[Naruto] Ninja Notes of a Fan Girl

In the end, he was pushed out.

With the excuse of "helping me buy food" and "it doesn't matter if I come back later", Saaki Aoga did not hesitate and pushed her out the door together with the newly bought gift scarf.

"Have fun and happy new year."

——Those are the words before closing the door.

Why didn't he take out the scarf for her...

Xueyou looked down at the thing in his hand.

But... I wonder if that guy saw the gift she left for him.

When she first came home, she excitedly ran to her room and placed the gift in his room.

As for this scarf…

"Well, give it to whoever you see."

Lifting his steps, he walked towards the shrine.

-

Shortly after Sakura came out of the warm home with a paper bag in hand, her mother's nagging advice had long been forgotten. After walking for about five or six minutes, the heat brought out by her had been exhausted. She wore her favorite dyed clothes. Sakura-colored kimono. It was very cold in the depths of winter, so before she left, her mother forced her to wear a white velvet shawl, but she couldn't resist it. She watched helplessly as the light brown scarf she wore when she went on a mission today was forced on her neck - Sakura thought it matched the rustic look. .

But...it's warm.

Sakura gently touched the hem of her kimono.

This kimono was a gift from her parents.

She kept walking, and the shrine was her destination.

There were more and more people in front of her, and she didn't dare to relax, and kept searching for the person she wanted to find——

The young man in blue clothes and black hair, who looked like moonlight.

She wanted to see him, especially as a ninja, she did not restrain herself with lightness and simplicity. She allowed herself to wear such clothes that made it difficult for her to move today, just to let him see her.

Like a flower, it only blooms for the people she wants to see.

She walked under the light of street lamps, lanterns, and moonlight at night.

Will he come or not?

...Will he come?

Will we... meet...

Sasuke-kun...

"Eh-ah!"

There was a hand that was pulled out from the crowd, and when it was distracted looking for someone, it snatched the paper bag in its hand——

As a ninja, Sakura is naturally more sensitive than others. Even in a noisy crowd, she can be the first to notice something strange.

"...Don't run!!"

She immediately locked onto the enemy, and reflexively moved her hands to the back of her waist - because there used to be ninja kits there -

Nothing at all.

Because I changed out of my clothes, there was nothing behind me, I didn’t wear leg straps, and my shoes were clogs.

"It happened!"

Sakura gritted her teeth feeling guilty. Although she knew that she had no chance of winning after chasing the thief, she was still unwilling to lose the gift for Sasuke like this.

This is for the person she likes...so she won't let it go!

"Stop for me!"

Without saying a word, she took off her clogs and held them in her hands. With chakra attached to her feet, she jumped out of the crowd easily.

"I told you to stop!"

After turning a few corners, she chased her into a sparsely populated and remote alley. Sakura stood at the end of the exit, sneering at the back not far away. She stretched out her hand: "There is a dead end ahead. You have nowhere to escape. Hurry up. Give me your stuff back!"

The only thing that responded to her was a few shurikens with the sound of wind.

Because of the inconvenient clothing, no matter how dexterous his body was, he could only narrowly escape, and even held on to the wall with some unsteadiness.

I had no shoes on and my feet were numb from the cold.

Hating that she looked so embarrassed, Sakura trembled slightly and threw the clogs in her hand like shurikens - even harder than she usually did in training - and they rushed straight towards the thief.

"Too tender."

The thief said proudly, raising his foot and easily kicking them to the ground.

"!"

At this level, if I don't focus on the challenge, I have no chance of winning.

but--

This is my treasure——

It was a beautiful kimono given to me by her parents——

It’s what I want the people I cherish most to see——

——But don’t you want the scarf?

She was angry.

She was angry at her own incompetence and treatment.

He thought that if he tore the hem of his kimono now, the battle might be solved, but once he met Sasuke, that look was the last thing he wanted to see.

When I get home, my parents will ask me what happened.

This is what the new gift I received today looks like.

"You guy..."

"What's wrong, come and catch me, little girl, weren't you the one who was so arrogant just now?"

Sakura lifted the hem, exerting force on her wrist very slowly.

She hesitated.

"There is a dead end ahead. If we don't catch it now, we will have no chance~"

As if he concluded that Sakura had nothing to do with him, the thief on the opposite side gradually became bolder in his speech, and it had already reached the level of provocation.

The whitened knuckles pulled at the hem of his clothes.

There is no sound of "stabbing" the fabric.

"Sakura!"

Instead, a familiar shout came from behind.

-

"Ah, what a coincidence, I meet you here."

Xueyou smiled and greeted the people in front of him.

"Ah."

The man with black hair and black eyes nodded.

Heading to the other side of the crowd at the shrine, the two met here.

"Out to buy something?" Xueyou looked at his hand and saw nothing, "Ah, are you here to celebrate the New Year?"

"Come out for a walk."

The home was too cold. Even if he was used to living in this lonely atmosphere, he would inevitably come out to relax during the holidays because of the boredom.

Apart from practicing with a purpose, he doesn't want to go anywhere or stay anywhere on weekdays.

"Is there anywhere you want to go?"

"No."

I thought that this conversation would end in a hurry, and they just met by chance. After the conversation, they would separate immediately. Unexpectedly, the snow friend walked up to him and said with a smile: "That's right, I don't have any destination. Why don’t we take a walk together?”

Although Sasuke, who knew his companions well, knew that Sakura and Naruto would definitely come out, he did not expect what would happen during tonight's night walk. Of course, I don’t exclude walking with the girl next to me.

"Ah."

A brief response, a journey under the promise, begins like this.

I thought that two people together would be less boring than one person, but now the reality is exactly the opposite.

Letting out a breath, Yue Yue looked at the sky for a while. People around her kept moving around. She and Sasuke stopped here, holding the sweet wine they had just received.

"I am bored……"

She has been in this world for a few years, but has never participated in it before. She thought that the New Year's Eve here would be very interesting, but after experiencing it personally, she found that it was not the case at all - she didn't understand any customs at all. Apart from looking around, there was nothing No one can participate.

Sasuke took a sip of sweet wine and felt strange at the sigh of the girl next to him.

Weren’t you very interested in shopping just now? Why are you suddenly feeling worried again?

With his peripheral vision, he glanced at the place for asking for signatures not far away. He pointed in that direction, "There is a place for asking for signatures over there."

"Go and have a look!" Xueyou's eyes immediately shone, she became interested, and took a few steps in the direction. When she turned back, she found that the boy was in the same place, and she was back again.

"Aren't you going?"

"Don't go."

"It's Chinese New Year now, why don't you ask for a sign?" Xueyou asked him, tilting his head.

"no need."

"Sasuke-kun is still so cold..."

The low murmur was clearly heard by Sasuke, who was holding the sweet wine.

"Then you go with me?"

He lifted his feet and stepped forward to be level with his snow friend.

It's not good to always reject her.

After all, he was called cold to his face.

"Let's go."

He said, and a smile broke out on Xueyou's face.

Besides, it wouldn't be a bad thing to make her happy.

Although he met her very early, he suddenly discovered this feeling one day only after becoming true companions.

Maybe this is acquaintance.

"Ok!"

-

"I told you, be careful."

Walking out of Konoha's guard room, Naruto said to Sakura beside him in a long voice.

"I dont want this happened too."

Sakura tugged at her dusty shawl resentfully, and the scarf she had disliked just now was nowhere to be seen. Her feet had been frozen just now and had not recovered yet, and her walking posture was crooked.

She glanced at Naruto and saw that he was looking at her too.

"What are you doing?"

He stretched out his arm and said, "Are your feet feeling uncomfortable?"

Naruto still picked up the clogs on Sakura's feet. He and Mr. Iruka had just finished eating ramen at the Ichiraku Ramen Shop. He had good eyesight and spotted a pink-haired girl chasing something, flashing past his eyes. Being nosy, he immediately bid farewell to Mr. Iruka and chased after him. Near a dead end, he recognized that the kimono girl was Sakura and rushed forward without hesitation.

Sakura sighed, held onto Naruto's arm resignedly, and shrank her shoulders in the cold wind.

It took a lot of effort to catch the thief just now, and I even tore off the scarf in order to tie him up.

At least I got the gift back.

so cold...

Naruto looked at her a few more times, then resignedly pulled the orange scarf off his neck and hung it around Sakura's neck.

"Is it warmer?"

In a gentle and unexpected move, Sakura stroked the scarf with one hand, which still retained the warmth of its owner.

"Um……"

Sakura responded stupidly.

"Shall I take you home?" Naruto pulled his collar uncomfortably and asked.

"I just came out."

"Ah? We met a thief when we just came out?"

"To be precise, I just stepped into the shrine." Thinking of what happened tonight, Sakura held her forehead with a headache, "It's really unlucky."

"Well, that's very unlucky."

Naruto's completely mindless response made Sakura furious.

What an inconsiderate guy!

She walked forward angrily alone, and Naruto, who was acting as a support, almost didn't react.

"What happened suddenly..."

He followed her cautiously, scratching his head and muttering under his breath.

"It's nothing!"

"Hey, Sakura, slow down, it's very dangerous."

We have to get to the shrine quickly.

She had a premonition that Sasuke would come.

"I want to go to the shrine." She said stubbornly.

Naruto couldn't believe it. In her current state, she could actually say that she wanted to go to a shrine that was more than ten minutes away on foot. "Then you have to slow down your feet first, right?"

Sakura also understood that because of the frostbite on her feet, she could not walk very far even with Naruto helping her.

but……

"Ah, this place is very close to uncle's ramen shop. How about we go and sit down - Sneeze! How about it?" When she hesitated, Naruto sneezed all away with an inappropriate sneeze, and he rubbed his hands. Rubbing his nose, he turned his head sideways and continued: "Uncle's shop is very warm."

"..."

The main road was different from the small road, and the lights nearby were very bright. They turned here, and Sakura stared blankly at Naruto's face and a scratch on the side of his neck. No wonder Naruto had been pulling his collar just now, and he was rough after the battle. When I checked him, he was evasive.

It turned out to be injured.

A thin snowflake fluttered down on her head, and she sighed quietly for a moment without noticing it.

"Well, let's go."

She compromised.

Facing Naruto who was injured when he helped her clean up the thief, she really couldn't say any more willful words.

Naruto thought his suggestion was too tempting, his eyes narrowed and he smiled.

-

"It's really cold."

Xueyou rubbed his hands and opened the lot he drew tremblingly.

"Ah, it's Zhongji!"

Not bad looking.

What she did next - she had seen it in a Japanese drama.

"Is it okay to tie this to a tree?" The snow friend pulled away from Sasuke who was looking at the lottery. His attention was on the place where the bell was ringing not far away. With the large number of people and the noise, the snow was filtered out. What friends said.

"What did you say?" He was half a head taller than Xue Yu, so he turned slightly sideways and put his head close to her.

Xueyou stepped on his feet and put his hands on his ears. The white breath he exhaled was a little itchy.

"Tie this to the tree next?"

It turned out to be the case.

"Correct."

He watched her leave the place and ran to a tree not far away with few people around. He looked left and right without making a move. After waiting for a while and not coming back, he walked over with long legs and said, "What's wrong?"

The girl in her eyes didn't know whether it was due to the cold weather or embarrassment, but her cheeks were red. She asked in a low voice: "How to tie this?"

Sasuke was stunned for a moment, then stretched out his hand to her, and she handed the sign over. Under her gaze, the sign was folded several times and tied to a tree branch that was level with her.

"Thank you."

The girl thanked her.

This time, they all walked to the place where the bell rang to pray.

Health: All symptoms are getting better

Love: Both parties don’t notice, but they support each other from the beginning to the end

Family: A sign of evil intentions

Career: The journey is difficult, and you need to have faith

……

Can this look really be considered a lucky draw...

Recalling the contents of the signature, doubts gradually appeared on Yukiyo's face. She walked with Sasuke while thinking, completely unaware of the boy who occasionally looked at her.

"Hey……"

She wanted to give a warning but it was too late. Xueyou's head had already hit her with a "clang", causing her to scream in pain.

"Wow!"

His head hit the hard wood, and he felt a burst of pain. Because his mind was too distracted, the snow friend hit the wooden pillar next to the clock.

"Uh uh..."

Because it was unexpected, that is to say, she was unprepared and bumped into her for real. If Sasuke wasn't around, she really wanted to cry.

In fact, I was crying uncontrollably. (?)

"Oh, did I say you were an idiot..."

"It hurts like hell...it's really serious. If you don't believe it, look at it!"

Seeing this miserable look, Sasuke walked up to her helplessly, took the hands that were tightly covering his forehead, and took a closer look.

...It's nothing, why are you crying so hard?

"It hurts. It hit me with such a thud!"

"Aren't you careless?"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Please say a few words for me, Sasuke-kun. I'm the one who's hurt, right?"

"..."

stare--

stare--

"...It looks like it hurts." He compromised.

"I'll just say it!"

"Ah - it's true."

Snow friend shed tears and complained for a long time, then obediently moved away from the clock.

"What were you so absorbed in thinking just now?"

"If you sign it."

When Sasuke was helping her tie the signature, he actually glanced at it slightly.

Even though it was a lucky win, even he felt it was a bit forced. No wonder Xueyou was frowning. He had encountered this kind of situation when he was a child.

In the year when the genocide was exterminated, the whole family finally got together and went to the shrine to pray for blessings. The brother got the bad luck, but he got the bad luck. Zheng was secretly happy. He thought everything would go well in the next year, but as a result, see below Most of them have hard-to-understand meanings, and there is nothing good about them that can be understood clearly.

Family: deeply loved and betrayed.

He has remembered this sentence to this day.

Speaking of which, my attitude at that time was similar to that of my snow friend. Fortunately, Wen Wen's mother liberated herself from depression with just one sentence.

What does that sentence mean?

"Tie it to a tree. It is said to make good things better and bad things dissipate faster."

He recited it to his snow friend without missing a word.

"There is such a thing!"

"Ah."

"Wow, that's very considerate. You really think about people who are unlucky."

However, there is no way to know the truth. To put it bluntly, the existence of the shrine itself is the realization of people's spiritual sustenance. Whether it exists or not is a matter of people's belief or disbelief.

If there really is a god, why not drag him with deep hatred into the abyss to be with evil spirits?

Looking at Yukito's soothing expression, Sasuke smiled to himself.

Since that year, he has never drawn a lottery again.

-

"excuse me!"

Naruto and Sakura opened the sliding door of Ichiraku Ramen, and the hot air hit their faces.

"Hey! Naruto, did you leave something behind?"

The uncle was clearing the table. He turned around to confirm that it was Naruto and Sakura, then lowered his head and concentrated on the work he was doing. On the last day of the year, he also wanted to close the shop early, and then go to the shrine with his daughter to visit and get some breath.

"No, let's come here to warm up for a while. It's too cold outside."

Naruto greeted him with a smile, and Sakura beside him suddenly said something.

"Uncle, do you have a medical kit?"

"Medical kit? Yes, but what do you want this for?" Without waiting for a reply, Ayame, who opened the door curtain from the kitchen, knelt down to rummage near the counter and finally pulled out a box.

"Give."

"Thank you, Sister Ayame."

Sakura wanted to go forward to pick her up, but Naruto stopped her and placed her on a chair. He took the medical kit and put it in front of Sakura.

"Are you injured somewhere?" Seeing this, Uncle Hand Beater was also a little worried.

"I just met a thief at the shrine, and Sakura injured her foot." Naruto squatted down towards Sakura, took off her clogs and put her feet in front of him, and at the same time opened the medical kit.

Ayame came over to check the injury with him, "Do you want to see a doctor?"

Sakura shook her head quickly, "No, that's not why I borrowed the medical kit." She pulled Naruto up from the ground and said, "Naruto, unbutton your shirt collar."

"what?"

"Ah what, stop hiding. I saw a scratch on your neck. Were you injured just now?" Sakura pressed Naruto's shoulder forcefully and took out the wound cleaning kit from the medical box in his arms. Medicine and gauze.

Naruto couldn't believe it. He remembered that he hid it well, right?

There would inevitably be some pain when the iodine touched the wound. Naruto subconsciously drew back his neck, but Sakura stopped him seriously.

"Don't move."

Attitude is attitude, and the strength in her hands is also reduced.

"I said you...be careful."

Sakura muttered, cleaning up the blood near the wound and applying medicine on it.

"Ah."

Naruto twiddled his fingers absentmindedly, his eyes drifting to the paper bag that was placed in the corner when he entered the room.

It wasn't because Sakura valued the paper bag so much that he grabbed it. When he threatened to send the thief into the guard room, the guy planned to destroy the evidence and almost failed to save it.

The inside is fluffy and soft to the touch, probably made of textiles.

No need to guess who it is for.

Naruto sneered at the guy, and out of displeasure, he twisted his body, causing Sakura to accidentally touch his wound again.

"hiss……"

"I told you not to move, idiot Naruto!" Seeing his pained look, Sakura immediately raised her fist and waved it in front of him to intimidate him, so he sat upright obediently and didn't move again.

"cut."

"Okay, but be careful not to touch the water or exercise excessively." Sakura finally put on gauze and was done. She cleaned up the medical box and the mess and returned them to their original owners.

"Thank you, uncle, Sister Cai."

"You don't have to be polite about this little thing."

"Then let's go."

Sakura bowed, picked up something and pulled Naruto. She stood up and left under the watchful eyes of Ayame and Teida. The latter who was being dragged asked in surprise: "What about your feet?"

"Cold."

"???"

"Actually, it's nothing serious. It's just a bit cold. Naruto, please hold me up."

Just holding on, that's definitely fine.

It's just that Sakura's previous state really made it impossible not to worry.

The bright and warm noodle shop and the dark and cold outside were like two poles. Without the warm warmth, Naruto soon sneezed as soon as he entered the shrine.

His scarf is still with Sakura, and of course he won't take it back anytime soon.

Sakura had actually been hesitating all the way, but finally made up her mind after his sneeze, took out the scarf she bought with her snow friend during the day from the paper bag, and wrapped it twice around Naruto's neck.

Naruto looked at her in shock.

Sakura smiled at him.

Snowflakes began to fall in the sky, flying in the cold wind, and fell on people. I don't know who among the crowd started to raise their head first. A completely different "It's snowing" amidst the laughter and laughter was particularly noticeable.

"Keep warm, don't get it dirty, and take good care of it!"

"The black one...how do you get it dirty?" Naruto stammered, raising a hand and carefully stroking the woolen scarf with his fingertips in order to get a sense of reality.

Naruto held back the words "Why don't you give this to Sasuke?" that came to his lips, and he let out a long breath.

He didn't want to get a beating.

"Stop rambling. Anyway, I give this to you. Happy New Year."

Sakura shrugged her shoulders and looked up at the snow-falling sky with a complicated expression, but then she seemed to feel relieved, regained her strength, and raised her hand to pull Naruto toward the crowd.

"Let's go, Naruto!"

-

Xueyou put her cold hand to her mouth and breathed. The feeling in her hand was still numb. She stopped her hand and simply gave up her struggle.

After all, you have been out long enough.

"Snowing!"

There was no one in the crowd who started the attack, everyone was looking up into the air.

"It's really snowing!" The snow friend noticed this and immediately shared his excitement with the boy next to him, "Sasuke, look, look!"

"Yes, got it."

"It's really beautiful."

While Yukiyo was admiring, she caught a glimpse of a pink and yellow figure not far away. She looked over completely and recognized the two as Sakura and Naruto.

Sakura, Naruto——?

Due to the distance and the huge crowds of people, it was inevitably extremely noisy and her voice would not be able to be heard.

"Eh……?"

Yukiyo saw something on Naruto's neck.

Wasn't that black scarf the one she accompanied Sakura to buy as a gift for Sasuke?

Why on Naruto's neck?

"what happened……"

Naruto on the other side of the crowd seemed to have said something wrong and was being scolded wildly by Sakura. He looked embarrassed but not disappointed. It seemed that the atmosphere between the two of them was not bad. Seeing this, Yuki Yu felt relieved.

Yukiyo picked up the paper bag and stuffed it into Sasuke's hand without hesitation.

"Happy New Year, Sasuke-kun, please don't give it back, thank you."

At the end, I added a strong sentence.

Give him this...?

Sasuke looked down at the thing in his hand, hesitated for a moment, lowered his head and looked away, making a sound from his throat.

"……thanks."

A somewhat blunt thank you was the best he could do.

"You're welcome. Please give me your advice in the new year!"

Yukiyo raised a smile and deliberately turned her head to where Sasuke was leaning. The boy's red ears and unnatural expression all encouraged her evil intentions.

"correct."

Sasuke thought of something, looked directly into Yukito's eyes, took out a box with a ring from his jacket pocket, and handed it to her.

"This is for you, snow friend."

"……Eh?"

Xueyou was stunned by the situation for a moment. After she straightened her body, she couldn't move.

what?

Give this to her?

What appeared in her slender hands was a palm-sized square powder box—a box she was all too familiar with. It was the subspecies of the mints she gave to Sasuke on her way home after having dinner at his home for the first time.

"The original one has been sold out, leaving only the new variety."

Sasuke saw that she kept staring at the box blankly, but couldn't guess what she was thinking, so he explained to himself.

So he bought this...

This variety is strawberry flavored. Although it is said to be a subspecies, it is much more expensive than the original owner because it is co-branded with a famous brand. Even though she likes it very much, she did not buy it, but now it is placed in front of her. I didn’t expect that the first gift of the New Year would be my favorite thing. It was really unexpected.

"Can I take it?"

"Ah."

He hoped she would accept it.

The snow friend stretched out his cold hand to take it. Contrary to her temperature, Sasuke's hand was very warm - this is what the snow friend who touched it thought so.

What a pleasant surprise.

Sasuke looked at the girl in front of him, who was smiling stupidly at the gift he had given. She often smiled, and he often looked at her smiling face, whether close at hand or from a distance.

As now, as before.

What a good year.

Saaki Aoga held the book and no longer had to pretend that his body was intact. He could limp back to the room with peace of mind. He saw the glasses case on the bed. When he opened it, he found that it was the same as the one he had worn in the Land of Waves. That look exactly the same.

"The readings are not bad either...they are quite attentive."

He murmured after taking it, lying flat on the bed and opening the book, enjoying the time he loved.

Ino had dinner with her parents in this world. The two of them were watching TV downstairs. She had no intention of enjoying it and went upstairs with the gift she received.

When she opened the light yellow box, she laughed.

That's a hairpin.

Different from the one given to the pink-haired girl when she was a child, this hairpin is decorated with daffodils and is mainly blue in color.

She arranged her hair with her hands and put it on with peace of mind.

She looked in the mirror and said, "It's pretty good-looking. Sakura is really good at choosing."

"Let's go to the fire!"

Yukiyu stuffed strawberry-flavored mints in his mouth, Sasuke put on a gray dark pattern scarf, and the two of them walked towards the bright fire.

The two snowflakes falling from the sky were very close to each other. On the other side of the sea of ​​people were Sakura and Naruto.

"By the way, what wish did you just make? I promised that in the new year, I could be more -"

"Wouldn't it be accurate to say that kind of thing?"

"what?"

"You are really an idiot." A certain boy said with disgust.

"I'm not—" the rejected girl complained. As she moved closer to the boy, her last voice became farther and farther away, until it disappeared into the snowy night sky together with the New Year's bell.