"Make your report, Sasuke." Tsunade said. The mood was rather dim as the assembled nin waited in tense silence for the stoic Uchiha to recount what he had seen. "The woman called herself Nezhul's sister. She didn't seem like she was going to injure her, but I decided to step in seeing as Nezhul was too close to the edge for comfort. The movement startled her, and she fell. I couldn't reach her in time..." Sasuke gave the report quietly, and waited for the angry accusations. He already saw it as his fault. He wasn't strong enough, or fast enough to save her. He didn't expect the quiet, "Don't you dare blame yourself for this, Sasuke-teme!" Naruto had said that. Sasuke turned blank eyes to the angry Uzumaki. "It's not your fault. Nobody could have done anything. I say we track down that HeiLin lady and make her pay!" Naruto said. Kagome, who's head had been previously hidden in her hands, glanced up and offered a watery smile. "I learned long ago..." she began quietly. "That it's useless to blame yourself for every death you 'could' have prevented. In the long run, if you 'could' have prevented it, then you would have." she said, then stood up. Sango nodded in aproval, glad to see Kagome was over all the deaths she had experienced. Maybe now she could move on to happiness? Then with a saddening realization, Sango remembered her friend who no longer had a chance to have the happiness she deserved. The room was silent once again in grief.

She didn't know what had happened. Wracking her brain, she tried to recall how she had ended up here, all she got was a searing pain and white hot fear. Then it hit her. She remembered everything as she struggled to stand, but all she got was a strangled scream of pain, and darkness. She estimated, by the odd angle her left ankle rested at that it was shattered, and her other leg wasn't responding either. She guessed her head had been cracked open by the sticky warm feeling on her head, and the blood trickling down her face. Deciding it would be best not to move just yet, she stood stalk still with half lidded eyes, trying to acess where she was.

"I want you to try and at least find the body. That's a 100 foot drop to straight ground, and there's little to no chance she survived but if, by a miracle, she did..." Tsunade was saying. They caught the hidden meaning. If she did survive, she wouldn't last much longer. "We'll send out search parties. Sasuke, how about you go on the first one with Neji and Kagura. Both of them are more than capable of taking care of themselves, and so are you." Tsunade said. "Good luck." she whispered as they left.

She wouldn't last much longer where she was. Animals would start sniffing out her blood scent. Hearing a loud shuffling, she groaned. The animals were already gathering. Deciding she'd put up a fight, she pushed down on her arms until she was in a handstand. Positioning her legs so they were comfortable, she began to walk carefully on her palms, using her fingers to move rocks so as not to injure her self further. She moved as fast as she could on her unstable arms, thanking the fates that she knew how to walk on her hands. She heard some loud shuffling and fell, startled, onto her back.

They had been searching for a long time, but found almost no trace of her. Until...they saw splattered blood. Following a small trail, they found a rocky area. There, splayed across one of the rocks, was Nezhul, grinning like mad at them.

"Why are you grinning?" Sasuke asked blandly, almost relived to see her alive. He didn't want to carry her dead body back. "Because I'm just that weird." she answered, winking playfully at him. He rolled his eyes at her. She was just that weird. He almost grinned as she pushed herself into a handstand and watched them carefully. "So, we going home?" she asked, cocking her head to the side. Sasuke nodded at her, then without warning, slung her over his shoulder. "Hey, who said you could do that?" she asked, quiet enough that no one would hear. A smirk played across his lips. "I did." he said back, and she almost growled. She stopped herself and instead giggled. She was very happy to be alive.

Infact, she would only be happier when her sisters blood was spilled.