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Chapter 21
Kayla picked up her cloak and put it on, and then let out a long, loud whistle, which was answered by a howl. Kakashi and Jiraiya came and helped bring Gaara, who was passed out, and Naruto who next passed out from blood loss. "Come on," Rosanna said to Kayla, "I want to get back to sleep in my bed" Kayla answered with a 'hn' and jumped behind the group of ninja's proceeding to the leaf village. "Hey, where have you been these last months?" she asked following Kayla.
"Training." Kayla muttered
"But why didn't you let me know you were alright?" she said curiously.
"I... I was busy. I would have but I needed to finish training first..." she muttered
"I see... do you need a place to stay the night?"
"No I'm good"
"You sure... you and me can have a movie night and just chat all night long... have like a sleep over..."
"No. I'm good"
"Ok, whatever you say."
"From what I understand, you were in the hospital for quite a while"
"Yes sadly... god I hated that"
"..." Kayla gave her an I-told-you-so look.
"Hey, at least I help them out..."
"Oh really. So how many did you take on before being rescued?"
"About 10 of them"
"And how many went down by you?"
"About 3 I think"
"..." Kayla gave her a blank look. "mhm"
"Hey, its not that bad, is it?" Rosanna said
Ignoring this Kayla asked, "Where were your injuries?"
"All over" Rosanna said not wanting to get into detail.
Kayla sighed. She put a hand to her forehead. Rosanna heard a muffled "my fault" and then Kayla disappeared. Completely. By chakra sense Rosanna could see she was way far ahead of the group. Seeing as Kayla was gone she ran up to Shikamaru. "We did good"
"Ya" he said
"Is that all you have to say?" she mocked putting her hands on her hips.
"Troublesome" he muttered
"What was that?" she said. He looked at her with his usual bored expression and put an arm on her waist. "What?" she asked smiling.
"Nothing... I'm just glad you're able to be here." He said.
Rosanna smiled at him. Soon enough they were in the village and Gaara and Naruto were being admitted to the hospital. Temari, Konkuro and Matsuri accompanied Gaara into the hospital and Sakura and Shikamaru had to go see Tsunade. Everyone else just left. Rosanna walked to a training ground bringing some drawing utensils. Sitting against one of the training logs she waited and drew. After a few minutes Shikamaru came sauntering over to her. "I thought I'd find you here." He mumbled to her. He sat down beside her and put an arm around her. Placing down her drawing stuff Rosanna snuggled into his chest. He tipped her chin up to his face and kissed her gently. As they were about to make-out they hear a crackling. When Rosanna looked up she saw a tree falling towards them. She squeezed her eyes shut and waited for an impact but it never came.
She peeked one eye open and saw the tree landed a few feet away. "What the fucking hell?" she said.
Shikamaru was worried too because all of the trees near the hidden leaf village were strong and didn't just fall down. "That's odd," he muttered under his breath.
"Ya no fucking duh." Rosanna said standing up. Looking down the base of the tree she saw another weird sight. A red, black and brown wolf walking along the fallen tree towards them. She stared at the wolf and the wolf stopped and stared back. "What's with the wolf? Is it from the Inuzuka clan?" Rosanna asked Shikamaru.
"No, I don't think so. I don't think they have that kind of dog." He said. Another crash sounded and birds flew from the treetops then the wolf turned and ran towards the noise.
"What the fucking hell was that!!" Rosanna said as she and Shikamaru followed the wolf. They had trouble keeping up with it and barley caught glimpses of it. But they kept hearing more crashes. A tree almost hit Rosanna but Shikamaru pulled her out of the way. "Thanks" she said, "now where the fuck did it go?" She saw it laying down looking into a clearing where the tree fell "There it is" Shikamaru and Rosanna walked closer to it. It looked at them then back at the clearing were another tree fell from, it barked. Then a few seconds after a tree falls right towards Rosanna and Shikamaru. They avoided the tree but another one fell towards them. Everything stopped. They heard howling and yelling. Looking into the clearing they saw a person, cloaked and masked yelling and charging at a tree. By sensing the chakra Rosanna realized that it was Kayla. She hit the tree with her spiked club and at first nothing happened. It looked like one spike stuck in, then the whole tree fell down and the wolf they were following jumped on top. "Hey Kayla" Rosanna said. Kayla jumped five feet into the air. Shikamaru looks at Rosanna funny. "Its her... I just can tell"
"Fuck, Rosanna what are you doing here"
"I was at the training grounds and the trees start to fall and we followed the wolf"
She looks at the wolf standing on the fallen tree. "That's Eri, I guess I got carried away" she put her club on her back and snapped her fingers. The wolf jumped down and followed her as she walked towards Rosanna taking off the cloth covering her face.
"Yea I guess… But anyways it nice to see you Kayla"
"Umm, ya, lets head back to the village now"
"Ok, let go come on Shika"
"Psh, your still hanging with lazy-ass?" she almost laughed.
"Yea, yea, whatever"
Kayla jumped through the trees, Eri following on the ground. Rosanna and Shikamaru followed Kayla and soon they were in the training area.
"Kayla, what are you doing tonight?" Rosanna asked.
Kayla gave her a blank look, "obviously I have nothing to do but I already said I'm not staying with you. Tch, I should probably check on Gaara" she started to walk away.
"WHAT THE HELL! I haven't seen you in god knows how long and you won't even hang out with me!!" Rosanna yelled.
Kayla stopped in her tracks but said nothing.
"Kayla, what the hell is the matter?" Rosanna asked.
"Its…" Kayla started; she wanted to talk to her friend but at the same time she didn't, "nothing."
"Nothing my ass!" Rosanna yelled.
Kayla turned around and crossed her arms. "Fine, but we'll have to ditch lazy-ass first."
"Deal." Rosanna smiled and told Shikamaru that she'd see him later. Kayla, Rosanna and Eri walked outside the walls of the hidden leaf village. Kayla stopped when the gates were out of sight and leaned against a tree. "So what's up?" Rosanna asked.
Kayla looked very stressed out and put a hand over her eyes. "Have you ever thought of how we got here?"
"No not really, have you?"
Kayla ran a hand through her hair. "Well… um" she said slightly panicked. She turned around and banged her head against the tree. "Damn it" she muttered.
"What?"
"During my months of training… my sensei was the person who brought us here. Or more specifically me here." She banged her head again and Eri started growling, "Your not supposed to be here. That's my fault. You could've lived a normal life without stupid ninja's attacking you and near death experiences. It's my fault if you get hurt or die"
"What?! I don't get, how is it your fault?"
Kayla closed her eyes as a trickle of blood ran down her face from the wound she made by banging her head. "My sensei made a jutsu that brought me here. Remember in the forest? When I grabbed onto you I dragged you along. Its my fault you're here and not safe."
"I don't care about that! I'm glad I'm here. If I wasn't you'd still be gone and I'd be wondering where you were!"
"You'd get over that! It's better than being in danger constantly!"
"I'd rather be in danger than not knowing where you were. You're the closest thing I have to family!"
Kayla still didn't look at her. "You always did hate to watch from the sidelines." She murmured.
"Ya I know." Rosanna grabbed Kayla's shoulder and spun her around to face her, the slapped her hard. Kayla gaped, wide-eyed at Rosanna. 'Did she just??' "What, you surprised that I'll hit you across the goddamn face?" Rosanna mocked. Kayla was still too shocked to say anything. "Goddamn it, say something Kayla!"
Kayla looked at Rosanna then sent a punch to her face that sent her stumbling backwards, "you didn't expect me to just take that did you… sis?" she grinned.
"Well I'm glad you'll fight back" Rosanna stood up and giggled.
Kayla sighed and sat down with her back against the tree, wiping the blood off her forehead. She looked at the blood on her hand. "So what have you been doing these last months, other than being in the hospital?"
"Training! What did you think I'd be doing? Sitting on my ass doing nothing?"
Kayla rolled her eyes, "so what about you and lazy-ass?"
"Nothing new because we're both getting lots of missions" Rosanna said. "So how are you and Gaara?" Kayla's face immediately darkened. "What is it? Spill."
"There is nothing of a relationship whatsoever. I only just met up with him yesterday when he got a mission to get rid of me."
"Whaa??" Rosanna gave her a weird look.
"You saw me. In the desert. I would check who was entering or leaving Suna and travelers started to notice so the council sent Gaara to 'eliminate the threat' I ended up convincing the council to make me a sand ninja."
"So it was you that I saw"
"Ya"
"Why didn't you come over?! I knew it was you by your chakra."
"I wasn't done with my training yet and Eri wouldn't have let anyone near me."
"It was me of all people!"
"I can't help it if he's overly protective"
"Whatever"
"Lets get back now"
"Ok,
Shika's probably worried"
Kayla stood up and they walked back
to the village. Eri ran into the forest as they walked through the
gates. "I should find Temari and Mr.makeup. We'll probably be
leaving as soon as Gaara is up and going."
"Ok, write sometimes so we can keep in touch."
"Ok, I'll try"
They left for the hospital and found Matsuri, Temari and Konkuro sitting in the waiting room. "He up yet?" Kayla asked
"Ya we were about to go look for you. Where did you go? You disappeared all of a sudden," Temari said.
"Just talking with Rosanna" Kayla said pointing to Rosanna who was talking to the secretary. "Are we leaving soon?"
"We just need the doctor to let Gaara leave and we'll be going." Konkuro said.
A few hours later Kayla, Matsuri, Temari, Konkuro and Gaara were ready to go at the gate. Shikamaru and Rosanna were seeing them off. They said their goodbyes and started the three-day trek to Suna.
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