Donovan's Point of View

We were walking to a cell, lead by some strange people with cat masks. After the boy had taken Rebecca away, we were attacked by the other teenagers. Heffner had gotten some of the kids, but we ended up getting captured. Now, after a day and a half of confinement, they were going to torture us to get information out of us. They wanted to know how we got here. I wasn't going to let these crazy, dangerous people into The United States if it killed me.

A fairly scarred man named Ibiki was tying our hands behind our backs. He was the torture man.

"Now I assure you, Mr. Donovan, we are not going to do anything with the information you give us but send you and your friend back home. We are going to destroy the barrier so that you can never come here again."

I didn't believe a word he said, so I clamped my mouth shut. I wasn't going to give in. Ever. I would serve my county well.

The man made some hand gestures and then I was sent into a burning building. My greatest fear was always to be burnt alive. "I'll talk! I'll talk! Just please, please don't burn me!" I told him everything I knew when the cell came back into view. After I finished, the man smiled at me.

"Thank you for your information." He made more gestures, and then my world went black.

Neji's Point of View

"AH! Get off me you bitch!" I put my drink down softly and turned around. Lauren, Rebecca's rather rude friend, had decided to put on a pool party for Tenten's birthday…at the Hyuga Mansion. Of course, my uncle had automatically said yes when Rebecca, Lauren, and Hinata had gotten together and in one attempt knocked him over with a simple "please?". I honestly don't understand how he could fall for them, but I guess he knew it would be a wild party, because he left me in charge and went on a "mission." Yeah, sure. We all know he's too busy handling his clan. He's probably just sitting in his room reading porn or something. So, here I was, having to deal with Lauren's loud screams. Which are totally unnecessary.

"Neji, why don't you come in?" Rebecca had swum up to the side of the pool while Tenten and Lauren wrestled. Hinata was trying to pry them apart unsuccessfully. I coated my response in sarcasm. "As nice as that sounds, I'd rather stick pins in my eyes while watching paint dry." Honestly, I wouldn't mind just Nanami, but her idiot friends were her too.

"Really, am I really that bad?" She cocked her head to the side, as if looking at an experiment. I looked briefly at the gauze wrapped around her wrist. It was healing well, but guilt was still covering me like a wet wool blanket.

"It's not you, it's you friend that is giving me a migraine." She smiled and glanced at Lauren.

"Sorry you're having a migraine. I'll be sure to drown Lauren for you." Sarcasm and hurt edged the last sentence. Looks like it's not a good idea to complain about the best friend of the person you're head over heels for. Before I could apologize, she darted through the water, directly at Lauren. Though the refraction made it hard to see what was going on, I knew that Rebecca had grabbed Lauren's legs and dragged her down. Lauren screamed as she was pulled into the water. She sounded like a banshee.

"I didn't realize that you had the ability to laugh Neji. Or do you just enjoy my pain and suffering?" Lauren had come up to the side of the pool, her hair drenched. She hadn't wanted to get it wet, or so she said. I really didn't understand that. Why were girls so anal about that? Well, I guess it was only the stuck up ones like Lauren, because Rebecca certainly didn't care.

I scoffed. I was itching to insult her, but I knew that Rebecca would over hear.

"What's wrong Neji, don't want to get in?" When she said 'in', she grabbed my ankle and dragged me toward the pool. I pulled my ankle back, but her grip was rock hard. I hadn't noticed Tenten getting out of the pool. She was behind me, and pushed me in as Lauren pulled at my ankle.

Water rushed around me as I slid into the pool. I had changed into my swimsuit, knowing Lauren would try something like this. She seemed to hate me or something.

As I surfaced, I exhaled sharply and flung my hair out of my face. Rebecca rolled her eyes at Lauren and Tenten, who were laughing uncontrollably. She waded through the water toward me.

"You okay?" I nodded. I told her I had planned for an attack, and she laughed. As she went over to scold her giggling friends, I made my way over to the side of the pool. Hinata had gone inside to get some towels for me, and when she tried to hand one to me, I thanked her, but shook my head. Might as well stay in once I was in. I hopped onto the ledge near the chairs and took off my wet button-down shirt. It was thin and white, so it hung to my body. No point in keeping it on if you could see through it anyway. I tossed it onto an empty chair, and then swam back to the middle of the pool next to Rebecca. Tenten was holding Lauren bridal style, and would occasionally dunk her head into the water if she said something.

"It's a game we play in Corpus. One person comes up with a category and something in that category, and the other person has to guess it. Lauren's trying to guess something that is a vegetable." I nodded. It seemed like a fairly simple game.

"So if you get it wrong, your head gets dunked in the water. What happens if you get it right?" Suddenly, Tenten flipped Lauren over into the water. Lauren darted to the top, laughing.

"Get it?" Rebecca looked up at me expectantly.

"Sure. May I?" I held out my arms like Tenten had. Rebecca smiled and slid into my arms.

"Category?" She asked me. I thought for a minute. What kind of category would be good? Then, I remembered that they were going to watch a marathon of an anime tonight that I had seen before.

"How about characters from Bleach?" I asked. She looked up at me with wide eyes.

"You watch Bleach?" Was she really that surprised?

"Just because I'm serious doesn't mean I don't watch anime." She smiled at my comment.

"Only do the captains." She nodded to herself, as if reassuring herself. Odd.

"Okay." I thought for a minute. I thought of the perfect person. Someone she would never guess. Komamura-Taichou. The dog looking one.

"Here goes nothing. Toshiro?" I dipped her head all the way into the water.

"Soi Fon?" Again, I dunked her head into the water. It took her eleven guesses to get it right.

"Komamura?" I flipped her over, and she swam with ease back to the surface.

"That's not nice. You're supposed to do someone obvious." I rolled my eyes at her comment.

"Is that because you don't want to get dunked in the pool a bunch of times?" She scoffed and turned away from me.

"Rebecca…" Was she mad at me? I stepped toward her, and then put my hand on her shoulder. Out of no where, she turned around and pushed me into the water, then swam away at high speed.

"Alright, if that's how you want to play, let's play cat and mouse." I sped after her. I chased her around the pool for a good five minutes until I finally caught her. She was laughing and joking around, saying she needed help and yelling rape when I grabbed her shoulders to stop her from moving around. By now, Tenten, Lauren, and Hinata had gone inside and were watching some of the marathon.

"Let go of me you raper." She laughed and tried to squirm out of my grasp. I laughed in return and held her still.

"Don't call me that." She blinked, and said, "Am I offending you, your highness?" I rolled my eyes.

"Is it such a crime not wanting to be a rapist?" She laughed again. "No, I just think you need to let go of me so I can watch Bleach."

I smiled and let go of her arm. She got out of the water, dripping, and wrapped a towel around her body. She was beautiful, standing there in the sunset, hair wet, and eyes extremely blue. She raised an eyebrow at me.

"You're staring at me." I rolled my eyes at her obvious statement.

"You're imagining things again." I saw pain flicker across her face for a half a second.

"I'm gonna go inside. You gonna watch Bleach with us?" As much as I wanted to spend more time with Rebecca, I didn't want to keep her all to myself. She had other friends.

"Nah, I'm gonna go to sleep. All this chasing you around has made me tired. I'm also probably going to be woken up in the middle of the night by giggling girls, so I might as well get as much sleep as I can in before then." She nodded, but I could have sworn I saw disappointment flicker across her face.

"Yeah, you're probably right. Good night then." She smiled and waved at me, then entered the house.

"Good night love."