Way of the Apartment Manager
Characters/Pairings: Naruto, OC, Iruka. No pairings.
Warnings: None
Summary: When Naruto moves into an apartment of his own, the apartment manager finds she can’t quite leave a six year old boy alone.
Comments: I like this fic, despite the OC. Mainly because it’s an amazingly well-done OC, and I admire anyone who can actually get me to like an OC considering how much I tend to dislike them. But it’s just - the OC is by no means perfect, and she fills a nice little gap in the universe. She is by no means Naruto’s mother, nor does she have any pretensions of wanting to be his mother, but the way she finds herself reluctantly taking Naruto into her care and starting to grow emotionally is nice. It lets me satisfy my occasional desire to mother Naruto and it also… I don’t know how to put this. Almost as important as Naruto being a hero, in the series, he’s a catalyst. He won’t let the people around him give up any more than he’ll ever give up. And that is a lot of what I like about him, and the author does an excellent job of using him to force her OC to grow.
Multi-chapter, incomplete.
