Chappie Seven!!
I'm trying to make up for all the time I spent not updating by updating as often as I can. I have all the ideas but it's just that I need to find the energy and the time to type them out. Audience fades NOOO!! Don't GO!! sob sob sob
Tenten: HA! That's what you get for being LAZY!!
little-miss-troublesome: glares and then takes Neji and throws off cliff
Tenten: Neji-kunnnnnnnn!!
little-miss-troublesome: smirk
Chapter 6: Memories
Hinata yelled to all her friends. She had something. Something in her gut that told her someone was in trouble. The smoke. The fresh blood. It all pointed to trouble. Hinata arrived to where the scents were the strongest just a few moments before her friends arrived. They looked around. A tent was set up with smoke coming from the middle of a small fire. The fire had been put out recently. The blood smell was coming from the pile of bandages in a corner. They were bandages that had been recently changed so the smell of the blood was still there.
"I'm sure this is Tenten's blood." Shikamaru said.
"Now, how do you know it's even Seiji's or Tenten's?" asked Ino
"Can't you see the scroll over there? It's one of Tenten's and she would never leave a scroll behind unless it was something really important." Shikamaru replied.
"Smartass. Well then how do you know it's not's Seiji's blood." Ino challenged.
"Tenten's scent lingers all over the scroll and the same scent is all over the bandages." Shikamaru said coolly. Ino just crossed her arms.
A sudden rustle in the bushes made them all turn around…
"Who are all of you?" a strange girl asked. She was about 24 years old and had long red hair down to her waist. Her brown eyes shown brightly again her pale complex and her skin was beautifully alluring. She looked at them suspiciously and started to narrow her eyes.
"Are you here to steal?" she asked.
"Is this stuff all yours?" Shikamaru asked.
"You know it's rude to answer a question with a question." the girl replied, "Now answer me, since I asked first."
"We are looking for a friend of ours named Tenten. We wanted to contact her and her son because we are worried she might be in danger." Shikamaru said. He saw the girl smirk.
"They are in no danger. They are at our village right now. You can not go see them because they will not remember you." The girl replied.
"What do you mean?" Neji asked frustrated.
"We found a young boy and an unconscious woman beside him one day in the forest. The boy says that he does not know what has happened. Our doctors diagnosed it as temporary amnesia because they suspected he had hit his head. The boy had made camp here earlier and he had set up a tent. He told us he and his mother had been ambushed while they were going somewhere and he doesn't remember anything else. His mother had broken both her arms and a leg and right now she is still unconscious." The girl finished.
"I want to see Tenten damn it!" Neji said in frustration. The girl just glared at him coldly.
"You will scare the poor boy." she warned them.
"Seiji would probably remember us right?" Ino asked.
"You may see the boy but the woman is still unconscious." the girl said, after a long pause.
The seven ninja followed her to a small town far off east of the Konoha border. They remembered that right around the area was Konoha's border with Water. Strange glances from the town's people were directed at the ninja. Obviously, these people had no ninja experience whatsoever. They approached a small house that had a garden set up with a target.
"Enter here and you will find the boy and my grandmother. I must be off but I give you my best regards." the girl said. She bowed and left.
Sakura quietly knocked on the door. A small voice of "come in" was heard. The seven ninja entered. The sight that bestowed them was terrible.
Seiji sat on a small stool in the rather small kitchen. His pearly eyes were blank and stared at nothing. He seemed to be concentrating really hard on something. A smaller elderly lady was beside him, comforting him. One look and you could've seen the body laying on the extra futon in the living room. Before they could get to the body though, the elderly lady looked up.
"Why hello dears, what may I do for you today?" she asked her voice kind and gently, unlike her granddaughter's which was cold.
"That is my friend laying on the futon and the other is my friend's son. We are here to take them back to our village." Hinata said, her voice matching the old lady's in kindness.
"Do you think you could help this poor dear? He's trying really hard to remember who he was and where he came from." the lady replied. Seiji was still staring at the floor.
"I could try." said Sakura. Seiji looked up upon hearing that voice.
"Sakura-chan?" he asked his eyes full of hope.
"Yes Seiji-kun?" Sakura asked sweetly.
"Where am I? What am I doing here? What happened to kaa-san?" Seiji said looking over at the body on the futon. He rushed over.
Neji twitched. Kaa-san? When had Tenten become a mother? He was going to kill the guy who got her pregnant. It was probably one of his bastards of a cousin. He had it all figured out now. Tenten had run away because she found out that she was pregnant and not with his child. She had given birth to Seiji and Satsuki secretly. His temper rose. Whoever did this will pay.
Sasuke felt Neji's temper rise. He nudged him a bit as to keep him under control. He seemed to have calmed a bit and Sasuke felt him relax again. Sakura, Ino and Hinata had already gone over to examine the sleeping figure. He and the guys were walking over right now.
Tenten was in a terrible state. Her hair was down and all the mud was caked in. Her face had scratches and cuts. Her whole torso was wrapped in bandages as if it had been sliced. Some of the blood was still leaking out quite a bit. Her two arms were limp by her side and you could see that it had not healed properly. Her leg was red and swollen and her ankle was bent at an awkward position. Along her pale legs were marks from the longer deeper gashes made from bigger stronger weapons.
Sakura gasped and started to heal her arms with her jutsu. Hinata was talking to Seiji with a quite voice. Seiji was looking less nervous now as Hinata introduced her to each of the boys avoiding Seiji's question of why that long haired boy had the same eyes as him.
Sakura stopped on one arm and began to work on another. Ino was already working on Tenten's leg. The cuts and scratches Hinata handled well. As soon as she and Ino declare Tenten fit to move, they were going to take her back to Konoha for further treatment. Hopefully, Seiji will recall what had happened to them. She had the last of Tenten's arms healed and saw that Ino was done with Tenten's leg. They thanked the grandma and headed off with Seiji on Hinata's back and Tenten on Neji's (after much debating).
Hoping through the forest, they remained as quite as possible, allowing Tenten and Seiji to get more sleep. Once in a while, Naruto would ask Hinata if she was tired carrying Seiji and she said no for each. Stooping halfway, they made camp there and set everything they brought along down. The boys (with the exception of Seiji) all went to get wood, possibly find some food, etc… The girls stayed at camp setting up. They had already laid Tenten down in one of the tents and told Seiji to go and keep his mother warm. Seiji nodded, waking off sleepily. Eventually Hinata and Sakura went to wash up. The boys came back and wanted to go wash up. Only 3 went though. The fourth was left with Ino to guard camp.
An awkward feeling was in the air for awhile. Then the boy spoke.
"Am I forgiven?" he asked Ino.
"It depends." she replied.
"On?" the boys asked. He was nervous. Never before had he been this nervous unless you count the time he tried to ask her out.
"The truth." Ino replied. He understood instantly. She wanted the truth about that day. The day she had left.
Flashback…
Shikamaru was tired. Ino was bound to be here later. Maybe he could just…zzzzzzz
Next thing he knew. He woke up with Ino slapping him hard on the face. Wait a minute. Cheating bastard? He felt something warm between his legs. Something that wasn't there before and he had a pretty good idea of what or who it was. That new stalker he recently acquired from saving her on a mission. Ino was already halfway down the hill when he stopped his train of thoughts. Oh boy she was pissed. Shikamaru sighed and pushed the sleeping stalker off of him. "Ino!" he yelled. No luck. She was already gone. "How troublesome…" was his last thought before he went into the forest to hopefully avoid Ino and that stalker for a little bit. He would wait for her to calm down…zzzzzzzzz
End Flashback…
Ino was giggling after hearing his story. He could fall asleep in any situation. After he had told her his side of the story, the guys and the girls had come back together so it gave Ino a chance to escape and think things over. She could sense that Shikamaru was behind her, following her every step. She stopped.
"Goodness Shika-kun, never knew you were the stalker type." she said. His presence disappeared and reappeared in front of her. He smirked and wrapped his arms lightly around her waist. She smiled up at him. No more words were needed as he leaned down.
Minutes later, Ino and Shikamaru came back to camp together hand in hand. That was no surprise. What was the surprise was that Shikamaru looked a bit annoyed that he was soaking wet. Ino just looked at him and giggled, squeezing his hand. He squeezed back.
Everyone sat around the camp fire talking like the old times. Laughter and squeals (from some of the girls) could be heard throughout the forest that night.
"Remember the time Shikamaru tried to ask Ino out for the first time?" Sakura said. She was seated on the floor in between Sasuke's legs.
"I remember that!" Hinata exclaimed. Everyone started laughing as Shikamaru turned a beet red.
"He was stuttering so much and he was so red that I took him to the hospital, even though he said nothing was wrong with him." Ino said, "Afterwards, when he got out of the hospital two hours later, he came to the shop and apologized. I asked him what he was apologizing for and he said that he had been trying to ask me out but he had chickened. He didn't realise that his deepest secret had just been exposed." Ino laughed at the boy who sat beside her.
"Remember the time Naruto and Sasuke got into a fight?" Neji said.
"I clearly remember that incident because not only did they crash through 6 walls, collapse most of the roof of the Uchiha compound, and destroyed most of the garden; Hinata, Ino, Tenten, and I walked in on them in a very suggestive position." Sakura replied. Hinata started laughing.
"Hinata-chan, I'm straight." Naruto wailed.
"And even if I was gay, it wouldn't be with the dobe." Sasuke said. Everyone started laughing except for Naruto.
"Teme, I wouldn't do it with you if you begged." Naruto yelled. Neji quickly shushed him, indicating to Tenten and Seiji's shared tent. Sasuke glared at Naruto.
"I will never beg you dobe, your too small down there for my taste…besides I'm not into that…" Sasuke struck back.
"I am not small down there, in fact I think I'm-" Sakura cut Naruto off.
"Guys, thanks but we don't need the information about how big you are down there…" she glared at her boyfriend and Naruto. Sasuke glared back. Naruto just looked at her
Glare
Glare
Glare
Glare
Death glare
Pinch
"Ow, Sakura." Sasuke said, death glaring her again. She beamed. "You're going to get it when we get back to Konoha…" he muttered; think about all the different things he could do to punish her. (A/n: Bad Sasuke)
It was getting late and everyone was already half asleep. They bid a good night and went to their tents. In the middle of the night a loud blood curling scream could be heard and everyone rushed out of their tents and toward the source of the scream. It was near the river where they had washed up. Neji led the way with his byakugan. They arrived just in time to see…
TBC…
LoL, I love cliffys because they are so much fun. Yay! Last time I looked I had 12 reviews. Thanks You!! Next chapter, I will reveal what the blood curling scream is. I will also try to bring this story to what I think will be its main point. I'm adding OC's into the story. I also want to start on a new story. Something school-related. Tell me if it's a good idea or not. I'm a bit high on COOKIES right now so i tend to switch topics very often. OMG! A 3-types-of-chocolate COOKIE!!
I'll be waiting…
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