OH MY GOD! THIS CHAPTER WAS HARD TO WRITE! I HATE SAD GOODBYES! AND I HATE HER TRAUMA! I was halfway in tears the whole time I was writing it! (Because in order to write someone's emotions, you have to live them, or connect with them, even if that is a false connection and forced emotion, you still feel it and it's still strong as hell. Some level of acting is required for writing even if it is just forcing an emotion.) SORRY IT"S SHORT! NEXT CHAP SOON!
That morning, about Six-thirty Kisa opened her eyes out of instinct, she always awoke with the sun.
"Ahh." She sighed as she stretched out her arms and crawled out of bed.
She found a notebook in one of the drawers to the bedside table, opened it, and scribbled:
"went to catch some breakfast, I'll be back about seven-thirty or so, hope you like fish!"
After that she left the room quietly, being careful not to make a sound or disturb either of them.
She walked down the stairs quietly as well, because she knew most other people were still sleeping.
As she came down the last flight of stairs the manager walked past her.
"Hey, You're the girl who was with the akatsuki, aren't you?"
"Yeah, why?" She shifted her weight to let him know she needed to be somewhere.
"Tell Deidera that I'll have his money by next week, okay? My name is Kahnin."
"Alright then." She said sounding a bit confused. She went on about her way to her shack to get her fishing pole without a second thought and walked to the pond she had walked to so many times she could get there with her eyes closed.
Deidera woke up to Tobi's shockingly loud snoring, about thirty minutes after Kisa left , and did his morning stretches without taking immediate notice that she was gone.
He did, About fifteen minutes of actual consciousness, notice the note on the table, He picked it up and read it.
"Wow, this girl is truly insane, no one gets out of bed before seven by choice. un." He said groggily rubbing his eyes.
At exactly fifteen after Kisa knocked on the door to the hotel room And Deidera unlocked it to let her in.
"I brought food!" She sang in tune with whatever song it was she was whistling, it sounded like journey.
"Food?" Tobi jumped awake at the word.
"Mornin' Chainsaw! How'd you sleep?" She said happily as she sat the fried fish on the table next to the window.
"Like a rock. You?" He said climbing out of bed and walking to the table.
"Hardly at all with your snoring. But I'm good." Kisa said as she scrached the back of her neck.
"Sorry about that?"
"Don't apologise for things that aren't your fault." She smiled and handed him a piece of fish.
"How did you make this? un."
"I Cough it from the pond down the road. Mr. Jim's place, Then I took it home and fried it." She said taking a bite of the fish.
"Wow, you're a really good cook Kisa." Tobi said between bites.
"Thanks, I've had a lot of chances to get the hang of it." Kisa licked the crumbs off of her fingers.
"Hey, Deidera- kun, Do you think it would be okay if I said goodbye to a few people before we go?" Kisa said with the happiness less detectable from her previously bubbly voice.
"Sure, but I want to leave by tonight, okay? un."
"That'll be plenty of time. I'll start now! Come with me if you want. I'll just come back here later though."
"Can Tobi come with Kisa-san?" He asked feeling a bit left out.
"Sure! If you can keep up with me!" Kisa said as she walked out the door.
Kisa ran as fast as she could to Mr. Jim's place, a way she knew all too well.
*knock knock knock *
* Kisa-san? What are you doing here so early?" He said as he took a sip of his coffee.
"Well, Mr. Jim, I just wanted to say thank you for everything you've done for me, and to say that I'm really gonna miss you." She hugged him sweetly."
"Miss Kisa, what do you mean? are you going somewhere?" He asked curiously.
"Well, I'm going out of town, and I might not be back for a few years, so I just needed to say goodbye."
"When are you leaving?" He asked as he scratched his beard.
"Tonight. Well, I guess We'll met again then?"
"If fate allows us." He smiled.
She waved as she ran off.
"Well, that was fast. " Tobi said almost rudely.
"Well, that was just Mr. Jim, He's done a lot for me, but we're hardly close enough for a sappy teary eyed goodbye, the only way I know him is I mow his lawn in the summer and he lets me fish in his pond."
"Oh."
"Mrs. Ana will be the hardest to not see every day, She's done so much for me. She's like a mother to me."
"Is that so?" Tobi asked as if he wasn't really paying attention to the sad tone in her voice.
"Yeah. I really wouldn't be alive now if it wasn't for her, when I was little, my knee ripped in the middle of a fight, and I nearly bled to death, but she saved me, and she made sure I was healthy before she let me go anywhere, and she won't even let me stay in my home in the winter when it's cold. She really cares about me, and I'm really gonna miss her." Her voice was a bit more solemn now.
"Come on now Kisa, cheer up, You'll make new friends, and you will see them again some day, I promise." Tobi sounded like he was smiling.
Kisa shook her head and looked to the sky.
"You're right, I need to change my tone a bit, don't I ?" She said smiling but she was in tears. She took a deep breath and regained her composure.
"Tobi, I'm thirsty." She whined.
"And?"
"Race you to that water pump!"
"Alright!" He said enthusiastically.
"1...2...3...GO!" Kisa ran like a bullet to the water pump about 5 or six yards away.
"DUDE! NOT COOL!" She pointed and yelled.
"What did I do?"
"YOU"RE NOT SUPPOSED TO USE NINJA STUFF IN A RACE! THAT"S DIRTY!"
"You never said not to."
Kisa sighed and filled her hands with water to drink and splashed some on her face.
"Now to Mrs. Ana 's record store. You shouldn't come with me, I know I'm gonna cry and I don't want you to see me like that." She blushed.
"Actually, You're pretty cute when you cry, the way you try not to fight it and you just let the tears flow, I've never met anyone like that. It's adorable."
"You think? Tears don't really help anything but their instinct so you don't have a choice if you do or not, It's easier to not fight it, because no matter what you won't win, you just have to force the thought away, or stay with it until you become numb."
"That's a very interesting point of view Kisa, do you mind telling me when you started thinking that way?" He sat in the grass.
"The day I killed my best friend..."