoichi classes especially. We were eventually let out of the Academy for spring vacation, thus marking the end of another school year.

Hanabi's first birthday was spent with all of us somehow sneaking the one-year-old girl out of the Hyuuga compound for a day out in Konoha. Itachi and Shisui were absent, the two probably on a mission or something, which was usually the reason they were absent from our group, as of recently. Now that I think about it, they've been absent a lot as of lately...but I digress.

Anyways, with Itachi and Shisui absent, the fact that we managed to sneak Hanabi out of the Hyuuga compound without anyone noticing us is quite the achievement.

Oh man, we are so getting in trouble after this!

Neji is certainly panicking about it, but Hinata is being the reassuring cousin and telling him everything is going to be fine. I honestly have never been so amused in seeing Hinata being the calm one and Neji being the complete opposite.

Oh how the tables have turned!

Man, I wish Itachi were here to see this. He'd get a kick out of this—Shisui, too.

I miss that beautiful bastard...

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I should have expected something to change within our lives in response to Itachi and Shisui's constant absences. For the most part, they were present whenever our birthdays came up, with the exception of Itachi missing his own birthday (and Shisui being suspiciously absent as well).