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Chapter 21: Konoha

-day 78-

Alex ran right along beside Kakuzu. Zetsu had tried to get Pein to allow him to go with her but he had refused. Pein knew Kakuzu would do what had to be done to make it seem like they were enemies. Alex shuddered at the thought of Kakuzu actually having to attack as if trying to kill her. It was up to her to dodge the kunai and whatever Kakuzu through at her without letting the ninja of Konoha seeing her do so.

She was already exhausted after running for three days straight but she had to keep it up. They had to believe she was just hanging on by a thread and make it seemed like she had only been doing this for a couple of hours.

"Down," Kakuzu ordered and Alex jumped down. The must be nearing the entrance of Konoha.

On her way down, Kakuzu threw a kunai at her and it sunk into her shoulder. Alex cried out in pain. She knew he was going to throw the blades and hurt but she didn't expect it to hurt this much. Instead of landing on her feet, she fell on her good shoulder. A crunch echoed throughout the forest.

Trying to not think of the pain, Alex got up. She weaved through the trees and if she headed off course Kakuzu threw a kunai to get her to turn in the right direction. They both learned that running through the forest while blinded with pain is next to impossible. She tripped over roots, ran into trees, went head over heals from rocks catching her foot, and slipped in mud. Then you head the kunai getting chucked at her and some hit.

Alex was thankful when she saw the wall of Konoha. She started screaming at the top of her lungs, as was planned, "HELP! HEEEEELP! SOMEBODY! ANYBODY! HELP ME!"

She tripped again and this time didn't get up. All she did was curl up into a ball and squeeze her eyes shut real tight. The finishing blow did not come. When she looked up she saw a man with black hair and bushman eyebrows. And wearing the tackiest jumpsuit in history. Alex tried not to laugh. Beggars can't be choosers about who rescues them from dying. He turned to her and gave her thumbs up and he got the weird shine glint on the side of his smile that only happens in anime. She then promptly fainted.

-dusk-

"Gai, the woman is not to be trusted," a man said by the door.

Alex eyes opened and she saw the two male silhouettes. The one she recognized was the green-jumpsuit man. She hissed in pain catching the attention of the men. Her body hurt everywhere. Kakuzu didn't go easy on her.

"Good morning or more properly said good evening," green-jumpsuit man said. "The name's Gai and this here is Ibiki."

He held a hand out, taking it she said, "Alex."

"Nice to meet."

She smiled. He was harmless enough. It was the Ibiki man she had to worry about. The others told her that one she had to convince she wasn't an enemy was him. They also told her how he would be a hard ass. Well, mainly Hidan said the hard ass bit but the warning was the same: Get on the good side of Ibiki or you're screwed.

She grimaced and her body tensed as her body shot with pain. "You might want to be careful. Did you take a nasty fall?"

"Yeah, but don't worry. My arm broke my fall," she joked sitting up. "Where am I?"

"Don't you know?" Ibiki said glaring at her.

She shook her head and then cocked her head to the side. "Uh-uh. Should I?"

"Ibiki this isn't the time to be interrogating her. She just got out of a near death experience," Gai said defending her.

"Now is the best time."

Gai was about to argue back but Alex spoke softly, "It's okay. It's not like I have anything to hide."

"Where are you from?"

"You never answered my question."

"I'm the one doing the questions."

Alex watched Gai sit down in the only chair and decided to ask him, "Sir, where am I?"

"Huh, oh you're in Konoha."

"Never hear of the place. Oh, I'm from Wisconsin."

"You lie."

"I don't, well I do but not about that. The place is across the ocean, practically on the other side of the world," she said completely serious.

"Who was trying to kill you?"

"I don't know. Some guy that I ran into in the forest. He was talking to another. They thought I overheard something important. Even after I told them I didn't the one who chased me didn't believe me. The other wanted to sacrifice me to his god."

Gai jumped up out of his shouted, "God! What was the name of his god?"

"Um…I think he said Jashin-sama."

"Akatsuki," Gai said and then ran out of the room.

"The guys nice but he gives me the bad case of the willies," Alex sighed. "On with the questions."

"No," he said and got up to follow the other. "Get some rest."

Alex lay back down and stared at the ceiling. So far everything was going as planned. She started humming softly to herself to help her slip off into sleep.

-day 79-

Alex woke up and stared out the window. She counted her lucky stars that she wasn't placed in a windowless room. Getting up she limped her way to the window. She threw them open and breathed in. Hospitals and facilities of the like were never her favorite places to be. She sat on the sill and zoned out, staring at nothing. She started humming again and slowly it turned to singing.

"You may find just a little strange. I like dancing barefoot in the pouring rain. My mind is racing at the speed of light. I'll dance around you like a satellite."

Gai walked in to her tapping her foot on the sill.

"I'm reckless, you're speechless, Scream, shout, I love it loud. I feel a need to stand out in the crowd. Nothing's wrong with me. (Nothing's wrong with me)"

He sat down staring at her and listening.

"Freak out, I stand my ground. Nothing in the world is going to keep me down. Nothing's wrong with me.

I say some things that might not come out right. I say them loud, and proud, and impolite. Don't try to analyze or be profound. Cause life's to short to so tightly wound.

I'm reckless, your speechless. Scream, shout, I love it loud. I feel a need to stand out in the crowd. Nothing's wrong with me. (Nothing's wrong with me)

Freak out, I stand my ground. Nothing in the world is going to keep me down. Nothing's wrong with me.

I can smile, and let it be. Cause I know there's nothing wrong with me. Wrong with me. Wrong with me.

If you ask about my attitude. I'll say come on, just get a clue.

Scream, shout, I love it loud. I feel a need to stand out in the crowd. Nothing's wrong with me. (Nothing's wrong with me.)

Freak out, I stand my ground. Nothing in the world is going to keep me down. Nothing's wrong with me. (Nothing's wrong with me.) Nothing's wrong with me. Nothing's wrong with me. (Nothing's wrong with me.)"

Alex jumped; Gai was applauding. What shocked her most was the Gai look-alike that had walked in. "Is he your little brother, Gai?"

"Gai-sensei, who is she?" Gai-look-alike asked.

"The name's Alex. At least that's what everyone tells me," she joked.

"Oh. I'm called Rock Lee."

"Pleasure to make your acquaintance," she pleasantly said.

"What was it that you were singing?" Gai asked

"Nothing's wrong with me," she said smiling.

She slid off the sill and into the room. She headed to her bed and sat down. Before staring at the duo. Alex chuckled softly at the thought that they looked so much alike. Kisame hated Gai. She remembered him telling her about him. The green beast of Konoha.

"Why would you break into a song? Normal people don't do that," Lee stated.

"Does a caged bird need a reason to? Besides I never claimed to be normal nor will I ever," Alex retorted. "Hello, Mr. Ibiki."

The scarred man stared at her. She had to agree with what Hidan said about being a hard ass. He had no emotions in his eyes. It was like he was constantly analyzing her and waiting for her to slip up, to prove to him that she was a spy. He was right about her probably being an enemy but wrong about why she was here.

"When you get out, can you sing another song?" Lee asked.

She laughed and then winced. "Sure."

Ibiki spoke then, "Lady Tsunada wishes to see you."

"Who?" She asked making sure the mask of confusion was on.

"The Hokage," Lee provided for her. "I wonder why she wants to see you."

"Beats me," she stated, shrugging. "I just want to live another day and become a doctor. Is this Tsunada person outside of the hospital?"

"Yes."

She stayed quiet after that. Gai followed and Alex figured it was to make sure either Ibiki didn't pull a fast one or she ran away. Lee followed because he did what ever his sensei did and he hoped Alex would sing again. Alex looked up from staring at her feet to see the tallest building in the village. Her mouth hung open. The person who lived here was either very rich or very important.

The sun baked the outside and the coolness of the building was a relief to her. She was too use to being locked up in a cave. She sighed and continued to limp after Ibiki with Gai and his pupil in tow. The stairs were a killer to her sore body and she stopped constantly to catch her breathe and easy her pain.

Gai finally took pity one her and offered his back for her to clamber up on. He carried her up the rest of the way and all they waited for Shizune to open the door for them. Alex stared at Lady Tsunada. She remembered the others telling her she should be in her fifties but the woman who stood before looked like she was in her twenties. Alex could help but think she was a beautiful woman. Beautiful and powerful.

"Is this the girl?" she asked Ibiki.

"Yes," he replied

"Girl, were you being chased by Akatsuki?" she snapped at the wounded teen.

"I have a name and it's Alex." Lady Tsunada glared at the girl. "And who are the Akatsuki?"

"The people that were chasing. Were they wearing cloaks with red clouds on them?"

Alex furrowed her brows and replied, "I think they might have been but I really wasn't paying to detail. I had more concern for my life at that time. Yeah, they did have cloaks with red clouds on them."

The questioning continued for a couple of days and Alex answered the way she was told. She pretended she knew nothing and eventually she would be re-taught about chakra and the manipulation thereof by Iruka. Alex missed her friends, the Akatsuki and she hated hearing them bad mouth them, even Hidan. In her free time, she sat outside and zoned out and imagined be trained by her friends but she wanted to be doctor so she had to live with being away from them.

Away from Zetsu.

A/N: sorry no word of the day thing this time. I'm a little miffed about not getting any reviews last time but then again it did take me a long time to get it updated. I'm sorry about. Think on the positive side. At least this one came out fairly quick. Which is saying something sense I'm about to graduate in 12 days so...yeah

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The next chapter, she gets to learn taijutsu and start her medical training. So yeah for Alex.