Fix the Roof I Think the Universe Fell In
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A/N: Okay ya'll, here I am again with chapter 24. Please read, enjoy, and REVIEW! BOOYEAH! ;)
Chapter 24: In Which I Have a Plan, An Ingenious Plan
Kyoko's POV…
Man… Anyone get the license number on that truck?
I cracked my eyes open, oh GOD!
Bright light, shit, waaaaay too bright...
I groaned, shoot… Did Yuudai club me over the head with a chair again?
…
My vision cleared a little, I'm in the hospital?
Then I remembered the night's events, oh shit my head hurts… Ever have a three year old shove a TV into your head? Well I haven't, but I have been mauled by several animals in my life, the pain in my skull takes first place now…
I feel like crap…
"Okay now," the voice is from a lady outside the room, in the hallway, "she's probably still under due to the drugs, so try to be quiet and do not excite her." I can seriously see the poorly hidden contempt in her voice… Naruto, of course…
I don't think I've ever met the bitch-nurse but I already hate her…
My body feels like lead, but I need to sit up…
Kami, it's like I weigh a ton! The room's spinning, dammit…
"Kyoko-chan!" Naruto's voice was so loud! It's making my head hurt even more… Shit... "You're awake!"
"You're FLAMES OF YOUTH have not been extinguished!" Lee's voice was loud, not as much as Naruto, but still loud…
Crap, why did I see a chocolate bunny with wings float by? Oh, yeah… Must be the drugs…
"Somebody make the room stop spinning…" I muttered hoarsely.
Then I meet Kurenai's red eyes, then my friends', all of then showed confusion… What? Oh, I must've been speaking English…
"Itai…" I wheezed out, Kami, with my voice could pass for Gollum's sister…
The nurse handed me a glass of water, and some pills. Oh hell no! I learned my lesson back at the Mental Hospital, DON'T. TAKE. ANYTHING. THEY. GIVE. YOU!
I stared at the pills warily as the nurse left them on the bedside table, I could vaguely hear her sickeningly sweet voice telling me to take them.
She glared at Naruto, only to be met by Kurenai's oddly cold gaze which caused her to wilt then retreat…
I reached for the glass, but I'm still seeing double…
To my embarrassment, my hand missed the glass. Somehow this frustrated me, my throat feels like the freaking Sahara Desert was shoved in!
I basically threw my hand at the glass and, instead of grasping the glass like I'd intended, I knocked it over. Then I overbalanced and fell off the hospital bed, but I was caught before I hit the floor…
Kurenai had to prop me up back into the hospital bed, and my friends chattered worriedly… Funny, I think the drugs are making it impossible to make out most of everything around me…
Hinata refilled the glass… I drank deeply, almost choking on the life-giving liquid…
I can feel a type of brace on my torso, something to keep my ribs still?
I hate hospitals…
"Kyoko-chan you okay?" Naruto's voice snapped me out of my thoughts.
"Hmmm? Yeah, jus' fine…" My voice slurred a bit, stupid drugs…
Everything was silent for a moment.
Then with a moment of complete clarity, I started to speak, "well, you're all alive and have all your limbs intact so I'm assuming you got away in time?"
"Yes, you're run-away-then rescue-ploy was most excellent!" Lee exclaimed excitedly, causing a twinge of guilt to claw its way into my stomach. It was quelled and pushed down almost as quickly as it had come into being.
"Kurenai-san? What're you doin' here?" I looked at her with a raised eyebrow. Wait a minute… SHIT! I don't have my goggles! KUSO!
"Checking up on you of course."She answered me, her eyes had this odd motherly look that I'm just not used to seeing be directed at me.
"Uh yeah," I gripped the glass, realizing that one of my friends had refilled it.
Friends.
The word made an odd, mushy, very foreign feeling spread in my chest. It feels nice, but it's kind of uncomfortable…
"Yeah, but… Wait, where'd the nin go?" I literally tried to climb out of bed, only to have Kurenai hold me down.
"You've got to rest, he's already been arrested." Kurenai paused for a moment in contemplation, "the other three are-"
"Dead?" I said sarcastically, "no duh, but the worst of those sick fucks is still alive… Son of a teme…"
She stared at me.
"Oh don't dance around the subject, people die all the time." At her sympathetic look I scowled, "besides those sorry ass-lickers deserved it for what they were gonna do…"
A shadow passed over my friends faces, and Kurenai looked livid. Oh, I guess my friends hadn't been questioned yet…
Oh well…
Then the Hokage walked in, seriously is everyone getting involved here?
I shoved the pills into the drawer and closed it quickly. Everyone stared at me…
"What? I hate drugs." I stated flatly.
My friends were ushered out of the room, great… I'm going to be interrogated now! Hoorah…
"So, how do you like Konoha?" The Hokage asked, I stared. He isn't unnerved by my eyes, that's a good thing… I think…
"It's cool, apart from the bitchy adults, no offense sir, and their equally bitchy if not more so children." I said sarcastically.
"Not everyone is like that you know." The Hokage smiled in amusement.
"Nah, I just like to complain, it's like a sport for me." Then I looked at him seriously, "okay, okay, I know that you're not here for small talk, adults never really care about that crap anyways. So ask away."
The old Sarutobi observed me quietly then I noticed the grandfatherly air that just seemed to come off the guy in waves… One word, weird.
"Are you not comfortable about what happened?" He asked.
"Nah, it's like a gory, horror book, only more real… 'Sides, I've seen scarier road accidents." I said as evenly as I could manage, which begs the question. Does that fact that I just killed three people bother me?
Is it alright that I think those sorry retards had it coming? That I'm glad their dead? Even gladder that I was the judgment dealer?
Good lord I'm really screwed up…
"Could you please tell me about what happened?" The Hokage asked politely.
"Hai, Hokage-sama." I nodded respectfully. Steadily, I recounted the events of last night to the best of my ability, omitting the parts about the Voice in my head, Bob, and the breaking into the closed store.
"Those sickos wanted to rape my friends for crying out loud, they deserved to die." I stated flatly at the end of my narrative, the deaths don't bother me… Okay, maybe just a little…
"Don't worry, the last nin has already been taken into custody." The Hokage reassured me, "but on a lighter topic, you are one difficult child to track."
I did my best to look utterly confuzzled. "Huh?"
"Didn't Naruto tell you that you've got a backed up stipend?" The old Hokage asked, then he handed me papers. "You also must fill out this form, it states that you're an official citizen."
"Sunshine musta forgot… Oh well, I take pretty good care of myself anyways-" I stared at the form, "Kami I hate homework…"
The Hokage handed me a bunch of documents… I looked at the stipend thingi-
"HOLY BOB! That's a more money than I've ever had in my fucking life!" Truly, it was, hell how many weapons, ramen, and sushi could I buy with this? SCORE!
"Not as well as you would like to think…" Crap it's the bitch-nurse back for revenge…
The woman had another medic with her, shit no, they had more pills… I refused them and when the lady tried to force them down my throat, I bit her.
"Bitch." I spat at her, "no-one's drugging me." I declared stalwartly. Then the bitch had the audacity to start listing my injuries.
Three broken ribs, two of them pierced my left lung, causing it to collapse, and the other rib had jammed between my other ribs. The other ribs had bruises, and some hairline fractures, and older fractures that re-fractured due to the kick I took. I had chakra burns, and normal ones, from the Hibana Kobushi no jutsu hitting me. And thankfully, the burns on the inside of my mouth were healed too… Other than that, she also commented about me being malnourished and underweight… Hell, it's not my fault that I usually don't have the time to eat!
Kurenai was back and she looked at the bitch with a cold stare, making the woman wilt under her gaze. I smirked triumphantly when she left the room. Truly, I expected the Hokage to continue speaking.
I'm trying to listen, I mean, yeah I'm really trying, but seriously… The god forsaken meds are still making me woozy…
Holy shit, I think I'm going to be questioned and crap…
For the good of everyone, my ass…
OOOOOOOO
A Week and a Half Later…
I'm finally out of the hospital, well, I would've got out sooner but no-one gets that I just heal fast… Jeesh…
Then I had to give my side of the story along with Hinata, Naruto and Lee.
Though I think those guys had it in for me, I still didn't have my goggle-mask… Bitches…
/We should have never left you on your own Kyoko-sama! Gomenasai, we're so sorry!/ The Kouchuu were crawling around beneath my skin, frantically surveying the damage currently healing.
"Oh come on," I muttered quietly, "it's not that bad, don't worry so much, I took care of it."
"It is Doe." Bob said. Weird thing was that Bob reappeared after a few hours in the hospital, but he was oddly quieter than usual.
The Voice had yet to say a anything.
And whether I wanted or not I had to go back to the academy, and for confidentiality's sake nobody's heard about the 'Kidnapping Attempt Incident Part 2'. Thank God.
I stayed away from Naruto, Hinata and Lee today. I sat in the seat closest to the door, barely even paying attention to whatever Iruka-sensei was even saying…
Lunch was a lonely affair, I spent the entire time thinking…
I just killed a bunch of guys, and I just don't feel… Anything… In all the books, movies, comic, and TV shows, the 'first kill' is supposed to disturb at least somewhat… But at the moment, I'm not the least bit perturbed…
It isn't the fact that I killed them that bothers me… Quite the opposite, those sick fucks deserved worse than they got. It's the fact that I should be feeling something, anything at all at this moment…
Hell, and the fact that I just risked my neck and almost died for other people. Favorite anime characters or not, that kind of thing just isn't in my fucking nature. So why the hell did I do it?
I sighed, Kami dammit, this whole thing is becoming more complicated than it needs to be…
Then I noticed that lunch was over…
Well, back to the classroom… Fuck…
OOOOOOOO
Three Days Later…
I think Naruto, Hinata and Lee are onto me… Or at least Hinata is…
Lee usually spends time training with his sensei and his team on 'missions'. But Naruto and Hinata are noticing that I spend less and less time with them than I usually do. We still spar and have lunch together, but I guess I haven't been as into it as I thought I was pretending to be.
The genin exams were coming up soon, Naruto's already failed three times. So that means if I pass, I'll get to be on the Rookie 9… Ten, whatever… I already checked the class rosters, I'm the odd student out… Perfect.
Despite the hospital's advice, I started training even harder than ever… I barely slept, barely ate, I was the most irritable zombie at the academy. From what I the first episodes, and the limited access to jutsu I have, I have to gather and learn as much jutsu I can every chance I get…
So far, I've spent the money the Hokage gave me on food, weapons and small odds and ends no-one would suspect the devious uses I put them to. As well as trying to trade in my gauntlets for hidden triggerblades that were less clunky. I've been wearing training weights too, they were cheap and slightly damaged but they worked for me and that is all that matters.
I'm actually taking pages out of videogames, RPGs, movies and other stuff, cause the designers had to do real research, right?
I was thinking something similar to Assassin's Creed… A blade like that would be freaking useful, though I would prefer one like Ezio's, one that doesn't require the loss of half a ring finger.
Even exhausted, my tired brain began formulating plans as I worked on putting together booby trap kits and homemade explosives, I'm thinking pitfalls and some sort of a minefield…
I've already had enough experience manipulating the system back in my original universe, this one was quite easy to manipulate to say the truth. All I had to do was maintain grades slightly above Naruto's and I would most likely be dumped off into Team 7…
I practiced the academy jutsu, technically besides my lucky fire jutsu moment, those are the only jutsu I can perform right now. The jutsu the Kouchuu want me to learn, well, they haven't started that part of my training yet…
Before I knew it the day of the genin exams was tomorrow and I was too far from the place I was staying, to make it back in time and still get some sleep…
'Shit.' It was too dangerous to just fall asleep in an alleyway…
Wait a sec…
"Aren't we near Naruto's place?" Bob asked.
"Oh hell no." I wouldn't go as far as to call them 'friends', they were tolerable. But seriously, I could just drop by and as-
BOOM! CRRRRSHHHH!
Thunder sounded overhead followed by a drizzle that would soon be followed by a downpour from the amount of moisture in the air…
I sighed defeatedly as my ninja-sandal clad feet carried me to Naruto's address… Hell if the building wasn't so run down and there wasn't so much graffiti the place would be really swe-
Hey, why was some guy going through Naruto's apartment window? With barely a thought I grabbed a brick and freeclimbed my way up into the open window. I was in Naruto's kitchen, the guy had already gone into the hallway…
Okay, time to smack a dumbfuck!
He was about to start smothering a sleeping Naruto when I brought the brick down on his head, and the intruder slumped to the floor silently.
Naruto stirred slightly but thankfully did not wake…
I dragged the unconscious intruder's body back into the kitchen and shoved him out the window where he proceeded to fall from the third story… He fell into an open dumpster, damn…
In a small fit of spite I dropped the brick with a deep satisfaction and a devious smile on my face. The rain had already begun to pour in pelting sheets… Damn…
I could've woken up Naruto, but, my pride wouldn't let me. I climbed out the kitchen window, closing behind me and climbed down into the alley, almost slipping twice.
I swiped a trashcan lid, then made my way up to Naruto's hallway-shaped balcony thing… Near the door was this very small amount of coverage, so I huddled under that with the trash can lid as an umbrella…
'Oh well,' I thought with a sigh as the wind drove a sheet of rain into my entire body, soaking me even more thoroughly than I already am, 'no sleep tonight.'
But despite the rain, the wind, the thunder and the lightning that flashed overhead I drifted off to sleep… Dropping my makeshift umbrella in the process as it was blown away by a gust of rain and wind.
But I was calm, because tomorrow, I'd be a ninja.
And I wouldn't take shit from anybody.
I had a plan.
And with those thoughts, my consciousness faded into darkness. Leaning against the railing to my left, I slept… As storm and sky raged around me…
A/N: OMG! I updated! I can't believes it! Anyways, I'm sorry if I took so long, I went to Maine. I had no internet and my laptop's Microsoft Word Trial expired… So I took an official writing vacation, it was actually very refreshing, the ideas are flowing much easier now. Plus, I played(and finished) Assassin's Creed which gave me some awesome ideas too… Yes! I'm back, but unfortunately school is starting up again and I have to take tutoring for math, but don't worry ya'll! I'll update as much as I can, when I can, I promise you all that okay? PLEASE REVIEW! I LOVES REVIEWS! They get me through the day and usually make me feel like writing more. Thank you MAH FAITHFUL REVIEWERS! =) REVIEWZ! PEACE OUT YO! ;)