I had been in the cave for two days now.

'Fuck this I'm going the fuck home!'

I took a deep breath and submerged myself under water, sinking back to the bottom and finding the small opening again. Once I made my way back to where I started, I started to scale the rocks leading to the surface, getting many cuts and gashes on my hands and feet (ninja shoes fell apart in the water). When I got up to the top I saw Gage, Mai, Kento , and the one girl from the mission looking in bushes and trees. I got an idea as Gage got closer to me. When he got close enough, I grabbed his ankle and dragged him in, pushing his head down so he wouldn't resurface. I quickly put my head below water as to not give any sign anyone was here. Gage was hitting my hand but I was stronger, strength wise. When Mai got close enough to figure out what happened to Gage I pulled her under but couldn't keep them both underwater. Gage broke free and surfaced for air and mai kicked me away. I brought my head up laughing and taking big gulps of air. Mai and Gage were standing above me, out of the water, glaring down at me.

"Uh... did ya miss me?"

"KAMI GET YOUR ASS BACK TO THE HIDEOUT! YOU KNOW HOW MAD LEADER-SAMA WAS WHEN HE FOUND OUT HIDAN LEFT YOU HERE? AND WHEN YOU DIDN'T COME BACK? YOU IDIOT! YOU KNOW THAT TOBI CRIED? YEAH. THERE WERE TEARS FLOWING OUT THE HOLE IN HIS MASK. HE DIDN'T STOP EITHER. HIDAN CAME OUT HERE LOOKING FOR YOU CUZ HE FELT BAD! NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK? YOU FUCKTARD!"

Mai yelled. I looked shocked. I crawled out of the water and sat on my knees, thinking.

'Why would someone cry when I was gone? No one has ever really missed me. No one ever really cared, so I guessed that wouldn't change. I guess my students felt bad when I left, but they didn't really care, if they did they would have come after me, right?'

I stood up with my head down and my wet hair covering my face, a shadow over my eyes. I made my way back to the hideout, and entered, making my way to leader's office with eyes following my form. Tobi froze, running to me.

"KAMI-SAN! TOBI MISSED YOU KAMI-SAN!"

He attached himself to my waist and I only petted his head.

"Tobi, I gotta go to leader's office. I'll get you some candy later, kay?"

"OKAY!"

He left me to go find Vash. I entered leader's office without knocking.

"Kami. I see you decided to return. I was hoping you didn't run off."

He walked up to me. I fell to me knees and put my nose to the floor. The door creeked, and I could tell some of the other apperntices were watching the scene.

"I apologize, leader-sama. It won't happen again. I was mad at Hidan and didn't think of others."

"I hope this doesn't happen again, Kami. If it does you will have hell to pay."

"Yes sir."

"Now. As for your punishment. You have to help Denka with cooking for the next week instead of training."

"Yes sir."

"You are excused."

"Yes sir."

I stood slowly and walked out of the room. I made my way to my and Gage's room, not looking anyone in the eyes on the way. When I got there Gage was sitting in the bed. I just took of my cloak and fell onto my bed, my wet clothes makeing a squishing sound.

"You know, Kami, a lot of people where worried that you ran away. Tobi was panicing because he thought you were mad at him for writing on your scythe and ran away. But some people over-looked the fact that you had left your scythe here. I remember you once called that scythe your baby."

"...Thanks."

"For what?"

"Caring."

I, at that, fell asleep. The next morning, when I woke up, I mean, woken, up [at 530 to be exact], I made my way back to the kitchen with Denka. He was oddly quiet unless directing me to do something. I helped him set out the ingrediants for the breakfast and I set the table. When we were both done and were about to go about waking up the rest of them I sat at the table.

"What's wrong Kami?"

"I can't help but feel that everyone is mad at me. You won't talk to me and everyone else is giving me the cold shoulder. I don't know what I did wrong. I was only gone a day and everyone is so worried about me. Why does everyone care so much?"

"Because we are all a family now, Kami, even if you don't realize it. Leader-sama and Konan are like the parents, Hidan and Kakuzu are like our uncles. Kisame and Itachi our godfathers, Sasori and Deidara like our close friends, and all of us the children, with an exeption of Tobi. We are a family."

"Thanks Denka!"

"No problem! Now let's go wake up some people!"

I sighed.

"Let me get my scythe."

"Yeah, Hidan and Itachi get pretty andry when you wake them up..."

For the next hour and a half I had fun dodgeing Kunai from Itachi and cussing out Hidan, and it seemed like everything was back to normal.