Kakashi was about to ask the kids again when Naru came shuffling out of the tent, looking adorably drowsy, with her hair mussed, and looked at them and smiled a bit as she muttered "Mornin." To them and sat down as Sakura and Sauske's jaws dropped in shock. Had they just heard Naru speak? But, but she never spoke! Not even when she was being hurt! Sakura looked at Sauske and wondered what they should do as Naru sat down next to Kakashi and leaned against his side as if sitting up strait was just too much trouble right now.
Kakashi looked down at her and smiled. "Wanna try eating something for breakfast?" He asked gently, Naru craned her neck and looked at the eggs and blanched and clapped a hand over her mouth and quickly jumped ot her feet and ran over to the nearst cluster of bushes and puked. Kakashi sighed and scratched his cheek, not quite sure what to do to help her.
"Well that was weird."
"Mmm, when she first started to get sick after eating I thought that she was pregnant." Sauske said as he set his plate aside and grabbed a couple of ginger ailes from the cooler and looked at his teammates and gave them a tight lipped smile.
"Wish me luck, fellow lost boys. I'm going in." Kakashi cocked his head and wondered about the Uchiha's refernce to Peter Pan as Sakura smiled and waved at him.
"Good luck Tinkerbell." She said as Sauske flipped her off and walked over to Naru and handed her one of the drinks. Naru took the drink and pressed it against her cheek as Sauske pulled her into his lap.
"Are you okay, Peter?" Sauske asked warily, the last time he did this she had accidentally thrown up on him. Hopefully she would'nt this time, but still.
Naru sighed and nodded her head. She was fine, really she was. Old man third had always told her that her reaction to food after the well incident was normal, and that it might take her years to get back to normal again. Not that she really believed that part. She would never be normal again, if she had been normal to begin with. Something that she doubted with all her heart. She had never been normal, the demon inside of her prevented her from being normal.
"You sure that your okay, fearless leader?" Sauske asked as he took the drink from her cold hand and pressed it against the side of her neck causing her to shiver.
"I'm fine Sauske. You should'nt worry so much." Naru said as she glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. She was more capable of caring for herself than he and everyone else realised. She would'nt be alive today if she was'nt.
"Lets go eat our breakfast." She said with a sigh as she climbed out of his lap. Sauske gave her a curious look, obviously wondering about her words. But she didn't feel like clueing him in so she ignored the look and made her way back to the others and sat down next to Sakura and glared at the eggs.
"Feeling better?" Kakashi asked curiously as he fixed a smore for her. Naru gave him an apoligetic look and took one of the smores that he had fixed for her before she had returned and took a bite out of it. His lips curved up a bit as he fixed her another one and placed it on the paper plate on the ground then handed it to her.
"Naru, would you tell me why you have so much trouble eating?" Kakashi asked, deciding that if he really wanted to know that this would be the best way to go about it. Naru did'nt even stop eating. Instead choosing to try and speak around her food.
"Mmmn ths lookths hike humanth slesh." 'It looks like human flesh.'
Kakashi, Sakura and Sauske tilted their heads to the side a bit and listened to her trying to speak around her food. Sakura looked at them and grinned. Naru did a great impression of the guy in the Twix comercials. The one whos wife asked if her pants made her butt look big.
Sauske paled a little bit and was deathly quiet. Had Naru just said that most foods reminded her of eating human flesh? He glanced at Sakura and Kakashi, both of whom looked a bit amused by Naru's desperat bid to keep her secrets to herself. And who could blame her, that was a huge, huge secret. One that was best left in the past. Jesus christ, no wonder she could'nt hold down certain foods.
But what the hell could have happened to drive her to eat human flesh in the first place? Had she been outside the village? Trapped some where? Had it been the only way she could survive? And when had it happened? He looked away from Naru, feeling sick.
