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Rosile found herself continuously looking back towards the school even when the school had long disappeared from sight and Rosile felt her body becoming increasingly anxious.
What if Robbie hated the academy? What if he got hurt, would they know where to find her? He took ninja tools so that made it pretty simple to accidentally cut himself when trying to throw it at a target. Oh lord he wasn't ready for this was he? She should go back and-
"You're really worried about your brother, aren't you?" Shikamaru stated, breaking her out of her overbearing thoughts and somehow calming her down with his voice.
He had said it like a statement, as if he already knew the answer, and of course he was correct.
Rosile was worried, borderline terrified.
"He doesn't have much chakra" Rosile explained, her voice coming out soft and smooth, a sure sign she was getting more comfortable with him, but still tucked stray hair behind her ear and looked down at the ground, forcing her eyes in front of her "And he can be really clumsy, I can't help but be worried for him"
Shikamaru scoffed, something that caused Rosile to stiffen up and he fixed her with a dry stare as they walked, "He's only seven, what do you expect?"
Rosile blushed, she really wasnt used to this whole on-the-spot questioning thing and his insistent stare wasn't helping manners.
After some thought Rosile decided it couldn't hurt to tell him the truth if she wanted to make some friends right? Well.. maybe not the whole truth if she was on her way to make friends, that story was guaranteed to permanently stamp her with the name 'freak' for the rest of her life.
Rosile shrugged lightly and turned to look him in the eyes, resisting the urge to look away when they caught eye contact, "I guess I just don't want anything bad to happen to him."
At that Shikamaru's gaze lessened in intensity and Rosile smiled softly, "When I can't see him I get nervous because then she-"
Out of nowhere, Rosile stopped when she felt an itch on her back, in a place that her fingers couldn't reach.
When she realised her momentary pause and saw Shikamaru looking at her expectantly she quickly tried to remember where she left off but the more she thought about it, the more that itch began to burn.
It was a slow drilling feeling that forced Rosile to stop what she was doing and thinking and it was all she could do to try to find the freaking thing on her back.
It felt like it was drawing blood now and Rosile felt moans of discomfort come from her throat and the burn to start coursing through her veins up into her neck, causing her neck to itch now.
Like hundreds of little insects were crawling on her skin and itching it just made them run faster.
Rosile briefly heard Shikamaru call her name somewhere far away, and she blindly reached for him.
Only, reaching out caused her to lose her balance and she fell to the ground, caving into herself and crying out when her back seemed to catch on fire with heat.
The thought made things worse as she imagined her back to end up looking like the burnt side of the pancakes she made for Robbie this morning.
But something was nagging at her in the back of her mind and behind the almost blinding pain, she had to say something but she just couldn't remember.
There was a ringing in her ear and her vision was turning black, she could barely hear when someone else had called out Shikamaru's name and she could barely force herself to ask him for help, only hearing her tone which sounded as if she was falling asleep.
But she wasn't in the safe haven of sleep.
White pain was coming in waves now, like she was swimming in the ocean and every time a wall of water came at her, instead of freezing water, it was extreme hot flames that caught onto her body and were set on burning her alive.
Wait. She coul feel hands on her, cool hands that chased the burning away.
At some point she had closed her eyes and she couldn't see who it was but knew that whoever it was, they were helping.
It didnt even matter that their hands were underneath the hem of her shirt now, all that mattered was the fact that cool hands were making their way up her back and settling on the core of the burning.
Rosile could hear someone gasp, a young girl and then an older man say something to them.
She was about to ask them what was wrong with her when suddenly It felt like someone had stuck a knife into her back.
Rosile cried out and tried to crawl away but with a quick order from the man three pairs of hands came down to hold her down successfully.
Sensing no way out, Rosile grit her teeth and tried her best to bear it, even when it felt as if he was sticking his hand into her wound and feeling around inside for something.
And when Rosile felt as if she could take no more, she lost consciousness.
Rosile woke with a shock.
Like when you're dreaming that you're falling and it scares you so much you get ripped from the dream and thrown back into reality.
Her head felt dizzy and it took her a few moments for her vision to clear and her ears to silence the ringing sound.
She was in a hospital room. Cream walls, tiled floor, white sheets, uncomfortable mattress, and an i.v. stuck into her arm.
With a sense of discomfort Rosile forced herself o sit up, using the help of the bars next to her on the bed and leaning on her elbows, feeling an itch on her back.
Once she was sitting up she noticed she wasnt alone, the Hokage was sitting in the room with her with a pipe resting on his lips and a calm expression on his face as it appeared he was resting.
Rosile debated waking him to ask but shook it off with how rude that was and simply shifted to get more comfortable and scratched the back of her neck where the itch had settled.
The memory of the walk with Shikamaru was fresh in her mind and she made a point of apologizing to him as that probably wasnt the best first impression.
She could see out the window and saw the large expanse of tree's that surrounded the entire village, she hadn't really been looking this morning during the walk but she really did love the way the trees looked, old and worn.
The thought of what just what she was itching made her curious and after spotting a sink with a mirror in the far corner Rosile swung her legs out off of the bed, noting that she was still dressed in the same clothes.
Her I.V. was dragged somewhat painfully over but once there she lifted her shirt and uncomfortably turned her head so that she could see what had caused this whole mess and after looking for a good while she saw it.
It looked almost like a tattoo with the black pattern and all, it was placed neatly at the bottom of her neck and a bit lower and was in the shape of an elaborate symbol or something, but in her opinion it just looked like the kanji for blood. (Chi)
"It's a cursed seal"
Rosile jumped and ended up hitting her hip on the edge of the sink giving her a wave of pain.
She placed a hand over her hip to try to lessen the pain and hissed at the ache before giving the Hokage a dry look with how he frightened her.
"Please don't do that" Rosile said softly and made her way back over to the bed, resisting the urge to start itching again.
Hiruzen chuckled and gave a lighthearted apology, waiting patiently for her to setting back on the bed comfortably before he began speaking.
"You gave Shikamaru quite the shock earlier"
Rosile looked down with guilt and tucked her hair behind her ear, feeling bad for how shocked he must have been.
It seemed Hiruzen sensed her feelings and reassured her with a smile, "He's been waiting outside with Asuma since Asuma brought you in"
Oh, so Asuma-sensei had been the man speaking before, and the other two pairs of hands holding her down must be a part of his 'team'.
But, why was Shikamaru waiting for her?
"And i hope you wont be too angry with me, but, i asked the nurse to search your body for any other seals"
Wow. That was..
"And?" Rosile asked, genuinely curious and for some reason not feeling at all annoyed that he'd had her searched, she probably would have asked anyway.
"She found no others."
"So it's a 'seal'?" Rosile asked, reaching back to touch it with her fingers and feeling nothing out of the ordinary, it had always felt like that.
Her eyes snapped open when a thought came to mind, she could have always had it and just never thought to see if it was there.
"Yes" Hiruzen said, taking a breath with his pipe and blowing out a thick stream of smoke, the smell invading her lungs but since her father smoked it wasn't uncomfortable, and if Robbie wasnt in the picture she most probably would have taken up smoking already.
"It is a cursed seal. But what it is sealing, we don't know yet, though I have a feeling it has something to do with your blood limit"
Her blood limit? It was plausible, it wasn't as prominent as when she was younger but she just brushed it off as it was just getting easier to ignore.
But now, it was as if she could really feel it again.
Like she was just aware of every single thing around her with blood.
Feel the person in he room next to hers, feel the dog scratching the tree outside the window, feel every single person in the hospital.
The realisation hit her like a snowball to the face, it was like she was young again and wondering why the hell she could tell when her step mother and father were having sex down the hall, or why she knew when Robbie had a bleeding nose when she couldn't even see him yet.
Oh yes she could feel it now, but the one she most prominently felt was her own. Feel her blood heat up and rush faster when her heart sped up in fear.
She couldn't do this. No way. This was insane, how could anyone possibly live this way?
"Your daughter is a Freak Damien! This isn't natural, we need to get her sealed."
Rosile must have been seriously panicking since in the next moment she felt a hand on her shoulder and a calm voice shushing her softly, as if not to frighten her.
She looked up to see Hiruzen watching her and forced herself to calm down, noting that it was almost as if she could feel his blood inside of his hand that was resting on her shoulder, it wasnt much but it distracted her from overbearing memories that threatened to take over her mind.
Without her permission, Rosile's right hand was scratching at her seal like there was something inside of it that was trying to get out and, with trouble, she forced her arm down by her side and took deep breaths to gain control over her body -and blood- again.
It was a technique strangely familiar to her, one she must have forgotten long ago as she could barely remember her blood getting this bad before.
Once Rosile had successfully calmed herself Hiruzen let go of her arm and pointed politely to her seal as if to ask if he could see it.
Leaning forward, Rosile let the Hokage lift the back of her shirt to assess the seal, and judging by how it felt, it didn't look very appealing.
"Is it painful?" He asked her and she answered honestly.
"Yes, but it hurts more if I don't scratch it"
Hiruzen gave a hum to her answer and put her shirt back down, she noticed that he never actually touched her skin.
He was actually a decent man.
Rosile was liking this place more and more.
Hiruzen had crossed the space back into the chair on the other side of the room and sat down with an expression deep in thought, absent-mindedly reaching for his pipe and inhaling some more as he thought.
Rosile focused on ignoring as much of other people's blood as she could. At least she couldn't smell it. She could remember why but she had a feeling of dread that if she were able to smell it then things would only go from bad to worse.
"-ve it"
"Sorry?" Rosile asked, not hearing what the old man had said since she had been so lost in her thoughts once again.
He didn't seem at all put out when he repeated, "Your seal, the itching entails that it is indeed broken and the itching is your body's way of telling you to remove it as it is no longer sticking to your body naturally. I could always remove it. Although we have no idea what that could mean"
Right. He was asking her if it was a threat. It was understandable and Rosile felt no offense whatsoever, he was the Hokage so he protected his village.
But if the seal was really holding back most of her blood ability and she could barely handle merely sensing blood at this moment of time she didn't know if she really wanted this thing off. Even though it could itch like crazy, it was probably safer to keep it on for the time being.
But the burning. What was that all about?
"You said that it got itchy because my body is rejecting it right?" A nod "but then why did it burn before?"
Hiruzen leaned forward and Rosile found herself doing the same, as if he had all the answers to this whole mess from before.
"I expect that it was trying to prevent you from saying or doing something. Shikamaru mentioned you said something about a 'she' and that was when you started itching. Can you tell me what you were about to say?"
Rosile thought back to the conversation.
It was about her brother right? Yes!
She was worried about him, and Shikamaru asked why.
She said something on the lines of "when i cant see him.. Because then she.."
Rosile began saying the words out loud, "When I cant see him I get nervous because then she-"
There it was, the burning on her neck returned and Rosile instinctualy curled into herself again. It was less painful this time round and Rosile found her blood was reacting to some type of chemical the seal was producing when she tried to talk about her-
"Step-mother"
Hiruzen looked up and Rosile jumped at the discovery.
"It's stopping me from talking about my-" Burn "..her"
He took a long inhale from his pipe and nodded slowly, coming to a decision in his head while Rosile concentrated on trying to will her blood away from the seal.
It took a lot of focus to even begin with.
She could feel her blood pulsing and rushing around the seal and tried to picture it in her mind swimming away from her seal.
It was all very confusing but it lessened the burn immensely.
Like a cool ice-cube running down your spine on the hottest day imaginable.
"We will see how you cope for the next two days. On Friday, I'll have someone pick up your brother and you'll simply come to my office and have someone remove it"
Rosile nodded, it was reasonable and she found no problem with it.
All seemed to be going good until the thought of her brother came back to mind, oh my lord- "Robbie!" She exclaimed and looked to the clock to see it resting on the two-fourty-six mark.
He'd be finishing school soon.
The Hokage chuckled at how flustered she must have looked and nodded to the door, "You may leave now, i'll settle the papers. Goodbye for now"
Rosile politely smiled and quickly took the offer and rushed towards the door, planning to scope the hospital quickly for Shikamaru so that he could show her where the school was, hopefully he was still here.
Once she opened the door she froze, turned and gave Hiruzen a respectful bow of her head, "Thank you Hokage-sama" and with that she was off.
Finding Shikamaru was fairly easy, she could have spotted the tall spiky ponytail out of any crowd and forced herself to walk towards him like any normal person in the hospital would.
Rosile was a fair six feet away from him and was about to ask him if they could leave now when an even taller man intercepted her path.
This man was slightly above average in build, all muscle and masculinity the way he was put together.
He had thick dark blue hair that was almost black, the regulation leaf headband on his forehead keeping his hair from falling into his dark brown eyes. But it did nothing for the sideburns that somehow framed his face all the way down to his goatee.
He had a weird sense of grooming choice, she'd give him that.
By the looks of the dark coloured jacket he was a Jounin, and with the cigarette in his mouth and the slouch in his posture she got the feeling he wasnt as uptight as the Mist Jounin had been.
"You gave us quite a scare there Girly" his deep smooth voice rang through her head and Rosile came up blank. She had no clue as to who the hell this guy was, was he looking for someone else?
Shikamaru must've caught the look on her face for he nudged the larger man before shoving his hands back into his pockets and standing next to her "She doesn't know who you are Sensei."
The contrast in voice kept nagging in the back of her head and also the fact that she could feel Shikamaru's blood more prominently even as she was doing her best to block everybody's blood out of her senses.
Wait, Shikamaru said sensei-
"You're Asuma" Rosile stated, feeling a little tingle of pride when his body language lifted and he gave a smirk to Shikamaru who, didn't look too bothered either way.
Rosile supposed Shikamaru just didn't care that much about anything in particular.
"Asuma Sarutobi, but you can call me Asuma-sensei" he said, extending a calloused hand which she politely shook but was too distracted with the thought of her little brother coming back to the surface.
"Hi." Rosile said curtly before turning to Shikamaru "Can we please go get Robbie now?"
Shikamaru looked at her for a moment before mumbling something under his breath, "yeah sure" and turned towards the entrance, of which Asuma once again intercepted them with a-
"Wow, hold up. I gotta talk to you about what happened today? And about your blood limit"
Rosile grimaced at the thought of blood and absent-mindedly scratched the seal again.
Although Shikamaru looked extremely intrigued at the mention of her blood limit, well as intrigued as the guy ever looked which was a slight widening of his eyes.
Rosile gave her new Sensei an apologetic smile before linking her arm with Shikamaru's and pulled him around Asuma, "could we just do that tomorrow? Oh and thank you so much for bringing me here and waiting for me" she said while dragging Shikamaru towards the exit.
But she didn't have time to feel guilty.
Ninja Academy had finished two minutes ago..
Decided to end it here since theres a whole lot going on and its probably a lot to swallow at once so.. yeah :)
BTW theres gona be Shika and Rosie bonding next chapter and she may or may not meet-the-mom..
Also, I use 'Mom' because that's what is says in the Anime.
Take Care,
-PrincessJade
