Naruto studied Shay's expression and smiled a little bit as she looked around. "Holy-What the-" Several Anbu appeared on the roof tops and vanished a second later and Shay made a choking sound and turned wide eyes to look at him and pointed. "Huh?"
Naruto chuckled and reached out and forced her hand down just in case a nin with a short temper came by and decided to take offense at being pointed at like a museum display. "Something wrong?" He asked in amusment and Shay looked at him and made a weird little sound.
"Why are people running across roof tops and disappearing into thin air?"
"Because their ninja's." Naruto said without thinking and was a little startled when Shay grabbed his jacket sleeve and pulled on it slightly, he glanced down at her pale face.
"Ninja's? Thats what you said right? Ninja's?" Shay babbled for a second. Naruto cocked his head and nodded his head slightly wondering what was wrong with her. The woman had'nt been at a loss for words since she had woken up last night.
"Yeah. Ninja's." Naruto said as he nodded his head slowly.
"Huh? B-But- They- You- Ohhhh...I think I need to sit down." Shay said as she rubbed her temples, her face suddenly very pale. Naruto reached out and grasped her elbow in a firm yet gentle grasp and manuvered her over to the nearest building with an out door cafe and gently pushed her down in one of the seats and knelt down in front of her and studied her. She didn't look too good. What little bit of color that she had had before was completely gone, leaving her skin a scary ghostly white.
"I...should take you to the hospital." He said after a second or so. If he could explain things to Tsunade before she killed him then Shay might be allowed to live in the village. Provided that she agreed to be checked out by Ibiki and Inoichi and assigned an Anbu or two to watch her.
"N-No thanks, Naruto. I don't want to go to the hospital."
He frowned. "You should. Your head wound might have seriously damaged something." He said gently and she shook her head no. She didn't want to go to the hospital, she wanted to hide somewhere where the trained weapon weilding ninja's could'nt find her. This was a normal reaction to something like this. Was'nt it? After all ninja's had supposedly died out hundreds of years ago along with the samerai!
And if they were ninja's and she really was a stranger in their land...her chances of survival were practically nill. She looked up at him after a second or so, a stricken look on her pretty face and she said very softly. "Naruto you're a nice guy. Really you are, but-" He cocked his head and waited for her to finish what she was saying. "But I want to go home now. I just can't stay here..." She reached out with a shaky hand and grasped his own and he could feel her trying to calm herself, trying to keep herself from panicing.
"Please. Please take me home."
He stared at her with a sad expression on his face. He would take her home if he knew where her home was, but he didn't and he could sense the fear churning inside of her, threatening to over whelm and suffocate her. Such an oppressive feeling was'nt easy to shake.
"I'm sorry Shayera, but I don't know where you're home is. You could'nt show me on the map. Remember?" Naruto said gently, coaxingly. He was subconciously monitering her breathing and could feel that she was dangerously close to a panic attack and trying his best not to upset her further. But it was a difficult thing to do since he didn't know what had set her off to begin with.
She doubled over and hugged herself, letting her black hair fall into her face and tried to breath. But for some reason could'nt seem to pull any air into her lungs. All she knew was that she was in a village full of ninja's.
Trained assassins and killers who would see her as a threat and kill her without a second thought to how she must be feeling or thinking. Without a second thought to her family back home or what they must be going through right now, not knowing where she was or if she was even alive. Everything started to blur and she felt Naruto's hands on either sides of her face, pushing her hair back as tears slipped down her face.
He looked anxious as he tipped her head back a little bit and snarled something as he grabbed her and pulled her up out of the chair, wrapping an arm around her waist to hold her against him when her legs gave out and picked her up. He didn't know what to do to help her, and that fact was freaking him out a little bit as he turned and started running. Carrying Shay in his arms bridal style, a worried expression on his face.
Tsunade. Tsunade would know what to do.
