Rebecca's Point Of View

I squeezed my eyes shut in an attempt to block out my parents screaming. They were fighting again, this time about me.

"She was a mistake."

"You can't say that about Rebecca, John. You are her father."

I rolled over, sick to my stomach. My damp, jet black hair clung to my face by the sweat dripping off my temples. It was much too hot in my room, and the clinging, damp air of Corpus Christi, Texas wasn't helping much either. I climbed out of my bed soundlessly and slipped though my bedroom window onto the roof. I slipped down the gutter pipe as quietly as possible and ran across the lawn, bag on my back and music from my iPod's calming music seeping into my soul.

This was the night I was running far away. To Houston, to my friend Maria's house. There I would start over and never see my horrible parents ever again.


The highway at night was pretty empty, and the winds off of the Gulf of Mexico cooled my skin as I walked. The road was next to the beach, so I walked on the beach, my feet splashing in the cool waters of high tide. The full moon made beautiful reflections on the waves. I stopped for a while and enjoyed it, then walked up the beach and stopped underneath the highway. I saw a group of reeds and walked into them, intrigued by the strange plants. As soon as I stepped into them, I was surrounded by nothing but these plants. I couldn't see the sky, just these blue and green exotic plants. I stepped through them carefully, trying my best not to prick myself on something hidden in the darkness.

After a while, I came to a clearing from the reeds and found myself in a clearing in a forest. The settings had changed. The sun warmed my back and birds chirped in the distance.

Weird.

I walked through the strange trees that I had never seen before and found myself at a pool of water. The person I saw as not like me at all. Sure, the hair, that face, and the blue eyes were familiar, but I was covered in muscle. My legs were lean, but powerful, and my arms were lean too. My hair was brought back in a tall ponytail and it hung down to about my mid-back. I had on strange clothes, kinds like something a ninja would, and I was barefoot. Tight fingerless gloves of black leather were on my hands, and a pouch of knives was on my left leg.

It was all I could do not to scream.

This wasn't real. I must have fainted or fell asleep in the reeds. I sat down and waited this whack dream to go away.

"I have to get home…" Then I realized it. I had left. I could start over, no matter where I was. I grabbed one of the knives and threw it at something moving in the bushes. I heard a cry of pain and something sinking into flesh. I walked over to the bush cautiously. A small rabbit with my knife in it lay bleeding in the grass. I blinked and turned, and then my dinner from the night before made a not so nice return from my stomach.

After I washed my face in the river, I turned again to the rabbit, knowing I had nothing left to return from the digested world. I pulled the skin off with the knife and skewered the rabbit onto a long stick. I grabbed some matches from my backpack and lit a fire to roast the rabbit's meat for dinner. Or was it breakfast? I had come from a place of darkness and night, and now it seemed that the day had just started. I grabbed my compass and noticed that the sun was to the east. Breakfast it is. After a while, the rabbit's smells delighted my hunger and I ate the sweet meat quickly. It was enough. I had to set off and find someone, or some civilization.


????'s Point Of View

I moved quietly through the bushes, waiting quietly until it was the perfect opportunity to strike. The girl had successfully caught a rabbit without any traps, so she seemed dangerous. Even if she had been so disgusted at the dead animal, she just ate it, so I guess it was normal for her. I pulled a kunai out of my pocket, waiting for my target to get closer.

Silent.

Stealthy.

Lee crashing through the woods toward me…..

Nice Lee, very smooth. The girl turned around to see Lee push trough the trees and rumble into the clearing not very far from the girl. "Have you seen a guy about our age, long black hair, and a fair bit taller than me around here?" The girl blinked in confusion. "Um…no, you are the first person I've seen in this forest." I walked out and sighed. "I'm right here Lee." "Oh Neji, there you are!!"


Rebecca's Point of View

After nearly getting run over by some guy with tacky bowl-cutted hair, out stepped the most gorgeous guy I had ever seen, with long, black hair and light lavender eyes. He gracefully stepped next to that guy, Lee apparently, watching me with those beautiful eyes carefully. I could drown in those eyes. My heart would probably stop beating if I looked too long. So I looked at that Lee guy, trying to ignore the boy who stepped out of the wood…

Neji