Sai
I emerge from the darkness of sleep to the darkness of a room with no lights on. My dreams had been strange and oddly had contained someone I hadn't expected. I begin to raise from the bed to get up and ready for the day but my head screams in pain as soon as it leaves the pillow. Bringing it down again I feel something tickle my neck. Startled I look down beside me and almost fall out of the bed. I hadn't even felt her arms around me, but now they seem obvious against my chest along with the steady tingle of her warm breath on my neck. It sends a shiver down my spine but I stop myself from moving. For the short amount of time I had been around her and the Kazekage I had noticed two big things about her. One being that she can REALLY hold her liquor and I mean really hold it, and the second thing I noticed was she rarely slept... or slept walked around her room mumbling strange and random things to herself... but now wasn't the time to ponder over that. Realizing I wasn't going any were any time soon I try to go back to sleep and shift into a slightly more comfortable position. My eyes start to close. All was quiet and I'm reasonably comfortable... well I was. It seems as soon as I finally start to drift back into the dreams of earlier I'm snapped back out by a sudden light purring. I know instantly were that's coming from cause Kaji's grip on my torso starts to get tighter and she snuggles closer. Seems she was having a good dream. Suddenly things get even more interesting or rather painful. The purring continues but then ten sharp nails dig lightly into my back. That wasn't to bad, a lot worse has happened to me, so I don't worry about it. Well I don't until the pressure from her nails starts to increase. A couple seconds later my skin breaks and I can feel little pools of blood form and run down onto the sheets. Kaji seems to be totally oblivious to this cause she continues to purr lightly and snuggles even closer. If I didn't know better I'd say she was actually awake and was just enjoying herself making me squirm. By the time her fingers finally relax and let go of my back I'm pretty much soaked with my own blood. For some reason she then pulls her arms up to her chest and lays her head on my chest. Finally I can relax... or at least I hope I can relax. Well it doesn't really matter cause I pass out and return to my dreams. Though the dreams have changed to something entirely new to me and once again she's there.
Deamona
"So... were d'ya think she'd be?"
Niwa asks in his usual bored tone. I sigh in defeat
"I seriously have no idea. I've never been here before and she's either masked her chakra or it's so low it's been drowned out by the shear volume of people here... Why of all days we could have chosen to find out what she's up to... Why did we HAVE to pick a day that they were having a festival?!"
My anger suddenly flared as I thought about how Kaji had left with out even saying she was leaving. Our team was like a family, one of us disappears or does something stupid, the whole team either freaks or does something about it. It had always been that way... or at least since the team got together. It was unheard of for one of us to do something like this without telling at least one of the others, but I guess I should have seen this coming. Kaji had changed a lot in the past week. She stopped visiting almost entirely, had silent spells, but all around I think she was getting better. The human mind may be a total mystery to me but I some how understood hers. It could be because of the demon in her or maybe it's because unlike most mortals her fragile state of mind was more twisted than even my own. It really didn't matter though all that I could really tell about her was that what ever had happened to her before we found her had scared her so deep they'd take a lot more than the love me and Niwa could provide to heal... she needed someone all her own... someone she could show her true colors to and maybe tell her story to. Gawd I'm starting to sound like I'm her mother or something... being among humans has made me soft. I frown as I scan the crowd. I don't see Kaji but what I do see will be just as good.
"Niwa come on. I see someone who can help us find Kaj"
Niwa looks at me lazily then nods and follows as I bolt through the crowd.
"Kazekage-sama!"
Gaara
"Kazekage-sama!"
the vice of a woman pierces through the noise of the crowd and a girl comes running up to me, with a guy following close behind. She's about an inch taller than me and has her medium length, black hair pulled into a loose bun. Her violet eyes remind me of Kaji's the day she came to the council room, sharp and unfeeling. Her clothing matches her eyes, well what there is of clothing. It consists mostly of a couple of strips of fabric over her chest and a pair of short shorts, between all of that is a bit of fish netting, but the most noticeable thing about her was the tattoos all over her arms and legs. The boy was a bit plainer than her. He has tan skin, electric blue hair and a crimson eye, his other is covered by a black eye patch. His clothes are mostly browns and tans except for the his fishnets which are a blue almost as bright as his hair. I don't recognize these two from any were but they seem to be shinobi from Suna because each has a Suna headband. For the girl it on the front of her top while it's on the boy's hip. Once the two reach me he girl salutes and says
"Kazekage-sama! I'm Deamona an ANBU from Suna, demon"
for a moment I thought I caught a glimpse of horns on her head, two large demon wings and a long tail swishing behind her
" also Kaji Hametsu's teammate. This"
she points too the boy behind her
" is Niwa also a teammate of Kaji's and a fellow ANBU."
The boy named Niwa nods slightly his lazy eye then scanning the crowd.
" Sir if you don't mind would you be kind enough to tell us the whereabouts of our teammate?"
So this is Kaji's team... I wonder how they figured out she was here... eh that's not important and I really don't feel like dealing with them at the moment.
"You just missed her. She went stumbling down the way you came from with the other ANBU assigned to protect me. If you want to find her I suggest heading for the apartment. You see that tall building? "
I point to the tallest building in Konoha, she looks, then nods.
"we're staying on the top floor and if your coming from the elevator it's the first door you come to, the second one's the Mizukage's room. I wouldn't suggest going any were near it."
Deamona nods, then bows deeply while saying
"Thank you Kazekage-sama. See ya later!"
She smiles devilishly then disappears with Niwa.
"who were those two?"
I turn back to Saiyo who had just gotten back from searching for a good place to eat.
"Kaji's teammates, or two of my ANBU."
something about those two gave me a strange feeling but that would have to wait.
"so you find a good place?"
She smiles.
Deamona
When we finally got up to the twentieth floor, I never wanted to use the stairs again - it seems someone sabotaged the only elevator and the building's watcher had to put it out of order till he could figure out what was wrong with it. Well that wasn't the point, we're here now so we have to continue on. Ok now it sounds like a mission... damn it I always make things sound over dramatic... anyways when we reach the door Niwa knocks loudly. We wait about ten minutes before I try the door. It opens without a sound
"Well we were told to come here... so there should be no harm in going in"
Niwa nods and follows me as I enter. Inside is a large room with two couches facing each other, the lights are off but the light from the moon is shinning in so everything is illuminated. Nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary, that was until I saw a kimono half sticking out of a room. As far as I know Kaji is the only girl staying with the Kazekage and she was just at a festival, so they must have gotten her to wear one.
"she must be in there"
I point over at the door with the kimono. Niwa nods and sits down.
"then maybe you should get her, just in case she's in the middle of changing"
I roll my eyes at him. He knows as well I do that Kaji wears bandages all over her body to cover the scars of a past she has yet to tell anyone about, so there isn't much to see, even if she is changing, but then again this is Niwa I'm talking about. I decide to leave it at that and head for the door. Like the front door it opens silently and as it does a stream of moonlight flows into the dark room. Inside looks like a simple bedroom, a bed, dresser, night stand, lamp and alarm clock. I look around the room expecting to see Kaji pacing or something of the sort, but a movement in the bed brings my attention to it. I go into demon form so I can see better and move closer to the bed and see the unexpected.
"Well that didn't take long..."
I whisper this as I look over the scene. Before me is not one person but two people, one of which is Kaji, the other who's chest she's cuddled up to is a boy around her age with short dark hair and pale skin. They both looked pretty peaceful, well she did the boy looked like he was in a bit of pain, that's when I saw the small puddle of blood under him. Seems she had been clawing in her sleep again, poor guy. As I'm leaning over them looking closely at the boy trying to figure out what he was like from his face and chakra, Kaji shifts her position slightly.
Kaji
For the second time that night I woke up, it felt like something was watching me or hovering over me. I then notice a familiar chakra close, well two and one out of the room. I open my eyes groggily and look up. What I see is Deamona inches from my face studying mine. I giver her a confused look and she smiles down at me.
"Hello sleepy head. Got a boyfriend do we?"
I give another confused look then realize fully were I am and in what position. I give a simple
"oh..."
then look over at Sai. He was still sleeping soundly so I continue with
"he's not my boyfriend."
One of Deamona's eyebrows go up in a questioning look.
"Oh? then why are you in the same bed with him and with no cloths on except your underpants? oh and by the way your bandages are starting to come undone and I can see your scars."
I can feel my face get hot with embarrassment as I reply
"I must have passed out after dumping him in his bed"
Deamona starts to grin
"is that a blush I see? You like him don't you?"
Now my face was burning hot and likely beet red. My eyes widen in shock but I manage to stutter out
"J--just get out so I can re-wrap myself!"
She continues to grin, from the look on her face it seems me face did go quite red, but rather than pushing for more information she simply says
"fine but when he wakes up you have to introduce him to me and Niwa."
then leaves. I sigh my face finally starting to cool down, then get up out of the bed. I look down at my bandages and see she was telling the truth they were almost completely off and were hanging off every were except were I had a layer over them. In other words the only place that was completely covered was my pelvic aria. I sigh again and completely remove the bandages, keeping my back to the bed.
Sai
A sudden chill on my chest wakes me up, so I open my eyes to see why I was cold. Well it seemed to be for a few reasons. First was I didn't have a shirt on, the second was Kaji was gone and the third was the blankets seemed to be missing. Not liking the chill in the room I go to get up and find the blanket, but the sheets refuse to leave my back. It seemed the blood had dried and stuck them to me. Oh great. I look around to see if there was anything to pry myself off the bed with but instead my eyes land on Kaji. She hadn't gone far, actually it seemed as if she had just gotten up. I go to ask her to help me get up but then I notice her bandages are off and she's starting to put them back on. For some reason all I can do is stare at her naked skin, then I realize why almost every inch of the skin usually covered with bandages is covered with dark painful looking scars. Almost everyone of them is long or wide and the edges of the scars are all jagged as if the skin wasn't just cut but more of torn. It seems Kaji heard me try to move cause she suddenly turns to me covering her chest with her arms and the remaining bandages. Her eyes look scared and she swallows hard before saying
"oh gawd..."
I give her a confused look. Why was she scared? sure I've seen what was under her bandages, but... oh... I open my mouth to say something. I wasn't sure what i'd say but I felt I had too, but before I could she says
" I'm sorry i'll go finish in my room."
she then heads for the door.
