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Chapter 3:
Secrets Revealed: The Presence Part 2/What Silver Eyes Hold/The Future
Leaf Village Hospital: 2:19am
Kakashi and Sakura were both waiting on a bench outside the double-doors of the autopsy room. Sakura had fallen half asleep at one point and almost fell off the bench. If she had been lucky enough to fall the other way she probably would have fallen on Kakashi's shoulder.
They were both exhausted and had been kicked out of the room and weren't allowed to know about Tonbo's condition.
Tsunade emerged from the behind the doors which brought both Kakashi and Sakura to their feet in an instant. She walked slowly towards the two of them, with sweat running down the sides of her face.
"Sakura, go home and get some rest. You can see Tonbo in the morning. If she's still asleep, just don't wake her," Tsunade commanded softly.
"But is she alright? What happened to her?" Sakura pressed.
"Sakura, go now." She didn't sound mean, but her level of seriousness was still frightening.
Sakura only nodded and left.
As soon as Tsunade deemed Sakura far enough away, she turned to Kakashi, "We need to talk, now." She was much more stern with him, almost angry sounding.
"Right," Kakashi felt small under her ever impending wrath.
"Follow me," she walked off. Kakashi followed in suit.
She led Kakashi out the hospital building and to the intelligence center. When they entered the build she led him to a room, opened the door, and closed and locked it behind them.
There was a table with two chairs, one on either side. Tsunade took one of them and then motioned for Kakashi to sit in the one across from her.
Once he was seated, she spoke, "As I'm sure you're aware, this room is completely sound proof. No one will hear the following conversation."
"Well then I'm sure we'll have plenty of things to discuss," Kakashi replied.
"Tonbo will be fine. But that isn't my doing. I really thought she was going to die," Tsunade stated bluntly. Her eyes were fixated on Kakashi's every movement. She was watching his reactions closely.
When he said nothing, she continued, "The damage to her internal organs was extremely severe. There were no signs of external damage, meaning that whatever happened, happened from the inside out."
Kakashi's stoic expression was unchanged and he continued to stay silent.
"The damage that was done was done at a cellular level, it wasn't any poison. And all the damage lined up perfectly to her chakra network. Her chakra network was undamaged, but the cells around it were mostly destroyed." Tsunade took a breathe in and out, before she raised her voice. "Do you mind telling me what happened to her?!"
Kakashi sat up from his slouched position, "I came because I could feel her," was all he said.
"Feel her?" Tsuande suddenly felt unsure as to if she should have let Tonbo leave her captivity. Kakashi asked the third Hokage to release her every year. Maybe there was a reason he always declined Kakashi's request. I wonder if Kakashi's closeness to the girl has been affecting his judgement. Maybe the third Hokage didn't take her away for her own protection but for the protection of the village.
She knew she shouldn't assume anything, so she had to clarify. "Do you mean that the feeling, or... presence everyone was feeling... was Tonbo?"
"Yes, it was."
This concerned Tsunade. And if that was her, then how did she end up almost dying. "What do you mean by that?"
Kakashi let out a short sigh. "The truth is, Tonbo has certain abilities, specifically one that she can't explain. She says that she's taken away from her own consciousness, and experiences what someone else will experience. Sometimes more than one person at once."
"I don't think I quite understand," Tsunade said as she tried to comprehend what he had just told her.
"Well, that's how she explains it. But the best way I can explain it, is that I think she sees the future," Kakashi stated nonchalantly.
"The future?" she repeated slowly.
"Well based on what she's told me, for a period of time, she doesn't know what her own body is doing or feeling, but she sees things and feels things as if she were someone else. Or maybe just from someone else's perspective. And then later, exactly what she saw, and felt and heard will happen."
"So she 'experiences' things before they happen?"
"She says she witnesses things before they happen, because even though she feels everything as it's 'happening', when she's aware of herself again, it's like it was a dream to her," Kakashi slouched back in his chair again.
"She can't control it at all. But I know that she is still conscious when it happens, but I think she just can't distinguish between what's happening to her and what's happening in her... whatever you what to call it."
"If she can't control herself, then what was that feeling she gave everyone? I need to know if it's a danger to anyone," Tsunade said warningly.
"Her chakra nature is lightning, but she is unique. Her chakra control goes down to the atomic level. When she loses control of her chakra, it will send small electrically charges through anything it comes in contact with, but it's completely harmless. It just feels weird," Kakashi explained.
"Well then how did she end up with blood all over her?" Tsunade was still taking everything in.
"Well, she was three years old when a man put a seal on her chakra, but he didn't have all the information he needed to preform it properly. He tried to fill in the blanks by guessing. It proved to be somewhat effective, in that it didn't just not work. But it was still incomplete, and because of this, most of her chakra was locked away. She does have some free from the seal, but the amount is too small to do anything with other than things like walking on water or up trees. The seal stayed on her body instead of going to a specific place on her. She can force her chakra to leak out of the seal, and the symbols making up the seal glow the color of her chakra. In cases like last night, her chakra leaks out on its own. The tension between her chakra trying to get out and the seal causes the damage to her cells around her chakra network like what you saw. And the fact that the chakra network is interwoven with all of a persons internal organs, makes it extremely dangerous for her to ever use her chakra." Kakashi finally finished.
"You know, I worked trying to stop all the bleeding and trying to heal her for hours without making much progress. I thought she didn't have much of a chance of making it out alive." Tsunade tilted her head back and looked up at the ceiling, "Just when I thought she was about to die, her symbols began to glow that pale green color. It was only for a second, and she was unconscious for sure, but when I checked her afterward, she was in perfect health. I don't know what really happen, but somehow, it looks like in the end, she saved her own life. Whether she knew what she was doing or not."
Kakashi looked surprised, but Tsunade had closed her eyes with her head still hung back. "I didn't know she could heal herself."
This statement made Tsunade look back at him. "So there are still things about her that even you don't know?"
Kakashi didn't exactly like the small smirk Tsunade had on her face. "I guess so."
The Next Afternoon
Reaching, reaching... falling, falling.
She couldn't feel herself. She was numb to herself and to the world. Everything had faded from her, falling from her view like shards of broken glass. Then she started to fall with it.
Falling, falling...sinking, sinking, further and further into the blackness. She reaches upward trying to find something. But she couldn't remember what she was reaching for, and all the things that were once important to her began to fade from her mind as well.
Then, nothing.
Gone.
Just nothing.
. . .
Tonbo opened her eyes. The ceiling was painted white. She didn't feel like she could move, everything was stiff and ridged. She could hear a heart monitor beeping every time she felt a hard and painful coursing throughout her body.
There was an IV in her arm, and she wondered where she was.
Sakura noticed Tonbo's eyes had opened and she leaned over her to catch her attention. She began speaking and Tonbo turned her head following Sakura as she sat back down.
Tonbo didn't know what Sakura was saying, but her memories of the night before had started to flood back to her. She wondered how much Sakura knew and how much she had seen.
Sakura is looking at me. That face, she looks worried. At least she doesn't seem afraid of me. I don't want her to know the whole truth, if she knows, she'll be afraid.
"Hey, Tonbo? Are you feeling okay?" Sakura was so concerned, but she didn't quite know all the right questions to ask Tonbo. She had so many, but she didn't want to overwhelm her, or make her talk about something too painful.
"Tonbo?"
"Sa-kura."
"Yeah? What is it?"
"I'm sorry if I scared you. I didn't mean to." Tonbo felt that apologizing was the best thing to do considering she didn't know what all Sakura knew. Kakashi would at least have to vaguely describe what had happened.
Sakura's expression turned into a soft smile. "You don't have to be sorry for anything. Your my friend, no matter what, I wouldn't be able to keep myself from worrying about you when something happens."
Tonbo smiled back, but her eyes were still sad. "Thank you Sakura, thank you."
Four Days Later
Tonbo was getting dressed and ready to be discharged from the hospital. Kakashi had told her that she was in perfect health, after she woke up. He also told her that Sakura had no idea what had happened. Tonbo thought it was strange that Sakura hadn't brought up the topic at all.
She had no idea what Sakura thought had happened, or if Sakura had been thinking about it much. Tonbo sighed as she pulled the shirt Sakura and Ino had picked out for her, over her head.
I should probably just tell her the truth, that way she won't have to hear it from anyone else. Tonbo groaned, but if I do that, I'll have to explain everything else eventually. If she knew, I don't know what she'd think about me. She might just hate me. Ugh! But she's probably just waiting for me to tell her on my own, she'll hate me for sure if I don't tell her soon!
Tonbo finished putting her clothes on. "Uh! This is so frustrating, I just don't know what to do!" she said out loud to no one.
Sighing, she pulled on her ridiculous navy band and stuck her now stained red, handkerchief. It had served its purpose well she supposed. Kakashi should have just gotten me a red one in the first place.
She laughed to herself. She then heard the doors to her room unlock. Tsunade strode into the room in all her busty glory.
"Lady Hokage," Tonbo bowed. "Good morning," she said rising herself.
"Good morning Tonbo," Tsunade hadn't been to see Tonbo since the night of the incident. "I wish to ask you something."
"Ask me something?" she repeated. "What is it?"
Tsunade shifted her eyes to the side, staring at the wall. She almost looked uncomfortable, which was a first for her. "I'm not sure if you can remember, but..." Tsunade shifted her eyes back on Tonbo, with her look of discomfort gone. "I have to ask, what did you- uh..." she thought carefully about her word choice. "...see?"
Tonbo's eyes widened for just a second, but of course this did not go unnoticed. She knew exactly what Tsunade was referring to, and she would have to think carefully about how to respond.
She took a moment, but then didn't hesitate in the slightest, "I'm sorry Lady Hokage, but I can't tell you what I... 'saw'."
"Oh and why is that?!" Tsunade put her hands on her hips, obviously annoyed.
"People aren't meant to know what lies ahead. I am no exception to that, I shouldn't know what I do. But just because I do, doesn't mean that I can tell other people about it," Tonbo stated without blinking.
"Explain to me why you can't tell me!" Tsunade ordered pointing a finger at her.
"When people know things ahead of time and they don't like the end results, they naturally try to change it. Say for example, you saw someone kill someone else. You try to stop them by locking them up in jail before they have to chance to kill that person. What did you just do?" she looked up at Tsunade for her to respond.
"Stopped a murder from taking place," Tsunade thought that was obvious.
"Wrong. You just wrongfully convicted a man for a crime he never committed. If he didn't do it, he's still innocent of that crime. Just because you 'saw' him do it in the 'future', doesn't mean he is guilty for it. No one was murdered, so you didn't actually see the future. There is no way to prove he would have done it, because it didn't turn out the way you thought it would," Tonbo stated matter-of-factly.
Tsunade blinked at her and then thought for a bit. She wasn't wrong, she admitted, and depending on how you looked at it, her logic was sound.
Tsunade reluctantly agreed with her in her head. "Then what will you do with what you saw?"
"It will either happen, or it won't. I don't know when or if it will actually occur. It's been almost five days since then, so for all I know, it could have already happened. Besides, I only know whatever the person thinks about and feels and everything they experience in that moment. I don't know everything they know, only what they think about, it doesn't go further than that."
"So then you'll just wait to see if it happens?" Tsunade asked to clarify.
"I may never know if it does or not. That all depends," Tonbo explained.
Tsunade exhaled, "Well, are you leaving then?" she notice Tonbo had changed and even made the hospital bed herself.
"Yes, although I was going to wait for Sakura, so that she doesn't wonder where I am. She said she wanted to see me off."
"Very well then. I'll be seeing you tomorrow in my office with Kakashi," she told Tonbo.
"You will?"
"Yes, you still want to become a ninja don't you?" Tonbo remembered that was one of the first things she had told Tsunade. "We will be discussing the matter of you being a bit too old to start at the academy now, but we'll see what we can do."
Tonbo's face lit up with a huge smile. "I actually did go to the academy when I was young."
"Well we'll discuss everything later. I know you will want to be getting home won't you?"
"Yes, thank you Lady Hokage!" she bowed quickly in respect and gratitude.
Tsunade gave a slight smile and then departed. Tonbo sat on her hospital bed swinging her feet back and forth. She knew she was ready to go home, she just had to wait for Sakura.
Sakura came and unlocked the doors roughly 20 minutes later. She left the doors wide open behind her.
"Sorry that I didn't get here earlier, I decided to make you breakfast myself, but it took a little longer than I thought," she held out a box wrapped in cloth in front of her.
Tonbo took it from her in surprise. She didn't know that Sakura cooked. "Thank you, that's very sweet. But you didn't have to go to all of that trouble."
"Oh don't worry about it, it was actually kind of fun! I hope you like it," Sakura smiled at her.
"I bet I will," Tonbo smiled back.
"Well, shall we walk?" Sakura asked gesturing towards the doors.
They walked through the hospital building side by side, with Sakura guiding Tonbo through the halls. When they walked out the doors at the front of the building, they stopped and turned to each other.
"I wanted to see you again before you left the hospital. You see, now that you won't be my patient anymore, we won't see each other everyday. I'll be going back to my regular training with Lady Tsunade, and I won't have much free time," Sakura seemed a bit sad.
"Oh, I see. I guess I'll be doing other things too, now that I won't be cooped up in a hospital anymore. Although it got boring a lot, I still enjoyed being in the hospital with you as my friend," Tonbo looked down at her shoes. "I'm glad for all the time we spent talking and laughing with each other."
Sakura could see that Tonbo was sad they were parting ways as well. Sakura leaned in and embraced her.
Tonbo was shocked, she wasn't use to people touching her. "That doesn't mean goodbye. Tonbo, I value our friendship, and because of that, we will for sure see each other again," Sakura spoke gently.
By the time Tonbo had gotten over her shock, Sakura had already let go. She looked at Sakura, "I've never had a friend quite like you, but I'm glad we're friends. Thank you for all you've done for me."
Sakura smiled, "I'm glad we feel the same!"
Tonbo's face soften from its serious, and sad look into a smile. She nodded to Sakura in affirmation.
"Tonbo, where will you go?" Sakura was curious.
"Well home of course!"
"Well then tell your brothers I said hi, okay?" Sakura smiled again.
"Of course," she confirmed. "I better get going, I'll see you later Sakura!" Tonbo ran off in the direction of her house waving back at Sakura.
"Yeah, I'll see you soon!" Sakura called after her, waving.
Tonbo reached her house and opened the door. It wasn't locked, but this didn't surprise her. She took her shoes off at the door and step inside.
She noticed the house was quiet and there was dust on the floor. She walked into the kitchen and pulled a rag out of a drawer. She walked into the next room over and began to wipe the dust off the table before setting the box Sakura had given her, down on it.
When she sat down on the cushion, dust puffed up into the air making Tonbo sneeze. I'll just have to clean everything. She thought to herself.
She had known exactly what she would come home to. So she sat there and ate her breakfast alone.
Sakura's food was... edible, it was food after all. Although it didn't taste all that great, she was glad to have something to eat. She couldn't wait to clean out the refrigerator, who knows how long the food in there's been rotting?
After eating, she decided to clean the floors first. She went to the hall closet, and took out the vacuum cleaner. She proceeded to vacuum all the floors in the house, with the exception of the bedrooms. She wasn't ready to go that far yet.
She then mopped all the floors she had vacuumed. She cleaned out the refrigerator, which was disgusting. And she washed all the shelves as well as the inside of the refrigerator.
She wiped down all the surfaces around the house and dusted all the furniture. She washed all the things that could be washed, and cleaned all the bathrooms.
She knew she couldn't avoid it anymore, so she headed to the hallway with all the doors to the bedrooms shut.
She let out a long breath, and walked down to the master bedroom. Her parents' room.
She hesitated, but reached slowly out for the door. She rested her hand on it for a moment before she slid the door open.
The room was dusty and hazy, but it wasn't anything frightening. So she brought the vacuum in and then followed with the mop.
She left all the things in the room in their proper places, not disturbing their placements. She didn't feel right moving anything around, or putting things away.
Next, she moved on to her eldest brother's room. She did a similar routine at the door before sliding it open.
It wasn't dark or unwelcoming, it just had the same thick layer of dust she saw in her parents' room. She took much care in cleaning everything without disrupting the order or placement of anything. She wanted everything to be exactly where he had left it.
Next was her own room. She didn't find this one as difficult, but she still took her time to slide the door open to see if everything was the way she had left it.
When she scanned her own room, everything looked largely undisturbed. Her bed had been made, so she assumed her mom probably did that the morning she left. But nothing else seemed to have been touched.
She went to drag the vacuum over to her room. Before she moved into her room, she looked down at the floor. What she saw made her fall to her knees and sob.
The layer of dust on her floor wasn't even. There was one set of footprints where the dust was less thick. The footprints led from her door to right beside her bed. The two footprints that were right beside her bed had a layer of dust even thinner than the rest, as if someone stood there for a long time.
She remembered that her eldest brother was always busy and out on missions. Sometimes he was gone for a long time, and she wouldn't see him. Most of the time when he got back from his missions, it was early in the morning and Tonbo was still asleep. But every time he returned from a mission, he would come into her room and stand by her bedside. He wouldn't wake her up, or say anything to her. He would just wait there until she woke up on her own. She would always jump up and hug him when she saw him there. She loved her older brother, and she always missed him when he was away.
She was now sobbing on the floor curled up tightly. It was as if, even after she left, he would still come to her room. As if he was waiting for her to wake up and hug him.
Tonbo laid on the floor in front of her room for hours without moving. She was flat on her back, with her arms and legs spread out, just staring up at the ceiling.
She didn't want to move, but it was by this time, past two in the afternoon and she was getting really hungry. After a while of listening to her stomach protest loudly to her lack of getting up to eat something, she complied and got up.
She had to search her brothers' rooms for money so that she could go buy something. She found more than enough money lying around, for her to buy food for four or five days. But she would have to have a way to make money after that.
She grabbed a bag to put her groceries in and got ready to leave. Before she left out the door she looked at the money in her hand, and then looked down at her clothes. No pockets... right. She sighed to herself.
She went to the market and bought some of the most inexpensive food she could find. She didn't end up spending all the money, so she walked aimlessly through the town.
Something caught her eyes after a while. It was a flower shop, and it drew her in without her really realizing what she was doing.
She started to looked around, "Welcome to the Yamanaka Flower Shop! May I he-, oh hey Tonbo!"
Tonbo turned around to see Ino, much to her surprise. "Ino? Hi, do you work here?"
"Yeah, this is my family's flower shop! Who are you planning on giving flowers too?" Ino beamed curiously.
Tonbo looked at the money she had left in her hand. "Well, I guess I could. Just for my family, my mother really likes flowers," Tonbo smiled up at her.
"Ooo, that's so nice of you! Normally, when someone comes back from a long trip, people will give them flowers."
"A long trip?"
"Yeah, Sakura told me that you had been on a long trip and got back kind of recently."
"Oh, right," Tonbo nodded.
"Well then what can I get for you?" Ino asked.
"I don't really know much about flowers, so just something bright and cheerful maybe?" Tonbo was a bit uncomfortable.
"Hmm," Ino thought for a moment. "Well if you want to please your mom, how about some dahlias?"
Tonbo didn't know the first thing about flowers, and at this point, Ino could tell. "Uh, sure."
Ino hid a laugh and proceeded to walk to the other side of the room and pull out some pink flowers. "How many will you want?"
Tonbo thought about it, "Three," she said.
"Three? Thats a bit of an odd number." Ino looked back at her.
"Well I can only spend so much," she gave an awkward smile.
Ino smiled and took three dahlias over to the front desk and trimmed the stems with her scissors. She wrapped them up and tied a bow. "Its on the house," she handed the flowers to Tonbo.
"You don't have to do that, I don't mind pay-"
Ino cut her off, "Tonbo, you couldn't even force me to let you pay. Its called a favor, and it is okay to accept it."
Tonbo smiled, "Thank you very much!"
"I'll see you later!" Ino called as Tonbo walked to the door.
"Yeah, see you later," Tonbo waved before leaving.
She walked home with the three flowers in one hand and her bag with groceries hanging from the fold of her elbow.
When she got back to her house, she sat the flowers down on the kitchen table. She put everything that she wasn't going to cook into the refrigerator. Her mother often had her help with the cooking. She would always tell her that part of making a man happy one day, was knowing how to cook.
She made herself something to eat, and it didn't taste all that bad. She was suddenly glad her mother would always make her come inside early from playing to help with preparing the next meal.
After she ate, she took the flowers out of the wrapping and walked out the door. She headed down one of the pathways to a grassy area. She walked up and down the aisles of stones until she found the three she was looking for.
She placed a flower in front of each of the three graves. She knelt down in front of her youngest brother's.
She placed her hands together. Hey. I finally got to come to see you again. How have you been? I've been alright myself. I made two new friends. There names are Ino Yamanaka and Sakura Haruno. Did you know them? I know I was gone a long time. I'm sorry. I wish I could have been with you, and everyone for longer. I miss you... tears started to stream down her face, ...Hinashou.
She cried there silently until she fell asleep.
She woke up when she felt someone nudging her with their foot. She was startled and sat up stiff like a pencil. A boy was staring down at her with his hands in his pockets and a bored look on his face. He was familiar.
"What's a girl like you doing sleeping in a cemetery? Do you know all the unspeakable things could happen to you?" She blinked at him. He still wore a bored expression.
"I, uh," he didn't let her finish.
"Judging by the way you're dressed, I'm guessing you're not a hobo."
"A-a hobo?" she asked.
"Are you?" he cocked an eyebrow.
"No, of course not," she felt slightly defensive at the fact he had to ask.
"Well then shouldn't you be home or something?"
"Why are you asking me all this, you don't seem to care. Do you?" she used the slightest bit of sarcasm.
"I don't. When I saw you I couldn't just walk by, a man doesn't just leave a woman that could be hurt and needs help. Or apparently one that just sleeps in cemeteries in her spare time," he sighed. "Troublesome."
"So then this is just all an obligation to you?" she was a bit annoyed.
"Yeah, so don't take any of this personally," came his lazy reply.
"Don't worry, I won't," she looked back down at the ground hoping he would leave.
He sat down facing her instead. "I'm Shikamaru Nara," he stated.
She inwardly sighed, "My name is Tonbo."
"So then what are you doing out here anyway?" he asked without being sensitive.
"Just visiting, I guess I lost track of time and fell asleep." It was already dark outside.
"Who are you visiting?" he asked, and she began to wonder if he had any sense of consideration.
But, if she was honest, she didn't really care. She would actually like someone to talk to. "My parents and one of my brothers."
"Oh," it was now that he seemed to look a little concerned. But that only lasted for a few seconds. "So then, you have other siblings?"
"Yes, I have two other brothers. They're both older than me, and the one here is younger."
"Do you live with your two older brothers then?" he asked.
Tonbo couldn't help but laugh a little, "No, they're both rogue ninjas now."
He suddenly looked like he didn't know what to say. That was obviously not the answer he was expecting. "Oh, well... sorry."
She could tell he was trying, "Its okay, I haven't seen them in so long now, I might not even recognize them if I saw them."
"Do you want me to walk you home?" he asked. Despite his overall lazy and uncaring appearance, he still seemed genuine.
"Thanks, but..." she let her eyes fall down. "Do you have anyone here you want to visit?"
"Huh?" he seemed a little surprised by the question. "No, not really. But now that you mention it, I could go and pay my respects to the third."
An image of the same boy in front of her, standing over a grave, holding a small, rectangular lighter, flashed through her head. When she experienced it, he never gave away the name of the person. So that hasn't happened yet. She thought as her eyes grew sad.
"Would you like to come with me?"
"No thank you, I'll pay my respects to him some other time, but I really should be getting home," She got up and started off in the direction of her house.
If she gets hurt on the way to her house, I'll probably regret not chasing after her. But I just sat down, getting up would be so... troublesome. He sat there thinking.
He turned to look at the name on the grave out of curiosity. When he read the name, his eyes widened.
No, it can't be. That's... impossible. He leaped up and dashed in the direction she headed. Where would she have gone? If anything out of what she said was true, there's only one place she could have gone.
He sprinted down the path, went through one of the district gates, and caught up to her before she could get into the exact house Shikamaru had predicted she'd go to.
"Uchiha! You- walk- troublesomely fast," he said in between pants. She stopped in mid-step with her back turned towards him.
"The surname on that grave and all the graves around it was Uchiha. But that's impossible, there are only two Uchihas left, S-"
"Sasuke and Itachi," she broke in.
She still had her back towards him. "By what you said, Sasuke and Itachi would have to be your brothers for that to be true. They are both rogue ninja, but I know that's impossible. Sasuke and Itachi didn't have a sister, let alone another brother on top of it. You're about the same age as Sasuke, and you look nothing like an Uchiha," he finished.
"You want to know the truth?" She paused to sigh and then she turned to face him. "I'm not supposed to talk about my brothers, so I'll tell you this. I was not born an Uchiha, nor am I a part of their family."
She walked into the house Shikamaru had known to be Sasuke's. She shut the door behind her, leaving Shikamaru outside with a lot of unanswered questions.
A/N: Again, combination of chapters and what not. Hope you guys like and are curious as to what Tonbo means by that. Read and Review!
