Chapter 14 A short breakā”˜

(A/N: Okay, I got tired of all the drama, so for this special chapter I'm gonna give you the story of my friends that I left back in Konoha. This part will go from 3rd person to different people's POV's, I decided that we need some comedy and this story is pretty damn funny.)

3rd Person:In Konoha, the Kurai-nin who had been left behind were seeing this time without the "mother hen" as something resembling a vacation. Haruko decided that, since she had nothing better to do, she would spend every second possible with Kiba. Mamimi was mourning the loss of her beloved Kaoru, whilst hanging around with Shino simply to fill her time. The entire time, Momo was on her own, perhaps forgotten by the others, but doing perfectly fine by herself. She had Konohamaru to keep her company and she was more than safe in Konoha, she had nearly completely forgotten the world she had left behind nearly three months ago. "Out of sight, out of mind", as they say.

Right now, we join Haruko and her dearest pet hanging out in a meadow and eating lunch as Kiba trains.

(Haruko's POV)I sat in the field, watching Kiba do random ninja training. Akamaru shifted a bit, reminding me of a long overdue nap. Kiba was an early riser. He'd woken me before dawn almost every morning. I laid down in the field and soon fell asleep. A moment later I felt something jump onto my stomach, to which I responded with a grunt and an angry sigh. I grudgingly opened my eyes and saw Kiba sitting there, that stupid grin taking up half of his face. "Tag, you're it," he said with a laugh before running off. So, as if on cue, I jumped up and started chasing him. Right as I had finally reached him, though, he jumped out of sight and I consequently ran into a tree and fell back to the ground. Light flashed before my eyes and suddenly I was back at the day when my "Mother" had left me in Konoha. At first I had been slightly disappointed that she hadn't let me go too, luckily I'm easily distracted. Kiba liked, very much, to play tag, though Akamaru did not. Akamaru reminded me vaguely of Jaken-sama when it came to tag. The three of us had spent most of our time waking before dawn so that we could play tag all day. At night we'd fall asleep under an oddly-out-of-place willow tree. On the few days when we hadn't played tag we tended to wander, most often playing pranks on Kakashi. My favorite one had involved Akamaru, lime jell-o, and a sling-shot. Light flashed again and I was back on the ground, Kiba sitting upon my stomach as usual. He watched me closely as I lay motionless, he looked a bit concerned. As I slowly turned blue Kiba looked to get more and more worried. Eventually Akamaru told him to get off of my stomach and I could finally take a nice deep breath, relieved as the air filled my lungs once more. Kiba just laughed, "Are you alright?"

"Fine" I croaked, still slightly stunned from the impact.

Then, for some random reason, Kakashi walked out from behind the tree, seeming as though he had a smile on his hidden face. "It would seem that the tree won." At this I sat up, smirked, and did my special seal that made a previously non-existent water balloon to appear over Kakashi's head. Then, as I thanked the spirits for gravity, the water balloon fell and splashed over Kakashi's head, thoroughly messing up his oh-so-wonderful hairdo. Then he gave me one of those "I'll get you for this" looks and walked away. I then laid back in the grass and Kiba sat beside my head, both of us wearing broad grins.

"The tree's it," I said happily, feeling tired and sighing with fatigue.

"Why, thank you!" responded the tree in a deep voice, to which I sat bolt upright and both me and Kiba stared at the frightening tree with wide eyes.

(A/N) Well, that was...random...and quite entertaining! hope you all enjoyed the break from the drama. Next chapter we're back to the main story! Yay, drama, like a soap opera!