Naruto's Hero Academia

Chapter Twelve

Naruto understood as soon as he joined ANBU what his job was and understood that on the job he needed to get rid of his emotions or terrible things could happen. If he let his emotions get in the way a number of comrades could die, or the mission could fail, causing various destructive repercussions depending on the job. However, the more time he spent taking up missions, the more he forgot about his emotions and how to act like a functioning person in society. So, in order to not seem insane and to not have the village fear him more than they already did, he created his persona. His go-lucky idiot persona. He figured if he showed his true intelligence among everything else, everyone would become more fearful of him. And he was right, as time went on, the less the villagers paid attention to him and the more missions he got to take.

But Naruto still didn't know how to act like an actual person. He had forgotten about what life was like beyond his two masks.

This is where Shikamaru came in. Despite also being in ANBU and having a persona of someone who is unintelligent, he still knew who he truly was. And over time, he helped Naruto figure out who he truly was.

Naruto was unsure of how it happened for Shikamaru, but for him it wasn't like in the stories. There was never a specific moment or a place in time where he felt differently towards Shikamaru. As far as he knew, his feelings for Shikamaru always were. Naruto assumed this was because he had always just loved Shikamaru.

When they established their relationship, sealed with a kiss, it just confirmed for Naruto that Shikamaru shared his feelings toward the other. And nothing changed within their relationship, aside from being more physical with each other.

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"Wh-wh-what's going on!?" Ochako yelled, as she looked at the crowd of students that had formed outside of the classroom. As soon as the dismissal bell rang, the door to the classroom had been thrown open and the crowd had appeared before anyone had the chance to finish packing their things.

"What business do you have with class A?" Iida asked the crowd, as professional as ever, as he made movements with his hand.

"With everyone crowding the door like this, no one can get out. Anyone have any ideas to get them to leave? I want to go home and I doubt shouting at them would work." Naruto said, walking up to stand by Izuku with his hands by his side. If he was honest, he was annoyed with the whole situation. Naruto had been up with Haru and Jiraiya all night talking about the sports festival, so he didn't sleep. He also had to sit all day long, which made him even more tired. To top it all off, his sleep deprivation was causing him a major headache that he didn't have the energy to deal with. All he wanted to do was go home, cuddle with his boyfriend, and sleep. And currently, he had a mass crowd of students preventing him from doing that.

"They're here to scout out the enemy, chubby cheeks." Bakugou said, calmly (which surprised most of the class because he yelled at everyone who wasn't a teacher) as he made his way over to the blocked classroom door. "We're the ones who made it out of the villains attack. They probably want to check us out before the sports festival."

"That's Kacchan in neutral." Izuku whispered to his nearby classmates, trying to explain why he was suddenly so calm.

"There's no point in doing stuff like that. Out of my way, extras!" Bakugou said to everyone blocking his path as he stopped in front of the crowd.

"Stop calling people 'extras' just because you don't know them!" Iida yelled, hands moving in the ever so familiar gesture. Izuku and Ochako, on the other hand, just looked shocked at what their classmate said to the crowd.

"I came here to see what the famous class A was like, but you seem pretty arrogant." Said a tired looking, purple haired boy as he pushed his way to the front of the crowd.