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Chapter 11

"Sensei! Sensei! Where are you?"

Emiko watched the girl who was in her other dream call frantically to her Sensei. But the girl looked different. She was defiantly the same girl, but now she looked around the age of 11. She was running down the streets of their village. But the village looked a lot different then before...

...because it was on fire.

Women were screaming, the men were evacuating and the children were crying. The girl was sprinting down the street, and Emiko quickly followed, her heart aching at the girl's desperation.

Finally the girl reached her destination. The house she was standing in front of was on fire and it looked like it wouldn't stay standing for much longer. The girl took a deep breath, and bust through the door.

Almost immediately she found what she was looking for. Her Sensei was laying on the ground, pinned under a fallen, flaming beam.

"Sensei!" The girl exclaimed and ran over to him.

Emiko had thought he was dead, until his eyelids fluttered and looked at the girl.

"Moriko? NO! Get out of here! The building is going to collapse!"

"I'm not leaving you, Sensei! I'll...I'll get you out, I promise!"

Despite his protests and orders to leave him, the girl braced herself and got a good grip on the beam. Her face flashed with pain, but her care for her sensei was stronger then the pain. She managed to get the beam off him in one good heave.

Both of them were coughing badly from the smoke, but that didn't stop her. Despite her height, she put his arm over her shoulder and hauled him to his feet. She grunted under his weight, but she wasn't letting that stop her. She practically dragged him to the door she busted open, only to find that it was covered with a wall of flame, one that wouldn't allow either of them to make it through at the pace they were going.

"Shit!" The girl said, and Emiko was surprised that the girl had used such a profanity at her age.

The old man looked up at her sadly. "It is my time, Moriko. Leave me. And never forget all I have taught you."

The girl's eyes overflowed with tears. "N-No! There has to be another way out!"

And as if showing her there wasn't, another beam fell from the ceiling and landed dangerously close to them.

The girl dissolved into sobs. "I-I can't leave you, sensei! If you're going down, then so am I!"

"Is anyone in there?" An outside voice called.

"In here!" The old man said in a raspy voice, before coughing again.

A large, bulky man dove through the wall of fire into where they were.

"Take Moriko. I am too old. I would not be able to survive from the injuries I have sustained. Take her and leave, now!" He ordered him. Despite how old he was, he had an air of control about him that would make anyone obey him, even if that person outweighed him by 100 pounds.

The man looked sad to leave the girl's sensei, but he nodded and picked up the girl so easily, it looked like she was made of paper.

"Let me go! I need my sensei!"

"I am sorry, Moriko-chan." The man said in a gravely voice. He wrapped his huge arms around her, partly so she wouldn't struggle so much and partly so she wouldn't get burned when he jumped through the wall of flames.

"NO! Put me down!" The girl screamed as he began to run through the fire.

A single tear fell down the old man's wrinkled face but his face maintained his sad smile.

"SENSEI!" She screamed as the man leaped through the fire.

Once they were safely outside, he put her down only for her to try and run back in. The man held her back. The girl sobbed uncontrollably.

"You can't just let him die! Go get him! He can't die! He's all I have!"

Then the building collapsed into itself. No one could've survived that. The girl stopped struggling and looked at the rubble, horrified. The man slowly released her and she fell to her knees.

"I-I'm really sorry, Moriko-chan...there was no other way..." He said sadly. He truly felt bad, you could see it in his face.

But she didn't seem to hear him. She just stared at the destroyed building, her face absolutely horrified.

"I have to go, Moriko-chan...to see if anyone else is stuck in their house..."

Again she didn't respond. He gave her one last sympathetic look and ran towards other houses.

Finally the girl moved. Her expression changed from horrified to devastated and she put her head down and began to cry even harder.

Emiko's heart ached for the girl and before she knew it, she had fallen to the ground crying for the girl...for herself...

Emiko woke with a start. She had tears still rolling down her cheeks.

That dream...it was real. She could feel it in her heart. She knew that happened to her...her poor sensei...

She still couldn't remember anything else, though. The memory that was her dream was now clear, she could remember it clearly. But anything else...was still blank. She closed her eyes and sighed, partially from frustration, and partially because her heart was still aching for her sensei.

After a few minutes of grieving, Emiko sighed and decided to move on with the day. She sat up on the couch...err, bed?

She noticed, surprised, that she was in Naruto's bed. And...so was he. He had yet to put on a shirt from last night. She felt her face heat up.

Slowly she brushed the covers off herself, trying to be as quiet as possible so she wouldn't wake Naruto up.

But somehow, the deep sleeper stirred and rolled over to look at Emiko with his tired, blue eyes. Soon enough, his eyes lit up with recognition. And remembrance.

"Hey" He said smiling a little. Then he looked a little deeper into Emiko's face and his smile vanished. "What's wrong? Were you crying?" Naruto said sitting up to meet her at eye level.

Emiko looked down. Her eyes must've still been red. "I...I had another dream..."

After Emiko explained what happened, they sat in silence. She looked up at him, and he immediately hugged her.

"Emiko-chan...I'm so sorry."

Emiko wrapped her arms around him and began to cry silently on his shoulder.

After several minutes of sitting like that, Emiko straightened.

She rubbed the tears off her cheeks. "I'm okay now." Then she smiled at him. "Thank you."

He smiled his dazzling smile at her. Then she remembered something.

"Oh! I have to get Ino something for her birthday!" Then she tapped her chin thoughtfully. "I don't know her very well but I know she likes clothes...and makeup..."

Naruto shivered. "Please don't tell me I have to come with you...?"

Emiko laughed, a laugh that made Naruto shiver even more then the thought of clothes shopping did.

"Nah, you don't have to come. I think I'm starting to get the layout of the village. I'll be able to find my way and back." Naruto sighed with relief.

After getting dressed and doing her hair, Emiko was off. She retraced her steps from when she, Ino and Tenten went to the clothing store.

She was browsing through the racks trying to find something that would suit Ino, when she came across a shirt that she remembered Ino adoring.

FLASHBACK TIME

"This shirt is beautiful! Oh with the lace, and the ruffles! Strapless, too so it can show off my shoulders!" Then she had sighed. "But I promised my dad I wouldn't buy anything this trip...purple is my color too..."

Without giving it a second thought, Emiko got the shirt off its hanger and bought it for Ino.

But then of course, no gift would be complete without a sincere card...Emiko thought as she headed off to a store a few buildings down that sold cards.

"In two days." Pain told Itachi.

"Should Kisame accompany me?" Itachi asked.

Pain thought about it. "No. It shouldn't be necessary."

Itachi nodded. "Alright. I will leave tomorrow and from then I will arrive in approximately a day so long as I don't run into any trouble."

Pain nodded in approval of Itachi's scheduling, then turned and left.

Pain's thoughts as he was walking away were, 'Now we will get the final two jinchuurikis left. Everything is coming to a close...'

YAY! Now I know a few of you saw that coming and I wasn't originally going to tell you guys that so soon, but I figured a lot of you already knew, so what the hell? Why not? And I know, I lied, this chapter wasn't longer then the other one, in fact it's shorter, and well that wasn't quite supposed to turn out like that...But if I started writing more there wouldn't have been a decent ending point for, like the next 2,000 words and I really wanted to get this in before I started school (which starts in a day FML) So sorry guys, the next one really will be longer!

Please review, I hope you enjoyed it!