The Sand Genin ran at me, throwing kunais in the process. I dodged everyone of them and when he got close enough, I kick him in the face and sent him flying back to his teammates. He sat up, holding his cheek in one hand and starring at me in shock.
"That all you got?" I mocked.
The second stepped around the first.
"I'll handle this, Changming." he said before making hand signs and shouting. "Sands of death!"
Out of his sleeves came sand, acting like his arms and tried grabbing me. I managed to avoid them and when they stopped moving, I had my back to a tree and was smiling.
"I can do that too, you know." I smirked.
His eyes widened as Foxy's red chakra enveloped my arms, acting like his sand. I punched the ground, hands going through the earth and the red chakra arms traveled through the ground. They broke out of it once in front of them and grabbed all three of them in one hand while the other stayed open as if waiting for something to fall into it.
"Hand over your Heaven scroll." I ordered.
I tightened my grip around them, making them squeal and one of them poof into smock. A clone. Before I could do anything to stop him, the third Genin (the one who used a clone) cut the back of my thighs, making me cry out in pain. Without letting go of the other two, I used my spare chakra arm to punch him and he hit his head on a tree trunk and fell to the ground, unconscious. I turned back to the other two, trying my best to ignore the pain the Genin had inflicted.
"I'll asked you again. Hand over the scroll or else." I said through my teeth.
They looked at each other, nodded and Changming threw their Heaven scroll at my feet. I grinned at them and knocked them unconscious. Once Foxy's arms disappeared, I collapsed to the ground. Warm liquid was running down my legs, I knew what it was, but didn't want to look at it. I heard two thuds behind me and a pair of strong arms rapped themselves around me, pulling me up. Yoroi swung one of my arms around his neck and held it there. When he readjusted my legs, I gasped.
"That has gotta hurt." he muttered.
"Thanks for pointing that out, Mr. Obvious. Warn me next time I get hit, would you?" I said sarcastically.
"Somebody's in a bad mood." commented Kabuto, the Heaven scroll in his hand.
I glared at him.
"You two, head to the tower. I'm going to take a detour." he said.
I didn't have time to tell him no because he'd already jumped into the trees. Yoroi ignored my gasps of pain while he did the same, only in the tower's direction. After an hour or two, Yoroi stopped.
"It's getting dark, we should find camp for the night." he said.
He jumped up into the branches and left me alone. I tried unsuccessfully to relax. Who could relax in a place like this in the state I'm in? At every sound, I would jump. Even with Foxy comforting me, I was still panicking. So you could imagine how much I freaked out when I heard a twig break. The person I never expect to see, now of all times, stepped around a bush, an icy look in his eyes. It was Gaara. I froze in place, what was he doing here?
"Hello April." he said in cold voice. " Or should I say Aaliyah?"
I looked down at my hands. I would have stood up and begged for his understanding if it wasn't for these wounds.
"What wrong? Aren't you going to fight me off?"
I shook my head in response, not trusting my voice. I'd probably stutter and make an even bigger fool of myself, if possible. I looked at him, he was walking towards me.
"You think that just because I might have liked you before means that I won't hurt you now?"
Again, I shook my head. What kind of moron would think that? He stopped walking and stared at me in confusion.
"Then why aren't you defending yourself?"
"For two reasons. First, because no matter how hard you hit me, I would have deserved it anyway and second, because I can't."
I pointed to my legs with a grin. His eyes widened when he saw I was sitting in a puddle of my own blood. He swallowed hard and walked to my side and kneeled.
"What happened?" he asked in a worried voice.
"What do you think? Someone cut me with a kunai."
"Where are your teammates?"
"One went for a walk and is meeting us at the tower, the other went to find food. Now that I think about it, if an enemy comes while they're away, I'm pretty screwed." I laughed.
Gaara looked at me.
"I don't see what's so funny about that." he said in a serious tone.
"Well, you could stay with me until he comes back…" I suggested, avoiding meeting his gaze.
He sighed and sat next to me.
"I'll stay if you tell me who you really are and why you're here."
"Okay, but it's a very, very, very long story." I warned.
"I've got five days." he smiled.
I told him everything, from the Mountain village to my fight with the Sand Genin. He listened quietly, taking it all in. His eyes widened when I mentioned what had happened in Temari's room and that Naruto was my twin brother. When I was done it was dark, he took a deep breath.
"You've been through a lot." he said.
I nodded, feeling sleep take over and yarned. I rested my head on Gaara's shoulder and closed my eyes. His arm came automatically around my shoulders.
"What was that thing you said before?" I asked.
"What thing?"
"You know, that thing about you liking me." I giggled.
Luckily for him, I fell asleep a second after.