Second chapter today! I would have liked it to be longer, but . . . well, I may have to re-write it some other time. Without further ado, I give you the next chapter!

Ugh, what . . . what just happened? Owie, Kawaii's head hurt really badly! Let's see . . . there was . . . that one guy . . . who had been saying those bad things to Kawaii . . . then . . . uhm . . . well, he was . . . here? Kawaii groaned as he opened his eyes, flinching when he saw the sky. How had he gotten outside?

"Hey, he's awake!"

Kawaii turned his head and he felt joy and dread in his heart when he saw Baransu, Supaiku, Surudoi, some old man, and the young boy that he was tricked into finding. They all were looking at him weirdly, and Kawaii blushed as he remembered what he had done. "H-hi. What . . . uh . . . I can explain!"

Baransu raised an eyebrow, a smirk appearing on his face. Everyone else flinched as Baransu spoke. "I very highly doubt that. Alright though, fire away."

Kawaii gulped. Would he be able to explain why he had . . . well, he had to try. "W-well, I uh . . . I . . . I-I'm really sorry, I-I didn't mean to do it! I-I didn't know he was the person we were supposed to be helping, Suki told me that he was kidnapped and she was going to save him and that they needed my help to-"

Baransu raised a hand and Kawaii stopped speaking. Supaiku was giving Surudoi a really confused look and soon spoke to Kawaii. "What are you talking about?"

Kawaii gulped as his face flushed with shame. He was so embarrassed, how could he have been tricked like that? "S-Suki told me that she needed me to look for a young boy, she showed me a drawing of him. I-I thought that he was kidnapped, so . . . I helped her. I-I wouldn't have done it if I had known! I-I'm so sorry . . . uhm . . ."

Kawaii frowned, what was the boy's name? "I-I'm sorry, I . . . I don't know your name."

The boy flinched before he looked at Kawaii like he was crazy. Kawaii didn't blame the boy, Kawaii had done a really bad thing to him . . . he was so ashamed! H-he didn't mean to do it! Suki really scared him, how could someone lie like that? I-it was so mean! Why . . . a-and he actually did . . . Kawaii felt the tears begin to flow.

"I don't think he remembers . . ."

Kawaii looked up to see Supaiku talking to the boy. Baransu cleared his throat and Kawaii waited for the yelling. "Kawaii, look. What happened before with those water clones, I uh . . . I actually knew it wasn't the real you because I saw the clones forming. I was lying to the man."

Oh! Kawaii immediately looked up in shock. "S-so if that wasn't me, then you wouldn't have done it?"

Baransu gave a slight smile as he replied. "Of course I wouldn't have. Just because you piss me off doesn't mean I'm going to kill you. As for Suki tricking you . . . well . . . you did more to correct that then you know."

Kawaii cocked his head, what did he mean by that? Oh, well. "S-so . . . I-I guess this is . . . going to be my last mission?"

Baransu shook his head, clearly amused. "Yep, he's back to normal. Look Kawaii, you're not in trouble. Accidents happen, and no one told us we were going against Suki. If I had known that I would have warned you beforehand that Suki is a manipulator."

Kawaii cocked his head. "What's a Man-nip-you-later? Is that a way of saying goodbye?"

Baransu chuckled as he shook his head. "That she lies."

Kawaii flinched. "B-but why? Lies aren't true, why would she say them? It only hurts people!"

Supaiku and Surudoi both burst out laughing, getting Kawaii to flinch. "What's so funny?"

They shook their heads, and soon Kawaii sighed. "Well . . . thanks for saving me. I-I am really sorry about that."

Even the man, who must have been the boy's daddy, said that he understood. "Suki's the type of woman that . . . well, I like her better dead."

Kawaii flinched at that. "She's dead? I-I guess that's the right thing to do and all but . . . i-isn't that a little mean? I . . ."

As he was speaking Kawaii forced himself to sit up. He was surprised when he looked behind him and found a large number of skeletons on the ground. How . . . oh! "Is it Halloween already? No, I . . . she must have decorated really early for it. I guess she must really like Halloween. Is that the reason she tricks people?"

Kawaii flinched as Baransu burst out laughing. "You little MORON! Oh, I can't believe how naïve you are!"

Oh. "So it . . . is Halloween? I-I thought that was still some time off."

Huh, maybe . . . then again, this was a different village. Maybe they celebrated Halloween at a different time? Maybe they could go trick-or-treating before they left! Or maybe-

Kawaii flinched as he felt a tail easily lift him off the ground, but smiled as he saw the lizard-like face that belonged to the thing holding him. "Hi Fluffy!"

Kawaii was certain Fluffy smiled as he set Kawaii on his back, helping Kawaii move his legs and then holding him upright. Baransu had a look of amusement in his eyes as he shook his head again. "I should have known. This little guy brought us here to find you, I guess he must have wanted to help you out Kawaii."

Kawaii was elated, Fluffy helped him! "Thank you Fluffy! Oh, who's a good walrus? You are!"

"WALRUS! That's not a-"

Kawaii looked up to see Surudoi covering Supaiku's mouth. She sighed before she spoke. "Kawaii, what makes you think that's a walrus?"

Oh, that was easy. "Suki said she had a surprise. When I asked if it was a walrus she said 'maybe', so when I was suddenly put into a room along with Fluffy here . . . well, what else could he be?"

Surudoi brought a hand to her head. "Ok, and the fact that he has feet? What about no tusks, or the tail that's currently wrapped around your waist? Not only that, he's a lizard. Walruses are mammals."

Kawaii shrugged. "I think he's a new type."

Supaiku managed to get Surudoi's hand away from his mouth. "Ok, so the reason you think that the lizard you are on right now is a walrus because Suki mentioned that it MIGHT be?"

Kawaii nodded. "It was really nice of her! Maybe she secretly felt bad inside that she had tricked me, so she wanted to give me Fluffy."

Baransu sighed as he shook his head. "Okay, you know what? It's a walrus, I can live with that. Let's just get going before we give him another thing to misunderstand."

The group agreed, although Kawaii wasn't certain who 'he' was. Maybe the man's son was just a little naïve? Oh well.

Soon the group was walking out of the city, Kawaii riding on Fluffy's back. He was a little worried about what the Rensakage would say about his . . . uhm . . . betrayal. Hopefully she'd understand that he really didn't mean to do it, he was still really embarrassed about what had happened.

Hopefully he'd be able to still be a ninja. He hadn't even gotten to do any of the fun stuff yet, like playing spy or-or . . . well ok, not really fight anyone, but . . . well, there was more than that. It was probably a good thing that he hadn't fought anyone yet, he really didn't have any way to defend himself.

Still, he felt like he was . . . forgetting something . . . oh! "Wait! What about the trick-or-treating, didn't you say that was tonight? I wanted to go trick-or-treating, even though I haven't picked out a costume yet. I-I thought it was still some time off, b-but I can still find a costume in time!"

Baransu looked back at Kawaii with amusement. "It's not Halloween. You're safe kid."

Really? Wow, Suki must have really liked Halloween then. It was strange though, why hadn't she made Jack-O-Lanterns? They were kind of scary yeah, but so were skeletons . . . oh, well. He'd never know now that she was dead. Hmm . . . he wondered. What happened to her body?

YAY! Kawaii's back to normal! More shenanigans! WOOHOO! Again, sorry for the short length. It was just . . . not much happened in this chapter, so I couldn't really make it that long. I may work a bit more on it and upload a better version of this chapter later, but for now it will do.