CHAPTER 156

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SAKURA HARUNO POV

She looked at her idol who was currently sharing her lunch with the loser of the class and wondered since when did the world stop making sense.

Satsuki Uchiha. The best kunoichi of the year and an idol for all the other girls was sharing food with the loser!

For that matter, she had no idea how did that loser even got his Headband. Didn't he fail the graduation test?

And then there was the way he had looked at her before the start of the class when she asked him to move aside and allow her to sit with Satsuki.

He had given her a look and her heart had stopped beating for a moment due to fear.

Sure, Naruto had grown more and more serious over the years and was no longer the clown of the class and the attention-seeking prankster that he once was. But that didn't explain why she felt afraid of him now. And why he had given her a look that she gave to someone who wasn't even worth her time.

He was still the loser of the class. The deadliest who couldn't even pass the graduation test. Wasn't he?

She decided that sitting in the distance and watching them eat together won't give her any answers and decided to go and get some answers for herself.

She walked up to them with determined steps and both Naruto and Satsuki turned to look at her which was… good?

Mostly because Satsuki had this habit of always ignoring her and the other girls whenever they tried to befriend her.

At least until a few months ago when the girl started opening up to others and started smiling once again.

Naruto on the other hand… just gave her a look of annoyance as if she was not even worth his time.

That grated on her nerves.

Gathering her courage, she looked at Naruto and crossed her arms, opting for a somewhat intimidating posture. "Naruto. Why are you sitting with Satsuki?" Before he could even reply, she shook her head and turned to look at her idol. "Satsuki-San, you shouldn't spend time with a good for nothing like this. He'll only bring you down to his level." She said.

"Who I want to associate with is none of your business Sakura-San." Satsuki said in a manner that brooks no argument.

But… she couldn't let her idol waste her time with a good for nothing like Naruto. She must do something to—

Naruto sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Sakura. You're really annoying."

Her eyes narrowed at that. She cracked her knuckles and gave him a sweet smile that always intimidated him in the past. "Say that again to my face again Naruto?"

However, unlike what she had expected from him, Naruto didn't look intimidated. In fact… he looked bored and exasperated.

"I said. You're an eyesore. Why don't you stop bothering her and do something productive with your time?" Naruto asked.

And. That. Was. It.

The humiliation at being disrespected so blatantly in front of her idol and by the class loser nonetheless finally enraged her to the point that she no longer thought.

She acted.

"Naruto!!!" She screamed and swung her fist at his head. Aiming to give him a large head bump to teach him a lesson and remind him of his place.

Except… the punch never connected.

He caught her fist with his own hand. While yawning.

The veins in her forehead twitched and she moved to punch him with her other hand.

Only to stop as she felt his fist bury itself within her stomach, driving the air out of her lungs and leaving her in inexorable agony as she fell to the ground and curled up in a ball.

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SATSUKI UCHIHA POV

'Jau… I mean. Naruto… you've lived too long in Vacuo if you think that violence is the answer to everything.' She said in her mind as she bent down to check over the pink-haired girl who was having a little trouble breathing.

Naruto rubbed his hair and gave a sheepish smile. 'I didn't mean to hit her 'that' hard. Naruto was never this strong in the memories. Must be because of aura.' He paused 'Though it's probably a good thing that this happened.'

'A good thing?' she asked mentally as she gave him a disappointed look before she went back to patting Sakura's back. 'Naruto. She's a 13 year old girl. Back in Remnant, she would be in her first year at Signal or Sanctum Academy.'

'But this is not Remnant.' Naruto said as he looked away to not make it look like they were talking through telepathy. 'This is the Elemental Nations. And the girl here just signed up as a child soldier. Just like everyone else in our class. Coddling her right now and allowing her to live in her delusions will only put her in even more danger in the future.'

She held a sigh as Sakura was finally able to breathe properly, only for the girl to break down into sobs. 'Maybe. But we could've found other ways to break the reality of the situation to her.'

But even as she said that a dark part of her was vindicated that Sakura was taught a lesson by her husband.

She was not a vindictive or petty person but the pink hair kunoichi had insulted her husband repeatedly in front of her.

If Naruto hadn't punched her, then it would have been her who did it.

And despite the reality of the situation they were in, she didn't want to start punching preteenagers just yet.

Even if her memory of Sasuke informed her that Itachi Uchiha was just as young as them when he massacred the entire Uchiha Clan.

And that was a can of worms that she had no interest in opening.

'I'll meet you in the class.' Naruto said as he took the lunchbox she was sharing with him and went back to the class, leaving her with the crying girl.​