I stare at her as she continues to smile at me, the tears previously found in her eyes now nowhere to be seen.
"How can I trust you?" I ask, my eyes narrowed. She flinches back, and her smile falls for a millisecond but she quickly recovers.
"I've told you my life story kid. You know everything I do. I wonder why I would want to help you." She says in a dry tone, her eyes half-lidded.
"You've told me a story, one that I don't even know for definite is true and, yet you expect me to trust you. Call me paranoid maybe but growing up in Konoha does that to you.
She blinks and looks at me with slight pity. "Kid not everyone in this world wants to kill you, ya know? Most people don't care who you are or what you do they have other things to do with there lives and one runaway kid is not something they will worry about." She closes her eyes and sighs. "Sometimes you just have to accept help and the fact that person doesn't want to hurt you."
I glare at her. That notion is very naïve and very much easier said than done. However, she is right that I Will need to trust some people eventually. I sigh but have to accept that she is my only lifeline in this place. Even if her ability to suddenly change personalities is very unnerving.
"Ok…" I sigh.
-Later that night -
I feel tense in the countdown to the start of our plan. Riko is calm, unnervingly so. We have barely exchanged any words since the making of our plan earlier and I can't stop myself from coming up with situations that may possibly happen.
What if she betrays me? What if we get caught? Will I get sent to the building of terrors that I always got warned of? The one where they pull off your skin and pluck out your eyebrows until you tell them what they want to hear?
'Cheree calm down.' I tell myself. I can't help my heart still thudding wildly in my chest, but I can somewhat slow down my breathing and relax my body. My brain tends to think itself into a corner I situations like this and I need to just stop it before I get stuck in a loop of thoughts that are inescapable…
It is nearly time. I can tell from the sun in the sky, almost completely set. I look over to Riko. She has her eyes shut, though I can tell she is not asleep. She looks deep into thought and for a moment I worry if she even remembers about our plan.
Stop being stupid Cheree. I scold myself. What else does she have to do? The hospital isn't a place to be distracted.
Even with that thought in my head, I myself am almost too distracted to notice the small flick of Riko's hand and nod of her head. My chest clenches and breath quickens. It's time.
I quietly begin to gather what little belonging I have into a small bundle and shove it inside the pillowcase. While doing this I notice Riko slip out of bed. Good luck I mouth. She looks so calm when she nods back I almost don't notice her hand shaking.
While I begin to unlock the window, she begins her part of the plan.
"Argh! It hurts! I want my Mom! It hurts!" It sounds so real for a minute I hesitate and wonder if she is telling the truth. However, she gives me a small thumb up sign before she continues down the hall and out of sight to the nurse's room.
Meanwhile, I have the window open- well half open. The stupid thing has a weird barrier thing on it meaning that I'll have to slip through a small gap. It's a good thing I'm small. I slip out of the small crack.
As soon as I get out of the window I realise my oversight. How I am supposed to get down. It looks simple, I am only on the second floor, but it is still terrifying.
The ground below me starts swimming and I grip hold of the window with my dear life. I shut my eyes tight and begin to panic. What am I going to do? I'm going to get caught! I'm going to be taken away to the building of terrors!
Maybe I should just give up. Maybe the ninja school isn't as bad as I feared. You know what I do live in the red-light zone and it is very crime ridden. That's must be why the shinobi are harsher there.
I'm just being selfish. I could gain money by being a shinobi. I could help the kids at the orphanage. The village can't be that bad I'm just a pessimist.
Then I remember. All the horrors I've seen. All the homeless orphaned children without a home. All the shinobi hurting the innocent. My goal in life was to change that. And one fall out of a window won't change that.
I open my eyes and look down. There is a tree that is quite close- just a small jump would be all that it would take.
Trembling I let go of my grip on the windowsill and fall towards the tree.
[A/N]
Ok so I know its been awhile and I'm really sorry but I've been so busy, along with having to rewrite this chapter multiple time because MY COMPUTER DOESN'T SEEM TO LIKE THIS CHAPTER VERY MUCH.
I hope that wait has brought a good chapter. I think that my writing style has improved slightly. I'm still very much a novice writer and I'm slowly going to learn to overcome that novice(ness?). So to those people have followed- Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Anyway, what do you think of this chapter? Do you like Riko? Do you think that Cheree should have escaped the hospital?
