Hello People (I hope your people at least).

To the reviewer who noticed I had been writing Pain instead of Pein...blame my evil Word...it decided to auto fix Pein into Pain. I have succeeded in fixing the auto-fix I think. The sad thing is I never even noticed. I blame no one but me pre-reading these and sometimes I don't even do it (when I am really busy). On a brighter note my word also decided that Togetha was a word, umm yeah. Stupid word.

This chapter brought to you by: The fact that if I had a penny for each chapter I would have a quarter which I would use to buy 1/5th of a soda. That's slightly depressing...let's pretend I had a dollar....

Kimimaro Returns

I sit in the tree, what else can I do honestly it's not like I can get down by myself, contemplating if I am crazy or not. I decided to do an insanity test. If I get an answer then I am crazy if there is none I am sane.

"Hello tree how are you today." I said looking at the tree waiting for it to answer me. I waited, and waited. So I apparently am not crazy bit I still hear Lee and Kimimaro. I also keep hearing crashed and stuff. I just realized that even though the tree did not answer I might still be crazy since I am still hearing things.

I suppose there is another possibility but I don't think it's as interesting as me being crazy; they could be here fighting one another. The only questions then are why, how, and where exactly. They could be fighting over Sasuke. That sounded strange. How, um however they fight? Where exactly, over yonder?

Maybe if I scream really loudly they will come and rescue me from this tree. That requires screaming which would alert things to my presence. I'd rather not scream and have Lee and Kimimaro be in my imagination and have the fighting noises be a pack of rabid monkeys or something. Or it could just be some other ninja that I do not know who will kill me. Either way I will die. At least in the first there are monkeys.

What to do? There is another option of wait until the fight gets close enough and they hopefully notice I am here, if they are not figments of my imagination that is. This option is boring. It required me to be patient. It also relies on having luck, which I don't. So this option is out.

The option I am going with is trying to figure out different options until option two happens or the rabid monkey/unknown ninja find me. I am doing this one right now. Yup fulfilling my own plan of action.

Wait, what happens if it all is in my head and there are not even noises. Then I would just be sitting here wasting my time. I could be doing something else with my time. Scratch that no I wouldn't be doing anything with my time; I'm stuck in a tree. Itachi could have at least given me a book to read or something. But no, let's leave Akira to either die of boredom in a tree or become paralyzed because she was so bored she dived off. Who jumps? You might survive that way, diving headfirst is much more effective.

Maybe if I stand up and look I can see something. Okay, I see something but there's this branch in my way. I guess I could go on my tippy toes and try to see over it. No luck. I know, best plan ever, if I jump I will definitely see over it. I saw over it. But it was too quick so I didn't see exactly what I saw, does that even make sense? It does to me.

I will keep jumping until I see what is there, what I saw. Since I jumped once and did not fall what are the chances that I will fall if I jump a second time? So I did. And I fell.

"Oh crap! I'm gonna die and I never even got to see the rabid monkeys," I shouted closing my eyes and preparing for the rough impact with the ground, "Plus the last few sentences of my life have improper grammar, does that mean I will go to grammar hell?" wait a second I was falling down now I am falling left and someone is holding me. I opened my eyes and was looking into the face of Kimimaro.

"Hello Akira." Kimimaro greeted while smirking at me. Must everyone smirk at me.

"Not crazy!" I shouted hugging him and successfully knocking the smirk off his face. That was my plan, yeah; knock the smirk of by confusing the crap out of him.

"Akira!" I heard Rock Lee shout panting behind us.

"Aren't you injured?" I asked confused.

"I am."

"Isn't it amazing that you are standing then?"

"Yes."

"Why are you here?"

"I wanted to help Naruto retrieve Sasuke."

"So the idiot did join the creepy snake people."

"Hey!" Kimimaro shouted at me since he was one of them. He is also their leader's number one fan. He multi-task's well.

"Are you going to put me down?" I asked realizing that I was in his arms. Since I apparently got used to people doing that so much so I no longer even notice. I blame Itachi.

"Would you like to fall to the forest ground?" He pointed out. I looked down and decided no I would not like to fall to the ground.

I was put down after Kimimaro found a suitable clearing. I guess he was preparing to fight there. Maybe that's why I called it a clearing instead of a meadow, who fights in a meadow? It makes me think of happy things, I wish I were in a meadow. If I was in a meadow I could have a picnic. I guess Kimimaro put me down because it would be hard to fight while holding a person. I should be thankful that he did not put me in a tree, unlike some people...

"Akira, stay behind me." Kimimaro ordered uselessly since I would hide behind him anyway. My survival instincts are fine, my luck is awful, and my common sense is still broken but at least I have it.

"Konoha has announced that Akira is officially a civilian of Konoha and kidnapped. As such any ninja of Konoha that comes into contact with her should take any action to ensure her safe return." Lee said after taking out his little note pad and reading off of it. Where did he get the note pad? Where did it come from? Never mind I don't really want to know the answer to that.

"That's news to me." I muttered wondering how long I have been a civilian of Konoha without my knowledge. Maybe it was when I was kidnapped? The whole Itachi taking me away could have helped my chances at being a Konoha person. I wonder if I get anything for being one. Do I get discounts in stores? Like having membership gives me 10% off at certain Konoha locations. Valid only at participating Konoha stores.

"I will not let Konoha take away my—I mean Oto's slave, Akira." Kimimaro announced right before the two of them began fighting.

Why did he say my name at the end, who else would he have been talking about? There's no one else in this clearing right? I wondered looking around just to make sure no one was there. Unless that blade of grass in front of my shoe is secretly a person then no it's just the three of us. What if it is a person though? One way to find out; step on it. Okay not a person but I think I killed an innocent piece of grass. It was mocking me.

"Don't I get a choice?" I muttered bitterly to myself knowing that they were too busy fighting to hear me. If I had a choice there would be a monkey here.

After some time of ignoring their fighting, if I ignore them maybe they will go away. I had to stop ignoring them when some sand saved Lee, because who can ignore possessed sand?

"Gaara!" I greeted happily waving at him enthusiastically.

"Akira!" He shouted surprised, which was the only indication he was surprised. Him, with his blank look, which he uses. Aw his blank look of no emotion looks sad to me. I feel like hugging him now.

"Gaara!" Lee finally came out of his shocked state and noticed that Gaara was there and Lee had not greeted him yet.

"Lee." Gaara said nodding to Lee in greeting. Ah the lazy greeting.

"Kimimaro!" Kimimaro announced annoyed.

"Aw, does Kimimaro feel unloved. Did you want someone to shout your name?" I teased him pulling his hair slightly. I wanted to play with his hair but no he had to fight so I can't, so I chose the next best option...tugging on it.

"Akira you can play with my hair when we get back to Oto." Kimimaro announced knowing that was what I was thinking.

"But I'm not going to Oto with you." I pointed out stupidly. Ah yes the common sense is still broken.

"You don't have a choice." He announced.

"I won't let you take her." Gaara said quite eerily if you ask me. He had this slightly insane look on his face that seemed to say argue with me and die.

"It is my duty as a youthful ninja of Konoha to ensure that Akira is returned." Lee declared loudly and with his nice guy pose at the end.

"She belongs to me so she will return to Oto like a good slave."

"When was I a good slave?" I asked looking at Kimimaro curiously.

"When you did what you were told and made me food."

"I make everyone food." I pointed out.

"You never made me anything." Lee whined.

"That's because I am creeped out by your jumpsuit."

"Why must you hate the youthful green jumpsuit?"

"Simple it is a jumpsuit."

"What do you have to say about this Gaara?" Lee asked noticing that Gaara was thinking about something.

"I want pancakes." He announced.

"I'm bored just start fighting already." I said walking to the edge of the clearing to sit and try to be out of the way.

So the fighting started with the sand and the bones flying around. Gaara protecting Lee and Kimimaro making sure nothing happened to me. Not that anything was going to happen to me since Gaara was making sure that nothing he shot at Kimimaro came at me. I decided that I did not feel like watching the fight so instead I got comfortable.

I decided to sit down next to some sticks. What to do with the sticks? I know! I will make a house made out of sticks. How come this does not work? How did the little pig make his house? Sure the pig that does not have opposable thumbs can make a house of sticks but I can't, that's just mean.

What to do now? I know I can write stuff in the ground with the sticks. As I was scraping into the ground that I want pie the ground suddenly got soft and turned into sand. The ground beneath me, which is now sand, suddenly shot up and took me over to where Gaara and Lee were floating in the air.

"Warning would have been nice." I told Gaara calmly when I reached him.

"Akira." He said grabbing my arm with his left arm and doing his sand death squeeze of doom with his right.

"Is Kimimaro down there?" I asked curiously.

"Weren't you watching?" Lee asked.

"No." I answered honestly.

"Would I be performing my jutsu on the sand if he was not in there?"

"Maybe?" I asked unsure.

"No."

"That's all you had to say."

Preview from next chapter: Kimimaro's Death

"He's not dead!" Lee exclaimed.

"Apparently not." I commented dryly.

"…" Gaara didn't say anything but made the sand once more surround Kimimaro to crush him to death.

"Don't you have any other jutsu?" I asked annoyingly