The next morning Yamato woke up his head aching. What, what happened? Oh yeah, he almost killed one of his students, the sensei decided to go back to bed. "YAMATO WAKE UP!!! I WANT TO TALK TO YOU!!" What was that?
High pitched, annoying, door sounds like its going to brake down, noooooooo Yamato groaned, it was Sakura. Yamato wanted to die, here in his bed, or at least until the teenager went away. "LET ME IN OR I'M GOING TO BRAKE IN!!" She threatened, in retaliation; Yamato buried his head under his pillow. The best offense was a good defense. "OK I WARNED YOU!" He heard a crash; maybe if he just laid here she wouldn't do anything. Who was he kidding?
"YAMATO GET UP NOW!" The annoying voice was closer crap, she was at the door way.
"Urgh go away, I have a head ache." He lied lamely well he did have a head ache. He just wasn't telling her what from.
"YOU HAVE A HANG OVER THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE!" God dam it does she have to shout!
"Let me die in peace."
"NO YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DIE FROM THE ALCOHAL, YOUR GOING TO DIE FROM MY FIST IF YOU DON'T EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT BOY RIGHT NOW!"
Yamato sat up. "Better? Will you stop shouting?" He asked putting his hand oh his temple, throbbing lots of throbbing.
She put on the fake smile she gives Sai and continues "oh ok Senpa what happened to Keiji."
"Let me get some coffee and I'll explain, but not before then!" he hated women.
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Zaki woke up to familure throbbing in her head, hang over suck. But she had become accustomed to that over the years. Stretching she felt a familial presence next to her, it was Max. Getting on top of him she started to shake him.
Max eyes went open a little, "Rise and Shine fuck Tard, its time for a brand new fucking day." She always tried to wake people up in a cheerful way.
Max pushed off his friend Zaki from on top of him, They were getting to big to wake each other up like that. He thought to himself in shame. "What you want for breakfast, I have cigarettes and alcohol and um eggs."
"I'll take a fag."
"Good cause I'm running out of alcohol and eggs."
"You think I'll be able to drop bye the zoo and get some free coffee?" Zaki asked yawning trudging to the kitchen.
"I don't know you made Allie pretty angry. She'll prolly kick you out." Max said, "What time is it?"
"11:00"
"Oh good we can steel the neighbors paper,"
"I still can't believe you can get up at like noon and still have time to steal the old mans paper. I mean does he ever notice?" She was rummaging through his closet for cloths.
"Nope. What do you have to do today?"
"Nothing I have nothing to do, Training Is out cause one of my team mates had a bad accident yesterday, Going to the Zoo is prolly out, I was thinking of checking for Sara again."
"You should check the soup kitchen, she sometimes goes there, when she is flustered and such."
"Checked there yesterday after practice they haven't seen her."
"You think you should get the authorities evolved?" Max asked suddenly Sara had never been gone for over 5 day's before this wasn't like her one bit. She might have been the world's crappiest mother to Zaki, but through her drug addiction and depression she still cared about her daughter.
"Fuck no, I just started being a shinobi this would totally fuck it up, I think I'll just suck it up to that God mother or mine Allie and ask her to put her guys on it." Zaki relented, that was right. Allie was Zaki's god mother; it was weird to think that Allie and Zaki's dad used to be best friends.
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Before Yamato knew it, he was rushed to the Hokage's office. He was so fucked, Tsunada was going to kill him slowly. She was sitting behind her desk brown eyes glaring. Yamato braced himself for the yelling to start. "You'll be happy to know that Keiji is doing fine."
"Oh ok," Where was the angry fist in his face?
"What the hell happened?" Oh no the pain wouldn't be physical Sighing he started to explain.
After the story Tsunada's expression remained neutral. "You took advice from Mayuri?" She finally stated.
"Yes Lady Hokage, this is how the First hokage taught him." He was totally fucked.
"You used a first Hokage teaching technique?!" She was getting angrier by the second.
"Yes."
That was apparently the last straw she slammed her fist on the desk. "My grandfather was a good man but his teaching was one during a war, he didn't have time to teach the kids properly! And really what did you think would happen Yamato!"
Yamato felt like a fish his face agape, what did he think would happen to Keiji if he put him in a spiky cage? God was he dumb! "Well it worked for, Mayuri," What a lame excuses.
"Mayuri hates the world and isn't what you really call well adjusted. And I'm surprised the old fucker is still alive! He's older then the third! Mayuri is an old bitter shinobi, never take advice from him again!"
"Hokage-sama!" Shizune stepped in.
"What is it Shizune?"
"The two Jounin you sent to tell Keiji's family about him came back in critical condition."
Tsunada gave big sigh, "What did they do to piss Mayuri off?"
"One of them keeps saying to everybody don't step on the pansies, he keeps repeating it over and over again."
"Next time any body had to deal with that old man it will be me or Jiriya got it?"
"Hai Hokage-Sama."
"Yamato you may go."
Yamato stood up, well he knew not to piss Keiji's grandpa off. "Yes maam"
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Keiji was lying on his hospital bed, how could he ever face any of them again? He was a monster, they saw him lose control for real this time. He was going to be a danger to everybody. Will he have to live like his grandfather? Away from anybody that might make him mad?
A small knock came from the door, Keiji couldn't see anybody. "Is-s-s An-anybody there?" He asked, a small red headed girl peaked her head in. It was Kaida, how could she even look at him?
"May we come in?" She asked, Yo must be with her.
"S-Su-sure." He said, she carried a thing of bake good in her hands.
"Mommie and I made them for you last night to make you feel better." handing him the box of cookies the little girl giggeled. "I had to stop Yo from eating it all!" Keiji gladly accepted the gift.
"You-you shoul-dn-shouldn't have." Keiji said, Kaida sat up on the bed. Her blue eyes were wide with disbelief.
"Of course I should have! You're my team mate! And we are supposed to stick together, no MATTER WHAT!"
"Bu-but I'm- I –I can't con-controll myself, I might hurt you…I'm not a very good shinobi." A tiny fist hit him in the face.
"SHUT UP! You just need to work harder that's all, you can control yourself I'll help you do it!" Keiji didn't say anything. "I PROMISE!"
"You-you'll help me?" He asked her, eyeing up the little girl on his lap. She put her left hand on her heart and her right hand up.
"Cross my heart, Hope you die, stick a needle in Kakashi's good eye! I promise to help you control yourself Keiji, You're my team mate. And team mates don't give up on each other." Her smile was infectious. Keiji smiled right back on her.
"Do you want some Cookies?" He asked at last, holding up the box.
"I THOUGHT YOU NEVER ASK!" She said stuffing her fist full of the sugar incrusted cookies.
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"Are you sure?" Asked Zaki, she was speaking to a hospital employee.
"There are no records of her being checked in here, NO Nariko Sara anywhere."
"Are you positive?" The girl asked again. Zaki had an intense feeling to light one up. But not in front of a some what law abiding citizen."
"What she look like again?" The attendant asked.
"She's a bout 5'7'', short ear length brown hair. Skinny, hazel eyes like mine. You'll see track marks up her arm." Zaki repeated herself again. The Attendant checked one more time.
"I'm sorry but I can't find your…" Crap the long pause Zaki thought to herself, He was sizing her up, seeing if he needed to call social services.
"Sister." She lied; Sara looked young enough to be her sister. "My parents are worried sick about her, they don't want to look here cause they don't want to assume the worst." This lie usually worked well.
"Do you want me to check the morgues for any Jane Doe fitting that description?"
Sighing heartily Zaki closed her eyes, she hated doing this. "Yes please." The attendant smiled at her, she sized him up for a while. He had short blond hare and brown eyes, utterly not very interesting. The only reason she knew she could trust him cause she saw him gambling a couple hundred at the Zoo. He told the authorities about her she told them about his little tab. He knew to keep this hush hush.
"Turn back up here in two day's time if you haven't found her." He told her leaving her side. When he was finally gone she started for the fag. Lighting it up, god that felt good.
"Zaki?" A voice asked from besides her, she looked up oh god no it was her sensei.
"Yes Yamato?" She asked.
"You here to visit Keiji?" HE asked, oh crap the grey haired girl had totally forgotten about what happened yesterday.
"Yes, of course, just stopping for a cigarette. They don't let you smoke in there for some reason." Good cover she thought to herself taking another long drag. "Well I think we should go in don't you?"
Yamato smiled at her, "I like to see you bonding with your team mates." Yamato was glowing, this was good ,bonding was good. It made training the team all that much more interesting. And he all ready knew that Keiji had the utmost respect for Zaki. He only hopped the little escapade yesterday didn't scare off Kaida. The two started walking.
"Well its not that hard, the two of them are really good people." Small talk sucked Yamato thought to him. IT sucked balls.
"Yes they do, I can feel it that we are going to make a great team, we just need to learn how to trust each other a little bit more." Did that sound lame; he wanted to hint at Zaki that she could trust him. Her hazel eyes gave him a are you kidding me look. They turned into Keiji's hotel room, to his surprise Kaida was all ready there.
"HELLO SENSEI, HAVE A COOKIE!" She said through a stuffed face. Yamato laughed and grabbed a cookie out of the box.
"I didn't know you were going to be here Kaida." He said.
"Of course I had to bring him cookies!!" She said rolling her eyes at Yamato. "Hey Zaki, Want a cookie?" Zaki shook her head no. Kaida's eyes got big with sorrow.
"Ok I'll take a cookie." The smoker relented taking a cookie.
Yamato sat down on the counter like he'd seen Kakashi do to Naruto, but he accidentally almost sat on the plant. Quickly getting up he heard Kaida laugh. "You can be really stupid sometimes Sensei! Right Zaki?" She asked the older good, her blue eyes shining at a sad hazel.
"Right," Zaki said, she leaned on the wall, looking cool. How her and Kakashi managed Yamato didn't know. Maybe it was the grey hair that did the trick.
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Adara stopped and checked herself in the mirror, as of late her feelings for her old class mate Keiji had gotten to be a lot more then platonic. She had actually always loved Keiji. Not like in the stupid fan girl sort of way, Keiji didn't have any fan girls thank god. But Adara liked him in that hopeless best friend sort of way. She took the basket full of bake goods into the hospital. She was hopping nobody would be there, and she would enter and she would look like that angel of mercy with food. But who was she kidding; Keiji was in love with…Hinabi. That bitch, the girl who had laughed out loud and called him a loser when she heard about him going into a hospital.
Taking a full breath before entering the hotel room Adara was disappointed, he had guest all ready. "H-hi Ad-adara." He said. Adara scanned the room, On the window sill was a man with brown hair and brown eyes. Must be Keiji's new Sensei. ON the bed was Keiji his perfect purple hair in place, and gold eyes piercing into her soul as he smiled at her. FUCK! Then a little girl about 6 maybe was on his lap a girl with red hair and big blue eyes. Her curly red hiar contained in a poney tail that didn't really trap all of it. Then leaning on the wall was a girl about her age.
A very pretty girl with long grey hair, and alarmingly hazel eyes looked at her. Even though she was in incredibly baggy clothing you still could see the faint lines of maturity growing on her. God if Hanabi doesn't snatch him up, then this pretty girl sure will. She looked so confident and cool leaning on that wall. Adara felt like a dunce.
Yamato looked at the girl who had just walked in, she had a black fitting t shirt on and baggy khaki pants, her hair was in a high pony tail that jutted from her head like a pinapple. Her face was extremely feminine. She must be Shikimaru's little sister, She looked a lot more like her mom then father. She smiled slyly at Keiji.
"Hey Keiji!" She said, "Mom wanted me to bring you some rolls cause she knew you loved them so much." Lie Adara yelled at herself, she had made them special for Keiji.
"Tha-thankyou Adara" There was a silence between them.
"Are you going to introduce me to your friends?" She asked, prompting him. Keiji struggled for a bit, Adara smiled to herself, he was so socially inept. It was so cute.
"So-Sorry, This is Yamato sensei." He stuttered pointing to the man on the wall, Why was Keiji stuttering. HE never stuttered around her. Well other people were around. "This is Kaida. My team mate."
"HI DO YOU WANT A COOKIE!" The little girl asked pushing a box full of crumbs in her face. Not wanting to be rude Adara took a big crumb piece.
"Thank you."
"and this is Zaki." He stated pointing to the girl leaning on the wall. She still looked so cool. "And every one this is Adara." He told them.
"Hey" She said. Another silence fell on them, she could feel the girl Zaki's eyes staring at her. That flunky who thought she was too good for school that was this girl. She wanted to turn around and ask her what the hell she was looking at but didn't.
"Well I guess I should be going its getting late." Adara stated lamely.
"I'm going to be heading out too." Zaki said following her. When they were in the hall way Adara turned around.
"Do you want something?" She asked the grey haired girl. The other girl scoffed still keeping her cool.
"Mrs. Goody toe shoe's has a temper doesn't she?" Zakuro teased.
"Look." Adara wanted to be on good terms with this, girl "Zaki I don't want to get in a fight, just tell me what you want."
"Nothing Mrs. Goody toe shoes god," Adara fumed on the inside. "I just like making people mad."
Adara was going to come back with a good one but somebody interrupted. "Adara," IT was her brother.
She turned around and put on a fake smile. "Hi Shikimaru."
"What are you doing here." He asked her, Shikimaru was so protective sometimes.
"I was visiting Keiji,"
"Oh yeah, well make sure your home by 7:00 or dad will be mad again." He told her.
"I told you that wasn't my fault! Neji wanted us to practice through dinner. To show us how exhausted a person can be on a mission." Adara told her brother what seemed like a millionth time.
"Call him Neji-sensei, its disrespectful to call him anything else." Shikimaru said. Adara rolled her eyes at her older brother. A voice interrupted the lecture.
"Shikimaru? You coming?" It was that sand girl Temari who always hung out with Shikimaru. Adara actually liked her, but she would never tell Shikimaru that.
"I got to go, but don't be late today ok?" He said.
"Ok, hope you have fun on your date!" She said, this made her brother blush.
"Its not a date."
"what ever." Adara finished. Shikimaru was walking away and when him and tamari was side by side Zaki yelled something at them.
"HOPE YOU DON'T GET GANUREA!" Zaki yelled at Adara's brother. Then quickly pulled Adara around a corner so Shikimaru didn't see them. Adara was shocked at what Zaki had just said.
The girl smiled a wolfish smile at Adara, Adara was just shocked. Finally she said. "I've been wanting to say that to him for a very long time." She said, Zaki grinned again.
"I know." Holding out her hand, "I'm Nariko Zakuro by the way if you didn't know."
Adara took the hand for a shake. "Nara Adara," This was going to be a start of a beautiful friendship.