Chapter Two
~Ray's POV~
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
My eyes shot open, awoken by a scream. 'CRAP, IT HAS BEGUN ONCE AGAIN!'
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
"Angel!" I cried, running to my friend's side, as she screamed in pain. "Angel, calm down. I'm gonna get you to help, okay?"
She slightly nodded her head, while she bit her lip trying to suppress another scream. I carefully pulled her off the ground and onto my back before I dashed off in the direction of Hidden Leaf Village. One thing continuously played in my mind... I've gotta save Angel …
The further I ran the more the trees began to thin out, the wider the path became, and the worse Angel condition got.
"We're almost there Angel! Hang on!" She nodded weakly before she went limp on my back and I felt a wet stickiness run down my back. It then ran down to my hand that has been supporting Angel. I moved it slightly only to see a deep red color covering my hand. "Oh, crap! Blood! Not good, not good at all! Angel can you hear me? Please hear me!"
...then, of course, something happened to make the situation worse...
One second I was running full speed toward the village and the next, I'm on the ground and I instantly knew my ankle was injured. I tripped! Get time for my clumsiness to kick in!
About five feet away from me was Angel. She was lying on the ground with her eyes closed. The scene would have been a peaceful one... if it wasn't for the blood that soaked both her pale green t-shirt and jean shorts. There was also blood dripping down from the corner of her mouth. You could easily tell she was breathing, but it was slow and shallow. I crawled over to her as fast as my ankle would allow and began attempting to shake her awake. "Angel... Angel, wake up. Please, just wake up...Angel..." But it was no use; she was out like a light and I couldn't do anything about it. I began crying. I needed a miracle if I was to save my best friend.
"Sensei! I found someone!"
I jumped up, startled by the sudden shout. Sadly, the only thing that accomplished was causing me to collapse back to the ground in pain.
"OH MY GOD! SHE NEEDS HELP! SAKURA!"
There crouching down in front of me was a blonde spiky haired, blue eyed boy who looked to be about my age. Behind him stood a green eyed girl with pink hair about the same age. There was also a black haired dude and -oh my god- his hair looked like a freakin' cockatoo!
The girl ran over to Angel, as the blonde boy helped me up. "Don't touch her!" I snapped. Both the girl and blonde boy jumped back startled by my outburst, while the cockatoo dude simply walked towards me with a bored expression. He knelt in front of me, staring straight into my blueish gray eyes with his onyx black ones.
"Calm down, Sakura's just going to heal your friend over there before she dies of blood loss. Right, Sakura?"
She looked at him with a slightly dreamy look in her eyes, but quickly shook off the feeling and nodded in response to the cockatoo's question.
'Ew, fan girl alert! Wait, stop! Bad spaziness! Angel needs help. Concentrate, you dumbass!' I looked sadly at Angel before muttering, "The most you'll be able to do is maybe stop the bleeding."
She looked at me obviously confused, but began healing Angel anyway.
Just then a very weird looking man entered the scene. His white hair stood up at a slant, his left eye was covered with his forehead protector, and he had a mask to cover most of what was left uncovered. What really creeped me out about him was the book in his hand. Icha Icha Paradise. Gross. He walked over to me and looked down at me lazily, then his eye wandered over towards where Angel lay. "You wouldn't happen to be Serena Esry, would you?"
I glared at him. "Depends who wants to know."
Then he did something that really pissed me off. He completely ignored me! He walked over to Angel and crouched down beside the pink haired girl, looking at Angel with a calculating look. "So this is Mitsukai Kara Tokoyonokuni. Hmm. Sakura, finish up. We have to go back."
The blonde boy stood up outraged. "WHAT ABOUT THE MISSION?"
The man grabbed his head as if it was hurting him. "Naruto, be quiet for once please." The boy shut up instantly. "Thank you. And the mission is finished. We found who we were looking for. Now Naruto, help Serena. She won't be able to walk by herself with that ankle of hers. Sasuke, you carry Mitsukai." Then the creep began to walk away, still reading his damn book, with 'Sakura' following closely behind.
The blonde boy, Naruto I believe, walked over to me as the black haired cockatoo, Sasuke, picked Angel up into his arms.
I glared at Sasuke and practically growled as I spoke. "You drop her and I'll kill you, you freakin' cockatoo." Naruto burst out laughing and Sasuke glared at me.
"Whatever..."
"Freak," I replied before sticking my tongue out at him. He just rolled his eyes and headed in the direction the other two left.
"I think you're the first girl I've ever met that wasn't drooling over Sasgay, let alone threaten him," Naruto said still laughing like crazy. By now he was rolling around on the ground next me.
I snorted trying to keep the laughter in. "I find that hard to believe. Who would like a guy like him? He seems like such jerk."
He slowly calmed down and got off the ground, holding out a hand for me. "Yea, he is. Do you think you can walk on that ankle?"
"Well, let's see, shall we?" I took his hand and he pulled me up. I attempted to take a single step before I collapsed; luckily, Naruto caught me before I hit the ground. I sighed, "I guess that answered your question."
"How about a piggy back ride?"
I giggled a little in response. "Now, who can say no to that?"
He looked up at the sky with a thoughtful expression for a moment. "No one, I guess. Come on!" He then helped me onto his back and started jogging after his teammates. After a second, Naruto turned his head back towards me. "So your name is Serena, right?"
I nodded enthusiastically. "Yup, but Angel calls me Ray or Ray Ray. You can call me that too if you want. Anyways, now that you know my name, what's yours?"
He instantly shot me a bright smile. "NARUTO UZUMAKI, REMEMBER THE NAME BACAUSE SOME DAY I'M GOING TO BE HOKAGE! BELIEVE IT!"
I giggled lightly and let me make something clear before confusion sets in. It was not a 'I'm crushing in someone' giggle as Angel would have put it, it was a 'wow you're crazy' giggle. "Are you always like this?"
"Like what?" he asked, looking at me clearly confused.
"A loud, hyper-active knucklehead."
He thought for a second as he continued jogging. "I think so actually since everyone always calls me that. Honestly I have no clue."
"No kidding," I snorted.
We laughed for a second before settling in comfortable silence. Eventually we managed to catch up to his teammates and that's when Naruto's brain seemed to kick into overdrive.
'Uh oh, I hope his brain doesn't overload,' I thought with a mental giggle. 'Wait stop, bad thoughts! Be nice!'
"Hey, Ray?"
I snapped out of my little world. "Yeah, Naruto?"
"I have a question," he said with a freakishly serious expression across his face.
"Um…okay. Maybe I have an, um, answer…"
"Who's Angel and why does she call you Ray?"
At that instance, everyone else sweat dropped while I simply laughed.
"Naruto, you baka!" Sakura shouted.
When my laughter finally died down, I saw he was being completely serious.
"Naruto, you seriously don't know who Angel is?" I asked the blonde boy with a raise of one of my eyebrows.
He grinned cheekily at me and said, "Nope."
Sakura and the white-haired dude, that I still don't the name of, sighed exasperated while Sasuke mumbled 'baka' under breath. Thankfully Naruto didn't hear him because I'm positive it would have ended in a fight.
"Okay since you seem clueless, I'll answer your questions," I said, sighing as while, but with a small smile. "Angel calls me Ray because my middle name is Rayne. Moving on, Angel is my best friend, who your teammate is carrying at this moment. Oh, and her name is actually Mitsukai Kara Tokoyonokuni."
Naruto made an 'oh' face at my explanation that made me laugh, that was interrupted by Sakura shooting me another question at me.
"Doesn't Mitsukai Kara Tokoyonokuni mean Angel From Heaven? Isn't that a odd name to give your child?"
I couldn't help but snicker slightly. "You'd understand if you know her past, not to mention her future."
The three chunnin looked at me strangely then there was silence… but it was soon broken by Mr. Silent and Rude himself.
"So what Lady Hokage told me about her and you is true? She really is her daughter?"
I scoffed at him. "See for yourself. Check her wrist."
He stared at me skeptically with his single eye for a moment before nodding slightly and making his way over to her. He gently took her left wrist in his hand, looking at it. He quickly looked back up at me. "It's not there."
I narrowed my eyes at him. "Other wrist, you dumbass."
He glared at me from that single, annoying eye. "You know I have a name, right?"
I glared at him from my perch on Naruto's back as we continued on our way to the Leaf Village. "Well, I would use it if you would have been kind enough to give it to me, dumbass."
Naruto and Sakura started to laugh at the man, who at this moment palmed himself on the forehead. And I swear I think Sasuke even cracked a small smile, but maybe it was a trick of the light…I don't know.
"Well then, I guess I should introduce myself and my team."
I gave him an annoyed look. "You think?" Then I began mumbling under my breath. "Such a dumbass."
"I'm Kakashi Hatake."
I instantly began laughing. "Me and Angel use to know a man named Kakashi. I called him Kaka and she called him Aski. Aw, I miss that dude! Can I call you Kaka?" I asked, excited.
He sweat dropped. "Sure…?"
I threw my hands up in the air and gave a huge smile. "Yay! Now what's your name girly-girl? Even though I already know it, it would be nice to be introduced."
She smiled at me, obviously amused by my behavior. "My name is Sakura Haruno. Nice to meet you, Serena."
I made a quick face before smiling. "You too. But you can call me Ray, Ray Ray, Rayne, anything but Serena."
"Okay."
Kakashi rolled his eyes…eye? "Well, you know Naruto-"
My smile widened as I interrupted him. I threw my fist in the air and exclaimed, "Yup! Number one hyper-active knucklehead, right?"
The other three laughed while Naruto started grumbling about not being a knucklehead. 'Wait a moment!" I thought. 'Did Sasuke just laugh?'
"Holy crap! Cockatoo, did you just laugh?" I yelled with wide eyes.
He glared at me. "No…"
I narrowed my eyes at him. "Yes, you did, Cockatoo! You laughed!" I pointed at him like a crazy person. "You definitely laughed, you freaking Cockatoo!"
He simply glared at me harder.
I smirked at him. "Careful, Cockatoo. Your face will freeze like that."
Naruto and I burst out laughing as Sakura and Kakashi sighed at my antics.
Sasuke growled at me. "My name is NOT cockatoo."
"I know," I said shrugging. "It's Sasuke. I heard Kaka call you that."
His glare softened slightly, but remained locked on me. "Then why do you insist on calling me cockatoo?"
I raised an eyebrow at him. "Have you seen your hair? It looks like a cockatoo. Well it also looks like a chicken's rear end, but I would never call anyone that."
There was a bit off laughter after that and Sasuke stopped glaring at me, then it was silent…for a moment.
"Sasuke?"
"What?"
"…How much hair gel do you use?..."
