[15 Minute Fic] [Naruto] Rain Reflecting
Title: Rain Reflecting
Fandom/original: Naruto
Characters: Tenten, Neji, Lee
Rating: G
Word count: 391
A/N: Added to my one-shot collection on FFnet as well: Link!
She hummed that happy little tune as the rain fell. She could never understand why people felt so melancholy at the thought of rain. Wasn’t it something to be celebratory over? The thing that satisfied life so easily fell like a gift from the heavens. A drink of cool water after a long hot day of training - that was something Tenten liked. The feeling of warm water gliding over your skin to wash the dirt away - that was something else she loved.
Yet people would always stare up at the sky with those woeful eyes wishing the clouds would whittle away to reveal the sun. Tenten splashed a gumboot-covered foot in a puddle, disrupting the reflection upon it. Neji was one of those people who hated the rain. Tenten had always had her suspicions. Perhaps it had to do with how much he strove to prove himself when he was younger? She would often come across him training in the forest, come rain or sun. He’d count the birds that flew past, but birds were more likely to hide when it rained. She guessed he just didn’t like the idea of birds being trapped in the trees waiting for the rain to pass when they should be flying free in the sun.
Now Lee… there was someone who made no distinction between the sun and the rain. He’d always say the same type of thing to her on rainy days: “The Springtime of Youth often comes with many Spring Showers! Yosh!”. She supposed that was true. You just had to learn to live with it.
But although there were too many that disliked the rain, nobody could quite deny that one little thing about it they always found amazing.
Spotlights of sunshine shone down upon the village. Tenten lifted the brim of her umbrella to look up and see the rainbow that passed overhead. Now there was that one little thing.
“Tenten-san! It is the Bursting Youth that comes after Springtime Showers!” yelled Lee. He waved at her from down the street where he and Neji were waiting under an awning. Neji was looking up the rainbow with a reserved smile on his face.
Her footsteps splashed through the mirror-like puddles as she ran to meet them. When even the sky celebrated after the rain, it made her all the happier.
Fandom/original: Naruto
Characters: Tenten, Neji, Lee
Rating: G
Word count: 391
A/N: Added to my one-shot collection on FFnet as well: Link!
She hummed that happy little tune as the rain fell. She could never understand why people felt so melancholy at the thought of rain. Wasn’t it something to be celebratory over? The thing that satisfied life so easily fell like a gift from the heavens. A drink of cool water after a long hot day of training - that was something Tenten liked. The feeling of warm water gliding over your skin to wash the dirt away - that was something else she loved.
Yet people would always stare up at the sky with those woeful eyes wishing the clouds would whittle away to reveal the sun. Tenten splashed a gumboot-covered foot in a puddle, disrupting the reflection upon it. Neji was one of those people who hated the rain. Tenten had always had her suspicions. Perhaps it had to do with how much he strove to prove himself when he was younger? She would often come across him training in the forest, come rain or sun. He’d count the birds that flew past, but birds were more likely to hide when it rained. She guessed he just didn’t like the idea of birds being trapped in the trees waiting for the rain to pass when they should be flying free in the sun.
Now Lee… there was someone who made no distinction between the sun and the rain. He’d always say the same type of thing to her on rainy days: “The Springtime of Youth often comes with many Spring Showers! Yosh!”. She supposed that was true. You just had to learn to live with it.
But although there were too many that disliked the rain, nobody could quite deny that one little thing about it they always found amazing.
Spotlights of sunshine shone down upon the village. Tenten lifted the brim of her umbrella to look up and see the rainbow that passed overhead. Now there was that one little thing.
“Tenten-san! It is the Bursting Youth that comes after Springtime Showers!” yelled Lee. He waved at her from down the street where he and Neji were waiting under an awning. Neji was looking up the rainbow with a reserved smile on his face.
Her footsteps splashed through the mirror-like puddles as she ran to meet them. When even the sky celebrated after the rain, it made her all the happier.