Right, so with this chapter, I am now caught up to what I've written before hand. I'll now be posting on this story once a week, (maybe more often when I can'tsop myself from writing) but for now expect Friday evenings, Saturday mornings to have a chapter. The chapters will also probably be longer now as I'm giving myself more time to write them.
As always, let me know what you think! Personally I'm loving the way the team interactions are turning out because even though I hate the original Sasuke as a character, for some reason he's turning out so reasonable and nice with Kage involved. Still, if it seems way to ooc let me know and I can review it!
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Midmorning the next day, things got strange. Naruto got very tense and twitchy which Sasuke mocked him for. (more like teased. Honestly they could lie to themselves all they wanted but they were like best friends at this point, feeding off each other for motivation and tension relief. It was so adorable).
Maybe Naruto was just tense at the idea of higher ranking ninja attacking us, but maybe he was actually sensing something. While I would make a good infiltration specialist with my families chakra being near un-sensible, I was still only a decent sensor. Plenty of people (read: anyone that was trying to be undetected) would slip past me. So Naruto's tension rubbed off on me. (Maybe he was noticing something I wasn't?) Kakashi stayed quiet and seemed relaxed, walking and reading his book slightly ahead of us, so maybe not.
Sasuke on the other hand had had enough when Naruto flung a kunai right into the woods to our right. "Calm down, dobe!" he hissed at Naruto.
"I heard something! There was something over there!" Kakashi walked forward, one hand still in his pocket, the other holding his book in front of him. Nudging the bush out of the way with his foot, we all saw a rabbit scared still with the kunai right over its head.
"Poor bunny…" I said out loud before blushing at having said it slightly louder then expected.
Tazuna laughed from beside me but Naruto complained again "I heard something." Sasuke started lecturing Naruto on paying attention while I looked on amused.
"GET DOWN." The sudden command barked from Sensei made Naruto freeze so Sasuke grabbed his head and shoved him down while I grabbed Tazuna and did the same.
A giant sword swung over head, lodging itself deeply into one of the trees in front of us (That's fucking massive. Like total overkill. It's a GIANT FUCKING SWORD.) More quickly then I could follow, which was quite fast considering I practiced with Shisui no Shunshin, someone moved to stand on the hilt of the sword.
Tall and in a completely ridiculous outfit that looked rather impratical, was a man I didn't recognize but was probably from cannon. With my luck, and more importantly team 7's, I just didn't know of this story line. ('Fuuuuuccccckkkkk'). The weird swordsman's voice was deep and he sounded like he was holding back a smirk when he spoke. "Sharingan Kakashi, eh? And some brats? Hand over the old man. I might even let you all go alive."
Sasuke stiffened at the mention of the sharingan. Naruto looked ready to launch himself at the guy and I stood wary. I silently released all the chakra from my new weights, freeing myself of the oppressive load. (After the issue with the anbu, I had realized how much time was wasted removing them and begged for chakra activated ones as a birthday gift.) I shifted my stance closer to Tazuna, but more importantly closer to the tree line, where I had shadows to work with. It was bright enough that the shadows didn't extend far into the path and the middle of the path was bright and shadow free. Still at the ready, I pulled out my lucky kunai.
"Zabuza Momichi, missing nin of Hidden Village of the Mist. Too bad, but our mission is to protect this old guy." Tazuna was too scared to react to the insult. "We cant hand him over so why don't you just leave us be?" Zabuza let out a deep laugh, that was honestly more then a little creepy. Naruto stepped forward, readying himself to attack Zabuza.
Sasuke had likewise readied himself, kunai in hand, his back to Tazuna, watching the swordsman for danger. Naruto, however, was waved back by Kakashi, who spoke up. "Standard protection formation guys. Protect the bridge builder. I'll take care of this guy. Stay back. He's on a whole different level." He raised one hand to his forehead protector, pulling it up so that his left eye was visible.
I didn't react, knowing what was underneath from both my old life and my new, but both Sasuke and Naruto stiffened. Tazuna remained frozen with fear. Zabuza laughed again.
"So I get to see the Sharingan in action, eh? A cheap party trick wont save you copy ninja." He moved forward, quickly removing his sword from the tree and launching himself at Kakashi all in one motion. 'Fast…'
Naruto spoke up. "What is a sharingan?"
I stayed quiet focusing on our surrounding, for once not slouching or being lazy. My whole body was at attention and my muscles were tensed but loose, ready for action. Sasuke spoke up while Kakashi and Zabuza disengaged. "It's a doujutsu. A jutsu that relies on the eyes. It can see through almost any taijutsu, ninjutsu, or genjutsu. It can also see though the pattern of attacks and it is one of the most powerful doujutsu to have in all of the elemental nations. And that's just the start of it…" Naruto looked awed, while Sasuke looked wary at the whole situation. (If this world had TV's he'd probably be looking around and asking "Have I been punkd?")
Zabuza and Kakashi eyed each other while Zabuza added on to Sasuke's explanation. "That's right kid. But thats not all. The eyes can be used to analyze an opponents technique and copy it to the smaller detail. Immediately. No waiting. Imagine being in a battle, using techniques you've worked for years to obtain and master, when out from the woodworks appears this ninja, who copies you and is flinging back your life work after seeing you use it once… And thats how you get the copy ninja… who knows over a thousand techniques from all over the elemental nations."
None of this was new to me, as I had peaked through a (rather outdated) BINGO book, but Sasuke and Naruto were in awed silence at the news. Kakashi ignored the conversation too, using this time to analyze his opponent and figure out a strategy. It made sense to use this time; monologuing wasn't a good trait in ninja, who typically preferred to deal in stealth. Still, if Kakashi knew of Zabuza, that meant this guy was good enough to monologue and still manage to be a badass. He was probably in one of the BINGO books I had flipped through when studying the potential jonin sensei, and I had skipped right over him. Bothersome.
A heavy mist began to form around us, quick becoming into a chakra dampened fog. I could hardly sense my teammates around me through the thick chakra-heavy air, let alone see them. "When I used to be a hunter-nin," Zabuza said conversationally, his voice seeming to come from all around us, "We had a standard order. All below a certain level who met you in combat were to flee on sight." He laughed and it echoed al around us. I could feel the killing intent building and I consciously relaxed my muscles, not allowing them to grow too tight, closing my eyes to better focus on my hearing and chakra sensing. "But people like me were told not to run but to kill you. You were one of the few leaf ninja we ever assigned an S rank to." Sasuke was shaking, no longer holding his kunai straight, while Naruto was frozen in fear. I could sense the motion and the stillness from each of them. 'The killing intent must be too much…' To be honest, it was pretty bad,not as bad as Itachi, but almost so in that it gave off a completely different feeling. If I was being honest, I would have preferred Zabuza to ever facing Itachi again.
Right now I felt like I could die at any moment, the Zabuza was going to attack me at any moment. That I needed to desperately fight for my life. Itachi had been so indifferent and impersonal. As if he was bored of the very idea of killing us, but it was a requirement so he'd get it done. This Killing Intent was something I could fight, something savage, primal, and almost tangible, whereas Itachi's killing intent had felt inevitable. I had no hope of surviving fighting Itachi. With that in mind, I wasn't shaking in fear; instead I felt around me with the shadows, getting ready to form a couple tendrils when needed.
"Maybe if you didn't have such little brats with you…" The voice was just as far and close as before but I was fighting my tension. The most logical thing to do if you were aiming to assassinate Tazuna, was to attack him while he was only guarded by three genin. In this mist, us genin had no chance against finding him, launching an attack against him, but if we could hold him for a second, I was sure that Kakashi would be able to stop him from killing us. I twisted my hold on my lucky kunai. The edges were dulled, but the flats of the blade were shiny and polished like a mirror for just this purpose. I watched as best I could in front of me and behind by eyeing the kunai in my peripheral. A sudden strike towards my right, in-between Sasuke and I was stopped by Sensei, who destroyed what turned out to be a water clone.
"Calm down; I will protect you guys with my life." Kakashi-sensei eye smiled at us, breaking some of the tension from the wild killing intent around us. He moved back into the mist, disappearing just as quickly as he came. I could hear fighting around us, everything seeming to echo and have no place. Still, I watched the kunai and my surroundings, brain in overdrive. I would be no good for a direct fight; I'd said it before and I'd say it again: I am not a melee fighter. I was support. Being one of the protectors of Tazuna was the best place I could be right now. Still we needed a back up plan in case something went wrong. ('Contingency plans sucked but they were important for success' One of dad's mottos.)
The fighting continued. In the back of my head, I kept track of time. It had been almost five minutes, but felt like an eternity. A shadow flickered in the mirror of the kunai. I didn't let my body show any reaction, but this time, just as Zabuza went to strike again, this time from behind me, in-between Naruto and Sasuke, I struck blindly with my shadows; there were plenty for me with all the mist around us. I snatched his leg first and when he quickly swiped at it, I already had the arm that wasn't holding his sword captured, Still he freed himself and threw himself back into the mist.
"Eight points from which I can kill you." (Only eight? Well I'll say thanks for small blessings that he only knew of 8. As a doctor, I realized how frail the body is. Literally anything could kill you.) More clashes from within the mist, while Zabuza continued talking. I heard a grunt from Kakashi, who must've been hit. I kept myself steady waiting for another attack. 10 minutes of fighting now. He'd probably have to focus on Sensei now that he knew us three could defend Tazuna well enough to hold him off for sensei.
"Larynx, spine, lungs, liver, jugular, subclavian artery, kidneys,heart…" Well coming from a doctor, that was pretty good list of places to strike so maybe there wasn't a small blessing anywhere after all.
Suddenly I felt sensei focus his chakra. I could feel exactly where he was, and then I felt burst it outwards, clearing the mist in an instant. (He probably got sick of not being able to see. As someone with good night vision it was a novel experience that I was not enjoying) Once the mist was gone, we could see two Zabuzas standing in the clearing. Kakashi darted forward and struck the one nearest us. The other launched himself at Kakashi. The Zabuza that Kakashi hit with a kunai in the stomach burst into water and suddenly there was no time to move as Zabuza swung his huge sword as if it were weightless, so quickly. "It's over." He chuckled.
(I don't know what I expected, because I could tell there was no time to move, but when Sensei's body literally split in half I couldn't breathe. What the fuck had I changed in the story line that made Kakashi die. I had to have changed something. I killed my sensei by existing. And now the creepy guy is gonna kill us Oh fuck oh fuck oh—wait)
The two halves of Kakashi burst uselessly into water and from behind Zabuza was Kakashi holding a kunai right to his throat. Twisting Zabuza launched himself at Kakashi, who jumped back, Zabuza following, while they both leapt on the water to the left of the path we'd been walking on before this rude interruption. Zabuza quickly made another water clone, while Kakashi eyed him, his red eye never leaving the true Zabuza. Zabuza made some quick hand seals and then Kakashi was forming the same seals and they were going back and forth, Kakashi copying Zabuza so quickly that it seemed as if he was predicting the future. I concentrated on the fight. While it was super impressive, I was worried. Clearly Zabuza was a water infinity and Kakashi was fighting on top of water which was not the best place to be. However, the psyche of knowing that your techniques might be worth it against someone like Zabuza. Still, I didn't think Kakashi was a water infinity which meant these jutsu were going to be hurting his chakra more then Zabuza's.
Sure enough, a few minutes later (The fight had only been going on for 15 minutes. I felt like it had been hours) Kakashi was trapped in a water prison. Zabuza laughed again.
"For a missing nin, you laugh a lot. You must have a really cheery out look on life to always be looking on the bright side of things." That stopped his laugh but brought the weight of his full attention on me. Sasuke and Naruto were wide eyed at the fact that I chose now to bring out my mouth side but still stood by me, waiting for a plan— waiting for me to think up something. I needed more time. Zabuza was really freaking good and he had a clone free to attack us while still maintaining the water prison. I needed more time to think (Because no contingency plan I had formed quite covered this situation) so another snarky comment was in order.
"I bet the bandages are to hide how much you smile. You hiding a boyish grin under that mask?" He snarled at me. Kakashi spoke up, sounding distorted in the water.
"RUN. That's an order. You guys are no match for him. Take Tazuna and run!" I ignored Kakashi's order.
"That's a stupid idea. Let's leave the plans to me, hm?" The comments helped me concentrate. It was either be scared as shit that my invincible jonin sensei, who'd I'd already witness die a few minutes ago was now really going to die in a water prison, or make stupid comments to relieve my tension.
Zabuza did a double take to Kakashi as if to say, "did your brat really just say that to you?" Kakashi didn't meet his eye, instead shouting again, "I'm serious! Run! You stand no chance against someone like Zabuza. He's from the bloody mist! As a graduation exam, they have to kill a classmate to get over their first kill. Zabuza not only killed his opponent. He killed ever other student graduating. 100 other students died by his hand at 11."
I focused on the environment around me. Still plenty of shadows around me to protect Tazuna, and maybe do a little something else? I'd have to use Naruto and Sasuke to free Kakashi while still keeping them safe from the sociopathetic serial killer. "Right" I eyed Zabuza and Kakashi, but lowered my voice so that only Naruto, Sasuke, and Tazuna could hear me. Raising my kunai to my face, I blocked my lips so that Zabuza and (unfortunately) Kakashi couldn't read them. "The real Zabuza can't move away from the sphere he's holding Kakashi in." I spoke quickly trying to get the two caught up to my still forming internal plan, "The clone, however, has free range to move. We'd never move quick enough to save ourselves, let alone get Tazuna out of here alive if we tried to run. Really, our only chance is to get Sensei free. I am pretty quick. Let me deal with protecting Tazuna and distracting the clone while you two move towards the water. Lets try and do what we did during the bell test. Sasuke, use ninja wire and a senbon from my pack; its light and will probably float. If I can freeze him, hopefully you guys can come up with something to hit him with." Emo boy moved to quickly reach into the top of my pack and pull out some senbon. Zabuza's clone was languidly walking toward us, sword raised up on his shoulder. Tightening my grip on my lucky kunai, I spoke up again, " I can give you maybe 3 seconds." Meaning both my shadow technique but also quite possibly holding back the clone as well.
Zabuza laughed. "What's three seconds going to—" he grunted as I launched myself at him, faster then I had ever moved. All talking ceased for a moment. The second he blocked my kunai, I twisted my body, reaching down, and slashing at his left knee, simultaneously reaching out with my shadow for his right arm. He dodged the shadow and twisted out of the way of my strike, moving to swing his sword at me but I was gone with a quick back handspring, and then with a front handspring I was back, right in his comfort zone, where he seemed to be struggling to utilize his large sword ('It really was too big to be practical.' I was hoping anyway.) This time striking with two shadows at once I stretched for both his legs. He jumped up, which gave a small opening to strike at a tendon in his arm, but then he was swinging with his other arm and I bent back wards almost hitting the floor with my head for how sharp the back bend was. On some instinct I had developed fighting with Shisui, not really knowing why, I threw myself to the side barely dodging the arc of the blade as it tore up the ground where I had once stood.
That had been 5 seconds, a little longer then I had expected I could manage. I rapidly formed hand seals, keeping my eyes on Zabuza, who eyed me, still and ready for my next attack was. But this wasn't for him. I had moved past needing full seals for my shadow tendrils, only needing a quick one handed ram seal to focus. No, I needed a full set of seals to use the shadow capture.
Naruto and Sasuke had launched a barrage of tools at Zabuza, who had flung some back, which Naruto's clone jumped in front of, protecting both of the boys. Within the assortment thrown, Sasuke had slipped in some senbon tied with ninja wire, just like we had done during the bell test. And reaching out carefully, as quickly as I dared, glad for the reprieve the clone was giving me, still curious about my attack, I could feel my shadow traversing the path of the ninja wire shadow. I kept my eyes on the water clone, none the wiser, looking like he was about to start egging me on to hurry up. With timing that I don't think we could repeat if we ever tried this again, Sasuke pulled out a ginormous shuriken and tossed it at Zabuza, making a quick series of hand seals, changing it from one to two windmill shuriken. Zabuza dodged both of them and was still crouched when I hit him with my shadow capture.
He froze and as I was about to shout for someone to do something, that I had captured him (because sometimes it wasn't obvious, if you didn't know what to look for, and this was way to powerful a ninja for me to just idly hold him here) when one of the shuriken burst into smoke reveling a Naruto clone who flung more kunai at the frozen Zabuza, making just enough of a distraction for Sensei to free himself. I released the capture, slumping with sudden exhaustion as the technique after effect hit me because despite being surprised, Zabuza had fought to be free. With that done, I had just spent like 80% of my remaining chakra reserves. I didn't even have a second longer of rest before the clone was on me sending me flying into a tree with a kick. I only had time to let out a small oof, before I was again forming shadow immobilization tendrils, grabbing at clones sword arm as he swung again at the now unprotected Tazuna. (The Tazuna who I had said I'd watch. Fuck me for taking on too many responsibilities.) The short hold was enough for Kakashi to launch himself off the water and to the ground. He made short work destroying the clone, before engaging with Zabuza again. ('20 minutes' I thought, pushing myself to my feet.)
Just as it seemed Kakashi had finally gotten the upper hand, something flew out of the trees hitting Zabuza in the neck. Senbon. (Huh, thats the kind of attack I was looking into. I had literally just read about neck strike zones two nights ago) The missing nin fell over, dead.
"That was… anticlimactic." I announced as everyone stood frozen eying the body.
"Indeed." A masked anbu came out from the trees where the senbon had flown from. " I have been searching for this missing nin for months. Thank you for your help, but this is now work for the hidden mist."
"Wait wait whats going on?!" Naruto cried out. I could see Sasuke's small nod showing he was also confused. Kakashi reached down checking Zabuza's pulse, before moving back and letting the anbu grab the body and throw it over his shoulder. (What a tiny anbu. Like Shisui and Itachi must've been). I let Kakashi explain. He was (probably) in Anbu at one point anyway if my guess was right so he was intimately (probably) familiar with the procedures performed by hidden villages to their dead.
Naruto only had a few minutes to be horrified, giving the hunter nin time to completely evacuate the body before Kakashi collapsed exhausted. That set Naruto off again. He was worried until I jumped in and explained to both Sasuke and Naruto (and Tazuna because he was a nosy old man) that all the techniques Kakashi had been copying and using recklessly were B rank or higher. (Besides I was pretty sure that the sharingan bleed out his chakra too, but I wasn't supposed to know that so I kept quiet.)
"How far are we from your home, Tazuna-san?" Sasuke asked eyeing our surroundings.
It turned out not far. Two of Naruto's clones carried Kakashi while Sasuke and Tazuna led the way to the small, isolated, home. I held up the rear, sensing the woods around me as we moved, paranoid. I hadn't noticed the anbu in wait at all, but I suppose that wasn't unexpected considering I was fighting and not sensing my surroundings. Besides, they had probably been concealing their chakra anyway. (Shisui did it on habit now, only flaring it when he was right behind me to scare me) Still, when we reached the door of the home, I paused before letting us go inside.
"Naruto, you don't sense anything right?" He had noticed Zabuza when I hadn't, and I was pretty sure Kakashi hadn't either. Call it a gut feeling, or untapped sensing ability, but I was gonna rely on Naruto in case. This might be something we'd have to train our teammate on. Good sensors were born and then made, not just made.
"No, Dattebayo!" Good, that was one less worry.
"Alright, I know you're both tired, and we're all a little worse for wear, but Naruto you're really good with traps right?" I remember more then a few ingenious pranks from the academy. Not waiting for a real answer, I let them in on my thoughts, "Can you and Sasuke check the perimeter and lay a couple traps to let us know if anyone comes within 2 kilometers of here? Sasuke, I'd like if you watched out for Naruto; if he's laying traps, he won't be aware of his surroundings. He'd need you to watch his back." Both boys paused then nodded in agreement. I motioned to the two clones carrying Kakashi. "You two are with me. I need to see if there's anything I can heal on Sensei." The clones shouted in agreement. Tazuna didn't seem to surprised at me taking charge considering he'd seen me do it before, but the civilian women was eyeing me, this tiny, petite girl, order around everyone like it was no big deal.
(They weren't even orders, just suggestions. Naruto and Sasuke could both have said no, but why would they? The plan made sense. As long as I explained my reasoning, people usually would go along with what I said. I'd been shocked to find even Sasuke was reasonable. And his discovering the team wasn't useless but actually really good when we planned our stuff out? He was turning out to be a really good midrange fighter who didn't mind using my strategies. It was bizarre.)
"I can show you a room for your teacher. My name is Tsunami, and Tazuna, the man you've been escorting is my father." I nodded in acknowledgment, having overheard the two greet each other while I spoke to my team.
"I'm Kage." I followed the women inside and up a set of stairs. "The orange guy is Naruto, and the blue guy is Sasuke. Our sensei's name is Kakashi."
She gave a slight nod and began to ask her father what had happened. I stayed quiet, making a silent check list in my head for what needed to be done. I'd get Sensei settled first before anything else, then do a quick scan of the house and make sure that there were no hidden surprises waiting to jump out. Then I'd do a quick medical check on sensei and see if there was anything I could heal, but I suspected not; it was most likely chakra exhaustion ailing him. After that, Naruto and Sasuke would probably be back. All of us would need a ration bar each and I could check the two for injuries. Then we could clean up, rest up and take shifts sleeping. Any further plans would need to wait till Kakashi woke up, or at the very earliest tomorrow morning after a good nights sleep.
While it was just after midday, (The whole fight and walk to Tazuna's was just an hour) I was too tired to think about staying up the rest of the day. We put down Kakashi in a small guest room on a futon. I let Kakashi and the two clones there. I ran a cursory scan of the house, checking rooms and cupboards, my chakra senses stretched and searching the house. I did all this on my own, letting Tazuna get settled and Tsunami go back to whatever she'd been doing. Besides the three adults in the house, I also noted one other chakra signature. It was very tiny and almost definitely civilian, but just in case I needed to ask. I meandered to where I'd started my search moving silently to the kitchen, "Is there anyone else living here?"
Tsunami jumped from where she was preparing dinner, not having noticed me appear in the kitchen because of my unconsciously quiet moments. (I'd probably never get used to civilians and their lack of awareness in this new life.) "I have a son, Inari, who lives here as well." I nodded, glad that there was nothing suspicious about the home.
I hurried back upstairs, checking on Kakashi. A quick scan led me to removing his vest and his pack with the help of the clones. I then let them disperse after they helped me remove, sensei's shirt to see the full damage. (I left the mask alone. I'd seen his face in my past life, and while attractive, it felt creepily like taking advantage of Sensei's trust to even think about lifting the mask) I found myself eyeing dark, ugly bruise on his side gratefully. I was lucky that his ribs weren't broken, just slightly cracked. I healed the bruises and injected some chakra to speed up bone regeneration in the slight fractures, the most I could do at the moment. They'd probably be healed within a week with the surge of chakra I'd injected. His lack of chakra, however, wasn't something I could do anything about, even if I wanted to; I was in the dredges of my reserves. It was about this time that Sasuke and Naruto returned, surprised to find me in a room with a shirtless sensei. Sasuke was eyeing the room suspiciously.
"I did a quick scan of the house and it was fine. You're more then welcome to give it a check though, just in case." He nodded perfunctory. I motioned to Sensei and gave them the prognosis. "It'll probably be a day or two before he wakes. His reserves are bone dry, even worse then mine, but I have smaller reserves, so I'll be ready to go sooner. Here," I reached towards my pack and pulled out some bars. Leaving one by Sensei's side, in case he did wake up, I tossed the other two to the boys. " A full one each, as we're all pretty spent after that fight. Are either of you hurt? I wanna heal you up before you get stiff."
Naruto shook his head but Sasuke spoke up, "Naruto and I both got a couple scratches from the shuriken, but we're over all fine." I nodded motioning for one of them to come forward. Sasuke shoved Naruto, who scowled but moved forward. I began tugging his jacket off, before he got the idea and took it off himself. There wasn't much in the way of injuries, but I was so tired that even healing scratches was enough to make me bleary eyed. Sasuke was even less injured thanks to Naruto's clones running interference, so his scratches were quickly healed up as well. Before I went to go shower and get ready to knock out, I turned to look at the boys, suddenly nervous and more then a little paranoid.
"Am I forgetting anything?" I explained my mental checklist to them and Sasuke shook his head.
"I'll do another scan of the house, just in case. The traps we laid down are loud but stealthy; Dobe is good at traps…" Naruto beamed and Sasuke gave a slight smile. "I can also do first watch, Naruto has stupid stamina and will probably be fine in a few hours for second watch. Then you can do third. Hopefully Sensei will wake up early, but even if he doesn't, mission priority is Tazuna, which is what we're taking care of right now. Theres nothing else we can do." I nodded, glad that he had broken it down for me like that. I was too tired to think. I was also too tired to waste time not sleeping. I ate my ration bar in the shower, hardly able to go through the motions of washing in my exhausted state. (Even soggy, Akimichi ration bars were tasty. I had to give Auntie a nice gift for making this batch special for me). Getting out of the shower and getting dressed hurt. My whole body was sore from the strain of fighting earlier. I rarely fought without weights and moving that quick hurt my joints in ways I hadn't expected. I also had a tightness in my chest (Probably a fucked up rib from the kick I'd received but self healing was really fucking hard so I'd deal with that later) and I was relieved to finally lay down in a futon, just a few feet from the boys and sensei.
"Don't forget to wake me for my shift." I reminded. That was the last thing I remembered before I blissfully knocked out.