Writer Comments: Its a bit shorter than I wanted this chapter to be.. :/ But its 6 AM and I am going to sleep. _; Chapter 3 should be up in the next few days.

Morning came quickly, the sun rose slowly and by then the fire had burned itself out. The first one awake was Jugo, who was planning to get up early and spend some time with the nearby animals. He slowly shoved the jacket covering him off and sat up, he glanced around and saw the blurry sight of everyone else still asleep. He rubbed his eyes for a bit and blinked a few times to get rid of the morning-feeling and looked around again. Karin was uncomfortably close to Sasuke and Suigetsu didn't have his jacket covering him like everyone else did; Instead the new girl had it covering her. Jugo shrugged it off and got up slowly, he silently crept out of distance from the others to do whatever he wanted until everyone else was awake..

The second awake was Suki, hearing the chirping of birds and Jugo's faint voice in the distance was enough to disturb her sleep. She sat up and yawned silently before blinking and trying to get her eyes to adjust to the soft morning light. The first thing she noticed was a coat draped over her, she didn't remember how it got there but she recognized it from somewhere. Her emerald orbs glanced upward and slowly scanned the area, Karin, Sasuke, Jugo's empty spot.. "He must be awake already, I could ask him about it.." She was about to get up and find him when something caught her eye from the side, Suigetsu.

"This is one odd group, maybe this mission wont be as dull as I thought.. More like a vacation.." She thought silently to herself as she slowly pushed the jacket off her and stood up as quiet as possible; She noticed the others were starting to shift around and squirm, suggesting they were beginning to awaken. Suki clutched the cloak in her right hand and crept away from the 'campsite' quietly to find where Suigetsu and her had left the pile of wood for the fire yesterday..

After a few moments of searching she realized they had used up all the wood throughout the cold night and they would need just a bit more for the morning. They had used up all the broken pieces of the dead tree and there didn't seem to be anymore scrap wood laying around. "Fuck.. Well, this can get my anger out." She turned to a nearby tree and draped Suigetu's coat over a low branch to keep it from falling onto the ground; She didn't want to get it dirty or anything.

Her crimson sleeves hung down on her arms to her fingertips, but they wouldn't for long as she pulled and tugged them off, exposing the flesh on her arm and something else quite strange.. Her right arm just above the elbow had a weird almost metal-band looking thing around it; Nobody knew it, but this was Suki's fake arm. She had lost her right arm in a battle and got it replaced with a metal/wood mechanism, then was able to cover it with her own stretched-out skin as a special jutsu she developed for herself. It worked perfectly and was almost unnoticeable, plus this fake arm was one of her best weapons..

After a few slightly painful sounding cracking noises, she decided she had done enough stretching, thus it was ready for her to use today. Her hand clenched tightly into a fist and aimed for a nearby huge tree, it was tall and healthy which meant it wouldn't be falling naturally anytime soon. A split second and a powerful punch sent a rumble throughout the entire tree, it was actually quite loud and Suki stepped back cautiously. .

"Mmm.. First punch of the morning, always a bit weak but feels great on the muscle.. But I'm going to wake everyone up if I continue like this.. I could use a new toy though.." She thought to herself as she flicked her wrists, extending sharp-claws that were a normal-persons nails. She quickly jumped into the air and landed gently on a branch of the great tree, then proceeded to claw at the branch rapidly..

It only took a slash or two before the wood began to start cracking at the base to let go of the now damaged and falling branch. The pressure of her feet pushing off the branch caused it to break and fall, it also gave her a boost to jump onto the next branch and repeat this process. She did this a few more times, each time being more rough in her strike onto the wood, and each time only taking one slash to cut down huge branches with nothing more than her finger nails. Of course this wasn't silent, but it was a bit more quiet than if she took out the entire tree, plus it was really more fun for her. She could be as harsh as she wanted and crush each branch before sending it to the forest floor with a powerful kick.. She got to let out her anger and get wood for the fire later, a win-win situation she figured.

After awhile she had nowhere left to jump, so she clung to the side of the tree and looked downward with a raised brow. "Oh.. Shit." She noticed she had stripped the tree of every single branch and left nothing but the giant trunk rooted deep into the ground. "Well then.. That should be more than enough.." She mumbled to herself and slowly began to slide her way down, making sure to stop every now and then to get a better grip so she didn't fall instantly from this height. It was pretty high up, a fall from this height could cause injury to even the best-landing ninja..

"That was actually pretty easy, got to sharpen my nails, I have wood for the fire and extra to build a new puppet.." She smiled to herself as she slid down another foot or so before digging her fingertips deep into the tree bark to rest for a bit before continuing. Just as she started to feel better about this becoming a vacation she heard a cracking sound, her emerald eyes widened at the sight that she didn't even consider happening..

The bark she was clinging to was breaking away, she had apparently clung to a weak point on the tree and couldn't keep hold; She could either jump now or continue to slide down the tree until her fingers were bloody and then still end up hitting the ground painfully..

"Here goes nothing, if I can land the right way I might be able to avoid this.." She shut her eyes tightly and launched herself backwards lightly before she began to fall. She knew the fall wouldn't kill her, at the absolute worst she would end up breaking an ankle or something simple; As long as she didn't slam her skull against a rock or something she'd be fine. She opened her eyes again and took a deep breath to enjoy the slight view of her surroundings.. The adrenaline began to rush and made her feel amazing, but looking downwards at the quickly approaching ground quickly ruined that.

She figured she had about 30 more seconds to figure the best way to land without serious injury. She concluded to attempt to land on her back without busting her spine, but her thoughts were broken by the slight glimpse of someone walking around. It was a blurry view of the almost-fuschia haired female, Karin. "KARIN! GIVE ME SOMETHING TO LAND ON!" Suki screamed loudly, she saw Karin's head turn towards her, so she knew she had heard her; she could only hope the stupid bitch would understand..

"She's falling pretty damn quickly, I could just pretend not to hear her and claim this was a tragic accident.. Then it would be one less competitor for Sasuke-kun~ But this fall isn't enough.. I'll have to help her out.." Karin smirked evilly and grabbed hold of a nearby large tree branch and moved it right to the spot she figured Suki would fall to. "What the fuck is she doing!" Suki quickly braced herself for the fall and spun around to a standing-position right before crashing into the ground with a loud cracking noise. A large cloud of sawdust and dirt rose up from the ground and surrounded the area for a few seconds..

"Heheheheh.. Seemed to do the trick! Now to tell Sasuke what happened!" The glare from the sun made her eyes invisible through her glasses, but her smirk was quite visible. Karin spun around to skip away happily before hearing a loud coughing sound, she froze with horror realizing this damned female wouldn't be so easy to take out.. "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? YOU STUPID FUCKING BITCH WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU TRYING TO FUCKING DO!" The extremely loud and pissed-off voice of Suki rang through the entire forest, a huge crowd of birds flew away quickly from the area out of fear..

Karin felt her heart stop for a second and then beat rapidly as she quickly turned around and put on a fake-concerned look. "U-Um, I-I thought.." Karin tried to choke the words out while staring horrified at the sight before her. Piercing emerald eyes and messy silver and black hair slowly raising up out of the pile of sharp-broken wood. Suki pulled herself up to a sitting position and growled loudly at the female she now intended to kill. Right before she attempted to stand her leg gave out and she stumbled forward, hitting another sharp piece of wood against her right arm..

She didn't really feel the arm-pain, but her leg felt as if it were on fire. She quickly glanced down to see her leg bloody and bending in a way it shouldn't, she was now more concerned about that than the various cuts and bruises on the rest of her body. What she thought was the worst possible scenario just got worse thanks to miss helpful, instead of busting her ankle, her leg was broken.

"Just FUCKING great, this is FUCKING great! Two limbs down.." She continued to growl, to Karin she sounded like an angry dog ready to rip somethings head off, and right now she did look a bit like that. "What the hell is going on over here? Why all the screaming?" A familiar voice approached the two females, the oh-so-recognizable Uchiha stood beside Karin and looked at Suki with a confused expression. "The hell happened here!" Suigetsu chimed in as he approached with the silent Jugo following behind, it was quite obvious all the commotion had either awaken the crew or got their attention..

"This fucking dog over here doesn't know how to jump out of a tree!" Karin quickly turned to Sasuke and attempted to make herself look good, acting harsh but innocent to the situation, nobody was buying her fake explanation. Sasuke completely disregarded her and questioned Suki again, "What happened?" His glance was focused on her leg, which was bloody and twisted. "There's no simple way to explain this.. Lets just say I fell and broke my leg." She tried her best to ignore the 'dog' comment Karin had made and focused her attention on trying to stand. She stumbled a few times before getting pissed and giving up for a few seconds to relax.

"Someone can help you up if they want, but as I said before, you have to keep up on your own to travel with us. We'll be leaving in two hours." The cold-hearted voice of the Uchiha irritated Suki as he walked off without saying anything more, Karin following right behind trying to flirt and failing miserably.

"Care to explain what happened now?" Suigetsu walked over to try and help her get up, but she quickly shoved his arm away. "I don't need your help." She mumbled softly, her pride shattered from being hurt so easily and possibly not being able to walk and failing the mission. Without thinking, she reached over with her left hand and tore into her flesh near the metal-bar above her elbow; Suigetsu and Jugo stared in shock wondering what the hell she had planned..

After a few seconds of ripping and silent groans of discomfort, she popped the arm right off; Exposing a metal-clutch type attachment at the area she had pulled the arm from. "What.. The.. Fuck.." Suigetsu mumbled and took a step back from her, staring at the arm as if it was the weirdest yet coolest thing he had seen yet. "A fake arm?" Jugo blinked and tilted his head to the side in a questioning-fashion. "Yeah.. Lost this thing awhile go, a friend made me this replacement." Suki stated quietly, she was now calm and content as she leaned on her right side in an attempt to stand again..

She stumbled a bit and fell back onto her ass, which only sent a surge of pain up her leg. "Alright.. I need your help." She looked upwards at Suigetsu with a bit of shame.. She hated feeling dependent on people, but this was necessary if she couldn't even stand on her own. Suigetsu cleared some of the wood out of the way and knelt down near her with his back facing her. "I'll carry you, come on." He looked back at her and smiled, "If you can't stand, you can't walk." Meanwhile, Jugo watched from the sidelines eagerly entertained as if this was all a good book he was reading.

Suki blinked a few times in disbelief, she wondered why he was being so nice but really couldn't refuse his offer.. She scooted over towards him and wrapped her arm around his neck to pull herself up, he grabbed her other arm off the floor and slowly stood up. She flinched a bit at the pain in her leg as the bone shifted with her changing position, she knew a few medical techniques but it was hard to do Jutsu with her right arm being fucked up from the fall, and now detached..

Suigetsu stood straight up and began walking across the chunks of wood over to where Jugo was standing, Jugo was now collecting the chunks of wood for the fire at the campsite. "Well, your fall broke the wood up into nice sized pieces for the fire at least." He tried to be positive and got a awkward smile from Suki and Suigetsu both. "Just go get her fixed up and I'll bring some firewood back." Jugo continued to pick up the scraps of tree branch while Suigetsu began to walk off with Suki clinging to his back.

"Nn.." Suki mumbled and ignored the pain she was feeling, she clung to Suigetsu as softly as she could without falling. "What? Are you afraid of me or something? Your going to slip off if you don't hold onto me." He stopped walking for a second and turned his face slightly towards her; His eyes locked directly at hers which made her nervous for some reason. She hadn't been this close to someone since her last talk with Deidara when they had hugged and parted ways. Now she was being carried around piggyback style by someone she barely knew..

"I don't want to be anymore trouble than I already am.. Plus I know I'm not the lightest girl to be carrying around." She shrugged and shifted forward to cling to him more cautiously, he turned back towards the direction he was walking and continued silently. The rest of the walk back was actually a lot of awkward silence other than the occasional snap of a twig or crunch of a leaf under his feet. "Your not that heavy, and its no trouble. I'm usually carrying around my sword, might as well carry you if you need it." He mumbled almost to himself as they reached the edge of the campsite, it really wasn't that long of a walk, but it seemed like it for some reason..

"What the hell is going on here? Your carrying the b-" Karin's insult was cut off by Sasuke, "Wheres Jugo?" He was unfazed by Suigetsu holding Suki on his back and was more concerned on everyone hurrying up so they could move on with the journey. "He's back there collecting firewood." Suki mumbled from over Suigetu's shoulder, ignoring karin's stupid remarks. "Oh how cute, dipshit came to your rescue did he?" Karin again opened her mouth to insult the two, which didn't seem to effect Suki.

"Sure did." Suigetsu stated bluntly in a serious-sounding tone, Suki looked just as shocked as Karin; But Karin was mostly pissed at Suigetsu taking her insult so well. Instead of reacting as he normally would, he came back from it and shut her up quickly, Suki just simply clung to him silently and looked around innocently as if she wasn't involved in this..