OKay lucky you , everyone gets a new chapter up this soon! But only because I probably won't be working on this story for a while my college finals are coming up and I have allot of end of year projects to attend to. Hopefull I'll get a new one up in June though.

The world around Raila was dark but she could hear voices muffled like they were far off in the distance. She tried to open her eyes but the lids were so heavy she found she didn't have the energy. Suddenly, a hand was clutching hers firmly like the person never wanted to let go and someone was stroking the back of her hand.

"Come on Raila-kun." The voice was right next to her a voice that she knew and one she never thought she would hear again. She squeezed the hand, 'is it really him?' Gathering her strength she forced her eyelids open. The world was fuzzy but she could see a large green something next to her. 'A green angel.' She thought smiling softly.

Raila blinked once and the world came in to greater focus, there he was, sitting next to her, an expression of purest joy on his face. "Lee-kun," she whispered he voice hoarse from disuse. Tears ran down Lee's face falling onto their still joined hands.

"Raila-kun," he said trying to hold back his sobs and trying to stop himself from crying any more. A hand came around and touched Lee's shoulder he turned his head, it was the Hokage.

"Lee-san, we need to attend to her."

"Right." He sniffed deeply, "I'll be right over here Raila-kun." Lee regretfully let go of her hand and allowed the Hokage to examine Raila.

Raila sighed she had been awake for six days now and she felt like she had been there for a year. 'That's right I have been here for a year…holy shit.' She couldn't describe the way she felt about losing an entire year of her life, one would say disbelief put it best but still felt pale in comparison to what she really felt. In fact if they hadn't shown her herself in a mirror she wouldn't have believed them. She had only seen Lee for a short hour each day as well. Now that she was awake they weren't sure if they could trust her not, even if she had fought on their side during the battle with Orochimaru and Kabuto tried to kill her, they didn't believe that she was on their side.

The door opened without warning and the nurse stepped in. "Good morning, Raila-san, how are you feeling today?"

"Excellent, I can't wait to get out of here, when can I?"

"Haha, not for a while yet, your muscles still aren't strong enough to support you.*" The nurse said the bright fake smile never leaving her face.

"Well, when can I start those exercises the Hokage told me about?"

"I can't say." Raila could almost hear her thinking 'not until we know you're not a threat.'

"Oh…Do know when Lee-kun will be allowed in here today?"

"I'm afraid Lee-san is not coming today he was given a mission by the Hokage. Now take these pills and eat your breakfast. I'll be back in twenty minutes for the dishes." Raila sighed again it was definitely going to be a long time before she got out of here.

Children ran down in courtyard of the hospital, Raila had wondered why they would put a comatose person in a room with such a great view then she realized that the Hokage's office had a perfect vantage point to keep an eye on her. Apparently even comatose she was considered a threat. There was a short knock on the door.

"Come in," Raila said not turning away from the window.

"Raila-chan."

"Gai-sensei," Raila said smiling and turning to face the usually exuberant man but his wasn't smiling and Raila's own smile fell at the serious look on his face. "Please sit." She gestured to the chair Lee usually occupied. He sat staring deeply into her eyes.

"We need to talk," he stated not breaking eye contact.

"About what?"

"Everything."

"Dear Kami you're not going to give the sex talk!" Gai's right twitched and the corner of his mouth curled ever so slightly but his ninja training kept him from bursting out in laughter.

"No," he said his voice cracking faintly due to restrained laughter, "We need to talk about Lee and…what you've done."

"Well finally!" Raila exclaimed throwing her hands in the air. "I've been waiting for someone to come and interrogate me since I woke up but it's like it's the summoned toad in the room, everyone wants to but they're afraid."

"Raila, I'm not interrogating you. I just want to talk about last year and the chunin exam."

"I see…what did you want to know?"

"I guess it would be easiest if you just started at the beginning, I want to hear our side of the story."

"You mean you want to know everything that Inoichi-san didn't have a chance to see. Okay, if it means winning back a little bit of trust I'll do it but it might be kinda long the ANBU outside the window and the Hokage might want to come in and have a seat." Gai's eyes widened when the door opened and in stepped the Hokage, she nodded and the ANBU outside leapt across the roof tops.

"I believe Inoichi-san left right after I killed Lee's father," they stared at her with hard eyes, "okay…I'll start there then."

"No. Why don't you start with the mission that brought you here, Gai-san said you were delivering a scroll."

"Yes…I suppose that might be the best place to begin." Raila took a deep breath and began.

She told them how her original mission was to deliver a cursed scroll directly to the Hokage and that men who had attacked her were simply there so that she was able to get past the guards without her bag being searched. The scroll had a powerful genjutsu placed on it so that the person who opened and read the scroll would be sent insane with images of their worst fears projected in front of them. However, because of the Hokage's absence she was unable to, which was a good thing since Orochimaru had sent orders to her that plans had changed and she was to wait for the Chunin exam where her team would join her for a mass attack. So she waited surrounded by the enemy and with the most interesting pair of ninja she had ever met.

Raila admitted she had found Lee attractive from the beginning but his personality had complete sucked her in and before long she begun identifying with the enemy. She told them how she had quickly begun to like Lee even though it had been only a few days and how his presence had made start to believe in something other than murder and loyalty to Orochimaru. Raila revealed everything she could about her feelings towards Lee including her horror when she learned that she had killed his parents. After and a half she finally reached the final exam and the battle.

"…I had been deliberating what I would do the entire exam but I knew the moment that I yelled out Lee-kun's name there was no way I was going to be loyal to Orochimaru-sama. Even when I was summoning him I was ready to fight alongside the Leaf village. I knew they would find a way to kill me so I allowed Kabuto-san to stab me since it allowed me to deliver a blow to Orochimaru. I really wasn't expecting to live, in fact, I was hoping I wouldn't just so I wouldn't have to face Lee-kun afterwards."

"I see…" the Hokage said pacing the room. Raila had told them everything they had asked for and she didn't seem to be lying of course once she had a bit more strength in her Ibiki would make sure she wasn't.

"Gai leave, I want to talk to talk to her alone." Gai nodded and left quickly. Raila stared at the Hokage who was no longer pacing but looking at her intently.

"Raila Ningai," she said her voice harsh, "I am going to give you one chance and one chance only to prove that you are no longer loyal to Orochimaru. If you mess up I'll have you locked away and tortured for information. Do you understand me?"

"Yes ma'am."

"Good, for you sake and that of the ninja you befriended you better not fail." And with that the Hokage left, leaving Raila slightly shell-shocked in her wake.