18 Tails

Key: 'sign launguage' ' written down on Nita's notebook.'

Chapter 3

"Come on Toru use ninjustu already!" Arashi yelled as his ninjustu hit Toru. "How many times must I tell you? I can only use tijustu to spar! Nee-chan said." was Toru's reply. Arashi just scoffed at him,"Do you always do what your sister says?" Toru nodded while he threw kuni at his current sparring partner. "Ugg I don't see why you do. I mean she's probably really weak, all she does is sit all day in your room or in the library. She doesn't train her body at all. And when you look at her arms and legs, you don't see any muscle. She'd lose to an academy student-" Before he could even finish Toru was had a kuni at his throat. "Say anymore and I'll slit your throat. Oh, don't worry it wont be so deep you'll die, you'll just lose your voice. And sound is how you control your ugly bird, isn't it? Also you don't see my sis train, because their isn't anyone who could match her level. Sis is the strongest person I know. She mastered what your just learning 5 years ago. Don't you ever inseult my sister again or I will carry out my threat to hurt you." After speaking Toru jumped away and began walking off, but before he could get very far Toru calapsed clutching his covered eye. Arashi, who had come out of his shock at Toru's words, went to see what was wrong. When he got there he almost lost his lunch at the spot. Globs of yellow foam was coming out from under Toru's eye patch. Panicing, Arashi picked Toru up and carried him as fast as he could to the hospital.

"Nita, Sai-kun just told me that there's something wrong with Toru's right eye. Some kid took him to the hospital, they might take off the eye patch." Isobuu told his container. The dark haried girl quickly sat up and ran out of the room. She was able to make it to the hospital in under 5 minutes. After asking the receotionist where Toru was, she ran off in search of her brother. Nita found him on a hospital cot with a nurse above him. The nurse's hand reached down towards Toru's right eye. Screaming, Nita sped across the room and knocked the nurse's hand away. The nurse reached for it again, but her hand was slapped away another time. Nita grabbed a Q-tip and swiped the yellow gunk with it. On her note book she wrote,'Find out what this is! You don't have time to waste trying to take my brother's eye patch off.' Annoiance was clear on the young nurse's face as she left the room with the Q-tip. She took it to the lap and ran multiple tests on it, but each one turned out to be wrong. The woman turned to a medical ninja,"Get the Kazekage! We've never seen this disease before!" The ninja nodded before quickly leaving. At the Kazekage's office door the ninja knocked loudly and said,"Lord Kazekage, it's an emergancy! Someone is infected with a disease that we've never seen before!" Hearing this Gaara rushed out of the room. The two began racing back to the hospital. "Who is infected?" Gaara asked. "I don't know sir. All I know is their room number." "Alright take me there." When they got to the room, the two saw Nita pushing back a nurse and holding up her notebook. 'If you do not have an antidote for my brother, then please stay away from him.' was written on it. "What is going on," Gaara said cooly. The nurse turned to face him. "Sir!" she said,"I am trying to take off the young man's eye patch, so then we can get more data about the infection, but this girl won't let me pass." The red head gave the nurse a quick nod before, faster than you could blink, he was at Toru's side with the eye patch in hand. He glanced down at the cause of the problem and his expressionless mask crumbled and his face twisted into one of discust and horror. But before he could speak, the young boy's body was yanked off the bed and into his sister's arms. Holding up her notebook once again, the people in the room read,'If you have time to waste time doing what I asked you not to, you have time to find an antidote! Now all of you leave and find a way to help Toru! Except for you tomato head, we're gunna have a talk.' "Bu-but.." Protested the nurse once again until she felt Nita's anger flowing out of her. The two unwanted people left the room in a hurry to do what they were told. 'Now, tomato-san, what are your questions?' The black-eyed teenager wrote. "Why was his eye gray? And what was that disign on it? I mean it looks like a...but it couldn't be..." 'Yes, it is what you have guessed it is, a seal. We do not know why it is that color, but we think it is from the incredible damage it has recieved. And a seal for what,I'm sure your wondering behind your blank expression, is a Bijuu. We are Jinchuuriki. And don't misunderstand, the only reason I'm telling you this is because I would like to meet your Jinchuuriki. I would like to find out more about his Bijuu and how it affects him or her. As the Kazekage I'm sure you know. Now who is it?' "Me, I am the Sand's Jinchuuriki." The shock could not be any clearer on Nita's face. After a few moments, the girl shoock her head to clear her mind. 'If that is true, we will have to talk later, now if you'll excuse me I'd like to be left alone with my brother.' Understanding her meaning, the youngest Kazekage quickly nodded his head before leaving.

The next afternoon, Gaara arrived at Toru's hospital room, to see Nita exactally where she was when he left the night before, sitting next to the bed, holding one of the young boy's hands in both of her's. The red head, not being a very social person, didn't say or do anything, he just stood in the doorway. He had a feeling that the mute girl knew that he was in the room, so he just waited for accknowagement, or permission to ruin the quiet that had settled in the room. It was an hour, ( or was it two?) before the young teen waved the black rim eyed boy forward. Crossing the few feet, Gaara sat down in the chair next to the dark haired girl. When he seemed comfortable she handed him her notebook. On it was written, 'What do you need?' "Worrying won't help and you said you wanted to ask me about my Bijuu. We can do that now." was Gaara's reply. The 14 year old gave a short nod before pulling out another notebook. As the girl flipped through the notebook, Gaara saw that it was filled with notes and equations. Near the end of the book, Nita settled on a blank page. She wrote a question on the first notebook and slid it to Gaara. 'What BIjuu do you have?' "Shukaku, the One Tails." 'What is his personality like?' "Blood thirsty, eaisily angered or annoyed." 'Likes and Dislikes?' "He likes blood, sand. He dislikes everything else." 'What are advantages to being his Jinchuuriki?' "The sand automatically protects me from attacks. I can usually control it without using many hand signs." 'Disadvantage?' "I am unable to sleep. If I do, Shukaku will take control over my body, and everytime he does that my mind will slowly be taken over by his and my personality will slowly become more like his, blood thirsty." 'I know it was short, but I need some sleep, I've been waiting for Toru to wake up since I got here. You can come again when you have time, I'll be here.' The sea foam eyed teenage boy rose from his seat, gave a short, polite bow before leaving.

It continued as such for a week. Whenever Gaara had time in the day he would come to Toru's room and Nita would ask a few questions before asking Gaara to leave. Luckily, on the 3rd day that Toru was in the hospital, the medical ninja finally found an antidote and gave it to Toru. The 12 year old woke up a few times, but never for longer than a minute. As Toru's stay at the hospital dragged on, Nita herself was starting to look sick. She slowly became pale and extreamly thin, and according to the nurses she hardly ate, slept or even left her brother's side. The hospital personel were all very worried about her, they even offered her the bed next to her brother, but she declined. The Kazekage was especially worried. He didn't like coming into the room everyday to see the girl even thinner, more fragile looking. After a few more days Toru stopped waking up. When that happened Nita stopped comunicating completely. She turned into a expressionless doll without a will of her own. She didn't struggle when the nurses layed her in a bed and stuck an IV in her, or when the doctors began running tests on Toru, to see if they could do anything to speed up the little boy's healing. Luckily they finally got him up and this time for an hour. The second his eye fluttered open Nita rushed to his side and tears streamed down her face with no sign of stopping. Toru was obviously stunned at how his sister was acting, but he began patting her back as she sobbed into his chest. When the hour was over and the boy once again fell into a deep slumber the girl returned to her bed, but didn't climb in, she just sat there, not really thinking of any thing, just sitting. That was when Gaara came in. He had heard from the nurses that Toru had woken up and that Nita was on her feet. Gaara couldn't help but feel happy that the family was healing. He slowly walked up to Nita. She tapped the spot on the bed next to her and Gaara sat down. The girl quickly wrote something on a notebook then handed it to the red head next to her. It said,'I thought he was gunna die.' Gaara nodded. 'That would be one of the worst things I can imagine.' Again Gaara nodded. 'I was scared so, so scared. Toru is all that I have. And I'm sure that without Sai-kun he would have died. I don't have any perants, or friends. The only person close to me is Toru and if he was gone...I'm not sure what I'd do.' "But he's okay now." 'Yes he's okay now.' "So you don't have to worry." 'Nope.' "Good." 'Yes, that is good.' It was a while before Nita wrote something, but when she did she said,'Have you heard from the Land of Lightning or The Cloud?' "No." 'Oh, that's good.' "Why?" ' I'm not sure I can tell you, but one of the times Toru woke up, he said that he trustes you and that you could probably understand. So since he trusts you, I guess I will tell you our story. Well you know how I said I don't have any perants? Well only one is dead, the other we don't count as our father. You see when I was six years old that man began training me to be a ninja. Then Toru was 4 and wouldn't begin training for another year. Once a week we did what my dad called "Chakura checking." He said that he was making sure we had a good amount of chakura, when accually he was slowly turning us into wepons. The jutsu he used had an unknown affect on the user, so instead of doing the whole thing in one go, he broke the jutsu into parts and slowly place something in us. What he placed inside us was our Biju. Never once did he call us his children, he called us by name, but even swords have names. And that's exactly how he saw us, as swords or tools for war. When I was 8 years old I overheard that man talking to a subordinate. He said that he would use us as tools to overthrough the Raikage and become the Raikage himself. He even said himself that he did not see us as people but as tools, as wepons. So I took Toru and ran. We've been running since.' "Toru-kun is right I do understand. My father wanted me to be a tool for the Sand. But when I was young he considered me a failure and many time tried to kill me. So in a way I do understand. Is it hard...running?" 'At first it was, but then we got used to it and it has become our first nature. Always on alert, ready to fight or flee. Always looking for food or a decent shelter. Always a fight to survive, but it's nice. Our life requires lots of physical strength and a good eye, so we're always training. There is never time to just sit around and do nothing, so we never have to think about our hardships. And we have each other so it's alright.' The two sat in silence as Gaara processed all he had learned about the siblings. It wasn't an aquward silence, but a comfortable one. Toru and Gaara were content just sitting in silence, and thinking things over. Since it was late and both were exhausted, one from worry and the other from work, they soon fell asleep without knowing it. In the morning when a nurse came in to check on the siblings, she walked into one of the cutest sences she had ever seen. Gaara and Nita laying on top of the bed, Nita using the Kazekage and a pillow while said Kage had his arms wrapped around the slightly younger girl.

Chapter end


Hey everyone! I'm having trouble starting Chapter 4, i dont know if it should start with Nita and Gaara waking up or sometime later. Please tell me which one you think is better.

-raindownchaos