Chapter 4

The next morning I woke up just when sunrise started. I slowly opened my eyes and noticed that I was on the ground, and Itachi was not there.

"(Wait, I fell asleep on Itachi's chest. He's not here. Then that means…)" I quickly sat up gasping and threw my hands over my mouth.

"(He knows I was cuddling up to him! This is bad, very very bad.)" I mentally panicked, but stopped when I noticed Kikuhana and Deidara were gone as well.

"Kiku and Deidara are gone too…Why would they leave me by myself? They know I become paranoid when I'm alone." I said as I started to freak out a little. "Ok, just clam down. They didn't leave you, Kiku wouldn't allow it. They'll be back soon." I began to talk to myself in hopes that it would clam me down. Suddenly, I heard someone coming from behind me. I quickly jumped into fighting stance and pulled out a weapon. The mysterious man stepped out of the bushes. I looked at his face and saw that it was Itachi, so I put my weapon away as I blushed a bit.

"Um, so how are you feeling?" I asked him while playing with my hands and looking at the ground.

"Fine….What happened yesterday?" Itachi asked me. I blushed and looked the other way.

"Uh, well, when the cliff collapsed we all fell into the river. But apparently you hit your head on a rock when we fell in and it knocked you out." I glanced up at him and remembered about the wound on his head. "Oh, I need to check on that." Itachi sat down on a log while I grabbed Kikuhana's first aid kit. I took the bandage that he already had on off and cleaned his wound. I put medicine on the wound and covered it back up with another bandage.

"It should heal after that." I said as I put the medicine back into the case.

"Oh, I almost forgot." I got up and got Itachi's headband and gave it to him. He took it from my hand and put it back on his head. I stared at Itachi for a few seconds without him noticing.

"Oh hey you're awake!" I snapped out of my daze at hearing the sound of Kiku's voice.

She walked over to me with Deidara behind her.

"Kiku, you scared me." I said looking at her.

"What, were you daydreaming again?"

"Yeah." I laughed a little.

"Thought so." She said smiling at me.

"We've wasted too much time, let's get moving." Itachi announced.

"But the sun just came up. Can't we wait a little longer?" I whispered to my sister.

"Come on." She laughed.