Surprisingly, for once, I woke up before Sakura…She looked kinda cute. She was curled up under her blanket, only small strands of her hair showing. She seemed cold so I laid my blanket over her, and then I giggled when Sakura through the blankets off of her, revealing her clothes that were sticking to her with sweat. I stood up and walked out of the tent in a noodle strap tank top and shorts. I noticed that there was a fire burning and I walked in that direction for warmth. When I reached the fire, I sat down real close to it and sighed with my eyes closed, not even noticing the person on the other side of the fire who stared through the fire at me with bruised, bloodshot eyes.
"Ahh, this feels nice!" I yawned and stretched my arms above my head and looked into the fire, and then jumped back, "Ahhh! …Oh my God! You scared me half to death, Hitan! What are you doing up so early?"
"Mmmr...Rmrmm…" She was speaking so softly, I had to get up and go sit right next to her, even there I could barely hear her, and I had to lean into her a bit, as she repeated. "I could ask you the same…" I stared at her for a moment, and she continued, "I couldn't sleep."
"You've been up all night?" She nods, and then stares at me, and I shrug, "Jus' couldn't sleep in today." She nods again, and both of her ears droop to the side.
"So, what's it like working under Space?" I turned my attention back to the fire, trying to start a conversation.
"Huh?"
"You know, you're the lieutenant, and Space is your leader. What's it like working under her?"
"Why do people assume she's the leader?"
I shrugged and looked at her again, "I don't know, maybe because she just seems strong? Wait…She isn't the leader?"
Hitan shook her head, and she looked a bit up set now. Her ears went straight, and then back, as if she were going to growl, "I am the leader and she is the lieutenant."
I didn't say anything, couldn't say anything. Hitan is so quiet, and nice I never would've expected her to be the leader! Finally when I was able to speak, I couldn't stop asking questions. "So when are your mutants coming?"
"They will be here later today. I do not know exactly."
"You must not've slept in days. Those bruises under your eyes look old." Hitan pulled her knees to her chest, and her tail wrapped around herself.
"I have not slept for 9 days."
"That's unhealthy, you should really go lay down, hun."
"I know, but…I've had nightmares after nightmares that've kept me awake."
"Oh…Well, what kind of nightmares?" I leaned back on my hands and looked at her.
"The same ones every night, I'm running and running, but I've never seen what I'm running from. I always get cornered, and whatever it is gets really close to me. And right when it's about to kill me, I wake up. I think it's the white coats…I also have nightmares about all the experiments that were done on me. I sometimes have nightmares about being captured from where ever I am at, and they test me again and no one helps me. Not even Space…" She never took her eyes off of the fire as she spoke.
All of a sudden Itachi's face was in the form of fire in the fire pit, "Girls, go get Leader-sama, and wake up the others. Your mutants are here." His face then disappeared and Hitan looked at me as she stood up.
"I will go wake Space and Gambit." She walked away and I nodded, rose, and headed back to my tent to wake up Sakura. As Sakura went to wake her brothers I walked around looking for Pein.
Silently, I stood about 2 yards behind him and he whispered to me, "The war is about to start. Are you willing to fight for us?"
"Of course." I walked closer to him and saw that he was hold Garion and Danny was lying next to a sleeping Galaxina. "I'd be willing to die…Are your kids staying here?"
"Yes, Galaxina and the innocents will be staying together, underground. Though that won't do much good if Sakura fights in her human form and punches the ground again…They will be safe. Tobi will also stay with them."
I nodded and then stepped back, "We should go." Pein nodded and stood up, still holding Garion. Then he laid Garion down next to Danny. He crouched down low to the ground and kissed Galaxina on the cheek, and the 2 boys on the foreheads. Then he stood and turned to me.
"Let's go." We both walked towards the place Hitan and I was sitting, where Gambit, Michael, Stefan, Midori, Aaron, Cassie, Ren, Sakura, Hitan, and Space were all waiting, along with the Akatsuki.
"The mutants are arriving; I spotted them .032 miles southeast from here." Zetsu's dark side explained, and Pein nodded. "They should be here any moment…" Zetsu's light side informed.
Just as he said that a large group of mutants arrived, and all coming from the place Zetsu had claimed.
Pein stepped forward and looked at them all, "How many of you are there?"
A girl with long red hair spoke up, "300-400 mutants, but the enemy has about a thousand. I don't think we can win this."
"Don't be so negative Jean! We'll kick ass!" Space hooted, with a big grin on her face.
"Hell yeah!" A girl with pink and black hair that had wings, flying around shouted with her fist in the air.
"When will we attack?" A large man asked.
"We'll have to wait for them to attack-" Ren started but was interrupted by a hairy dude.
"If we do that we can lose!"
"Shut up, fluffy! If we go and attack them first we'll be on unknown grounds, meaning they'll have an advantage! If they attack us here we'll have a better chance of winning." Sakura glared at him.
Space almost fell over laughing, "Hahah! Fluffy! I'ma call you that now, Wolverine!" He just growled and glared at Sakura.
"I want Hitan's top fighters, the rest of you get yourselves familiar with the land." Pein ordered and the majority of the mutants left and he looked at the remaining mutants. "Give me your names."
"Jean," The red head stated.
"Wolverine." He gave Pein a cocky grin as his metal claws came out.
"Colossus…" The very muscular man muttered.
"My name is Jubilee."
"Cyclops and this is my little brother, Havok." A guy wearing sunglasses said, nodding to his brother that looked about 2 years younger than him.
"I'm Banshee, nice to meet you!" Sakura and Pein took a step back at the same time.
"Byakuya." A guy with long black hair stated plainly, staring at Space, who was looking at the ground and blushing.
"Ooohhr! So this is the guy you're with!" Sakura grinned and Space's face turned an even brighter red.
After my new friends and myself introduced ourselves we started to sort out a plan. We will be splitting up into groups at first and be scattered around the forest. Pein will start the rain so we can find out when and where the enemy is.
Sakura and I were sitting in a tree, waiting and watching. I wanted to start fighting soon, hopefully the adrenaline will warm me up. I'm soaked and freezing from the stupid rain Pein had to make…
"If you want, I can shift for you?" Sakura offered but I shook my head. We both heard a growl and looked down. There was Suigetsu and Sasuke in wolf form, and guess who they were staring at? Yeah…us…
'Pein! They found us!" Sakura screamed in her head, everyone that was fighting on our side can hear her.
"Get down here!" Sasuke growled. Sakura jumped down, and I followed.
I leaned towards her, "You can shift at any moment now!" I said urgently.
"Oh please, I don't need to be a wolf to fight! I better with my fists!" Sakura grinned and crouched, getting ready to punch Sasuke as he lurked towards us. "You can have Suigetsu…" I nodded and looked at the red wolf. The wars beginning…
