Disclaimer: I do not own the series Naruto. That is all. I will not be doing anymore previews at the end because I honestly don't know where my writing will take me lol.
Present: Konoha The Forest of Death
Coming upon the lake the girl had spoken of, Miyako's heartbeat pounded faster against her ribcage. Making it this far was an accomplishment but she knew she had while to go before she could fully celebrate her escape. She quickly tried to analyze what she knew and didn't know, and what the best course of action was for her to take, as she sipped on the water cupped in her hands.
With Kiba and Akamaru noses wrecked she knew they wouldn't be able to track her by scent. Shino's bugs who were overloaded with a dose of pheromones, he won't be able to use them for a few hours. All that left was Hinata Hyuga with her freaky eyesight and Temari, she had the advantage of an aerial view. So that meant she had to blend in to her surroundings to throw off the sand nin but their wasn't much she could do about the Hyuga's kekkei genkai. She would just have to not get caught. Easier said than done.
She quickly took the wet mud at the edges of the lake and smeared as much as she could on the clothes she was wearing making sure to stick a few plants on her as well. She stood up ready to fight for her freedom.
Miyako ran as fast as her feet would take her diving behind trees and shrubs making sure to keep to the shadows. She had been traveling like this for a few minutes, careful not to disturb the giant bugs and animals she'd seen devouring their prey without mercy. She could see a break in the trees where sunlight was creeping through, that had to be the field of flowers.
She could hear the faint calling of her name, she hoped the ninja were getting attacked by bugs now. Pausing at the edge of the beautiful field she was to cross in order to obtain her freedom she let herself smile, a small serene smile. It was beautiful, breathtaking even. As far as the eye could see their were flowers hugging the earth in its hues of red, pink, yellow, and blue. If she wasn't being chased by ninja, she might have actually enjoyed sitting their for a moment and just be.
She powered through her fatigue pushing the muscles in her legs to go father, faster. They screamed for a break, but she could not listen. Running through the field pollen dancing around her, she could see it a huge silver fence in the distance. It wasn't that far she was going to make it, she was sure of it.
A buzzing sound soon caught her attention. Bewteen the rest of the distance in the field herself flying bugs as big as the spider web she had seen earlier flew around, buzzing dangerously, a warning. Screw it, she wasn't scared of some stupid fucking bugs. She ran through a gap in between the insects.
She felt a sharp sting on her calf apparently one of them didn't like her rudeness. She looked down at her leg terrified at how big the area where she had gotten stung at had grew so quickly. She couldn't let a bug bite scare her off. Ignoring the numbing sensation in her right leg continued her pursuit but so did the bugs.
" FUCK! Why can't they just be good little bugs and go pollinate a tree or something.?!
"Miyako, please come back with us!" Miyako turned around seeing the Hyuga girl running at her at full speed.
Fuck she couldn't stop now, she was right there. Some of the bugs taking interest in the newcomer disturbing their field, flew at Hinata. Distracted for a split second she didn't feel the sting in her upper arm til later. She shot it dead the next, with her position being discovered by the Hyuga she didn't care about keeping a low profile anymore she just had to make it past the gate.
Running without regard for her swollen limbs, she pushed herself. The Hyuga girl making quick work of the bugs that had attacked her, quickly focused back on her target. Miyako barreling at high speed crashed into the silver fence she had been searching for. This was it. She just had to find an opening or create one.
Hinata closed in on the frantic girl, she practically see the wheels turning in her head.
"Miyako-san please come back with us. I know Konoha is not your home but it's not that bad here." Hinata sweet light voice said. She continued speaking to girl, her back turned away from her.
" I know it's not always the best experience to leave a place you love but you can find new things to love here." Hinata spoke softly. Hinata watching her Miyako fists open slightly and close, finally the slacked up. Hinata could here a faint sniffling sound. She was crying.
Miyako threw herself into Hinata's arms, holding on to her tightly as she sobbed. Hinata hugged her back, she felt bad that she had to bring this distraught girl in, taking her freedom away.
"Oh, Hinata you don't understand." Miyako whispered. Miyako had seen the other three ninja land in the field a while ago approaching her and the Hyuga girl.
"J..Just tell me what you need and I 'll help you okay." Hinata said, rubbing her back gently.
"There is something you could do for me," Miyako soon reversed their positions holding Hinata from the back, the smooth metal of her gun resting against the Hyuga's forehead.
"Back up! All of you or I won't hesitate to give sweet little Hinata here a new makeover." Miyako screamed.
"I want all of your weapons tossed to the side now!" she screamed. Hinata cursed her empathetic nature for falling for the act.
"What do you think your doing Miyako, she's the daughter of one of the biggest clans in Konoha, you can't be serious? Temari yelled at her.
Kiba and Akamaru growled showing their distaste.
"Oh for my freedom, I'm very serious. Turn of your kekkei genkai Hyuga-san." She ordered. Hinata following her instructions turned it off and tossed her weapons pouch far away.
"Good." Miyako hummed in a pleased tone. She shackled Hinata in chakra suppressant cuffs, while keeping her gun pointed at her head.
" Think about this, she's your friend," Temari all but bellowed.
"No, Mari-chan she's your friend, I just met her a week ago; her life is of no consequence to me.
"You bitch!" Kiba yelled his nostrils flaring.
"Now now Inuzuka-san I would appreciate some respect seeing as your little friend's life is in my hands." Miyako cocked the gun to note her serious ness.
"Now I want you to leave me to my business and go back to the village." She said.
"We're not going anywhere without Hinata." Shino replied tersely.
"I'll make you a deal, I'm a woman of my word. I will of course let this sweet girl go if you let me be on my way." Miyako gave Hinata a feather light kiss on her cheek frustrating the Inuzuka more.
"We can't do that their orders from the Hokage." Kiba gruffly responded.
"And these or mine, you either do as I say, or she dies, simple." "Temari knock the Inuzuka and his pet out."
Temari's face full of surprise she looked back at Miyako. "What?"
"You heard what I said knock him and Clifford out, shortly after do the same with Aburame-san. Tick Tock" Miyako clicked her tongue.
Temari approached Kiba slowly, "Trusts me okay." Kiba nodded his consent before shortly being hit at a certain angle effectively knocking him out, Akamaru shortly followed.
"Aburame next." Miyako demanded.
"You know Ko-chan this isn't like you putting other people in danger for your selfishness." Temari said walking up to the Shino and knocking him out shortly after that.
"What would you know about me, Mari-chan we haven't spoken in years. This is exactly the thing I'd do." Miyako spit the words out. Her vision had been steadily blurring probably due to that damn bug bite; she would just had to tough it out until her escape, hopefully the venom wouldn't spread to far into her bloodstream.
"Now that those to are out of the w..way" her gripped loosened on the gun for a moment, stepping back to she shook her head to clear it. Hinata catching the slight falter in her movements took her chance.
"Byakugan." Hinata hit points in her finger, Miyako's gun soon fell to the ground.
"Damn it, Fuck you." Miyako whispered falling to the ground, her world going black.
Konoha The Hokage's Office
The fifth Hokage sat in her office waiting for her top tracking team to burst through the door, with her fugitive goddaughter at any moment. The only ones left in the room were her, Itachi-san, and Toru-san. The Uchiha brat had left quite some time ago preferring to leave and not have to deal with the situation any further.
"Your team is taking quite some time to recover my daughter, do you think she escaped them?" Toru asked curious of her answer.
"Miyako is a bright girl so I 'm sure she gave them some trouble it may be taking a little longer than usual but rest assured she cannot escape this team." Tsunade answered back wondering herself why an hour had passed with no news.
"Uchiha-san while you are here I will give you the file me and Toru-san have comprised of Miyako."
"Hai." He answered back smoothly is his usual baritone voice, taking the file the Hokage handed him. He opened the file up to the first page staring at the outdated photo of the girl who was in here moments ago, her long silver/white hair had stayed the same only growing with her. Her small button like nose had only grew some fitting her face now. Her wide thin-lipped smile was different. The woman's lips were plump and full now but her smile wasn't quite the same.
"Hokage-sama we're back." Temari's voice brought Itachi back from his mental space.
"Report." Tsunade- sama barked out.
"We recovered Miyako-chan in the forest of death. She was stung by some of the venomous bugs trying to escape and is at the hospital right now, getting detoxed and recovering. Hinata Hyuuga was temporarily put in a hostage situation but was not harmed, she took Miyako down."
Temari relayed the report hoping to minimize the fact that Miyako threatened to kill the Hyuuga. Hinata hmmed on side her in agreement with what was said.
Itachi listened on in fascination of his new pupil. She took the Hyuuga hostage and made Temari take out the rests of her enemies. Interesting.
He had expected the mission to simple and quick but it seemed Yamaguchi Miyako was a very determined girl either that or she was either exceptionally brave or exceptionally foolish.
"Thank You for your work. You are both relieved of your duty."
"Hai. Hokage-same." Both of the women replied.
Temari soon found herself walking alongside Hinata on the street.
"I hope you don't think Miyako is a bad person because of this. I know she threatened you but she wouldn't have done anything to you."
Temari gave her a sympathetic smile hoping the Hyuuga wouldn't hold it against her friend. Hinata gave a her a small smile and a simple nod. She would not hold it against the girl, for fighting for her freedom. It was something Hinata could relate to when she was younger, and desperately wanted to leave the main branch.
But that was the past. Her and her father had been working on their relationship for the better now, and her home didn't seem as much as a mausoleum as she first thought.
"Hinata, Temari!"
Both girls turned to hear a familiar voice. It was Sakura calling them over to a table outside a cafe. Her, Ino, and Tenten sat waiting for their desserts to get there.
"Hey girls I haven't seen you since the ball." Temari smiled at the group of girls she considered her friends and comrades in arms.
"Hello." Hinata gave her polite greeting.
"Come sit with us." Ino invited them to sit down and join their weekly girl talk and sweets date, they had when they were all in the village.
The girls took their seats ordering drinks and deserts. It was Ino, who went back to the previous conversation they were having before they got there.
"Okay forehead, tell us the truth are you really over the Uchiha?"
The girls all turned their heads curiosity and smirks settling on their features, except Hinata who stirred her latte hoping they wouldn't get her case next about a certain blue-eyed loud mouth.
Sakura showed no hint of a blush or even a smile as she replied no.
"Wow you dint even blush maybe you really are over him." Tenten said, but the disbelief in Ino's eyes showed her true feelings.
"Of course I am. Sasuke Uchiha has brought nothing but pain to my friends and family. The only reason I don't knock is block off when I see him, is because of Naruto and the help he gave during the war."
Everyone could understand that sentiment, even though Sasuke had betrayed them in their younger years, he did show up and helped when it counted most. Most people didn't have enough hate in them to focus it on Uchiha, to preoccupied with rebuilding the villages.
"Hmmm fine I'll let you slide for now forehead." Ino's eyes soon landed on Hinata, who tried her best to pretend to look elsewhere.
"Don't pretend you can't see me hina-chan what's up with you and that idiot."
"Ano uh, Naruto-kun and I haven't spoken much since the war ended." She replied tapping her fingers against each other before putting them down. She was trying to break that bad habit of hers, show more confidence.
"What do you mean didn't you confess to him during Pein's attack?" Ino inquired.
"U..Um y-yes I did but he uhh he…"
"The baka doesn't remember it." Sakura interjected to save Hinata from saying it.
"When Naruto turned into the nine tails after Pein hurt Hinata he lost some of the memories before the transformation." Sakura spoke, explaining to the other girls.
"Well that's okay Hinata we'll make sure that idiot realizes how he feels about you." Ino pumped her fist in the air determination shining in her eyes at the possibility of being a love match maker. The other girls soon joined in with courses of hai and definitely.
Hinata smiled at her friends rambunctioness.
"Ano enough about me what about you Tenten-chan you've been at the compound everyday taking care of Neji-nii." Hinata smiled in triumph at diverting the attention off her, on to her friend.
A chorus of ouuu's and ahhh's and giggles soon found their way into the conversation. Making the weapons mistress turn a very peculiar shade of pink.
"You didn't say anything about that Tenten-chan." Sakura said peering at the girl with eyes that wanted details.
"Well I..just wanted to make sure he was taken care of." Sha said, her fce turning a deeper shade resembling a ripe apple.
"Ouuu you love him, you want marry him, and have 58 of his babies." Ino sing songed. The girls burst into a fit of laughter, at their bun haired friend's expense.
"Shut up, I do not." Tenten protested back weakly.
"Well at least I haven't been posing for Sai's nudey pics pretending to be interested in art."
Ino spluttered. Her drinking flying out of her mouth and on to the table. Sakura held her sides so as not to die from laughter at the mortified look on her best friend's face.
"I do not pose nude for him you tomboy. I always have on my clothes and he just paints my portrait." Tenten stuck her tongue out at her for the tomboy comment.
Ino made a crazy face back, soon both were laughing at their own craziness. But Ino still a little miffed that Temari was sill chucking turned her eyes on her fellow blonde smiling a devious smile.
"At least what we do is interesting, it's better than some people who watch clouds and make out all day." Temari's chuckle hitched in her throat oh no.
Oh yeah Ino thought in victory. If she was going down so was everybody else.
"We've just been hanging out okay." Temari bellowed a very light blush dusting her cheeks.
"That's not what I saw, when I seen Shika the other day, he had this massive hicky on his neck. He tried to cover it with makeup, but I know a cover up when I see one." Ino smiled taking a sip of her drink, looking away innocently, let the interrogation commence.
"You what!" Sakura looked on Temari her mouth slack. Tenten using her hand to close it, before turning to Temari with the same wondering eyes.
Hinata who was turning red herself from the thought of her and Naruto, If she would be able to be so bold and leave a mark on him. The thought leaving her ears to turn a rosy color.
"Well I….Well we, ugh god damn it Ino. Shikamaru-kun and I have been going out on little walks when I'm here and one day when I fell asleep cloud watching, I woke up to him looking over me with this look in his eyes and he kissed me. Ever since then we started kissing when we felt like and well you know the rest."
Sakura and Ino squealed in excitement.
"Well what's it like?" Tenten asked curious about her experience with the lazy nin.
"Well you would think Shikmaru-kun was lazy in everything from the way he acts, but he's not, he's surprisingly passionate, it's like he's trying to taste all of me."
Now all the girls could be heard squealing in delight at their friends romance going so well.
"I wonder what Naruto-kun taste like?" The shy heiress spoke quietly without thinking.
The girls turned to her in astonishment wondering why the sweet little Hyuuga said something like that. Who knew she had such a perverted mind.
"Ramen." They all deadpanned in a serious tone to answer her question. Hinata's face flushed a deep shade of crimson. But the girls laughed harder than ever.
Temari was lucky she could finally talk to some girls about this. She loved her brothers, but they weren't made for this type of conversation. Kankuro would probably try to fight the Nara for putting moves on her and Gaara would surely follow, after Kankuro exaggerated the story to him making Shikamaru out to be some lecher trying to take advantage of her. Her mind wandered back to her best girl friend sitting in the hospital, wondering how she was doing.
Miyako woke to the sound of beeping machines. Her eyes focusing in on her sterile white surroundings. She could see the I.V in her hand connected back to the morphine drip she supposed she was on because she felt great, more so she couldn't feel a thing and that felt great too.
She could now see the hospital room she was clearly in. Looking down she moved the covers from her legs looking at where that giant insect had stung her. She could see the site had been drained of poison and was now healing.
Her clothes had been replaced with a white hospital gown that was still open in the back. She swung her legs to sit on the edge of the bed and slowly lifted herself up. She held on to the metal pole where the morphine and saline drip were hanging pulling it with her. She's found what she'd been looking for an extra gown she put on backwards making sure she was not exposed.
She sat back down laying in bed. Her plan had failed she had been taken down and now she would be trapped in this village for gods know how long, until her father decided her time out was done. Just like in Suna.
Her thoughts were soon interrupted by the door to her room opening revealing her traitor of a brother.
"What do you want Koga?" Her older brother wasn't the most talkative but when he did say something it was always profound.
"I came to check on you. I heard you put up quite a fight before the ninja took you back." He snorted in amusement.
"Yeah well that's nothing to be proud of because I'm here."
Koga sighed taking a seat on his sister's bed.
"I know uncle may not seem like he cares about you, but he does. He wouldn't do this just to punish you."
"How would you know you've always been his favorite." A low sigh escaped her brother's mouth again.
"Just promise me you'll actually give these people a chance. Tsunade-sama lives close by and Temari-san told me she travels to Konoha often on business." He paused thinking about what he would say next.
"When you were younger I always thought I had to look out for you and Mitsue. Even when I wasn't around sometimes you always handled anything people threw your way. That night when okaa-san and oba-san were…I tried to shield you two from what was happening, but you looked on anyway."
Miyako gaze trailed her brother's face seeing age and death change his features from cool and confident, to withdrawn and cold. He was still handsome mirroring both her and her little brother Mitsue, the same hair and eye color. Only his skin was pale, contrasting to their very tan skin.
"I know you may not see it as helping now but you'll understand soon. I know you can take this circumstance and turn it into something good. I brought a bunch of your things to the Uchiha mansion. You should be comfortable. Uncle set up a few other things for you there. The younger one was complaining about all the construction to their place but the older one seemed to take it in stride."
Miyako hmpped louldly.
"That's no surprise the little ones a grade A dick head. I don't know about the older one he's okay I guess, it's just something about his eyes though."
Miyako contemplated what made her so uneasy when Itachi Uchiha looked at her, but soon pushed the thought to the back of her mind. It didn't matter anyway, she didn't care.
"I have a letter for you from Daisuke." At the mention of her boyfriend Miyako shot up. She quickly took the letter from him letting her hand glide across the envelope where his name was written in the chicken scratch he called handwriting. So he did know about this.
"He told me to tell you not to open it until you were by yourself."
"Koga-nii could you lay with me for a little while, please." Koga looked up to see his sister looking up at him with a pitiful face. Her face showing acceptance of the predicament she was in, her eyes glistened with tears she was too proud to let fall.
He lifted him self off her bed tucking her in gently. He laid on top of the covers adjusting himself, so she could lay on chest. Miyako buried her face into his clothes.
"Promise me you'll find a dance instructor, no the best dance instructor for the kids. Also if they need a place to stay I need you to keep my condo in the city leased for them. They have enough rooms for all of them if they wanted to sleep over but especially for Ai and Akio. Promise me okay?" She looked up at him with hopeful eyes.
"Of course nee-san I'll see to it myself."
"Okay." She smiled a smaile that didn't quite reach her eyes as her smile usually did.
"Promise me you'll write me every week and let me know what's going on?" He nodded letting out a soft Hai.
"Koga-nii Promise me you won't forget me here, p-please? I - I don't want to be forgotten." her voice cracking at the last request, her tear ducts finally betraying her pride as slow tears fall down her face.
"I'd never forget you."
"No you have to say it. Promise me."
She looked at him in quiet desperation, a plea in her eyes. He wrapped his arms around his little sister hoping he could give her some type of comfort, as he stroked the back of her head with his other hand lightly.
"I promise I will never forget you, I will always be on your side."
She pushed her face more in his clothes and her blanket, hiding her tears from the world, letting out a barely audible arigato.
On the other side of town Sasuke Uchiha was annoyed, more so than usual. The Yamaguchi head had turned the main house of their compound into a construction zone and he was this close to chidoring one of the movers.
It seemed Itachi's new student was the textbook definition of high maintenance. For god sakes they wanted to tear down a wall, so she could have a closet as big as her bedroom.
Although Itachi stopped them from doing anything to rash so the wall stayed, and a door was added to connect to another room for her to have this gigantic closet Sasuke honestly couldn't fathom her being able to actually fill.
Not only that they took out the bathtub on the second floor and added in a jacuzzi like tub that seemed fit more for a spa than it did in their home. Although they did have another tub on the first floor, this was the only one on the second floor where their rooms were. The other bathroom on the second floor only had a shower.
Even though he didn't complain as much about that addition because he couldn't deny the appeal of getting into a jacuzzi tub after a hard mission.
All the furniture in the rooms she was going to occupy were located to other parts of compound. After that they pulled in another truck of her junk to move in. Glass, acrylic, and gold accented furniture was soon brought up to her room. A huge circle bed that he honestly didn't get the point of soon followed.
Itachi was on the west facing porch with the Yamaguchi head drinking tea. Sasuke snorted in derision. He left out of the door, to train, before he could see any more of the stuff in his house moved around, slamming it on his way out.
"It seems your brother is not fond of the idea of my daughter living with you two." The Yamaguchi head looked upon the eldest Uchiha surveying him.
"Sasuke is a bit sentimental and brash in that regard you'll have to excuse him."
Toru Yamaguchi nodded in understanding. "Yes, young people can be quite headstrong, my daughter is no exception."
Itachi hnned in response.
"I have to be frank with you Uchiha-san my daughter will rebel against you in the beginning, it's how she is. You have to make sure she doesn't spiral out of control I know she may not seem like it but Miyako is a very fragile girl, but she's stronger than what I give her credit for."
"Do you think this is the right move for her Yamaguchi-san?" Itachi inquired.
"I can only hope that what I'm doing is the right thing, it's what all parents hope." Toru paused before speaking again,
"I know this may seem like a strange request to you, but you Uchiha are no where near normal. If you and your brother ever need aide please do not shy away from requesting our help. I will see if I can come to a more suitable deal later between us." Toru stood up taking his leave from Uchiha compound seeing that the preparations for is daughter's stay was complete.
Itachi stood taking the dishes to the sink. He washed them methodically not really thinking about anything or really focusing on his task, just going through the motions. This is what his life consisted of most times since coming back alive from the Fourth Shinobi War.
Orochimaru a man who seemed to always push the limits of life and death thought it would be a good parting gift to give some people who were brought back by the reanimation jutsu a reprieve to live this life over.
He and Jiraiya-san seemed to be the only ones he knew of in Konoha that was brought this honor. Orochimaru thought of it as his atonement for the monstrous things he did but afterwards slinked back into the darkness to continue whatever experimenting he had going on.
Itachi to say the least did not want this life. After all his sacrificing, and troubled life he thought he would finally get the peace he wanted in death, only for it to be taken away by the whim of a mad genius.
He could not say he wasn't grateful for the chance to see Sasuke again and become a family again, but the guilt of their past could put a damper on certain things. He wanted Sasuke to be happy its all he ever wanted.
Stuck between wanting to end things and staying alive for Sasuke's sanity, he had no choice but to live, if only for Sasuke's sake.
He finished the dishes and walked to his room, getting a change if clothes. He brought himself to the other bathroom on the second floor. Soaking in the tub was not something he enjoyed, it just gave him more time to think.
Itachi cut on the water getting undressed before slipping into the shower letting the scorching hot water wash over him. The first day he got back to Konoha he scrubbed his self so vigorously in the shower his skin had turned raw.
Maybe if he scrubbed enough the feeling that blanketed over him constantly would lighten a little. The feeling of despair for being here, when so many other people could have been brought back. He did not deserve this. He did not deserve to live.
He opened the shower get skin a light pink from the hot water. He dressed and soon found himself doing his nightly ritual of going to every room in the house praying for forgiveness and honoring the people that lived here before.
He always did his parents room last. His anticipation always heightened getting to the last room. He stepped inside seeing the articles of his parent's stuff in the places they belong. He lights a candle and brings his face so close to the floor in apology.
"I am sorry. Mother father, please forgive me." He lowers himself closer to the floor. His nails digging into the palms of his hands, he does not flinch when he feels the familiarity of broken skin.
"Please watch over Sasuke."
The first night back he had stayed in the room crying until Sasuke came to get him. When he suggested to Itachi to move to a different side of the house, he refused.
Itachi finally lifted his head off the floor after saying a prayer. He blew the candle out. He went to the sink to wash the blood off his palms. His hand showing little crescent marks staring back at him. He bandaged his hands up and went upstairs to go to sleep.
He'd passed the girls Miyako's room on the way to his. He stepped into the room looking around at the difference before him. Her room was a mix of lavender, cream, gold, and purples. The round circle bed sat in the middle of the room witch sheer white curtains covering the bed frame. Her cream-colored furniture with either glass, acrylic, or gold accents went well with the theme of the room.
Sasuke had been right, it did seem a bit high maintenance. He walked toward her dresser seeing picture frames of people he did not recognize. One photo consisted of Toru a woman who was the spitting image of the girl, but her hair did not have the lavender tint that Miyako's did. Two children which he assumed to be the girl and her brother.
The girl was beaming up at the camera brightly her hand holding on to the infants. He thought the girl's brother was older than her. Another photograph seemed to answer the question in his head. There on the dresser sat a group photo of their family but also another family. Toru's wife was a twin. He seen the two identical women onside their husband's proud of the families they built. He could see the other twin's hand on the shoulder of a boy older than both the girl and a toddler at the time. This was the girl's brother Koga. It seemed he was really her cousin, but they had a close relationship.
Itachi put down the frame he had enough of pilfering through the girl's things. Hoping she wasn't the spoiled princess type that her room décor suggested. He left returning to his room letting sleep take him.
