Chapter 10: Team 8-Tiger Training
My mouth opened in a wide yawn and I put my hand up to cover it. But to no avail, she had already spotted it.
"Aww, who's a tired little birdie!" Arisu said, pinching both my cheeks, hard. I shoved her off with a pout on my face and my hand now rubbing one of my saw cheeks.
"No I'm not, I'm just bored." I say giving her a scowl.
I wouldn't admit it, but I had been up all night reading all the books that I had got out of the library on the art of weapons forging and changing. I had manage to finish all I needed to read at three o'clock this morning, so I'm now running on only three hours of sleep, oh joy. And those three hours were packed with rigorous training from William who is trying to get me to master the earth element as soon as I can, and that's only the plant part! He explained that earth has two parts, the first is plant and the second is animal.
The plant part is what I have been doing up to now: Communicating with plants, controlling plants, using plants for attack and defence techniques and so on.
The animal part is a little more difficult. It is all about talking and understanding animals, but that's just the easy part. The hardest part by far is animal transformations. Not a jutsu, but actually changing my body into a different species and being able to change back. And apparently it hurts like hell. Won't that be fun!
Last night I only had fifteen minutes to talk to Kyuubi about trying to make contact with Naruto so he could train him. He finally gave in and when I woke up I had Arisu violently shaking me while shouting at me to wake up. Let's just say she got out of my room fast.
We continue are journey as we walk to the training grounds. Somewhere along the way we had met up with Naruto and Sasuke at some point, I don't know. Arisu lets this go and turns back to the conversation she was having with Sasuke. Meanwhile Naruto is quietly walking along beside us for once and if my noise is right, he is talking to foxy right now about training.
I walk along and see we are on the outskirts of training ground 8 which seems to be accompanied by four people. Two boys who recognise form the genin exams.
One has brown hair and dark eyes with two large red fangs on his cheeks. He also has a small white puppy running alongside him and I can't help but compare the two and come to the conclusion the boy must be part dog. The puppy seems so cute! But its owner, not so much.
He is currently sparing with a taller boy with black, spiky hair and sunglasses to hide his eyes along with a high collar to hide the rest of his face. This collar is to a large coat he wears that his pale hands barely poke out from. He is surrounded by a swarm of black beetles that he is using like the other boy is using his cute puppy to spar.
While over on the other side of the field I also recognise the young girl that is sparing with an older lady who seems to be a jonin. She has short black blue hair in a boyish hairstyle and has pure white eyes that have no pupils in them. She seems shy as she half-heartedly lunges towards the lady she is sparing with.
The woman she fighting the young girl has wavy brown hair and red eyes. She wears an outfit that looks like it is made out of roles of bandages and she looks skilled as she easily dodges the young girl's attacks.
A genin team that graduated the academy at the same time as our team, sparing at their training ground with their jonin sensei. What a heartfelt sight, until Naruto notices the sparing matches and decides to interrupt with that big mouth of his.
"Hey! Kiba, Shino, Hinata, how are you guys?" he shouts and the team turns towards him. The boy with the puppy grins and jogs up to us with his bug using friend silently following him just behind. While the two girls make their way over I see the younger staring at Naruto with a blush that seems to get brighter as she gets closer to him and a shy smile on her face as she timidly waves at him. Looks like she has a crush on the village idiot, poor girl.
I then get an idea pop into my head and a grin comes onto my face. Since Naruto will probably never notice she likes her, I decide to take their fate into my own hands. This is going to be fun!
The whole team reaches us and Kiba high fives Naruto with both of them having wide grins on their faces. The puppy that had jumped into his owners jacket jumps out and into my arms, happily licking my face while I laugh at his actions. The team looks at me in shock and confusion. Looks like the puppy isn't usually this friendly with strangers.
"Akamaru, get off her boy." His owner says but the puppy called Akamaru simply wines and settles into my arms, releasing my face from the wrath of his slobbery tong. "Akamaru!" the boy wines, sounding similar to his canine friend. I laugh at how similar they act.
"Ok Akamaru, sorry but looks like your owner doesn't trust me enough to hold you so down you go." I say softly and place the puppy gently on the floor. He wines and rubs my leg to try and get me to reconsider but I just shake my head and laugh lightly at him. He gives up finally and jumps back into his owners jacket, his cute little face poking out.
"Sorry about that. He doesn't usually do that to complete strangers." The boy says to me a little sheepishly and I smile back at him.
"No problem. Believe it or not, but this kind of thing seems to be happening to me a hell of a lot lately." I say and he nods, even though confusion is blatantly plastered on his face. I close my eyes and shake my head.
I hear Arisu behind me move up to stand next to me. "So, you want to introduce yourselves, or do we just go round calling you he and she all the time?" she asks sweetly and Kiba's eyes fly to her at once and fill with that same look most guys get when they first see her. In a flash he in front of her bringing her hand to his lips and kissing it.
"My name, my dear is Kiba Inuzuka." He says, trying to put on the charm. Poor boy never knew what hit him. Suddenly Sasuke came out and smashed him in the face with his fist and brought Arisu behind him, his hand clamped firmly round her wrist so that she couldn't get away.
"Sasuke, I only have two words to say to you for that." I say looking at him with a neutral face. "Nice shot!" I say and give him a bright smile while he smirks while shooting death glairs at Kiba who is pulling himself up out of the creator he made when he landed a few meters away.
"Some advice for in the future dog boy," I say as he limps over to us again and looks at me with a hopeful expression on his face and I give him a bright smile with my eyes closed. "Don't mess with any of Sasuke's positions!"
I open my eyes to find people looking at me dumbfound and Sasuke glairing at me with a small blush on his face with a blushing Arisu trying to disappear into his back behind him. I laugh at the blushing couple and wave my hands in front of my face in defence.
Sasuke just snorts and turns round to the blushing Arisu and puts both hands on both her shoulders, looking at her with worry. She just shakes her head and smiles shyly. Its over before it started, like three still images.
The first is Sasuke's face but inches from Arisu's and both of them blush free.
The second has Sasuke with his eyes closed and his lips pressed against her cheek while Arisu looks like some sort of fish with wide eyes and an open mouth.
The third is a very red Arisu holding her cheek, still doing her very good fish impression and Sasuke smirking at her with his face back to where it originally was.
"Wow."I hear Naruto say from beside me and I laugh. I was right, those two are so head over heals for each other.
"You can say that again." I reply.
Everyone is in shock so I decide to break the uncomfortable moment by asking for everyone else's names from dog boy's team. "So, back to business. What is everyone else called?" I ask, addressing the stunned team which all come out of their daze at the sound of my voice.
"Shino Aburame." States the boy who was using the bugs earlier.
"Hello, my name is Hinata, Hinata Hyuga. It's a pleasure to meat you." She says with a small boy and I feel even more determined to put my plan into action. She seems like such a nice girl and if my feeling for chakra is telling me right, strong to.
"Kurenai Yuhi, their jonin instructor and who might the two of you be?" the lady says. So I was right, she is their sensei. I smile at all of them and decide to be the voce for my room mate since she still is in a bit of shock from what Sasuke did earlier.
"It's nice to meet you all. My red friend over there is Arisu Iwagakure and this little guy here is Daniel." I say and Daniel pokes his head round my neck, gives a cheeky grin that only bats can and males a yipping type sound that manages to sound nothing like a dog at all, before he slips back into the hood of my jacket. "And my name is Nicola Kaze, pleased to meet you all!" I say finishing with a wide smile which Arisu (after calming down back to her normal colour) mimics as she stands next to Sasuke. Kurenai then asks a very unexpected question that I have to admit, I didn't see coming.
"Arisu, I don't suppose you have a summon like Nicola does do you?" she asks and Arisu shakes her head, glancing off to the side. "Well we will just have to change that now wont we." She says smiling and Arisu whips her head back and looks at her with wide eyes that makes the jonin laugh.
"Really! Like now! But we have training with Kakashi sensei," she says sadly and again Kurenai just smiles back at her kindly.
"Don't worry about it! Kakashi told me to tell his team that training was canceled if I saw you guys and so if you want you could stay and train with my team." She suggests to which the whole of her team nod vigorously in agreement.
"Well, how can I say no to that?!" Arisu says happily and her and Kurenai go off to one corner of the training field to make the summoning contract and start her new training with whatever creature it is she gets to summon.
That left the rest of us to spar with each other and so the boys pair up: Kiba vs. Shino and Naruto vs. Sasuke. That left me and Hinata to fight one another. One glance is all it took to see she didn't want to spar just as much as I wouldn't like to spar with her. But not in a bad way, in a we don't want to hurt each other kind of way. So we both nod and sit on the grass watching the boys fight each other.
We sit in silence for a while were we both seem to feel uncomfortable with so I decide to break it. "So Hinata, what do you use to fight," I ask with nothing in particular on my mind. But I am curious seeing as both her team mates use animals to help them in battle, I would like to know what she uses.
"Well, I use my Byakugan to help me." She says and I stare at her in confusion. I've hear of it before but I can't remember were from. She sees my confused expression and laughs softly while covering her mouth with her hands and goes onto explain what it is. "It is a genetic trait that is shared amongst the members of the Hyuga Clan which I am from called a bloodline limit. The Byakugan is the primary focus of the Hyuga's special arts. When the Byakugan is activated, our pupils become more distinct, and the veins near our temples bulge. Once active, the Byakugan gives the user a near 360ยบ field of vision, have the ability to see through solid objects, and can use a degree of telescopic sight."
"Wow. No wonder you are so strong." I say, actually understanding what she said because of all that reading I do with my books on ninjas. Hold the phone, that's where I heard of it before! In one of my books there was some of the great ninja that had that bloodline limit! Stupid, stupid, stupid! How could you forget something so important like this! Well, actually, it's not that important I guess.
"No! I'm really not! Actually, I'm the failure of my family and my father can't even look me in the eye anymore." She says, the blush that had covered her face from the compliment fading as her voice saddens.
"You are not failure!" I shout just loud enough so as not to distract the guys from their fights but enough to make her jump and go wide eyed with shock. "Whoever is poisoning your mind is just jealous of your talent or hasn't even cared to take a proper look at you! And your dad, well just screw him! If he can't be bothered to look and she what a wonderful daughter he has he's not worth even thinking about! Don't you dare put yourself down because from the moment I met you I could feel how strong you were and let me tell you something girl, you are way stronger then dog breath over there and a little stronger then bug boy too! So be proud of yourself!" I finish slamming my hand on the ground and look into her startled face.
I then see tears appear in the corners of her eyes and gradually make their way down her face. My hard gaze softens and my eyes feel with worry that I upset the girl bad enough to make her cry.
"Hey, hey!" I say in a panic, waving my hands round in the air. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you cry but I just can't stand people putting themselves down like you did and probably do." I say and stop my frantic waving and look down, certain that I have lost what looked to be a good friendship.
But then I hear a small laugh and look up to see her smiling, tear still running down her face, but smiling none the less! I stare in awe as she wipes the shiny drops of liquid from her cheeks with the back of her hand and turns her bright smiling face back to me.
"Thank you for saying that." She says in a soft, grateful voice. "Nobody has ever just told me straight that I was worth something and certainly no one has ever told me to just forget about what my father thinks! I never new I was stronger then my team mates but now that you have said it, I can feel it, feel how strong I am compared to them! That must be why Kurenai sensei always wanted me to spar with her and not the guys! Because I was stronger then them and they are a better sparing partners for each other!" she finishes beaming and practically bouncing up and down in her seat on the grass.
"Erm........your welcome?" I said in a stunned voice. It did seem my shouting had done some good. So, time to start the ball rolling. A smirk spreads across my face. "So Hinata, I've seen you looking at Naruto and can't help but wonder, do you like him, as in have a crush on him or something?" I say casually but with a smirk still in place as I watch her blush out of the corner of my eye.
"Well, I just think he is really strong and hardworking. He never pays attention to what anyone says and cares for people he deems his friends so much." She says looking down at her lap, playing with her fingers nervously.
"So you do have a crush on him. So for how long?" I ask and she jump, turning a deeper shade of red.
"Since the start of the academy. That would be since we were 7." She says and I whistle.
"Wow, you sure are a devoted one. Well no need to worry, I won't tell him. I'm leaving that up to you." I say giving her a bright smile and she smiles back at me with thanks.
Sitting on my bum is starting to make my bum hurt so I get up and stretch my arms and listen as my stiff muscles crack as they loosen up. Hinata stands two and looks at me questioningly. I smile back at her and start walking toward where Arisu and Kurenai are training to which she quickly follows, walking beside me. A meter away from the two we see Arisu going through the hand seals for the summoning jutsu, trying to memorize them while Kurenai watches her closely. She finishes the run she's on them looks up and sees us coming over. I wave and she waves back. We high five each other and grin.
"So you ready to do this thing or what rookie?" I ask teasingly.
"More then you can imagine trainee." She shoots back and bites her thumb, running through the hand signs before slamming her hand in the ground and saying 'summoning jutsu!' There is a puff of smoke and when it clears a little fluffy white tiger cub with bright blue eyes, about the size of Akamaru is sitting looking up at us all. There is a collective 'Aww' as we all stare at the little fluff ball's cuteness. Arisu then picks the little thing up and starts fussing it while it purrs at the attention and Kurenai congratulates on a good first attempt.
I watch as she puts the cub down and it stays near her leg as we walk back over to the boys who have been watching us from a distance as we fussed the cub. Everyone is smiling and I decide that this would be a good time for the ball to smash into the pins for a strike.
We come together and saying our goodbyes to the other team as we prepare to head home for the day. Naruto finishes and turns to leave when I sent a short, sharp blast of wind at his legs which come out from underneath him and send him flying into none other the Hinata who has been standing quietly beside me the whole time. As they fall Naruto puts one hand behind her head and the other on her back to cushion the fall as they hit the ground and roll down the hill we have been standing on top of. Everyone stares in shock as they finally come to a stop at the base of the hill, Naruto on top and Hinata under him. Both open their eyes and stare at each other in shock as their face set ablaze in the same fiery shade of red. Naruto jumps off her apologizing quietly, waving his hands in the air and Hinata jumps up and says that is was ok, it was just an accident. If only they new.
I then put my two fingers on each hand together, raise them to my lips and let out a loud wolf whistle (no pun intended) causing the two to look up at the waiting audience. Their faces are of shock, horror and eventually anger as I fall to the floor laughing so hard I have to hold my sides as the pain from my laughter shoots through them, not that it shuts me up at all.
Soon all the rest of us on top of the hill are rolling round on the floor laughing, even Kurenai is having trouble staying on her feet. Meanwhile the two make their way back up the hill and start shouting at us to quit laughing at them because it wasn't funny. Do they not see the people on the floor!
After another minute our laughter dies down and we finally go our separate ways, for real this time. With Naruto especially watching his footing as we make our way off the training grounds and onto the streets. We walk for a while before Sasuke says he has to go and we say goodbye to him to leaving me, Arisu and Naruto, but we aren't alone for long.
Soon we are being stalked by a square rock that then ambushes us and turns into three academy students. They appear to be after Naruto and the leader Konohamaru (the third Hokage's grandson) I have seem with Naruto before. I get a strange feeling come over me at this. These kids seem to always be following Naruto when he's in the village.
Oh no where's Daniel! He must have flown off when we were having our laughing fit on the floor so he wouldn't get squashed! I bet he's still there! I have to go find him! I then run off shouting over my shoulder "Sorry guys but I got to go fine Daniel! Was nice meeting you Naruto groupies!" I finish as I round the corner and head back to the training grounds. I run full speed until I reach the grounds and it's not long before I find him hiding in the branches of a large oak tree near the outskirts of the training field.
He spots me coming and swoops in towards me before hovering in the air a few inches from my face. He looks mad.
"You left me." He simply states in an angry tone.
"I'm really sorry Daniel." I say in a sad voice, my head bending down and my gaze catches the floor as I can't bear to look at him anymore. "After all the fuss I just thought you would go back into my hood like you always do. When I realised you weren't asleep I got really worried about you and that's why I ran all the way here, to find you."
He looks at me questioningly for a moment, seeing if I'm lying or telling the truth. He sighs and a smile breaks out over his face that shows off all his fangs, but it's a nice, happy smile.
"How can I ever stay mad at that face." He says kindly and I raise my head up high beaming. He then flies to my shoulder and crawls back into my hood, falling asleep as soon as his head hits the fabric of my hood. I smile at his antics softly and hope that we will always be together so that nothing like this will ever happen again.
I can feel the sun descending over the horizon and look up to see the sky still light, but diming. I turn and start walking back towards my apartment to meet up with Arisu, I'm sure she will be starving and have a go at me for being late to make her something to eat or worse, try and cook food! Since I can see no smoke or flames coming from the direction of our apartment, I don't think she has, yet.
Just as I'm about to pick up speed so I can run to get home faster I stop in my tracks at the tree line of the training ground. My noise twitches as I breathe in a sent that I have never smelled before. It seems to be a mix of two different scents.
The first is the smell of a demon. I can tell this because even in mindscapes were both the demons I know are they give off a scent similar to this only with the scent of their animal and their own person touch added to it. This one smells like racoon and is obviously masculine, making the owner male. Yes, I can also tell whether something is male or female by its scent. There is just a more musty scent when the creature is mail and a lighter scent when the creature is female. Don't ask me why, there just is.
The second scent is the one that made me stop and I close my eyes and take a deep breathe in so that I can get more of it. It is masculine like the other and the two scents seem to swirl round each other in a never ending dance. This one smells like woods, fare open planes and the very mountains themselves! It is similar to a wolf's smell now that I think about it. Wolves always smell of the forest since they are known in some religions and great tails to be the protectors of the forest. This scent is like that, but different in its own way. It seems to swirl round me and want to protect me, like the old tails of wolves protecting the forest but at the same time, seems to want to pull me into its source and I want to see for myself what the cause of this is.
Decision made, I set off running, eyes closed and noise up in the air, following the scent to where it's leading me. I feel my pace quicken but I do not open my eyes to see where my feet are leading me, I want to imprint this wonderful scent in my mind forever. I feel myself jump fences and bushes as I run through the streets, I must look like a right freak. But I'm sure no one even notices me I seem to be running so fast that all the usual scents the town annoyingly gives off is blured into one solid mass that is easily put to one side as I press onward.
I give one last jump and land, eyes still closed but they fly open when I hear three very familiar voices coming from below me to my left.
"Nicola?" I hear the combined voices of Naruto, Sasuke and Arisu say questioningly and I turn to see them standing below me looking up at me with questioning faces.
"Hey guys, what's up?" I ask casually as I sit down upon the branch of the tree I'm standing on, it must have been what I jumped up onto and smell the scent wafting up at me from the branch beneath my bum.
"Well we just had a run in with three strange sand ninja." Sasuke explains and this catches my attention, could one of them be the owner of this scent that is driving me up the wall or up the tree rather. "They claimed to be here for the chunin exams and the two we me first were about to fight Naruto when I sowed up and stopped the dope from getting killed. I was sitting in that very tree when I heard a voice from above me telling the two of them to stop and for them to go. I looked up and saw a boy round our age standing on the branch you're sitting on and I didn't even feel his presence so he must be really strong. He then teleported to the ground in a swirl of sand and walked off with the other two."
He finishes and I stare at the branch I'm on. So the scent belongs to a sand ninja who is taking part in the chunin exams. Well how on earth am I going to find the guy and as him why the hell his scent is so weird. Well it's not like he's the only one with a weird scent, Naruto's is weird to but he has Kyuubi sealed in him so it's only natural.
That's it! "Hey William, do you know of any racoon demons by any chance?" I ask and hear him stir in the back of my head, pondering my question.
"There is only one racoon demon I know. The scent that you smell, the demon one is defiantly his. His name is Shukaku, the one-tailed racoon demon and an old friend of mine. Now he was hilarious!" William finishes, laughing at an old forgotten memory.
"Lets me explain pup. Their are nine tailed beasts or demons in existence and Shukaku and I are two of them. We all grew up together actually and so the racoon is an old friend of mine, wonder how he got sealed in some kid. Though he was always hanging round Suna, that's the name of the village hidden in the sand, were those ninja come from. Now that guy new how to pull off a prank! Ha-Ha! Now I'm going to go back to sleep pup so see you later tonight!" William finishes and he disappears back into the furthest corners of my mind from whence he came.
Our conversation has drawn suspicion to by team mates who seem to have been calling me for the past two minutes and are now officially peeved off. Arisu throws a spider bomb at me just as I come out of my thoughts and I yelp as it explodes centimetres from my face, causing me to fall off the branch I'm on to well, the other side of it and I now hang upside down like a bat with a glair plastering my face.
"Arisu, you mind telling me, WHAT WAS THE NEED!" I finish yelling and I jump off my perch to land in front of her, causing her to take a few steps back. She knows she's really in for it now, never interrupt Nicola when she's thinking, I thought she new that. Obviously she needs reminding. A smirk now spreads across my face and she steps back more in horror, she knows what's coming.
"Arisu, you know what happens when you interrupt me when I'm thinking don't you?" I say in a sweet voice and start to walk towards her, she is so going to get it. She stumbles and falls to her bum on the floor but continues to crawl to try and escape me. She has no chance.
"Something bad. Listen Nick, I'm really sorry! I didn't mean it, really I didn't!" She pleads as her back hits a fence and I have her in my sights. The tiger cub she summoned earlier is innocently standing by its summoner, not knowing what is about to befall her master. I can feel the scared gazes of Naruto and Sasuke as I catch them making crosses over their chests for poor, poor Arisu out of the corner of my eye as I decent upon the prone form of a screaming Arisu.
Once I'm finishes I wave goodbye to the boys who numbly wave back as I walk toward our apartment carrying a prone Arisu whose hair is dangerously close to the colour white, is stiff and wide eyed in frozen horror, hanging over my shoulder. I just love genjutsus!
It takes five minutes to reach our apartment with her on my shoulder and I now have a tiger cub in my other arm because the poor thing couldn't keep up and I couldn't bear the thought of loosing her. I fiddle with the key and get the door open that I shut behind me with my foot before plopping Arisu, not to gently, on the sofa and place the cub on a pillow next to her. She wakes with a start and picks up the little cub and places her in her lap, stroking her fur to which the cub lets out a purring noise in pleasure. I shake my head and walk into the kitchen to make us some food, which we all eat quickly after all; we never got a chance to have lunch.
The cub is now playing in the living room with Arisu while I watch on in amusement. I then think about how cool it would be to have such a caring summon, not like the one I've got who sleeps most the time. I think he acts like an old man to and with that thought I decide to ask him since he is perched on the arm of the sofa watching the summon and summoner play with a small smile on his face.
"Hey Daniel, just how old are you anyway because you seem way to lazy to be my age or younger?" I ask and he looks at me questioningly and Arisu looks up from the game to hear his answer, obviously as curious as I am to hear it.
"I just turned 21 a week before I met you, why do you ask?" he say curiously and my jaw drops.
"YOUR 21!!" I shout and Arisu then mimics my stunned silence and Daniel just chuckles at us.
"Yes I am. Don't worry, us bats age different to humans so you could say I am just in my pre-teens in bat years." He says smiling and I translate for Arisu what he said.
"Wow." We both breathe causing him to chuckle at us again.
Just then, there is a commotion and we all turn to see the tiger cub has knocked over Arisu's bag and her wallet has fallen out, and the picture of her mother has slipped out of its window in it. I look to see her face darken, her eyes filling up in tears and her shoulder shaking violently as she lets out the first of many quiet sobs. I feel my hear wrench as I see the person I consider a sister in pain and I walk over to her to do what little I can to console her. As I pass the tiger cub I pet it on the head and it nods sadly before disappearing in a little puff of smoke. I then walk over to Arisu and put an arm round her shoulder which she responds by shoving her head in my shoulder and wrapping her arms round me which and I wrap my arms round her as well, returning her hug.
Arisu never did get on with her mom and was always round my house because of her mom always being high on drugs when she came home from school. Her mom was a crack cocaine addict. Even though Arisu hated her mom when she was high, the few times she saw her off the drugs her mom was the most loveable, kind lady you could ever meet but the drugs change her. When she is high, she is no longer herself but a totally different person altogether, a monster. But Arisu never held this to her mom and always held onto the love she had for her. For the mom that wasn't high on crack. The mother she may never get a chance to see again.
Since we have come here we haven't thought much about going home, I don't have anything to go home to. But Arisu does, her mom who she cares for even after she is high on crack because she knows that her real mom is still in their and she holds onto that. But now she might never get to hold that mom again, that crack free mom she has seen and wants to hold onto forever.
I shush her and rock us back and forth in a soothing rhythm which seems to calm her down a bit as I hum an old song: row your boat. It is about the only thing that I have ever been able to hum that doesn't remind her of her mom and so the only thing that can calm her down. The tears soon stop and she pulls back from me and I let her go before helping her stand and walk to her room were she plomps down on her bed. She mumbles what sounds like a thanks and that she's fine now and I nod, whishing her goodnight before walking out her room, closing the door behind me.
Daniel flies to my shoulder and I shake my head, walking into my room and getting ready for bed myself. Daniel settles himself on the cushion he has claimed as his own that rests on my desk chair near the left side of my bed and is soon fast asleep. I smile at his sleeping face and climb into my bed, pulling the covers over me.
I lye staring at the sealing for a moment before thinking one last thing before I fall into the darkness sleep brings with it. "I hope Arisu's going to be ok."
Few that took like forever! ^_^
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