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"How long has she been like this for?"
"Ten minutes," Madoka answered while drinking some of her tea, Cho and her had gone to the tea room where Miya and Akiko worked.
Tobirama was passing and looked slightly worriedly at the seemingly partial comatose Cho, who was leaning her head against her arms on the table. Madoka didn't seem to bothered about her cousins current state.
"What's wrong with her?" By now Akiko and Miya had noticed the three of them and walked over.
"I think," Madoka said while putting her cup down and thinking over her words. "It's what people, and girls would call...'boy troubles'..." Madoka did air quotations and got odd looks for it.
"What's he done now?" Tobirama asked simply, Cho slid her green eyes up to look at him, she then looked at the three other women before sitting up.
"Nothing."
"Ok...and that causes you to lay on a table half dead?"
"Tobirama-sama you're delusional. You won't understand because you are a man." Miya said simply and turned to look at the door, Cho eyed up Mito who walked over.
"Is this a private meeting or can anyone join? That and Hashirama-san is looking for you," Mito said while tapping Tobirama on the shoulder.
"I'm delusional?"
"What?" Mito said confused, it wasn't the answer or words she was expecting. Tobirama shook his head and looked at Miya.
"I still don't get it."
"Here's how things such as relationships go," Miya said simply she had many experiences with relationships and the ins and outs of them. "And the problem with 'nothing', is it's basically hitting a dead end. A dead end which was mostly one sided anyway." Miya said and quickly turned to serve someone who had just walked in.
Akiko patted Cho on the shoulder and left to go back to work too, Madoka looked at Mito, the two hadn't been introduced. Tobirama leant his head against his hand, "You're suffering from heart break then really?"
"I guess so..."
"What happened?" Mito sat down next to the Senju and eyed Cho, Madoka took to explaining what she understood of the situation. "I did prewarn you to leave him alone. Shouldn't be surprised by this either."
"Are you going to go into a state of depression?" Tobirama asked simply, this earned him a punch in the arm by Mito. Cho grinned and shook her head, "No way! I can't be depressed!"
"So you're going to repress your feelings? Yes that's very wise isn't it?" Tobirama rolled his eyes and stood up, "I better go see what Hashirama wants, see you all later." He bowed slightly and turned to leave.
"Make it go away."
Hashirama looked over his shoulder at Cho who was half flopped on the windowsill. "Please."
"What's wrong Cho-san?"
"My heart hurts." He frowned at her words and walked up to her, helping her into the room he looked over her appearance. She looked fine which just made her words more confusing.
"I don't think there's a remedy for heart ache, or break." He smiled and looked out of the window, Cho sighed and leaned against the windowsill.
"Not heard of any trouble have you?" She looked up at him, it was obvious she was referring to the possible attack which would be carried out by Kohaku. Hashirama swiftly shook his head and looked down at her, "Nothing it is as for now completely quiet. He's probably biding his time."
"Or hunting out more people to help."
"Do you have many enemies?"
"There are a few people out there that aren't a fan of us." Cho sighed and drummed her fingers on the windowsill. "I wonder how he'll rope them into helping."
"We're here though," Hashirama said simply Cho looked up at him and smiled.
"You're a good friend Hashirama-kun! I'm so glad I came here...even by accident..." she smiled and hopped up and onto the windowsill, "See you later!" She grinned and jumped away from the building leaving him on his own to return back to work.
Landing on the ground Cho stood up slowly and crossed her arms, standing for a minute she let the feeling return back into her legs. She was moving around to much to soon and her legs were starting to suffer for it. Sighing Cho turned and walked away from the building, she was bored, walking towards the gates she eyed the guards up and walked out.
"So you venture out at last?"
"Hello grandmother," Cho looked at the elderly woman as she turned away from the tree she was leaning against and walked towards the small camp the clan had built for themselves.
"What brings you here?"
"Well gee I wonder...because my family are out here?"
"Picking up the leader role again are you? Pick the occupation up when you fancy it." Cho crossed her arms, her grandmother had a habit of being blunt and to the point. "Or have you had a falling out?"
"Don't you start with your traditional way of thinking," Cho narrowed her eyes at her while grabbing a hold of Nobu and giving him a hug. The teenager was confused, Tomi and Ishi looked at the two of them confused. The three males were talking until she appeared.
"So what brings you here apart from boredom?" Ishi asked simply while tugging Nobu out of her tight grasp.
"Maybe she wants company? Decent company?" Tomi mused and looked at her, Cho looked at the twins equally before shrugging and waving her arms at them. The brothers looked at each other and then at her, "We don't know sign language."
"Come on," her grandmother tugged her away from the three of them and towards a roughly made hut. "I know that expression well, it was the same expression your mother had when she discovered your father existed." Cho looked up at her and then sat down on the floor near the little table.
