Arata Bouken

by Evelyn Dark

-No More Pep Sequel::Angie's Story- Just when Angie thought things couldn't any worse, she's pulled into the Symphonia world. With death awaiting her every corner; can she survive this journey just to see Heather one more time, or die before then?

2. Stealing, Chasing, and Other Extreme

Evelyn Dark: Well this is Evelyn Dark giving to you chapter 1 of Arata Bouken Stealing, Chasing, and Other extreme Sports.
Yuan: I can't believe you gave me a false date in getting here late!
Yondaime: Oh quite your complaining. You always whine about how you'd rather be doing something more important.
Yuan: Says the person who's blackmailed!
Evelyn Dark: DISCLAIMER! AND NOTICE!
Yuan: Evelyn Dark does not own Naruto or
Yondaime: Tales of Symphonia!... wait a second, the Naruto Disclaimer is mine!
Yuan: Get over it!
Evelyn Dark: ON TO THE FIC!

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§Arata Bouken§
Written by: Evelyn Dark
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«Chapter 1»
Stealing, Chasing, and Other Extreme Sports

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For most of the time, Lloyd has made himself attached to me. Why? I have no idea as to why, but not that I'm complaining about the company, now. While traveling the vast ocean of grass, we had met with some peculiar creatures. Lloyd had described them as monsters of Neflieham. Since I know where I am and have an idea of the geography—because I'm a nerd for remembering stuff like that. For the most part, Lloyd had handled himself quite well really—as expected or otherwise I would die from having to teach him how to defend himself at the least.

I on the other hand had tripped on the first battle, causing Lloyd to laugh at me and say that I'm just like Colette. Which in turn caused him to get attacked by the huge humongous ladybug. When I mean big, I mean big. The thing was like the size of my head, perhaps even bigger. I nearly freaked out when I came charging at me, which instantly made me grab my katana and slice it into two pieces. So now I have green goo on my cloths, as well as my mask.

So here we are in a town with stone pave roads, and gray walls lining the streets. Standing at the entrance to the town, I look around with a sudden glee. Then it plummets down into the toilet as the flashes of different colors penetrate my vision. Temporally being blind with the colors of pink, black, brown, and yellow; I blink a few times trying to get use to the sudden flash of colors.

Even after two years of having this ability, each time it causes me to go blind. That's why I always stay away from large crowds. Even during the great holidays in Konoha, yes the Hidden Leaf Village in the land of Fire, I always stayed in my apartment. Despite the many protests of Annette and Naruto. In the end I've earned to take mission during those times from Baa-sama, Lady Hokage Tsunade.

Though of course, now with the Hokage being Naruto; my plans of missions during those times have deflated. So I've learn to barricade my apartment with many, many seals and exploding tags. If Naruto sends some of my ANBU team members, then I kick their asses. So everything turns out okay, except for when he has Jiraiya come and get me. I don't know how he gets the Ero-sennin to actually do that, but I really don't want to know. So when the old geezer is around, I make myself scarce.

"Hey!" Lloyd exclaims. Finding his hand waving in front of my face, which I kept ignoring during my reverie, I continue to ignore him. Glaring at him, then finding it useless with my mask on; I turn from him and point towards the town. Getting at what I'm gesturing he starts walking forward, grinning at me and beckoning at me to follow him.

"I'm sure you're tired, there is an inn around here…" He says trailing thoughtfully as his eyes search the town before looking back at me. He smiles as he wrinkles his nose and does a mocking grin. "and you could use a bath too!"

I flip him off, but he does have a good point. He merely sticks his tongue out at me and smiles. Walking over towards his side, we continue on through the crown. Content with narrowing my eyes to slits and trying to follow him without tripping and falling on my face. Which I've done a thousand times in Konoha. I'll be truthful with you, I 'm a Klutz. Yes I trip over chunks of air, even during battles, and yes I trip up the stairs. A lot.

"So do you talk?" He asks. I look towards him and question his sanity. Of course I can talk, I just don't feel very talkative right now. As my foot catches a piece of stone sticking up from the pavement, I gracefully grab Lloyd and use my ultimate kunoichi skills to land on top of him and keep myself clean from the pile of mud he just landed in. Blinking a few seconds, I can't help but inwardly giggle at Lloyd as he muffles for me to get off. Bouncing onto my feet, I grab him by the arm and use my ninja powers to yank him off the ground to have his face plant into the ground once more.

"Thanks," He dryly says to me. Getting up off the ground and glaring at me while dusting himself off and making 'yuck' noises at his brown smeared clothes, I inwardly giggle again. To tell you the truth, it kind of looks like crap. I look off handedly at him and wag my finger at him. He growls at me, his eyes narrowing at me. Not really liking the angry look or orangsih-red color around him, I put my arm around his shoulder and point to the inn just a few meters away. Still grumbling at me for making him get dirty, we head on over towards the inn with glee of baths.

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I breathe a sense of cleanliness, dunking my bottom part of my face into the water letting my nose to breathe. My eyes sift through the many women bathing here, all talking to each other. The inn happens to have a pubic bath for the people staying here, thankfully with separate baths for men and women. Lloyds in his room at the moment, having already taken a bath when I went off to find suitable clothing to wear until I could get my uniform cleaned.

I could feel a groan coming as my thoughts drift to Naruto and that Ero-sennin. This would be 'paradise' for the two—even though Naruto is married to Hinata—then the two would have their asses kicked by the woman finding them peeking—more so Jiraiya.

I comb my hair absentmindedly with my fingers, my eyes wearily traveling from one face to the other. My mask still on—because I'm that paranoid okay!—and my filthy cloths lying in a heap of clutter with my clean cloths neatly folded next to it. I tense up as I see an old woman come by with her white towel around her frail body as she sits right next to me.

"I can tell you don't like public places," she says. Probable noticing my distance from the other women and my reluctance to converse with them. My eyes wonder to her pale skin, a wrinkle of delicate paper, and her eyes that a light blue that they almost seemed to glow like a silver pond. Okay perhaps that's a little descriptive with great amounts of emotion, but that is the best thing that I could come up with. Her hair is pulled into a bun high on top of her head, the color light silver with streaks of dark gray.

I unintentionally stare at her, even though she can't really tell with my mask on.

"I've never met a ninja before," she says, as if it's a normal thing to say. Her face looking out towards the many women busing themselves with washing their body and talking to each other.

"Why don't you like people?" she asks me. Boy do people really like to ask me questions. She turns her face to look at me, finding me still looking at her. Not thinking my staring is creepy—which sadly I do a lot—she smiles at me, her lips reaching her ears. I think for a second at her question, the bright color of pink emitting from her. It's not that I don't like people; it's just very troublesome for me. With my unusual ability to be exact. Since I know the answer myself, I shrug my shoulders, not so lenient to spill my secret. She looks at me hard, her aura turning a light blue to my shock.

You see not many people show me those colors much, especially strangers. So I couldn't help but love this world even more. Catching her move her head back to watch the people, her smile reappears once more. "I like people, because they have interesting tales to tell or show."

I nod at her statement. You can be surprised at the peculiar things people do. Like Heather for instance, a friend of mine best friends in fact, she grinds her teeth lightly when she's irritated over something. Strange of me to notice that, but that's what I get for staring at people a lot.

I watch as she slowly gets up and smiles at me, waving as she waddles away in the water. I guiltily look down at the water, seeing my reflection. I look intently at my dusty blue eyes with a sunflower kiss around my pupil and at my long dark blonde hair with the look of a gray veil on it. My hair is about the length of my middle back with bangs down to my eye brows covering my forehead.

For a person who hates long hair, why would I want to keep my hair long? Well because Heather always got bitchy about me and Annette's hair. When I got here, my hair was jaw length but over time I let it grow after… Heather died. Then two years later, she's alive again. The reason I even wanted to be an ANBU member because I felt so weak and helpless to protect her. That's another reason why I learned medical ninjutsu as well. Now I feel like I can actually make a difference now.

Getting tired of being all melancholy and crap, I raise myself from the water and waddle over toward my cloths. The women stop talking as they follow my movement. Not liking the attention at all, I grab my clean cloths and don on my blue shirt, black pants, black vest over my blue shirt, and just stick my feet into my original black ninja sandals.

Grabbing my dirty cloths and my bag, I make my way out of the inn's public bath and hurry to Lloyd and mine's room. Why are we sharing a room? Because he's the one paying for it and I didn't want to really be much of a hindrance. I was fine with sleeping on the roof and all but he had interjected saying that every room has two beds. So being the person who doesn't really like to be rude to new people they've just met , I agreed and just went with it.

Running up the stairs, I rummage through my bag and find the extra key to the room and unlock the door while opening afterwards. Seeing Lloyd sitting on his bed; he looks up at me and smiles while I just wave. Setting my stuff down, I sit on my bed back to Lloyd and stare at the wall with boredom. Turning a little to see what Lloyd is doing I find his back to me while he proceeds to take off his coat and shirt. I freeze there, my eyes widening at his action.

I mean I've seen lot so of guys take their shirts off and actually undress in front of me. That was during the ANBU training course which lasted for a few weeks. I was lost on first day there, and was looking for the changing room when of the ANBU pointed me out to the changing area. Opening the door I find myself looking at many guys undressing from their uniform and getting into their normal cloths. From there I thought I took the wrong hall, but then it dawns on me when I look in the mirror. The person had mistaken me for a guy, so before any guys could take off their pants I run out of the room and flee.

So from remembering that, it dawns on me once more. Lloyd thinks I'm a guy! I hastily turn my face away from him and back at the wall, thankful for my mask when I blush horribly. I mean I look pretty guyish with my ANBU clothing, and this vest does hide the fact that I have a chest. I've also haven't really talked what so ever, so he could never tell if I am a guy or a girl. I mean I literally have been trying to seem girlish, which is totally hopeless in the end because I act like a guy, and I have long hair! Then again some guys do have long hair, like Neji. I sigh as I slowly look over my shoulder to see Lloyd with a black tank top and his boxers only on laying on his bed with his hand behind his head as he stares at the ceiling. I slowly turn my head back to the wall, my face turning even a darker shade of red.

Taking a few breathers, I control my heart beat as I position myself on my bed looking parallel to Lloyd, as I sit with my legs crossed and my arms as well. My back laying on the bed's headboard, as well as my head. I close my eyes as I attempt to forget the fact that there is a half naked guy lying in a bed next to me, and try to sleep. Sitting there for what seems like hours, I hear the soft snores of Lloyd sleeping.

Turning my head towards him, I see him in the most peculiar position. Having gotten under his sheets, one leg is hanging off the bed with his mouth wide open. His arms splayed across the bed in a really weird position. You know for some weird reason, just the sight of him is kind of cute really. I shake my head at my little statement, and go to laying flat on my bed over the covers and attempting at going to sleep once more. Laying there for a few minutes, I slowly drift off to sleep. My hand placed on my face (mask), and my other on my chest.

Waking up the next morning, I look around groggily. My mask surprisingly still on my face from the sleep. I comb my fingers through my hair to find it in tangles, fluffing out. Angrily yanking my fingers out of my hair, I yelp at the pain before freezing on remembering Lloyd. Slowly with my fingers still stuck in my hair, I look over to find Lloyd still a heap in his bed. Sighing with relief for not waking him up; I gingerly pry my fingers from my hair and get up from my bed to find it not really messy, but nevertheless I fix it up to perfection and slide my belt with my pack of ninja gear onto my waist. Still a little shocked at Lloyd thinking that I'm a guy.

Knowing that thinking about it is not going to do much good I quietly slip out of the room and enter into the hall way. Freezing on my way down stairs remembering to get my cloths to clean and that my hair is a complete mess. Running up the stairs I slowly open the door once more to grab my bag and get my brush out. Slowly and cautiously I brush my hair till its soft as baby's hair. That is something that I get from my mother, the fine soft hair that is so hard to do anything with. Grabbing my rubber band I tie my hair up into a ponytail; grabbing my cloths and hightail it out of the room.

Running down the stairs I glance at the inn keeper and give a wave before dashing through the inn's door. Intending to get my cloths washed before Lloyd wakes up. Being outside I see that it's sill dark but with the light of the sun slowly coming up. Now if Lloyd is a late waker, which I really hope, than I should have a couple of hours before he wakes up.

Going down the streets, I find the many faces of people looking at me curiously. Seeing a man passing by, I tap on his shoulder and wave.

"Hi, can you help me find where I can get my cloths cleaned?" I ask. He looks at me thoughtfully, his aura shining yellow, happiness, and gray, meaning weariness or suspicion. I don't really blame the guy, since I am a person with a mask on.

"Traveler I can see, but that mask is quite peculiar," He says, the last part probable more to himself. Smiling at me, he points to the left and looks towards the area. "You can find the washing area over there, next to the item's shop. Now don't get into any trouble lad."

With that he waves at me and walks away.

So it's settled, people actually think I'm a guy. So Lloyd thinks my name is Kitty… and he thinks I'm a guy. Kami I seem gay!

I frown as my shoulders sag. Do I really look manly? Or gayish!?

Shaking my head I just follow his directions and make my way towards the place he told me. Looking up high at the buildings looking for the Item shop sign then possible the sign of people with cloths heading for a building. Catching an old lady walking to a building next to another with the signs 'Item Shop' I smile and walk behind her. Happy with finding a place to wash my cloths and armor.

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Quite happy with my cloths washed and dried, I make my way to the inn. I rush off in a burst of speed; with the help of some chakra. Weaving through some of the crowd accumulating in the streets, I get a little weary of not wanting to ram into someone. So I take a sharp turn and apply some chakra to my feet as I run up a building wall and push off against it to land on the building roof. Trailing my eyes along the roof tops, I take a running skip before going out into a full out run. Jumping from one roof top to the other, making sure not to under jump and fall down into one of the alleyways.

Seeing the street with the inn on it, I swerve around to jump off the building and make a landing roll. Before pushing off again towards the inn once more. Catching sight of a cart, I lean back and slide underneath the cart; positioning one foot before the other I push off with my arms and unsteadily get back to my feet. Skipping a bit to get my balance; with momentum carrying me forward. I wave my arms as I get back to balance and keep running; hearing a few shouts of protest and crap.

Seeing the inn, I steadily get down to a walk as I open the door. I hurriedly make my way up the stairs before giving a wave to the inn keeper. Reaching into my pack on my waist, I take out my key and unlock the door to end up locking it instead. Remembering that I never locked the door, I unlock it this time and slowly open the door. Peeking in I find Lloyd still asleep; now sleeping in a fetal position. Seeing the waves of yellow and pink flashing from his body, I smile.

Wondering if I could just change here and make it quick before he wakes up or wait for him to wake up and leave, I tap my fingers on my thigh. Not feeling to patient at the moment, I just quickly strip and don on my back leather pants and skin tight black sleeveless shirt on as well as my gray vest. Slipping my black gloves that go to my mid way of my upper arm, I put on the arm guards and place my shoes back on my feet. Hearing some noise coming from Lloyd, I freeze and look over towards him to find him sitting up and rubbing his eyes. Looking at me in turn he sleepily smiles at me and yawns. As he stretches, I give a brief wave before collecting my cloths and make a silent sigh for making it in time. Picking it up I neatly and slowly fold the cloths, keeping my back towards Lloyd. Hearing the sound of sheets moving, I listen intently as he redresses himself.

Waiting a few minutes before turning around, I peek around my shoulder to find him buttoning his red coat on. Fully dress and fully awake, he looks over at me and smiles.

"Good morning, you're early," He says. The last part a little sheepishly, his aura turning hot pink—which is embarrassment--, scratching the back of his head. I give a nod of the head, as he furrows his eye brows at me. "Have you eaten yet?"

I shake my head, but I swear his smile seems a little too malicious. Blinking, I find the smile to just be a normal smile. Frowning I place my cloths into my backpack; feeling the many scrolls, exploding tags, seals, and other stuff in there. Pulling my bag up, I put it on the strap going from my left shoulder to my right hip. Looking at Lloyd I find him all ready to head out, his hands laying on his two swords strapped to his waists. Giving a thumbs up I wince as big crash occurs downstairs.

Seeing Lloyd shocked like me, I watch as he steps towards the door. Rushing forward I push him back, my ninja instincts telling me the element of surprise now is needed. Putting my finger to my mask, where my lips should be, I gently make a motion to follow me. Quietly opening the door, I slightly crouch down and keep my hand on the wall. Walking down the hall, I peek around the edge of the wall to see if anyone is there. Finding no one, I crouch down lower than the railing and go down the stairs. Looking through the railings I see the flash of black, light blue, and brown.

"Now then, are you going to tell me if you seen him or not!" I hear the very angry woman's voice say. Looking over to Lloyd, I see his face pale; his wine eyes looking out into space.

"Oh Martel, I can't believe they caught up with me that quickly…" He says. His voice coming out raspy and barely a whisper. I see his hand tremble, going straight to his sword handles for comfort. Crouching there looking at him, he looks right at me and his hands shoot towards my shoulders.

"Please kitty, help me!" he says, his voice a whisper of anxiety. "I can't let them see me, not like this!"

I look at him intently, only knowing him for a good 24 hours. Knowing that Maya wanted me to keep tabs on him, I sigh and frown. Pointing my finger at him, I jab it into his shoulder.

"You owe me one, Irving!"I say in quick whisper. I watch as his face horror filled face turn into a smile. The brown color lifting up a bit to leave room for some pink. Turning from him I look over the rail and bit my lip. Unsure of what to do, my eye catches a hand clutching a staff. Needing to see more, I motion for him to stay put and I crawl down the staircase quietly. Reaching the bottom stair I look at the group accumulated there. Seeing the orange clad woman with silver hair, face full of furious at the male inn keeper. I feel a bit of sympathy for him before moving my eyes towards the silver hair boy with blue clothing. Then the red haired guy with pink, black, and white clothing. I roll my eyes at the sight of him, remembering who he is. Zelos Wilder, chosen of Tethe' Alla; nothing more than a philanderer.

Contemplating as to how to go about doing this, my eyes catch the staff that the orange clad woman is holding. Not really thinking much I push forward from my kneeling position; my hands going to the staff. Watching the woman turn towards me with a look of shock, I grab the staff. Turning towards the door I find the red head blocking the way with his sword out. Snorting I rush forward and jump up using his face as a platform; squashing my foot into his face I leap off and make my way for the door. Catching a wave of chakra, I jump up and plant my feet on the door before pushing away and flipping backwards watching as a wave of water breaks the door down. Landing on the ground, I catch the orange clad woman heaving a book and throwing it at me. Dodging successfully I dash past the silver hair boy and make my way out into the streets.

"Nice going brat, you let her get away!" I hear a man say behind me. Not really caring, I race down the streets before taking my way back up top into the roof tops. Taking up my perch up high, I watch from a distance as the three people rush out of the inn and split up to look for me. Placing the staff on my legs, I watch interestingly at the three take their different routes.

Not really sure if I should go back to the inn right now, I shrug grabbing the staff and jump off the building rooftop, landing nimbly. Brushing off any dust that may have attracted itself to me during that little encounter, I keep a hold on the staff as I put it behind my neck. Walking away with a satisfying smirk I quietly make my way around the crowd to the inn.

Stepping through the doorway, empty of a door, I give a nervous wave towards the inn keeper.

"Sorry about that, but I needed to get rid of them," I say with a nervous laugh at the end. Seeing a flash of red, I grunt as something around 100 pounds crashes right into me.

"THANK YOU THANK YOU THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYO" I immediately clamp his mouth shut, as he stares at me with a smile. Taking my hand from his mouth, I grab his cheeks and pull on them. Letting go of his cheeks as he rubs them, I lightly push him to show him that I want him off.

"Oh sorry." He says sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head before getting off of me. Holding a hand out towards me, I roll backwards and bounce to my feet. Seeing his hand still out, his face blushing red; I slap the palm of his hand lightly and hand over the staff to him. Looking at the staff with surprise he looks at me with horror.

"You stole the professor's staff!" He says with dismay. I just shrug my shoulders and lazily stand there. Watching him slap his forehead and looking at me, he shakes his head and places it against the door. Looking at the terrified inn keeper he smiles nervously and points to the staff.

"Um…if she comes by again, can you give it to her?" He asks awkwardly. I look at the inn keeper, with his wide eyes before he nods his head dumbly. Giving a brief wave towards the inn keeper I grab the sleeve of Lloyd's and pull him out the door. Dragging him for a few seconds, he stars protesting before walking by himself next to me.

"So where to?" I ask blandly. Looking to the side I look at him with a raised eye brow. He furrows his eyes as he keeps his face towards the street.

"How about.."

"LLOYD!"

"BUD!"

"YOU!"

I lazily look over my shoulder to find, the orange clad woman pointing her finger at me. Her arm shaking in anger or fear of my awesomeness, though sadly I'm sure it's the first. I give a brief look at Lloyd to see him to look at them, his face pale once more. Rolling my eyes I whack his shoulder, as he shakes his head and starts running backwards before turning around into a full out run. Watching him run through the mess of people, I look over towards the three. I rush forward and skid to a stop before doing a cartwheel to the side. Feeling the hot flames of small fire balls rushing past my body. Crouching to one knee, I look at them wearily; waiting for them to make a move. Watching the red hair one rush forward with his sword, I jump up and do a round house kick as he gets near me. Feeling him block with his arm I fall to the ground crouching below his waist. Standing up quickly I catch him in the jaw with a left hook, and do two back flips away from him.

Standing still with my legs spread apart, I look to the side to see the orange clad woman armed with a broom swinging straight for my head. Leaning back, I can feel the wind of the slice. Straightening my back, I hold out my arms to block the other hit with the broom. Wincing at how hard she can hit with a broom.

Stepping back I aim a kick at her side, watching her block with the broom. The broom shatters under the power of my kick, as I jump up and kick the upcoming red head. Not really wanting to hurt them I turn from them and break for it. Sighing with relief at the less crowded street I make my way towards Lloyd. Hoping I can find him in the big city.

Making different turns, and yet still feeling their presence behind me I use a burst of chakra to go faster. Skidding a bit to make a left turn I panic before jumping over a cart in the way. Landing on the ground in a crouching position, I look over my shoulder and sigh before getting up and running off again.

Looking at the passing of the many buildings, I stop for a second thinking I heard Lloyd's voice.

"REGAL, L-LET ME GOO!" I hear the voice of Lloyd yell. Looking around franticly, I find the area where the yell was from and run off towards it. Turning around a building sharply, I find myself in a big open area with docks and boats. I take a quick look at the sea, before looking at Lloyd being held around the chest and arms by a blue haired man. Regal Bryan.

I watch as he struggles before looking towards me and stopping. Seeing the curious look of Regal's I rush forward and plant my foot on Lloyd's chest, pulling forward I place my hand on Regal's shoulders. Both Regal's and my face a few inches apart for a few fleeting seconds before I flip over him and take out my katana with my left and hand. Stabbing my katana's handle into Regal's spine, I hear the sharp cry of his pain as he let's go of Lloyd. Turning around I find the three from before coming out of the alleyway I came from, panting for breath—well except for a very angry woman.

Getting ready to step back I feel a sudden sharp pain to the back, my vision clouding as I gasp in pain. Falling forward to my knees, I desperately try to keep consciousness with my arms around my head.

"Wait! Don't hurt him!" I hear Lloyd say quickly. Staying there in my position I feel something lay on my neck, a very big and sharp object laying on my neck to be exact. Holding my breath at the sharp object being held on my neck, I wait patiently before realizing that I'm holding my breath.

"Why not! He! Stole my staff and gave Zelos a nasty bruise." I hear next. The voice sounding really pissed at the moment.

"Because I asked him to!"

"Why are you avoiding us and why did you run away?"

"B-b-because…."

Sighing, and feeling a headache coming along I gingerly get up slowly despite the sharp object never leaving my neck. Holding my hand up as everyone look at me, I smile.

Turning my head to see short pink hair girl holding an axe, the size of her, at my neck I felt kind of petty. Gently put my hand on the axe blade, she narrows her eyes and digs the blade more so into my neck. I feel a hot liquid running down my neck, the sharp pain of the cut hurting a bit. Taking my hand off the blade, I put my hands up before the girl takes the axe away from my neck and I feel a weight crashing into me. Quickly my arms are pulled behind my back, painfully being held in a totally not comfortable position at all.

"Make a move and I'll break your arm," I hear a woman's voice growl. Wow, for the regeneration group they're pretty ruthless. I squirm a bit, making the woman pull my arm up causing me to bite my tongue to not cry out. Water starts to form to my eyes at the sudden pain, blinking my eyes I try to get rid of them.

"Don't hurt him, Sheena!" I hear Lloyd yelling once more in my defense. That really made me feel all warm inside, too bad I got a crazy ninja yanking at my arm and threatening to break my arm. Other than those horrible things, I think Lloyd and I are coming off to a beautiful friendship.

"Why!" I hear her shout back. I roll my eyes despite the dramatic scene, and squirm again only to get my arm pulled up hard again!

"Lloyd what's wrong with you? You keep avoiding us." I hear a small boyish sound come from my right.

I'm pretty sure you've mentioned it already!

My patience at the moment, it wearing thin because of this treatment. Wondering if I should just use a substitution jutsu at the moment or I should just stay put and see if my bud is going to bail me out of this. Going towards the first more, I shake my head from the thoughts. Right now I need to stay close to Lloyd, that's what I think I should do to help this place.

"I….I just don't want to talk about it right now…."Lloyd says sadly. I mean even from that voice, it's just sooo cute. How can they interrogate him? I mean I don't really know the reason for Lloyd's actions but still that's pretty harsh. Especially to the cute ninja in the mask whose being beaten horribly for helping the poor red dude. "Just let him go..."

Feeling her muscles tense then relax she roughly lets me go. Rolling to my back I roll backwards and jump to my feet. Scratching my head and giving Lloyd a thumbs up. He smiles at me sadly, his head down as the Professor walks over to him and glares at him hard before sighing in defeat. She obviously has realized that he's just soo cute!

"You're obviously not from Mizuho for Sheena to treat you like shit,"

I look over towards the speaker and find Zelos Wilder standing there with a big bruise on his cheek. Feeling that I have something to owe him for such a crude thing to grace his features, I step towards him with my hand out. He looks at me startled, the others stopping with what they're doing to look at me. Rolling my eyes, I slap his hand away from his face and let the flow of chakra to his jaw. Seeing the pale green glow flow from my hands, I heal the bruise. Pulling my hand away, I smile with satisfaction at the bruiseless Zelos.

"Dude!... what did he just do!?" Zelos ask with anxiety. Like I defiled his perfect features, I roll my eyes at his action.

"Kitty healed you're bruise, Zelos," Lloyd says blandly. I look over to him to see a bemused Professor rushing over to Zelos. Grabbing the young chosen by the chin and inspecting.

"Incredible… you healed the bruise without magic." She says thoughtfully. I glance over to Sheena to see her roll her eyes.

"He obviously is a medic nin." She says with a raise of the eye brow. I give a low bow towards her and a thumbs up. She glares at me hard and turns her head away from me; I just shrug. I mean I'm ignoring the fact that they're calling me a guy, but I too lazy to even bring up the subject that I do not have balls what so ever.

I freeze as I feel an arm snake around my shoulders. I look to the side to see Zelos grinning at me.

"So, welcome to the group!" He says getting profuse arguments from the others.

"Now just hold on Zelos." I hear Regal interject. "We do not know him, so why should we trust this…Kitty person."

I couldn't blame it at all, but then I would like to point out on how he became into this little rag tag group. After all he is a convict who was trying to capture the chosen, Colette who I believe is not here, and turn her in to the pope of Tethe' Alla.

"If I remember correctly, Sheena and you weren't exactly people we could trust either."Lloyd says curtly. I look at them all to nod their head, causing Regal to shake his head. Still feeling Zelos's arm around my shoulder, I pinch the underside of his arm and quickly move away from Zelos. He cries with an 'ow', pouting at my 'non niceness' to him. Though I couldn't really laugh at him for his choice of words since I probably would have said the same thing if I was in his situation.

"No touchy," I briefly say with venom. Frowning, his hurt expression turns to that of a grin.

"So he does speak," Zelos says amused. I roll my eyes at him, flipping him off which makes him grin even more.

"To make points," Lloyd adds with a small smile. He looks a lot better than he did before, a little ash colored but not pale white and ridden with fear. He nervously glances to the side; gripping the side of his jeans.

"So to the inn?" Sheena says. I look at her for a second, her eyes meeting mine as her face looks sour. Throwing my arms up into the air, I stuff them into my pockets and walk over to Lloyd.

"Yeah we had a room for the night, though I don't think the inn keeper is going to be so happy to see us" Lloyd says with a nervous laugh rubbing the back of his head. I nod my head, my hands going to my hips.

"Woah there bud. You shared a room with…miss Kitty?" Zelos asks. Thinking the Miss Kitty joke is going to wound me. Wanting to be dramatic to his diss, my hand snakes up to my heart as I pretend to be hit in the heart. Hearing some laughs from the silver hair boy, I give a flourishing bow before gingerly stepping over to Zelos and messing his hair up.

"I think I'll like Kitty," I hear the boy say. While Zelos just hisses at me, attempting to straighten his crow's nest of a hair. I give a thumb up to the little guy and bounce my way back to Lloyd's side.

"I don't think I've introduced you to my… friends," Lloyd says. I make a no duh sign by lightly jabbing my finger to my head once and shake my head.

"Um this is Zelos Wilder," He says pointing to the red head. While the said red head looks at me a pouts.

"Messed my hair up,"

"This is the professor," Lloyd says pointing to the crazy orange woman. She stiffly walks over to me and glares at me straight.

"I think you still have my staff." She states to me. I nod my head, agreeing that I'll show it to her—not that she knows what I mean by my nod or anything.

"Uh… yeah it's at the inn… anyway.. This is Regal Bryan and Presea Combatier." Lloyd says once more pointing to the blue haired one and then lastly the pink kid with scary ass axe. Regal gives me a stern look while Presea on the other hand just looks past me with a blank look. Slowly turning my head away from the two I look to Sheena and the little guy; pointing to the two.

"That's Sheena Fujibayashi, though that isn't her real name. Then there is Genis, my best bud" Lloyd replies. I give a nod to the head, scratching my head I debate if I should announce myself or not.

"Kitty," I state. I hear Genis laugh at my name; turning sharply I walk over to him and grind my fist into his head.

"Ow!" He cries. I hear a snicker from Zelos.

"I think I'll like Kitty," He says sarcastically to Genis. Saying the exact same thing that Genis had said about me to Zelos. I give a very audible sigh, shaking my head at their stupidity. I can tell they are always at each other's throats. I just knew this is going to be a very long journey as well as tiring.

I wonder what crap Maya has in store for me. More importantly, I wonder how Heather is doing… as well as Annette. Knowing that crazy girl, she's in a lot of trouble. … HEY WAIT!... Naruto is probable raiding my ramen stash! That a-hole!

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Evelyn Dark: 7,005 words. Wow that's like my best yet!
Yuan: Scum bag!
Yondaime: tutu wearing pansy!
Yuan: WHAT THE HELL! Why does everybody keep calling me that!
Evelyn Dark: ….because..
Yuan: shut up…
Yondaime: Whatever… anyway! Until next time Ciao!
Yuan: Adieu.
Evelyn Dark: Dasvedanya!

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With migraines and pain,
Evelyn Dark, lazy ass writer of the century~!

With giving out false dates and an a-hole for a son,
Yondaime, Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village

With pink tutus and pansy insults,
Yuan Ka-Fai, Freakin Mad Scientist~!

Fin~

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Down the Rabbit Hole We Go!

"MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY! THERE'S A CRAZY NINJA IN THE INN!"