Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto… it belongs to Kishimoto… and I don't own the plot… though I did make some changes to it… the plot belongs to my favorite author R.L. Stine. So please my fans, credit all goes to these two wonderful authors of great stories.

Sorry guys… I guess I took a lot of time.

Let me explain… my computer crashed as I was writing… verily today I was able to turn it back on today.

Anyways I hope you enjoy it.


The Sitter

Chapter 3 Part 13

Sunday morning, the storm had passed and the sky was sunny and blue, marred only by a few puffy clouds. Gazing out my bedroom window, the whole world appeared glittery and green and fresh, the tree leaves, the shrubs and grass, even the sandy ground sparkling from the rain.

Anko and Asuma were having their breakfast on the deck. I grabbed a plain bagel and gulped down a cup of coffee in the kitchen. Then I herded the kids to the beach as early as I could.

No way I wanted to hang around the house and run into Asuma.

As I led the kids down the stairs, Anko and Asuma were reading the Sunday Times, laughing together about something they'd read.

Anko's doing a good job acting normal, I thought.

Better than I could ever do. No way could Asuma guess she's on to him.

From my first day in their house, I thought they had an odd relationship. She treated him like a naughty kid. She was always scolding him about his drinking and his general laziness, lounging around on the deck, never doing anything.

He'd just grin and act as if it were all a joke.

Sometimes it seemed to me that she didn't care enough about Asuma to take him seriously. She wasn't very affectionate- at least, not that I could see. He was in the city most of the time, and she never commented that she missed him.

It was like when he was away, she only had two kids to deal with, not three. Whenever he left, she went off to the spas and had her massages, and her manicures and her facials- sort of like a celebration. She was definitely happier.

Of course, I had no way of knowing all that she had gone through with Asuma earlier. How she had stuck with him when he had gone and psycho before. How she had somehow managed to live a normal life, knowing he could explode again at any time.

The ocean waves were high and frothy, still wild from the storm last night. They crashed like thunder against the beach. Ami grabbed my hand. "Don't be scared," I said. "We'll find a nice place high up on the beach."

Konohamaru lingered behind as usual, dragging a slender branch, making a long line behind him in the wet sand like a snail's trail. He seemed even more glum than usual. When I asked him a question, he refused to raise his head.

We were approaching the public beach when my cell phone rang. I pulled it from the beach bag and read the caller ID.

Kiba?

I clicked it on. "Listen, Kiba," I snapped. "We said goodbye remember? I want you to delete this number from your phone. Do you-?"

"Hinata, I just want to apologize," he said softly. "Give me two seconds. I want to apologize. Then I'll never bother you again, promise.

"Kiba, I'm on the beach with the kids. I can't talk."

"But, Hinata-"

"I can barely hear you. The ocean-"

"I'll make it quick, Hinata. I'm so sorry. That's all I want to say. I've been a total asshole- I admit it. I don't know what happened. I just snapped or something. It's not like me. Really. So before I go back to the city, I just wanted to say I'm sorry. I'd like to come over and we could say good-bye in person. You know. As friends."

"I don't think so, Kiba. But thanks for the apology. And have a nice life, okay? I-"

"What did you say? It cut off, Hinata? I can't hear you. Should I come see you? I can't hear."

"Kiba? Can you hear me?"

Now it cut the connection completely. I clicked the phone off with a sigh and dropped it back in the bag.

Kiba had sounded sincere, and I guess it was decent of him to call. I felt a little guilty for accusing him now that I knew the truth. But why couldn't he just go away and disappear? How many times did we have to say good-bye?

"Courtney! Dee Dee!" Ami saw her friends, the Lewis girl down the beach, walking with pain pails, collecting shells that had washed up in the storm. She let go of my hand and took off, waving to them, her bare feet kicking up clods of wet sand.

Sakura was struggling with a beach umbrella. I hurried to help her. The powerful waves crashing onto shore sent up a fine spray of cold mist over the beach. The sun felt strong, but the wet air off the ocean carried a chill.

"That was a whale of a storm last night," Sakura greeted me. "I had both girls in my lap, don't you know."

"My two slept right through it," I said. We forced the umbrella into the hard sand and managed to push it open.

"Did your power go out?"

Sakura nodded. Her pink hair blew behind her like a pennant in the winds. "For nearly an hour. The girls liked walking around with candles. Now they want to do it every night."

I watched Ami walking with the two little girls, bending to find shells for them, and Konohamaru? Where was Konohamaru? Sitting by himself on the beach, in the shade of a low dune, poking his stick into the sand and pulling it out, again and again.

How much fun can that be? I asked myself. Poor kid. What is his problem? If only he could speak up.

And then I reminded myself that I was leaving tomorrow. I would never find out what troubled Konohamaru Sarutobi. I would never hear him speak.

I watched him for a moment, shielding my eyes from sand blown up by the wind. And then I saw a young guy jog past Konohamaru. I saw legs at first, then black bike shorts, a white, sleeveless T-shirt, and then silver hair over pale skin.

I watched the slender young man as he passed behind Konohamaru, jogging slowly, hands swinging at his sides. And when he turned, and I glimpsed his face through the mist like sand, it took me a few seconds to recognize him.

Kakashi.

I heard Sakura gasp as I took off running. I think I kicked sand on her. But I didn't turn back to see.

I had my eyes on Kakashi, who jogged past the volleyball net, tilted from the storm, and kept trotting past the parking lot. And I knew this time I would catch him.

This time I would stop him. Turn him around. Make him look at me.

After seven years, make him look at me, and say, "You're alive! Oh, Kakashi, how are you alive and jogging on this beach when I killed you seven years ago?"

I grabbed the wheel, and killed you. And you have lived only in my find for seven long years.

But now here you are.

How did you come back? And why are you always running from me? Don you see me? Don't you remember me?

Here you are, Kakashi.

And I'm catching up to you. This time, you wont outrun me. You wont vanish into thin air.

This time, I'm going to catch you and make you look at me and talk to me. And tell me how you came back.

"Hey!" I came up behind him, running hard, and grabbed his shoulder.

He let out a startled cry. His shoulder flinched. He stumbled to a stop. Then breathing hard, sweat rolling down his face and hair, he turned to me.

"Hi, it's me," I said in a breathless whisper.


Hi guys! How was It good?... Sorry about the cliffy… but let me make it up to you!

Next chapter I'm going to write a lemon for Naruto and Hinata. Does that make you feel better? I hope it does.

I hope you enjoyed.

I'm going to update on more chapter for Dragon's tale. Then I'm going to only concentrate on The Sitter till the end. After The Sitter, I'm starting Memories of Heart. And go along with Dragon's tale.


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