7.

"hey Sasuke! What are we doing now?" Suigetsu whined.

"we're gathering information on the nine-tails. In Konoha."

"wasn't he like, in your team or something?"

" I said on the nine tails. Not on Naruto, the blonde himself is an idiot."

Tails.

Nine-tails.

One tail.

"oh. Won't they know who you are if you go into Konoha? They've seen all of us."

"I have a plan, and Suigetsu-"

"yes?"

"shut up."

Suigetsu made a dangerous face towards the back of Sasuke's head but followed his orders.

The breeze picked up and caught in my cloak, the fabric dancing out in the wind, strands of my hair tugging away from my face. I closed my eyes and smiled.

"what are you so happy about?" Suigetsu asked.

/

The doctor nearly ran from the room, once safely outside, he sighed.

"you would think a person that badly wounded wouldn't be so active."

"what'd he do?" Temari asked, making the doctor jump.

"that hole in his chest has too much swelling, he needs to take it easy for awhile, I told him as much and he nearly killed me!"

"Kazekage doesn't have time to take it easy."

The doctor sighed again.

Temari brushed past him and went into Gaara's hospital room, finding the room empty and the window wide open.

It was her turn to sigh.

Back at Gaara's office.

CLATTER!

Haku yelped and spun around.

Gaara was climbing in the window, held aloft on the other side by a hovering platform of sand.

"how was t-the appointment?" Haku asked.

"hn" Gaara grunted and messed with his robes, sighing.

"What wrong?"

"no shirt. Must have left it at the hospital."

He looked like he was wearing a white shirt under his robes at first glance, but looking closer Haku noticed that it was just the bandages wrapped around Gaara's torso.

"um, Kazekage. Lady Tsunade has …. Um…requested a meeting at Konoha. Will you go?"

"hn. Yes. Tell her I'll arrive at Konoha in four days."

"so soon…but y-your chest….."

Gaara glared at him and Haku shrunk back.

He sighed and was about to leave when Temari walked in, shirt in one hand, hospital reports in the other.

/

Suigetsu made up a new game.

He holds his sword sideways and makes me stand on it. When he makes it bounce I have to jump and he'll swing the sword around in a circle over my head and back under my feet before I hit the ground.

I'm really glad Suigetsu is really good with his sword.

Or I might lose my feet.

Or my head.

"Suigetsu, Enough." Sasuke ordered.

Suigetsu let me get down and then he went off to clean his blade.

Well, he didn't let me get off, he kinda flipped me off.

It was kinda fun except for when I hit the ground, right shoulder first.

I sat up and rubbed my bruised shoulder, looking around.

Where was Jugo?

My Gaze fell on Sasuke and I stared at him for awhile, till he turned his head and looked back at me.

His aura was….dying. Rotting. He was becoming something dark and corrupt. He was losing his inner light so fast, I felt it shrink day by day. Maybe rotting is the wrong thing to say. It's more like breaking. His soul is breaking and his sadness is fueling a burning rage that will one day consume him entirely.

Poor Sasuke.

I didn't like feeling his aura, it made me sad. I liked Jugo's, it was Kind, sometimes a red-orange madness would creep into his aura and deteriorate it, but it usually disappeared before it got to big.

Oddly enough when I felt for Suigetsu's aura, it was happy-ish, I liked his aura too, he felt happy and …..ambitious?

My lids drooped and I got up and walked over to my sleeping bag, carefully laying down so as not to hurt my shoulder, and relaxed, allowing my body to sleep. And heal.

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